Uhhh…hey y'all? Been a while, huh? A little over a year and a half? So sorry about that…I've actually had about 2.6k of this finished since the last time y'all saw me, but like I fell out of One Piece so hard? It was scary how not into it I have been…

Anyway a lot has happened since August of 2016? I started dating Setsu for a while, then she broke up with me after 10 months (so this chapter is NOT beta-ed), I graduated with a BA in English, I'm working for Disney World now…

Yeah it's been a trip…uh enjoy?

ONWARD!

Ace's day was not the best. Not the worst, but definitely a bad day.

Having been pulled from his classes early was something that had not happened to Ace since he first started at Grand Line. But then he also had not had any direct contact with the people there since then anyway.

The best part of his day was without a doubt being able to feel Sabo and Marco's emotions when he had the change. They were certainly refreshing emotions from the dozens of self-centered dotado that attended Grand Line.

However Ace was still taking the evening easy.

With just his close family in the house, he was finally able to lose most of his layers. He was just wearing a tank-top and a pair of loose fitting cargo pants now.

Ace was mostly just lounging in his room, focusing inward on cycling through the nearby emotions of his family. Some of their direct neighbors emotions leaked in but for the most part Ace could simply filter them back out.

It was seriously relaxing just to feel the steady positive emotions of his family and it was almost enough to put Ace into a nice settling nap, but he could not ruin his sleep schedule or else his narcolepsy medication would not work as effectively.

The unintended nap that lasted the entire ride home from school was already too much deviation from the norm, and Ace did not want another sleepless night to add on to his messed up life.

Besides mãe had said that dinner would be light tonight anyway, so as to not upset Ace's stomach from it's earlier purging. And the lessening of the protein will make it much easier to fall asleep as long as he does not take a nap now, no matter how much he wants to.

But speaking of his stomach, Ace's eyebrows furrowed as he remembered his body's reaction to the valentão touching him. He had never had such a violent reaction to someone else's emotions before, not even negative ones that were similar to the ones that had caused Ace to run for the restroom.

It could not be that Ace was getting stronger…he was already seventeen, his dom should be completely developed by now.

But if he was getting stronger…he would definitely need to talk to Tio Ray about possibly expanding his knowledge of what he could actually do. And Tio Ray's ability always came in handy when Ace was trying out different things that effect his empathic abilities.

Being empathic was all well and good, but Ace could not truly HELP anyone with his dom. Not like the Phoenix and Blue Gentleman could.

All Ace could do was feel other people's emotions, he could not do anything with that except maybe a psychological attack, but that would be rather useless as a hero…

Ace sighed resigned and kicked his legs up, using the momentum to spring himself off of his bed. Getting caught up in his thoughts while lying in bed was not helping anything and it certainly did not make staying awake any easier.

Now was probably as good a time as any for his corrida da noite (evening run), and it was the first night of school anyway. Everyone knew that vilões (villains) used this day to test the waters of their school-aged enemies "bedtimes".

Ace thought it was pretty stupid of the vilões considering Blue Gentleman and Phoenix were ALWAYS patrolling, but then Ace could hardly tell the vilões what they should and should not do.

Either way, this was a good evening to go for a run earlier than normal so he could go to bed early enough to actually catch up on sleep. After all, the civis (civilians) knew this was an active night for vilões. And Ace knew how to keep said vilões away from him while he was out.

He had had plenty of practice on nights like this anyway.

It would be nice to leave the house without equipping all of his "armor" anyway.

So with his mind made up, Ace slipped off his bed to grab his trainers from his closet before heading down the stairs.

The light tickling in his head as soon as he left his room let him know that, like every night Shanks came over for a visit, all the adults were drinking.

No one was truly drunk yet, but the ticklishness of his brain did let Ace know that no one was completely sober either.

The sight that greeted him in the sala de estar (living room) was one he had seen many times before. Mãe and Pai were cuddled together on the love seat, each with a glass of Licor Beirão* cocktail, and Padrinho Shanks and Benn were stacked together on the recliner, each holding a bottle of Poncha**.

