Hey, everyone, sorry this took so long to get out! I had finals and all of that fun stuff, but I was finally able to finish the last chapter. It's not where I had planned to go with it, but I still think it turned out decently. The ending is fluffy and cliche, but I couldn't help it.

As far as more news goes, I've started working on another KidxLaw piece that I'm hoping to have up soon. I was really inspired for this one, so keep your eyes peeled.

I was able to finally find a beta reader! I'm really looking forward to working with ThatGirlOnMars when she comes off of her hiatus from the chaos of the end of the school year. Thank you so much!

That's about it. I'm so grateful for all of the reviews I've gotten for this story, and I hope you all are satisfied with the ending. If not, maybe you'll enjoy the new one coming even more. Thank you all!

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or it's characters. I only own the plot of this story itself. I do not make any money from this.

Word Count: 2,380

Chapter Rating: M, only for the beginning and the language. No lemons. Like I had planned. Sorry. This fit better. But! I may be inspired to write an epilogue with a lemon, if demand warrants.

Quick update: I will be writing an epilogue to follow up with what happens to the Marines and who they had been in the first place. It won't be too long, but I'll probably add a lemon in it somewhere as well. Thanks for reading!

Law sighed, removing his gaze from the ceiling in favor of closing his eyes to ward off the encroaching headache. He squeezed Kid's hand gently, shifting uncomfortably. "It was a couple of marines," he admitted. If Kid had been anyone else, he would have said Law sounded defeated. The slighter man's gaze was lowered and his dark bangs, that had grown considerably longer within the past few months, fell to cover his eyes.

"Marines?" Kid prompted, a sick feeling twisting in his gut. Law nodded his head slowly.

"They had Seastone. I didn't even hear them until it was too late." Kid was starting to feel his blood boil. How dare they? With his thoughts heading in a downward spiral, Kid didn't notice the hard, angry and determined look in his lover's eyes. "They completely humiliated me." Humiliated? Kid blinked but remained silent, waiting for the other to continue. "I'm a fucking Shichibukai. They knew they couldn't go against me outright because of the government, so they settled for this."

It still didn't quite make sense to Kid, but he'd let his lover's anger simmer down before he did anymore talking. With Law distracted by his own thoughts, Kid took the opportunity to lean forward and draw the slighter man into a searing, claiming kiss. Law flailed for a moment before he gave himself to his love, kissing back.

"Eustass-ya…" he gasped as the kiss broke. Please don't touch me like that. Not right now.

Kid hesitated when Law looked away from him, but he wasn't going to back down. Law needed him to prove his love, and he was damn well going to do that. He pressed his lips to Law's once again and managed to maneuver them so the slighter man was straddling his lap. In Law's fear-addled brain, the only thing he could feel were the rough hands of his attackers. The loving caress Kid was running over his lower back only felt like a restriction, the hand on his shoulder felt as if it weighed a hundred pounds.

The whimper that escaped his throat only served to spur Kid on, his hands now freely roaming over his lover's lithe body, slipping beneath the thin shirt he had been provided. Law squeezed his eyes shut, trying to block out the memories. This was Kid that was touching him, not those bastard Marines. He knew that. So why were the memories even more vivid now?

He could feel the weather-chilled hand snake up under his thin blue sweater. The heavily calloused hand covering his mouth was in the process of prying his lips open, his attacker's middle finger forcing it's way past his teeth and began sliding in and out in a crude gesture of what Law knew was coming.

Law shuddered as Kid caressed his jaw with the tips of his fingers, a teasingly light touch that made Law gag and tense in horrified anticipation. He reacted violently when Kid's fingers traced the waistband of the loose pants he was wearing. He pushed back against Kid and ended up toppling off the other side of the bed, crashing into the small table of medical supplies at the side of the bed and falling to the floor with a painful-sounding thump.

Kid barely had any time to react when the door slammed open and a concerned Chopper ran over to the black haired man. He sat there looking stunned as the tiny doctor fussed over Law and changed into heavy point in order to help the captain back into the bed. Law wasn't responding to anything, so the reindeer rounded on Kid, eyes blazing and actually intimidating in his bigger form.

