Seeing movement out of the corner of her eye, Katrina signed almost inaudibly before grabbing Law's hoodie, and without waiting for his approval or disapproval, yanked him to the side just in time to avoid having him run through a second time.

"Fuckin' marines."

She growled in annoyance before stabbing the marine that had been foolish enough to charge at them and kicking him away from her with a frown.

"You know, if you're just gonna be in the way you can sit this one out."

She said to Law as she spun on her heel to dodge the attack of another gutsy marine. For some reason they thought attacking one at a time was a good idea.

"And let you have all the fun?"

Was the response she got and she turned to look at him to see him get showered in blood from the marines he'd just cut down. The brunette found herself smiling as she hopped over a man's head to avoid the Marines currently chasing her; an idea forming in her head as she did so. He wanted to have some fun did he? Well in that case.

"Care to make this a lil more interestin' hun?"

Katrina asked, crouching and using her momentum to slide between Law's legs and successfully getting away from her pursuers. The looks on the five Marine men's faces upon realizing they had run right up to Law added to the fact he now stood between her and them was practically priceless. Waving her fingers at them playfully before seeing Law cut them all down was oddly satisfying she had to admit, even if just to herself.

"How so?"

Law asked as he lifted his Nodachi until it rest easily against his shoulder. She wasn't sure what he had done with the sheath, if she had to guess Bepo probably had it. But the sight of the dark doctor casually standing in the street, defeated Marines littering the ground either in unconscious or dead heaps or in pieces. She noticed his eyes had a dark glint to them that showed how much he was enjoying himself. All of it was honestly almost enough to make a girl need a minute.

"Simple, we make this a game."

Katrina said as she sidestepped one marine that came running at her with a broadsword only to have to do a quick split to keep her head because of another who she wound up kicking in the chest and making him stumble away from her before she got to her feet again.

"The one with the most kills by the end of this can ask anythin' of the other player and they have to comply."

She said as she grabbed a marine's hand and twisted it so his gun dropped to the ground. She used his moment of surprise at a woman being able to disarm him to pull him towards her and spin on her heel, dragging one of her daggers across his throat as she did so and watched as he slowly slumped to the ground with a soft thud. Katrina looked up from the dead marine and smiled at the look on Law's face. It wasn't shock, or horror, it was something else that she couldn't really place, but at the moment she didn't exactly care to play 'guess my emotions' with a wanted criminal she just invited to play a murder game with her. The Marines had pissed her off, the day had pissed her off, and this was as good a way as any she could think of to let off a little steam. Besides, who wouldn't want to play a game with tall, dark, and possibly insane over there?

"Let's play then."

Law answered with a smile of his own before creating what looked like a mini tornado in the palm of his hand as he turned to face the marines that still surrounded them.

Law moved his hands, rearranging parts of marines' bodies inside the dome he'd created.

"You have to actually kill them to win."

The Heart Pirate captain heard a female voice say from behind him and looked over his shoulder to see Katrina standing in a circle of dead marines, her hand currently thrust through the chest of the one standing in front of her. She pulled out her hand and held something up after having pushed the marine away. Law stood still, almost frozen for a moment as he processed the sight of the brunette before him. Her dark brown hair stuck to her forehead as she worked up a sweat during their game. She seemed to be covered in blood from what he could see. The little crimson droplets painting little rivers down her arms and thighs. He could see where it had soaked into the once yellow shirt she wore as well as the shorts he seemed to recall being blue when she had visited his infirmary. This small slip of a girl both intrigued him and concerned him. He was used to women he came across wanting either one of two things. To turn him in or to bed him and seeing as Katrina had made no moves to do either to Law's knowledge made him a little on edge.

"That makes ten for me, how many do you have hun?"

She asked and Law frowned at the slight patronizing tone to her voice.

"The game isn't over yet."