As soon as they caught sight of Ace, they all yelled his name at varying volumes, clearly excited to see hi out of his room.

Mãe tried to rise from her seat but Ace stopped her before she could by holding out a hand, Português sliding out from his moth without him thinking twice about it.

"To saindo pra a minha corrida noturna, devo estar de volta antes da janta ficar pronta. (I am going out for my evening run. I should be back before dinner is ready.)"

Every single adult frowned at his words and Ace sighed, thinking about what he wanted to say, and how to translate it into Inglês in his head.

"I am…go…ing out for my…night run. Will be back for…dinner." Ace spoke slowly and tried to remember Dadan's rules for verbs and the sentence sounded good but Inglês was stupid so what did he know.

Ace glanced up at his família and saw wide smiles on every face, and the tickling in his head faded to bubbles that made Ace smile just as wide.

"See, filho, a bit of practice and you will be fluent in not time!"

Ace kept smiling even if the wide stretch of his mouth slackened a bit at his the words his pai said. He knew he needed practice, but he was not about to get that at school. Not after how all his classmates had reacted to his horrible Inglês his first week at school.

No, he would much prefer continuing his practice with his família until he was confident enough in his Inglês skills that no one will make fun of him when he starts speaking.

"Well have fun on your run, meu bebê. Do be careful of the villains out and about today and please take your cellphone with you this time."

Mãe was smiling on the outside, but Ace could feel the pangs of her worry poking harshly at his stomach. He smiled at her through the dull pain and waved the device before making a show of sliding it into one of his pants' many pockets.

The pangs lightened to little pricks and Ace smiled wider as he slid on his shoes, making sure to tighten the laces so they would not fly off while he was running.

It only happened once before, but it was inconvenient enough in the dark that Ace knew he never wanted to repeat the experience.

"Yeah, meu filho, do be careful out there and call if you run in to any trouble. We may be retired but your mãe and I can still pack one heck of a punch when we want to."

Velho was still tickling tipsy but there was also a solid stone wall in Ace's stomach that spoke of the determination running through velho as well.

Ace could always count on his parents in the end.

He smiled and waved at his parents and his godfathers as he headed towards the door, he had a rather good feeling about tonight, a complete change around from how his day had started.

The sun was just barely going down when Ace shut the door tightly behind him. He took a moment to adjust the strings on his pants, mostly making sure that they would not fall down as he ran.

Looking down at his arms had Ace focusing on his tattoo, wondering if he should actually go back inside to change his shirts.

Ultimately he decided not to, Ace was not planning on running in to anyone, and no one besides his família knew it was there in the first place, so he would be as unrecognizable as he normally was.

Taking in a deep breath of air and wincing slightly at the sheer amount of emotions he could feel, Ace lost himself in his mind as his body started heading towards his favorite place on auto pilot.

The path to his little secret seclusion from the world was hardly populated, but Ace still used the physical strain of the run to lose his mind in his own abilities for once. Never did he ever try and actually sink in to the emotions that Ace was feeling.

Already it felt like everyone else's emotions had some sort of effect on Ace and he never wanted to amplify that so he tended to stay away from his own ability, kind of locking it as far away inside of him as he could and still function.

The amplification of his dom as the valentão touched him only caused Ace to worry more about how strong the empathy was going to get before it stopped altogether. He could hardly deal with it now, what would happen if it just kept growing?

Would Ace eventually overload from the sheer amount of emotions he could feel coming from the people all around him? Would he ever be able to be around people without being disgusted by the emotions they all felt on the inside while their outside reflected the opposite?

Ace sped up his run slightly, hoping that maybe focusing on his physical body would stop his mind to wondering to his dom.

Of course it did not work.

It seemed like Ace could only ever come back to thinking about how annoying his dom was and how he would give anything to have one that did not practically cripple him every time he tried to go outside with skin showing.

Ace was breathing heavy now and he could see the woods fast approaching, soon he could just sit and meditate his dom into submission. Then he could go home, eat with his família, and then maybe get to bed at a decent hour.

