Dr. Heart Stealer
Ch20: Law's Discovery (Along With Penguin, Shachi, and Bepo)
"Harmony's in her room sleeping, she doesn't want to be disturbed," Jake said politely. Law smirked at him.
"So she ran back to the sub, it's good to know she didn't just run off to that fancy restaurant like she wanted to," Law said, and Jake tensed at the words 'fancy' and 'restaurant', Law continued, "I think I'll go see her so I can tell her not to run off when I need her assistance." and with those words said, Law walked towards Harmony's room, with Jake to scared to move. He didn't want Law to find Harmony, but he didn't want to disrespect his captain.
Oh, what was Jake to do?
On verge of pulling out his hair in frustration, Jake ran over to Law and grabbed his arm.
"Law-kun! You can't go see her! She was really tired. A-and I think that she might be… sick! Yeah sick. We can't have our doctor getting sick again, can we?" Jake said nervously.
"If she's sick, isn't that all the more reason for her doctor to go visit her?" Law asked Jake. Jake, unable to think of a comeback to Law's words, failed to notice that Law had slipped away to go find Harmony. It was two or so minutes later that he realized that Law had left to go find Harmony, and that Law would be there or very close to her room by now. So he dashed off to get there first.
But When he arrived, her door was opened wide, Law standing in the doorway. Jake ran up to Law in panic.
"L-Law! I-I can explain!" Jake shouted. Law's head turned to the side, his eyes looking at Jake in anger.
"Then please do explain why you snuck a child onto my submarine!" Law shouted angrily. A child should not be on a pirate's vessel, it would be a hinderance. And Law was not one for hindrances.
"She's not a child! Well… she is now… but that's Harmony!" Jake yelled back. "When she wakes up, look at her eyes, and tell me that she's not Harmony! That's even her name!" Jake continued to rant about how the girl asleep on the bed was his sister. Law held up a hand, telling him to stop talking.
"If she is really Kazue-ya, like you insist, how did she get this way?" Law asked him, and was rather surprised by his response.
"When I went to go get some information from this restaurant, I saw Harmony like this talking to Bonney. Harmony was wearing the clothes that she had on earlier that day, so it had to be her. They even have the same eyes! Who else do you know that has different colored eyes, one pink and the other red?" Jake said. "Anyway, Bonney must have changed her to this state. And I don't know how long it'll last… But you have to believe me! It really is Harmony!" Law stood there, stunned that Bonney had done this to his seamstress, but soon understood exactly what was going on.
"Well, if it was Bonney who made her this way, I have a feeling that it really is Kazue-ya. It should only last a few weeks. She should go back to normal soon enough, we just have to wait," Law responded. Jake looked at him with a baffled expression. Law noticed, but didn't say anything more on the matter.
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Harmony woke up only a few minutes later. She looked around and rubbed her eyes. Then her eyes widened in shock, as her head flung side to side a second time, taking in her surroundings. Her eyes bolted to the people in front of her: a person… cosplaying Trafalgar Law, or so he seemed to be at least, and the man she saw at Hailo who looked like an older form of her little brother. Harmony stared at the blond person intensely.
"Okay, I don't know what you want from me, but was it really necessary to kidnap me?" Harmony asked angrily. Jake rolled his eyes at her question.
"Well, I wasn't the one who fell asleep in a bar in the shady part of town, now was I? If anything, I did you a favor by bringing you here," Jake said with a huff. He sat down on her bed next to her, she scooted away from him.
"So, do you mind telling me where I am?" Harmony asked Jake and Law.
"You're on Law's submarine," Jake told her while yawning. She looked at him confusedly.
"As in Law, from… who's Law? Do I know him? Wait, is Law a girl's name?" She asked, although, to Jake, the questions were strange and asked too quickly.
"Trafalgar Law, captain of the Heart Pirates. I don't think you have ever met him, but I would be surprised if you didn't know who he was. And no, Law is not a girl's name." Jake answered. Harmony sat on her bed blinking for a moment, but then burst out laughing, small tears of her laughter coming out of her eyes.
"You know, you're funny right? That… There is no good word for that weirdo. I mean come on! You don't just ask someone if they killed a lot of people. Who did the weirdo ask… was it Kidd? I know it wasn't Luffy or one dude who kills guys with forks…" Harmony put her hand on her chin in thought. She took it off and looked up at the shiny gray ceiling above her head. "No he asked the dinosaur guy, X-Drake…" she closed her eyes in concentration. "I don't remember what he said though… Just the fact that it had to do with killing people… Why can't I remember?! This is just proof that I have to watch more One Piece…" she stated, as if her life depended on it.
"Hey, old cosplay guy, do you know where I can find a computer?" she asked Law, who was just leaning against the wall of her steel room. His face was set in a bored fashion, though, he was shocked that Harmony had almost memorized a small part of his life.
"Sorry, Harmony-ya, but I don't know what a computer is. And I'm sure that if I did know what it was, or owned one, I wouldn't let a child use it." Law said blandly. Harmony frowned at his answer, and stood up with a huff. She was about to walk out of the room, still wearing the baggy clothes, but she stopped and turned towards Law.
"Old cosplay guy, let me use your hoodie," she commanded. That got Law's undivided, rage-filled attention.
"No. Is there a reason why I should give it to a child?" Law asked her, his left eye twitching in anger every so often.
"I don't want to walk to who-knows-were, wearing clothes that are so baggy… they could fall off…" she mumbled the last part. Law could see her point, and he might have given her his hoodie, if it weren't for the order she had tried to give him.
