Change of frame
"With your technical expertise it can't be that hard to get the radar working correcty." Ceilí joked and punched Dodge playfully on the back. The blond girl had too much power and tumbled down onto the seat with him.
"As if I knew how to deal with it!" The young man lifted her up from his lap, she was as light as a feather. She wasn't tall, too, but still she was strong and hard working. She was 27 years old, the youngest of the team, but she didn't look it, being as energetic and wild as a teenager. They didn't know much about her, just that she had come from Ireland only weeks ago, how old she was and that her name was Ceilí. The Irish girl had been the last to come to the group to work for Murphy, yet she had become an essential member, her knowledge of ships and technical details was almost as huge as Murphy's. Dodge believed that this was the reason that he at first didn't want to have her around, but after the first mission he had to admit that she was good at what she did.
Dodge, too, thought that she was good. She was intelligent and to his mind amazingly beautiful, but he had to focus on his job. She usually did not hang around with them in their free time, for Epps, Munder, Greer, Santos, Murphy and he himself were doing so.
The girl now drank from her pint of beer and looked around lazily. "I wanna go out again..." she said plainly.
Greers glared at her. "You kiddin'? We've just come home from six months out there. So why do you wanna do that again?"
"Because!" she replied and looked at him, a little angered. She was of short temper and almost every time the two of them got into a fight. Munder got up and walked over to the girl and placed his hands on her shoulders as if to hold her back.
"Ceilí..." he whispered. "Don't you make him mad now, you know, all he wants is to get back to his fiancée."
"I am not that sure that he id ready for marriage, yet!" Ceilí grinned and begged for pardon before Greer could throw something in her direction. "But still, it would be an adventure..." she said. "Another six weeks or even more..." A slight smile brightened her face.
Greer pouted. "But I planned on seeing her in a few days."
The girl laughed. "Didn't you know? In a business like ours you can never plan on anything, because there are no plans."
"Yeah, right, the child has finally learned!" Munder said, and now it was Dodge to hold her back.
"Child? Did you just call me a child?" Ceilí fought against Dodge's grip around her shoulders, but all of them knew that it was just a game. They always teased the girl with her age and she always went crazy about it.
Now she brushed a few strands of hair behind her ears and turned back to her beer. Just when she was about to take a long sip, Murphy and Epps appeared behind her.
~*~
Dodge and Santos carried the food on board, while Epps and Murphy led their guest Ferriman onto the deck of the Arctic Warrior, it had been his wish to be there when they would find the ship. Greer and Ceilí helped Munder to get the rest of the stuff into the cabin, so that they finally were able to leave the harbor to search for the ship. Once they left, there was no turning back, and even Greer had decided to tag along. Like someone leaving forever, he stood at the reel and leant overboard, looking back to the coast slowly dissolving in the mists of dawn.
Ceilí stood next to Dodge, glaring out onto the dark sea and her heart jumped for joy. Here she was, out on the wild sea again, and her friends were with her.
Dodge smiled at her, and felt a warm feeling creep into his heart, remembering...
FLASHBACK:
Dodge, for the first time, was sure that this smile was for him. She had just laughed about one of his silly jokes and this time it wasn't because everyone laughed, for they were alone. Additionally, she had flashed him a gorgeous smile.
In the last weeks they had come a little closer than they ever had before. They had shared a room for at least a week, because Munder had grown terribly sick and Murphy didn't want Dodge to be sick, too. So it was an easy decision to have Munder sleep in another room. Santos had a room for himself, and everyone refused to sleep there because it was devastatingly smelly. Murphy and Greer each had a single room, too. There were only two beds in the room where Munder and Dodge used to sleep, same for the room of Epps and Ceilí.
To have Munder sleep in a single room then meant either moving out for Murphy or Greer, but for Murphy being the captain, Greer had to leave his room. The First Mate started to complain that he couldn't and wouldn't sleep in a room with Dodge, and before there was more arguments and even a fistfight, Ceilí had intervened. She offered Greers to share a room with Epps, which he gladly accepted, and moved her stuff into the other room.
Sleeping in one room didn't make it easier for him. His secret passion for her didn't let him sleep at night and when he slept, he had weird dreams. It were really weird dreams and he was scared that she could hear him in the night. He could lay awake for hours just watching her sleep, and imagined how it would be holding her close. He secretly wanted her to feel the same but up to now she never signaled anything to him. He sometimes couldn't work correctly because of her being around, and that was why Munder always poked fun on him. Dodge didn't care. All that he wanted was to be with her.