Some strange emotions were tickling at the edge of Ace's awareness.

It did not slow him down in the least, but it also gave him something to focus on at the very least.

The sun had long since set, the nights already growing steadily longer with the onset of fall, but Ace was not concerned. Nighttime had never scared him, and certainly not in his favorite forest, with his favorite seat just ahead.

He slowed down to a light jog, keeping his eyes open for the practically invisible signs Ace had left to find his way back to his stump.

Ace's mind was not focused on the physical exertion or the search for his seat. No. Ace's mind was focusing solely on the three emotions he could feel from the other side of the forest.

Two of them felt almost familiar, like he had felt them before, only something was slightly different now than whenever he had felt them. And Ace got caught up trying to decipher that mystery that he did not even notice when he passed right by one of his trails.

The feelings two of the people were giving off felt a lot like when vovô(grandpa) changed from Garp to The Fist, his superhero identity.

Maybe the two beacons of strange emotions were the alter-egos of some of the kids from school, that would explain why the third beacon was completely unfamiliar. Probably a villain of some kind.

Ace would have turned around and started heading back towards casa simply so he did not have to deal with someone in his day life seeing what he looked like under his layers. Even if they would have no way of knowing it was him.

But the beacons were not heading in his direction in the least, so Ace figured he would be fine to sit on his log and meditate for a few minutes before heading home.

It was just Ace's luck that as he reached that decision, he tripped over his log and fell flat on his face on the forest floor.

"Puta que Pairu! Que merda! Tá doendo pra caralho! (Son of a bitch! Piece of shit! That hurt like a fuck!)" Ace spoke to himself, rubbing his head but still laying on the soft undergrowth of the forest.

He glared at the log and kicked it as he stood back up, brushing the leaves and dirt off of his bare arms and tank-top. Ace's pants were black so nothing showed up on them anyway, so he just did not bother before sitting down on the not quite dead fallen log.

Ace kept in mind Tio Ray's advice and counted backwards from ten in Português, focusing inward on the little flares of emotions that kept lighting up in different brightness levels.

The brightest emotions were the ones closest to him physically, and the dimmer the emotions the further away they were. The three emotional beacons he felt earlier where hanging around the same place as when he first felt them so Ace completely brushed them off for now.

He mostly wanted to focus on seeing how far he could stretch his empathy before it started to either get to draining for his body, or the sheer amount of the emotions started to pound at his head.

Ignoring the three closest beacons, Ace first went towards the familiar feel of mãe, pai, Benn, Shanks, Dadan, and even the tickling of vovô from the edge of the city. Their emotions were fairly light right now, clearly indicating that the four he left at home were still drinking.

Vovôwas a mess of stomach pangs, headaches, and soreness in Ace's back muscles, which meant that the old man was probably running after vilões even though he was technically retired. The worry, mild anger, and stress was nothing new to Ace, so he just made a note to talk to pai about the old man and moved on.

Dadan was a wonderful void of nothing, which meant she was deep in the middle of REM sleep, which Ace would not begrudge her. In fact he sort of wished that was him right now too.

Slowly Ace cleared his mind of the familiar emotions of his family and started reaching himself across the city. The feelings were all muted, like being felt physically from the other side of a thick mattress, and Ace could not pick apart anything specific but it still alarmed him that he could feel practically all of the city.

Ace took a few more deep breaths, continuing his counting as he started to draw his awareness back to himself and the immediate area. No need to torture himself with more emotions than he absolutely had to.

The process was much slower in reverse than it was when Ace spread his perception across the city. But it was important that Ace not go too fast otherwise he would end up passed out on the forest floor with no one nearby to help him.

Ace started to hum to himself lightly, a song Luffy had come up with one night when the younger was extremely bored with all the "adult stuff" that was going on around them. Ace always remembered the notes even if the words were beyond idiotic.

His awareness was folding back into his body quite nicely, and it did not even come with the overwhelming emotions of his neighbors because he was in the forest.

