My Reality (Trafalgar Law X Reader) | One Piece

Chapter 44

You don't remember leaving the shopping centre or getting on the bus but you remember your father's face showing up on the TV and you remember the panic that set in when the reporter explained the situation. You feel paranoid on the bus, worried that the gazes of the other passengers will set on you and reveal all of the secrets you have been hiding. The fear of a stranger suddenly accusing you of being related to the crime consumes you. It does so enough that you almost miss your stop.

You force yourself to walk despite your mind screaming for you to run. You can hear your heartbeat, loud enough to drown all other sounds.

What if they figure out it was actually Law?

Nightmarish ideas plague your mind but your feet continue to carry you home.

Your life had just settled down after a week of confusion and pain. There is no way everything could change again after such a short period of peace. You aren't ready.

Your thoughts are abruptly interrupted by a car horn and you stop on the spot. Focusing back into reality you realise that you hadn't stopped for a car when trying to cross the road and had almost walked in front of it.

You step back and let the car move forwards before you push onwards with your head down.

There is a police car sitting outside your house. It is parked in the same place another police car was just a few months ago when your life was drastically changed for the first time.

You step nervously inside your home the same way you did that day. Once again your mother sits in the lounge room with a police officer on another seat.

Your mother looks up at you, eyes filled with a mix of confusion and pain that have come out as tears.

"(Y/N)..." she whimpers. She gets up and pulls you into a hug.

"Your father..." the chokes back her tears. "He isn't who he said he was. He isn't who I thought he was."

You slowly wrap your arms around your mother to return the hug.

"I didn't know... I didn't want to know." She continues.

The police officer rises to her feet and with a stern face approaches you.

"(Y/N), right?" She inquires, her voice staying soft in the presence of your mother.

"Yeah." You confirm, pulling away slightly from your mother to address the officer.

"I am going to explain the situation to you and then ask a few questions."

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Despite having seen your father murder a man right in front of you or the fact that you had been tortured by one of his subordinates you stayed quiet about most of what had happened. If you had mentioned any of it they might have figured out that Law was involved. As long as you don't say anything about it he may have a chance of continuing his life like nothing had happened. So instead you recounted who you had known your father to be months earlier, the only hints to his criminal life being the dodgy business trips.

That night you sat down with your mother and listened as she continued on about your father's lies and how she should have known that something was not right about the situation. She points out everything that she chose to ignore. All she had wanted was a safe environment to raise a family and she had gotten the opposite.

By the time she has run out of tears and words it is the middle of the night and she seems exhausted. She refuses to go to bed though as it is the bed she once shared with Doflamingo. Instead she just passes out on the couch. You throw a light blanket over her and make sure she is comfortable before heading to your room.