Alicia's POV

Prologue

"Where are you calling from? Australia?" Alicia joked with the stranger on the other end.

They had been talking two hours straight. It was a wonder that her mother, Madison, had not come to check on her yet. Madison was very protective, and that was the reason Alicia loved her and also was annoyed by her sometimes.

"Sweetheart, you're too cute," the voice with Australian accent replied after a hoarse laugh.

There it was again. Alicia felt her heart flutter and started to grin ear to ear. It was so weird that a stranger who she had just met by radio would cause this effect on her, let alone a woman.

Maybe I'm not that straight like I thought. Alicia got lost in her head.

"Alicia, are you there?" the stranger asked.

"Umm, yeah, Elyza, I'm here," Alicia said after clearing her throat. "Where are you then?"

"On a fishing boat. Just me, my brother and his pregnant wife. I don't even know where we are. And who know when it's gonna rain and shit," Elyza replied.

"Tell me what you can see. Maybe we can come get you."

"I can see the fire in the Santa Monica Mountains. Is that your north or your south?"

Alicia looked outside the window of her room and replied. "North."

"Okay, we're just south of that. Maybe two miles off shore," Elyza said and continued. "Do you think you can help us?"

"I… I'll see what I can do."

Alicia went to Travis and her mother first. And just about when she was going to convince them to help her new friend, Strand showed up. It was not shocking that Strand refused to help them with the only reason like 'This is my boat'.

Alicia had never trusted this guy, but she knew if she showed a sign that she disagreed with him only a little, he might drop them off anywhere and any time.

She hated this, and she hated to tell Elyza the bad news.

"Elyza," Alicia spoke in the walkie talkie as soon as she reached the highest deck of the boat.

"Yes, sweetie, what's up?"

"I'm sorry. We can't come get you."

Elyza did not say anything. Alicia figured that she might take time to process the information, but ten seconds was already too long.

"Elyza?"

"It's okay, Alicia," Elyza sounded surprisingly calm.

"It's not okay. If I owned this boat, I would help you. You guys need to keep trying and…"

The Aussie interrupted her. "I got you. I'll see you soon."

What?

Present

There seemed to be a commotion on the boat. Nick and Chris went for a swim, but Travis ended up in the water as well. Madison started shouting and urged everyone to get back on the boat.

Alicia did not understand what was happening until Strand got up in her face again.

"What have you done?"

"Wha… what do you mean?" Alicia asked and looked through the binoculars her mother had just shoved in her hand.

She could see a sinking boat turning upside down from far away, but now she could see it full of holes caused by bullets.

"We might be next," Strand spat in her face and went back to his control room.

Shit. I'm so stupid.

Her mother came back to stand next to her again. With one look, she seemed to know what was going on. So did Travis.

"Mom, Travis, I'm so sorry," Alicia said genuinely.

"It's okay, honey. We're going to be okay," Madison squeezed her shoulder. "Strand said we might get away from them if we leave now."

Travis did not seem to have the same optimism. "We need to be prepared for what might happen. Let's get everyone inside just in case."

Alicia got back to the room she shared with Ofelia and locked the door. She needed some alone time to think. It was not her fault that Elyza sounded so nice and caring. It was nice to talk to someone who seemed to get her. She even told Elyza about Matt, and Elyza was so sweet when she comforted her.

Who am I kidding? It's totally my fault. Alicia thought. That girl probably knows what to say. She's probably done this to many girls… many people.

"Damn it!" Alicia cursed and banged the side of her fist to the wall next to her.

A knock on the door followed the bang. "Alicia!"

It was her brother.

"Go away, Nick!"

"No, Lysh, listen. They're coming. They're catching up on us!"

Alicia could hear the sound of a speedboat before Nick could finish talking. She looked outside the window and saw a white object heading towards them very fast.

"Shit. I saw it."

"Alicia, come outside so we can protect each other."

She hated to admit that she was scared, but this was not the time. She walked to the door and unlocked it.

"I love that you said we could protect each other instead of you protecting me," Alicia told her brother.

"I know you can take care of yourself… and me," Nick said and grinned.

Since all the crazy things happened, her brother had been nothing but helpful to everyone, and Alicia could not be more proud.

"You know we're gonna get robbed because of me, right?" Alicia asked.

"You fucked up. Everyone can fuck up. Who cares? I fucked up a million times," Nick shrugged. "Come on. Everyone is in the dining room."

Everyone was really in the dining room, except Strand. Alicia guessed he was not here because he had to control the boat and check the perimeter, but he soon joined them.

"From my calculation, that damn speedboat will dock us in five minutes. If anyone has any ideas, you should speak up right now," Strand said.

"I think we should…," Alicia started.

"Not you, Alicia," Strand cut her off.

"I'm sorry," Alicia mumbled.

"Say that again if slash when we survive this," Strand replied coldly.

"Come on, man. She already feels bad enough," Travis came to rescue like he always did.

