Calypso's Gold

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Lauren's Pov:

After the long walk and the annoying pain in my arm distracting me we reached the boats. I turn my attention towards the pirate that still has a strong grip on the brown haired girl's arm. I can tell that she is frightened, she has the same body language and expression as all the other prisoners we have captured. What surprised me though was that she held her head high and was trying to seem indifferent about the situation she's in. Captain Vane arrives with a few other crew members, "All right, load em up". I walk over to the girl and grab her arm facing off with the scoundrel who was raping the poor girl with his eyes, "I'll take care of this one" I say while glaring at him. He scoffs, "I don thin so lassie. Dis one heer is mine" he smiles showing his missing and rotten teeth. I step closer, "Now I recommend yuh let meh take her for the better of yer health, mate" I say then glance over to Captain while nodding my head towards him, "I'm sure he wouldn' be happy if yuh didn' listen ta meh" I see fear quickly show on his face then change into anger at his loss. He roughly shoves the girl that has been observing our behavior into me and I quickly stable us by grabbing her by the arms. "If I were yuh Id sleep wi one eye open. Capin' can't always save yuh lassie." I don't bother talking back. I hold onto the girl's wrist lightly trying not to strain her anymore than what has happened and lead her to a boat. I let her get in first and notice her ribbon fallout of her hair and into the water. I quickly grab it before anyone notices and shove it into my pocket. I get in and sit next to her. All the other prisoners are tied up to other ones and soon it was time for me to tie up this girls wrists with the long rope. I quickly grab the rope with one hand while softly and gently grabbing both her hands then proceed to tie them up and pass the rope to the pirate with a prisoner behind me. The whole time I can feel the girls eyes on me studying me closely but I avoid eye contact figuring that her eyes would show hate towards me.

After silently gliding through the water towards the ship we all bored it. The sun has started to rise and I watch as the colors start to appear. I glance at the prisoners who are lined up side by side all connected by the wrists with the rope. I look at their faces filled with hopelessness and despair. I notice one particularly young girl who looks to be around five or six. She has brown hair chubby cheeks and big brown eyes. Her age makes me think of how I probably looked the same way when I was captured. I continue to look at the faces till my eyes land on the beautiful face of the girl who I tried to help. She's looking at the sun rise and the sun is shinning magnificently on her face making her eyes an almost transparent brown color mixed with a little gold from the sun. She looks around then her eyes meet mine. My face stone cold and showing nothing while hers shows curiosity mixed with many other expressions. But for some reason her expression doesn't show hatred toward me as I thought it would. She looked a little frightened at my stare but not like she would run away screaming if she had the chance. 'What a strange girl' I think to myself. I feel someone walk up next to me and grab my cut arm and look down to see Ally. She examines my still bleeding arm then looks up at me, "Common then, we need to fix you up before everyone starts the celebration." My heart feels like it falls a little at the mention of it. I think Ally noticed but I know that Ally, Dinah and Normani are the only ones that can read me so it doesn't bother me. After each raid we celebrate by drinking to our hearts desires and choosing a prisoner to do whatever we want to them as long as we don't harm them. But me being Vane's infatuation he has his way with me most of the time or me along with a prisoner. Lately he has picked others instead of me which is a relief. Ally drags me towards the kitchen door and I glance up to see the girl watching our interactions closely.

We reach the kitchen and Ally points over to a barrel and I sit on it. Ally comes back to me with some rum, a needle and rough string. "You're lucky we just raided a town that had proper booze for cuts" she says while handing me the rum then pulling out a bottle filled with clear liquid. She shoves my sleeve up while I start to chug some of the rum knowing the excruciating pain I will feel soon. I watch as Ally pours the liquid onto my arm and instantly scrunch my face up not being able to fight the pain. "Ah! Blasted". Ally looks up at me, "Stop bein' a bebbe Lauren and sit still!" I grit my teeth and take a few more swigs of my rum. After she finishes cleaning it out I feel the needle push through my skin followed by the rough string. I lean my head back onto the wall and close my eyes trying to ignore the annoying pain and pulling on my flesh. I open my eyes and watch Ally grab out her knife and cut the string then tie it. I look down and examine the stitching. The flesh around it looks raw and pink while the stitching is uneven and ugly. I don't complain though because Ally is the best person to go to if you get injured and being one of her trusted ship mates she treats me better. "ALL HANDS ON DECK!" we hear Vane yell and I know it's time for the celebration. Ally and I rush out of the kitchen to the deck and see everyone there while the older prisoners are still tied up are a few feet away from the gathering of pirates. Vane doesn't allow the crew to lay hands on the younger prisoners which I am thankful for. The youngest in the line is usually 13 or so. Vane stands in the space between the prisoners and pirates and starts to give his speech about how the raid went and other things I ignored because the girl who wore the ribbon had a bruise on her cheek that wasn't there before. I block out the noises and examine her face with worry and anger at who hit her. The bruise was a deep purple and quite large. What effected me the most was her face. She no longer had the strength to keep hiding her feelings. Her head hung while she looked sadly at the deck but I could tell she was listening to every word the captain said. And while I was watching her head snapped up in fear at Vane's words, "And to celebrate I give you these lassies for your pleasure!" as I keep my face stoic her panicked eyes land on mine then to another pirate. I follow her gaze and see the bastard who caught her eyeing her up and down. I quickly shove my way through the crowd that is starting to push towards the prisoner they want and walk up to Vane to whisper to him, "Capin, would it be fine if I picked someone out this time?" he pulls his head back in amused shock, "Are ye not pleasured enough by me?" "No, cap, I'z just wanted to try something." He nods his head in approval and I rush off to find the girl. Once I spot her I see the pirate holding her tightly and pushing his body onto her. I quickly knee him in the back and grab her from him. "You'll pay for that ye bitch!" I quickly put the girl behind me and pull out my sword. "I suggest ye back down before you end up in Davy Joan's Locker." I glare at him with my piercing eyes and see him back down angrily. I put my arm behind me and protectively hold her behind me while I back us up to the door that leads to my bedroom while watching the man not taking my eyes off him. Once I get us inside of the hallway and close the door I turn around and push her forward so she'll walk. I stop her in front of my door and open it then push her inside and turn around to lock the door.