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Chapter 7: The last night

"There's something I don't understand." Kid said one afternoon after coming back from class, sitting on the living room's floor with his back against the sofa where Law was sprawled while he changed channels.

"Not that I'm surprised or anything, but if I can help you…" Law began, earning a punch to the knee from Kid.

"Shut up, I'm serious."

"Alright, alright." Law lifted both hands in a gesture of surrender even if Kid couldn't see it. "What don't you understand?"

"If you can turn solid and touch things, why don't you take revenge on those who killed you?"

It had been months ago, soon after Law told Kid he was dead, that the man had also explained the circumstances surrounding his death. Kid remembered the day of Law's murder; he hadn't been at the park or anything, but the story had been at the school's playground for weeks.

"Because, as a 'worker' from the other side nicely told me after my death, if due to any direct action of mine a human were to die I would be forced to go to the afterlife, regardless of any pending matters I might have in this world."

Kid raised his head and gave him a very skeptical look he'd learned from Law himself.

"And why do they let you stay in the first place?"

Law smirked mockingly.

"Apparently, dealing with bitter souls such as myself gives them too much work, so they leave us be, unless there's no other choice. Most souls stay only to make sure their loved ones will be fine before they leave, and those who stay due to some grudge, as they can't take revenge by themselves, stay here until those they had the grudge against die as well."

"So you'll stay here until Doflamingo and his guys all kick the bucket." Kid summed up.

"Probably." Law confirmed.

They fell silent, Law kept with his constant change of channels in search of something decent to watch and Kid stayed on the floor, looking at the space where he'd wanted to put a rug for months, thinking.

"Want me to kill them for you?"

Law lowered the arm with which he held the remote and lowered his gaze to look at Kid.

"What did you say?"

"I asked if you want me to kill Doflamingo and his goons." Kid repeated earnestly, moving so he was sitting facing Law.

"Do you realize what you're offering?" Law asked, and for once there was no trace of a smirk in his face.

"Perfectly. You helped me to get rid of that idiot I had for father, which by the way shows you can plan how to kill someone without being discovered, and I'm offering to return the favor."

"You can't compare a person to a whole organization." Law argued.

Kid shrugged nonchalantly.

"If I get at it… Besides, it's not as if they were are going to find me if I'm careful."

Law tilted his head to one side, looking at Kid curiously.

"What do you mean?"

"Isn't it obvious? I have no tie to them, and met you after you were killed, so they can't connect us either: Officially I have no reason to kill them, or even hate them, and so I wouldn't be considered a suspect to begin with. I'd just have to be careful not to leave any evidence and no one will ever know it was me.

Law thought about it.

"The rain."

"Huh?"

"They killed me on a rainy day, and that erased almost all the physical evidence. If they don't touch you and so there's nothing left under their nails or something like that, it could work."

Kid grinned.

"And security systems around here suck, so they'll be easy to avoid."

Law looked at him for a while, thinking, before he said:

"Alright, but before anything else, I want to make sure you know what you're doing."

"You gonna teach me how to kill?" Kid asked, unable to avoid the playful tone of his voice.

Law smirked.

"Contrary to what people might have said about me in the past, Mr. Eustass, I have never killed anybody. No, I'm going to teach you how to cover your tracks. And I'll take care of any investigation before going after someone."

Kid smirked as well.

"Then it's settled."

"I've got something." Ace said from his desk, reading something at ('on') his computer. "Eustass Kid works at the workshop where Donquixote Doflamingo takes his car once a year for a check-up."

Marco lifted his gaze from his own screen.

"That gives him access to Doflamingo, it'd be easy to put him a tracking device or something."

"And there's more." Ace continued. "According to these dates, it's about time for this year's check-up."

They stayed silent.

"Doflamingo is the next, right?" Ace asked.

"Probably. He's not only the last important member, he's also the last one left from when Trafalgar Law was killed."

"Not that I really want to help him, but can't we go arrest Kid or something?"

Marco shook his head.

