Chapter 31
Doflamingo smiled as he stroked Law's hair, he was asleep, too exhausted to keep himself awake any longer as Vergo directed the slaves to clean up the blood on the floor. The assassin was unconscious, passed out and looking uncomfortable even in that state.
Good.
Eustass deserved every single thing that had happened, and would happen to him.
Two slaves bent down and grabbed the redhead's arms and legs, picking him up and carrying him out, much to his amusement though they allowed his back to hit the floor a few times, earning pained whimpers from the redhead.
He hoped that the mutt would remember his choices, either lose tomorrow at the match and go free, which was a very generous offer on his part considering all that the little bastard had done. Or win tomorrow and lose the final, get imprisoned again, and be tortured even worse than before.
He leaned back, allowing Law to curl up against his chest and sleep on, finally completely relaxed again as Vergo approached.
"Are you sure it is still wise to marry Law?"
"I love him." Doflamingo stated. "And I will use whatever method I need to to keep him with me."
"Then what do you plan to do with him now?"
"Firstly we need to keep him and the assassin separated. I'll keep Law in his room for now and tell the other's he's ill and couldn't attend the games if asked. I've already assigned some of our most reliable guards to watch over Law for now until we can trust his usual men again. That redhead has really influenced them."
"He won't willingly stay in his room."
"That's what the guards are for but don't worry, I have other ways to make him stay put." Doflamingo offered as he stood up. "I'm going to take Law back to his room now, you should get some rest for tomorrow's match."
"Of course Doffy."
"Doffy show him mercy, please I'm begging you!" Law gripped his lover's arm, stroking his fingers against the enraged man's skin in an attempt to sooth him. "Cora-san is your brother-"
"Which makes the betrayal all the worse Law." He frowned when Doflamingo cupped his cheeks, his shades were off and his eyes were filled with rage, distress, terror. "I told you there was a lot of bad things that happened to us both when we were little, before we could stand up for ourselves. I protected him as best as I could, kept him fed as best as I could, took revenge for us both."
"Killing him won't help you. You told me you wanted a better future, killing Cora-san will just drive you up the wall. He used to chuck me out of windows and every time I threatened to kill him you wouldn't let me, you would threaten to torture me if I laid one hand on him."
"Would you kill him now Law?"
"No, I wouldn't." Law stated calmly, shaking his head. "I love you both, obviously I don't love him the way I do you but he's like a father to me."
"You make it sound like I'm dating my nephew." Doflamingo snorted, a hint of amusement sneaking into his eyes now.
Law smiled softly, kissing his lips. "I would rather you didn't think that. That would be awkward."
"He needs to be punished." Doflamingo sighed. "He can't get away with this."
"He can't, no. Monet mentioned isolating him remember? That way he can't do anything else to harm us." Law reminded. "Maybe a good time-out will put things into perspective for him. Or sending him away-"
"Straight to our enemies? No, we can't let him go." Doflamingo sighed though, his shoulders slumping as Law saw his hands reach up to grasp his shoulders. "I'll take a few days alright love? Maybe locking him up in a private room would be better, you seem concerned I'll turn out for the worse if I execute him."
"You told me you had to kill your father. I don't think that helped you as much as you thought it did."
"I need you to tell me Law, when I'm turning out for the worst. You and I, we both wished to destroy everything, I never properly discussed it with you but because of my brother you seem to have calmed down enough to take a few steps back. I want to as well, you and I, together."
Law nodded at that and paused for a moment, a conversation they had emerging back making him nearly smile fondly.
"Doffy? Remember how we one day talked about having children?" Law asked and chuckled when he saw Doflamingo grin brightly.
"You thought about it? Did you Law? Did you?" Law yelped when the blonde lifted him up by the waist and moaned when the blonde kissed him deeply. "Fufufufu, what did you think Law? I know it's a difficult thing to think about but-"
"I think I want to though." Law smiled. "I can't promise I'll be good at it or enjoy being a girl for a while but I think I want to be a parent."
"I think you would make a very sexy lady, you've already got the long legs and that lovely ass."
Law laughed at that. "I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not."
"You make me feel good, you know that Law?" Law couldn't help but smile at that, however he pressed his finger to Doflamingo's lips to silence him.
"I would like to wait longer before discussing it in full though. This thing with Cora-san is too big at the moment, we need to sort that first before children could ever come into mind."
"True, let's just give him to the fighting fish, I promise we can name a child after him-" Doflamingo sniggered as Law gaped at that, smiling as he smacked the blonde's arm.
"You are not naming our child after a clumsy horse, I swear I'll bite you if you even attempt it."
"But my parents named us after that story." Doflamingo laughed. "Don't mock our names little bird."
"Those were terrible names-"
"Says 'Law'."
"I have to agree, that is a terrible name, but Doflamingo? Seriously?"
"Hush you, don't mock me." Law chuckled when the blonde kissed his neck. "After Corazon's trial then. I'll take a few days, calm down and think about it more."
"Thank you." Law smiled.
"Don't thank me yet, I'm not too sure if I can resist."
"I love you Doffy, so please."
