When You and I are Just Beyond Reach
Title: Just Beyond Reach
Medium: Fic
Word Count: 296
Rating: PG
Prompt: Wave
Character: Sabo
Warning: Spoilers ahoy.
"Get OFF of me!" Sabo snarled, even as as he shook them off one way and the other, listening to their cries as they flew off and hit the railing, bounced off the deck. It was so much buzzing in the ears to him. Tinny noises that could barely be heard over the odd thrumming in his ears, like a hive of angry hornets.
He stormed toward the railing, taking long strides. The sea was waiting and beyond that--
"Hack!" Koala's voice rang out like a bell. An instant later a wave like a wall of water burst over the side of the deck an smacked him full and cold in the face, full of arctic chill. Sabo landed on his ass, spluttering, angry enough to not even feel the cold as he struggled to sit up but there was a knee in his gut, pinning him down, Koala frowning down at him.
"Let me go!" Sabo snapped at her. "You don't understand! I have to go to him! He needs me! Luffy, he--"
"Look!" she snapped, jamming the paper in his face. Luffy, head down, hat over his heart. Sabo wanted to die. "He's got Silvers Rayleigh with him and Jimbei. He doesn't--" Koala stopped. He was glad she did. "--he'll be fine. He needs to grow right? To figure things out on his own."
Sabo dug the heels of his hands against his eyes to stop the wetness from coming out. "But I'm his brother!"
He briefly felt the cool touch of her fingertips against his temple. “I know,” she said.
Beyond that, he didn't move. No one spoke. There was nothing but a soft sigh from the man who watched, and dull roar of the waves just beyond the railing.
Medium: Fic
Word Count: 296
Rating: PG
Prompt: Wave
Character: Sabo
Warning: Spoilers ahoy.
"Get OFF of me!" Sabo snarled, even as as he shook them off one way and the other, listening to their cries as they flew off and hit the railing, bounced off the deck. It was so much buzzing in the ears to him. Tinny noises that could barely be heard over the odd thrumming in his ears, like a hive of angry hornets.
He stormed toward the railing, taking long strides. The sea was waiting and beyond that--
"Hack!" Koala's voice rang out like a bell. An instant later a wave like a wall of water burst over the side of the deck an smacked him full and cold in the face, full of arctic chill. Sabo landed on his ass, spluttering, angry enough to not even feel the cold as he struggled to sit up but there was a knee in his gut, pinning him down, Koala frowning down at him.
"Let me go!" Sabo snapped at her. "You don't understand! I have to go to him! He needs me! Luffy, he--"
"Look!" she snapped, jamming the paper in his face. Luffy, head down, hat over his heart. Sabo wanted to die. "He's got Silvers Rayleigh with him and Jimbei. He doesn't--" Koala stopped. He was glad she did. "--he'll be fine. He needs to grow right? To figure things out on his own."
Sabo dug the heels of his hands against his eyes to stop the wetness from coming out. "But I'm his brother!"
He briefly felt the cool touch of her fingertips against his temple. “I know,” she said.
Beyond that, he didn't move. No one spoke. There was nothing but a soft sigh from the man who watched, and dull roar of the waves just beyond the railing.