Sep. 7th, 2019

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Fandom: Good Omens
Ship: Aziraphale/Crowley
Rating: Giallo
Wordcount: 1621
Prompt: Disco eleganza

Aziraphale direbbe che Crowley ha una vera e propria ossessione per le sue ali. 

Non è che gli dispiacciano le attenzioni ma l’angelo si domanda se dietro la richiesta di vedere le sue ali ogni volta che si separano dopo un incontro non ci sia un dolore profondo per aver perso il candore delle proprie. Crowley infatti non si limita a guardare, il demone deve toccare, esaminare, una volta ha persino affondato il naso tra le piume iridescenti. 

Aziraphale non sa cosa ci sia dietro. Sa solo che è iniziato una notte del 1976. I suoi ricordi sono un po’ confusi perché ammette di essersi lasciato ubriacare - e forse altro, potrebbe o meno aver accettato un qualche altro preparato umano che abbia interferito con il suo corpo di carne prestata e  aver indugiato nelle sensazioni senza essersi costretto a smaltire la sbornia come avrebbe dovuto. 

Ora che ci pensa in questi termini Aziraphale si domanda - arrossendo - come sia possibile che non sia ancora caduto. 


* * * 


Gli anni Settanta per Crowley sono una macchia confusa, una sbavatura sulla sua linea temporale, piena di cose che potrebbero essere successe o meno, che lui potrebbe aver sognato dopo aver lasciato sciogliere un francobollo di LSD sulla lingua ancheggiando ubriaco in una discoteca di Soho. È quasi certo di essersi trasformato in serpente davanti a qualcuno una volta, ma in ogni caso erano tutti in pieno delirio allucinogeno, quindi non importa. 

La nebbia che è stato quel periodo per lui si era interrotta improvvisamente una notte, quella in cui ha rischiato di far perdere la ali ad Aziraphale. Crowley non sa se il rischio sia mai stato reale, se non sia soltanto una sua paranoia e Aziraphale non abbia mai davvero corso il rischio di cadere, ma per la prima volta in secoli si era reso conto di una cosa: gli importava. 

E Aziraphale non era caduto, non quella volta, ma Crowley non poteva sapere se non fosse stato ad un passo dalla caduta ad ogni singola parola che si erano scambiati. Dopotutto Crowley è caduto nella stesso modo, frequentando compagnie sbagliate, facendo troppe domande, questionando e facendo battute poco spiritose - così era caduto Crowley, non in maniera spettacolare, ma con un processo graduale, involontario e che quasi era passato inosservato. 

A Crowley non dispiace essere un demone, agire per l’inferno e tutte quelle cose lì. Crowley non rimpiange i bei tempi andati in cui le sue ali erano bianchissime e passava il suo tempo a suonare l’arpa su una nuvoletta - ad essere onesti il suono dell’arpa gli faceva venire mal di testa. Forse era destinato a diventare un demone fin dagli albori - ma questo non vuol dire che augurerebbe ad Aziraphale la stessa cosa. Lui è… troppo buono. Non resisterebbe nemmeno dieci minuti se cadesse. 

Perciò non c’è niente di strano se Crowley chiede ad Aziraphale di vedere le sue ali ogni volta che si separano e se continua ad esaminarle spasmodicamente alla ricerca di una infinitesimale macchiolina di sporco, di una lieve sfumatura di grigio, finanche ad una solitaria piuma nera dopo essere stato in sua compagnia. Passare del tempo con il demone deve essere sbagliato - va contro ogni ragionevolezza il fatto che sia giusto - e quindi Crowley lascia che la sua paranoia prenda il sopravvento ogni singola volta, perché non è logico che Aziraphale non abbia come minimo iniziato a cadere. Anche se a ben pensarci, se non è caduto quella notte del 1976 Crowley dubita che Aziraphale cadrà mai. Forse. In fondo hanno ancora un’Apocalisse da fermare. 


