Chapter 19: Dream

The following days, Yulie had settled herself in a routine. She have breakfast with the giants and the Strawhat pirates, walk to Saul along with Robin and Chopper to read, and by afternoon go to see Kid and his crew. By dinner she and Luffy would always exchange stories, the untold ones that they had forgotten to tell each other.

Yulie was living again, happy albeit the subtle panic attacks she has in the middle of the night. Her butterflies that had turned black were still in her room and she was still trying to figure out what happened to them. But she had refrained from letting them out, in fear that they might indeed carry the poison mist in her dreams.

"You think there could be a medicine for the smile fruit?"

Chopper asked her that afternoon when he had accompanied her to help Kid and his crew. Both of them had gone from Saul's library to which Robin had told them that she would stay behind.

"Yeah, I mean it might be possible given how the fruit was artificially made. But, I don't think Killer would want to be a test subject just for that. He seemed to not want to talk about it"

"It's an evil thing, that fruit they made. If there's a way to reverse it's effects, I want to know too"

Yulie smiled as she saw the determination on Chopper's face, he was no doubt a doctor.

"Did you want to be a doctor, Yulie?"

She smiled at him and instantly remembered someone else.

"Yeah, I only found out recently too. How much I liked medicine, how I want to create my own too"

"Then that's an apothecary"

Yulie nodded as Chopper went on and on about medicines. While Yulie's thoughts were filled again with Law. Of how he would have reacted if she had told him that she wanted to become a doctor too.

But she quietly shook the thoughts away. Since she met Luffy again, and heard about Ace from Jimbei, the reason why she wanted to sail in the first place quietly invaded her mind once more.

She had wanted to help her brothers the most before she had wanted to sail the seas. She told Luffy that she wanted to sail alongside him the moment they leave for Elbaf and he agreed on taking her. That was when the reality that she and Law might never meet again dawned on her. And she thought of how her heart might change because of that.

You would think she had gotten scared of the fact that she might stop loving Law, but she didn't. In fact, she learned to embrace the pain and thought to herself "It was a good thing Law had been my first love. At the very least I have a name for it"

Now, whenever she thought of Love, it was Law that she was reminded of. And she understood that she would live with that mindset for as long as she could.

"You're here"

Killer waved at them the moment his eyes had gaze on their form. Chopper and Yulie waved back at him, smiling at him when they noticed that some of the crew members were missing. Specifically the red-haired brute.

"Where's Kid?"

Killer let out a sigh at Yulie's inquiry. His finger pointed at the ship and Yulie immediately understood. The past few days, Yulie spent most of her time with her brother who never ceased to remind her to stay away from Kid. And he would have always said those words whenever Kid was in earshot. That always lead to confrontation and into a scuffle that she always need to intervene with.

Yulie thought it wouldn't affect Kid but it somehow did. His advances lessened and he almost never leave his room to meet Yulie anymore. Almost.

"I'll go see him"

"okay, I'll examine the others"

"Let me help you with that"

Killer offered to Chopper as the two of them go to the opposite direction that Yulie went in. She had already memorized the layout of his ship and immediately found his room, the door hanging open as he sat on the small table.

Yulie leaned on the door frame and crossed her arms in front of her chest as she watch Kid tinker with some metal. He was building something again that Yulie would never understand.

"Is that a death machine?"

Kid only spared her a glance as he went back to tinkering.

"Didn't your brother told you not to get close to me? And didn't anyone told you to not enter a man's room"

Ahh so Luffy did told him something again, she thought as her lips curved into a smile. She walked towards his desk and took the medicine box she had given him. She opened it and saw that he had already finished all of his medicine.

"I guess I don't need to force you to take your medication again."

Kid scowled at her but didn't bother to look at her. He couldn't, not when Luffy's continuous words ring through his ear. She's young and she's nice and too kind for you. I don't want her heart to break. He had told him that morning when he came to meet him. And he admit that he was right. For all the lust he felt for Yulie, he knew she was too far from him. His very hands were made for killing and Yulie's was for healing.

No matter how deep he was attracted to her, he admit that Yulie doesn't deserve to have her heart broken, not by him of all the people.

"What did Lu told you this time?"

Her words soft against his ear making him turn his head towards her.

"None of your concern"

Yulie raised an eyebrow as Kid darted his gaze away from her. She thought that pushing this matter more would only make it worse. So she decided to leave it at that.

"You know I like you better when you're being annoying rather than you staying silent. It's unnerving to not know what you're thinking"

And then she was gone, leaving a frustrated Kid behind who threw his trinket on the walls of his room.

That very night Yulie stayed up in her room staring at her butterflies inside the jars. Blue, Yellow, Red, More Red and Black. No more green and purple, and no more telling what kind of poison the red and black ones have.

"Why would you guys even evolved without my knowledge"

She silently muttered before she heard a light knock on her door. She grabbed a shawl that was by her bed frame and put it around her shoulders before opening the door. She had learned enough from past experience to not go out with only her night gown.

A surprised expression came to her when she saw who it was the moment she opened her door.

"Kid?"

What was he doing here? She silently asked herself before looking around while quickly pulling him inside.

"Why are you out of your part of the port? If someone saw you---"

"We're leaving first thing in the morning"

He coldly told her, not letting her finish her sentence. He stared at her with not so much of an expression that she blinked once, twice just to realized that he was saying goodbye.

"Killer said it's proper manner to tell you atleast and to say thank you for helping us"

Yulie couldn't believe her ears, not only was Eustass Kid saying goodbye to her but he was also thanking her.

