"A Day's End"

[morriwritestuff.livejournal.com]

So I go on a long, relaxing vacation...and write two depressing Zeff/Sanji drabbles, one shortish Sanji rape fic, and a Na/Zo/Sa drabble in which Zoro gets his manly sword sunburnt.  I'm a hostile person, I think.  Nice vacation though!

Title: A Day's End
Rating:  PG-13
Characters: Don Krieg/Sanji (suggested), Zeff/Sanji (in way that's really not)
Word Count: 534
Summary: AR.  Red Foot Zeff was the terror of criminals on the streets until the day he met Don Krieg and a bratty little blond with a killer mouth.  This is the end of that shitty day.  The night isn't proving to be much better.

Zeff figured he was in for a rough night when he went into his bedroom and found the kid naked in his bed.  The younger blond jumped at Zeff’s arrival, shaking badly but trying manfully to hide it with a determined, squared jaw and a hard glower.

 

The old cop took one look at the pitifully skinny boy and sighed.  He settled down gingerly in a chair near his bed, wincing as pain shot through his leg.  It hadn’t been that long since that mobster Don Krieg had blown out his kneecap and even less time since the surgery that had “repaired” his ruined leg.  He wondered for a brief moment if it would ever stop hurting, both the actual injury and the knowledge that he would no longer be the force that criminals feared on the streets.  Red Foot Zeff was officially retired.  Thanks in part to the brat sitting in front of him.

 

“I’m not going to some fucking orphanage!”  The kid finally spit out, long fingers working the sheets under him like they were lifelines.

 

“This your way to convince me to keep you?”  Zeff gestured to the boy’s naked body and snorted.  “I’m not interested in kids, brat.”

 

“I’m not a kid!”  Before Zeff could think to respond the boy had shot out of the bed and was on him, plans for seduction forgotten in favor of gangly limbs flailing angrily into damaged skin. 

 

Zeff grabbed him roughly by the arms, hiding a grimace when the kid kicked him in the leg, noting his unexpected strength.  He waited until the brat wore himself out struggling, still so weak from poor nutrition and Don Krieg’s tender care.

 

“I’m not a kid.”  A whisper, murmured into his collarbone as he surrendered into Zeff’s hard grip.  Zeff could see the barest hint of something shining in the boy’s one visible eye before he lowered his head further, letting that fine curtain of hair cover more of his face.

 

Wordlessly Zeff raised one hand and swept up that armor, revealing the boy’s entire face.  The kid struggled for a second against that unveiling, but then surrendered again, opting instead to glare challengingly at the cop.

 

Zeff looked at the kid’s whole face, revealed in total for the first time since he’d first found him, naked and starving and bleeding in that dank warehouse.  He breathed out deep.

 

“I see.”  He let the boy go and leaned back in his chair.  “What’s your real name?”

 

“Sanji.”  Sullenly.  “No last name.” 

 

“Well, Sanji, skinny brats like you don’t do anything for me so you can put your damn clothes back on.”

 

“But--!”

 

“Put your clothes back on and tell me something else you’re good at.  I’m nobody’s dad so you’ll have to do something to pull your own weight around here.”

 

Sanji thought for a long moment and then said, hesitantly, “I like to cook.”

 

“Yeah?”  Zeff smiled.  “Me too.”

 

The smile he got in return, wide and still so damn innocent despite everything, almost made Zeff forget his leg and his job and his dreams for the future.

 

At the end of the day, he supposed he could manage if some bug-eyed brat could.

Comments

[ptps.livejournal.com]

Oh, squee ^__^ Father-son Zeff/Sanji relationships are my favorite because I dislike shota, but... The smile he got in return, wide and still so damn innocent despite everything, almost made Zeff forget his leg and his job and his dreams for the future. stole my heart. Eeee. ♥ ♥ ♥

And where are the other two ficlets and OT3 drabble you were mentioning...? XD

[morriwritestuff.livejournal.com]

It's weird but I never actually had an opinion on shota, positive or negative, until I read Yochan's Zeff/Sanji lovely "Bribery" and the dynamic there won me over. So I guess the only shota I like is Zeff/Sanji and that's because they have a sort of fucked-up relationship anyway. Thanks for reading anyway!

Oh, the other Zeff/Sanji drabble I'll probably put up tomorrow, the shortish Sanji thing will go up on OPY as soon as I finish it, and the OT3 drabble may go up later this week as I have other OT3 drabbles that I finished on vacation that I like better.

[geuna.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaw, that's so awesome! Poor Sanji being so desperate... T__T The ending was so sweet, though. Wonderful job!

[morriwritestuff.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I have a serious kink for Sanji being desperate, which I think puts me squarely in the middle of the average OP slash fan scale.

[geuna.livejournal.com]

(back from a trip) Yup, and I'm right there on that scale with you. ^__^

[yuki-kokoro.livejournal.com]

I like Sanji's character here, still strong and rough and "innocent despite everything" and yet he still came into Zeff's room to try and seduce him... because that's what he expects others to want from him.

I liked this idea and you did a good job with it. ^_^

Also WELCOME BACK! Hope you enjoyed your vacation (and post those ficlets and drabble soon (ZORO YOU IDIOT! THAT WOULD BE SO HORRIBLY PAINFUL! XD)

[morriwritestuff.livejournal.com]

Thank you! One of the reasons I love Zeff/Sanji stuff so much, sexual or otherwise, is how Sanji obviously tries so hard to be a grown-up in Zeff's eyes and how Zeff will have none of it. I have this tiny, completely unsupportable opinion that if Sanji had been older or more sexually experienced when they'd first met, something like this might have happened anyway just so Sanji could show Zeff that he deserved to be treated like an equal and not a stupid kid that ruined the lives of dreaded pirate captains.

Next, my thoughts on yaoi.

And my vacation was love, thank you!

ZORO YOU IDIOT! THAT WOULD BE SO HORRIBLY PAINFUL!

Yeah, especially as Nami is unlikely to allow her sex life to be disrupted due to Zoro's stupidity and Sanji will have no pity to begin with.

[yuki-kokoro.livejournal.com]

Your tiny unsupported opinion hereby gains my support. Were the situation slightly different I could see Sanji taking a sexual route to try and prove something to Zeff or equal out their relationship.

Also: "Yeah, especially as Nami is unlikely to allow her sex life to be disrupted due to Zoro's stupidity and Sanji will have no pity to begin with."

POOR ZORO! ARE THEY REALLY THAT CRUEL!? Doesn't he deserve some TLC? (which would also probably hurt, but... it's the thought that counts? *winces*)

[mango-32.livejournal.com]

I'm thrilled to see this >_<. I love you so much for writing Zeff&Sanji.

[morriwritestuff.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that you liked it. Having a crack OTP like this makes a girl nervous come share-time...but it's too nice and twisted to resist.

[mishagirl.livejournal.com]

Aww I really like this!