RobinLaw Drabble II
gift for @manicmic again late, sorry!
Words: 849 Rating: Gen Pairing: Robin/Law
"And this is my cabin so...yeah..." Law trailed off awkwardly as he let Robin into his living quarters. He was annoyed with himself for being nervous. He was Trafalgar Law! He was cool and stoic! He was the merciless captain of the Heart Pirates! Still, just an hour he had learned that Robin was four years older than him, and for some reason this information rattled him.
He forcibly suppressed his urge to fidget while Robin took a small tour of his cabin, moving gracefully and quietly, keeping her hands behind her back as if she was in a museum. If anything, she was the stoic one. Her face only showed a mild fascination as she looked over surgical instruments, swords and daggers, old wanted posters of Doflamingo that had been used for dart practice and various bits of stolen loot scattered on every surface. Belatedly he wished he has straightened up a little before inviting her.
"You don't keep any posters of yourself?" Her question snapped him out of his thoughts. "Huh? You mean wanted posters? No, why would I?" "Hmmm, we keep ours at our ship. My captain Luffy likes to compare his bounty to the other boys'. They seem to make a competition out of it, even though Luffy's has been the highest for a while."
Law could not keep from harrumphing. "That's so childish! It's exactly the sort of nonsense he gets up to all the time!" In the back of his mind, in a way he would never admit to anyone, he wondered what the exact difference was between his bounty and Luffy's.
Robin laughed. It was a strange, seeing her geniunely chuckle. "You say that, and yet he's your friend." "He's NOT my friend, he just made that decision one day and started calling me Traffy out of nowhere! I certainly didn't have any input over this!" "But if you truly hated him, you could get rid oh him. Not in a fight of course, but by being cruel in the ways he hates." Robin's clear eyes pierced into his. She wasn't even challenging him, she was merely stating something. And it was a fact.
Rather than answering, Law took off his furry hat and sat down heavily on the bed while sighing loudly. "Robin-ya, did you come here just to tease me?" She laughed again, this time a bit more quietly. "Maybe, though I also want to spend time with you." She picked up one of the sharp scalpels. "What is this used for? It looks like it could be quite handy for stabbing."
They spent a while talking about his various surgical instruments and their uses. Robin's questions made it clear she had no medical training, but made it up with quite a macabre imagination. If Law hadn't known about her past as Miss All Sunday, he would have guessed she was an assassin anyway.
Their conversation flowed easily and before long Law lost his nervousness as well as his track for time. When he glanced to the window he noticed it was pitch black. Had they been talking for hours? "Oh wow, it's late, do you need to g-" But he never got to finish his sentence. Her lips were suddenly on his and she was leaning her whole body forward, almost daring him to catch her. Law froze for a moment, but he instinctually kissed her back. After another moment's indecision he put his hands on her hips, not bringing her for a closer embrace but not pushing her away either.
She released the kiss and looked at him again with those piercing eyes. Law wanted to say something, but he felt breathless. With a smooth motion, Robin took off the sunglasses that had been resting on her forehead this whole time, folded them shut and set them on the table. Suddenly panic surged in Law again. "Wait!" She paused, her hands in midair, waiting to hear his objection. "I can't do that so quickly- I mean, not...not right now. It's too soon." He stammered. Her face, which had been a mask of pleasant neutrality nearly all evening, softened to something he had not seen before. She leaned forward again, and he shut his eyes, but she kissed him on the forehead instead of the lips.
"We don't have to do anything you don't want to." She retrieved her sunglasses and hung them from her shirt. "But Law-kun, I'm impressed. You knew what I wanted to do just from that." She stretched and leaned back on his bed until she was laying on it, though he feet were still on the floor. "You're good at reading people. I like that." "Hazards of the job I suppose...I have to know who to trust." She smiled at him and closed her eyes, almost looking like she was going to fall asleep right then and there. That was something that Law liked about her. She didn't belabor things unnecessarily, and knew when to drop things. He took off his long coat and laid down beside her, though he didn't close his eyes.