* * * 


La discoteca è rumorosa e affollata e buia come sono sempre state le discoteche fin dall’inizio dei tempi. 

Crowley è andato, talmente fatto da continuare a ballare anche se la musica è finita perché il DJ deve cambiare disco. O forse il ritmo che sente è solo in un frequenze non percepibili dall’orecchio umano. Solo che almeno altre tre persone stanno ballando nelle vicinanze, ognuna su una musica diversa. 

Qualcuno gli afferra il braccio e le pupille di Crowley si restringono a due lame sottili per mettere a fuoco. I suoi occhi gialli sembrano brillare ancora di più nel buio della discoteca quando riconosce Aziraphale nella figura davanti a lui. “Aaaangelo! Sssseiii quiiii!” Le sue parole sono strascicate e cantilenanti e si perderebbero nella canzone appena cominciata se Aziraphale non potesse comunque sentirlo a prescindere. 

L’angelo non sembra particolarmente sorpreso - né turbato - di trovarlo in quelle condizioni. “Crowley, volevo parlarti perchè-”

Ma al demone in quel momento non potrebbe importare meno di qualunque missione che andrebbe ad autobilanciarsi nel grande schema delle cose, perciò gli sventola una mano davanti alla faccia. 

“Non adescio, Afy - Azra - Azyf- Angelo! Adescio è tempo di divertirsssi!” Crowley biascica e gli ficca in mano il proprio bicchiere pieno di una miscela di vodka e un altro liquido che ha il sospettoso odore di una marca diversa di vodka. “Conscidera tutto fatto!” 

Aziraphale tentenna, guardandosi intorno. Sperava di poter recuperare Crowley e andarsene in un posto meno affollato, ma in fondo non sarebbe la prima volta che si lascia intossicare dal demone e poi il loro ben oliato meccanismo per bilanciare bene e male nell’equilibrio dell’universo è così perfetto che Aziraphale può perdersi un giorno di ferie. 

Così Aziraphale beve il cocktail e quando Crowley gli infila tra le labbra una pastiglia, facendola sbattere contro i suoi incisivi bianchissimi, l’angelo apre la bocca e la manda giù senza farsi troppe domande e lascia che agisca. Quando si rende contro che forse avrebbe dovuto controllare meglio cosa stava prendendo è troppo perso per preoccuparsene. 

Quindi non è ben chiaro come alla fine si ritrovi in un angolo su un divanetto, con Crowley spalmatogli addosso e la lingua biforcuta del demone in bocca. Aziraphale sapeva di star entrando in un luogo di depravazione, ma in un luogo tanto pubblico… 

Crowley gli si sfrega addosso e l’angelo può percepire attraverso la stoffa leggera dei pantaloni come il demone stia desiderando abbastanza intensamente di avere un sesso. E - strano a dirsi, ma non se ne era accorto fino a quel momento - anche lui stesso sta avendo lo stesso tipo di desiderio. 

“Crowley,” Aziraphale ansima anche se prendere fiato non gli servirebbe, “dovremmo… ti dispiace?” 

Il demone annuisce contro l’incavo del suo collo e li trasporta nel proprio appartamento, senza nemmeno una parola - non pensa che la voce possa reggergli e dopotutto non ha nemmeno bisogno di chiedere “cosa?” L’angelo è un libro aperto. 

È solo più tardi, molti più tardi, nel fresco delle lenzuola appena stropicciate, in un letto che ha usato per la prima volta quella sera, che lo coglie l’epifania. 

Aziraphale si è unito carnalmente a lui. 

Non che questa sia l’epifania, non era così andato da non rendersi conto di cosa stesse accadendo. 

Ma. 

Aziraphale - l’angelo retto e probo - si è unito carnalmente a lui, Crowley - demone dell’inferno. L’angelo ha desiderato e ha amato e ha reso parte di sé un demone. Non possono non esserci conseguenze in tutto questo. 

“Oh, per tutte le fiamme di Lucifero! Aziraphale! Perderai le ali!” 

