Shallow tides and Crimmson seas
Chapter 1
Two women sat down in a small dark yet very lively tavern known as "The Dead Man's Inn".
Sally Winters was the slightly older sister had long dark curly hair and had emerald green eyes. She wore a white blouse with a black under bust corset and tight black trousers with knee length black boots. She glanced around in the tavern then back at her sister "Seems rather lively in here doesn't it? What do you want me to get you from the bar?"
The younger sister, Alice, looked up from the table "Rum, please" she said before averting her gaze once more. Alice had a fair complexion with platinum blonde hair and light blue eyes; she was dressed in a black over-bust corset, over a dark green dress. Thoughts were flooding into her mind; to say the day had been unusual would have been an understatement.
Sally walked towards the bar she couldn't help but think the same things as her sister.
"Yes love what will it be?" asked the barman as he began to eye up Sally.
Sally ignored his eyes and answered his question "A tanker of rum and a tanker of ale"
"Ale? Rum?" asked the old man.
"Oh so you did hear me the first time then?"
The man give her a dark sneer as he began to pour the drinks "Never known any woman here to drink rum and ale!"
Sally glanced back round to her sister to check she was ok "Yeah well were no ordinary women" she said as she turned back round to pay for the drinks.
"You know most women don't pay for their drinks here. They gain their drinks by doing favours" he said with a cheeky grin.
Sally leaned forward and pulled the man by his dirty grey top "I much rather pay for the drinks than touch a scumbag like you!" with this Sally pushed the man backwards into a woman who had been glaring at the man. Sally placed a ten pound note on the bar.
"Oh keep the change." With this Sally picked up the two drinks and moved towards the seating area of where her sister was; as she moved further away she heard the woman behind the bar yelling at the man. The woman must have the man's wife.
Eventually Sally sat down and placed the tanker of rum in front of her sister. "So do you remember anybody from the convention because I certainly can't?"
Alice thought hard
"There were a lot of people there" she said eventually, before drinking some rum. Indeed there had been a lot of people at the fare; Alice found it hard to pinpoint any one in particular.
"There was a kid dressed as Peter Pan" She sneered as she remembered the face of the brat who had thought it funny to pour orange juice on her shoes.
"And there was that bloke who wanted to show us his ship...very Zaphod Beeblebrox" she added, Alice did not want to admit that much after that was a blur within her mind, some bits even missing completely. She tried to concentrate on the man's boat, it was definitely more boat than ship, although it had been a very handsome boat indeed, it was far too small to be called a ship.
The two women continued to think about how about the day's events when a bunch of loud noisy pirates walked one of whom was a very tall handsome man; his eyes were the colour of forget me nots and he had the most silky gloss curly black hair. He wore a blue attire and had a Spanish steel sword upon him. And a steel hook for a right hand
Most of the men began running towards the bar and some began singing swords.
The man with a hook for a hand noticed the two young women and purposely walked past them slowly.
Alice turned her head to follow his movement
"Wow, I wish I had a costume that good" she said "The buckles look like real gold and everything" Alice smoothed out the skirt of her dress as she spoke, it had become creased and bunched up in the area beneath her corset, which was beginning to cause her pain within her ribs. The man with the hook for a hand had sat at a table close to the girls; he had positioned himself in such a way that he could see them perfectly.
Sally glanced at him in a slightly flirty manner and then gave a slight giggle. She then whispered to her sister "My god he is so handsome don't you think?"
"He is so handsome" Alice replied, she turned to look at the man briefly "so handsome" she repeated.
The man noticed the two women looking directly his way the man behind the bar came up to the man with a hook.
"Captain Hook it is a honour as always to see. What do you have to drink? It's on me"
The man looked up at the dirty old bar man "A large bottle of rum Mortimer" he said as he glanced back at the two women "And whatever those two young women want."
Mortimer turned his head to see that the Captain was on about the new woman who came in moments ago
Mortimer made sure that the Captain was served first, as it was the proper thing to do, and then proceeded to bring rum and ale to the two women.
"Courtesy of the Captain" He said in an oily manor before retreating to the bar.
"The Captain?" Alice wondered aloud, the thought remained in her head only a moment, after all, a free drink was a free drink and she was not going to waste it.
"Alice I think we should at least go say thank you to the man who bought us these drinks." With Sally walked towards the table where the Captain was sitting. "My sister and I would like to say thank you for the drinks."
Alice stood shyly in the background
"Yeah, thanks " she said awkwardly "A lot, don't often get bought drinks. . ." she trailed off at loss of what to say next, she felt her cheeks flush in mild embarrassment, so she turned her face to the ground slightly, so that no one would notice.
Sally laughed at her sister slightly "Sorry about my sister I afraid she a bit loss for words. No but thank you indeed sir for the drinks although I doubt there is anything we can do in return for the favour."
"Perhaps you two lovely ladies would like to sit with me and talk?" he asked a seductive grin on his face.
"Perhaps introductions are in order first." said Sally "I am Sally Winters and this is my sister Alice. And you sir are?"
The entire tavern fell silent everybody was amazed that these two women knew not who this man was.
"Who am I?" The man said in shock "I am Captain James Hook" He raised his hook above his head for added effect "I own the surrounding seas and rule over this port town, surely you must have heard of me"
Sally just burst into fits of laughter "Oh sorry but whoever you are you certainly do look the part but Captain James Hook does not exists"
"I most certainly do exist" He said almost angrily "I don't know who you think I am, or why you find it so funny, perhaps you are a simpleton?"
