Fic

[kingyo-hanabi.livejournal.com]

Title: Throw It All Away
Author: Kingyo
Pairing: Smo/Ace
Rating/ Warnings: G/ None
Topic: Sinking

A/N: I'm not really happy with this. It didn't go at all the way I planned. Oh well. C'est la Vie.



In his years on the grand line, Smoker’s seen a lot. Strange things- objects, people, places- seem to flourish here. There are things he’s understood, and things he’s merely accepted as fact, because that’s the only way to deal with them.

Love, however, is something he has yet to experience. He’s certainly seen it, and seen the things some people seem willing to do for it. He’s never understood how someone can become so consumed, so…weak, that they are willing to throw away everything they have just for the sake of it.

Even after he met Ace (and to this day, the memory of that first quick, dirty coupling in the dark alley of an Alabasta port remains one of his favorites) after one night became two, and then ten, and then one hundred- his empty bed and cold sheets replaced with a freckled grin and unnatural warmth- long past the point when nights spent with the brat curled against his chest far outweighed those he spent alone… it never occurred to him.

Love.

Had anyone asked, he would have truthfully told them that he would just as soon toss the brat overboard as throw away everything he’s worked for in his pursuit of Justice.

But staring down at the report Tashigi has just slapped onto his desk- a detailed plan of the pending execution of one Hi Ken no Ace with summons to attend, courtesy of  Vice Admiral Garp- Smoker realizes with a sinking feeling that throwing everything away- for love!- is exactly what he is about to do.
 


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And on another note, I really need a good Smo/Ace icon. Anybody know where I can find one?

Comments

[lilyoftheval5.livejournal.com]

Why not happy, it's lovely. And in character. I could feel that innocent denial and see the moment of revelation.
Very nice. Thank you.