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BPOV
It's been five weeks since we saw Phil. I missed him a lot, but I've sent some letters to him. Angela and I have gotten closer to Jasper and Carlisle, they were like family. Every morning Jasper would come down to the kitchen and we would talk. Now that everyone notices us talking to Jasper and Carlisle, people are trying to talk to us. Edward is trying the hardest. I really wish I could talk to everyone, especially Jasper's family, but if I do then my secret is blown.
We've had a few fights since we left but I had to stay behind because of my injury. I've been helping Carlisle fix people up. I didn't like not fighting. It was boring staying behind cause there was nothing to do till someone comes back. The good thing is that I will be able to fight again soon.
Right now everyone is out fighting while I'm sitting with Carlisle playing cards. We are about to finish our game when we heard thumps coming from outside. Carlisle and I looked at each other.
"Looks like they're back. Better start getting ready" he said standing up. I nodded, and started to clean up the cards, get out the bandages, and wash cloths. There weren't that many people that got hurt. They were mostly just cuts, nothing big. I just finished wrapping someone's arm when Edward walked in. he had a few cuts on his face and up and down his arms. But he still looked great; I couldn't stop staring at him.
"Hey Charlie?" Carlisle said bringing me out of my daze on Edward. "Can you take care of Edward for me? All you have to do is clean up his cuts. Please? I have my hands full with John." I looked at him and nodded. "Thanks" he said as I walked over to the bed Edward was sitting on.
When I got closer to the bed, Edward looked up and smiled a little. I looked away from him but I could feel his eyes on me as I was getting the things I would need to clean him up.
"Hi Charlie." I heard from behind me. I once again stopped breathing. When I turned to face him, I didn't look at his face; I kept my head down and gave him a small nod. "Are you happy you get to be in the next fight?" Once again I nod, not looking at him, but now working on his wounds. "How are you feeling? It doesn't still hurt does it?" I shook my head no. "Your not going to talk to me are you?" I could hear the sadness in his voice. I stop what I'm doing. I feel so bad I want to throw my arms around him to make him feel better. But I can't, so I just went back to what I was doing, not looking at him. He just sighs.
When I was done he stood up and started for the door. After a few steps, he stopped and turned to me. "Thanks for cleaning me up." I gave him a small smile and a nod and turned to put the stuff away.
-x-
Later that night while everyone was eating dinner, I was up at the front of the ship, watching the water as we move forward. I was deep in thought when I heard footsteps behind me. Turning I see Jasper coming toward me with a plate of food in his hand.
"Hey, what are you doing out here? Aren't you hungry?" Jasper asked sitting down next to me. I shrugged.
"Yeah, I'm kinda hungry" Jasper smiled knowingly and handed me the plate. "Thanks. I'm just thinking really. Kinda hard to do that in there with all the noise."
"What are you thinking about?" He asked as he looked down at the water.
"Nothing really. Just about how my life use to be and how it is now. About all the changes that me and Angela have been through. But mostly about the future" I answer, standing next to him looking at the water. It was a clear night so you could see the reflection of the stars and the moon.
"That is a lot to be thinking about. What about the future are you thinking?" he asked turning his head slightly my way.
"Just about how our life is going to be now that Angela and I are pirates" he gave a short laugh. "And I'm thinking about when our next attack is going to be. I've been so bored staying here while everyone is off fighting."
"You sure have changed since you've been here. I remember when you didn't want to fight cause you didn't want to kill anyone. Or even hurt them. Now you want to fight. You don't really care if you hurt them now, even though you still won't kill them." He looked over at me and smiled. "You should get to bed. It's late and you need your rest, who knows maybe tomorrow we will find a ship to attack."
"I can only hope. Goodnight Jasper" I answer him as I retreat to my room.
"Goodnight Bella."
-x-
When I woke up the next morning, the sun was shining brightly and it looked like it was going to be a beautiful day. But for some reason, I had this feeling that something bad was going to happen. I thought about it and I couldn't figure out what might go wrong. So I ignored the feeling and went to make breakfast with Angela.
