We... [ Shit, Marco's nose starts burning before he can even finish his sentence, his tears welling right back up, and he takes a deep breath and grits his teeth. ] We couldn't make it to you. But like fuck were we gonna lose Luffy too.
[ Marco hadn't even met the kid before those dreadful hours of war, but that didn't matter. Doesn't. Ace cares so much about him. Marco's heard so many fucking stories. And if he was important enough for Ace to lay himself down, then even without Pops' say-so Marco would have protected him with his entire being. ]
[ Marco has no thoughts of any of this as weakness. Fragility, the crumbling under so much emotional weight... that's not the same thing as weakness. Ace is strong. Marco just wants to let him stop fucking bracing himself. ]
I won't. I've fucking got you. I've got you and you're alive and I'll kill anyone who fucking tries anything.
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Date: 2019-02-28 08:01 am (UTC)[ Marco hadn't even met the kid before those dreadful hours of war, but that didn't matter. Doesn't. Ace cares so much about him. Marco's heard so many fucking stories. And if he was important enough for Ace to lay himself down, then even without Pops' say-so Marco would have protected him with his entire being. ]
[ Marco has no thoughts of any of this as weakness. Fragility, the crumbling under so much emotional weight... that's not the same thing as weakness. Ace is strong. Marco just wants to let him stop fucking bracing himself. ]
I won't. I've fucking got you. I've got you and you're alive and I'll kill anyone who fucking tries anything.