AN: A little late on this, other projects were taking my attention, sorry! This one's short and the next one ties into it pretty closely so I'm gonna put that one up at the end of the week if things go according to plan. Enjoy!

Hot Chocolate (Chilled for ten minutes)

Sanji gives the drink a final stir and taps the spoon against the rim of the cup, carefully laying it on the napkin. Luffy won't care at all for the presentation of the drink, but Sanji does, if only as a small extra thanks for Luffy's effort in saving Robin-chan. He picks up the tray and glides over to where Luffy is bundled up in half the blankets aboard the Going Merry and surrounded by heat dials. Usopp is chattering about how happy he is that he'd picked up so many of them even though he was more interested in the sound dials but Luffy is just chattering. His teeth sound like castanets.

"Hot chocolate Captain?" Sanji offers, extending the tray, Luffy snakes out an arm but he doesn't make it all the way, pulling his arm back inside the cocoon when the blanket slip off his elbow. Sanji rolls his eyes while nearly biting through his cigarette. "Come on." Luffy peers up at him pitifully.

"'S c-c-cold!"

"Yeah, that's why I made you hot chocolate, drink up." He sets the tray down on the table and picks up the mug, easing it into Luffy's waiting fingers which peek just outside the fuzzy nest. They'd given him gloves and forced warm socks on his feet but he'd refused just about everything else. Robin-chan is being a good angel and sleeping beneath the remaining half of the blankets on board, Chopper is taking care of her, and rightly so (partly because Luffy is harder to kill then he looks and partly because Robin was frozen for longer than Luffy), but he's checked on Luffy no less than six times in the last forty five minutes. Usopp for his part, is cemented to Luffy's side, and Zoro is more alert on watch duty than Sanji has seen him in a long time.

As soon as the mug is safely transferred and Sanji lets go, it begins to shake. Tiny tidal waves splash up against the ceramic sides and Sanji is very happy he only filled it half full, exactly with this conundrum in mind. Carefully, Luffy raises his quivering hand to his mouth and manages a slurp. He nearly drops it as he starts coughing, either more or less liquid in that gulp than he bargained for, and Sanji rescues the mug while Usopp pats Luffy's back and hazards a joke.

"Th-thanks S-S-S-S-Sanj-ji," Luffy manages and Sanji has to be patient to get his whole name. "It's warm-m-m."

Luffy's body temperature is hovering around 94.8 degrees fahrenheit and even though Sanji wants to force feed his captain steaming plates of food and serve the hottest hot chocolate he's ever brewed to warm him up, Chopper has warned him, twice, that anything warmer than room temperature is going to feel absolutely scalding.

So, lukewarm hot chocolate it is, even if he has to serve it in half full mugs so they aren't spilled everywhere. Even if he has to brew them all like normal and then let them cool to make sure the chocolate mixes in right.

He has about ten waiting on the kitchen counter, for whenever this frozen idiot manages to finish this first cup.

AN: Let me know what you think and thanks for reading!