Chapter 38.
Lets clear up the sleeping arrangements, because the boat is pretty full up and things have been shuffled up a bit.
Captain Keith is in his own captains stateroom, of course. Crosby and Lynn are still sharing but Deathwish is with them. Will has been permanently transplanted to Art his bunk and Travis doesn't really mind. It gives him endless amo for more jokes. Lennie and Freddie are also together, leaving Soper and Dough to fight over the last room. Not that it gives a lot of trouble. Dough is a pretty easy going guy, and the camera crew is just happy to not be sleeping in the pantry anymore.
Not that there would be any room in there after Will's little shopping spree. He made sure to have triple the normal amount of food in case Crosby got lose and in cooking mode unsupervised again. The observer it is decided can choose to either bunk with Soper and Dough or Freddie and Lennie.
The deckhands are playing a game of poker, the stakes are future cleaning points because it has been decided during the first trip that Will is counting cards or something even if they haven't been able to catch him at it yet. But no playing for money with Will in the group.
Freddie needed some confincing but after one round of guess the card with Will making a perfect score of 100% he is going along. Freakish good luck that Dutch kid has.
Only before more than two hours of Art and Lynn's cleaning time is won by Will there is a commotion outside. A clearly female voice is shouting.
"Wizard ahoy. Anybody there?"
Within seconds the entire crew minus the still sleeping captain are standing on deck watching the lady with the rather loud voice.
"Great, there is life on board. I am Mireille, the observer? your captain knows about it?"
The poor girl is starting the sound more and more uncertain. She was so sure that the harbor master relayed the message. But looking at the bumpkins in front of her she is in doubt if they even know what an observer is. At least the Time Bandit crew started complaining right away about having an observer on board. The fact that she was female wasn't all that big a problem at first. Not until after she kneed Johnathan in the crotch. And that was a pure case of self-defense. Honest, girl scouts honor and all that. Not her fault that those guys can't handle a female walking around in her underwear after a shower. He had no reason to be downstairs anyway, he should have been driving the bloody boat.
Looking over the bumpkins some more she comes to the conclusion that the big nosed one and the tall skinny dark-haired one are together. That is a first as far as she knows. The big curly haired one seems nice enough and the little dark-haired one with the extremely confused expression isn't going to be a problem either. Freddie she already knows, and Vanessa is going to have his dangly bits if he even looks at another woman, never mind that it is on a boat. That leaves the big burly one with the under bite, he looks like the two brain cells he has have a communication problem at the moment. So he isn't a threat either. The two old-timers are harmless as well. Only where is that captain she has been warned about. The fire breather?
Deciding that action is the best way to go she takes the initiative.
"Hey guys I really am supposed to be on this boat. Any help, please?"
Now Will springs into action. He recognizes the accent.
" Tuurlijk lieverd. Geef die rugzak maar."
Earning a big smile and an enthusiastic hug and three kisses in response.
"Wist niet dat er een Nederlander op deze boot zat?"
"Is ook een geheimpje. Ssssssstt, niet verder vertellen. Maar zullen we verder in het Engels gaan anders wordt de rest verdrietig."
The last bit with a wink and a grin. The black haired woman smiled back and followed Will inside leaving the guys with a chance to gossip, no discus the new developments.
The first one to speak is Art, sounding very pissed off, somebody is shooting under his pigeons.
"What the hell, thought the observer was a guy called Reilly? I am going to kill Mike." And with that Art stomps inside again scratching his back only to glare this weird female away from his Will. Not that he would ever admit to that.
"Well she did say her name is Mireille, that kind of sounds like Reilly. But no way that Mike thought she was a guy." Is Lynn's two cents.
"She is HOT." Is all Travis has to say once he gets his eyes popped back into his head and his mouth closed, and then he also storms in to make sure that the observer is going to be bunking with him, Art and Will. That that arrangement might not go down to well with his old buddy Art is not important.
Freddie just looks at it all and shakes his head. Crazy, all Crazy.
(Translation: Sure sweetheart just give me your bag.
Didn't know there was a Dutchman on this boat.
That's because it is a secret, so husssssssssssh, don't tell anybody. And let's go on in English because if we don't the others will get sad. )