Discliamer: same as the other chapters
AN: ok this is chapter 5 now I believe I dono I am losing track but just enjoy it and if you do review.
Hook awoke to a short sharp scream coming from his bed, in a rush he sat up his hand already on his dagger, however when he looked over to where the noise had come from he saw nothing but a mass of bed covers. As he rose and silently crept over to the bed his right hand still on his dagger his left hung by his side useless without his hook. On his bed was Louisa twitching and whimpering in her sleep, a look of sheer terror on her face, Hook prayed that the nightmares that so plagued her did not feature him.
"Father…Please…No." She pleaded, fighting with the bed covers tangling herself up all the more.
Still confused Hook moved forward and placed his hand on her shoulder pushing her gently trying to wake her. With a gasp she violently flinched away from his touch, only to role herself out of the bed, taking the bed covers with her. Finally awake from her short fall she lay there breathing deeply, as she remembered with tears in her eyes the nightmare, the memories that haunted her sleep. With a start Louisa realised that she wasn't alone. She sat up and stared at the Captain before she angrily brushed her tears away angry at herself that she had shown such weakness in front of her captor.
"Captain." She said with a slight nod of her head as a morning greeting, pretending nothing had happened she worked to untangle her legs from the covers and slowly stood, before the captain who looked at her with an odd mix of pity, and remorse before he changed it to an arrogant smile.
"My dear, do you always jump out of bed so?" he asked with a sneer on his face.
"Do you always look as if you have just stepped on something horrid?" she retorted, dumping the bed covers back onto the bed, before smoothing it over.
"Only when you are around my dear." He answered back smoothly.
What was fast turning into an argument was distracted as a knock came at the door which was then opened by Hook's command, revealing Smee with two other pirates bringing in a table laden with food fit for a king. At the sight Louisa forgot her anger, and smiled warmly at the short man, then delightedly at the food.
"Breakfast is served." Smee called out before he and the other two pirates left closing the door behind them. Louisa quickly sat down at one of the chairs provided and began piling food onto her plate, she had taken two bites of a delicious peach or something of the kind before she even looked at the captain who had remained where he was a small smile on his lips.
"Won't you join me dear captain." She asked her anger forgotten as she was distracted by the food. The captain sat and began to eat with a little more decorum even as he marveled at there situation. Here she was his fiery young captive, who had turned out to be rather beautiful when all the dirt had been washed off, sitting at the table as if she hadn't eaten in months, wearing nothing but a tight top which was stained brown from her previous 'adventures', and very short pants, and she seemingly didn't even notice. He himself was sitting at the table without a shirt, without his Hook, his hair hadn't even been brushed.
Hook finished eating before her and just sat there looking at her, he noticed that her body was covered in bruises and scars of varying age, a sign that she had been beaten and abused over a great length of time, apart from these marks she seemed to be healthy if a little undernourished, though she still needed that bath. Louisa finished with her breakfast sat back in her chair and stretched her arms back, which tightened her shirt over her breasts and pushed them out towards the captain. Louisa yawned to hide her smile at the captain's reaction which was firstly to look at them and then cough slightly trying to announce to her that she was being improper.
"I do believe Captain," she said her posture back to normal, and her eyes trained on the Spanish wall that hid the bath tub. "that I would indeed like that bath that you offered me."
"What, the bathe that you so stubbornly declined?"
"The very same, well as the plan that went with my decline of your so kind offer is so obviously void, I don't see why I should not be clean and presentable." She said giving him her best feminine smile, adding a doe-eyed look.
He knew he was being manipulated and yet her smile set off a familiar yearning in his nether region, one that sent fire throughout his body. Grudgingly he lowered his head in defeat, bowing to her request. "Of course my dear, we could not have a repeat of yesterday's attempted escape can we." Louisa blushed, and dropped her gaze acting like the perfect demure young lady.
"Yes captain, I don't believe I will be jumping back into the water so soon, not with those things out there." She said a slight shudder coming to her skin as she remembered the clammy hand. She looked back up at the captain meeting his forget-me-not blue eyes, with her piercing green ones. "Thank you captain for saving me from those things, I don't know how I could ever repay you." She said with all honesty.
"My dear, it was nothing, I simply rescued you from the mermaids, when of course you had jumped off the ship, embarresing me in front of my crew, and when you had treated me so badly." He said his arrogant smile playing across his face again.
Her anger was back although she tried her hardest to conceal it. "Yes captain, I have acted terribly for a prisoner, trying to escape and all." Louisa said her statement dripping with sarcasm.
"Yes well just see that it doesn't happen again will you." He said ignoring it.
"So how about that bath," she said bringing the topic back on track.
"Yes, I will get the men to bring in some heated water, and I shall get you some new clothes, those ones you are wearing, if you can indeed call them clothes, will need to be washed, or burned." He said with fake distain.
