This is a story I've been thinking about for a while, I don't own treasure planet, Please review/comment…. Um happy New Year, Christmas, updates soon, I'm not done with my other story if you guys are curious….. Enjoy!
Six year old James sat on the dock waiting for his father's return. This is how he spent almost every free moment. He was board, tired of drawing in his sketch book and tired of counting the clouds overhead. His mother was in the yard hanging up laundry wile Daisy, James older sister read out loud the story she was reading to her mother
"'My name is Salamanca Tree Hiddle and I am a country girl at heart says gramps'" she read "'but when I was 13 years old my father plucked me out of my home in Bybanks Kentucky like a weed and moved me half way across the country….'" She continued out of her absolute favorite book "Walk Two Moons" which had been her mother's when she still lived upon earth, Daisy was like that, she always wanted to go on adventures, she always dreamed of places such as wonderland or Nederland or better yet James favorite Treasure Planet she always said that when she's old enough she's shakin' this crummy plant off her shoes and heading on an adventure. James always drew pictures for her of what he imagined those places to look like and the characters. James was an exceptional artist he was far more advanced than kids even in Daisy's age (11). Meanwhile Ava, James one year old sister sat on a blanket giggling madly as a very old pink blob named morph flew around turning into a rattle then a binky then a teddy bear. (Binky? That's what you call them right?! )
"Come on dad" James whispered for he had promised to come home that afternoon.
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"James" Daisy called many hours later "Time to go inside"
"But!" James complained "I bet daddy's gunna be here any minute!"
"Nope, pip squeak lets go, momma has a snack ready"
"I'm not hungry and am not a pipsqueak!"
"Alright, alright grandma, don't get your bloomers in a knot, skip your naptime?"
"Alright!" James called "I'm coming"
They walked hand in hand to the end of the dock until Daisy yelled "Race ya!" and they sprinted towards the house James beating her to the door.
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James mother reach out and pulled James into a hug when he reached the top of the hill. "He'll be home" she whispered.
"Mom?" Daisy asked shutting her book "are we done with work?"
"Yes honey"
"you hear that James" she said "I think I have a knew suspicion on where we can find Treasure Planet" she said "Ben gave me this yesterday at the Ben Bow 2, It's a picture of dad, and uncle Doppler on Treasure Planet, that plant looks familiar" she said pointing at the picture.
And so an adventure began in the back yard with Daisy, and James until the sun rose high up in the sky and shone like a golden deplume. James though had left the treasure hunting to the ladies (Ava and Daisy) and sat by the dock waiting for dad, the summers evening settling on Montresser until his mother's voice rang out over the yard "DAISY, DON'T PLAY BY MRS. DONEWODDY'S GARDEN" she walked into the garden and down the dock to sit with her son "James" she sighed "I just got off the phone with Jim, he…." She stroked her sons thick brown hair, he had a toothy grin and his father's bright big blue eyes.
"He… his ship is a little late, and uhh, James, your father isn't umm coming, for another week or so."
"But!" James said "But Daddy, he, dad, he-he promised!" he stood up and ran into the woods. Like he always did. He was a runner, and you couldn't change that about him, if you stopped him from running he would get very angry like his father, you had to let James go, work things out.
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It wasn't until very late that night until James came out of the woods. Mrs. Hawkins gave him a mug of hot chocolate and took him into his attic bedroom which was very cold, (because James had left the window open climbing onto the roof) it was also very old, it had one brick wall where the fireplace goes through, and three wooden ones and the room was like a triangle with windows and art work taped and pinned everywhere with a big old wooden book shelf filled with all kinds of books from fairytales, to adventures, biographys to map books, and an big wooden bed and a beautiful spiral staircase through the center of the floor, James stared out the window sadly while his mother went to the book case and searched for a night time book to read as his father always did.
"What Captain James Hawkins shall we read tonight? How about a… cute, happily ever after story?" she asked pulling a book out of the shelf.
"Naw, there's no such thing."
"Alrightie then,"
"How about an adventure book?"
"maybe"
"How about a once upon a time?"
"no thank you, in fact you can give those to Daisy"
"Alright James what do you want to read"
"mmmmm…. Tell me a story Momma, about you"
"About me! James! Your father helped discovered Treasure Planet, has been to earth and back, discovered new galaxy's and planets and portals and black holes, and even evented dozens of solar surfers and God only knows what else and you want a story about me?!"
"Yes, you never talk about you"
"Sure I do"
"Tell me the story of how you and daddy met"
"That's not to exciting and I have told you that one before"
"Please"
"Alright where do I begin?"
"When your parents where kid napped"
"See! You do know this story!"
Mrs. Hawkins lit the candle on the bed side table and turned the lights off so that the glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceilings and walls shone brightly.
