In the following weeks Izzy makes himself scarce in general, hiding away to his cabin whenever he has free time. The crew seems to have noticed. They mutter between themselves and stare at him curiously, but Izzy doesn't give a fuck. He is hurt because this time Ed acknowledged the incident, coming to knock at his door that night and telling him to learn to fucking respect Stede and his' privacy. So now Izzy is taking no chances. To the crew's amusement he knocks on the door of every single room he enters, even when it is slightly ajar. He's not taking any fucking chances. The last thing he wants right now is to walk in on Ed and Stede fucking Bonnet again.
That's why the next time he finds himself having to ask Ed something he glares at the captains' cabin's closed door and raises his hand to knock. But that's when he hears Ed cry out in pain. Izzy freezes with his fist close to door, wondering on how to interpret the sound. Then he hears a heart wrenching sob and concern overtakes him.
No longer thinking, he swiftly opens the door and sprints to the captains' bedroom.
"Ed-"
But Ed is okay. More than okay. He is bent over on all fours on the bed, red and gasping. Izzy is momentarily fascinated by how undone he looks. He is wearing Stede's magenta robe with nothing underneath and the robe has been twisted to the side as Stede has one hand around Ed's cock and four fingers of his other hand are down Ed's asshole. Four fucking fingers! Izzy can't believe what he's seeing. Fucking Stede Bonnet nearly has his whole fucking hand inside Ed. And as he is rocking it in and out of Ed's body, Ed is whimpering animalistically.
Izzy can't help staring at Ed's face, cheeks flushed, eyes glazed over and mouth open in silent screams.
A serious boner is starting to form in Izzy's pants, but the couple are so absorbed in what they are doing that Izzy doesn't even think they've noticed him coming in.
"Fuck Stede, right there. Don't stop" groans Ed, grinding his hips further into Stede's hand.
A dark look flashes in Stede's eyes and he increases the rhythm of his fingers to a frantic pace.
An unintelligible garble of sounds leaves Ed's mouth as he grows redder than Izzy's ever seen him.
"It's okay my love," whispers Stede. "Come for me. Let go."
Ed's panting quickens before a shiver overtakes his body and he comes with a pained shout.
Izzy nearly creams himself on the spot. Then he is overtaken with rage at the thought that Stede fucking Bonnet can make Ed come by sticking his fingers up his ass. It's so fucking degrading it makes him want to growl.
"Oh my God!"
That snaps the couple out of their blissful bubble.
"Izzy?" mumbles Ed dreamily, still in the throes of his orgasm.
"Oh God! Not again!" huffs Stede angrily. "Could you fucking leave Izzy, please?"
Izzy stiffly turns and leaves the room, careful to close the door behind him. His legs feel wobbly, and he sinks to the floor there and then, completely stunned.
He doesn't even notice Lucius coming down the corridor, until the boy stops right in front of him and crouches down to face him.
"Hi Iz! How's it going?" he asks airily, an amused smile growing on his lips.
Izzy grunts in response, not knowing how to even fucking begin to answer that.
"Let me guess… Did you go into the captain's cabin and walked-in on them fucking?" Lucius asks with an exaggerated grimace of embarrassment.
Izzy grunts in approval and Lucius gives him a comradely slap on the shoulder.
"Aw that's okay, they're getting more and more sloppy with it. Several of us have seen them by now. Gosh, since I swing by their cabin often, I guess I've caught them in the act more than anyone else. I mean, they say they don't want an audience, but they keep forgetting to lock the door to their room and doing it in places any of us can walk in, like the jam room, the ball room, the kitchen…"
Izzy looks up dumbfounded. "The kitchen?"
"Oh, you saw them in there too? Kinda explains how weird you've been recently. I'll have to tell Frenchie he lost his bet. He had theorized that we were sailing in siren-infested waters, and they had done something funny to your head."
Lucius stood up and offered Izzy a hand. "Come on, up you go. No sense in moping here all day."
Izzy cautiously took his hand and got up. He still didn't know what to think about the whole Ed and Stede endeavor. But right now, he was too exhausted to protest.
Lucius chuckled and sensing that Izzy's barriers were down he put an arm around Izzy's shoulders, steering him in direction of the deck.
"Come on. Let's join the others. If you want, you can bitch about the captains with us. And!" He paused, smirking at Izzy. "I think you'll find that I'm fantastic with heartbreaks" he added with a wink.