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The alarm blared loudly in the small bedroom of Law's hotel room. The older stirred, hand moving first to turn off the intrusion, then patting his boyfriend on the back, trying to wake him up.

"Luffy, get up, you have school." Law said sleepily but cuddled more into the warm body, contrary to his words, not wanting to let go.

"Nooooooooo." Luffy groaned and brought Law closer, pulling the sheet over his head.

"Come on." Law tried again, now having to reluctantly leave the comfort. He left the bed and pulled the sheet away from Luffy, exposing him to the sunlight that was coming in through the windows. "Get up."

"I don't wanna gooooooo." The younger curled inwards, hiding his face.

"You're not skipping or I am going back to Flevance this instant." The doctor threatened and watched in amusement the instantaneous reaction of Luffy leaving the bed.

"I'm up!" The boy scrambled to get up, clothes and hair going every which way, feet tangling in the sheet and the now unrolled long pajama legs and the final, very loud, thud that came with Luffy's face hitting the ground.

"You're down." Law chuckled shaking his head. Luffy pouted rubbing his head and trying to get back but fell back again in his haste, hitting his head on the same site again. Law sat down beside him and untangled everything to free his boyfriend, then kissed the reddened impact site on Luffy's forehead, pulling him up with him. "I will keep in mind to get shorter pajamas next time."

"Torao there's still two hours!" Luffy whined when he checked his phone.

"You don't want breakfast?" Law gasped.

"Yeah but two hours?"

"I was thinking we could go to breakfast then I can drop you off at school?"

Luffy's eyes lit up. "Let's do that!" The two took the car to a nearby café for breakfast and after that, Law dropped Luffy off to school, gathering a lot of stares from a lot of people. Before Luffy left to go inside the school building, he turned. "Oh Sabo said 'tell Torao to pack an overnight bag'."

"...why?" Law asked, leaning back into safe space a little, he knew he wouldn't like the answer.

"Because you're staying the night of course." Luffy said as if it was the most natural answer and Law should have expected to hear that.

"With your brothers around?" Law turned off the ignition and left the car entirely, this needed his attention. "Somebody could end up hurt, or worse, nailed to the ceiling and it won't be me."

"Nyahahahahha!" Luffy laughed and gathered more eyes their way. "Nobody will hurt anybody, Ace and Sabo wanna meet you for real! And I can show you my room! It'd be so awesome!" The way Luffy was so excited on having Law over, the older couldn't put a damper on his mood even if some devil forced him to.

"Fine. But I am not patching anyone up if someone does get hurt." Law warned then bent to kiss Luffy's forehead.

"Oi! Oi! No PDA on school grounds!" A distant yell made the boys look in the direction.

"Usopp!" Luffy greeted. "Ok Imma go now! See you later Torao! Text me where to meet you!" Law waved Luffy off and when the younger was completely out of sight, Law got back in the car and drove to Grey Terminal, to see if Tony-ya had set up clinic today and if he needed help.

~

Luffy looked at the text from Torao and frowned, wondering what Torao was doing at Makino's bar when he didn't drink. The doctor had texted Luffy of the rendezvous point so they could head to meet the brothers together. It was all OK, except, why was Law at a bar when he didn't drink?! Regardless, Luffy said goodbye to Usopp and headed to meet Torao.

"Ah Luffy!" Makino greeted when she saw Luffy entering the establishment. The younger quickly took off his school jacket and stuffed it in his bag.

"Makino!" Luffy greeted back and walked to the bar, wondering where Torao was but didn't have to search for long because Makino was pointing at a stool with her eyes, she looked worried. Luffy followed her gaze and found Torao. The younger wondered why the woman was so worried, then found the reason upon reaching his boyfriend. Torao was drinking. "Is that apple juice?" Luffy asked just to confirm, the contents of the glass in Law's hands looked very similar to apple juice and there was no way Torao was drinking alcohol.

"Oh you're here." Law smiled then looked at his glass before the question from his boyfriend registered. "Nope, whiskey."

"And you're smoking!" Luffy noticed pinching his nose when Law brought the cigarette to his lips. "Why are you drinking?"

"Relax, it's just half a glass and watered down with ice." Law evaded the question and lit up another cigarette when he blew out the last one.

