*****Delbert's POV******
"Where is it Jim?" I asked kneeling beside Amelia-er the Captain once more. She was growing more and more fevered soon delusion would set in and that'd be about it after that she'd either live...or well, any how.
"It's just a few miles up, 20 at most." "At 'ost boy? Have ye 'ot seen tha shape Amelia is in?" Lorraine snapped from the other side of The Captain.
"Aye, aye I know ma'am but it's the best I can do.." Lorraine sighed then smiled slightly, "Docta, you 'ave ta carry Mia." I blinked rapidly, She wanted me to carry her...the same woman who had just kneed me in the...,"Very well, Admiral.." "Oi Docta she isn't that bad." Lorraine chuckled wincing once from her own wounds from our epidenture with Pellucid. "Mia? Mia girl wake up now." Lorraine gently shook her sister as the children gathered up whatever supplies they could that was left from the boat.
"Lori?" Her soft aching voice asked. "Aye Mia girl t'is me. Tha docta 'ere is gonna carry ya." "Over my dead bod-ah!" She hissed trying to get up on her own,"I can walk my self!" "Mia now yer bein' irrational!" Lorraine scolded. Amelia looked at me and sighed, "V-Very well doctor."She sighed I could hear the deep pain in her voice. I kneeled down and gently as I possibly could, lifted her up bridal style allowing her head on my chest. At that moment a little metal robot literally leaps out of the bushes Jumping atop my head, "Ah! James?!" I said trying not to drop Amelia. "Oh gah, Sorry Doc BEN down!" "oops Sorry Jimmy." James sighed, "BEN this is Doc, Admiral Lorraine, Captain Amelia and Catan and Phoenix." "Pleasure to meet you all! " "The feeling isn't mutual.."Amelia mumbled into my chest. I sighed and began walking on James's lead.
She was tense at first but after a while she calmed down wincing at every bump and stumble I made. I cursed my foolish stumbling while resting my chin on her head she was shivering like mad even with her uniform jacket still on, and to top that she had a sweater under that. She needed medical help and fast but it seemed that wasn't possible at the moment. I sighed, "How much further James I don't think the captain can take much more of this..." "Not too much further Doc promise. " "Oi! Ye said that fifteen minutes ago when he asked!" Lorraine was starting to get slightly impatient and who could blame her. It was hot a sticky on this planet, we'd been mutagenized by the crew now we were stuck on this planet, tired, hurt, and hungry.
Though with Amelia and Lorraine both injured, and just me and James really able to shoot-alright just James, and two children...we weren't much of a threat to the pirates. "Here it is you guys!" I looked up to see a large tower like structure. I walked up the stairway as easily as i could to not cause any more harm to Amelia, she seemed asleep now though.
"Pardon the mess people, you'd think in a 100 years I would have dusted a little more...often ...but ya know when your a bachelor- awwww isn't that sweet I find old fashion romance so touching don't you." BEN rambled. I sighed and layed Amelia down gently against a rock with moss growing on it, she opened her eyes at me painfully. I pet back her hair as BEN offered us a drink, "Oh!...ew...uh no thank you we don't drink...and we're not a couple." I said pulling off my coat and placing it behind her head smiling at her, she returned the smile...that smile wait uh..." Look at these markings..they look like the hieroglyphic remnants of an ancient culture..."
"Mister Hawkins..stop anyone who tries to app-ooh..." Amelia started then fell back. "Now you listen to me...quit giving orders for a few milliseconds and lay still..." "Very forceful doctor go on say something else?" I smiled at her and was about to say more when BEN shouted "HEY LOOK THERES SOME MORE OF YOUR BUDDIES HEY FELLAS WE'RE OVER HERE FELLAS!" Our "buddies" was the pirates Silver's crew..soon enough laser fire erupted. Jim and Lorraine to hold and fired back soon enough Silver was shouting up at us to speak with the captain which Amelia tried to do until Lorraine and I stopped her. James and Lorraine went down instead, I didn't hear what they were saying until I heard silver shouting to blow us to kingdom come...That's comforting. Soon enough though the both of them returning and looked, both looked like they had been in better situations, "We all have till dawn to have a plan..." Jim mumbled and sat down next to Amelia.
Some time later she began shivering more and going a bit...delusional. "Gentlemen ...ladies...we...must...stay together and..and ugh." "And what?! We must stay together and what!?" I jerked off my glasses in frustration this could not happen to me again, not to another woman I lo-cared a lot for! "Doctor you have...wonderful eyes..." I blinked and looked at her for a moment then looked to James and Lorraine, "She's lost her mind!" "You you gotta help her!" James said as if it was that easy! "Dammit Jim I'm an Astronomer not a doctor! I mean I am a Doctor but not that kinda doctor- I have a doctorate you can't help people with a doctorate so you just sit there and you're-you're useless!" I ranted , it was true I couldn't help Clara and now I couldn't help Amelia...
