♠ Queen of Clubs ♠ {voice} [Comment Log for Marshall 114 or Neighbors?]
{Have some footsteps, and rustling like someone's moving about the apartment looking for something or someone.}
LUUUUFFYYYYY!! OOOooooooiii, WHERE THE HELL ARE YA!?
Shit, c'mon Luffy, stop playing around, where did you go? I -- {Sounds like he might have found something. Everything kinda goes quiet here. There's a soft noise, like the sound a wicker ( Read more... )
LUUUUFFYYYYY!! OOOooooooiii, WHERE THE HELL ARE YA!?
Shit, c'mon Luffy, stop playing around, where did you go? I -- {Sounds like he might have found something. Everything kinda goes quiet here. There's a soft noise, like the sound a wicker ( Read more... )
It wasn't until he reached the front door and had put his hoof on it to open it that he realized something was wrong. The wood was never this warm, and he could already feel an uncomfortable wave of heat from the room, something that hadn't been there before even though it was already summer. With a small frown, he pushed the door open and immediately tensed up when the heat in the room felt worse.
Glancing around, all he could see was Ace and the turned over couch, which made him worry in a split-second. The worry only increased when he picked up the scent of burning wood and when he took a few more steps into the room and watched the small end table quickly burning away to nothing, he panicked and rushed into the room, having no time to shut the door behind him.]
A-Ace! The table! Why is the table on fire?!
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So it is. {Obviously he didn't give a damn.}
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He was panting very heavily, more than he ever normally would because it was incredibly hot in the room. Not as bad as Alabasta but it was still more than he'd want to deal with for a prolonged amount of time. But he kept going and ignored the dizziness that was starting to settle in from all the heat and his overexertion. Chopper looked up at Ace and yelled frantically, almost angrily.]
Why are you just standing there?!
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His attempts were failing miserably. Luckily Chopper's shouting broke through to him. Unfortunately he just snapped back.}
BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO!! {But reality sort of slapped him in the face as he looked at his little brother, fighting the small blaze. Something about that scene spoke to him and he frowned. It was like the doctor was struggling against his anger. He sighed softly and lifted a hand. He curled his fingers in towards his palm once he grasped the heat of that fire. Slowly but surely it shrunk before smoldering completely. He stared at the charred remnants with a distant, pained expression. He then sunk to the fallen couch and dropped his head into his hands.}
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Then, it was gone. Just like that. With one final shake of the blanket he let it fall to the floor, and he fell along with it in a soft thump. Chopper sat on the ground, staring wide-eyed at the pile of cinders and burnt wood in front of him, panting heavily from exhaustion.]
...A-Ace?
[That was the first word out of his mouth, all he could say for the moment as he looked once more toward the couch, saw him sit there with his face buried in his hands.
Something's wrong.]
What happened?
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what happened? I happened Chopper. It was my fault. {He shook his head, squeezing his eyes shut and hanging it weakly from his shoulders. So much for living without regrets...}
Luffy went home to watch me die all over again and I can do nothing. Not here and not there...
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It took him a while to take his eyes off of Ace until he could look for Luffy's frequency.
It wasn't there. He tried again, and it wasn't there. Again and again and again and it still wasn't there. But that wasn't the problem.
Setting it on the floor, he just sat and stared back at Ace.]
You're not...
[And he couldn't even say it, because Ace can't die back home. If he dies he doesn't come back. Luffy left and Ace is going to die.]
You're not.
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I'm sorry.
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Except that's not how it was on the Grand Line.
Doctor would never come back. Ace wouldn't either. All the time he'd been here, all the things they'd done. Even if he had become another brother, even if he belonged at Chopper's side as much as the rest of his crew did, it didn't change anything at all.]
No you're not. You're not. You...
[He tilted his head up, grabbed the edges of his hat then tugged it over his face. There was a soft little whimper, a sharp breath, something that sounded like Ace's name. Then nothing. Just tears.]
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But what really upset him, and what the other Straw Hats would understand as well, is that Luffy... he'd be going through hell over it. He wasn't so sure the boy could handle it if he were going to end up in a coma. Hell he wasn't so sure he'd make it off the battlefield alive. But he had to keep believing someone, any one of his brothers would take him somewhere safe.}
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Then the next thing he knew, he was on an island all by himself, miles away from the others.
Luffy was alone. He had no ship. He had no crew. And now he was missing one more thing, just as important as the others if not more-so. There was nothing any of them could do to help. Not while they were stranded somewhere else. Not while they were here. If Chopper was sitting here sobbing his eyes out, how was Luffy going to react to this?
It's not fair. His sobs quieted down as his energy left him, having tired himself out too much from earlier but he still kept crying, pressed his hat further against his face and let the tears soak into his fur more.]
A-Aaace... L-Lu... Luffy... it's n-not...
[Family is family. Nakama is family too. Nothing hurts more than losing family. Even worse when you have no-one there to turn to afterward.]
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Luffy would pull through, this was just another thing that would make him stronger in the end, no matter how terrible it was.
But even knowing that. Knowing that Luffy was suffering... it was just too much to bear. Luffy being alone. It was his worst fear, the worst torture they could have done to him was take away everything that mattered. And fate had somehow achieved that in that moment.
The older pirate trembled, with rage, with anguish, he couldn't stand it. Choppers sobs were loud enough to cover the sound of his own. He hurt because Luffy was suffering, he hurt because Chopper was too, he missed his family, he hated causing all of this... anger, sorrow, it was all falling from the tears he wept.}
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It was like there was nothing he could do except sit here and let Ace hug him as he tried so hard to not feel useless and defeated. What could he do?
His vision was a little blurry from the tears in his eyes and there was a slight tremble in his body from the long crying spell, a few sniffles here and there as well but otherwise he had managed to calm down just a bit. It was a slow and clumsy move, but he reached up into his hat and pulled out a piece of paper. Holding it out in front of his face, he mumbled quietly.]
I-I pr-promise... we're g-gonna find him... when I go back, I'm gonna f-find Luffy... we w-won't let him be a-alone right now--
[Chopper had to stop as his bottom lip trembled and he gave another shuddered sniffle. No, he was done crying. As much as it hurt to deal with this, he shouldn't cry anymore. No more. He's a pirate. He's a Straw Hat pirate and no matter what came their way, they'd stand strong and get through this, somehow. Please let them get through this somehow. Let Luffy stay strong without them a little while longer.]
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