"Kitty" Year-Round
Part XII: The Leader of The Pack
By Mia LeighArc
The notorious Long John Silver was roaming through what was left of Treasure Planet. He rummaged through a pile of scraps and metals to make great machines like he'd made already; including a time machine that was designed to give people a second chance to go back a change one thing that went wrong in the past. He stop moment and desperately looked for the tool he needed to fix the time machine; he found it moments later, made a few adjustments, and asked his friend tied up how he thinks it looked. The female Felinid (with blue eyes and blond hair) squirmed to escape, Olivia Cervantes was the hostage. He looks in Silver's direction, but she couldn't say anything when she was bound and gagged, especially when he had black eyes and bruises all over her face.
"So miss, what do t'ink of me work? Oh, I forgot, you haven't much to say lately. Well, don't worry it won't be much longer until I can test this hunk o' hardware the treasure for meself instead of letting that boy take what little I had. Anyway, you keep warm. Let me know if you need anything. whoops forgot again. .ha." Silver said as he got up and worked on another machine that switches two people's spirits if it is held in the hands of the two people. Silver got a flashback of Jim blasting just from the inferno of Treasure Planet; and why the portal closed right after everyone got through. Silver remembered seeing Jim grab it while he was going through, himself, standing in the shadows until it was time to escape to the remaining ruins and piles of galactic matter and gold left from the explosion. Cynthia tried with get free, but the ropes were tied so tight that it was cutting her ivory flesh and the crimson-colored blood was staining her hands and the ropes that bound them. A pain, but everything she did made it worse. A tree branch breaking every few minutes or so could be heard in the distance from the direction of the woods near-by.
"Don't worry m'lady, I'll get that boy if it's that last 'ting I do."
"I'll get Silver if it's the last thing I do?" Aeneas said angrily, though thousands of miles away...or so you all thought. Aeneas and his band of Blackhawk assassin sneaking up on Silver...behind a bush is where they were hiding. They watched Silver with open eyes, cocked flintlocks and daggers the size of machetes.
"Argue with me under the penalty of death." Aeneas said to Othello who looked terrified at his leader's plan.
"Yes sir." and he left Aeneas some space to move around when he drew his weapons and told the others to do so as well. They left the bush moments later and came towards Silver. "Excellent job on the capture Silver...I guess this means I must congratulate you on being more important than you're worth." Aeneas growled as Silver turned around disappointed with who he was talking to.
"Why Aeneas Scott, what the devil are you doing here?" Aeneas just smiled as his assassins lined up behind him. "Oh I see, ya' brought te'se distinguishing lookin' group to scare me outa' me wits end."
"What Silver...not happy to see me? Now hand over the time machine!" Aeneas said with a mysterious glare.
"What time machin'e?" Silver said holding up a wrench in his mechanical hand, then he dropped it and turned towards the machine for a moment. The other men s around Aeneas...When Arrow saw them forming a mob, he tripped them, and Silver turned around to find crazed Fox-like rouge in his face. Then he felt a laser enter his side and he fell to the ground. Othello and two other men wrestled with Arrow for a long time, but finally got him in a head lock and put a knife to his stony throat. Aeneas to shoot Silver in the heart but Cynthia threw all her body weight into Aeneas. But unfortunately, Aeneas had his knife in close reach and thrust it into Cynthia's stomach deeply, her cold, lifeless body on the ground next to the injured Silver.
"I'll be back for you." Aeneas told Silver and left him in the darkness of the night. Then he shot Arrow, sure he was dead. And he was... now.
XXX
After an early morning "quickie," Amelia and Delbert were taking a nap together. Amelia opened her eyes slowly to see the man she had grown to love over the past year. She smiled as she watched him sleep in a sweet, childish way. His head was buried in the pillow and she could see that he had been very tired, he hadn't moved from where they fell asleep.
