A Gift To You

Not for you nor for me |Jose

"Drinking again,Captain?"

He didn't bother turning around nor did he seem interested in speaking. It was late,too late for anyone to be awake.

"You'll get sick from drinking so much,let me get you some water"

He didn't care if you did or didn't. Taking the last sip he chucked his glass into a nearby barrel and blinked when the glass shattered on impact.

You came back from the kitchen with a wooden mug,"...did you just throw that?"

He grunted,staring into the mass void of the ocean,one day it would pull him under and never let go. For now,he was out of her alluring clutches stranded on shore, waiting for the rest of the supplies to be loaded on board.

He reached for another bottle and took a sip,expecting the addictive taste of wine or booze only to drown in water.

He looked at it,irritated and aimed to throw it over the rails as well. It flew from his prosthetic but was just as quickly brought back to his hand by you.

You, the queens moon eyes,seer of the night and viewer of the future. No one knew how far your powers reached,not even him. Some whispered that you could see into the mind others muttered you could mind control people. Nothing was ever solidify by you, when asked you mearly placed a dainty hand up to your lips.Dark black,silky robs flowing and giggled.

'All in good time', was what you said. He'd come to learn it was a favorite line of yours.

"Drink,I insist, I've brought you something to eat as well" you placed a bag of crackers next to him and placed the cup in his hand.

"What do you want from me" he wanted to be left alone. Eating the crackers you'd brought he immediately took a long sip of water, it tasted funny. It must have been mixed with herbs of some kind,he never liked tea,hot or cold.

"Sir, please do not give up hope just yet" you took his free hand and started to pet his knuckles,"I have seen many things but there is a chance to redeem your family's honor and title"

He froze at that. Just why did you care so much? His family had nothing to do with you. When the ship first vanished you should had left him like everyone else but you didn't. You a no class, no body mearly cursed with eyes of the moon.

"Tell me something,cursed child, just what do you get from this?" There was no reward for helping him,you'd gain nothing,if anything you were sullying yourself by being near him! But then again,you'd always been up under him. Before the ship vanished the two of you would plot coordinates together, even if you couldn't see and needed brail to get better graps on things. The ship would always arrive several days ahead of time,that was just how good the two of you were,"just what do you want? What is it that you crave from me?"

"I mearly desire to see you smile,Captain" you said truthfully.

Jose stared at you,"what?"

"That is to say ah well how does one put such a phase...one wishes to hear your laughter and know I was the cause of it, to make you happy, to bring you great joy and fulfillment that is what I want from you captain"

"You've always had trouble speaking your mind,Moon eyes, just tell me already" He had no time delicte poetics and sonatas.

"Very well then," you stood tall and proper,made direct eye contact with him and said something he'd never thought he'd hear,"Jose Baden, I believe iv fallen very much in love with you"

"I see,You've misplaced your affections, moon seer"

"I am well aware"

" foresight tell you that?"

You put a hand to your lips to cover a giggle,"All in good time, like I was saying iv found a lead on the queens treasures-"

Jose had lost his sight now, blood dripping from his head into his only good eye,he'd lost his glass one a while back.

He gasped,tugging you along,"come now,___,surely this isn't all you can do" He laughed, face pale and limped the both of you into a shack,"___,My moon seer, let me see those eyes"

There was only so much the human could take before it started to shut down but you cracked a large pearlescent eye open for him.

"Jose, my captain, I hav- have one last vision for you" you stopped his hand from pulling put more bandges,"In forty six seconds th-the ciph-"

"Thats enough,____, be quiet" he ignored your hand and continued treating your stab wound. You weren't going to die here,he refused to let you! He wasn't going to let anyone slip through his grasp,this time he would hold on firm! You both were going to leave this hell hole together! Even if it ment losing a few more limbs. So what if he lost another eye? Another hand? A leg even?! This place wouldn't be his grave and it sure as hell wasn't going to be yours.

"Jo-jose"

"You said to me,before we came here,that you loved me, well how about this," he tightened the strips of gauz on your torse,"We get out of here alive and we can get married, you can be miss.Baden and we'll return the queen her stupid treasure together and live out the rest of our days drunk and happy, deal?" His face was covered in gashes and scratches, hair in his face and chunks ripped out.

"Ok, let's have a b-big wedding"

"Mmhm, I'll get the biggest fire opal anyone's ever seen and put it right on your finger"

You choked out a laugh. In your moon colored eyes you could see,in a different life that he would have made a handsome groom.

"What did you see,___?"

Another giggle.

"All in good time,My dear Jose"