AN: I can't keep putting it off as much as I'd like to so here we go. The final chapter.

I'd like to say a huge thank you to all of you wonderful reviewers. This fiction would never have turned out so massive without you! I somehow started off with a plan to write around 13 chapters but ended up with three parts and 37 chapters.

I am currently writing another fiction but it will be AU and a lot darker than this one. It will be lawlu though(even though I ship Lawkid funnily enough) but I don't know how long it'll be before I start updating it as I want to have it all drafted out first so it doesn't end up being put on permanent hiatus if I end up with massive writers block.

Once again thank you for all the support, this story wouldn't have turned out like this without you! And thank you to everyone who favourited it. Right I'll stop talking and onto the last chapter.

The darkness is perhaps the most torment Law has ever experienced. It was never ending. He had no sense but he knew he was still alive but no matter how much he fought against it, the darkness kept him there. Law doesn't know if he's even moving through it, whether he's breathing, talking or even if his eyes are open. He tries shouting for his crew and for Luffy but he can't hear his own screams so no one else would. Law tries to feel his eyes, to see if they're open or closed but he can't find them and he doesn't even know if he has a body any more. It's terrifying but he can't find his chest to wrap his arms around it. Pressure against his chest would help alleviate the panic attack only it seems he's just a floating concious experiencing phantom pain. Law can't even grasp at the darkness any more and he fades even deeper away.

Time is irrelevant in the darkness. Years and seconds are the same. There was no way to measure it and it all seemed to drag on an entirety. Law had long given up trying to claw his way out. Years after he'd fallen into the darkness, or maybe only hours Law hears something. It is so sweet to his ears because he'd spent so long not even being able to hear his own voice. Law tries to follow the sound. It takes him awhile but eventually he realises it's a voice. It's the most beautiful thing he's ever heard. Law struggles to understand the words but it doesn't matter. It keeps him from slipping further away and Law clings to the voice like a lifeline.

Eventually Law can understand the voice. It spoke calmly to him, it never expected an answer. The voice was gentle but strong. Law had nothing else in the darkness and he grew to love the voice. It left occasionally and Law would be left alone to doubt whether his existence was real but eventually the words would flow down to him and speak his name. It was the only thing he had, the only thing stopping him from giving in and letting the darkness bury him.

Law doesn't know how long it's been since the voice started talking to him but something else has begun to change. The darkness is still all around him but he can feel the heaviness of his limbs. He comes to realise he's laying down in the darkness and if he concentrates enough he can move his fingers. Something squeezes at his fingers and the voice speaks in excitement. It's then that Law finds out the voice is attached to someone else. Someone who's holding his hand in the darkness. It's a strange feeling, knowing someone is there with him but not been able to see who it is. Law has a fleeting fear that maybe the person who belongs to the voice is keeping him in the darkness. But it passes as quickly as he thinks it. The voice, the hand and the person they belong to are trying to pull him out of the darkness.

Soon Law is able to distinguish that he's not laying in darkness but on a bed. He still can't see anything but he doesn't feel like the only thing surrounding him is darkness. There's more voices around him and he never feels alone. But he always waits to hear that one voice, it was his saviour and Law longs to see the person behind it. His will is growing and Law feels his hand moving, searching for the hand that comes with the voice. A hand clamps down on his own and he can feel the warmth radiating from it. Law needs to know more than a voice and a hand. More than the surrounding darkness. The need spurs him on and his eyes flicker open. It's the first time he's ever seen light, or maybe the first time in a while. It feels familiar but it's blinding.

Law forces his head to the side so he can look at the person holding his hand. A name comes into his mind. Luffy. Law knows this boy. Luffy is someone important to him, he thinks. Luffy is speaking to him and calling for someone else but Law falls back into the darkness again. Unable to get a good enough hold on reality, the light hurt his eyes too much and seeing things was too much for him. But now he knows that there is something more than darkness and his memories are all coming back.

Next time it's easier for him to open his eyes and they remain open this time. Luffy is still sitting with him.

"Can you hear me Traffy?" Luffy asks hopefully. "Just squeeze my hand if you can."

Law can manage to tighten his grip around Luffy's hand. He wants to speak but words won't form. Law tries to choke out Luffy's name but it's mangled and caught in his throat.

"Don't try and speak yet. You've been in a coma for almost three weeks. I'm going to go and get Chopper. Please try and stay awake. Can you do that?"

Law squeezes Luffy's hand in response. He's able to comprehend what Luffy had said. Coma would make sense. Law can't remember getting badly injured but he's grasping at memories. Saving his three crew members. Bepo, Shachi and Penguin. They were trapped, no ambushed. Law had no choice but to get them out of there. He realises then that he'd overused his Fruit so much that it nearly killed him.

Luffy has returned with Chopper. The small reindeer hops up onto a stool and flashes a light into his eyes. "Can you follow the light with your eyes Law?" Law does as asked and Chopper nods. "Pupils are responsive. That's good. Are you able to talk?"

"Ye...yes." Law can hear how raspy his voice is and his throat and mouth both feel dry.

"Get him some water Luffy." Chopper orders before returning the attention back to him. "Do you know who you are and where you are?"

