A/N: FYI, Law has a nightmare with non-con in this chapter.

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The caretaker's home on the grounds of the Grand Line Hospital was small, with only a bed on the far left end of the home, a large table directly in the entrance to the home, and a small, half functional kitchen on the far right side. Extra chairs had been brought into the small home for everyone to sit around the table, and as soon as those gathered were settled, Sabo began to speak as Koala spread out documents and pictures on the table for everyone to see.

"Robin asked us here to investigate, on short notice, so this is what I and Koala have gathered so far."

The owner of the property, a black haired woman, by the name of Nico Robin, smiled at Sabo.

"Thank you for coming on such short notice."

To Robin's right was Koala, and to her left, Sanji, who was smiling at the black haired woman dreamily. Sanji seemed to forget where he was at that point in time in favor of gazing longingly a Robin. Eustass was seated next to Law, and while neither seemed to like the seating arrangement, they didn't voice any complaints. Killer chose to forgo the chair and leaned against a nearby wall to watch the proceedings.

"I think that this is everyone for tonight." Sabo announced. "Marco and Hawkins will stop by tomorrow or the next day." The wavy haired blond turned to Robin again. "Could you give us a brief overview of the hospital, and why you chose to buy the land, as well as why you've called us in now."

"Of course." Robin said. "The Grand Line Hospital was in operation for over 100 years, and it has been abandoned for the last 50 years, because of the near hospitals that have been opened over the course of time that were better equipped to take care of and treat the patients." Robin pulled a sheet of paper toward her, looked it over, and, after a brief nod at something she read, added. "It was recorded about 25 years ago that this hospital was briefly opened to be used as storage for the other hospitals. It's most recent use, before I bought the building and its land, is recorded 10 years ago. It was used as a storm shelter, though there have been reports of casualties when the debris went through broken windows and injured the people sheltering the storm." Robin paused, and, with a small smile, said, "I was interested in researching the history of such a place, with all of the stories surrounding it. That is the main reason I purchased it when given the option."

"Have there been any other investigations here before you called us in?" Sabo asked, as Koala busily scribbled things down in a notebook.

"There have been a few." Robin agreed. "Though the ones that I know of what took place before I acquired the land." The black haired woman's face became thoughtful. "The people who I have let in before couldn't find any concrete evidence of the paranormal, but there were personal experiences many of them couldn't begin to explain, to me or themselves."

"And what about the investigations prior to your ownership of the land?" Koala asked, pausing her jotting down of information.

"What I've found has been from the documents I have come across and from a few people I've spoken to. The investigations into the paranormal activity of the hospital started about 22 years ago, 3 years after the hospital personal stopped using it as storage for equipment." Robin produced a small, leather bound book and consulted it before speaking again. "It seems that there was an incident that caused the hospital to be abandoned altogether at that point, and word got around that the Grand Line Hospital was haunted."

"And the incident?" Sabo queried.

"That's the thing." Robin looked up from the book. "It isn't recorded. There are only speculations. In one version, a nurse was killed in the post op room. In another, more reliable version, some people were caved in on the lowest level of the hospital, underground. When emergency personnel arrived, only one person was pulled alive from the rubble. There were four people missing, and since that day none of them have ever been found."

"What do you think happened?" Koala asked.

Robin smiled at Koala oddly. "I think that something terrible happened, and that's why I contacted you. Other teams who have been to the Grand Line Hospital were either trying to prove or disprove the existence of paranormal activity." Robin looked around those gathered at the table. "What I want from you is to find the truth."

-x

Law had heard of the Grand Line Hospital before, having worked at several hospitals in the vicinity of this one. He'd heard of the rumors, of course, but the dark haired surgeon had never really put any real belief into thoughts of the hospital actually being haunted. But after what Law had been through and witnessed, perhaps there was something to those rumors after all. In any case, it meant that Law most certainly would not be stepping foot into the old building, just as he'd previously thought.

The dark haired surgeon reluctantly tuned back into the conversation going on around him in time to hear the man in the suit, Sanji, speak. Law wished he didn't hear what the blond had to say, based on the subject matter Sanji chose to discuss then and there. The blond haired man was describing how he had been attacked by something unseen that appeared to be masquerading as poltergeist activity.

