Chloe reached Englehorn and quickly kept up her pace as he was walking very fast. "Where are you going to stay?" She asked.
"I'll sleep where I find room" Englehorn once again simply answered.
"Actually, I'd prefer it if I didn't sleep in your room. You're the captain you need to sleep in there" Chloe told him.
Englehorn stopped where he was, causing Chloe to bang into the back of him.
"The only other place where you could sleep in is the cages where we keep animals. But there is another person stopping down there as well. But its your own choice. I would prefer you to stop in my room, that way I know that you would be in a safe enclosure" He explained to her.
Chloe smiled.
"Well, how about I stop in the cages tonight and then I decided tomorrow where I want to stay?" Chloe grinned.
Englehorn looked at her and then a small smile came onto his face.
"Deal" Then he carried on walking.
Chloe smiled to herself and then followed after him.
"By the way….Whose staying down there?" She asked him, almost running to keep up.
"The writer of the film. Jack Driscoll"
Chloe looked around the cage that she had chosen, and laughed. It was just her look, she chose a cage over the captains room. She had been in there for 15 minutes and Englehorn had told her that he would send someone down with spare blankets and pillows to try and make her as comfy as possible. Nobody had turned up yet, and she had not seen Jack Driscoll yet either. Chloe sighed and decided to look around the other cages.
Just as she was about to come out of her cage the ship moved suddenly causing her to fall forward and out of the cage, and land onto of somebody. She banged her head on something sharp first and then opened her eyes slowly.
She found a pair of green/blue eyes worriedly looking into hers.
"Oh God! Are you alright?! Can you hear me?" The man was asking her whilst pulling her up.
"Yeah, I can hear you! Arg! Jeez, my head!' Chloe put her hand to where it hurt the most, and then pulled it away at the pain.
'Oh great I'm bleeding!"
"Oh God! No! Hold on, I'll go and find the captain. No wait, I can't leave you on your own, you might pass out and bang your head again. Right, come on. Stand up. I'm going to have to carry you!" He now calmly told her, helping her stand up.
"I cant stand up I feel like I'm going to pass out!" Chloe whispered, whilst been pulled up by him.
"No no! Come on, keep your eyes open!" He told her whilst picking her up bridal style.
He began making his way through the corridors trying to remember his way up to where he knew the captain would be. After a quick run with Chloe in his arms, he ran into a room with her. Where Englehorn, Carl, Preston and a few other men were sitting.
"Captain! She fell! She's banged her head on something, and she's bleeding!" He quickly told Englehorn setting her down on the table.
Englehorn quickly rushed up.
"How long ago was this Jimmy?"
"Err, a few minutes ago…..Is she gonna be ok? Is she still awake?" Jimmy asked, whilst Englehorn looked at her head
"Its not a deep cut, but bad enough to bleed. She'll be fine, but she needs to be kept awake. Get me some water and a cloth somebody. I'm taking her to my room" Englehorn firmly told the men and then softly picked her up, and carried her into his room.
Gently laying her down on his bed, Jimmy brought a bowl full of cold water and a few bit of cloth.
"Is that alright captain?" He quietly asked.
"That's fine Jimmy. I just feel like its my fault. I shouldn't have let her go down there" Englehorn quietly said whilst wetting a piece of cloth.
"No, she just fell when the ship hit a wave. She'll be fine though. Its not your fault" Jimmy told the captain and then left the room.
"You alright Miss Bocock?" Englehorn asked placing the wet cloth on the place where she had cut herself
"You can call me Chloe you know" She answered smiling slightly.
Englehorn smiled back.
"Very well….Chloe' Despite the pain, Chloe felt butterflies in her stomach from the way he spoke her name, so soft.
'How are you feeling?"
"Sleepy" Chloe answered, her eyes closing.
"Hey. Chloe, you can't go to sleep, come on wake up. We can talk all night can't we. Find out a little bit about each other?" Englehorn softly said, taking off his coat and making his self comfy in his chair.
Chloe nodded.
"That would be nice"
Englehorn smiled.
"So, what's your full name, how old are you and where were you born?" He gently asked her whilst cleaning the blood away from her neck and head.
"My full original name is Chloe Antoinette Bernstein. I'm 27 and I'm from Berlin, Germany" Chloe answered, her eyes closed.
Englehorn was shocked when he heard this. She had no German accent.
"You have no accent" He said to her.
"I learned to get rid of it. So I would seem American when I came over here. And changed my name as well" She replied, her eyes fluttering open.
"Why is that?
"I wanted a change. I had a bad life in Germany, and in the other countries I had been in, so when I came to America I just…..became American, and my life has been better" Chloe answered, a sadness to her voice.
Englehorn looked at her, and saw how sad she looked when she spoke of this.
"Which other countries have you been to?" He asked, rinsing out the cloth.
"Err, let me think. I went to Russia first, then Latvia, and Prague, then umm, Venice, Britain and then lastly America"
"You've travelled a lot for someone so young" Englehorn softly replied.
"I left Germany when I was 16" She told him.
Englehorn nodded and bit his lip.
"Do you miss it?"
"Sometimes. Its so beautiful back home…I would like to go back one day…Its one of my things to do before I die" She smiled slightly at the end of this.
"Then I'm sure you'll find yourself back there again sometime" He returned her smile.
"How about you? What's your full name? How old are you? And where are you from?"
"Right. My full name is Henrich Luk Englehorn. I am 35 years old, and I am from a little village in Germany. Don't ask me the name of it because I don't even remember" Englehorn answered.
"Henrich. That's a nice name…..May I call you it?" Chloe asked, her eyes now closed.
"You may" He softly replied.
Chloe opened her eyes and smiled at him.
"Thank you for this…..Henrich" Chloe warmly told him.
