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Post by Sally Fitch/Clever Else on Jan 27, 2013 20:33:49 GMT -5
Else was about head down below to tell Laurel to look after the three children and to open the cabin door for NO ONE but the cook, but the Captain grabbed her by the waist and hoisted her down into the boat. Startled, she was about mutter a 'thank you' but the man beat her to the punch, making her look not very thankful.
The children would be fine. If the crew wanted to cause any of them harm, they would have done so by now. Besides, they seemed to respect, or fear...or perhaps BOTH, their Captain. The men started rowing. Thanks goodness Else had emerged from below with her bow and arrows already strapped to her. She didn't like going to dangerous places without it... and she wasn't very handy with a sword...
She risked a sideways glance at Killian. He still didn't look very happy. She cleared her throat. "I... I want to thank you. For everything." Else said. "You have been VERY accommodating and I will make sure that my husband will repay you for all your efforts... you AND your crew. Once we all get back to the mainland that is."
Still silence. That just made her blood boil even more. "You know, for a ship STUCK in Neverland's waters, you don't seem very keen on the prospect of returning home. HOW LONG have you been stuck here???" She knew that the ship had been in this world for a matter of YEARS, according to Eugene... though he seemed hazy on how long, exactly.
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Post by Captain Killian 'Hook' Jones on Jan 27, 2013 21:45:01 GMT -5
Hook leaned back and shrugged," I honestly can't say for sure, years I'm sure...." he looked away, again he didn't like this situation- this conversation....
"Well, I'll thank you and your husband then...."
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Post by Sally Fitch/Clever Else on Jan 27, 2013 22:55:22 GMT -5
Was it her imagination, or did he say the word 'husband' with a little disrespect towards her; as if she was the frivolous wife who merely had station and power because of her 'husband'. Oh, if only the pirate KNEW who exactly wore the trousers in HER marriage...
Not that she cared what the Pirate thought.
...Why was this bothering her?
"A few years?" Else marveled, getting back to her original inquiry. "And you've been... CONTENT... with just floating about, not aging, not gaining, not feeling... just... waiting for nothing?" Else eyed him; obviously he was running from something, something that caused him so much pain that Neverland was the perfect numbing balm that he preferred to reality. She looked away.
She could see how that would be tempting... and she fought hard to keep her dark thoughts at bay as to WHY. But... she refused to sit about as a victim. She would cure her own personal malady or die trying.
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Post by Captain Killian 'Hook' Jones on Jan 27, 2013 23:05:06 GMT -5
"Of course," He gave her a sideways glance and a half smile," But why are you so interested anyway?"
The truth was, is that he was indeed waiting for something- opportunity.... something had been bubbling under the surface for sometime now..... he yearned to seek revenge against the one who had taken his love away from him. But he wanted to come up with a plan.... his enemy was very powerful..... it would take time and thought for him to come up with something and where was there more time than Neverland?
In the mean time he continued to flirt with the Queen," Don't tell me you suddenly feel sorry for the lonely sea Captain, and wish to fill the empty void in his black-heart?"
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Post by Sally Fitch/Clever Else on Jan 27, 2013 23:24:45 GMT -5
"Not sorry for you...frustrated by you." Else admitted. "You seem a very capable man, of mind and body, and yet you hide away here, like a coward."
The queen was looking away, so she didn't notice the hot daggers coming from the Captain's gaze.
"If it is opportunity you await, then you will spend the rest of eternity here waiting for it." She concluded. "You must make your own... and face reality."
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Post by Captain Killian 'Hook' Jones on Jan 27, 2013 23:47:01 GMT -5
Hook had clenched his teeth without even realizing it, he took a breath then gave her an unnaturally patient smile
He leaned in and put his arm around her and chuckled softly," And what would you know of opportunity, Love? Hmmm? What could you possibly know about me that could justify you calling me a 'coward'?"
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Post by Sally Fitch/Clever Else on Jan 28, 2013 0:04:18 GMT -5
Else shifted herself out from under his arm and looked at him squarely. "I don't know exactly what it is you have lost, Captain Jones... but if it is anything compared to what I have lost... then yes. I am justified in calling you a coward for hiding away here, at the expense of your own crew, instead of dealing with it and moving on..."
Gods, it felt as though she were lecturing a child...
