Horatio Hornblower: Catching Love in an Hourglass.
Summary: Horatio is thrown forward in time while a storm on board to find himself in New York City in the year 2003. How would he find his way back? Would the people he meets believe him and how is the world changing back in his old life? Worst of all the only person that knows he's from the past is stuck at a hospital. What will happen? Find out!
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Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Horatio Hornblower the movies or the series. Since I'm from America, I only had the chance to see Horatio Hornblower: Loyalty
So if anything is wrong please tell me and I'll be grateful.
~Lia
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The winds blow hard knowing they are winning the battle at sea and with the waves as it's allies the weak crewmen have no chance.
Horatio saw in his eyes that this storm is the worst yet feeling the ocean waters slapping him as he can taste the salty waters in his mouth.
He started to shout commands and making sure that the sails are loose so the boat won't be taken so far away that they will be stranded for months. The worst thing on his mind is knowing that this is the worst time as ever. His crew had no food left and if there is, it could only feed a rat for hours.
He can hear as one man shouts.
"Say your prayers men!"
He saw as a cannon was sliding down a foolish young boy to go after it.
The young boy of course around his age kept going after it, that or he was planning to throw himself overboard on purpose. He, didn't look familiar either. He knew everyone in his crew but maybe the harsh rains didn't let him see right.
He ran to stop as the young boy who reached the cannon so after keeping hold of it and the cannon winning him.
Soon the cannon won him with the heaviness and the boy was thrown overboard.
"He's a lost one lads!" shouted a crew member but Horatio couldn't bear to see a lost one. He took a rope and tied it around his waist as he ran and threw himself in the ocean waters.
He kept swimming as fast as he could to see that the young boy was already drowning.
He held him tightly keeping him above the surface of the water so he won't take in more water.
Horatio's eyes burned and his heart felt the coldness for the waters. His hearts was beating with his breath.
The crewmen try to pull up the rope harder and harder as the rope began to break softly. The rope couldn't take the weight of 2 men and fierce storm at once.
They made it up as the young boy was thrown first but as Horatio pulled himself up the rope snatched as he was thrown to the waters.
He saw the blue for a time and then he felt he couldn't breath, he couldn't think and feel nothing but the pain..
~*~*~*~
"Victoria you're driving past the speed limit, we have no where important to go!" shouted a young girl with short black hair reaching the end of her neck and bangs which swayed as she talked to her friend. She had a black hat on her head to go with fashion that look a bit like the taxi kind, or just the ones models been using lately. She looked at her friend with frightened dark brown eyes and the brown color of her face showing fear.
Her friend seem to be enjoying the fact that she was going a little above the speed limit as she chewed her gum showing it to the world. Since she had her side of the window open, she had her red hair sway in the wind looking up ahead with her green eyes with a red smile on her pale and a little freckled face.
"Oh Serene.. I mean I'm not going that fast." She said laughing while emphasizing the word 'that.'
Both girls were roommates, the younger one named Serendipity but called Serene for short and the other one called Victoria mostly called Vicky or Vick which was much older than Serene but close friends.
Horatio had awoken what felt like a real life nightmare finding himself in the middle of the highway. He gets up rubbing his forehead.
"What the bloody hell happen?" He said whispering to himself.
When he turn to see a car heading to him.
Serene noticed him and saw Victoria was too preoccupied by the loud music.
"Victoria!"
She pushed her foot on the break still hitting but only causing him to fall back.
"Oh my God.." Whispered Serene as she stepped out the car.
"What you want me to do?" Victoria said twirling her hair.
"he was in the in middle of the highway."
"Turn of the music will you?' Serendipity said as she walked off to the young man.
"Hey.. You okay?"
She saw the man didn't react.
"Is he hurt?" Victoria said getting out of the car.
Serene been a young doctor checked him.
"No.. no neck injuries.exactly." She picked up his head softly.
"Wow he's a hottie." Victoria said while looking at him. "Even if he's passed out and wearing weird clothes."
Serene sighed as turned to Victoria. "Probably an actor."
"Hey get my medical bag from the back."
"Kay.."
"So what we do with him."
"Take him home until he wakes up."
~*~*~*~
"He still hasn't awoken?" Victoria said coming out in her pjs while brushing her teeth.
"No.but he's fine..probably the shock."
Victoria went to the bathroom when the door knocked. Serendipity got up to get and opened the door to see her brother.
"Louis!" She hugged him.
"You came back."
Louis looked almost identical to her sister for the fact that they were twins.
Same eyes and same color the main difference would be her feminine face and his macular face in difference.
Louis then noticed Horatio laying there.
"What Victoria do this time?"
