Notebook.ai

Pirates, a revolution or an apocalypse (O/O Closed)

@gracehustle forum 429 comments schedule
@gracehustle

She watched him leave with a growl, sitting up in the boat and glaring up at the ship. One night, she could spend one night out here, she'd done it before. Reva blew out a sharp breath before turning her attention back to her hair, clearing her mind of the thoughts of freezing all night and eventually starving if she didn't take up his offer. She let her hair dry more before starting to braid it again, tucking every strand in expertly.

group

Jerome watched the girl with interest from atop the ship. He wondered how one could be so stubborn that she would rather stay in a lifeboat and most likely die. Sitting there he pondered on what should he do. Should he just leave the girl down there to starve or freeze? Or should he pull her up and give into her stubbornness? No, he wouldn't do that, he was the captain of the Silver Stallion, he gave into no one. This girl would have to make her decision. Alro put his hand on the captains shoulder, they both knew how hard it was going to be to convince the stubborn girl.

@gracehustle

"And now I wait.." She huffed, looking up at the sky. It got cold at night, quite cold, which was just one of the few reasons that she debated joining his crew. Yes she would wound her pride, but at least there was food, drinking water, and maybe even a thin blanket up there if she was lucky. Reva laid back down in the boat and made herself comfortable as she weighed her options. She was going to be here a while.

group

Jerome eventually stopped watching the stubborn girl and went about his regular crew duties as captain. Earlier in time he had welcomed the new crewmates and had gotten them situated to the Silver Stallion. Since the Silver Stallion had another victory, it was only natural to celebrate. While the other crewmates were celebrating, Jerome was weighing his options on what to do with the girl. Deciding to write a note he wrote The only choice you have now is to join the crew, all necessary needs are provided here, unless of course you would rather die, your choice. He then dropped it overboard to the girl.

@gracehustle

She barely registered that he dropped a note to her until it was right in front of her face and made her jump slightly. It landed next to her and she picked it up carefully, reading it over and then folding it up. She huffed and ran her hands over her face. Telling the captain that she would join his crew was going to be one of the most pride ruining things she was ever going to do. "Fine.." She growled, looking up at the ship, "I'll join your crew, just get me off of this stupid piece of rotting wood that you call a boat."

group

He smirked watching her give in. "You heard her lads! Lift up the lifeboat! Be careful now!" He shouted the orders with calm face. This girl clearly cared much about her pride, but she wouldn't regret joining the Silver Stallion. The crewmates ever so slowly lifted up the lifeboat onto the ship. Half the men armed just incase she tried to do something. "You know cap, I have a good feeling about this." Alro said with a smile. Jerome simply shook his head and smirked. This is going to be one interesting crewmate.

@gracehustle

She crossed her arms over her chest and tucked his note away, glaring at everyone on the ship. She stepped out of the lifeboat and studied each crewmember, her gaze finally making its way to the captain. "Someone here better have whiskey." She growled, looking around the ship, "Everyone go back to whatever you were doing, I'm not going to murder anyone, you can put your weapons away." As far as she could tell the ship was nice, maybe even nicer than the Blind Doom had been.

group

All of the crewmates simply shrugged and went back to celebrating their victory. Alro chuckled and went to go talk with some of the older crewmates sitting on the mast. Jerome grinned looking at the girl, how cute it was to see her glare with such fiery eyes. Pulling out a whiskey bottle from his pocket he tossed it to the girl. "And look who finally decided to join the ship, welcome aboard the Silver Stallion. Chuckling he took out another whisky bottle and took a sip.

@gracehustle

Reva scowled at him, he was enjoying the fact that she finally joined his crew a little too much. She caught the bottle of whiskey and immediately took a sip, leaning against the edge of the ship as she scanned the crew, "Joining your stupid crew better be worth it." She muttered, shooting him another glare. Being here wasn't too bad so far, he had given her a bottle of whiskey, which was more than she was given on the other ship. Granted, he didn't know what she could be like when she had too much to drink.

group

Jerome chuckled again. He knew she didn't like the fact he was enjoying this. Drinking more whiskey he leaned against the edge of the ship a foot away from her. "Of course it will be worth it. You know the reputation of this ship, i'm sure you'll enjoy it here." He winked in a playful way at her. Alro and a few of the older crewmates watched him from afar, only they weren't watching him, they were watching how much whiskey he was drinking. Still grinning Jerome took another sip of his whiskey.

