Nami's head thudded on the kitchen island. "I have a problem."

Robin smiled. It was a rare sol when they had the sol off together. She set the bowl of pancake batter aside before she seemed to have realized she had forgotten to turn the stove on. As Robin waited for the pan to heat, she said, "Is it about your ex?"

Nodding, she sighed. "Yeah. I'm an idiot, aren't I? Shouldn't breaking up be easier than this? Why can't I flip my mood off like my birth control?"

"Did you?" She dropped a slice of butter in the pan. "Turn off your birth control, I mean?"

She froze with a furious blush, but she said, "I didn't. We're going to do another test in a few weeks though. I already had my period too, but Kaya said it might've just been spotting."

Robin nodded along, well aware of fickle bodies. "I spotted normally until last month." She turned to her with a smile though. "Nami, if you think you're an idiot for getting pregnant without a man, might I remind you of every other woman on Earth who's had a baby and raised them beautifully on their own?"

"I don't mean that." Nami shrugged when Robin raised a brow. "Maybe a little about that, but I just can't stop thinking about him. I just ... I think I made the right choice."

What other choice did she have? She could deal with fantasies by herself - they were nothing new even if he was the star of those dreams now.

"So what happened?"

Nami bit her lip, and her eyes searched the other side of the room for an answer.

"That's what you said last time," Robin said with a giggle.

"I just ... well, I ..."

Robin hummed. "Was it something you did then? I had the feeling that he had said something wrong."

"He did. Kind of. I'm trying to explain! There's just personal information that I ... it's important, but I don't want to give it out either." She didn't want to cause a panic.

"All right, all right. Just try to start from the beginning perhaps?"

"There's not really any beginning exactly. We ... fucked. Several times."

The too smooth face Robin held made Nami want to chuck the salt shaker at her. "And?"

"Everything was going perfectly. He asked me to move into his MARSHA when he got it, and I ... I was getting excited, and we um ... exercised." Nami's volume dropped the further she went, head lowering as she remembered how she had only poked a bit of fun at his glorious stamina.

A stack of pancakes steamed into her face when Robin pushed it over. "What happened then?"

Nami stared at her, chewing her lip. What could she tell her? Which parts could she say? He's a clone. Someone modified him for their own purposes before he was even born. They told him to breed and spread his seed on Mars to unsuspecting women. And there's more of them.

"He told me ... that he wanted only me." Her eyes filled with tears even as her brain prodded at her. Called her a fool ten times over. Furious, she wiped her tears away with shaking hands. What was wrong with her? "He's ... but he's not what I thought. He wasn't ever real." Nothing was his. Not his life, nor the fingers that had stroked her cheeks.

Luffy was the clone of some stranger.

Those weren't his hands.

Her tablet went off, and Nami gaped at the name on the screen.

Monkey D. Luffy

"Don't an-" Robin gaped when Nami hit the green button.

The racket on the other side almost made her drop her tablet, and she gaped.

"-get another and - What are you calling her for!?" Law's angry voice.

A shuffle made Nami think that some sort of wrestling was happening - she could only see a thumb partially over the camera and the side of Luffy's scowling face before that too disappeared, and she saw only the wall.

"Go away, Torao! I'm talking to Nami!"

"She broke up with you, idiot! Don't you get it!?"

She winced, glancing at Robin, who made some motion to have her hang up, but Nami looked at the screen again before she whispered, "I'm going to-"

"Nami never said that!"

Her eyes widened, inhaling sharply.

The screen turned to his face, flushed with anger and determination as she had never seen before.

"Hang up, idiot! She doesn't care about-"

Law had reached over. His hand pushed on Luffy's shoulder to reach for the tablet in Luffy's grip.

In an instant, Luffy had snagged Law's hair into his other hand's clutches before he smashed their heads together in a crack that made Nami's jaw drop. Blood dripped down their forehead, and Nami ran for the door.

Behind her, Robin yelled to Franky upstairs while she chased her, "Call security! Send them to Dr. Law's office!"

