𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝑫𝒖𝒄𝒌'𝒔 𝑪𝒂𝒇e

You woke up with a terrible headache.

You were at the infirmary. The crew had just emerged from the fight. Thanks to luffy, another unnessesary fight while you guys could just stay quiet and leave the island. Some had minor injuries but luckily everyone was safe. You had to stay at bed though, with that blow to your head. at least you were glad others were okay. nami had slightly twisted her ankle. usopp had a small cut at his arm and brook was dead.

And you were stuck in the infirmary. yay...

Was it really had to be today? like especially today? you frowned at the tought. Out of all days, you were stuck at infirmary at your birthday. Not like you had plans for the day but it was still special. Probably no one remembered the date, its been more than two years since you talked by the topic after all. But still infirmary wasn't the place you wanted to spend your birthday at.

Stuck at the infirmary. Stuck stuck stuck...

You glanced over the dock. İt was mostly empty, just nami who had fallen asleep while sunbathing. Expected in a warm sunny day as today. Orange trees would melt if they weren't ashamed. You felt the sweat starting to form at your forehead. You wiped it with the back of your hand and decided to make your way to the kitchen to get a cold water.

You opened the door without knocking it. Your blonde chef was probably inside, cooking something. And you loved the way he always jumped out of his skin everytime he saw you suddenly burst into the room.

You let the door open with a loud sound. A smile forming on your face, knowing that you were going to see your favorite cook. And tease. Mostly because tease. But your smile wavered when you saw him staring back to you with a neutral face.

With so blank eyes you though you were facing with someone else for a second.

But as quickly as it appeared, he covered it with a smile "You should be at bed, ma belle. Dont worry, I'll serve your breakfast at bed. You didn't need to exhaust yourself by coming all this way" a hand gently pressed your back and forced you back to door.

You turned your gaze to his face. His expression was too tense. You already knew that Sanji was mostly nervous around girls. But it was almost zero with you. You somehow managed to have a quiet and real communication with him, not his usual enthusiasm. Even while he was nervous you never saw him this tense. He was more like irrirated.

Sanji, irrirated. Sanji irrirated by a woman. By you.

your brows furrowed. İt was like looking to someone else. "No need to worry for breakfast, Sanji. I just came to get water but I'll immediately leave if I'm being a burden." you said with a cold voice as you stepped outside, broke free from his grasp. You turned back to the stairs. You were now quastioning if he was like this all the time and you imagined the kind one in your mind when you got hit by head.

Sanji stood there for a moment. "What-?..." Why were you angry all sudden? Did he made something wrong that made his mellorine sad? Oh, no! He couldn't let himself make his angel upset just for a suprise!

"Mon ange, Please forgive me! I had to sacrifice my love for your happiness" he said, body moving to bow with reflex. he was looking like a desperate puppy with all the sudden tears on his eyes.

You looked down to se the blonde hairs and arms that clinging to your leg. "Ah, here you are back." you bend down before him and flicked his forehead. "Tell me why were you acting like you hate me sanji"

"Hate you?! I can NEVER hate you mon amour! You are the bright of my life, you are the-" "I am aware you can't hate me, Sanji. I asked why were you acting like you were?"

He sniffed. One of the cutest sniffes in your life. "Cause ı wanted it to be a suprise my love. ı was never acting like hating you, ı swear! ı was just trying to keep you out of the kitchen!"

You blinked in curiousity. "suprise me? what are you doing at there?" You asked, knowing fully that he will answer everything you say right at the moment.

"I was... I was gonna make a cake for you, mon ange... a birthday cake"ohh... You forgot that today was your birthday. Aww silly man, no wonder why you love him. He is such a cutie patootie. But wait. How does he know that today is your birthday? "Sanji, how do you know that?"

"You mentioned it while we were chatting my love, don't you remember?"

You stay still for a while. Yes you remembered telling him about your birth date. But you never though that he would remember it. Your hand slowly went to his hair and patted his head."Thank you sanji, you are the best" His face light up as you spoke "Can ı help you with the cake?"

"But my love, it should have been a suprise" "ı will be happier by helping you making the cake" this looks like got a reaction from him "Really? then my door is always open to you, my love" He would never lose a chance of date.

You watched him get up then bowed and reach your hand. You smiled at his enthutiasm as you take his hand. He guided you back into kitchen with careful steps, trying not to hurt your wounds.⁠

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"I want to cover the cake" "then you will cover it ,mon amour" He gently handed you the spatula and fixed the cake to be right in front of you. You start to spread the buttercream over the crumb layer. The color was the exact one you asked him to make. And his job was perfect as always. You could eat that buttercream for breakfast dinner and lunch and you wouldn'n get bored of it.

