A/N: I'm back!

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Disclaimer: I do not own El Cazador De La Bruja and its characters, BEE TRAIN does. I do claim ownership for my original characters and story.

Confiar. Trust.

10

The waves crashed wildly against the ship's metal frame and rocked it in its thunderous wake.

The grey skies and rhythmical fall of rain reminded Nadie of the time, years ago, when both she and Ellis had to spend the night in an old cabin during a storm. It was then that she had realized that her feelings for the blonde girl were no longer merely professional.

Something deeper had developed within her heart.

Nadie sat behind her desk quietly, hearing only the rain outside. Although the temperature in the office was warm, Nadie felt cold.

Very cold.

She shivered lightly when she ran her cold fingertips against her own arm. With a sigh she stood up and slowly walked over to the window. Although at the edge of the storm, the sea undulated heaving the ship up and down as Nadie tried to deal with the storm within her own heart. She glanced to her right where various certificates were hanging on the wall, including the degree she had received at the Merchant Marine Academy where she had spent hours studying to get her degree. Sometimes she regretted having spent those hours studying, instead of spending them with Karyme, yet she knew that such sacrifices had to be made in order for them to have the life they did now.

Taking her seat once more, Nadie leaned down and unlocked the lowest drawer in her oak desk. A smile spread on her lips as she took hold of her old weapon. The Colt M1911's familiar weight felt extremely comfortable to Nadie as she held it again for what seemed years. She had kept her gun secure and only had it as a keepsake of her times as a bounty hunter, yet she kept ammunition close at hand in case of any "emergency."

As she gripped the gun, memories rushed to her like the raging sea outside. The attack of her hometown where she had lost her entire family, the first man she had killed, then going on to become a bounty hunter and eventually meeting Ellis.

It all seemed like a lifetime ago, when really it had been but a few years back.

'How did I go from being a bounty hunter who took lives without a second thought, to becoming the captain of a cruise ship and spending most of my time at sea?'

Her own question was answered when she looked up to her desk and saw a framed picture of Karyme. Her daughter's smile was wide and her eyes shined with mirth.

A knock on her door interrupted Nadie's thoughts as she quickly placed the Colt back in the locked compartment before allowing entrance to whoever was knocking.

After hearing Nadie's voice saying "Come in" Catarina opened the door and stepped into the Captain's office. "Good morning Catarina." Nadie said as she watched the engineer step towards her. She saw the woman's eyes scan the room quickly before meeting her gaze, "Where's Rosa? I have been waiting for her to start her training but she didn't show up."

Suspicion arose in Catarina when she saw the captain look away at the mention of Rosa's name. "Do you know where she is?" She asked, waiting for the woman's answer. Nadie rose from her seat, "I'm afraid I do not. I have not seen her this morning." Nadie walked around her desk towards the door, but not before glancing at the clock in the wall to realize in was nearly midday.

Catarina's eyes followed Nadie and realized that the captain did not seem like her usual self. Her rigid pose told Catarina that something was going on, "Okay…" She trailed off, deciding against asking anything else. She had a feeling something had happened between the two women but she knew that Nadie wouldn't say anything to her about it. No matter how good "friends" they were, Nadie never opened up about her own life. "I guess I'll go look for her then." Catarina concluded before leaving out the door that Nadie had already opened for her.

Once the engineer left, Nadie decided to go to the bridge.

The loud humming of the engine did not seem to help Rosa's headache yet she preferred to take the pain instead of risking the high possibility of having to face Nadie in the upper deck. Her head pounded loudly as it felt ready to explode. She pulled her legs towards her and remained in the cold floor of the engine room. She had spent the entire night there, having run there after the kiss with Nadie, not daring to go back into her own room.

She realized she was supposed to be working with Catarina, getting trained for her new job, but she could not bring herself to do it. Not only did the pain impede her from even getting up and her whole body was now weak and tired but she was not able to concentrate on anything for more than mere seconds.

Her mind raced as she searched through her memories yet found only blank spaces. During the night she spent awake in tears, she had been able to regain small memories, mere seconds of a life she did not recognize. When she tried to search those memories, they would disappear and leave her empty and alone.

Nadie's words, and her kiss, stirred things inside her that scared her. She knew she had felt attracted to the captain from the first moment, yet the words she had not said, but screamed at her, were like daggers through her heart. The accusations were hot coals to her mind as she tried, tried very hard to remember, but failed. They made no sense to her, for how could she have abandoned both Nadie and Karyme when she had just met them recently?

And then the kiss.

The kiss that had been so amazing to her, the feeling of butterflies in her stomach that she had never known before, or that she recalled, yet the butterflies soon combusted into flames as the kiss became painful with the memories it brought back.

