Summary: Drabbles and prompts and quotes.
Warning: I don't own any of this and the quotes belong to F. Gabdon.
Breathing Just A Little
Some nights sleep does not come and I am left
suspended between slumber and wake; heart full of
more than mind is able to put into words.
Some days I miss everything. Things I have known
and things I have not. Friendship. Evening walks.
Romance. Phone calls into the Am.
Sometimes I want to be outside at these hours. 1 am,
or 2 or 3. On a rooftop, overlooking a busy city.
Lights and people in the distance.
Somehow I think that is where I belong. On the edge.
Close enough to witness life, but not near enough to
live it. Safe. Easy. comfortable.
Something inside makes me careful.
The same thing that causes my lonely.
- Something makes me careful
Ace, a few months after joining the Whitebeard Pirate, passes by Nico Robin.
Nico Robin: devil child and supposedly someone who destroyed warships at the age of eight.
And something within Ace compels him to sit her down and get the full story, the real story.
Why does the world hate her?
Was she like him?
The blood of an infamous man or women?
Ace licks his lips with a sudden nervousness but pauses her anyway. "Let me treat you," He says and the suspicion is clear but she follows him anyway.
(Whether she can beat him or not, Ace allows her to follow behind him, a clear escape route. He doesn't judge her when he would do the same).
Ace sits her down and the question comes tumbling out of his mouth. "Why do they call you devil child?"
A small smile settles onto her lips and she sips some tea. "Because I destroyed warships," Robin responds evenly, not a hitch in breath and Ace can feel his respect for her rise every moment but still curls his lip in disdain because he isn't an idiot.
"That's a lie and we both know it," Ace snorts and Robin tilts her head.
"Why do you ask?" A smooth, velvety voice and a large bosom that would catch most eyes and it is obvious that this is meant to affect him but Ace doesn't bat an eye.
"Don't bother trying to change the subject, just tell me and maybe I'll let you know something," Ace says, crossing his arms and he doesn't feel bad about lying but at the same time he doesn't really mind telling Robin considering she was in the same boat as him but then again she's still a stranger.
Robin purses her lips. "I gained some knowledge that was forbidden in the World Government's eyes and as such a buster call was issued and my Island was burned to the ground. Also Sakuzuki, now known as Admiral Akainu burned the innocent citizens because he thought I might have been there and blamed it on me. I was given a bounty and have been on the run all my life."
Ace's wide eyes meet Robin's own tragic ones.
Scratch that thought, Ace thinks, her past is almost as worse as mine!
(Because he would never like to admit it but if the World Government found out about him they would do worse than Robin and Luffy and Sabo wouldn't even be here and even if Ace ran he would be hunted till the ends of the world).
Robin raises an eyebrow when anger covers the warmth and understanding in dark, silvery eyes that are too young to harbor that question.
"Should we... have been born?" Robin asks and Ace stiffens even more but Robin gives a wry smile in return that explains nothing. Robin stands up and leaves a wad of beri on the table. "I won't ask," She says. "I can see it eats your heart out everyday and maybe you'll die from it but you're part of the Whitebeard Pirates, right?" With Ace's nods she gives him a kiss on his forehead, and ruffles his hair, his hat falling off his now messy locks. "You deserve to live." And with that she leaves and Ace is frozen despite having the Flare Flare fruit because no one has actually told him that before.
"Ace? There you are, yoi. Don't just disappear!"
And Ace allows are slow, wide grin to settle onto his face.
Nico Robin: devil child.
And if the truth get's out (not that Ace hopes it will happen) Ace promises that they'll be devil children together.