Okay, sorry this isn't very long. But I promise to have a longer chapter soon. Thank you, thank you to all who reviewed. Your input helps me write so much better and faster.
Again, on a side note, the King Crab Season has officially started, so the fishermen are out on the Bering Sea. May they come home to loved ones quickly and may their catch be bountiful. Smooth sailing guys!
Sig went back up to the wheelhouse after dinner. He needed to make a personal phone call and didn't want his crew around to act like 5 year olds. He got up there and was surprised that Karen was not there. She had left the kitchen shortly after telling them about her parents. He shrugged it off and dialed the satellite phone. He heard the ringing then the phone click.
"Hello, Hansen residence," the young girlish voice said. Sig smiled; his youngest girl was growing up so fast. She sounded so much like her mother.
"Heisann Andrea*. Can you put your mom on the phone?" Sig asked, knowing full well she was going to try to talk his ear off.
"Sure Dad. I miss you already. Band is great. We get to play at Disneyland next week. Isn't that cool? I can't wait for you to come home. Oh, here's Mom, bye Dad! Have a safe trip!"
Sig smiled at his daughter's one sided conversation as he heard the phone being passed to Kristina. His daughter's monologues never ceased to amaze him. He heard his wife take a deep breath before talking.
"Hello? Sig, is everything okay? You never call me this early in a season," Kristina greeted her husband. To his ears, Sig thought she sounded worried.
"Nothings wrong, just wanted to call and tell you jeg elsker deg*," Sig said quietly and with emotion, making his voice catch; which scared Kristina all the more so. This just was not like the Sig she knew.
"Sig, something is wrong. I love that you called, but you are scaring me."
"Nothing's wrong Kristina, just, something the crew and I talked about at dinner made me want to call you. I just wanted to talk to you," Sig said, bowing his head slightly and looking over his controls. He didn't even know why he was calling his wife like this. It probably had something to do with Karen's revelation that she didn't have any family left. Just seeing the pain in her eyes did something to me. She made me want to talk to my wife and kids. He was so absorbed in his phone call that didn't hear Karen come up the stairs, pause, and then turn around and head back down to the galley.
"Well, jeg elsker deg too. I miss you so much when you are gone. Be safe my love."
"I will. Tell Karita I said hello too. I'll try to call again when we get back to Dutch. Jeg elsker deg."
"I love you too. Bye Sig," Kristina said, the phone clicking in Sig's ear. Sig set the phone back and looked ahead as he jogged the Northwestern up to the fishing grounds. They still had a couple of hours before they arrived. He felt better now that he had talked to Kristina. The weird feeling he had before his phone call was gone. Now he felt more at peace. That wife of his always had that effect on him. She always would.
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Down below, Karen was changing into her pajamas, moving slightly with the boat as it rolled with the waves in the seas. Her thoughts went back again to the conversation at dinner.
What made me reveal that information? I never do that. I try to keep it in. But why do I keep thinking about them, and now of all of times? I still miss them, sure, but I know I have moved on.
Karen was at a loss as to her feelings. She shrugged them off before laying down in bed. She had just turned the light off and laid down when a flame of fire rolled in through the stateroom door.
"Oh my God!! What the hell?!" She yelled, flinging herself against the wall of the room. Suddenly, she heard a chorus of laughter as the fireball dissipated harmlessly. She saw Edgar scurry away with something in his hands, as he left his crew mates in his wake.
"Oh, you are dead meat," Karen yelled, the laughing intensifying as she ran out of the stateroom. She ran past the 4 remaining guys of the crew and ran down the hallway. She found Edgar in the ready room, trying to get in his rain gear on as fast as he could so he could escape on deck. He wasn't fast enough though. Karen cornered him before he could move.
"You want to play games with me? Okay, you're on buddy! You are going to regret you messed with me," Karen said, noting for the first time what looked like a flame thrower in his hands.
Edgar smiled, putting his hands up in defense, before saying, "Bring it on."
* means hello there in Norwegian
*means I love you in Norwegian