Red haired beauty

pt2

—--------------------flash back—-----------------

I remember the day that my brother left on Captain Gol.D Roger's ship. I begged him to take me too but he said a pirate ship was no place for a little girl. I was left in a village with complete strangers, the villagers were mean to me and their kids thought I was the pirate's daughter because he dropped me off on the island so they bullied me terribly but I learned to fight back and eventually they all became afraid of me, even some of the adults feared me by the time I reached my teens.

It would be 7 years before I saw my brother again and I made him promise to never leave me behind again. A promise he'd break 12 years later.  

When he got the notice about Gol.D Roger's public execution we both decided to go. Shanks tried to come up with ideas on how to save his former capitan/mentor but in the end he was executed and my poor brother cried.

I knew he was heartbroken and tried to comfort him but the crowd of people became rowdy and unhinged at Roger's last words. Eventually I was ripped from my brother's grasp and found myself being shoved and pushed around in the crowd. I was almost knocked to the ground but someone scooped me up and ducked into a nearby alley. The man set me down on my feet and I finally got a good look at him. He was a handsome man with strange yellow hawk-like eyes, dark short unruly hair with large sideburns and mean looking eyebrows. I couldn't stop staring at him. I was hooked right away. 

“Are you alright, Miss?” he finally asked after a short awkward silence.

I blinked a few times trying to make myself stop fantasising about him. “I… I think so.” I finally replied. 

“Scarlet!! Scarlet!!!” I heard my brother yelling.

He suddenly appeared next to us and grabbed the man by the collar. 

“Get your filthy hands off her Hawk-eyes!!” he shouted at him. 

I hadn't even noticed that the man's hand was on the small of my back, until Shanks pulled him away. 

“Shanks!! Stop!!” I shouted “He saved me!”

“What?!” he said in shock as he turned to me.

The man had a stoic face as he pulled his shirt from my brother's hand.

“A thank you would be nice Red hair, the young lady would have been trampled if not for me.” he said emotionless. 

—----------------end flash back—--------------------

I was awoken by a light tapping on my door and Mihawk walked in holding a small bag in his hands. He set the bag down on the night table and said “Good morning Roja. How are you feeling?” 

“A bit better.” I replied 

“Let me check your stitches.” he said as he approached the bed.

I slowly sat up and uncovered the side he had stitched why keeping my chest covered with the blanket. I had exposed myself enough over the last 24 hours. He reapplied new bandages and then said “There's a change of clothes in the bag for you, once you're ready we can go grab something to eat if you'd like.” 

I nodded and he made his way out of the room. “I'll be just down stairs when you're ready, there's a washroom to your right.” He closed the door behind him and I slid my legs off the bed and opened the bag. Inside was a cute sundress that was a beautiful light blue with dark blue flowers all over it and a pair of plain blue sandals. 

I slowly made my way to the washroom to get cleaned up, I still had twigs and leaves tangled in my hair and I was covered in dirt. I knew there was nothing I could do about the scrapes and bruises so I washed the dirt from my body and hair and quickly got dressed.