Doflamingo had kept his promise in moving Velica to a different part of the castle and away from the room where he had killed the three innocent people. But there was still something within Velica that she just couldn't shake. She didn't use to care about her captain just killing people because he wanted to kill them; but this time it was so much different.

He killed them because of her.

She knew he could be ruthless and cruel to those whom he wanted to be, but never had he killed someone so randomly before. Velica had become so upset with the whole situation that she had actually done the one thing that she never thought she would have done; she called Law. She didn't know what he would do, but she knew she owed it to him to warn him about the shit storm that had happened. The storm she had caused when she lied to Doflamingo's face and told him that Law had taken her innocence when she was his prisoner.

Her reaction to Law wasn't what she had expected either, he wasn't angry with her, actually he seemed to understand that she was doing it to keep herself from basically getting rapped by Doflamingo. But now they both had so much to worry about. Law was Doflamingo's main target now and they both knew that if Law ever tried to bring himself around Doflamingo again it would mean certain death. She couldn't worry about that now though, she had to act as if everything that happened hadn't bothered her.

She had to make Doflamingo believe that she was happy that she had returned to his side, where she belonged. She couldn't stay hidden within her room, she had to make herself be seen by the other officers and people that worked in the castle. So, the next day she made herself known as she entered the large dinning hall and walked straight into the cook, spilling the soup of the day all over the floor.

Velica's eye twitched, this was one of her favorite shirts, not to mention that all eyes were on her now. Doflamingo laughed loudly as Velica gave a swift round house kick right into the cook's face and sent him flying into the adjacent wall.

"Bastard, watch where the hell you're going." she muttered under her breath, earning another loud laughter from Doflamingo.

"So heartless..." Baby 5 muttered from her seat, slightly terrified with the sudden angry strength that Velica displayed on her first day back in the castle. Everyone had nearly forgotten just how ruthless their quiet little Velica could be. Although she was small, she packed a punch thanks to her ability of slowing down time. Trebol smiled largely as he wiggled back and forth from his seat looking over at Baby 5, whom he had heard. Violet then spoke up as she had heard Baby 5 as well.

"What do you expect from someone who's been through so much lately? Do you expect her to take crap from a cook?" Baby 5 turned her head, no longer wishing to be part of the conversation for fear of angering Doflamingo. Trebol turned his attention back toward Velica, who had joined them at the table beside Doflamingo.

"She is a great treasure almost as if she were a Royal herself! She needs not take heed from anyone who is under her!" Velica glanced over at Trebol, an angry glare still planted on her face though she said nothing.

"You need to teach your help to watch themselves, Captain." Doflamingo merely smiled before finishing off his large glass of alcohol then slamming the cup onto the table.

"I believe you're doing a fine job at teaching them yourself, Velica~" he cooed. She was the only one he spoke to like this, nobody else was given the same treatment as her. She understood why he was like this with her, but after last night she figured he'd be different toward her. She guessed that somethings just never changed.

Everyone was rather merry as they all had breakfast, happy to have their Velica back among them. Sugar was one of the only one's who seemed happier than Doflamingo, sitting in Velica's lap almost begging from attention from the woman. Velica didn't mind it, it was her after all who had given Sugar her Devil Fruit all those years ago. She knew that if the young girl didn't get strong somehow then she'd end up dead, and everyone who joined up with Doflamingo he had a great purpose for in the end. It was her duty to make sure everyone had a place and things ran smoothly.

After breakfast Velica decided to disappear and go off by herself. She found herself wandering the large corridors in silence so she had time to think to herself. What was she going to be asked to do now that she had returned to Doflamingo.

She had been gone for so long she didn't know where or what she was going to do. So much had changed even though she had been gone for merely half a year. So many new faces roamed the hall, and then when she turned the corner she came face to face with one of those new faces.

"Oh hello, Aru!" The brunet woman said. Velica stared at the woman for a full minute, unable to look anywhere else but her head.

"Do you realize you have a squirrel on your head?" The woman only laughed loudly. What she found funny Velica would never know.

"Yes! That's my friend, Aru!" Velica just blinked and stared at the squirrel, who in return just kept looking back at her.

"But…. Why?" Velica felt as if she needed to know that there was some important reason as to why this strange woman who was also lurking around the halls had a damn squirrel on her head. The rather cheerful woman only smiled and pointed to herself.

