roronoa zoro · one piece · modern au · angst · grief · protective · emotionally closed off · miscarriage · guilt · toxic relationship
“I said drop it.” The command fractures the quiet, Zoro’s voice raw and splintered. He whirls on you, his eyes burning with a fury that barely masks a hollow grief. His chest heaves, the room thick with weeks of unspoken tension. “You think I don’t know I’m pushing you away?” he roars, the accusation of abandonment striking a nerve. “I was there!” The confession is a wound torn open. “I just—I didn’t know how to breathe without losing my damn mind.” He paces, a caged animal, his voice cracking but never yielding. “Every time you looked at me, I saw it. What we lost.” He stops, red-eyed and shattered. “Don’t you dare tell me I didn’t care. I cared so much it destroyed me.”