Chapter 4

One month into Lunetta's time as a pirate and she couldn't lie that she was slightly enjoying it. It wasn't her first intention at all to become one, but Vaas gave her work to do and soon enough she came asking. Vaas and her's relationship wasn't like it was when they first met, they thought of each other differently for some reason. Lunetta liked Vaas now, she respected him in some deranged manner and Vaas well... He would like to believe he was in love, but no doubt it was an obsession.

He was in the warehouse of drugs looking at the map of the island coming up with a new system for the Pirates to follow. He wasn't lying when he had told her a different one every week, the Rakyat would never catch on. She walked into the warehouse doors and approached the table, her boots sounding against the hard concrete as she stomped over with a prideful glare.

There wasn't anything to be said on how she passed the initiation of becoming a pirate, but she did and Vaas had admired that so much that he had made her second in charge to Benny. All his men had deference towards her by now, but none of them talked to her unless it was work related.

She stopped beside Vaas, who barely blinked at her before looking back down at the map. Having her around had officially made him more insane than he had ever been. Woman were not his issue, they were his skill, he thought she would be putty in his fingers after a couple weeks ago when she came out about understanding the shitty ways of life and loneliness. But it was the opposite, she had to be the hardest catch he had ever seen, but he didn't want to just catch her, he wanted to possess her so that none of his men would have her, so that no man would have her.

"Sup Vaas, Raiza went to the schoolhouse in Amaniki." Vaas groaned, he stood up straight from the table and turned to her.

"Why should I give a fuck? I am working." He rudely replied, not retreating his eyes from how she looking in her pirate attire, how horny that made him. His eyes found hers and he saw something he had never seen before in Lunetta... Lust... He shook it off and stepped closer to her, angling his head down to stare at her from a much closer aspect.

"I just wanted to talk to you about a couple things." He rolled his eyes and turned away to continue looking at the map, he picked up the red sharpie that was always there and began marking random intervals.

"You have one minute." Her bottom lip twitched as her mind tried to come up with the proper words.

"I saw you with a woman last night, she wasn't a whore, so w-who was she?" Vaas stopped his marker at a point on the map, the red dot began to bleed into the paper. He glanced over his shoulder at her, stabbing the marker into the map and breaking it s fine tip. Lunetta flinched, but she wasn't afraid of him, she stepped back only to give his fuming self space.

She realized what she had just admitted, she had admitted that she was stalking Vaas the night before. There was a party like there was every night and she had stood in the distance watching him as he talked to a pretty woman... Prettier than her, Lunetta had to admit. She was just a native and after Vaas was done with her that night, she had left in the morning. How Lunetta knew that they had sex was that she shared the room with Raiza directly across from Vaas's. She had organized it to accustom the two women, but other than that it was still dull as it was before with just a mattress.

Vaas stood up tall again, this time more straight, his body tightening into place. He turned completely and leaned himself into the edge of the table crossing his arms.

"Why would it matter? And How did you see us?"

"I-I... I um... Was looking for you and saw that you two were kissing near the side of your warehouse." Vaas knew she was lying, he was merely angry that he had sex with the native instead of Lunetta. He was ridiculing himself for not taking action when really he had known that Lunetta was stalking them the entire time.

"Why were you looking for me?" She was jealous, she wasn't looking for them.

"I was stalking you." Vaas growled and soon had her wrapped in his arms before he knew it, their lips nearly touching.

"Naughty, naughty girl... I should have known. It's not nice to follow people..." She couldn't say anything, she was too caught up in him. "This little act requires punishment, yes?" She nodded her head and he kissed her with a bruising force, he lifted her up bridal style and began to carry her out of the warehouse.

"Where are we going?" She squeaked, he chuckled in return.

"My room."

Lunetta guided Raiza up the metal stairs to her room, they both carried duffle bags, one for each containing clothes and other necessary products. She opened the door to her old room and saw that it hadn't changed. There was a queen size bed and a dresser, still quite plain from its usual look. Lunetta gestured Raiza in and then she went into Vaas and her room, she shoved her duffle bag to the side for later and immediately went back to Raiza.

She leaned against the door frame leading into her room and crossed her arms expectantly. She still appeared heart broken from earlier when Vaas had left her and when she arrived back at the compound he wasn't home.

"So what do you think?"

"I think I can fix it up a bit." Raiza answered confidently, she placed her bag on the bed and sat down beside it, the bed creaking as her weight crept over the mattress springs. Raiza smiled up at Lunetta and Lunetta returned it.

"So you both are married now?"

"Yes, I am sorry I couldn't-"

"I understand." Of course Raiza understood, she was a young girl that understood everything for some odd reason.

"Uh... If you need anything just call..."

"I will." Lunetta didn't want to admit that Raiza was growing up, Raiza was beautiful and independent and all the things she had been when she was young. Lunetta hoped that Raiza would leave this place and finally be unattached to the cruel likes of this island.

Lunetta left into Vaas's room... No... Their room. She was still upset about him leaving so quickly after they had wedded. She didn't know why he rushed or why he kissed her so distantly, but she wasn't having any of it. As soon as Vaas got home he would hear a lot of words from her. Lunetta closed the door and let out an exasperated breath as she heaved her body over to the water bed.

She knew the relationship that they had would not be cuddly or loving and for one she didn't mind that, but she did mind that Vaas had lost respect for her in some manner. She noticed it, in the way he left after devoting their "I do's" to one another. She wasn't her old self, in five years she had learned a great many things and had experienced somehow a better life... A new life... Her nightmares were always present, but the presence she had in the world was always welcome.

She laid back on the bed and bit her bottom lip, she stared up at the ceiling that Vaas must had grown fond off and thought. She only thought for a while of things she never thought she would think of. She thought of Buck and Willis. She had never kept true to her deal with That man, she just knew she would never kill Vaas.

She then kicked her boots off, crawling up the bed to open the drawer of the end table and pulling out the thin electronic that Vaas had shown her earlier that day. She stared at it curiously, spinning it around and wondering exactly how to turn it on. Until she found the square button Vaas had pressed before and it opened the screen. She stared at it for a long while, but it flickered off and she panicked thinking she had broke it or that it died. She had seen a phone before, but never a tablet.

She heard the door open and glanced up from the device to see Vaas walk in. He was covered in a thin glistening sheet of sweat and crumbs of dirt covered his shoulders and face. He closed the door behind him and leaned against it, letting his head fall back he took a long deep breath. She knew he was stressed by the way he acted when he arrived, but she wasn't going to allow him to think her weak anymore. She put the tablet down beside her and stood up from the bed, she casually walked over to him until she stood in front of him, he looked at her patiently.

"First of all, I don't want you to think that because I have a ring on my finger and your last name that you can start pushing me around." She crossed her arms and lifted her nose stubbornly. "Secondly, I would like there to be some ground rules because you certainly aren't understanding that marriage represents mutual respect between two-" He grabbed her by the shoulder and pulled her into a kiss, a deep, loving kiss. When he pulled away, she was shocked, all words momentarily left her mouth.

"I am going to go swimming, would you like to come?" He whispered with a simper, she nodded her head obediently as though in a trance. "Good." He hugged her and then walked over to the bed, holding the tablet up to her. "The kid can come to." He pushed the tablet into the drawer and shut it, then looked back at Lunetta expectantly and she nodded her head again. There was no describing how much she hated herself then.