Aziraphale ridacchia. “Beh, perdere è un termine un po’ forte, dopotutto le mie ali non sono certo una macchina che io possa dimenticare dove l’abbia parcheggiata - anche se effettivamente servono a portarmi in giro, quindi sono un mezzo di trasporto! E pure per svariate dimensioni! Ora che ci penso è un po’ che non visito la quinta, è la mia preferita…” 

“Az, stai divagando!” Crowley sente la necessità di sbattere la testa contro il muro fino ad uccidere il sacco di carne che lo contiene perché Aziraphale non è abbastanza in sé per capire. 

“Oh, sì, è vero. Ma non ho voglia di tornare sobrio! Altri cinque minuti Crowley!” 

Forse è un effetto della droga ancora in circolo, ma il demone sente la disperazione crescergli in petto - nel punto esatto dove si suppone che lui non debba provare nulla da migliaia di anni. 

“Angelo! Mostrami le ali!” 

“Cos’è, un tuo kink?” Aziraphale lo prende in giro e Crowley rabbrividisce, perché fino a quella sera l’angelo nemmeno sapeva cosa fosse un kink. L’idea che ormai le sua ali debbano essere irrimediabilmente ingrigite solidifica nel suo cervello: Aziraphale è sicuramente ad un passo dal cadere ed è tutta colpa sua. 

“Sì, diciamo sì, adesso tirale fuori!” Crowley gli ordina bruscamente. Non ha tempo di spiegare. Deve valutare quanto grave sia il danno. 

Aziraphale si sposta su un fianco e spiega le ali. Ali bianche, candide, lattescenti ed immacolate, con sfumature dorate quasi impercettibile nello spettro dei colori demoniaci. 

Non è possibile. 

Crowley non riesce a credere ai suoi occhi. Ci deve essere qualcosa che gli sta sfuggendo, una macchiolina subdola, nascosta nel folto del suo piumaggio, abbastanza in profondità da passare inosservata in modo che Aziraphale non se ne renda conto e la lasci proliferare - una piccola crepa  scura in grado di sgretolare la sua anima immortale. Il demone immagina per un secondo come sarebbe un demonico Aziraphale e inorridisce. 

Così Crowley esamina piuma per piuma, arruffando e lisciando la lieve peluria delle penne, alla ricerca del più piccolo segno che l’anima di Aziraphale non sia abbastanza degna del Paradiso. 

Non ne trova, ma non riesce a dirsi sollevato perché “Non ha senso. Non è logico che tu non abbia come minimo iniziato a cadere. Non. È. Logico.”

Aziraphale ritira la ali e si volta verso di lui, prendendogli il volto tra le mano e costringendo gli occhi dorati del demone a fissarsi sui suoi. “No, certo che non è logico, Crowley. Lo sai anche tu.”

Aziraphale sorride e Crowley riesce finalmente a calmarsi. 

“È ineffabile.”  


 

 

Amarillo

Sep. 7th, 2019 11:15 am
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Fandom: Vis à vis 
Ship: Macarena/Zulema, Macarena/Fabio
Rating: Giallo
Wordcount: 856
Prompt: Pop art

La casa está a pocos metros de el mar. 

Al principio era amarilla. No es que fuese importante pero después de escaparse de Cruz del Sur, Macarena no quería más ver a ese color en toda su vida. 

Tres millones de euro podían comprar una lata de pintura blanca y Fabio la había traído antes de la nevera - si total la nevera en esa isla solo podia servirles para enfriar cervezas. 

Así Macarena esta bien por primera vez en su vida desde que era una niña, a pesar de las muertes de su madre y de su padre, de la mano jodida de Roman y dé la orden de busca y captura en contra suya y de Fabio. Macarena está en paz - la ultima descarga de adrenalina la había tenido huyendo desde la cárcel, hace unos años y ahora todos los dia sono iguales, uno después de el otro. 

