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beanghostprincess · 3 months

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Just thinking about ASL living together (modern AU) and Ace always trying to sneak Yamato inside their house without Sabo's knowledge because he doesn't want him to go all 'responsible older brother' on him. But the reason why he's always letting Yamato stay over is because his life at home is obviously... Not so good and he hates being there so he tries to spend most of his time outside. And Ace's heart aches every time he has to let him go, so he often lets him stay over. It becomes more constant and less of a 'sneaking in for a while' thing. And Sabo knows. Because of course, Sabo knows. Sabo always knows what's going on. One day he wakes up to see Yamato having breakfast and Yamato gets all anxious and not knowing what to say and trying to make an excuse (because that's what Ace told him to do if this ever happened) and Sabo is just like "Do you want anything else?" / "Huh? What?" / "I mean. You're eating cereal but we have more stuff in here, you know? At least one of us can cook. What do you want? I can make you pancakes." / "YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE PANCAKES???????" / "Oh my god, what has my brother been feeding you in here???" / "Mostly leftovers." / "Dude, why are you still with him?" / "Because I love him!" / "Yeah, no, me too. I guess love makes you do stupid things like dealing with a fucking moron like him. Anyway- Pancakes?"

And then Ace wakes up to find his brother and his boyfriend actually getting along and laughing and having breakfast together, and he needs a second to process everything because he's tired as fuck and maybe he's hallucinating. But that doesn't matter because the point is that he's fucked.

Ace: ..... Hi? Sabo: Hey :) Ace: What are you two doing? Yamato: WE'RE HAVING BREAKFAST :D Ace: Yes, babe, I can see that. Why are you here, Sabo? I thought you were- Sabo: I got home last night from college. We have some days off. Now, care to explain why you've been treating your cool boyfriend like a dog instead of giving him actual meals? Ace: I- You're not angry? Sabo: Oh, no. I am angry. Can't you see I'm angry? Ace: Sometimes you give me mixed signals and I'm never sure...? Sabo: I'm angry. That clear enough? Ace: Yes. Yamato: Okay, so Sabo is the only person that scares you. That's good to know. Ace: OH SHUT UP HE DOESN'T SCARE ME I AM NOT AFRAID OF MY BROTHER Sabo: Ace. Ace: ... I'm sorry.

Then, Sabo takes Ace to a more private place in the house and expects an explanation from him and Ace can't keep the secret anymore. So he tells him about Yamato's dad and how he is not a good person and he's always keeping him locked and making his life a living hell. And Ace is literally begging Sabo to let him stay for a while and Sabo is just staring at him like "Why would I not let him? How could I not? Do you see me as some kind of controlling demon around this house or what?" / "I mean, you're kind of scary sometimes-" / "Because you don't do shit around here and when I left for college I expected you to take care of Luffy. But I'm not making Yamato leave! What the fuck, Ace? You should've told me." / "I just- I just don't want him to go back there. He's, like, the nicest guy I've ever known. He's just so good, Sabo. I don't want him to-" / "Yeah. Yeah. He's the love of your life and you're gonna get married and have a fairytale ending or some bullshit like that." / "I did NOT say that." / "But you love him. I'm not letting him stay over if you're not serious about this. We barely have money for us three and we're lucky I can go to college." / "... I know. I know. I do. I do, you know. Like. The L word. You know I can't say it." / "Idiot." / "You're so mean to me. You don't do this shit to Luffy." / "Because at least Luffy has the decency of telling me when his friends are coming over." / "That's what you think." / "What? / "Nothing."

So, long story short, Yamato has the chance to actually live with them for a while if he wants to. Of course, he can't do it permanently. But he knows he has a home there if he ever feels like leaving his own house.

