The 'Named officers' of Domino's crew sat huddled together in a candle lit room each with a different face of concern and comment.

Gator, who's sharp features had gone unnoticed in the flickering light nodded to himself. His green ascot bouncing with him as he un hooked his metal leg and placed it against the table. "Alright, everyone here?" He asked looking around the flickering crew.

Avery who scratched his one good eye flicked his eye patch then nodded as well moving to send a look to the newest officer Jean. He wasn't new, having been on the ship since Kato was considered M.I.A. But he was surely still trying to get used to Domino's antics.

"Yeah, looks like it." Avery mumbled matter of fact. His muscular arms flexing as he crossed them and sent a nod towards Gator who leaned over the table with his upper half. Growing relaxed at his seniority. He was here before even Kato.

"Alright, then I hereby call the third order of the S.O.C." He stated very seriously as Jean raised his hand. His body also relaxed but not nearly as much as the other two. "Forgive me, but S.O.C?" He asked as Gator rolled his eyes.

" Secret Officers Club, Domino came up with it back when she was a Warrant Officer as a way for us to discuss the manor of the ship, without Kato knowing what we where talking about." He crossed his arms, "And as the head navigator I Shall navigate today's meeting." He smiled as Avery rolled his eye, "Hurry up, I have rounds soon."

Jean frowned but nodded as well.

Gator continued leaning in and almost whispering. "We all, know that these last few days since Morgen's mission, have been tough on the crew." He stated. The watchful eyes nodded.

"Say that again, Do you know how many men have written to HQ begging for a new rotation? Because Adaline's comments, and the constant bickering?" Jean asked concerned shaking his head and putting his hand through his hair looking at the table. Visibly stressed.

"I'm writing letters in my sleep!" He exclaimed.

Avery scoffed, "You think that's bad? As it is I'm running out of bandages from her and Domino's fights. I was never scared of Adaline till I saw her cut up Domino like she did." He shook his head.

Jean pointed "Oh! Don't forget, Adaline's all night poker games that clean us out." The group sighed and looked down in memory of their lost cash.

Avery shook his head. "I wish the Rear Admiral would sit down long enough to play poker. She's been straining herself for these past few months without Adaline, That i'm afraid her wounds haven't healed properly. I'm even more concerned that having Adaline back has made the situation worse. As it is, Domino has gotten no sleep, and that is ontop of her poor habits already." He rambled shaking his head.

Gator nodded and slammed his fist down on the table. "Exactly! something is very wrong, and if we want the 'Rose Marie' to sail smoothly we need to fix the problem." He stated with a light jab of his hand as Avery rolled his one eye and placed his hand on his face sending an annoyed look.

"How can we fix a problem if we don't know what it is?" He asked "I've gone over plenty of medical journals and there is no known dieses that causes their symptoms." He added.

Gator scoffed, "Not everything is a disease. I think it's something else. Like something deep down." He then shook his head. "Did anyone else get a chance to look at the official reports?" He asked as the other two closed their eyes in an answer 'no'. Gator sat down defeated.

"Then I have no idea." He huffed as Jean looked down and played with his thumbs. "You know they're women." He whispered looking sheepishly between the other two who raised their eyebrows.

Gator chuckled "Of course Adaline is, but Domino's different." He was of course talking about Adaline's bust. And Dominos lust for a fight.

Avery nodded his head. "I have done their physicals. I know this to be true." He stated matter of fact. Gator raised an eyebrow and cocked his head to the side. "What does that mean?" He asked.

Jean furrowed his eyebrows at the comment and shook his head. "No, No, They are woman, and woman like men get you know.." He made a motion of throwing his arms up and over his stomach.

Gator raised an eyebrow knowing from his wife's experience that the motion Jean made meant vomit. "sick?" He asked as Avery rolled his eye.

"How can your features be so sharp yet your brain so tiny?" Avery huffed "He means pregnant. But that's not a possibility. At least with one of them." He stated as Jean blinked and cocked his head.

