Author's Note: Okay… again… I am so sorry for leaving you guys, but I swear it wasn't because I didn't want to write. X( At the beginning of the week, my hubby ordered me a new hard drive… When it came in, he went to make a copy from my old hard drive… and things just went downhill from there. First of all, we couldn't get the damn thing to fit within my laptop… Turns out, we were putting the stupid cover on backwards. I turned it around, and it finally fit. Then the stupid thing didn't copy correctly. Whenever he went to turn on the laptop, it failed… He went through several recopies, which took several days, only for the same thing to happen… He finally just had to do a complete reinstall of my Operating System, which took another couple of days because of all the updates, and then he also had to reupgrade it to Windows 10… So, yeah, that's been my week… A whole week without my laptop or writing SUCKED! D:
ANNOUNCEMENT: Anyways… I'm back, but actually, I have some news. Now, this is where it gets important, so pay attention. I may be putting this fic on hiatus for a time. Now, here's the reason why. I'm really in the mood to rewrite Possession. I'm going to start it completely over, actually, so I may just repost what I had written for the original.
However, here's the thing. I won't be posting it, until I've completely written the entire thing. I will post a chapter a day once it's finished, like how I normally do, and I will also be writing longer chapters for you guys. So, look forward to that. Now, here's where it also gets exciting, if you're not already excited. I will be writing it to be much more detailed, which is why I won't be posting it chapter per chapter, until I've completed it. I want to get it all right this time around. I'm considering it practice. :) Every time I write chapter per chapter, mistakes always come up, and as I go along, I always come across inconsistencies and things I should have done, but forgot, or didn't think about until later. As I said, I want to get it right, so you guys can enjoy the story much more. :)
Anyways, I won't keep you guys any longer. Enjoy this chapter, you won't be getting another one for a while.
Empathy
Chapter 13
Luffy gaped back at the same green haired agent, and his heart slammed within his chest before pounding away. Well, at least now he knew that they were not dead, though he somehow had doubted they were anyway.
"Luffy, what do we do?" Usopp exclaimed in a panic.
"I said out of the fucking car!" Zoro demanded again as he cocked back his firearm, causing both Usopp and Tony to cry out and speak all at once.
"Shut up already!" Luffy exclaimed, but he held up his hands and glanced over to Nami, whose eyes were huge in her fear as she gazed back at him. "It'll be alright, Nami. I won't let them take you." He then turned and reached out to open his door.
With a gasp, she reached out to grab his arm and cried, "Luffy, don't!"
Turning back to her, Luffy smiled and said, "It'll be alright." Grasping her hand, which was grasping his, he pulled her hand away and slipped out of the car, once again lifting his hands into the air. "You're alive… That's good."
"Don't fucking give me that shit! I want all of you out of the car, now!" Zoro exclaimed as he came around to Luffy's side.
"I can't let you take her," Luffy said, but he lowered his hand to halt the others from getting out of the car.
Zoro scoffed in disbelief, but also shocked amusement by Luffy's blatant statement. "Not sure if you've noticed, but you're in no position to make any such claims. I'm the one with the gun here," he said, holding up the gun as if to show him, as if he had not already seen it.
"Don't care. You can't take her," Luffy said and glared him down.
"We've no intention of taking her anywhere," Robin said as she also got out of the car.
Zoro rolled his eyes up towards the sky, and then he turned to look at the annoying woman. "And we had no intention of actually telling him that."
Robin just smiled at him before shifting her eyes to Luffy. "I would like to speak to her. It would seem she knows our language, after all."
"Actually, she doesn't," Luffy said as he glanced in at Nami, whose eyes were still on him. "She's learning really quickly, though. She's desperate to communicate." He looked back up at Robin and said, "I can't trust you. I know what could happen to her. I can't let any of it happen to her. I'm going to get her home."
Robin smiled wide back at him and said, "That's very noble of you. Have you any idea how to?"
Luffy's eye twitched, as he frowned at this woman, and then he said, "No, but I'm sure she'll help us figure it out, once she's learned more."
"You say you can't trust us, but I'm still the one with the gun. She seems to know some of our language. Let the woman talk to her," Zoro said, aiming the gun at Luffy once again.
"No!" Nami cried as she flew out of the car and put herself before Luffy to block him.
"Nami!" Luffy cried as he reached out to pull her back against him. "Nami, it's alright – it's alright."
