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Title: Poker Face
Pairing: Luffy/Zoro
Rating: PG-15?
Word Count: 299
Summary: The crew plays poker.

Nami bid two chips.

 

Sanji met and raised two.

 

Zoro made a weird sound from the back of his throat, before raising one, glaring at everyone around the table.

 

Usopp raised five.

 

Luffy grinned and met.

 

The cards were down. Sanji won, with a two-pair of tens and threes.

 

Nami sighed, shuffled, and dealt a second round.

 

Sanji looked at his cards, and discardd two.

 

Zoro banged his head against the table, before replacing three cards.

 

Usopp looked concerned.

 

Luffy replaced his entire hand.

 

Nami smiled serenely at Zoro as she bid half her pile of tokens.

 

Sanji swooned at how beautiful and clever a poker player Nami was.

 

Zoro told him to shut up.

 

Sanji glared at Zoro, and met and raised one.

 

Usopp folded.

 

Zoro, sweating and slightly flushed, met the ridiculous bid because he knew the witch was bluffing- She knows he knows, but there’s no way he won’t win this time.

 

Luffy picked his nose with his left pinky.

 

Nami raised the stakes.

 

Zoro choked.

 

“Fucking marimo, bid or fold already.”

 

Zoro reached towards his pile of tokens.

 

“AAAGH!” He thumped his head against the table.

 

And then again, harder this time.

 

And passed out.

 

“Oh. It looks like Zoro has passed out.” Luffy said. “Maybe I’ll just bring him to his hammock. To let him sleep. Because he hasn’t been doing enough of that lately, he’s been so busy, training. All the time. That’s probably why this happened, you know.”

 

Grinning, in that very wide way full of teeth, he slung the swordsman over his shoulder, so that Zoro’s legs trailed behind him and Zoro’s head hung down his chest, and exited the galley.

 

Usopp blinked. “Zoro hasn’t been sleeping enough lately? I hadn’t noticed…”

 

“Shut up. Please.”

 

“Oh.”

 

The game continued.

 

Nami won.

How did this become a ZoLu? Well, I do have a fondness for that pairing. But the real reason was that, when I was first thinking this fic out, I was thinking it in comic form. And although I first considered making it SanZo (with all the lovely possibilities of how Nami might get involved), there's the problem of how it might be a little obvious what Sanji is doing if his arm is under the table and he's bending slightly and...

Then there's Luffy, with his stretchable limbs, sitting across the table from Zoro and eating food with only his left hand.

And thus the fic was born.

 

Comments

[thrice-shy.livejournal.com]

Had to read it again after reading your explanation at the bottom O_o I like how subtle it was until the end, and how the title now takes on a whole new meaning. And of course Nami wins :)

[key-revolution.livejournal.com]

Nami wins at everything, including the universe.

She so knew.

Glad you liked =)

[rhythmia.livejournal.com]

So I read it the first time, and it seemed pretty innocuous, going round and round. Then reading your note at the bottom, I had to read it again with this new interpretation. And...yeah. *sporfles* This fic wins. I like that it had a perfectly innocent read through once, and then completely dirty second. xDDD Man, I think I want to draw this out in comic form as you said. May I?

Hahahahaha Luffy's smile full of teeth! (now with new meaning XDDD) And of course Nami won.

[key-revolution.livejournal.com]

IF YOU DO THAT I'LL LOVE YOU FOREVER.

[harmonde.livejournal.com]

THIS. WAS. AWESOME. I love how on my first readthrough it seemed completely innocent, but little did I know....yeah. :D

The comic of this would be as awesome as the drabble, by the way.

[key-revolution.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that I might need to adjust the rating, say "PG first read-through, PG-15 second time around?"

And yes, I desperately want to see this in comic form.

Glad you liked ^^