Okay, quick note I'm going to stop using 3rd person because I suck at writing it and it takes forever for me to write. So I'm going to use 1st person.
It had been a few days since I had killed Outlook but I had hardly moved in that time. I stayed by the small creek, sitting up against a tree staring up at the clouded sky. It had been a few minutes since it had started raining, but I didn't care that I was going to be soaked, I deserved it. My hood had fallen from my face and even in the rain it was clear that I had been crying, my eyes were red and puffy. I had been screaming and a few feet in front of me the dirt had been upturned and I had uprooted a tree. I hate myself for what I did, but I had to do it.
There was a crack of thunder in the distance and the wind started picking up speed. It was going to be a bad storm and I could possibly die if I stayed out in the elements. In the distance, I faintly heard screaming that seemed to be getting closer to me. Looking through the trees I had just enough time to see the Luffy being carried in the wind, he was holding onto a black cloth as if his life depended on it. He was screaming for his brothers Ace and Sabo, and as he drew near me, my body seemed to move on its own as I stood up on the branch I was on and held out my hand.
A sphere of wind wrapped itself around Luffy stopping him from going any further, that's when he noticed me. He looked me in the eyes and when I thought I would see fear I only saw confusion. I set him down on the ground and stood up and walked over to him.
"Are you alright?" I asked my voice hoarse from screaming.
"I am now, but why did you help me?" He asked tilting his head.
"Shouldn't you be more worried about getting back to your brothers?" I dismissed his question shifting back and forth on my feet. I couldn't tell him why I did it because I didn't know myself, I just moved. Luffy seemed to snap out of his confusion and started looking scared.
"I don't know where I am we don't go to this part of the forest because of the large animals. I don't know how to get back to Ace and Sabo." Luffy looked ready to cry and I could do nothing more other than to sigh.
"Then you need to find shelter and wait until the storm passes so you can go back the way you came." I started coughing, my throat was dry and I was probably getting sick from how long I've stayed out here.
Luffy glanced around nervously for a moment before looking back to me," Can you help me?" He pleaded in a small voice.
I ran my hand down my face and thought for a moment and before I could stop myself," Yeah, okay I'll help," I agreed and mentally slapped myself.
Luffy cheered almost letting go of what he was holding. He looked up at me smiling and he grabbed my hand and started dragging me behind him, but before he got far I ripped my hand from his and glared at him.
"Don't touch me." I all but growled and he flinched.
I walked ahead of him while making sure he followed me. I made my way towards a cliff in the distance, there would likely be a place we could take shelter and maybe start a fire to keep warm.
"Um, what's your name?" Luffy asked timidly and I thought about whether I should tell him my real name or not.
"Call me Willow." It was my last name but it would work, the name didn't bring up too many bad memories.
Once we reached the cliff I saw a cave in the distance and told Luffy to wait for a moment so I could make sure nothing was inside but he didn't listen as he sprinted into the cave. I ran after him but stopped shortly inside, the cave was empty and shallow but that didn't stop from memories to resurface. The place looked like a small version of the cave that had been my home for a few short months. When I still had a family.
I felt a heavy wave of sadness wash over me and I sighed," Just stay here I'll be back with firewood before it gets too wet."
I left before Luffy could respond, it wouldn't take me long to find wood to dry out to use for a fire.
I came back to the cave with a pile of wood floating behind me. Taking a quick look around for Luffy, I found him curled up against the wall shivering. I took off the top piece of my suit and quickly dried it out with warm air and laid it on Luffy. I dried out the wood and took a few logs and started a fire. Without realizing why I heard Luffy gasped from behind me, I turned to see him staring at my arms. I only had a short sleeved shirt on so all the scars from cutting myself were visible.
I shifted, uncomfortable with him staring at my arms," Did you do that to yourself?" He asked causing me to flinch.
"Yeah," I replied quietly turning my gaze to the fire
"Why?" I hated that question, Sanji had asked the same question when I showed him. I still didn't have a good answer.
