The Moby Dick was buzzing with life under the sun. More and more pirates were found on deck.

"What's happening?" Denny asked to a pirate.

"Some of the Revolutionaries came here to talk to Pops."

"I wonder what they talked about." Tion wandered.

In that moments a girl moved towards the railing. "Sabo, hurry up!"

"I'm coming Koala." He answered, but Tion barely heard him.

"Denny, go get Ace."

"Why?"

"Please go." She said, shoving people aside to see better the boy. He was blond, wearing a top hat with goggles, a pipe...oh, sweet goddess of the sea...

"Wait!" Half of the population on board turned towards her. "Your name is Sabo, right? Where were you born?"

"What do you care?" He asked, suspicious.

"Please. Was it Goa?"

"How do you know?"

"Did you leave at 10?"

"I'm sorry, I don't remember anything. I had an accident and I don't remember anything from before the revolutionaries." Tion gasped, hands on her mouth.

"Oh goddess, then..."

"Then you don't remember me." Ace said, moving from the depth of the crowd. His face gave nothing away, but his eyes were sad.

"You..seem familiar."

"I would have preferred to do this in private but, yeah, I am your brother, I should at least look familiar."

"Ace!" Tion scolded, eyebrows drawn together. "He lost his memories, don't be rude!"

"Hey, that's the truth and I thought he was dead, I'm a little shocked!"

"We drank to it, didn't we?" Sabo whispered, hand on his head. Ace's smile was so bright he illuminated the hole deck.

"Yeah, we did!"

"And Luffy complained about the taste..." Ace snorted, looking amused.

"Well, at least I don't have to hit you on the head to make you remember" Tion looked pointedly at him. "Ok, I wouldn't have. But I know you, you would have, definitely." Denny laughed, amused, and Tion threw him a shoe that hit him square on the head.

"Ok, now go and talk you two. I don't want to see either of you out of our room before sundown. Am I clear?" Tion asked, looking dangerous enough t make them bolt. "Now, nice to meet you, I'm Tion, the first mate of the idiotic big brother of your second in command." She said, holding her hand to Koala.

"Koala, the one that makes sure that the idiotic little brother of your captain doesn't get himself killed."

"Well, than we're both doing the same job."

After founding his brother, it seemed like an enormous weight had been lifted from Ace. He smiled brighter, laughed louder, his fire became gentler. He accepted to became Whitebeard's son -after Tion stopped sulking and kicking and screaming because she was a girl and was treated differently. "It's always easier if you have a penis." She had snarled. After a while, she was permitted to join battles if in need and she settled.- and later, mush later, Marco's lover. It was almost three months in their relationship that Marco got assigned a solo mission. Ace had smiled as he waved him goodbye. However, after a month, he hadn't returned yet. It was an incognito mission, so Whitebeard wanted to wait. And they waited. Two, three months. And then, Ace snapped. He stopped eating, stopped sleeping. He kept on working until he fainted. It was during the last week of the third month.

"Ace, darling, I know you miss Marco, but you need to eat." Tion had said, looking worried. Beside her, Whitebeard and the former Spades. Ace had blinked, confused.

"Who is Marco?" He asked. Tion exchanged a look with Whitebeard.

"Marco is your lover, dear."

"I don't know any Marco, Tion."

"Ace, you're frightening me."

"Tion, you're the one that is frightening me..."

"Are you kidding me?!" She grabbed his shoulder, shaking him. He was looking at her with a worried expression, before he closed his eyes and he relaxed in her grasp.

"...Ace?"

"No."

"Who are you, then?" Whitebeard asked. Ace looked at him with piercing gray eyes.

"I am Club. It was me that took Marco's memories from Ace. He was hurting himself." She explained, pose regal and relaxed. "I am the one that takes every bad memory from every personality from the age of seven."

"But...if you are that old, why no one ever mentioned you?" Derek asked.

