Ace stood there next to Zoro as he lay there motionlessly like he has been all week. Everyone comes by to check on him, Sanji the most. Dadan know but wont let Arin visit until he's awake and well. "You have no idea how worried you made everyone. Everyone called our house home for the three weeks we were there and some still sleep over just in case you wake up and we get a call." Ace smiles at Zoro, his smile fades. "Zoro do you think it would all right to let them know? Smoker, Sabo and Tashigi still fight over telling them. Smoker thinks it's wise to tell them, you know him, he never liked leaving people in the dark about things. Luffy just doesn't want to keep it a secret anymore. Sabo and Tashigi thinks them knowing will break you more but," Ace looks Zoro to toe before reaching forward, holding Zoro's hand, "like this, aren't you already broken. What good will keeping them in the dark do, especially Sanji. He seems to really like you. Him and Luane being the most worried about you. You really need to wake up Zoro, everyone's worried and there are a lot of people that want to see you." Ace squeezes Zoro's hand and in return it's squeezed back. Ace looks up at Zoro's face to see his eyes open and staring back. Zoro nods before his eyes close again, his hands stops squeezing onto Aces. "Zoro?" Ace shakes his shoulder a little. "Zoro!"

"What's wrong?" A nurse comes in.

"He opened his eyes and closed them again!" Ace shouts frantically.

"I'll be right back, I'll get the doctor." The nurse says before she runs out the room. Seconds later both Law and Chopper show up again. They check Zoro physically, look at charts and the monitor.

"He's out of any danger now." Chopper explains.

"Then why did he go back sleep?"

"Now he just needs to rest. He should be up in the evening." Law says as he leaves.

"How long have you been here Ace?" Chopper asks.

"All morning."

"You should go back home, get some rest. He'll be fine." Chopper gives him one of his cute and contagious smiles. Ace smiles back. "I'll watch him till you or someone else comes." Chopper says. Ace nods, listening to the doctor. He leaves the doctor and goes back home. It's empty, to be expected, Zoro is safe in the hospital so everyone went back to work (and school) as a way to waste time waiting for Zoro to wake up. Ace takes a shower, gets some rest and something to eat.

When he went back to the hospital room he found it full of people, the crew. "Well isn't this a party?" Ace says with a smile.

"Ace!" Luffy shouts happily jumping up.

"I told you again we should!" Smoker shouts at Tashigi.

"I told you we shouldn't!" Tashigi shouts at Smoker.

"Are they fighting again?" Ace asks.

"Yeah, still can't decide to tell everyone or not." Luffy says standing next to Ace as he looks at the couple. Ace walk over to Zoro and looks down at him. He was talking to Zoro and when he woke up Zoro nodded at him. Did that mean what he thinks?

"I think Zoro wants to let them know." Ace says making Tashigi and Smoker stop their fight. Everyone else looks over at Ace. Sanji stands still at the door. How could he know?

"How?" Tashigi asks.

"When Zoro woke up he nodded his head."

"Zoro woke up?" Sanji asks. Everyone turns to look at the chef who looks hurt.

"Yeah, this morning. I was talking to him about it and while squeezing his hand he squeezed back. When I looked I saw his eyes open and he nodded at me."

"S-Smoker? S-Sabo?" They all turn their head to Zoro who's voice sounded dry. His eyes half open as tears form in the corner of his eyes. He moves his head to the side scanning everyone.

"I'm here." Smoker says going to stand next to him. "What is it?" Smoker asks.

"It happened again." Zoro stated before the tears continue to fall. Smoker hugs him and they all watch as Zoro cried in Smokers shoulder as he hug back. The room is silent as they let Zoro cry, most were shocked to see him even shed a tear to say anything. Zoro's sniffles start to fill the room before it goes silent. They watch as Zoro's hands, that are raped around Smoker's neck, falls back onto the bed. Smoker feels them slide down his back and moves Zoro to see him sleeping peacefully again.

"He fell back to sleep." Smoker says setting Zoro back down, wiping his tears away.

"Crying must have taken the little energy he has left." Robin says.

"I... he cried." Nami says still shocked by what she saw.

"What happened?" Robin asks.

"If Zoro says it's ok then... it started a year after Jamie had died. Zoro was getting back into the dating scene."

"But it wasn't going well." They turn to see Perona in her Lolita clothes walking into the room with Sabo trailing behind her.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean it wasn't going well. They all got scared about something and ended it before it actually went anywhere. Some ended in hospital and one guy went into a coma."

"Did Zoro do that?"

"No, it was all an accident but they thought being with Zoro caused them the bad luck. They thought Zoro was like a black cat or something and stayed away from him."

"Until one day he meet someone. Troy Rider."

"Wait, the Troy Rider?" Nami asks. Sabo nods.

"You said he went to jail for kidnapping and torturing a Police officer." Sabo nods as he looks at Sanji with an sad and apologetic expression.

"That police officer was Zoro." Sabo says. Gasps fills the room as Tashigi, Smoker, Perona, Sabo, Ace and Luffy look away.

"Wait you mean to tell me-?" Sanji starts as he look at the others faces.

"It's hard to tell what's worse." Ace starts. "Last time he got kidnapped, he was gone for a month and a half. He came back to us bruised and bleeding a little. It only took three days for him to get released from the hospital. This was barely a month and it took a week for him to just open his eyes."

"This time and last we found him chained to a bed, beaten and bloodied." Sabo says.

"He looked more bloody than beaten this time." Smoker tells them. They couldn't listen anymore. This was bad, they shouldn't have asked to know.