#sabo is a fucking liar he only knows how to cook because koala taught him #and also sabo is a fucking mess too he just says he isn't but he is #sorry now i am thinking about yamato and ace cuddling at night and i'm very sad because i love them and i think we should talk more about i #the hurt/comfort potential of this ship #one piece #portgas d. ace #revolutionary sabo #asl brothers #yamato #yamace

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blacklegsanjiii · 13 days

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Your ASL x Sanji and your RLS!siblings au's are so good omg-

I've been reading your posts about them and, what if both happened at the universe? Like, Garp brings his grandsons not much time after Zeff opens Baratie, and Sanji is still in grief about his siblings.

Of course, the scar and everything happened some time before and Dragon bring Sabo back to his brothers but promises to let Sabo join the revs when he's older.

(Sanji probaly just tells about his siblings to ASL near his 11 birthday bc, y'know, memories about the storm)

(And in Wano, Law and Robin have to deal with the ASL liking Sanji)

I stopped writing Mihawk/Sora soulmate AU for this. It's great. So not only do we have Zeff/Garp we have ASL all crushing on Sanji in an AU where Sanji lost his siblings who actually loved and cared for him during a storm. Also in RSL, it's SanLu. The ship that sailed is SanLu but they're all dating Sanji and it is PAINFUL for Law.

AMAZING! What a chaotic fucking mess that enraptures our cook so wholly. Fantastic. There is a cut because this is long.

So what essentially happens is Garp finds his not dead boyfriend/husband/lover man and finds out he adopted this kid and decides to bring his grandchildren. It's a chaotic disaster, it's a whole fucking mess. Sanji isn't exactly looking to get close to anyone, and he's still trying to keep Zeff an ocean away practically after what happened to him not too long ago.

Still, ASL wear him down and now he's just doing his best. The days spent with kids his age and not running good. As much as the Baratie moves they still see the same people a lot. No one has connected him to Robin despite his bounty, because he and Law have to have one for traveling with her and them being beginning pirates.

As it draws closer to Sanji's eleventh birthday and the stormy season coming in Garp and ASL are spending the night at Baratie. A dinner for them and the staff only. At some point it comes up because Luffy asks when Sanji's birthday is and Sanji tells them and says he doesn't want to celebrate. Zeff asks why and Sanji answers.

No one was expecting that he lost his family in a storm. His brother and sister and crew. In the North Blue. The storm that made him wind up in the East Blue, alone, and then another stranded him on a rock with Zeff. Garp is studying the kid before nodding and apologizing for his loss. Garp knows those brows from a bounty for a child, not as high as Nico Robin's but getting up there. Zeff tells him they're going to make new memories and that's that. And they do, Sanji cries, tears of loss and happiness. Everything continues, Sabo leaves and is brought back by Dragon with a promise to join the Revolutionaries at seventeen.

Time goes on they all set sail, Sanji goes with Luffy. They're sailing and it's going well. Everything is going well. They pick up Robin post Alabasta and she can see he's dating Luffy but when they're finally alone Sanji explains they don't know about who his siblings are but he's dating Luffy, Ace, and Sabo. Robin cocks her head and smiles and says something about plural marriages being relatively common in the old days and she's glad he found three men to provide for him until he dies. Sanji nods at that given his history and just says he hopes it's not starvation again.

They run into Law and Sabaody but can't talk to him and then when they're teleported away it's a weird situation. Robin meets Sabo and Dragon. Sabo comes back some months later and says Sanji's on Momoiro to her and Dragon asks how it was to see his boyfriend and Sabo is so pleased. Robin politely threatens him with stringing his entrails across the grand line and into the the depths of hell if he hurts her baby brother. Sabo chokes as Dragon starts laughing. She also tells him he shouldn't necessarily be worried about her but their brother who she also doesn't name. Sabo asks why she's so creepy and Dragon hits him for that.

After the time skip Ace joins and is all over Sanji and Robin looks unimpressed at him and Luffy and doesn't explain why. Luffy has not figured out they're siblings. Ace hasn't either. Then on Punk Hazard when Law starts traveling with them Law is looking at the brother's hanging off Sanji and then keeps throwing glances at Robin. Sanji is throwing apologetic looks to them as he pulled between the brothers and trying to calm them down as the anger and annoyance in his siblings is growing. Sanji feels like he's going to be skinned alive.

