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A few hours later...

Hyades wakes up with a strange pain in her lower belly. She reaches down and presses against the pain, but she couldn't figure out why she was hurting. She pulls her head up and raises a hand above her head, letting a few small flames dance to life so she can see.

She was sandwiched between Gil and Harry, though Uma had joined them once her shift at the shop was over.

Everything looked normal, just like any other morning when she stayed on the ship. Except for the strange pain radiating in her abdomen. She struggles against Harry and Gil's hold so she can sit up to see if maybe Shrimpy had been sitting on her or something, but even then that wouldn't explain this.

Her heart freezes when she sees blood on the sheets. Someone was hurt. Hurt bad enough to bleed!

A small sound of panic rips from her throat as she rises to her knees and turns to investigate Gil. He had blood on him. She holds her flamed hand to her mouth as she reaches out with her other hand.

"Gil?" She squeaks as she shakes him, her voice tight with fear.

"Mmm?" Gil lazily reaches out to pull her back to bed still half asleep.

"No, wait. Gil, there's blood on you and I can't see where you're hurt?"

"Hurt?" Gil sits up, "I ain't hurt," He blinks at her in confusion before he turns to Harry and shakes him.

Hyades turns to Harry, letting out another squeak when she sees blood on him too, "Harry!" What the heck was going on? How were they both hurt? And why did she feel weird?

Uma startles awake, her eyes widening in surprise before she rolls out of bed and lunges for the tub.

"Uma! It's orange!" Gil warns as he points to the slight flames flickering between Deez's hand and face.

"No, it's not, it's red." Hyades shakily points at the bloody sheet under Harry.

"What' ya be ah goin' on 'bout ah rainbow for?" Harry asks in confusion as one eye peaks open.

Uma blinks as she looks between the three of them. "Wait, what are we talking about?"

"Harry or Gil are bleeding!" Hyades snaps.

Gil runs a hand over his thighs, "It ain't me."

Uma furrows her brow as she walks back to the bed. She grabs the lantern on the table before she taps it to Hyades' flame.

A low glow lights up the bed, revealing slick smears of blood on the sheet between Harry and Gil.

But mostly under Hyades.

"Harry, where are you hurt?" Deez frowns as she continues to runs her fingers over the partially dried blood on Harry.

Harry blinks up at her before he shakes his head, "Nah, I ain'nah hurtin', Deez, I be tired."

Uma frowns as she watches her cousin freak out, still looking between Harry and Gil for whatever wound they had. She sighs before she pulls the covers completely off the bed. "Deez…Take a breath baby girl. It's your blood."

Hyades furrows her brow as she looks up to Uma, "I don't bleed, look-" she holds her arms up for inspection before she runs her hands over her legs, "Not me."

"You're not injured Deez. It's a period. It comes and goes, like every few months you'll bleed." Uma attempts to hide her smile.

"Why?" Hyades shakes her head, "How can you bleed without being hurt?" she turns back to look Harry and Gil over again. That made more sense. One of them was hurt and didn't know it.

Harry grins before he pulls her into a hug, "Cause ye be a lady now, Deez."

Gil drops a heavy hand on to Harry's head and pushes him off her. "Uma usually has cramps." He explains as he pulls her into his arms.

Hyades drops her hand to the pain in her belly.

Uma frowns, "Hey boys, wanna go and grab us some freshwater for us. Don't bother heating it. Just be quick about it, yeah." She commands softly.

"Aye cap'in." Harry agrees with a yawn before he salutes and springs up out of the bed.

"O'course." Gil nods before he slides to the edge of the bed and sets Hyades down. He pulls her hair away from her face before he stands to follow Harry.

"You guys are covered in blood." Hyades points out.

Harry and Gil both look at each other before looking down at themselves.

"Aye, well be lookin' at that mate… Looks like Lil' Deez be a bleeder."

Gil rolls his eyes as he punches Harry's shoulder. "It's okay Deez, we'll be back with water for ya."

"Grab some fresh blankets from the hold," Uma calls out over her shoulder.

"Aye aye Cap'in, on it." Harry nods as he and Gil walk out of the captain's quarters.

Uma sighs in relief as the door clicks behind them. "Deez…" She sits down next to her cousin and wraps one arm around her small shoulders, "It's okay baby girl… This is just another annoyingly normal for us girls."

"But I don't bleed…" Hyades shakes her head, "I don't get hurt…"

"And you're not hurt," Uma assures her gently. "It's a period sweetheart. All girls get them when they get older."

"Oh…" Evie had mentioned something like that when she'd talked about why the toga wasn't fitting right.

"I know it can sound overwhelming… But I promise you baby girl," Her thumbs brush Hyades' arms gently, "it's normal. Every girl you know has one. From the princess to the stupid Dragon. Cora-" She rolls her eyes and shakes her head, "Poseidon help us all with that one. And Freddie and CJ and Henrietta..." She shakes her head. "It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you… Just that you're getting older."