You showed the creamed cake to sanji. "That's perfect my love, as expected from you" He took the spatula from you and put it next to the other things he'll wash later. "Do you want to try piping" He asked and then saw your face. He gave you the piping bag without waiting for an answer. He took the other one for himself.

You started slow. Moving the frosting back and forth until it had a perfect shape. You looked at sanji with the side of your eye, he was smiling. You turned back, piping decors faster now. You knew that even if you made a mistake, he would never scold you.

He started to add small details to the places you left. Some piping and some flowers. "how do you make these flowers?" "Wanna try?" You nodded as answer and he gave you his piping.

"Can I hold your hand my love?" You smiled and nodded again, it was cute that he was a gentleman in this situations. Slowly, he placed his hand over yours. Very slowly. He was probably adding a dramatic music and pink heart filters to the moment on his mind. You heard the way his breathe skipped and he mutter "What have I done to be worthy of this honor?" tears in his eyes and nosebleed about to start.

tch, over dramatic.

That's why you love him.

You cleared your throat, taking his attention to keep going. He blinked his eyes and come back to earth. Still stupidly happy. He started to guide your hand, teaching you how to make flowers by buttercream. "Whoa, ı didnt know it was that easy" "Because you are gifted mon amour. Anyone ordinary couldn't get it so quickly"

"That's because my teacher is perfect"Do you remember ı said nosebleed about to start? Let's update it to nosebleed that is happening. right now. the nosebleed was so heavy that he had to let go of your hand and hurry back to get a handkerchief.⁠

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"I think I like the result" You stepped backwards, observing the finished fancy birthday cake. İt was prettier than any you had seen before. "it is beatiful my love. I'm proud of you" he spinned the cake stand, looking for any unnoticed mistake.

he was standing there with his pink opron, hair shining in the sunlight that streaming through the window. He was so cute, you couldn't help yourself. You approached and hug him from behind. Nuzzling your face to the crook of his neck.

His eyes widened when he realized what you were doing, he freeze in place.

No nosebleed, no grand gestures, no heart shaped pupils.

Just Sanji.

Slowly, he turned his face. looking at you with eyes full with love and adoration.

"Thank you sanji. For remembering, for caring, for everything.""İt's my pleasure mon amour. I'm grateful you born, I'm grateful I got to meet you. Happy birthday, mon trésor" He had a tender smile. He was sincere with his words and you loved that they were. İt was another one of the many reasons why you loved the cook. Your lovely cook.

You got carried away by watching him. Without realizing you leaned down, lips inches away from his. His lower lip was trepmbling, not sure if due to excitement or anticipation. You could feel his breathe mixing with your own. Smoke, smoke, more smoke and sea food. Did you mentioned the smoke? Even so his scent was oddly addictive. The kind of thing that makes you want to come back again and again.

You closed the gap and kissed him. Feeling his lips got squished by yours. You closed your eyes and gave yourself to the feeling. Your arms moved to his neck to lightly pull him for more. A small noise escaped from your mouth when you felt the warm liquid dripping to where your lips were connected.

You were about to let another one when the kitchen door suddenly opened. Only then, you opened your eyes and saw a panting Chopper. And only then you realized what that warm liquid was.

You pulled back and hold the fainted sanji. You grabbed a tissue and wiped his bloody nose. An idiotic grin on his face, looking like he won the lottery. You stuff the tissue up to his nose and chopper helped you sit him down on the floor.

"You should be at infirmart, name! I looked everywhere for you" Chopper said, not bothering much about the fainted Sanji. İt was casual by now. And your injury was more important.

"I know chopper, sorry. I was bored and I couldn't find you" You patted the reindeer, he already forgave you. You sighed and got up "I'll go back, can you tell sanji something when he woke up?" he nodded. You smiled to your fluffy friend.

law had grown used to your unexpected visits to his room. he was used to seing you with a coffee in your hand ,leaning to the doorway in the middle of the night. Bitter drip coffee with no sugar and the most caffeine a cup of coffee could have, just how he liked. he was used to the squeak voice of your fluffy slippers while you were waddling to the beanbag chair next to his desk. he was used to your quiet breathing noises while he was studying for god knows how long. He was used to cover you with blankets when it got cold in submarine and he was used to replacing your fallen plushie back into your arms.

Law was used to your presence. He was used your sound, your smell, your voice... you. You were reminding him that he was not alone anymore. You were helping him to ease whenever he was too overwhelmed by all his duties as a captain and surgeon. You were helping him remember that he was a human and that he had needs too. You were the only person who he could be himself with, just Law.

