I feel the warmth of his body against mine. I am curled up next to him, and don't want to move. His arm is wrapped around my waist as I lay by his side. Last night was one of the best nights I have ever had. This man I lay next to is strong and powerful. Although he is cruel to others, he has a softer gentler side that he has now shown me.

I stir slightly, and it wakes him. I turn my head slowly and look up into his shocking blue eyes. My body melts every time I see them. We both smile at each other, remembering last night. He is the first to speak.

"Ye are a lot of fun, ye know that-uh?"

I laugh. "I try."

He frowns and looks at me confused. "Ye try?" He pauses. "All that was just trying-uh? Ye didn't give it yer best?"

I shrug and tease him. "Maybe I did, maybe I didn't."

He gives a short chuckle. "Well, then next time yer giving yer all-uh."

I site up and look at him. "Next time?" I raise my brow.

"Yes next time." He gives me an evil look. In my mine I am agreeing with him, but for now, I will continue to just tease him. I like teasing people.

"What do you mean?" He can tell I'm playing.

He raises himself and sits up next to me. "What? Are ye not willing to go again? Can ye not handle me?"

"After that, I could probably handle you at anything."

"Oh, really?"

"Yes, really."

He thinks while smiling. "What if I told ye that wasn't my all? Do ye still think ye could handle me?

I look at him and grin. "I think so."

"Then prove it-uh!" He lay's back down. Waiting for me to join him. But I don't.

"Pushy, pushy." I shake my head and smile. "You can wait till later you horn dog." He knows I'll have more energy if we wait. That way I can show him what I've got.

"Ye are going to make me wait? How long-uh?" He pouts.

"As long as I want you to wait." I cross my arms in from of me and look away from him, but still smiling.

"Fine-uh." He sighs. "But yer really going to have to make it up." He gives another evil look at me.

"Don't worry. I will."

A few minutes later, I am ready to go outside. Davy still sits on the bed, while I walk to the door.

I look over at him and cock my head. "Are you coming?"

He smiles at me and says, "I'll be out there later."

I reach out my hand for the door. When I open it, Davy says something more.

"Hey," I look at him. "Thanks for letting me crawl all over ye."

I laugh and nod my head. "Your welcome. You will be getting more of it soon."

I quickly step out the door and shut it behind me.

I still carry a smile on my face from his last comment, when somebody walks up to me.

"What are ye smiling about?"

It's Clanker. I instantly fold my arms, lose my smile, and sharply turn around; completely ignoring him.

I hear him sigh behind me, and then I feel him place a hand on my shoulder.

"Ally…I'm sor-"

I rip out of his grip, step forward, and still face my back to him.

"Don't touch me. You've don't enough of that!"

Even without looking at him, I can sense that he feels extremely sorry. My body wants to turn around and let him apologize. But my mine wants to go else where.

He tries again. "I'm sorry Ally. I don't know what came over me. Just don't take this out on Palifico. I was the one who got him to that point." He waits for me to reply, but I give him nothing but silence. "Please Ally, forgive me." I still don't do anything. He says one more thing. "Forgiveness doesn't always come this easy on this ship. Ye should be taking this greatly."

I think on that. As much as I do not want to turn around to face him, I do. He meets my eyes and I send him a glare.

He gets this hard, and looks at the ground instead. Getting put down by a woman isn't an everyday thing for him, so this is strange.

"You do not touch me again, and I may consider forgiveness." I finally say to him. "But you will have to prove to me that I can trust you. And that may take a long time."

He looks back up at me, with less guilt in his eyes. "I will do anything to gain yer trust."

"Then we can start with this. Leave." I say harshly. I'm not going to take it easy with him. Not for a long time.

He nods and quickly goes back to work; heading below deck, where I can't see him. Good.

I sigh as his presence leave mine. My smile that I had earlier comes back as last night comes to my mind once again. I turn to go see what the rest of the crew are doing.

I look around and notice everything seems to be quite calm. There are only three or four members really doing any work, and the rest are gone.

My ears hear something. It's a bunch of hollering and laughing. And by the sounds of it, it's the crew. I follow the sound and finally turn a corner to see them. A few are gathered around some sort of bored, and the rest gathered around them.

I come closer and they stop what they're doing to look at me.

"What are ye smiling about?" Koleniko asks.

"You probably don't want to know." He looks confused, as do the rest, but quits thinking about it and they continue.

I look's like they are playing some sort of game. I have always loved games. I wonder if I would be good at this one.

"What is all this?" I ask Koleniko, since he's not playing it right now.

"Liar's Dice." He simply says.

"Uh, telling me just the name of it won't help. How is it played?"

He spends the next round of the game explaining how it is played. By the time he's done explaining, I have forgotten the first half of what he told me.

"So, ye think ye can play a round?" He says.

"Uh…maybe."

He laughs. "What? Cant remember any of the rules?"

I nod my head and he rolls his eyes.

"Come on. Watch a few rounds and then let's see if ye can join in."

I agree with him. He goes back to watching the game, and I follow along. Each of them, Maccus, Jimmy, and Crash, hold their cup close so the other cannot see what numbers they have.

"Four threes!" Maccus says.

"Five threes!" Crash announces.

They all look at Jimmy. He glares a smile and says casually, "Seven threes."

Crash and Maccus look at each other and say at the same time, "Liar!"

Jimmy pulls back his cup and reveals his dice. Maccus and Crash have blank looks on their faces. Jimmy wasn't the liar. There are indeed seven threes.

"Ye cheated!" Crash complains.

