Law stared down at the unconscious red head, and decided that he was an idiot for not considering how heavy the other man was. The red haired man most certainly outweighed the doctor, and that didn't surprised Law in the least bit, from how muscular the red head was. It was a problem, because this meant that Law couldn't help the red head into his house. Law thought to try and rouse the man to get him to move himself, but that had failed apart from a faint groan here and there.

"Wake up." Law muttered to the man again, "I am not going to try to drag you into the house."

Again, there was no response to Law's words.

With a light sigh at the way his night was going, Law fished his cell phone out of a pocket, and opened up his list of contacts. Law's finger hovered over a number that he used to call often, but now only did so intermittently. Shaking his head and banishing the reasons over why, Law hit the name listed as Zoro-ya and waited to see if the other man would pick up. While it was late, Law had no doubt that the man would answer if he heard it and saw who the call was from. The only awkward thing would be if-

'Law? Why the hell are you calling at this time of day?'

"Sanji." Law greeted in a neutral kind of way. It was not the voice that the dark haired man had wanted to hear. Law had known that Zoro was seeing someone else, so really, he shouldn't have been surprised that someone else had answered the green haired man's phone. "I could have sworn that I had called Zoro-ya. I don't suppose I could speak with him?"

Law heard muffled voices on the other end of the line, and what sounded suspiciously like Sanji letting out an indignant yelp. Before Law could say anything, Zoro's voice came over the line, an edge of sleep to it, but otherwise completely alert.

'Is something wrong? It's 2 in the morning.'

"I came home to find someone passed out on my sidewalk." Law began, trying hard to not dwell on the genuine concern in the other man's voice. Law was perfectly capable of taking care of himself. "I'm going to treat his injuries but I've run into an issue. He's too heavy for me to get into the house on my own." Law knew that the long silence meant that Zoro was processing his words, and Law couldn't help but smirk faintly at the thread of exasperation that had entered the police officer's voice.

'You really need to stop doing this, Law, even if we do all appreciate how you helped Luffy and Ace.' Zoro let out a sigh, 'I know you won't take no for an answer once your mind's made up, and I can't change your mind either, so I'll come over in about 15 minutes.'

"If it's not too much trouble." Law heard Sanji say something, but couldn't quite make it out, though he could hazard a guess as to the other's words. With a faint, self-deprecating smile, Law added aloud, "Why don't you bring Sanji along? I think that will help get him to realize that this isn't some rendezvous where you cheat on him with an ex." Law wondered if Zoro had hung up due to the long stretch of silence that followed, before the doctor heard Zoro's voice again.

'Does he actually think that could happen? He knows we're not together anymore, so there's no need to be so suspicious.'

"Why do you think he answered your phone?" Law couldn't help but smile at Zoro's matter of fact tone, even if it did feel like a punch to the gut how sure the man was that nothing would happen between them again. Not that anything would happen, but it still hurt to have the reminder.

"I asked him to hand the phone to me."

"And yet he answered it when he saw that it was me who was calling?" Law didn't blame Sanji for being suspicious; anyone in their right mind would wonder why anyone would walk away from a relationship with Zoro.

'…We'll be over there in 30 minutes.'

"Do make sure neither of you become incapable of walking in that extra 15 minutes, even though I doubt you would need anyone's help moving someone into the house. You could do it on your own." Law said wryly.

'And you make sure that no one followed this guy. I don't want to get to your house and find a murder scene.'

"Highly doubtful but I'll do my best to make sure you just have to lug this idiot into my house." Law replied, taking note of the serious tone in the green haired officer's voice. The phone line cut out, and Law felt that a half hour was more than sufficient to set things up to tend to the red haired man's wounds. But Law, looking around the empty streets in front of his house, and hearing the general quiet and stillness of the area, made him rethink the plan. Law was reluctant to leave the red haired man lying alone for a period of time, however short, especially if there was a chance of someone following after him or attempting to track him down, for whatever reason.