"Because, Aru is a vet, Aru!" Velica felt her eye twitch again, she didn't understand this strange woman at all. And why in the hell was a vet roaming the halls of the castle. Where the fuck did she come from?

"What are you doing here in the castle?" She asked, no longer feeling the need to be nice to the strange. The woman clapped her hands together as she wiggled about in a strange way.

"Master Doflamingo requested that I come and work on all the animals that he has here, Aru. He has so many you wouldn't believe it even if I told you, Aru!" Pinching the bridge of her nose, Velica took a deep sigh, resiting the urge to do something to this woman such as throw her out the window that was right beside them. There was one thing that she didn't understand more than anything else, and that was the way this woman spoke to Velica.

"Why in the hell do you keep adding "Aru" to everything you say?" The woman smile beamed.

"Because, Aru is Aru's name, Aru!" Clenching her fists, Velica paused time for a split second to smash the vase that sat on the table next to them that was under the window beside them.

She took a deep breath and resumed time. When time resumed the squirrel became startled and hit underneath the braid of the woman's hair. The woman as well jumped, screamed, threw her hands up in the air, ran past Velica in the hall and screamed about ghost and how she knew this place was haunted.

Velica's eye twitched, wondering just where the in hell Doflamingo had managed to find a woman like her. She was one of the weirdest people she had ever met. Carrying on down the hall Velica had come to the garden door and figured she'd go out and have a breath of fresh air, hoping that would calm her nerves.

Opening the door she was hit with the warmth of the sun. It felt nice to be able to step outside for once and see all the lush green shrubbery. Walking down the steps Velica made her way toward the part of the garden that was most secluded, hoping to be alone for a little bit to clear her head. But when she rounded the corner, she came face to face with another woman.

But this woman hadn't noticed that Velica had arrived and instead was continuing her rant. Velica stood there and watched as random hand motions were made and the loud and strange noses that escaped this woman's mouth.

"Fucking assholes! They're such fucking idiots I don't even know how they found their God damn way out of their mother's wombs!?" This woman was obviously pissed about something, but what that something was Velica had no damn idea.

"I hope you're not speaking about the Captain." Velica spoke up, making herself known to the woman. She whipped around and gave Velica a shitfaced look.

"Why the fuck would I be talking about the damn Captain like that, idiot! God damn, you're just as fucking stupid as the rest of the piss-brains in there!" Velica's eye twitched, this woman didn't know what the hell she was getting herself into right now.

Honestly, Velica needed a reason to kick some ass and this woman seemed just like someone who she could take her anger out on right now.

"I fucking tell them to do it this way but no cause they're all to fucking dumb to understand! Oh, and don't even get me fucking started on how they think that a woman should be in charge of them! Fucking prick ass bastards! Fucking retarded I swear!" Velica blinked, wondering just who the hell this woman was talking about.

But, what was even stranger was that this woman was completely ignoring her and continued to vent to the damn shrub that was in front of her. She watched as the woman went on and on with how she didn't agree with how anything was ran around here and that if it were up to her so much would change and so many people's asses would get kicked. Suddenly, Velica didn't feel angry anymore and instead she felt sorry for this woman.

"What's your name?" The woman continued to scream and shout at the bush, telling Velica that the woman wasn't listening to a single word she was saying to her.

Sighing and coming to the conclusion that she wasn't going to have any time to herself due to this woman's shouting, Velica turned on her heels and started back to the door. It took her a minute or so to get there but as soon as she had opened the door, she hear the lady screaming out to her.

"It's Brandi! The fucking name is Brandi!" Velica shook her head, that woman was certainly loud.

She stepped inside the castle and closed the door behind her, no longer able to hear the woman screaming anymore. She shook her head and started to move forward, but was stopped when she came face to face with a huge ass tiger that sat there in front of her. She gulped, wondering just where the hell this beast had come from and why it was looking at her as if she were its next lunch. It licked it's lips with a hunger, she knew this wasn't a good sign.

Then it dawned on her, that damn vet…. This was most likely one of the animals that damned vet was suppose to be taking care of now. Velica watched and waited till the tiger went to attack and that's when she froze time and side stepped past it, running for her damn life.

Normally she would just end up killing it, but if it were important and for Doflamingo, she would much rather avoid getting a punishment from Doflamingo right now. So, instead she ran through the halls with a large ass tiger on her tail as she screamed and shouted for that damn vet.