"I don't wanna hear 'sorry', big guy. I wanna hear a plan," Strand turned to face him. "Why don't you…?"

A voice chimed in. "Hi. Am I interrupting something?"

It was a blonde girl in a diving suit, wet from head to toe. She would be so out of place if she did not have a knife to Ofelia's throat. Her accent made Alicia realize who she was right away.

"Elyza…," Alicia said mindlessly.

"Oh, hey, sweetheart," Elyza said and smirked. "You're really cute just like I thought."

"Shut up," Alicia said angrily and stepped closer to her.

However, Daniel was faster.

"Let my daughter go," he pleaded. "How… how did you…?"

"Get here?" Elyza finished the sentence for him. "When you guys were busy looking at the speedboat my big bro is driving, I was already half-way here. Isn't that smart?"

Nobody replied.

"Now, follow me out to the deck. Slowly, one by one, or my hand might slip on this gorgeous' neck," Elyza ordered.

They did as she said and they were outside just in time the speedboat arrived. A man with blonde hair stepped on Strand's boat with a shotgun in his hands. He looked almost just like Elyza except that he was a man with facial hair. There was no pregnant woman with him.

Of course, she lied about that, too. Just to get my sympathy.

"Greetings," the man said and pointed his gun to everyone one by one.

He seemed to enjoy what he was doing even more than Elyza. Alicia thought he might even be crazy judging from his smile and the way he was looking at them.

"Luther, give me my gun," Elyza said.

"Right," Luther walked over to his sister and gave her the pistol he tucked behind his jeans. "Here."

Elyza quickly nudged Ofelia towards Alicia and switched from her knife to her gun.

"I actually hate using knives. It's too intimate," Elyza explained her action to Alicia.

It only made Alicia angrier, but all she could do was glaring at her, especially when she was pointing her handgun at them.

"All right, everyone, move to the middle," Luther said while waving his shotgun around.

"Do as he said. We're only here for food," Elyza spoke to Alicia specifically again.

"Are we?" Luther asked after he heard her.

"Luth, we talked about this. You already killed a bunch of people on that boat," Elyza told her brother.

"It was fun," Luther said with no regrets and added. "Besides, who said anything about killing? These girls are too pretty to die, don't you think?"

Alicia was disgusted by his words. She noticed that Elyza felt the same.

"Luth," Elyza started. "Why don't you go look for food? I'll make sure they all stay put, kay?"

"You didn't answer my question, Lyz. I thought you of all people would understand. I haven't had some since…," Luther said and paused. "Don't you get it? We have guns. We can do whatever we want, whomever we w-…"

Luther did not finish the sentence.

It all happened so fast. Chris took a chance when Luther was not looking and attacked him from behind. Alicia heard a gunshot ring out, but it was not from Elyza's. The blonde girl just stood there with her mouth open while Chris kept beating on her brother. It was obvious that the blond man was stronger and started to gain dominance, or it was because a part of the shotgun shell scratched Chris' waist.

When Luther got on top of him, Daniel was already there with the shotgun pointing to Luther's chest.

"Close your eyes, Chris," Daniel said calmly.

Chris did so. And before Luther could finish the word 'Please', Daniel already decided his fate.

Alicia saw blood splattering on Chris and Daniel the same time as Luther body fell into the sea.

"Luth…," Elyza mumbled.

Her voice brought Alicia back to where she was. Elyza dropped her hand along with her gun uselessly by her side. Alicia took that chance to snatch it away from her, but Elyza did not seem to care.

Before Alicia could do anything, Daniel was already walking towards them. Alicia could tell what he was planning to do, so she stepped in front of Elyza instinctively. She did not care if Elyza would use her knife on her. She already knew Elyza was not a killer and she did not deserve to die.

"Out of my way, Alicia," Daniel said.

"Daniel, listen, she's not a psycho like her brother," Alicia tried to reason with him.

"She threatened my daughter."

"She wasn't gonna hurt anyone."

Daniel did not seem to be convinced.

"Papa, I think Alicia is right," Ofelia supported her. "If she wanted to hurt us, she would have shot Chris already."

"Besides, she might know something we don't know," Alicia added.

The man took time to consider and nodded. "All right. I hope you're right. You better not bring us troubles again, or I will kill both you and the pirate."

Daniel had always scared her, but after a while, she already got used to him. He walked away with his daughter.

Travis took Chris inside to tend to his wound. Strand went back to his control room, and Nick just stretched like nothing happened.

Madison was approaching them when Alicia turned to face Elyza.

"Thank you, Alicia. I didn't expect you to-…"

Elyza was cut off by Alicia's right hook.

It worked just like in the movies. But ouch!

"What should we do with her?" Alicia asked her mother while looking at the unconscious beauty.

"We lock her up," Madison replied.

A/N: It's weird that FtWD's season premiere gave me so much Lexark feels when Elyza Lex doesn't even exist. xD I meant to write this next month because I'm so busy now, but it only makes sense to write after the ep has just aired. Feel free to comment. :)