Kid's eyes studied Yulie's face and his gaze narrowed down to what she was wearing. It was that damned flimsy night gown again. The one that made her look ethereal in his eyes. He wanted to rip the damned cloth off of her body so much it took everything in him to just clench his fist. He would leave but before he did, he wanted to try one last time.

"I'll leave tomorrow morning that's why, I want to ask you for the last time. Do you want to do it?"

Yulie's eyes widened as she realized that Kid was staying true to what he had told her that night. A laugh rippled through her lips making Kid stare at her. It was the first time he had seen her laugh and he couldn't believe just how much beautiful she looked. But the notion threw him off guard.

"Why are you laughing?"

Yulie settled into a smile before staring at him.

"Because I thought I wouldn't get to see the obnoxious Eustass Kid before you leave. Glad to realize you didn't change that wholly"

Yulie gave him a soft smile before she dropped her shawl. She knew she would regret this, knew that she wouldn't feel that great after this. But she would still do it.

Not because she wanted to spite Law. Not because she pitied Kid. But because she wanted to feel the pleasure of it. She was human and she realized that she was bound to miss the pleasure of doing it. And what better person to do it with than a person who was non-committing. A person who would have been gone by the morning, for her to never see again. A person like Kid.

Her actions were enough of an invitation for Kid to scoop her body up, pulling her towards him. His lips immediately crashing on hers with so much urgency like he was afraid Yulie would have changed her mind.

His tongue darting and twisting, tasting the whole of her mouth as he with much force pinned Yulie on the wall. His metal arm carrying her as his good arm travel to her legs which she wrapped around his waist.

"Do not be gentle"

Yulie breathed out as Kid's lips left hers and found her collar bone. He nipped through her soft skin, his arm moving between her breast, gripping the fabric that was covering it.

"I am all things but gentle"

He said while grinning as he ripped Yulie's night gown revealing her only in her underwear. Her breasts bare for him to taste and play with. Yulie wanted to protest about her clothes but was left breathless when Kid took one of her breast in his mouth. The other palmed using his rough calloused hand. Yulie's nails found Kid's muscular back as she dug on it the moment Kid bit her nipple hard.

Kid took her other nipple in between his fingers as he pull them forcefully making Yulie moan loudly. Yulie could feel herself letting loose as Kid's mouth and finger play with her breasts until he had enough. He put Yulie down and made her turn around, her ass on him as he bent her over the table that was set up outside her room.

"Do not move little butterfly"

Yulie felt herself tremble as she felt Kid's hand on her ass, gripping the flesh tightly. Kid moved swiftly, too swiftly for his liking as he took off every piece of his clothing. He then tear up Yulie's underwear and knelt behind her. His face smelling Yulie's core as his tongue begun to lick her, to taste her.

"Kid"

Yulie groaned as she felt that wonderful sensation blooming inside of her again. She couldn't see Kid because she was bent on the table, couldn't grip on his hair as he licked her and couldn't breathe as he entered one finger inside of her.

And then another one, and another one where she groaned loudly. Three fingers in before Kid started thrusting them roughly inside of her, his tongue still sucking on her core like it wasn't enough that his fingers were already making her crazy.

Yulie could feel her release coming and she couldn't do anything to stop it. She released just by having Kid's finger and mouth on her and she could never hide that embarrassment from him.

Kid stood behind her as he stared at Yulie's scarless back, her skin the color of white, too flawless that it was like it was asking for him to color it red. So he did. He bent over on top of her and sucked on her soft skin right above her hips. Yulie shuddered at the sensation of Kid's lips all over her back.

While Yulie was distracted, Kid had pushed himself inside of her in one swift move making Yulie yelp. His metal arm snaked through her breast and into her throat pulling it backward so her face was near.

"I told you I'll make you come and scream"

He said rather proudly before thrusting inside of Yulie. The cold metal hand stung Yulie as it grip on her throat just enough so that she could still breathe. But that wasn't what drove Yulie into insanity.

"Kid"

She shouted as she felt the sting of Kid's slap blossom across her ass. With every deep thrust he made, another slap accompanied it making Yulie go insane. He pushed inside of her in a rhythm that Yulie found hard to believe actually belonged to a human person. He was barbaric, she had thought. Kid's every thrust was deep and unnerving, like he really wanted to break Yulie open.

Yulie felt another release blossoming inside of her. She gasped when Kid stopped and carried her towards her room.

"Wait! Why did you stop?"

She had cried out but Kid only gave her a grin as he threw her on her bed.

"I can't let you have all the fun little butterfly"

Yulie glared at him for that darn nickname but quickly retracted it when Kid pulled her almost upward. He was still standing on the edge of her bed as he lifted her lower body up and slammed again inside of her.

"I want to see your face when you have your release"

He groaned through words as his pace quickened and deepened. Yulie felt his manhood pulsate inside of her as her walls contracted and she screamed as she let out her release.

But Kid didn't stop, even as she had come, he kept on pushing in and out. His hands on her hips holding her in place as he slammed himself inside of her again and again bringing Yulie into another peak of insanity where he had his release alongside her, inside of her.

Yulie gasped out air as Kid put her lower body down and pant like crazy as he stared at her.

She had come three times and she could imagine how cocky Kid would be for doing that to her but when she stared at him, she saw that Kid hadn't had enough.

And sure enough, Kid's lips were already on hers again, his hands darting towards her breast as he slid himself inside of her again.

"We'll have a long night Yulie"

He told her and sure enough, it had been a long night for the both of them. The longest one Yulie had been in.

A night without her dreams and nightmares.

A night solely to give her a reprieve before the impending doom looming on her.

A night before her dreams finally become a reality.