It was so blissful.

He kept on humming, even as Ace zoned himself out from everything. He was more focused on wrapping his dom up in as much mental cotton as he could before he headed back into society.

The night would have ended just like that, with a short but productive stretching session for his dom, and a wonderful run that stretched out his physical body as well.

But Ace was never known for having the most stellar luck, that was Luffy's unfair gift.

And the unluckiness came in the physical form of the vilões he felt earlier shoving his way through the trees and into Ace's secret grove.

The man was wearing a weird fox mask and was clearly staring at Ace with shock, if the ringing in his ears was anything to go by.

A weird sort of heavy bubble was also approaching rapidly, following the path of the vilões that Ace was too distracted to notice. The person that appeared out of the forest line this time was much more surprising than the vilões.

Blue Gentleman was in the clearing now.

Sabo's alter-ego Magical Boy was chasing this weird fox vilões and they were both now in Ace's clearing.

For once the emotions of the blond Magical could not calm Ace down from the freak out that was no doubt going to rise up like the bubble in his stomach should.

Sabo's emotions were much thicker as Blue Gentleman, heavy in a way that meant he ignored his feelings as they grew and grew.

It was not healthy in anyway to treat emotions like that, but Ace could not even talk to Sabo as Sabo…what on earth would he be able to say to Blue Gentleman.

Ace was much too busy freaking about his life to notice the Magical Boy's reaction to Ace, but he was not so far gone that he missed another emotional beacon popping up in the clearing as well.

Grey eyes shifted slightly and widened as Ace took in the half form of Phoenix also now in his clearing.

Tá tudo bem, tá tudo bem, calma, Ace. Éóbvio que isso é só um sonho ruim, e o Phoenix e o Blue Gentleman não tão mesmo na sua clareira secreta, aquela que você encontrou umas semanas atrás. Você tá claramente alucinando. (Okay, okay. Calm down, Ace. Obviously this is a bad dream, and the Phoenix and Blue Gentleman are not REALLY in the secret clearing you found a few weeks ago. You are clearly hallucinating.)

Then all three strangers started moving and Ace knew.

This was not a hallucination at all.

DUN DUN DUN! It's a line.

"Ugh! Fucking shit!"

"Hahaha!" a light giggling followed the curse as the blond man in black landed on his ass after missing his catch.

"Oh be quiet, yoi! Go catch the villain, Blue!"

The blond on the floor was decked out in a completely black suit; black jacket, black button-up, black tie, black pants, and black boots. The only visible color was the bright blue and gold tail swishing around on the ground and a similarly colored bird-like masquerade mask.

The nose of the mask was pointed like a beak, yellow in color and there are dark blue circles around the eye holes. And the rest of the mask was bright blue like the tail, with the minor exception of a series of bright yellow "tufts" at the top of the mask.

He was quite the sight, sitting on the ground as a villain in a fox mask laughed maniacally and danced away.

Following the oddly dressed villain was another blond, this one dressed almost as fancy as the one on the floor.

On his shaggy blond locks was a black top hat with a dark blue ribbon around the base. His eyes were covered by dark blue goggles, a dark blue button up closed together with a white cravat at the collar and a thick black belt at the waist.

There was a black jacket over top that ends just above black leggings, with ruffles that extended to the back of the mid-thigh. Black combat boots that went up to the half-calf finished off the look.

The goggle wearing blond continued laughing at his downed ally as he chased after the "Foxy Bandit".

"I'm on it, Phoenix! Make sure no civvies are left in the area, yeah?" Blue tilted his hat at his companion and put a little extra speed into his stride.

When they were both out of sight, Phoenix stood and patted all the dirt off of his suit, grumbling to himself.

"He thinks he's so funny, yoi. Laughing at me cause I dodged that stupid beam. Why can't my masked boyfriend be as nice as he is when he's unmasked, yoi? I don't deserve this kind of karma, dammit!"

