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[text] dated sometime before the heist

[darlingdraculina]

hi law im so sorry to bother you but i have two questions!

1 - are you busy on [The Date Of The Heist] night?

and this might be strange and random but
2 - the next time i see you, can you tell me about your tattoos?

[saltwatertraffy]

Hi seras-ya

1. No, i don't have anything on my schedule then

2. I could tell you a bit about them if you buy me a drink first

[darlingdraculina]

1. great! well, would you be interested in Nest-Sitting with me? Greed and the rest of staff are going to do some uh... bonding activities? The bar is gonna be closed for the night, but since I'm head of security I've gotta stay behind and watch the joint.

Aaaand I don't really wanna do it alone. :( So would you mind keeping me company? I'll pay you in whatever you'd like? :D

2. well well dr. law you drive a hard bargain, but if you absolutely MUST twist my arm about it, are you busy tonight? :p

[saltwatertraffy]

1. Bonding-activities, huh. that doesn't sound suspicious at all.
Sure i'll join you. sounds better than all the nothing i had planned. as for pay, we can worry about that later.

2. i'm free tonight, unless some new stupid thing suddenly happens. Where should i meet you?

[darlingdraculina]

that's what -I- said! But Greed is as Greed does, I guess. Thank you so much, though! You have no idea how relieved I am that you're coming lol...

oh, anywhere! are you hungry? would you like a drink? what are you feeling?

[saltwatertraffy]

Nice as it is to be wanted, don't make it sound too much like i'm some hero. I'm purely going out of self interest. >;]

Yes, a drink or two, and somewhere quiet. I don't need my personal business to be known to every 2-bit demon in this place.

[Law will never, under any circumstances, publicly acknowledge having made that emoji]

[darlingdraculina]

[She will treasure that emoji.]

uh huh uh huh. self interest. right. :P

do you just want to meet me in my room? im not the world's greatest bartender or anything but i can mix us up somethin nice? ive also got beer if youre not feeling fruity :p

[saltwatertraffy]

Yep. That's what any pirate worth his salt's about.

Yeah, that works for me. Beer is good enough, as long as you're not in short supply. Or just plain whiskey or something.

[darlingdraculina]

yeah yeah yeah, big selfish scary pirate hanging out with a nice girl cos she said please...

but no nope, no short supply here. you can drink to your heart's content, Captain. :p

[The next message contains her room number.]

just give me like half an hour and you can head on over, okay?

[She's gotta speedrun getting dressed but not too dressed but definitely not as UNdressed as she was. How does one dress to hang out with a pirate? He's seen her in a bikini more than anything else!]

Movie Night [Action- Time is Fake]

[darlingdraculina]

I don't care what anyone says; he may be the worst pirate, but that was the best pirate movie probably ever made.

[Seras declares this just before moving to roll off the bed (and up and over Law's entire self in the process, excuse her) humming along to the soundtrack playing during the credits.]

I'm thirsty! Want anything?

[saltwatertraffy]

I have absolutely seen pirates worse than him... But yeah, it was entertaining. I have no idea how accurate the military faction was, but the everyday fodder pirates were pretty spot-on.

[He did his best to play it cool throughout the movie, but Seras could probably notice him getting excited during most of the action scenes.]

Yeah, sure. I could go for a soda or something. [He wants to be sure he'll be able to pay attention if they watch another movie]

[darlingdraculina]

[Laughs]

The military wasn't terribly inaccurate...? I think? At least where I'm from. The all had silly wigs like that on in our history books, at least. Dunno if they were better or worse at catching terrible pirates than those guys though.

[Picks out a cola and a *~sparkling~* peach and shuffles back to the bed to let him choose.]

I was wondering what your experienced take would be, Captain. [Wink] Think you could take on all those horrible cursed creatures?

[saltwatertraffy]

Huh. I'm kind of wishing the Marines would adopt the wig thing just so they look as dumb as they are.

[He selects the cola with a nod of thanks and pops it open.]

I could take care of them without breaking a sweat. There's no way guys at that level have Haki, so all I'd have to do is keep cutting until they were in too many pieces to move. [He waves a hand dismissively.]

I've met a talking skeleton, you know. He's not very menacing, though. Just tells a lot of really lame jokes.

[darlingdraculina]

I imagine cutting people into just a couple of pieces would generally render them, um. Immovable? Un...moving? Dead, either way.

[You can tell she's desensitized enough to this kind of thing that she's still willing to sit next to someone who said something so terrifying so casually and still be more concerned about the physics and not the ethics of performing such an act.]

How does a skeleton talk without lungs? Or um. A voicebox.

[saltwatertraffy]

No, I meant cutting them with my power. It's not lethal that way. And believe me, they can still move around after being cut. One time a cut up this samurai who was causing a ruckus, and at the first slice his legs just bolted off to who knows where and his torso tried to fight whoever it came across without even being able to see.

