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Ace and Marco have been together for 2 years now and Ace is starting to get pissed off, not once has Marco celebrated Valentine's Day with him, or Dia dos Namorados what they call it in the Easter Blue.
Every year he waits for Marco to come up and surprise him with something only for the day to pass by with nothing to show for it. He was Pissed off yes but more importantly upset, but also confused as today as every other year Marco would end up bringing him gifts and flowers but he didn't understand what was so special about today?!
That day was different though as he woke up he saw a note laying on the table beside their bed, opening it he expected to see something cute Marco had written like the other times but it was wrong. “We need to talk” is all it said, he felt his blood run cold and dread fill him “is he actually breaking up with me?” He mumbled to himself sitting up as realization hit him.
Of course he should have known sooner, looking around the room he could see less and less of Marco's things and felt tears coming to his eyes but he quickly wiped them away and clenched his fist “fine if he wants to break up then I won't stop him” he hissed and got up getting dressed ignoring the evidence of love making they had done last night and went about grabbing the rest of Marco's things shoving them into the hallway ignoring the questionable looks he was getting from the other commanders.
He even bit Thatch when he tried putting a hand on his shoulder to ask him something, once the room was clear of Marco's things he huffed and closed his door making his way onto the deck glaring as he saw Marco there, his soon to be Ex turned to him and waved with a small smile that clenched around his hurting heart. “Março você Pedaço de merda, eu devia torcer seu pescoço, pensei que estávamos bem, mas não! Você deixa esse bilhete e age como se nada tivesse acontecido!” ¹(March you piece of shit, I should wring your neck, I thought we were fine, but no! You leave that note and act like nothing happened)¹ he yelled, shoving the paper into the other's chest, Marco looked confused and concerned as he stomped off.
An hour later Marco came into the navigation room as he was drawing up a map of the most recent island they had been on, glancing up he scoffed, rolling his eyes. “Firefly what's wrong, why are you so upset with me?” He ignored the blonde but felt kisses being pressed to his back and hands loop around his waist, “I refuse to let myself get pulled in with sweet words Marco now let go” he said, shrugging him off ignoring the hurt look on the man's face.
“Ok, but I do hope to see you later” he waved the man off, and throughout the day the rest of the commanders and crew decided to throw some type of party this time. They hadn't any other time but as he had thought that morning something was different, he ignored the decorations and went about the day.
When it came to dinner time he saw the Galley riddled with Pink, Red, and White as well as hearts everywhere. Frowning he furrowed his brows in confusion, he even saw a large Red heart shaped cake in the back. Even the food was heart shaped and dyed one of the 3 colors in the room, ok this was getting a bit excessive.
He grabbed some food and made his way to the commanders table seeing a white tablecloth and some lit candles there, he sat down and started eating, ignoring the others. He stopped half way when Marco came up and put a hand on his back making him pause and swallow.
He knew what was about to happen and he couldn't stop the tears this time as he turned around crying not seeing Marco on one knee with a ring through his tears, “I'm sorry, I don't know what I did. I thought I could prepare myself for this so I've been a dick to you all, all day thinking I could just push away how I felt and knew I was gonna have to leave the crew after. I'm so sorry!” He said sobbing and pulled his legs up to his chest, shoving his face into his knees.
“whoa! What Ace, what's wrong, what do you mean!” Marco sounded Panicked, “Your leaving me, your breaking up with me, that's what's wrong you fucker! After 2 years you decide that I'm not good enough for you or I'm too damaged to be the boyfriend of the great Marco Phoenix! Well fuck you too Marco! I loved you and now you wanna break up with me, it isn't fair!”. He heard some of the others make a confused noise but other than that no one said a thing, not even pops.
“Ace, what made you come to this stupid idea?” he pushed Marco's hands off him when he tried making him look up. “That note, “We need to talk” , that's obviously what someone says when you're gonna break up with them!” he heard Marco sigh deeply before a piece of paper was being uncrumpled “Ace was it this note?” He glanced up to see the same note from this morning.
Nodding he said nothing but continued to cry, “Ace I was in a hurry this morning, this doesn't say “We need to talk” it says Happy Valentine's Day and I'm not even surprised that you can't understand the New World language as you refuse to go to the lessons saying I always distract you with my glasses” he blushed at hearing Marco say that In Front of everyone till something clicked for him.
“Huh? Valentine's day? That's not today” he blinked and gave a confused look. “Yes Ace it is, as it has been for the past few years we've been together, and even longer than that. Wait, what did you think it was?” He shrugged “I don't know, some day you decided to be super affectionate and more rough when it came to sex” he said smirking as Marco's face flushed and snickers came from the others.
“If I may interrupt, what day do you think Valentine's is on?” Pops said, he looked behind him and said matter of factly “Dia dos Namorados or Valentine's Day is on June 12th, not February 14th, but obviously Marco here didn't get with the program and realized that” he said huffing with puffed cheeks.
“So this, all of this was a cultural misunderstanding” he heard Marco groan in exasperation, he turned and was able to see Marco clearly now that he stopped crying. “What you mean, just because you have the date wrong doesn't mean I misunderstood anything Marco and while on that- is that a ring?” He cut himself off seeing Marco still holding the open ring box.
“Yes it is,” Marco said, smiling again, “who's it for, who's the bitch you're giving this to!” He hissed glaring at Marco and crossed his arms and legs, “it's for you Ace” he nodded “So I'm the bitch! wait what?” His mouth gaped looking at Marco again “Ace my beautifully stubborn and quite stupid Firefly will you marry me?” He blinked looking at the ring then to Marco and continued that a few times. His brain seemed to finally catch up with him as he flung himself on top of Marco making them fall backwards as he kissed him deeply “Of course!” He yelled sitting up straddling Marco's hips as the blonde slid the ring into his finger.
He giggled and punched the air “Haha! I'm a married man now!” He said happily, “no we're just engaged Ace, for now at least. And we really need to talk about that misunderstanding” he waved him off “I'm engaged now Marco, whatever happened before is in the past now let's eat cake!” He jumped up cheering while everyone joined him. “Congratulations my sons!” Pops said laughing, after a bit of drinking and eating cake they went to leave the galley distantly hearing Thatch speak “wait isn't that like pseudo incest- OW WHAT THE FUCK IZOU!” Only for Izou to start yelling at the man.
They ignored it for favor of going back to their room, Ace had forgotten that he put all of Marco's things into the hallway in a fit of anger and upset so when they came upon the door Marco looked at him with an irritated look, “ok in my defense I thought you were leaving me!” He said and yelped as he was picked up into Marco's arms and kissed deeply “well too bad I'd never willingly get rid of you firefly, and it's good that my things are out as it's easier to move them to our new room” he blinked and hummed.
Marco made his way to a door at the car end of the hall and opened it to see a large circular bed that looked to be pushed into a pit in the floor while Marco things were around the room and inside the bed. “My uh my devil fruit makes me want to do certain things and with proposing I thought it would be alright to do them but we can go back to the other room if you want Ace-” he cut the man off by kissing him “if you don't fuck me on that bed in the next 5 minutes then I'm keeping you here for the next 2 weeks as my personal Dildo” he growled biting Marco's lip.
“You don't even have to threaten that Love, I'd be happy to oblige” with that the door shut and locked leaving them to christen the room. Maybe that random day every year that everyone knows claims Valentine's Day isn't so bad as it ended with him engaged and with a Phoenix Cock up his ass.