Luffy sits quietly at the couch, distracting himself by watching a television at the Apartment. He can't play with his new found friend, Chopper at the Hospital today because Chopper goes to school, attending his summer class. While Ace and Sabo had left him to Robin's care to attend an extra class for their coming finals.
Robin had suggested that she will look out and take care of Luffy for the day while they're gone. Nami is not with them this time because she had an important job to do, according to her. Sanji is busy, working on his father's restaurant if he doesn't have any classes to attend to. Kidd is not interested to babysit Luffy and Nami had ordered him together with Zoro to sit at Law's classes (both guys are highly indebted to her), while Law is still at the Hospital.
"Luffy," Robin called him from the kitchen with a plate of sandwich and orange juice on her hands, "Here's your snack."
Luffy turned his attention to Robin and to his snack as he heard the word "snack" coming out from her mouth. Robin chuckled at Luffy's cuteness and eagerness towards his snack. Luffy thanked Robin, calling her "pretty Blue lady" as he received his snack from her.
While Luffy is distracted himself again by his snack and the television show to avoid his boredom. Robin on the other hand, reads a book while often looking at Luffy to watch the child.
Luffy curiously glanced at Robin and to the book in her hands.
"Blue lady" Luffy suddenly called her.
Robin takes her mind and eyes off the book to look at Luffy.
"What is it, Luffy?"
Luffy raised his arms and pointed at her book, "What are you reading?"
Robin stared at Luffy, smiling before she look at the book cover and back to Luffy.
"Are you interested?" Robin asked the curious child.
"I'm bored, I just finished snack." Luffy answered her while pouting and still pointing at her book.
Robin chuckled before she told Luffy the summary content of the book.
"This book is about the explorer Noland Montblanc of Northern Blues." The archeologist student started explaining, "He wrote here in this book all his adventure in the Grand Blues and some interesting documentation about the lost City of Gold."
"Adventure… Grand Blues… lost City of Gold…" Luffy mumbled and this had caught his interest. "What is it about? Can it cure my boredom?"
"You can read it if you want to know." Robin suggests to the child handing him the book, but Luffy only stared at the young woman and to the book she's holding.
"I don't know how to read that kind of book. Makino and Shanks only taught me how to write and read some words and even if I can read some, I still won't understand it." Luffy honestly confess to Robin without a single hesitation.
Robin smile fondly at the child's honesty and attitude. She had decided to tell him about the book, normally Robin is not the story teller type but she's an informer type, this time she gave an exception just for Luffy. She also noted to herself to tell Ace and Sabo about Luffy's current educational condition and to enroll the child to a school after summer break.
But while it's still summer break, Robin had decided to teach Luffy some basic words and numbers too after their finals. She saw Luffy's potential and his own intelligence.
"Well, Noland Montblanc is an explorer from the Northern Blues. He's a fearless man like the other famous explorers in the world. He bid his luck to venture the dangerous sea of the Grand Blues to explore. You see Luffy, according to Noland. Grand Blues is the most dangerous sea because of its unpredictable weather pattern. Each island there is composed by the different kind of seasons. The winter, spring, summer and autumn season..."
Luffy listen to Robin's story attentively even if he, himself feels sleepy. At the same time he's dreaming of his own adventure someday.
Four days have passed since Law was admitted at the Eastern Blues Medical Hospital. Some admirers and acquaintances have visited him and gave him a get well soon basket but they don't know about his real condition. It seems like his friends told them something else about why he was admitted at the Hospital.
Well, Law doesn't care about it. In fact he's grateful because it's for his own good, his sickness is pretty confidential. If they know about his sickness, it will affect his medical license and he will lose his chance as an aspiring doctor. After all, his medical record at the University under the name of Trafalgar Law said he is a sane man.
"Now, I don't see any reason for you to stay here anymore." Doctor Kureha informed Law after she had examined him.
"That's good for you Trafuckgar-" Kidd stopped when he realized that there are children in the room. He looked at Luffy who fortunately playing with Chopper with their own world, not hearing his nickname to Law. "…I'm glad that I don't need to sit in your stupid medical class anymore and take trashy notes for you."
After Kidd said that he goes back playing Clash of Clans in his phone.