I looked at my arms the white scars seemed to pop out against my already pale skin," It's none of your business. Just get some sleep." I laid down next to the fire and closed my eyes.
I didn't want to sleep but with Luffy there I needed to so he would leave me alone. I slowly drifted off to sleep sudden exhaustion taking hold.
*/0\*
I was in a dark room standing under a spotlight. I strained my eyes to see anything, but there was nothing there.
"MONSTER!" I spun around to see Sanji crying holding Deadly Nightshade Berries.
"How could you let this happen to us?" It was Alex's voice coming from behind me.
I turned to see Alex, Jake, June, and Clare kneeling on the ground a gun to each of their heads the older Alex standing behind them with a wicked grin on his face.
"I didn't teach you this!" I fell to my knees as my siblings disappeared and my mother was standing above me scowling.
Blood was covering my mother a bullet hole was right between her eyes, her fingers broken and at unnatural angles, a gash going across her chest, her left eye gone and her torso was burned.
"YOU'RE A MURDERER!" Garret and his friends yelled.
I laid there in a fetal position covering my ears, my eyes closed with tears still escaping. I was shaking and screaming for it to stop it felt like my head was going to explode.
They were all screaming at me that I was a monster and should just die.
"WI...W" There was a strange voice," Wa... Wil..." It was hard to hear but it sounded worried and scared," WAK...UP WILLOW!" It was Luffy screaming.
*/0\*
I bolted upright, Luffy fell back. I was shaking and I could feel tears on my cheeks, I could still hear the screaming in my head and I tried to block it out. I backed up against the wall of the cave and covered my ears but the voices wouldn't go away.
Suddenly there was something pressed down on my head and I opened my eyes and froze. Luffy had put his straw hat on my head and sat in front of me.
"It's okay." It was simple but for some reason it made the voices go away.
I reached up and felt the rim of the old straw hat and looked at Luffy, he wasn't looking at my exposed arms, he was looking me in the eyes he looked worried.
"Why...?" I narrowed my eyes in confusion.
"You were scared, you were having a nightmare so I woke you up." He replied like it was no big deal.
I looked at the ground my had still on the straw hat, I took it off and handed it back to Luffy who seemed to hesitate before taking it back. I looked to my left and outside the cave, it was morning and it was no longer raining.
"We should get you back to your brothers as soon as possible." I stood up.
Luffy handed me the top half of my suit and I put it back on as he grabbed the black cloth.
"What is that anyway?" I asked as we left the cave and began walking.
"It's our pirate flag, Ace told me to untie it before the wind blew it away but I couldn't get the knot undone fast enough and I got blown away," Luffy explained clutching on tighter to the flag.
"Oh." Was my only reply.
We walked through the forest for about an hour when I started hearing yelling in the distance," Do you hear that Luffy?" I asked and he shook his head," Someone is yelling your name." I told him and he beamed.
"It must be Ace and Sabo!" He shouted excited.
He started running but I stopped him," Careful." I warned and I walked next to him towards the yelling which had gotten a lot closer to us.
I saw Ace and Sabo in the distance and pointed it out to Luffy who ran straight to his brothers and I followed behind at a walking pace.
"Luffy! You're okay!" Ace and Sabo shouted pulling Luffy into a hug, I felt a pang of guilt in my chest.
"What is she doing here!?" Ace shouted angerly seeing my appraoch.
"Wait, Ace she saved me!" Luffy stood in front of his brother who had started making his way towards me.
I stood a few feet away from the three an indifferent look on my face.
"But she's a murderer!" Sabo yelled and I noticeably flinched.
"I already know that you don't need to remind me," I whispered refusing to look at the three.
I began walking around the three towards the beach where I had left my boat, I needed to see if it was still in one piece. I unfortunatly didn't get very far when I blacked out.
That's the end of this chapter I hope you enjoyed.
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