Any filler chapters will contain their past experiences together. Like in some of those screwy home moves that the tape messed up on and the previous file shows up for a second or two. The now chapters are the newly recorded stuff, the filler chapters are those weird holes that blank out XD

Chapter Fifteen: Armless Idiots

Avery had briefly opened her eyes only to see the bright sky turned dark. But then she had trouble staying awake and only let her eyes close again. When she finally awoke, awoke, someone was carrying her. It was that one old man. Conis' father Paya-somthing-or-other. Her head lulled back and she tried to speak. Why was she so tired? Her mind tried to figure it out, then she remembered. Her fight.

It messed with her mind. Having not only had to fight the man that destroyed her life and arm, but what she'd done to him. It wasn't that she'd blown his face to mush, but that she was ok with it. "Avery-chan." The man said. "You'll be ok soon. I found you in the woods. Someone might be going back for you but You've lost your arm, we have to get you help immediately." Avery didn't hear what he said after that. He kept talking and in her mind images flashed of the mans face.

Then it was Wyper's face and her hand. Her stomach revolted and she was glad. If her body reacted this badly to the thought then she would never think of doing it to her nakama as she feared. After throwing up she felt better, not to her full but better than the muggy mindedness from before. "I'm alright Ossan." She dismissed him, or tried to when he grabbed onto her elbow trying to lead her. It did little to nothing because he kept holding her arm.

They made it back to where everyone was just as Kamakiri and Braham were about to set out. "Little Bird!" Kamakiri yelled and limped towards her. "We were just coming to get you. I couldn't bring you back on my own so I came to get Braham." Avery grinned at him and removed her arm from the Ossan. She leaned into him.

"I'm glad your alright. I was afraid that something happened to you." She mumbled as her legs gave our. Kamakiri caught her but had trouble keeping her up so Braham helped. Avery felt hot. Not the sexy hot like Nami's mentioned several times. It was more of the we're-on-a-desert-island-called-Alabasta-and-I-insist-on-this-damned-long-sleeve-shirt hot. "I'm feverish." Avery said after blinking several times. "'Cause I'm pretty damn sure that Wyper would never be doing that, especially where other people could see him."

In front of Avery was Wyper. He grinned and winked at her and as he walked toward the giant python let his grass skirt fall to the ground where it burst into flames. On his right thigh up high enough that the strap touched his- his- um a knife sheath was strapped. He looked over his shoulder with a come-and-get-me grin before he started to pet his snake. "Definitely feverish or hallucinate." Avery mumbled as she watched him. Her hormones must have also been out of whack.

Kamakiri and Braham dragged her to the same tent as Wyper. Though this time she wasn't sure if he was a hallucination or not. He was laid out on some firs, completely naked but seemingly asleep with bandages covering him. They laid Avery down and the Chief was speaking to them. Her eyes closed and this time she willingly drifted into the darkness of her mind. Here she played with Wyper.

They were younger and they were near a creek. She was going to meet him where they had planned but had gotten a tiny bit lost and found her way to the creek where he just so happened to be. She jumped at him and they both ended up falling in the water. At first he'd looked mad but then had ended up laughing. The water was shallow enough that Avery could stand in it for she knew not how to swim.

It was a long while that they were in there and not once had either of them said a word to each other. Until, "Avery?" Wyper asked and his voice didn't match his face. It was too deep, a man's voice. "What's wrong with her? What happened?" Wyper's lips no longer moved but stilled and formed his cocky smirk. He swam backwards and Avery tried to call for him she took a few steps and the water went higher and higher. Her voice made no sound as her lips moved.

Something grabbed her shoulders and before she could look and see what it was it dunked her under. Through the blurry water she could make out a malicious grin. She stopped struggling and let the slow blackness take her over. She just closed her eyes, only to open them to Wyper's worried face. Her throat was deathly dry. He grabbed a cup of liquid and lifted it to her lips. She drank the nasty stuff down. Most likely medicine from Chopper.

After a moment she leaned against Wyper, her breath heavy but her mind clear. "You've had a fever most of the day, night too. That doctor of yours left medicine to give to you." Avery nodded and closed her eyes as she leaned against him. "Have you," He hesitated. He didn't want to ask what he needed to. If she said the opposite of what he wanted to hear, he wasn't sure he could accept it.

"I'm not leaving." Avery finally said. Like before her mind was clear, she wasn't tired but was just memorizing how leaning against him like this felt. "I'm going to say goodbye to them before they leave but I'm staying with you, if you'll have me that is." one of his arms wrapped around her and that was answer enough for her. "Wyper," She caught his attention. "I heard that something happened to my father..."

"He's alright." Wyper said in a calm voice.

"You would tell if he wasn't, wouldn't you?"

"Yes." He said.

"Do you think I could see him?"

Wyper chuckled. "No. It's too late and everyone should be asle-" Yelling started up outside and Wyper looked concerned.

"It's my dumb shit of a Captain." Avery chuckled and leaned more against him, she wanted to sleep next to him. A soft hiss of pain left his lips and not only did her eyes fly open but she moved away from him. "You're hurt!" She said a little too loud.

"And you only have one arm, we're even for now." His good hand brushed against Avery's arm's metal stub. "What's going to happen to it?" He questioned.

"I'll take all of the metal that Usopp can spare and make a new one. I'll have to be careful with it because we don't get much metal up here." She smiled at him. "I'm guessing that by the time your arm heals I'll have mine built." He didn't grin or smile like she'd hoped but kept staring at her arm. Her shoulders slumped and he looked up at her face.

"What's wrong?" He asked. Then he realized he'd been staring and she must have felt weird. "It's hard to imagine what it would feel like to loose an arm."

"Like it's broken. You feel that it's there and when you go to use it you can't. It's just not there. I feel like I'm bending my fingers because my mind is saying that that's what I'm doing and the nerves say it too but I have no fingers to bend." She wiggled her stub and the loose wires dangled and moved around. "You're right handed so most of the time you're going to be trying to do things with that broken arm of yours but you just can't. Only sooner or later you'll be able to again. If I don't make this arm or if I don't connect it, I'll never be able to do certain things again." She sighed and got a far away look in her eyes. "I can't feel certain things with the arm again and that will never change."

He pulled her to him and they both laid back down. Even though most people were now awake, thanks to Luffy and Nami, These two needed to get to sleep. Avery's fever had only broken a few hours ago and unless she wanted to get it back up again then she needed rest. If Wyper wanted to heal enough that he could still pull his weight with one arm he too needed his rest.