"Thanks!" Luffy said to Makino when she placed a glass of juice and a whole plate full of chicken bites in front of him. Luffy turned to tell Law something but noticed that he had been so preoccupied with the shock of the older actually drinking that he didn't notice that Torao was wearing a tight tanktop, the tattoos on his arms on full display, and his nails were painted black again. Now Luffy really had questions. He had never seen Law be like that in public. "Ok, what happened?"

"What do you mean what happened?" Law asked in return.

"Why are you drinking? You said you never drink."

"Felt good so decided to make an exception for today."

"Why are you feeling good?"

"What," Law smirked taking a smoke, "am I not allowed to feel good?"

Luffy pouted with a whine, Law was avoiding answers. "It's ok if you don't wanna answer."

Law hummed then decided to answer. "I went to Tony-ya after dropping you off to school, there was a man at the clinic, about to lose his entire leg to infection." Law blew out the smoke away from Luffy. "Managed to save him somehow, then treated three heart attacks. This and then the woman on the flight, then before all that, I don't know why but I decided to help a girl in need to an urgent liver transplant. It's exhausting but... feels good being a doctor and helping people."

"So you're celebrating?" Luffy grinned. "That's ok then! Good job Torao!" The younger patted the doctor on his back, happy that Law was being honest.

"I told this to Tony-ya too, you guys are severely ill-equipped in terms of the clinic." Law pointed, stealing a piece of chicken from Luffy.

"Yeah, medical equipment is very expensive, Nami said machines are way out of budget right now." Luffy scratched his head.

"If you trust the people in Grey Terminal enough not to vandalize the equipment or sell it when no one's looking, I can fund the clinic." Law offered. "Tony-ya said he would talk to Nami."

"Where are you getting the money from?" Luffy narrowed his eyes.

Law smirked. "From my bad activities." The older accidentally blew the smoke out in Luffy's direction.

"Stop that!" Luffy whined.

Law leaned into Luffy's space until their lips were almost touching, he was feeling playful and light, guess that was the alcohol. "Stop what?" This time, the doctor deliberately blew the cigarette smoke on Luffy's closed mouth and some of it went in. Luffy coughed on the side and Law chuckled to himself.

"Don't torment Luffy like that please." Makino came to the rescue and gave Luffy more juice to help his coughs. The boy in question was red in the face and felt awfully hot and knotted in his stomach at the closeness from Law. Luffy didn't understand what it was that was reacting to Law because as soon as his coughing fit had subsided, the first thought that the younger had was, 'that was so hot.'

Law downed the rest of his whiskey and took a long inhale of his cigarette before putting both the vices aside. He hopped off his stool and paid. "We are going to your brothers, I also needed a drink for that."

"Are we going to your hotel first?" Luffy asked saying his byes to Makino and followed Law outside.

"No, why?"

"You're going like this?"

"Like what?" Law asked then looked over himself. "Is there something wrong with how I look?"

Luffy pouted and stomped his foot. "Wait here." The younger went inside the bar again and came out with a jacket. "Wear this."

"Why?"

"It's the same as when you didn't want me wearing lipstick in public." Law shrugged, it made sense to him.

"Oh. Whose is it?"

"I dunno, got it from a random guy in the bar." Luffy pushed the jacket in Law's direction.

"Ew. No thanks." Law made a disgusted face and stepped a little away from the offensive piece of clothing.

"Toraooo!"

"I will get my own, thanks, think I had a shirt in the car." Law said and went to his car while Luffy returned the jacket.

"Why are you dressed in all black?" Luffy asked when he got back and found Law with a proper shirt on but it was black too, the same as his pants and tanktop.

"Mourning my sanity in advance."

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Law adjusted his masks better on his face as Luffy led him up the stairs to the apartment. He was not nervous, just slightly anxious because he didn't want to hurt anybody and he could very well be made to do just that. But, Law was willing to take Luffy's word for it.

Luffy turned the key and opened the apartment door. "Shoes here." The younger pointed to the shoe rack in the small hallway when the door opened. "Sabo gets mad when I bring outdoor shoes on the clean floors."

"He's right about that. It's such a pain cleaning grime off floors." Law agreed and took off his shoes, exchanging them for indoor slippers.

"Ace! Luffy's here!" Sabo called appearing to greet the two. The oldest jumped beside Sabo out of nowhere. Both the brothers looked at Law and Sabo realizing something, elbowed Ace, not so subtly. "It's the shady weird doctor person who helped you Ace!"