Macarena despierta a primera ora en la mañana y prepara el desayuno. Fabio la sigue en la cocina después de haberse lavado los dientes. Parece una puta película de amor, una de las que le gustaba mirar antes de ser presa por un crimen que no había cometido. 

“He oido que los del chiringuito en la playa van a tener una fogata a noche. ¿Quieres ir?” 

Macarena no sabe porque pero eso la pone incomoda. ¿Una fogata? Maca imagina el fuego ardiendo y el olor a pollo de carne que quema, como si fuese un cadaver…

Fabio la besa antes que Macarena pueda decir que no, que no quiere ir aun que no sepa porque. Fabio la besa y hacen el amor sobre la mesa, como todas las mañanas, mundano y lento y suave y dulce. 

Tan dulce - dulce como melaza, tan viscoso que Maca no logra abrir la boca, que le pudre los dientes, que se siente una mosca, los brazos tan pesado que no puede levantarlos. Tan dulce que Maca no participa, se deja llevar como en la corriente. 

Fabio la besa, la invade, la come, y Maca no puede hacer nada… 


* * * 


Maca abre los ojos con un sobresalto. 

“¿Que te pasa, rubia?” Zulema se da vuelta en la cama que comparten desde años y la mira. 

“Nada. He tenido una pesadilla.” 

“Estabas llamando a Fabio en el sueño.”

Macarena sonríe. “¿No te estarás poniendo celosa?” 

Zulema resopla, levando los ojos al cielo y se deja caer en la cama. “Ay, rubia, qué pesada eres.”

Maca suprime la sonrisa de quien obtuvo la reacción que se esperaba. Como si después de dieciséis años conociéndose - compañeras de celda, de fugas, de planes mas o menos ilegales, de robos, intentando matarse a cada ocasión, salvándose la vida a cada caída - Maca no supieras que botones presionar. 

“No ententes cambiar de tema.” Lo mismo valía para Zulema. 

“Solo estaba soñando con un diferente tipo de prisión.”

* * * 


La casa está a pocos metros de el mar. 

Es amarilla. 

Quince millones de euros entre joyas de Cartier y plata china hubieran podido comprar una lata de pintura blanca, pero el amarillo de Cruz del Norte se lo va a llevar en el corazón para siempre. 

Nevera no tienen, porque Zulema no toma alcool y ¿quién carajo necesita esos putos huevos? Demasiadas gallinas en Cruz del Norte para alcanzarles una vida. 

Nadie cocina el desayuno porque ninguna de las dos es una puta ama de casa. 

A veces follan sobre la mesa, a veces en la cama si Zulema no ha encontrado alguien mas con quien echar un polvo - a veces si encuentra alguien particular lo trae en casa para que cogas las dos. En todo casos esta no es una historia de amor. 

Esto es mucho más. 

Macarena ve la fogata en la playa. Las hacen todos los viernes. 

La primera vez que la vio, se puso a llorar.

Y empezó así, con Zulema serrando los labios ja sutiles en una expression contrariada. “Joder, rubia, ¿en serio?” parecían preguntarle sus ojos y Macarena ya estaba lista para pelearse, porque lo que estaban ardiendo en esa puta playa no eran troncos de madera. El cadaver de Sole estaba quemando de vuelta y cómo la primera vez no había nada que Maca pudiese hacer para cambiar las cosas.

Pero también una hija de puta como Zulema podia entender el luto. Y si no sentía pena por Sole, al menos lo hacia por Saray - lagrimas y sus manos temblando después de haber empujado la almohada, Zulema eso lo vio. Dar a Saray un pincho para matar a ese hijo de puta de Sandoval no era mucho, pero era la unica cosa que podia hacer. 

Así como no es mucho comprar una lata de pintura pero Zulema la compra igualmente y Maca pinta un sol azul sobre la puerta principal y las ventanas. 

El viernes siguiente la pintura es naranja, violeta, verde, roja y Maca pinta flores, estrellas, corazones y personas y al fin la casa es tan colorada que parece un puto quadro de pop art. 

