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The next few days after the furniture shopping from hell, everyone was busy with helping around the small things that needed to be done and once Law, disbelievingly, checked everything off his lists, it was time for the attentions to shift elsewhere, which was, according to a very carefully crafted plan, the Grey Terminal. It surprised Law that when Luffy had asked the Hearts' help for the house, he had also asked them if they could help around Grey Terminal and upon hearing the context of the request, all the Hearts had unanimously come to the decision of helping. The royal of Alabasta, Princess Vivi was also coming to Goa and it looked like they could really wrap up the majority of the work in Grey Terminal.

The Strawhats and the Hearts were gathered at the harbour where the Thousand Sunny was proudly docked, Vivi was talking with her bodyguards, Pell and Chaka, on how to go about the work division among the war prisoners, Luffy, oddly enough, looked like was waiting. Law was right in his thoughts because just a few minutes of staring off into space, the younger's eyes lit up and he ran past everyone.

"Marco!" Luffy jumped on the man for a big hug, excited to see him.

"Luffy, it's good to see you, yoi." The older man spun Luffy around then settled him on the ground. "I've got all the men oyaji could spare at the moment." Marco pointed to more than fifty men behind him.

"I will put them to work." Vivi said looking at her board and went to the guys to allot them jobs.

"Me too, princess, give me a job too." Ace said appearing from among the crowd of the men from Shirohige's.

"And me." Sabo appeared beside his brother, all smiles.

"It's good to see you both again." Vivi laughed at the uncharacteristic politeness from the brothers and scanned her board.

"Me too Vivi!" Luffy ran to his brothers next, wanting to get a job to do too.

"You get one after I get one Luf, get in line." Ace pushed his over-energetic brother aside, well he tried but the younger's feet were planted firmly in the ground.

"Oh no no no, you are not allowed here." Luffy heard Law say, he stopped and turned to look at his boyfriend shaking his head at Ace.

"I can work!" Ace argued instantly.

"You are narcoleptic, there is a risk of you having an attack at the most unfortunate time." Law rolled his eyes that he had to spell it out, arms crossed.

"No I won't, the meds are working."

Law thinned his lips in a line and looked over Ace at Marco. "A little help?"

"No work for you, yoi." Marco shook his head at his boyfriend who had started stomping his feet on the ground.

"You can walk around with Luffy since he isn't allowed to work too." Law told Ace and braced his ears for the whining he knew was about to come his way.

"What?!"Luffy complained.

"Yes, that's what your dumb ass gets for spacing out like a moron at high risk sites."

"Torao that's not fair!"

"Listen to the doctors men." Thatch said, passing by.

"Yes, listen to the doctors." Law stuck his tongue out, a smug look on his face. Once the older knew he had irritated his boyfriend enough, Law left for the clinic with Marco and Chopper.

Ace and Luffy sulked around the sites everyone was working on, watching with long faces, then an idea struck the older brother and he grinned at the younger.

"Torao doesn't like it when I make that kinda face..." Luffy narrowed his eyes and knew exactly what was going through Ace's head. "But Torao isn't here."

"And a little work won't hurt anyone." Ace shrugged.

"It won't! And my shoulder doesn't even hurt anymore- Torao's overreacting."

"Marco too."

The brothers walked to unsuspecting war prisoners and decided to help them since they couldn't tell the two to not work. Since Luffy was forbidden from using his shoulder, he decided to bag the rubble and drag it away from the work sites and to the rubble dump site, while Ace carried the bigger pieces. All was going relatively well until Ace started getting lightheaded from having to bend down and pick up the concrete pieces.

"You ok?" Luffy asked with an eyebrows raised when his brother shook his head and stumbled on his feet.

"Yeah, it's nothing." Ace answered and bent down again but this time it was a narcolepsy attack. "Oh boi-"

Luffy stared at his brother for a second, wondering why he decided to take a nap at such a time and place, then it kicked in that Ace probably had an attack. "Ace?" The younger crouched to his brother's level and shook him a little but left him be when he saw the look on his brother's face was the same as what he got when he was passed out from an attack. Sighing, Luffy sat down beside his brother and waited for him to wake up.

