Regan woke up to find herself in her room. She looked around until she saw Ace and she gasped. She thought back to earlier and remembered breaking down and crying into his arms. She felt the blood rush to her face and looked down to see her in a thin nightgown. She quickly grabbed the blankets and pulled them up around her when she saw Ace wake up. "Morning." He said with a loud yawn as he stretched. He blinked then saw her, "Ah Regan! How are you doing?"

Regan blushed and looked away, "I'm fine, could I change?" She watched as Ace blushed and nodded as he left. When she was alone she put her dress back on. However, instead of a tight bun she let her hair down loosely tied back by a ribbon. She sighed and left the room to see Ace sitting across from her door waiting, "Why are you here?"

"I carried you back after you fell asleep, I was worried that you would still be upset when you woke up." Ace explained, as he looked her over. She looked different with her hair down and her glasses gone. "Are you feeling any better?"

Regan looked away embarrassed, "A bit."

"Want to talk about it?"

Regan looked at him in surprise, "Why?"

"I figured we are a lot alike. Besides it helps to talk to someone about your problems. I understand if you would rather talk to your crew then me, but…"

"But?"

Ace looked at her seriously making her take a step back, "I think I will understand better than anyone." He offered her his arm and smiled when she took his, "Let's go to the beach."

Regan nodded with a small smile and walked beside him quietly ignoring the looks the twins gave when they left the ship. She couldn't help but blush when she thought back to the beach. She had never let anyone this close to her, all the boys back in her village had been scared of her. She looked up at Ace when she was sure he wouldn't see and stared at him. "Why are you nice to me? I tried to kill you, twice in the past two days."

Ace just shrugged, "I don't know. I just can't help it." He stepped down into the beach and helped her down beside him. "So want to tell me what happened earlier?"

Regan bite her lip and then nodded, "It's a long story though…"

"Just tell me."

"Well as you know Whitebeard is my father, my mother was a normal woman. She hid her relationship with my father and who my father was for years, but when it got out…"

"The marines went after you."

Regan nodded and bit her lip, "I had only found out Whitebeard was my father when I was 13, of course many of the villagers suspected before that. It didn't help that I had devil fruit powers since an early age. When I got upset it would start to rain or storm so the kids learned to leave me alone at an early age. Well when the marines finally heard about us they came after us. I hadn't known about it and I came home to find my mother packing my things. She told me the marines had come into town and were looking for us. She told me she had arranged for us to meet with my father through a pirate crew. Next thing I know the marines were breaking down our door telling us to surrender. Mom told me to run and then they shot her." Regan stopped and felt the tears fall down her cheeks, "She hadn't done anything wrong, and she had never hurt anyone! But they killed her! They killed her, because of a man she had loved. I lost it. I remember falling to my knees and seeing a girl knock the marines away from me. The next thing I remembered was waking up to see Chesha. She told me she had heard of the marines attack and had come to help us."

"Why was Chesha going to help you and your mother? She doesn't seem to be the lending a hand kind of pirate."

Regan gave a small smile, "She is though. However, she felt a special duty towards us. As you have probably heard, Chesha and Whitebeard have a history. Whitebeard helped her years ago and ever since she has felt a debt to him. So when my mother told her about our situation and relation to Whitebeard she took it s her duty to protect us."

"So what happened to the marines?"

Regan shrugged, "I don't remember, but Chesha said I lost it and a large storm came through and killed them all. She said I manipulated the water and channeled the storm killing them and when it continued to get worst she decided she had to knock me out. After that the storm stopped."

"Is that why the marines call you Typhoon Regan?"

"Yep, I never wanted to be a pirate, but I like it now. I like being part of a family, everyone has become like a sister to me. I guess I shouldn't judge my father for treating his own crew like family."

Ace looked down, "Ya, I guess it isn't so bad being on the crew. I haven't really had a normal family life either you know."

Regan looked at him in surprise, "Really?"

Ace nodded, "My mother died giving birth to me. She had carried me too long, trying to hide me from the World Government."

"Why were they looking for you?"

Ace gave her a small smile, "I told you I could relate to you. My father was also a well-known pirate. My mother's name was Portgas D. Rouge. My real name isn't Portgas D. Ace. It's Gol D. Ace, I'm the son of Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King." Regan gasped and Ace grabbed onto her hand, "There are very few people who understand what it is like to be born the child of a wanted man. That is why when I found out about you I couldn't help, but feel a connection."

Regan blushed as she looked up at him, her heart skipping a beat, and his hand traveled to her cheek, "Do you still feel a connection?"

Ace looked down into her purple eyes and brushed back a strand of her hair that had fallen to her cheek, "Do you?" he murmured as he lowered his lips to hers and kissed her softly. "No one else can understand the pain of being born unwanted to the world like we can." He said as he looked down at her, her body still in her arms, "However, I want to find a reason to live. I want to find my purpose. What about you?"

Regan looked up and felt as her heart skipped another beat, "I want to, too. I want to have a purpose for life. I'm sick of feeling unwanted. I want to know why I was born if it meant my parents couldn't be together, or that my mother couldn't die of old age. Why do I exist?" She said as she looked down hating the feelings that were coming forward.

Ace tightened his grip around her waist, "Maybe we were born to find and comfort one another?"

Regan looked up as his mouth came over hers again, this time she returned it with as much feeling as she could put into it. When they pulled away she looked up at him and blushed, "I have never kissed anyone before."

Ace grinned and kissed her nose, "You'll get better."