"There's at least one spirit in that hospital that doesn't want us to be there." Sanji considered his pack of cigarettes he had in hand. "Whether it is for our own safety or the spirit being defensive, I couldn't say at this point in time." Sanji pocketed the box. "Then there is the poltergeist activity itself."

Law tuned the blond out again and looked around with a minute shift of his head to the side. He was seated at the far end of the table, and so he couldn't slip away without those seated nearby seeing him do so. Not that they would care, but Law didn't want to seem intimidated by the conversation in any way whatsoever. So the dark haired doctor put his attentions elsewhere as the conversation continued on.

Elsewhere happened to be looking out the nearest window that faced the hospital. Truth be told, it wasn't the kind of distraction that Law had wanted, because with the setting sun, the hospital was presented in a menacing glow. Law took a shallow breath, not entirely sure why he felt the hair rise on the back of his neck nor why the surgeon suddenly had a cold, dreadful feeling that he shouldn't have looked at the hospital. It was then, looking at the window, that Law realized it wasn't the hospital itself but the window that was bothering him and giving him a crawling sensation.

The window was more reflective than most, making it almost mirror-like...

Law found himself frozen in place, either unable or unwilling to look away from the reflective surface. The doctor's senses screamed at him that he should, at the very least, close his eyes.

He couldn't.

Law almost helplessly felt compelled to look at the window, and his body stiffened in shock when he saw what appeared to be a wide, teeth-bearing grin, and it didn't belong to Eustass, even though the man was reflected in the window right beside him in another chair.

The unnerving bared teeth belonged to no one in that building.

The figure Law soon saw with the teeth was blurred, but the teeth were crystal clear, and when that figure moved within Law's sight, the dark haired man felt something icy cold brush one shoulder, similar to where the blurred figure in the mirror was.

Right behind him.

Law launched himself out of the chair like a man possessed, unable to even utter a sound as the cold had nearly frozen him further in place. That cold spot was gone, but Law could still feel the unseen touch he'd received, and the low breathing against one ear. Law scrambled further away from the chair when he felt the cold return, and something seized his shoulder more tightly before it again vanished.

It made Law panic and throw himself to the ground, as if being out of sight of the window would help. Unfortunately, Law struck his head against the nearest table leg in his hasty departure from the chair, and stunned himself in the process. Law dropped limply to the floor the rest of the way amidst startled sounds from the others in the room.

The dark haired man was already losing consciousness, so the most he noticed of everyone else's reaction was someone on the ground next to him, shaking his shoulder and calling to him, and the only thing Law could do was let out a sigh of relief that the touch wasn't freezing cold.

Law knew that had he had his eyes open, he would have been mortified to see the reactions of everyone else, though Law would have then known that Eustass had a dark look in his eyes, as if the red head knew exactly what had happened. But right now, all Law knew was that he had really bad luck as of late, because he had no escape and no relief, not even in his dreams.

-x

'You gonna leave me again?'

Law's eyes squeezed shut, despite the fact that he knew, knew, that he was dreaming again. And to his dread, the dream, or rather, nightmare, was more realistic than before, and the only reason Law could contribute as to why was because he'd seen Eustass briefly before falling unconscious. But Law knew that the other man would never do this to him, and again, it was bizarre and disquieting that Kid and Eustass resembled one another so much.

'I won't let you.'

The dark haired surgeon kept his eyes shut, because Law didn't want to know if he could see Kid pressed up behind him, hands roving and one of those limbs decidedly cold and metal.

'You gonna play or not?' The non-metal hand drifted down along Law's bare skin.

Law wanted to know why, psychologically, he was dreaming of himself naked, because that needed answers.

'Turn that head off, doc, and pay attention to me.' Kid's voice sounded like more of an echo, but it was still so close that it made Law's skin crawl as the red head's hand drifted lower. 'You like this, yeah?'

Law choked back any sound he may have otherwise uttered when he felt Kid stroke him, but the surgeon couldn't help but buck into that hand after being touched for some time. It was humiliating to be reacting in this manner, and Law struggled desperately to not react any more than he already had. Law nearly let out a cry of relief when Kid let go of him, but it didn't last long, because the sensation of something cool and wet went down his lower back, and suddenly, Law found himself pressed face down into soft material, indicating there was a bed. Before Law could ponder how that had happened, Kid had decided to grind up against him.

'I told you to stop thinkin' doc. Let's have some fun.'

