It didn't take long for you to reach the school, and by the time you did you were beyond pissed. You put Ace down when you reach the door and he follows after you. You enter the building and one of the security officers see's Ace and frowns. Your glare immediately turns onto him. He freezes and looks up at you in shock, the air around you seemed to be getting darker and darker.
“M-Ms.La-Lacent...” He stutters and stumbles back when you take a step forward. A voice in the back of your head told you to stop, if you make a scene it will only make things worse for him. Gritting your teeth together you grab Ace's hand and make your way towards the office. You step inside just as Lucci was about to step out.
“Ah...(Name)..” He says, but stops when he see's your expression, a frown graces his lips and he looks down at Ace and notices the tear tracks on his face.
“What happened?” He asks smoothly, you barely glance and him and walk over to the front desk, Kalifa looks up at you and see's your expression and frowns. She walks over to the desk and glances down at Ace, she too notices the tear tracks and looks back at you, her expression stoic.
“What's wrong?” She asks.
You explain, slowly and carefully everything Ace told you. By the time you were done Lucci was tense, and was glancing at the door to the office, as if he expected one of the teachers you were talking about to come strolling unknowingly into the room. Kalifa had a neutral look on her face but a spark in her eyes told you that she understood why you were upset. And she had to agree, this would explain Ace's odd and angry behavior.
She quickly and silently walks over to the phone and makes a few hushed phone calls, and you were starting to shake.
“(Name) your shoulders...” Lucci takes notice of the burnt clothes and skin on your shoulders but you barely noticed it, right now it was not your top priority. Someone has made your child upset, and you were very close to hunting them down and destroying them.
Ace watches you, surprised you don't hate him. Surprised you are angry for him. Surprised your standing up for him.
“You care about me...?” He asks softly, you look down at him, your expression softens.
“Of course..!” You said lightly, his lips tremble a bit.
“You love me?” He asks hesitantly, his eyes watching your expression. You looked surprised and you squat down to his height and you meet his gaze with a big smile.
“Of course I love you!” You said, he looks at you surprised and he starts to tear up again.
“I wouldn't be about to destroy this schools staff if I didn't love you!” You said, Lucci and Kalifa exchange looks, they hope your joking.
Oh but your not.
About fifteen minutes later a bell rings and you hear kids running around outside. You absently wonder where Sabo and Luffy were right now, but your attention is drawn back to the room your in when Smoker walks into the office. You stare at him confused but then glance at Kalifa, her expression tells you she called him, probably because of that threat.
“(Name)” He greets you, but you just stare at him with a blank expression and he frowns.
Yeah he can tell your pissed.
He walks over to the front desk and Kalifa explains everything you told them and by the time she was finished Smoker just grunts silently.
“No wonder she's pissed...” He huffs, glancing over at you. He goes to pull out a cigar but Kalifa stops him.
“No smoking on school property.” She says, you and Smoker freeze and exchange a look before both of you start laughing. Lucci chuckles slightly, and a minute later Kalifa realized what she just said and who she said it to and sighs.
“Right...Smoker...” She sighs at her own blunder.
Your laughter was short lived when three teachers enter the office, and Ace moves to your side and tenses. Your expression instantly darkened, so these were his teachers?
Smoker spots your expression and gives you a 'Cool it' look and you just growl slightly, your fruit power only making the growl more like an animal. Lucci and Kalifa exchange another look before turning their attention to the three teachers, all of which had a plastic like smile on their lips when they greet you and Ace. Their expression falters when they see your eyes and they instantly look a bit worried.
“Ms.Lacent has come here expressing great concern for her son.” Kalifa says smoothly, brushing a strand of her hair behind her ear. The one closest to you glances at Ace and scowls.
“What has this child lied about this time!” He growls, you instantly narrow your gaze at him and Smoker gives you a warning look.
“We have reasons to believe you are allowing children to pick at this child because of a personal subject. And reasons to believe that you personally have said something to the child.” She says calmly. One of the female teachers, one with curly dark hair scoffs.
“We only said what was true.” She starts, your icy gaze turns to her and she freezes for a moment before turning to you and getting angry.
“Do you know who this child is!?” She screams, pointing her finger at Ace.
“A child of filth! A little bastard monster!” She screams loudly, Smoker, Kalifa, and Lucci look surprised by the teachers out burst.
“He is nothing but a disgusting excuse for a human child! He should have never even been born!” She starts as you slowly stood up, the look on your face made everyone, besides the enraged teacher that was glaring at Ace, back up.
