A promise to kill

Escape

(this chapter will prob be really boring in all honestly) 

The first thing that Luffy did was throw himself at me. Completely disregarding the number of eyes that follow us, he clings to my shoulder as if he were a little monkey. 

" Get the fuc off my sniper strawhat!" Kid yells over and over again but Luffy just looks at him blankly before sticking his tongue out. 

" Kid.. stop yelling. Luffy.. get off. " I definitely don't like all the attention from outsiders. They all watch our interactions. 

Before long, Luffy and my captain start to compete in our daily jobs. breaking stone down building back up, moving them from one place to another.. Like clockwork. I simply watch from the side lines. With my own small block of stone. 

Before I can see it, I feel something coming my way. I lean to the left slightly, easily dodging what looks to be a stone. I hear cackling laughter from the guards who are supposed to be watching us. I ignore them only to be met with a couple more stones. 

They erupt in a explosion bellowing laughs as they finally manage to skim my cheek, leaving a red line across my skin. With my devil fruit powers suppressed, the wound bleeds and for the first time in a long time, i feel the blood dripping down my cheek. I can't help but glare and I'm reminded of how week I had been before gaining my devil fruit. how easily I could have died. I'd forgotten how human I was. 

I find myself picking up the small stone that had caused me to bleed and grip it in my closed fist. Before I was a devil fruit user, I was a regular pirate. I could shoot a gun, use a sword, and fight tooth a claw.. because I was a pirate. A kid pirate. I still am. There's no reason for me to be weaker than another pirate on the grandline. I feel my lips curving up into a smirk just as it has done for the last couple of years. 

My bounty didn't rise just because of my notorious captain or my hellish crewmates. I'm just as deadly as other pirate on this sea. 

and so I throw it.. the stone I mean. I throw it at a different guard, on who hadn't bothered me in any way. For every guard who throws a stone at me, another guard will fall. Their laughter ceases as they stare at their fallen mates. withering on the filthy ground, groaning in pain. 

" Layla.. " I hear Kid trying to suppress his chuckling.. 

" Stop fucking with the... officers." He fails to stay serious taking away the rest of my stones. 

" We don't need em to separate us right now..." He hits me over the head, for the first time in a while, sounding a lot more responsible that he really is. He leans down to my height to whisper into my ear. 

" I've figured out these stupid chains. We'll get out of here tonight. " He says this before going back to what he was doing before. I nod towards him as our eyes meet one last time and I get back to breaking my one block. 

I should have known my captain to figure it out.. He's the captain for a reason. I feel embarrassed for thinking otherwise. My shoulders shake in amusement at the thought. 

When night finally fell, I see that both the boys had piles upon piles of food before them. I carry my small bowl to sit between them to mediate any violence but find both hands pushing more food into my plate. 

" SHE aint need YOUR DIRTY FoOD!" Kid yells with his face stuffed to maximum capacity but Luffy sputters and spits out his food saying incomprehensible words that shout otherwise. 

" Both of you stop. I can't eat as much as you. Just EAT YOUR OWN FOOD!" I glare at the both of them as the rest of the prisoners watch in disgust at their eating habits. The boys go on to argue some more about who did more or who has more and what not but as they're arguing, I feel tickling sensation on the back of my ankle to see Kid tinkering at the lock with what looks like a iron needle. 

I look away quickly to let him work under the cover of their stupidity. I hear a quiet click and I know that my feet are free. He gives me a knowing glance, telling me not to even think about moving or shifting to give away his work. I cough into my sleeve hopefully signaling to him that I understand. I imagine that he will work on our wrists and neck collars once the nights go out.. and when the time came, I felt the power flow back into my system. Just as before when I first got them, a chill I didn't know I missed enveloped my body and the aching of my body disappeared as if it were never there.

Slowly, Kid motions for me to follow and I knew it was time for me to say goodbye to my brother again. I know that he'll be alright, he unknowingly smart and he has more luck than any of us combined. He will be fine.. I leave a small flower in on his chest as he sleeps before follwing my captain out the now broken cell bars and towards the tall walls that contain us prisoners. He motions for me to go and I know instantly what to do. 

I place both of my hands on the ground while he watches around us for any watchful eyes. I search for vegetation deep in the earth. Despite the land around her being baren, I'm sure that this land wasn't always like this. There has to be something and sure enough, I found it. Deep in the ground, waiting to be awoken once again, was the remnants of a forest that once way. 

I give Kid a victorious smile and he smirks right back. I raise my hands and in that same motion vines sprout from the ground wrapping us tighting and lifting us off the ground.

Just as we we reach thre ground on the otehr side,  he grins like a child. 

" Suprised you were able to keep quite Lady. Was bout ready to fight our way out tooth and claw." He slams his hand on my back roughly but I hold onto his arm. 

" well we still might need to fight our way out since I can't exactly get rid of this vine silently. So what do you want to do? Destroy it or leave it? " Just as I ask, we hear a sound. A chilling sound that has my captain standing ridged to the bone. 

" Go. Don't fuckin look back. Leave the damn vine and go. Get the hell out of here. Go find the rest of the crew." He suddenly starts shoving me in the opposite direction of the sound. 

" What's going on Ki.." I start but I'm glared at intensely, harshly, but there's something in his eyes that shuts me up. 

" I'm ordering you as Captain. Get the hell out of here and don't you even dare look back. I'll catch up so don't worry, don't look back." Despite how harsh his voice bites, his touch is gentle and his hands shake with every word. 

" Yes Captain. " I step forward and let myself breath in his scent. I know from experience, that something is going on and he, Kid wants to be the one to deal with it. This, is something he doesn't want me to see or hear. 

I slowly wrap my arms around his large torso and for a moment he's frozen before he wraps his one arm tightly around him. 

" Everything will be fine. Our girl will never be alone again and if you ever do feel alone, we'll find you Layla. " He seems to think I'm afraid but he's wrong but if this brings him comfort, so be it. I'll tremble in his arms. 

" We'll be together again. You, Killer and I. I believe you. and Kid, stay safe." I say this once before pulling away. His hand leaving mine at the last moment, leaving scraps of paper in my hand. 

He nods once before turning and strutting towards the haunting sound. I turn as well and with every step I take, my eyes water. 

Tears leak from my eyes. 

The only reason he would ever look at me that way, use those words, 'we'll come and find you', the only reason he would ever push me away like that, it's Killer. 

That haunting sound, that laughter, that familiar echo, it's Killer. 

My Killer