A few days after Punk Hazard
Nami dipped her pen in some ink and sketched some rough lines in the shape of the island they just left. She hadn't had time to properly survey it, so she was doing it mostly from memory. Being chased by a poisonous slime monster made it difficult to do geographic surveys, who would have thought.
In all honesty, she didn't really need to make a map of the island, but if she wanted to map the whole world, it needed to get done. She was hoping she would be able to make another trip back so she could properly measure the topography of the mountainous island. She dipped her pen in the ink again and drew a few circular shapes around where the mountain peaks were.
Nami looked up at the sound of a chair scraping across the floor. Law sat down in the chair backwards and placed his head in his hands.
"What are you doing?" He asked, tilting his head a little bit.
"Working on a map of Punk Hazard. It's hard when you can't actually survey the land because you're being chased by a poisonous slime monster." She replied, leaning back in her own chair and setting the pen down next to her drafts. "Why are you down here?"
"I needed a break from your captain harassing me. Is he always like this?"
"Most of the time, yeah. You get used to it after a while."
They fell silent for a moment before Law pulled his chair closer to Nami and looked down at her maps.
"You've gotten better since we were kids."
"Thanks. I've been working hard since joining Luffy. I've got every island we've visited mapped out on the wall." She said, gesturing to the various drawings hanging around them.
Law looked around, genuinely impressed by the work Nami had done since they separated.
Nami picked up her pen again and scribbled a few notes in the corner of her map before continuing to contour what she remembered. There was a pit here, and she added some hatch marks to the lines, and an overhang here, drawing in the elevation of the area underneath it.
Law leaned in and lay his head on Nami's shoulder, watching her work in peaceful silence. Nami felt his head on her shoulder, but it wasn't bothering her. She leaned her head a little on his too as she continued sketching contour lines.
It didn't take long for him to fall asleep to the sound of pen scratching parchment, their slow and steady breathing, the gentle rock of the ship beneath them. Law hadn't gotten much rest since joining up with them, but he felt safe enough with Nami that he was able to let his guard down and take a much needed rest.
Nami finished her rough draft of Punk Hazard and looked over at Law. His eyes were closed and his breathing steady, she knew he was asleep.
She gently shifted their bodies and picked him up bridal style to lay him in her own bed. It had been years since they had last slept in the same bed, and she wished Nojiko could be there with them now. But she placed Law on her bed and lifted up the covers and tucked him in before laying down with him.
She reached out and held him close as they slept peacefully together for the first time in a long time, and she never wanted it to end.
A/N: I didn't think I would update this again but here I am. Thanks whirlybirdwhat on tumblr for inspiring me to add this little scene to the collection of the Adopted Sibling AU, it's so much fun to write these little domestic scenes. Also got to utilize stuff I learned in my Geology 100 class which was neat.