So he noticed when you didn't visit his room. Of course he noticed, he was waiting for evening to fall so he could be alone with you again. But tonight, you were not there with him. İt was past midnight and you were still not there. How long has it been since you spend your night at your own room? long enough that he couldn't even remember.

He tried to concantreate, to give his attention to his work. But his mind kept drifting into you. Maybe you wanted space, maybe you needed some alone time. Maybe he made you angry and now you were giving an attitude.

Oh. That was bad. That was really bad. Because no matter how powerful he was, he never won an argument against you. İf there was something he scared, it was making you angry.

He was now fully given up from working, trying to find out what made you so irrirated that you skipped your routine.

Did he ate your fruit? no. Did he said something annoying? no... at least not anyting unusual. Did he accidently stepped on one of you plushies? Probably not. So what was the problem? Were you bored of him and want to break up? Were you not feeling like you used to anymore? Dammit, when was the last time he take you to a date? he turned his gaze into his desk again. Desperate to find a calendar or an agenda. He found a piece of paper tucked to a book under the mountain of encyclopedias. Finally, a ripped piece of paper he used when he needed to note the crews food stock for the former week. Thankfully he had wrote the place he planned to take you that day.

Two weeks before, thuesday. it was earlier but not that past. Then why were you acting like this? His eyes sizing the paper unconsciously while he was thinking. And he noticed something Today was friday not wednesday. He was so busy with work he lost track of timeAh... your period's first day.

That explains a lot. How did he forgot?

He sighed and get up from his chair, fixing some books back into place but then give up complately. At least now he knew you werent angry spesifically towards him. But knowing you. you could have been furious to the universe and all right now.

He made his way to your room but change his destination hallway to go to the kitchen. He put some water onto kettle then grabbed some painkillers and sweets you liked. He finally went to your room after putting the hot water into a heating bag.

Law slowly knocked on the door but entered without waiting for an answer anyway.

And there you were. His cute precious girlfriend. Head pressed to a pillow and trying not to sob. Curled into a ball and hoping the ache to go. For a sadist surgeon it was something no one could expect but it hurt him to see you suffer. (not that he show it on his face or anything)

He push your plushies aside and sat there. "Name-ya, get up, ı get you some medicines" You only hummed as an answer, you couldn't find the energy to get up. "I wanna die, leave me alone"

A tiny curl appeared at law's lips. Very thin to even notice but it was there. To a normal person it could even consider as a pout. but for law, it meant he is amused and happy at the moment. He placed the heating pad in your lap."Sorry, we can't let this happen." he reached to your face and slowly brushed a strand of hair aside. "now let me help you"

But you were in a sulky mood, you hummed again. Shaking your head no and hugging the heating pad. Pressing your face into your pillow.

"I've got you chocolate. The one with caramel, your favorite"

That got a reaction from you. Hands desperately searching for the supposedly chocolate. But he was faster. he grabbed it and hold it out of your reach. "Meds first"

You hissed as an answer and he understand every single meaning of it. Tch, typical. But he will make you take them one way or another.

"Im in pain, just gimme the damn sweet or else I will kill you, bastard" he had a come back but he saw your face. pale and exhausted. His pretty girl was so strong. He handed you your chocolate and took you into his lap while trying not to disturb you. One hand at your waist holding you while the other rubbing your back. You pressed your forehead to his neck while nibbling on your sweet.

"it hurts, law..." you mumbled between bites. And he sighed. He knew how woman anatomy worked and how cruel it could get. He wiped your tears with his hand and kissed the side of your head. He hold you the painkillers again and helped you to swallow them."I know it hurts. Would a massage help?"

You could only nod. He put you back onto the matress and turned to your drawer, grabbing some oil. "Lay on your back sweetheart, lift your shirt for me" he let some drops fall into your lower belly then spread his hand to your skin and slowly start to rub the ache away. His fingers were cold. As always. Side effects of being a surgeon, I guess.

But you were more than glad that he was at least trying to help you. İt was comfortable to know you were not alone. Not anymore. Not when you had law. His hand was getting warmer as they were circling on your stomatch. The other hand caressing your cheek and occasionally kissing your forehead. your body was finally getting relaxed on his hold.