He said before drawing his nodachi and slicing through the air and the marines he had in his dome before letting it drop. Law watched with an amused smirk as their blood spewed onto the ground and heard their cries of agony. He had to admit, despite the circumstances, he was having a ball. Not only was he killing Marines left and right, getting to hear their screams of fright and pain, but if he won-no, when he won the little game Katrina had suggested they play he'd not only gain a new crew member but would get some answers to the questions the brunette has stirred inside his head. Like where she learned to fight the way she does. How she doesn't seem to mind being covered in blood, in fact, she seemed to enjoy it just about as much as he did. He was curious about other things as well. Like what happened to her in her past that had made her go into a fear-induced state one moment, then an unemotional one when he had threatened her the next? She had said she traveled, but Law wanted to know where. She had also said she was left behind on the Archipelago by her old crew, he was curious about this crew and what would possibly have made them want to leave her behind? So many things the dark doctor wanted to know and he was going to get some answers. Even if it meant they wound up in his operating room and the blood on his scalpel was hers.

"Earth to Law."

Katrina's voice pulled Law from his thoughts and back to what was going on around him and he saw Katrina standing in front of him with a dagger pressed to a marine's throat who was currently begging for his life.

"P-Please, spare me."

The marine begged and Law saw Katrina's attention move from him to the marine.

"Now why would I do that when you tried to kill my partner? Do you realize how hard it is to play a game by yourself?"

She asked seriously and Law felt a smirk make its way onto his face at her comment before watching as she dragged her dagger across the marine's throat and letting him drop to the ground as if he were no more than trash.

"Well, that makes thirty-two for me hun, what's your score?"

She asked as she turned to look back at him and Law found he struggled to keep his eyes off her. She was still wearing the same clothes she had been when he and his crew had gone to thank her for helping Bepo find them again, but now she and her clothes were splattered with blood. There was almost no part of her that wasn't covered in blood and Law felt something stir below his belt at the way it seemed to make her look even more appealing than before. Law was no stranger to the love of a woman, with his looks and reputation, he had women throwing themselves at him every time his crew set foot on an island for a long period of time. Of all the women Law had seen and laid with, none could compare to Katrina at this moment. She was ruthless in her kills, but still played around with her victims. She seemed to enjoy hearing the marines' scream and beg as much as he did and she had a wild glint in her blue-green eyes that made Law want to pin her down and tame her.

Katrina could tell Law was checking her out, simply by the way his cold, gray eyes scanned her body up and down. She didn't get the usual disgusted feeling that usually came with the looks she got from the men on the Archipelago she had been stuck on for the past three years. There was just something about the way he looked at her that was...different. He wasn't just looking at her body because she was a woman, it was like he was looking at her because she was his friend, his lover, just...his. She should have hated the possessive look in his eyes since the last person who had looked at her that way had abandoned her, but she still couldn't help it when her heart beat a little bit faster and heat rose to her cheeks.

"Law?"

Katrina asked after a while of silence and watched as Law seemed to snap back to his senses and his eyes came up to meet hers instead of her body.

"Thirty-one."

He said, answering her earlier question. She smiled after that before taking a look around at the practically empty street they were currently standing in. There were no more marines standing, they were all littering the street either in pieces or puddles of their own blood.

"Well hun, it would seem like I won our little game."

She said and watched as Law looked around for himself and smiled when he frowned just slightly, no doubt having done the mental math on the body count.

"So it would seem."

He said and she could clearly tell by the tone in his voice that he wasn't too happy about losing.

Katrina wiped off her daggers before tucking them back under her shorts. She looked up at the pirate captain before her and opened her mouth to say something when she saw him sway on his feet. She ran forward the short distance to keep him upright without thinking about her actions for the second time that day.

"Woah there hun."

She said as she helped to keep him upright with a hand on his chest.

"I need to find my crew."

He said and Katrina frowned up at him. Was this man insane or just innately stubborn?

"What you need is to get somewhere so I can bandage your wound. You're losin too much blood."

She said and didn't miss the look that crossed Law's face at her unintentional order.

"Don't you-"

Law started, but Katrina cut him off as she pulled his arm around her shoulders and held onto the hand that held his nodachi as she started to head the way she'd come. There was no way their little game would go unnoticed by the higher ranked Marines and it would only be a matter of time before more showed up. They couldn't stay here any longer.

