BPOV
It took me a moment to recognize her, but when I looked past how horrible and disheveled she was, I saw the light red hair, perfectly curvy body, and she was still wearing that skin tight purple dress.
Shit.
Now, not only was I probably going to die at sea, I was going to die with the skank that can't keep from sinking her claws into Edward.
You're feeling very territorial over Edward, aren't you?
I growled at my inner thoughts and pushed them away.
"Are you sure she's alive?" I asked Jasper.
Maybe we can just throw her overboard…
"I checked; she's got a pulse." He said.
I frowned, but didn't say anything else. I was just grateful we have something more solid and much larger to get in.
Jasper reached in and poked her a few times until her eyes opened into slits.
"Am I dead?" She mumbled.
"Not yet." Jasper told her.
She looked at him more closely, then slowly moved her eyes along me and Edward.
"Hey… aren't you-"
"Yeah, yeah, you've seen us before." I interrupted her. "Listen, we need this little raft here, you don't mind sharing do you? Good."
I didn't wait for an answer before heaving myself over the edge and into the raft.
The others obviously didn't care what her answer was either, because Edward handed Nessie in to me before letting Alice climb in, followed by him and Jasper.
"Yeah sure… come on in." Fire crotch muttered belatedly, pulling herself into a sitting position and moving to the corner of the raft, giving us more room.
"Do you three know each other or something?" Alice asked, pointing to Ms. Hooker Dress, and me and Edward.
"No, not really. She was just ummm… hitting on me back on the ship." Edward said, wincing as he did so.
"What? He's cute. I won't mind showing him som-"
"Shut your pie hole before I throw you overboard." I snarl at her, surprised at my own hostility.
She glared at me, but wisely didn't say anything else.
"What about the suitcases?" Edward asked, breaking the awkward silence.
"There should be some rope or something like it attached the raft." Jasper said, looking around the outside of the raft, reaching over to feel along the sides. "Here it is." He came back with a few feet of rope wrapped up.
Tying one end to a black plastic loop on the edge of the raft, making sure it was secure before reaching out, barely able to get the cases, and pulled them close, threading the other end of the rope to through both handles and tying it off.
"There. That should hold 'em." He said when he was finished.
Alice was sitting closest to fire crotch, so she made an effort to turn to her and start to make conversation.
"What's your name?" Alice asked her.
Can't we just keep calling her Fire Crotch?
"I'm Tanya." She muttered to Alice weakly.
Tanya… that sounds like a skank name.
Oh Jesus, I seriously need to stop. What was wrong with me?
"I'm Alice. And this is my boyfriend Jasper, our friends Edward and Bella, and Bella's sister, Nessie." Alice pointed each of us out as she went.
She gave a disheartening hey and turned away.
I frowned. This was not the same woman I saw flirting and digging her talons into Edward.
"How did you survive?" I asked her quietly.
She turned to look at me. "I don't know. The last thing I remember, I was in my room, getting ready for bed, then there was this huge crash… my room started to tilt… I thought it was so weird… Then I heard people screaming… and when I woke up, I was just in this raft. I don't remember how I got on it or anything. I don't know why I survived."
I heard Edward mumbling something about temporary memory loss and blocking things out, but it wasn't loud enough for Tanya to hear.
I didn't ask her anything else, choosing to stay quiet for a while.
"Well, we have a raft. What about food?" Edward asked everyone.