"Are you better now, love?" He asked when you turned into a lazy purrball between his arms. 'much better. But dont stop yet, please' he turned his gaze to your face. Sleepy, tired, sweaty and nipping the last bite of the chocolate. Somehow the most beatiful thing he saw im his entire life. he was still unsure how did he managed to make you his. He was stuck in a depressing and exhausted psychology. Closing himself to the world and only focusing his goals. He didn't care how his actions harmed the crew. But then you appeared in his life out of nowhere and become the main purpose of him. He took it as his duty to make you safe and happy. He didn't know how much he wanted or needed you. His sweet girl. And now when he saw you all aching and wore out, he wanted to operate you and take your uterus out of you. But you would be angry at him. probably. "Dont worry, ı don't plan to stop anytime soon. Do you want another thing to eat?"

"m-hm I want hot chocolate"

And just like that he scooped you up and took you to the crews kitchen. Carrying his whole world in his arms.

imagine you are bored and want to spend time with your boyfriend. but you dont want to go out. so you asked him if he could play minecraft with you. after millions of pleas he agreed to play it with you.

You taught him every control "use those to move and space to jump okay? its not too hard, ı know you can do it" But for the records, the future surgeon, the man who could stitch a heart without breaking a swear was oddly bad at playing minecraft.

"No. Law, come back. Not that way"... Running to the opposite way of yours? He was curious. Not that he forgot how to use gps again. Breaking the glass blocks instead of putting them? He didn't like their old place. Accidently killing your pet cat? accident, sure. Not that he tried to steal your cat to make it his or something, no. Not that he found the cat cool...

He is bad at playing this and he won't admit it. That grumpy little shit. But it doesn't matter. You love playing minecraft and you love Law. Killing two birds with one stone. Even when he was playing like a noob, at least he was trying and playing was more fun with him.

until

"law, eat that goddamn BREAD dammit!" You had send law to fish while you were making a home for the two of you. He was unnessesary here anyway so why not use him? You were hallway finishing the decorations and you took off the beds to replace. You know, if you break the beds, your spawn coordinates resets. Nah, not important, you were gonna put them in a nicer place quickly.

But then you saw law across the river fighting with an enderman, trying to guard himself with a flower. You stopped decorating your home and started watching him. Usually, you would laught at how bad he was. but then you remembered that you forgot your diamonds at him. All the teasing dissapeared and maternal protective instinct started to pump inside your veins. No, not "aw my baby dont get hurt" motherly. More like "lose them and I'll kill you, you little piece of shit" kind of motherly.

And all power of this instinct it is, you started to run into his way. "Law, dont try to fight back, it is more powerful then you"but no, he is stubborn as always "dont worry, I'll kill it before my last heart breaks"

Last heart. Last?

"Law dont you dare die right now, we tried so hard to find these diamonds! How did you even managed to take damage while fishing? Eat the breads ı gave, quick!""tch, you know that ı wont eat them. Bread is the food form of true sin. it has no healthy fats nor quality vitamins but simple sugar. it clogs your blood, it causes indigestion it is the worst nutrient ever-" "I dont give a damn okay?! its a game! Eat it" you were done with his stupid hate towards bread.

Why, ı mean why?

At least you were finally there to use a real sword against the enemy. "Stay back and Gather your strength. I got this"

A normal person would let you handle this. But not law. his pride can't handle his girlfriend to fight for him while he stays behind like a damsel in distress.

So he came back and attack with his flower. but the idiot he is he accidently hit you. Your screen suddenly turned into red. Words "you died" appeared on your screen.

You slowly turned your chair into your boyfriend who was at the other side of the room. You watched as red light covered his screen as well.

You look at him.

He turned to you.

You sighed "okay, mr dumbass. I dont want your actions to happen ever again. You hear me? We will reborn and you will go back to your fishing spot.". You clicked the button and reborn. İn a complately different place that you never saw before.

You stared at law with the side of your eye.

He stared back.

Law was a really interesting name.

Someone who didnt pay attention would never notice, but there was a really distinguishing feature in his name. the word "law" was pronounced in a single syllable, with opening your mouth in the shape of an "a" and the final letter slightly swallowed. its funny it sounded much like the word "love" which was almost the same except the emphasezad last character.

so when you two move up to the next level in your relationship and you started to call him "love" instead of "law" , no one noticed that something was different. You were already calling law by his name, never bothering to call him captan or something that shows your respect towards who was risking his life everytime some mate was in danger. Nah, he already knew you appreciate his efforts and hey, where was the fun in calling him that boring statue?

The crew always wondered why your head wasnt already cut of or how law was still letting you burst into his room whenever you felt like it. No really, how did you manage to earn this stony-heartled nerd creatures interest? You were sure that coffee was pumping from his hear instead of blood. Not even fresh, stale coffee.

Maybe because you saw him all state and still decide you liked him. him in shrimp postured study sessions, him sitting in the middle of a pool of charts and plans, him while talking hystarically talking about sora the warrior of the sea.