"It's why I needed new clothes." Hyades shrugs.

Uma nods her head. "Exactly. You're gonna start filling out. Won't be much. We don't eat well enough for that shit… But yeah, you'll start getting curves. Men and boys will start paying more attention to you-"

"That's all I need, more fucking attention," Hyades grumbles.

Uma chuckles, "It's a different type of attention, sweetheart." She leans down and presses a kiss to Hyades' crown. "A woman's attention. But that's for a later day… Tonight we're talking about the seagulls and the guppies." She smiles gently. "But first, let's get you out of these clothes and into the tub."

"What are cramps?" Hyades asks as she slides out of the bed with Uma.

"Do you know how you keep pressin' your hand into your stomach?" Uma asks with a frown.

"Yeah, it keeps hurting," Hyades furrows her brow as she presses her hand to it again, "and not going away."

"Those, my lovely, are cramps." She frowns, "One of the wonderful gifts of being a woman." She rolls her eyes. "But it's not all bad." She shrugs. "And nothing too scary. I've had at least ten and I'm not dead yet." She winks at her.

Hyades looks back over the bed and then down at herself, "So, I'm not bleeding?"

"Oh no baby girl, you're bleeding." She explains gently, "But you're not bleeding cause your hurt. You're bleedin' cause you're a girl. And that's why you're having cramps. Because your body wanted you to have a baby, but it didn't have all the stuff to make one so it's gonna try again later. It just has to get rid of the blood and stuff."

Hyades slips the nightshirt off and steps out of the night shorts, "Wait… I can have babies?" The thought was horrifying.

"All women can have babies. That's where they come from..."

"Yeah, old women like Maleficent, your mom, Cruella, and the Evil Queen."

"Well, yeah, obviously, but I mean, they were our age once and they got their periods too… All the other woman OVs and sidekicks too. Every girl gets one. That's why Evie was so worried about you-" She admits begrudgingly. "having underwear. So you could put cloth in them for when this happened."

"Okay," That made sense, she could have sworn Evie had said something about periods when she'd been trying on clothes, she'd just confused it with writing. No wonder Evie had given her such a strange look, "what's that for?" She holds her hands to the sides of the tub and heats the water already in it before she lets Uma help her step in.

"You put the cloth there to soak up the blood so you don't wake up to a massacre every morning." She walks over to a cabinet and pulls out a bag, "This is where I keep the rags I use," She takes one out before walking back to her. "I'll show you what to do later." She states. "The hot water usually helps my cramps go away… But-" She bites her lip, "I'm not sure it's gonna do much for you but get you cleaned up…" She takes picks up a nearby half-decent towel.

"It doesn't hurt a lot, it just feels… Weird?" She looks down, tilting her head to the side as she searches for words, "Like an uncomfortable heartbeat or something." She finishes with a yawn.

Uma nods, "They are usually uncomfortable, but some of them can have you doubling over in pain. It just depends on the day or the month." She dips the cloth into the water and starts washing the blood off Deez absently.

"That sounds scary…" Her eyes widen. Could this hurt as bad as it did when she tried to remove her father's cuffs? She looks down at her hands, "I thought you said it's not."

"Promise it ain't nothin' you can't handle, baby girl," Uma assures her. "If the dragon can handle them, you can too." She adds with a smirk in her direction.

"This is stupid." Hyades splashes her hands into the water in frustration.

"Yes, it fucking is," Uma agrees, "But if men had one, none of us would be here… Which you know now that I think about it-" She shrugs. "Wouldn't be such a bad thing."

Hyades yawns again, "Not funny." She glares up through the yawn.

"Kinda funny." Uma disagrees teasingly as she boops Hyades nose.

"How do you know when it's going to happen? I don't want to bleed on the bed again."

Uma lets out a laugh. "You don't. The men do. Harry and Gil can always tell when I'm 'bout to start… But they happen so rarely it's hard to tell."

Hyades stares at the pink water, falling silent as Uma continued to clean her, her hands gentle as she swished a wet cloth over her skin. It was soothing. But her head felt foggy and all she wanted was to go back to sleep.

"I promise, this ain't nothing to be worried or scared about." Uma consoles her soothingly. "It's just apart of life, unfortunately. It's not fair, but what the fuck is?"

"I'm not scared…" Hyades lets her head hit the back of the tub with a dull thud before she turns to look at Uma, "It was unsettling, I guess. I was more scared when I thought Gil or Harry had been stabbed or something."

"I bet you were." Uma chuckles as she pushes Deez's hair back behind her ear.

Deez lazily reaches up to touch her fingers to Uma's wrist, "I don't know what I would have done if this happened at the temple." She chuckles as the door opens again, "Probably scared Pain and Panic to death."

"It be good ta be ah hearin' ya laugh." Harry nods as he dumps more water into the tub, "But what don'nah be ah scarin' those two to death?"

Uma smiles up at him. "Thank you both."

