~

Law wasn't sure there was any difference between the excitement both Godfather and Luffy were displaying while the line of people to be let out of immigration gates slowly moved forward. Behind the two, a slightly less vibrating Corazon was trying his best to stay in place. Law sighed, there were three of them now.

"You're ok?" Luffy asked when Law lagged behind a little.

"Yes, joint is a little sore from sitting that long." The doctor answered trying his best to not let the pain show on his face because as per his bad habits, he wasn't telling the whole truth.

"I can carry you-"

"Not in a place this public." Law shut the thought down immediately. "You go ahead, I'll follow at my own pace."

"You're sure?" Luffy asked just in case.

"Yeah, and please try and get Nami to simmer down because I know she's out there and wants to murder me."

"I'm not sacrificing myself." The younger held his hands up.

"So all that talk about how much you love me and will always help me, that's a load of shit then huh?" The older grinned at the pout from his boyfriend. "I'm kidding, I'm glad you have some sense of self-preservation."

"Yeah, when confronted with a Nami, the only choice is to run."

"Leave Godfather with me and go with Cora-san, make sure he doesn't slip either, I'll follow slowly." Law said and stopped for a minute when Luffy obliged and ran ahead. After the doctor was sure he could walk all the way through, he resumed putting one foot in front of the other till he had joined the Strawhats crowding a specific spot in the airport lobby. "I don't suppose you can bite the ones being so loud?" Law asked the pup walking with him. Godfather looked up at Law then looked forward as if actually contemplating the thought of biting one of the Strawhats. "I'll give you two treats if you knock down the green haired one."

The dog barked and Law watched in a mix of wonder and horror when Godfather ran and tackled Zoro to the ground, gathering Luffy's attention who laughed in tow with Usopp and Sanji. Law fished the treats out of his bag as he walked closer to the group and fed Godfather out of his hand, patting the pup for a job well done.

"Should have known it was you, making an innocent dog do you evil bidding." Zoro said still on the ground but sitting now. "Luffy said you were injured."

Law groaned. "You need to stop telling everyone about everything." The surgeon said to his boyfriend and gulped when he saw Nami behind him, approaching him, eyes already wet from seeing Corazon.

"LAW!" Nami screamed.

"I'm injured." Law said the first thing that came to his mind. "Don't hit me."

"Don't hit Torao, he's hurt in his leg." Luffy said standing in front of Law.

"You do love me." The older smiled and rubbed his cheek on his boyfriend's sans-strawhat head. Everyone present decided to ignore what they were seeing, writing it off as some side effects to Law doing stupid stuff.

"I'll just hit him on the head then." Nami mumbled and brought her hand down on Law's head and since it was rested on Luffy's head, the damage passed to the younger too. "I don't even want to talk to you, I'm so mad! You were going to do something stupid, I just know it! And why did Luffy have to talk for you?! What's the point of your own phone? Why are you such an idiot!"

"Torao's stupid." Luffy nodded his head in agreement, rubbing the bump that was forming from the hit earlier.

"I'm not going to be out of communication again, sorry about that." Law said with a sigh.

"I'm not forgiving you." Nami crossed her arms.

"Fine, then I guess I'll give the emerald earrings I took from a dead body to someone else, since you're mad at me and all."

"Emerald earrings?" Nami's eyes were stars in an instant, her anger gone.

"From a dead body?" Robin echoed.

"You're so easy." Law smiled and patted his sister on her head, then turned to Robin. "Earrings among other things, I'm sure you'd have a field day going through the bag of books I found there as well."

"Now you're just flirting." Robin laughed.

"Is nobody going to ask what he was doing in a place where there were dead bodies?" Usopp pointed, hiding behind the now standing Zoro.

"Yeah Torao, what were you doing there?" Luffy asked.

"Hard to believe it coming from Luffy but thank god someone has sense."

