Seducing the Waker: Ch 1The river water was like ice on her heated skin. Elysium sighed as she sank down and ran the icy relief over the large purple bruise on her arm. She'd dropped off her son at a friends as she fled from her house and enraged husband. He would have broken her arm this time. And all she had asked was how his luck had been in finding a job.All she'd gotten for her curiosity was another beating. It hadn't always been like this. Not in the beginning. Charles had been such a sweetheart before. He had been all smiles and laughter, she had loved him so much. She had known that he had his issues, his mental problems. And she coped wit
POTC time stream Ch. 5The next few days went by uneventfully. She'd had to help a couple of times when the cook had accidentally cut himself. But they were easy enough to stitch up. Ragetti had sprained his ankle and Pintel was having problems with his wooden eye. She'd had to pick out several slivers from the socket. She'd gotten some sand and smoothed down the orb as well as found some stain and repainted the iris.But other then that she'd kept to Jack's cabin. He'd given her a small dagger and she'd attached it to her nylon belt because she tended to keep asking him for his for whatever work she was doing. She'd also gotten together a crude mini first aid kit
POTC time stream ch 4. The evening wiled down and they talked well into the night. He regaled her with stories of his adventures as she laughed at his antics of reenacting some of the scenes. She told him of the old stories of myths and legends she knew. Greek mythos of the gods of the sea. How Athens became named, She told him the tales of how Scylla and Charibdis came to being. Of how Aphrodite rose from the oceans. She told him tales she'd read about about Atlantis and even quoted a bit of Shakespeare here and there.He'd impressed her when he'd finished off some of the lines she quoted when she faltered. "Well well. Who'd have thought. Intelligent, well read
POTC time stream ch3Up at the helm. Barbossa was fuming. He hated that that whelp of a boy was the captain of the Pearl. She should have been HIS to deal with! Damn that boy! He took a deep cleansing breath. Soon. Soon Jack would be out of his hair and they'd be free to go after the treasure. He'd seen the maps of the Isla de muerte Jack had let him in on the treasures that were supposed to lie there but he pointed out that he didnt want to risk his crew to go after something that was so obviously suicidal. The Aztec gold there in was suppose to be cursed and he wanted no part of it so had told Hector that they would find something else.