"I would say yes…" Harmony's eyes lit up like the sun when he said those words, but the light dimmed into sadness as he continued, "But you gave me an order. I don't take orders, I give them. So no, you may not borrow my hoodie." She fell to the ground on her knees by his feet, with little unshed tears in her eyes, making the red and pink glow with despair. She turned her sorrowful eyes up to his own.
"Wh-what? What would you do if someone tried to… to… who knows what the people outside of this room might do to me?! I could get killed! And with baggy clothes… it just makes me even more vulnerable to creepers," she cried. Jake, who hadn't moved from his spot on her bed, looked about ready to go look for something to cover her up with. He stood up from the bed and walked to the door.
"I'll go find you something to put over your clo-" Jake's sentence was cut off by Law's voice.
"No, don't bother doing that because she looks sad. She's faking," he said while glaring down at the girl at his feet. This time it was Harmony's eye that twitched, and a frown marred her face.
"You have a sharp eye, Mr. Cosplay. What gave it away?" Harmony asked him as she stood up and brushed herself off.
"A girl your age wouldn't throw herself at a stranger's feet. And, telling from how long you were ranting about a part of my life, you have a good memory of things. Surely 'don't talk to strangers' is one that was pounded into your head," Law reasoned. Harmony sighed.
"Well, I guess I should have tried a different approach… Well at least I know begging and demands won't work. And just looking at you, I know I couldn't just take it from you...Well played, Mr. Cosplay… Well played…" Harmony said, deep in thought. She stomped her foot on the ground in anger. "You are not one to be trusted. Anyone who could see through that is a bad guy… I don't like you already… Although, you could fix that by giving my your hoodie." She said while smiling sweetly.
"No," Law responded, "And if I did, my crew would be very confused. Seeing as a stowaway on my ship would usually be used for experiments when I get bored." Harmony stared at him, then turned to the person named Jake.
"Your name was Jake, right?" she asked as she pointed a finger at him, Jake nodded. "If it would be weird for me to be wearing Mr. Cosplay's hoodie, I want an escort so I can get some food." Jake raised an eyebrow.
"I thought you wanted to find a computer to watch… One Piece," Jake said in question. Harmony groaned and glared at him.
"I used to want to do that, but now I want some food. And I don't know where the dining room is… wait… submarine would be mess hall," Harmony said in a whiny voice. Jake sighed and beckoned her to follow him. "Wait, before you take me to go get food," Harmony spun around on her heel and looked at Law, "Who's this guy? You never told me his name." Law smirked.
"Trafalgar Law, captain of the Heart Pirates," he said, expecting at least a little fear. She was from another world, much different from his own, but she obviously still knew who he was. Perhaps the fear he had in this world had carried over to the next. He liked that thought. But, to his disappointment, she began to laugh, and he was taken from his fantasy. When she finally stopped her fit of laughter, she talked.
"Trafalgar Law? I can understand the cosplay, but can I have your real name? He's just an annoying character, who has a cool epithet." she told him.
"Sorry, but that is my real name. You'll just have to call me Trafalgar-san," Law said, but Harmony shook her head.
"Nope. Too hard to say. You can be Traffy-san though." She reasoned. Law felt very annoyed that, even as a child, Harmony still called him Traffy. While Law was trying to figure out why the name Traffy, the name he hated, had been the one she chose to address him with, Harmony slipped away to Jake's side, so they could go get food.
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Harmony and Jake strolled through the labyrinth that Law called a submarine, looking for the mess hall. The gray pipes around them stole Harmony's attention from what was ahead of her, but when a fluffy white and orange mass passed by her, she stopped and turned around. She stared at the fluffy being wearing an orange jumpsuit and ran after it.
"Hey! Fluffy white thing! Come back!" she yelled as it continued to walk away. Jake turned around to tell her to stop yelling, because it would be heard all around the submarine, when he saw her running at Bepo.
"Harmony, get back here!" he shouted at the girl running away from him. When she didn't come back he ran over to her so he could get her.
"Oh my god! What is with all the cosplay today?!" she asked with a frown, seemingly upset that she didn't dress up. "I mean, first it was Traffy-san, now it's Shachi, Penguin, and Bepo? How did you even pull that off? Being in that costume must be hard. Isn't it hot all the time?" she questioned.
"I-I'm not in a costume… I'm sorry. Yes it gets hot on the submarine a lot," Bepo told her, she looked at him confusedly, but shook her head. He must be delusional or something. she thought.
"I know! I must be at a convention! No clue how I got here, but I'm obviously at an anime convention. Strange I've only run into One Piece characters though… If I am at a convention, I think that should be a cosplay contest. Mr. Wannabe Bepo, you should enter, your costume is amazing. I'm sure you'll win!" with those words said she turned away from the trio, to face Jake who had just reached her location. Jake gave her a stern look, and her own morphed into one of guilt. Shachi's and Penguin's were ones of confusion.
"Jake, what's up with the little girl?" they asked Jake. Jake looked over to the two of them and frowned.
"That's Harmony. She ran into Bonney when we were at the island," Jake told them.
"WHAT?!"
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A/N: Hello. I only have part of the next chapter currently written... But I can tell you that it contains a part I have been thinking of for a long time. As in I've been wanting to use this part since chapter ten. Most likely even previous to that. So I guess you guys will see the outcome of Law knowing about Harmony's age change. Until next time, keep being awesome!