Once he was all back together in a neat suit, he glanced towards the direction he saw the two run off in. A slight tilt of his head to the side, Phoenix used his heightened hearing and grumbled again when he heard a civvie in the direction the Magical Boy was chasing the villain.

"Dammit. What kind of civilian is in this creepy ass park this late at night, yoi? It's not safe at all. Not to mention freaking villains always try to hide from us here."

With a flick of his hands his arms transformed into bright blue and yellow flaming feathers that matched his namesake. Adding a kick to the ground and a flap of his newly formed wings, Phoenix was flying towards the humming civilian.

Absentmindedly the flying blond kicked his feet and transformed them into long taloned claws that replaced his knees down.

The sudden lack of dense human bones there helped the fiery bird fly a bit faster. But despite the added speed another tilt of the head made him realize that he still wasn't going to reach the civilian before the villain and pursuing Magical Boy.

Upon understanding that fact, Phoenix tucked his wings and did a barrel roll, head facing forward now turning into an actual beak and bird's head. The mask he was wearing as a human practically melded to his face, blue rings and fiery flames intact, neck elongating to match the sudden change in sizes.

His torso thinned until it was the same flaming blue as the rest of his body; the only exception being the dark blue symbol on his chest of a cross with a mustache. A representation of his old man that he had even in his human form.

With all of the dense bones now replaced with the proper hollow bones of a bird, he was able to fly much faster. His wings tucking and spreading as he dodged the dense collection of trees.

It took a few minutes, turning his head every now and then to see if the sounds had changed at all.

The rustling of leaves and Blue's light steps on branches meant that the Magical Boy was still chasing the villain. But the villain was a bit harder to pinpoint the exact location of because Phoenix wasn't at all familiar with the steps.

He did still hear the humming of the civvie though, so that had to be good right?

Until the phoenix realized that Sabo's steps were fast approaching the humming civilian, which means so was the villain.

Not good.

Phoenix flaps his wings a bit more, making sure that the wind was blowing with him as he flew, dodging trees by mere centimeters at this point.

The humming became louder and louder until Phoenix burst into a clearing he didn't even know existed in the forest he visited often, and then the sound went silent.

Of course that could be because Blue was standing in the clearing looking at the civvie with wide eyes, Foxy Bandit slightly off to the side of the random human.

All three powered beings were looking at the civilian, sitting on the bench made of a fallen tree trunk, with different looks.

Blue was looking at them with what looks like awe, Phoenix with absolute shock causing him to land slightly less gracefully than he normally would, and Foxy Bandit with sadistic glee painted in his wide smile.

The other person had wide shining grey eyes, freckles dotted generously across a very nicely defined face. Loose black hair fell against a slim but muscled neck.

An orange tank top covered what looked like a perfectly molded torso, a black tattoo peeking from the front of the left bicep. Black cargo pants covered legs and any kind of visible definition, and the feet were covered in run down trainers, well-used but obviously well cared for.

They were attractive.

If Phoenix wasn't in his form he would have blushed, and Blue was already flushed, red running across his cheeks and down the back of his neck. Dating minds think alike it seems.

All the movement in the clearing seemed to restart as grey eyes twitched and a hand rose to touch lightly on a temple.

"Noro Noro BEAM!"

The loud voice rang through the air and both blonds snapped their gazes to the villain that they were previously chasing.

Foxy Bandit had his right arm extended towards the beautiful civvie, middle and ring finger pressed to the thumb as the pointer and pinky were raised.

Both the hero and Magical Boy were still a bit too shocked to move and the purple "beam" hit the civilian dead on.

When Foxy Bandit cackled at it looked like nothing had happened to the innocent, the two blonds gave each other looks that clearly said "this guy isn't a threat at all".

But then Phoenix's eyes narrowed as he watched the other's eyes widen very very slowly. He could see a hint of fear start off small then grow and grow as they all three collectively realized what the "useless" beam did to the civvie.

"What did you do, Foxy Bandit?" Blue yelled, holding out his right hand as he summoned his pipe-like bo staff.

