~

"I swear to Nika..." Law rubbed his temples to soothe the headache that was going to from in the next few seconds courtesy of Luffy hiding behind the ER doors, making suspicious movements. "You better not be licking weird stuff again."

"I'm not!" The young man turned around and faced his boyfriend, hands dirty. "Why's there so much dirt here? Aren't hospitals supposed to be clean?"

"Strike." The doctor sighed. "A few people cannot man the entire hospital."

Luffy pouted at nothing and went to sit on one of the empty ER beds, Law followed. "When do you think the strike will be over?"

"No idea... but it better end soon."

"Got the tea!" Den and Simone announced arriving in the ER, no one cared about being loud, there were no patients in the entire hospital.

"Bless." Law took the cup he was handed and started consuming the contents straight away.

"Let it cool down a little." Simone said. "Who even drinks tea though? You're like the only person in this entire hospital who prefers tea over coffee."

"She's right." Den seconded, blowing on his coffee.

"Torao used to drink coffee a lot then he switched to tea, said it was healthier." Luffy blurted without realizing that the two doctors in front of him weren't his or Law's friends.

"Torao????" Den and Simone repeated looking at each other, then at Law, then at Luffy, then they burst out laughing.

"I will fucking murder you one of these days." Law glared at his boyfriend, who laughed, not showing any remorse at all.

"That butchering of your name aside," Simone started, looking from Law to Luffy, "why is he still hanging out here?"

"He's my emotional support monkey." The older said, hiding his smile behind his cup of tea.

"No, but really, why?" Den asked this time.

Luffy looked Law and grinned at the panic that went through the older's eyes. "I'm gonna tell them."

"I will cut your balls off." Law warned but that didn't deter Luffy at all.

"Torao thinks of me as a little brother." The young man said, repeating his boyfriend's words from way back.

"Oh." Simone and Den seemed satisfied until Law started laughing out loud.

"I don't know what's creepier, the empty hospital, or Law laughing in an empty hospital." Usopp said hiding behind Franky, the two approaching the party of four in the ER.

"Cameras are all installed brrrrooo!" Franky showed a thumbs-up to Law.

"This should put a somewhat end to the strike." Law mumbled and discarded his empty tea papercup. "Thanks guys."

"And now he's thanking us! Let's get out of here before he gets worse!" Usopp joked, laughing with Luffy in tow.

The three doctors' pagers beeped the next moment, indicative of the arrival of a patient – Law let the security know of the inside situation and handed them instructions of paging the doctors inside to let them know of incoming patients so at least someone would be present in the ER to deal with it.

Den brought out the sticks the doctors were using to draw lots to decide who would get the patient, the doctor who drew the stick with a green end would win.

"That's just wrong." Usopp caught on immediately and shook his head.

"Beats fighting like feral dogs." Simone shrugged and the three doctors made their picks.

"Yes!" Law cheered when he saw the green end on his stick.

"It's not fair, you got the last one too!" Den complained.

"Up your luck then."

"You guys are funny!" Luffy laughed and Law remembered how much of a hazard his boyfriend was in a hospital.

"Take him and wait in a corner." Law pushed Luffy towards Usopp and Franky, then renewed his gear.

The patient was a young boy with food poisoning. Law went through the usual steps, efficiently but carefully, asked the mother some questions, briefed her of everything too. The doctor was fixing a hydration IV on the kid's arm when the boy convulsed and vomited, all over his doctor.

The kid is dead... Franky and Usopp thought while Luffy laughed, again. Den and Simone sighed and started preparing for cleanup.

"Couldn't you have controlled yourself? You threw up all over the doctor!" The mother started scolding.

Law grabbed a few towels and first wiped the boy clean. "It's no problem, you couldn't have controlled that. It's not your fault." The doctor reassured the kid because he looked awfully guilty. "You will feel like sleeping now, so rest, ok?" Law then turned to the mother. "I will get you the paperwork soon."

"...ok, thank you." The woman blinked at the lack of anger and disgust from Law after having been thrown up on.

"I for real thought that kid was a supppeeerrrr gonerrrrr." Franky said once Law curtained the patient's bed and walked to everyone.

"Nah, Torao's real kind!" Luffy boasted.

"Wonder who deserves the credit for that." Usopp elbowed his friend.

