we all know that the cornelia is not my character she is co-owned but Phil Harris and neither is the North American she belongs to the Skaar family but El Lobo is as far as i know, mike is my character too

Ok yeah so I know I had a few mistakes in the second chapter "surprise visitor" I said "it was the sun that woke her, or was it a knock at her door" then said it was three in the morning I know that dosnt make sense please forgive me

Ok yeah so just wanted to clarify that that was a mistake, im not a total idiot

Thanks for your guy's support and reviews

now back to the story ha

-isis

"chapter 3": so beautiful

a chill came over her as they stepped out of the hotel room and she locked the door. "here take this" josh said unzipping his jacket "no thanks" she waved it off "its my fault that i dressed like a Californian, i have to pay for it but thanks anyway" she put her key in her pocket and he threw the jacket over her shoulders "just take it, dad will kill me if i let you freeze to death" he smiled and started walking so she couldn't give it back "uh thanks josh" she said putting her arms through it and smiling, catching his scent again mariah dont fall for this guy, you cant, your here for a job and nothing else. hes like this with everyone and you know that and if you fall for him youll just allow yourself to get hurt again so quit being such a chick about everything she thought to herself and became more serious on the inside, staying just as happy outside.

while she was talking to herself she hadnt realized that they had arrived at the Cornelia already and when she did her mouth fell open "shes so beautiful" she said feeling dwarfed my the magnificent vessel. "yeah shes a really great ship, dad owns her, well half of her at least. Cornelia Marie is actually the name of the co-owners wife. dads been running her for the past twenty-one years, except for opie a couple years back when he got real sick" josh shook his head remembering that scary time. "yeah i remember" she said off handedly and blushed when he gave her a look "i watch the show all the time, i was scared when they showed what happened to him in opie '08 they made it seem really bad. was it really?" "yeah it was, he could have died from it like my grandma" josh shrugged it off with a sigh and offered her his hand to help her up to the ship which she accepted, something that she normally wouldn't do but she was so daunted by the massive ship and all of its apparent beauty. "thank you" she called down to him when she had finished climbing on board and he had begun.

"Hey dad, there is some chick coming on board want me to get rid of her?" jake yelled to his father seeing her on board but not seeing his brother coming up behind her and he didn't wait for a response before going over to her "sorry but you cant be on here, no women allowed on this ship, you guys are bad luck on ships" he said without thinking and she looked down "yeah i know the old superstitions no meows or hippity hops either, i was kinda invited here" she looked up uncertain, knowing that she was on another's territory and not wanting to tread to heavily "yeah? by who?" jake's cocky attitude began to show "by me bro" josh said putting his hand on her shoulder "oh hey josh i didnt see you there, whos this?" his attitude totally changed upon seeing his big brother "her name is mariah, and stop being such an ass dude, where is dad?" he lightly punched his little brother in the arm playfully "hes up in the wheelhouse with John and Andy, and Sig, why?" "none of your business" josh said pushing past jake and grabbing a hold of mariah's arm to make her follow. she pulled back, scared by him suddenly grabbing her. memories began to flood her and she began to panic thinking that next he was going to hit her, all the others had. "hey, you ok?" josh asked, not realizing what he had just done, not knowing anything about her past "c'mon lets go see dad, he would like to meet you i swear, don't listen to anything that dense over there says" josh coos to her thinking that his brother had offended her. she followed him, scared of what might happen if she didnt listen to him but he was disturbed by the blank look in her eyes "seriously mariah are you ok" he asked placing his hands on both of her arms and making her freak out even more. her eyes shot open wide and she blocked her face, waiting for the inevitable strike she thought was about to be let loose. josh then realized that it was him making her react like this "hey mariah, im sorry i wasnt thinking, i didnt mean to grab at you like that" he cooed some more not knowing what to do. he looked around for help but no one that he thought would be better with girls and able to help right now was near so he just threw his arms around her and held her, uncomfortable holding a girl for the first time since highschool. he felt bad but he hadnt known that she would react so badly to something that seemed as small to him as being grabbed to be guided.