"That's not a good idea: we have no proof against Kid, the guy doesn't even have any traffic fine, and we'd have to let him go. Despite having seen Trafalgar Law's ghost, we're not sure if Kid is the murderer, if there is someone else or if it's Law himself who is killing them. Doflamingo shoots first and asks later, if we arrest Kid we'd be condemning him to death.

Ace sighed.

"What do we do then?"

Marco went back to his computer and opened the list of the workshop's employees.

"There's a guy named Killer with a record of drug dealings some years ago, we can make up something and go take a look." Marco looked through the window, were the street's lamps were already lighting the dark night of February 28th. "It's late, we'll go tomorrow. You should go home, Ace." Marco suggested, standing up himself.

Ace did the same.

"You know, this whole thing about ghosts is so crazy, I would've never thought of it."

Marco laughed.

"You'd be surprised at how many people here can see them." The blonde said while putting on his coat.

"Is there more people besides you and Thatch?" Ace asked, buttoning up his own coat.

"Oyaji, for example." Marco answered lightly. He put an arm over Ace's shoulders and started guiding him to the door.

"The old Whitebeard?"

Marco nodded.

"Sometimes it seems like everyone who can see them becomes a cop."

Eustass Kid took off the thick rubber gloves and left them on the table, covering his face with his hands and sighing tiredly. The feeling of hands on his shoulders warned him of Law's presence at his back, and those hands started to move, slowly and soothingly, over his aching back.

"Tired?" Law asked.

"Yeah. But it's done."

The hands stopped for a second before going back to his shoulders, where they indicated for him to turn around. Once they were face to face, Law bent down and gave him a long kiss on the lips, a kiss that for once held no trace of roughness, and both his hands cupped Kid's cheeks.

"Come to bed." Whispered Law once they separated.

Kid stood up and, not letting Law step away, circled his waist and kissed him again. Law, understanding Kid's intention, put his arms around the redhead's neck for support and lifted his legs, circling Kid's waist with them so Kid could take them both to the bed, not separating their lips for a single moment, not even when Kid slowly lowered Law on the mattress.

Kid's old shirt and Law's hoodie disappeared between slow kisses and caresses, movements aiming to memorize and worship instead of craving to dominate and gain control. Soon their pants followed and last went the underwear, Kid having left Law's mouth just the time necessary to take their clothes off.

Kid's mouth lowered to Law's neck when he brought his fingers up to take the place on Law's mouth, who began to lick them, tracing them with his tongue and covering them on his saliva.

Kid kissed him again once he retired his hand and Law moaned into his mouth when he felt the first finger probing his entrance before pushing in. The second and third fingers didn't take long to join the first one and, once Kid removed them, he separated from him enough to kneel between Law's open legs and lift them. Not taking his eyes away from him, from that expression of abandonment on Law's face, Kid slowly pushed in, relishing in the heat surrounding him and the moans Law let out, until he has finally fully inside of him.

Then, bending down again to kiss him, none of them closing their eyes at any moment, Kid started to thrust steady and deeply, seeking to fill Law and at the same time to extend the moment as much as possible, mimicking those same movements on Law's erection with one of his hands.

Finally, the sensations became too overwhelming and Law shuddered, and Kid deepened the kiss to prevent him from separating when he came in his hand. Thrusting a couple more times, Kid soon followed Law and this time it was the other man who, fisting both hands on Kid's hair, prevented him from stopping the kiss.

At last it was Kid who separated first their mouths and, moving so as to not exit from Law, laid on his back on the bed with Law lying atop his body, hugging each other.

For once they didn't exchange any insults or mocking comments, instead one of Kid's hands started stroking Law's back, and the other moving in a slow massage on the dark hair. And Law, tracing distractedly patterns on Kid's chest, kissed from time to time the redhead's neck.

"Tomorrow," Kid finally spoke, "come to work with me."

Kissing once more his neck, Law settled more comfortably against his body.

"Sure… Kid."

To be continued

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