"You Guys do have wives, right?" He asked concerned. Gator smiled and held out his hand "Yeah and 5 kids! 6th on the way." He beamed happily.

"um...You know that's a lot..." Jean whispered in surprise.

Avery crossed his arms and shook his head. "My wife died during childbirth." Jean once again blinked and morphed from Gator's proud smile to Avery's matter of fact voice.

"Oh, um. I'm sorry." He whispered as Gator tilted his head. "No she didn't she lef-" Gator was soon silenced by a sharp one eyed glare. Jean waved his hand in the air.

"Well, I do not, and as a single guy I sometimes get you know..." He shrugged waving his hand in the air again. Gator and Avery looked on confused. "You know, Antsy." He murmured. Gator took in a deep breath. Frustrated at what he was trying to say.

"We need a woman's opinion." He sighed, snapped his leg back on and left the room in a huff.

Jean leaned in towards Avery. "Your wife left you?" He asked as Avery tilted his head. "It's common in this life." He stated. Jean nodded and looked up at the black eye patch.

"Is it because, you couldn't see her?" He asked motioning to the eye with a proud smile.

Avery dropped his head in disappointment "No."

Gator suddenly appeared once again placing a large snail on the table jostling the flame sending the others to quickly grab the table in fear of setting the room on fire.

"Jean, call my wife." He smiled as Jean nodded and immediately began to dial.

Gator narrowed his eyes. "How do you know her extension?" He asked while Jean paled and Avery took in a sharp breath and looked sideways.

The tension was silenced by a woman's tired voice and children screaming. Jean pulled away the ear set in surprise as the woman's voice called out.

"If you're selling I anit buying!"

Gator pulled at his ascot and leaned in. "Hiya baby!" He started before the woman's voice chocked out. "What DO you want? Did'ya call to say happy birthday?" She asked as Gator scratched his head.

"Which one?" He responded. Avery and Jean both went wide eyed at the instant change of the children silencing themselves and the woman berating the poor man. Mainly about him leaving her pregnant.

Gator sat there and took the yells before giving a light nod. "Baby, baby..." He tried to stop her. She continued he dropped his head. "I will talk Rear Admiral, in to getting me a few months of leave, then I will be by your side the whole time." He reassured as she snapped back.

"Ha to hell with that demon woman! I want nothing to do with her! She scares my kids." She snapped as he smiled. "Baby, we need help." He murmured as Jean and Avery kept their snickers to themselves.

"Fine,"

"Domino, and Adaline have been more uptight then normal, and we need help or else they will destroy our ship. We have no idea whats going on with them." Gator continued in a worried look.

"Ha good, maybe then you could finally come back here you good for-"

"Clank."

Gator frowned and looked at the snail. "Oh look we lost signal." He hummed before sitting down. Retracting his hand from the perfectly placed microphone.

Avery frowned. "I don't see why you wasted our time."

Gator sighed "Well she's the first thing I thought of..." He trailed off while Avery began to retort.

Jean threw his hands down in anger. "Guys maybe they just need to get off the ship and figure things out?"

Avery nodded. "That would have been better if you said that before all of this." He motioned towards the group.

Jean rubbed his face. "I was. Sir."

Gator rolled his eyes, "Some communications officer." He then waved his hand in the air.

Domino took in a deep breath leaning against the wooden wall outside of the room her officers sat in. She gingerly took a swig of her bottle as Gator looked between the men.

"So all we have to do is get them to a festive island right?" Gator asked.

Avery sighed, "We could locate the Whitebeard Pirates?"

Jean, "That is against the rules."

Gator, "To hell with the rules, if these woman don;t stop soon we won't have a crew left to follow rules! Besides Dom, would do the same for us."

Domino smiled at the guy's plans. She would change some things up of course. But all and all Operation R.A.D did not seem like a bad idea. Just when would she do it and how?

She took another swig and shook her head. "Or do I want to even let him see me like this?" She asked herself quietly before going back to her room.

Marco's shirt swaying with her drunken walk through the wooden halls.