Nami tried to outrun her, the tablet on so she could hear his voice. She dodged around surprised people in the halls and heard others running once she turned the corner to Luffy's shared MARSHA.

What was she doing?

But then, what was Luffy fighting them for?

A glance at the screen told her that Luffy had dropped the tablet, but all that showed was limbs that sometimes swung over the lens, otherwise, it was the ceiling. From the angle, she could recognize the shape of the ceiling. They were in the living area on the third floor.

The shouting became clearer too.

"Do you think you're rebelling or something!? Don't forget what you are, idiot!"

"I don't care!"

She shoved past one of the other men - he was so tall and wide she couldn't see around him. When he spotted her though, she gasped when he stopped her with a huge hand around her arm and pulled her back.

"What are you doing here?"

"Nami!"

Luffy and Law had both hands occupied with the other's while they tried to push to gain any sort of leverage on the other. A bruise of red splotched both foreheads, and blood pulsed down faces and noses alike.

When he saw her though, Luffy smiled.

"Ah, I just wanted to talk, Nami. You didn't have to come over."

Nami grimaced. "What are you fighting about, idiot?"

Law shoved him onto the couch with a growl, wiping his lip of blood she hadn't noticed before. "This doesn't concern you."

Eyes widening, she yanked her arm free from the ginger-haired man and stalked toward him to slap him. Law's lips twisted, but he looked away from her gritted teeth. "You think it doesn't!? You're the one butting in where he's not wanted! All of you!"

Fuming, she hung up on her end of the tablet while Law simmered.

With a frown, Luffy stood.

"Where would we go then?"

She flinched, but shook her head, face burning as she turned away from him. "What does it matter to me?"

Luffy took her hands, squeezing while he smiled. "Because the MARSHAs are finished, and I wanted to ask you again."

A group of security personnel came up the stairs. Amongst them, Zoro glanced at her with something that looked like concern, but Nami could hardly hear their questions for all the thunder in her head when Luffy's smile took her away.

So certain.

"Come stay with me."

"Idiot," she whispered before she bit her lip. "That's not a question."

As the security guards took Luffy and Law aside, Nami stared at the other men in the living space. All clones who had been sent to impregnate women. From their dull eyes, Nami couldn't understand how Luffy had been among them and not come out looking the way they did. Would any women want such dead eyes looking at them as they did at her?

Peering down the stairs, Nami spotted Robin's worried face. With a glance at Luffy snapping something to Zoro, she padded downstairs to join her in the kitchen.

"Nami, what were you thinking?" Robin whispered.

Sighing, Nami wondered the same thing. She had heard his voice though, so firm, as if he knew already how she would respond. How could he know when she didn't though? Part of her thought that perhaps, she wanted to come to tell him to his face that they were over. Obviously, he hadn't understood before.

"Nami never said that!"

Yet, before him where she could see his face, clear and honest in what he wanted, Nami couldn't say it. Those words may have lit a fire, but what they set ablaze was not hatred even when she had attempted to spit vitriol at him. She had been angrier at Law. Had Luffy seen that?

She closed her eyes, cringing while she tried to conceal her face from Robin. Nami whispered, "I'm just as big of an idiot as he is. I still want him. I know I'm being stupid, but I can't help it. No one else has made me feel like he does."

With a sigh, Robin wrapped her arms around her. "I don't know what you were fighting about, but you'll have to wait to talk to him now."

Nami grimaced at the thought. For a disturbance like this, they would surely put the two under arrest and keep them lodged in their sleeping pods. Depending on the crime, it might be anywhere from a week to a month. Fights had happened on the colony before, and they were never much more severe than a broken nose.

When the security detail brought them downstairs, Nami followed them to the section where Law's office was.

A glance from Zoro at her made her stop short, but she said, "If you're giving Luffy a check-up, shouldn't another doctor look at him besides Law?"

Robin smiled and said, "We can't be sure that Dr. Law will give him proper treatment after a fight like that."