Serendipity hit him in the arm. "Louis! No, he passed out in the Highway..that's all"
"Like his clothes, actor huh? "
"Looks British." Serene said sitting down.
"Well, He would feel honor to meet an actor such as myself mate." Louis said faking a British accent.
Serendipity laughed as she looked at the television as Louis kept playing around when Victoria is heard from inside the bathroom.
"Is that moron Louis home? I taught ht was supposed to come a month from now."
"Um.no a month ago.the month is over Vicky." Serendipity said laughing.
~*~*~*~
Soon everyone is asleep and Serendipity remembers that Horatio is in the coach in such a cold winter night.
She walks to the living room with a warm blanket in her hand.
She covers him up and looks at him. Victoria was right (for once) that this guy was actually handsome.
She then went off to bed holding herself for the cold wind that blew in from the window. She closed it as she went to her room to sleep.
~*~*~*~
5:00 a. m
Serendipity is running all over the place getting anything she could to make her lunch.
Horatio had awoken to see a blurry sight at first. He finally woke up as he rubbed his eyes. He got up as a puppy went up to him and licked his face.
Horatio stared at the puppy in a confused way. The puppy though barked at him excitedly.
Louis (like every morning) would go and turn on the radio to heavy metal music so he took the control completely forgetting that Horatio was there and turned it up in boom volume.
This scared Horatio completely as he jumped up.
~*~*~*~ Horatio's POV
I was awaken first by the sound of the morning and then the wet feeling of a small canine's tongue and now the bloody music just sent me to the skies.
I was jumped up and scared near to death as I looked at a young boy dancing along with it, if it's called dancing that or he had something in his pants that were bothering him.
But I was too overcome by fear to think or ask. My mind completely answered with shouts and screams. Never in my life at land and sea had I been frightened till this moment.
The small canine with the colors of white and brown had this look like he was overwhelm of seeing me.
He jumped up but I jumped up with him a bit frightened at what something so small would do next.
Soon I heard a yelling of a female's voice. I turned to see who it was as she constantly kept shouting.
"Shut that music off now Louis!"
I looked at her a bit shocked at her looks, it wasn't the fact that she was female and had caught my attention in an attracting way. It was just the fact that she dressed up as a man just with a different leather of clothes. She turned and looked at me smiling.
I wouldn't say they were mean but this took me over by anger as I try to tell myself where the bloody hell I am.
End of POV
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"Hey so you got up. Ignore my bother, he's nice he just doesn't understand the meaning of 'we have eardrums that can be destroyed by your loud ass music.'
Louis turned it off as he went to his room.
"I'm surprise he hasn't awoken Victoria yet."
"May I be ask were am I and why a young women as yourself had been into the feeling that you can kidnap me? Are you one of the French?"
"Do I look French?"
"No.. You don't but you seem to have this control over people of your opposite sex."
"Men? Yeah.. He was my brother."
"Yes, you told him to turn it off and he quickly replied. I have never seen a woman except my mother who had such authority over men."
"Welcome then to New York City." Serendipity said laughing as she drank her orange juice.
"Should I be afraid of you?" Horatio said getting nearer talking in a voice of threating yet scared in a way.
"Naw, I ain't dangerous, just a Hispanic/American here to get a living as a doctor."
"Then if you have nothing to do with me then why am I stuck here In your home?"
"Oh we kinda hit you with a car and sent you here until you're better."
"Well, I feel perfectly fine. But I do ask, respectfully, why are you in pants?"
"Um.. Are you a rich man?"
"Not exactly."
"Okay, why don't we call your relatives?" Serendipity said getting the phone.
"I don't have relatives that are alive."
"Oh.I'm sorry." Serendipity said as she slowly put the phone receiver down.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
Serendipity opened the door to see a young man wet.
"Nicholas! What happen why are you soaking wet?"
"It's a long story but I followed you since you picked up Horatio off the street."
"You know him?" Serendipity said looking at Nicholas, which was her ex- boyfriend now her friend.
"Yes, that's Horatio Hornblower a member of the Royal Navy in the late eighteenth century."
Serendipity had to blink twice.
"Did you say eighteenth century?"
Horatio walked up to both of them and sighed.
"Yes, he is right I am Horatio Hornblower, a member of the Royal Navy fighting of Britain."
Serendipity who easily believe in things looked at both of them and started to laugh soon after getting dizzy and then fainted.
"Good Lord you killed her." Horatio shouted.
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A/N: Hey this is my first Horatio Hornblower fanfic but I hope you like it either way. Please review and tell me if I should edit anything and like all my other fanfics I am always up for suggestions. Oh and also I don't know if Horatio is going to have any romance in the future since from the movie it looks like he really likes Maria but hey I may change my mind ;) LOL
Summary: Horatio is thrown forward in time while a storm on board to find himself in New York City in the year 2003. How would he find his way back? Would the people he meets believe him and how is the world changing back in his old life? Worst of all the only person that knows he's from the past is stuck at a hospital. What will happen? Find out!