Domino took in a deep breath looking back and forth between the colorful world around her. She twisted her wrist nervously as she moved closer towards the shorter but confident woman beside her. She looked down with wonder as the red head pulled her towards well...They didn't know exactly. Domino examined the colorful and peaceful array of buildings that towered high against small little one story floors.

She watched people of assorted colors and sizes meander around while eyeing the two strange looking woman. She gave a wide smile to all who stared at her frightening the onlookers so much so they murmured curious words in her direction. She looked on at the shops signs as the petite and grumbling redhead talked to herself.

"I swear out of all the things you could of done to us you went and did this shit." She murmured as her styled heels angrily stomped along the colorful cobble stone. As her more modest long sleeve shirt still allowed her chest to bounce with every step.

She was infuriated with the sadistic Domino, and was quite frankly fed up with such childish behavior. She was fed up with everything. She was just done.

Domino pulled her arm away ignoring the bustling sounds and murmurs around her. "Woah hey no. I!" She tapped her tightly bound chest. "I did nothing! It was that stupid Gate Keeper, I mean who does he think he is demanding to search my personal belongings?" She asked with a head nod. Her face contorting into one of anger and confusion. All an act of course but, she was capable of fooling even the great seductress.

Adaline stopped and turned sharply on her heels a red tipped finger pointed up at her Rear Admirals face. "It happens every time we try to go back, girl! EV-ry, time. All he wanted to do was check your stuff that's it." She started taking in a deep breath and holding out her hand her blue eyes wide as she talked to herself. Her authoritative voice stern and matter of fact.

"All you had to do was sit down and shut up!" she snapped as Domino desperately tried to hide herself where she stood. Though it was hard since they were in the middle of the street. Some casual bars here and there with bustling pirate life. They had now left the shopping portion of the island and had found the unsavory part of it. To Domino's delight but Adaline's not so delight.

"But what did you do Girl?" She asked pointing at Domino who covered her hand over face trying to hide the mad grin on her face.

"You went and blew him and his crew clear away." She snapped with a harsher tone.

"Okay! Points there but." Domino defending holding one elbow while pointing a finger with the other. "Since when did they want to get into my liquor cabinet? Huh? Tell me that. What was the reason, I mean the thing has clear doors there is no reason to open it up like that!" She snapped back as Adaline held out both of her hands in frustration.

"Ahhh! You.. You're not even supposed to have that in the first place! Why was it so important that you had to fight him off!" She shook her head and snatched Dominos wrist yanking her from her spot as the two started off again.

Domino giggled to herself a smile on her face as Adaline continued shaking her head and talking with her hands. "I am finally able to enjoy my shinny, delicious..." She looked down thoughtfully, "..expensive bottles of liquor and I will not have that tainted with the idea of their grubby little alcohol stealing hands all over it." She called out trying to increase the red heads frustration.

It worked.

Adaline groaned and slapped her face giving one last pull of Dominos arm as they neared a little bar on the outskirts of the lower districts. By now they had entered what seemed to be like a light and empty filed with what seemed to be a single rather large Tavern in the distance.

"First of all, that stuff is like straight acid! Second off." She pointed in Dominos face again. "It was worth, you nearly killing! the man because you didn't want him to touch your bottles?" She asked rubbing her eyebrows ignoring the looks they now received from some very familiar pirates.

We all know who they were at this point. Even the girls themselves still they continued.

Domino closed her eyes and grimaced at the sharp movement of her arms being pulled. "I didn't mean to leave him alive." She started before going wide eyed and shaking her hands vigorously as Adaline gave out a girlish gasp.

"No, no, What I mean is. I.." She stopped. Thinking to herself, she then giggled. "No actually yeah. That is what I meant, If he wasn't alive then we would be going throw the check point with no problem. Then we'd run back at HQ, Turn in the shit from our oh so perfect secret spy stuff, then we could leave again and all would be good." She smiled then shook her head. "Honestly, All my problems started with that one gate keeper, if you had just let me protect the booze all of this would have never happened!" She smiled figuring out what she had put together.