@gracehustle

"I wouldn't be too sure of that." She said, completely ignoring the wink as she continued to drink, "I don't like following directions, as you can clearly tell, so don't even expect me to listen to your every command." Her gaze drifted back to the sea for a few moments before moving to the crew again, causing her to take another sip of the whiskey, "Tell me about your crew, I don't want to go around calling everyone 'you'."

group

Taking a few more sips of whiskey he looked out to the horizon admiring the view. He smiled, so she had taken an interest in the crew. "The order thing won't be a problem, I don't give much out anyways unless its for taking other ships." He said with a grin. "As for the crew, glad to see you have taken an interest, the boy who saved you is Alro, my second mate. Those two older gentleman with him are John and Lemony. As for the rest of the crew, you know part of them since they used to be with your old one, and the others you will learn their names. They are a good bit of gentleman."

@gracehustle

Reva nodded, the whiskey already making her mind a bit fuzzy much to her delight. "I'm not interested in your crew. I only wanted to learn their names." She said, matching the names he had told her to the members of the crew, "And I suppose I'll just call you captain since you don't seem to have any other name?" She took another swig of whiskey and looked out over the water, scowling at nothing in particular.

group

Jerome shook his head and smirked. "Such a feisty one aren't ya? And the names Jerome, Captain Jerome." He took another swig of his whiskey, finishing already half of the bottle. Alro, John, and Lemony still peering from distance at Jerome moved from the mast down to the deck. "I don't suppose miss stubborn has a name then?" He asked with a calm tone, still looking off into the horizon.

@gracehustle

"Reva." She took another sip of her whiskey and looked over at him with a small glare, "My name is Reva, and yes. I am feisty, and stubborn, and a pain in the ass most of the time." Her bottle wasn't quite as empty as his, though it was getting there. She jerked her head towards Alro while drinking some more, "Which is why I don't understand why he helped me."

group

Jerome drank some more of his whiskey, almost emptying the bottle. "Reva, what a nice name, and your right about being a pain in the ass." He stayed watching the horizon. "Alro has always been kind like that, merciful if you will. He always set out to impress, he saw you interested me, and the boy saved you. I admire it though, he's a good kid. It is afterall, how he became second mate." He chuckled. With that, Aro, John, and Lemony continued to watch Jerome and his whiskey.

@gracehustle

She let out a sharp laugh, "I interest you?" She shook her head and grinned, "You must be mental." Reva tipped the bottle back and drained a good portion of it, looking around at the ship and studying it. If this was going to be her new home of sorts for who knew how long she might want to learn where everything is. She rested a hand on her cutlass and glanced up at the mast, suddenly wanting to climb to the crow's nest and look around.

group

Jerome laughed. "You never know, you could be right." Leaning a little closer to her he whispered. "It might be because I haven't seen a woman in months." Smirking he backed away and drained his whiskey. "Or you really do just interest me, you'll never know." He winked again and looked back to the sea, smiling in the breeze. After seeing him finish his whiskey, Alro, John, and Lemony had moved a little closer.

@gracehustle

She rolled her eyes and finished off her bottle of whiskey, "I'm going to let you know now captain," She said with a smirk, "I don't usually flirt with crewmates when sober, but I'm not sober so I'll just say, maybe you interest me as well, you'll never know." Reva tossed him the now empty bottle of whiskey and winked before walking off to explore the ship.

group

He caught the empty whisky bottle. Jerome chuckled, what an interesting girl. At that moment an ear splitting ringing rang through his ears like the bells ring in a church. John and Lemony instantly sprinted to his side and sat him on a stool. "Silly fool, don'tcha remember the last time ye drank so much whisky?" Lemony asked with a serious look. Jerome shook his head. "Oi! Alro! Get another crewmate with ye and fetch the ya know what's from the cabin!" Lemony shouted the orders at Alro. "Aye sir!" Alro looked around the deck for a crewmates assist wondering if he could ask the girl.

