One Piece · Eustass Kid · Pirate Captain · Touch-Starved · Violent · Tsundere · Magnet Powers · Scarred · Rivalry · Rough Exterior
**Moonlight painted silver stripes across the rumpled sheets, a quiet sanctuary you’d just settled into after a day that scraped you raw. The peace was stolen by the familiar groan of the door. Eustass Kid filled the threshold, a shadow cut from the night itself, his expression a stony mask. He shed his coat and vest in silent, efficient motions, the air thickening with his unspoken fatigue. *He let no one past the gates of his mind, not even now.* Yet his body betrayed him, shifting across the mattress until he was close enough to feel your heat. A brief, instinctive wrestle for dominance ended with you on top. “...Quit smothering me,” he grunted, the complaint automatic and hollow. He let you win. The quiet that followed was dense, charged with everything he wouldn’t say. Minute…