Phoenix watched as his boyfriend crouched and readied himself for battle. However he also kept an eye on the civilian as their eyes widened some more and their hands moved like a snail up to grip at his head, lips pressing together tighter and turning the pink shade to white.

Blue wings arched up, fiery feathers flaring as Phoenix let out a loud and harsh squawk. Blue twirled his bo staff and immediately launched at the still cackling villain with a speed that should be impossible.

The combat boots left very defined dents in the dirt floor.

After watching the first hit connect harshly to the square chin and sent the villain crashing into nearby trees, Phoenix flew himself over to the slowly panicking civilian.

As he flew over he flicked his talons to change them back to human feet. He twisted his long neck and bird head eventually shaking back into the bird mask and blond hair.

Landing lightly, a flick outward of his wings shifted them back into arms and his chest extending back to the sculpted chest he was used to.

The transformation took barely a few moments and Phoenix was at the beautiful person's side, placing his hand lightly on the other's shoulder.

With the same slow motion movement as before, the black-haired person's eyes squeezed shut, head jerking away from the hand Phoenix placed on the shoulder.

Immediately after realizing his touch was unwanted, Phoenix jerked it away and lifted both in the air, hanging out by his head.

Backing away from the civilian, Phoenix used his softest voice and tried to settle the person he had accidentally scared.

"Hey, hey. I'm sorry, yoi. I didn't mean to scare you. I'll stay over here, alright?"

The grey eyes were revealed slowly as the civvie hunched his shoulders and looked over at Phoenix's prone form with what looked like pain and anxiety.

Maybe Foxy's beam did more than slow people down?

"Hey, it's okay. You see that guy over there with the ruffled coat, yoi?"

Phoenix waited patiently as the grey eyes flicked over to the top-hatted blond then back to the suited blond and nodded slowly, chin tucking in for a brief moment.

A bright smile stretched across the super hero's face at the response. It was a little bit cute.

"That's Blue Gentleman, yeah? He's gonna figure out how to reverse what that villain did, okay, yoi?"

To his surprise the other's look didn't change at all, no shock at the presence of Blue Gentleman, no relief at being fixed, just the anxiety and a slow wince.

This civilian was both interesting and strange, and, as a teen who has had a boyfriend for almost two years, he feels a bit bad about his actual level of interest.

"Oi Blue! Stop beating up a weak villain, yoi! How do we reverse that beam thing?"

Phoenix's sudden shout caused the civvie to slowly close their left eye and tuck their cheek into the same shoulder. A tanned hand rose again and placed it over their other eye.

"I'm sorry, yoi." He lowered his tone as he realized the loudness was what the other was being paired by.

Blue landed on Phoenix's other side, bo staff dismissed and a black and blue Foxy Bandit clutched in both gloved hands. The hero couldn't help but smirk flirtingly at his boyfriend for successfully capturing a villain.

"Alright, Foxy. How do we reverse what you did?" Blue's voice was low and clearly threatening, Phoenix fought to keep the shiver from racing down his spine in reaction.

Doing a weird jerk in front of the attractive stranger because his boyfriend was really sexy was not the best thing that he could do at the moment.

"Shhaahaha…Itsh shelf-rheleashing. Ghotcha waitch ith outsh. (It's self-releasing. Gotta wait it out.)" the villain let out, broken teeth and swollen tongue making talking a bit difficult.

"Greeeeaaat. How long do we have to wait?"

Right as the defeated Foxy mumbled "Shirty shecodsh (Thirty seconds)" the civilian jerked back at normal speed, flailing his arms as he tilted backwards, clearly about to fall off the bench.

Phoenix reacted immediately and grabbed the hand that was closest to him, but yanked it back when the other smacked it away and fell anyway.

Just as fast as they fell, the civvie was on their feet again and backing away from the hero, Magical Boy, and the villain.

Grey eyes were shown in their entirety as they widened, hands clutching each other close to the defined chest, backing up towards the trees. He started flicking his eyes side to side, almost as if looking for an escape route.

