The Caring Side of a Pirate

It was a horrible cold rainy day out on the South Blue, and the whole of the Tsubasa crew is confined to being inside their ship The Rione.
Many of the crew where in the main hall, a huge area of the ship in which the whole crew could gather even back in the old days when the crew had been over 100 strong.
The hall's ceiling was especially high, perfect for giants like Yuudai. Of course rooms that the giant could accommodate where few, only being a special dorm, the hall itself, and the corridors / hallways that lead to them.

Eric was sat on his hammock, his body curled up and his forehead rested on his knees. "Papa….Mama.." he said amongst sniffles. He was crying again, the lack of things to do on such a miserable day had resulted in his mind wandering to what had happened on the horrible day.
Kotex wandered into the dorm that he shared with Eric, Isamu, Katashi the navigator, and Takeshi the shipwright. He heard Eric and it didn't take a minute for the short, caring doctor in training to realise that the young boy was crying. His voice was quiet as he spoke to the boy " Hey Eric, what's wrong?"
Eric sniffed and looked towards the small young man. His eyes only just visible above his knees, they were red and puffy. "I want Mama and Papa."
Kotex sighed, this wasn't something he could fix. "Come on Eric," his voice was gentle and reassuring "you know what happened, as much as it's not nice, it's not something crying will fix."
Eric nodded a little, the nightmares about it still bothered him at night, and the images didn't really go away during day time either.
A creak of the floor by the doorway alerted them to another man's presence. Kotex looked up to see the familiar figure of none other than the captain himself. For a moment the small light brown haired man locked gazes with his much larger captain, to which Endrino nodded before changing his gaze to Eric's curled up form. Kotex got up, trusting that he was no longer needed, and left with a gentle "see you later Eric" to the boy.

Endrino watched Kotex leave, before making his way into the dorm. He sat down on the hammock below Eric's, which would normally belong to Isamu. "What's bothering you kid?"
Eric sniffled again, his voice was small and timid compared to the captains rough deep tone. "I wish Mama and Papa were here."
Endrino sighed, so this was the problem, in a way he was glad the boy was opening up to the crew, but he didn't want to keep explaining these sort of things over and over for the next 5 to 10 years. "You know even I can't make that happen." He said, standing up again so he could see Eric clearly.
Eric was still curled up. "Are the waiting for me?" he asked tilting his head to the side so he could see Endrino.
Endrino thought for a minute, he didn't want to say anything to make the boy feel suicidal. "I think they're happy watching you grow up from wherever they are."
Eric seemed to perk up a little at this idea. "Mama and Papa are watching me." He smiled a little, uncurling a bit. "Where are your parents? Do you miss them?" Eric asked innocently.
Endrino's cheerful reassuring face darkened a little. "They're not around anymore, but I miss them, just like any son would." His hand was now clutched around his left shoulder, griping his red coat tightly. He changed the subject, "you want your parents to be proud of you right?"
"Yeah" Eric answered, a curious look on his face, "how can I do that?"
Endrino smiled, he took his right hand off of his shoulder and folded it behind his head with the other, leaning on the wall. "If you want your parents to be happy then you have to live on, grow up and enjoy yourself." In a way the bulky muscular teen seemed to be reassuring himself too.
Eric smiled a little, "Ok" he looked a little shy, his head tucked down "um, mister captain? Can I have a hug?" He was obviously nervous about asking this.
Endrino took his hands down from behind his head and looked at the boy with an empty unimpressed stare. He sighed, "Go on then, if it'll make you feel better."
Eric reached out his hands and hugged around Endrino's neck. After a moment he felt the strong hand of the captain pat his back, and he let go, a smile now on his face.
Endrino smiled again, glad his youngest crew member was happy. "Now I don't want to see you crying again you got it?" he said sternly, knocking gently on the boy's forehead with a furled fist. "It's not like you're the only one here who's lost his parents."
"Ok d-dokie" Eric blushed childishly, he had almost called the burly teen dad, and he had no idea why.
"Good," Endrino said, his toothy grin returning "now don't make me regret letting you live on my ship."
"Aye Sir!" Eric said copying the crew's answer to the captain whenever he gave them an order. "But ummmmm, how do I do that?" He asked, not really knowing what he could do.
Endrino grinned. "Simple, you can do some of the smaller chores, like helping the cooks with the washing up."
Eric smiled, he already helped with that occasionally because Kotex gave him treats. "Ok." He agreed, trying to match the captains huge grin.

Isamu smiled when he saw Endrino walk into the main hall, followed closely by Eric. He had heard from Kotex that Eric had been crying but it seemed that his captain had been able to solve the problem. He watched Eric as he ran over to Yuudai, trying to scramble up onto the giants knee, but only managing it with the help of a lifting hand from the giant himself. No doubt the boy was wanting to listen to more of the 150 year old giants stories.
Endrino however walked over to his navigator Katashi. "How are things going?"
Katashi sighed, "Not very well." He frowned and then proceeded to moan about the problem. "Seriously captain you need to get some women in your crew I'm dying here!" He complained, tears forming in his eyes as he overreacted as usual.
Endrino punched the side of the young dark brown haired man's head. It wasn't anything as strong as his fighting punch but it was certainly enough to make the navigators head ring. "I meant is everything ok with our navigation idiot!"
"Owwww" grumbled the womanising navigator and he rubbed his head with one hand. "Of course our navigation is fine, I'm handling that, I'd just like to handle some nice ladies too."
Endrino rolled his eyes. Sometimes, in fact many a time he wondered why he made this man his navigator, but so far Katashi's judgement had never been wrong, when it came to navigation anyway.

The crew sat down at the tables in the hall as a bell rang, this is what they had been gathering here for, it was time for dinner. The double doors from the kitchen were pushed open and Cosmo came spinning out, he had been roped into helping out with the waiting duties it seemed as he was carrying above his head a huge plate that was obviously meant for Yuudai, on top of which were 9 normal sized plates that he distributed amongst the rest of the crew.
A large shutter was pulled up to reveal a banquet table filled with food. Along with a reasonable choice of various drinks. Behind the bar that this was placed on the kitchen was visible. And the head chef who looked remarkably like Cozmo was in there. The reason he looked so much like Cozmo was because he was actually his younger brother. The chef was 4 years younger than Cozmo, although only his height gave that away, his mannerisms were far more sophisticated than those of his comedic older brother.
One by one the crew went up to get their share of the food, Endrino went first of course, and he was joined as always by Sangrie. In fact Endrino was the only person that Sangrie didn't seem to actively hate.
Isamu followed the Tsubasa brothers, and Yuudai followed him.
As for the rest of the crew they battled it out to get the next best places. Eric of course came up last, though he didn't mind there was always plenty left to choose from as there was enough food for everyone to have around 4 portions each. Of course some members of the crew didn't eat all that much, but none the less there was never any leftovers by the time everyone had had their fill.