"Unghh-" Ace whined and coughed, gathering the attention of his younger brother still dutifully sitting by his side for twenty minutes.

"Ok?"

"Yeah." The older pushed himself off the ground and brushed the dirt away, eyes unfocused, brain activity very slowly coming back to him. Ace sat beside Luffy and hung his head, letting consciousness return to him completely.

"You said your meds were working." Luffy pointed.

"They are." Ace answered immediately but when Luffy stayed silent, he added, "most of the times."

"Mos- does Marco know?"

"That's why he agreed with Law... You know I had been keeping it from Marco and my attacks never really happened around him much, but I think he always suspected something."

"Have you ever passed out during sex?" Luffy asked suddenly, curiosity bubbling inside him, he didn't know where the question came from but now that it had, Luffy wanted it answered immediately.

"That was actually what made me tell Marco-" Ace started, still a little distracted.

Luffy turned his head away from his brother to make his laughter stop from getting out of his mouth but it was just so funny to the younger that he couldn't control himself and ended up laughing out loud. "Is that what you guys were fighting about?"

"Yeah... Marco didn't like it that I was keeping my narcolepsy from him."

"You're sure it wasn't because you couldn't finish?" Luffy laughed more.

"You can laugh when you have actually satisfied your boyfriend." Ace grumbled, then looked at his brother with the question on his face, it took a little time then the question was out of his mouth too. "What about you guys though?" Ace wiggled his eyebrows, bumping shoulders with the younger.

"Ew." Luffy gagged then pouted. "Torao won't even kiss me on the mouth till I'm eighteen and a half!" The boy huffed exasperated.

"Figured, you both look more like best friends than boyfriends... overly clingy best friends but... you get the point."

"Why can't it both be the same?"

"Sure, why not." Then Ace added, "well, eighteen and a half isn't that far away, just three months."

"I hate waiting."

"It's a miracle you waited this long." Ace got up and pulled Luffy up as well by his good arm.

"Obviously I'm not gonna force Torao into anything." Luffy rolled his eyes. "And sex isn't something I'm interested in anyway." Luffy said before Ace could bring up the topic again.

"Why not?" The older brother asked, eyebrow raised. Luffy didn't answer. "You used to be stupidly curious about that shit up until..."

"Yeah well, I saw things and I think I won't like it." Luffy said quickly, couldn't believe himself lying through his teeth.

Ace raised the other eyebrow then rubbed his baby brother's back. "I don't know what you saw or what happened, but it's not sex or fucking with your special person, they call it love making for a reason. It's different, it's kinda fun too, so give it a try at least. You're not one to shy away from adventures Lu."

"I'm not sure Torao won't have a stupid rule for that too after I get to eighteen and a half." Luffy grumbled, Ace laughed and the brothers resumed their work.

Ace was still carrying a big block of broken concrete on his shoulder and Luffy was still dragging the rubble with his good arm when Ace had another attack. The two weren't fortunate this time around as to avoid it completely. The block of concrete fell on Ace's head before it rolled aside and in his surprise, Luffy tripped on his brother's legs and hit his bad shoulder on the same block of concrete. It was a disaster for both brothers.

Luffy had his eyes scrunched in pain and was rubbing his arm to try and soothe his shoulder when Ace woke up. When Ace was conscious enough to recall what had happened, his face paled knowing what was going to happen now.

"Let's hope only Chopper's free." Luffy said and helped his brother up, the two walking silently to the infirmary, praying not to get murdered by their doctor boyfriends.

Marco and Law were the ones who were free.

"That kind of stitch job takes years, how are you so good yoi?" Marco complimented Law recalling the fast as fuck stitches on the arm of one patient they had a few hours ago. The doctors were sitting by the main desk, time on their hands because among the three, they got things done fairly quick. Chopper was having a nap in one of the free beds.

"Experience beyond my years." Law shrugged.

"Counting the underworld surgeries?" Marco grinned.

"Yes those too."

"What's the toughest surgery you've had to do?"

Law was impressed with the familiarity Marco was talking with him, it was like they had been friends for years and not just met that morning. Regardless, Law sat back, choosing to answer and drank very bad tea from his paper cup. "If I have to choose from everything, I would still be debating between a spinal surgery and reattachment of nerves to prevent paralysis, and a heart transplant where the heart was not a hundred percent match."