[He smiles at this fun, light-hearted recollection.]

I'd love to know exactly how that works too, but I'm afraid all I can tell you is that it's because of his Devil Fruit power. He eats, drinks, and farts, too.

[darlingdraculina]

[Opens her mouth and closes it again... repeats this a few times, and then finally gives up. She has so many questions but doesn't want to annoy him by inundating him with the pointless ones.]

So, most weird things you see or experience in your world... you just write it off as having something to do with a "Devil Fruit." [If shes going to live there some day, she should probably prepare to see a bunch of weird shit and cope however he does.] Got it.

So if you like. Cut off my hand... I could still use it? [This is not pointless, somehow.] Or would it have a mind of it's own like that guy's legs?

[saltwatertraffy]

There's all sorts of Devil Fruits that do all sorts of things. There's other mysterious stuff out there that doesn't seem to be fruit related though. Like sky islands, or a lot of the strange weather phenomena in the Grand Line.

[He shrugs. It bothers him a little that he can't figure out everything he comes across, but that's just life in the Grand Line.]

It could still move if I cut if off, but it would just be operating on pure instinct. You wouldn't really have control over it.

Some time during were-month...

[saltwatertraffy]

[Law slinks into the Devil's Nest sometime late into the evening, winding his way through the crowd and up to the bar.]

Hey. Mixing up any good specials tonight?

[He smirks, bearing a fang, and his long, spotted tail swishes behind him.]

[darlingdraculina]

[Ah, she thought there was a familiar scent nearby--]

Well, well, looks like the cat dragged himself in tonight, huh. [Grinning up at him from the patron side of the bar, her long fluffy tail trembling with excitement. Needless to say, she's happy to see him. She reaches out to wrap her arms around his middle, greeting her much larger companion in the least obtrusive way possible with a casual hug n' nuzz.]

BJ's got somethin' brewing tonight, that's for sure. Everybody's getting seconds and thirds-- [And it's already making some of the other patrons rowdy, but not enough for her to do anything about it yet. They're just having a good time!]

Better grab some before the bottle runs out~

[saltwatertraffy]

[Law leans down and nuzzles her back a little more enthusiastically than he meant to, knocking his hat askew in the process. He huffs as he fixes it.]

Yeah? Guess I should give it a try, in that case.

[His floofy tail wraps loosely around her waist, though Law doesn't seem to have noticed the unconscious gesture.]

So how's the cat stuff treating you? Pounce on anyone yet?

[darlingdraculina]

Oh, y'know, other than me bein' too short for everything and not fitting in any of my clothes right... the cat stuff's been pretty good! [She's having to wear a long tanktop as a dress right now, okay. It's rough out here for a kittycat. That tail of his does not go unnoticed, no. In fact it's so noticed that she's making a proper boa out of it as they speak, draping it across her body and over one shoulder to nuzzle into all casual-like.]

How about you? [He might be able to hear the purr in her voice when she asks, but the befangled grin should be enough to suggest that she likes what she sees.] Hope you're not lookin' to pounce on me; I'm like 90% fur at this point. Doubt I'd be very appetizing~

[saltwatertraffy]

If anyone gives you too much shit about being short, you can just climb them. [he huffs a quiet laugh at her use of his tail as a fashion accessory.]

I may or may not have accidentally tackled your boss off a cliff... But it's not going too badly, over all. I guess the claws would make delicate surgeries a bit difficult, but that's not likely to come up. [He can't quite help the low, quiet ruble of a purr that escapes his own throat for a moment before he puts a stop to it.] No? I dunno, you might make a pretty delectable snack. [His smirk is even sharper than usual, at the moment.]

[darlingdraculina]

O-off a cliff!? Wh-- when was that!? [She's looking him up and down, wondering how in the hell he came out of that in one piece--] A-and what for?!

[Flustered suddenly, realizing he'd just made a pass despite her fussing, and huffs into the fluff of his tail.]

Y-you can't just flirt to distract me, you know! I heard what you said! [Well Seras you did flirt with him first--]

[saltwatertraffy]

It was an accident of instinct. [He looks away, his ears swiveling back]. And we were both fine, I got us back up well before we hit the ground... Anyway, Greed-ya's tough. he probably would have been fine anyway.

[He is simply going to avoid addressing those flirting allegations.]

[darlingdraculina]

[Holding her little paws to her chest with a huuuuge sigh of relief.]

Jeez, Law. You can't scare a girl like that. If one or both of you'd died again, I was going to have to kick one or both of your asses.

[The relief has quickly switched to amusement, a snicker to her tone.]

"Accident of instinct," huh? Did you lose yourself and end up chasin' his tail or somethin'?