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17

His fist descended as if independent of his body. His mind was already switch off to any common sense or coherent thought. All he could think of was the reason why he was doing what he was doing. It was Law. It always came down to the same raven-haired man. Always.

The man he held by the collar of his bloodied shirt was limp in his grip. Allen had lost consciousness a while back and his whimpering had stopped. Kid couldn't really see much past the coat of red smeared on Allen's face. His nose was definitely broken and he was missing quite a number of front teeth, but other than that Kid could only see a messy cluster of congealed and congealing blood.

Still his hand didn't stop delivering punch after bloody punch though his anger was spent. He was moving like a zombie. His mind was switched off. The light was on but nobody was home. Droplets of the red liquid flew and hit him whenever he made contact with Todd's flesh. He must have looked a mess. Covered from head to toe in red, mostly belonging to the cronies he previously disposed of. And whatever part of him wasn't a hard cluster of scarlet was most likely some quickly darkening shade of blue on account of him being on the receiving end quite a few times.

Kid lost track of the minutes trickling by. He wasn't even sure if the guy he trashed was even breathing anymore. He couldn't muster the reason to care. It was a feeling akin being under the influence of alcohol. Now that was something he was familiar with. The sensation of something like a blindfold stretched over your brain's eyes, impenetrable, keeping the moral values to the lowest possible level.

His ears didn't seem to work properly. All he heard was the wet sound of flesh hitting flesh and it made his insides turn. He wanted to stop but he couldn't because if he did….then what? He had no more purpose. This was the only thing still connecting him to Law. His desire to take revenge on Trafalgar's abusers kept him going and without this last string keeping them united he was lost. As soon as his hand would stop moving all the other feelings he pushed away with his anger would resurface and attack him with renewed vigour.

Guilt.

Shame.

Repulsion.

Despair.

It took him a moment to understand that something changed. Something was different. His sluggish brain moved as fast as it could but it still took Kid a second to realize that there was something holding his arm back and the monotone sound of skins clashing against each other never came.

At first he was confused. While his instincts were slowed to a pathetic, almost dangerous degree, his thought raced. What could have happened to halt his arm? Until finally he managed to make his head move and meet Luffy's eyes and it all made sense. The other was holding his arm, though Kid wasn't struggling against the grip.

Luffy's lips were moving, saying something but Kid didn't hear him. He continued to look at the brunette like a mute idiot, his mind still thick and intoxicated. It looked like Luffy was calling a name. His name. That made sense. The other was most likely trying to catch his attention. He probably looked like he suffered some severe trauma or brain damage. He didn't register dropping the limp body from his other hand and it crashing to the ground.

'…-d!...-id!...kid!...KID!'

The impact of reality was shocking. With Luffy's voice it was like something literally shattered around Kid. Like he was trapped inside a snow globe and somebody broke the glass, exposing him to the exterior world far too suddenly. Suddenly enough for his feet to stagger a little before he found his centre once more.

'Are you okay?!' The urgency in Luffy's voice was another surprise. Why wouldn't he be okay? His confusion must have shown on his features because Luffy answered his unspoken question. 'You're covered in blood from head to toe! Are you hurt!?'

Kid shook his head remembering the mess he must have looked. He had some injuries but they were not important. Besides, his body was far too numb to register any pain or discomfort at the time being. With a wary eye, albeit still mostly uncomprehending, he noticed that Zoro was also there and so was Sanji. They must have followed him either to help him, though he suspected they were there to most likely stop him from killing anyone.

'…Todd…' It irked him how weak his own voice sounded. And why the fuck was he even thinking about that waste of space?

But Sanji was already kneeling beside the brown haired man, though it was mostly a murky black on account of the blood sticking the strands together like mud. Kid watched, without paying much attention, as the blonde checked for a pulse by pressing his fingers to Allen's wrist and then to his throat.

'Zoro call an ambulance!' The other was already half way through dialling the number. In certain circumstances he could be surprisingly reliant. You wouldn't think it since ninety present of the time he was either sleeping during class or saying such ridiculous thinks one had to take a step back and wonder.

