Chapter 2

First encounter

"You're a girl!?" Danny screamed, still processing it, changing back to his human self.

"Wow she is quite strong, for a girl."

He found the stranger quite attractive, no really attractive. Her shoulder length black hair glistened and her eyes were a perfect shade of violet. They were looking at him with such intensity and intelligence. He sighed, still on top of her, looking deeper and deeper in her beautiful eyes. The stowaway was sporting clothes that were all black. A black shoulder length blouse fell delicately on the edges of her shoulders with a black short spider web skirt. Underneath her skirt was stripy black and grey stockings. On her neck was a black choker, on her ears were small diamond earrings and on her arms were numerous silver dangling bracelets. Her makeup was also black. Black eyeliner placed nicely on the rims of her lower eyelid contrasting with the black mascara. She didn't put too much nor too little. Danny thought all the black on her felt right, like it was the only colour for her. Still in a daze, he felt a slap, stinging his face. He was still on top of the girl, in a kind of embarrassing way.

"Get off me you freak!" The girl screamed, trying to push the hybrid off her, sadly failing.

"Well I'm just on top of you because you crept onto my ship, and stole my food!"

"Oh shut up! Let me talk to the captain, not a little boy." The stranger told Danny, looking at him strait in the eyes.

"I am not a little boy! I'm seventeen! And you should be more respectful to the captain, which is me!"

The black haired girl then shut up, slightly surprised. Who wouldn't, he is a seventeen year old captain. After that revelation, her personality changed. She really wanted to be on the captain's good side, it was really obvious.

"Sorry I didn't know. Please get off me." When she said that, Danny heart melted, seeing how nice she could be. Her gaze made him uncontrollably hot. He slowly got off her, then giving her his hand to help her up.

"Why am I feeling like this?" Danny didn't know this feeling. He was always around males or females much older than him.

"You can let go off my hand now." The girl said. Danny didn't understand why he was acting so dumbly. He was the captain, he could act so stupidly just because he was talking to a girl. Even if she was really beautiful. He tried to snap out of it.

"Ok, so… let's go talk in my quarters. It's much more comfortable."

Danny had completely forgotten about his best friend standing behind him, listening to the conversation.

"Hey Danny, I'm here too. Or have you forgotten me already." Tucker asked

Danny rolled his eyes, starting to go up the stairs to his quarters, which he shared with Tucker. Making the stowaway follow him, with Tucker trudging behind.

A few minutes later...

The trio were seated each on a chair, in Danny's and Tucker's room. The captain started the conversation.

"So… are you ever going to tell us your name?" The girl stayed silent. She didn't know if she should tell them. She always had a hard time trusting people. But inside, she felt that they should be trusted. She stayed quiet for a couple of minutes, pondering about if she should trust them. She made a decision, she would tell them her name, but not the rest, for now anyway.

"FINE! FINE! Just stop staring at me like that! Both of you! My name is Samantha, but call me Sam, if you call me Samantha, I will surly kill you." Sam said simply, looking quite terrifying.

Danny was already intrigued by her. She could be scary for a moment, but then nice the next. She was also beautiful, yet mysterious.

Then, Sam became serious;

"Danny…captain… PLEASE LET ME STAY ON THE SHIP!" Sam pleaded, sounding a bit scared, like she didn't have anywhere else to go.

Danny was shocked.

"Of course you can stay, if you want to." Danny said straightaway trying not to sound as happy as he was, without thinking.

"Danny can I talk to you for a minute." Tucker said grabbing his friend's arm, dragging him outside.

"Are you out of your mind? We don't even know her! And remember there are only guys on this ship… with hormones!" Tucker whispered, not doing a good job though.

"But you saw her face Tuck! She looked like she didn't have anywhere else to go! And it's my decision, I am your captain after all." Danny said, going back inside, leaving his friend in the hallway.

Sam was looking down on the floor silently, looking up when she heard Danny open the door. She then opened her mouth to say something;

"Is everything alright?"

"Yeah just a little conversation between friends. Just to make everything clear, you know you will be the only female on the ship so don't be surprised if you don't see any other females. And also, there are ghosts on the ship so I hope you're not scared of them."

"Its fine, I'm not at all afraid of ghosts, you are a half breed and I'm not afraid of you."

Danny was shocked, she didn't seem at all surprised that she had just met a hybrid. He had never seen a reaction like that when someone realised he was a half breed. It was usually shock or terror. Sam was just too 'neutral'.