With a frown, Law opted for a closer inspection of the other man's injuries so that he could advise Zoro on how to move the red head. Law's first assumption that the man may have a concussion stood, along with the general battered appearance that included the bloodied cheek and the injured leg. The ma's left wrist appeared more swollen than the right, and upon close inspection, Law found a puncture like wound on the man's left side. Law assumed that it had been an injection of some kind. The dark haired doctor wasn't entirely sure what it would have done until the red haired man had woken, but Law figured that he could make some guess when the other man did wake. In the time it took Law to inspect the red haired man's wounds, the doctor had begun to rethink the whole taking the stranger to the hospital idea when a car suddenly pulled into his driveway, and two men exited it.

Law found it amusing that Zoro looked like he still had just woken up, what with his messy green hair and pajama pants. A tank top looked to have been pulled on haphazardly, no doubt something that Sanji had insisted upon. Speaking of the blond, Sanji was the complete opposite of Zoro in appearance. The man was wearing slacks and a button up shirt, and it looked as if his blond hair had been fussed with to one side. In short, Sanji looked completely put together at what the fuck 'o clock in the morning

"That was quick. I don't suppose you saw anyone suspicious lurking around on your way here?" Law's words fell on deaf ears as Zoro and Sanji almost simultaneously came to a halt, their eyes on the red head on the ground. Law hummed softly at the sight. It seemed as though the other two men knew the identity of the on the ground, if their reaction was anything to go by, and Law was proven correct.

"Why is Eustass Kid unconscious on your sidewalk?" Sanji asked, taking a cautious step forward to look the man over, though he looked as if he expected the other to be feigning unconsciousness.

"Who?" The name was unfamiliar to Law.

"He's Nami's mechanic. Works on her motorcycle and that scooter she uses to get around town." Sanji supplied, his posture relaxing once it became apparent that the red head, Kid, was merely going to continue to lie motionless on the ground.

"I think he may have been mugged." Just as I was threatened. Law thought to himself, but kept quiet as Zoro came to kneel alongside him and look Kid over, one hand reaching out to take Kid's as he turned the limb over this way and that.

"Looks like he's been in a fight." Zoro said at length, as he indicated Kid's bloody knuckles beneath the bandages wrapped around them. "It wasn't one sided, so even if it was a mugging, he fought back."

Law pointed out the puncture mark on Kid's left side. "A fight that involves sticking someone with a needle?" The doctor glanced up in time to see Sanji frown down at Kid, but the blond said nothing, and instead looked as if he were deep in thought as he fished around for something in his pocket.

"Might as well get him inside." Zoro said. "If you're going to insist on trying to help him." Zoro turned his head to look at Law. "You know I can't cover for you if something comes from this, right?"

"I know." Law wasn't about to do anything to jeopardize Zoro's job as police officer, so that was why he merely wanted assistance bringing Kid into house. Then, Zoro could get on with his life, and not get tangled up in the shitstorm that was about to become Law's life if he didn't think fast how to cover his debts he could no longer delay.

"Law?"

"I'll get the supplies ready." Law said in reply, shaking away the what-if's.

"You sound like you're going to operate on him here." Sanji stepped back toward the car as he produced a lighter and cigarette, and lit it. "Why not just have him taken to the hospital?"

"I have my reasons. And if I think he really needs to be in the hospital, I'll drive him there myself." Law noted the hard look Zoro gave him at that but the doctor merely gave a minute shake of his head, not wishing to elaborate. If Law gave even a hint that he had been threatened, the doctor knew that he would get a certain duo of troublemakers in his home and that was something he wished to avoid. Law held Zoro's gaze, waiting. Law still wasn't quite sure why dating Zoro for a time meant that the other man's friends adopted Law as a friend, and continued to see the doctor as a friend even after Law and Zoro had parted mutually. It baffled Law's mind.

Much to Law's immense relief, the other man didn't pursue the topic further and merely began to lever Kid up. Even with the silence, Law knew that he couldn't keep mum about things forever, but for now decided to focus on the present issue at hand. Law went to open the door of his house, but paused to give Sanji a sharp look when the blond made as if to follow him. "Put that cigarette out before you enter my house." Not bothering to look and see if Sanji had listened, Law went in search of the medical supplies that he believed he would need. The only unknown factor at this point in time was whatever had been injected into Kid's body.

It was going to be a long night, Law decided, when Zoro finally got the red haired man into the house and onto the bed in the guest room. And it wasn't because of tending to Kid's wounds. That type of thing was so routine to Law that he barely had to think about it anymore. No, what made the night look longer was because Zoro had waited until Law was immersed in his work to spring the question on him.

