9. Loyalty
9. Loyalty
Kidd - 15 | Killer -19 (only talked about - not actually present for this one)
Tags specifically for this chapter:
Kidd's named himself Boss of the Heaps
Teenagers in danger
Kidd gets himself shot
future crew cameos
Names
Read at A03 linked above or here below cut
Drabbles from Pocket Jack's KiKi-tober Prompt list
Somehow in the last year - Kidd's gotten himself an entourage.
A half dozen were older kids that he and Killer had kicked the asses of at some point over the years. There was the not!sisters that went everywhere together, and Kidd welcomed them with a heavy heart, feeling his own former partner's betrayal even time he saw the duo. Wasn't their fault though, and Kidd was getting better about not holding that against people as of late. Throw in a handful who were just sycophants that he'd fallen in with, and then one or two city folks that ran out of luck and had headed to the Heaps to hide.
They'd been under the impression the Heaps where no man's land - they didn't know the it was Kidd's now. He'd nearly turned them away, sent them back to the city, but they'd prostrated before him and he'd never seen anyone do that before. Curiously had kept them around, nothing more.
And then Boogie had brought him another outsider, a large monster of a woman that had nothing but disdain for Kidd and clearly wanted to be anywhere but the Heaps. She had, like the others from the city, had run afoul of one of the bosses. Unlike the others, she knew immediately who he was.
"Solider Boy talks about you."
Kidd froze in place, his people turning to look at him curiosity. "Sorry," Kidd decides finally, "Don't know any solider boys."
She shrugs.
"What did you think the name drop was going to get you?"
"One more night still breathing."
"Hmm... Fine. Granted."
***
Being a teen and the boss did mean people thought he was an easy target. Unfortunately, sometimes it was people he'd given a second chance to. There weren't a lot of guns on Kutsukku - smuggling weapons past the Marines out in open waters carried too high of a risk, and few on Kutsukku had the funds for the payment demanded for them.
But just because there were not a lot of something did not mean none were on the island. Kidd just learned the hard way what a bullet felt like, hot and sharp in his side. It had completely blindsided him, not even an option in his mind, and he had stood there dumbly as his brain attempted a reboot.
A second shot never came - not because Kidd or any of his crew reacted, but instead the woman, the one from the gang Killer ran with now, stood over his crumpling assailant, rusting pipe in hand. She looked about as shocked as he did, stepping back uneasy as he was rushed by his own people.
The bullet responded to his -pull- gracefully at least, and he held the small ball of metal in his palm as someone else saw to the blood pouring out of his gut. It -sang- harmlessly in his hand now, the treacherous little thing, and Kidd -rolled- it over and over, committing its weight and song to memory so as to not ever fall victim to it or its kind again.
His man named only Sunglasses watched the little bullet -dance- in his hand uneasily, before Kidd closed his fist around it, face daring the other to make a comment.
None came.
***
"What was your name again?"
She shrugged, rubbing at the bracelets on her thick wrist. Kidd could understand that.
"Why'd you save me?"
"I told you, Solider Boy talks about you."
"You mean Killer, don't you?"
"Boss Athair doesn't think he's earn a name like that yet, took it away."
"Fuck him." Kidd growled. She smirked. "How.... how is he?"
She looked contemplative, "Quiet. He follows order, doesn't complain, and personally, I think he's damn proven himself. Ceannard, Boss Athair's second, has taken a shine to him, thinks he's got promise. Honestly, I think more of us like the two of them than Boss Athair these days."
Kidd picked at his bandages. "That's why you're here. Because you picked Killer over your boss."
"Solider Boy convinced me to leave before I ended up.. well," she gestured to the man whose skull she'd bashed in, "not unlike him."
Kidd looked at the corpse.
"He had a gun."
She nodded. "City Boss - one of the big ones. He's got god money, and delusions of grandeur. Buys up all kinda of shit, all kinds of people. Kinda man you don't tell no too."
Kidd scowled. "Well, fuck him too. That trick won't work a second time."
"Hope not." She said, so quiet Kidd almost missed it.
"Well..." he hedged, "at least while your own boss has a stick up his ass, as long as you don't mind the smell and the toxic waste, you're welcome to run with us."
More Posts from Mekachu04 and Others
Done for the Good Omens Holiday Swap 2019. I was lucky enough to be chosen to create for the awesome @holycatsandrabbits (go read her fic omg). These were done for the requested prompts: Crowley awake while holding a sleeping Aziraphale and Aziraphale & Crowley with halos and wings. Yes I did two, I am weak.