"Why didn't you take me along? When did you even go! I wanna go to places with dead bodies too!" Luffy pouted, making his long-nosed friend sigh in disappointment.

"Next time I guess." Law shrugged. "Can we go now? I can't stand."

The entire party was off to drop Law at his house, the house everyone had made sure was clean and Sanji had made sure had enough good food even for the picky eater that Law was. The plan was to rest the night, then leave for Cocoyashi first thing in the morning.

Law was sitting on his bed at night, after dinner and when Cora-san had gone to sleep too. The doctor was breathing in and out, trying to brave through the sudden pulsing pain in his leg, at the site of procedure. Luffy was busy on his phone, playing some games Law was too fogged to pay attention to, and since the older didn't want Luffy knowing about the pain, he tried staying quiet. But there was only so much Law could take.

Luffy momentarily tore his gaze away from the game in front of him to find out why Law had shifted, only to see the older beginning to get out of bed. "Where are you going?"

"Heat pad." Law said

"I'll get it."

"Thanks."

Luffy put his phone aside and got the heat pad out, connected it to the electricity source then looked at Law, the older was sitting with his back resting against the headpost, eyes closed and breathing manually. The younger looked at the device in his hand and tilted his head to the side, thinking the best course of action. The thought process didn't last much longer and Luffy put the heat pad aside, opting instead to occupy Law's lap himself, his legs on either side of the older's torso, to provide warmth, comfortable weighted pressure and a distraction from the pain.

The reaction was instantaneous, Law's eyes flew open. "Wh-what-what are you doing?"

"Am I not warm?" Luffy shifted his hips a little, put more pressure on the older's pelvic joint where he was sore, tilted his head to the side in confusion that it worked in his head so why wasn't it working in reality too?

Law couldn't form words, he didn't know if his boyfriend was doing it on purpose or not but the sight before him, the confused look, the knees on his either sides, the hands now on his shoulders, the entire thing was too erotic for the older. This was new for Law, and too sudden, but oh so enticing. Law didn't know what his problem was, his blood was rushing to his head and south at the same time, the doctor understood why it was going down, but he didn't understand why his blood was going to his face. Then Law cursed the realization that fuck he was shy.

"It's ok Torao, just let me distract you a little." Law heard Luffy say and soon after the younger's lips on his own, starting with slow, teasing touches, then longer, lingering pecks took their place, until Luffy's hands found a place near Law's ear that made the older make a very embarrassing noise and part his lips to allow Luffy entrance.

It was the first time a kiss had gotten that long for the boyfriends and much like everything else, Luffy was enthusiastic about that too, caressing Law's face and neck and shoulders with his hands, and the older's tongue with his own.

Law tapped Luffy's side as a hint to stop. "I need to breathe." Law chuckled when Luffy whined and let the older go.

"Use your nose." The younger pouted.

"Whatever I use, I have bad lungs."

"Does it feel better now?" Luffy asked about the pain.

"It does, surprisingly." Law noticed that at least the pulsing pain was gone and with Luffy's efforts on his mouth, the doctor wasn't even aware of his pain.

"Want me to massage it for you? You're gonna have to sit long hours tomorrow."

"I'm dreading the drive." The older sagged.

"We can have everyone come here too you know, tell them that you can't travel." Luffy suggested.

"No, that won't work..."

"Why not?"

"I..." Law started but didn't know if he should even say something about what he was thinking. The older mentally kicked himself to beat the all-secrets conditioning away. "I want Cora-san to stay there."

"Why? Isn't he your dad?" Luffy couldn't understand.

"I don't know what to do when he's around and I don't like not knowing what's happening with him behind my back so I can't relax like that... Bellemere-san loves him you know, she actually loves him and I know she won't ever leave her oranges and I can't stay there forever and can't keep Cora-san to myself either because it would keep him away from her, so I just..." Law sighed. "I think it's best for them both if he stays in Cocoyashi and for that we need to go there."