Law gripped the sheets uselessly, the memory of Kid doing this before overwhelming him. The memories blended from when Trafalgar had possessed his body and the two spirits had fucked one another, and the memory of Trafalgar paralyzing him as a spirit with cold while Kid fucked him against a wall. The way Law had felt ashamed of wrapping his arms around Kid's neck and unable to stop the torment being visited upon him. And right now?

Law couldn't move.

Couldn't wake up.

The dark haired surgeon could only feel Kid's hands settling at his hips, and the insistent, painful press that heralded the red head's intentions. Law gripped the sheets tight, unable to prevent a whimper from rising out of him when he felt Kid succeed in sinking partway in. The way the red head uttering a satisfied growl. Law took a shuddering gasp of air when Kid adjusted, and winced when there was a bite to the side of his neck.

Why did he feel that?

Why did Law feel all of these sensations when he was asleep?

Why?

The first thrust was light; a warning for Law to pay attention to the now.

Law didn't want to focus on the now.

He wanted, needed, to wake up.

'Trafalgar.'

"I'm not...him." Law managed to rasp, again marveling at just how real this nightmare felt. The surgeon took a few shallow breaths even as he felt Kid's own breath puff against a shoulder. Law cried out when Kid thrust several times with a displeased grumble, until he stopped. Law squeezed his eyes shut as tight as they could go. Kid was all the way in now, and seemed to be content to stay there until he had his say.

'Quit fucking with me, Trafalgar.'

Law felt himself pressed face down into the bed further as the thrusting resumed, and Law hated how he felt his own body beginning to react to this treatment.

The dark haired man needed this to end.

To wake up.

But he didn't.

He didn't wake up.

Not until Kid had finished with him, and pulled out carelessly to drag Law's limp body against the red head's chest.

'You can't hide forever.'

At the feeling of a hand wrapping around his shaft, Law somehow managed to find it in himself to wake up. But the damage was done, and Law could only hope that Eustass wasn't the first person he saw when he woke.

It would only make things worse.

-x

Law just barely managed to prevent himself from letting loose a cry upon waking, and felt further shamed when he realized his body was not indifferent to the nightmare he'd just had. Just like before, when he'd woken in Kid's apartment. It might have been his imagination, but Law could have sworn his ass was sore as well, but soon deemed that to be lingering sensations from the dream.

He was alone in a bed, presumably in the caretaker's house, and Law supposed that might explain why he had been on a bed in the nightmare.

Law's attention drifted back to his aching dick, and, with a furtive look around the small room, wriggled free of his pants and wrapped a hand around himself and started to stroke. The fact that he had gotten aroused by being raped in a dream again disturbed Law, but he couldn't think straight while he was still so hard. Try as Law might, he couldn't finish himself off, and, with a faint growl of frustration, Law lay still and fumed briefly until he settled on something that he would later deny.

Law's hand started to move, his thoughts drifting unwillingly to Eustass, and as soon as Law had finished, the dark haired doctor slipped out of bed to clean up, and try and hide the evidence on the sheets. When that was finished, Law sat on the bed and frowned, slightly disturbed that he had managed to come because he had been thinking about Eustass.

Again.

That the red head looked the same as Kid yet elicited a different reaction made Law wonder again what it meant. The dark haired man promptly dismissed the thought as quickly as it had come. Neither he nor Eustass would likely want to even consider an attraction between them considering what had happened because of Trafalgar and Kid.

If there was actually a real attraction between them at all.

Killer came into the caretaker's house, and that was successful in distracting Law from rather his disconcerting thoughts.

"You're awake."

"Where are the others?" Law asked, hoping to evade being asked about why he had passed out in the first place.

"Kid and the others went along with Robin to map out any hot spots in the hospital, and where they will want to set up cameras." Killer glanced back at the door. "Koala mentioned something about generators, since only some of the areas of the hospital have access to electricity."

Law fidgeted, mainly because of the lingering thoughts of the nightmare, but he was grateful that he was not a part of the initial walk through of the hospital. Not that Law wanted any part of the investigation to begin with. No, Law was only there to lie low and figure out what he was going to do until he was able to see Marco. Killer's next words threw the dark haired man completely for a loop and straight back into a defensive mode.

"Sabo wants you to help with the investigation. He thinks that you and Eustass would be able to help debunk potential haunted areas because of what happened to the two of you...before."