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Post by Captain Killian 'Hook' Jones on Jan 28, 2013 0:08:35 GMT -5
"It'd do you well to be a bit more empathetic your Majesty, It's my understanding that Royalty is suppose to be charismatic" He said coldly
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Post by Sally Fitch/Clever Else on Jan 28, 2013 0:21:57 GMT -5
Was he calling her UNFEELING??? Oh, she had PLENTY of empathy... but she would not dare waste it on a proud, arrogant pirate, content to float about feeling sorry for himself for the rest of eternity!
"Then perhaps I am deficient in that respect, Captain Jones." Else retorted, trying to keep her temper down. "... seeing a I was peasant-born." She shifted closer to a crew member, who only seemed too happy to have a woman sit so close to him. She didn't care, anything to get herself further from that... that... INSUFFERABLE man before she put an arrow through his head.
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Post by Captain Killian 'Hook' Jones on Jan 28, 2013 0:35:12 GMT -5
"The woman I loved was peasant born as well...." Hook said, just barely audible as they reached the sands of the island. Why on earth had he said that? H e took a breath and stepped out onto the shore," Coming Else?"
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Post by Sally Fitch/Clever Else on Jan 28, 2013 0:49:05 GMT -5
Else kept her head turned away, nearly missing what he had said under his breath. Something about a woman. She sighed to herself. The Queen was not the only one to have experienced a deep grief in a life time... nor would she be the last; she shouldn't assume that her's is any greater than another's... nor that just anyone could handle it the way she had.
But still...the pirate and her seemed to push all the wrong buttons on one another. It'd be best just to do what they had come fore, and then the sooner she and the children were safely home the better...
She heard his remark and climbed out of the boat, refusing any help from any of the crewmen.
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Post by Sorceress Calisto/Cally Rose on Jan 28, 2013 11:57:57 GMT -5
Celeste has wondered into the neverwoods away from cannibal cove, she didn’t walk very fast because she was still figuring out which way to go, she didn’t know that she was being fallowed, but if she did she would not have gone back to them anyway… he was not a fan of pirates… if they caught up to her though that was another matter, they had better had a good excuse for trailing her.
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Post by Sally Fitch/Clever Else on Jan 28, 2013 15:23:50 GMT -5
"I think she went this way." Else said to no one in particular. She led the way through the brush, calling out the mysterious woman's name. "Celeste? Celeste!"
A arrow penetrated the ground by her booted foot like lightening. Else's wide eyes observed that the arrow had tribal markings on it, as well as bright feathers and beads. She glanced up, seeing an indian crouched low; a black stripe painted over his eyes like a mask. He was readying another arrow...
"FALL BACK!" Else shouted, but she was stopped short from rejoining the Captain's crew by some arrows to the ground before her. In frustration, she shot a few arrows back, but she was on the low ground staring up at the sun, it was a HOPELESS struggle. She sprinted deeper into the lush green of the island.
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Post by Captain Killian 'Hook' Jones on Jan 28, 2013 16:42:03 GMT -5
Killian quickly ran throught the rain of arrows, one or two slashed through his coat- though luckily none of them actually gave him more than a scratch- and followed Else into the green.
"Else?" He called out, his sword was drawn in case any of those Savages showed their faces. He tread carefully until he caught a brief glimpse of her through the trees ahead. He started towards her when he heard the quietest rustling, it was another blasted savage. Hook flew over to Else and grabbed her just before the arrow pierced the side of her head.
They landed on the ground with a soft thud. The Captain and The Queen lying on the forrest floor
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Post by Sorceress Calisto/Cally Rose on Jan 28, 2013 17:28:24 GMT -5
Celeste stopped when she heard her fake name being called from behind her a ways by a female voice, she sighed knowing that it was Else, she wondered if she should turn back and see what she wanted, though she already had an idea of what it was, she made her way back towards the calling was. It didn’t take long for her to begin hearing fighting, yelling and the sound of arrows zooming through the air, by the sound of things the pirates had run cross some natives, she would not have cared if it wasn’t that Else women was with them… “Crap!” she yelled as she ran through the trees. She soon spotted the pirate captain and the women on the ground with one of the natives who was just about to send another arrow their way. “Nope!” she yelled and she quickly took the bladed whip from her back and when the arrow was sent toward its intended target the whip shot out towards it just as fast and cut the arrow I half, while doing so Celeste ran right in the middle of the native and the two on the ground, she hated to have to protect the pirate from the Indians… since they had damn good reason to put arrows in hiss ass but she had to think of the innocent one first… so right after cutting the arrow I half with out a second thought she shot the native back with a blast of some invisible force, sending the native through the air and hitting a tree… Celeste groaned not meaning to make him hit it so hard…
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