"You guys can stay if you want to but I'm going to take a quick shower to clean this up." Law said pointing at his clothes. The doctor didn't wait for any answers and after nodding to his fellow doctors, left for the showers.

"I'm coming with!" Luffy told his friends and ran after Law.

"What kind of incestuous pedophilia is this?" Simone made a face watching Luffy follow Law.

"Are we missing something?" Den asked Usopp and Franky.

"About what?" Usopp questioned, confused.

"Luffy said he's like a little brother to doctor Trafalgar, but what is this? Why did he go with him to the showers?"

"I don't understand a thing, geniuses have kinks I guess." Simone scratched her head.

Usopp laughed out loud, much the same way Law did. "If they told you that, I won't say anything else, I prefer to stay alive."

"Law? A pedophile? No way." Franky moved his shades up.

"Then what's happening? Monkey D. Luffy looks barely over fifteen, and doctor Trafalgar always signs and fills his papers himself, does he do that to hide the age?"

"Look at them closely, you'll figure them out." Franky said with a wink.

~

Nami walked hand in hand with Vivi, the two were out on a date, Pel and Chaka following close behind.

"The town has improved a lot since the last time I was here." Vivi commented on the infrastructure and cleanliness.

"Your help with the Grey Terminal made progressive changes throughout Goa." Nami answered then frowned. "But people are still idiots, do you know there's a doctor's strike going on at the Goa General right now?"

"Really? The hospital's closed then? Where do people go?"

"Law and a few other doctors are managing the place, the hospital is open but nobody wants to risk going when it's so understaffed."

"So what are they doing? Letting their sick stay sick?" Vivi asked, incredulous. "That's worse!"

"I understand that, but imagine going to the hospital in hopes of being helped, but not being able to get that help on time because there are so few doctors." Nami pointed.

"Law-san's dedication is commendable still."

"He's always been such a doctor." The orange haired woman laughed. "Usopp and Franky are fixing cameras in the hospital today, that should ease the strike a little bit, one of the demands being met and all."

"Those doctors should be ashamed, didn't they take an oath to help people?"

"Luffy said Law was angry about that too, haven't had the chance to see how Law's doing myself though, he hasn't been home for a while."

"That's just wrong." Vivi shook her head. "Things can be resolved by talking it out too, why do people always feel the need to resort to violence and disconnect from communication..."

"You're so precious."

Talking and not caring about the time, the two women rounded a corner and found themselves face-to-face with man holding a knife.

"Give me all your money!" The man shouted and lunged for Vivi.

"Like hell I will!" Nami swung a punch at the guy and pushed Vivi aside at the same time. The older woman's fist did connect with the man's face but in saving her girlfriend, Nami got the knife in her arm, the sudden injury making her lose balance. Nami's head hit the wall and it took her a little time to reorient herself.

"Nami-san!" Vivi cried out.

"Give me your money or I kill her!" The man threatened Vivi, waving his knife around again, but he didn't account for the fact that Nami was a Strawhat, and as such, she wasn't going down easy.

Vivi watched with her eyes wide as Nami took our her taser and zapped the man, Vivi had expected a small charge to incapacitate the man for a while, so her shock was warranted when the small taser device sent out a proper thunderbolt.

"Vivi-sama!"

"Vivi-sama, are you alright?!" Pel and Chaka arrived.

"That asshole should have known better than to corner the two of us, especially for money." Nami rolled her eyes and put her taser back.

"Nami-san! You're bleeding!" Vivi pushed her bodyguards aside and went to her girlfriend.

"Yeah, he got me in the arm." Nami commented casually.

"Your head too!"

"Law's gonna scream."

~

Usopp, Franky, Den and Simone, even Luffy, stood on a side, silently, waiting for the murderous aura that Law was exhibiting, to pass by. The doctor was scolding Pel and Chaka for their negligence that Vivi and Nami were attacked, and the latter got hurt. Law had tended to Nami's injuries, taken her for some head scans to rule out everything, and then he had started bashing the two men from Alabasta.

Law's pager beeping was what made him let the two men off. "Don't think for a second I'm done with you."

"Let's go." Simone pulled Law away to the ER doors where the EMTs were bringing a gurney out from their vehicle. One look at the man on the gurney and both the doctors looked up at the sky.

"We had the same reaction." The EMT told the doctors.