If only for a second, but she saw it. She saw them, Nadie and her, in another world that she did not know. In a world that seem as alien to her as the rest of the other memories yet she saw one thing that stood out above it all.

In that world, she and Nadie were in love.

With that thought in mind, she closed her eyes and allowed the darkness to envelop her.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. I request that tonight you all stay indoors and that anyone who is on the upper deck to please enter the lower levels of the ship. This is a preventative measure for the storm which you are all aware of. Our radars indicate the storm will get worst as the night progresses but it should have died down by the morning. I ask once again that all our guests stay in the lower levels of the ship and to stay away from the upper deck. This is just a preventative measure, so please keep calm and enjoy the rest of your evening."

Nadie turned off the intercom system before turning to Mark, "Make sure that the upper deck and any other uncovered areas are empty and that all the guests are indoors."

"Yes Captain." Mark replied before getting on his assigned task.

The grey skies had only darkened as the day progressed. When she had arrived to the bridge earlier in the day after the short talk with Catarina she had been overwhelmed with work as the danger of a hurricane loomed ahead. The weather problems had been unforeseen by anyone yet in the latest reports throughout the evening showed that although a hurricane was not likely to happen, it was still very likely that the storm would grow worse overnight.

She had dinner with Karyme in their own quarters as she didn't feel in the mood to dine in the main hall. She didn't see Jody nor Jayden but when she had called to ask them to pick Karyme up from the room and care for her for a few hours, they agree and said they'd pick her up in a bit.

After dinner Nadie had returned Karyme to the room and told her to stay there for her aunts. When a few minutes too long passed, the restless Karyme, decided to leave the room. She was tired of having spent the entire day in the room since it was raining and quickly set out to leave.

Recently Karyme had noticed that whenever she focused on a certain object, if she focused hard enough, she could get it to move where she wanted it to without her touching it with her hand. She didn't do it much since it was rather exhausting at times and she certainly didn't do it in front of other people. She had never seen her mom do it nor her aunts so she figured she shouldn't do it either. Her young mind focused on the lock of the door which had been put in place by Nadie who trusted that Jody held a key to the Captain's quarters.

Within seconds the door was unlocked and Karyme was free.

The sound of loud thunder reverberated through the ship and awoke Rosa with a startle. Her eyes snapped open as she tried to adjust to the darkness of the room. Her headache was no longer as intense as before but something else was wrong.

A pain in her chest told Rosa that something was wrong. Her body felt weak and she felt tired but she pulled herself up and stood up. With shaky but firm stems she left the engine room and made her way towards the upper deck. She didn't know what was going on, but she had a feeling that something bad was going to happen.

The same feeling suddenly appeared in Nadie. She stopped her typing of keys on the keyboard as she took a sharp breath. The feeling in her chest was similar as the one she had felt the day she was going to pick Rosa up and she had found Carlos attempting to rape her. She had taken her gun with her due to that feeling and it had proven useful. This pain however was more intense.

Just as she stood up from her chair, Jody stormed into the room, her hair dripping water as her entire body was soaked in water from the storm outside. The fear in Jody's face told Nadie something was certainly wrong even before the woman spoke.

"We can't find Karyme."

Cold heavy droplets poured over Rosa as she walked through the upper deck. She held tightly on to the metal railing as the ship rocked from the raging waters. Ahead of her, she could see the short silhouette of person running down away from her. She could hear nothing beside the rain attacking the metal surface of the ship yet she called out desperately. "Karyme! Kary!" She ran towards the silhouette that disappeared behind the heavy curtains of rain.

Nadie heard Ellis' voice ahead of them. She, along with Jody, Jayden, and several of her officers, were searching for Karyme but had no luck so far. Terrified at the thought of losing her daughter Nadie had sent all her crew on a search throughout the entire ship. Leading a group in the upper deck, she spotted Ellis running in the opposite direction as she called Karyme's name.

Rosa neared the little girl who was standing beside the port of the ship. The slippery surface caused Rosa to walk careful towards her. Karyme saw Rosa and smiled. Rosa realized Karyme began walking towards her but called out in fear, "No Karyme! Stay there! Don't move!"

Just as the words came out from her mouth, Rosa was able to reach the drenched child and held her closely to her. Nadie felt relieved as she saw Ellis hugging Karyme close to her, but her relief was short lived when in the next instant, a wave crashed against the side of the ship, causing it to jerk roughly.

The sudden movement caused Rosa to lose her balance and with the child in her arms, she plummeted in to the gaping maw of a hungry sea.

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