She woke up to find herself leisurely lying on top of Mihawk. Her head was in the crook of his head, her arms unattractively thrown at both sides of him and her legs wide open. Hoping he was asleep, she began to put herself in a much more ladylike posture when she was startled by Mihawk asking if she was awake. Quickly, she removed herself from him, turned to the other side of the bed and answered with a quiet yes.

He pulled her closer and turned her to face him before his eye wandered to her hand. He grabbed hold of it and raised it to his eyes before smiling at her.

"You still have this." He looked into her eyes questioningly. After all these years, she had never stopped loving him. Not even once. "Remember how we were so poor, I bought you this silver ring and promised you that one day I would get you a beautiful diamond ring."

Sophie nodded and forced a laugh, "how could I ever forget!?"

"'A diamond the size of my fist' you said," Mihawk continued, "until I actually did get it for you..."

"..."

"I like it better when you tell this part Yuki; do the face you did when I showed you that diamond ring," Mihawk smiled as he waited in anticipation.

Sophie looked at Mihawk, completely clueless as well as a little scared. Her lies had finally caught up with her. She didn't know how to react when Mihawk began laughing, but relief washed over her when she heard him say, "Nailed it! You then gave me that little speech, remember?"

Sophie made sure not to nod, but just smile, in case he asked her to repeat it for him.

"You said that the ring was growing on you. That it had some sentimental value to you, because it reminded you of where we were coming from," she watched as Mihawk smiled as he reminisced on his past with Yuki. She sounded like an amazing woman. A woman Sophie felt she could not compete with.

Mihawk picked up his hat as he looked at her excitedly, "You then bought me this hat with the money from the ring because I was a jealous drunk back then. Remember how I would always get into pointless fights with Shanks because of his straw hat."

"Yeah," Sophie nodded, touched by his story. The wedding pictures all made sense to her after she had heard the story. There had been a couple of pictures with Mihawk wearing a straw hat and most of the pictures that had Shanks and Yuki in them, usually had Mihawk trying to separate them from each other.

"So this is Mihawk prior One Piece then," Sophie thought to herself as he took the opportunity to steal a kiss from her lips, "How about a repetition of last night?"

Sophie flashed. She had forgotten all about what had happened. Well, she had tried at least. Unfortunately, her flesh remembered vividly just where his hands and lips had touched and the images of the night before were etched in her mind so that she could never forget.

"Breakfast first," Sophie said. She did not think she could get used to it. They had hardly slept the night before because Mihawk insisted on continuing each time he finished catching his breath. Sophie had endured, but she did not have to stand up to know that she was not going to be walking anywhere for a while.

Their eyes met and she quickly looked aside. His eyes were a constant reminder of how she was now a woman in more ways than one. She watched as Mihawk wore his clothes, "as you wish m'lady."

She slammed her head into the pillow a few times when Mihawk had left the room. She was deceiving him, leading him on to believe that she was someone she really wasn't. He was annoyingly love struck on this Yuki. She did not think that there was a way she could get used to this overly loving and dotty husband.

"But it's his fault," she growled as she looked out the window. She grabbed the pillow and hugged it. She had to leave. She had to go find Dr. Vegapunk.

Mihawk walked into their bedroom, he was holding their food in one hand and the den-den mushi in the other, somehow.

She had thought he would make a big meal for them like he always did, but it was rather light.

"See you tomorrow then," Mihawk finally said before placing the food down and putting away the transponder snail. Sophie was about to eat when Mihawk sat by her side and pulled her into an embrace.

"I am going to..." Mihawk whispered, finishing the rest of the sentence into her ear. Sophie felt a blush as she looked away.

"Is that even…physically possible?" she asked, trying not to make eye contact.

He pulled her into the sheets and laughed, "We'll have to find out."