Updated all the other chapter, the next update will be at chapter 30. This chapter does have some information on events to come.
Chapter 16: How to be a Pirate
Vaas POV
"Vaas!" I heard the familiar shout of my name and for some odd reason it did not bother me, it didn't even phase me that Benny was bothering me for the fifth time today. He crashed into the room, I laid peacefully on my bed staring at the ceiling and smoking a nice blunt. "Uh... It's about Mira-"
"Don't even fucking say her name!" I shouted angrily at him, I didn't even know where the anger came from, I sat up on the edge of my bed and stared at him with a strict expression. I should tell him to leave, tell him to never come here again with news about... Her...
"What's wrong?" I sighed at my outburst, it didn't embarrass me, it only made me look more powerful and merciless anyways.
"S-She... Well... She has been in that cage for about a week now."
"Hmm..." I shrugged, I didn't want to even look at her again. "Thought she'd be begging by now."
"Hell no Vaas. Actually me and the others are impressed." My eyebrows furrowed in confusion, I stood up and challenged him with a stare, as always his weak self looked down at the ground. I could never tell what he was looking at behind those glasses, I should probably-
"She hasn't talked for one week straight, hasn't eaten, hasn't-"
"You haven't tried to force feed her."
"What the fuck do you think we have been doing?!" I huffed taking a stride forward towards him, he backed away with fear.
"Remember your fucking place Benny. Now... Continue."
"Well, we tried that. She ended up breaking Carlo's arm and Anjali he is in the infirmary now with a broken ankle, and me... She told me that I was free to go, probably aware that I would notify you of this." Amusement ghosted over my expression, my hands found my hips as I let the blunt hang from my lips. I pulled the blunt from my lips and flicked the ash from its tip.
"When did this happen?"
"Two days ago."
"And why wasn't I notified as she had wanted me to be?"
"Well... You tell us not to mention her... At all." I stood silent and started pacing slow steps back and forth, Benny always waited patiently for me to make a decision. It suddenly came to me, Bella might had seemed strong, but she was far from it, she needed to be shown the savage life. The only way I could get her back is to break her by showing her what her island has become showing her what the islanders have become. I mean she hadn't seen it ALL first at hand, I could purposely show her the island she claims to love so dearly... MY Island.
"Benny?"
"What?" I turned and looked at him, his hands nervously at their sides and his eyes directed to the ground. I walked over to him, he flinched when I brought a free hand to his shoulder.
"I have a favor for you. It is mandatory that you make sure nothing happens to my Bella and if anything does..."
"I'm dead." I nodded my head and grinned.
"Yes and we can't have that, can we?" Benny gulped and shook his head.
"No, sir." I grinned evilly.
"So, here's the plan."
Mirabella POV
Vaas had no guts to come and face me like a man. Sending his men to come and do the dirty work for him. I am not going to submit until Vaas Montenegro comes out himself, comes from that stupid little bedroom of his to see me. He doesn't understand how much grieve he has caused me and if he does then he is the cruelest man I have her met in my life and that is a fact.
Pai was gone, they took her from her cage days ago. For the time being she was the only company I had until they took her and this enraged me. I had regrets, regrets for giving myself to Vaas, falling under his spell and giving allowing him all I had left. My attention was brought to the path across from my cage and I could only guess what was to come now. A new reject, a new torture method, a new bowl of rice, a new something, but instead all my eyes could see was the pirate named Benny walking straight to my cage. I looked away, he had nothing in his possession other than a pistol at his hip, he must have had a message from the coward himself.
"H-Hello Mirabella..." He stuttered in his speech, I shook my head with disgust. "How are-"
"Whatever the fuck you came for, that's all I want to know." I stated plainly, my voice was full of anger and disgrace. I was starving my lips parched from the lack of water in this hot sun.
"V-Vaas... He wants you to work for a couple of weeks at the camp of your choice." I snorted and shook my head.
"And why would I want to do that?"
"He wants you to work for a little bit. Show him what you've got." Benny reached into his pocket pulling out the key to my cage and throwing it in front of the bars. My eyebrows furrowed with confusion, but I knew what my answer would be.
"Why? All I want to do is see him face to face in person once again so I can finally gut him like a pig for all the grief he has caused me." The words dripped with poison anyone who knew me knew well enough that you would practically never hear such toxic language leave the tip of my tongue, but desperate times calls for desperate measures.
