The boy of sea and storm

Chapter 13: The One Way Road

Corazón decided to settle in his apartment for a few days. At first he had said it was because they were fixing his house, but Law laughed and cut him off. No need to lie to stay with him. He also wanted to have him there.

It was nice to come back from work and see his father having a coffee while watching a Criminal Minds episode. The only thing that Law prohibited him was cooking, cutting vegetables and turning on the oven. Corazón wasn't born for housework. Perhaps his vocation for plants was the only thing he mastered. Although several times he cut himself with thorns and tools and Law had to attend to him.

Contrary to what he thought, having his father at home was very comforting. It didn't make him feel childish, like he'd gone back. He really liked to share with him, stay up late watching bad cable movies on the couch, or count his foreign coins in the jar that decorated his coffee table. It was only five days, but he enjoyed them as if they were years. It made him think that he had to go to his house more often and stay the night.

They talked a lot too. Corazón told him things about Doflamingo that he didn't know, situations he had to go through when they were still living together. He heard everything, even saw him cry and it was really mobilizing. During his youth he had never shown him weakness, he stayed strong for him, so that Law continued in his treatment. He never cried in front of him. Although he didn't like to see him like this, he felt that he was finally seeing the reactions that Corazón couldn't have at that moment and support him.

Corazón was still accompanying Leo and the other boys in the statements before the court. After the raid on Bellamy the evidence was damning. Law and Luffy would go as plaintiffs and had to appear for citations later. He hoped to have his feelings with Luffy solved by that time because he couldn't be going around the same thing with something so important on top of it.

His father left the apartment that same afternoon but his presence was permeated everywhere. Law had never seen him put on perfume, but he always left all rooms filled with a sweet scent, as if he had his botanical garden on his skin. He smiled thinking about it while cooking something. He had asked Sanji for a recipe to make a good homemade ramen without having to buy it premade and he was proud of the result. It tasted really good for now.

He put the phone down on a tall cookie jar and put on a medical documentary while trying to follow the steps of the handwritten recipe quickly. The notification window constantly appeared and covered the video. He wasn't sure exactly what was going on, but from what he read, his friends were complaining about their boss. The director of North Blue was a well-known doctor, an eminence in the field of medicine. Law liked her and admired her a lot, but he knew that she was very demanding and that not everyone could keep up with her.

He wiped his hands on a rag and took the cell phone to check the messages.

[01/10 08:04 pm] Penguin: I missed Marco today, he always calms Kureha when she gets mad at us.

[10/01 08:04 pm] Shachi: Don't you guys ship them?

[10/01 08:05 pm] Penguin: Oh, Shachi, what do you say? ha ha

[10/01 08:05 pm] Bepo: Marco is married!

Kureha too, her husband is Dr. Hiruluk from the oncology department.

[01/10 08:06 pm] Penguin: Marco is married?

[10/01 08:06 pm] Shachi: That man is a mystery

[10/10 08:06 pm] Penguin: How do you know that, Bepo?

[10/05 08:06 pm] Bepo: I thought I saw him with a woman one day on the way out of the hospital.

He laughed looking at the conversation of his friends. When they were in the breakroom of the North Blue they always tried to guess what life was like behind their coworkers, especially those who seemed so far away, like Dr. Kureha.