i surrender you to the sea

They found Sanji asleep on the shore of the imitation pool.His tail was dangling in the water, fins nudged gently by the fake waves. The pale expanse of his back was mottled with the fresh scars of his previous captivity. His blonde head was buried in his arms and it hardly looked like a comfortable position to be in, but Zoro couldn't judge. He’d fallen asleep in worse places.(Sanji always hated it when he napped in the kitchen. He’d say the floor was filthy and Zoro was now even filthier, but Zoro never minded. He just wanted to stay close.)“He must be exhausted,” Robin mused.Zoro nodded dumbly.His husband was before him—he’d dreamt of this exact same thing in a dizzying number of variations, all of them ending the same. Sanji, with him.Now, a wall of glass and a world of water kept Zoro away from the man-turned-merman, who looked at him with not love but fear.Because Sanji didn’t remember him.//or, the fic where the Straw Hats run a rehabilitation facility for merpeople in need. Zoro thought he lost his husband years ago in a tragic accident, and yet Sanji comes back just a little different