Reyna quietly opened the door to her cabin, carrying a plate and was unsurprised to find her new room mate curled up in her cot right where she had left her. She shook Thalia's shoulder to wake her up and the girl just rolled over to look up at her, looking a lot more tired then she had a couple minutes ago.
"Here," She muttered and handed her a roll and chunk of ham. The British girl quickly devoured both at Reyna sat down to finish her meal.
"So, what was your crew even doing a month away from England, Red coat?" She asked and Thalia shrugged.
"We were transporting food to the colonies and soldiers. Then we were to head back to England," Thalia responded. Reyna looked curious.
"Colonies? You mean the Yankees? They're an interesting bunch aren't they?" She asked and Thalia laughed.
"That's a nice way of putting it," She flipped her hair behind her ears, the inky black locks spilling into her eyes, in such a way that Reyna had to attempt not to stare. The British girl looked almost curious about something. "How did your sister get to being a Pirate captain? I mean as far I know most Pirate captains are male?" She asked and I shrugged.
"Same way anyone becomes captain. She challenged the former captain to a duel and he lost. It was an interesting fight though, she stabbed him through the chest once, but he got back up and then she cut his head off, therefore she got the nickname Hylla Twice-Kill because he should have died from the first one," Reyna explained and Thalia nodded. She looked down at the cabin floor with a troubled expression. "What's bugging you so much? You look about ready to kick a wall,"
"It's just that... never mind, it's just a stupid gut feeling," She said, waving her hand as if that were something to dismiss, but Reyna knew that gut feelings were usually right.
"What?" She asked again and Thalia sighed.
"It's just... well I don't really know something just feels out of place. Don't worry about it, I'm probably just paranoid," She muttered and shook her head. "I'm going back to bed, you should too with that many wounds I had to bandage I'm surprised you were even still standing,"
Reyna rolled her eyes and tried to give the British girl a glare, but she had already resettled, drawing the coat Reyna had lend her over her like a blanket. Reyna just sighed and reached up to turn off the lantern and went to bed.
The entire ship was dark as it kept it's quiet night course, but on the deck a shadow quietly, carefully crept across the deck towards the door. The shadow moved clumsily and rather loudly, but did it's best to sneak into the room. Reyna glanced around the darkness of the room, unable to see anything, she had heard her door moving she was sure of it, but not another sound came beside's Thalia's steady breathing. The pirate girl lay back down and settled onto the cot, the boat rocking silently, carefully lulling her back into an almost sleep like state when suddenly she felt something weird run up her spine. She looked up and lashed out to turn the lantern back on just as a loud crash shook the room. Light flooded the cabin just in time for her to see Thalia wrestling a boy on the floor, the boy clutched a dagger that Thalia quickly ripped out of his grasp and chucked back into the wall. She pinned the boy down effortlessly. Reyna didn't recognize the boy, he had messy black hair and eyes the color of obsidian, but Thalia obviously did.
"Nico?" she whisper yelled at the boy, her eyes like minature storms, making Reyna get a funny feeling in her stomach she didn't recognize. "What the hell are you doing aboard a Pirate ship trying to kill a Pirate!" So that's what had happened, the boy must have been planning something with the knife, but somehow Thalia had seen him and stopped him. Reyna stood and grabbed her dagger, the boy looked almost as surprised as Thalia had.
"I thought she had killed you! Thalia, get off of me. She's got a knife, she's going to kill us!" He yelped and Reyna found herself laughing.
"I'm not going to kill you, Hylla will when she learned what you were trying to do," Reyna said and sheathed her dagger. Thalia gave her a blank look, before muttering.
"He's my cousin, you can't just kill my cousin," Her dark hair was matted and falling around her face almost crazily. She stood and winced, clutching her side where her cousin had nicked her with his dagger. Reyna sighed and walked over, ripping one of her sleeves and wrapping up her injury, she blushed lightly at the gesture, while Nico just stared up at Thalia and Reyna in disbelief.
"You-You actually trust her?!" He yelled at her and Thalia glared at him.
"She hasn't given me a reason not to, and besides, she's been very upfront and truthful with me," she growled at her cousin, making Reyna look sideways so that the British kids would not see her blush.
"Look, you two can argue later. Right now we have to figure out what I'm going to do with a strange Italian boy who tried to kill me," Reyna interrupted and Thalia nodded, keeping a foot planted firmly on her cousins chest.
"Maybe we could just, knock him out an leave him on the deck so someone else has to deal with him when he comes to," She suggested and Reyna gave her new friend a strange look.
"That's a bit.. drastic," she said and a crazy gleam flashed in Thalia's eyes. Reyna just face palmed.
"We aren't dumping him over the side of the boat!" She exclaimed and Thalia pouted.
"Aw! Come on!" She said.
"That would just be cruel in this weather, but I don't want to get in trouble for him, I guess the first Idea isn't that bad," Reyna muttered, and Nico looked scared.
