YESSSS Chapter two! I hope you guys like it! (OH btw there is more swearing in this chapter... just a heads up)

Chapter 2: Unsolved Problems

A day and a half passed before Mae docked on the island. It was a nice island, known for there many 5 star hotels and resorts, but they also had a nice market place down the street. Mae made her way to the market; she looked around at all the stalls. Within a few hours she had bought everything she needed for the ship. The day was beginning to end so she decided to book a room in one of the many hotels.

After situating herself in the single bedroom, bathroom, and tiny kitchen/bar thingy, she sighed and fell onto the queen sized bed.

"Hmm… What should I do tomorrow?" She thought out loud to herself.

"Maybe I should explore the island a bit… I have a few more days of this "vacation" and I still want to go shopping for myself… Well I guess I'll find out what to do tomorrow. I'm tired." She continued to talk to herself then got up and changed into her pj's, an tank top and shorts. Mae quickly got into bed and fell fast asleep.

A few days later on the Moby Dick

Our status with Whitebeard has been a bit more chaotic than Mae's peaceful vacation. We had just recently encountered a big fight with the Spade Pirates, well mainly their captain. He had fought the shichibukai, Jimbei, for five day's straight then got into a fight with Whitebeard. Whitebeard did defeat him but then asked Him join them! So right now, 4 days after the big event happened, Thatch was sitting on the railing of the ship and watched Ace.

"I'm the commander of the forth division. Name's Thatch." Thatch introduced himself, "If your gonna be one of us, let's get on, yeah?" The tall man asked the black haired teen.

"SHUT UP!" Ace yelled angrily at the fourth division commander. Thatch just laughed at him.

"What's all this? You're pretty grumpy." Thatch looked at him then thought for a sec, "… Ah that's right. I should tell you what happened after you lost consciousness." Ace just looked at the ground. "Your crew returned to take you back… So we beat 'em up. Don't worry, they're not dead. They're right here on this ship." Ace had his face in his hands as Thatch talked but then looked up and spoke.

"Are you sure you want to keep me on this ship… without even any chains or cuffs…?" Thatch just looked over to him with an odd look. Then started to recall all the futile attempts at trying to kill Whitebeard the last few days. Every time Ace was knocked into the walls or he flew overboard.

"Hm, nah you won't be able to kill Oyaji anyways, but you should eat soon. You haven't eaten since you stepped foot on this boat." Thatch placed a plate of food by the boy. An awkward silence followed. The silence was suddenly broken when one of the other crewmembers came up to Thatch and asked him a question.

"Taicho!" A younger boy with red hair called out to the 4th division commander.

"Yes?" He turned to face the boy.

"I was wondering if you or Marco-taicho have heard anything from Mae. It's been a week already and she isn't back yet." The younger boy had a worried look on his face. The name suddenly caught Ace's attention so he just listened carefully.

"No not yet but you should check with Marco, he would be the first one to be called." Just as he said that Marco came out to the deck with a den-den mushi in his hands. The snail phone was ringing so he put it on a table and answered it.

"Oh it seems like she just called." Thatch said then walked over to Marco. The entire time Ace watched closely, 'this "Mae"… Was she his "Mae" or was it a different person? No it couldn't be her; she would never join them right?' His thoughts were interrupted as Marco began to speak.

"Mae?" The 1st division commander spoke. A silence followed but then a girl's voice came over.

"Marco?" Her voice rang clear in Ace's ears, it was 'Her' but he continued to stay silent.

"Yeah-" Marco was interrupted by Thatch. "MAE! I miss you! When are you coming back?" Thatch asked but Marco pushed him away.

"Really Thatch? Was that necessary?" Thatch just nodded and Marco sighed. Mae laughed over the den-den mushi.

"Wow guys your hopeless without me" Mae commented sarcastically. "Don't worry Thatch I'll be there soon. It should only be a few more minuets." You could hear the water rushing on Mae's side.

"Ok when you get here there is someone you need to meet!" Thatch said excitedly.

"Oh really? Who is it?" She asked.

"Well he is about your age but I can't tell you his name until you get here!" They continued to talk for a while until Mae had to hang up.

Ace's POV

I sighed to myself. 'Why is Mae on this ship? What happened to her that night?' I looked at everyone excitedly talking on the den-den mushi. Her laugh was so happy, cheerful, so real, I could almost see her face. Once she hung up I let out a breath I had no idea I was holding. Minuets passed and the buzz about her return to the ship spread all over. At last one of the guys on lookout shouted.

"Oiiii~! I see her!" They all hurried over to the side of the ship while I slowly backed away. Everyone was so excited, Mae climbed up on the ship while the guys retrieved all the supplies she brought back.

"Yosh! I'm so happy to be back!" She gave Marco and Thatch a big hug. I could only stare at her. I couldn't believe it, it really was Mae. She was happily talking amongst the crewmembers until Thatch reminded her about the "new person". My vision started to become weak and my head started to spin suddenly. Everything was getting fuzzy but I still saw how Thatch pointed at me, and how Mae looked at me. So many emotions crossed her face: shock, fear, hurt, and then they all disappeared from her face. She began to walk away as I hit the deck and all my senses faded to black.

Mae's POV

"OH Mae! There's still that person you need to meet." Thatch pulled me out of the giant crowd of people.

"Yeah, but what's with this? Normally you guys don't get that excited when I get back. It was just a shopping trip… Are you sure your aren't over exaggerating?" I somehow escaped the massive walls of people around me and walked with Thatch around deck. It seemed as if the entire crew was out, there were that many people.

"Well, my younger sister, the entire crew was on edge for the last few days. Oyaji just fought another crew, well actually there captain. It was interesting though; he had been fighting with the Shichibukai, Jimbei, for 5 days in a row then took on Oyaji! It was intense but he had a devil fruit to help." Thatch kept ranting on this guy.

