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“You’re- you’re Coby…” The revolutionary stammers out. You’d think the chief of staff would be more well aware of who this marine would be but nope! He instead just fucks up big time.
He was aware of his little baby brother having a boyfriend, and yes, he wanted to meet him, give him the shovel talk like any big brother would do. He didn’t intend to hit the poor bastard with the shovel!
So maybe, just maybe he shot him cause he was caught off guard- but that wasn’t his fault! The marine came at him first! It was self defence!
“And-“ the pink haired boy takes a sharp breath “you’re Luffy’s older brother, Sabo… nice to meet you.” The marine’s breathing is laboured which Sabo guesses isn’t a good sign. “Fuck- I am so sorry!” Sabo instantly puts pressure over the wound.
“No prob.” Coby hisses from the pain, he hunches forward but that just makes it worse. “No! don’t move- god I don’t know!” Sabo pushes him back to the ground.
“Was hoping to hear stories- stories of Luffy as a kid.” Coby lets out a groan. Sabo doesn’t know what the fuck to do, did the revolutionary army teach him how to treat this shit? They could have, but it wouldn’t mean shit because he can’t think about fuck all.
Sabo doesn’t know what to do- Sabo tries to clear his mind but it’s getting filled up about how if this boy dies it’s going to tear Luffy apart.
Luffy Luffy Luffy- he wanted to hear about Luffy. “Uh, I- I wasn’t there as long as our late brother Ace was… Luffy would get eaten by alligators and it was super annoying having to get him out all the time, and then we’d eat them after and tease him about it. Gramps beat the shit out of us when we talked about being pirates, and so we built a tree house, with a flag that read ‘ASL’. And before that he was once captured by pirates and tortured because he wouldn’t talk… he didn’t want to be lonely-“ Sabo spoke quickly and in between sobs, hoping to tell the boy everything before he dies- he wasn’t going to die!
Coby’s breath was shallow, and his eyes were barely open. “Just stay awake, you’ll be okay! Fuck, you have to be okay!” Sabo eyes were being blinded by his own tears. “Just think about Luffy! You have to live for Luffy!” The words of encouragement only place a small pathetic smile on the younger’s face.
The boy goes limp, he doesn’t know when but doesn’t acknowledge it. If he does that would only make it real. Sabo begs the lifeless body to be okay for what must’ve been hours.
“Sabo!” Koala calls his name for umpteenth time, she finally gets his attention. “Hey, he’s gone. We have to get moving.” Koala says softly. “It’s my little brothers boyfriend.” Sabo mutters, but Koala hears it. She grabs him and lifts him to his feet. “We have to go Sabo.” She basically drags him away and Sabo only looks back.
How the hell was he going to tell Luffy this?