The voices of men talking fills the room waking you up from the dark sleep. Sitting up your eyes focus seeing a face that you recognize so well but you are not sure on how to act. Lucci rushes over to your side passing you a glass of water.
"Are you alright?" Lucci asks with a straight face. Right now he has a cold stoned character toward you due to Jabura being around.
"Thank you." You accept the glass of water and look down at it curious on him acting this way. Touching your face you remember your mask was shattered. "It's alright." Lucci let's a bit of his concern escape seeing you are feeling sensitive on not having your mask. "Do you know why those men were here?"
Lucci sits down beside your bed his expression melting in complete concern. From where Jabura stands he can't see Lucci's expression. "No. There is a myth of the church having something. They search for something but they don't even know what it is.
This church has nothing they search for."
Jabura tilts his head to the side and you look over to him. The man winks giving you a wicked smirk. Lucci quickly turns his head to glare at Jabura.
"There were two wanted pirates Zoro and Sanji. They seemed to have wanted to take you away. Why is that?"Jabura steps echo on the wooden floor till he stops beside your bedside keeping his arms crossed to his chest. "I'm sorry, wanted? Those are my students who come to learn how to play. I've never heard of them being wanted pirates. Like I told the man with the Blackbeard. Anyone is welcomed to the church."
Jaburas eyebrows raise up a bit, his eyes moving a bit trying to focus on the details of your eyes. Leaning in closer his face inches away from yours. Gasping you move back and Lucci snarls pulling you close to his chest. Hidden in his chest you couldn't tell what they were doing.
But you know right now that both men are staring down at each other. "She is a lady, a nun of the church. Understand what you just did is unusual for her." Luccis body begins to steam in rage from how Jabura got dangerously close to your face. "If that's so, then why are you shielding her within your arms?"
Lucci growls out. "Leave the room! Do not ever question me!"
Jabura stands up straight. "All of a sudden you are angered?" Lucci's arms tighten around you, every inch of his muscles fighting for control. Jabura finally leaves the room closing the door behind him.
Lucci continues to breath heavily but he finally releases you. Peeking up from his chest to see his angered face your eyebrows move in between worried. Lucci leans in furiously kissing you. Whimpering from the sudden action you feel his weight shift on top of you. His soft nibbles on your lips and his wicked tongue searching for yours.
Parting for air his teeth softly bit the sides of your neck.
"Zoro and Sanji wanted to take you away. They won't be appearing anymore. By now you should already know what is going on, I told them that this church is now under watch from the government."
Lucci's voice deepened.
"I won't have you stolen away from me! And never again will I have you alone! I made sure Blackbeard felt every ounce of pain when I tore him to shreds!" Lucci slides his rough tongue up against your neck.
Breathing heavily from his body heat suffocating you making it harder for you to even think straight.
This is all bad news. There will be a war for this church. And you blame it all on yourself. "Lucci, government has no power over this church. This is a free sanctuary, people will riot. Please Lucci, they appeared to save me, they mean no harm."
Lucci pecks small kisses on your neck listening on how you are trying to pursue him. "Lucci." The strength of your voice finally made him realize you were being serious. Looking up his eyes seemed to show that he doesn't appreciate you getting overwhelmed by a situation he had already handled. "Do you question me?"
"I won't have you making choices of this church. And I am not one of your soldiers. This is not your turf nor the governments. Sanji and Zoro will come back and I will open the doors for them."
Lucci growls grabbing hold of the bed frame with such strength you can hear it crumbling. "You are mine! I've said it before and I'll say it again. I will take you away if I have to. Do not test me, do not tempt me, and do not ever question me."
The amount of fear he has delivered into your bones would have been enough to keep you silent. But what is there to fear from him? Is that the fact that you are now more of a prisoner, some sort of property toward him? "Am I of any value? Just some type of property with the church? Lucci, men like you, there is still room for forgiveness. Men like you, I shall forgive. But the man I met behind a mask was so much more, so different. Unique in his own way, that is the man I welcomed into my heart."
Leaning close to your neck his hand covers your mouth as he breathes heavily close to your ear. "Citizens are welcomed. But I do not want those pirates near you, understand."
Releasing you he storms out of the room slamming the door shut. Curling up into a ball you realize just how deep you have dug this hole. What can you do? Biting the back of your finger you think of what matters.
Does the secret of this church matter more than the man you have grown to love? Or do the lives who rely on you keeping this church hidden from government hands matter more? What consequences will be held against you for having a relationship with a blood thirsty man?