Adaline took in a sharp breath and tapped her finger over her holster before pulling it out and loading it. Domino took a step back in surprise as Adaline shook her head. "I swear to god you are one of the most," She loaded a bullet. "Un marine like" She loaded another bullet as Domino took in quick breaths watching in fear at the little woman before her.

"Insane, Drunk ass woman" She loaded her bullet then spun the barrel. "I have ever worked for!" She snapped pulling back the hammer. Domino went wide eyed in surprise as Ada quickly pointed her gun her finger on the trigger.

However as Domino held her hands up in surprise she slowly relaxed noticing the barrel was not aimed at her. Her eyes moved from Adaline's slender arm towards the smooth barrel to the smirking pirates that sat before the woman. Some sitting on the ground with their legs crossed others in chairs lazily strewn about.

"This day just keeps getting better." She snarked before a rush of brown hair and wide open arms engulfed her.

"MY ANGEL YOU HAVE COME TO ME!" Thatch's loud and jovial voice shouted as he wrapped himself around the short and enraged red head.

Quickly Domino pushed the overly boisterous Thatch away and grabbed Adaline's arm forcing it upwards as the backfire rang through out the crowd.

Thatch quickly ducked before looking up at Adaline as the smoke from her gun became a light wisp in the wind. She shook her head and quickly holstered her weapon before snapping her eyes at Domino noticing the gun was no longer in her possession.

"That shot was meant for you!" She shouted as Domino pulled her long torso back, twirling the gun in her hand and with a large smile on her face. She quickly gave a quick wink and closed her fist around the gun with an effective snap.

"Glad to know you're turning in to such a disorderly officer. I'ma write you up for that." She teased handing the girl back her broken gun as Adaline shook her head. She wouldn't let Domino know but she was upset with herself and frustrated that she even grabbed the gun in the first place.

She could have hurt Thatch.

Oh god. Thatch. She never wanted to hurt such a sweet gullible man.

Still she pushed him away and let her anger continue.

"Ha I would love to see them try and decipher whatever that chicken scratch of yours is." She responded with a frown and holstering the broken parts. Now she would have to request a new gun.

"That's an insult to Chickens-yoi." A relaxed voice called out from the patio of the bar. Thatch quickly stood up and looked around trying to hide he had let out a girlish scream when the gun was fired.

Izo raised an eyebrow at the boisterous man rubbing dirt off his shoulders and taking a manly cough to hide his fear.

Domino quickly turned her eyes towards the relaxed commander. Taking in how good he looked. How his grey vest was open and his left arm was resting over his brought up knee while his right leaned along the soft grass a mug in his hand. His very being screaming, 'come get me.'

She covered her smirk growing with her right hand before failing to hide it and reveled it. "Well you look like a chicken." She snapped back to hearing light giggles rise from the watching crew.

Marco rolled his eyes. "Better then writing like one-yoi." He scoffed while taking a drink before holding it out to her. "Want one?" He asked lightly as she took a deep breath staring at the ground in anger "You admitted you're a chicken.." She mumbled with a smile. Ignoring the burning in her chest from her yelling.

Adaline let out a light groan walking towards the pirates disregarding a swaying Thatch who tried to lean into her line of sight.

"Oh gee, Alcohol, like that's not what got us in to this mess." She stated snarky before flipping her hair away from her neck revealing her light pink long sleeve shirt with actual jean pants. "Before we have a problem I need to know where Jinbe is? We had reports he was still here?" She asked in a proper tone looking at the wide stares that looked at her.

They did not expect the Femme Fatal to be dressed so modest. Somehow it only sent their minds reeling into more suggestive thoughts.

Thatch was ready to fall towards her and whisk her away at how she was clearly hurting. However, he restrained himself as all she got was glares at how boldly she tried to order the Whitebeards.

The name sake himself looked down at her raising a single eyebrow at how the two women looked. Something seemed off about the two. It wasn't something he could quiet place but it did seem weird.

"Why would we have a problem?" He asked her his voice a warning tone.