'Luffy, you stay here with Zoro. I'll take Kid home.'

Kid should have said something, since normally he hated being pushed around or ordered or being taken care of, but he couldn't find it him to care. For all he knew, he killed a guy! Someone taking him home didn't seem like such a high thing on his priority list.

Luffy let go of Kid's hand, a little reluctantly, his large eyes fixed on the red-head. Sanji took his place in front of Kid as soon as he went to wait with Zoro.

'Come on. Let's get you home. Nami is already there waiting for you.' Kid kept quiet and only nodded his head, showing that he understood what Sanji was saying. 'I'll drive. The car is right over here.' Sanji pointed to his small, but very convenient black Toyota Yaris. He was the only one who owned a car. God forbid Luffy or, even worse, Zoro got their hands on one. The police weren't prepared for the sort of mayhem those two could bring if left unsupervised behind the wheel. And Nami lived too close to All Blue to bother with one.

Kid spared a glance towards his beloved S. Hawk, left by the side of the road. If he was thinking even half straight he would rather stay in the park the whole night than leave his baby, alone and abandoned like that. But he also couldn't deny that he wasn't anywhere near stable enough to drive. With his mushy brain he would drive straight on red and then that would be the final pretty ribbon in his perfectly rosy day.

'Don't worry. I'll come back for your precious Hawk. Let's just get you back first, okay?'

'Thanks.' It surprised him to hear the sound of his own voice. It sounded perfectly normal. If he got cleaned up, he probably looked perfectly normal on the exterior, completely unreflective of the jumbled mess on the interior.

Guilt.

Shame.

Repulsion.

Despair.

'Oh my gosh! Look at you!' Nami opened the door wide as soon as Sanji knocked. It was obvious that she had been anxiously pacing around waiting for some news. 'What the hell happened?!' Kid couldn't help but be reminded of an older sister or a worried mother at the sound of her voice, though he knew she could be damn ruthless if she chose it.

She moved out of the way, letting Kid walk in. He did so automatically, moving to his living room in an almost identical manner Law had the night he entered Kid's home, drenched and shivering after nearly having died in a sick joke. Eustass couldn't supress the smile creeping on his lips at the memory of what happened to the joker. Yeah he was a sick fuck and he didn't regret a single hit he delivered. Yeah he was most likely going to jail for god knows how long. Yeah he was almost certainly never going to see Law again. But Todd? Todd got paid back. And he was fucking thrilled that he was the one who had done the paying.

He slouched on his sofa, not giving a crap that he was dirtying it. He never liked the green colour but he had to keep them since the house didn't belong to him. After moving from his parent's home, his aunt let him live with her since the house was so close to All Blue. And she was lonely. Kid frankly liked her company, and if he was being honest with himself he missed her. She was gone on some trip and would still be away for at least another three weeks. Not that he minded having the house to himself. It made situations such as the one he was currently in, that much more bearable.

Those ugly, mossy green couches were her choice entirely and she always turned a deaf ear whenever Kid practically pleaded for her to consider buying new one. He even offered to pay for them. But they could always meet with an unfortunate accident…It was a damn shame too. Kid purposefully stretched his arms all along the cushions, letting his bloody fingers smear the mess into them. Black and yellow here he came.

Nami was still talking to Sanji by the door. Kid had given her a spare key a while back, in case of an emergency. His aunt had agreed of course. Him getting into fights really wasn't anything new and sometimes he was on the receiving end more than on the giving. On some occasions, he was ashamed to say, he even ended up in the hospital. But did that teach him anything? Yes. How to hit harder.

He heard the click of the door closing and he raised his head to look at Nami approaching. Sanji was gone, most likely keeping true to his word and bringing his bike back home. Kid's smile was gone. Whatever thin strip of amusement he had managed to find in the thought of Todd getting pulverised or the green couch finally leaving his life, vanished like a puff of smoke. Things were as far from funny as they could get.

