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onepiece_300Title: Warmth
Rating: PG?
Media: fic
Characters: Ace, Luffy
Word Count: 193
Prompt: Reunion
Notes: Many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eiliem for a wonderful beta without which I would never have been able to post this. ♥♥♥
Ace had almost forgotten what it felt like to be warm.
Blackbeard's darkness stole the fire from his body weeks ago, and Impel Down drained what little warmth remained. Chained to that stone wall, with the weight of the ocean around him and the icy, heavy cuffs robbing him of his strength, he had learned what despair felt like. Learned to recognize its spirit-crushing cold.
On the execution platform, the fleet admiral tore out the last safe place in his soul, Ace’s most desperate, unspeakable secret, and displayed it for the world to see.
For his stupidity, and the crime of being born, Ace would lose everything today. Would be responsible for every fallen friend and every drop of blood shed.
He grew colder still.
And yet, when Luffy wraps his impossible rubber arms around him – pulling Ace away from the platform, protecting him from the falling debris with his own body – something rekindles within Ace. His brother's body is warm and alive and energizing.
“You can be angry with me later!” Luffy says. “After I’ve kicked these people’s asses and gotten you out of here, okay?”
Somehow, Ace is no longer cold.
Rating: PG?
Media: fic
Characters: Ace, Luffy
Word Count: 193
Prompt: Reunion
Notes: Many thanks to
eiliem for a wonderful beta without which I would never have been able to post this. ♥♥♥Ace had almost forgotten what it felt like to be warm.
Blackbeard's darkness stole the fire from his body weeks ago, and Impel Down drained what little warmth remained. Chained to that stone wall, with the weight of the ocean around him and the icy, heavy cuffs robbing him of his strength, he had learned what despair felt like. Learned to recognize its spirit-crushing cold.
On the execution platform, the fleet admiral tore out the last safe place in his soul, Ace’s most desperate, unspeakable secret, and displayed it for the world to see.
For his stupidity, and the crime of being born, Ace would lose everything today. Would be responsible for every fallen friend and every drop of blood shed.
He grew colder still.
And yet, when Luffy wraps his impossible rubber arms around him – pulling Ace away from the platform, protecting him from the falling debris with his own body – something rekindles within Ace. His brother's body is warm and alive and energizing.
“You can be angry with me later!” Luffy says. “After I’ve kicked these people’s asses and gotten you out of here, okay?”
Somehow, Ace is no longer cold.
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Date: 2009-09-24 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 08:39 pm (UTC)This was awesome! Really enjoyed it. Made a little ray of sunshine in my dreary day.
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Date: 2009-09-24 06:47 am (UTC)Oh Garp...
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Date: 2009-09-23 09:04 pm (UTC)Oh Ace :( *pets him*
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Date: 2009-09-24 06:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 11:07 pm (UTC)GO BRING DOWN THE WG, LUFFY. ACE NEEDS HIS FIRE.
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Date: 2009-09-24 06:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-24 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-24 06:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-24 05:18 am (UTC)No one can ever be sad/cold when Luffy's around XD
god damn it Sengoku! Being born is NOT a crime!
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Date: 2009-09-24 06:52 am (UTC)Also, Sengoku needs to have his ass kicked so bad.