Louisa looked down at her stained and torn night clothes, they were a mess, but she didn't understand his problem with them. "This is what I sleep in, but I do indeed call them clothes, what's your problem with them, apart from there obvious disrepair?" She asked
"What's wrong with them, there is barely anything there, not that I mind all that much, but you can not walk around my ship dressed as such, the men you see." He said, trying to forget his own distraction with her, he looked her over with a strange look in his eyes that she understood all to well. "Well Louisa." He said coughing slightly as he stood, "I shall of course leave you to yourself, I will have your bath brought in." He said before he quickly exited the room, only to return a short minute later, his cheeks slightly red as he moved over to the Spanish wall and strode behind it, to appear a while later dressed in his finery, all but his shirt and jacket, which he carried over his stump. He walked casually over to the dresser and picked up the contraption, and put down the rest of his clothes. The captain picked up a bell, and rang it twice to have Smee rush through the door not a minute later, Smee began to attach the contraption over the captain's stump, binding it to his shoulder in what looked like a most uncomfortable way, the Captain showed nothing on his face except a slight sneer at his own deformity. The captain and smee, both walked out of the cabin once the captain was fully dressed. All this had happened without a single word uttered by either the captain, the boatswain or Louisa as she had watched on in fascination; the captain hadn't even met her eyes, as he had been forced into the leather harness.
Louisa stood a towel rapped around her, her hair dripping down her back as she looked with dismay at the red dress laid out on the bed, it looked uncomfortable, and she wished she had her bag that she had brought to Neverland but that she had so carelessly left on her cloud, as it had deposited her, getting her into this mess of mud and pirates and mermaids and one handsome captain, and now a red dress. Louisa squeezed out the moisture in her hair before she placed her towel on the floor beside her feet. She pulled on the 'underpants', and a simple chemise, there was other undergarments left out but she had no idea how they were put on or in which order so she left them moving straight on to the dress. The problem with it was that it had a built in corset, after fighting with it for ten minutes, Louisa threw it on the bed accompanied with some of her best curses, no matter which way she tried it was to small, even for her light body, it seemed it had belonged to a child who lacked Louisa's feminine attributes. Giving up on the whole thing she began a search through the captain's draws searching for a shirt and pants, once she was dressed in an overlarge shirt and loose pants, she decided that these were much more practical. Just as she finished a polite knock sounded at the door.
"Enter." She called as she looked herself up and down in the mirror, using the captain's hairbrush on her own long brown hair.
"And what are you wearing?" The captain hissed, as he looked at her in his clothes, and the red dress lying crumpled on the bed along with half the other clothes that Smee had laid out for her.
"Clothes, Dear captain." She said looking at him through the mirror.
"Well, yes, but they are my clothes." He said indignantly. "Why are you not dressed in the clothes Smee set out for you?"
"They didn't fit, that dress is for a child." She said as she turned to him, pointing an accusing finger at the bed. She looked down at her chest and then up at him with a slight smirk on her face, as she saw his eyes following her own. "It didn't fit."
"Well that hardly gives you permission to go about in my clothes."
"Did you wish me to walk out on the deck, naked, amid all your pirates?" Louisa asked accusingly of her captor.
With a deep breath Hook appraised her in his clothes. They definitely suited her, the very sight of her, sent a wave of heat into his nether regions, again. Louisa stood there a tinge of red coming to her cheeks as the same heat took flight throughout her innards. Hook noticed her cheeks and gave a slight chuckle as he stepped closer to Louisa, deciding that he would act on the feeling that was obviously coursing throughout both their bodies. On instinct she took a slight step back as she in turn appraised the captain in all his finery. He was close enough now for his scent to waft over her, a masculine smell of rum, cigars, the sea, and something else that was uniquely his own. She took a deep breath in through her nose as she stepped forward, connecting their chests. Louisa put a hand over his heart and she could feel his strong heart beat coming at a slightly fast rate, though it could not compare to her own that seemed to leap out of her chest, wanting to be closer to him. Louisa looked up at Hook through her eyelashes in a slightly confused manner. She waited patiently for him as he brought his lips down to cover hers, it was a tentative kiss and he broke away within seconds and looked down at her gauging her reaction. Louisa looked up at him no longer in control and now completely confused, her breath was quickened, all from a single kiss, from this pirate, she couldn't work it out.
With a slightly cross look on his face he began to turn away, her look of confusion wasn't unusual but still, he felt that his advances were unwanted, perhaps he thought that he had read the signs wrong, perhaps it was fear that made her heart race, he could understand that considering the monster that he felt himself to be.
Slowly as if unsure of herself, she reached one hand to his shoulder pulling him back towards her while the other was brought up to the back of his head as she gently drew him down to her where she placed her mouth onto his returning his kiss, in kind. Louisa broke off this time, completely breathless her heart beating at 100 miles a minute. She looked up at him, and smiled gently.
"Shall we go to dinner then captain?" she asked, only now noticing his own flustered appearance, a reaction it seemed they both had had to pay for their two simple yet so meaningful kisses.
He didn't know what had happened but it seemed he had been correct in his original assumption, it didn't seem to be fear that made her heart flutter so. She had kissed him, and it seemed to him her kiss had been more erotic, more everything then anything he had ever done with any other woman he had been with. His greatest desire at the moment would have been to simply throw her on the bed and have his way with her, but he knew that would be wrong, he had after all always prided himself on his rather gentlemanly manners, at least for a pirate, towards the ladies, and even if with other women he would have perhaps disregarded most of those manners, he felt that Louisa was different, he knew from what he had heard from her dreams that she had already been through a lot, and that perhaps her history of men whether sexual or not was riddled with pain, and that was not something he wished to mess with. He knew after all that good things came to those who wait, and he felt he could wait to get his one.
A.N: Anyway I dono this chapter was done in parts so I don't believe it is as fluid as the other chapters, but here ya go, and there is chemistry, it makes the air practically tingle. Lol anyway review please.