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1 week before the present day…

"And here we finish our routine checkup! Everything seems normal but just in case we will run some blood exams and we will arrange an appointment to try some new exercises for your legs Mister Amancio. How does next week, same day sounds like?" Elga suggested in a sweet voice being in doctor mode.

"That's fine by me!" Carlos answered but got interrupted by the red haired girl who was accompanying him.

"Wait, Mister Carlos! This is for your health! We should find an appointment earlier than next week!, Giovanna spoke walking in front of the blonde boy. "I insist you find a new date!"

The brunette was surprised by the other girl's rude attitude but decided to keep a professional face and let things flow until this meeting was over. There haven't been that many months since she started working here and wanted nothing but trouble with her patients at the beginning of her career as a doctor, so she curved a gentle smile and closed her eyes sighing to prepare her patience.

"Miss Giovanna, I take your worry into great consideration and I would like to inform you that unfortunately there is no other available date for a new appointment. The clinic's staff will be on break due to the town's festival and so we won't work if there is not a life threatening case."

"Mister Carlos health is…!"

"Mister Carlos health is fine and he is not a life threatening case which means that he can come at the arranged date which is next week, same day. If something troubles you, you can contact with us and if there is an emergency all three doctors will be on call." Elga explained, trying with difficulty to maintain her composure.

*Elga, do it for Law! Law will be proud of you! He will say you are a good doctor!*, she thought and the smile returned to her face at the image of the said boy waiting for her at the doctors' office for a break.

"What's your name you good for nothing raccoon?!"

*raccoon…?*, the girl sweat dropped at her nickname and thought that maybe she should stop studying until late at night and sleep more.

"What? Did the cat ate your tongue now? Are you scared?"

"Uhm, no Miss Giovanna…"

*Elga try to keep your composure.*

"Then what you wanna-be doctor? I don't pay you to stand like a statue."

*Law, medicine, proud…*

"Why do you look at me with widen eyes, huh?! Are you gonna cry now?"

"Hmm, Giovanna I think we should go, it is..." the blonde moved forward with his wheelchair in an attempt to stop his caretaker from continuing this conversation, clearly embarrassed by the fuss.

"Mister Carlos I am trying to show you my affection this way! Please I can handle it. Your health is much too precious for me and our time very little!", she made a pause and took a shy, almost innocent expression and turned her full attention on the boy. "M-Mister Carlos…" she called his name like a prayer and held his hands into hers. "Uhm, you see I just hoped… I just hoped next week we could go at the winter roses' path so we would take a walk there!"

The boy's cheeks took a deep red color as he wasn't used to a girl express her feelings for him this way. He waited for a long time for his turn to come and someone confess to him, so with great pleasure nodded his head in agreement, accepting the girl's outburst and reasoning it as love.

The red haired pleased with the outcome, faced again Elga and sent her a mischievous smirk with the attitude of a winner.

Elga could handle many things like physical pain, rude people, bad mouth and ill speaking and so on but she couldn't cope with one thing. Fake people and liars.

"Now you, learn to do your job right and use your head for something useful! Set a new date right away." she ordered her and the young doctor felt her blood boiling.

*Do it for Law… No fuck it! Law would do the same!*

She brought the image of a pissed Law inside her brain and immediately copied his cold gaze and dark aura.

"If you order me around one more time Miss Giovanna-ya I will cut your tongue and make you digest it. Is that clear?" she answered with a fake polite smile.

*Guuurl, you nailed it!*

The red head's face took a color similar to her own hair from anger and clenched her fists on her sides.

"Good! The appointment is next week then! If you don't have anything else to ask, you are free. Mister Carlos, Miss Giovanna thank you for choosing our clinic! I am looking forward for our next meeting! Have a nice day!" Elga added in the end before she exits the room and leave the other two alone.

"It is not like we could go to the next Island for an examination… You are the only clinic on this one!" the girl murmured under her breath and approached the blonde with a smile on her face.

~…~

"LAWWWW!" the female doctor yelled once she run into the doctors' office.

The said black haired boy made a wince from the sudden outburst but nevertheless lifted his eyes from his medical book and focused on the girl who sat with a loud plop, at the seat right in front of his office.

He didn't miss her moody expression and then concern overwhelmed him, closing the book he was studying until now.

