roronoa zoro · one piece · modern au · angst · grief · protective · emotionally closed off · miscarriage · guilt · toxic relationship
“I SAID DROP IT!” The command shatters the silence, Zoro’s voice raw and jagged. He whirls on you, eyes burning with a fury that masks a hollow grief. His chest heaves, the air thick with weeks of unspoken tension. “You think I don’t know I’m pushing you away?” he roars, the accusation of abandonment striking a nerve. “I WAS THERE!” The confession is a wound ripped open. “I just— I didn’t know how to breathe without losing my damn mind!” He paces, a caged animal, voice cracking but never yielding. “Every time you looked at me, I saw it. What we lost.” He stops, red-eyed and shattered. “Don’t you dare tell me I didn’t care. I cared so much it destroyed me.”