Obviously after Dressrosa when they're in the cabin after the split and Sabo is there and saying hi to Robin and his brothers and asks Ace if he got a threat from Robin yet. Ace is confused as he tells Sabo he and Luffy have not had any threats from Robin, why would they and Sabo is like 'she threatened me over Sanji, not fair' which makes Ace look at Robin in fright. Sabo repeats what she said to him verbatim and says that their brother would threaten them worse which makes Law nod and say they don't call him the surgeon of death for nothing.

Luffy is so lucky to be sleeping as Sabo quietly leaves and wishes the two of them luck. Law looks at Robin and asks if they'll ever fix his and Sanji's bounties as they were the two helping Robin run when they were younger and Robin says she doesn't know and Ace points out Garp never arrested Sanji whenever they were at Baratie and Law asks why Sanji was at Redleg's restaurant. The sigh of exasperation from Law and the laugh from Robin at finding out Garp dates Zeff makes too much fucking sense that they didn't consider it and that's also how Law and Robin find out about the rock.

Law throws his hands in the air and says that if the cook could stop getting starved that'd be cool and Robin says Law and Sanji's eating habits could be far better than what they were. Zoro is laughing so hard he's wheezing at the affronted look between the two. Usopp is practicing his breathing techniques. He is a brave warrior of the sea. He is a brave warrior of the sea. He is so glad he's not dating Sanji and Kaya is waiting for him because fuck that mess.

Law and Robin find out Sanji has been kidnapped by the Vinsmokes when they get to Zou as Luffy excitedly tells everyone that Law and Robin are Sanji's siblings. Ace asks if Robin and Law know about the Vinsmokes and they admit they do, though not much. Just that Sanji was declared dead at six and in the dungeons until he escaped at eight and found them. They don't mention the helmet. The crews are staring at them wide eyed. Bepo starts crying because he hasn't seen Sanji yet and he's gone back to his birth family. Law and Robin assure him he was taken by force which equals kidnapping. Bepo calms down at that but that does make Shachi and Penguin lose it. Robin laughs as Law groans and pinches the bridge of his nose.

Ace goes with the rescue team and Robin doesn't, she assures Law as they go to Wano it'll be fine. Sanji has two of his boyfriends going to save him. Zoro asks how they all ended up together as the crews are getting ready to depart so they tell the story and Luffy and Ace tell the story of them dating Sanji, Zeff and Garp and all that. Law sighs and Robin shakes her head. Bepo makes Luffy promise to bring Sanji back, Law is standing back and to the side of Bepo with a cocked brow and Luffy is like 'duh of course I will' and Bepo nods and they all leave.

Then a few weeks later in Wano when the rescue team and Jimbei come. It still takes time for the crews to have a minute to all be together and Bepo and Shachi and Penguin are all hanging off Sanji while Ace and Luffy look jealous. But then Sanji has Ace and Luffy with him almost constantly and Law and Robin roll their eyes, Law looks disgusted at some points. Then the raid of Onagashima happens and Ace has a nose bleed at Sanji being in his suit and Law shambles Sanji away from them.

After they leave Wano Sanji calls Law and Robin to the denden of the Sunny and they call Zeff and he introduces his siblings to the man he considers his father. When Zeff hears who his siblings are he is praying in another language and Sanji is laughing as he translates. Law is smiling and Robin is giggling because Zeff is losing it. He is saying this makes too much fucking sense and goes along well with why he dates those three boys. All of it.

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captainwholecake · 4 years

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HCs of Shanks and Marco in a relationship

A/n: my BOIIIIISSSS also I apologize in advance if this isn't what the requester wanted

warning(s)?: maybe nsfw depends on my mood

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Shanks

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Daddy, DADDDY

okay, so uhm homeboy is uhm... a soft daddy and you know that DAMN WELL

I say soft daddy because I can not see any OP character not being soft but I feel like he be like SOFT but not Ace/Sabo SOFFT, you get me?

