Title: Close Calls
Rating: G
Word Count: 348
Pairing: none
Notes: There is a reason I don't often write Robin, and this would be it; I just can't seem to get a handle on her. And this part did wind up different from the others because I felt Robin wouldn't be quite the same as the rest of the crew. After this, there will be one more main part (and little something extra in addition to that). Oh, and, in case anyone wonders,GMOTHS stands for Great Men of the High Seas, and was thrown in as a nod to a friends livejournal community.
With the animal instincts Chopper sometimes forgot he had fully in control, the need to runfastnowgetaway blinded him to everything else. Like how if he kept running at this rate, in this direction, he would run through the railing, off the deck, and into the ocean for a pleasant un-swim.
Luckily, animal instincts were no match for the pair of arms that decided to spring up from the deck in front of him.
After he stopped flailing in her hold and remembered that breathing might be a good thing, Chopper turned and looked for the body the hands weren't attached to.
'Is something wrong, Doctor-san?' Chopper tilted his head back, to attempt to face the voice coming from behind him. And promptly fell on his butt. The hands righted him again, before dissipating into the deck.
'Oh, no. Nothing' If he shook his head hard enough, maybe the memory of that thing would fall out.
'You've seemed out of sorts lately. Is there something I might be able to help you with?'
'No' Chopper furrowed his brow, wondering what she was talking about.
'Maybe you would enjoy borrowing one of my books. A little reading might help to take your mind off of your… preoccupation.' She proffered the book in her hand. A copy of Equate's A History of Doctoring in the South Blue.
Robin was being nice, and he should take her up on her offer, for politeness sake. But he had read in before, and what he wanted to read right now was not a dry medical text. That didn't even have the decency to contain... diagrams.
So he shook his head again and wondered if he was imagining that look on her face and deciding that maybe being alone right now would qualify as a very good thing, headed for the crows nest.
Robin smiled softly at his back before opening the book and removing the summer issue of GMOTHS hidden inside. If Doctor-san wasn't going to use it, then she might as well take the time to finish it before Navigator-san wanted it back.