"Yeah! Torao helped!" Luffy agreed and Law took off his masks.

"It's Law." The surgeon sighed.

Sabo's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets at the face beneath the masks and this time, his elbow hitting Ace wasn't so subtle. "It's Trafalgar Law!"

Law didn't feel any hostility from the brothers when he had first seen them but now that Sabo announced his full name, the murderous aura was very obvious. "Yes, I am Trafalgar Law." Law agreed, bored and handed Sabo the bags of meat he was carrying. "Luffy told me you both enjoy and consume as much meat as he does so."

"Is this a peace offering?" Ace asked peeking in the bags and found foreign tags, noticing the meat was not locally bought. "From... where are you from?"

"Flevance." Law didn't see a reason to hide it. "The meat is from Flevance too, yes."

"Oh." Sabo said, distracted. Luffy saw the same look of pain on Sabo's face as he saw on Robin's.

"You guys know Torao?" Luffy asked when it clicked that Sabo knew his full name. Sabo didn't want to tell Luffy that his boyfriend was a huge name in the underworld so he prayed for some sort of distraction.

"Oh yeah, Law, man, thanks for patching me up that time." Ace said pointing to the fading scar on his forehead.

"I am a doctor, it was only natural to help." Law grinned when he saw Sabo breathe a sigh of relief.

"How long till food?" Luffy asked and went to sit on the sofa, taking Law with him, quickly going to put Law's bag in his own room then joining everyone.

"As soon as everyone arrives." Ace said once Luffy got back and the youngest pointed at the juice box in Ace's hand as opposed to water. Ace poured the juice in two glasses and handed them to the boyfriends.

"Everyone?" Luffy tilted his head in confusion.

"Yeah-" Ace started but was interrupted by the door opening with a loud thud.

"We're here!" Law recognized the voice as Uta's.

"UTA!" Luffy hopped off the couch and went to hug his sister. Law sipped at the juice, he knew Uta was the sister but all that calm went outside the window when following Uta were Monkey D. fucking Dragon and Garp, and lastly, Dadan. Law choked on his juice but managed to calm himself again before he gathered unwanted attention.

"Oh it's Rosi's runt!" Garp said approaching Law.

"I swear if you pick me up by the collar again." Law threatened bringing out his scalpel.

"Law!" The doctor was saved by Uta bringing her arm around Law and hugging him, that and Luffy diverting Garp's attention saved Law entirely. Law was lowkey on edge, thinking Akagami might also pop out of somewhere. "Shanks isn't coming, don't worry."

"Uta, you know Torao?" Luffy asked when Dragon and Sabo seated Garp on the couch and gave him tea to subdue him.

"Oh I..." The woman looked at Law and the doctor slowly shook his head telling her to not mention the first live. "I accidentally met him on the latest live. I thought someone was having a panic attack then I found out it was your Torao and he was just embarrassed."

"You were at the live too?!"

"Of course, Luffy, how could I miss?" The siblings grinned and laughed until Sabo called everyone to assemble at the table.

Garp sat as the head, the seat on Garp's right was reserved, Law wondered who for, then Law and Luffy were beside the empty seat. Dadan and Dragon and the brothers were on the other side and Uta was heading the other end of the table.

"I feel awfully outnumbered." Law told Luffy in a side whisper.

"We are still waiting for someone." Luffy said with a wide grin and right on cue, there was a booming voice from the other side of the front door.

"Garp you bastard! Open this door! I have my hands full!"

"You couldn't have possibly-!" Law was at a loss of words.

"Yeap! It is a family dinner!" Luffy got up to open the door, leaving Law to only stare at him from afar.

"Hey! You're wearing that dead bird hat!" Luffy greeted and extended his arms to help the old man by taking the numerous bags he had in his hands but Sabo beat him to it. And in walked Sengoku, Law's adoptive grandfather. The seat that was reserved at Garp's right hand was his.

"Law." Sengoku nodded in Law's direction and Law just, very pathetically, waved back. "Can't believe you pulled your move faster than Rosinante."

"That's right! Hahahahahaha!!" Garp laughed, slapping his hand on the table. Sengoku sat beside Law and patted his head, the old man knew Law was socially awkward and any attempt to get him to make small talk would only be embarrassing them both. "How long did it take Rosi again?" Garp asked.