"Where did you find him? It's like he's been struck by lightning." Simone asked the questions while Law performed the basic checks.

"Thanks." Law said to the EMTs and wheeled the guy in for treatment.

Usopp and Franky left to tell Sanji what happened in person, and to calm him down before he would go on the crusade to bring the attacker to justice. Luffy sat beside a sleeping Nami with Vivi and watched the three doctors working on the new guy they brought in.

"...it's him." Vivi said when she had the chance to look at the man Law was treating in the bed in front of Nami's.

"Him who?" Luffy asked looking in the direction Vivi's eyes were fixed at.

"The man who attacked us." The princess hadn't intended for it to be heard by anyone other than Luffy, but with the ER so quiet, her voice carried to everyone present.

"Uh-oh." Den and Simone shared a look before they moved to be closer to Law in case he went apeshit, which the two deduced he might from the way the doctor was scolding Vivi's bodyguards before.

"This guy attacked you both?" Law asked for clarification, his hands momentarily pulled back from the lightning burns he was treating.

"Yes." Vivi answered meekly, a little part of her regretting having said anything at all.

"What... are you going to do?" Simone asked Law.

"Do you want us to handle him?" Den offered.

"I took an oath, I'm going to stand by it." Law answered and got back to work. The two doctors and Vivi sighed in relief, then that same breath got caught in their throats when Law chuckled darkly. "But if I spot him on the streets, that's another matter entirely."

"You are a doctor, I don't have to uphold anything." Luffy said walking to Law, anger visible on his face, fists shaking.

"Sit the fuck down, you're not hurting him."

"Torao-"

"Sit. Down." Law said, his tone not allowing any room for negotiations. Luffy glared at Law for a while before stomping his foot and walking out of the ER.

"Did you see what happened to him? It looks like he got struck by lightning." Simone repeated her earlier question to Vivi to dispel the tension and also to get some answers.

"Nami-san tased him." Vivi answered.

"What kind of a taser does this?" Den scratched his head.

"Nami's. Hana-ya modified it a little but somehow only Nami's been able to access a crazy amount of charge. Don't know how she does it though." Law added, finished with the bandages.

"Are all your friends like this, doctor Trafalgar?"

"Like what? Crazy? Insane? Warranting admission in a psychiatric asylum?" Law smiled remembering and referring to his idiots in Flevance. "Yes."

"I was going to say brave and strong." Den said.

"Oh." Law took off his used gear. "That too."

When Law sat beside Nami's bed on the seat Luffy had vacated, Simone raised an eyebrow. "Is your emotional support monkey slash little brother going to be ok? He looked pretty angry."

"Yeah, let him walk it off." Law shrugged and grabbed his phone. The doctor snapped a photo of Nami and sent it in the group chat that had Bellemere-san, Cora-san, Nojiko, Nami and Law himself.

You

*attached a photo

Look, now she has a reason to be crazy XD

The reactions and responses were almost instantaneous.

Cora-san

What happened to her?!

LAW! Why are you like this!

Blue Sister

Is she ok?

@Cora-san, Law's taking care of her, she must be fine right?

Mom 2.0

She's tough, she's gonna be OK

Blue Sister

Yeah

You

Idiot got mugged

You should see the other guy tho- all charred and incapacitated

Did a number on him herself

Cora-san

Law please stop making fun of Nami

Mom 2.0

Let them be

Blue Sister

You're treating the other guy too???

You

Yeah

He was brought to the hospital and well

Law was typing his usual 'I'm a doctor' when he saw that everyone else beat him to the punch.

Mom 2.0

You're a doctor, we know

Blue Sister

"I'm a doctor"

Cora-san

Because my boy is a doctor!

Law put his phone away, a smile on his face. The doctor checked Nami's IVs and took her vitals again before relaxing in the chair for good.

Den and Simone looked at Law and tilted their heads in confusion. Looking at how Law was behaving and carrying himself around Nami, they could tell she was someone important. By the endless banter among Law and Nami when the girl woke up, the two doctors found out that Nami was actually like Law's sister, seemed that way too. But if she was the sister, then what was it that doctor Trafalgar had going on with Luffy? Because that did not look like sibling interaction at all.

"Is Luffy your boyfriend?" Simone asked Law before the thought even registered in her head.