"You're giving up your dad for Bellemere-san." Luffy stated plainly, his eyes sad.

"I have to, they love each other, it's cruel to make them stay apart."

Luffy hugged Law in response. "I'll tell Franky to give us the good truck, with the best backseats so you're comfortable."

"Ok."

"Sanji's gonna give us lots of good food for the road too, I wonder how many meat on sticks he's gonna make." The younger salivated at the thought.

"I'll take that massage because it's a long road and I don't want to leave all the driving to Nami."

"Oh, she's not driving. Your grandpa sent Koby and that other guy I don't know the name of to drive us." Luffy mentioned casually.

"Koby who? And when was anyone going to tell me that?" Law raised an eyebrow.

"My friend Koby. Kemurin and others are meeting us at Cocoyashi and Koby had to give them something so he got sent."

"Right. I'll just accept it like that."

Just then Luffy's phone rang. "Oh! I was telling Torao about you just now!" Luffy moved off Law's lap and walked out of the bedroom.

Law pouted at the lack of warmth and closeness, cursing whoever it was that robbed him of Luffy, but decided to see where his boyfriend was going, and followed him to the front door. "What the fuck?"

"Its Koby." Luffy said looking back from the now open door.

"I'm here too! Come on address me too! You know my name!" Helmeppo protested.

""Why are you both up so late?" Luffy and Law turned around at Rosinante's voice.

"Ask him." Law shrugged towards Luffy.

"Commander Rosinante!" Koby and Helmeppo saluted, Luffy jumped at the suddenness of the action.

"I'm retired, you don't have to do this." Corazon said, a smile on his face. "Why are you both here so late? We don't have to leave till the morning."

"Fleet Admiral sent this to be handed to you." Helmeppo said handing a big box to the blond. "And he said to give it to you as soon as we reach here."

"At this time of the night???" Law questioned but left before he got an answer, this was none of his business and he wanted to sit down, so the doctor opted for the living room sofa.

"You guys can stay here if you want." Luffy offered his friends.

"Thank you Luffy-san, but we have to make a report at the local station so we will be going." Koby said with a grin. "We will see you tomorrow."

"Ok! See ya tomorrow!"

When the two marines left, Luffy closed the door and carried the box for Rosinante to the living room.

"I'll open it, no way am I letting you both handle scissors." Law said and got up to get the scissors and cut the multiple packaging and tapes off. "All yours." The doctor slid the box to his father who delicately opened it.

"Law! Look what dad sent!" Rosinante jumped in his place and it was quite a sight with his height.

"I'm sure it's hardly worth the hyp-" Law stopped mid speech when he saw what Cora had pulled out of the box, and the doctor's hands were immediately on the item, snatching it away from his father. "Back off, it's mine now!"

"Oh that's why he sent two of these."

Luffy looked at the identical black feather coats in both his boyfriend and Rosinante's hands and tilted his head in confusion. "What's so special about these ugly coats?"

"Ug- Luffy..." Law gaped.

"I had this same coat all the time I was with little Law." Cora explained with a laugh. "He liked it so much, looked like a little grumpy crow surrounded in all its feathers."

"He was always on fire, I always wondered if he replaced them or the coats were somehow invincible." Law said with a fond smile, memories flooding in his head.

"It looks big so Torao will still look like a grumpy crow." Luffy pointed and laughed.

"There's something else in here too." Cora got Law's attention and pulled out his signature dark red cowl that had hearts dangling from it. "There's only one of it."

"You should mass produce it while you're ahead." Law shrugged. "I'm good with the coat, I have my own hat." The doctor pointed to the billed hat he was wearing.

"Why is everything with you both about hearts?" Luffy asked innocently looking at the hearts on the red hood, the hearts on a few shirts that were also in the box.

"Both?" Cora echoed, confused.

"Torao has a lot of heart tattoos."

"You have tattoos now?" Rosinante did a sharp turn towards his son, not sure if he approved of tattoos or not.