@gracehustle

Reva had walked to the other end of the ship so she could be by herself. The whiskey was nice for making her forget what had happened to her ship, but she knew she could be very stupid around others and drunk. She grinned as she leaned against the side of the ship and looked out over the water, not noticing what was happening to Jerome at all. Her mind wandered and she minded her own business, going over what he had said to her in her head.

group

Alro needed someone to help him get the you know what's from the captains bunkers or well cabin. Shaking his head Alro looked around at the crew. Most of the crew were already really drunk or in the crew bunkers sleeping so there weren't really anyone to ask. He couldn't get John or Lemony since they were helping the captain at the moment. Alro spotted Reva and decided to go and see if she was willing to help. Walking over to her he leaned against the side of the ship and asked. "Ok so I know this is really sudden but could you please help me with something?!"

@gracehustle

"Hm?" She looked over at Alro and raised an eyebrow before shrugging, "Sure, why not, I got nothing better to do." She stood up straight and put a hand on her hip, "What do you need help with?" Reva was clearly quite drunk but she played it off quite well besides the fact that she was acting quite different than her normal stubborn self.

group

Alro raised his eyebrows, almost concerned with why she wasn't being really stubborn. "Really?! Great!" Alro pointed to Jerome who had his hand on his head wincing. "Captain well…can't really drink without taking this medicine which i'm not going to say why. I need you to come help me with getting it out of his secret hiding place and its well uh a two people job getting it out. Willing to help?"

@gracehustle

She looked over at him and nodded, gesturing around, "Sure, lead the way," She said, "Since again, I have nothing better to do than help get some medicine stuff from some secret hiding place." Her mind was very fuzzy at this point and she tilted her head sideways slightly as she looked at the captain, who looked like he was going to be sick several times over.

group

Alro nodded quickly. Hurrying he made his way down below the deck to the captains quarters. The medicine was important, if they didn't get it to him god knows what would happen. Alro shaked his head at those thoughts, captain made it this far, he'd be fine. Pointing to a wall Alro pulled over a stool, stood on it, and opened the wall to a secret mini room. "I'm going to need you to keep this wall open long enough for me to grab the medicine."

@gracehustle

"Alright," She walked over to the wall and took her spot holding it up, motioning for him to go get whatever he needed to, "You better hurry though, this medicine seems pretty important." Not many thoughts were running through her head at this point, which she liked and disliked. It meant the whiskey was doing its job, but it also meant she had barely anything to think about or go over in her head.

group

Alro noticed how the whiskey was affecting her. He nodded and climbed into the secret room only to return a few seconds later with a small glass bottle. "I got it! We have to hurry and get it to cap now." Jumping down to the floor he pulled out a bottle with a clear liquid. "Oh um here, this will help with the whiskeys effects." After handing her the bottle and started out of the room to the deck.

@gracehustle

"Let's get going then." She said, closing the enterance to the secret room behind him and following him out. Reva looked at the bottle he had given her to help with the whiskey's effects, not too trusting of it. The clear liquid confused her and she had enough common sense even when she was drunk not to drink strange liquids. It did make her curious thou though and she didn't set the bottle down as they made their way back up to the deck.

group

Making his way up to the deck Alro ran over to Jerome who was still sitting on the stool with John and Lemony. This time though they had him pinned to the school like a wild animal who had given up being tamed. He looked paler then his usual color. Taking off the glass vials lid he poured a few drops into the man's throat causing Jerome to gasp breathing in air. Alro and the two men sighed and John and Lemony sat down. Turning to Reva Alro smiled. "Thanks for helping with cap, oh and you might wanna drink that." He said pointing to the bottle.