"He was doing so well! What did you do?" The kid was practically yelling, causing the rest of the Straw Hats to come running into the room, Kid's own crew crowding the doorway.

"Chopper…?" The guy with the long nose, Usopp, Kid's mind supplied, approached the functioning doctor hesitantly, hands up in an effort to calm him.

"Law was doing so much better! You didn't see him this morning! He was shying away from me. Me," he emphasized the fact that he and Law had gotten incredibly close in the time the other captain had been with them. Part of Kid's mind decided that he was a bit jealous of that, but the rest of it, namely the part that was concerned for Law's health, squashed the envy quickly.

"I… But, I…" Kid was at a loss for words. Thinking back over his actions, he grew disgusted with himself. How could he have possibly thought that that was what Law needed? He had been raped. Why would his touch, any touch, be comforting right now?

At his obvious guily, Chopper's hard gaze softened some. He knew Kid wouldn't have consciously done anything that might have hurt Law further, so it must have either been an accident or completely unintentional.

"Alright, just leave for now." At this point, Law still wasn't responding to anything going on around him, which scared Kid shitless. Sure, Law had always been the type to ignore those around him, but that was because he was bored and didn't care, not because he had been frightened into unresponsiveness. Sighing, Kid stood from his seat, reaching a hand out, intending to stroke Law's cheek, brush his hand, anything, but then decided against it. That would only make things worse. Dropping his hand, he turned and walked out the door.

The Straw Hats filed out of the room behind him, sparing him slightly sympathetic glances as they went back to what they had been doing. The reindeer doctor closed the door behind Usopp and presumably went to finish checking up on Law. Kid's crew stood around awkwardly, not knowing what to do. Kid ignored them and went to find an unoccupied spot at the back of the ship where he could be alone for a little while.

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At some point hours later, the Straw Hat's chef came by to bring him his dinner. He surprised Kid when, instead of leaving, he pulled out a cigarette and leaned against the railing, lighting up and taking a long drag. They sat in silence for a few minutes as Kid gobbled down the meal, but then the blond broke the peace.

"You know, if it was Zoro in there, in that condition, I wouldn't be able to stay away." Kid froze with the spoon halfway to his mouth, the thick cream of the stew dripping back into the dish. "You don't have to hid it from me. Most of the crew can guess how you feel about him. The only two that probably haven't are Zoro and our idiot captain. They're both too dense to notice that kind of thing. I can understand what you're going through. If I knew my touch would cause the one I love so much pain, I don't know what I would do with myself." Sanji paused to take another drag and blew the smoke out over the back of the ship.

"Right now, you can't help Law. The only one who can is doing everything in his power to fix him. Trust in Chopper. You'll have Law back in your arms in no time." And with that, Sanji walked back around to the deck, and Kid was left to digest what he had just been told. He supposed he had been rather obvious, but did that bastard cook really have to call him on it? He downed the rest of the stew, and stood to return the dish and sit with his crew.

As he went around to the front of the ship, he heard rambunctious laughter and the unmistakable patter of feet running around on deck. Luffy and Usopp sprinted past him in their desperate attempt to escape from an angry Zoro, who by the looks of him, had been woken up from a nap. The younger two pirates were laughing so hard that they eventually had to stop just to catch their breath, allowing Zoro to catch up and clock them both on the head. Everyone on the ship was laughing at the show, Sanji looking on with a fond smile on his face. Kid noticed that his eyes were glued to the pissed off swordsman.

When Sanji noticed his presence, he nodded his greeting, which Kid returned in kind. The blond cook came over and took the bowl from him, and motioned toward his crew, who were gathered near the railing at the right side of the ship. Kid made his way over and sat down next to Killer. They paused in their conversation momentarily before starting right back up, letting Kid give his two cents every now and then.

