A/N- Late Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! I'm sorry for not updating much the past few months. Hopefully these two chapters for the holidays will be to your liking! Please review! They really encourage me. :) Message me if you would like to give me advise on something. I would gladly appreciate it! Enjoy!~


- Chapter 7

(Sue's POV)

Three days have past. The nights weren't so thrilling because I kept having that same dream... But the days pasted in the same way, Thomas would keep me company most of the time with stories about their adventures. Nathan would bring me meals and sit in silence with me, then Christopher would come and check up on me every so often. I wasn't lonely and was thankful that they kept me company but I really wanted to walk around and breathe some fresh air. My leg felt a lot better. So I started pleading to Christopher that I am alright and could walk, but he kept refusing.

It was after lunch and I kept trying to convince him, but failed. Changing the subject I started to ask what everyone on the ship were up to. Ever since I came on they haven't moved from the icy island. I asked about everyone one by one until I reached Eduardo. Christopher's face seemed to shadow for a moment, but smiled and told me he was looking at maps.

I stared at him. Something in his voice didn't seem right. "Christopher... You sound worried." I tell him truthfully.

Christopher sets down some empty jars and looks at me with a smile. "All I'm worried about is that leg of yours."

I keep my gaze on him, but don't continue any further for now. "Alright... So what are you doing with those herbs?"

"I am currently making medicine." He answers.

After a moment of awkward silence. I ask. "Did something happen to Eduardo?"

Christopher stops what he was doing and answers. "What makes you say that?"

"Christopher... You're dodging my questions." I stare at him again.

He doesn't say anything.

I sigh. "I guess I won't find out."

"...I will only say that Eduardo is looking for a treasure map." He finally replies. "It's a matter that shouldn't worry you." Then he returns back to working.

'Even if you say that it makes me curious.' I think to myself. 'Oh well. I'll find out sooner or later.'

The room goes silent, but I see Christopher turned completely around, being too occupied with his medicine that I decide to secretly move out of the bed. I step on my right leg. It feels stiff, but there's no pain.

'Yes!' I mouthed while putting my hands up in the air from the joy.

I started walking in a circle for a bit. It felt so refreshing to finally move on my two legs. Though, I am disobeying Christopher, I felt a little bit bad. I looked over at him, but he still took no notice to me.

I start to quietly walk over to surprise him, but the door suddenly opens revealing Captain Morgan barging in and yelling, "Christopher! Eduardo has returned! Come on deck and check up on him."

I look up at him in question until he looks wide eyed at me. "I thought ya wouldn't be walkin for another three days! Amazing!" Captain Morgan laughs.

Christopher turns around and only then does he realizes I was there. "Sue! I told you to stay in bed." He scolded me, ready to reach for my shoulder.

I dodged his hand and say, "Christopher, I don't feel any pain thanks to you all. Please allow me to walk! I don't wish to be a burden and if I could, I would like to help out with some things as thanks for treating me so well." I try to convince him while Captain Morgan was there. Hoping maybe he would cover for me.

Christopher looked like he was against the idea, but Captain Morgan came over, putting a hand on my shoulder and saying, "Hey! She looks just fine and I'm sure she could help out with the feast tonight!"

"Feast?" Confused, I look at him. "What feast?"

He looks down at me with a big smile, "We are having a big feast to celebrate Eduardo's return and he made it back right on the night of the full moon! It's a rule for the Sirius crew to have feasts every full moon!" He gives me a pat on the back "Also, we haven't celebrated about you joining us yet!"

He turns to Christopher. "Come on Christopher! Let's go up on deck."

"Aye, Captain." Christopher nods.

Then Captain pushes me out of the room with Christopher following behind us.

We head up the stairs and reach the double doors hearing loud noises coming from behind them. Captain swings them open only to be greeted by Eduardo and Russell arguing again.

Captain Morgan clears his throat and yells, "Alright men! We are having a feast tonight! Celebrating Eduardo's return, the full moon, and!.." He steps aside to show me from behind him. "For Sue joinin us!"

Surprisingly, that got everyone's attention. Especially the two fighters.

Thomas runs up to hug me, "Miss Sue! I'm so glad your walking now!"

Christopher comes stands beside me and scolds Thomas. "She's still recovering so don't let her strain that injury."

Thomas moves away from me and bows his head a little in apology.

I give him a smile. "It's fine, Thomas." I turn to look at Christopher. "I promise I will take good care of my leg so I won't push it."

Christopher looks worried for a moment, but nods and smiles back. "Alright Sue."

While we were talking Captain Morgan starts cheerfully yelling, "Triple cheer! And for triple cheer comes triple food and booze!"

