"Katya-san! Wake up!"

"Five more minutes..." she murmured.

"Katya onee-chan! It hurts!" Mocha cried. Katya sat up quickly and ran to her side. The young girl was crying and writhing around.

"Mocha!"

"K-Katya onee-chan." Jess said in a scared voice next to Katya and the Heart Pirates scooped the child up into her arms.

"Mocha! Sind!" She looked around at all of the children collapsing to their knees and crying out.

"Chopper-san! What is happening to them?" Katya felt Mocha's forehead. The girl was burning up.

"NHC-10. That's what I found in the kids' bodies." Chopper said in Sanji's body, facing Brownbeard. "There were only faint traces, but it's a narcotic!"

"N-No." Katya breathed. "How did it get into their systems?"

"C-Candy!" Sind was crying. "I want candy!"

Katya began to shake. "It was in the candies? B-but they had them every day!"

"No wonder they're suffering!" Nami-Franky said.

"I-I gave them the candy. I was told it was medicine." Katya said and put Jess gently on the ground. "I gave them the drugs..."

She felt bile rise up in her throat and she dashed away and threw up, tears mixing in with the vomit.

"Chopper what do we do?!" Luffy shouted. "They're all collapsing!"

Katya shakily wiped her face and Robin offered her a tissue. "I did this."

"You didn't know, Freckles-san. This is not your fault."

"I should have seen...I should have known..." Katya cried out, looking at Sind, Mocha and the others in pain all around her.

"Katya onee-chan, we need the candy!" Sind wailed.

"You can't, Sind-kun! It's bad for you! It's hurting you!"

Sind cried some more and began to act strangely, as did lots of the children around them.

"AGGHHHH!" Sind shouted angrily. "GIVE ME THE CANDY!" The large child punched the wall next to Luffy and began raging angrily.

Katya wiped her face more and picked up Jess again.

"Sind is scaring me! Make it stop Katya onee-chan!" Jess began to cry. She was six years old and had been fed drugs, along with all the other children. Katya's heart began to break. How could anyone do such a horrific thing? The people at the facility had USED her too, to drug the children. She gripped Jess' coat tightly.

"It's going to be okay, Jess-chan." She said soothingly, and a few of the other young children gathered around her as the Straw Hats attempted to knock out the rampaging children.

Usopp's 'Knockout Star' worked a treat. Katya had gently placed Jess down and gotten out of the way as the star had hit them and they had all fallen asleep. Katya knelt down and smoothed the hair away from the young child's head.

"I'm going to kill him." She said darkly, looking up with a furious expression.

"You would betray the Master?" Brownbeard yelled at her.

"Of course I fucking would!" Katya screamed back. "He drugged children! Innocents!"

"How do we know if you weren't in on it?" Brownbeard said accusingly.

"Shut up! Katya would never hurt someone like that!" Luffy shouted at him.

Katya sat in the corner, her knees held close to her chest. Her gaze was kept on the sleeping children. She was stroking one of the children closest to her's forehead and singing softly to the children. There were tears in her eyes and her voice was shaky.

"It's going to be okay, Katya." Luffy said. "I promise."

Katya hated the Yeti Cool Brothers. They were loud and brutal. She hadn't been much use when they attacked, as she was desperately trying to keep the children safe. She only had one knife with her. She had managed to embed it in Scotch, one of the Yeti Cool Brothers' foot, but she had been kicked into a wall. Chopper had offered to treat her, but she waited until the others were done.

A loud crash occurred outside briefly as she helped Chopper. Law had taught her a few medical things, after all. All members of the Heart Pirates were required to learn first aid, and Katya had missed the lessons, so Law gave her a few when she visited him at night. Although, she mused, the anatomy lessons had been the most enjoyable. The crash was loud indeed. Luffy must have attacked the Yeti Cool Brothers, as they hadn't come back.

"Is that okay, Katya-san?" Chopper asked as he secured a bandage around her shoulder, which had been cut by some ice.

"Yes, thank you." She smiled. "You're a good doctor, like my Captain."

"Shut up you bitch! Complimenting me won't make me happy!" The body of Sanji wiggled around happily and Katya giggled.

"I'm back!" Luffy rushed into the cave.

"Luffy!" The Straw Hats cheered, but they sweatdropped at who was behind him.

"Law!" Katya rushed forward, but winced when she moved her arm.

"Katya-ya, are you alright?" He said as he looked at her shoulder.

"I'm okay. But Law, the kids! Caesar is drugging them!"

"He just told me." The man growled angrily.

Her face scrunched as if she was about to cry. "I gave them those drugs unwittingly for months." She sobbed. Law took her into his arms and put his hand on Katya's head.

"Don't blame yourself. Ah, I believe this is yours." He let her go and held up her knife that she had left in the foot of Scotch. "I know how precious you get about them."

"Thank you." She kissed his cheek and gave him a small smile.

"Guys! I have news!" Luffy said happily. "We're going to be in an alliance with the Heart Pirates!"

The Straw Hats screamed in shock. Katya looked up at Law.

"You were going to tell me this when?" She pouted.

"It was an idea from this afternoon." Law replied casually.

"You just went to get Nami back, so how did it come to such a crazy deal?!" Usopp shook Luffy. "I won't be able to sleep at night if we form an alliance with such an enigmatic, unpredictable bastard!"

"You-" Katya gritted her teeth and stepped forward, but Law grabbed her hand to hold her back.

"Katya-ya, as much as you rushing to defend me is a massive turn-on, now is not the time." He whispered to her.

Katya sighed and looked down at Law's other hand. "Dear god, did you kill Chopper?!"

"No, I found him like this." Law gave Chopper's body to the real Chopper, who frantically began to treat it.

"Luffy," Robin said next to them. "I'll follow your decision, but you should know that pirate alliances are often marked with betrayal. They may not be suited for someone as overly trusting as you."

"Eh?" Luffy turned to the two. "You gonna betray me?"

"No." The both replied instantly and Luffy put his hands on his hips and grinned.

"BE MORE SKEPTICAL!" Usopp screamed and Katya began to finally smile again.

"I think a pirate alliance sounds fun! Besides, Tra-guy is a good guy, and Katya has good stories and songs, but even if they aren't good, there's no need to worry! You guys have trained a lot in the past two years and can back me up! Hahahaha!"

The Straw Hats immediately began to be embarrassed and cheery as Luffy showered them with compliments. Law looked positively done with the entire situation.

"Hey, Tra-guy~" Katya grinned. "You doing okay?"

"Never ever call me that ever again."