"...yeah?" Law waved his hands in front of the blond, pointing the obvious. "How the hell did you not notice these?"

"I thought you were just being edgy and this was eyeliner."

"Eyeliner that seemed permanent and didn't wash off even after I took baths?"

"So these are actually tattoos?" Corazon asked poking the circle of black ink on the back of Law's palm. "Where are the hearts?"

"Let's leave it for another time." Law ended the topic. "I want to sleep."

"We can sleep tomorrow in the car! Let's watch a movie now since we're all up!" Luffy suggested, excited. "Sleepover!"

"Let's do it!" Rosinante agreed immediately.

Law groaned and whined and kicked but didn't move from his spot on the sofa and even with all the noise around him from the movie and the excitement of his two morons, Law fell asleep with Cora on his one side and Luffy on the other, the feather coat that had been his shield against the entire world when he was a child, protecting him for bad dreams for the day, not that he would have any with his two guardians on his either side.

~

Nami was the only one awake the entire ride to Cocoyashi, guiding Koby and Helmeppo through the tricky roads. It was ok for her that Law was slept through the whole thing because he wasn't at his peak performance, but when Corazon also kept sleeping and Luffy only woke up for food, ate it half-asleep, then went back to sleep again, the orange haired woman had to smack some sleep out of Luffy.

"Are we there yet?" Luffy asked, not at all bothered by the second bump forming on his head.

"Almost. Why are you all so sleepy?" Nami asked handing a bentou to Helmeppo since Koby took the driving turn.

"We were watching movies all night."

"You said Law got a stent in, you have to be careful not to strain him like that."

"Why?"

"I asked Law's friends for the details, they said it happened because of stress in the first place."

"Yeah it did, and anxiety." Luffy said casually.

"Heart patients need lots of rest, Luffy, they can't run about or be wild or stay up late till they pass out, it's bad for them." Nami listed on her fingers then turned around towards the back-backseat to look at her brother. "Isn't Law also thinner than we left him?"

"I'm trying to get him to eat more but he's really like a baby."

"It's a miracle really that he eats when you tell him to, he used to throw the spoons and forks at us whenever we tried telling him to eat more. All we ever got was 'I know what I need.'" The woman imitated Law in the end.

"That's nonsense, Torao doesn't know what he needs all the time." Luffy shook his head. "Torao tries, Nami. I can see it when he tries so I gotta help him, meet him halfway."

"You're like a different person when you're caring for Law, you know." Nami bumped shoulders with the younger.

"Nishishi."

"Ah! Koby, turn a left here." Nami quickly pointed and saw the familiar buildings of her hometown. "Law! Rosi-san! Wake up, we're here."

Law and Rosinante got up almost instantly and made themselves presentable. Law was brushing his hair aside with his fingers when he felt like something moved in the trunk space connected to the backseat. The surgeon didn't have to inquire because a head popped up from the space, scratching his head.

"We're where?" Zoro asked, sleep still clouding his vision.

"What are you doing here?!" Nami screeched.

"When did you even get in here?" Law asked, his own mind foggy.

"Nyahahahahaha!!" Luffy laughed and Godfather, once again, tackled the green haired man down.

"Luffy what is wrong with your dog?!" Zoro complained just as the truck stopped.

Smoker and Hina were waiting outside the house, arms crossed and faces ever more cross. Nami and Luffy had no reason to bear their ire so the two were let inside the house without any problems.

"Search him." Hina said the moment Law was in her sights.

Smoker patted all of Law's pockets but his hands came up empty. "Nothing."

"What the fuck were you looking for?" Law asked annoyed.

"Cigarettes."

"And brains." Hina added.

"We'll get to you in a minute." Smoker told Rosinante who was standing beside Law.

"Idiot, don't pull this kind of shit again." The pink haired woman cursed and finally patted the doctor on his head. "Now go, Bellemere's worried."