Marco whistled. "Donor organ was not a match? Why was there a surgery to begin with yoi?" The older doctor rested his chin on his palm, interest obvious on his face.

"You wouldn't believe it but majority of the underworld heads are plain idiots. It's not my job to arrange the donor organs sometimes and I give very clear instructions about matches, but there are morons who can't read and comprehend." Law shrugged again.

"And you went along with the surgery still?"

"Yes."

"Didn't your team protest or something yoi?"

"I work alone."

Marco sat up straight at the new information. "What?"

"Yes."

"Who's handing you the instruments then? Who's keeping an eye at the vitals and stuff yoi? Who's pulling the skin and ribs and make sure they are kept aside during hours long procedures?"

"I work very fast and I have very reliable machines." Law said like it was nothing and Marco shook his head, disbelieved.

"Wow- wait then how are you transplanting non-matching organs?"

"It's an ongoing research I'm not willing to disclose at the moment." Law answered simply.

"A research on top of difficult surgeries, you're quite the doctor yoi. Takes a lot of resilience." The blond doctor said and patted Law on the arm. "No wonder you survived those nasty gunshot wounds."

"Oh come on! Does everybody know that?!" Law stomped his foot where he was sitting and rolled his eyes, causing Marco to laugh.

"Luffy told me not to tell but I made no promises yoi. He was worried and called me for advice after you got the third bullet out."

"Ugh, don't remind me. Just my luck to have a gun misfire."

"It was luck that Doctor Kureha was there to help yoi." Marco pointed then with a teasing grin, continued. "And Luffy, he told me you weigh a lot less than you look. You really should eat more."

"Luffy is going to die prematurely." Law threatened the air, hiding his face, mortified. Marco laughed at the reactions he was able to get from the oh so scary Surgeon of Death. Law had his head down so he saw the two shadows approaching the infirmary first and got up. "Patients incoming. I wonder what dumbasses we get to deal with now." The younger of the two was tired from having to deal with stupid injuries all morning.

When the shadows revealed to be of Ace and Luffy's, Marco took his glasses off and sighed in defeat. "It's our dumbasses yoi."

Ace and Luffy crossed the entrance and when their eyes met with the two doctors they were dreading, they turned around and started walking away from the infirmary until Law's shouts of 'get back here!' and threats of 'do you want me to hunt you down?!" made the two realize that it was better to get it over with than sleep with an eye open because they made Law mad. So, the brothers were seated near the table.

"What happened yoi?" Marco asked nicely. Ace shuddered. Luffy was just looking down, avoiding eye contact with Law. "Please just tell us the truth and we won't be mad."

"I was helping and the block I was carrying fell on my head when I had an attack." Ace spilled immediately. Law was going to leaving the scolding of Ace to Marco but there was no way he was getting the full truth just then.

"How big was that block?" Law asked, eyes narrowed.

"It was this small." Luffy held his hands apart till his face, trying his best to save his brother from the wrath of the doctors.

"Oh so you can't manage more than that?" Marco taunted his boyfriend, picking up on the line of questioning Law had directed.

"No way! It was this big!" Ace burst out, his hands extending outside of his shoulders.

"Fucking idiot." Law shook his head. "You want to deal with him?" Law asked Marco.

"Like I have a choice." The older doctor rubbed his eyes beneath his glasses then looked at Ace. "You need to get your head checked and that scrape on your arm addressed."

"Is it going to involve needles?" Ace hunched his shoulders.

"For fuck's sake. You're such brothers. Morons." Law groaned.

"Ok, Ace, close your eyes and put your arms forward, I'm going to check for brain activity right here." Marco said and Law wondered what kind of method to check brain activity that was but the moment the blond's boyfriend closed his eyes, Marco handed Law one side of the fabric he suddenly had in his hands and together they quickly bound Ace in a strait jacket and tied him to the wheelchair too, too quick for the man to react.

"Marco! This is wrong!" Ace screamed flopping like a fish.