El amarillo queda, de fondo, y la casa es mucho más que una prision. 



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Fandom: One Piece
Ship: Sanji/Zoro
Rating: Verde
Wordcount:
Prompt: Soup can

“What the fuck?!” the idiot shouts from his room before stomping to Sanji’s and banging at his locked door. “Open up, you bastard!” 

The cook purses his lips and rolls his eyes. He may have been a little overdramatic with his revenge, but the marimo deserved it. “Go away!” 

“Like hell! You’re gonna pay for this!” 

Sanji isn’t regretting the little prank. Sanji is regretting ever accepting to become a roommate with that uncultured ape that thinks the swords skills that earned him a scholarship are enough to attend college. 

The cook is not sure how all of it started. After all the first time they met, they didn’t even notice each other, so of course, no one could talk about hate at first sight. Zoro was in a puddle of blood for trying to confront out of the dojo his sword nemesis, Mihawk, and Sanji had a fight with an idiot customer at the bar he was working at - before getting fired for the said fight. 

So they were really just a little thought in the corner of each other's mind, nothing important, truly forgettable. 

Everything came up later. 

How their personality could grind so much was a mystery, and yet every word would spark a fight, every gesture would be misread into an offense and every situation would set them bickering.

If he were to ask Zoro, Sanji is sure the swordsman wouldn’t remember either how their little prank exchange had started. But sure as hell, Sanji isn’t letting him have the last word. 

Gathering one of his once very white shirts, now sporting an improbable shade of pink, Sanji opens the door and Zoro pushes past him inside the room. 

“Glitter?!” He yells, and yes the damned little sparkly sons of a bitch are all over his face, clinging to his hair, almost glued to the front of his t-shirt. “GLITTER?! Are you for real?!” 

“I don’t know what you’re talking abou- ihhh!” Sanji shrieks as Zoro topples the half-full envelope, spilling the rest of the glitter in a cloud of dust that covers every inch of the room. 

“You - you - you asshole!” 

Zoro arches his glittery eyebrows. “Dear terrible human being, congratulations!” He starts reading the letter that accompanied the glitter tsunami, stressing the words as if it was him to have sent the letter to Sanji and not the other way around, “you’ve pissed someone off so much that they went out of their way to pay me to send you the worst thing you can ever receive in an envelope: mother fucking glitter. Well, yes, ero-cook, I’m sure you’ve thought this amazing joke through since we share the same common areas.”

“You didn’t have to bring glitters in my room!” 

“You didn’t have to send me glitters in the first place!” 

“I wouldn’t have to if you just hadn’t put all my wooden spoons into the water for a week when I was away so that they would be moldy when I got back!”

“It was an accident!” 

“Just as it was an accident you dying all my shirts pink?” 

“YES!” 

“You’re lying!”

“I’m not!” 

“Yes, sure!” Sanji snarls sarcastically. “We’re totally not in a prank war! I forced you to eat canned soup for a week!” 

Zoro looks really taken aback. “I was just trying to be nice because we keep fighting day in and day out. An olive branch. I didn’t know your spoons would get mold or that your stupid red shirt would ruin the whole load! But now I regret not to do it on purpose!” 

Sanji doesn’t believe him of course. Of course, the idiot has done everything knowing what he was doing. Of course. Because if he hasn’t… Sanji eyes the letter still in Zoro’s hands and begins to wonder if he should start regretting his prank. Because the look on Zoro’s face really says he did not know a single thing about a prank war.

Following his gaze, Zoro realizes he’s still clutching the letter. “Oh, well, guess I should continue, 

Least this wonderful prank of yours goes undervalued.” He snarls and suddenly Sanji is feeling a jerk. “It must be a great honor receiving this letter to inform you that your douchebaggery has not gone unnoticed. Your trophy has come in the form of craft herpes. It’s a sort of recognition for the way you waste precious air and people valuable time since now we are going to take a little of yours…

Zoro’s voice fades as he keeps reading and by the time he reaches the end of the sentence he’s just silently mouthing the words. 

