Legacy: I am so sorry! I had hoped to have gotten another chapter or 2 up by now. I had underestimated how much time work would claim off of me. I started a new job in October but when I managed to get another chapter out about then I thought I would be done another chapter during November. I am so sorry! And the ending of this one seems rushed ._.
Chapter 4
Monet was frowning bitterly, she could tell that he had fallen asleep on the couch again, she could also tell he had had a nightmare, by the gasping breath and the cold sweat on his brow. Gingerly she sat across from him, frowning more deeply as he slipped on his shades, raising his head to look at her with a small frown of his own.
"Monet? Why are you in my room?"
"I have a report. If you would like I could leave though." Monet tilted her head, unsure of what he wanted from her at this current moment.
"What is the report about?" He raised an eyebrow, sitting back against the cushions, stretching lazily.
"It's about the assassin Law collected-"
It seemed she gained his attention there, she could fell his eyes on her, despite that being able to see them. "What happened?"
She paused, not sure how to explain it without getting him angry, but then decided either way he would be pissed off no matter how she worded it. "It would seem that Eustass Kid tried to assassinate Law."
"Fufufufu, and where did you here this?" The Young Master looked sceptical.
"One of Law's guard's called me, Shachi, the younger one with brown hair that usually follows Law around." Monet commented, licking her lips eagerly, noticing the look on her Young Master's face. "He told me that Law had exhausted himself keeping watch on Eustass and fell asleep, which the assassin took advantage of, Shachi did say he managed to stop him in time though." She noticed the veins started to bulge out her Young Master's skull and made sure to say how Law was still alive before continuing. "They are nearly halfway back to the castle, or are halfway. Law will start pushing them further-"
He laughed. "And further exhaust himself. I thought I 'instructed' him on what to do if that was happening." He must have noticed Monet's confused expression because he waved his hand dismissively. "Don't worry about that, fufufufu. So Eustass Kid is trying to murder Law? What a foolish brat."
"What would you have me do?" Monet smiled, noticing him licking his lips.
"Send them out on a little hunt for a redhead assassin. I think I would like a redhead's skull mounted on my wall." Then he paused and grinned wildly. "Or maybe I could give it to my lovely finance, he has been moody with me recently, fufufufu."
Monet smiled wickedly herself. "I don't think he would appreciate having his 'Champion's' skull as a gift."
"It would teach him not to play games with me." He laughed, standing up.
Monet watched as he went over to the liquor cabinet, taking out two glasses and pouring some rich, red wine out into them both. He wandered back over afterwards, handing Monet a glass as he began to sip his own. "He has been throwing too many tantrums recently. It would help put him back in his place."
Monet smiled and sipped her own. She could imagine his expression when the Young Master handed over the assassin's head, he would be so angry and frustrated, especially because of their bet together.
He would lose before the game could even begin.
Kid had been doing his morning exercise, provided it was earlier than usual but Trafalgar hadn't woken up yet, still fast asleep over in his bed, sprawled out neatly over the blankets, so Kid had grown quickly bored and decided to do a good few press-ups. He was counting them as he breathed, shakily pushing himself back up and down, trying to gather in air as he tried to go faster. He did pause when he heard a soft groan, glancing over as he collected his breath to see the darker haired man started to rouse.
"Finally awake sleeping beauty?" Kid smirked, noticing the Captain groggily blink at him, glancing over at his bed where the handcuffs were still attached, so with a grin Kid continued his press-ups, ignoring Trafalgar's sleepy grumble. "I got bored and you were still fast asleep, so I broke out of them."
He noticed the Captain sit up a bit, stretching out and stifling a yawn as he blinked again, Kid wanted to laugh, he looked so adorabl- Stupid, Stupid was a better word. "What are you doing out of your cuffs Eustass-ya?"
"I already said I got bored, going death Trafalgar?"
He grinned at Law's scowl as he rolled on to his back, sitting up as quickly as possible and lowering himself back down, he listened as the Captain slipped off the bed, what made Kid really look though was spotting he only had shorts on, making him pause mid-sit-up. He stared, dazed as Law's muscles flexed as he stretched again, a yawn escaping his mouth again as he rubbed his eyes.
"Done admiring me yet Eustass-ya?"