"It's the only thing that works on you yoi." Marco said and wheeled the man away. Luffy laughed at his brother's expense but shut up when Law gave him a glare.

"You shut up, you're not off the hook yourself." Law said and made sure Marco didn't need a hand before he faced his own dumbass. "Ok, spill."

"It kinda hurts." Luffy said with a sheepish frown and eyes downcast.

"What happened?"

"I fell."

"Fell doing what?" Law put his hands on his hips to look imposing so the questioning would go quick and smooth. When Luffy hunched his shoulders much like Ace did and looked further down, Law grabbed the younger's face and made eye contact.

"We were helping, I was dragging rubble and Ace was picking up blocks- then Ace had an attack, I tripped on him and hit my shoulder on the block he was carrying."

Law let go of his boyfriend's face and tsked. "You, brought this on yourself."

"Wha-?" Luffy panicked when he saw Law walking away and for the longest time he got so scared not knowing what the older would do, then Law was back and with him was Chopper.

"Tony-ya is going to help." Law said faking sweetness.

"Don't!" Luffy pulled at Law's labcoat sleeve when he realized that Law had only went to get Chopper and wasn't abandoning him and Chopper helping in turn was worse because then there was a possibility that everyone would find out and Luffy did not want that.

"I'm not going to be here to oversee the end of the physio you will definitely need after the stitches come off, so someone else needs to know."

"Stitches?! Did I hear stitches?!" Chopper panicked.

"Yes, he fell down and got a metal rod stuck in his shoulder, I gave him four stitches, he pulled two out, I redid them, so the wound's a bit sensitive." Law provided all too casually. "And he has managed to hurt himself there again and I haven't taken a peek yet so I don't know the current situation."

"Luffy you will need to be careful or your shoulder might not heal properly and you might not get the normal range of movement back either." Chopper scolded lightly and began taking off his captain's sling and dressing.

"You're both being silly." Luffy pouted and looked at his injury when the bandages came off.

"It doesn't look that deep." Chopper noticed and looked at Law.

"It wasn't but met the requisite for stitches so." Law answered and made a face at the angry red of the skin beneath the stitches. "Think the stitches can come out?"

Chopper poked at the site then nodded. "Yes, the skin is healed at least."

Luffy groaned and slumped when he saw Law bring out a scalpel and foreceps. "Do they really need to come out? It's fine like this- doesn't even hurt anymore." The younger tried making excuses, trying to avoid any sort of pain at the moment.

"Excuse me- I need some help." A man said from the entrance of the infirmary and caught both the doctors' attention. Luffy looked between Law and Chopper, wondering who would tend to the new patient, the young man kind of hoped it would be Law so he wouldn't have to listen to a few lectures that he knew were coming his way.

"I'll take it." Chopper volunteered since he had just woken up from a nap and was more alert than Law who had been working nonstop. The older doctor nodded and started his job of removing his boyfriend's stitches.

"It won't hurt, the stitches are coated with beeswax so they come out easy." Law addressed the unspoken tension Luffy was exhibiting and keeping the younger distracted through conversation, began his work.

"It hurt the last time." Luffy said in a small voice since Law was really close.

"Who took them out and what was the site of injury?"

"The head ones you gave me, Chopper wasn't here so Ace's doctor took them out."

"The quack?"

"Yeah him- oh that's why they hurt." Luffy giggled.

"You haven't had stitches-worthy injuries since then?" Law raised both his eyebrows and put his tools aside. Luffy shook his head. "Very surprising."

The surgeon cleaned the site after the stitches were out and put one hand on Luffy's shoulder and held the younger's wrist with his other, moving the arm around and rolling the shoulder joint to see what kind of tension he felt in the muscles.

Luffy stared at Law who was staring at the younger's shoulder after moving it about. "What're you thinking?"

"That a shoulder brace might do you good, since you want to move your arm." Law said rubbing his goatee. "I will go get one, stay here."

The younger nodded and stayed in place because he didn't want to cause mental grief to Law more than he already had. The doctor came back with a black brace and first secured the sensitive skin with gauze and tape, helped Luffy back in his shirt, then adjusted the brace according to movement allowed.

"It looks so cool!" Luffy said moving his shoulder.