Hear me out, I feel like he'd spoil you tho

Honestly, It's Shanks he'd probably appreciate the fuck out of you because he loves you uwu

This is probably not want the requester wanted but Shanks is just like perfect in a relationship in my mind?

You lowkey get spoiled, you have one of the five?? emperors as a lover?, you also have a fucking pirate captain as a lover too, anyways you living the life since it's FUCKING SHANKS

I really don't how to explain but he just loves you

He would also push off things for you, how do I word it? It would just stop doing things for you

I tried to make this soft but you know, Sexually, nsfw, the devil tango wise

He likes it when your above him, you know why

Yeah, I feel like he in to that

Oh, and he be so into making sure you get off before him

Mfer seems like the type to into sensory deprivation

He would make you ride him blindfolded stfu

OH I JUST REMEMBERED HES ONE HANDED FUCKCK

He still would those tho

But back to soft

He could cheer you up so easily

He just needs to smile once and your fine

Cause he's fucking Shanks

Marco

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Cause of that one scene, where's he's in that village place he looks like the definition of cottage core now

I WANT TO LIVE THE WOODS IN A COTTAGE WITH MARCO NOW FUCK

I honestly don't really know how he would be in a relationship but I feel like it would be beautiful

Since I'm in a cottage core mood you getting some cottage core shit

omg imaGINE JUST MESSING AROUND WHILE IN A FIELD PICKING FLOWERS OR SOMETHING ANDBJDDNKDDK

I deeply apologize for giving you some weird cottage core shit btw

But I'm just imagining like you, whoever you are male, female, or non-binary just standing in the middle of this wide open field or something and HE'S JUST SITTING THERE LOOKING AT YOU WITH SUCH LOVE IN HIS EYES

I'M SO FUCKING STOFFTTDYDYDU

I'M SABO SOFT NOWSHDJDJ

I really don't know what to say

I just feel like you'd be the most important thing in his life for some reason

after aces death idk

Just imagine all the cute ass moments y'all would have

Why am I imagining one of you holding up a apple or something to the others mouth

Which then become him grabbing your face and kiss you

Nsfw part below btw

OMGSBDBSJEB IMAGINE HAVING PICNIC BLANKET SEX

I'm melting fucking christ help

Just imagine that

I feel like he be hella gentle and soft too?

He seems like the type that just doesn't want to hurt you? Help, I'm crying

I apologize for a lot screaming during this IM SOFT AND IT HURTS AND IM GONNA STOP HERE BEFORE I DIE

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A/n: help I'm crying

#one piece imagines #one piece #one piece scenario #one piece scenarios #marco one piece #shanks one piece #one piece imagine #anime imagines #anime imagine #anime scenarios

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touchmycoat · 4 years

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you said hot doctors au with marco/sabo/law and talked about how Marco wouldn't fit the usual medical kink role because he isn't the type to have a god complex and all i immediately thought about the delicious contrast between marco and law (who i definitely see having a god complex). sharing my thoughts with you to thank you for driving me crazy :)

you’re welcome i have way too much on my writing docket to make this happen properly rn argh but yes?? hello??? this is it??

God Complex vs. Martyr Complex. Like, the things that they get off on the most are just on the opposite sides of the spectrum. For now, I’m entertaining the idea that they really just can’t turn their respective Things on for one another. Like, sure, a man who will happily take his knife? Sign Law the fuck up! …Except this was Marco, a colleague whom Law actually does respect ‘cause competence is great, and just on the basis of that Law has a hard time indulging that sort of scene. And on the flip side, someone who should happily cut him down and open? Marco’s all about that. Except same problem. Unless they find something genuinely spicy about each other, they’re p much just amiable colleagues who are eyes emoji at one another sometimes but no catalyst.

…And then enter catalyst. Sabo has, y’know, all sorts of potential ways to connect with Marco (take your pick; it’s 8AM i’m not ready to be sad about Ace yet). So maybe Sabo used to be a patient, a long time ago. They got along great (if a patient cracking open Marco’s bedside manners to reveal the darkest banter underneath could be called great), but obviously Sabo peaced out. Years later, maybe they meet at a bar, reconnected (because Marco never forgets a patient and Sabo’s pleasantly surprised to have not been forgotten).

