Chapter 8: Safe

How you gonna love, how you gonna feel?

How you gonna live your life like the dream you have is real?

If you lost your way, I will keep you safe

We'll open up all the world inside, see it come alive tonight

I will keep you safe

-Westlife


Luna and Jim scrubbed the deck with Silver watching the two of them work. Jim glared up at Silver who smirked at him. Jim stood up glaring at him as Silver tossed him a bucket and pointed to the floor. He rolled his eyes and through the water onto the deck. Luna continued to scrub the deck without hesitation.

"Aye lass, you can stop working now," Silver said.

"What!" Jim shouted.

"Jimbo, tat lass has never complained bout ta work. She gets to have the rest of the day off. So get back to working lad."

Luna glanced at Jim who rolled his eyes in annoyance. She placed the brush in the bucket and stood next to Silver. She watched Jim as he scrubbed the deck in annoyance.

"Lass, keep an eye on him," Silver said. "I have to do some things."

Luna nodded and Silver left them with Morph. Luna leaded against the mast as she watched Jim scrubbing the deck. She smiled at him, but he looked away.

"You okay?" Luna asked.

"I'm fine," Jim responded harshly.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah. Just leave me alone! I'm fine!"

Luna looked away from Jim and then looked at her bracelet and anklet that he had given her. She sighs and looks at Morph, who looks at her worried. He rubs up against her cheek, but even that didn't make her giggle. Morph flew up to Jim and glared at him.

"What Morph?" Jim asked.

Morph turned himself into an hand pointing to Luna's direction. Jim turned around to see Luna with her head facing down and sadness in her eyes. He knew he snapped at her and he didn't want to. He was thinking about his father at the time. When he thought about his father he would get upset and depressed about it. Jim got up from the floor and walked up to Luna, who turned away from him.

"Luna..." Jim called her.

Luna stayed silence and looked away. "Luna, I'm sorry," Jim said. "I didn't mean to snap a you."

"If you wanted me to leave you alone, then I could just go back to my room with Angel."

Jim leaned closer. "No, I didn't mean to scare you. It's just..."

"It's just what?" Luna asked.

Jim didn't like talking about his dad. He was still not sure about his feeling for his dad. He still hasn't healed, but he knows neither has Luna. He could tell she was trying to hide her feeling about what has happen or when she killed Marco. He realized that Luna was someone could be trusted with something like this.

"I was thinking about...my dad," Jim confessed.

Luna turned her head to look at him. She could tell by the sound of Jim's voice that he and his dad have some problems or something bad about him.

"What happened to your dad?" Luna asked.

"He left me when I was 12 years old," Jim said. "He was never around while I was growing up. He was more of the taking of and never coming back sort of father. I never had a father to take care of me. I never was able to spend my time with him or have someone to look up too, so I got into trouble a lot. I have been arrested because I get into trouble. I just can't make anyone proud of me."

Luna now understood Jim. He was just trying to heal from his dad leaving him, which caused him to get into issues. She knew that she couldn't understand that feeling, but she could at least be there for him. Her mother and father weren't horrible parents, they wanted Luna to be her own person, it was the Dukes in her kingdom that wanted Luna to act like someone she wasn't. They would try to introduce her to princes to get her to fall for them, but she would always turn them down. The Dukes would go to her father telling her that she has to get to know a prince, so that in the future they could marry them, but her father would tell them to leave Luna alone and that she was allowed to marry any one she would like too.

"I know I can't feel the way you're feeling about your father, but have you ever tried to let it go?" Luna asked. "I mean it sounds like he didn't care about you, so why should you care about him?"

Jim hesitated for a moment and stared at Luna. She did make a point about it. His father didn't even bother to care about him. His father never even paid attention to him and he didn't even care about think about leaving his son. He just wanted to be alone. He didn't care about Jim or his mom. The only one who really care about him was his mom. She had been taking care of him and caring about his safety the most.