"Oh and how is that! Ye were watching me the whole time! When do ye think I could have cheated?" Crash begins to say something, but figures out he really doesn't have an answer for Jimmy.

"Exactly. No answer." Jimmy folds his arms in success.

I watch another round or two. When I have watch a total of four rounds, Koleniko asks me, "Ye ready yet?"

I shrug but say, "I'll try."

The crew sets up another game. I will be playing against Koleniko and Jimmy. As I sit down, Jimmy glares at me. He remembers the day I proved him wrong when he thought I should have been out on deck.

Koleniko notices our looks to each other. "Drop it Jimmy."

"Ye can't tell me what to do." Jimmy retorts.

"I'm not making ye. I'm just saying."

"But that's still like making me."

"No it is not!" Koleniko raises his voice, while puffing up his cheek.

I have to end this or else they'll be at it all day.

"Would you guys quit it?" They shut up and turn to me. "You're acting like children."

They both stare at me, and then glare at one another. Jimmy stays quiet, but Koleniko adds something.

"Oh sure. Listen to her, and not me."

Jimmy leans forward, ready to strike at him, but he looks at my expression and sits back down. He also can't think of anything to say back to Koleniko, so he starts the game.

"Three twos."

Koleniko goes next.

"Two threes."

They look at me. I make my bet, but cautiously.

"Three…twos."

It's back to Jimmy. He looks at his dice and says, "Four twos."

Koleniko looks at his dice, and ups the number.

"Five twos."

They both slowly look at me and grin. They know I've lost. Although there was no wager made at the beginning, they still like the fact that I lost my first time.

I look at my dice. I want to bring a grin to my face, but I don't. I just say calmly, "Eight twos."

Jimmy shouts out.

"Ha! Liar!"

He lifts up his cup, showing three twos. Koleniko does the same, and shows two twos.

I then show mine. The whole crew gasps and looks around at each other. I have three twos. All together, it makes eight twos.

I finally allow that grin of mine to appear. Jimmy sits back.

"How the hell is that possible? Ye've only played this once!" He says shocked.

"I guess I'm just really good at games." I say proudly.

"Ye may be good at this with us. But nobody has yet to win the captain." Koleniko adds.

As if on cue, the crew and I gear the captain's steps. I have grown to love the sound of that crab leg of his hitting the deck as he walks. The crew thinks it differently.

We all look up as Davy comes around the corner. He just looks at the crew, but smiles slightly at me.

"Learning the ways of the game, eh?"

I nod and smile.

"Yeah, and she won on her first round!" Crash says.

"Did ye now?" Davy squints his eyes at me. "That was just playing the crew. Now try me."

I say to him through my eyes, 'I can handle you at anything remember?' He gets this a give a short laugh. The crew doesn't know what they missed.

Koleniko and Jimmy move out of the way. Davy takes their place a sits across from me.

The crew goes quite, like they've never seen anything like this before. I look around at them and the urge me to play.

I start this time.

"Three Fives."

I here some snickers from the crew and we continue the game.

Davy's eyes never leave mine as he thinks. His eyes dart down at his cup, then back at me.

"Five Fives-uh." He says strongly; like he knows that he is going to win no matter what.

Something in the back of my mind is telling me that I will indeed lose with him. But I can try.

I look at my dice. I see that I have three fives. He has to have two fives or else I win. I make my bet, but I am unsure.

"Six fives"

A smirk appears across his face. He doesn't call liar, but instead bets higher.

"Seven fives-uh!"

Crap…I know I'm going to lose now. Either I call liar now, or make another bet. Then he will call liar and I will lose.

"Liar!" I call out.

He chuckles and lifts up his cup, as do I. We both look at the dice and there is seven fives.

"Looks like there is one thing ye can't handle."

I frown at him and stick out my tongue. The crew still doesn't know what we're really commenting on between us. They're all still quite confused.

Davy gets up and leaves us.

Koleniko comes over to me and sits by my side.

"One thing ye can't handle?" He looks at me questionably. "What does that mean?"

I sigh. "Like I said earlier. You probably don't want to know."

Now he's getting the point across. He understands what I mean by 'you don't want to know', and he looks up in discuss.

"With him!?" He shouts. This draws the rest of the crew's attention. Great, just what I wanted.

"Do you have to be so loud? God." I roll my eyes. I look at the now awaiting crew who wants to know everything. "Leave it be you guys." All of the crew take this very well, and do as I tell them to. They leave, and go back to work. Their game time is over for now. All of them but Koleniko. I look back over at him.

"Yes with him." I smile proudly.

"Buy how? I mean…"

"You're not the girl here now are you?"

"Uh, no."

"Then you wouldn't get it. It's best you just drop the subject now. Unless you want me to describe it in detail?"

He stands up quickly shaking his head and waving his hands to say no.

"No, no, no, no, no. I'm all good on that. There's nothing more I need to know on that." I have found a subject I can now annoy him with. And I will use it to my advance.

"Well then, if you don't want me to start talking about what I did to him last night, I suggest you get back to work."

He doesn't say anything and leaves. Fast. I laugh as I watch him disappear.

I get up from my spot and start walking in the direction the crew went. When I turn the corner, I run straight into Davy.

"Found something to annoy them with?" He was listening in on our little conversation.

"Oh yeah, you could hear us."

"Ye've got to be careful of what ye walk about on this ship. Yer conversations will most likely never been a secret. Not with me around."

"I'll keep that in mind." I smile up at him.

"Well, go on." He says. "Go annoy them. They need someone to do it to them."

I laugh. I am great at annoying people. I once got in trouble for doing it to my brother when I was a child. …My brother. I wonder where he could be these days.