"I take memories, silly. This means that I take the memory of my existence too." She smiled. "I give him more or less four more months. If he doesn't return, I won't give Ace his memories back, even if he does come back. Am I clear?" Nods from everyone. "Then, good evening." And then, it was Ace again. A smiling, happy Ace. That didn't know who his lover was. Tion's eyes grew heavy with tears. He didn't know who held his hand every day and hug him when he was sad, when he asked himself if he was a monster. He didn't know who he smiled with, who held him at night.

"Tion? Why are you crying?" She shook her head, hugging him close.

The sky was beautifully clear as Marco flew through it. He was happy, finally returning home after five months in mission. He never stayed so long away. The rush of the wind brought to him the cheers from his family that saw him approaching. Slowly, he landed in front of Pops.

"Welcome home son. How was your mission?" He said, smiling lovingly.

"I'm back -yoi. It was ok, I have what you wanted."

"Good. Now go rest, we'll talk later."

"Tanks Pops" He said, nodding, before turning and walking towards his room. He couldn't wait to see Ace. He actually felt like a teenager, eager to see the boy he liked. But when he opened the door, what greeted him wasn't his lover's surprised face, but his blank expression.

"In the end you're back."

"Who are you -yoi?"

"My name is Club, nice to meet you." She said, nodding to him.

"Nice to meet you too -yoi. Can I talk to Ace, please?"

"No." Marco was taken aback.

"No? Why -yoi?"

"You see, when you left and didn't return, you left Ace heartbroken. Without knowing if you were well, he refused to eat or rest after the three months mark. That's why I, the first personality, decided that it was better for him to forget you. Now that you're returned, he has the knowledge of who you are, but not what you were for him."

"What?" Marco felt like he was suffocating.

"I won't give his memories back. Not until you prove yourself worthy." Then, she got up from her place on Marco's bed and got out, leaving Marco shell shocked. He couldn't believe it. He knew he took really long, but it's not like he really could do anything else! He took deep breaths, trying to calm down. Ace could refused to eat. Inspire. He could have died in two months without food. Exhale. He would never forgive himself if something happened because he was away. Inhale, exhale. Because he was so worried about him being safe. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. The stress of not knowing almost killed him. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale – ok, he was hyperventilating. He had to calm down. He was the Commander of the First Division, the First Son, the Phoenix. How hard could it be to win Ace over again?

It turned out that it was difficult enough. Without memory of knowing Marco, Ace laugh at his first attempt to flirt, thinking that he was a weirdo that flirted with everything that breathed, freak out at his fifth attempt and run away every time he saw him from that moment on. It was Tion to convince Ace to give him a possibility. That surprised Marco to no end, since the girl, being her overprotective self snarled every time he got near her Captain before they got together.

"Here, I'll help you." She said, smiling. "What did you do on your first appointment?"

"Ehm..."

"Please don't tell me you went to a tavern..."

"I won't tell you then -yoi..."

"What are you, fifteen?!" She screeched, throwing her hands in the air, looking exasperated. "You know what? You two are perfect together. Two idiots." She then proceeded into grabbing Marco's ear. "You are coming with me." She said, dragging him towards Ace that still looked uncomfortable. "I want to talk with Club." Ace looked confused, but then his expression relaxed again.

"Hello Tion. What can I do for you today?"

"Now listen to me with attention. You are going to give Ace's memory back to him right now or I'm going to destroy all the chairs in this ship on your back, am I clear?" She threatened, voice law. "You're hurting everyone with this attitude and I've had it up to here" She gestured towards her eyes. "Of this. Give his memories back to him. Now."

"Fine." She said, looking irritated. Then, his face crumpled into a mix of anger and relief before a flaming punch hit Marco. "You goddamned idiot" You know how much I was worried?!"

Tion laughed at Marco's shocked face.

"Hey, it wasn't my fault -yoi!"

"Of course it was you bastard!"

"That's the way of talking to your boyfriend?!"

"Oh, shut up!" He said, kissing him passionately. Marco slid his hands around Ace, holding him close, caressing his back lovingly.

"I love you, I'm sorry I made you worry, -yoi."

"I love you too." Ace smiled. "Even if you do take all the blankets at night."

"I do not such things!"

Ace just laughed.