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@GETJINXED (cw suicidal intent).

[smudgy]

sorry for ditching again
but you're all better off without me, okay?

[scone]

[ he can feel her slipping away. like koby, like shanks, like nami when she runs. (like luffy, like usopp, like zoro. like everyone.) a weight in his chest, a space for whatever explosion she needs to have. whatever it is, it doesn't matter, as long as he comes back. ]

jinx
remember what i told you? that stuff is just in your head.
you belong here. you're supposed to stay with us. with me.

[smudgy]

i’m no good
i went for armand
he went for koby
and the whole time silco

[ silco was with them. helping them. and now he’s — ]

i’m sorry sanji
make sure he gets back

[ and leave her here. ]

[scone]

yeah, the whole time silco. you think i don't want to kick his shitty brains out?
but it wasn't his fault, jinx. just like none of this is yours.
he wouldn't want you to waste your life just because he's gone. actually i don't know what the hell he would want, but if it's not for you to live, then i don't give a shit.
you are good, jinx. and maybe that doesn't mean anything coming from a shitty pirate, but it's true. you're good. you always have been.

no. i'm here for you.
if you want to make sure he gets back, you better be here to do it your damn self.

[smudgy]

[ she doesn’t know what silco would want, either, when he was only hurt further by her return — when he played this game alone, to no end. he loves her in a way she doesn’t always understand. maybe because the parts of her that aren’t good suit him best.

(the parts that are good, calling her to the forest after nami, hunting his fellow wolves and buzzing allies, only ever seem to hurt him. something she can’t bear to think about, any more than his loss.)

and sanji — she hears him. maybe she even believes him, but it doesn’t change her luck. the hex of her very existence, which means everybody around her dies. mylo, claggor, vander, koby, dom, silco. ]

i’ll ask spike
sorry sanji