"Hey, hey, it's okay. We aren't going to hurt you, yoi, I won't touch you again. I'm sorry I surprised you." Phoenix kept his voice low, hands up again in the gesture he made earlier.

"We just want to make sure that you're alright. Is that okay?"

The other pursed his lips and shook his head, black locks of hair flicking into his face shielding those expressive grey eyes.

"Alright…well can you tell us if anything hurts? So we can get some first aid or some assistance for you?" Blue spoke softly, hands still on Foxy as he glanced over to Phoenix to see if maybe he had a better approach to this.

Eyelids raised even more and the grey eyes were almost bulging as the civilian pursed his lips and shook his head even faster. One of his hands, his right the Phoenix noticed idly, raised and touched lightly to the base of his throat, eyes once again flicking sided to side.

"You can't speak, yoi?"

This time their eyebrows furrowed, his head tilted left and his eyes looked to the ground. Seemed to be enough of a confirmation for the two and they both smiled friendly smiles.

"No worries no worries. Are you hurt…um…sir?" Blue started off confident but ended on a shy question, taking a shot in the dark about the person's gender.

Just because he looks like a man…

A quick shake of the head got an answer but they quickly realized that it could be in response to the spoken and unspoken question.

"You aren't hurt, yoi?"

Another shake of the head.

"You are a sir, though?"

A smile stretched across the lovely face, no teeth showing but the emotion was still there and both blonds smiled in response.

They just stood there, smiling at the attractive man, hanging on to a now unconscious villain. And they probably would have continued to do so if the other man's smile didn't start to shrink with his grey eyes narrowing slightly.

It was only then that they realized just how creepy they were being.

"Oh right. Um…do you need one of us to accompany you home? It can get pretty dangerous at night." Blue's lips quirked to the side in his normal lop sided smiled and Phoenix had to cover his mouth to stop from outright laughing at his boyfriend.

The other man shook his head in a negative as he lifted his right hand to his lips, finger tips barely brushing them as he quickly lowered it at the elbow, looking as if he was holding a serving tray all of a sudden, smile still on his face.

The blonds both cocked their heads at the gesture, too confused to stop him as he turned and ran into the trees. It didn't stop them from admiring the plump ass in those cargos though.

"Well he was attractive, yoi."

"Nah ya think?" Blue responded sarcastically, sparing a glance to the side at his boyfriend.

Phoenix just returned the look with half-lidded eyes and a relaxed mouth. Bright blue eyes flicked to the villain in the Gentleman's possession and the other blond's eyes widened behind his goggles as if he forgot he was holding Foxy.

"Well it's not like we'll see him again, yoi. Let's take this one to jail, shall we? Maybe we can finish patrol early and enjoy our Friday night a bit, yoi."

"You just read my mind, Feathers. Let's have a little high schooler fun for once!"

"Don't call me Feathers dammit!"

A laugh echoed across the trees as Blue Gentleman took off, Phoenix following shortly after.

TBC

* Licor Beirão is a Portuguese spirit with a secret recipe, but it is known to be made of distilled seeds and herbs. The particular cocktail Rouge and Roger are drink is just a shaken drink with Licor Beirão, quartered limes and ice cubes.

**Poncha is a traditional Portuguese drink made from aguardente de cana (liqueur distilled from sugar cane), honey, sugar, lemon rind, and lemon juice.

THE PORTUGUESE IS ONCE MORE SHAMELESSLY TAKEN FROM GOOGLE TRANSLATE BECAUSE I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO ASK anadiangelo IF THEY'LL CHECK IT FOR ME AGAIN OR NOT! ***EDIT*** Anadiangelo is a saint and fixed my Brazilian Portuguese! I would be lost without you 3

So uh…I'm not really sure how long this kick in OP is gonna last? But I'm gonna try and see how far I can ride it out. I do really love this particular story of mine, so hopefully I can get a few chapters out before my muse takes a hike.

Feel free to come bother me at thatonefanficwriternooneknows on tumblr, I work nights a lot in Florida so my hours are weird…for example it's 4 am here now lol

See y'all next time!