"Whoa! You keep her away from us! I don't want another long ass walk!" Zoro said, now aiming the gun at her.
"Put that away, damn it!" Luffy yelled right back at him, but then he shifted his eyes to the side of Zoro.
Coming up beside Zoro, Robin reached out and placed a gentle hand on Zoro's arm to urge him to lower it. "A gun is unnecessary."
Frowning back at her with a grunt, he then looked back towards Luffy and Nami, but then he uncocked it and holstered it. "You stay the fuck over there, you hear me?"
"Yeah, yeah," Luffy said, pursing his lips back at him.
Robin ignored Zoro telling them to stay where they were, and instead approached them as she kept her smile. "Hello, Nami," she said and nodded her head to her as she pressed a hand to her chest, "I am Robin."
"Robin," Nami repeated in her whisper as she looked over the woman, and then she shifted her eyes towards the green haired man.
Robin turned to motion towards Zoro and said, "And this is Zoro."
"Zoro," Nami repeated again before shifting her eyes back towards Robin. "What want?" she asked in her quiet voice.
"Just to talk. We're merely curious about you," Robin said with a shrug.
"Curious," Nami whispered as she looked her over. "Talk?"
"Yes, talk. Where are you from?" Robin asked.
"From," Nami whispered, but did not appear as if she could answer.
"She doesn't know how to answer that yet. I already told you. She doesn't know much yet. Let her learn a bit more before you ask her questions," Luffy said as he frowned back at this woman.
"Then would it be alright to travel with yo-?"
"No," Luffy replied before the woman could finish her sentence. "We don't know or trust you. We can't have you knowing where we are at all times to alert your buddies."
"If we had alerted my buddies of her existence, she would already be in our custody," Zoro said as he kept his never ending glare on the other man.
"I doubt that," Luffy said as he glared right back. "Nami wouldn't have let you. She's not safe with you around, so go away."
"And she's safe with you?" Zoro said and scoffed again with contempt.
"She's still here, isn't she?" Luffy retorted while giving him a disgusted look.
"You said she wouldn't let them take her. If this is the case, it would be safe for us to travel with you. We were able to find you now, so we would be able to find you later, as well," Robin pointed out as she tilted her head at him.
Luffy grunted as he shifted his frown onto her, but as he thought about it, he knew she was right. No matter what, they would probably find them.
"Please, I would also like to help her get home, but in the meantime, I would greatly love to learn all I can from her before she does go home," Robin said as she smiled at Luffy again. "There's so much we could learn from her."
Luffy ground his teeth as he regarded this woman in thought, but then he looked over at Nami to get her opinion. As he looked over at her, his eyes met with her chocolate brown ones. It seemed she was regarding him in question as to what they were going to do. Lowering his eyes a bit, he then looked back up at her again and whispered, "Will you teach her?"
Nami glanced over towards Robin, but then back towards Luffy, and then she sighed as she nodded her head. Luffy nodded as well and then turned back to Robin. "Looks like you're in luck. Just follow after us."
"Not a chance. Robin can ride with you, but he will ride with me," Zoro said as he pointed towards Tony, who gulped down. "Call it insurance, but if you do anything to Robin, no backwater country in this world will hide you from me. You understand, asshole?" he said, now pointing at Luffy.
Robin brought a knuckle to her lips as she lowered her gaze towards the ground, but she said nothing about Zoro's threat.
Luffy shifted his eyes from Zoro to Robin and then back again. "We won't hurt her," he assured the green haired man.
"Good," Zoro said and motioned towards Tony. "Let's go, kid."
"R-Right," Tony muttered as he got out of the car, holding the door open for Robin before heading towards Zoro's car.
"It'll be alright, Tony," Luffy called after him, knowing he must be afraid.
Tony turned to look at him, but then he offered him a smile. "I know it will. Thanks, Luffy," he said, and then he got into Zoro's car.
Luffy's smile turned into a frown, and then he muttered, "I really hope everything will be alright…"
To Be Continued…
Author's Note: Well, there is that. Robin and Zoro have now joined the party, lol! I'm really sorry about the hiatus, but I've got some really good ideas for the Possession rewrite. I just didn't like how the original came out of the darkness before I actually wanted it to. I wanted it to remain in the darkness for a really long time. xD I wanted the story to be much longer too. At any rate, I promise it'll be much better. :) Thanks for reading so far, and please stay tuned for more to come. ;)