"One other thing, you will have to share a room with us. There isn't any spare rooms on board and well… there are only men."

Sam wasn't that happy about sharing a room with two teenage boys. Especially with a cute one (she means Danny). She still didn't trust them a lot but she still thought the half breed was handsome. She was a seventeen year old girl. She didn't like the idea but she couldn't be fussy, Danny was letting her stay on his ship. She would have to make do, somehow. Still in thought she goes back to her conversation with the captain.

"It's ok, at least I have somewhere to sleep."

Tucker then walks back into the room, half asleep, and lays down on his bed.

"I guess we should do the same, there are pillows and a blanket in that cupboard over there. Hope you sleep well…Sam." Danny said, then going on his bed and falling asleep.

Sam was quite angry, letting her sleep on the floor, that was not gentleman like. But she was expecting that. They were pirates after all.

She took two pillows and a blanket and laid them down on the floor. She let her head crash on the pillow, trying to fall asleep. Before falling asleep, a thought crossed her mind.

"I can't let them know my secret, if not I might be in danger or I might put them in danger."

She then nodded off to sleep, dreaming, but they weren't good dreams, they were nightmares.

In the morning...

The sun shining through the window. Danny had just woke up, still resting in his bed, watching the still sleeping Sam on the floor. She was sleeping peacefully. He was watching her luscious pink lips. He was a teenage boy after all.

Tucker was out cold. That what happened to him when he didn't have enough sleep. He would probably wake up in a couple of hours.

During Danny's time watching the sleeping Sam, the girl started to squirm, with a crumpled look on her face. She was having a nightmare.

Danny got out of bed and ran up to her, trying to make her up. Tears were starting to fall on her face.

"Hey Sam wake up!"

She opened her eyes, looking straight at Danny, surprised of seeing him so close to her.

She then did something that even shocked herself. She put her arms around his neck and hugged him. Only for a couple of seconds but it still had an impact.

"Why did I just do that? I can't get close to him." Sam thought

"Let's go to breakfast." Danny said quickly, standing up and trying to hide his crimson face. For a second, he actually phased because of how embarrassed he was. He hoped Sam didn't see that.

"Sure, shouldn't we wake your friend before going?" Sam pointed out.

"No its ok we should let him sleep. Come on, follow me."

They entered quite a big room, filled with tables and chairs, enough to accommodate all the crew on the ship. It was the dining area.

Most of the crew was there talking and laughing while eating. When Danny entered, all the crew greeted him. He was really loved.

"CAPTAIN! GOOD MORNING!"

Danny smiled, greeting everyone before sitting at an empty table. Sam was puzzled, he didn't act very captainly but he was sure loved.

Everyone started to stare at the girl behind their captain. They whispered to each other, waiting to see if Danny would tell them something.

Danny noticed the huge amount of eyes goggling his new friend.

"GUYS! LISTEN UP!" There was now silence in the room. "This is Sam, she is the newest addition to our crew."

Cheers and shouts were sang all around the room. After the cheers dyed down and the greetings were made, Danny and Sam started eating breakfast.

Sam fiddled around with her food. It was bacon with eggs. The eggs were fine but the bacon she would never eat in a million years. She was a vegetarian.

Danny noticed that she wasn't eating.

"Sam, why aren't you eating? Does it taste bad?"

"No not at all...It's just…well… I'm vegetarian." Sam said, trying not to offend him.

"Oh, its ok we have a lot of vegetables on board, I'll tell the chef to make you something different."

Sam felt out of place, being the only vegetarian and the only girl. She thought that she would never fit in.

Danny saw the sadness on Sam's face and tried to comfort her.

"Hey its fine, we are just not used to having a girl around."

Sam was thankful. He was one of the only people that understood her.

Danny was happy he knew that this was a start of a new friendship.

"Or maybe even more" Danny thought, blushing.

On another pirate ship...

"Captain, we are having a hard time locating and catching up to the Phantom Sir." A young boy said, shaking out of fright.

Two fists smashed a wooden table followed by a yell.

"IDIOT! I need to get my possession back, go faster, tell the others that we are now sailing at night. If you fail, you will see the plank up close. The sharks will love you." Grinned the captain maliciously, not caring about killing one of his crew.

When the boy left he mumbled under his breath, smiling.

"Have fun when you have the chance, my dear Samantha..."

Hope you're liking this story. Please review!

PS: Merry Christmas! (a bit late I know)

~welshcanadian14~