Chapter 25
"Hey Law." the red head called to him.
"Can Rory tag along with us so we can train him? I promise to make him behave." he asked.
Law glared down at the two, not really liking the idea of another assassin that he didn't trust being on his submarine and none the less pleased about how T reacted to him.
"Out of the question. I don't want an assassin that I don't even know on my submarine." he said glaring at Rory.
"What?" Timi asked getting annoyed.
"T trusts him. That has to be something, right?" he asked.
"That's worrying. I'm the captain and I say no." he said in a stern voice and turned to head inside.
Timi was about to go after him and give him a piece of his mind but Rory stopped him.
"Don't worry. He is the captain and you have to follow his orders." Rory said with a shrug, smiling.
"I don't have to follow shit." Timi grumbled crossing his arms.
"It's okay, I was prepared for this. You are part of a pirate crew now. You do have a few rules to follow." he said smiling.
"Look here punk. I do whatever the fuck I want and whenever the fuck I want. He can't tell me what to do because if I don't feel like doing it, I wont." Timi said glaring up at Rory.
"I doesn't matter if he lets you on his sub or not. That's his decision and I will respect that." he started and Rory stood beside him confused.
"Here's the plan. Me and T will do the training, you just have to meet us on the island we dock on or go to for a mission. We will spend some time with you as you asked us. This way Law can't really have a say in it." he explained grinning.
"Really? You're the best." he said and pulled him into a bear hug.
"Yeah, yeah. Now get off me." Timi smiled and pulled out a piece of paper.
"This is a vivre card. I'll give you a piece and it should lead you to me." he said ripping a piece off and handed it to Rory.
"Thank you. I will make sure to follow it. But how will I know that you're on an island?" he asked.
"I'll give you a call. See you later." Timi smirked and jumped back onto the sub.
"Bye bye." Rory called as the rest of the Heart Pirates went back inside and the sub submerged.
Timi headed straight to Law's office, ignoring Cori on the way who tried to talk to him.
"Law." Timi called, walking into his office and closed the door behind him.
"Timi." he called back in the same manner.
"Care to explain what that was about?" the red head asked, crossing his arms as he stood in front of his desk.
"I don't need to explain myself. I'm the captain and I don't want him on board." Law said glaring at Timi.
"Is it cause he's an assassin and you don't trust him or because he got T's attention?" he asked.
"I don't care what T does, that just surprised me. Cori told me that he was sent to kill you. He might try again." the raven haired man said.
"You got a point there." Timi said in thought.
"But he's not that kind of a person. When I talked to him, all I could see was hope and honesty in his eyes. I doubt he has an ulterior motive. He's not that great of assassin, if I had to say; the only reason he made it this far is because of his devil fruit." Timi explained.
"I don't care. I don't want him on board." Law pressed on with a frown on his face. He didn't like that they were arguing like this.
"It doesn't matter now. I arranged meetings with him on the islands we dock at. That way he wont bug you." he said and turned around to leave.
"Timi." Law called after him.
"Just don't let your guard down." he warned him.
Timi only smirked at him and left the room.
After everyone finished their lunch, Shachi and Penguin dragged Timi off to somewhere with Bepo following out of curiosity.
"You have got to be kidding me." Timi said annoyed as he was looking at the female clothing in front of her on the bed. They were in the boys bunks as the two tried to convince her to dress her gender again.
"You said you will do it later." Shachi said.
"That later is now." Penguin said.
"We will leave you, so you can dress. Just call when you finished." Shachi said and dragged the two others out of the room.
"Great. I don't want to do this." Timi said to herself looking at the clothes.
'Oh come on, it's just a bit of fun.' T said in her head.
"Why do you care? Go back to sleep." Timi snapped.
"I guess I did say to them that I will but it's embarrassing." she said, a light pink dusting her cheeks.
"You need some help Timi?" Bepo called from outside.
"N-no. I'm good." Timi replied and selected a few items she will try on.
They even got some underwear for her, which she found disturbing, especially that they fit her.
She pulled on the black lacy panties and bra, feeling her cheeks heating up more, she usually wore boxer briefs cause they were more comfy.
"I can't believe I'm doing this." she said and grabbed the black denim shorts that had fraying ends and pulled them on. Next she put on a red tank top that hugged her figure, along with a black and red chequered scarf that she wrapped around her hips and tied it at the left side, leaving the ends to drape down to her knees. She also had a nice leather wristband to put on her left wrist and some other bracelets on her right wrist. Lastly she put on the black sandals that had heels but not too hight so she was able to walk in them.
When she finished dressing, she sat down on Penguin's bed where all the clothes were and dropped her head in her palms. It was embarrassing to dress this way but she couldn't back out of it now.
"You finished?" Penguin asked from outside.
"Yeah. Come in." she said her red hair falling in her face to hide it.
"Oh wow." Shachi said in awe.
"You look amazing. Stand up." Penguin grinned as they walked up to her.
"Wow." Bepo said smiling.
Timi stood up and did a twirl as Penguin motioned for her to do so and she looked away blushing. The two engineers were as red as a tomato as well, seeing her in this get up.
"You look amazing Timi." they all said at the same time.
"Thanks, I guess." she said shyly.