Benny looked disturbed after that sentence, he gulped and took a small step back even though I was in a cage he still was afraid of me. Still remembered the day I spared his limbs of breakage, those fuckers I haven't seen them since.
"Maybe he just-"
"Shut the fuck up and leave!" I hissed, Benny sighed and turned starting to walk towards the path, but suddenly stopping at its beginning. He then turned to face me, I was glaring at him with undeniable confusion, he was also a coward, to afraid to face me head on I had realized from before, but today he seemed different.
"Listen..." His tone showed slight confidence and self determination, he started walking back over to my cage. "Vaas is one crazy Son of a bitch! No... Maybe not crazy! Let's try Insane! But he knows well." I rolled my eyes and looked away." You really don't know do you?" Know what? That Vaas is a psycho killer? Of course, I know that. "About four years ago..." Benny had brought my attention once again. "Hoyt stopped paying Vaas's men, he only pays the Mercs that work on his island and they always get twice the pay they deserve. Vaas is the only one that gets paid a substantial amount of money being Hoyt's second. Us pirates, some of us have families that we protect, that we need money to provide for. Vaas respects us all as long as we respect his rules and most importantly him. Do you want to know what he does with the money?" Benny pushed his glasses up to reveal his dark brown eyes. "He gives us seventy-five percent of his earnings from every paycheck Hoyt gives him, if it wasn't for him some of us wouldn't be able to live." I looked down at the dirt. That didn't mean anything.
"So what? He helps his kind." I spat, still contemplating the fact that Vaas helped his men to help their families or maybe just gave the money to his men to keep them working.
"And what kind is that exactly?
"The killing kind." Benny shook his head and started walking away again, something inside me made me want to stop him, to tell him that I would comply with Vaas's demands and work as a Pirate, but another voice told me how weak that would be... I would not comply to Vaas, not again, I would resist for as long as my mind allowed it. Benny disappeared down the path, I stood up onto my bare feet slowly, walking forward to the key that he left directly in front of the bars.
Why did he leave it there? Why did he just leave it there? If he wanted to let me go, he could have just done it. I crawled slowly to the key, hungry fingers gathering it up, I hopped up onto my feet and pushed my hands through the bars to unlock the lock on the cage's door. I swung the door open and make a break for it, my energy was down and exhaustion was quite obvious as I sprinted my way down the path, but I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep much, and I had water, but that only provides hydration. I ran out from the path stopping in the center if the camp, for some reason holding the key tightly in my left hand. My eyes caught Benny's as he approached me with speedy steps and pirate's eyes stared at me from head to toe.
It wasn't smart of me to come out into the middle of attention like this. Benny probably left the key there to give me freedom and let me go, but I had unfinished business that needed to be tended to.
"Benny?"
"What?"
"Where is Vaas?"
"Gone... He left an hour ago." Benny stopped in front of me reaching a hand out for me to drop him the key.
"Why?"
"Business with Hoyt."
"Then I will-"
"No!" Benny interrupted causing my hands to tighten into insanely strong fists. "He won't be back for a while and besides he told me if you didn't take the deal then he wants you to leave." My eyebrows furrowed with confusion.
"Leave?" I suddenly grew scared, Vaas wanted nothing to do with me, not that he has for a week, but I wasn't expecting him to just let me go like that. He really has changed and I honestly don't feel love for him anymore, who cares if he wants me to leave. This is my island to and I can stay on it as long as I fucking want, then again it still bothered me.
"Yeah... He wants you just go. Keeps you from causing more stress on him."
"I'm not leaving."
"Then your taking the deal?" I sighed, my shoulders lazed down. I had no family, no home back on the mainland, no changes out in the jungle alone, and especially No more Vaas. So yeah... I guess I was kind of like a pirate. Mostly Lonely, torn, and undecided do, I guess I should give Vaas what he wants. If he wants me to be a pirate, I will... Under my conditions, my rules... I nodded, dropping the key in Benny's hand.
"Yeah..." Benny smirked at his accomplishment at the task Vaas had given him, but I knew there were much tougher trials to come and at this point all things I would sacrifice just to see Vaas again. I knew the next time I saw him, he would be surprised beyond words. "If only I get to see Vaas at the end of my time."
"Okay. Fair enough."
"Good. Now... Camp Murder? I want to work there."