Blindsided [Sabo x OC]

Chapter 6

It had become a habit for Sabo to spend his nights keeping Anastasia company to help her with her nightmares. And, to Sabo's pleasure, she was getting easier to calm after she awoke from them. However, because of this new arrangement, Sabo's bed found itself unslept in for a little over a week. He only went to his room now to shower and change. He had started to wonder if he should just have her sleep in his room instead—being Chief of Staff meant that his room was somewhat nicer than the rest.

Regardless, Sabo was more than glad with his new sleeping arrangements. Even if he was busy all day he knew that at the end of it, he would still be able to see her and spend some time with her. He was, however, dreading the day either of them would have to leave for a mission—he was dreading the day that she would have to wake up terrified without him there to comfort her. But for now, thought Sabo, he'd make her nights something for her to cherish.

"My father," she has told him one night, "was a pirate and my mother was the doctor who saved his life. After his crew left him for dead, he decided to stay with my mother because he had fallen in love with her. Then I was born. When I was ten, my mother died so my father and I decided to leave home. I spent the next three years at sea with him. He's the reason I always wanted to become a pirate. I was only at sea for three years because then he was killed. That's when I was taken and sold. And, as you know, it was horrible after that. I spent five long, dreadful years in the home of that celestial dragon that bought me. It was when I was 18 that I lost my sight. He hit me really hard in the back of my head so I got what's called cortical blindness. My eyes still work. My eyes are currently seeing, but my brain can't process those images anymore. Once he realized that I had lost my sight, he started preparing to try and sell me off. He said that he didn't like 'broken toys'. That's when me and Kaito, who had also been there with me for several years, decided to try and escape. After we did escape, we decided to start our own pirate crew. Because of our pasts we ended up saving slaves when we ran into them and so our crew grew. In the end, we decided to stick to saving people from enduring what we all had to."

"I see," Sabo had replied. "Was your father a well-known pirate." Anastasia laughed.

"No. He was the sharpshooter in a crew that nobody cared about."

"Then he would be proud of you for surpassing him as a pirate," said Sabo with a grin.

"I never thought about that," said Anastasia as she appeared lost in thought for a moment. "What about your family?" She eventually asked.

"I had two brothers. We weren't related by blood, but that didn't matter to us. I actually didn't remember them until recently. After the incident with the celestial dragon, I lost my memory and they thought I was dead. But I got my memory back recently. You've actually probably heard of both of my brothers."

"I have? Who are they?"

"Portgas D. Ace and Monkey D. Luffy." Sabo watched as Anastasia's eyes widened in response. She placed her hand on his own comfortingly as the two sat in silence for a bit—it was her way of expressing that she understood that his brother's death must have been, and probably still is, painful for him and that she would be there for him if he ever needed it.

Anastasia was the one that broke the silence.

"Can you introduce me to Luffy sometime?" She asked him.

"Why?" he questioned.

"I need to congratulate him for punching that damn celestial dragon at Sabaody Archipelago. I mean, how many pirates actually have the balls to do that?"

"Besides your crew?"

"I also want to let him know that if he ever needs to beat up anymore Celestial Dragons that he can give the Freedom Pirates a call."