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He remained silent as she left the room. Had fallen silent even as she spread the medicine over his wounds. As if they both understood that they were standing on a knief's edge. It was why he stayed in the water for longer than he meant to before slowly climbing out, groaning slightly as he dried himself off and wrapped the towel loose around his hips.

Padding into the main room, his mind made up, he moved to her side. Kneeling down next to her and reaching out to take her chin in his fingers. Touch, gentle yet firm, as he turned her to face him. "I won't ask you to betray your crew because I know that you won't, but shit is about to hit the fan. I'm here to tell you to stay safe. Because I won't stop. Kaido needs to be stopped. There are children starving on the streets and the land is dying. He is a sickness that has to be removed and I won't stop until I'm either dead or he's gone."

Dropping his hand from her chin, he finished, tone firm and eyes resolute. "If you want, there will be a place for you at my side, on my crew after all of this is over."

Maria carefully worked the spread the medicine across the wounds, mentally making notes of how deep they were and reasonably how long they would take to heal. Really she should slit his throat while they were in the water, it would be easy to clean up that way and no one would question her.

Instead she tended to wound she didn’t make on him, and worried after his health.

“Food will be brought up shortly. Soak for longer if you want, the medicine is water proof and the hot springs has minerals in it that are good for the bruises.” Maria went back to the main room and kept unrolling the bandages for once he was dry. She was being an idiot letting him continue to live, so far restraint was hanging on by a thread to either smack him or kiss him.

She wouldn’t really know until he did or said something that made her snap.

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Opening his eyes slowly when he heard her move he watched quietly as she opened bandages, still clearly intent on tending to his wounds even with the current conversation. Did it mean she had the same issue as him? That she too knew this was fucked up and yet was unable to help herself?

The thought had him swallowing slightly even as he shifted to give her better access to the wounds she was clearly aiming for. Golden hues watching her for a long moment before he huffed out a laugh. "Clearly I don't care about my life as much as I thought I did."

Falling silent for a moment, he then added softly. "I can't give you a reason that would make sense other than the fact that I'm here even when I know I shouldn't be." Lifting one hand, he ran it through his wet strands before adding with a huff. "Hell, I'm risking the whole entire plan just by being here. That damn idiot and my crew will never let me hear the end of this if they fucking find out."

None of it. How much could she trust that? Maria had been raised to believe and understand that all men lie. No matter what their relationship was to her, even Kaido would lie to her when it pleased him. There was no reason to trust him, other than how broken he seemed to be in this moment.

Taking a deep breath through her nose she settled the medical supplies onto a small table, opening some of the bandages to unravel them. “I never pegged you for dramatic Shi. I thought you would’ve put up more of a fight for your life.” She hummed as she spoke, sighing deeply before she turned back to him. The memory of his touch was brushing against her skin and she had to grit her teeth to hold back from it.

“Give me a reason I shouldn’t kill you.”

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He was beginning to understand why people opted for a lobotomy as the soft padding of her feet alerted him to her return and his eyes opened. Seeking her out as if she were the god damn sun and he a flower needing to bask in its warmth. When the fucking hell had he become so pathetic?

Which was why her question drew a barked, almost bitter laugh from his lips. Eyes closing again as another laugh tore through chapped lips, this time sounding more pained then bitter before he breathed out. "None of it."

It was the truth that had haunted him in that cell.

He'd been deep in the enemies territory, fuck he'd been deep in the enemy and yet not once had he even thought to use that to his advantage. To gather information to use for their attack against Kaido. Not once had he looked through her things when she was asleep in his arms because he hadn't wanted to wake her. Nor had he paused to listen at doors because he'd been too focused on reaching her, touching her.

"So, you might as well go ahead and kill me with your webs because I'm already caught up in them and unable to fucking escape."

The medical supplies were easy enough to find, which meant Maria took her time gathering them. Most of the girls were asleep at the moment, getting their rest before a busy night. The festival was coming….

There was an enemy pirate captain soaking in her tub and she was getting him medical supplies.

When did she lose the plot?

Reentering her rooms she went right for the tub, standing over him as she tried to regain any amount of menace she may have had over him. Though she knew that was limited given the pulse of desire that shot through her at the sight of him.

“I should kill you. Strangle you with my webs and leave you hanging for your crew to find.” There was an attempt of venom in her voice, but it shook slightly. She didn’t want to be mad, she wanted it to go back to the way it had been.

"How much of this was a lie to get close to Kaido?"

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He was defiantly making dumb decisions due to blood loss. Or at least that's what he told himself as he watched her, not even moving to resist as her hand moved around his neck. Holding his body utterly still as he waited to see how she'd react.

He should have left.

Should have left the moment her hand moved to his throat or when she left the room.

Hell he shouldn't have even come.

No, he should never have come back after the first time.

But she was a drug and he was addicted.

