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Sometimes nights can be cruel, you knew that from a personal point of view. From battling crazy fight during the cryptic nights to not being able to sleep due to nightmares laying your mind for hours.
Today you were restlessly awake due to the latter problem. Sitting down in front of your room, behind those doors Nami and Robin slept soundly (which was surprising since both of them were known to be up until late reading/scheming/mapping).
Sometimes you wondered if one of Sanji’s cigarettes would inevitably help your sleepless nights, maybe depending on something like he did would distract your mind from the nightmares, maybe not, who knows.
Either way, there you stood, restlessly awake but indubitably tired, it was as if your body screamed for some sleep but your mind refused to even blink an eye, a perfectly destructive combo your would say.
If you ended up falling asleep on the spot, you think the others wouldn’t mind, counting the times they have found you dead asleep in the most inconvenient spots (see: stairs).
“Ugh I hate this” you muttered, fingers drumming nearly silently on the wooden spot besides you “what do you hate?” You swore you could feel your soul leave your body that moment, and your heart stop, but turning back you saw Luffy’s figure as cluelessly as ever, holding a huge piece of bread (dare you guess the whole loaf).
“Would you quit scaring the living shit out of me” you grumbled, watching as he sat down besides you, mirroring your position. This wasn’t the first time Luffy joined you on your restless nights, might you even say it became some sort of routine, while you couldn’t sleep due to nightmares he would go on his nightly adventures to assault the kitchen (just to be yelled by Sanji the next morning).
“Sorry sorry, so— couldn’t sleep?” He asked nonchalantly, not sorry at all, you knew and couldn’t possibly mind. “Yeah, got hungry?”
“Yep! And Sanji locked the fridge again so I had to search everywhere!” He whined in a whisper, aware that if he woke up Nami chaos sure would be ensured and he could possibly die.
“Did you have another nightmare?” Looking at you he stopped eating for a second, watching as you looked forward sighing, which already granted him his answer, “I’m so tired of it” you complained borderline whining like a child, you were so impossibly tired that you just couldn’t take any sleepless night anymore.
“Have you tried eating?” He asked offering a small (very very small, because truly, Luffy doesn’t share food, but hey, A for efforts you guess), “no thanks” you said watching as he instantly ate the piece of bread offered.
“Doesn’t Nami help you with it? I heard her saying something about wanting to help you out when you can’t sleep” he asked, leaning against your shoulder discarding any personal space. “She did, once or twice, but I can’t possibly wake her every time I have a nightmare right?” You sighed, slumping down against Luffy.
“… huh I see… what if— when you have nightmares you wait for me here outside and when I come we can just, hangout?” He shrugged, finishing eating.
“…so like, what we are already doing?” You deadpanned, snuggling sightly close to him due the cold breeze making you cold.
“You wait for me?” He asked genuinely curious, “not wait for you per se, I just assume I’m going to see you, you know?”
“Yeah, so! Let’s do that okay?” He asked a bright smile on his lips, you could see he was starting to get sleepy, judging from the way his voice was sightly more calmer and his eyes more droopy.
“Sure Luffy, sure” you smiled, watching as he slowly slept, his head on your shoulder, body impossibly close, you didn’t mind, finding his warmth comforting enough to distract your thoughts.
There was nothing any of you could do regarding your persistent nightmares, but him offering to spend those sleepless nights with you, was comforting enough that you didn’t mind those nightmare as much as you did second before.