In Sanji’s defense, he didn’t know they would be so harsh as to tell him he was wasting air. On the other hand, he feels like telling Zoro he just paid for the envelope without adding a personalized card wouldn’t do much good. He prepares to parry, ready for the umpteenth fight he knows it’s gonna burst between them, but Zoro doesn’t unsheathe the swords hanging at his side.

The swordsman throws the envelope on the other’s bed, spreading the last few glitters still trapped inside it on the blanket. “Yeah, ok, I got it. I’m done. I just thought it was a bad period, I didn’t understand you were a jerk who thought himself too good and classy for the rest of the world. And I like canned soup.” 

Mic drop, Zoro exits, leaving Sanji to feel like an asshole. 

Yeah, ok, maybe it was just a little misunderstanding that Sanji took it way too personal, but they were just like that - all fighting, arguing, bickering and being a general annoyance for each other. How else were they supposed to communicate? 

Sanji smears glitter on the bed and himself trying to clean it enough to be able to sleep in it that night and picks up the letter. 

 

“Make friends with this glitter because for the next few days, weeks, and months this glitter will be your constant companion. You will find it on your skin, in your hair, even in the most delicate of places. Wherever you go, you will leave a trail of glitter in your wake. 

Glitter is going to haunt you: have a nice day!” 

“Oh, fuck, great! Just great!” 

 

* * * 

 

“You two are utterly ridiculous!” Nami exclaims and Sanji would love to tell her “yes, of course, Nami you are always right”, but this time he has to disagree. “Always fighting and bickering. You can’t go on like this!” she warns him, weaving in his face a piece of cake impaled on a fork. 

Sanji hides his face in the cup of tea he’s sipping. “We aren’t, Nami-schwann!”

“You aren’t what?” She frowns because Sanji isn’t making much sense. 

“We aren’t going on. At all.” The soon to be chef plays with the teaspoon, stirring his brew for the umpteenth time. “Like, that stupid marimo stopped talking to me.” 

“Why?” 

“Said he didn’t want to use too much valuable air.” 

“Oh, come on you guys!” Nami rolls her eyes. “He’s still mad for the glitters? You need to talk about this UST between you two.” 

“No, I’m fine. I don’t need to talk about anything with him, not even UST - whatever it is. We are fine. He doesn’t talk to me and it’s the best thing that could have ever happened. For the first time in ages, it’s quiet. No more repairs in the flat because the idiot had to provoke me into a fight, no more of his stupid weightlifting in the middle of the living room, no more bottle of cooking sakè snatched from my kitchen… It’s all perfectly fine.” 

Nami sighs because really, Sanji doesn’t even sound convincing to himself and the geographer isn’t that easy to fool. 

“Oh really? Then why I keep hearing about this stupid glitter fight? It’s been a week and you can’t stop talking about it.” 

Sanji concentrates on stirring his already cold and sugared tea, taking his time to answer. “I know it’s not about the glitter. I know, ok? It’s just - I don’t understand him.”

Nami coughs a few times what sounds suspiciously like a mix between a withheld laugh and a chocking sound. “You don’t understand Roronoa Zoro? Are you kidding me?” And now every suspicion is erased by the fact that she’s opening laughing. 

Sanji should probably get offended, but he could forgive anything to Nami. 

“Sanji, he’s the simplest guy I’ve ever met. You are giving him mixed signals.” 

“I’m what?” 

“Ok, we’ll do it the scientific way.” Nami huffs as she searches for his purse and takes out a notepad and a pen. “Tell me about the other jokes you did to him in this so-called prank war. And spare me the glitter one, I’ve heard enough of that from both of you. I want to know about the ones he didn’t notice. But first, let me write evidence number one.”

Her elegant calligraphy puts a title at the top of the white page. “UST and how Sanji unresolved it even further”. Under it Nami writes a dotted one followed by “Glitter: Zoro had to take three showers to look at least decent to meet up with Robin”. 