That nerd. You knew you loved that loser from the very beginning. He was odd and kinda cute in a way that you found attractive. But for law, he was still an unexperienced idiot who didnt know how to act with someone he liked. As a result, it took more than two whole years for him to confess his feelings for you.

And it was not romantic at all, that dumb guy confessed when you were sick and connected to the IV drip on the infirmary of the submarine. Feeling like shit for almost a week and wanting to throw up all the sickness out, eyebags become distinct and all blood drained from your face.

He had carried his studies to the couch next to the infirmary bed you were staying. Checking your vitals every once in a while and making sure you are not dead. One day while he was taking your temperture he didnt withdraw his hand. Quite opposite, he leaned and kissed your burning forehead and murmured something like "Get better, love". maybe he used idiot instead of love, but that was all you could understand while you were burning in hell's fire.

İt doesnt chance the fact that he was embrassed from the kiss though. When you recovered, he avoided running into you for ten days. Changing his direction, sending someone else to order you, coming to dinner one hour earlier or late...

But you were not gonna let him go that easily. You disturbed him in every chance you got. İt was time to take the reins. İt wasnt like he was going to do anything anytime soon anyway. İt was hiralious when he uncontrollably blushed and tried to hide his face under his hat the first time you teased him. Not even talking about how he didnt know what to do when you first kissed him from lips, hands standing between you two absurdly and his back bent in that shrimp position again to meet your shorter height.

For both of your images you both agreed to keep your relationship a secret. Actually it was because law didnt want to be seen soft. Yeah, right. No one had any idea how soft he was towards the things he found cute. Like nobody had any clue from how soft he was with bepo, how he cared bepo more than any other crew member. No one realized when he was sleeping in Bepo's fat fluffy arms when he was overstressed and needed peace. Yeah... let this loser believe he is cold cool guy, will you?

However it was not fair cause you wanted to call him bu petnames. İt was something you always wanted and you were finally in a situation that you could. But then the relationship would be revealed. What to do when "law" was asking so cutely for it?

Oh.

Law?

That's excatly when you stopped calling him law and started using love instead. No one important noticed the small difference at the end of this little word. Except law. Because he totally knew what were you doing by emphasezing that single "v" every time you called him in that singy-songy voice. And knowing you call him "love" in a public area, especially with people who'd tease him about it for months was enought to make him tense his face and undo his posture.

You loved law. And you wanted everyone to know it, that you are his and him yours and yours alone.

But even so, you respected his desicion and kept your little secret to yourself.

And when your relationship disclosed, it wasnt your fault. it was your lovers fault. That workholic maniac was staying up for days again and was dying for a good sleep. But no, he is stubborn as hell, so he insisted to study and at the end you guys agreed to at least let him finish that part. You stayed at his office room at first, but when hours passed and fatigue got over you, you decided to wait for him at your bedroom. At your bedroom, in your warm bed, with all the plushies and puffy blankets. Sure you are going to wait for him until you sleep. Sure, you were just gonna make the bed warm for him, no other reason.

With your absence, the room got even quiter than it already was. And law, who lost his time sense days ago, was now seing flying breads instead of medical terms.

What wouldn't he do for a coffee right now.

Just then an arm appeared and put a hot cup of coffee on his desk. Law blinked his glassy eyes and his hands reached for the cup fully instinct now. The hand that bringed coffee was now empathically patting his head. he inhaled the familiar scent and murmured before taking a sip. "thanks, name-ya, love you"

Wait. Since when your hand was this big? and fluffy?

All sleep vanished from law in an instant. He grabbed the thick wrist and turned to face his visitor in a blink of an eye. And there he was, right in front of him, The Heart Pirates's one and only polar bear. Bepo was on watch tonight, how could he forgot

İt took a while for Bepo to understand the things that happened. The word "love" and your name at the same time. He was slow, but at least the pieces were falling into pieces. And when Bepo realized, his pupils went into the size of a plate.

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despite all law's warnings, by the morning, everyone was aware of the news. İt was bepo after all, he probably looked too excited for someone who just came from watch. Naturally shachi and penguin poked him until he cracked and learned you two's little secret.

When you woke up and leave your room for breakfast, the first thing that greeted you was your crewmembers congratulations. Everyone you crossed on your way was smiling and hugging you. They said they were happy for you and your relationship. Your relationship... Of course.

When you reached kitchen, The picture was worth a Renaissance painting. Poor bepo and law's deadly glances over the mink. You raised an eyebrow, law couldn't stay mad at Bepo for a long time after all. Bepo was way too fluffy for that. You took a breathe and made your way towards the counter.