The strong scent of whisky wafted up to his nose, tickling his senses and drawing him from his sleep.
He was expecting to find the captain sat on the chair next to the bed and he concluded that he was right when he tiredly opened his eyes and saw the man staring at him, with tired expression on his face and a bottle of Lomond's Whisky.
"Good Morning Captain…"- The journalist mumbled low, rubbing his eyes softly.
"Morning"
"What time is it?"
"It´s sunrise, boy. Too early"
"All right. I´ll take a bath then…"- Tintin rose up from the bed stretching out like a lazy cat, exhibiting his slender body.
´Blistering barnacles' – Haddock thought to himself, watching the boy walk around completely naked like if it was the most natural thing in the world.
He took another sip in his bottle, trying to focus in another thing like his map on the wall. Anything to take the image of the young man of his mind. After the bath, the young journalist appeared properly dressed and ready for a new adventure, but he reminded that there was no adventure in his knowledge.
He solved the mystery of the Emperor´s Jade statues a couple of weeks ago and since then he did not receive any other request of investigation.
"What cologne is that?" – Haddock asked curious, smelling a sweet and musky scent.
"What cologne?"
"That cologne of yours, lad!"
"But… I don´t wear cologne captain"
"Thundering typhoons! Is that your own smell, lad?"
"Well, I guess it is"
"Er… All right lad. What kind of adventure you´ll put me in today?"
"I don´t have any mission, so I guess it would be the perfect chance to sail"
"Sail? To where, boy?"
"I was thinking…How about travel to find the Bermuda Triangle?"
"Are you bats lad? There´s no such a place as the 'Bermuda Triangle'!"
"How do you know captain? Have you ever tried to find it before?"
"Nonsense lad! Of course not. Why should I search for something that don´t even exists?"
"Come on captain! Just give it a chance! Who knows how many adventures we might find out?"
Haddock mumbled to himself before giving another sip in his drink. He knew that it wasn´t going to end up well, but he never resisted the gleaming eyes of Tintin when the reporter was excited.
"All right lad! We can go, but I swear that if we got caught by mermaids, I´ll not be answering by my actions!"
"Yes! Thank you captain! You´re not going to regret this! Can we go tonight?"
"Nonsense again, boy. We can´t travel at night because it´s too dangerous. We´ll go in the morning"
"All right. But we´ll go as soon as the sun rises, okay?"
"Deal"
During the rest of the day, Tintin engaged in assort his things to put in in his bag. He was picking some clothes, first aid kit and investigator´s kit. He would never travel to unknown places without it.
It was early in the morning when Haddock and Tintin left the mansion and headed to the pier. The captain didn´t take too much to set everything up and store the luggage in his room.
"I´m ready captain"
"All right. It´s going to be a long trip.
Haddock loved the sea, though he had only been there for a couple years ago. And as he climbed up the rigging he remembered why. The wind was blowing into the sails and it made the captain feel like he was on his old times again.
As he reads the map, he concludes that they needed to go to the Gulf of Mexico first and then pass by Bahamas to finally find the triangle.
To be continued…
A/N: Here it goes. My first Tintin slash fiction *-*I hope you guys like it. I´ going to antecipate myself and warn you guys that there will be only 4 chapters. It´s a
very short story.
p.s: sorry if there´s any language mistakes. My beta is traveling,so unfortunatelly I can´t ask her to do the beta for me;.;