Russell joins with Captain's cheer while Eduardo just smirks for the moment. Thomas goes over and starts cheering with the others as well. Nathan, on the other hand, quietly walks off the deck maybe heading towards the kitchen to prepare and Christopher still stood next to me.

The atmosphere was nice. I smiled while looking around at the sea. I spot a fin in the distance and walk towards the side of the ship to get a better look. Christopher was about to follow me, but I assured him I that I will be careful.

"Alright, alright, I will leave you alone now." He smiles and goes to check up on Eduardo.

I look his way. 'He still needs to tell me the details about Eduardo.' I thought. 'I'll ask him about it later if no one else will let me know.'

I walk over to the side of the ship where there's peace and quiet. I find the fin again and see it heading towards the ship.

In the distance I hear Master Bruinen call out my name and smile. 'So they saw me already.'

I look down at the fin and see Cari jump out of the water near the ship. She was close enough for me to hear. "Sue. Looks to me, you are feeling better."

I nod to her. "Yes I am. It's thanks to these guys for helping me out." I look around to see where they were at. Captain Morgan, and the rest of the group were moving up to a cabin. I figured maybe that was Captain's room. I spy Thomas not joining them but heading down where Nathan went.

I turn back to Cari and talked a little louder. "They seem to be occupied with things so I can talk for a bit."

Cari replied, "Good. So how much longer until you can join us again?"

I scratch my head. "Um.. Well, it originally was suppose to be tomorrow but three more days. And.. I got myself into a mess." I sigh. "That Captain Morgan made me make a deal that I had to become a member crew in exchange of keeping you guys and my talent a secret."

Cari splashes some water on the side of the ship in rage. "I knew I shouldn't have trusted that old man!"

"It may seem bad, but... They really have been taking care of me. I'm healing as you can see I am finally walking!" I inform her happily.

"That's the only good part about this matter." Cari replies.

"It's not so bad here. Three of these guys feel like brothers. Though, one might feel more like a father than a brother now that I think about it..." I say while resting my chin in my palm.

Cari goes quiet for a moment. "...Are you growing attached to these males?"

I shake my head. "It's not like that, but they turned out to be something else than what I expected."

"I see." Cari swims quietly in a circle.

"Even if they are nice it doesn't mean I will stay here. I promise I won't grow attached. I just have three more days Cari! Then I'll be swimming with you and Master Bruinen again!" I tell her with a big smile.

Cari stops and lifts her head. "True. Don't push yourself so you can heal faster. If that male captain of yours doesn't let you come with us, we will do something about it."

"Hopefully nothing like that happens, but thanks for looking out for me." I say while smiling.

In the distance I hear Master Bruinen call out to Cari to come back.

"Well that's my cue." She faces towards the sea. "I'll see you later then Sue."

"Alright..." I started to look sad, but an idea pops up in my head. "Hey Cari! Every time I sing that lullaby could you count it as a sign that I would like to talk with you or Master Bruinen?" I ask quickly.

Cari stops to turn to me. "Ha. That's not a bad idea. Alright. Next time you sing we will count it as a signal. We will listen out for it." She then swims away.

I hum a little of the lullaby while I watch her go until I don't see her no more. I stare out at the horizon in thought.

"Huh. Ya have a nice voice there." Says someone from behind.

I jump a little and turn to see who it was.

"Didn't mean to scare ya." Russell says, coming to lean against the side beside me then folding his arms across his chest.

"I wasn't scared. I was just not expecting you to appear." I reply while continuing to stare out at sea.

There was some silence, but I felt Russell's gaze on me for awhile.

I turn to him and ask,"Is there something on my face?"

He blinks,"Uh.. No." He gets up. "If you're up and about then you should go help out with some chores. Nathan needs help in the kitchen." He nods towards the double doors and starts to walk off.

I lift a brow at him. 'Okay... I thought he would make a big deal about it. He is calmer than I thought.' Then I remembered I don't know where the kitchen was. So I walk up to Russell and ask, "Russell, I don't know the way to the kitchen. Could you show me?"

He looks over his shoulder at me and replies, "It ain't that hard. Just go through the doors and make a left. Go past Doc's office and you're there." He explains while waving his hand and walking away.

'Here I thought he would be nice and show me the way, but apparently I got my hopes up.' I shake my head and follow his instructions.

I somehow make it to the kitchen doors and find Nathan inside.

"Hey Nathan, I-" I started to say until a knife was thrown right above my head.

"Don't go sneaking around my kitchen. Ya hear Russell?" Nathan says without looking back.

I gulped. 'I didn't think Nathan was so possessive of the kitchen.' I walk slightly away from the knife and tell him, "Um Nathan.. This is my first time in the kitchen and I'm certainly not Russell."

He turns around after hearing me. "Sue. I thought Russell was coming." He was peeling potatoes while still looking my way.

