Scarlett's POV
The next morning I woke to my cousin banging on my door. I quickly for some reason jumped out of bed and opened the door. Not to my surprise she was still a wee bit drunk.
"Oh Cuz! I forgot to tell ya. I'll be staying in today. I swear the whole world is moving against me." she says as she falls backwards onto the floor behind her.
I just shake my head as I grab her and try to pick her up but she thinks I am having a tickle fight with her and she begins to tickle me. Oh for the love of god.
"Stop it!" I yell at her in between laughs.
Then we hear the elevator door open and we both look up to see Munder and Dodge staring at us. Both smiling at us then looking at one another. Oh great how am I going to explain this.
"Hey you! Your the one who helped my cousin last night. Well you argued for her on my side you and you brought her up here." my cousin says as she pulls me to the ground and stands up.
"Yeah we just came to check on her." Dodge says as he looks at my drunken cousin.
"Well there she is." my cousin says pointing to me then walking into my room and shutting the door.
"Hey! That's my room!" I yell back at her. "Go sleep in your room with your beau!"
"No! I don't wanna!" My cousin yells back with a laugh.
Ugh really? This is all that I need right now. I look back up to Dodge and Munder.
"Too bad you can't pick your family huh?" I say as I move to stand up and both of them offer me their hands.
I raise my eyebrow at them but take both of their hands and the feeling comes back full force but not the electric of flame feeling this is more of a lustful feeling. I gulp as I use their help to stand up but then look at both of them and can clearly see they felt what I did. I can't blame that feeling on the carpet either.
"Well, uh thanks for helping me and coming to check on me. I apprecaite it." I tell them as I tuck a piece of my hair behind my ear.
"Just glad to see you are alright." Dodge says.
"And that the drink didn't mess up your hair." Munder adds.
"Oh right my hair." I say as I run my fingers through it. "Nope all good. thanks for everything you guys. It's rare to meet someone like you two."
"I don't know about that." Munder says as he looks to Dodge.
"We were just glad that we could help out is all." Dodge then tells me.
Then my door opens and my cousin tackles me back to the ground.
"What is with you and wanting me to make contact with the ground?!" I yell at her.
"There is a costume party tonight. First place wins 100 bucks!" she says in a drunken laugh. "You could totally win."
"I don't know about that and did you brush your teeth lately?" I ask her.
"No I just got the message and decided to tell you." she says then looks back to Dodge and Munder. "So which one of them got you laid?"
I push her off and of me and quickly stand up.
"Neither of them. They helped me out that's all." I tell her.
"Uh huh cuz they are both males they don't just help out without wanting something in return." she tells me with a wink as she walks into her room this time.
"Right and on that note I am going to go get dressed. I want to know what happened after I left though so can you guys wait here?" I ask both of them.
"Yeah, sure." Dodge answers for the both of them.
I smile and run back inside just to change into a pair of shorts and a white tank top and run back out to meet them as I put on my flats and both of them watch me as I do this.
"That was fast." Munder tells me with a smile.
"I'm use to getting dressed and undressed fast." I tell him with a smile.
I walk with them to the elevators as Munder presses the button this time. We wait as the elevator door then opens revealing the woman from last night with a bandage over her nose and ice pack on her head. I can't help but smile as she glares at me. Before I know what to do next I feel a protective arm around me and look to see it's Dodge. Is it odd that I am kind of use to him doing that?
"Keep moving." Munder warns the woman who then walks past us but not without winking at Munder who just shakes his head.
"Maybe I should have made sure that I broke it." I say as we walk into the elevator.
"You did make her bleed at least." Munder tells me.
I get an odd feeling again and look to see that Dodge still hasn't taken his arm off of me. I just smile at him as he presses the button.
"So what happened after he took me away?" I ask Munder.
"Your cousin decided that she would threaten the woman as did I and then her friends and parents got involved and then something to do with sueing and it just went down hill from there." Munder tells me.
"Right, sorry I wasn't trying to cause problems but I just hate to see when people are treated like that. So I come and save them." I tell him.
"Thanks for that. You didn't cause me any problems but helped me out." Munder tells me as the doors open and we walk out to the main floor.
