1 Piece AU Luffy Charlotte
By: FunahoMisaki
(AN: I own nothing and read last chapter)
The reason that Amande, Brulee, and Smoothie were all staring at Stussy, while occasionally looking at Luffy and Pudding flying around and cooing over how cute they were, was simple. Hachee and Effilee.
"Check out Stussy. She looks like Compote-nee did whenever she's watched her kids play." Hachee said nodding at Stussy and catching the soft fond, almost maternal, look in the womans eyes.
"And she looks like Hachee whenever she sees her own rugrats running around." Effilee said referring to Hachee's triplet children who were only turning three in four months. Her children who were currently back on Nuts Island with their daddy because Hachee knew that Mama didn't like her husband and didn't want to give her mother a chance to kill him.
"She looks like a mother watching her kids play." Mondee said softly and Amande stared hard at Stussy then, seeing a fond maternal look in her eyes that she sometimes saw in her mothers eyes whenever she had a new sibling.
"We don't know anything about Luffy's mother except that he doesn't know who she is or what she looks like or even if she's alive. He didn't even know he had one…" Brulee said thinking about it as she watched Stussy as well while the woman seemed content to watch Luffy and Pudding fly around.
"She is the queen of whores. I doubt she got that title by being celibate…and it might have had a result." Smoothie agreed as she glanced at Stussy as well but was mostly focused on Zeus and his two cute passengers.
"If it did then how did he end up in the custody of his so called grandfather in the East Blue?" Hachee asked although she had a feeling she knew the answer as she blew out a plum of smoke.
"Well a baby wouldn't be good for business in her department…so giving him away I could understand and see happening. Him ending up in East and with Garp I don't know." Amande said blowing out her own trail of smoke as she kept her eyes focused on the blond woman. She noticed that Mama was watching the woman closely as well.
Big Mom was staring curiously at Stussy, having noticed the look in her eyes as being the same as Compote and Hachee had when they had their children. It took a mother to recognize a mother and while she had known Stussy for three years now…she hadn't known much about the woman or knew anything about her past before she became the Queen of the Pleasure District, or the Queen of Whores as some called her.
The look in Stussy's eyes however as she watched Luffy, the Sunshine of the Charlotte family and Linlin's adorable grandson in everything but blood, was that of a mother watching their child have fun and play with a friend.
A look Big Mom had never seen in Stussy's eyes in the three years she had known the woman, not even during the tea party where they had welcomed Hachee's triplets to the world and Stussy had held one of the children with all the experience and gentleness of a…of a mother.
Big Mom looked at her daughters who were watching Stussy closely which included all three of Luffy's mamas, Compote, Hachee, Mondee and Effilee. She gave them a stern look that told them not to bring it up today, they'd keep an eye on Stussy and bring it up with her later perhaps. After all for all they knew the Whore Queen could have just had a child of her own or was expecting one soon. There was no reason to jump to conclusions just yet.
"Shishishishi!" Luffy's laughter was coming from just over the table as Zeus flew over the table. Big Mom looked up just in time to see Luffy jump off of Zeus, earning a small shriek from Pudding and a startled noise from most of the others.
Big Mom reached her hand out to catch the boy, despite knowing that he was rubber and wouldn't be hurt by the fall, and she noticed how Katakuri and Perospero both sent waves of their respective powers to catch him as well. What really stunned everyone was Stussy.
She had immediately, faster than Big Mom or either of her sons had reacted, jumped from her seat and onto the table before jumping into the air and caught Luffy mid-fall before backflipping and landing with ease right next to the table with Luffy in her arms and not a hair out of place.
"You should be more careful little one. That fall could have hurt you." Stussy said softly as she set Luffy down and dusted off her dress while Luffy laughed.
"Nope! I'm rubber! Shishishishi!" Luffy thought it all good fun and hilarious naturally while Zeus quickly lowered and let Pudding scramble off as she ran to Luffy and hugged him.
"I swear we're going to have heart attacks before Red Hair even gets here, peroin." Perospero said relaxing at the sight of Luffy being okay and that he was rubber. Plus the boy had fallen from higher heights than that without a bruise on him so he shouldn't have been worried to start with. It was just an uncontrollable reaction to seeing the boy who called him Papa Pero, or if he was honest any child really, fall from a large height.
"How about for everyone's sake you keep both feet on the ground for a while hm?" Stussy asked smiling at Luffy who looked at his mamas and papas who were all calming down and how upset Pudding was and he nodded.
"Okay!" Luffy said as he patted Pudding on the back sort of awkwardly.
"I think that's enough cloud rides for one day. How about we start eating instead? I'm a bit hungry." Big Mom said and Luffy's grin was wide, him and Pudding reacting at the same time.
"Food!" The two cheered as they scrambled into seats near Big Mom, making the woman laugh while Stussy gave a fond chuckle as well. So her son still had his large appetite huh? And it seems as if he was rubbing off on the tri-clops girl who he claimed as his twin.
Well at least they'd fit right in with Big Mom and her kids then.
"We're already planning on making sure he has a large serving of his favorites on his birthday. We just haven't asked him when it is yet." Amande said from behind Stussy as the blond moved as if to go back to her seat.
"March twentieth." Stussy answered automatically and then she froze, cursing herself for letting her guard slip slightly.
Amande's hand settled on Stussy's shoulder heavily, her words even heavier.
"Thank you for telling us that but I think we need to have a talk."