"With your technical expertise it can't be that hard to get the radar working correcty." Ceilí joked and punched Dodge playfully on the back. The blond girl had too much power and tumbled down onto the seat with him.
"As if I knew how to deal with it!" The young man lifted her up from his lap, she was as light as a feather. She wasn't tall, too, but still she was strong and hard working. She was 27 years old, the youngest of the team, but she didn't look it, being as energetic and wild as a teenager. They didn't know much about her, just that she had come from Ireland only weeks ago, how old she was and that her name was Ceilí. The Irish girl had been the last to come to the group to work for Murphy, yet she had become an essential member, her knowledge of ships and technical details was almost as huge as Murphy's. Dodge believed that this was the reason that he at first didn't want to have her around, but after the first mission he had to admit that she was good at what she did.
Dodge, too, thought that she was good. She was intelligent and to his mind amazingly beautiful, but he had to focus on his job. She usually did not hang around with them in their free time, for Epps, Munder, Greer, Santos, Murphy and he himself were doing so.
The girl now drank from her pint of beer and looked around lazily. "I wanna go out again..." she said plainly.
Greers glared at her. "You kiddin'? We've just come home from six months out there. So why do you wanna do that again?"
"Because!" she replied and looked at him, a little angered. She was of short temper and almost every time the two of them got into a fight. Munder got up and walked over to the girl and placed his hands on her shoulders as if to hold her back.
"Ceilí..." he whispered. "Don't you make him mad now, you know, all he wants is to get back to his fiancée."
"I am not that sure that he id ready for marriage, yet!" Ceilí grinned and begged for pardon before Greer could throw something in her direction. "But still, it would be an adventure..." she said. "Another six weeks or even more..." A slight smile brightened her face.
Greer pouted. "But I planned on seeing her in a few days."
The girl laughed. "Didn't you know? In a business like ours you can never plan on anything, because there are no plans."
"Yeah, right, the child has finally learned!" Munder said, and now it was Dodge to hold her back.
"Child? Did you just call me a child?" Ceilí fought against Dodge's grip around her shoulders, but all of them knew that it was just a game. They always teased the girl with her age and she always went crazy about it.
Now she brushed a few strands of hair behind her ears and turned back to her beer. Just when she was about to take a long sip, Murphy and Epps appeared behind her.
~*~
Dodge and Santos carried the food on board, while Epps and Murphy led their guest Ferriman onto the deck of the Arctic Warrior, it had been his wish to be there when they would find the ship. Greer and Ceilí helped Munder to get the rest of the stuff into the cabin, so that they finally were able to leave the harbor to search for the ship. Once they left, there was no turning back, and even Greer had decided to tag along. Like someone leaving forever, he stood at the reel and leant overboard, looking back to the coast slowly dissolving in the mists of dawn.
Ceilí stood next to Dodge, glaring out onto the dark sea and her heart jumped for joy. Here she was, out on the wild sea again, and her friends were with her.
Dodge smiled at her, and felt a warm feeling creep into his heart, remembering...
FLASHBACK:
Dodge, for the first time, was sure that this smile was for him. She had just laughed about one of his silly jokes and this time it wasn't because everyone laughed, for they were alone. Additionally, she had flashed him a gorgeous smile.
In the last weeks they had come a little closer than they ever had before. They had shared a room for at least a week, because Munder had grown terribly sick and Murphy didn't want Dodge to be sick, too. So it was an easy decision to have Munder sleep in another room. Santos had a room for himself, and everyone refused to sleep there because it was devastatingly smelly. Murphy and Greer each had a single room, too. There were only two beds in the room where Munder and Dodge used to sleep, same for the room of Epps and Ceilí.
To have Munder sleep in a single room then meant either moving out for Murphy or Greer, but for Murphy being the captain, Greer had to leave his room. The First Mate started to complain that he couldn't and wouldn't sleep in a room with Dodge, and before there was more arguments and even a fistfight, Ceilí had intervened. She offered Greers to share a room with Epps, which he gladly accepted, and moved her stuff into the other room.
Sleeping in one room didn't make it easier for him. His secret passion for her didn't let him sleep at night and when he slept, he had weird dreams. It were really weird dreams and he was scared that she could hear him in the night. He could lay awake for hours just watching her sleep, and imagined how it would be holding her close. He secretly wanted her to feel the same but up to now she never signaled anything to him. He sometimes couldn't work correctly because of her being around, and that was why Munder always poked fun on him. Dodge didn't care. All that he wanted was to be with her.