Rise Of A New Heart

Chapter 13 Landing! Isla De San Avarice

At the end of the day Enyo decided to take a nice relaxing shower before bed. Lower floor 3 or LF3 was the floor where all the men's rooms were, also the only bathroom. Of course the captain had his own private one attached to his room. So Enyo silently tiptoed through the steel halls towards the bathroom. It was quite nice considering it was on a pirate ship full of men. She was expecting a sports locker-room type space, but was pleasantly surprised to see a modern roomy shower with clear glass walls and gold settings, black tiles on the walls and floor as well as a fresh looking white sink perched on top of a black mirrored cabinet with gold knobs. It suited the heart pirates colour scheme perfectly. Stepping under the warm embrace of the water Enyo felt all the stress and anxiety melt away. Thinking back on the days events her thoughts turned to her new Captain 'Law was acting very strange this afternoon... I hope he's okay.'

* flashback *

"Hey Bepo, do you know where the captain is? He's gonna miss out on dinner."

"He's in his office. He's always so busy, sometimes he misses out on meals."

Enyo's heart broke seeing Bepo's face droop in worry for his captain.

"I'll bring dinner to him then! Where is his office?"

"It's connected to the infirmary. The door on the left... And you must call me Sensei."

'Infirmary... = Needles...' A cold shiver ran up and down her spine and she reluctantly grabbed a plate of food and made her way down.

[Knock, knock, knock]

"Who is it?"

Law answered from the desk as he re-organised files, he needed something tedious to take his mind off that dream.

"It's Enyo sir, may I come in?"

His eyes widened and his breath hitched briefly. "What do you want?"

Enyo was surprised at his abrupt response but put it down to stress from... whatever he had to be stressed about.

"I brought you some dinner, Everyone else is eating so why should you miss out?"

...

"Very well, come in." He said reluctantly.

Enyo entered closing the door behind her and walked over to Law, putting the food on his desk. 

"Here you go. And there's no bread, I promise." She said with a playful smirk, Law said thank you but didn't look up from his work. "Is, everything alright captain?"

"Yes Enyo-Ya, you may go now."

Enyo was taken aback by his sudden coldness.

"O-okay..." She said heading towards the door. But putting her hand on the knob she realised something and turned back to face him.

"Oh I just remembered!... About that breast exam..."

From where she stood, even though most of his face was hidden by the shadow of his hat Enyo saw that Law gritted his teeth at her statement. After a moment of silence he broke it

"and?"

"I- I did it and everything was fine." She could feel the tension in the room but from what she had no idea. After another moment of silence Enyo spoke.

"Ok. I'll be going now then..."

Law still didn't look up from his work, only acknowledging with a "mhm" and Enyo left.

* present *

She shrugged it off as stress probably brought on by lack of sleep. After drying herself and throwing on a plain dress until she got to her room, opting to sleep in underwear until she could purchase proper sleeping attire. Enyo quietly went back to her room, jumped into bed and faded to black.