Law smiled into the next kiss as Doflamingo whispered against his lips. "I love you too Law."
"So in that mercy I offer is a quick death! You have all suffered for my brother's deeds! Only by death can he be forgiven!"
Immediately Cora-san was dragged back and forced against the wall, the guards lining up with their guns and aiming at him. He heard a protest and realised he had tried to move forward, only for Vergo to quickly grab him around the waist and hold him in place, ignoring every plea he made.
He saw Cora-san look at him and grin, a wide, bloody grin on his face, the gag gone, and mouth the words.
'I love you.'
And then all the guns went off as soon as Doflamingo shouted to fire.
Law awoke with a gasp, he had sat up and could feel the cold sweat running over him and something stinging his eyes, he quickly wiped them and found tears had been slipping down his face. He shook his head and managed to calm himself back down as he thought back.
Then felt sick as he remembered what had happened prior to passing out.
Doflamingo had raped him and tortured Kid, all to punish them because Law had fallen in love with him. He shouldn't have loved him, Law knew that everything he loved always got hurt. It had been his fault that Kid had suffered for their damned relationship, the blonde had treated him tenderly while Kid was whipped, stomped on and humiliated.
Law stumbled out of bed, but his legs were too weak and immediately he hit the floor, gasping for breath. He tried to move to the bathroom, he felt like he was going to throw up but his ankle resisted him, something digging into it.
He realised once he looked back that his ankle had a shackle clamped around it, he was shackled to his own bed. Law snarled at that and tried to tug his foot free, frustrated at the whole situation, he couldn't even get up to be sick in his own bathroom!
He wanted to see Kid but he didn't deserve too.
He didn't even deserve to cry at how miserable he felt.
He was locked up, he didn't know what was happening to anyone, who else was getting punished for his mistake. He should never have brought Kid here, he should have just shut up and married Doflamingo, he should have just bore with it all, maybe hope that one of the rebels would sneak in and end it all for him, or even kill that fucking bastard blonde.
He should have just let himself change, let Doflamingo have his children and raise them.
Why didn't he just give up?
He couldn't even get free of the shackle so he just sat against the side of the bed and stared at the bathroom door, unable to think of anything other than how this was all his fault.
Kid hated the whimper that escaped him as he was turned over, he managed to see the whip that had been hitting him, he wanted to beg them to stop but he could hardly breathe. He knew he was panicking, terrified all over again. He remembered just how weak he was.
Those first few weeks in the mines had been filled with torture and after being betrayed and being told that all his friends were dead he had been wrecked. The guards took turns, each of them punishing him, at first it was easy, small things but then the Warden came to personally punish him after hearing how 'unruly' he was.
Vergo had beaten him for days, leaving him without food and only the smallest gulps of water.
After the beatings he was dumped in water, choked out, then spread out and whipped.
Then he had been left to rot in his cell, he had still been forced to work to eat. His cell mates tried to kill him so they could steal the straw mat for extra warmth at night and he killed them all, broken and feverish he forced himself to survive.
He was gonna kill them all.
All those fuckers who had hurt him.
And now when he was so close, so close to beating them he had to relive it, and this time someone he cared about was with him, suffering too.
Again he couldn't protect someone.
He felt a foot nudge him, a smirk was all he could see and the pink bastard's sunglasses, he managed to look around, trying to think, the whip was dripping blood, his back burned though he could hardly feel it any more. He saw Law, now limp on the couch with his back facing them, Kid could barely see him moving but thankfully his chest was slowly breathing, as if he was unconscious now.
"I'll give you a choice because I'm such a generous man." Doflamingo's voice spoke up and Kid managed to force his eyes to travel back over to the man. "If you lose the match tomorrow I'll let you go, you did make Law happy for a time but now it's become too much. If this had just been some fling I wouldn't have minded but you've gained too much influence over him."
"I would just put him back into the mines Doffy."
"Fufufufu, don't fret Vergo, he'll suffer either way. His first option is to leave as soon as he loses the match tomorrow, but he will leave and never come back, he'll never see Law again." Kid flinched when Doflamingo's foot landed on his chest, pressing down on the cuts over him. "Or he can fight, he might even win tomorrow and then he'll lose the next day and then he'll suffer, for the rest of his life where he can stay here and be our entertainment. There's always someone who has to let off a bit of steam and I'll let them do whatever they want as long as they don't kill you."
Kid bit his lip when the foot twisted, opening his wounds further. "Because I want you to suffer like the little rat you are."
He hated them all.
All of them would pay for this.
"Fuck sake, you look like a wreck." Kid groaned as the pup walked in, looking cold and unforgiving.
"Shachi? Where are the others? Is Law okay?"
"Nobody is okay, they all got screwed over and locked up." Shachi snapped as he walked over, snatching the cloth from his back. "It's fucking dirty, and there ain't even water on it."
"Why did you come here?" The assassin growled at him. "Why aren't you locked up?"
"Someone had to get you to play the game today, nobody else wants to deal with your lousy attitude." The pup huffed, a new cloth was now against his back, his wound stinging as he felt the disinfectant slip in. "Did you sleep?"
