Hope Floats

This is a sequel to All in the Family!!

My muses are going insane!! I've had so many great ideas form you guys that I don't know what to do!! Lol! I got another idea too, I just hope you all don't hate me after this chapter!! : (

So anyways, I decided to go ahead and start this one. I might not be able to update it everyday because I'm making Real Life the priority at the moment.

PLEASE don't have me after this!!

Disclaimer: this is FICTION so everything that takes place hasn't happened and Lord willing, some of them will never happen (knock on wood). So don't worry, this first chapter is PURE fiction and did NOT happen (KNOCK ON WOOD!).

Prologue

Two weeks after the close of the King Crab season…

The crew of the Northwestern stood outside in the bitter cold in Dutch Harbor, huddling under their black coats and leaning on one another for support.

Jack had tears falling freely down her face as she leaned on Edgar. He was shaking slightly, but not from the cold. His eyes were glazed over with emotion as unbearable pain radiated from them.

Sig was looking down at the ground, his heart heavy with the turn of events. Emotion clogged his throat, making it hard to breath.

The snow was pelting down, covering the ground around their feet. A man was talking but no one paid him much attention. Their minds and eyes were else ware.

Griffin shuddered and glanced over at his mom. She was holding onto Sig, her face buried in his black, felt-like jacket. Sig had one arm around her, the other covering his mouth.

Griffin felt a sudden wave of anger hit him. It was so unfair! Things like this should never happen to people…not here on the docks. Things like this were freak accidents that happened out on the Bering Sea, not safe in the harbor.

He fell from a stack of pots…no one heard…no one saw…until it was too late.

The frigid waters of the harbor claimed him before they knew what had happened.

Edgar had been the one to leap into the dark water after him. He pulled him onto the dock with the help of the rest of the crew and they tried to get him breathing again. They checked for a pulse and any signs of life, but there were none.

Jake Anderson was gone.

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Oh my gosh I'm crying like a baby writing this and hitting wood so very hard!!

PLEASE don't hate me!! I LOVE Jake, trust me…I'm in love with the guy…it's just for the story's sake.