"No problem Uma." Gil smiles sweetly as he adds another bucket into the tub so it finally covered her chest.

"I guess I can tell T I solved the mystery." Hyades laughs, though it quickly morphs into another yawn

Uma lifts her brow, "Tired baby girl?" She asks softly as she takes out a chunk of hand soap, and lathers it with the cloth.

"Yeah." Hyades yawns again.

"What ya be ah meanin' 'bout ah mystery?" Harry asks as he and Gil get started on changing the bed sheets.

Uma begins washing her cousin again, making sure to eradicate any traces of blood.

"T's always wanted to know what color my blood is, now I can tell him red."

Gil grunts, his brow furrowed as he looks up from the bedsheets. "Has he tried to find out on his own?"

"We play 'surprise'…" She shrugs, "I wasn't very good at it at first."

"What's 'surprise'?" Uma can't stop herself as she continues her task.

"When I hide and wait for T to find me, he attacks me and I have to defend myself."

Uma closes her eyes as she takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly.

"I thought he was just jumping out at you." Gil frowns in disapproval.

Hyades shakes her head, "No, he wanted me to get better with the sword, and he hated how stubborn I was at first, so he said that I had to get better at being surprised if I was going to be the best at defense." She frowns as she looks off in the distance.

Uma rolls her eyes before she turns to Harry. "Keep your boyfriend on a tighter leash, will ya?"

"He's just worried about me…" Hyades yawns again, "He saw me get attacked in town and I got scared, but now I'm better at controlling my fire so I don't kill anyone else."

The sea three share a concerned glance above her head before turning back to their tasks.

"And ya be ah sure that game be ah helpin' ya with that?" Harry asks skeptically.

Hyades shrugs, "I think it was a lot of things, but yeah, it helps. It's like practice. So I don't start wars or hurt anyone else." She blinks before she turns back to Uma.

Uma frowns in disapproval as she finishes.

"Do you get tired?" Hyades asks quietly, "My head feels foggy…"

Uma smiles softly. "Yeah, that's pretty common." She assures her. "Here." She stands, "Let's get you dried up, dressed, make ya a pad and then we can all crawl back into bed. Sound good?"

Hyades nods as she stands up, "Yeah, I need to stop talking…"

Harry steps over quickly, wrapping her in their towel before he picks her up out of the tub bridal style. "I think I be ah likin' this Deez." He chuckles, "I feel like we can be ah askin' her anything an' she be answerin' us."

"No." Hyades frowns and furrows her brow as she points an accusing finger at him.

"Lay off her Hook, or you'll be sleeping in the Brigg," Uma growls.

"But cap'in, she be ah snuggly open book right now."

"I also know how shitty periods are. Find your information another way." Uma orders with a glare.

"Aye aye." Harry sighs as he sets the tiny girl on her feet near the bed, "Ya know I would'nah actually do that, right Deez?"

Hyades shrugs, "I bled on ya Harry, I don't think I can be mad."

Gil crawls behind her, slipping her onto his lap to help dry her off, "I can be mad for you if he tries."

"Good boy, Gil." Uma purrs at Gil, after shooting Harry a nasty look.

"What? I be ah tellin' the truth. I would'nah ever be thinkin' serious like about it."

"Mhmm." Uma shakes her head. "You know what you did." She folds a rag into thirds and puts it in Hyades' underwear before she walks over. "We'll wash your clothes in the morning. You can sleep in one of Gil's shirts tonight. It's not like he ever wears them."

"His arms would break the sleeves now." Hyades grins as she relaxes into said arms, enjoying his warmth as he gently dries her off before she accepts her underwear from Uma and slides them on.

"Yeah, they would." Uma nips at Gil before she takes a step back to let her eyes sweep over him in appreciation.

"Here, one shirt o' me lad's incomin'." Harry chuckles as he tosses it over.

Uma catches the shirt mid-air before she helps Hyades into it.

"I really don't think I'd have known what to do if I wasn't here tonight…" Hyades hugs Uma once her arms are in the far too large sleeves.

"That's why you should spend more time with us." Uma boops her nose in reprimand as she hugs her back.

Hyades nods, "Thanks."

"Any time baby girl," Uma presses her lips to her temple, "But for now, sleep. All of ya." She steps back and claps authoritatively.

"Aye cap'in." Harry salutes as he falls back into the bed.

Gil grins as he falls back with Deez and crawls back to his side of the bed.

Uma blows out the lantern before crawling over Harry to join Hyades in the center. Her body curls around her cousin, while her boys wrap around them protectively.

Just the way she liked it.


question time!

We're you concerned that Gil or Harry were hurt? Or did you pick up on what was happening right away? Was it to much to have in the story? Ladies, did it make you recall your own first-time experience?

How about the way the boys reacted? Not normal boys are they?

What did you think of Harry's assessment of loopy Deez? Would you have wanted to get answers out of her? Or do you agree with Uma and Gil?

Did the Sea3 caring for Deez make you warm and fuzzy with the feels?

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