"Be good and don't move your arm more than the brace allows because if I find it worse than I left it, I am never tending to your injuries again." Law threatened.

"You're bluffing."

"I don't like being disrespected, and you, going against my medical advice, is disrespect."

Luffy glared at Law with a pout before he kicked the ground like a spoiled child and stood up, huffing out of his nose like a bull. "Fine. I don't wanna insult you so I will obey." It was better than getting endlessly scolded.

"Good."

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The Hearts were all seated around the table, waiting for somebody to say anything. Law was heading the table and looking at everyone, wondering why some of them looked constipated. Some seats were empty but Law paid it no mind, just thought that some of his friends were fighting with each other and left those seats open on purpose.

When all of the jobs at the Grey Terminal were done and it was deemed habitation worthy by Vivi and Luffy, it was time for the groups to dismiss. Law had taken care of all the patients he could and briefed Chopper about the ones he did not know and those who required extreme care. All the doctoring gave the surgeon an energy boost for working on his own research. Some of the Hearts had said they wanted to talk to Law about something too once they got back home so the doctor didn't want to make any delays. So as sad as it was leaving the warmth of his boyfriend's existence, Law said his goodbyes and went back to Flevance with his friends.

"You guys are being weird." Law muttered and rolled his eyes when three of his friends looked at each other then at their wristwatches or phones.

"Yeahhhhhh, just say what you wanna say." Penguin pushed with a grin and Law wondered if he knew something.

"Shut up Penguin!" Musta turned red, whether from embarrassment or anger, Law found in the next few minutes.

"If you guys won't, then I will." Hakugan laughed behind his mask when the three weirdos groaned. "Cap they wanna bring their girlfriends over for dinner right now!"

"HAKU!" Three voices screamed at the same time and Law shielded his ears.

"Sure you can." The Hearts leader said once the voices died down. "When are they coming?"

"You're ok with this...?" Musta said for the other two as well.

"This is your home, of course you're allowed, to... bring a mate? And procreate? Uh-"

"Cap please stop, we get the meaning!" A chorus of embarrassed yells. Bepo laughed to himself silently.

"And what if they want to... stay over?" Ikkaku asked for the guys. "Like... forever."

"It's your choice, I'm not your dad or something." Law said with a roll of his eyes. "But I'm not going to any weddings so keep that in mind."

Law felt grateful that his friends were keeping him in the loop and asking for permission rather than dumping all of it on him all of a sudden but he was equally weirded out that they were so worried for permission too.

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Luffy paced the deck of the Sunny. He was worried. Ok worried fell short of what he was feeling but it was the only word he knew at the moment to describe the aching void in his chest. It was about three months ago that his Torao left Goa, Luffy knew he had been busy with his... stuff so the younger didn't bother him to meet that much, they did meet a few times in between, in other countries but those were short meetups. Law had cleared his schedule to come to Goa and Luffy should have heard from him by now because he was supposed to leave in a few days but Law was not contacting Luffy or answering the younger's texts or calls at all. Luffy was worried because Torao was stupid and yeah ok, he was learning to accept help but Torao was still stupid most of the times and wanted to take on everything on his own and now Luffy could feel his brain swell and dry up because it had been three days and Law was not answering him. Luffy was worried.

Stomping his foot on the deck, Luffy dialed the group chat he was in with the funny guys and Bepo. The call got cancelled from the other end and soon after Shachi called Luffy.

"What's up?" Shachi asked, too casual.

"Why isn't Torao answering his phone?" Luffy asked bummed and hyper at the same time.

"Oh... fuck... We forgot to tell you." The voice at the other end was sheepish and embarrassed.

"What?! What!" Luffy practically screamed in the mic, wanting to get answers at the latest.

"Law... he's down with a fever."

"TORAO'S SICK?!"

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I posted the digiArt I did for the Pokemon onsie mentioned in the previous chapter, it;'s on my twitter (@Itachi_Warrior), so check that out!Also!!!So excited for the Netflix One Piece Live Action!Just saw the Japanese dubbed trailer and WOOOOH!BOTH are so amazing! I know I'm going to watch the hell out of it!Anyway, enjoy! <3