~*~*~*~*
Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Horatio Hornblower the movies or the series. Since I'm from America, I only had the chance to see Horatio Hornblower: Loyalty
So if anything is wrong please tell me and I'll be grateful.
~Lia
~*~*~*~
The winds blow hard knowing they are winning the battle at sea and with the waves as it's allies the weak crewmen have no chance.
Horatio saw in his eyes that this storm is the worst yet feeling the ocean waters slapping him as he can taste the salty waters in his mouth.
He started to shout commands and making sure that the sails are loose so the boat won't be taken so far away that they will be stranded for months. The worst thing on his mind is knowing that this is the worst time as ever. His crew had no food left and if there is, it could only feed a rat for hours.
He can hear as one man shouts.
"Say your prayers men!"
He saw as a cannon was sliding down a foolish young boy to go after it.
The young boy of course around his age kept going after it, that or he was planning to throw himself overboard on purpose. He, didn't look familiar either. He knew everyone in his crew but maybe the harsh rains didn't let him see right.
He ran to stop as the young boy who reached the cannon so after keeping hold of it and the cannon winning him.
Soon the cannon won him with the heaviness and the boy was thrown overboard.
"He's a lost one lads!" shouted a crew member but Horatio couldn't bear to see a lost one. He took a rope and tied it around his waist as he ran and threw himself in the ocean waters.
He kept swimming as fast as he could to see that the young boy was already drowning.
He held him tightly keeping him above the surface of the water so he won't take in more water.
Horatio's eyes burned and his heart felt the coldness for the waters. His hearts was beating with his breath.
The crewmen try to pull up the rope harder and harder as the rope began to break softly. The rope couldn't take the weight of 2 men and fierce storm at once.
They made it up as the young boy was thrown first but as Horatio pulled himself up the rope snatched as he was thrown to the waters.
He saw the blue for a time and then he felt he couldn't breath, he couldn't think and feel nothing but the pain..
~*~*~*~
"Victoria you're driving past the speed limit, we have no where important to go!" shouted a young girl with short black hair reaching the end of her neck and bangs which swayed as she talked to her friend. She had a black hat on her head to go with fashion that look a bit like the taxi kind, or just the ones models been using lately. She looked at her friend with frightened dark brown eyes and the brown color of her face showing fear.
Her friend seem to be enjoying the fact that she was going a little above the speed limit as she chewed her gum showing it to the world. Since she had her side of the window open, she had her red hair sway in the wind looking up ahead with her green eyes with a red smile on her pale and a little freckled face.
"Oh Serene.. I mean I'm not going that fast." She said laughing while emphasizing the word 'that.'
Both girls were roommates, the younger one named Serendipity but called Serene for short and the other one called Victoria mostly called Vicky or Vick which was much older than Serene but close friends.
Horatio had awoken what felt like a real life nightmare finding himself in the middle of the highway. He gets up rubbing his forehead.
"What the bloody hell happen?" He said whispering to himself.
When he turn to see a car heading to him.
Serene noticed him and saw Victoria was too preoccupied by the loud music.
"Victoria!"
She pushed her foot on the break still hitting but only causing him to fall back.
"Oh my God.." Whispered Serene as she stepped out the car.
"What you want me to do?" Victoria said twirling her hair.
"he was in the in middle of the highway."
"Turn of the music will you?' Serendipity said as she walked off to the young man.
"Hey.. You okay?"
She saw the man didn't react.
"Is he hurt?" Victoria said getting out of the car.
Serene been a young doctor checked him.
"No.. no neck injuries.exactly." She picked up his head softly.
"Wow he's a hottie." Victoria said while looking at him. "Even if he's passed out and wearing weird clothes."
Serene sighed as turned to Victoria. "Probably an actor."
"Hey get my medical bag from the back."
"Kay.."
"So what we do with him."
"Take him home until he wakes up."
~*~*~*~
"He still hasn't awoken?" Victoria said coming out in her pjs while brushing her teeth.
"No.but he's fine..probably the shock."
Victoria went to the bathroom when the door knocked. Serendipity got up to get and opened the door to see her brother.
"Louis!" She hugged him.
"You came back."
Louis looked almost identical to her sister for the fact that they were twins.
Same eyes and same color the main difference would be her feminine face and his macular face in difference.
Louis then noticed Horatio laying there.
"What Victoria do this time?"
Serendipity hit him in the arm. "Louis! No, he passed out in the Highway..that's all"
"Like his clothes, actor huh? "
"Looks British." Serene said sitting down.
