Chapter 3
Tiara POV
"Who are you gonna sneak in here for? What should you do? Collect information, steal certain documents or important cards? Or an assassination attempt because you wouldn't be taken seriously as weak as you look." he asked calmly. A little too calm for my taste because he seemed very threatening. Marco scared me! Of all people, the person I trusted the most here scared me the most. Was it right to go with them? Yes I liked the Whitebeard pirates, they definitely belonged to my 5 favorite crews, but in the end they were still pirates. "Answer finally!" demanded Marco, came closer and grabbed me roughly by the arm, but I didn't get a word out. I felt tears slowly gathering in my eyes. No not that! Don't cry in front of him. Show him no weakness I thought to myself. Suddenly the door was pushed open and Ace stormed in. Since Marco was distracted by Ace for a brief moment, I took my chance, broke away from him and disappeared from Marco's room. As I passed Ace I whispered a quiet "Thank you Ace" before finding refuge in the cabin assigned to me. It was clear to me that Marco wouldn't give up so easily and would ask me again at the next opportunity but at the moment I was just happy to have got away from him. Whatever Ace wanted, he came just at the right time. First I locked my cabin. For someone like Marco it would be easy to enter but that the door was locked gave me at least a little security. Maybe I should just sleep for a while, the day was crazy enough and who knows maybe this is all just a dream and when the new day has started I wake up in my apartment again.
Ace POV
Together with Haruta and Thatch I played some cards on deck. Haruta told me that Tiara drew a picture of me and Ruffy which was very successful. I had to see that, she had left with Marco earlier because they wanted to talk. They were definitely in his cabin, so I jumped up and ran to this one. Somewhat rudely I pushed the door open and stopped in my movement. Something was wrong here. Why did Tiara look so scared? What happened here? Thatch said earlier that he thinks Tiara loves Marco because she always turns to him and seems to trust him. Tiara suddenly left the room and whispered a "Thank you Ace" as she passed me. Thank you? For what? I looked after her confused, I had noticed that a tear was running down her cheek. "What do you want?" Marco asked me then. "Actually I wanted to ask Tiara something but you better tell me what was going on between you two!" I wanted to know. "Nothing!" it came from him. "Yes of course. Because of nothing she looked totally scared and she cries." I replied. "I only asked her what she was hiding from us. She knew your and Thatch's name although nobody had mentioned your names in front of her. Then she knows what disease you are suffering from. Even the doc didn't know where your attacks came from and she knows it, don't you think it's a little strange? The doc has been out on the seas for a long time and she's just 23 and doesn't seem to have travelled much yet." he explained a little annoyed. "Did you ever think that she might know our names from our wanted posters? It's not like we're unknown. Yes, the other one is a bit strange but maybe she is a doctor or works as a researcher and knows it through it." I tried to find an explanation why Tiara knew these things. I knew what Marco was going for. He certainly assumed that she could be a spy of the Navy but I didn't believe that. I couldn't say exactly why I was so sure but I just had the feeling that she didn't want anything bad for us. "What's the mood here?" Thatch burst into our conversation. "Our vice captain managed to make Tiara cry because he's too suspicious again." I informed Thatch. "You have what?" screamed Thatch. Marco explained the situation to him and Thatch saw things similar to me. "Izou was right. You really didn't notice it, did you?" asked Thatch, but didn't let Marco get a word in and immediately added "Tiara likes you! Even a blind man sees that. She trusts you most of all here. Well, I guess that won't be the case now." Marco seemed confused which was more than rarely the case with our pineapple.
I left Marcos cabin and knocked on Tiara's cabin but got no answer, but when I wanted to get in I noticed that the door was locked. Now only Thatch can help. I went back to Marcos room, grabbed Thatch and pulled him with me to the guest cabin. "Go on, open the lock. She locked it and doesn't answer my knocking either. I have a strange feeling." I said to him and he went straight to work. After the door was finally open we went into her cabin and found her asleep in bed. "There you have probably a little exaggerated she only sleeps." said Thatch and grinned at me slightly amused. "Do you really think that she has such a firm sleep and didn't realize that I knocked on her door several times loudly?" I went to Tiara and tried to wake her up, but it didn't work out. Thatch noticed this and came to us. "Go on deck and get the doc, he was with pops earlier. I'll take her to the infirmary." he suddenly said very seriously, which is why I looked at him. "Now go ahead. Who knows how much she has taken of it there are at least only 2 pieces left." he became a little louder. I ran off and found the doc on deck next to pops and Marco. "My son what happened?" asked pops. "Doc, you have to come quickly. We can't get Tiara awake and there were some pills next to her. Thatch is already taking her to the infirmary." I explained a little hectically. I didn't miss that Marco looked at me in shock for a moment before he had his usual bored facial expression again. The doc immediately made his way to the infirmary and I followed him. Marco also followed us.