'Let me have a look at you. God you're a mess.' Nami smiled, though Kid could see her fingers were slightly trembling. She was scared of him. Of course she was. What sane person wouldn't be wary of a guy who was capable of killing another human being in a fight? Someone who couldn't even keep their own emotions under control and lashed in the most violent ways? She was normal. He was not. There was something very, very wrong with him. His mind drifted to Law again and he physically cringed.

'What's wrong? Those it hurt anywhere?' Nami was wiping the blood away after getting rid of his destroyed shirt. She was making sure he had no broken bones or any serious injuries.

'No. I'm fine. You don't have to do this.' He could hardly say that he was hurting all over. Inside.

'Yeah right. Looks to me like you don't even know what day it is. If I leave you now you'll do nothing and you know it.' She continued to search his left arm, calm once more. Well, as calm as she could be under the circumstances.

Kid didn't say anything else. If she wanted to stay, that was fine with him. As long as she left him alone with his torturous thoughts.

'Allen is alive by the way. Thought you might want to know.' Nami paused in her work to meet Kid's eyes which had widened instantly.

'He is?'

'Yes. He's in critical condition and on his way to the nearest hospital. But he'll pull through.' Kid took a moment to process this. He hadn't realized what a burden that had been on his shoulders. He was far from sane, he could accept that, but he wasn't ready to identify himself as a homicidal maniac. Though he was still possibly up there for attentive murder. But still…Holy fuck, he was not a murdered!

'Why didn't you tell me this sooner?!' He was on his feet and, though his voice was raised there was no edge to it. He was just fucking relieved. He even grinned, momentarily forgetting all the other piles on his proverbial plate.

'Sit back down before you hurt yourself, you fool!' But she was also smiling slightly. Kid did as he was told, forgetting that Nami hadn't really answered his question. Maybe things weren't really as messed up as he's thought. Maybe there was still some hope… But there was no way Law would ever forgive him. And just like that he was fast drowning in his melancholic misery again.

Nami saw Kid's shoulder sag and his smile drop like a dead weight. She really wished he would just tell her what it was that was bringing him down like that. She knew for a fact it wasn't Todd. Oh no. This mood was there before Kid got tangled with Todd. She sensed it that morning. It was hidden below his mask of terrifying anger, but his eyes didn't lie. Something was corroding him like acid and she couldn't help if he kept silent. She sighed loudly and paused her hands yet again.

'Kid. What is it?' Kid gave no sign of having heard her but she knew he had so she simply kept silent and waited for him to make the next move. She wasn't going to push him. If he didn't want her help she wouldn't give it, though it was so painfully obvious he needed it.

'I did something horrible.' Kid's voice was very low. Nami waited for him to elaborate but he didn't.

'What did you do?' Another long silence settled over the room. Kid was looking at his feet, his shoes were gone. He didn't remember taking them off. He moved his toes slightly, only to have something to do while he thought of how to best confess his crime.

'I raped Law.' It was Kid's turn to wait for Nami to speak. He didn't lift his eyes, almost afraid of the naked repulsion he was sure see in the other pair of orbs. A simple mirror of how he saw himself.

'You…You what?'

'I raped Law.' Kid repeated it again and it hit him just as hard. He ever said the words out loud and there was something final about them once they left his mouth. Exactly as if he was confessing to a horrible crime before a judge and a jury. Next stop. Life sentence of guilt.

Nami didn't say anything and Kid was fine with that. He didn't know if he could deal with her disgust. Instead he started retelling the whole thing. From the moment when Law entered his garage and to the part where he left him, huddled in a heap on his bed. It sounded so strange. The whole story didn't seem real in a way, and Kid had the vague thought that he was floating above his own body and he could see the whole thing from a different perspective. He could practically see Nami's frozen horror as he talked. When he finished the silence descended around them like the curtains at the end of a show. It stretched and stretched and stretched. He felt his body becoming tenser with each passing silent second. Was Nami so petrified that she couldn't even find the right words to describe what Kid was? A monster.