"So who is after you now? You're favoring your back when you lean over."

"It's nothing." Law uttered tonelessly, but the damage was done from the sight of a cell in Zoro's hand. The surgeon raised his eyes to meet Zoro's, and Law offered a dark look as he took a step toward Zoro. "Don't. There's no need for that."

"Sanji?" Zoro asked as he started scrolling through something on his phone. "Don't let him interfere."

"Zoro-ya, I really don't think that's necessary…hey!" Law was jerked back from Zoro, his arms twisted behind his back by Sanji. Law couldn't get any leverage with the way the blond held him, so he was forced to watch Zoro call one of the few people Law didn't want him to. The doctor knew that there would be no way he could prevent someone from getting hurt if they interfered with the debt he owed to Doflamingo.

There was a long moment of silence before anything was said.

"Hey, Ace." Zoro paused. "No, it's important, otherwise I wouldn't have called so early in the morning." Another pause. "Can you grab Luffy and come over to Law's, then? I think he's gotten himself into trouble again."

Oh no.

"No, he won't say what it is. Yeah. Sure. See you soon. Don't get lost."

Nononono.

This was exactly what Law didn't want to happen. He didn't want anyone involved in the hole he'd dig himself into by being indebted to Doflamingo. Law slumped within Sanji's grip, the fight in him gone. The moment Luffy involved himself in Law's business meant that Luffy and everyone else who chose to try and help would be in danger. The doctor knew that Doflamingo wouldn't be choosy about taking care of people who prevented Law from paying his debt. Now more than ever Law felt that he needed a bodyguard, and since Zoro was most certainly out of the question, Law could only hope that Kid, a mechanic, apparently, could perhaps fulfill that role.

"What…the fuck?" Said red head chose that moment to awaken, and immediately rolled off the bed with a muffled curse and groan. "The hell…where?"

Lovely.

Now not only did Law have to deal with a certain straw hat loving individual hell bent on helping him because they were 'friends' but now Law had to deal with one wounded and quite possibly drugged up Eustass Kid.

Kid, meanwhile, lurched up off of the floor, swayed, and managed to get his sight locked onto Law. "The fuck did you take me?"

Law ended up not answering that, because the red head's knees had buckled out from underneath him, sending Kid to his hands and knees, where he abruptly threw up.

Joy.

It appeared as though Kid was having a reaction to whatever was in his system.

It certainly did look as though was going to be a long night.

Luckily for the red head, Law had a suspicion what he had been injected with, and happened to have the antidote on hand to counteract it. But it was going to be a pain to get the other man to take it, as it had to be drunk, not injected, and what with the way Kid was trying to right himself despite how shitty he ought to be feeling, Law wasn't looking forward to trying to get the man to drink the antidote.

"Make sure he doesn't hurt himself." Law directed to Zoro and Sanji, "I'll be right back. He's having a reaction to whatever was injected into his body." As Law exited the room, he couldn't help but overhear Sanji speaking to Zoro in a disbelieving tone.

"And you dated him? What is wrong with him? Kid obviously needs medical assistance, and now. Why aren't we taking him to a hospital?"

"There's nothing wrong with Law. He's a little unorthodox, yeah, but he's still a doctor and knows what he's doing."

Law would be lying if he didn't feel slightly pleased at the compliment Zoro paid him as he rummaged around in a cabinet. The feeling faded upon the realization that Zoro was likely defending him as a friend, and that stung just a little, even if the decision to split had been mutual. Law located the antidote after a few moments of listing symptoms through his head, and reentered the bedroom to find both Zoro and Sanji on the floor next to Kid, who appeared to have given up tying to get up.

"Get him into a seated position." Law said, letting himself slip into the state of mind he needed to be in when at the hospital. He watched the red head being propped up against the bed, Kid's head lolling against the side of the bed. Sanji and Zoro moved out of the way so that Law could kneel next to Kid, and, once he'd made eye contact with a pair of baleful amber eyes, spoke.

"I need you to take this. Someone injected something into your bloodstream earlier tonight. It's what's making your body react like this."

"'m fine. Fuck off." Kid slurred, hand coming up to brush the bottle away. The red head sagged against the bed further, mumbling nonsense, and apparently disregarding Law's presence.