"I grew up on a far off planet that had lots of bad people and bad things always happening. When I was little it was only me and my maw and paw, but the bad people were angry at my parents for their beliefs. You see the people on my planet dint believe in freedom for all species including all aliens and animals and even people. So they kidnapped my parents and killed them and I was all alone. I had nobody but I knew I had to leave the planet, so I boarded the first ship I saw at 11 and became cabin girl, they said that I was the best kid spacer in the biz so they hired me and rehired me many times and told me that I never had to worry about being unemployed, I quickly learned how to do all the positions on the ship, quite the little pirate, but no matter how hard I tried I was just a cabin girl. When I came to the age of about….17 or 18 I wanted to navigate my own ship to and lead it, and so they let me every captain from here to kingdom come said that I was most recommended girl to ever be a captain and gave me a good sized ship and cargo to import from Montresser space port to a planet about three weeks away, I hired a crew consisting of the only family I had…the pirates I had met over the years, but just as we were about to leave your father sprinted on the ship and said "can I speak to the captain" and so he did he told me he needed one more ship voyage to graduate his grade in school, he was despite having postponed it to the last minute.
"I'll do anything" he begged "I'll even be cabin boy"
"Sorry lad, little Tommy is our cabin boy" I said back
"Oh, Kit, If he wants to be cabin boy he can, I'll be look out guy up top in the cup" he said pointing at the top of the sails.
"Hey Tommy, your just a little kid, and that's Captain Kit Carson to you" I said
"I'm 14 captain Kit"
"You don't want to be on this ship" Tommy told your dad just kidding "Kit Isa tough girl"
But your father still begged "Please he said I need to pass this course"
"What do you say men?" she asked they all agreed so I let him on my ship
"Co- cabin boy" I told him "maybe you can work your way up"
"Tommy you are in charge of….."
"Jim Hawkins" said Jim
"Of Jim Hawkins, and Jim you do whatever Tommy tells you two, and Tommy this time can you actually do what Mr. Jones tells you to do?"
"Yes, mam"
"Good, now men, raise these sails, let's get this show on the road"
"Jim" Tommy called "I saw a dirty toilet that needs cleaning, come on"
Jim gave me a look of pity as Tommy grabbed him and pulled him away "Oh yahhhh, I also saw that all the floors are really dirty" he said as they walked down the stairs.
The ride went smoothly that day. I remember when Jim came to me that night exosted "That kid is one hard boss" he said "even harder than this boss I had as a kid" he said
"Yeah well Tommy is funny but likes to procrastinate, I've known him since he was 11"
"Wow, how long you been sailing Captain Carson"
"Since I was 11, and it's Kit"
"11! Wow you must know a lot." He smiled trying to flirt
"Eye lass, I know every inch of every boat in this space port, sailing is all I know how to do"
Jim gave me a pity look and said "What happened to you, I mean at 11" he sat next to me and looked in my eyes, nobody had looked in my eyes like that
"Oy" I told him "I don't do backstories, I'm a pirate not some little sappy school girl"
"You're not like any pirate" Jim said "I've met some, you're too sweet"
"Well, I am a pirate, what about you Jim, are you some smart rich boy who's daddy sent you off to school?"
Jim looked away "My dad left me when I was 14, he… I don't know… he just left. After that I failed all my classes until I found a map when I was 17 that took me on an adventure of a life time to Treasure Planet and back after that I was accepted in school on a scholarship and turned my life around."
"Well" I told him "my parents were killed when I was 11"
"Wow, Pirate girl, were kinda alike"
Well James, let's just say that wasn't our first night time talk and soon he dazzled me and four years later we were married. It's silly really how I being such a tough girl feel for your father. But I am not the pirate I once was baby and I fell for him, and after Daisy came along I had to stop what I loved. Spacing, sailing, being a pirate. I gave my ship to my pirate brother Tommy and came and settled down."
"Momma" James asked "do you still wish you got to sail"
Mrs. Hawkins thought "no, no honey, that's in my past, but one day I will sail again don't you worry, I'll sail right on through those clouds and striate up into the castle in the sky, with the good lord himself"
"Momma, one day I will go sailing just like you did, and discover new things too"
"I hope so, honey it's something that you will remember forever, goodnight" she whispered
"No momma, I can't sleep, one more story"
"Like what"
"Ummm…. How about your tat-toes"
"well honey I have quite a few of tattoos so that will take a while they are mostly about my travels and my family" she said pointing at a star, a cross, a tribal ring around her arm, a compass, whales, and planets, coins and a sun and a single bird.
"except that one" she said pointing at her side was a Earth lion "I have no idea how or when I got that one, you see there was often rum on the ships, terrible but good, like sometimes when you look back on your life and see your scars or…or your art honey, never mind… but your art James it's beautiful, Goodnight you little spacer, sweet dreams" she said kissing her sons' forehead and walked out of the room. She walked into her girls rooms and kissed them goodnight along with Morph. Spending yet another night alone in the master bedroom that over looked the dock, in the distance she could see the space port. She looked at the pictures on the wall, one was of Kit's family and the other one was of James and his mother and his father, Jim kept that picture because he always believed that his father loved him no matter what. She waited eagerly for his return lighting her cigarette and pouring herself a shot of liquor. "Jim" was all she said that night "oh, Jim".
Thanks please review/favorite! Updates soon! On all of my stories, Alex isn't done yet.