"I'm going back to sleep." Nami said when she heard the question directed at Law. Vivi hid her chuckled behind her hand.

Law did not want to answer that because if it looked like he had answered in agreement even the slightest bit, it might become the talk of the town, and that was something he wanted to avoid at all costs.

"I'm going to check on him." Law left his seat then turned to Nami who was peeking with one of her eyes half opened. "Are you going to be ok for a while?"

"Yeah." The girl answered.

"Let's hope for Luffy's sake that he isn't eating or licking questionable things again." The doctor mumbled under his breath and left the ER to look for his boyfriend, his silence giving Den and Simone the answer to the latter's question, loud and clear.

Law found Luffy sitting under a tree in the park adjacent to the hospital and upon getting closer, the doctor saw the younger was having trouble breathing. Thinking Luffy might be going through a panic attack, Law ran to his boyfriend and without so much as a thought about people looking or his clothes getting dirty, he sat down on his knees to get closer to Luffy.

"Hey- hey, look at me." Law tried talking and taking Luffy's hands in his own to provide some sensory stimulus that could ground him, the younger was breathing hard.

"It- its not- not a panic- attack." Luffy managed to say.

"What?" Then Luffy's words registered and as much as Law was at a loss of what was actually happening, he put one hand on the younger's chest and used his other to straighten Luffy's neck so the airway was unobstructed. "Deep breaths."

After a few minutes of deep breaths, Luffy's breathing was back to normal.

"What the fuck was that?" Law asked first thing when it looked like Luffy could speak.

"No idea, just felt breathless all of a sudden." Luffy shrugged.

"You're fucking sitting under a tree at night and you have no idea???" The doctor rolled his eyes and forcibly dragged his boyfriend away from the tree and towards the bench. The two kept sitting on the grass, side by side, shoulders touching. "Still angry?"

"He hurt Nami and you won't let me hurt him back." The younger got straight to his point.

"Since when are you all guns out at everything? Nami hurt him back herself, you don't have to."

"But..."

"She isn't the helpless Nami you freed from Arlong's webbed clutches, Luffy, she can handle herself, she's strong." Law tried getting his point across. When Luffy didn't say anything and kept pouting in his knees, Law sighed. "I really need a smoke right now, I'm sorry for that in advance." The doctor checked the wind direction and lit a cigarette, making sure the smoke and smell won't get carried to his boyfriend.

A few minutes passed, then Luffy extended his hand in front of Law's face. "Give me."

"Give you... what?" The older asked confused.

"The cigarette. I'm gonna smoke too."

Law looked from the cigarette in his hand to Luffy's face, then shrugged. "Ok, but if your brothers catch a whiff and try to put this on me, know that I will retaliate to the provocation in kind."

"They won't." Luffy said quickly and took the lit death stick from his boyfriend's hand and brought it to his own lips, taking a strong, first inhale.

Law stared in horror at the long inhale, waited for Luffy to fall into a fit of violent coughs but nothing happened. The doctor rubbed his eyes to make sure he was seeing right when inhale after exhale, Luffy burned through the cigarette. "WHAT THE FUCK?! HOW THE FUCK?!"

"Grey Terminal had bad air, then there was fire at Grey Terminal too, then there was always that druggy kinda smoke at that place too, I'm used to it Torao." Luffy listed on his fingers.

"It still came to me as a shock though." Law shook his head and took the cigarette back. "Wanna go back in? Nami's awake."

"Yeah, ok."

When the two went back to the ER, Law found out that Den and Simone were asking the attacker-guy some questions, he had regained consciousness. Law made sure Luffy wouldn't attack the barely-moving man and went to check on him too.

"You're lucky to be alive, that kind of a thunder charge normally kills people." Law said to the man, looking over the vitals Simone had written down.

"I- I can't feel my legs." The man panicked.

"Yes, you're going to be like that for a while." Law curtained the bed with a final, "might want to think about repenting while you're like this."

"What else could I have done?! I needed the money! My family has been starving for days! I don't like robbing people too! But I have to think about my children at home too!"

"That gives you no right to hurt anybody!" Law snapped, sending the curtains flying back. "You think you're the only person who has it rough?" Law pointed to Vivi, "she's a royal from another country, she can have you executed for your crime, what will happen to your family then? Did you think about it? I can have you thrown behind bars for hurting my sister! Who will care for your family then?!"