"Don't order you around. I know, I know."

She said as she helped him walk towards the bridge leading to Grove 2.

Law didn't say anything as they passed the bridge and started walking through Grove 2. Katrina wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not considering the amount of blood he'd lost, but wasn't about to ask. She had almost gotten them to the bridge connecting Grove 2 to Grove 3 when Law collapsed, unable to support himself on his legs any longer, bringing her down to the ground with him.

"Dammit Law! What the hell were you thi-"

Katrina cut her rant short when she noticed the pirate captain beneath her was unconscious. She thought he would have held out longer than that, but then again she'd never been run through before and she had a feeling it didn't feel too great and they had just played an unnecessary murder game. Though he could have said no.

"You damn idiot."

Katrina mumbled to herself before she got to her feet. It really shouldn't have surprised her that he lost consciousness with all the blood he lost, but couldn't he have chosen a better time to do so?

With a slightly irritated groan, Katrina knelt down behind Law's head and picked him up from under his arms and started to drag him. She had to stop a couple times because he'd drop his sword and she had to pick it up for him. After the fourth time she just strapped it to her back again before trying to drag his dead weight to somewhere safe. After a couple of hours she stopped and fell back on her ass with an exasperated sigh.

"You are goin to owe me you heavy ass son of a bitch."

Katrina grumbled to herself as she tried to regain her breathing. For someone so skinny, Law was pretty heavy. She just chalked it up to his inner fat kid loving to eat because it felt like she was dragging Bepo across the archipelago.

"There is no way in hell I'm gonna be able to drag you all the way back to your sub."

Katrina said as she got to her feet again. She looked around until she spotted a building set apart from the others in Grove 2 that was close to the bridge.

"Perfect."

She said to herself before starting to drag Law again. It didn't take long to get him inside and she was relieved to see the place was empty of any people. She hadn't really bothered to stop to think what she would do if there were occupants to her chosen safe house.

Shutting the door behind her with her foot, Katrina struggling to get Law over to the bed that was pushed against the wall in the corner. The inside was smaller than the outside had lead her to believe, but it was big enough for them both to fit inside. There was a bed pushed along the far right wall, a stack of two or three crates of something she didn't bother to see what was inside, and that was it. She stopped beside the bed when she realized she was going to have to pick Law up in order to actually get him on the bed.

"Oh you are goin' to owe me big time babe."

Katrina said to an unconscious Law before attempting to get him on the bed so she could try to do something about the amount of blood he was losing. Especially since it was obvious Law was going to be of no help. She managed to get his top half on the bed, but it started to fall when she tried lifted his feet onto the bed. She cursed before pulling Law's upper half onto the bed and falling on top of him for the second time. She blushed as she sat up, only to blush more when she realized she was practically straddling Law's waist with the way she fell.

'Thank God he's unconscious.'

She thought to herself before she got to her feet and searched for something she could use as bandages. She was no doctor, but even she knew that if Law kept losing blood like this he wasn't going to be okay.

Miraculously she managed to find a first aid kit under the little sink that was in the room. The building they were in appeared to be a food storage of some sort upon further inspection. She'd gone through two boxes of rice and one box of grains before she'd spotted the sink hidden away in the corner of the room. She assumed the sink was to rinse off whatever produce might be stored here, but shrugged it off in the end because it really didn't matter. She was just grateful for it's existence at the moment.

Opening the dust-covered first aid box the brunette groaned for a second time upon seeing just how depleted the little box was of the precious supplies it was supposed to hold. One packet of sanitation wipes, a roll of gauze that looked like it wouldn't even be enough to cover the front part of Law's wound, let alone the back, and a bottle of aspirin with only one pill left.

'It's better than nothin''

Katrina thought to herself before moving back to the bed to get to work on bandaging Law's stomach. It was then she realized she'd have to take Law's clothes off to be able to get to his wound. With a sigh and a blush present on her face for the umpteenth time that day, Katrina set the medical supplies she'd found down and started to take off the pirate captain's hoodie.

