After the angst, I bring you crack!
Title: Never Safe
Theme: # 29 Cafe - Set 3
Claim: Ace
Words: 308
Rating: G
Warnings: AU, crack and mentions of Smoker/Ace.
Disclaimers: One Piece isn't mine. Meh.
He had thought that a cafe would be a safe place. Neutral. Public. Safe. The perfect place to tell his grandfather about the big news. Apparently, he had been wrong.
“You what?!”, Garp shouted in his face, sending missiles of saliva into Ace's poor coffee mug. A large vein throbbed on the old man's forehead and he had stood up so fast from his seat that the chair had tipped over and it was currently resting on the floor.
“Not only did you not become a police like I raised you to be, but now you have the guts to tell me that you seduced my best man on the force? And marriage, Ace, marriage? Where is the world heading?!”
This far into Garp's lecturing, all eyes in the cafe were fixed on the odd couple. Even the clerk had stopped pouring up coffee. Instead, he stared his eyes out, both on Garp but also at the poor Ace. Never before had the raven wanted to escape the surface of earth so much before.
Opening his mouth, Ace planned on talking back to his obsessive grandfather, seeing as nothing could make this situation any worse. Garp, however, was faster and launched himself forward, capturing Ace in a crushing hug. The freckled man's cheeks lit in light red, both from a slight blush but also from the lack of air.
“Oh darn. My boy is getting big! Smoker better take good care of you!”
Safe? Yeah right... Thinking back, Ace should have realized that no place were safe when you broke that news about getting married to a old man with worse mood swings than a PMS-ing woman.