I shake my head. "Russell told me you needed help so I came here."

He stops peeling and asks, "Can you peel potatoes?"

"I... Don't know but if you show me I might know." I tell him honestly. 'I really don't know if I cooked in my life or not.' I think to myself. 'But my body might know...'

Nathan goes back to peeling the potato in his hands. "I don't need help from ya."

"Oh... N-not surprising there." I answer back, a little hurt by his words.

I stare at his hands. I attempt to ask, "Nathan... Could you at least let me try?"

"No." He plainly rejects.

I'm frowning but I stand my ground and keep asking him. "Just let me try one! Maybe I might be good at it! Please?"

He doesn't answer and keeps working.

I pout. "I will not leave unless I help." I state to him.

He shakes his head. "Your surprisingly a loud one." He tosses a potato at me. "Try it."

I catch it and smile. "Thanks. I'll do my best!" I walk over to him and watch him.

I copied his movements and I was right. My hands felt like they knew how to do it, though it wasn't as fast as Nathan, but at least I'm not messing up.

Nathan glances at me. "Not bad."

I laugh. "See? I can be helpful."

The room then goes silent and we continue working. Nathan gave me all the potatoes while he started chopping the other ingredients and started to cook. I didn't realize there was so much work, but after several hours in the kitchen I found out I can cook a little and helped as much as I could. Then we got the plates ready for the feast. Thomas came in to help out carry some of them out and we all went to the deck.

Once we got to the deck the feast greeted us. It still amazed me how Nathan could make it all by himself. Everyone else was already seated at the table.

I came over to sit in between Thomas and Nathan, but Captain Morgan stops me by putting an arm around my shoulders and cheers, "Cheers for Sue joining the crew and Eduardo's return!" He lifted a bottle in the air with everyone following and yelling "Cheers!", they all started to eat.

Captain lets go of me and starts drinking more than eating. I looked around at the table. Everyone was enjoying themselves. I sat in between Thomas and Eduardo because Russell decided to move next to Nathan. I started to eat and everything was delicious! I ate as much I could while talking with Thomas.

The evening turned into night quickly. Thomas started to drink from a bottle a lot and seemed tipsy. His cheeks looked red as well.

"Thomas are you alright?" I ask worriedly.

He turned to me with a big smile than usual and hugged me. "Miss Suuue~ I feel really good!"

I look at him with shock. "Thomas... You're drunk!" I exclaim.

Eduardo snickers beside me. "Have fun."

I look at him in disbelief. "How can you let him get drunk?"

"He does it on his own." Eduardo responds with a smirk.

"Miss Suuue, You look really pretty." Says Thomas while clinging to me.

I look around for help only to see that mostly everyone is tipsy as well!

Russell was yelling randomly while Captain kept telling Nathan to get more booze. Christopher seemed alright, but I can tell he was getting drunk as well. The only ones that were themselves were Eduardo and Nathan.

I looked at Nathan for help, but he got up to get more drinks for Captain. I knew Eduardo would just find it amusing if I asked him. I look at Thomas who still had his hold on me.

Thomas starts nuzzling his face to my neck. I freeze for a moment. "Um! Thomas I need to go help Nathan out!" I try to escape from his hold carefully.

Thomas makes a pouty face but losses his grip enough for me to get out. "Aw Miss Sue..."

I quickly collect some empty plates and head to the kitchen. Ignoring Thomas' words, I get to the kitchen doors.

I breathe a sigh of relief once I enter the kitchen. 'Who would have thought Thomas would become like that and have a strong grip!' I shake my head.

"Sue?" Nathan lifts a brow at me. "I didn't call for ya."

"Well I needed to get out of there for a moment." I sigh again.

He nods to my response.

I tell him I would help out with cleaning up. He agrees thankfully. So after I clean the dishes I brought I go back out to get more.

Once I come out Captain Morgan yells "Nate! Where's more of my booze?" He looked tipsy and had four empty bottles near him.

Russell shouts "Booze Booze!" He was completely drunk.

Then Thomas joins in with them.

'This sure is one kind of party...' I tell myself while going back in to get Nathan. He gets the booze and gives me a few bottles and comes up with me to the deck.

Now the crew was singing a song together, but they were still as loud as before.

I set the bottles near Eduardo since he was the only one not drunk. Just after I put them down, I go to collect his plate. I see him not paying any attention to me, but was looking at some piece of paper in his hand.

Curious as to what it was I take a look. I freeze when I notice something familiar drawn on it. I accidentally drop the plate, earning everyone's attention.

Eduardo was clearly annoyed at me. "What do you think your doin?!"

I didn't hear anything and just kept staring wide eyed at the paper in his hands, that mysteriously had the same marking that was on my stomach...