No matter what I did, no matter how hard I tried to ignore it, the feeling would not go away. As the day went on, it got stronger. Finally I had enough of it. So after lunch I sat down with Angela, Jasper and Carlisle and told them about it, but they couldn't figure it out either.
Our conversation was interrupted when we saw a ship not too far ahead of us. When I saw this, I forgot about the feeling because I was so excited. Finally I would be able to do something other than just sit around the ship. Everyone was running around getting ready for the upcoming fight. When we got closer to the ship, we attacked.
EPOV
This fight was going to be easy, especially now that Charlie is back fighting with us. It seems to go by faster when he fighting. But I was a little worried, I didn't want him to get stabbed or hurt again. I don't like when my men get hurt.
The fight was going fast and smooth. These men are not very good fighters. I had just stabbed someone when I looked around me. There were no men left to fight. I smiled to myself and was about to tell the men to start exploring when I saw Eric coming toward me with another man, but not one of mine.
"Captain," he called to me as he got closer, "this is the captain from this ship. I was about to finish him off when he said that he wanted to talk to you. Said that he would be able to help us out." He finished, now standing in front of me. I took a look at the man standing next to Eric. He was about my height with blond hair and very clear blue eyes.
"What's your name and what do you want?" I asked him in a stern voice. He looked nervous.
"My name is James" I heard whispering behind me, then a string of curses coming from Jasper. "I was thinking that instead of killing me, you might consider letting me join you. I'm a very good fighter and…" he trailed off looking behind me. I turned to see what he was looking at. He was staring at Charlie and Derek, but mostly Charlie.
Jasper was standing in front of Charlie protectively. Charlie had a scared look on his face and I swear I saw a tear run down his cheek. Derek was staring at him with a worried look and every once in a while shooting James a look that could kill. I looked back at James who was still staring at Charlie but with a smirk on his face. I didn't know what was going on but it seemed like Jasper did by the way he was glaring at James.
"What is going on? Do you know each other?" I demanded but none of them were listening to me. James took a few steps forward toward them.
"Well if it isn't little Bella, and her cousin Angela. It's so nice to see you again" his smirk grew while he said this. Jasper growled at him. This made me more confused, why was he calling Charlie and Derek Bella and Angela? Why is Jasper so angry and protective of Charlie? James stepped toward Charlie who cringed and hid behind Jasper more.
"You know, it wasn't very nice, what you did." He got closer and closer to them. "Ever since you left, I've been looking for you and finally here you are. And I'm going to make sure you never leave me again." He was now in front of Charlie and reached out to touch his face when Jasper and Derek both threw there swords at him.
"Don't you dare touch her you sick bastard" Derek yelled and I was in total shock because Derek was-in fact-a girl. Jasper was now fighting with James while Derek, who is actually a girl, was comforting a crying Charlie whose hat fell off. You could tell he was a girl too because of her long flowing brown hair. I was still a little confused, but some things were starting to make sense now. Like why they never talk and why they can cook well.
When Jasper finally finished James off, he started walking back over to the girls. "Jasper…" I trailed off because he ignored me and walked right past me to the girls stilled huddled together. He kneels down next to them and brought Charlie, I mean the crying girl into his arms.
"Are you ok Bella?" the girl, Bella, just nodded her head yes, and put her arms around his waist burying her head in his chest. When I saw this, I got a weird feeling in my chest. "Come on; let's get you back to the ship." They stood up but Jasper still had her in his arms, as they walked to the ship. The feeling in my chest grew, but I didn't know what it was, so I let it go. I decided to follow them so I could get some answers as to what is happening here.
When we got to the ship, Carlisle, Rose, Alice and Esme were all sitting together talking. When they saw us, they had a shocked look on their faces. Carlisle's quickly turned to worry when he looked at Bella and Alice's changed to anger at the sight of Bella in Jasper's arms. Carlisle ran over to Bella taking her into his arms.
"Are you okay Bella? What happened?" instead of answering she just started to cry more. He tightened his arms around her and Jasper and Angela started to rub her back in comfort. I walked over to Alice, Rose and Esme.