"Drink it." Law said darkly, in no mood for this.

There was no response from Kid other than a faint groan of discomfort.

Shaking his head, Law opened the bottle, downed the liquid and held in in his mouth. With quick precision, Law leaned over Kid, forced his jaw open with one hand, and pressed his lips to the other man's, determined to get the antidote in him one way or another.

Kid made some faint sound of protest, hand reaching up to shove at Law's shoulder, before the red head shuddered and let his hand drop, letting out another, softer sound against Law's lips. Kid made a disgruntled sound once the antidote was in his mouth, but there wasn't much to do but let Law transfer it to him.

Law drew away once he was satisfied that Kid had swallowed most of the antidote, and merely raised a brow at the dumbstruck look on Kid's face. Law turned and saw a similar look on Sanji's face, sans the open mouth, and then glanced at Zoro, who appeared to be amused and merely offered a shrug at Law's questioning look.

"What?" Shaking his head at the other men and their lack of a response, Law turned and exited the guest bedroom. He needed to go gather some more medical supplies before he could finish tending to Kid's wounds. With the antidote taken care of, treating the rest of Kid's injuries would be no problem.

-x-x-x-

Had Law looked back, he would have seen an interested look come over the red head's face, before Kid groaned and let his head sag back against the side of the bed, a low sigh accompanying whispered, barely there words.

"Fuck me."

What had that been about? One minute Kid had been puking his guts out, and then the next, the guy from outside saying he'd been in the way was in his space. And talk about a hell of a way to get someone to take medicine, locking lips with them and forcing them to drink it. And the look that man had given Kid when he had drawn away, like he thought Kid was an idiot.

"How fast does the antidote work?"

Kid blinked, and then withheld a groan, this time one of annoyance. He had to have had the worst luck in the world. Kid recognized the voice, and was already trying to think of what he would say to a cop. How to explain his battered appearance as something not due to illegal activities. It made the red haired man nauseous trying to think of something, or perhaps it was the pain he was in. Soon, Kid felt like he was going to throw up again, and that was when a voice sounded sharply next to his ear.

"Don't you dare. I cannot waste all of those antidotes because you can't hold it down and let it work."

The guy from before was back, and when Kid managed to lift his head to look the man in the eyes, he was met with a cool glare of golden eyes. The red haired man blinked, trying to focus on the man's next words, but instead, his stomach clenched and Kid let out an uncomfortable whine. Like hell he could keep it down. It felt like when he'd had too much alcohol to drink and he needed to…

"I don't think he can hold it in, Law."

"You're a doctor, what do you usually do in cases like this?"

A doctor? Well, it seemed Kid lucked out in that aspect, thought the guy had to have had a few screws loose, because next thing Kid knew, two hands had seized either side of his head and Kid was forced to look into the doc's pissed off expression. Kid blinked, wondering if…

"Look at me. Try and focus. Did you hear what I just said?"

Kid tried, he really did, but he was in too much pain from the beating body had taken, and being manhandled by the doctor kind of put Kid over the edge in what he could process.

"Mr. Eustass?"

Kid blinked at Law as he realized the other man had knelt down in front of him at some point. Kid clumsily waved the doctor's hands away from his face, before he promptly pitched forward and fell against Law, knocking the dark haired man over and onto the floor. Kid could only hope he didn't throw up all over the doctor, because Kid kind of liked the idea of not being kicked to the curb and left to the mercy of those assholes that had gotten the better of him earlier that night.

"Need some help, Law?"

Someone in the room was far too amused with the situation, and Kid was kind of glad he passed out when he did. If only because his current state wasn't the kind of image Kid wanted to present. Thought why it even mattered was something Kid would have to dwell on later, when he didn't feel complete like complete and utter shit.

-x-x-x-x-x-x-x

A/N: I found inspiration while I was at the grocery store for some reason, but I'll take it, as it helped me write a longer chapter. There is a reason this fic is going to be a slow burn, and Law is one of the reasons because he is going to be a little oblivious to Kid's eventual attraction. (also, medical inaccuracies are likely to occur in this fic, including Law's supply of medical items in his home-I'm just writing with minimal research so that I can try and get into the flow of writing regularly again).