Law x OC: The Surgeon and the Assassin

Chapter 4: Recruitment successful

Azami's POV

The sunlight coming from a window made me slowly open my eyes. I faced a non-familiar, blue-grey ceiling.

"Where... am I..?" I murmured and slowly sat on the bed where I was lying to take a look around. I was in a small room with yellow walls. Apart from the bed where I was, in the room were only a wooden table, a chair and a wardrobe. The light that had woken me up was coming from a tiny round window.

Then I remembered. After my stupid loss I lost consciousness, so someone probably carried me here.

"Oh, no... Why am I still here? I lost the duel, they should have kicked me out by now. Am I being held as a prisoner? If so, there's no choice but to run away from here" I said to myself while searching around the room for my stuff. I found my clothes -apparently, someone had undressed me during my pass-out- inside the wardrobe, together with all my knives except the Sea Prism Stone ones.

"Damn that Surgeon..." I hit my fist on the table angrily, then noticed that on it there was food -cheese, bread and some water.

"Wow, such luxury..." I put a loaf of bread in my mouth and wore my clothes. After I was fully armed, I stood with my back against the door to make sure no one was guarding it from outside. After some time, I slowly moved the door handle and opened the door an inch. Since I couldn't see anyone around, I moved out of the room quickly, but as I was closing the door behind me...

"Good morning, Azami-san! I'm sorry!"

I turned startled, only to face the polar bear from yesterday.

"G-good morning... uum..."

"Oh, it's Bepo, miss! I'm sorry!" Bepo bowed deeply.

"Y-you don't have to apologise! Nice to meet you, Bepo! Now, if you'd excuse me, I need to go to... the restroom..."

I tried to slip past him, but he caught my arm.

"Wait a sec, Azami-san! Law-sama ordered me to bring you to his room! He wants to talk to you! I'm so sorry!"

I froze. What did he want from me? He had already humiliated me enough. And I had even gone and told him my name... What a disgrace!

"Maybe I'll go later, then..."

"No, he said he wants to see you now!" Bepo started pulling me. "Oh, I'm sorry! Did I hurt you, Azami-san?"

"N-no, I'm fine..." I said.

What should I do? Going to his room again was suicide.Then again, running away would mean fleeing my mission. And I couldn't let Kid down. I hated acting like a coward as well.

"Ok then. Take me there."

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As I was standing in front of the familiar yellow door, I couldn't help not to think of the consequences of me running away without giving a damn about anyone. But I was too late.

"Here she is, captain!" Bepo yelled and gave me a slight push inside, closing the door behind me. I stood there staring at my feet for ages, then took a deep breath and raised my head.

Law was tilting on the wall right in front of me, watching me from head to toe with his typical suspicious look.

"So..." he said and started walking around the room, "you're a D." It was more of a statement than a question, and for some reason it made me more nervous than before.

"Yeah, I'm a D. So what? It's just a stupid initiative, it has no meaning." I shouted in his face. He remained silent for a while, his eyes staring at nowhere, which made me wonder whether I had hit a nerve. I suddenly got concerned about his past, but quickly drove the thought away.