"Who are they and were did they come from?" Alice asked firmly when I got over there.
"They're names are Bella and Angela, or you might know them as Charlie and Derek" I looked over at the three girls, they were completely shocked. I smiled a little. "I know that's how I felt."
"They were girls all along?" Esme asked to no one in particular. "I always knew something was different about them, I just couldn't figure it out." Alice nodded in agreement.
"What happened? Why is she crying?" Rose asked coming out of her shock.
"I don't know. The captain of the ship we attacked wanted to talk to me. Apparently they know each other, 'cause when she saw him, she got scared. I tried to ask Jasper what was happening but he ignored me and went straight to comfort Bella."
"Poor thing. You know, they don't look much older than you guys. I wonder what they are doing all the way out here, away from their families. I'm going to go see if they need anything." Esme said in a motherly tone. We all decided to go with her so we could see how she was doing.
"Was that him Bella?" we heard Carlisle ask when we got closer to them. She gave a weak nod. Carlisle let go of Bella so Esme could pull her into her arms. For some reason, I wanted to be the one to comfort her. I didn't understand this feeling. When she turned around to talk to everyone, I got to fully see her for the first time.
She was the most beautiful person I have ever seen. She had long brown, wavy hair that flowed over her shoulders. Her eyes were a deep chocolate brown and when she looked into my eyes, I got lost in the deep brown. After a few seconds I realized that everyone was looking at me and that Emmett had joined us by now.
"I'm sorry what? I wasn't listening." I said and heard a snicker coming from Alice. I shot her a quick glare.
"We were asking you what you want to do now. What do you want to do with these two?" I heard Emmett boom from over by Rose.
I look over at the two girls that were standing by Carlisle, Esme and Jasper. For some reason, I really don't want to do anything that would hurt Bella. I also really wanted to know why they dressed as men. I want to know everything about Bella. I sighed.
"Look, you two seem really tired. Why don't you go get some sleep and we will deal with this tomorrow okay?" Bella looked at me shocked, but nodded with a small smile. Then they went to their room. I felt someone slap me on the back; I turned to see that it was Ben.
"What was that about? You let them go. Are you going soft on us?" he laughed as he said this and I just glared. "Or do you have a thing for one of them?" He was still laughing when I look away from him. I looked down at the ground, not answering him. All of a sudden he stops laughing. "Its not Angela is it?" There was something cold in his voice when he said this. I glanced up to see his face and give a small laugh.
"You like Angela don't you?" I asked.
"What? No…no. What would make you think that?" he said very fast while looking nervous. I laughed louder. A slight blush came on his face.
"Don't worry Ben, Angela is all yours" I told him, he blushed more but gave a big smile, and then he walked away toward his room. I wasn't really that tired so I walked to the side of the boat and looked out at the ocean and thought about the day's events.
I just couldn't believe that two of my best men were actually women. What I couldn't believe was how calm I was about it. If it were someone other than Bella then they prolly would've already been thrown off the ship or something. And I won't do anything to Angela cause she is Bella's cousin. These feelings frustrate me, they change the way I think. When I went to bed, I still couldn't get Bella out of my head. Especially her deep chocolate brown eyes. That night I dreamt of Bella and had the best sleep ever.
BPOV
When I first saw James on that other ship, I was so scared. I was never expecting to see him again. Then because of him, everyone found out about Angela and I. when we were back on our ship, I kept staring at Edward, trying to figure out his reaction to everything. When he finally looked me in the eyes, I got lost in all that green.
When we asked Edward what he wanted to do with us, all he did was stare at me. I blushed a little and got butterflies in my stomach. He didn't answer for a few minutes, he just stared. Finally he snapped out of his trance. I was relieved but I little shocked when he said that Angela and I should get some sleep and we would just talk about it in the morning.
That night I once again dreamt of Edward.
A/N: Sorry. Sorry. SORRY! I feel sooooo bad about not updating in a long time. I hate when people do this. I will try to get the next one up fast. Once again I'm sorry.
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