"Smoker-san! I will escort Koby and Helmeppo to the station." Tashigi said, appearing from behind the house.

"Hide me! Hide me!!!" Zoro jumped behind Law and tried making his presence scarce at Tashigi's voice.

"What the hell's wrong with you?" Law pushed at Zoro's head to get the moss to leave him alone. "You're afraid of a woman?"

"Not afraid!"

"Yeah right, mossy."

"Inform Fleet Admiral about their arrival as well." Smoker told Tashigi and the woman was off.

Zoro relaxed and let Law go, pretending like nothing happened. "Why're you standing outside? Let's go in."

"You were the one clinging to me like a-!!! Ugh! Nevermind." Law rubbed his temples. "I didn't hurt him a lot, so you guys can do whatever you want." The doctor told Smoker and Hina and went inside the house, where not one step in and Bellemere had already karate-chopped Law on his head, two times.

"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" Bellemere yelled.

"He wasn't thinking." Nojiko joined with a disapproving shake of her head.

"You scared me half to death when I found that pinwheel and when we couldn't find you! Idiot!" The woman then hugged Law. "Idiot..."

"I'm sorry." Law said, his voice caught in his throat, he did hurt a lot of people. The doctor was somehow, still stupidly surprised that he did have a lot of people who cared for him.

"You should be! Idiot!" Bellemere then turned to Nojiko. "Get this twig some orange juice."

While Nojiko got Law the juice, the doctor could see Cora-san being gently bullied, arm around the neck, hair pulling kind of bullying. Law chuckled a little at the display, of grown-ups acting like children.

"Ok that's enough! Hand him over!" The owner of the house called and Law seated himself at the table just in time. Nojiko handed Law a big glass of orange juice, salt and pepper already mixed in.

"Thank you." Law thanked his sister and watched the show when Corazon entered the house. Bellemere just first stared at the blond man she loved, her eyes went up and down, again and again, till she hugged him and lifted him off the ground. Law smiled, she had done the same with him. Bellemere then kissed Rosinante and Law averted his eyes. After everyone's protests, the woman finally let Cora go and everyone calmed down and seated themselves.

But then, while Corazon was still standing, all heart eyes for Bellemere, the latter suddenly brought her knee up and kicked Cora in the balls. Law choked on his orange juice.

"Not the family jewels!" Luffy cringed.

"I love you, but that's what you get for making me wait this long." Bellemere said with a laugh. She was laughing but Luffy wasn't, who was looking from Law to Bellemere.

"So that's where Torao got it from." The youngest pointed.

"He is my son."

"Torao you won't do that to me, right?" Luffy asked Law.

"I don't know." Law grinned. "Guess you'll have to live and find out."

"Guess I will."

~

Double chapter??What is this? A miracle??:OHaha, <3 Man, catheter procedures are such a pain! What Law went through is also a catheter procedure, where they put a catheter in your big blood vessel to access the site of blockage, this is mainly how they treat for heart attacks and stuff.I had a hole inside my heart from birth, a birth defect. What it did was send blood back to the lungs and that's dangerous af, so I found out about this in 2020 and decided to get it fixed in 2022. They used the same procedure, sent a camera and a catheter through the blood vessel near the pelvic joint and put a device inside my heart to block the hole, so it doesn't send blood back to the lungs anymore.And you know what? The treatment sucks, the recovery sucks.I couldn't walk for a week, I have to drive using that leg too and that was hell, and the autistic meltdowns! Ugh!So yeah that sucksAnd the pain doesn't really go away, it stings all the time, I have to be extra careful during winters so no stray cold breeze can trigger the pain TToTTVery high maintenance .-.Wow that got long!Sorry!XDAnyway!Enjoy your day!OHHH!! AND THEY POSTED A PHOTO OF MY PICCOLO JR. ON INSTAGRAM, I SHARED IT IN MY STORIES!