Day 28 : New places
Alt Title: Reunion
Arriving to Elbaph at last.
Sorry i'm a little late XD
Original Prompt list by gratefulcheeses
Turns out my last brick and mortar supplier no longer carries one of the essential pieces that I need for books; didn't find this out until about a week after i ran out and finally was able to get to the store. So .. purchased it online. Long story short, i hate fedex and over two weeks later (almost a month since I ran out) I finally have that missing piece. So... ALL of these got spine work today and I'm looking at this thinking.... I'm actually going to run out of books to work on by the end of the week!!! It feels good because my bookshelf is rocking right now, and it was so much fun, and massive love to the authors who gave me the green light; I hope they all love their pieces! <3 I've changed the way I've done quite a few things from this summer, and it was great to just get a chance to get back into book making. I hadn't realized how much I missed it. And... I *really* suck at leaving feedback, and it seemed the best way to show these novelists just how much their work meant to me. After this set, I'll probably take a book break and get caught up on some cross-stitch, but 2021? I've got a few stories ive got my eye on. =D https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJ5VZXlg2t/?igshid=1d8aoaj87nqod
I had the honor of test stitching this super cute design (with help from @mekachu04 ) from @cassieoh
You can get the pattern from her kofi:
ⓘ A sewing machine is a device that provides a several-fold increase of the speed at which you can make mistakes
reblogged here since i no longer use that account
Sprite was an edit from the Nintendo DS game, One Piece: Gigant Battle! 2 New World, with Zoro in his Strong World Outfit.
On size 14 count canvas, with 15 or so colours. Maybe Four inches tall
(my scanner is downstairs, I dun wanna go back down there just yet to measure and then have to come back upstairs XD )
Roronoa Zoro (c) Eiichiro Oda
13. Diner
Kidd - 13 | Killer - 17 | Victoria - 18
Tags specifically for this chapter:
Child (Kidd) in danger
Victoria beats up Kidd & Killer
Victoria mocks both their laughs
Victoria and Killer have been having sex together
It's been going on for a little while
She mocks him about poor sexual performance
Read at A03 linked above or here below cut
Drabbles from Pocket Jack's KiKi-tober Prompt list
"Hyunk it up, you sound like a fucking hyena choking on his own dick!" which only set Kidd off harder, falling back off his stool laughing as he looked up at Victoria's curry soaked dress. It had been her nicest yellow one, one of Killer's favourites, and now it was streaked like someone had shit down her chest.
The visual and her description of Kidd's laugh finally broke the dam on Killer's own chuckles, and he buried his forehead in in his crossed arms at the counter, laughing.
"Like you have any room to laugh," Victoria clearly found none of this amusing, "you fucking bray like donkey, you two pump chump!"
Killer reddened, swallowing uneasy, "Come on, Victoria. Don't be like that." He tried to take her hand and she jerked away, shoving him back into the counter. Kidd was wiping away tears of mirth from his spot on the floor, and a few patrons were starting to edge away uneasy. The owner was approaching, looked angry at the whole ordeal.
"Get out.." he growled.
Victoria sneered at the two boys before storming away. Killer glanced once down at Kidd before chasing after her. Kidd, still tangled in his fallen chair on the ground, smiled sweetly up at the owner. He did not smile back. "OUT!"
Kidd grumbled, following his two friends out to where they were arguing in the side alley, Killer /apologizing/ for laughing, much to Kidd's annoyance. "Come on Doruyanaika," he jeered, her turning away from Killer to glare at him, "You match your name! it's like... destiny!"
Killer cachinnated so hard he was shaking, and Victoria whirled back on him, her fist smashing into the side of his face and Killer went down, blindsided by the hit.
Something about seeing Victoria turn on Killer, that apparently all it had taken was some split curry, was endlessly funny to Kidd and he laughed at Killer's misfortune. Unfortunately, Victoria didn't care he wasn't laughing at her anymore, and she was hitting him next, a fury of fists and Kidd curled into a ball to try and avoid real damage. Killer came to his senses at some point, and tried to calm Victoria down just for her to turn on him again.
The two boys lay battered at her feet, Killer finally biting the bullet and called for mercy for her to stop. Victoria still looked at them in rage, and Kidd had never seen her so mad before. Her face so red he'd of thought she was crying if she hadn't just handed both of them their own asses.
Killer was still talking, trying to smooth things over only for Victoria to shove him away and he stumbled back against the wall, "I hope you drop dead. Don't you ever talk to me again." Before storming off and leaving them to lick their wounds.