"Not really." Kid blurted out before tensing then grinning, watching that teasing glint in Trafalgar's eyes turn into a curious one. "You look like a kitten just waking up, so adorable and helpless."
Law grumbled as he gathered up his clothes from the day before. "I'm not adorable."
Kid felt his eyes linger as Trafalgar began to change, disappointed when his tanned skin disappeared behind the cloth, the tattoos were interesting as well, decortating his skin. "I like the tattoos."
"Are you sick Eustass-ya? You have been complimenting me in a strange sort of way quite a lot this morning." The Captain smirking lightly, slipping his hoodie, dirty and ragged.
"Can't I be nice?" Kid raised a brow.
"I didn't think assassins did 'nice'." Trafalgar murmured, heading towards the door and jerking his head. "Coming down for breakfast Eustass-ya?"
"Sure." He shrugged, quickly standing up properly and following, he left his coat, comfortable in the current weather and slipped downstairs, frowning when a pair of voices shouted the Captain's name.
The redhead raised an eyebrow when the brunette and Trafalgar's right hand, was it Parrot? It was a kind of bird, at least Kid thought it was, he had been forgetting lately since he hardly spoke to the man. The pair had quickly approached and snatched up Trafalgar, dragging him away.
He slipped into a seat nearby the 'kidnappers' hearing the Captain's grumble as the two complained.
So far the day had turned out odd, Eustass seemed to be complimenting him in an odd way, he had just tried to kill him yesterday, Law did suppose he was trying to get back into his good graces, not that he was very far to begin with but Eustass didn't seem to be the type to go to that effort.
Currently now though he had a new problem, it seemed Penguin and Shachi must have decided to team up to hound him, dragging him away from his charge to sit with them. He barely had enough time to order a coffee before they sat him down inbetween them and spoke.
"Captain, we need to talk." Penguin frowned at him, making him roll his eyes.
"I slept perfectly fine last night." Law tried to ease the subject away by playing innocent, but Penguin knew him too well.
Shachi however was the one who protested much to his surprise. "After he nearly sliced your throat open!"
"He didn't though."
"Because Shachi came back in time to stop him." Penguin scowled, nodding when the coffee was sat in front of them. "If Shachi didn't come back you would be dead and Eustass might be running free. Doflamingo wouldn't forgive any of us for that-"
"He wouldn't do anything to you." Law snorted, but deep down he knew the King would punish them, though he wasn't too sure in what way. "At least not anything as worse as Eustass-ya would go through."
"Dammit Law he tried to kill you!" Penguin snapped, Law was alarmed when his shoulder's were grabbed, yanking him to face his ditressed friend. "You don't even seemed alarmed! You haven't even said anything to him about trying to kill you have you?!"
Law frowned, feeling his eyes narrow as Penguin's voice grew louder. "Penguin-"
"Captain you can't die for that deal-"
"Penguin!" Law barked out, silencing him. "Enough."
Law ignored the hurt look when he shrugged away Penguin's hands, it hurt him to see that expression but no. He didn't want to talk about that deal. Not the one he made with him. He had been desperate at the time, the date had been drawing closer and closer and Law just had to try and make a deal on this. A deal for his prison or his freedom- He shook his head, he had felt himself starting to drift back into those past conversations, where he nearly ended up begging-
He downed the burning coffee, wincing lightly and earning alarmed yelps from the pair beside him but it cleared his thoughts, the pain drawing him away from them. He didn't want to think about them, not when they weren't anywhere near ready yet.
"Captain you can't just drink it that warm!" Penguin protested, turning to alert a waitress. "Can you get some ice or something?!"
"It's fine." Law frowned, it was sore, but he could put up with worse.
"Don't make me go get Bepo!" Shachi threatened, crossing his arms and frowning sternly. "I will do it."
Law was the first to admit he had a weakness for Bepo and would listen to whatever request he had. If these two had Bepo mother-hen him then Law probably wouldn't be able to get away, he was just thankful they hadn't set the giant on him yet.
"Casptain we're concerned." He heard Shachi whine as he popped a piece of ice in his mouth that the waitress bought over, he frowned at the discomfort it brought at the rapid temperature change but settled down with it. "We even took shifts outside your room last night!"
Law sighed, these three... "You should have been sleeping, Eustass-ya was cuffed to his bed."