"Good thing Bellemere was patient, that son of mine took years!"

"What are you guys even talking about?" Ace pointed, not understanding a word.

"Who confessed first with you two?" Uta asked, interested.

"I did!" Luffy said before Law had to chance to shut him up.

"Oh, it makes sense then." Sengoku said. "You Monkeys are very eager, we like to think ahead and move accordingly." Law who never talked to Sengoku much, felt like he was really family now, comforted by the fact that he wasn't alone in thinking that the Monkey family was insane. Law was glad his grandfather thought so too.

"Not all of us." Dragon spoke, for the first time that evening.

"Yes, all of you. All that havoc you wreak in your wake, that's common to all of you."

"I suppose so."

"If you guys are done comparing genes, let's eat." Sabo said and that was all the signal everyone needed. Luffy and his brothers and grandfather were trying to be civilized but they could only do so for the first ten seconds. Law was frankly used to Luffy being an absolute savage when it came to eating so he wasn't much surprised. Law wasn't even surprised when his hand automatically slammed a fork in Ace's hand that was going for Law's onigiri.

Ace was impressed because he thought Law was a pushover and wouldn't even react much besides sulking that his food got stolen but apparently he had been around Luffy long enough. Ace rubbed his hand, the fork hadn't pierced the skin, it was just dull pain.

"Hey! No stealing from Torao!" Luffy scolded and protected Law's plate with his arm, even stole some from Uta to give to Law.

The old folks laughed, Dragon ate in manic silence, Dadan with Ace and Sabo were fighting each other for food, Uta had a knife in her one hand while she ate with the other, daring anyone to approach and steal. Luffy also stole when he got the chance and made sure Law was eating well. After the chaotic dinner, Dadan and Sabo put everything away. Dragon left with a nod in Luffy and Law's general direction, as if providing approval. Grap and Sengoku kept at the dinner table with tea and crackers. After Dadan also left, the siblings and Law all gathered in the living room.

The brothers wanted to talk more with Law and determine what kind of a relationship the boyfriends had. Luffy had accidentally dropped his phone behind the couch so he was bent at a weird angle to retrieve it.

"Looking at his antics, you'd believe he's made out of rubber." Sabo commented pointing at Luffy.

"I'd say. He stretches as easily too." Law replied rubbing his fingers together and looking at Luffy's butt with a smirk. He wanted to freak the brothers out a little, he was still in that playful mood.

"He what?!" Ace screeched.

"Yes, and he bends nicely too, any way I want."

"Luffy break up with this creep!" Sabo said as soon as Luffy got back in his seat beside Law.

Law laughed cynically. "We are in too deep for Luffy to even think about that."

"Why would I break up with Torao? I like him." Luffy said, tilting his head to the right.

"What's this about bending and stretching?" Ace questioned while Sabo shook for some reason Luffy could not understand.

"Torao's been shot so he is recovering so we did some stretches earlier, I think he means those."

Law's grin widened as the brothers felt ashamed for thinking inappropriate things about their brother. Uta was enjoying the show in her seat, ready to step in if there was a need.

"Lu, go buy some ice cream from that store near the hospital." Sabo said handing Luffy some money.

"But that's so far! How about around the corner?" Luffy whined.

"I am sure you want your...boyfriend...to have good ice cream?"

Luffy's eyes lit up. "Yeah! Torao they have some of the best mango softserve ever! You like mango right?" Law nodded smiling a little. "I like mango! It's just a shade lighter than your eyes and I like your eyes! Ok imma go now!" And he left like a storm. Law was red at the sudden compliment and the brothers learned that no matter how creepy Law appeared, he was easily embarrassed.

Once Luffy left, Law faced the brothers knowing they were trying to get Law without Luffy and they succeeded. Law found them both right up his throat with knives. "Is this any way to treat your brother's boyfriend?"

"What did you drug Luffy with?" Sabo questioned.

"How far have you went with him? I swear if you touched him inappropriately-" Ace frowned.

"Calm yourselves boys."

"Boys?!"

"Boys?!"

"I am clearly older." Law shrugged.

"A bit too much for Luffy!"

"What are you, a pedophile?!"

"Luffy is a consenting adult. Aren't you both being protective to the point of meddling?"

"We're his brothers!" Sabo defended.

"It's our job to meddle!"