Zoro raised a brow at Law when he scowled, but Law said, "I'm not an idiotic child that would do more harm to him."

With a shrug, Zoro said, "Better to be safe than sorry." He nodded to the others in the security detail. "I'll take him to another doctor."

Nami swallowed nothing before she stepped in. "How about the Syrup Clinic?"

She followed them down the hall, correcting where Zoro was going whenever he was about to take a wrong turn even when the signs showed where important facilities were. Nami wondered what she was doing. As much as she did not trust Law not to hurt him, wouldn't Kaya be as bad? It appeared that Luffy was being ostracized by the others in any case. Law had always taken charge of their group while Luffy had begrudgingly done as he had said.

If she thought about it, Luffy had always been fighting with them in some manner or another.

Luffy grinned at her over his shoulder, and Zoro snorted before raising a brow. "You had nothing to do with this then?"

"Luffy called me, and then they started fighting, so I ran over." She glanced over Luffy, but he treaded along obliviously. "I don't think I'd say I wasn't involved, but I wasn't there when it started."

When Zoro rounded on her, she jumped. "If these idiots are fighting over a woman-"

"That's not what was going on!" Nami's face exploded in color, stunned by the thought. "It just looks to me that Law was trying to control him. He's not his boss anyway."

Zoro grimaced, but he pulled something up on his tablet before he snorted. "Well, they'll be under house arrest now. No visitors." His eyes slid to her as if to wonder at her intent or perhaps to see her blush, but she firmed her lips.

"Do you know how long?"

He snorted. "That's not my decision. You'd do better to ask that Magellan guy. His call."

She nodded and held back her sigh. "I figured as much."

"Nami?" She was startled when Luffy grasped her wrist, and she stared into his warm, black eyes. "Can we talk now?"

Behind him, Zoro scowled. "Hey now. You're my prisoner, no talking."

Luffy pouted, lips pursed in annoyance. "You're just like those doctors. So annoying."

"Wha-!? Annoying? What are you, a brat!?"

Nami stared at him though, and all at once, it clicked in place. Thinking about it, she supposed she knew now why he was always so amazed by the smallest thing. As a clone, how had Luffy lived? Would they allow him to run free as he grew? Smell flowers? Go outside? More than likely, they had kept him under a tight rein like Law had attempted.

How that must have gnawed at Luffy. She could only guess what had happened to him. Nami glanced at his chest where she knew a huge X laid across his skin, and she wished she had asked more about it before. Obviously, she had been too distracted whenever she saw it.

With a flush, Nami took his hands and squeezed them to get his attention again. "Luffy, we can talk when you're free again. I promise." She took a deep breath and held a finger up to him. "But you have to tell me everything."

His eyes widened when they stopped in front of Kaya's office, but he nodded.

"I will."

When Kaya peeked out to see what was happening, she frowned at Luffy but tilted her head. "What's going on?"

"A fight with his doctor apparently."

Luffy grinned and said, "I want you to fix me up! Nami trusts you."

Kaya glanced at her around him, eyes wide before she sighed, deflating in resignation. "I see, but I can't treat you. Orders from Earth says only Dr. Law can."

She winced. Nami had hoped that wasn't the case. Even Kaya didn't appear to be happy about it though - she hadn't said it as if to prove a point or to taunt him. Luffy's lips drew back over his teeth in a scowl, and Kaya inched away in surprise.

"This is Mars."

Nami gaped outright at him, jaw falling so her mouth hung open. When Kaya tried to shake her head in denial, Nami sprung to grasp her shoulders, clinging to hope as hard as she did to her. "This isn't Earth anymore."

"But ..." Kaya looked between the two while Zoro raised his brow to goggle at them. "The orders say ..."

"Burn them," Luffy said before he stepped around her to head into her office. "I want a different doctor."

When he sat in front of her desk, Luffy beamed so brightly, Nami thought she might have to shade her eyes. How did he do that?

