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Law was spinning around in a chair in the ER, bored out of his mind. Everyone was right, there weren't many cases in the ER at Goa General, and the ones that were, the idiot ER chief pushed Law aside to stop him from attending those patients. The day was going relatively easy and boring, until everyone's pagers started going off. Since Law didn't have a pager, he grabbed one from the doctor running past him and saw that they were all being alerted for the numerous patients arriving from a fire nearby.

The doctor got on his feet and didn't delay making himself useful, but the ER chief had other plans. The moment the ambulances started arriving and the EMTs began unloading the gurneys, the chief looked at all patients briefly before shaking his head and shrugging.

"What... are you doing?" Law asked, eyebrows furrowed, gloves already on, on the absolute ready to deal with fire victims.

"They can't be saved, better to take them to the morgue directly." The chief said easily and Law saw discomfort settle in all the doctors and nurses present.

"I can save them." The young man tried.

"I'm not wasting resources."

Law took a look at all the staff present and closed his eyes, breathed through his nose, then opened his eyes and landed a right uppercut on the chief's face, knocking him out. "I'm not about to let this guy play god, the rest is your choice." Law told the shocked staff while he dragged the unconscious body of the ER chief to the chair he was occupying only minutes earlier. "If you're not with me, get out of my way."

"We're with you!" One of the doctors said and that was the catalyst for everyone to follow the Trafalgar in charge.

Law oversaw every patient that was being brought in, sent the worst off ones to surgery immediately, personally took care of some, helped and taught a few residents on how to properly take care of burn victims, and when he had a minute to spare, Law called Sanji.

"I'm sending you some very specific requirements of fish skin, please deliver them to Goa General ASAP, there's burn victims here and the fish skin will help a lot." Law said in the mic as soon as Sanji answered the call.

"You got it." Sanji answered.

"Thank you." After ending the call, Law quickly typed the requirements and put his phone aside after sending the message. Sighing in relief and accomplishment, the doctor looked over the entire ER, almost all the beds were filled, there was the distinct smell of burning human flesh in the air, it was disturbing the young doctor, throwing images of burning Flevance in his head, of his sister and parents, but Law breathed through the memories, asked the cleaning staff to work on the double to make sure the smell went away. The ambulances had stopped coming a few minutes ago, and till that minute, there was no loss of life. Law grinned to himself under his masks, Luffy would love to hear about that, Law was sure.

Law was going over the treatment of the patients with the worse burns when a very familiar bark registered in his ears. The second the doctor put down the medical chart of the patient in front of him, he heard another familiar voice.

"Oi Law!" Zoro called and Law turned in the direction, his heart almost stopping at the charred looking body on the gurney that the green haired man was pulling with him, the EMTs helping behind him.

"I swear to fucking-! What the fuck happened?!" Law yelled running to Zoro.

"Luffy- he was helping people, inhaled a lot of smoke-" Zoro started but Law pushed him away.

"For a second I thought he was burned, but it's soot, thank fuck." Law mumbled under his breath and quickly began checking the airways first, seeing that Luffy was unconscious, it was obvious that the younger had inhaled a lot of smoke. "You go sit somewhere out of our way, he's going to be fine."

"Yeah, you've got him." Zoro sighed in relief.

"I've got him."

Law shifted Luffy to the ER bed with the help of the few nurses that weren't monitoring patients, got him clean, sent a camera down his throat to check for the extent of damages, sent a tube in after that through the nose to help with the found damages, attached hydration IVs, put salve on the burns, bandaged them, made sure his head was angled right and neck wasn't straining, then attached an oxygen mask to finish the first aid.

"Was all this necessary?" Zoro asked looking over Luffy when Law was finished with the treatment and beckoned Zoro over.

"He had inhaled too much smoke, lost consciousness because of that, airways are very badly swollen and hurt, so yes. He won't be able to talk for some time too." Law listed.

"And when is he waking up?"