So they start dating. But uh oh, one potential snafu, and Sabo has to go in for some sort of specialized check-up. I haven’t thought about medical specialties yet, but anyways, Sabo has to see Law. They get along great as well (their bitching match), and Law has everything pinging everywhere except obviously this is a patient. Oh and that’s definitely Dr. Marco strolling in looking embarrassed about Sabo’s PDA—the PDA that was most definitely put on for Law’s benefit, but not in a “back off I have a man” way, more in a “look what I can do, look what we can do” way that got Law all considering…

(Both Sabo & Marco are poly so we’re just havin’ fun. Put in some lag in communication though for optional angst.)

But Sabo can flirt all he wants; as long as he’s a patient it’s never going to happen. However, Law can certainly turn all his, hm, curiosity onto Marco. Turns from more-or-less polite “oh i’m sorry about that” “don’t worry about it it’s fine,” to, “dating an ex-patient hm? that’s interesting,” to, “so do you like it when your boyfriend flirts with other doctors or is that just for him?” Maybe not in the same conversation, but Law’s sensed that blood in the water now. He’s seen the way Sabo could get under Marco’s skin and, call it what you want (a god complex isn’t off the mark) but Law kind of wants to try his hand at it too.

As for Marco… That moment of possibility between him and Law can only spark if he lets it, right? He can certainly go cold and proper, tell Law all those comments are perfectly unprofessional, and they’re not things that truly bother him so Law can fuck off. But. But. There was something in Law’s examination room that day, a specific frequency that Law and Sabo fell into, that really piqued Marco’s interests. Sabo loves teasing and chipping and digging his fingers into cracks until everything came apart, and Law was ready to let Sabo open him up but in a way that dared Sabo to fucking find out what’s underneath. And there’s always been something in Law’s manners, the cool clip of his tone, that Marco hardcore respected in a surgeon (okay Law’s a surgeon) and knew Sabo would be all about…

So Marco doesn’t shut it down. Instead, he… suggests. It wasn’t my idea yoi, but to use his words, ‘once you get naked under a man’s cold stethoscope you never go back’ and, Flirting? Sabo? Well he does like to provoke. Don’t mind it too much hm? He’s just like that.

Which all, of course, just get Law more fired up; he’s tantalized, he’s challenged… Finally, whatever Sabo went into the hospital for is all cleared up, nothing’s serious, they can get the show on the road. I’m thinking there’s an international conference or something, and Marco brings Sabo. They’re all outside their regular space, and the possibilities seem endless. Law is lying in wait at the lobby bar, just kicked back and chilling with a drink. Sees Marco & Sabo come through from some romantic dinner or some shit, and gives them a look. Sabo looks smug and goes for the elevator. Marco smirks too, and beckons Law over with a nod of his head.

The things Marco & Law do can be very similar on the surface, but they have wildly different motivations. Sabo learns as much that night. He’s used to having to egg Marco on, pinch and pull for a while until he can finally get Marco to snap—but Marco’s ultimately about service. The way he snaps is still utterly wrapped in “ah, alright, so this is what I can do for you.” And that’s fucking lovely! Sabo doesn’t want gentle by any stretch of the imagination, but he could take… tender. He could take the aftercare, he could take the way Marco had to heavily research things to do to Sabo. Sabo even appreciates it. Like, that’s love, baby.