"Law!"

"Law-san!" Nami and Vivi called the doctor to a stop together.

"People are so fucking stupid." Law gritted his teeth and dragged another chair to sit beside Nami, trying to calm himself down. He knew the exhibition of anger scared the man, he also knew Nami and Vivi would forgive their attacker, but he still felt so angry. "I need to go do something."

"We got this." Den said when Law looked at his colleagues for permission to leave the ER in their hands.

"Thank you." Law said and left.

"Luffy." Nami pulled the young man by his sleeve. "Go after him, see he doesn't do anything bad, to himself or others."

"Yeah." Luffy left his seat and turned to Pel and Chaka, "look after them both." And Luffy left too.

Luffy silently followed Law to the staff lockers and watched from a distance as the older talked to someone on his phone, waited, then after receiving some sort of text, left the hospital building. Luffy followed Law as the older walked through the empty streets of Goa, it looked like Law had a destination in mind. Luffy kept his distance still when Law rang the bell of a house and talked with the woman that appeared at the door. Luffy understood what Law was doing and walked closer when the woman closed the door, crying and thanking Law for something the younger didn't hear.

Luffy stopped following Law and stood in front of him when Law turned around and sighed. Luffy didn't ask the older anything and just silently, walked back with him to the hospital.

"When you are discharged, you will have one day to rest at home, then you're expected here at eight a.m. sharp five days a week behind the reception counter, to help the reception nurses with data collection, filing and guiding patients and family, and whatever else they need help with, except their personal errands." Law addressed the charred and bandaged man in the ER bed, not taking a second to stop and rest himself before laying it all on the bedridden man.

"What?" The man asked, confused.

"Since you are expected to work so suddenly, you will be compensated with a bonus salary for the first month, some of which has already been delivered to your address to earn your utmost cooperation and hard work going forward." Law continued. "A formal employment contract will be signed once you enter your first day. So, rest well, and get to work soon."

Den stayed behind the curtain to explain the situation and answer any questions the man had, then he joined Simone to ask the numerous questions he had in his head about the job he just handed to someone who was basically a criminal. Law just sat in his chair and closed his eyes.

"You went to his house?" Nami asked. "Was what he said, true?"

"Yeah, the youngest was so sick..." Law sighed and breathed to make sure he wouldn't end up showing too much emotion.

"He hurt them and you gave him a job?" Luffy asked, understanding but not understanding what was going on with Law.

"Why do you think he resorted to thievery and violence in the first place? That happens when people are poor." Law looked at the bandaged around Nami's head and arm and spoke the next words in just above a whisper. "I'm the one who wants to hurt him the most, hurting my sister..."

And then Luffy understood. It wasn't only about Nami and Vivi getting attacked or Nami getting injured, it ran deep into trauma Law had received as a child. In Law's way of handling Nami's wounds, Luffy saw a softness that the older had never exhibited with patients or Luffy himself.

Luffy saw a very young Law, caring for his sister, Lami, while she was sick and hurting, his hands had to be soft because she was so fragile and delicate, the slightest touch would cause her pain. Luffy saw Law making amends in his own way, to his little sister who had died.

Not caring about who was looking, Luffy brought his arms around his boyfriend, and hugged him close and tight, letting him know that he understood where he was coming from, why he didn't want more people hurting, why he didn't want to answer violence with violence. When Law responded by resting his head on Luffy's shoulder, the younger heard the unspoken words in the older's sighs.

Because the last time I answered violence with violence, I made mistakes, I hurt a lot of people and got myself hurt, and then Cora-san was taken away from me.

"Torao's kind." Luffy mumbled in Law's hair.

"I know." Law answered.

'Boyfriends?' Den mouthed to Simone, pointing at Law and Luffy.

'More than that.' Simone smiled. The doctor Trafalgar who looked so scary and unapproachable, who stood up for the wrongs in the hospital, for the staff, for the patients, that doctor Trafalgar was really the kindest person she knew.

"Ah! What's up with this chat! Why did you snap pictures?!" Nami yelled when she was going through her phone and looked at the family group chat and her own picture in there. "I do look good though."

"Did you hit your head or something? Oh wait, you did." Law laughed at his own joke.

"I'm never going to hear the end of it, am I?" Nami sighed.

"Nope."

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