"Trafalgar Law...The Thousand Sunny." Law answers with difficulty. He gratefully sips at the water that Luffy has returned with. He can't hold the cup so he sips at it slowly while Luffy holds it for him.

"Good. Do you remember what happened?" Chopper asks.

"Overused my Fruit."

"How many fingers am I holding up?"

"None. You have hooves." Law mutters dryly. Luffy laughs and spills the water onto his chest. "Oh how I've missed you Luffy-ya."

"Sarcasm is a pretty good sign that he'll be fine." Chopper checks his other vitals and seems happy.

"You were being sarcastic?" Luffy looks crestfallen.

"Somewhat. But I am happy to see you again. I think you brought me back." Law says with a frown. The time in the darkness is disappearing and he can hardly remember it at all now.

"I visited you all the time. Even if you couldn't hear me I always spoke to you."

"I know. I think." Law looks at Luffy thoughtfully. "Where are my crew?"

"Asleep. It's the middle of the night. I gave Bepo a bath." Luffy says proudly.

"I'm sure Bepo loved that." Law wishes he could have seen it. Bepo was quite particular about who touched his fur."And my submarine?"

"Franky and Brooke found it. It's what we escaped in. Franky hooked it up to the Sunny and we're towing it."

"What happened with Kid?" Law asks, satisfied with the first two answers from Luffy.

"Kid and his crew left once we reached the ships. No one was badly injured. And uh Kid said to let you know he's always up for a threesome." Luffy blushes, no doubt having promptly ask Kid what a threesome was and getting an explicit answer.

"Fucking dick." Law mutters with no real bitterness. He'd expect nothing less from Eustass. Law is relieved though that Kid and his crew were all safe.

It doesn't take long before he feels tired but this time when he closes his eyes he knows it won't be the darkness that awaits him on the other end.

"Out you go Luffy. Law needs to rest." Chopper shoos the captain to the door.

"But he's been resting for three weeks!"

"Law was in a coma!"

"But he was in bed. I don't get it." Luffy whines.

"Out!" Chopper snaps. The reindeer manages to get Luffy out and follows behind. The door is closed and Law is left on his own again. But it doesn't feel desolate like before and he falls asleep easily and without worry.

When Law wakes up again he's feeling refreshed and his mind is no longer as hazy. Shachi is in the room with him and the red haired man smiles when he spots him awake.

"Captain how are you feeling?" Shachi inquires and brings him a glass of water.

"About as good as expected considering I've been in a coma for near three weeks." Law accepted the water, he had to use both hands to steady the cup.

"Yeah well what you did was really stupid. But you're awake now. I'll remove the IV drip and catheter if you think you won't decide to go comatose again." Shachi says with a smirk.

"Remove them. Now. I hate being a fucking invalid." Law scowls. There was nothing worse than having a catheter inserted.

"I know, Chopper insisted though." Shachi replies with no remorse whatsoever.

"I'm sure he'll protest at their removal too."

"Probably. Better hurry up then." Shachi carefully removes all the tubes connected to him much to Law's relief. With Shachi's help Law goes to the adjoining bathroom to have a wash and urinate in a toilet inside of relying on a tube.

Chopper is waiting for them back in the medical bay with crossed arms. "You are disobeying doctors orders Law."

"I'm fine Reindeer-ya. You do not need to be concerned. I am perfectly adept at assessing my own needs and Shachi is well trained." Law sits down on the edge of the bed. His muscles were shaking at the exertion.

"Fine! Stubborn arsehole." Chopper growls out and storms off.

"I think you insulted him Captain." Shachi chuckles and heads to the door as well. "I'm going to get Bepo and Penguin. They've been worried."

Law hums in response and remains seated on the edge of the bed. It doesn't take long for Shachi to return with his other two crew members. Law is happy to see Bepo back to his white self and clothed again. It wasn't necessary for Bepo to wear clothes but the bear preferred it. The three crew members were still on the thin side but no longer looked starved. He knows Sanji would have been forcing high calorie food down their throats.

Bepo gets onto the bed and moves behind him. Law out of an old familiar habit leans back once Bepo has laid down. Penguin and Shachi sit on the spare seats in the room. A few minutes of relaxed silence passes before the door bursts open and Luffy dashes in. The energetic captain jumps onto the bed and sits against Law's side and uses Bepo as a back rest. Law rolls his eyes before wrapping an arm around Luffy.

It doesn't take long before Luffy's crew come filing into the room. Sanji has brought him a vegetable broth. Zoro awkwardly pats him on the shoulder. Usopp even seems happy to see him awake. Robin and Nami both smile, Nami's smile holds a leer in it at his closeness to Luffy. Robin's is a gentle smile but for the same reason he suspects. Soon they are all crammed into the room. Previously he'd never be able to deal with this many people but now, he doesn't mind. Not when they're all his nakama.

There were no words needed between them. Everything was as it should be. Law had been able to save three of his crew, Doflamingo's demise was in place and it was all because he'd woken up in a cage with Luffy. His second chance was because of the most idiotic infuriating rookie pirate he'd ever met.