Stardust - Trafalgar Law X Reader | One Piece | Space AU

Chapter 2

You sink down into the bathtub with a happy sigh.

It has been way too long since you last had a proper bath, and even then you haven't had a bath this good at any point in your life.

While you were living in the space station you were lucky just to get a sponge bath once a week.

You let your hair loose and feel the greasy strands falling onto your neck. Hair products were rather hard to come by at the station. With a deep breath you submerge your head under the water and remain there for a few seconds before rising back up. Water runs down your face and you begin the long washing process to remove the layer of grime from your body.

You look in the mirror when you finish the bath. You are almost unrecognisable.

That layer of grime has been with you for your whole life and you feel somewhat exposed without it.

You run a hand through your still wet hair. It feels silky and smooth, not like the knotty and greasy mess you had before.

You wrap your towel around you and walk into your room. The ensuite you have is small and cramped but it offers privacy you aren't used to.

One of the other crew members had dropped off a few supplies to you including the hair and hygiene products you had used. Neatly folded on your bed is a set of beige overalls that seems to be mandatory for the crew to wear.

It's not too different from what you've been wearing so you shrug it on without any fuss.

Unfortunately you're still stuck with the not so clean underwear but the clean clothes over top have a strange and refreshing feeling that you are not familiar with. There are boots but they are too large for you and not broken in so you just forego them and go barefoot.

Your hair is still damp when you wander out of your room and wander up to the cockpit.

They had taken off while you were taking the bath and had been flying steadily through space. The stability of the ship is good enough that you had barely noticed the take off aside from the roaring of the engines.

Bepo is currently the only person in the cockpit.

"So then navigator," You greet. "Where are we off to?"

The mink turns around startled, not having heard you wander in.

"Ah! Koilia!" He replies quickly.

"Koilia? Is that a planet?" You ask.

"Yes. It's small and isn't particularly outstanding but captain has found some work for us there." He explains.

"Thanks for the information." You say before sitting down in the other seat next to Bepo and staring out the window. You tuck your feet up onto the seat and lean back comfortably.

There are more buttons than you had expected on the console and a few complicated looking joysticks. There is not a single label explaining what anything does but they seem to be colour coded and many buttons are shaped differently.

"How the hell do you fly this thing?" You ask.

"Oh! I don't. Penguin can fly it. Kind of."

"Kind of? That's reassuring." You mumble.

"We'll get a proper pilot soon." You hear your new captain say from the entrance.

You swivel the seat around a little bit to see him. He's still in the same attire but his hat has been dropped off somewhere so you can see his messy black hair. It looks pretty soft.