The Ship

Chapter 9
Here is the next chapter finally, more to come let me know what you think.


That evening was far from a peaceful sleep. I could not get the slightest bit comfortable. In fact I

barely slept two hours that night before the captain woke me at the break of dawn.

“Penny git up now, git to work,” the captain said.

The little bit of sleep I had was making it very difficult for me to wake up and I was moving very

slowly.

“Penny!” the captain shouted as he slapped my ass lightly yet repeatedly.

“Okay okay I'm up!” I shouted back. I was about to remind him how impatient he was when he gave me a

warning stare to do what I'm told or else.

“Penny, tis yer first day of workin' again, best make it a good one, now git going!” he demanded.

“Captain?”

“What?” he said annoyed.

“Can I maybe grab something to eat first?”

“No, ya took too long to git up, you want somethin to eat ya get up earlier, got it?”

“Yes Captain,” I said resigndedly, as my stomach rumbled.

“Now Penny, don't ya forget yer promise now or yer gona be sorry, understood?”

I nodded my head yes. “And you gona be workin on the riggin' to start, now go.”

That was all that was said from the captain as I walked out of the cabin. The riggin' I had been used to

workin at and absolutly hated the tarring I had to do for it. The crewmen just as I had assumed began harrassing

me almost as soon as I was out there. I knew they would give me problems regardless of what the captain had said.

I did my best to ignore their snide remarks and gestures. I was fully clothed thankfully but some of the men

made comments on how they thought I should be wearing less. One man tried to pull at my clothes. “Hey! Stay away

from her or ya gona be tied for a whippin'!” yelled tha captain. I did not even think he had been paying

attention to it all, but I was in a way thankful for it. After that I noticed how much he and the quartermaster

actually were paying attention to my every move. I made through most the day without saying anything to any of

the crewmen and just doing my best to ignore anything they had said to me. However by mid afternoon I was

starting to get fed up.

“Tis the wench men, lets touch her!” The men just let out comment after comment, insult after insult.

“Wenches ain't no good to society, but they sure good for getting into me breeches, ya interested?” I wanted to

kick the man in his balls but I restrained myself to the best of my ability, and the words kept coming. “Nice

ass.” “Them breasts ain't more than swelled shark bites.” said one of the men, which I nearly laughed at to his

face, but again controlled myself.It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard. While some of what was

being said was pathetic and funny, other things were more irritating than ever. “Bitch over here,” “Wench climb

up that riggin' and strip fer us. “Pretty bitch getting' all upset is she?” said one crewman sarcastically.

After how protective the captain was seeming to become he wasn't stopping any of the things the crew was saying.

I suppose this was part of his punishment for me. It was harder than ever to control my temper for although very

quiet it was reaching way over the top.

The Quartermaster had me scrub the deck and that was one of the worst things with all those skanky men

looking at me all bent over. One man managed to sneak a pinch on my ass without anyone seeing, so I decided it

would only be right to do something in return. I just had to think of what it would be.

After cleaning the deck for a few minutes longer with the harrasing comments I decided what to do. So I made

as if I were going to clean another part of the deck, I left once bucket there on the ground, and went to fetch

another with cleaner water. In the process of doing so I grabbed a loose rope and tied it to make it appear like

it was going to lift a sail or something, continued to scrub some more working my way over to one of the buckets

and tied the line there. During all of this I was keeping a close eye on the Qaurtermaster and Captain, but they

did not seem to notice I was up to anything. So I continued. Then I thought it would be far to obvious if the

rope was tied around the bucket so I just left it so it looked like it was tied to one thing and just hanging

around on the deck of the ship. I moved one of the buckets during my scrubing to be next to the middle of the

rope. The crewmen didn't appear to be too swift. I kept to my cleaning and made it look like I was doing my job,

when one of the men grabbed the one end of the line to do whatever he thought he was doing it, another man

tripped over the rope, stepped into the bucket, tripped, fell onto the ground, while another man tripped over

him, hit the other bucket which was near by, fell onto that, spilling more water. The last man who fell and

knocked down the water, had fallen into another man, which caused him to fall over, and all the men who fell

began fighting with each other. They were fighting like a bunch of silly children, and in the process slippng

all over the wet deck. The swift pirates were fighting each other. I could not help myself but to laugh. I

thought the crewmen would do something stupid with this, and well success. Apparently I was laughing a little too

loud, because I looked up to see the Captain looking at me with a rather accusing face. I stopped laughing

immediately and motioned basically asking him what he was accusing me of, after all I was doing my job, I wasn't

a stupid pirate fighting like a little girl. His face went back to simply annoyed as he yelled at the crew and I

went back to work.

