This chapter is dedicated to Laurafxox, thank you for the encouragement!

Chapter Three: This Place Is About To Blow!

Nerissa was lounging on a deck chair watching Jonathan play poker. She would never admit to Evy but she was helping him win. Studying every one of the Americans he was playing, waiting for their tells; which was rather easy, after the first few rounds of the game. Henderson would take a drink from his Bourbon when he was nervous, Burns would push his glasses up and Daniels' finger twitched on his cards. The signals were subtle, for Henderson she would push some hair behind her ears, Burns she would rub her nose and for Daniels she would pop her gum. As of now the three men had no idea as to her helping as she pretended to read Robin Hood.

She had made a deal with Jon to split the winnings fifty-fifty, just like they always did.

"So where are you chaps off to?" Jonathan asked casually as he looked up at Nerissa who signaled that both Burns and Daniels were bluffing.

"Hamunaptra, where are you going?" Jonathan raised an eyebrow once hearing they were going to the same place.

"Ness? What are you doing?" Rick said as he sat down next to her. He slowly saw her signal to Jonathan again and smirked.

"You dirty cheat. Sure hope he is giving you some of the winnings. Anyway I was wondering…what's the story on Evelyn?" Nerissa froze for a moment before bursting into a fit of laughter. The men playing poker all turned to look at her. Rick turned a little pink as he cleared his throat.

"Sorry Rick it's just been, what two hours since you kissed me and then you ask about my friend? Wow I feel loved. But she is single because only a lunatic would marry her or even date her. She is married to her research. She likes reading a lot, her parents died when she was sixteen. You know about her brother well enough as you punched him in the face, which many like to do. She loves Egypt and everything about it. Even the smelly camels, did I mention before that I hate them? I've rambled and such and made myself look like a mad woman again but now you know." She said with a chuckle. Rick just grinned at his best friend.

"I kissed you? You kissed me Ness." He said with a wink Nerissa just laughed as he got up to walk towards Jonathan.

"NO! YOU KISSED ME!" She screeched before realizing what she said. She felt her cheeks turn red as her friend winked at her again, before she turned she saw Henderson stare at her. His beautiful blue eyes were dark with jealousy which made her blush even more. She noticed Rick point discreetly to him and mouth 'found him'. After all these years he remembered the type of man she was looking for. She didn't know whether to be proud or concerned. With a quick shrug she got up out of her seat and walked towards her room humming to herself quietly.

Slowly opening her door she looked down at her Pointer dog that she brought with her. The dog barked in excitement at seeing her.

"Hush Indy! Now where did you put my hat? Did you hide it again? Ugh if it's under the bed again I'm going to smack you Boo. Aha! There, now what did I tell you, you little scamp! Putting my hat under the bed?" She grabbed her fedora and stood up, turning towards the mirror she screamed. There was a man with rotten teeth behind her with a curved knife raised above her. Indy growled as he bit the man's leg pulling him away, the man tried to shake him off when Nerissa grabbed her book and smacked the man in the face.

"TAKE THAT CREEP! THAT'LL TEACH YOU TO COME INTO MY ROOM!" The man let out a yelp of pain and his nose crunched under the book. Nerissa brought her knee up into his groin and bolted towards her duffle bag of weapons grabbing it she pulled out her Colt 1911 and fired a shot in the man's forehead, killing him instantly. As he fell she spun on her heel and swung her bag over her shoulder bolting out of the room, Indy followed at her heels.

Not even a hundred feet from her room was, complete chaos men and women screaming in terror, gun shots coming from every direction and flames devouring the ship. She let out a gasp as she saw the American's fighting off men in black in true American cowboy style, firing shots from their pistols with entertained yelps of excitement. She felt herself smirk at the sight before letting out a scream as a man tackled her. Quickly pulling a knife out of her brown knee high heeled boot she shoved it into the man's gut with a brutal twist. She flipped the man over her with her other leg and he landed with a sick thud. Nerissa quickly jumped to her feet and spun around to fight another man dressed in black. With her skilled hand she swung her blade out and sliced his cheek with a frustrated grunt. She dodged his attacks but the man was also skilled and sliced the back of her right hand. Thankfully she was a left hander, but it still stung. She gasped as he raised his menacing blade ready for a kill blow before a shot rang out. The man's eyes went wide before he fell back with a bullet between his brown eyes. She turned to see who had saved her and blushed when she saw Henderson grinning at her as he gave her a flirtatious wink.

Before she could smile back Jonathan came stumbling towards her holding the dreaded puzzle box. She saw that Henderson was once again saving her and this time Jon's ass as he shot a man on fire that was running towards them, she briefly heard Jon say something about not panicking before falling overboard.

"Run! This place is about to blow!" Henderson screamed as he ran towards her. She screamed as his arms wrapped around her waist pulling her overboard with him. The rush of water filling her lungs made her panic. She couldn't swim! She felt herself being pulled up as she struggled and clawed to get to the surface. The second air filled her tired lungs she let out an ear piercing scream.

"I CAN'T SWIM! PLEASE DON'T LET ME GO!" she said grabbing on to Henderson like he was her personal floatation device. She felt him shift so she was holding onto his back, she tried not to strangle her savior but she was terrified. He began to swim towards the shore to safety and dry land.

"Don't worry Rissa I got you." He said between strokes finally he got to the point where they could both stand. Nerissa turned to look at him with tears in her eyes, she hated being weak but she couldn't help it. Yet she was thankful this man a complete stranger saved her multiple times in less than five minutes. She stood on her tip toes and gave him a grateful kiss on his warm lips. Before she could pull away he pulled her closer. Her wet navy peasant blouse stuck to his own shirt yet she didn't care. This kiss was far different from the ones she had before. As they pulled apart for some air she felt something nudge her leg, she looked down to see Indy with her soaking wet fedora in his mouth.

"Thank you Mr. Henderson I owe you…" she whispered as her cheeks turned bright red with embarrassment. His blue eyes sparkled as he gave her another flirtatious wink.

"Call me Jake, and no problem. Love to help a pretty lady. I'll let you get back to your friends. See you around Rissa." He said with a grin before kissing her slightly swollen lips one last time. She stood there with a dumbfound grin on her face, her fingers on her lips. Bending down to take her fedora from Indy's mouth she chuckled at the dog.

"Indiana I think I found my cowboy…" she whispered before treading towards her friends in the knee deep water. She saw Rick smirking at her and rubbed the back of her neck, he was never going to let her live this down.

"What was that about Ness? Hmm did you need some help breathing? So nice of Henderson to give you some air." He said with a laugh before Beni's annoying voice was heard on the other side of the river.

"HEY O'CONNEL! LOOKS LIKE I HAVE ALL THE HORSES! YOU AND NERISSA DON'T!"

"HEY BENI LOOKS TO ME THAT YOU'RE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RI-VER!" Nerissa let out a laugh as Beni looked around and realized Rick was right, Rick laughed as well as Beni kicked the water spitting out curses in Hungarian.

"Rick, I am so glad we are still friends. You never cease to make my day." She said with a laugh.

Well everyone was it worth the wait? I am about to start the next chapter. But I need some sleep it's 2am and I need some sleep. That damn Insomnia! But in your case I can think up more stuff for the next chapters.

Here is the plan for this story, there will be a few more chapters and then an epilogue. After that there will be sequals for each movie. But have no fear this one still has a while to go, I will have tons of fillers thrown it so it won't end too soon. 'Cause I'd hate to end it when it's just starting to get good!

XOXO Anna