Chapter 7: Robin/Law: Library
Libraries have attracted lovers for centuries. Good thing too.
Notes: For you, Rescue_Remedy!
Robin pulled on her gloves taking care to put her hair up in a ponytail. She wanted to disturb the site as little as possible after all. Leave no trace. With careful precision, ten pairs of hands managed to shift the rock slab just enough for her to slip behind it.
A crack of light followed her in. Warmth spread from her fingers to her toes. It was beautiful. A true treasure. Hundreds of shelves with ancient scrolls and books lined the walls of this once lively library. Now hidden, sealed away, except for those like her. Those who hunted out the lost places, the forgotten spaces, the pieces of the puzzle that were no longer wanted. Inconvenient loose ends, just like her.
She walked through the space, squinting at titles under a thin sheen of dust. It was enormous, this cave. A collection of history that must have been one of the great wonders of the world in times past.
A soft pop filled the air. She turned, a familiar fuzzy hat and silly polkadot jeans. Golden eyes met her blue ones. "Torao-kun, nice to see you." But he was already walking past her, deeper into the cave. Robin chuckled. As focused as her captain at times.
They walked in the darkness together, unhurried. It smelled of deep earth and old wood, dust and echoes. This wasn't the first time she'd met him in a place like this. Nor the second, or even the third. For many years now, he'd appeared at her side to walk the dark places with her. To stand in the dust of history, to breath in the quiet and the solitude.
Once alone, now… Robin smiled as they reached the back of the cave. There was light here. Glowing from an altar in the center. A book, the rarest kind, sat open, blue light emanating from its pages. A book from the ancients, from the Void Century. The kind of find Robin had been hoping for.
They came to a stop, side by side before it. Law's eyes flickered to her as she leaned forward before he refocused on the tome. After all these years, Robin wondered if he'd picked up any of the ancient tongue… the idea of teaching him flashed across her mind. Hm, something to ponder later.
She focused on the book, her eyes going up. This…was not about ancient weapons. Or the Devil Fruits. Or the history she was always searching for.
"What is it Nico-ya?" he asked. Though he said it softly, his voice still echoed off the walls, rustling her hair on the back of her neck.
It was a legend. A retelling of a story as old as any Robin had ever seen. A tale of two lonely gods finding solace in one another. The moon and the stars. Connected by an unseen and unknown force that Robin could only interpret as…
"A love story," she said softly. The air was still, their breaths the only thing to disturb it for centuries. His eyes bore into hers, face glowing pale in the blue light.
"Read it to me," he said quietly, not a demand, not an order. No, he was asking her. Robin smiled.
"Once upon a time…"
Notes: So this is my fav Robin ship actually. I love them, I need to write more hhhh