But Law. Motherfucking Law is the truest sadist Sabo’s ever got to encounter. It’s thrilling, all the shit he can think up to incite, at first, discomfort. This position or, hold it there and keep still and, if you mess this up we’ll have to start over, won’t we. Law’s demand of perfect performance and all the tests designed for Sabo to fail. Sabo fucking loves it, loves all the cards being stacked against him like that and just made to work but getting continually put in his place by a continually unimpressed Law and—

Marco loves it too. He puts on a damn good show for Sabo but it’s also great to see Sabo having the time of his life here. And then—so Sabo can brat it up at Marco all he wants, and Marco will respond with varying degrees of indulgence. But the moment Law baits him? That’s a challenge. That’s Law trying to take total control of the scene and Marco knew better than to let him. Watch that initial respect for another doctor transmute into disdain (for this scene); what kind of god does Law think he is, Marco’s perfectly competent, has been perfectly competent at pleasing Sabo and now Law thinks he can just saunter in and—?

Not so above it all, are you? Law says as they just, double-team Sabo I guess. Law’s sadism is all sharp stings, but Marco’s caresses are a different kind of sadistic, at least for Sabo, who hates gentle, who grits his teeth and grins at pain but really might cry at gentle.

(and that’s for other hot doctors!AU anon, brb…..)

#anon #this is so gaaaaahh #i'm glad hot doctors AU piquing everybody's interests #marco #sabo #trafalgar law #rated m under cut #i also love thinking about how marco can't indulge a medical kink while law 100% can #yeah for sure he'll play the unscrupulous doctor #he'll tell you to bend over and spread and clinically work you open 'til you cry #ahem anyways

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beanghostprincess · 2 months

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Now that I've been talking about Sabo's eye... I wish I knew how to draw to show you but-- I have a very specific view when it comes to Sabo's design.

I think he shouldn't have an eye, for starters. He should have a very fucked up scar and no eye at all. He wears a glass eye sometimes but it's funny to him to just... Not wear it at all. Also, Koala finds it disgusting and creepy the way he jokes about it but Luffy loves every second of it.

Not to mention that the scar isn't only on his face but pretty much all half of his body. But already knew that.

The thing is- I really, really, really liked him with that missing tooth when he was a kid. I loved it. He was adorable. And I think that he should get into a fight and lose the same tooth so Luffy goes "Oh! You look like when we were little!" and Sabo decides to ignore the thought of getting another tooth because it makes Luffy happy and also it looks cool. So now he has a missing tooth and he looks hotter.

So, yeah, missing eye. Missing tooth. Scars all over his body. AND! He can't hear from one ear. Right ear? It's alright. Perfect hearing. The left one, though? A fucking mess. And he often uses that as an excuse to say he isn't hearing things he refuses to hear, like, idk, Koala telling him to do his work.

His leg is also a bit too messed up and sometimes he has difficulty walking. Which isn't a problem anymore when he eats the Mera Mera fruit, but it still bothers him. So the metal pipe is mostly to beat the shit out of people but also to walk. It's just that nobody knows that bit.

Also, random outfits I found on pinterest that I imagine Sabo wearing because my mind has no limits:

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#oda let me rewrite him please #these are just some of my headcanons #now get ready for 'sabo has chronic pains and nightmares and still has issues with memory loss AND he probs has a personality disorder'#he should be more fucked up after everything he's been through #I'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE I KNOW I AM SORRY EWKJFBWEJKBEFW #he makes me go insane #one piece #revolutionary sabo

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touchmycoat · 5 years

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Kinktober: day 1

alskdjfhalsd you know how I can’t finish things really? I’ve decided I’ll just post daily bits of writing that fulfill the kink of the day. Literally all WIPS probably but I’m gonna finish them i swear ;;;

Day 1: Sensory Deprivation

It was one of those open sea nights that settled in soft. Dinner had been the usual raucous affair, with a number of Ace's favorites (heaps of carbs and meats on top, as Thatch very well knew), and a barrel of hearty mead had been cracked open and passed around. Marco was back on the ship after one of his patrol circuits, and he had greeted Ace, upon his arrival, with a long, loving, very sweet kiss. Everything aboard the Moby Dick was warm, and the perfect definition of family.

It all served to make Ace even more anxious, later that night, closing the door to Marco's room (well, their room at this point, pretty much) behind him.