Kaya shot Nami a look, but it was neither withering nor bewildered - just long-suffering. She sighed and shook her head. "Do you think it will blow over just like that?"

"It should do for now, right?" Nami eyed Luffy, but she whispered, "I don't know what else to do yet."

"I'll patch him up first at the very least."

Sagging, Nami sat beside him while he smiled obliviously. Zoro peeked inside, but stood at the door rather than loom over them, and Nami flushed when she realized he appeared to be giving them space. Did he really think they had been fighting over her?

Luffy took her hand again, making her jump, but she turned to him with a pout. He snickered and said, "Can we talk now too?"

Nami glanced at Kaya who tried to keep a straight face even with red creeping into her cheeks. When she gazed back, she whispered, "Yeah, we can talk a bit."

"I still want you with me." His grip tightened. "Only you."

Blood flooded her cheeks, and a glance at Kaya showed her own red face. "I ... thank you?"

"And you?"

Her eyes widened. She swallowed nothing. Luffy stared back, waiting for her answer.

When she opened her mouth, she shook with what felt like a relief. "Idiot, I want you too, but it's not that simple."

He smiled.

"Nothing simpler than that. We'll make it work. You and me."

Outside of the MARSHA, Nami glowered at Zoro when he stared back.

"What?"

"Just trying to figure it out. What is he?" She stiffened, but he continued. "Some kind of idiot? A bad boy you can't keep your hands off of?"

She gawked at this before she cackled. "Bad boy? Him!?"

Zoro shrugged. "You're the one that ran to the fight. We're security, not you. Course, I guess Dr. Law looks more like the bad boy type. Your boyfriend's a moron."

"Yeah, I guess he is. He doesn't even know what CRISPR is." Her lips flattened, but she shook her head. One step at a time. Perhaps, now, she could sleep without having to drag out some aid to get her tired enough.

At the tilt of his head, she scoffed.

"Looks like you don't either. So who's the bigger idiot?"

"Maybe you?"

Her eyes popped wider before she smirked. "That's all right by me."

Ears perked when she heard stomping, and she was surprised to see Usopp striding across the corridor. "Nami! What the hell is going on!? Kaya's a wreck worried about you!"

Nami's cheeks darkened. "My boyfriend just had a little fight with someone is all."

Usopp turned to Zoro as if to confirm with him, but Zoro's grimace told all. "I thought you two broke up! Kaya said you did!"

"Well, I thought I did too," she said, smiling at her own cryptic reply, but Usopp sniffed.

"Can't you make up your mind? Besides, if he's picking fights, dump him. Look, Zoro's a great guy!"

"Quit trying that. I'm beginning to think she's as crazy as him."

When she laughed, Zoro pointed to her as if to prove his point. Usopp groaned. "Whatever's going on, try not to stress out Kaya at least."

"Well, I won't be sending Luffy to the doctor's, so that shouldn't be worrying her," Nami said. "And Torao already did."

He sighed heavily, shaking his head. "You know what I mean."

"I know, Usopp. Just tell Kaya I'll talk to her later. I ... this is important to me, okay?"

Usopp's arms drooped, but he said, "All right, I'll tell her, but don't leave her hanging. I dunno what you two are fighting about, but I won't be some go-between for messages."

"It's not like that anymore, I promise. Give her a hug from me, okay?"

After grousing enough, eventually, Usopp headed home while Zoro scowled at her. Maybe that was his face.

She glanced at her hip where her tablet was in her pocket before she cleared her throat and headed down the corridor. "See you later, mall cop."

He grunted in annoyance. "You ... damned ... cat."

Once she was sure she was far enough away, Nami pulled her tablet out and searched out her birth control app.

Nami gazed at the sole icon that would take her into the app, a blush creeping back before she turned off her tablet's screen. First, she would find the time to talk to Luffy and get him to tell her everything. She had plenty of time, but Luffy did not.

They had to wait only a week for him to come back out.

Only then could she feel right about turning it off.