"Oh what kind of devil fruit?" I asked.

"It's a fire logia. You know like yours, but fire like…" Once Thatch said fire one person came to mind.

"Yeah, yeah I know what a logia is Thatch, I'm not that stupid, but did you say fire?" I started to scan the crowd of people. I saw some new faces I have a feeling I recognized but I also couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching me.

"Yeah, He's a fire type. So as I was saying…" Thatch kept ranting about this guy. I began to ignore him, still looking into the crowd. Scanning for the face I hoped wasn't here. Then I saw him just as Thatch pointed him out, we locked eyes, his semi-long black wavy hair, the child-like freckles, his jet black eyes, they were all the same. Then I quickly looked over him, he was all scratched up like he was in a big fight and hadn't gotten properly treated.

"Oh and his name is-" I cut Thatch off.

"Portgas D. Ace…" I was so mad, confused, and shocked right now. But I needed to control my emotions so somehow I managed to calm down. Nothing could be read on my face and I walked away.

"Yeah! That's it! Mae how did you know that?" Thatch asked but I was already walking to my room. "Oi! Mae wait! Where are you going?" Thatch quickly caught up to me.

"Dammit just leave me alone. I'm going to my room." I glared at him, an evil and scary aura surrounded me Thatch was smart enough to let me go. I quickly ran to my room and opened the door. A few of the boys were kind enough to put my stuff in my room. I walked over to my bed and sat there curled up in a ball.

No POV

"OI! Someone get Lanna or Jet! The kid passed out!" Marco yelled once he saw Ace hit the deck. Lanna came running over, her long blonde hair was held from flying all over the place by a blue and green bandana.

"Shit. Someone help be get him to the infirmary the dude's a heavy bastard." Lanna ran over to the infirmary while Marco and Vista carried Ace over. Thatch just came back from running after Mae.

"What happened?" Marco looked at him.

"Ace passed out. Probably cuz of fatigued, he hasn't eaten anything since he came onto the ship. What about Mae? I saw her run out." Marco asked when they put Ace on the infirmary bed.

"No idea, I was tell her about Ace, but apparently she already knew him. She walked right out once she saw his face." Thatch explained.

"Oh really now? Maybe we should get a little background check on our little sister." Marco suggested.

"Hm. About what?"

"Well she was a pretty well known pirate before coming on to this ship so she must have been places before. I'm just surprised I never thought of looking into her background before." Thatch agreed. So the two division commanders made there way over to Marco's workroom. It was neat inside, only a few papers scattered on the desk. One entire wall was covered with filling cabinets. They walked over to the cabinet that was labeled 'Q-T' and searched the S's. They brought out Mae's file and looked over its contents. As both commanders read the file there eyes widened and jaws dropped.

"Oh my… Shit I had no idea." Thatch said as he continued to read.

"But this still doesn't explain why she stormed off, if anything she would have excited to see him. Right?" Marco asked.

"I have no idea but there is definitely something missing. I'm guessing if we wan the entire story we need to ask her ourselves… or Ace…" Thatch said with an evil glint in his eyes.

"This is a bad idea. Plus Ace is still recovering, and Mae is PMSing like no tomorrow. If you think about it she'll be drunk by tomorrow afternoon, that's what happened last time someone got her mad on 'monthly gift'" What Marco said sent shivers down Thatch's back.

"Oh No!" Marco stared at him

"What?"

"Mae has all my alcohol!"

"And…?"

"I really wanted it..."

"… Your stupid"

Mae sat in her room curled up in a ball on her bed. She stared out the window across her bed out into the ocean. She sighed; a silent tear ran down the side of her face. All the memories of her past were flooding into her mind. All the fun times and the bad, but the worse was just messing with her mind. Another sigh escaped her pink lips. Her head rested on her knees and her hair was all over the place. It was dinnertime but she oddly had no appetite. The confused girl just sat in her room the entire night. It was quiet and peaceful, that is until a loud smash was heard out in the halls. Mae stood up and walked out of her room, as she was walking through the hall someone came crashing into her.

"Aww shit that hurt." Mae tried to sit up but was caught off balance by the heavy weight on top of her. She looked up then screamed, but before anything could come out of her mouth a hand muffled her voice.

"Shhh… there are people sleeping you know." The person removed there hand.

"Ace, what the fuck are you doing?" Mae asked.

"Well I woke up in the infirmary and got out." Mae just narrowed her eyes at him, and then her eyes widened in recognition of the position they were in.

"Umm mind getting off me?" Ace looked to see Mae's face turning red, he looked down to see Mae in only a tank top and shorts and started blushing himself.

"O-oh y-yeah…" Ace stood up then put his hand out to help Mae up. Mae grabbed his hand so he pulled her up.

"So I'll ask again, what the fuck are u doing?" Mae crossed her arms and shifted her weight to her right leg. "I don't know much but I heard that you got into a fight with Oyaji."

"You too? Really Mae he is not your father-" Ace tried saying but Mae cut him off.

"Ace you are full of crap, who are you to tell me that! I mean really you ditched me. You have no right, none at all." Mae hissed at the taller man.

"Me? Ditched you? No, you ran off all on your own. I don't even know why either." Ace was starting to get frustrated at the temperamental black haired girl.

"You know what Ace? I'm going back to bed. I don't even know why I tried." Mae said and walked back down the hall to her room. She slammed the door shut. Ace turned around to see Thatch and Marco.

"Sooooo Ace, you have some explaining to do." Thatch said with an evil look in his eyes. Marco just shook his head.

AWWW YEAH! 2nd chapter done! So sorry if there is lots of OOCness... Im trying my best...

Thank you for reading!