With different eyes

SpecialChapter How to give a rookie and a commander the nightmare of a lifetime

I wake up, something is different. So slowly this thought becomes a permanent condition. I stretch on the bed. Mhh strange I am sure that I have taken off the pants to sleep. And since when do I have a shirt on? I mean as Ace. Am I me again? I look at my legs. Nope, I don't know that I have any of those weird spotted pants. Wait, does that ring a bell? "Ace" I ask cautiously. No answer. I look around, this is not Ace's cabin. The walls are metal and everything is neatly shelved. Speaking of shelves, there are books about medicine on them. Great, where did I end up, or rather who did I end up with? I look at my hands: male filigree hands, with tattoos. A hunch forms in my head, please don't let this be true. I get up and look for a bathroom. After looking around carefully I see two doors. I open the first. Failure the hallway. Quickly I close the door and go towards the other one. Jackpot the bathroom. I take a deep breath and enter the bathroom. 'Please please don't let it be true' I pray before stepping in front of the mirror. And that makes it official: my life is trying to kill me.

I am no longer in Ace's body, no I am in Trafalgar Law's body. Can someone please tell me what I did wrong in my last life to deserve this? I take a deep breath and hope that Law sleeps a little longer, so I can figure out how to explain this to him. But what is there to explain, he will see it anyway. Whether he wants to or not. My clear advantage, he can't take me apart or put me together in a strange way. Disadvantage, I have a sadistic pirate in my head, that's all I needed to be happy. Ace is right, sarcasm is not helpful in a situation like this. Ok as long as Law is still asleep I can either sit on the bed and behave like an adult or ... 

I must unfortunately confess, the teenager in me has come through, but now let's be honest who misses the opportunity to see how many tattoos Law really has? So flux stripped down to the boxers, after all, a little decency has survived the time with Ace, well not much I admit, but a teeny bit do. At least that much not to put me naked in front of the mirror in a strange body. Although? No, I'm sorry, I want to keep the rest of decency. Now I stand half naked as Law in front of the mirror and my goodness he has tattoos and the rest is not bad either. 

"What the hell?" I hear a very dark voice in my head. Did I mention that my life wants me dead? "Eh, it's not what it looks like!" I think, always these clitsches. "Who are you and what have you done to me" comes quietly from Law. Can't he rather scream like Ace, this calculating behavior is creepy. "Interesting, I hear your thoughts," the surgeon of death said. "That's not interesting, that's disturbing" I said irritated. What am I, an experiment? I feel him grinning. I WANT TO GO BACK TO ACE!!! Of all the deranged sick lunatics, him of all people! [Author's note: Now I'm innocent for once, it was the readers] "Don't you want to know what happened?" I ask him irritated. You can't judge this man. "Do you know?" he asks the counter question. "Um, no," I admit irritated. "Why do you ask? I'll get rid of you again" he stated. And that was exactly the disturbing thing, he says it with a certainty like someone states that the sun rises and sets every day. I wonder if I should tell him about the polar day sometime? Ok stick to the point, you're in a rookie's body, playing parasite, have no idea how you got here, let alone that you have any idea how to get back home. Or optionally back into Ace's body I think worriedly. I prefer the sunnyboy rather than well this sunnyboy, he has something dark, dangerous and all instincts in me say away from him, because a predator is looking at me. Problem: How do you escape from someone in whose body you are and who literally takes over your thoughts?

Law's laugh echoes through my head. A deep raspy sound. Not without a certain attractiveness. Lucia get your mind out of the gutter I think. "Interesting a girl in my body" Law says, too quietly to my taste. It's like the calm before a storm. "Why are you standing half naked in front of the mirror with my body" he asks dangerously calm. "When I was in Ace's body, he was wounded, I didn't really feel the pain and I wanted to make sure that this body wasn't injured, not that it would cause irreparable damage. It's dangerous if a body doesn't feel pain anymore," I lie like a dog. Will the doctor's line work? Law is suspiciously silent. I hum Yellow Submarine in my head. I mean, if not now when? "Why don't I have control over my body?" asks Law. Why do I think that this is just an interesting experiment for him, like: make the best out of the situation. I feel Law grinning again and a shiver runs down my spine, man this guy is worse than a picture of those giant spiders. Or it is because I am still quite freshly dressed. With this thought I get dressed again, too bad though. "I thought you just wanted to check if my body was wounded" Law says spitefully. "You honestly bought that crap?" I reply, surprised. "Not a second" comes the answer. I'm not surprised, because in the manga he is portrayed as very intelligent and calculating. And too late I realize that my thoughts have drifted off again. Damn. "What is a manga and what do I have to do with it?" Law asks sharply. Great one, why can't I keep my thoughts on track either? "Lucia" Law asks in a calm low voice. I relax a little. Wait a minute why am I relaxing? The scumbag is manipulating me with his VOICE!!! "You are not stupid" says this manipulative bastard. Yes I may insult him, I can't stand it when people try to influence my behavior, but well wait every coin has two sides. That Law will see through my attempts at manipulation as quickly as I see through his doesn't occur to me at the moment.