Kidd's nose had been broken it turned out, and Killer had a concussion so bad he'd end up puking twice on the way home. Once they'd crawled back to the little shack that passed for home in those days, Kidd watched over his friend, forcing him to say awake at least until the world stopped spinning on him. "Why'd she call you two pump chump?"
"Its.... It's a sex thing; when a guy cums too quick. She was being mean."
"Oh..." Kidd was quiet, before laughing, "it sounds like you were trying to fuck her!"
Killer chuckled back, but it was forced and strained. Kidd turned to study him. "So, did you? Fuck her?"
"Never even kissed her."
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Years later, Kidd glanced at Killer in the mirror as he diligently wrung bath water out of his loose braid, pleated back for bed. Kidd pulled the toothbrush form his mouth, looking contemplative.
"...what?"
"Just was thinking about when we were kids."
"Oh?"
"When Vicky called you 2 Pump."
Killer scowled, "Figures you remember that."
"First time I caught you lying to me, blame it on that." he shrugged, returning to brushing his teeth.
Killer looked annoyed. "I have never lied to you."
"I do believe I asked if the two of you were screwing around, and you turned so red you looked like a pimple about to pop."
"That's fucking gross."
Kidd just shrugged. "With that fucking mullet you used to have, all red faced and embarrassed...."
"Can't believed you just called me a fucking pimple...."
"Lots worse I could of called you," he spit out toothpaste and rinsed his brush off, "You lied to my face."
"Nope." Killer popping on the 'P' as he rubbed lotion over his nose and across his cheek bones, before looking back at Kidd in the mirror, waiting for his rebuttal.
"Bullshit - I caught you two fucking in the bathroom of the curry joint multiple times. You were not as sneaky as you thought you were."
Killer froze, looking small for a moment, "You did?"
"Saw your white ass way more times than I wanted because you were terrible about locking the door. Had to stand there and keep anyone else from walking in on you two morons several times."
Kidd gargled some mouth wash, spitting it into the sink as Killer looked thoughtful.
"Ready to admit you lied?"
"No..." Killer said finally, very soft. "I didn't said we never fucked, I said we never kissed."
Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Eustass "Captain" Kidd & Victoria Punk Klabautermann, Eustass Kid & Killer Characters: Eustass "Captain" Kidd, Massacre Soldier Killer, Victoria Punk Klabautermann Additional Tags: Post-Wano Arc (One Piece), Egghead Island Arc (One Piece), lost at sea, hurt!Kidd, broken ribs, Head Injury, Kidd Pirates don't survive, Schrödinger's cat!Killer, Victoria Punk has been destroyed, but she's not out of the fight yet, Klabautermann (One Piece) - Freeform, non!canon Use of Akuma no Mi | Devil Fruit Powers, kidd is his own kind of radar, Kidd eats raw fish, research is conflicted on eating raw fish when lost at sea to help fight drydration, as it is - don't eat raw fish like this, Violence to Killer's Hair, he'll forgive kidd for it.... probably, no beta: we sink like Victoria Punk Summary:
His head was pounding and he felt like he was going to vomit. The sun beat down on his face, the sea salt thick in the air, the waves uneasy under him. They were not violent, however, they were pitching much more than they should, and Eustass Kidd jerked awake in a panic.
Nothing but the ocean met his gaze.
Day 16 : Band
SO..... i went off script again
i spend six hours trying to figure out how to draw a music group.
Band became Band of Brothers but i cant draw soldiers to save my life.
then @adolfgrey and me ended up talking destiny and i got thinking EXO!Killer and Mechanic!Kidd and ... here we are
Original Prompt list by gratefulcheeses
UPDATE:
Archiving everything on dreamwidth
Im not planning on leaving!!!
But if anyone is on dreamwidth, im back *everything* up there. Old lj, tumblr, ff.net, a03.
Everything of mine i can find still on the webs for fandom, im orginizing and archiving on dw.
I will be leaveing it public so you dont need an account to interact, but if you *do* have one I'd love to be friends
Its still incomplete right now, i want to back up all my art both off and online so changes are coming . But check it our if youre interested - should actually be somewhat searchable by the time im done too!
anyone still on dreamwidth?
i'm looking to back up my tumblr - not just with the current stuff, but i have been since i had to deal with the mean girl bullshit last month.
i've been posting my scraps on blueksy but i'm thinking of backing everything up on dreamwidth.
any thoughts??
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