Truepirate

CassyK/Truepirate

It’s fine, honestly, your health comes first and if you don’t get enough sleep you can get sick.

That all sounds good to me.

CassyK/Truepirate

Alright, that’s fine.

CassyK/Truepirate

“I kicked him too and would have done worse if your men hadn’t dragged him away. I was trying to knock some sense into him though I think that is a lost cause.” She said with a weak smile. Elissa muttered a quiet thanks when he draped his coat around her shoulders. She was cold and was fighting to not shiver. “What do I want?” The shock in her voice wasn’t hidden. It surprised her that he was giving her a choice, she’d figured that, as a captive, she would get no choices.

“I suppose you’d prefer I stay with you so you don’t have to lose a man to guard me since I escaped once.” She confessed. “I had to escape, that Rat was going to shoot me, he did but didn’t succeed at his original goal. I heard him talking to the man you had guarding me. He told him you wanted to speak with him about me, Rat tried to get the keys from him but he wouldn’t hand them over.” Elissa fell silent waiting for what Joseph would say about her escaping. “Pete, I think that’s his name, he wouldn’t have let Rat harm me. I think he suspected something was foul.”

CassyK/Truepirate

It’s all good. I figured that you were busy. I did hope that nothing bad had happened, but that’s just me thinking worst case scenario.

CassyK/Truepirate

Adam nodded that he’d stay with her while Joseph got her a clean shirt. He took it from the captain when he returned and quickly changed her shirt. “She May get a small fever, but that’s nothing to worry about. The body often does that while healing, it helps to rid the body of ailments.” He said, wrapping the blanket around Elissa. “She’s coming to. I’ll leave you two to talk and I’ll check on Rat. I’m sure he’s fine, but I’d hate for him to pass before he faces your wrath.” He laughed as he walked out of the room.

Elissa was fighting to wake up. “I’m fine, it’s nothing.” She muttered as she slowly opened her eyes. She frowned when she saw Joseph. “Where’s that Rat of yours? I wasn’t finished teaching him a lesson.” She slowly sat up, opening and closing her hand, glad that she had feeling back in it again. “He shot me.” She looked up at Joseph as if wanting to know what he was going to do about it.

CassyK/Truepirate

He seems upset. I’m just trying to figure out how she’s going to prove that she really is Elissa now that he has doubts.

CassyK/Truepirate

It doesn’t matter to me if she goes back to her room or not. You can decide if he takes her to her room or not.

CassyK/Truepirate

The surgeon, Adam, nodded when Joseph said he would stay. “I’m sure if you keep Rat locked up it won’t happen a second time. We both know that he isn’t entirely there, he tends to do whatever he thinks is right. If we were on land, I’d say that he needed to be put in Bedlam. He’s crazy.” He shook his head. “She’s an odd one too.” He noted. Adam cut away the material so he could get to the wound. “She was right about this not being her worst wound, look at her back, Captain.” Elissa’s back was covered with scars, some similar to her current injury, others looking to be from a blade, and a few to be scars from a whip. “It seems she’s a fighter.” He cleaned the wound, removed the bullet, and began to stitch it up. “What do you make of this?” He’d moved her hair out of the way to reveal a mark at the base of her neck. It had been branded into her skin. “If I’m not mistaken that’s the mark given to those who are enemies of the crown in Spain. You sure you picked up an heiress to a shipping company and not a criminal? Not that we are ones to judge.” He gave a small laugh. “It only looks to be a year or so old. In fact, none of these wounds are very old.” Adam wrapped the wound before turning to face his captain. “I’ve done all I can for her. It wasn’t that bad of an injury, she will survive. It’d be best to have her rest for a day or two, just to make sure she doesn’t tear my stitching open. I’d question her about her injuries if I were you.”

Something was odd about the girl, but he couldn’t figure out what. She didn’t fit the mold of a business heiress and yet she didn’t fit the mold of most women either. It seemed this one had stories to tell, stories that could fill several books. “You can take her back to her room now. Shall I check on Rat? His nose looked a little out of place and he had a cut on his forehead. It’s probably nothing serious and I can’t do anything for a broken nose, but I’ll check on him if you’d like, sir.”

CassyK/Truepirate

It’s all good. I hope you had fun.

CassyK/Truepirate

The man lead his captain down to his cabin and opened the door. He stepped back for Joseph to take Elissa in. “Set her down on the bed.” He instructed, following him. “You can move her back to her cabin once I’m tending to her.” He began to gather supplies that he would need to extract the bullet from her shoulder. “Am I to take it that this is the captive that will be your bargaining tool to get the ship back?” He asked trying to make conversation. He hated working in silence. “Are you staying or waiting outside while I tend to her?” He asked once he had gathered everything that he would need to tend to the young woman.

“I was doing him a favor!” Rat yelled angrily. “She’s a menace! She will find a way to ruin all of us on this ship. She is a monster!” He fought against the men even though he didn’t stand a chance of getting away from them. “She’s a siren. She will doom us all. A woman of high standing like her should not know how to fight. Someone taught her. He should be thanking me for what I did!” He continued to fight as the men began to drag him towards the brig.