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🌠Shooting Stars🌠
An entry for the One Piece Summer challenge!
Law x Reader
Prompt: Stargazing Word Count: 1.6k
Synopsis: While travelling on the Polar Tang, you don't usually stay afloat for long. However, a starry night is too tempting...
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Summer.
Does it really matter?
Your head prompted on your palm, you were lost in the vagueness of the ocean. It was one of the few days that the Polar Tang would stay afloat in the middle of the sea. Actually, tonight, was a special night; the sky was a dark canvas painted with falling stars, decorated with brushstrokes of unmethodical, colourful patterns and dancing spots everywhere.
Even the air, it brought the salty aroma on deck, filling your lungs with it and cheering you up. You would never get used to it... and it was always such a pain to let it out of your system...
Travelling in a submarine had forever been quite depressing. The empty spaces were blocking any source of light from entering, therefore transforming themselves into a cloistered prison. You felt so cooped up sometimes, like a caged bird. Not even the palliative company of your nakama could alleviate the gloomy mood that was slowly eating you away.
Every single time you disappeared into the depths of the bottomless sea, it was as if the time froze. There was no morning, noon, nor afternoon. There was no spring, summer, autumn, nor winter. There was only the black of night.
Unlit and shadowy, it swallowed everything in its wake, you included.
You had always lived in the open air, enjoyed the blessings of nature, the warmth of the sun caressing your body and somehow driving all your preoccupations away. That's the very reason you became a pirate, to begin with.
If it weren't for those silver eyes, you wouldn't be here. Trafalgar Law, the Surgeon of Death, had managed to get his hands gripped around your heart, squeezing for all they were worth, leaving you aching with longing and a breath stuck in your throat. You knew he was no good but, there was something in him... something... hypnotising, that you simply couldn't ignore.
Even though the feeling of drowning in the blackness between the walls had been torturing you ever since you begun your journey, the mysterious glimmer in his look dragged you out of your fear and anguish. He was always by your side, in his own way.
A great Captain, indeed.
Yet, you couldn't omit the fact that something was seriously troubling him the past few weeks. He always had a tendency to isolate himself in his cabin, reading books and making research on medical grounds -- his muttering jargon under his breath confirming that -- but he didn't use to be that distant.
Especially tonight, when the scenery above you was remarkable to the point where one could literally gawk with their mouth hanging open. He would never miss a rain of falling stars.
"They remind of someone... special." he would always say.
You wanted to ask him, delve deeper into his obscure past, yet, he was too reserved. He kept his feelings and thoughts to himself, you highly doubt he could trust even his first mate. However, it was evident in his indolent eyes, an agony, a tremendous feeling, deeply rooted in his soul.
That you could tell, for the eyes are the window to the soul... And this man's eyes... they held many sorrowful secrets...
What with all this thoughts swirling around your head, you lost your grip on the reality, so you never noticed the lovable white bear of the crew standing next to you.
Bepo.
You never understood why he would want to become a pirate and leave his life in the Mokomo Dukedom behind, a place fraught with peace-loving, cheerful creatures. Maybe he was curious to see what was beyond that land.
Come to think of it, the entire crew is quite absurd.
But I love them anyways.
The way the salty breeze messed with his fur was making him look even more adorable.
"Aren't those stars beautiful?" he asked, breaking the awkward silence.
"Yes, they are."
The previous silence took over once again, until...
"Uh, Bepo... Do you know where the Captain is? I mean..." you tried to sound as indifferent as possible, "...he never misses this."
You saw no reaction for some seconds.
"He was working in his cabin... I guess he'll come soon..."
A voiceless nod of agreement and then you were sinking in your thoughts anew.
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You didn't have the foggiest idea how long you had been staring at the starry horizon. The moon seemed gigantic now, the only embellishment that begged to differ in that symmetry of white and black.
Bepo had departed some minutes ago, because he couldn't stare at the full moon for too long, as he couldn't control his Sulong form completely.
