𝘖𝘯𝘦-𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 ♡

Ⅴ.『 Breakup and Aftermath 』

❲Marco x Ace❳
Background ship: ❲Law x Luffy❳
Modern-ish AU? I guess??

A/N: I don't know what to think of the world I've created here, haha.. I guess this could be considered as an alternate universe of modern au, right? The world establishment is different. You could think of it as many islands around the world, the rest being only ocean, much like One Piece's world set-up. The difference is, those islands are joined by bridges. Does that even make sense? It's like the bridge that was going towards nothing in the anime, haha. But it doesn't go to nowhere in this, it actually joins the islands.
I hope it's not too complicated!

Enjoy the longer one-shot! ♡

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He never thought that he would meet him again. And if yes, then not like this. Definitely not when he's on edge of dying on him. Feeling the guilt of losing someone without being able to say sorry.. But, if he's lucky enough, things would turn out to be better. Hopefully.

For Marco Newgate, that day was a day of nightmare. A dream he has long ago given up on, which now turned into a nightmare. Being a doctor, a well-known and one of the bests, Marco was as always staying on night shift that day too. But, it wasn't as quiet at night like it has started as the day. There had been a chain car accident on one of the many bridges that joined other islands to the one he lived on. Many of the islands around actually belonged to his family, as there were 'claimed' islands. They were mostly ruled by powerful names, and his father being one, they had islands under their watch. Though, his father- Edward Newgate did many of the work, he too had some responsibility on the islands. And one of them was to make sure the people are healthy. That being said, the chain car accident was bad. Very bad. There were a total of 18 cars damaged, 6 or 7 of them in a bad shape, one seems to be completely crushed. A total of 37 injured, a lot of them in fatal case, and 9 deaths. The two islands that the bridge joined were working together on the accident. Both the islands' hospitals were full.

With that being the situation, Marco and the other doctors were sure that they wouldn't be leaving at any time soon. The hospitals were full with these cases. In his island, there were only two hospitals. The other island was small, so only one hospital was there. And that hospital wasn't as prestigious as the one Marco worked at. They were the most busy one out of three. The hospital was a mess, a big one. The doctors and nurses running around in the emergency and operation halls. Every operation rooms were occupied. Marco was in mid-operation when another patient was wheeled inside on the hospital bed, on life support. Marco is a very talented surgeon, and he already has finished three operations, working on the fourth and the fifht has arrived for him. He was the most busy out of every doctors in the hospital, and the fatal injuries were mostly given to him. He had another acquaintance who received fatal injuries mostly too, a very young but yet so talented surgeon, Dr. Trafalgar Law. The young surgeon has acquired a lot of trust and respect by people in his career, and even Marco respected him.

"Dr. Newgate," Called one of the nurses- Tate that were aiding the fifth patient. Marco nodded, and stayed silent while continuing the surgery. Nurses have understood long ago that it meant they were okay to continue their word. Marco was just very focused on his work to talk to them, but was listening.

"The fifth patient has arrived." She came closer to take a loot at the surgery going on right now, and helped the others with clearing out blood and giving/taking medical equipments from the doctor. Giving a little more focus on the talk, also because he wanted to know the 5th patient's situation, he asked what was wrong with them. Nurse Tate nodded and started listing the injuries.

"A very bad head injury. Broken ribs, in bad shape. The ribs most likely has affected his lungs, the patient is having trouble breathing. Internal bleeding is most likely happening. His heart beating isn't stable. His right leg seems to be broken. And he has one arm crushed as well," She said blankly. They were used to these kind of cases, even though it didn't occur frequently. Marco nodded, now back to being focused on the surgery. It was almost done by this time, and Marco was stitching the wound up. Once the work was done, he let his co-surgeons and nurses complete it without him. They didn't need him when the surgery was over. It went smooth, thankfully.