James patted my arm telling me it'd be alright to which i could only pull out of my somber memories and nod. He and Lorraine went over to the door to speak I returned to my memories , "Delbert you're such a worry wart sometimes!" "Clara darling it's spreading!" "Oh Del you spend so much reading books on logic you never see the fantasy in life...you need to stop and smell the roses Delly..."
"Hey, hey doc i think we found a way outta here!"I was snapped out of my memoranda to see Lorraine and James going down a tunnel,
"Jim w-wait the captain said we need to s-" "We'll be back!" ..."woof..." I sighed and watched Amelia again "D-Delbert?" "Captain-Amelia." "W-where is everyone? " "I'm not exactly sure..." She only nodded slightly, "Doctor I'm sorry for the way I've treated you."
"No-No amelia I-" "No it's just...I've every man other than you and Samuel has t-treated me like scum... and truly...I feel for you doctor...you're the only man to have me feel this way since-well a very long time..
I looked at her, "Amelia...same with me i mean...i been slightly ...keeping my self away from women for a while...since my wife's passing...ten years ago..."
"What...h-happen to her?"
"Cancer.."
"I'm...sorry."
I could only sigh, "I'm the only one out of my ten siblings with out a spouse or child." I said lightly.
"Ten?!"
I knew that'd get a reaction , "I'm the youngest. Grew up with a single mother...papa disappeared on a voyage he was a astrophysic like m'self."
"ahhh I see..."
"Aye I always felt..there was something I could have done for my Clara...but alas..."
"It isn't your fault Delbert..."
I only sighed "So captain, tell me about yourself? "
"me?"
"Well I told you my skeletons..."
"Very well..."
Captain Amelia's POV:
My head pounded at the very thought of the man I once thought to be my true love. I hate emotions. And pain. And knock-knock jokes, but that's an entirely different subject.
I forced myself to sit up more and, out of habit, rubbed my finger where my ring once was. "I was stood up at the alter."
Delbert-Doctor-screw it Delbert-he raised both his eyebrows. "You're kidding me!"
I shook my head, clenching my teeth at the bitter memory. "I wish I was. Most embarassing moment of my life."
Delbert blinked rapidly. "What idiot would stand you up?!"
I shrugged. "The one that did."
"Well he certainly didn't know what he had." Delbert stated. I perked my ears and looked at him, feeling rather mischivious.
"Oh, that so?" I asked.
"Quite, you're an amazing woman. Beautiful, charming, one h-" He stopped suddenly, his cheeks turning redder than I ever thought physically possible.
"Oh please, don't stop now. I may be humble but I'm not shy to praise." I smirked. I felt heat start to rise in my cheeks and tried my best to hide it. I knew he was being genuine at the moment, and it was quite nice to hear such things from a man I'll admit I had developed feelings for myself.
"Uh, uh, well I, uh, uh, you're-uh-" He began to attempt to talk, only succeeding in repeating many "uh"s and "well"s and uncomprehensible gibberish. It was quite adorable.
"You can stop now, Delbert." I said, resting my hand on his arm. Damn, I was rather out of it. His shirt sleeve was rather soft, though. He stopped then and sort of smiled at me in a very dorky fashion.
"Y-You s-should rest A-Amelia." He said. I raised an eyebrow.
"Excuse me?"
His eyes widened. "I-I-I m-m-m-mean C-Captain!"
I grinned and tapped his nose. "I'm just teasing, Delbert." He looked completely dumbfounded.
Ah, his idiot moments are so adorable.
After that I laid my head back and was out like a light, the only thing waking me being a sudden jerk that sent pain all through my body. I opened my eyes to find Oxy and Moron, the body and head aliens, tying me up (putting their hands in areas they needn't be, may I add). The pain I was in was paralyzing. My vision was once again blurry, all I could see was an outline of a fat asshole, otherwise known as Long John Silver, and Delbert. Delbert was tied up and yelling at Silver. Soon I was thrown beside him and heard a line of sounds that would have made words if I was in my right mind erupt from an irate Silver.
"D-Don't know." I muttered. Last I saw was Silver and the blurs of his crew slipping into the shadows before I blacked out again.
a/n hiya lovely readers Britt here as I wrote last time updates wil be sloooooowwwww I started college monday and things are already looking busy for me. Kitty has also asked me to stae since she is heading to school as well this might be a slowly updated story ^^; R&R dearies We love to see them =p