Law rolled his eyes before he look at Kidd smugly, "I'm glad that you won't attend my class anymore, too. Because I bet you made a heck of disaster there and also, your writing skill sucks. I don't even understand what you doodled on my notebook."
"Why you?!" Kidd fumingly exclaimed as he stands up to attack an ungrateful "Trafuckgar Law".
Nami who just entered the room with Robin, Zoro and Sanji, already annoyed at the two guys after their usual nonsense fight, saw Kidd and Law fighting too.
"You two stop it!" Nami shouted as she hits Kidd's head and will hit Law's too but Doctor Kureha is still there.
Doctor Kureha faked cough as she look at the five before her patient. "As I was saying, you don't need a reason to stay here anymore but you still need to take the medicine I will prescript you."
"So you will discharge me now without charging me like a pirate-looting hospital bill?" Law jokingly asked the doctor while raising his eyebrow and smirking.
"Shut up brat, you're not the one who will pay me so you don't need to complain. Your old mans are." Doctor Kureha said before she left.
"Congratulations for your discharge, Trafalgar-san." Robin said smiling after she took a drink in her black coffee cup.
"Ace-san texted me that him and Sabo will go home first before they come here, any things you want them to bring to you?" Nami said while looking at her phone. "But you don't need to since they are discharging you now."
"Tell them to bring me clothes because I don't have anything to wear beside my uniform here." Law told Nami as she typed a reply message.
"So, you're fine now that he's around?" Sanji said jerking his head towards Luffy's direction.
"What are you talking about, Sanji-ya?" Law asked the blonde, raising his eyebrow in confusion.
"You know what I'm talking about Law." Sanji said as he pulled out a death stick from his pockets and bite it through his teeth without lighting it.
Law looked away and turned his head at the window's view before he relaxed a bit. He didn't want to answer that question neither he did know the answer to that question.
"Law-"
"Stop it Sanji-kun, Law here doesn't want to answer. Let. Him. Be."
"Ero-dumbass."
"What did you say?!"
"You heard me."
"Stop it you two nincompoop! Shut up!"
Law only gazed at the tall buildings outside the window. Drop of rains suddenly poured from the humid sky. He can feel that the heavens are crying with him, although tears are not visible to him. At the same time he thinks about that question… Is he fine that Luffy's around? He really don't know the answer, But for some reasons he's not that affected… sometimes, so is he fine or not?
He takes off his gaze at the window and look around the visitors in his room. The only time that he's alone here is during the time that visitor's not allowed and the visitor's time is over.
"Trafalgar-san, may I voice out my thoughts?" Robin suddenly said while she's reading a book.
Law stared at Robin, he knows that Robin will tell him her thoughts without his permission but the way she asked, maybe this is serious.
"What is it?" Law granted her and ready his self from Robin, voicing her thoughts.
Robin closed the book on her hands and puts it down at her lap before she look at Law.
"Trafalgar-san, if you're still affected every time you see her on him around you, maybe you're not accepting it yet for what had happened to her. Sabo-kun maybe right that you still care and worried… but most of all I think you're guilty." Robin said but the way she had said it, it sounded so harsh and it was more, harsher than Sanji's attempt.
Law gulped and breathe deeply. He suddenly felt nervous but he managed to not show it to them, although Law had a feeling that Robin knows what he suddenly feel. She's the only most observant in the group.
"After all, she had left you… us not that long ago."
When Law was discharged and came home yesterday, Ace and Sabo caught a mild flu so instead of leaving the private room for other patients, both brothers occupied the room until they get well.
"Law, please take care of Luffy for me, for us. He's our precious little brother." Ace told him in hoarse voice like he was a dying man.
Law rolled his eyes. The hoarse voice is caused by the sore throat not that Ace is dying and God! They only have a mild flu because of a sudden fucking rain in summer.
"And Law..." Sabo said and a smile began to form in his lips, "…thanks for loving me."
And he fell asleep. Law narrowed his eyes in annoyance and Ace only laughed, to his demise his sore throat worsened.
Sengoku and Garp on the other hand are pretty annoyed that the hospital bills that they're going to pay keep flaring up.