-x

Eustass was trying very hard to pay attention and take notes about where the cameras and voice recorders would go, but a sudden resurgence in the echos of Trafalgar's voice took hold of him. It made it hard to focus on the present when the son of a bitch's voice distracted Eustass so much.

'So very much fun to be had here.'

Eustass scribbled a note on the pad of paper he held at something Koala had said, even as the red head's jaw set.

'How long do you think you can hold out, Eustass-ya?'

The red head came to a halt just inside of a patient room, but that didn't set off any red flags to those around him, as they had also come to a halt while Robin explained something about the room. About someone dying in it. But Eustass didn't track what was being said because Trafalgar fucking Law the spirit's voice was whispering insidiously in his head.

'We're the same, aren't we, Eustass-ya? You want to fall, don't you?'

Eustass wasn't sure what that meant but he didn't like the sound of it.

'It's only a matter of time before it happens, you know.'

Eustass took a breath and let it out, unaware that Zoro seemed to be notice something was wrong.

"Hey, curly brow, there's something here." The green haired man suddenly commented, as he exchanged glances with Sanji. "You feel it?"

"Yeah. Where'd it come from?" The blond haired man narrowed his eyes in return, though it was in the direction the group had come into the room.

'I'll be waiting for you, Eustass-ya.'

Eustass barely noticed that Sanji had moved past him, and it was only when the curly browed man's foot flared with fire and kicked at thin air did the red head's thoughts seem to clear, and Trafalgar's sly voice left his mind. Eustass wasn't sure what that had all been about, but he felt a hell of a lot better after whatever the hell Sanji had done.

"Someone's messing with us." The green haired man commented. "The area feels dead now. No spirits or poltergeists."

"It seems like it." Sanji agreed, as he looked around the immediate area. "Whatever it is left the area, for now. Why didn't we feel the change sooner?"

Eustass resumed taking notes, though he was more concerned with the fact that Sanji was giving him an odd look. Then again, the red head also realized that he no longer had the sensation of being watched. Something Eustass hadn't even realized, and now that he was paying attention, the feel of the room was now, as Zoro put it, dead.

What had it felt like right before the presence left? Had Eustass been too distracted by the voices in his head to notice? Why was it that only Zoro and Sanji seemed to have noticed the presence?

At that point in time, Eustass was merely grateful that he didn't hear any more voices whispering in his head that evening, though the red head felt that it wasn't going to be the last time he heard those echos of Trafalgar and Kid's voices.

Why that was, Eustass didn't know.

-x

No one, not even Sanji and Zoro, noticed movement just outside the room, of a shadowy figure flitting away from the open doorway, and going further into the hospital, only to vanish among the shadows there.

Something far more solid and tangible entered the hospital from another, secreted away door to the hospital some minutes later, and that person's intentions were far from friendly. A grin seemed to materialize, before the tall figure found a suitable room to wait in. After all, Marco was not there that night, and therefore no one would know that he was even there.

Doflamingo grinned sharply in the darkness, having only a flashlight on hand should he need it. Despite being on the run from the cops, he would have his answers, and with the aid of someone he knew, working things behind the scenes in this hospital, Doflamingo would be able to lure Law and Eustass to him. One intrusion into Law's dreams had not given him any results, so Doflamingo had decided that being in person would be the next step to getting what he wanted.

The truth.

And truth was something that Doflamingo would only consider accepting face to face, as sometimes, being in someone's dreams, they could lie to him. And Doflamingo needed to know if Trafalgar had lied to him while Doflamingo had presumably met him in his dreams in the land of the dead.

"Fufufu." Doflamingo chuckled eerily at the thought of being lied to. If he found out that Trafalgar and Kid happened to still be around, hiding their spirits in Law and Eustass as before...

Doflamingo's grin stretched into a nasty smile as he tapped the flashlight against one knee.

Well, the older blond had ideas about what he would do should that be the case.

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A/N: Shorter chapter. But now the fun (?) can begin. I think I'll stop guessing how long chapters will be and just let them happen when they happen (and when IRL stuff isn't getting in the way).

In case anyone is wondering, this fic takes place a little after a section in ch 53 of A Twisted Game, where Doflamingo had decided he had made a deal he shouldn't have (before the 150 years later break of the chapter) and that is why Doflamingo is still around in this fic, as he needs a final confirmation that Trafalgar is no longer around.