'Kid. Look at me. 'Her voice was so commanding Kid automatically obeyed. He didn't know Nami was capable of hardening her voice to such a steely sound.

He barely met her eyes before the palm slapped him, with all its might, across his cheek. Enough strength to move his entire head and make him widen his eyes in surprise. The burning prickled his skin and stung his face, adding to the harsher pain of the bruises already there only aggravated by the new hit.

'YOU FUCKING IDIOT! MORON! What the fuck is wrong with you?! Are you a complete animal?! Between you and Law I really don't know which one of you is more messed up! Have you lost your ability to think?! Why haven't you gone to him already?!' Her screeching voice rang like a deranged bell and Kid was mortified under the torrent of it. But wait. Did she tell him to go to Law? That can't be right!

'Go to him….?'

'YES! Why is this so hard?! Why are you so blind?! Don't you realize he loves you?! And you just leave him like that because you're too scared to face the consequences?! What sort of crap excuse is that?! How do you think he feels?! He probably thinks you did what you did because you hate him because of what he did with fucking Todd! Is he supposed to be a mind reader or something?!'

Kid was absolutely bombarded by her questions. His mind jumped and reeled. Did Law really think that?! The possibility hadn't even crossed Kid's mind. To him the only logical response was hatred and betrayed at his breach of trust. Was Law honestly thinking that Kid was the one doing the hating? He couldn't have that.

'Why is this so hard? Let me make it easier for you.' Nami's voice was no longer screaming though it still seethed with boiling rage. Kid was starting to wonder if he really deserved the tittle of All Blue's Red Demon. Nami frankly scared the stuffing out of him right now.

'How?' Nami had his undivided attention. He couldn't deny that she had some sort of hidden power that allowed her to see through these sorts of situations. Maybe it was because she was a woman. Maybe he really was a blind fool. Maybe she was an alien. Kid didn't dismiss any of the possibilities.

'Just answer me this. Do you love him?'

'Yes.' As soon as he said it Kid frowned. The answer seemed so obvious and came out involuntarily. It was a fact. There were no ifs about it. When did he make this transition? It was the first time he was actually saying it. He loved him. He loved Law. 'I love him.' He had to say out loud to believe it.

'There. Now was that so hard? All you have to do is tell him, because he feels the same.' She smiled, and it was genuine and Kid grinned back like a fool.

'How do you know that?'

'Because it's plain as day. Am I ever wrong about those things?' She arched an eyebrow.

'..No.' Kid had to agree. What was true was true. Nami was some sort of extra-terrestrial. It was the only logical explanation.

Kid slouched back in the couch, his brain still bamboozled by the sheer speed at which things have changed from that morning. It was hard to believe that all this had taken part over the course of a few hours. And Nami was so right, as always. Why the hell was he just sitting there? Why wasn't he heading, like a shot arrow, straight for his bull's eye? What did he think? That Law would forget about him and stop hating him with the passage of time? Some wounds couldn't be healed by time.

He shot up like he was struck by lightning, making Nami lose her balance and fall on her backside. His eyes were fixed on some spot in front of him she couldn't see. But she recognised that look. His mind was set on something. Something bad, she was willing to bed. But unfortunately when Eustass Kid got something in his head he was more stubborn than a mule. The end of the world couldn't sway him to change his mind. A trait that drove his friends up the walls more often than not.

'I'm going to him.' Before the words were fully out of his mouth, Kid was already moving towards the door.

'What? NOW!?' Nami sat up and ran to catch up with Kid but he was already at the door. 'Wait, Kid! You can't go out like that! You're injured! And half naked! And covered in blood! YOU HAVE NO SHOES!' She may as well have saved her breath since by the time she reached the door Kid was already in a fast sprint. She could just make out his shape before he was completely gone out of her line of sight. And frankly he looked like a patient escaped out of a mental asylum.

'Okay...that didn't go as I planned.'

XD I can totally picture Kid running without any shoes on the street! But will he reach Law? Well, we'll just have to wait and see...XD (I'm smug and i know it X3)

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