"This patient of mine was very rude! I suggested a new appointment for next week as the clinic will be closed for 3 days due to the festival's event but she insisted that she didn't care! Like girl let me have my breaaak! But no she had to say all those mean things about me and you know I talked back! And I really not regret it!"

Law who rested his chin on his hand this whole time, didn't mind even once the excessive wordiness even if he was a man to appreciate silence. However, when it came for the specific girl in front of him, he could hear her mumble about her problems the whole day.

If you asked him, he would never honestly accept that he felt his ego slightly boosted over the fact that the girl decided to share her concern with him.

Yes, it felt nice he would be the first person she would choose to share her worries with.

"You did well. If Dr. Hashimoto scolds you about it, I will interfere and next time you can come to me for help." he answered but kept his gaze hidden under his infamous spotted hat, in an effort to hide an upcoming blush.

Elga felt her heart warm by the boy's support and a smile with pure happiness was curved on her cherry lips. It was heart melting to finally feel free like she could share her problems with someone and immediately stood up and approached the boy to embrace him from behind.

"You are so cute when you feel like it, Law!", she said and the young doctor tried to break free from the sudden violation of his personal space.

"Whatever! Go study now! You haven't finished that book about general surgery I gave you last week!"

"Pfft! You are no fun!" Elga responded and gave him a light kiss on the cheek before she heads to her own desk so she can study the book.

~…~

The time was 12:38, which means it was way past breakfast break time and Law wasn't still back at the clinic.

Elga could feel a strong urge to puke from the intense stomach pain due to severe anxiety.

What has just happened was pretty serious and Dr. Hashimoto wasn't the slightest polite when he decided the girl should be scolded for the unacceptable behavior towards a patient of his clinic.

'I have worked very hard to create this clinic and I can't let an insolent youngster without manners to provoke my reputation', were his exact words and Elga just wanted earth to open and shallow her whole.

He was neither pleased to hear that a doctor of his clinic threatened by cutting the tongue of his patient's caretaker and probably that information was the last drop for the elder man. He even warned the girl that she had only one more chance to prove she was worthy the seat that have been given to her, and Elga knew very well that the man wasn't a person of not keeping his words.

Giovanna didn't accept Elga as her doctor and once Law was absent, Dr. Hashimoto had to do the exercises and examine Carlos, something that didn't satisfy him at all as his work on his experiments fell back.

Elga who was currently sitting in front of her office was trying with difficulty to calm her anxiousness with a cup of tea on her hands. Though, it didn't seem to work and the fact that Law wasn't still back ratcheted up the bubbling feeling on her stomach.

Right now she was feeling like Law could be her only salvation with her problem. She didn't need a solution, only a teasing smirk, a funny comment or even a look of sympathy coming out of him. She needed him and had missed him so much with the latest events of the previous days.

He knew what had happened and would take her side, right? She could lean on him, right?

And just like that, like God had heard her prays, the boy walked inside the room and took a seat on his own office.

He let a sigh escape his lips and feeling the intense gaze of a specific girl, he glanced at her with a blank face.

He could clearly discern the uprising anxiety on her dark brown orbs and the pleading expression on her face like she waited something from him.

*Please, Law! Please! Just say something. Take this pain away like you always do!* it was like he really read her thoughts and the boy closed his eyes in irritation.

"I know what happened. Miss Dulcinea-ya informed me about the latest events.", he broke the silence and the girl's eyes widened in anticipation.

"You should be more careful next time.", was all he added and opened his book to continue his study from the checkered page.

"B-but you had told me…I mean can we talk about it? I-I need you, Law…"

"I know what I told you but don't expect from me to support you from now on. Deal with it alone as a mature person like all the others do.", he responded without taking his eyes off his book.

*I am sorry Elga-ya… The boy you are searching for has died a long time ago. I can't support you as you told me he did in the past. I don't even know how you are aware about me from back then but I can't let you get your hopes up. I am trying to save you from a moment of great disappointment…*, he thought with a bitter taste in his mouth. He felt like a ghost from the past came to hunt his soul again and he couldn't expose his fears in front of her. No she will be disappointed on him when she learns what this boy from White town did to his life. He could even picture her disgusted face so clearly on his mind that made his stomach twist from sadness.

The girl was taken aback from his answer as she found nothing but comfort from his words. She tried with difficulty to keep her tears from rolling on her cheeks and just sat silent gazing into nothingness.

Did their relationship really change so much within one week?

Was she really alone again?

Law, did I really lose you too?