"We don't know his capabilities. He could breakout of them for all we know." Penguin frowned bitterly. "You shouldn't be alone with him Captain."
He was thankful that Penguin and Shachi didn't know that Eustass had broken out of them this morning while he slept, otherwise they would go nuts and into overdrive to 'protect' him.
He decided to ignore the pair and put another ice cube in his mouth, they were probably trying to plan a way to keep Eustass away from him for the rest of the journey, which they would need to be starting again soon. With that thought he glanced over at the serious looking pair and nodded.
"I have an important task for you both."
"Captain?" He nearly chuckled when Shachi jumped up like a dog for a ball, looking eager and excited again much to his relief.
"It's important this is done correctly. No mistakes." Law made sure to add a serious note to his tone, delighting in how excited Shachi looked while Penguin looked interested. "This is of top importance-"
"Are we guarding the assassin?!" Shachi beamed, Law nearly laughed when he heard Kid's protest in the background.
"Not that fucking brat!"
Law waved it off and offered a friendly smile. "Of course not, this is even more important."
"Captain?" Penguin frowned.
"Go wake up everyone."
He chuckled at the disappointed groans from the pair but raised an eyebrow when they turned to each other, holding out a fist. "What are you doing?" He decided to question, though was unsure if it was a good idea or not.
"Rock. Paper. Scissors." Shachi drawled, they both looked serious.
Until is that was when Penguin cheered and Shachi groaned. It seemed Shachi would be waking everyone up today who was currently edging away towards the stairs before pausing and snapping his fingers. Law and Penguin gave each other peculiar looks as he entered the kitchen, coming back out with a few pans and pots, dragging them up the stair.
It would seem it would be a very noisy wake up call this morning.
And by the echoes of clangs and groans of protests from upstairs it would seem to be effective.
By the time they had stopped to settle down for the night, the Captain had been relentless about making more progress towards the castle leaving Kid sticky and sweaty from the heat. He was thankful that the Captain allowed him to go to the lake, though Kid thought it was only because he was in the same state as Kid was.
While Kid relaxed in the water, stripped down bare to release the heat from his body Law had quickly washed himself up and was now sitting away from him, much to Kid's amusement.
"What's wrong quack doc? You look hot."
Much to Kid's annoyance though that earned a small smirk. "Why Eustass-ya, I never knew you felt that way."
"Shut it Trafalgar. You're looking red is all." Kid snorted at him, turning in the water to face Law who raised an eyebrow. "Or is that redness because I'm naked?"
"It's too warm. That is all."
The redhead couldn't resist climbing out the water though, grinning as he casually walked over to the quack doctor. Law's eyes narrowed in suspicion but he remained still as Kid kneeled down in front of him, grinning sharply.
"Well Trafalgar, if it's too warm-" Kid shot out a hand and yanked the Captain up, earning a startled yelp as the redhead threw him into the water. "Take a dip!"
The redhead watched as Law emerged, spitting out water and coughing as he glared up. He looked like a soaked, sulky kitten, pouting angrily at Kid, who felt his grin widen further as the glare.
"Eustass-ya you should join me."
"Heh." Kid walked over, grinning brightly as the soaked Captain, with his shirt clinging to his muscles- Kid quickly changed that thought pattern, trying to come up with a come-back though his thoughts kept drifting slightly every time he examined Law. "You wo-"
First he saw Law's startled expression turn to horror while everything around Kid seemed to tilt off at a strange angle before suddenly he went crashing straight into Law with a yelp. The pair wiggled free of each other and the water, Kid managed to shake his head, feeling wet fabric against his cheek before suddenly his head was pushed away, sending him crashing back into the water. When he managed to free himself for some much deserved air he noticed Law blushing, his eyes narrowed angrily, and that was when Kid noticed he was half on Law's lap.
Completely naked.
He nearly laughed at the heated glare aimed at him, but it felt too weird to do so and so quietly he slipped himself off of Trafalgar, who was stiff and blushing still. The water dripping off of him did not help.
The pair stayed quiet, Kid waiting for Law to speak, to say something. He wasn't sure what to say now that he had seen the quack doctor's expression, a mixture of self-loathing and embarrassment. Suddenly though Law's expression turned into one of surprise and then of alarm as he leapt at Kid.
A gunshot went off.
And Kid saw blood.
.:End of Chapter:.