It was why he remained there. Head falling back against the side of the tub and eyes closing for a moment as he silently cursed at himself. At this whole god damn situation that was entirely his in the making. He'd been the one to suggest in the first place that they go after Kiado after all.

.....but he still couldn't leave.

The confession caused her to pause, rage dying in a freeze as his words clicked. The Heart Pirates were known enemies, Kaido made sure the upper ranks knew which pirates were gunning for them, but only by name. The trouble was all centered around these pirates who were sneaking around and fucking up things for the Beast Pirates. She curled the hand against his throat, though applied no pressure as she stared down at him.

“You…fucking…” Her tone was dead, everything swirling inside as the trouble she could be in flashed before her eyes. He was allowed to come and go as he pleased and who knows what they hell he overheard from those in the rooms he passed. After they were done he wasn’t tied up in anyway so he could search her rooms while she slept.

And the worst part was she was struggling to find it in herself to simply push him under the water until the bubbles stopped.

Releasing his throat she stood from the side of the tub. “Soak for long as you need to. I need to fetch medical supplies to patch you up.” Maria left him in the tub, needing to get away from him for a moment. She didn’t know what to do, how to handle it, but she knew she needed a moment alone.

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He couldn't help the dark laugh that fell from his lips. Yes, they should have known better. Known that he wouldn't break like they had. That he wasn't a spineless coward that would turn on his crew and follow underneath another. Emperor of the sea or not, Kaido would never see him before him on his knees.

Eyes closing for a moment, he took a deep breath. Still wondering how he'd gotten to this point with her, that he'd jeopardize everything even as he breathed. "Not really since I'm technically your enemy."

Another deep breath was taken as he resisted the urge to take her hand and press it against his chest. Instead, he opted for locking his gaze with hers, ready to use the last of his strength to move himself out of her rooms with his Devil Fruit as he finally told her. "You'd know if you left Wano. Would have probably recognized me from my tattoos alone. I'm the Captain of the Heart Pirates. So they captured me to try and find out why I'm here."

“I probably won’t” Maria agreed, changing her tone to syrup as she leaned down to wash away dried blood from his chest. “But you’ll tell me regardless.” She couldn’t imagine he wanted to protect whoever had him, but maybe he was worried she’d look into the whys. Did those matter truly? At the thought she paused, lips tightening as she thought over how it really didn’t matter to her why he was beaten, merely that he was and it was unwilling.

Taking a short breath to break herself back into the world Maria watched him as he confessed who in a roundabout way. Members of the Beast Pirates did this, someone had to have given them a reason. Really? No lower ranked members thought they could get away with everything because violence and competition was bred into being a Beast Pirate, it’s why they hated the rules of her establishments.

“I see.” One of her hands traced along his throat, feeling her blood run hot and cold at how deep some of the bruising was and the threat behind their placements. “I apparently will have to discipline some members. They should really know better.”

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He'd known this moment would come. The questions as to what had happened. It was another reason that he shouldn't be here. Telling her anything could jeopardize the plan. Yet he had a feeling Straw Hat would pull that off regardless of what he and Kinemon did to keep it on track. But if he was being honest with himself, which he didn't really want to be.....he was in too deep now with her to turn back. What ever the fuck this was, it was no longer just what ever fucked up thing it had been at the start.

Coughing slightly to hide the wince his body made without his permission, he sighed, head dropping back against the edge of the tub. "You're probably not going to like the answer to that."

Slowly sliding his gaze towards her, he watched as her usually so controlled features seemed to give away a deep burning rage beneath. As if the sight of him like this was causing her to see red. A fact that had him saying softly, hopefully, even. "Seems like some of the younger generation of pirates has decided they don't have a spine and joined your crew."

Maria frowned when he didn't resist her or even put up a token struggle at being carried. Shi was always independent, always fighting against her to take control. It made those moments when she let him all the sweeter knowing he had pushed for them, for him to just accept everything was a nauseating sign of how badly he was hurt.

Stripping him came easily, she knew his body well enough to simply peel the clothes off. Every stitch removed just spiked her anger higher seeing the state of his body. At the end she was seeing red as she wet a wash cloth to gently clean his sounds.

"You'll have to tell me who hosted you Shi. I have complaints about your treatment." She tried to make it a joke, tried to smother any emotion but it didn't work. Anger tinted her words and her hands shook for a moment when she passed a vicious wound.

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"Yeah, kinda figured that out already." He couldn't help the pained grin that pulled at his lips, showing the blood that still tainted his mouth and cracking what had dried upon his skin. Head dropping forward now that he'd seen her, what little energy he'd had left draining away from him so that he ended up sagging into her webs. Welcoming their hold and the gentle sensation they brought to him versus the chains he's been held in.

Only for his body to full melt seconds later as he felt himself being held against hers. Soft heat trickling through the pain as he moaned from the way the movement and releasing of his limbs caused his injuries to jostle. Uncaring that she was carrying him at this point as he left himself fully relax.

