Sam & Penny Short-Stories *English*

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Penny stared at the sea again, as she had almost the whole time done since the pirates attacked them and took Sam away. It had been two weeks now and she missed him so much.

It wasn't his protection that she sorely missed, as she had been able to successfully keep the guys away herself in the first few days. If Sam had given out a black eye or two, she could say with certainty that a few of the men wouldn't think of approaching her inappropriately again after she'd kicked them in the groin. In addition, after a few days the captain had also declared that she was under his personal protection, who had been more than amused by her defensiveness and had made one or two bad jokes about it. But for now she was really safe thanks to him.

The admiral had personally taken her below deck at the day of the pirates' attack and told her to keep quiet while the pirates took Sam away. She didn't even know what happened, the admiral disappeared so quickly and locked the door behind him. She had desperately searched for a way out of the crew quarters, but there was no escape and all she had left was a window at the back from which she could watch the pirate ship slowly disappearing into the distance with Sam.

"Are you looking out for the pirates again, Misstress?" Elvis' ancestor interrupted her from her thoughts and she spun around to him in shock. "Sorry," he murmured as he stand next to her.

"No, it's okay, Elmar. I was just thinking," she replied, relieved that it was just him. Elmar was no different than his great-grandson. He was just as friendly and sometimes a bit scatterbrained. It was easy to relax in his presence.

"You miss your fiancé a lot, don't you?" he asked her and pulled an apple out of his pocket, which he quickly wiped on his jacket before offering it to her.

"Pretty much, yes," she replied, smiling gratefully as she took the apple from him and watched as Elmar leaned on the railing next to her to look out at sea.

"He's a fine fellow. Completely different from our admiral. Don't tell anyone, but some of the crew were already considering mutinying and letting the admiral go overboard and pretending your fiancé to be him, since they looked so similar " he then confessed to her quietly, chuckling at the idea.

"And what stopped them?" Penny remarked with a smile before biting into the apple. If only the team had done that. Then she wouldn't have to be constantly on guard and, above all, she wouldn't have to endure this agonizing uncertainty about what had happened to Sam.

"Your fiancé's sense of honor. We all suspected that he wouldn't go along with it," Elmar replied with a shrug and she lost her smile.

"You're right, Elmar. He would still jump after the admiral and try to save him. Even now after he had let him down like that," Penny noted thoughtfully. That's just how Sam was.

"You two are good people. You don't belong here," Elmar stated and she listened. Did he see through her? "Are all Scots like that?" Inwardly she breathed a sigh of relief that Elmar had only meant it that way.

"Where I come from, yes. We respect people and look out for each other. Nobody is left behind there," she murmured thoughtfully.

"It's good that I don't plan to do that with you either!" They both jumped and spun around to look at him as the Admiral butted into their conversation. With a brief wave of his hand, he signaled to Elmar that he should disappear and he immediately ran away, while the admiral took his place next to Penny on the railing and looked out at sea. "You will marry me, Penelope. That's the only way to guarantee your protection permanently," he then stated almost casually, but Penny swallowed hard at the turn that life here had in store for her at this time. Nevertheless, anger arose because he presumed to want to decide about her.