Hey Friends Thank you for being patient I know it was probably really annoying. I've been back for a couple of days but I've been working on a new fanfic (yay!) But it will be awhile before I finish it. So anyways I leave for collage in a week but until then I should get plenty of writing done due to all my friends being already gone and I lost my phone so I've got nothing to distract me (hysteric crying). Plus I've got an entire summers worth of collage work to do and I seem to do my best writing when I'm procrastinating Thank you for sticking with me for the summer. !Excessive swearing in the chapter (Luffys mad)!

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"Are you done yet?" Black beard asked as he kicked the teen across the floor. "For heaven's sake you're making this tougher on yourself then you need to."

"SCREW YOU BASTARD!" Luffy screamed as he struggled to sit up. His hands were tied behind his back with sea stone cuffs ensuring and damage he took hurt.

"Are you going to give up yet?"

"NEVER!" Luffy screamed as he threw himself at Blackbeard head-butting his shins viciously. The man howled in pain as he once again kicked the teen across the room.

"If you hurt my brother I will kill you."

His new found anger honestly surprised Teach as the teen was usually even tempered and optimistic. Not even the hat incident could compare to his new rage. Teach had let the news slip that they were planning to kill Ace and Luffy exploded. He had expected a reaction, crying, begging whatever but this was a little excessive. And he was only making things harder on himself, not that Teach needed an excuse to beat him up.

He had foolishly thought Luffy could be coerced into being helpful. Alas he was sadly mistaken. He knew the basics of Ace's life story but it was fuzzy at best. His information was fleeting and scattered which from personal experience was no way to blackmail someone. No he needed a little more then what he had…more leverage was the word for it. Or at the very least more motivation when he finally took this to the world government. Not only that but he was sure that with a family tree such as this one there were secrets to go around. Some of which Luffy must be privy too. But he was just not cooperating. Blasted kid, reminded him way too much of his older brother. Now if only he could get something to blackmail Luffy with.

"Just tell me what I want to know and I'll ease up."

"Go to HELL!"

Okay so logic didn't sway the kid. Apparently neither did pain but that never stopped him before. He brought his foot down hard hearing a satisfying thud. Since the kid was made of rubber normal attacks don't do much to him but Teach easily found a way around this. His new devil fruit saw to that. He could hurt anybody as much as he wanted now regardless of any opposing devil fruits.

Luffy twisted around wrapping his legs around the man's leg in order to viciously bite it, drawing both blood and skin.

Teach cussed in pain as he flung the kid off. "You just don't know when to give up do you?"

"You can't kill Ace!" Luffy said spitting out Teach blood. "He won't let a loser like you beat him."

"We will see about that." He said coyly. "But honestly I'm not expecting much of a fight from him."

Luffy paused for a second staring at the man coldly. "What."

"Well I have to admit he is pretty strong. So much so that I had my associate offer him a chance to join us. Of course he predictably declined." He sighed regrettably. "That being said he has one weakness and that's you. As long as I have you he can't oppose me"

Luffy's eyes winded a fraction before narrowing dangerously. "Leave him alone!" His voice was dangerously low.

Teach frowned clicking his tongue the teenager. "Don't be like that. You two are making this too easy for me. Honestly I was all worried he wouldn't care I captured you. You know I asked him once if he had any family and he told me no. So I was half expecting you two to hate each other or something like that. Certainty not this annoyingly sentimental crap."

"You talk too much." Luffy told him rolling over on the floor to look up at the man. "You should learn when to shut up."

"Is that right brat? Well I'll be doing the teaching from now on." He sent a vicious stream of attacks at the teenager each one harder than the last. Only succeeding to cover his pants and shoes in the kids blood.

"Ready to talk now?" He asked grinding his head into the floor with his boot.

"You s-hmgs ty'arder."

"What?" He lifted his boot to allow the kid to turn his head to the side spitting out blood as he did.

"I said you should try harder. Is that all you got?"

"What the hell." Teach scratched his head. "Act like a normal kid would you? Cry or something."

"I don't have anything to cry about." Luffy challenged.

"I can give you something." Teach said cracking his knuckles.

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Thatch was not having a good day. For starters he was pretty sure his wound was infected and it hurt like a bitch. Secondly he had no idea where Luffy was. Considering they shared a prison cell he did not take this as a good sign. No doubt Black Beard had a hand in this. Still what he could possibly want with the teenager was beyond him. As far as Thatch could see Luffy was just an ordinary teenager. But that was aside the point right now as his worry was growing every minute Luffy didn't come back.

Luffy had been helping treat his injury especially when it started showing signs of infection. However their combined limited medical knowledge made it difficult. Yet when he woke up this morning there was no sign of the teen. As far as he could tell there was nothing he could do to help his new friend, being that he was still stuck in this cursed cell and all. He had never felt so useless before and honestly he didn't like it.

He had no clue how long he waited in the cold cell before a loud banging distracted him. He scrambled to sit up, wincing when he moved too quickly. He backed against the wall as he heard the jangling keys click into the rusty lock.

"I see you're still alive as well." Blackbeard said unenthusiastically as he swung open the door.

Thatch ignored him and instead focused on the kid he was dragging behind him.

"What did you do to him!" He demanded trying to rise to his feet unsuccessfully.

"It's his own fault," Teach said roughly as he flung the unconscious body down to the floor. "He's stubborn as hell. I guess it runs in the family."

Thatch ignored him in order to crawl to the kid, leaning over him protectively.

"Feel better now that you beat up a teenager." He replied snarkly.

""I would feel better if he wasn't so damn determined." Teach responded angrily slamming the door leaving the two of them alone in the tiny cell.

Thatch frowned and turned back to the kid gingerly wiping blood off his cheek. Was this how they would die? Hurting and cold in this god forsaken cell. Their families never knowing what happened to them. No! No way. He had made a promise and god damn it he intended to keep it.

Once again pulling himself to his knees he tore off a section of his shirt soaking it in the dampest parts of their cell. He used it to clean off most of the blood and did all he could for the still bleeding cuts.

"Luffy wake up!" He insisted shaking the teens shoulder gently first and then rougher as he began to get worried. The kid just moaned and rolled away, muttering something about five more minuet. He smiled in relief and sat back on his heels. Thank goodness.

"Don't your go dying on me you hear!"

" m'not gonna die" Luffy mumbled barley coherent.

Thatch nodded, satisfied for the moment as he leaned back against the wall. He was a little concerned how good it felt against his flushed skin. The infection had probably spread, he had a fever.

'Dear family, hurry your asses up.' He thought desperately. They had never let him down before so why would they start now?

"Oi Luffy can you hear me?"

The kid groaned encouragingly.

"My turn. I'll tell you a story about the time I learned not to mess with Izo's hair. So make sure to pay attention okay."

When he was met only with silence he began talking. He wasn't sure if Luffy was listening or not but at the very least it was making him feel better. Filling the cell with happier times.

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Yay! I'll try to have next chapter out in a few days. It got a little dark and had copious amounts of swearing but it was meant to be an edgy chapter. Sorry I didn't respond to comments last chapter I didn't have enough internet to pull it off. If you are curious about something I once again have an internet plethora. Please tell me what you thought!