Which, was another factor he was going to have to think about later. He was apparently dumber than a strawhat. Relaxing completely in the enemy's arms. To bad he was past the point of fucking caring. "For once I'm not going to try to do it for you or stop you."

It took her a long moment for her brain to fully connect to what she was seeing. He had obviously been beaten, and not in the manner she did. Maria’s marks on him were always done in a way to highlight his physique and leave him able to walk away from her but feel her with every step.

These were done to inflict as much pain as possible and seeing them on him caused her blood to boil. He hadn’t left her willingly, and she was going to figure out who had him.

“Shi, you look like shit.” There was no beating around the bush between them. Stepping forward she gently lowered him into her, the webbing melting away once she had a secure hold on him. “Let’s get you washed up.” Heading back into her room she used webbing to pull open the door that hid her bath, the tub filled from a hot spring that stayed full and warm for her. “Can you strip and bathe or shall I do it for you?”

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A soft moan fell from his lips as he felt her webbing tighten around his limbs and torso, pulling him farther into the air. Yet, and another thing he should add to his list of things to think through later, it wasn't fear that shot through his tortured body, but hot stabbing lust. His head dropping forward for a moment as he muttered to himself. "Pathetic."

Even now. Tortured and beaten all it took was her fucking webs to send his body into wonton heat like some mother fucking cat. Honestly, this was getting out of control.

Lips parting to mutter another curse at himself, he instead froze at the sound of his name. The one only she was allowed to call him. The litany of her voice drew his gaze up, body shuddering as the pain of his injuries and sudden need was almost too much to handle. Dark hues finding hers through the haze that was spreading over them as he managed to grunt out. "While I love your webs holding me in place, I think I'm a little too banged up for a session tonight."

Pausing he then breathed the name that had haunted him in the dark hours when he'd been left alone in that fucking cell. "Maria."

Maria felt the threads of her safety slowly unraveling.

There was something brewing in the city and it was putting pressure on the upper ranks to solve the problem. She was balancing the expectations of Kaido with keeping her girls safe and it was slowly driving her to madness. It didn’t help that her lov….new toy had up and disappeared on her, leaving her without an easy way of relieving her stress. None of the others who came crawling to her scratched the itch she needed.

Currently she was seated in the window of her private rooms, smoking as she tried to sort her thoughts out. Kadio was pressuring her, expecting her to solve the problem. Her thoughts were ripped when she felt a tug on one of her webbing. Growling softly she focused on the webs, wrapping them around the intruder. “I am in no mood.” Her voice was a low threat as she got up from her seat, opening the door to stare into the hallway.

“Shi?”

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I am sorta here while trying to wake everyone up.

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Pain wrecked his body and yet it was only secondary. A fact that he was going to have to really take into consideration, but later. After.....because he'd been gone for weeks. Caged and beaten as the spineless assholes that had joined the Beast pirates had tried to get information out of him. Though Drake letting him go was definitely a move he hadn't seen coming.

So should he be heading right back to an enemy.

No.

Yet he couldn't help himself. She was like a siren. Calling him back to her web as he slumped against the side of the door that led up to her private chambers. Teeth gritting for a moment before he slipped in and climbed the stairs up into the darkness. Only to curse seconds later as he ended up suspended in the air by webbing.

He remained there, devouring her as he cleaned the mess they'd created between her legs with his tongue. Teasing it at first with his fingers and then when he knew he'd ramped up her desire once more he moved lower with his mouth. Nipping and sucking at her clit before delving into her core and then dragging the wetness of their mess down to her other entrance. Typically it wasn't something that he'd do, but in this case he couldnt' help himself as he sucked and swirled his tongue around the entrance.

Drawing long licks before pulling away and biting at her ass cheek, his hands moving to help lift her hips to give him better access. The one that hadn't been playing with her ass earlier moving to dip into her core, working her there even as he worked her.

Only once his fingers where soaked did he pull back, nipping at her inner thigh as he slowly began pressing his coated fingers into her ass. Not going to far without the oil, but prepping it slowly as he pulled away to reach for the bottle. Pausing long enough to coat his fingers before slowly pressing them farther in, waiting for her body to relax and open for him as his mouth turned to her skin. Leaving marks along her inner thighs and ass as he worked to prep her for his cock.

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I am officially putting this blog on Hiatus. I just don't have a lot of OP muse in general right now. If you'd like though, I do have OP Verses for my C-drama muses. So I'll be over here for now.

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"Lola!" Excitement had her running across the deck and crashing into her sister, bouncing in place even as she held her tightly. "It's been so long since I've seen you!"

Pulling back just enough to be able to look at her sister she added, a wide smile upon her lips. "How have you been? Tell me everything!"

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Doodle bc he obsesses me

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