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[meatthefuture]

[there is quiet for a very long time. And it's almost as if the journal isn't open at all except for the quiet murmur of the ocean lapping at a still ship. They are anchored somewhere. It feels like they should be. Then Luffy says in a flat voice]

They've gone. A-Ace [his voice breaks a little but he swallows and says in a darker tone] and S-Sanji.

[It sounds like it hurts to say, and it does.

In any case, he leaves the book open on his lap, gripping it with his fingers and staring at nothing over the ocean as he sits on the figurehead. Nakama can find him there. But he won't be very talkative]

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[thetruehistorian]

[Robin sits with her back against Luffy's.]

You know Sanji will be alright.

[It's not really comforting though, is it?]

[meatthefuture]

[he knew. Sort of. Sanji was facing off against someone pretty big back home and Luffy didn't know how it would turn out. He was mostly sure that Sanji would be alright but now he knew that sometimes it didn't. That wasn't what bothered him though. It was like the nightmare. People could leave and maybe everyone could leave...

And Ace...]

I wanted him to... come find me back then... I thought he would...

[even on the island with Rayleigh he had hoped for a while that maybe someone had saved him like Law had saved Luffy. That Ace would come and hit him and then they would have a feast. But it never happened]