Ben's POV

I watched as her ocean green eyes fluttered shut. Her head rolled to one side and it rested on my shoulder. Her black hair covered her eyes and I carefully reached up to slide it back behind her ear. She seemed to smile in her sleep. I looked at her. She looked like an angel. A beautiful angel. I smiled and shut my eyes too.

This town is colder now, I think it's sick of us
It's time to make our move, I'm shakin off the rust
I've got my heart set on anywhere but here
I'm staring down myself, counting up the years

As soon as I did, visions of Vanderdecken, Vogel, Petros and the others' mangled dead bodies and sickly live ones swirled in my mind. A cold sweat broke out on my face, like that of the spray of the ocean of so many centuries ago. My breathing started coming heavy. In my mind Vanderdecken suddenly appeared in front of me.

"You'll be mine someday…" he whispered. Then he broke into a series of profanities at god. I saw the green fire of St. Elmo.

"You will find what you have to do," the Angel whispered at me.

Steady hands, just take the wheel...
And every glance is killing me
Time to make one last appeal... for the life I lead

"Ben! Ben, are you okay?" a voice broke through my thoughts. My eyes opened slowly. I was aware that Elizabeth's head no longer rested on my shoulder. Her green eyes had a look of panic in them, but when she saw I was okay, they seemed to become lighter somehow.

"Yeah… I'm fine," I mumbled as I wiped the sweat off my forehead.

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh

"Let me get you something to drink," she said quietly. Then she turned to a flight attendant who was passing by. "Excuse me? Can we get a glass of water please?" she asked nodding towards me. The woman took one look at me and nodded. She stalked off to the back of the plane for a moment and came back with a glass of water.

"Thanks," I choked suddenly feeling parched. I took a drink of the water. It was cool and refreshing. I suddenly felt a lot better. Elizabeth's eyes still held worry as she glanced at me.

Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're 'here' not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can u see what I see

Are you sure you're okay?

Never better.

Ok. Just don't do that to me. I got really scared there for a second.

They're tryin to come back, all my senses push
Un-tie the weight bags, I never thought I could...
Steady feet, don't fail me now

I looked up at her. Her eyes locked with mine and I took her hand and squeezed it tight in mine.

"Go back to sleep," I told her, "I'm fine, promise."

"You positive?" she asked for the last time.

Gonna run till you can't walk
But something pulls my focus out
And I'm standing down...

"Mmm-hmm," I replied. "Now go back to sleep, you look exhausted."

This time she willingly laid her head on my shoulder. I kept her hand in mine as we both drifted into a dreamless sleep.

Ned's POV

At first I was mad at Ben. A dog kennel? I didn't like it. But when Elizabeth said first class… well… I started to like the idea a bit more.

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh

As Jolene and I roamed in our large cage (yes a cage! I would still have to yell at Ben for that) we started talking… er… thinking.

So, I thought, how did you meet Elizabeth?

I was a pet on the plantation she worked. She cared for me more than my owner. Nightmare that was. We got in so much trouble; Master was threatening to kill her. Cursing god for creating her and such. I'd clawed one of the kids a little. Then the Angel came down and granted us eternal lives, and forced him to be treated as he'd treated Elizabeth for the rest of eternity.

Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, you don't need

Wow.

Yep. How'd you end up with Ben?

He brought me aboard the Flying Dutchman and nursed me back to health (I'd lost the use of one of my eyes and was nearly starving). As we tried to round Tierra del Fuego Vanderdecken and the crew went a bit mad. We were low on supplies, the ration was basically a cracker a day and the kapitan started cursing god. Since we were the only ones aboard of good heart we were granted eternal lives.

What u need, what u need...

Wow Flying Dutchman? Geez.

Yeah….Suddenly pictures of Vanderdecken and the crew floated into my head, though not my thoughts. I fought them off but I knew where they were coming from. I was about to mentally scream at Ben when I remembered that Elizabeth was with him. The thoughts ended a moment later and I sighed in relief.

What was that? Jolene thought to me.

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere

Memories.

Oh. I'm sorry. She came over towards me sat down. I too sat down. We continued chatting as the trainers came over and gave us food. A bowl of dog kibble. Great. I sniffed disdainfully.

Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be
Oh, do u see what I see...