"Best is that he sleeps as long as possible because the tubes are uncomfortable and I know for a fact that he won't like it at all."

"Everyone's coming to see Luffy in a while-" Zoro started.

"Visiting hours are over and no way in hell am I allowing your rowdy asses in the ER." Law sighed then realized that won't stop the Strawhats and Luffy's brothers at all. "Two people at a time, only for five minutes and nobody is allowed to wake him up."

"You're easy." Zoro grinned.

"Go out and take care of Godfather, I have to go file my end of the day report."

"See ya later, Law. Thanks for helping."

"I'm a doctor." Law waved and went to the director's office to make his report of the day. The doctor was not surprised to find the ER chief already there, looking angry but funny with his swollen face.

"There he is!" The ER chief yelled. "You brat!"

"Close the door." Qar said, his face serious. Law did as he was told and sat down on the empty chair in front of the big desk. "ER's all settled?"

"All patients are stable, yes." Law answered, the tiredness showing in his voice.

"I have never been insulted like this in my entire life! This brat knocked me out and made all my doctors side with him!" The ER chief yelled again.

"LOL." Law rolled his eyes. "You've been ruling the ER through fear and punishment. And how many people have died because you refused to move from your boomer ways?"

"I will not have him talk to me like that!"

"Yes, I need to terminate a contract, I will begin that procedure and get back to you." Qar told the older doctor and dismissed him. The old man looked completely different from how happy he had looked in the morning, there was anger on his face, and disgust, Law gulped.

"I'm sorry but I can't stay for long, so let me make the report and then you can decide-" Law began.

"You disobeyed your chief's orders, made him look like an incompetent idiot and staged a mutiny where everyone backed you." Qar read from the notes he had taken when the ER chief was yelling himself hoarse of what had happened to him. Law waited to be told that he was fired. "Good job, that asshole needed to be put in his place."

"What?"

"I'm firing him, that guy needs to go."

"I'm sorry, what?" Law gaped, confused.

"Good work today, I heard nobody died. Can't wait to see how else you're going to bring a storm." Qar laughed, showing the same mirth as the same morning.

"Thank you." The young man told the director and was dismissed back to the ER. Law found Nami and Chopper beside Luffy's bed when he got back to the emergency. "Oh good, the relatively normal ones."

"Everyone's already taken their turns." Nami sighed adjusting Luffy's sheet and vacating the seat for Law.

"I'm good." Law shook his head and pushed his sister back down on the chair.

"The burns aren't too bad but his throat took the worst damage." Chopper read from the chart hanging off Luffy's bed.

"Yeah, not looking forward to him waking up and not being able to talk."

"That's going to be tough on everyone." Nami said with a frown.

"Do you guys know which dumbass I have to scold for letting Luffy near a burning building?" Law pushed his hair back and adjusted his masks again.

"Zoro said Ace was handling the fire and evacuation, so maybe-"

"LUFFYYYY!" Came the loud yell from the ER entrance.

"Speak of the devil." Law rolled his eyes and took the spare sheet on Luffy's bed and walked towards Ace, and since Ace was too distracted with his worry for Luffy, he didn't notice the menacing aura around Law. The doctor took advantage of the way Ace was distracted and quickly wrapped the sheet around his head, multiple times, bringing Ace to a halt, getting him to be quiet. "I don't give a fuck how loud you get in your own home, but not here, keep your voice down or I'm walking you out of the hospital like this."

Law heard Ace say something but the coherence was lost in the sheet. The older let go of his boyfriend's brother after he tapped Law's arms in agreement.

"Ok fine, geez, I'll stay quiet." Ace pouted.

"And don't wake him up." Law warned and let Ace be, walking away to discard the sheet, getting back soon after. "So, judging from your attire, I suppose you were on the firefighter duty."

"Yeah..." Ace answered, looking at the sleeping form of his brother. Nami and Chopper took their leave when Ace arrived.