Several failed attempts, curses, and exasperated sighs later Katrina finally managed to get Law out of his blood-soaked hoodie. The smiling jolly roger was tossed over the brunette's shoulder as she turned to get started on the task before her only to freeze. She wasn't too sure what she'd expected to be hiding beneath the canary yellow and black fabric, but that had certainly not been it. Dark, tone muscle from his neck down. Her eyes trailed the dips and ridges of his muscles as she took in the sight afforded to her. The black lines of his chest tattoo drew her attention from his broad shoulders. He didn't seem that intimidating when awake and clothed, but now up close she could tell Law was a bigger man than she'd given him credit for. Though not entirely her fault for thinking less of him, the hoodie did nothing for his image and made him look lean and unimpressive at first glance.

'I can certainly see now why he was as popular with the ladies in the brothel as he had been.'

Katrina thought to herself as she pulled her eyes away from the unconscious pirate's rather pleasing physique. Something the other girls working for Jericho liked to do was gossip about men they'd like to bed. Katrina personally couldn't stand such vulgar gossip and would always try to leave any time the girls had started passing around the wanted posters, but Jericho thought it might teach her a thing or two and forced her to stay and listen.

'Good riddance that bastard's dead.'

Katrina thought with a frown before getting to work on bandaging Law's abdomen before she had a dead pirate captain on her hands and an angry crew blaming her. She had no medical training so her patch job wasn't the best, but she cleaned the wound the best she could and used as much of the bandages as she could and still have enough for the back. She had another wonderful time trying to move Law so she could get to the wound on his back and after a few more colorful curses that went unheard by the unconscious captain, she finally finished.

"Done."

Katrina said with a sigh of relief as she stepped back and slumped down against the wall across from the bed the Heart Pirate captain currently occupied. Now she was left with her thoughts as she waited for either Law to wake up, which she knew probably wouldn't happen any time soon, or the Heart Pirates to find them.

Katrina leaned her head back against the wall next to the bed and thought over the events that had happened in the past forty-eight and some odd hours. She'd met a lost polar bear who could speak, helped him find his crew, went back to the brothel after a day of pickpocketing, the crew the polar bear belonged to came to thank her and she met the infamous Trafalgar Law. She got beat around and nearly raped by her boss, got saved by the captain of the Heart Pirates, woke up in the infirmary in his submarine, cooked all of them a meal and met the rest of the crew after Law threatened her for telling him to eat his food, talked to Law about what happened once she blacked out, had an oh-so-wonderful trip down memory lane to her childhood, got threatened by Law again, left and took another glorious couple of trips down memory lane again about her old pirate crew, got caught up in helping the Heart Pirates with the marines, stopped a marine from raping one of said pirates, got an offer to join a pirate crew, played a killing game with Law, dragged his unconscious and bleeding body to a secluded area to rest, and the day still wasn't even over. Closing her eyes with a sigh, Katrina tried to sort out her thoughts. She had her freedom now, but did she even know what she wanted to do with it now? Set out on her own? That idea had no appeal to the brunette haired girl at all. She could always sneak onto a merchant ship until they dock at a different island and start over, but even that idea didn't seem to be what she really wanted. Katrina knew what she wanted. She wanted to find her old crew, her old captain, and demand an explanation as to why they abandoned her after everything they had been through together. Why he had abandoned her after everything.

Then there was the Heart Pirates. They were an odd group of pirates, at least the ones she had met, and she was concerned to realize how at ease she felt around them. Well, excluding their captain. The dark doctor put her on edge and made her feel like her fight or flight sense was in overdrive. He was dangerous. Everything about him screamed to stay away, but Katrina wanted to know more. She wanted to see what made him tick. What made him do the things he did. Why did he become a pirate? To what end? What kind of man was he really? Opening her eyes to look over at the sleeping form of the man occupying her thoughts Katrina couldn't help but chuckle slightly to herself.

"It seems like you just got yourself a new crewmate hun. I just hope you know what you've gotten yourself into."

Katrina said aloud before closing her eyes again and letting her exhaustion win as the world slipped away.