All the sudden we feel the ship start to rock really hard. I feel my feet slip out from under me and brace myself to hit the floor, it hits me hard and I start sliding down the floor but before I reach the end I feel a hand grab onto mine. I grip the hand hard and hold onto it for dear life. I feel the hand start to pull me up I look up and am surprised to see that it's Jack who is pulling me up.
"Don't let go!" He tells me.
"I won't!" I yell back to him.
Jack pulls me up and puts me against the collumn he is holding onto. I look at him still surprised at what he just did for me. Then he looks at me and stares right into my eyes almost as if he was searching for my soul. Without thinking I put my hand on his cheek and he looks down at it. I expect him to push my hand away but he doesn't in stead he puts his hand on top of mine and he looks back into my eyes. I look back down at his hand when I feel him lean forward and put a small kiss on my forehead. This surprises me and I look up at him and smile as the ship then levels out.
"Are you alright?" he asks me as he looks me over.
"Yeah I think, it just happened so fast. I didn't know what to do." I tell him as her puts his hand on my head.
"Lucky I was there. You were headed for a window." he tells me.
I turn around and see that his statement was true. Oh god what would have happened to me then? Then I turn back to him. I don't know what to do or say now really.
"Thank you. I really don't know what else to say." I tell him as he takes my hand and lowers it from his cheek.
"Be careful, I can't be around all the time." he says with a smile then walks away from me.
Oh I know he did that to be pay back for last night I just know it so I smile as he walks away from me. I then turn around and see two very paniced men coming my way. Dodge and Munder.
"Are you alright?" Munder asks.
"We tried to grab onto you." Dodge says as they both look me over.
"Yeah, Jack caught me believe it or not." I tell them as they look at each other shocked as well. "Yeah that was the same look I had."
"The ship doing stuff like that doesn't happen that often. It caught us all off guard." Munder says looking around the lobby.
"Yeah I would prefer that you know that never happens again." I tell him.
"Let's get you something to eat. I bet we may have to look in the dining room now and hope everything didn't break." Dodge says as he and Munder take me to the dining room.
To our surprise it seems that the dinning room is perfectly fine. Everyone is sitting and eating as if nothing had happend at all. I look at both of them and see that they are confused as well.
"Uh did what just happen really happen?" I ask them both as I look at both of them.
"I have no idea, but I know it happened." Munder says looking around the dining room as well.
"So then how come everything in here seems perfectly fine?" I ask.
"Not a clue, I swear this it just too weird." Dodge replies. "Let me go check something out."
All the sudden then Dodge takes off away from Munder and I. We both look at each other and then just shrug. I sit down at one of the table and Munder sits down in one of the chairs as the waitress comes over.
"He can't eat with you. He's staff." the woman tells me and Munder starts to stand up but I stop him.
"No right now he's my friend and he's going to eat with me." I tell her as she just scoffs and Munder sits back down.
"What do you want then?" she asks looking at Munder with lust in her eyes.
"Just Orange juice please and stop staring at him before your eyes fall out." I tell her as she then walks off. "You attract odd women."
"You have no idea." Munder tells me as he takes a sip of ice water that was already at the table.
I start to read the menu trying to figure out what I want to eat.
"Why did your cousin think that Dodge or I slept with you?" Munder asks me.
I put the menu down and look at him. Well here it goes.
"Because she thinks that all men are pigs and will only help a girl out for sex in return." I tell him honestly.
"She has a really low opinion of men." he tells me as he relaxes in his chair.
"Well she didn't use to but her last boyfriend changed all of that." I say with a sigh.
"Some men are like that but not all of us." he tells me looking me in the eyes just like Jack did.
Wait am I really thinking about Jack? Why in the heck would I be thinking about him? After all the guy is just weird but he did save me after all. Oh brother why does this have to happen to me?
Dodge's POV
Something tells me what happened to Scarlett had nothing to do with the ship but Jack instead. I decide to go and find out for sure. I go back to the lowest level of the ship and see Jack sitting there on top of the cases of Gold.
"Did you do that?" I ask him just getting it out of the way.
"Do what?" he says barely looking at me.
"Did you try and send her out of that window?"
"As a matter of fact no it wasn't me. Apparently though I am not the only collector on this ship, it appears I have competition." he tells me looking behind me I see the woman that spilled the drink of Scarlett.
"Hello boys, since it seems you couldn't do your job I was sent to help. Name's Victoria and now I am in charge." she says as she goes up to Jack and puts her finger under his chin making him look up at her.