"Both my parents care about me," Luna said. "When the Dukes tried to force my to fall for the many princes they introduced me to, my parents told them to stop forcing me into a relationship that wouldn't work out and let me have my own path. From that point I knew my parents cared about me. They would be there for me even if they didn't agree to what I liked or what I did. Do you think your father cares about what you are doing or how you feel about him?"

"No, he doesn't," Jim answered.

"Then why do you let him get to you? He doesn't deserve it. If he cared about you, he would of come back for you and be a father."

Jim scoffed. "You're right. From this point on I won't think about my father. Until he comes back asking me to forgive him. Even then, I won't care about him. My mother has been the only one who has really care about me and I never really paid any attention to it."

Luna smiled along with Morph, who was on her shoulder. Jim turned his attention to Luna and smiled at her. He looked into her navy blue eyes and got closer. He smiled at her.

"Have I ever told you, that your eyes are amazingly beautiful," Jim said.

Luna brightly blushed. "I can say the same thing about your eyes," Luna added.

Jim smiled and lean close to Luna. She leaned in closer to him. She closed her eyes and leaned in closer to him.

"Jimbo!" A voice shouted. The two teens turned to see Silver glaring at them with his arms crossed. "Ye ar suppose to be scrubbing the deck!"

"God, I can't have a small break," Jim complained.

"I only said the lass can have the rest of the day off, not you, Jimbo!"

"But..."

"Silver, don't blame Jim," Luna stepped up and said. "It's my fault, I was distracting him. I shouldn't have stopped him from working. I'm sorry."

Silver raised an eyebrow at Jim and turned back to Luna. He then smiled at the two teens. "Alright lass, I forgive ye. Don't let it happen again. Jimbo, back to work!" Silver turned away from the teens and Morph.

"Wait! Where's my apology?!" Jim shouted. Silver stopped and turn to Jim.

"You don't get one," Silver said. "You shoulda been working and not flirting with ta lass. The lass at least told me ta truth. Now, back to work or else I'll give you even more work tat will keep you up all day."

Silver turned and walked away from the teens. Jim glared at him as he walked away. He rolled his eyes in annoyance as he got on his knees and continued to scrub. "That no good, stubborn cyborg," Jim mumbled to himself. Luna giggled softly.

"Get back to work! Get back to work!" Morph repeated to Jim as he scrubbed the deck.

Luna covered her mouth to avoid laughing as she watched Jim getting annoyed. For the rest of the day she watched as Jim worked all day.


Jim was forced to do the dishes again with Silver. Luna were just sitting in the gallery keeping an eye on Jim. He at least was happy that Luna stayed even though it was getting late for her to awake at this hour. She had yawned a couple of time as she was with them.

She clapped her hands together and lied down on the bench of the table. She had closed her eyes and had fallen asleep . Silver glanced at Luna and chuckled.

"Seems like ta lassie is tired," Silver commented.

Jim looked up at Luna and saw her sleeping. He chuckled.

"Yeah, she must be," Jim added.

"Why don't ye take her to her room? Then ye can go get some rest as well."

"Really?"

Silver nodded. "Now, take the lass to the room."

Jim stood up and walked over to Luna. He smiled as he stared at her sleeping peacefully. He picked her up bridal styles and began walking up the stairs of the gallery. As he walked on the deck with Luna in his arms, he glanced at her wondering what she was dreaming of as she moved at little in his arms.


Luna was running down an endless street. She was breathing heavily as she ran for her life down this dark endless road. She was scared and terrified on what would happen to her if she didn't stop running.

"Luna!"

Luna turned around to see Jim looking at her. She stopped and turned around to face him. He had cuts and bruises all over him. She turned around to run to him.

"Jim!"

He began to walk to her, until someone grabbed him and pushed him to the ground. He moaned in pain. As Luna ran, she felt someone grabbed her arms and hold her back. She looked up to see Captain Marco hold her back.