Domino looked up taking a quick glance at her hand and noticed it was beginning to shake. Quickly she smiled and placed it in her jacket pocket. "Not you, Her and I. She's been on my ass since our last mission. Honetsly shes a pain in the ass." She remarked moving forward before Adaline went wide eyed and turned back towards her the two woman now more focused on each other.

Adaline's plain nails flashed before Domino's face as the taller woman took a step back avoiding the hard slap that was meant for her.

"I'm the ass! You're the one who's out of control! Girl We would be at HQ by now if you had of just kept your mouth shut for once in your life!?" She asked throwing her arms up in the air she was at this point done with Domino's antics.

Why was she yelling at Domino? Her dearest friend.

Domino winced at the loud noise and quickly tried to hide her growing evil smile. She couldn't help it. This had been happening more recently, it was like her body was reverting to itself back when she was younger. Pre-Marco as she labeled it. "You need to calm down.." She stated her voice not cold but a light warming one.

Marco in turn sat up thoughtfully crossing his legs and tilting his head at how she sounded.

Adaline cut her off. "Ha me? I didn't spear not one but Two Vice Admirals because they wanted to drink your alchol!" She snapped before Domino tilted her head her, right hand still in her pocket as her left covered her mad smile.

"That ones on me. You're right." She sighed. Adaline snapped her mouth shut before Domino went wide eyed at her response.

"Now you're being mature?" She asked quietly. Domino rolled her eyes and ran her left hand through her pulled back hair loosening some hairs to frizzle around her head like a crown of twisted thorns.

"I mean one of us had to get our shit together." She snapped as Adaline sent a sharp glare to the tall woman before rolling her eyes and clicking her tongue before turning around to face a confused and annoyed pirate group.

The two woman where being loud.

"We both know you're far from okay." She whispered before shaking her head and crossing her arms. "Like I said, may we see Jinbe, it's an important matter?" She asked the group as they looked back at Domino who moved to take another deep breath and sit on the ground before laying her body flat like a board.

Soft plush grass growing and enveloping the area she laid.

Adaline looked down at the movement and rolled her eyes. "This whole time you've been in pain." She hummed as Domino frowned and crossed her right arm over her eyes. "I don't have time to stop when my seconds a fucking basket case now do I?" Domino snapped back.

Adaline took in a deep breath and rolled her eyes, "You're doing that exercise wrong." She stated mater of fact, a light smile growing on her face.

"Shit? How do I do them again. You just breath, right?" She asked lightly as Adaline gave a nod before looking back at the group. "Yeah whatever."

Marco looked across the ground to see the outline of Dominos long torso expand with deep breaths. As she did so her marine jacket lifted up and down again in a slow pace as Adaline shook her head and lightly tapped a finger against her elbow shaking her head.

"If you were really in this much pain Girl, you should have stayed back on the ship.." Ada shook her head as Domino raised an eyebrow and began to sit up again before she winced and laid back down.

"I figured i'd be fine till we got back. But...You're loud ass..." She sighed and shook her head. "I guess I was wrong. I'll be fine."

Adaline rolled her eyes, and tapped her heels against the grass. "I will go get Jinbe, you stay here."

Domino frowned lifting her head up and shook her head. "You're not going alone just give-" She stopped and gasped as Adaline slammed her heel down over Dominos midsection causing Domino to double over in antagonizing pain.

"You were saying Rear Admiral?" She asked as Domino bite down on her right arm to keep from yelling out.

Thatch finally having enough of watching the two held out his hands. "What the hell is going on? Why are you two fighting?" He pointed at Adaline who rolled her eyes and flipped her hair walking towards the group and away from a mumbling Domino.

"Why do you need to see Jinbe?" He then pointed at the crumpled over marine. "And why did you do that? Can you explain please?" He asked watching as Marco moved to stand over Domino.

He saw her now mad smile as she lazily lifted up her arm. "A lot, A lot is going on?" She murmured through a deep breath. Marco narrowed his eyes at Domino's quick and light wink before she covered her face with her arm once more.