“Tired?” Ace opened. Marco had stripped down to just his pants, and was toweling down the evening's mild sweat and dirt. His smile, when he looked back over his shoulder, was casual and unsuspecting.

“No more so than usual yoi,” was the reply, as Marco wrung the towel out one more time, hanging it out to dry on a rack. Ace, in an effort to disguise his foot-shuffling worry, had sat himself down on the bed. When his hands started twisting about themselves though, he had to sit on them too. “How about you?”

“Same. Dinner was nice, so was the drink. But I didn't have too much or anything!” Marco's amused quirk of an eyebrow was, Ace surmised, the appropriate reaction to such seemingly random defensiveness. He needed to recover, quick. “C'mere?”

“Always.”

And wasn't this just the loveliest thing about Marco. Before finding his way into this relationship, Ace had never given too much thought to sex—there had always been more relevant things, and Ace has always found libido easily dismissable (especially aboard ships filled with nosey crewmates who weren't afraid to make fun of you if they overheard anything). Which was why he didn't have much by way of expectations. Even if he did though, Ace thought he'd've still been pretty blown away by all the things Marco could, were willing, and wanted to do.

Like this kiss. Guiding, yet obliging. Powerful, yet articulate in its model of power, where the throne was always present to seat Ace. Marco, ever happy to go to his knees.

(There was something perversely thrilling in this, thinking of them not as just Ace and Marco—and Sabo, on his way, as promised by a den den mushi call just that morning—but as Ace, the wildcard rookie who wracked up a bounty like nobody's business and was offered a Shichibukai spot mere months into his debut, and as Marco the Phoenix. Second-in-Command to the Strongest Man in the World, a legend in his own right. Ace had nothing, nothing but love and respect for Pops, but in moments like this, he also quite deviously delighted in the thought that a man of Marco's caliber was here, on his knees, for Ace.)

...But Ace was on a mission tonight. No matter how much he was enjoying this, he knew this wasn't the kind of conversation they could have on uneven ground. So he (reluctantly) pulled away from the kiss, then pulled Marco up and onto the bed.

“Something on your mind, yoi?” Marco asked, a little bit of a furrow between his brow now, but still unsuspecting. Ace had pressed himself in close, and was tracing the outline of Marco's tattoo in a nervous gesture.

“There's something I need to tell you, but I don't think you're gonna like it,” he blurted. When he felt the telltale suspension of Marco's breath under his fingers, Ace hurried to add, “it's nothing bad! In fact, it's probably actually good. I think.”

“I'm more than happy to hear what you want to say yoi, you know that,” Marco said carefully, when it became clear Ace was waiting for a response. “But is this something you want to talk to Sabo about first, perhaps?”

“Honestly I wanted to tell you first because I think you'll take it harder than he will.”

“...Alright. Then not to rush you or anything yoi.” Every square inch of Marco has glaciated, and he was clearly trying not to jerk himself out from under Ace's hands. The worst part was, Ace really hadn't been able to think of a better way to do this. “But would you please tell me what's going on already?”

“Yes, sorry, I just—” Come on, Portgas, you practiced this. “Okay. So remember when you and Sabo asked if there's something I would like to try and explore? Like, he has his pain thing and you have your service thing. I was trying to figure out if there's anything I would like, in that, um, realm. And there kind of is.”

That was clearly not where Marco expected this conversation to go—his frown now was wholly confused. Knowing Marco, he had probably been anticipating a declaration about how Ace realized the only one he wanted was Sabo, and won't Marco please kindly remove himself from the equation already.

Realizing that, Ace tried to simultaneously kiss and shake some reassurance into Marco (resulting in an uncoordinated clash of teeth that nevertheless did the job, for it got a startled huff of laughter out of Marco).

“I love you, you know that right?” Ace declared in a rush. “So this isn't—There is something I'd like to try, but you need to know I'm really fucking happy with my life, okay? I couldn't be more grateful, to you and Sabo, to Pops, to everybody in the crew, and I swear on my life—okay well maybe not—I swear on my mother's grave that everything's really, really good. I have everything I think I can possibly want or need—”

“Ace,” Marco cut him off. His nose was slightly scrunched in focus, as a man used to wearing glasses did when scrutinizing a mess in comprehension. “I need you to explain again, okay yoi?” When the right configuration of words still eluded Ace, Marco offered, “it sounds like you're maybe concerned that whatever you want to try might imply you're unhappy?”