"No, me flower ye can watch as ta lad dies,", Marco's voice whispers in her ear. Luna turned to see Venom with a sword in his hand walking towards Jim, who was crawling away. She tried to pull away from Marco's grip, but then realized her hands had been tied. Venom raised the blade and stabbed Jim in the chest.

"No!"Luna cried.

Jim stopped moving and lied dead on the ground. Luna's eyes were filled with tears as she saw Jim dead on the ground. Marco chuckled and kissed Luna's neck.

"Now, I can have me flower for me again," Marco said then licked her neck. Luna struggled away from him, but he pulled her close to him. Her freedom was gone once again. All she could do was scream and cry out in pain as Marco hurt her.


Luna woke up screaming in the bed. Her nightmare was the reason she was screaming.

"Luna! Luna, open your eyes," a voice said.

Luna opened her eyes to see Jim and Angel looking at her worried. She was breathing heavily and trembling. Jim sat on the bed next to her and place his hand on her back.

"Relax Luna, it was just a nightmare," Jim told her. Luna turned to him and buried her face full of tears in his chest. She began to cry. Jim wrapped his arms around her and hugged her. "I'm here. It's okay."

"I-I-I saw you get k-k-killed by Marco's first mate and Marco, he...he...he," Luna said tearfully.

Jim stroked her back slowly. "It's okay, I'm not going any where. Marco is dead, you don't have to be afraid of him any more."

Luna looked up at him with her eyes full of tears. Jim wiped her tears away with his thumb and held her close. "I'm here. You're safe."

"Can you stay with me?" Luna asked.

"I don't think the captain would like that," Jim said. "But I can stay until you fall asleep."

"Oh...okay."

Angel walked up next to the bed and lean her neck towards Luna. She began to lick Luna's tears away from her cheek. She smiled and stroked the dragon's head.

"Thank you," Luna said.

Angel nodded and lied back on the floor. Captain Amelia, suddenly walked into the room with a worried look on her face.

"Luna dear, are you alright?" She asked worried.

Luna nodded. Captain Amelia turned to Jim and gave out a cautious look. "Mr. Hawkins, I said it was okay for you to bring her to her chambers, not to be staying with her."

"Can he stay, please?" Luna asked. "I feel comfortable with him around. Please, ma'am can he stay with me for the night?"

Captain Amelia raised her eyebrow at Jim and glanced at Luna, who looked like she was begging for him to stay. The captain sighed and turned to Luna.

"He can stay for the night, but he better not try anything," Captain Amelia said. "Mr. Hawkins hurt her or try anything and let's just say you won't have something coming with you after this voyage."

Jim looked scared for a moment. He knew what she meant and he was just getting nervous that she may do it even if he didn't do anything. "I won't do anything to her, ma'am,"

Jim said trying not to look scared.

Captain Amelia nodded. "Well, good night you two. I will let Mr. Silver know you are in Luna's chambers." She shut the door as she walked out of the room. Jim lied himself down on the bed and pulled the covers over himself. Luna did the same thing and smiled as she stared at Jim who stared at her.

"Do you want me to hold you?" Jim asked.

Luna nodded with a smile. She rolled over to Jim as he wrapped his arm around Luna's waist as she was lied down on the bed. She closed her eyes and drifted off. Jim closed his eyes and fell asleep as well.


Luna was on her knees crying with her hands tied behind her back. Marco was looking over her with a smirk on his face. He lifted her chin up to force her to look at him. He saw the pain in her eyes. He leaned in and forced his tongue in her mouth.

Suddenly, Marco was pulled off of her. Luna gasped as she saw Jim holding a sword in his hand as he pushed Marco to the ground. Marco glared at the boy and tried to stand up, but Jim stabbed Marco in the chest. Marco screamed in agonizing pain and shut his eyes. Jim turned around and ran to Luna. He used all the sword to cut the ropes from her hands.

Once her hands were free she wrapped her arms around Jim and cried on his shoulder. He placed his hand on her back and pushed her into a hug.

"It's okay," Jim whispered in her her ear. "You're safe. He's gone. He won't hurt you anymore. You're free."

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