“His father was an evil basta-” She gets cut off when your fist connects with her jaw and sends her flying back. You hear smoker sigh as he watched the woman hit the ground.
“You really shouldn't have said that...” He sighs while watching you take a step towards the teachers.
“This child.” You start, your voice dripping with so much malice it made the teachers skin crawl.
“Is. My. Son.” You said, carefully stressing those words while taking another step forward. Ace watched you, more surprised than terrified by your actions and even more surprised at your words. It was one thing to admit to him that he was your son. But you were admitting it out loud to others as well.
The teachers exchange looks before turning back to you with harsh glares.
“He shouldn't exist! Something like him!” The man said, taking a step towards you, Smoker reaches for his weapon but then see's your expression and decides you've got this.
“Because of his father so man-” The woman with pale blond hair starts but you growl. It was such an unearthly growl that it made all three teachers stumble back in surprise.
“I don't give a DAMN what that man did!” You screamed at them, the room was slowly getting colder. Ace gasps while watching you.
“I don't give a DAMN what your opinions on that man's are!” You continues while taking another step. Everything in the hallway got quiet and you hear the door open.
“(Name)?” You hear Luffy call you but you don't turn around, he must have recognized your voice.
“I don't care if that man was the most evil bastard on the planet!” You were only two feet away from the teachers now, all three of them pressed against the wall behind them.
“I don't care if he was the FUCKING devil himself!” You screamed louder. You were stressing the cuss words but you didn't care. Luffy look so confused, and he see's Ace who had tears streaming down his cheeks, he didn't seem to realize Luffy was there.
“But.” You said, pausing for a moment to look into the eyes of each of the teachers.
“If you ever bad mouth. My. Child. Again.” You said coldly, your voice lowering into a deep growl. You leaned forward, barely half a foot away from their faces.
“I will make your life a living hell...” You said smoothly, the growls lifting from your voice as the sentence ends.
All three of the teachers pressed against the wall, the one you punched let out a light sob. You hear Smoker sigh and walk over to you.
“I think they got the message (Name)...” He says pulling you away from them, he touches your shoulder and you let out a sharp gasp. He notices the burns and frowns before glancing at Ace who looked at your shoulders guiltily.
Luffy looked at everyone and at everything that just happened with a very large frown. You notice him and give him a weak smile, the tension fell from you almost instantly and he just crosses his arms and tilts his head to the side.
“What the hell is going on?” He asks, Ace quickly wipes his face with the sleeves of his shirt and glares at the younger boy. Your gaze moves past Luffy and out into the hallway, everyone who was standing there moves away instantly and you give a nervous smile to Kalifa.
“I think I might have gotten a little too um...” You start but she just shakes her head.
“No...I think what you just did was completely justified...” She shrugs while fixing her glasses. Lucci lets out a light chuckle before walking out of the room.
“That was interesting...” He mutters before disappearing into the hall.
You glances behind you at the three teachers and they flinched back.
“I expect you to keep an eye out for any kids who pick at Ace as well.” You said coldly and they nod frantically, trying to push themselves further away from you.
“Okay then. Let's go Ace...I already pulled you out of school for the day so lets go home...” You said and Luffy whines loudly.
“Whaaaat!? What about me!?” He says while crossing his arms. You sigh, it wouldn't be fair if you just took Ace home and just ditch Luffy...
“I'll pull out the other two I guess, they have only two hours left of school anyways..” You sigh walking back to the sign out book. Kalifa gives you a small smile while Smoker walks over to you and pokes your shoulder. You gasp, you forgot about that again.
“Should visit the hospital..” He says, more as an order rather than suggestion. You give a nervous laugh.
“I'll call Law instead...” You said brushing him off, Smoker frowns at you before lighting a cigar. Kalifa was about to say something but she just sighs and watches Smoker leave the room, waving his hand without turning back to face you.
“Take care (Name)” He says disappearing into the hall.
Kalifa walks to the phone and announces that Sabo should come to the office for an early dismissal. You walk back over to Ace and sit next to him, Luffy runs over and jumps into the seat on the other side of him. You glance at Ace to find him staring at you, you give him a large smile and he blinks. A split second later his smile mirrors yours. You pull him into a half a hug by hugging him with one arm and Luffy looks at the two of you confused. You laugh at his reaction and reach over and pull him into the hug. He doesn't seem to know what's going on but he hugs the both of you anyways.
Sabo walks in a minute later and see's the three of you and looks at you guys confused. What the hell did he miss?