"Your not in charge if you want to try and replace me I won't go without a fight." Jack tells her.
"Yes, I saw you save the girl. It's sad really it seems you've lost your edge must be due to your old age." Victoria says as she pushes his face away from her.
"You just trying to suck up to the higher ups and I know it. So just stay out my way." Jack says as he stands up and walks to the door where I stand.
"You wanna see if she can die?" Victoria asks him drawing his attention back to her. "We can always test to see if she can."
"If I didn't know any better I would say you see her as a threat." Jack tells her with a small smile.
"I just don't want you all to be distracted over one woman." Victoria says as she looks to me this time. "Poor lost souls. Trust me if you do screw her it won't change anything she is damaged goods."
"You don't know anything about her." I say but Jack steps in front of me.
"If I remember correctly you were the one that spilled your drink on her." Jack reminds her.
"Just testing her really. After all I would hate to see you join her side." Victoria says then walks out of the room.
"Remember how I said watch and report?" Jack asks me.
"Yeah."
"Screw that, stay with her at all times I don't care what you have to do even if you do have to sleep with her." Jack says as he leaves the room.
What so now I have permission to sleep with her? I thought regular life was confusing.
Scarlett's POV
After breakfast Munder went off to do whatever it is that he does and I went with my now somewhat sober cousin to some kind of Yoga she likes to do. We both enter a room in our yoga outfits she picked out and it feels like it's 100 degrees in here.
"It's called hot Yoga, helps you sweat out of the bad stuff." she tells me.
"I wouldn't be surprised if people died doing stuff like this." I tell her as we go to our mats and sit down.
"Don't worry you'll be fine." she says as she looks at me.
I then feel a little cool air as the door opens and in walks in now my worst enemy. The woman who poured the drink on me and I wanted to kill her and I mean it. She has the nerve to sit in back of me. Ugh I just want to turn around and punch her in her throat.
The class begins and I really hate that it's so hot in here. I look out the glass windows to the ocean. I really wish I were at the pool instead of sweating in here with a bunch of women I don't even know. After the class ends I walk out first with my cousin.
"See that wasn't so bad." she tells me.
"I need water, hydration, something." I tell her in a sarcastically dry voice.
"Very funny Scarlett. Well I am going to go put my yoga to use after a shower." she says with a wink at me as she walks away.
I just shiver when she mentions stuff like that. I turn to walk away and walk right into something or someone. I look up and see Jack looking down at me. Really how does he do that?
"Hello." I say simply as I pull myself away from him.
"You make it a habit of running into people?" he asks me.
"Nope only you Prince Charming." I tell him as I turn to leave.
"Prince Charming?" he asks me in a surprised voice.
"Yeah you know, he's the prince that always recused the princess." I tell him as I start to walk but he stops me.
"So you are the princess then?"
"Yeah, I guess you could say that." I tell him with a smile only to have it ruined by that woman.
"Oh there's Cinderella." she says with a laugh. "Change up princes today?"
"Hey at least I don't have to settle for one. I have my options." I tell her with a smile and a wink.
Wow a part of me cannot believe I just said that. That really makes me sound like a slut. Oh well I will never meet these people again anyway. Not like it matters.
"What makes you think that he wants someone like you? I am sure he has better taste than that." she says coming up to Jacks side.
I just roll my eyes at her when I feel Jacks arms pull me into him and very quickly he leans down and his lips press against mine. Uh what just happened? Oh right he's kissing me. I haven't been kissed in a long time so I decide to play along and I lean into the kiss. I guess Miss Snob gets the point and decides to walk away. After she does that Jack and I break our kiss together and look at each other.
"Thanks for the save Prince Charming. Kiss wasn't bad either." I tell him as I smile and walk away from him.
Jack's POV
I broke my own rule. I actually kissed her right there in front of Victoria. What was I thinking? I really don't think that I was thinking. I just went with it and kissed her but what really surprised me was she kissed me back. I know Victoria will do something to try and kill her now, just what is the question.
Tonight was the costume party, I really forgot how some costumes could be the sluttiest things I had ever seen and there were plenty of them. Dodge, Munder and I along with the rest of the crew just dressed in our regulation clothing. Victoria on the other handed decided to dress up as the devil, seems to fit her personality pretty well.