"take that stuff off the boat josh" phil called over the hailer looking up from his conversation with the other captains and seeing his son holding a female out o the deck and assuming that he was trying to get into yet another girls pants. josh looked up "jake could you watch her i think something wrong i have to go talk to dad, be nice ok i think i scared her" he said to his brother and ran to go talk to his dad. "stupid kid cant keep it in his pants" phil mumbled turning back to his buddies and John laughed, "hes gonna get one of them pregnant one of these days, its happened to all of us that were like him when we were young" and shook his head as josh burst into the wheelhouse "dad i need to talk to you" "about what, cant you see im having a conversation up here" phil waved gesturing to the other captains "remember that girl that you had me go talk some sense into, thats her down there" josh looked worried as he saw jake trying to get her to come out of her stupor "your already trying to get her josh, my god you just met her" "no dad im not, i brought her here to meet you but she freaked out when i grabbed her arm to lead her away from jake who was being a jerk, she looks really scared and wont move, except away from me. what should i do dad, i tried to comfort her but holding her didnt help any, i think it made it worse" phil shook his head and was about to get up when John got up and said "no you sit ill see if i cant get her up here" and walked out to go greet her.

she saw John walking toward her but she still couldn't move and he immediately knew what was wrong and held her "hey, your ok, no one is going to hurt you, i wont let them. that josh is a real nice boy you dont have to be afraid of him he was just trying to steer you away from his brother. listen to me ok, you are fine. will you follow me?" he said when she finally relaxed in his grasp and leaned against him a little. when he saw her nod he began to walk toward the galley, one arm around her comfortingly and talking softly to her. phil was waiting in the galley for them looking stressed out as usual. "hey you ok?" he asked her as she began to wake from her revere. she nodded her head and looked down at her lap finally aware that john had sat her down at the table and still had his arm around her "i am sorry about that, i shouldn't have reacted that way josh has been so nice to me this morning" she didnt look up once "im mariah"

"chapter 4": so deadly

they all introduced themselves to her and eventually all but josh forgot about how she had freaked out, finally mariah looked up and saw that the clock on the wall said that it was six twenty-four in the morning. "thank you all it was nice meeting you but i have to go, i have to find a job today or i might as well go back home" she got up but phil blocked her way a little bit. "what kind of job are you looking for?" he asked thinking that maybe he could use his connections to get her a job at one of the local stores or bars here or on one of the other islands "im looking for a job on a ship for red crab season and maybe even opie hopefully, thats actually why i flew up here and left my daughter behind with my parents. im eventually hoping to become a teacher i just need to put myself through school first." she said looking out the galley window at the sea.

i would like to please hold a moment of silence in the fleet, we have just lost the fishing vessel El Lobo and her entire crew. El Lobo was trying to enter harbor when they sprung a leak and sank. they sank so fast that by the time rescuers arrived all six men had perished without their survival suites and the vessel was completely submerged. a crew will be working to move the sunken ship and it will be out of the harbor entrance well before the season starts. thank you for your time and the moment of silence will begin now said a voice over the CB

after a few moments of silence sig looked at the young girl "after hearing that" sig jabbed his finger in the direction of the CB "an aspiring school teacher wants to go crab fishing? he looked astonished "yeah, i need a challenge in live and it was either the marines or this. im tired of being a nobody in california, im tired of everyone in california, i have to get my daughter out of there" mariah looked around "and this is the best place to be, you dont see whales or bald eagles down there, but here there is real life not plastic life" sig shook his head and john smiles and looked at andy, when their eyes met andy shook his head "oh no, no John" "why not?" john asked the co-owner of the Time Bandit "because we cant" was all that Andy could muster "yeah we can remember that replacement that we had thought we got for Shea after he got canned, well he quit last opie i know that you remember that, he nearly blew up and we still havnt found a replacement yet. c'mon andy king crab season starts in just a month we could use all the help we can get, you know how scotty is he may be my son and i love him to death but he is finicky who knows if he will pull his weight while we are loading up, hes great out at sea but while we are here he is so distracted thinking about sawyer."

