-Ace-
I walked into the galley looking for Tori. "There you are."
She looked up from the table she was sitting at with the salt and pepper shakers and bottles of ketchup and mustard smiling as she moved them around randomly, "Hi Ace."
"What are you doing?" I asked sliding onto the bench across from her.
"Playing house." She placed the salt and pepper on a napkin.
"With the salt and pepper?" I asked skeptically.
"And the ketchup and mustard." She pointed at the other condiments off to the far side on separate napkins. "They don't approve," she added in a lower tone.
"What?" I had no idea what she was talking about.
"Well Ketchup is Pepper's dad and he doesn't like Salt because he thinks she's a..." she trailed off frowning. "What did Thatch call it? Oh yeah, a whore. And Mustard is Salt's Dad, who thinks Pepper is a... tramp. Or something like that." She grinned innocently tilting her head off to one side.
"Excuse me." I rose slowly.
"Ok, bye Ace." She waved going back to playing.
I Attempted to walk calmly out of the room, closing the door gently behind me. "Thatch!" I shouted from the deck. I'm going to kill him, corrupting Tori like that.
"Ace, what's wrong -yoi?" Marco asked with a sigh placing a hand on my flaming shoulder.
"Thatch is teaching Tori naughty words." I growled.
"Naughty words, like what -yoi?" He asked, chuckling I swear I heard him chuckle.
"Like whore. Who knows what else he's taught her." I pulled free of Marco spotting my prey and stalked across the deck. "THATCH!"
The chef took one look at me, smiled, and bolted.
"You won't get away with this!" I took off in pursuit.
"She doesn't even know what the word means." He countered diving behind Izou. "I'm doing everyone a favor."
"Corrupting her is not a favor." I dove around the other commander making a grab for him.
"If she doesn't wise up she's going to end up kidnapped and molested." he continued arguing as he dodged my attack and ran, again.
I slowed to a stop. He's right, if Tori doesn't know there are dangerous people out there she'll get hurt. "But that doesn't mean you have to teach her that kind of language."
"She's a pirate, it comes with the territory."
(Author's comment: so I know it's been awhile and this has nothing to do with what was going on before, and isn't very long but I wrote this awhile ago and figured I needed to post something because I need your help dear readers. I have posted a poll on my profile on whether or not I should allow Ace and/or Thatch to die and follow the cannon story line. IF you vote no I will need you to contact me with an idea of how one or both survive. Thank you for your support and I hope you enjoyed the cuteness of whatever this just was...)