"I knew he would be exhausted." Amelia thought mischievously as she remembered looking deeply into his eyes. With a smile and moments past, Amelia brushed his face with her hand and kissed his brow. Delbert woke and without any hesitation pinned Amelia to the pillows. He looked as if he had something important to say. Amelia grabbed his face and looked deeply into a particular pair of chocolate brown eyes. Those eyes! Oh, how she loved those brown eyes of his. Yet somehow it made her curious why he was being particularly forceful this morning. He kissed her lightly and cleared his throat.
"I love you Amelia. "Delbert said out of a strange confidence. He smiled warmly as he started to kiss her neck. Amelia moaned in delight when his lips slowly trailed and down the lines of her neck; she couldn't believe what she was hearing. Her charming, bumbling doctor was being so confident & forceful. She decided she would tease him a bit, but he melted her heart...no matter what.
"Are you sure that still counts when you're on top of me?" Amelia said slyly, now truly feeling the weight that was on top of her. Delbert blushed.
"Of course, it does" He said leaning down to kiss her sweetly, and after a beat, he laid on his back on the bed next to her. Amelia immediately pinned him against the pillows, just as he had done to her. Delbert blushed again.
"Now it's my turn, Delbert." she teased. She looked at him seriously for a moment, knowing what she had to say. He smiled at her with an adorable boyish charm and soft arms around her waist. Amelia trembled slightly as she began to speak.
"I love you too." Amelia said slow and cautious. At this he kissed her and turned over on the bed so again, he was on top. He mumbled something else under his lips that she didn't quite understand.
"What was that?" She said once before looking at him lovingly.
"I love you more." He said simply with a smile. Amelia sighed in response and kissed him in return.
"I don't think that's possible when I know I love you more." She retorted sweetly. He kissed her forehead and nuzzled her cheek. He knew he wanted to ask her the important question that he'd had on his mind, but something always seemed to stop him. Amelia smiled and spoke again, this time in more of an authoritative tone than anything else.
"I have to go see the Admiral today..." Delbert frowned at this and started behaving like a little boy having a temper tantrum.
"Do you have to? I thought we could just stay in bed all day?" Delbert said with a furrowed brow, distraughtly. Amelia smiled at this and threw on his shirt and walked towards the bathroom. He followed her, still perplexed, but allowing her to continue teasing him.
"Is she doing this to make me want to punish her again?" He thought to himself as he admired the way she looked in his shirt.
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A while later, on the early morning ferry to the Academy, Amelia sat alone. She imagined if Delbert where there, he would have sat in a seat with his arm wrapped his beautiful, blushing lover. She had leaned back into her recollection and images of Delbert. As her smiled faded, she remembered the night's wonderful events. She realized just how much of an affect this simple bumbling scientist had on her and she suppressed a small giggle at the thought.
"A year and a half ago, I would never have fallen for a man such as Delbert; I would've rejected his every advance until he left me alone." Amelia told herself feeling a little more guilty perhaps than she should.
"Like that's worked so well in the past…" Amelia continued as the ferry stopped and she stepped out toward the navy yard.
Delbert was at home reading in the observatory. He was still fumbling with the box in his robe, thinking of what he wanted to say when he finally did ask her that burning question.
"Amelia, I've known you for some time. I've known since I met you that you were something special." He thought with a grimace.
"too clique." He thought resting his chin in his hand. He turned to the seat next to him, pretending she was sitting there and smiled lovingly.
"Amelia my dear, I've always dreamt of a life where I could call a wonderful woman like you my own." He thought to himself, furrowing his brow.
"No, that's not right, she's not a possession after-all." he thought trying to come up with something that got the point across without sounding contrite or forced.
"…I would be most honored if you would be my…" He said aloud
"Would you like to be…" He thought shaking his head as he continued, still not satisfied he had the words right yet.
Amelia had gotten past security when she walked through a long hallway that led to the Admiral's office. When she got to the door, she hesitated for a moment. Th talked to the admiral; she had gone on a special mission for him in Powmiadae. She remembered that day as one of the hardest things she's ever had to do. What s would haunt her forever.
"I hope this has nothing to do with that." She thought to herself. She gathered up her courage and knocked on the door. In a few moments, the Admiral came to the opened it to a surprised Amelia...both had changed so much since the last time they saw each other. Offering for her to come inside, he smiled warmly at her.