"Depending on your answer about why Luffy is in this state, I'll decide whether to admit you here or not."

"There's no excuse, we were short staffed, Luffy was the only one who could fit through that window and he doesn't listen to any reason or anyone when he's made up his mind, so I had no choice but to allow him to help those people."

"I see." Law nodded. "Sit down if you want to stay long. I'll be back after making my rounds."

"Thanks for always helping, Law."

"I'm a doctor." The older repeated and went his way.

~

"Yes ma'am, your children are fine, they are asleep in a separate room with a guardian." Law told the woman in one of the post-op rooms, her leg was busted pretty badly so Law had sent her for immediate surgery. After talking with Ace, Law had found out that it was that woman and her children that Luffy had saved from the burning building at his own expense, so Law considered it his duty too, to personally check if the patient was doing ok.

"I'm so glad." The woman cried.

"I will ask a nurse to bring them in here in the morning, but you must rest now, you must be tired."

"If you find the young man who saved me and my kids, please thank him for me."

Law smiled. "I will let him know."

When Law was done checking on all the burn victims, he made his way back the ER, his duty was long over, but he couldn't go back home with Luffy still unconscious, so Law texted Cora about the situation and changed out of his scrubs into his hoodie, but kept his stethoscope around his neck in case he needed it. Law looked over the ER from afar, everything was calm, the doctors and nurses not on edge as they had been in the morning when Law had first stepped foot in the room.

Guess punching that shithead was the right thing to do after all.

As an autistic human, Law always heard the buzzing and beeping of machinery around him that no one else could hear, those sounds sometimes gave him headaches because hospitals had lots of those. Right now though, Law was grateful for being able to hear those annoying sounds, because otherwise he wouldn't have picked up on the very light elevation in the sound one of the machines was producing, and would have missed that it was coming from Luffy.

"It's ok, I've got him, just push a relaxant in his IV." Law quickly told the nurse and took charge of the situation, pinning Luffy's hands down on the bed so he wouldn't yank at his tubes because the young man was waking up and it didn't look like he was all there. Law was right, when Luffy's eyes opened, there was nothing but panic in there, his breathing was getting shallower by the second and he was thrashing to the best of his ability, wanting to get out of that bed. "Luffy, you're ok." Law tried but he knew it wouldn't work, this wasn't a normal panic attack, Law realized a little late that fire and smoke had traumatized Luffy too.

Taking a deep breath to calm his own heart down, Law sat down on the bed and sat his boyfriend up, keeping a tight grip on his arms. The doctor unwound the stethoscope from his neck and put the ear pieces in Luffy's ears and put the diaphragm on his own heart, because his beats were stable, Law hoped the sound and rhythm would ground the younger. Law made sure he wasn't pulling on any tubes when he brought Luffy closer in a hug, resting the younger's head on his shoulder and patting his back, keeping his own heart calm in the process. Law didn't have any music devices handy so he was glad that the stethoscope was working.

When Luffy slumped, it told Law that the young man had passed out again, so the older carefully put him back in bed, adjusting everything so it wouldn't get in Luffy's way when he would wake up again. It was only when Law stood up to pull the curtains around Luffy's bed that he noticed that Zoro was standing at the edge of the said bed, a horrified look on his face.

"You didn't see anything." Law warned and pulled the curtains entirely, stepping outside the space and nodding at the swordsman. The older as aware that Luffy hadn't told anyone but Nami about his panic attacks, Law wanted to keep it that way. Frankly, the doctor wondered what Zoro would have done if Law hadn't found Luffy first.

Zoro looked at Law for a few moments, then crossed his arms and stood protectively in front of the curtained bed, a hard look in his eyes. "Nothing happened."

~

"You're going to exhaust yourself before your day even starts." Zoro commented handing Law a mug of hot tea the older was eternally grateful for. The two had been at the hospital, beside Luffy the entire night and it was only half an hour till Law's duty for the day would begin.

