A.N.— Hello :D here is the next chapter! I hope you enjoy it :)
Chapter 9: It's Not What It Looks Like!
Pedro looks at his older brother, Diego, with a very unamused look. "I don't think that I'll need a bucket, thank you very much." He says with a frown.
Diego shrugs. "Okay...But if you do get sick, keep it off of my deck, por favor." He then gets Alejandro and waddles back to the captain's quarters with him. "Poor pescados*..." He mumbles as he does so.
Adriana looks at Pedro. "So...You're seasick prone?" She asks; Pedro only silently shrugs. "...And if you do get sick...I have to stay cuffed to you?!"
"I don't plan on getting sick, Adriana." He says kind of silently with a small frown.
Fifteen minutes later Pedro is leaned over the side of La Princesa Sierra throwing up. Adriana stands beside him with an amused smirk, turned slightly away so that she isn't viewing him retching. "I thought you said you didn't plan on getting seasick, Copper? Did you forget so quickly?" She asks.
"Will you please hush?" Pedro asks silently with a green tinge to his face. The boat hits another fairly large wave and Pedro throws up again.
"And why should I do that?"
Pedro swallows with his eyes closed for a moment as he tries to get his stomach back under his submission again. "Because...If you do not...I will make you..." He kind of pants.
Adriana gives him a small smile with a raised nonexistent eyebrows. "Ooh, I'm so scared! Little seasick copper Pedrrrrrrrro will make me be quiet!" She says with a faked scared expression and a laugh.
Pedro glares sickly at her and Adriana laughs a little harder. He rolls his eyes and looks back at the deep, dark, blue-green water. It both looks pretty and sickening at the same time with all of its constant motion. Pedro feels a bit bad for the fish and hopes that he isn't throwing up on any of their homes as he vomits again. "Adriana...Please...Be quiet...For just a few minutes...Okay?" He asks her silently and sickly.
Adriana looks at Pedro and for a moment and she feels just a bit bad for him. "Fine." She says with a small sigh and stops talking. She looks out at the water for a few minutes as she thinks. 'Now how the atún am I going to get away? Hmmm...' She looks silently around the boat for anything she can possibly swipe to unlock the flipper-cuffs when they're back on land again. 'Ah hah! That could work!' She thinks excitedly as she sees a small fishing hook not too, too far away. Adriana looks at Pedro and then at the cuff links. She wonders if she can reach it.
She decides to try. Adriana inches slowly over as far as she can without making the cuff-links too tense. She then stretches with her left flipper towards the hook. 'Come on! Just un poco* closer!' She thinks and stretches towards it harder. She leans more and makes the cuffs just a little more tense. Adriana leans and stretches more, standing on one foot. Her flipper brushes against the hook just as a wave hits and rocks the boat. Adriana looses her balance and falls over.
"Whoa!" Pedro exclaims as he is suddenly pulled over by Adriana. He lands on top of her with wide eyes and now bright red in the face instead of green-tinged.
Adriana looks at Pedro with wide eyes also. 'Heh...Whoops...' She thinks silently. They just stay there staring wide-eyed at each other for a few moments.
"Hey! Whoa!" Diego exclaims as he waddles up. He covers up Alejandro's eyes with his flipper. "Not on my deck, please!"
Pedro quickly scrambles off of Adriana. "No, Diego, it's not what it looks like!"
Diego holds up a flipper. "Say no more, Pedro, just next time you want some alone time with your 'prisoner', find a room first." Diego waddles back to the wheel of the boat with his flipper still over Alejandro's eyes.
Pedro watches open-beaked after him and then looks at Adriana with a deep blush. "I-I am so sorry, Adriana..." He says and helps her up.
"It's fine..." She says. "I'm the one who...Tripped and took you with me." Adriana partially lies with a very, very small blush. She can't believe that she had been so clumsy...And hadn't yelled at him to get off of her either...She clears her throat and regains her annoying, I'm-here-against-my-will composure. "At least you didn't throw up on me, Copper, if you had, we would have had issues...Big issues." She says with a small look.
"Heh...Right..." Pedro mutters silently. He looks back out at the moving water. He doesn't feel all that seasick anymore, but instead he feels kind of...Lovesick. He glances at Adriana. She truely is the loveliest prisoner he's ever had to take to the base. Pedro even likes her incessant wisecracks, sarcasm, and sass. He gives a small sigh and looks back out at the ocean. 'I doubt that she'll ever feel the same way...' He thinks a bit sadly with another small sigh.
Adriana looks back at the hook with a very small and silent sigh. 'I had been so close...If only I hadn't been cuffed to this cute fool!' She thinks angrily, but then her eyes widen. 'Cute fool?! Adriana, what the smoked atún is wrong with you!?' She thinks surprised at herself for thinking such a thing. '...Plus, if I wasn't cuffed to him I wouldn't have needed to reach that hook in the first place...' Adriana turns her head a little and looks at Pedro. He looks a bit sad about something. She opens her beak for a moment to ask if there is something bothering him, but quickly shuts it back as she remembers that she shouldn't care if he's upset about something or not, seeing as how he is her captor...
Pedro sighs a little again before looking at Adriana. She looks to him as if she is having a silent, mental argument with herself over something. Pedro gives her a slightly funny look as he wonders what she is having internal conflicts about. "Umm...Penny for your thoughts?" He asks.
Adriana looks at Pedro weirdly. "Why would I tell you what I'm thinking for a penny?" She asks. "Maybe for a thousand Euros...But for a single penny? Not likely, Copper...But good try." She says.
"...You know I really wasn't going to give you a penny, verdad*?" Pedro asks curiously.
Adriana looks at him. "Well, duh, I'm not stupid." She says and rolls her eyes. "I'm just not going to share my thoughts with the seasick, curious cop that has dragged me onto a boat."
"Oh..." Pedro looks back out at the sea. The sun is just now starting its climb down into the ocean creating a beautiful sunset. Pedro smiles some and glances at Adriana who appears to be watching the pretty sunset, too. 'Well...At least I can say we basically always have the memory of tripping and falling onto each other and watching this sunset together...' He thinks happily. 'Even if she doesn't ever like me back.'
*Pescados — fish
*Un poco — a little
*Verdad? — Right?