"Why Captain, Captain Amelia Smollett, so nice to have you back." the admiral said as he closed the door behind her as she came into his office. Right now, he was a father figure to her, since she spent her years in the Navy with her father alive and then without him after her graduation. He knew she would never recover from trauma. She looked at him for a moment and saw that he was genuinely happy to see her again.
"So, tell me Amelia, where are you staying now-a-days?" asked the Admiral with some concern in his voice. Amelia blushed ever so slightly at the question. He noticed this and knew all too well what the answer would be before she ever replied.
"With…Dr. Doppler actually." Amelia said awkwardly without trying to show her feelings for him.
" Ahh yes, Dr. Delbert Doppler, I've heard volumes about the boy...Tell me, how did you two meet? Wasn't he your financier?" The admiral said with a great amount of disappointment. And so, she began her story. As she told him about what had happened back on Treasure Planet, when she noticed the headline of the newspaper on his desk.
"Bloodmaster strikes again!" It read. Pictured was a mutilated Felinid who looked so much like her.
"I had thought today's meeting was about Powmiadae" Amelia thought, fighting back tears. She cringed through her sadness as she took one more look at the picture they provided. She was speechless, the woman looked like it could be her sister. He had always thought his cadets to keep their emotions out of their missions for fear of mutiny, but this was truly serious. He tried his best to comfort her, but nothing seemed to help.
"Captain, there's something else..." the admiral said to Amelia when she calmed a bit and let out a long sigh.
"What?" Amelia said as the shocked admiral put down the newspaper
"Captain, you should sit down...I have something to tell you." after hearing the sadness in his voice, Amelia sat and listened to his story, the fear gripping her heart the same time.
"Local authorities think they have found the man responsible for this, but they aren't sure. Does this man look familiar?" He said as he showed her the composite sketch of what looked much like her lover, but she knew it was Delbert's cousin. Amelia sat in shock for a contemplating how this could've happened.
"It's not Dr Doppler but his imbecilic pig-headed cousin. He's not allowed at our home, Delbert made sure of that!" She said through her shock. The Admiral let out a sigh of relief. She knew she should warn him later.
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That night, Delbert was on the balcony. He had come out here earlier when it was lighter outside. He really loved it out there. It was so quiet, so serine, And the colors that lined the sunset as the sun went down were magnificent. Amelia was looking for him that afternoon, as she was now. She finally thought to look after a long time searching for him. When she went out to the balcony, there he was staring at the stars. He looked so calm and mesmerized. She smiled warmly at walked over to an empty space next to him.
"So where were you earlier?" Amelia said softly. Delbert looked up just in time to feel her brush up against him, purring softly as he instinctively wrapped an arm around her.
"Ummm... I was on the balcony. I had to get away... I've had a lot on my mind lately." Amelia reached a hand up to hush his words. He looked into her eyes and continued his thought.
"I knew it was you before I turned around."
"How did you know?" Amelia asked softly.
"My passion for you." Delbert replied simply. Amelia blushed and giggled at the double meaning in that one word.
"Is that so, Doctor?" Amelia said with a wink and a seductive smile. She opened up her robe in hopes to entice him.
"Don't you want to come inside? It's nice and warm in here." She said, flashing him a sight of her exposed thigh.
"No" Delbert said as he took her hand and wrapped his other arm around her, holding her from behind.
"There's a meteor shower tonight. Do you want to watch it with me?" Delbert kissed her cheek just as she let out a ticklish giggle and leaned up against him.
"I'd love to." Amelia said with a whisper. Then she remembered she needed to talk to him about his cousin. She kept her thoughts to herself, enjoying his warmth all around her. He fought the urge to blurt out what he had been practicing earlier but decided to enjoy the moment in silence instead. Everything remained that way the whole night. They watched the night etherium and held each other close, at least until everything went dark and they were getting tired. They went to sleep in each other's arms that night, both having wonderful dreams.