I need you to stay Luffy x Robin

I need you to stay

East Blue, Baratie Restaurant;

 Straw Hat Luffy pushed open the broad wooden doors of the Baratie and strolled into the restaurant with his three crew members flanking behind him. While Nami selected a table for the four of them to sit at the pirate captain inwardly congratulated himself on keeping everything pretty much the same as it had gone the first time around.

'Gosh. It's been years since I've seen this place...It's exactly as I remember.' he thought.

He suppressed a large grin as Sanji made his first appearance and immediately started fawning over Nami's beauty in the same manner that he always had. It all served to remind him of just why he had changed events so very little since returning to the past. Any big changes could ripple out in some unexpected way and somehow prevent one of his crew, his nakama, from joining up with him. Even a 1% chance of that happening was unacceptable to him. He'd wait until they at least got to Drum island and had Chopper safely in tow before shaking up the world.

Honestly he should receive an award for his restraint, or at least a hulkingly large slab of meat. He'd grown so used to pouring Haki into every move he made while in the New World that it had become second nature, it was practically akin to muscle memory at this point. Crushing Morgan, Buggy, and Kuro while having to constantly keep himself in check was troublesome work. He was so far above them that he bordered on considering them civilians. One little mental slip, one attack that didn't hold back quite enough, and he could have accidentally killed them without meaning to. If he did that then the awkward questions would begin. He wanted to at least avoid those until he got the crew into Paradise.

Luffy scanned the room and watched all the happy couples and various groups dining contently while he waited for that Don Krieg guy to show up. King of East Blue my ass.

'No... wait... it was his first mate that showed up before all that. What was his name again? Pin? Gin? I think that's right.' he remembered as he watched a middle aged couple clink their glasses of wine together.

'And didn't I get roped up into working here for three days first? Paying back Sanji's boss for breaking his roof or something? It certainly sounds like something the younger me would have-' His thoughts ended abruptly and his breath hitched as he saw her.

Sitting alone at a corner table near the back of the restaurant in her iconic purple cowgirl ensemble whilst sipping from a cup of coffee was Nico Robin.

Luffy's palms started to sweat and his heart started beating quicker. Why? Why was she here? It's too early. Did he cause this somehow? Was she always here and he never noticed?

 Her eyes briefly wandered from the slice of cake in front of her to that of Luffy and his party. A slight smile played on her lips, one he recognized as her making an internal decision, before she returned her gaze to the dessert in front of her.

The look she had given had lasted only for a moment, gone as quick as it came, but in that instant it was enough for his resolve to crumble. He swore to himself he wouldn't change the past too much before he was ready but none of that seemed important with her sitting only 50 feet away.

Luffy stood up, causing looks of confusion from his three crew mates. "Excuse me for a minute guys. I think I see someone I know. Usopp order me something that looks good."

 Robin smirked in amusement at the blonde waiters antics towards the feisty red haired woman that was traveling with the straw hat boy before returning to her small meal. She was on the last leg of her assigned recruitment drive for Baroque Works and preparing to return to Alabasta when news reached her ear of a young man with a Devil Fruit who took down Buggy the Clown without a single injury. A young man who's description matched that of the person lauded for tearing down the corrupt Marine Captain Morgan just a few days prior.