After I had caused such an amusing commotion it eventually calmed and everyone went back to work. They were

all terrified of the threats the Captain made to get them to quit there stupidity so none of them made a single

comment to me. It was quite the peaceful rest of the day.

The Capitan had summoned me to his cabin for a supper so I was relieved from cleaning, or manning the rigging,

or whatever things I was made to do.

“Did you have a nice day Penny?” the captain asked a little too happy.

“No for your information I did not. I thought the crew was not going to be giving me problems Captain.” I said

accusingly.

“Oh but they did not.” he replied.

“Did not? You were around all day you could not hear the comments they were making, or did you happen to catch

the man who decided to pinch me in the ass!” I said angrily.

“No...no I ain't see no such things.” He said rather unconvincingly.

I sighed in disgust and went to my meal. “Problem Penny?” he asked. “No Captain, there is no problem!” I

responded irritably. I sat eating without looking or saying anything to him for the rest of the meal. I then

suddenly became very sleepy and yawned largely.

“Rough day?” he asked knowingly.

“Yes!” I snapped.

“Ah really, did ya happen to see the cause of the commotion earlier?” he asked me.

“Not really no. Just looked like one of the men went to pull at a line for something and tripped another, and

then they all fell like dominos.” I replied.

“Really, and where were ya durin all that?”

“I Captain, was scrubbing the deck as I was told, which by the way I had to do again after yer crewmen

decided to make a big mess of it.”

“So ya ain't had nothin' to do with any of it?”

“Yes Captain, I had nothing to do with any of it.” I replied.

I knew he was playing his game of forcing things out of me. I was curious how long it would last.

“Then what were ya laughin at?”

“Well Captian it was quite humerous.”

“If ya were doin what ya were supposed to be doing ya wouldn't of been laughin cuz ya should have been

cleaning.” he said accusingly.

“Well I was cleaning, I just looked up and saw it all happen, it was only momentarily, honest.”

“Penny I gona ask ya one thing and I want a response, no more games.”

“Okay...” I reponsed waiting for the moment where I could no longer lie to him.

“Did ya put the rope there, did ya plan for that to happen as a bit of revenge?”

“No Captain I did not.”

“Penny...” he said irritably. I could have sworn he was seeing right through me. It was almost as if he

were reading my mind.

“What?” I asked. He glared at me angrily, knowing very well I was lying, but he did not say anything, he

just glared. “Oh... alright I put it there,” I confessed no longer being able to lie some how. Its like his

expression were burning a hole in my consciousness.

“Penny, ya broke the rules!”

“I know, I'm sorry, but I just couldn't take the harrasin' anymore Captain!” I said in my defense.

“Ain't no excuse woman!”

“Well I think it is regardless of what you think! Captain, why can't ya ever understand my point of

things!” I said annoyed.

“Because yer a woman, and ya ain't got the sense to be reasonable!”

“WHAT!” I shouted, furious now. “Just cuz I'm a woman I can't be reasonable! I think yer the one who ain't reasonable!”

“PENNY!” he shouted.

“I ain't finished!” I yelled. “You told me the crew wasn't gona give me any trouble and I spent an entire

day listening to harrasing, being touched, pinched, felt up, insulted, and oh so much more! And I ain't even

fight back! And you say I'm not being resonable! If ya care soo much about me which ya seem to do in some odd

fucking way, then why ain't you stopping them scumbag crewmen of yers!” I was surprised he even let me finish,

but right as I finished before even looking I backed far away from him. I had broken another rule of speaking out

of turn, I was sure the captain was furious.

“Listen here Penny-!” he said but stopped.

“Listen here Penny? Listen to what Captain!” I replied seeing he did not say anything further.

“Listen to me!” he said. “First of all ya did fight back, ya set a huge commotion and second ya ain't

following through our deal, and-”

“Ya mean yer deal! I never agreed to that willingly, and do ya give a damn about anyone but yerself!” Oh

and by the way if it weren't for those several minutes of humor, I was gona kill someone! And I-”

Suddenly he was on me pulling me over to the bed slamming me down and... his lips were on mine. He was

kissing me!