Alice took the chance to speak up
"You're an actor, probably hired by the fare, considering how nice your costume is, yet to see any attendee with such a nice outfit. And don't call us simpletons!"
"Am I correct in saying Alice that he just insulted us? "asked Sally as she looked down at the tanker of ale the man had got her.
"He insulted us, he insinuated that we were stupid" Alice said "We'd only be stupid if we believed his bull shit!" Alice laughed coldly
"Too true. But really who's the stupid one here out of us; the man that insults a lady or the man that insults the look of a pirate?" She asked with she downed her first tanker of ale and then down her second tanker in a mere two minutes.
"Oh, that beast" Alice jerked her head towards the man "is surely the stupid one, or at least the most impolite"
Hook was beginning to lose his temper never had he been insulted by two women.
Sally gave up on insulting the man and went to the bar and bought two glasses of absinthe "Alice I've decided to get rat arsed care to join me?" she said as she held a glass out to her sister.
"I would love to join you" Alice too the glass of Absinthe firmly within her hand, being well acquainted with the effects of Absinthe, she knew that if the mix was strong enough, it would probably take that one glass to get her drunk, so she did what one should never do when drinking Absinthe, and downed the entire glass in one, allowing a stupid grin to crawl upon her face.
All the men within the tavern where amazed by these two women.
Sally did the same and jumped upon the stage to singing one of her few favourite songs.
"Something has changed within me, something is not the same. I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game..."
Had Alice not been so drunk, she would have been embarrassed, but, she was not. Had she any talent for singing, she would have joined in, as it was, her musical talent was on the piano, and there was not one in the tavern, so Alice sat back and mimed playing the keys of a piano.
"Too late for second guessing too late to go back to sleep it's time to trust my instincts close my eyes and leap. It's time to try defying gravity! And you won't bring me down!...Come on babe why don't we paint the down and all that Jazz...Can anybody find me somebody to...love! Find me somebody to love" haven sung a load of nonsense Sally managed to get all the men talk again and found a man with a fiddle to which she made him play a merry tune. Sally held her hands out to her sister and began dancing with her.
"I tell you what Alice even if were lost and almost got killed by that arsewhole I've enjoyed tonight so far. A bit of flirting, free drink, an argument and am drunk ha"
They spun in circles around the floor, laughing in their drunken stupor.
"It really has been a good night" Alice agreed "I daren't think about what hangovers we will have in the morning though!"
The man who had called himself 'Hook' had stood from his seat, having grown tired of just watching the strange girls. He walked up to them and said in a tone just loud enough to be audible to them over the music.
"How about you two join me back at my ship?" He said silkily.
Sally stopped and stared at him unsure for a change she grabbed her sister and stood quietly.
"Go away, creeper!" Alice said to the man, angrily "We wouldn't go with you, even if you paid us!"
"Alice I'm rather tired now..."surprisingly Sally passed out.
"Are you sure don't wish to stay upon my ship your sister is tired and I fear that If I leave you most of these men would more than likely ravish you." he said with a smirk.
"And how are we to know that you won't 'ravish us' once we are on your ship?"
"I am a gentleman and I give you my word."
"Fine!" Alice said reluctantly, "But, you touch us, you die" she threatened.
Sally began to stir and awoke "Alice?"
"I'm here" Alice said "We're going with him, we haven't another choice" Alice sighed, almost angrily at the thought of going with the man.
Sally began to stand on her two feet. "I'm going straight to sleep mind when we get to where ever we go!"
"That sounds like a fine plan" Alice agreed, and yawned, she shot a nervous glance towards the man "I just hope he really is as trustworthy as he says he is"
"Come on then. Right sir, where are we going?" yawned Sally
"To my ship, you shall be staying in my own personal quarters" He said
"With you?" Alice asked, nervously
"With me" He confirmed.
"Instead of gabbing on can we bloody make a move?"shouted Sally growing irritated by the tension between her sister and this man professing to be Captain Hook.
The man offered each sister an arm, as it was the gentlemanly thing to do
"It's not too far to port" He assured them "You'll get some rest soon enough, and some food if you want it"
Sally accepted his arm without a doubt and rested her head against his shoulder "I just want to sleep"
Alice hesitantly rested her hand on his arm and let the man lead her from the tavern, towards the port, several large ships where moored there.
"Do you see the largest of the ships?" The man asked
Alice nodded
"That is where you shall be staying"
"You most get paid a lot to earn such a fancy ship" answered Sally.
"Well, being Captain Hook, does have it's perks" He replied "I want for nothing, well almost nothing"
"That made no sense?" answered Sally as she gazed up at the large ship "How do we get on board?"
The man raised an eyebrow, looked upwards and shouted "Send down the ramp!"
Further along the ship, suddenly a section of it opened like a gate, and a long ramp was pushed along so that it came level with the docks
"This way girls" The man said.
"Hey Captain..."yawned Sally "Thank you and sorry for being so ill mannered" again Sally yawned "Bad day"
"I'm quite sure you are sorry, I don't blame you, no one looks to me kindly at first"
They walked in silence up the ramp and into his quarters
"Make yourselves comfortable" He said.
AN: Right people this is a new fanfic that am writing with metamo hope you like this new one.
Disclaimer to owning Captain Hook and the songs in bold which are
Queen- Somebody to love
Wicked-Defying Gravity
Chicago- All that Jazz