“How is this helpful? And what is a UST?” 

“Don’t worry, Sanji. Everything will be clear in the end. What other joke did you pull on him?” 

“I made him ate canned soup for a week.”

“That’s your prank?” Nami frowns “Canned soup?

“Well, first of all, I didn’t grace him with my amazing cooking skills for a week,” the cook scoffs like he couldn’t believe Nami wouldn’t deem this punishment enough, “and second, that was the same horrible canned soup they serve in the canteen. The oily one with a lot of garlic.” 

“Uhm uhm. The one that gives you foul breath. And when was that?”

“When? I’m not sure. Three weeks ago?”

Ah yes,” Nami smirks, “when he went out with that Perona girl for an assignment. A week-long assignment. Say again, why did you stop giving him canned soup? 

“I grew tired of the prank,” he replies wearily. “I’m sorry, Nami, but I don’t see how this could be useful.”

“Oh, trust me, it is useful. And besides, even if it isn’t, wouldn’t you just do it for me?” Nami gives him the saccharine smile that usually hides a trap but that man can’t avoid to fall for. 

“Yes, of course, Nami dear!” Sanji almost chants, because the geographer knows perfectly how to press his buttons. 

“Than humor me as I try to prove a point.” She’s mere inches to pat his head in a ‘your a good boy’ gesture. Ah, men are so easy, even the ones that are not interested in her. “So, what else did you do?” 

“I threw away his new bottle of oil, you know the one that he uses to clean his swords.” 

“The one that Tashigi gave him on his birthday? Or the one absolutely identical that you gave him on his birthday?” Now that Nami puts it that way Sanji does look like the jerk Zoro accused him to be without even knowing half of what Sanji pulled in in those two months.

“Tashigi’s, mine had a red etiquette, it was better. But don’t you wanna know in response to what I did that?”

“No, we have already stated Zoro didn’t know about a prank war, so it doesn’t matter. Now, what else did you do?” 

“I - I kind of cracked his GPS. You know, so that he would always be late to appointments..” Sanji is not particularly proud of this one. Knowing the directionally challenged marimo had a list of instructions to reach the important and most visited places like classrooms and the Thousand Sunny, he just wanted him to make him look bad in front of less important people than his professors and his friends. 

“Late to what? He never uses his GPS and he never has dates.” 

“What? Of course, he has dates! He went out with Bonney!” 

Nami snorts. “I don’t know why they went out, but it wasn’t a date. Jewelry Bonney is not interested in men.”

Sanji is surprised and ok, whatever, who cared if that wasn’t a date, his goal was achieved nonetheless, even if it wasn’t as effective. 

“And Zoro isn’t interested in girls.” 

“He’s - He’s -” Sanji gapes, not able to form a coherent reply, so he settles for a “How do you know?”

“It’s like common knowledge. I didn’t think you were the only one who didn’t know,” Nami shrugs and leaves him a little time to elaborate the information. She hopes this will connect little dots in his head that would point him in the right direction, to understand that his problem is not as much wanting to kill Zoro as wanting to fuck him. 

Maybe she just broke Sanji instead. 

“Did you do something else?” She asks when he keeps looking at his mug willing it to spill the secrets of the universe. 

“Uh - what?” Sanji comes back from the very distant place he had reached. 

“I asked you if you did anything else.” 

“Yes. I hid his phone when he was waiting for a call. Nothing important, they were just calling to tell him when his next match with Mihawk would be. I mean, it was important for him, but it didn’t compromise his match if he couldn’t answer the call in time.”

Yes, very considerate of him, but still Nami is taken aback. This breaks the scheme because it doesn’t involve a girl. Or maybe…

“Why did you pull this prank to him?” 

“You want to know, now?” 

“Yes.”

“His not really a prank was.. well, he stood me up. He said he would meet me at the cafeteria to give me biology’s notes and then arrived late.”