"You too." Law said sipping from the mug and relaxing in his chair. "I have a feeling he wouldn't like waking up alone." The doctor jutted his chin towards Luffy.

"I'll stay in, when you have to work."

"Thanks." The older stretched his back and sighed. "You're the only one who wasn't causing a ruckus so the hospital is allowing you to stay."

"They wouldn't be able to throw me out even if they wanted to." Zoro grinned. "Not when it involves Luffy."

"Same." Law pushed himself on his feet. "I've already told everyone that they aren't allowed back in here till Luffy wakes up, so be on guard for any sneaking idiots."

"The brothers?"

"Them, yes."

"You got it."

"And don't leave him alone either." Law reiterated. "And call me as soon as he wakes up."

"Will do."

"Thanks for the tea." Law took the mug with him to the lockers to change into new scrubs Cora-san had brought to him in the night with food.

The new day brought a new life in the ER when one after another, the burn victims were slowly being discharged, the ones with minor injuries at least. The woman with the broken leg was reunited with her children, Sanji had dropped off another crate full of fresh fish skin and food for his marimo. Law was pretty much done with the patients when Zoro had him paged that Luffy woke up – Qar had given Law a pager before his shift started.

Zoro made sure he was the first thing Luffy saw when he woke up, someone familiar so he wouldn't panic the way he had the previous night – the swordsman cursed himself for not knowing and realizing that his best friend was hiding such a thing and successfully at that too, that Luffy was hiding something and it worked too. So, Zoro stayed in his friend's line of vision when Luffy stirred, the younger was calmer than before. Zoro grabbed a nurse and told her to page Law and the doctor arrived not later than five minutes.

"Don't try to talk, you'll hurt your throat." Law warned the first thing when he saw Luffy trying to sit up. "And stop touching your tubes, that'll get you hurt too."

Luffy couldn't talk, sure, but he let Law know through whining sounds that he didn't like being in the hospital and the tubes in his nose and arms at all. Law was glad that the younger wasn't panicking and was much calmer than before.

"Well your vitals are ok." Law commented looking at the machines, then pushed his stethoscope on Luffy's chest, the younger staring at it with a tilt of his head, as if recalling something, but not quite. "Breathe for me."

Luffy coughed and got irritated with the tube in his nose that Zoro quickly took the younger's hands and stopped him for pulling on the tube. That didn't stop Luffy from squirming though.

"I don't think he likes that tube very much." Zoro said then turned to his friend. "Oi, stop it."

"Is it too uncomfortable?" Law asked his boyfriend. Luffy quickly nodded. "Fine, I will take it out, better that than giving you trauma."

"You're too easy." Zoro commented, baffled.

"Trauma would delay his healing, so I'm making the smart decision, though it's going to take longer for your throat to heal this way." Law said the end to Luffy who shrugged. "Ok, ok." The doctor stood up. "You're going to have to lay down, without a pillow, neck flat, Zoro-ya is going to hold your head so you don't accidentally move, then I'm going to take the tube out. Ok?"

"I'm helping?" Zoro raised an eyebrow but when Luffy glared at his friend, the swordsman agreed in a jiffy.

Law adjusted Luffy's neck and head so the airway was straight, made sure Zoro was holding tight, then nodded to his boyfriend, undid the protective taping on the tube and carefully pulled it out, discarding it without a second's delay. "There. Better?"

Luffy nodded and scratched his nose where the tube and tape had been, then his hand went to his head and patted there for a few seconds before the two present got the meaning.

"I sent your hat home with Godfather." Zoro said and sat down on the bed. Luffy pouted at the absence of his strawhat.

"I'll get you your phone and stuff Ace-ya left with me." Law said and went to his locker, not delaying in getting back. "Just type when you want to tell us something, do not talk." The doctor handed the phone to his boyfriend. "And make do with this for the time being." Law put his own hat on Luffy's head and watched how the sun grinned back at him.