So, for the moment, you were standing alone behind the railing of the submarine, admiring the view and the expansion of dark blue stretching in front of you. It was so relaxing, you couldn't get enough of it.
Until a certain tattooed hand was placed on your shoulder.
"Oi, (Y/n)."
You turned to face the long awaited raven-haired pirate.
"Yes, Captain?"
His touch immediately abandoned you and his grey eyes narrowed. "How many times do I have to tell you? You don't have to call me captain. Just call me Law."
You tried to look away, but he was pinning you with his intense and demanding look. You couldn't help but simply nod to avoid any more of... this.
I could easily drown in these pools of silver...
He stood beside you, supporting himself on the railing while he took an eyeful of the scene ahead. At first, you didn't pay too much attention to him but tried to focus elsewhere. You didn't manage to stay like that for long, though.
You took glances of your captain now and then, curious to witness all his reactions to this boon. You saw his grey orbs meeting the pale one in the sky and glowing in delight, then a weak smile bending his lips.
He looked at the moon as if it was a person; a person he held dear.
"Law."
He averted his star-kissed gaze slowly, reluctantly, until it locked with yours. "Yes?"
"That special someone you had told me about... do you want to talk about them?" you asked timidly, eyeing him expectantly, albeit you practically knew you'd get negative answer.
"It's a very old and long story."
Is he actually going to talk about it?!
He paused for some good moments, making you reasonably think that he had no intention of giving more details, but... he had.
He didn't exactly give you chapter and verse of his backstory, but he explained how he lost his entire family and hometown due to Amber Lead Syndrome, how he ended up in the Donquixote Pirates, how the noble and kind Cora-san sacrificed himself to save him....
You always sensed he'd got a dark background but, that was just too dark. How could a child possibly endure all this losses and trauma at once?
However, he never ceased his recounting. He went on, revealed more about his experiences, his life. Until, a shocking exposure was made and pretty much explained everything.
The Will of D.
He, Trafalgar Law, was carrying the tremendous Will of D. Well, that pretty much accounted for everything.
"But why are you telling me all this?"
He shifted, his grey eyes boring into yours in a vertiginous labyrinth.
"I'll be leaving soon." he replied, his tone colder than before.
"What?! Why?!"
"I need to take care of certain things... and now that we are in the New World... you know that we either go against or ally with the Emperors..."
"And whose side are we on?" you enquired, still struggling to process all these information.
"It's too early for you to know..." he grabbed you by your shoulders, gazing fiercely at you, "...but you needn't worry..." he said, his voice softening as well as his sharp features.
A hefty sigh escaped from your lips, before you glanced at the stars. You were fixated there, observing them make their steady descent, leaving trails of glimmering starlight behind.
"Do you want to make a wish?"
Law's frown was followed by a chuckle. "Isn't that too childish?"
"No, come on! The shooting stars don't stay for long!"
He closed his eyes in defeat, probably wishing for something. His hands hadn't abandoned your shoulders, not even then. You waited patiently for the moment his steel grey gaze met yours and you almost melted on the spot.
"What did you wish for?"
"I can't tell you..." he reminded you, his lips stretching into a mischievous smile.
Right.
"...but I can show you." was all he said, before his soft lips landed on yours.
Taken by surprise, could be an understatement. It felt so surreal, it gave you the impression you were hallucinating. It was all slow and passionate, with the dull light of the stars showering you, the low splash of the waves resonating and the slight rocking of the Polar Tang dolling it all up.
Hell, even the scratching of his goatee against your glabrous chin was alluring. You were swimming in a pool of bliss by now, unable and unwilling to get out. You knew it wasn't going to last long yet, you flung yourself into it. You were only a couple of hours away from being trapped in that cage of darkness again, but now you didn't seem to care.
Now you knew.
Summer matters.
Because I'm the summer to his winter heart.
~End~
----- OMG this was so cute <3 Law, shooting stars, and kissing are like...three of my favorite things lmao “I can’t tell you...but I can show you” GAH! I died, my face has been squished in happiness, and I’m still squealing. Great job, hun!!
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