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Back on Sully's boat, Nate and I had changed into dry clothes, Nate in his usual tan henley, jeans, and trainers, and I in a blue racerback tank, fitted cargo pants, and my usual knee high brown laced-up boots. Nate was explaining the story of Francis Drake to Sully and I, not that he really needed to explain things to me. I knew just about as much about this stuff as he did thanks to my parents. However, I always enjoyed listening to Nate's extensive knowledge of history, so I usually remained quiet. I loved the excited gleam he got in his eyes whenever he talked about history, especially Francis Drake.

"So look, when Drake sailed into the Pacific he took the Spanish fleet completely by surprise," Nate explained. "He captured their ships, he took all their maps, their letters, their journals, and he recorded everything in this diary."

"Uh huh, so this -" Sully tried, but Nate cut him off.

"But when he got back to England, Queen Elizabeth confiscated all of his charts and logbooks. Including this one." He waved the diary around for emphasis. "And then swore his entire crew to silence."

"Yeah, so this -"

"Y'see, Drake discovered something on that voyage, Sully, something secret, and so valuable, they couldn't risk it getting out."

"All right, Nate," Sully said, finally getting a word in. "Just pretend for a minute that I don't really care about any of that stuff, and cut to the chase, wouldya?"

Nate rolled his eyes with a chuckle. "A man only interested in the climax. You must be a real hit with the ladies."

"Never had any complaints," Sully replied with a sly smile.

I rolled my eyes and shook my head. "Men."

"Okay then, I'll jump to the good part, just for you," Nate conceded. He flipped through the diary till he found the page he wanted and tossed it onto the table in front of Sully. Sully looked at the diary and chuckled, a tone of awe in his voice.

"El goddamn Dorado."

Nate grinned triumphantly. "He was onto something big, all right."

"Does it say anything else?" Sully asked.

"Oh, so now you're interested, huh?" Nate inquired teasingly, snatching the diary away from Sully.

"Yeah."

"Well, unfortunately no. Last page was torn out." Nate held up the diary and sure enough, the last page was missing.

"Of course," I sighed in exasperation. "Cause God forbid something actually be easy for us."

"I'm telling you, Sully, Alex. This is it, this is finally it."

"Yeah… Only, we got one little problem," Sully pointed out, gesturing to Elena who was outside talking to her producer.

"Sully, the girl can hold her own," Nate defended. "You shoulda seen her."

"She's not half bad actually," I agreed. "She knows how to shoot more than just her camera." I had to reluctantly admit, I was rather impressed how Elena handled the pirate situation. Most people would have completely freaked out and have become a liability. Once she got over the initial shock, however, Elena proved to be quite useful.

"Fine, you go on out there and tell her we just found the lost city of gold," Sully told Nate. "Maybe her producer can get it on the air tonight."

"Oh, come on -" Nate protested.

"Nate, do you trust me?"

Nate shrugged, leaning his hands against the table. "More or less."

"Good, cause we're gonna have every two-bit scumbag in the world racing us to this treasure unless we cut her loose right now." I realized he had a point. We already had the pirates trailing us, we didn't need any more trouble, no matter how good she was with a gun.

Nate sighed in resignation. "You're a real gentleman, Sully."

"I know. It stinks. She'll get over it," Sully replied flatly.

"He's got a point, you know," I told Nate.

Nate sighed again, casting a glance out the window at the blonde who was still pacing the dock. "I know." Elena glanced up from her call and gave a small wave. I waved back, lowering my hand to fidget with the silver rings I wore around my neck. She was going to hate us after this, not that I really cared, it's not like we were going to see her again anyway. Sully started the boat and pulled away. I watched as Elena turned and chased the boat down the dock.