"Oh fuck you are so mushy, Law." Zoro laughed at the doctor's red face.

~

It was night time again and since Luffy wasn't discharged, Law decided to spend another night at the hospital, he didn't mind staying, though he did force Zoro to go home for a few hours until Law had his shift again. Luffy was awake and was having a hard time falling asleep and Law and tried all the things he knew that could help the younger sleep but nothing was working. The more the silence then stretched, the more Law got the feeling that Luffy wanted to say something but wasn't doing it.

"Something's on your mind." Law said finally, adjusting the flow of the new IV, sitting down on the chair beside the bed and resting his elbows near Luffy's head. "Tell me."

It took a few seconds but Luffy relented and typed something, showing the older the screen.

|You're mad at me for getting hurt.

Law read from the phone screen then looked at Luffy, the younger was avoiding eye contact. The doctor sighed and put his head down beside Luffy's, if the younger wasn't willing to lock eyes, that was ok with Law.

"I'm not mad at you." Law said. "If you hadn't been there, the people you saved would have died." The older waited a few seconds to let his words sink in, then raised his head and found Luffy staring at him. "The woman with the broken leg, her children, she is very grateful that you saved her, couldn't stop saying it."

|Really?

"Yes, really. Ace-ya said that nobody died in the fire, I made sure nobody died in my care, you made sure you saved the ones really trapped, why would I be mad at you for that? Sure you got hurt, but it isn't anything I can't heal." Law smiled. "If anything, I'm proud of you."

Luffy grinned under his oxygen mask, then his eyes went to Law's stethoscope and he typed the other question he wanted to ask. |I panicked yesterday? I think I was awake.

"Yeah, you did. I used my own heartbeat to get you out of it."

|I remember that! It worked!

"Why were you panicking though?" Law asked, wanting to confirm if his own realizations were correct or not.

|Fire, bad memories. I don't like hospitals too, and you weren't there.

"Wait, did you think I abandoned you?" The older narrowed his eyes, upset that Luffy thought that, but saddened at the same time that there was something forcing the younger to think like that too.

Luffy avoided Law's eyes again but typed to let the older know about his reasons. |I don't know why I'm like this but I always feel afraid of being forgotten in hospitals- that's why I hate them too, I think.

"Forgotten in hospitals? That sounds very specific. Did something like that happen before?" Law didn't know who it was yet but they were going to get hell from him for traumatizing Luffy.

Luffy shrugged. |I don't remember if it happened though.

"Well, I'm not leaving you, or forgetting you here. And when I'm on duty, Zoro-ya is the only one allowed to be here with you."

|Whabout the others?

"They were being too loud, especially your brothers, so no, they aren't allowed." Law shook his head.

|Did you yell at Ace? That he allowed me to go in that building, that it was the reason I'm hurt?

"He was kicking himself enough for it, guilty too. Besides, we all know there is no changing your mind when you've set your eyes on something, so Ace-ya wasn't at fault either."

Luffy searched Law's eyes for any indication that the older was sparing Luffy from the truth or lying to him, but he only found fondness and genuine affection. |Guess so.

"You just focus on getting better now."

|Kiss me and I'll get better.

"Oh that's how you wanna play this huh?" Law rolled his eyes when Luffy kicked the sheets in a small, harmless tantrum. "Your mask is in the way."

|I'LL START TALKING!

Law laughed out loud at the message with a shake of his head. "Oh the things you make me feel." The older wiped a happy tear from the corner of his eye and briefly took off Luffy's oxygen mask to kiss him. "Now you will definitely have to get better."

~

I... I'm sorry TToTT

It's just that, its the month of Ramadan and we're fasting from dawn till dusk so every schedule and routine is a lot out of whack and I can't find the energy to write at all TToTT

Let's hope with this update I can finally get back on track ToT

Thank you for all your patience and love! <3