"Yes Sir." They each answered in turn.
Tap. Tap…Tap tap tap….Tap. Remus and Peter looked up to see three girls standing in the door way the one closest to them taping on the door frame.
With out waiting for the Captain to look up and signal them in; the girls walked in. "Hello Daddy!" The closest one said her light brown shoulder length hair slightly messed up from the wind outside. And her deep blue eyes filled with enjoyment.
"Good Afternoon Papa" The second girl replied. Remus and Peter stared at her trying to figure out if she was related to the first. Her dark brown hair was down to her shoulder blades and was layered as well as tapered (for those of you who care.) She had dark brown eyes to match and smiled at the Captain.
The third came in afterwards not saying a word. She had long red hair and startling green eyes.
"We brought you some lunch, knowing that you wouldn't eat any otherwise." The first girl said.
Only then did Remus and Peter realize that the girls were carrying a few trays of food.
"Ah thank you Cadence. Now you three go along I have to finish this meeting. I'll see you in a bit."
Nodding the girls left. "Very well men, you know your orders, go to them."
Remus and Peter left the Captain office thinking about the three girls. "I didn't know they had girls on this ship!" Peter Pettigrew smiled.
"Neither did I, they appear to be the Captain's daughters" Remus Lupin responded to his friend.
"You Lads talking about Ashley, Cadence and Lily?" One of the other ship hands asked them. The boys remembered his name vaguely to be Matthew.
"Is that their names?" Peter asked.
"Yeah, only girls on this entire ship, but they are off limits." Matthew laughed.
"Why is that?" Remus asked.
"Well Cadence…the girl with blue eyes and Ashley…the girl with brown eyes are the Captain's daughters. Talked to Ashley one day, apparently their mother passed away so the girls stay with their father on the ship. The third girl, Lily…she is their cousin. Lily and Ashley are 17, well Cadence is 19. The captain would have our heads if we hurt any of those girls." Matthew explained.
"Why is Lily on the ship then?" Remus continued.
"None of us really know, we think it may be because she and Ashley are real close and she couldn't bear having her away for such a long time."
They had been sailing for a week now. Remus and Peter had quickly learned that Ashley and Lily knew the ship like the back of their hands and didn't do anything the 'proper' way. They were always showing the ship hands what they were doing wrong. Cadence appeared to the more of a proper lady. She would always wear dresses and didn't help out on the ship, only talking to the other girls and her father.
"REMUS!" Ashley exclaimed, "How many times do I have to show you have to tie a correct knot that isn't right!"
Remus laughed at Ashley, "Apparently one more."
"I don't see why we don't just throw you over board, and then we wouldn't have to spend all this time teaching you how to tie knots."
"True, but then I would be all wet and you would be missing my company."
"Why would I miss your company? I only need Lily, Cadence and my father's company. You ship hands mean nothing to me nothing!" Ashley started to laugh.
"You know Ash, if you tell your self that a few more times you might actually believe it." Lily jumped down from where she was standing and made her way over to Ashley and Remus.
"Hello Remus."
"Hello Lily."
"Having trouble with your knots again? How did you ever make it as a ship hand before us?"
"I really don't know, must have been on the incompetent ships I guess."
"You guess? With your technique you most definitely were." Lily ducked behind Remus, looking over his shoulder.
"Lily what are you doing?"
"SHHH! Cadence is right there and if she sees me she is going to try and convince me not to help out."
As soon as Lily said that Ashley dove behind Lily also trying to hide from Cadence. Unfortunatley for them Cadence saw them right away.
"LILY! AHSLEY! What are you doing? You should be getting ready for tonight!"
"Remus! It's your entire fault! Grow taller!" Ashley whispered to Remus who was already towering over her, before answering her sister. "We were showing Remus here the correct way to tie a knot. Now why would we be getting ready for tonight?"
"Because Father decided that we are going to be having a fancy dinner tonight, says that he wants to talk to us about something."
"Hmm I wonder what that could be?" Ashley muttered under her breath.
Lily stifled a giggle before turning to Remus. "I guess we should be going, we'll see you later?"
"Yes you will see me later."
As the girls departed Remus walked over to Peter, "Any sign of them yet?"
"No but they should be here by night fall."
Remus nodded and went back to tying knots.
"Now girls you know that there is always a chance of being attacked by Pirates right?" The Captain looked at his daughters and niece.
"Yes Papa but we can fight them off can't we Lily?"
"You bet!"
The Captain smiled at the two girls, "I am sure that you could but to be safe if Pirates attack I want you to not look back and get as far away from this boat as you can."
The girls nodded, although two of the nods were quite reluctant. Suddenly Matthew, Remus and Peter all ran in. "CAPTAIN THERE IS A PROBLEM ON THE DECK!" Remus shouted.
The Captain looked irritated, "Can't you boys deal with it."
"No Sir, there is a larger problem then we can handle." Matthew responded looking right at the girls as if saying he couldn't say in front of them.
"Alright, sorry m'dears but we will talk later." With that the Captain and Matthew ran out.
Remus and Peter stayed behind and looked that them, "You guys come with us we need to get you to safety!" Peter squirmed.
"Why? What is going on you guys?" Ashley looked at them surprised.
"We can't say just come on!" Remus grabbed both Ashley and Lily's wrist as Peter grabbed Cadence's.
The two boys led the girls onto the deck where they saw Pirates attacking the ship.
"PIRATES WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US!" Ashley pulled her wrist of Remus's hand.
"AHA got you." A large man around Remus's height grabbed her around the waste. With in a minute Remus and Peter were holding the remaining two the exact same way.
"WHAT IS GOING ON?" Lily started to struggle against Remus.
"Sorry but we will have to explain later. The boys started to pull the girls to the Pirate's ship when Ashley noticed her dad on the ground with a Pirates sword pointed on him. Quickly Ashley bit her captures hand and he immediately let go.
"PAPA!" She screamed as she ran towards him. Ashley threw herself in front of her father and glared at the Pirate.
"Don't you dare kill him."
"Ashley, darling please get out of here I can't have you taken away from me." Her father pleaded behind her.
"I can't Papa."
The Pirate looked at her and laughed calling her capture over.
"Take him to the brig; I will get this one on the boat." He laughed before roughly grabbing Ashley around the waist and jumping back onto his boat. He quickly threw her into one of the cabin rooms, before locking the door and leaving her. A minute later Lily and Cadence joined her in the room before it was once again locked.
"Cadence where is Papa?" Ashley started to sob.
Lily moved over to her best friend, "Ash Uncle was taken to the brig, the Pirate's burned our ship down."
Ashley started to sob harder when Lily and Cadence heard the door unlock and watched as the Captain of the Pirate ship walked into the room.
"Evening ladies, you have no idea how much of a surprise it was to find three ladies as yourselves on board of that ship."
Ashley stopped crying at the sound of his voice and looked up before realizing who it was and glaring at him. "You foul loathsome cockroach! How dare you do this to us! DO THIS TO OUR FATHER; OUR FRIENDS!?! Ashley marched up to him and started hitting him in the chest.
The captain stumbled a few steps before regaining composer and grabbing Ashley's hands. "Do me a favor girl and don't ever hit me again…as for friends, I think you should meet two of my loyal crew men."