"Hello Shachi." she said smiling sweetly. It wasn't every day that she saw him down here in the control room. "Are you ok?" She asked. He had one hand on the door frame and the other on his knee and was breathing heavily.

He nodded and straightened up. "C-captain needs to see you."

Vivian frowned "Oh, ok. Thank you for being his errand boy." With that she nervously began the walk to his office.

The news paper was dropped on his desk in front on him. Law thanked his subordinate and opened the paper only for a piece of paper to flutter to the ground besides his feet. He leaned down, picked it up and slowly straightened so that his elbows rested on his desk. With a smile he examined it. Fifteen million, not too bad of a starting bounty.

Shachi came in for whatever reason, so Law sent him to go find Vivian so that they could have a little talk. He told Shachi to be fast about it too, he didn't want to wait all day. And god only knew his mechanic would take his sweet time finding the cat girl if he wasn't told to be quick about it.

"Y-you wanted to see me?" A nervous voice asked as a head of white blonde poked into the room, peeking at him from behind the door.

He laughed at her shy timid ness. "Yes, some in here please Miss Vivian."

"Sir, am I in trouble?" She asked, not correcting him for saying miss immediately after the word sir, like she usually did. She stepped in so that her entire body was in the room, but she was no closer to him then before.

"I want you to tell me what this is." He turned the paper so that it was upside down to him, but right side up for her and slid it to the edge of his desk.

She crept forwards and examined it for a total of two seconds before saying "A wanted poster."

"And what does the said wanted poster read?" He prodded.

"Wanted dead or alive Heart Tigress, fifteen million beli." She read the paper, but had no reactions what's so ever.

"That's correct. Now tell me when this happened." the picture was of her running, looking over her shoulder right at the camera, which had zoomed in on her face. It was evident that the marines didn't know her name so they made something up, Heart Tigress to be exact.

"When we- well- last Thursday."

"I'm assuming that's why you were late." The marines sure killed no time when it came to her bounty, she must have done some damage along with simply being associated with the heart pirates.

"Yes sir. They surrounded us when we were walking home. So we decided to scatter, each man for himself. A-are you mad?" She peeked up at him through her eyelashes, not moving her head to look up at him.

"Not at all." No, he was actually proud of her.

They were once again surfaced, and Vivian and Law were quite comfortable against his first mate, who was sleeping soundly. Vivian had her head in Law's lap, her eyes half open, the rays of the warm sun warming her skin almost to the point of making her uncomfortable. A content purr could be heard the moment one stepped outside and onto the deck as law absentmindedly scratched behind her ear. His eyes were closed- drifting somewhere between conscious and not.

"Captain?" A voice said. "Captain." The voice repeated itself until they finally got a response from his captain. It wasn't much of a reaction, just him opening one eye like he seemed so fond of doing. "There's a small vessel following us. It's been silently following us for the last few days." Penguin didn't admit that it had been following them longer, and had just now had the mind to tell Captain.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Irritation thick in his voice. Such a trivial thing had interrupted his nap.

"I wasn't sure at first-"

"Are you sure now?"

"No." Penguin confirmed. "But what do you want me to do about it?"

"What kind of vessel is it?" his answer wasn't going to depend on Penguins answer, but he still wanted to see what his navigator had to say.

"It's unmarked. Not a marine or navy ship and it's not another pirate ship."

Vivian stretched and readjusted herself. There was no way the 'small vessel' was who the mean voice of paranoia and fear was telling her that it was. After all he was still back in the west blue hiring idiot assassins to kill her. None of them had succeeded yet, well one of them might have- maybe. "Don't worry about it Law." She mumbled, closing her eyes again. She knew that they were less then a day away from docking on the next island, so why not let the poor sucker who the Heart Pirates navigator thought was following them, go?

"Only unless they become a problem, if they do sink them. Got it Penguin?" Law told him.

"Um . . . Alright Captain." He didn't think that was the best idea ever but he was going to obey his orders.

"Hey, would you call an unidentified sailing ship a USS?"

"Shut up." Law grumbled hoping that Vivian wasn't trying to be funny in her half awake state of mind. Unfortunately he was unable to fall asleep or return to that half conscious state of mind he had been in previously.

Only a few hours remained until they reached the next island. Nothing occurred during those few hours until they were getting off the sub. Law stopped Vivian with a smirk before she could hop onto the deck like the rest of his crew had, saying "You're a wanted woman, keep your guard up." God only knew that he wanted to lose her because she forgot that she was wanted dead or alive.

"Are you going into town too?" She asked and when he nodded his head asked another question, "Then may I accompany you?"

"Scared?" He couldn't help but childishly sneer at her.

"Just nervous, don't make fun of me." She grumbled. That little voice in the back of her head was like an annoying fly, buzzing in her ear even as she swatted it away.

"Then let's go Miss." he held his elbow out to Vivian, who dubiously complied, allowing Law to be the gentleman he could sometimes be.

"Yes sir, let's go. Though I'd prefer it if you could call me Vivian, just Vivian sir." She could play his polite games too.

The log pose only took a few hours to set on this island. It was rather bland for being on the grand line. It was a blazing hot summer island with red rock galore. All the buildings were made out of the rock, in the crevasses between the high raising cliff faces that towered above them, creating a small bit of shade. The red dust beneath their feet had coated their shoes in red dust as it was kicked up as they walked arm in arm. They spent a few hours looking at medical supplies, seeing if there was anything new and exciting that Law didn't have, or some books that he wanted. But once he was satisfied that there was nothing in the field of science that he wanted the settled for wasting time with Vivian, who was dragging her feet at this point. They did nothing important after that, just walked around, talking and laughing- well it was mostly Vivian who talked and mostly law who laughed at his cat girl companion. Both of them ignored the stared they were getting, whether it was because they recognized one or both of them from wanted posters or if it were Vivian's ears and tail, neither knew and neither cared.

Now they were on their way back to the docks where their yellow submarine was, the only one of its kind obviously. Call it sixth sense, but something was wrong. Vivian didn't let it show though because she was in the company of Law. Not only would she get a lot of crap for being afraid, but he was also her Captain, meaning he had to be able to fight well enough to keep both of them safe, not that she'd depend on his help. So looking up at Law she asked "You look grumpy, why?" Sweat poured off of him, drenched his hoodie and his hat was limp. She wasn't in much better condition but it didn't show as much, plus there wasn't a huge frown on her face, or the words if anyone bothers me I'm going to kill them stamped on what part of his face was visible.

"I'll be happy when we come across a winter island." Even though he had been laughing at her, he hadn't said much so much of their conversations were one sided and even Vivian could tell he just wanted to get out of here.

"Why is that?"

"You might not know this Vivian, but I'm from the North Blue."

"Oh you are? Well that explains a lot. Like the furry hat and your talking walking polar bear first mate- maybe."

"I always have methods to my madness." He said with a slight upturn of the deep from on his face, but it couldn't be described as a smile when it brought the frown to a straight face.

"Are you sure abou-" Vivian stopped as they stepped onto the deck. "L-Law." She whimpered as a mad caught sight of them and stood. He had been resting in a relaxed manner, very much like law did against Bepo, but against the mast. He had black hair that was slicked back away from strikingly blue eyes. They were darker then Vivian's, more narrow and much colder.

Whoo! Ten chapters. . . Is that much of an accomplishment?! *calms down a bit* I guess not. But I'm going to pat myself on the back, smile happily, keep tying and thanks everyone who's following and who has reviewed. J