"Now to do your hair and make up." Penguin grinned.
"You didn't say anything about make up." Timi said a bit scared of what they will do to her.
"Sit in this chair and just relax." Shachi said pulling a chair to the middle of the room so they can move around her easier.
As soon as she sat down, Penguin started to work on her hair and Shachi worked on her make up.
When they finished, they held up a mirror in front of her to see.
"Wow." she said looking in her reflection. Her hair was pulled up into a high pony tail on the right of her head with her fringe still over her eyes. She had a smokey make up on with red lipstick on her lips. They went subtle with her look and to be honest she didn't look half bad.
"I'm so proud. We did it." Shachi said tearing up at their masterpiece.
"You look so hot." Penguin said grinning.
"Lets go show it to the others." Bepo smiled and pulled her out of the room.
He dragged her all over the sub with the two engineers behind them. The crew's reaction was all the same, either a nose bleed or they turned red as a tomato, making comments on how sexy she looked.
Finally they got to Law's office, where they found him and Cori.
"We brought the female out of her." Shachi said proudly as they presented her to the two.
"You should dress like this more. Oh and you have to stay like this till you go to sleep." Penguin said making her glare at him.
"You look fantastic Timi." Cori said walking up to her and pulled her into a warm hug.
"Thanks." she said smiling and returned the hug.
"Right?" Penguin asked draping an arm around her shoulders.
"You do look great. But next time dress her in less revealing clothes." Law said pushing Penguin's arm away from her.
"Sorry." the two said.
"Please." Timi agreed.
"Now shoo. Don't you have some work to do?" Cori asked as he waved them away and the 3 guys left the room, leaving Cori and Law with her.
"I never thought I would see you wearing this." Cori said smiling at her.
"Yeah well, I had no choice. I was a bit curious as well to be honest." she said pulling her hair to the front and looked at it.
"You look amazing." Law whispered, hugging her. She blushed but thanked him.
"I just remembered I have something to do. I will see you two later." Cori said smirking and walked out.
"Wonder what's up with him?" Timi said and walked over to the couch to sit down.
"Who knows?" Law smirked and sat back at his desk.
"Can I borrow a book? Been a while since I finished my last one." Timi asked and Law nodded.
She went to his room that she now calls hers as well and found a nice fantasy one, then headed back to his office. At the moment it was the quietest place to be.
She sat down on the couch with her legs stretched out on it and her back rested on the arm rest, she opened the book and started to read as she was facing Law.
'That really surprised me. I've never seen her dress like that before.' Law thought to himself, glancing up at her. He had to be honest, she looked hot as hell. Realising what he just thought, he shook his head and went back to his papers with pink dusting his cheeks.
Timi could feel Law's eyes on her every once in a while as he glanced up at her. It started to distract her from reading. She looked up at him as he was scribbling something on a paper. She took this time to study him a bit. It's been years since she saw him and he matured a lot. From those beautiful yellow eyes with the dark shadow underneath it giving him a darker look, he was an insomniac after all. His nose, that thin and pinky lips that curl up at the edges, that dark goaty on his chin, his strong neck and tanned skin, even with his yellow hoodie on she could tell he was well built even if he was quite slim and those inked arms with long slender fingers. Her eyes travelled back up to his eyes just to find them staring back at her. They both blushed and after a second quickly averted their eyes back to what they were doing.
'What the hell? Stop thinking about him like that.' Timi screamed at herself in her head.
'Developing a little crush, are we?' T asked chuckling.
'No I'm not. What are you saying?' Timi hissed back.
'I don't blame you. I may be asexual but there's no denying that Law is sexy as fuck.' T said licking her lips.
'T what the fuck?! Go back to sleep.' Timi growled in her head.
'You know, you two have been friends since you were 9. It's about time something started to happen.' T said chuckling, making Timi blush more.
'Nothing will happen!' Timi yelled in her head and sat up straight with a red face, her book long forgotten.
"You okay?" Law asked raising an eyebrow.
"Everything's fine. T's just being an asshole." she said frowning.
"Teasing you about dressing like a girl?" he asked amused.
"No. It doesn't matter anyway, she fucked off back to sleep." she said laying back and opened her book.
"Nah, I'm curious now. What was she teasing you with?" Law asked smirking.
"Ignore it." she said waving him off.
"I don't want to." he said challenging her.
"Let it go Law. It's nothing interesting." she said not even glancing at him. 'I can't tell him what T said. No way.' she thought.
"As your captain, I order you to tell me." he said standing up and walked towards her.
"What makes you think that you can just order me around?" she asked standing up as well.
"I'm the captain." he smirked stepping in front of her. Because of the heels, they were now eye to eye.
"Doesn't make a difference. I told you that I won't follow your orders if I don't want to." she glared at him as they were a few inches apart, glaring at each other.
"Is that so? Maybe I should teach you how to obey. I haven't completely tamed you." he said smirking and took a strand of her hair between his fingers.
"And how do you plan to do that?" she asked with her own smirk. They were so close to each other, their bodies were nearly touching, if they would lean any closer they would kiss.
They just stood there glaring at each other, neither willing to give in or submit to the other.
"Dinner's ready." Bepo suddenly said walking into the room, breaking their stare off and completely ruining the moment.