"Nothing you really need to concern yourself with. We just received orders to collect Jinbe and head back to HQ." Adaline stated crossing her arms her body now matching the authoritative tone in her voice.

Domino pulled her arm away and ran her hand through her hair. She then smiled looking up at Marco's blues. She waved her fingers lightly. "Hey birdy. Sorry for all this mess, it's a lot." She hummed as he tapped her with his sandaled foot.

"Never mind that, Are you hurt-yoi?" He asked her calmly as Adaline put a hand over her heart at how concerned the blonde man sounded. Izo closed his eyes gushing at the response as well.

"He's so caring~" He hummed as Whitebeard still eyed the woman with a wary eye.

Domino looked over to the side trying to hide the slight heat in her cheeks grow as he looked down at her. "Nah, not really." She smiled reaching her arm out for Marco to take his hand and pull him down. He sat beside her with a effortless motion taking a sip of his drink. He was careful not to spill any.

"That's good, but what's going on-yoi?" He asked her the two now ignoring how openly they looked at each other. Domino tilted her head the grass collecting in her messy frizzy hair. "I...hmm" She shook her head then shrugged with a smile. "I guess, i'm still trying to recover from Shanks, that dude is scary. I'm sure y'all are on the same level." She hummed as Marco took in a deep breath eyeing how her body laid straight and how he could easily move over her and claim her lips in his.

He was sure that would ease some of the anxiety he could feel from her. How-ever if he did that then he would have made the first move. Thus, losing the new silent battle they created.

Instead he shook his head. "Damn red-hair-yoi." He mumbled his anger growing towards the red headed captain.

Domino smiled "The worst part is now I know how much you really hold back. And I don't know if I should be thankful or insulted?" She asked him with a calming smile.

He took a drink "I don't know what you're talking about-yoi." He hummed with a light smile.

Domino rolled her eyes and turned her head back towards the light of the afternoon sun "Hmm mmh." She smiled closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. Then letting it out.

Adaline shook her head and put her hand to her forehead. "Don't go anywhere." She stated as Domino tried more to hide her vicious smile.

"I don't think I could stand if I tried." She mumbled closing her eyes feeling the warmth grow between her and Marco.

Ada looked up at Marco who looked between the woman his arms crossed. She then rolled her eyes and mumbled. "You wouldn't even try to begin with." Before she pushed past Thatch who had jumped in front of her to talk or ask her anything.

"Ada, just go past them, he's in that big building there." She twisted her side to lean over and cough lightly as Ada nodded and pushed past Thatch who was now looking back and forth between the two woman.

Marco held out his arms inspecting the woman taking in deep breaths and shaking her head to herself. "Damnit." She coughed.

"What the hell is wrong-yoi?" He asked his calm manor shattered with the pain across her face. She looked up and gave a light point of her finger moving to sit up and shake her head.

"I told you i'm still healing or did you forget?" She asked him as Marco rubbed his temples.

"You're always injured-yoi." He groaned. This was true when would he finally be able to have her without her being injured.

"Ha jokes on you! Its the same injury." She smiled before frowning. "It just keeps reopening." She mumbled as Marco went wide eyed.

"Do you not have competent doctors, or you just that reckless-yoi?" He asked her. The two clearly ignoring the rest of the crew. Marco was having enough of this. She was not allowed to leave his side ever again. She would just get hurt. No that was not true, he couldn't do that. However she was going to explain clearly why she was exaggerating her pain.

What did you think he couldn't hear the lies in her voice? He could, but instead of calling her out he went along. He guessed even if he wasn't gullible he was still worried. She may be lying but there was pain.

Still pain or no, She had no right showing up on a island like this, where they could be alone with no judging eyes, but injured so he couldn't have his chance with her. Why was she always close but so far?

Domino rolled her eyes and tilted to get a better angle at his stubble covered chin. "Not everyone can heal themselves!" She snapped.

"It clearly would be wasted on you-yoi!" He snapped back as she rolled her eyes. "No it's wasted wouldn't." She mumbled pulling her head to the other side she tried not to look at his face anymore. If she did she would be forced to smile at him. Even though she needed to keep the act up just a little longer.