"What are you talking about? Ace and Sabo caught a mild flu? But how that problem goes to my bill?!" Sengoku shouted from the other line, Law can hear it clearly even if Doctor Kureha answered the telephone.
"Don't complain to me that they caught a mild flu, Mother Nature is unstoppable." Doctor Kureha answered him, not caring that the bill for Ace and Sabo goes to Sengoku at all.
"Garp! Your damned family again," Sengoku annoyingly shouted but Garp only laughed. "You will pay your share!" Sengoku added.
Garp stopped laughing, "What?!"
Much to Law's entertainment, But he's a little annoyed that he's on Luffy's duty (which Nami had called it) while Ace and Sabo are in the Hospital. Law planned that after he's discharged from the hospital, he will visit Lucy for peace of mind.
But by the looks of it, he can't because he needs to babysit Luffy and then he suddenly thought of bringing the child with him, And it wasn't that bad idea at all.
"Trafal-guy, where are we going?" Luffy asked Law but the latter didn't reply. He just ruffled Luffy's hair and smiled weakly and softly.
Luffy is not scared while looking at the graves around them and even if he didn't need to, Holding Law's right hand, Luffy feels secure, safe and sound.
The medic-student and the child stopped in front of a grave, but this grave are not like those gloomy gray graves. This grave is painted with a bright color of red.
"Who is this person?" Luffy asked Law again, wide innocent eyes gaze at Law and he smile in amusement at the child.
Law decided to sit down and puts the bouquet of cosmos flower that she always loved in front of her grave. Luffy followed him and sit down beside the older.
"This person is my girlfriend," Law started, his gaze not taking off from the bright grave. Thoughts and memories flowed inside him. "Her name is Monkey D. Lucy and she's your older cousin."
"I didn't know that I had an older cousin…" Luffy muttered as he realized what Law just said and what he just said. "I had an older cousin?!" Luffy shouted, eyes bulging in shock.
"Well, not anymore." Law chuckled at the child's reaction, suddenly he tensed. "She's… dead."
"Oh…" Luffy sounded and lowered his head in sympathy. "My deepest condiments…? No, conditions…? Hmm, conductions…?"
"It's condolence." Law corrected the kid while laughing softly but weak.
"Yeah, right… that!" Luffy said and look at the grave before the older man with him.
Luffy can tell the mixed emotion in Law's eyes. His gaze at her grave is a mixed of pain, longing, happiness and… even if he didn't understand what it is right now. Luffy guessed that it was the one Shanks keeps telling Makino, Love.
"You know, I didn't even know that she had a youngest cousin beside Ace-ya and Sabo-ya." Law spoke softly as a smile painted on his face. "You look like her a lot but her eyes are softer and chocolatier."
"Really, I look a lot like her?" Luffy excitedly said grinning widely.
"Yeah, you two both had that wide-shit eating grin." Despite the use of harsh words, Law is obviously fond of her so-called 'wide-shit eating grin'.
"I wish I met her even if it's just once…" Luffy whined a little bit sad, "…and Trafal-guy, Why did she die?"
Law tensed again, seeing her grave again for the second time after her death. Maybe Sabo and Robin are right about him, he still cares and worried, and most of all guilty. After all, it was his fault that she died. It was his fault to forget her to protect himself from the pain, like they just broke up and that she didn't die and still around.
He took a deep breath before he sighs, "She… she died… she died because…. because of me,"
Law struggled to deliver those words properly. Luffy didn't say anything but he just listened to him. Once in a while, he stares at the bouquet of cosmos flowers, then sometimes to her grave, then goes back to Law.
"…she too… was my savior beside my father."
Law only gaze at the grave as he smiles sadly, remembering her face, his life before her, his moments with her when she's still alive and his damned life after her.
A/n: Yeah, I know... I am pure evil for making Law suffer like that. Sorry for that but on the bright side, next chapter is Law's past! Yehey! Let's all cheer! ... and i am not sure when will i post it since i am not finished writing it yet, and i have a serious project that involves drawing, and i sucked at drawing, and i am taking an Interior Decorating course. Can you believe that? Well, believe that!
College life is not fun at all, really and it's not like in the movies. Real college life sucks! I can cry buckets in the sofa and eat Oreo... Oh well, please leave a review if you have time before you exit your tab. Thank you!