"And worry."

Uta rolled her eyes in her seat. The brothers were being idiots again.

Law frowned at the two in front of him. "Where was this sentiment when he was lost for two years? I understand you were young yourselves too, but to me it felt like Luffy had been abandoned."

"How do you know about that?" Sabo asked, grim, backing away a little and Ace just straight up went in a corner. Uta sat up straighter, the tension getting to her too. She wasn't there when Luffy had run away but she was just as distraught upon learning that.

"I am a hundred and twenty percent positive that you have heard my horrible nickname from Luffy before."

"Oh god you're that Torao..." Ace connected the dots.

"I'm very surprised you didn't make the connection before." Law shook his head.

"Why did you save him?" Sabo asked narrowing his eyes, he had wanted to ask this question since he heard Luffy say that someone saved him.

"Well I am a doctor."

"And a black market surgeon as well."

"Done our research, haven't we, Mr. Chief of Staff, Number Two in the Revolutionary Army." Law said with a smirk then turned to Ace. "Fire Fist Ace, Second Commander of the Whitebeard Mercenaries."

Sabo was quiet. "Does your adoptive grandfather in the navy know what you're doing?" He thought he got Law with that information but he didn't know that it was common knowledge.

"He does and doesn't mind."

"What happened to Luffy during those two years?" Law frowned more at the sudden question from Ace. "You know what happened."

"He hasn't told you?" Law was a little surprised that the brothers Luffy talked about all the time didn't know about what had happened.

"Won't say a thing."

"It's not something that can be said easily."

"But what happened?" Sabo pressed.

"If he wanted you to know, he would have told you himself." Law said and crossed his arms.

"But he doesn't and we want to know."

"Respect your brother's decision before you push him away." Ace and Sabo were both quiet.

"What about his physical condition back then? You treated him right?" Sabo asked, a roundabout question to know what happened.

"It's ok that you're asking me these questions but do not pester Luffy about that particular past." Law gave them both a look. "He's fine now, isn't he? That's all you need to know."

Luffy huffed and stared at his shoes. He knew Ace and Sabo were going to threaten Torao or question him so he pretended to leave so he could make sure they weren't treating Torao bad. Right now, after having heard his brothers wanting to know what had happened to him, Luffy felt heavy in his chest, like when he was about to cry, he wanted to as well, but couldn't, everyone would find out then ask him about it and he couldn't lie well enough. Torao's answers to his brother's questions though, those made Luffy feel a little better, that Law didn't spill anything. He was proud of his boyfriend for that and thought he deserved a treat, so Luffy hurried to get the ice cream. Torao was the best.

All five were enjoying the ice cream and talking when Luffy got back, and with the back and forth, Sabo remembered something.

"Did you know it was Ace when you helped us?" Sabo asked.

"Came to me a bit later than my instinct of saving a careless idiot." Law boasted.

"So you knew?"

"Yes."

"Torao works in the black market, he knows everyone." Luffy said casually.

"You know of his underworld activities?!" Ace and Sabo asked at the same time.

"I've always known." Luffy shrugged as if it wasn't a big deal. "It isn't like he's kidnapping people or dealing drugs, Torao's still a doctor."

"Except, I can charge them way more than necessary." Law grinned.

"So that's where you're getting your money from! Ok, you can get us the machines!"

"What machines?" Uta asked.

"We need a proper clinic in the Grey Terminal, Torao and Chopper agree that we need more stuff." Luffy answered.

"You've been to Grey Terminal?" Sabo asked Law. "What for?"

"I took Torao to show him around. Then he stayed to help at the clinic." Luffy replied instead.

"So Law's the 'scary but nice' doctor everyone was talking about?" Ace wondered.

"Why the fuck do you all keep coming up with weird ways to addressing me?"

"Well that time you helped Ace, you were sitting like a creep, at night, smoking. What else was I supposed to think when you said you were a doctor too?" Sabo explained. "What were you even doing there?"

"Torao was gonna meet me." Luffy said.

"I had time to spare." Law said next.

"You gotta admit, you did look shady." Sabo said.

"Point taken."

"But he was just a flustered puppy at the live." Uta chimed in and Law turned red.

"I was not!"

"Sure, Luffy's boyfriend." Uta joked and the siblings enjoyed Law's company when he eased up a little, not minding the time because Law was spending the night.

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