“That I'm ungrateful,” Ace tweaked. “And I'm not, I swear to you.”

“Ace,” Marco repeated, a strange expression on his face as he set a hand on Ace's thigh. “I know that yoi. What we want in the privacy of the bedroom doesn't need to have any bearing on what we want in daily life. I hardly think that every time Sabo asks to be hit in bed he wants us to beat him up during the day.”

“Right, I know that,” Ace said miserably, “but this is different.”

“How, yoi?”

Ace breathed. And breathed and breathed, and Marco just let him. Marco watched him from less than a foot away, with the steady patience of a dedicated listener, willing Ace to find the words to talk to him.

So Ace, having already chosen to embark down this road, summoned up all his stores of courage and faith, and croaked, “well I was reading that book, and I just thought, wouldn't it be nice to not exist?”

Marco's gaze went blank, but Ace gripped the hand still on his thigh hard, keeping things in place.

“They called it,” he said softly, meaning that book, the one Sabo tossed at him with a wink, “sensory deprivation. Said it feels, for some people, like you've simply stopped existing.”

“I just thought,” Ace continued, voice dissipating into something even less than a whisper. A confession, unforgiven. “It might be nice.”

The strength in his grip was disappearing just as quickly as his confidence, and Ace began to shift away. But really, what the hell had he been thinking? Surely Marco, who had gone through two lifetimes and an infinity of sparring with death just to convince Ace to stay alive, wouldn't react well to this casual talk of Ace throwing his life away. Again. It was a silly desire to begin with, something miasmic and imprecise in the depth of Ace's mind. At least Sabo had clear-cut needs—hit me until I feel branded by you, or let me hit you until I've tied you to me. Marco was even more straightforward, easily summarized in a single word: give. And here was Ace, making a mess of things again with his messy wants. He should never have said anything, because he was perfectly happy wasn't he? Selfish, to be demanding more, especially something that he knew, he knew would hurt—

“Ace.” A flash of emotional blue—the hand that came to cup Ace's cheek though, was entirely flesh. “Ace.”

The kiss that cut off Ace's immediate attempt to apologize was—nothing like Ace expected. Nothing apologetic, nothing horrified, nothing (god forbid) pitying. It was actually... hot. Not the most devouring of gestures, but one still thoroughly suffused with want. It was so confusing that Ace had to break away.

“I thought,” he stuttered, “I thought you'd be upset.”

“You said this is a good thing,” Marco pointed out. “Did you mean that?”

“I—Yes. It's not bad, I'm not sad or anything—”

“Then great, yoi. We're on the same page.”

“Really?” Ace couldn't help but squawk. He was probably being dreadfully rude but he couldn't care less at this point. “You're turned on by this?”

“Shouldn't I be?” Despite his confident words, Marco still gave away a bit of self-consciousness by scratching the back of his neck, eyes flickering off to the side. “And well, I got quite the rush of endorphins yoi, when I realized you weren't actually breaking up with me.”

“And why the fuck would I break up with you?” Ace growled, not really meaning it as a question at all. Marco, taking the hint, gestured the question away with a slight tilt of his head. His eyes, Ace noticed, were still mostly pupil.

“I'm the predictable one in this equation yoi, you know that. So tell me—” The other great thing about Marco was, when he promised like that, with his whole body, he's never ever failed to give Ace all that was asked for. “—how would you like this done?”

continued

#do you like how i just stop at the good part #no i'm just gonna save those post on ao3 lmfAO #the actual kink of kinktober is delayed gratification for myself and my readers #marcoacesabo #kinktober 2019 #*pretends like i'm gonna be able to sustain this by demarcating the year lmfao*#my writing

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