"Yes it would-yoi!" He nodded looking away from her for the same reason. Domino rolled her eyes. "Nuh huh- cause then I could go and get hurt and not have to worry bout it!" She smiled.

Marco looked up the threw his hands down trying to explain why he was felling this hollow anger. "You don't need to be getting hurt-yoi!" He snapped.

Domino nodded. "You just don't want to think i'd be better with it." She teased not looking at him.

Meanwhile Thatch sat down crossing his arms and thinking to himself about how Adaline was no longer wearing her normal clothes. Or how her voice sounded so hurt. She was snapping at Domino, and loud. Sure she had her moments were she was stern and authirotaive but those were real bullets, and her safety was off. The saftey had never been off before. Adaline was clearly not okay by his standards.

He would ask Domino what was wrong with the wonderful Angel, if the two bickering pair actually made up.

"Thats not the point-yoi!"

"What is huh? I'll trade, I'm up for it. You can be weeds and i'll be a flying chicken."

"I'm not a chicken-yoi!"

"Can't be that hard to be a chicken?" Domino hummed.

Thatch tore himself away from the pair at Izo collecting cash from the group. He gave a head nod of curiosity while Izo smiled. "Who kisses first." He mouthed. Thatch waved them off. A thoughtful hand to his goatee and his eyes locked on the large double doors his brothers sat in front of. The same ones Adaline disappeared behind.

Jinbe, isn't in there. Why would Domino say that? There are people in there, but none of them Jinbe. How did he know? Well because he had left already, being called to battle by a marine battleship called the 'Rose Marie' He thought to himself before humming the familiarity of that ships name. He stopped and blinked to himself. That was Domino's ship. He remembered when Adaline wrote him that Domino had finally given in to the crews demands at naming the ship. He remembered how she was slightly upset that her name wasn't picked. But now, her voice didn't match the one he had heard before.

She was hurting, she needed help. Who was he to refuse a lovely maidens' cries of help. He may be a pirate but he could be her shinning knight. Then maybe he'd get a memorable night in return? No. No. first he needed to focus on the Red Head.

Thatch noticing that the bickering had stopped looked back over just in time to see Marco, 'tck' to himself before leaning towards Domino who giggled to herself and gingerly moved to meet him halfway. Their lips locking. Both of them smiling in the kiss.

The crew around them cheered and hollered with their delight. Thatch smiled to himself before looking back towards the door. He crossed his arms before uncrossed them and stood up. Marching himself towards the doors.

"It took you long enough to go after her." Domino called after Thatch as the whole group went wide eyed.

He had meant to go quietly. Yet he looked back to see, Domino leaning against Marco's chest a small smile on her lips. "What do you mean?" He asked confused.

Domino rolled her eyes and looked up at Marco as well. Seeing the crew watching her with curiosity. "She's not herself." She started before sighing. "Honestly, we've had a rough year, but while I was out of commission she was...um.." Domino bit her lip and then tilted her head trying hard to not jostle Marco but still couldn't stay still. "Working, the way she know how..We'll go with that." She chirped before looking up at Thatch who had crossed his arms silently figuring out things in his own way.

"Normally our missions don't phase us, since we're the only ones that handle them, but... This one may have screwed her a bit." Domino looked down trying not to admit she couldn't help her friend before she rolled her eyes. "Just go after her or something, you're smart you'll figure it out." She mumbled with a defeated sigh.

Thatch nodded before turning around. "I get it." He stated.

Domino nodded as Marco looked down a smile on his face. "Asking for help again-yoi?" He asked her as she raised an eyebrow. "What? No, never." She scoffed while Marco rolled his eyes holding her as close as he could. Her light voice still worried him but for now he wasn't going to ruin the moment. For now he was going to enjoy how she held on to his belt loop smiling with her eyes closed against his chest. Even if she was in front of his whole damn crew, she didn't care.

After all, one day, she'd be beside them.

No...wait..that was a lie. But she would never let Marco know.