andy shook his head, tired of his brothers monologue "i can cook" offered up mariah "tell me what you boys like and i can learn to cook it, and i bake really great cakes" she looked hopefully at Andy "we will have to talk to neal about this, no decision is made unless its by the three of us" andy sighed and looked at mariah. "neal will love you, he loves cake" "welcome to the Time Bandit" John whispered in her ear and she smiled. "now how about that food and cake" he laughed "chocolate cake sound good? and how about a ham dinner?" she smiled big knowing that her Nanas secret ham recipe would surly win them over. "Northwestern will take a table too" sig smiled as he weaseled his way into a free meal for him and his crew and looked at Phil who laughed "Cornelia too" mariah laughed and started making a list of things she would need, she knew to expect more of the ships to show up as well, word gets out quick so she knew she would have to get everything ready fast to start cooking the meal. "ok guys i have to go get the stuff to start dinner, the ham takes a long time to cook, which place has the biggest ovens?" she asked trying to think of where she was going to cook all of the food "the elbow room" they all chimed in already tasting the succulent ham and moist cake "ill go with you" josh said, she hadn't even noticed that he was in the room but she could tell that he felt bad. Phil gave him a disapproving looks thinking that josh should give her some space, he hadnt told him to scare the poor girl to death after all "yeah i would like that" she smiled sweetly and turned to leave, forgetting his jacket that the guys had taken off when they had brought her in since it was so warm in the galley already from all of them stuffed into one area. "hey you forgot this" josh grabbed it and trotted out after her. when they got onto the dock of the ship she leaned a little closer to put the jacket over her shoulders again "hey, mariah, im really sorry about what happened back there, i dont know what i did but im sorry." he looked down at the deck looking sullen. "josh" she started hesitantly "it wasn't your fault, really, its just , my past" she paused and took a breath "and stuff that happened in it, a few guys i used to go with hit me is all, i really shouldnt freak out like that but when i get scared i kinda clam up like that, you should have seen me on the flight up here. i swear when i flew up to Seattle after my grandpa arts funeral i promised myself that i wouldnt fly ever again, but i did to come here and i was just like that the entire flight." she stopped and looked at him "it really wasnt your fault, ok just forget about it we have had a great day so far, lets continue to have one" she smiled and couldnt help the urge to hug him "oh and thanks again for the jacket" he sighed with relief and they kept walking, talking all the way to the local grocery.

"whats the pop for?" he asked as she began to pull down liter after liter of soda from a shelf and she smiled "its for me to know and you to find out" and stuck her tongue at him

a half hour and a very large grocery bill later they walked out and josh was amazed what this girl could carry on her own, he had insisted on carrying more but she had once again been too stubborn and said "im getting a job on a crab boat, if i cant haul a couple of hams a few feet to the hotel what good will i be on board?" and she kept right on walking as if she had no problem with the weight of the food. "hey after we stuff this into your hotel want to grab something to eat, im starving?" josh asked as they reached her door. "sure that sounds great" she said, feeling her stomach rumbling too "want to go to the elbow room, so i can also ask if i can borrow their kitchen for tonight?" josh laughed "sig's probably already asked for you, he wouldnt pass up a free meal any day" "yeah i could kind of tell, you think we have enough food here? i know that more than just the three ships will show up" she smiled "when the dinner bell rings they will all come running" after they had finished stuffing her counters with everything, leaving the ham out to thaw, she grabbed her hat and they went to head over to the bar. "why did they hit you?" josh asked suddenly, he had done some messed up stuff in his time but it sounded like she had had it bad. she shrugged, not wanting to talk about it "no reason really, just little boys thinking that they are bad. thats life though. everyone is there to push you down and lift themselves up in the process. i dont really want to talk about it though, my past is my past, its not me even thought it shaped who i have become. i dont regret anything but i will not repeat any of it. my whole mind is now taken up thinking of how i, a single mother, can enrich me daughters life and make sure that she dosnt make the mistakes i have and turn out to be me. i wouldnt be able to handle that if she had to go through anything that i have, like i told John and Andy last night, men are a cruel creature and i found that out the hard way in life." she looked up, hearing a bird fly by and saw that it was a Bald Eagle "wow" her jaw dropped open and she smiled at the beauty of it.

surprisingly the bar hadnt been filled with smoke yet and there were only a few fishermen enjoying a beverage. they sat at a table and waited for someone to come by so that they could get some food "hi josh, whos this" said the waitress/bartender when she walked to to greet them, hitting him playfully on the arm "this is my friend mariah, she just got hired on the Time Bandit, shes new up here" josh said ignoring the looks that she was giving him "im not on it yet it just looks really good for me so far" she blushed "no, neal will love you you in" josh stated flatly and then ordered for the both of them "oh did you guys hear what happened out at the water?" "yeah the Lobo sank" said mariah and the waitress shook her head "no that was in the wee hours of the morning, this happened about half an hour ago. Mike the North American greenhorn fell into the water, he hit the dock on his way down and was dead before he even got wet, poor Davin is having a hard time because of how the same thing happened to his brother a few years back." the waitress left and they stared at each other.

yeah i know horrible of me to kill people off i know, i feel bad but that is life out there. i didnt have the heart to kill anyone real off so i just made some stuff up as you can tell.

i spent last night watching DC re-runs, is anyone else sad that the season is over. i cant stand being DC-les but hey thank the gods for DVRs

please review i would love to know how i did on this one

peace

-isis