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Rocinante got past the front door and all the way into the kitchen without dropping any of the groceries, and he was inappropriately proud of himself for managing it when a loud snorting laugh made him drop the frozen broccoli on the floor. Well, at least it wasn’t anything that took damage from falling, so instead of mourning the fallen vegetable he quickly put away the rest of the groceries, listening to Law’s not really muffled laughter all the while. It was nice to hear and even if Rocinante was really curious over what made his usually stoic son laugh so much he didn’t want to interrupt him immediately. Or, well, he was a parent after all so he wouldn’t manage to keep his nose out longer than it took to get the perishables into the freezer.
Law had just gotten home for his last real summer vacation before he started his residency so Rocinante felt like he was allowed to be a nosy parent for little while longer. After all, Law rarely laughed that hard at anything that wasn’t Rocinante’s own failing relationship with gravity and fire.
“So, what’s so funny?” He asked as he walked into the living room where Law was curled up on the couch with his laptop. Law hit the space bar and pulled of his headphones, but he still didn’t seem to be able to hold in his giggles.
“Oh, hi dad, it’s just this one youtuber who’s absolutely crazy”, Rocinante raised an eyebrow at that.
“The place with all the cat videos?”
“Please, you know it’s not only cat videos!”
“Yeah, yeah, whatever. But what’s so funny about whatever you’re watching then?” Rocinante asked as he sat down beside Law on the couch. He looked thoughtful for a second before shrugging and turning his laptop towards Rocinante as well.
“So there’s this group of youtubers called the Straw Hat Pirates”
“Why are they pirates?” Rocinante interrupted.
“Well, they started out as a dnd group who played as pirates and then more and more people got involved and they got super big for that, and eventually they actually got to set out and sail the world. Anyway, by now they’re more than 10 people who make videos together and they do practically anything! They still play dnd and a lot of it’s just normal vlogging stuff, but since they travel so much it’s always interesting to watch.”
“And what made you laugh so hard?” Rocinante asked, he didn’t really get the whole thing, but at least it seemed Law enjoyed it.
“Since they’re so famous now they get paid for evaluating attractions and travel spots and the like, but they never do normal reviews it’s always these comedy sketches or just plain weird evaluations and comments. It’s an entire series that Luffy does”
“O-kay”, Rocinante answered. He’d never really thought of travel guides as anything particularly hilarious, but Law seemed to think so.
“Ugh, here’s a video with some highlights from last year, you’ll see what I mean!” Law exclaimed as he typed in something in the search bar and selected the first video that came up. It had over 40 million views.
“So this is not just from the travel vlogs but everything they did last year”, Law said and clicked full-screen. What followed was almost 15 minutes of different clips of a smiling black haired young man giving everything from scathing reviews of tourist spots (and heroes?), insane laughter, dissing of major political figures, the results of seemingly epic pranks executed on a number of different people, snippets of beautiful singing in the sunset and interviews with celebrities who even Rocinante knew who they were.
“Was that Soul King singing?” He interrupted when there was barely a minute left of the video.
“Yeah, he actually got famous after joining the Straw Hats!”
“And that was actually Hancock Boa? And Katakuri Charlotte?”
“Yep. They’re friends with the most random people. You know that marine biologist who was on the news a lot a couple of years ago? Jinbei Knight? He joined them for the last part of their round-the-world trip!” Rocinante stared and Law pressed play for the last minute.
“So today we’re going to challenge faith and risk our lives by pranking Gramps”, Luffy said to the camera, his normal smile a bit stiff. “I don’t know why you people want me to die but this has been the most requested video for years now, so I hope you all appreciate my sacrifice”,
“We’re proud of you, Captain”, a voice said from behind the camera.
“Says you, who only has to hold the camera!” Luffy exclaimed, and muffled laughter could be heard accompanying Luffy’s pout.
“Well let’s do this!” The video skipped ahead to what appeared to be an entire bucket of paint washing over an old man.
“LUFFY!” The old man shouted and threw the bucket after a laughing and fleeing Luffy. “Come back here you useless grandson! I have to give you a fist of love!” Laughter came from behind the camera. “Oh, don’t think I don’t know you were in on this too, Zoro!” The old man said and the next second he had taken a running leap over the couch towards the camera.
“Fuck!”, could be heard from the cameraman before he too started running. The clip ended on a shot of an old man grinning almost crazily.
Law was sniggering beside him but Rocinante was too shocked to laugh.
“That’s Garp!” He exclaimed.
“What?” Law responded.
