22Summary: Drabbles and prompts and quotes.
Warning: I don't own any of this. I may modify from the original. Belongs to F. Gabdon.
Breathing Just A Little
Sometimes
we let our bodies
become breeding grounds
for sadness.
Robin doesn't even twitch when a drunk man curses and stumbles so close to her but she does stiffen when the wide sea-stone ankle cuff that does not fit her but she cannot take off because it touches her skin and that feeling of water in you ears and lungs and being weak and-she quickly shakes her leg and the feeling is gone, like something warm within you that is wiped out without a trace and all is left is numbing coldness that only allows you to believe that is all wasn't her imagination, that the feelings were true.
Like Ohara.
Robin purses her lips and though she tries so hard stop her train of thought it spirals out of her control into the never-ending, present darkness.
BANG!
"Now we just need to find the devil, and we've got that bounty!"
Robin runs through shadow to shadow, tailing a group of men and gently lifting a cluster of keys without a clink from an unguarded pocket and unlocks her cuffs.
She crosses her arms and they all fall, one by one-like dominoes.
(Just like citizens of Ohara who bullied her, just like the Scholars who raised and just like her mother who's existence motivates her).
And in the future Robin learns how to shut of her traitorous mind with immersing herself with work.
Or surviving as she likes to call it.
We do not see
all the beauty
trying to grow within us-
around us.
- Blossom
Robin, tired of smiling and muffling chuckles, laughs outright and ignores the promises her heart knew she wouldn't keep. "Dereshishishishishi!"
The crew pause but Robin bends over, clutching her stomach because of the ridiculous of their current situation and Luffy, who doesn't notice anything amiss, chuckles along with her.
One by one they all start laughing like nothing is wrong and all is right.
Robin wipes away a tear and Luffy bounces up to her, grin wider than usual. "We laugh the same!" He exclaims and Robin realizes that yes, they actually do.
"Dereshishishi," Robin chuckles and Luffy chuckles alongside her whilst the rest of the crew groan.
"And here I thought Robin was the only normal one, apart from the morbid humor," Usopp sighs, resigned.
"IDIOT!" Sanji growls and the Sniper is on the floor with a bump and covers his head with his hands, shaking cowardly. "Don't compare Robin-swan to our idiot captain!"
Chopper gasps. "Ah, Usopp!" And shivers when Sanji's glare is directed to him while Robin gives the latter a mild disapproving glance and the cook wilts.
"Nobody in this crew is normal to begin with," Zoro grumbles and Nami nods, arms crossed.
"Agreed. I'm the most normal one."
The crew blanch and wave their hands. "Oi, oi, oi..."
"I AM NORMAL DAMMIT!"
"NAMI-CHWAN IS NORMAL, YOU IMBECILES!"
Robin smiles, sea-blue eyes twinkling not of their usual mirth but of something she gained; warmth, a new home.
Of course Ohara will always be her home but who says she can't have two?