“You hid his phone because he arrived late to give you notes?” She grimaces. 

“Yes! I had to wait for him for two hours!” 

“Sanji, you live in the same damn flat, he could have given you the notes there!”

“Yes, but he owned me a coffee because of a bet I won and he said to meet him there so he could also give me my notes and then he was two hours late! It was too much to just be his problem with directions. Afterward, I discovered he left me there hanging because he got involved in his training with Tashigi.”

Nami half laughs half snorts at his outrage. She was right all along. “Oh my God, just as I thought. You are unbelievable, Sanji.” 

“What?”

“Let me recap” she takes the neatly written sheet and starts reading the list. 

 

1. Glitter: Zoro had to take three showers to look at least decent to meet up with Robin

2. Soup: foul breath for a week while he was meeting up with Perona

3. Choji: Zoro had to use Sanji’s oil to polish his katanas (competition with Tashigi)

4. Gps: late to a “date” with Bonney

5. Phone: couldn’t answer in time to a call because of hidden phone (revenge because he dumped Sanji for Tashigi)

 

“Don’t you see a pattern in this?”

Sanji looks puzzled, trying to make sense of what Nami is saying. 

“Do you realize that your one-way prank war was actually an attempt to sabotage Zoro’s dates? Better said, what you thought were Zoro’s dates?”

The realization hits him like a punch. “What? No!” 

“Sanji, I’m sorry to break this to you but: You are jealous.” 

“I - I -” he gapes trying to find some argument with which counter what the girl is saying

“You are. Now ask Zoro out or I swear I’ll tell Luffy. And you know Luffy, next thing he’ll be delivering participations for yours and Zoro’s wedding.”

“Nami, my dear, I’m not saying you are wrong but -”

“Right, because I’m not wrong. Now go. I’ll pay your tea and add it up to your debt.” With interests of course.

 

* * * 

 

It takes Sanji three days to gather up the resolve. Zoro is training in his room, not leaving it except to use the toilet and going out to classes or training. It’s just luck the crew hasn’t gathered at the Thousand Sunny for a drinking round or something along those lines because Sanji isn’t sure Zoro wouldn’t have ditched that too and the cook doesn’t want to be the one to wreck the group. 

So it’s basically that and the fact that Nami keeps calling him to ask him if he already talked with the swordsman. The second day he received a call from Robin inquiring about the progress of the whole business and for how much Sanji loves to talk to her, this isn’t something he feels comfortable to discuss with her. 

Because Sanji thought about it. Though about it a lot and he reached a conclusion. 

This is…. completely impossible and absurd and insane and - worth a try.

So when the third day it’s Usopp that calls him offering advice and information about dates he never had - and Nami afterward menaces him that she’s running short of nakama to tell this piece of information and Luffy’s time is growing closer - Sanji decides this is the moment. 

Knocking on Zoro’s door doesn’t deliver any answer, but he knows the swordsman is in, so he tries the handle and the door opens. 

Zoro is there, weightlifting the iron equivalent of Sanji with a single hand, bare-chested and covered in sweat. At the sight, Sanji’s mouth waters and he must admit Nami was right and he was an idiot for not noticing before. 

“What do you want?” Zoro asks, sharply. And ok, maybe it’s not the best of welcomes, but at least he’s talking to him. 

“Here’s my olive branch,” Sanji says, extending his hands to show him two soup cans. He could go on and talk a lot - he tried four different speeches before even considering knocking at his door - but he just knows the man prefers facts to words. 

Zoro eyes him unimpressed. “Two?” 

“Go out on a date with me.” He doesn’t need to explain, to tell him that of course, he doesn’t think himself better than Zoro, that he too can eat that soup if Zoro likes it, even if it’s not French or good or even near to edible. 

“Ok.” 

Sanji’s jaw goes slack. “Ok? No arguing? No insults?"

“No. But you can spare us the soup.” 

“Why?” 

 

“It’s a date, isn’t it? I don’t want you with foul breath afterward.” 

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