“Garp, dad’s best friend Garp!”
“What? Grandpa’s scary friend who I’ve never met but heard your horror stories about?” Now it was Law’s turn to look absolutely shocked.
“Yes”
“What!!? You’re telling me that Sengoku is Luffy’s grandfather’s best friend? Why didn’t you tell me!”
“I didn’t know!”, Rocinante responded. He didn’t really see Garp very often, but had he talked about his grandson being famous? “Does this Luffy have two older brothers?”
“Yes, Ace and Sabo”, Law responded.
“Oh. Then it’s really him. Garp boasts about his grandchildren a lot but I’ve never actually seen them”, Law groaned and pressed his face into his hands in exasperation. Now it was Rocinante’s turn to laugh, this was amazing! If this Luffy made Law laugh that hard Rocinante had to at least try setting them up!
“That means that you know him by proxy! Should I ask dad to set up a meeting?”
“No! Oh my god, dad! Don’t set me up on dates!”
“But you like him!” Rocinante tried.
“Just because I like his videos it doesn’t mean that I like him!” Law exclaimed, but he appeared to be blushing.
“I’ll call dad immediately!” Rocinante said, voice teasing as he got up from the couch.
“Daaad!” Law said, voice way to whiny for someone who was almost a doctor, but Rocinante supposed one never really outgrew being a kid with their parent.
“Just doing you a favour, Law!” He tried to leave the living room in a rush but tripped over the threshold and sprawled out all over the hallway and now Law was laughing again, but at him this time, and wasn’t that just like usual?
Rocinante hurried into the kitchen and pulled up his phone as Law seemingly got back to his videos and pulled up his dad’s number.
“Rocinante! How are you?” Sengoku answered almost immediately, he’d gotten a lot better at answering his phone since he retired, and he never missed a chance to speak with his son.
“Hello dad, I’m great! Law got back home yesterday, and do you know what? He has a crush on Garp’s grandson!”
“What! He does? I didn’t know they knew each other? Which one?” Sengoku sounded confused and Rocinante prepared tell his dad everything when Law came crashing through the doorway.
“No, noo! Dad! I thought you were joking! Are you seriously calling grandpa now?”
“No, they don’t know each other, but Law watches Luffy’s videos”, Rocinante said with a smirk and Law’s mouth fell open.
“Traitor!” Rocinante laughed and as his son jumped after his phone but he reached up his arm and it didn’t matter how tall Law had gotten, Rocinante was still a giant and his son couldn’t reach. But Law wasn’t an idiot and instead of jumping fruitlessly he jabbed a sharp finger into Rocinante’s side, making him instinctively pull his arms down to protect himself. Law made another grab for the phone and Rocinante just barely managed to jump away and flee the kitchen.
“Dad, you still there?” He asked as he barely managed to stay upright taking the corner towards the stairs.
“Yeah, what’s going on over there?”
“Oh, nothing, just talking to Law”
“DAAAD! You stupid idiot! Stop!” Law screamed as he scrambled after Rocinante up the stairs.
“Is that my grandson screaming in the background?”
“Yep! He’d like to spend some time with his dear grandpa, and perhaps you could invite Garp and his grandson as well?” Rocinante made his voice overly cheerful and then slammed the bathroom door and locked it just before Law reached him.
“No! Grandpa don’t listen to dad he’s a dirty liar!” Law screamed through the door and Rocinante was muffling his laughter the best he could. “I don’t want to meet Luffy! That’s a lie!”
“Oh, since he’s interested in the youngest, that’s alright because I think the older two have partners already. I’ll ask Garp and we’ll set something up!” Sengoku sounded excited and ignored all of Law’s screaming.
“Sounds good, call me when you’ve talked to Garp!” Rocinante said, voice still cheerful as Law was starting to mutter darkly from the other side of the door.
“I will, take care son, and give Law a hug from me!”
“You too, bye”, Rocinante put his phone away and sniggered.
“You’re both dirty traitors and I can’t believe you’re my family. I’m going to move in with Bepo instead” Law said sulkily and Rocinante burst out laughing.
“Sure, sure”, he managed between giggles. “Or perhaps Luffy?”
“Daaad!” Law screamed again before Rocinante heard a huge sigh and footsteps leaving and a bedroom door slamming shut.
“I’ll set up your date, and don’t worry, both dad and Garp will chaperone!” Rocinante said in a sing song voice as he got out from the bathroom and walked past Law’s closed door.
“Go away!” Rocinante kept laughing as he went downstairs to start dinner. It was nice to have Law home again.