Helooo there! You didn't expect me to publish a new chapter so fast, huh? Hihihi, well I got a new and fresh chapter for ya! Today we will learn some more information about our heroine. Or not?
Let's find out!
I don't own One Piece but I do own the OC.
Hope you like ittt~~~
Law lifted his head after many hours of studying and rubbed his neck in an effort to ease the pain.
He looked outside the window and it was already dark. The sky was clear today and the stars were shining near the bright moon.
It was a difficult day for him but it was finally over. He decided to close his books for the night and stood up from his seat. Then, he stretched his body to get all of his muscles into the right place and directed himself towards the closet near his bed in order to grab a sterile set of bandages to change the previous dirty ones on the girl's surgery wound.
After that, he walked outside from his quarters and passed by the kitchen where, with the corner of his eye, caught something his brain warned him was wrong. He saw Bepo helping the older man do chores. Wasn't he supposed to be with the girl? And if he is not there who looks after her?
A thought crossed his mind and he took a shocked expression.
*Don't tell it's those pervents again!*
He rushed to the living room as quickly as he could and opened the door with force only to see Penguin serving some tea to the girl and Shachi fixing her hair in a nice ponytail.
"So you work in a hair salon and you in a café?"
"Yes we try to earn our own money so as to live with independence."
"That's pretty cool!"
Law couldn't help but sweat drop because of the scene in front of him.
He tried to cough in order to catch their attention and so it happened as everyone turned and looked at him.
"Hey Paw! I guess it's time to change my bandages right?" the girl said waving at him.
"It's Law!" the two cousins corrected her simultaneously.
"Yeah. Penguin-ya, Shachi-ya do you mind leave us alone?"
"No! We can come back later when you finish." Shachi answered picking up his combs.
"I actually prefer not. Sleep and rest are important so as a wound gets healed faster." the young doctor replied with a serious tone in his voice.
"Buut Lawww!..." Penguin started to say but Law gave him a glare showing him that he wasn't in the mood to listen to other objections now.
"I think we should leave now, right Penguin?" the boy responded in fear of Law scolding them.
"Yes, Shachi we need to see Bepo too."
"Of course!"
"Bye guys!" they both said and left the room, closing the door behind them.
Elga turned prostate and exposed the wound's area, lifting slightly her sweatshirt, Law lent her previously this day so as to get rid of the dirty one she wore before. Well, it wasn't a good deed but an action to prevent some kind of infection or at least that was what he told to himself.
Law sat beside her and wore his medical plastic gloves.
"Were you studying?" the girl questioned him, observing his face.
"Yeah."
"You seem tired. You should rest more."
*Well I didn't plan an all-night surgery because I didn't have anything better to do...*, he thought letting a sigh from fatigue.
"So, how do you feel?"
"It hurts when I move."
"Then don't move." the boy answered in a matter-of-fact manner.
The girl turned her head to face him with a shocked expression as she wasn't expecting this reply.
"Well I was thinking if you could increase the painkillers' dose?"
"I will see what I can do for it."
The young doctor took a tong and removed the old bandages, placing them into a pus basin. Then, he cleaned the area around the wound while checking for infection or swelling at the same time. It seemed clean and nobbed satisfied for his work.
Afterwards, he dambed some sterile pieces of fabric with povidone-iodine and washed the area where the surgery happened.
While he worked, he checked sometimes on the girl's moves so as to understand if she was feeling pain in order to pause the procedure.
"The stiches are still on despite the fact that you stood up from the first hour and the wound is clean." he informed him patient.
"That sounds good!" she replied relieved.
"I need you now to sit on the couch so as to make it easier for me to swathe those bandages around your back."
Elga obeyed and turned to sit on the place she was laying before.
Law came closer to her and sat on his one knee on the wooden floor in order to have a better control of the wrapping.
Elga couldn't help but blush from embarrassment as Law was way much closer to her for her liking. She knew he was on doctor-mode and medics as himself or even her, see human body in a different point of view but she was still too shy to relax.
His hands were cold and touching her bare skin made her shiver.
Then Law stopped and passed the bandages to Elga's hand for a moment.
"Hold this." he said and brought his hands closer to his mouth so as to warm them with his breath.
When they reached the decently temperature he took again the bandages and continued the process.
"Is it better now?"
"Yeah, much better." the girl answered smiling.
After that they both kept silent again until the wrapping was over. Elga covered her belly again with the sweatshirt and Law sat back on the chair and took off his dirty gloves.
The boy stayed motionless for a while thinking of the things he would like to ask her. He had so many questions inside his mind but in the end he decided to keep them for himself as it didn't matter. The girl is going to leave in a few days and he will probably never see her again. However, he was eager to know more things about her life and maybe this time his curiosity won his logic.
He lifted his head to face her. She was looking outside of the window the starry sky with these big eyes of hers.
"So, where is your hometown?" he asked.
The girl turned her head, giving all of her attention to him.
"Well, I don't remember..." she replied.
"Were you in a young age when you left and you don't have memories?"
"Nope, in fact I've got amnesia!" she answered laughing.
"What?!" Law took a shocked expression and started searching her head for a bulge.
"Hahah it didn't happen from this fall"
"What do you mean?"
"Well I'm a lil bit clumsy I guess", she explained rubbing her head in abashment.
Law couldn't help but face-palm himself.
*Such a troublesome girl!*
"You don't remember anything before the accident?"
"No... "
"Did this happen recently?"
"A year must have passed since then", she answered.
"That's quite a long time." he replied thinking of the things he had studied about this case.
"Sometimes you need a strong stimulus in order to get back your memories." he continued.
The girl kept silent and tried to push herself and remember something that could help her. Something she saw, she heard or she smelled but nothing seemed to help as she was feeling like there was a burden that blocked all of the memories of her life in the past.
Law didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable as her recent injury and her recovery from the surgery were his main concerns for now. There was no point after all. Maybe it was a sign from life that he shouldn't get to know her better. From what he learned until now the girl is a mere trouble and he didn't want other problems to deal with.
"I won't pressure you further. Go for sleep and we can talk again tomorrow."
"Well I don't really feel sleepy so can you give me the book I got inside the backpack I was carrying with me?" she asked him making a cute face so as to convince him fulfill her task.
Law was ready to refuse it and give a reply like 'get up and take it yourself, after all you were standing all day long' but looked at her expression.
"Stop doing that face." he murmured defeated and walked towards her bag to take the said book.
He kept it on his hands and took a good look on it.
"Modern methods of heart surgeries." he read and passed it on the girl.
"That's an interesting one." he admitted.
"Yeah, it's pretty good!"
"You don't seem like the type of a girl who is into surgery internship."
"Whatever, now let me study." she answered in a harsh tone smiling.
Law rolled his eyes in annoyance and directed himself towards the door.
"Goodnight.", he said before leaving the room.
"Goodnight, Jaw!" the girl yelled back in order to hear her.
"It's Law!" he barked back.
Elga was finally left alone to study and left a giggle for succeeding to irritate him.