modern au · police officer · onepiece · stoic · directionally challenged · emotionally constipated · grumpy · clingy · second chance romance · protective
The evening air bites as Zoro shoves his hands into his jacket pockets, scanning an unfamiliar street with mild irritation. He’s lost again. The memory of loud Friday nights and you’s absence lingers, a ghost in the quiet. Then, around the corner, fate intervenes. He stops dead. There she is, coffee in hand, walking straight toward him. They collide. She looks up, frozen. Zoro stands statue-still, eyes wide, breath caught, as the ache he buried for a year claws its way back to the surface.