Just as she is about to walk up my way I get that feeling again, I look to the side and see Scarlett is a long white satin dress with sparkles on it. Behind her, angel wings of course she came as an angel. Her halo is more like a gold head band that goes around her head. Her cousin looks to be some kind of maid or something but I don't pay much attention to her.
"She came as an angel?" I hear Dodge ask me.
"It appears that she did, like I told you before one of you need to be with her at all times. That means now as well." I tell him.
"Munder is already on his way up to her, look for yourself." Dodge says pointing to Munder who looks like he is in a trance as he walks up to her and starts to talk with her.
"It looks like she cast a spell on him." I say as I look to Dodge who just shrugs.
Just as the contest is about to start we all feel the ship start to rock, what the hell is going on? I look over and see Victoria has a bright smile on her face. I knew she would try something stupid but I didn't think that she would do it this soon.
"Sir it's a rogue wave." I hear one of the men tell the captain.
"Grab the girl and keep her safe, the ship is going to be turned upside down." I tell Dodge who looks at me shocked but nods and starts to make his way up to Munder and Scarlett.
I make my way to Victoria who is in the middle of making out with a random man she just happened to find. I grab the man and push him aside.
"What the hell are you doing?! I had more time and you just had to mess up everything!" I yell at her as she smiles at me.
"I couldn't let you win now could I, now I will make sure your little angel is among the ones I mark." She says as she tries to grab onto me but that is when the wave hits.
Scarlett's POV
I had heard of a rogue wave before, I head it on the movie Poseidon. It was what flipped the ship upside down. Does that mean that the same thing was going to happen here? I knew I shouldn't have sat so close to the captain and now I wish I hadn't. I look up as Dodge makes his way to Munder and I and he looks scared out of his wit. Just as he is about to say something that is when the wave hits. The ship is knocked instantly and starts to fall onto it's side. I feel both Dodge and Munder grab onto me as we start to fall. I didn't know I was going to die like this on a ship in the middle of the ocean.
"You're not gonna die." I hear Munder tell me as he makes me look at him. "You hold onto us and we'll make sure of it."
How in the heck can he stop me from dying I mean honestly? Finally we feel the ship start to turn over more so that is almost completely turned over. That's when we start to fall well slide really. Somehow we were on a wall and slid to the top of the ship which was now the bottom. Once we make it there I barely lift up my head from their embrace and look around to see all the chaos.
People all around me are dead, I see people trying to help loved ones up and see others putting jackets over the faces of the dead. I look back to Dodge and Munder and see they are both alright. I breathe a sigh of relief only to have fear come back into me. My cousin Susan.
"Susan, I have to find Susan." I say as I look around.
"Believe me when I say you don't want to." Dodge says with a low voice.
"What do you mean?" I ask him.
Dodge looks behind me and into the distance, I follow his glance and see Susan's lifeless body on top of a table with the legs going right through her mid-section. I quickly put my hand on my mouth because I have a feeling I am going to throw up. I look around and see Dodge and Munder just focusing on me, that's when a dark green light fills the room and in one flash I look around and see that all the survivors are now on the floor dead, all but me, Dodge, Munder, Jack and the crazy woman. What in the world is going on?
"Well seems like she is something not of this world." The woman says to Jack as she stops what she is doing with the captain's hand. "Maybe you are an angel?"
"What the fuck is she talking about?" I ask Dodge and Munder.
"Oh dear little girl, we aren't humans we are quite the opposite actually Jack and I are called collectors and those two beside you are his little helpers." She says with a wicked laugh.
I stand up away from Dodge and Munder and look around the room, all the countless people who were just murdered in cold blood right before me. I look back to the woman and know she is the cause of it. I didn't know what to do but then a feeling that I had never felt before came forward. No grief or pain nothing just calm as I looked back up at her.
"Victoria, leave her alone she doesn't know what she is." Jack tells her.
Victoria now moves up to me and picks me up by my neck and looks me over. Her grip tightens as but I put my hand on her head and she yells out in pain.
"Scarlett?" I hear my cousin's voice call out for me.
I blink twice and everything is back to normal, just my cousin and I sitting alone by the pool. Was that a vision? What the heck is going on with me?
"Sorry, I just think I am going to go take a nap." I lie to her as I walk away from the pool.