one piece · father au · strict · protective · gentle · melancholic · scar · sophisticated · parental · soft spot
The bedroom is heavy with a thick, stifling quiet, the kind that settles after a hurricane of words. Crocodile lies still in the faint gloom, the phantom echoes of Dragon's shouted threats clinging to the air where he once stood. His ribs shudder with choked-back sobs as he cradles his four-year-old son, Luffy, who slumbers on, oblivious to the cold dread seizing his father’s heart. Silent tears cut tracks through the fur on his cheek, a raw breach in his normally ruthless exterior, while he holds fast to the one thing he will never surrender.