"Well, He would feel honor to meet an actor such as myself mate." Louis said faking a British accent.
Serendipity laughed as she looked at the television as Louis kept playing around when Victoria is heard from inside the bathroom.
"Is that moron Louis home? I taught ht was supposed to come a month from now."
"Um.no a month ago.the month is over Vicky." Serendipity said laughing.
~*~*~*~
Soon everyone is asleep and Serendipity remembers that Horatio is in the coach in such a cold winter night.
She walks to the living room with a warm blanket in her hand.
She covers him up and looks at him. Victoria was right (for once) that this guy was actually handsome.
She then went off to bed holding herself for the cold wind that blew in from the window. She closed it as she went to her room to sleep.
~*~*~*~
5:00 a. m
Serendipity is running all over the place getting anything she could to make her lunch.
Horatio had awoken to see a blurry sight at first. He finally woke up as he rubbed his eyes. He got up as a puppy went up to him and licked his face.
Horatio stared at the puppy in a confused way. The puppy though barked at him excitedly.
Louis (like every morning) would go and turn on the radio to heavy metal music so he took the control completely forgetting that Horatio was there and turned it up in boom volume.
This scared Horatio completely as he jumped up.
~*~*~*~ Horatio's POV
I was awaken first by the sound of the morning and then the wet feeling of a small canine's tongue and now the bloody music just sent me to the skies.
I was jumped up and scared near to death as I looked at a young boy dancing along with it, if it's called dancing that or he had something in his pants that were bothering him.
But I was too overcome by fear to think or ask. My mind completely answered with shouts and screams. Never in my life at land and sea had I been frightened till this moment.
The small canine with the colors of white and brown had this look like he was overwhelm of seeing me.
He jumped up but I jumped up with him a bit frightened at what something so small would do next.
Soon I heard a yelling of a female's voice. I turned to see who it was as she constantly kept shouting.
"Shut that music off now Louis!"
I looked at her a bit shocked at her looks, it wasn't the fact that she was female and had caught my attention in an attracting way. It was just the fact that she dressed up as a man just with a different leather of clothes. She turned and looked at me smiling.
I wouldn't say they were mean but this took me over by anger as I try to tell myself where the bloody hell I am.
End of POV
~*~*~*~
"Hey so you got up. Ignore my bother, he's nice he just doesn't understand the meaning of 'we have eardrums that can be destroyed by your loud ass music.'
Louis turned it off as he went to his room.
"I'm surprise he hasn't awoken Victoria yet."
"May I be ask were am I and why a young women as yourself had been into the feeling that you can kidnap me? Are you one of the French?"
"Do I look French?"
"No.. You don't but you seem to have this control over people of your opposite sex."
"Men? Yeah.. He was my brother."
"Yes, you told him to turn it off and he quickly replied. I have never seen a woman except my mother who had such authority over men."
"Welcome then to New York City." Serendipity said laughing as she drank her orange juice.
"Should I be afraid of you?" Horatio said getting nearer talking in a voice of threating yet scared in a way.
"Naw, I ain't dangerous, just a Hispanic/American here to get a living as a doctor."
"Then if you have nothing to do with me then why am I stuck here In your home?"
"Oh we kinda hit you with a car and sent you here until you're better."
"Well, I feel perfectly fine. But I do ask, respectfully, why are you in pants?"
"Um.. Are you a rich man?"
"Not exactly."
"Okay, why don't we call your relatives?" Serendipity said getting the phone.
"I don't have relatives that are alive."
"Oh.I'm sorry." Serendipity said as she slowly put the phone receiver down.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
Serendipity opened the door to see a young man wet.
"Nicholas! What happen why are you soaking wet?"
"It's a long story but I followed you since you picked up Horatio off the street."
"You know him?" Serendipity said looking at Nicholas, which was her ex- boyfriend now her friend.
"Yes, that's Horatio Hornblower a member of the Royal Navy in the late eighteenth century."
Serendipity had to blink twice.
"Did you say eighteenth century?"
Horatio walked up to both of them and sighed.
"Yes, he is right I am Horatio Hornblower, a member of the Royal Navy fighting of Britain."
Serendipity who easily believe in things looked at both of them and started to laugh soon after getting dizzy and then fainted.
"Good Lord you killed her." Horatio shouted.
~*~*~*~
A/N: Hey this is my first Horatio Hornblower fanfic but I hope you like it either way. Please review and tell me if I should edit anything and like all my other fanfics I am always up for suggestions. Oh and also I don't know if Horatio is going to have any romance in the future since from the movie it looks like he really likes Maria but hey I may change my mind ;) LOL