"I passed out on the couch after some fuckers dumped me in the hallway." Kid admitted, scowling as he recalled how much blood was on it now. "Seriously? Why are you here?"
"Because I want to watch you die, hopefully Vergo-san cuts off your head or something." Kid frowned though when a note was handed to him.
I can't help you. They are probably listening to me right now. They locked up Penguin and Bepo and gave Law new guards to 'watch him'. The rumour is Captain is too sick to get out of bed and needs to rest. Nobody can disturb him.
Kid wrote on the note, wincing at the state of his bruised and slice hands and wrists, they had been behind his back as he had been whipped, and so suffered for them.
He was trying not to think about it. He couldn't afford to otherwise he would break down.
What's the point? I can hardly do anything. They won. He wrote down, the fucking blonde bastard had won, he's locked everyone up-
He yelped as Shachi harshly hit his back with the cloth.
"Don't whine. At least you can stop stinking and bleeding all over the nice carpets before you die in the next match."
Don't you dare give up. Penguin and Bepo are locked up because they were 'kind' to you, I wasn't because I had already shown my dislike of you. I had set you up during the travel back to the castle remember? And Law loves you, if you give up I will kill you.
Kid had to hold back a chuckle.
Doflamingo gave me a choice, either lose the match today and go free, or win and lose the final.
Shachi wrote down on the paper again.
I'll give you a third choice, you win today and you win tomorrow. You beat every single one of their fucking faces in and you win. Don't mess this up assassin.
Shachi followed behind Kid as they slipped into the gardens, Killer was heading straight for them, looking pale as Kid tried to get passed him.
"What happened?!" Killer asked, looking a mixture of worried and frustrated. "I can't find Penguin and you went missing last night-"
"Doflamingo found out."
"No way-"
Shachi murmured as they walked past to get to the stables. "Penguin's in the dungeons, I found him there last night. The one closest to the kitchens."
"Then I know where I'm going." Killer murmured.
"Wait, not today, wait until Kid wins, then free them during the match tomorrow."
"Why aren't you locked up? And 'them'?"
"Bepo and Penguin are locked up. Jean-Bart's still away and the others have no idea what's going on. I'll talk to you more about it later."
Kid soon found himself back where the first match began, at the Colosseum except the floor was split out into two circles, he was on one half with Luffy, Diamante, Zoro and Cavendish while Vergo, Marco, Nami and Franky were on the other. The aim apparently was to defeat each other until there was only one person standing in each circle
Vergo probably had it the easiest, Nami and Franky would be easier to deal with, his only worry was Marco. He had all the insane morons to himself.
He ducked as Luffy threw himself at Zoro, the green haired man freaking out while the other was beyond pissed off at something the swordsman apparently did last night. Cavendish was, meanwhile, howling with rage and ranting at the pair about some lost 'glory' of some kind.
The redhead just stared, watching Zoro finally snap and fight back, the pair accidentally throwing Cavendish straight off the ring with a well placed punch and slice of a sword because the blonde moron had gotten in the way.
"...I don't even want to know what the fuck is going on..." Kid grumbled to himself, just staring at the pair screaming at each other and releasing an intense amount of blood lust.
"WOULD YOU MORONS CUT IT OUT?!"
He flinched at the sight of the familiar redheaded thief throwing something which smacked the pair in the head and knocked them to the ground, leaving them twitching and whimpering.
Kid just gaped, bewildered at the sight.
Did he just win without doing anything?!
.:End of Chapter:.
...I AM SO SORRY! I HAVE BEEN AWAY FOR SO LONG! AND THAT ENDING FOR THE CHAPTER WAS TERRIBLE D: I have been struggling to try and finish writing this story even though we are so close to the end but I've been working on my first ever book and working and trying to socialise with people (the socialising doesn't seem to work well though xD Too much to do and so little time) Anyway I thought I would try and finish a chapter on A Champion's Game and none of the endings for the chapter were working out, so I decided just to go insane and let this mess be the end of this chapter (I'll go back to serious in the next one :D ) If anyone is still around at any rate, I can't believe the last one I posted was in December!
Anyway long rant is over...
SEllen23, I hope you're happy that another update has finally appeared! :D And you were right, totally playing Monet (Hopefully...) Yeah I thought it would suit Doflamingo more to stay cocky and smug and keep the bet going rather than just end it there and then. I wanted to make him try and rub it in Kid's face :P
xXMinShadowCatXx, I'm glad you're still enjoying the story! :D Hope you're happy to see another update and not wanting to kill me for taking so long xD This was a lot longer than I had anticipated but I was spending so much of my free time trying to right my first ever book's plot and making sure it made sense 0.o Which I hope it does otherwise I might cry xD
Guest, Hopefully poor Law will be happy by the end of it ^^; I'm kinda evil to him though so we'll see what happens :D
LawLover, OMG DON'T DIE! I might be very late in saying that though o.o xD Come back! Come read more! xD
koharu-chan, I'm glad you're enjoying it :) It's taken me a long time to update so sorry about that ^^; And Doflaw is awesome, I love it so much :D So hopefully there will be more soon :D