"Hey!" he said and Thalia simply gave him a quick kick to the head, knocking him out, they walked out onto the deck and leaned the boy against the Cabin door of a boy that Reyna said was their resident medic, although Thalia wasn't particularly sure how a bunch of pirates got a medic. As they were returning to their Thalia suddenly stopped, staring into the distance in surprise.
"What is it?" Reyna asked and Thalia pointed to a really big storm on the horizon. Reyna bit her lip, considering whether or not she should inform her sister, and was it really worth the shouting match she was sure to have at waking her sister up this late at night, but both her and Hylla knew the power that storms could have from the day their mother had died. Blood coursed through her veins and she grabbed Thalia by the wrist, pulling her towards her sister's cabin.
The interior was much nicer then Reyna's and her sister lay asleep on an actual bed instead of just a cot. Reyna put her hand to her lips to signify that Thalia should stay quiet before creeping forward to gently shake her awake. Hylla groaned and slowly opened her eyes to focus on Reyna, then narrowing at the realization of who was waking her.
"This better be important or I'm taking away your British pet for a week," She growled out, half consciously, Reyna rolled her eyes.
"There's a storm heading directly for us, it looks pretty bad and I can hear the thunder from here," Hylla frowned and listened. As if on cue Thunder rumbled on the horizon. Reyna gave her sister a serious look. Hylla stood and quickly pulled on her boots.
"You, and your pet, go back to bed. I'll handle this and wake you up if I need you, I need you to at least try to get some rest," She said and they all started out the door, Hylla fighting her way up to the steering wheel and screaming for all hands on deck as the storm started to get close. Thalia looked obviously annoyed as Reyna dragged her back into their room.
"I'm not a pet," She muttered and Reyna rolled her eyes.
"Well in Hylla's eyes as long as you aren't an official part of the crew and someone else is responsible for you, you are. In order to join the crew you have to either work for it or earn it by doing something for no other reason then the good of another person," Reyna explained and Thalia huffed, before sitting down on her cot, wind howling and battering the cabin walls, Reyna fought down a shiver and brought the blanket from her cot around herself tightly.
Thalia glanced at her, "Don't like storms?" She asked and Reyna nodded, although that was putting it mildly. Storms terrified her, especially after what had happened to her mother. Thalia nodded absentmindedly. She leaned against the wall and the ship rocked back and forth powerfully.
"That's an understatement," She muttered as thunder cracked overhead and rain pounded the deck outside. Reyna quickly yanked the blanket around her and ducked down, burying her face in the pillow, trying to shut out the noise and regulate her breathing. Thalia looked at her with something.
"H-Hey uh, If it makes you feel any better uh..." she muttered her face flushing as she attempted to not look as awkward as possible, "I-I'm afraid of heights," she muttered and Reyna gave her an odd look, thunder cracked and shook the boat. She jumped.
"Is this your attempt at comforting me?" She asked and Thalia shrugged, blushing.
"Well, It's my attempt at trying to give you something to relate too," she said, "and show you it's okay to be scared sometimes," she sat on the cot next to Reyna as rain poured and thunder roared outside the door, and Reyna suddenly didn't feel so scared anymore.
"Thanks, uh, Thalia. I'm going to try to get some rest now," She said and the British girl nodded.
"Go ahead, I'm going to stay up a bit longer," Thalia muttered, ruffling her hair in a gesture that Reyna was used to receiving from Hylla. She tried not to focus too much on the British girl's smirk or kind of cute habit of tapping her foot in beat with her heart as if she were naturally connected to every beat. Reyna pushed those thoughts away and closed her eyes, trying to rid her brain of thoughts of the Red Coat.
Reyna woke to a soft voice. She blinked slowly as the voice rose softly, drowning out the pounding of the rain. The sound from the voice was soft and it sang words Reyna could not understand, but were filled with an emotion that calmed the fear that rose in Reyna's chest. It made her feel safe and reminded her of the good old days back when her Mother was safe and her family was happy, her father was normal and human. Back when her sister wasn't so distant, and her family was just glad each other were alive. It took her a long time for her to figure out the voice was Thalia's, singing a song in french she barely remembered and forgotten most of the words to, but the tune was forever in her mind, and forever driving her heart forward. Now she hoped it would calm the trembling girl in the bed next to her.
Thalia wasn't sure when she had stopped thinking of Reyna as a pirate, but thought it probably was after she'd seen that look on her face when speaking to her sister about the potential storm, about the way she spoke to her sister not like a Captain, but like a sister. This girl was just that, a girl. She needed the same thing she needed, comfort, and a person she could trust. Thalia didn't care about her heart or maybe dysfunctional royalties, but she found herself falling, not exactly in love, but into a deeply caring emotion for the girl that she would do anything to protect her, and go even further to make her happy.