Title: Wiped Clean

Word Count: 289

Character(s): Trafalgar Law, Heart Pirates, Luffy

Topic: Whiteout

Media: fic

Spoiler(s): Marineford

Rating:T


His reasons had been his utterly his own. He owed the Strawhat absolutely nothing and was fulfilling no obligations. He simply headed to the sub and gave the pilots their orders.

That's what you should know first.

The second thing you should know is whatever anyone else believed Law genuinely did try to help Luffy.

He operated, sutured, stitched and pumped a seemingly endless amount of carefully calculated transfusions into the younger man. They ran out of blood after a while and had it been anyone else Law would have written them off long before that stage. But he had faith in the madness that seemed to define the fate of Straw-hat Luffy so he and his team kept at it.

If anyone could 'bounce back', he reasoned, it would be this guy.

In medicine, 'almost' is not something you expect or strive for. This is why Law didn't quite know how to deal with what happened.

Luffy got up.

He started to get better.

He acted as if nothing was wrong whatsoever.

Law led Jimbei on a careful interrogation of the patient as they tried to ascertain the damage.

Luffy was perfectly happy and set about making friends with the surrounding people in his ususal manner. His personality and enthusiasm was much the same as far as the could tell from limited interaction and voracious rumour.

The problem was, that the would-be pirate king had blotted it all out. He claimed to have no brothers, to have never heard of Shaboady and have no nakama to speak of (on that note, he invited them to join his apparently non-existent crew.)

For whatever reason, Monkey D. Luffy seemed to have erased everything painful from his mind.

How incredibly interesting…