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It was another two hours later when the Straw Hat doctor finally emerged from the infirmary. He had spent most of the afternoon and evening trying to get the Heart Pirates' captain to open up and talk to him. A lot of that time had been the two of them sitting in silence, minds wandering in completely different directions. Chopper didn't mind. Law was his friend. If he had to wait for the other doctor to calm down and open up, he would. And so he had. Eventually, Law was able to confide in Chopper, telling him what had happened and what he had been thinking while it was happening.

Chopper's heart went out to the older doctor. Law was incredibly frustrated with himself. He had known it was Kid that was touching him, yet the only things he could see, could feel, were those two bastards. He told Chopper that he had never been so frightened in his life. Chopper had tried to explain to Law that reactions like these were typical for rape victims. Eventually, Chopper was able to get Law to open up to him again, and they had sat in the infirmary for hours, talking about anything and everything that came to mind.

When Chopper left the room, he asked Sanji to fill a bowl of the stew he had made for the recovering doctor. He then asked Kid to be the one to take it in for him. He told Kid that Law was ready to talk to him again, he just might not be ready to be touched just yet. He was hoping that talking to Law would get Kid to calm down a bit, to show him that Law's relapse hadn't been entirely his fault.

Kid knocked gently on the door, going in when he was told to. Law was sitting up in the small bed, one of Chopper's medical books open in his lap. Kid smiled slightly, a content warmth filling him at the sight of his lover. He slowly shut the door again and made his way over to Law. The raven haired man shut his book and placed it next to him on the bed, giving Kid his full attention.

"Eustass-ya," he began, pausing shortly and looking away for a moment before regrouping his words and continuing. "I want to apologize for my reaction earlier. I knew it was just you touching me, and I knew you wouldn't have let them near me again anyway, but I just…" And as Law trailed off hesitantly, Kid's self-loathing came back with a vengeance. Law shouldn't be the one apologizing. He had done nothing wrong. It was his own damn fault for moving too quickly.

"Don't," he said shortly. "You… You have nothin' to apologize for. Was my fault," he mumbled the last part, but he knew Law had heard regardless. The Surgeon of Death smiled gently, motioning with his hand that Kid should come and sit by him. Belatedly remembering the meal he had in his hand, Kid stepped forward and held out the dish for Law to take. "The tanuki and the cook both said to eat as much as you can, but they don't want you to get sick, either."

From outside the door, they both heard an indignant shout, followed by an angry "I'm not a tanuki, you bastard!" and muffled attempts to silence the reindeer doctor. Law rolled his eyes, aware that the Straw Hats were a very inquisitive bunch prone to eavesdropping. Kid grunted as he stood from his seat and opened the door, catching sight of a sandal-clad rubbery foot as its owner sprinted around the corner.

Slamming the door shut for good measure, he returned to his lover's side, the older captain snickering to himself. Kid found himself chuckling at the situation as well, Law's happiness being contagious. He sobered up quickly, however, his concern for the pirate doctor returning as he didn't move to touch the food.

"Eat up, yeah? What will your crew say when you meet up with them? When they see how much weight you've lost already?" Law stared down into his lap, but still didn't move to eat.

"I'm afraid all I'll do is throw it up again. I don't want to waste Sanji-ya's food." Kid sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"Dontcha think he'll be okay with it if you can even manage to keep down a little bit? You need to regain your strength." A mysterious glint shined in Law's eyes so briefly that Kid would have sworn he was seeing things.

"I'll try. If you feed me, Eustass-ya." Law grinned cheekily, holding the spoon and the bowl out toward Kid.

"Why you little bastard…" Kid knew Law well enough to know that this was the doctor's payback for kicking him out last night and essentially letting this whole fiasco happen. Law knew how torn up Kid was about it, and he really didn't blame his lover for what happened. This was his attempt and making the situation just that much lighter.

"If you had the decency to hear me out in the first place, we wouldn't be in this mess, now would we?" Kid sighed grumpily, but picked up the spoon nonetheless. He couldn't help but feel that with every spoonful, the broken pieces of their relationship were being glued back together. They sat and laughed and talked for the rest of the night, taking the time to forgive each other.