Hooks & Hairpins

Hanging By The Hook

The sky grew dark and covered the sunlight from any eyes. The ocean became rough and waves shook and pushed the boat into a hefty rocking. A storm began rolling in from afar. Spits of lightening happened upon the distance. The princess gasped and felt a hand grab at her elbow. Amelia jumped when she saw the demonic grin on Smee's face, he was enjoying her fear. Looking over the sea one last time, she could now no longer see 'The Blue Bird'.

"The captain awaits you, your Highness." The short man laughed and gently guided her across the deck. Faint drops of rain began to kiss at her cheeks and naked shoulders. Her stained dress began to soak the little licks from the sky fall.

As she was led past, many of the criminals and cut throats snickered and leered like hungry beasts. A hand 'accidentally' touched her backside as she went about. She was taken up a fleet of stairs up to the top deck and pushed into the door way where a large mapping room was placed.

They must've been inside the private quarters of the captain. Amelia held her breath as she imagined the ruthless heathen captain with a dirty, grey, scraggly beard and yellow teeth with a peg leg and eyepatch.
Smee tugged her to a door far to the right corner and clashed his knuckles against the wooden door.

Beyond the oak was a deep voice "Enter." The door creaked open and the princess was brutally shoved in with force. It was very ungentlemanly. Smee slammed the door shut, leaving her highness alone...or at least without him by her side. The room was awfully dark except for candles by a red curtained canopy bed and a grand piano, along with another table with papers flooding it over. It was quite an open space that not even the captain of 'The Blue Bird' had. Near the bed was the window glass over the sea ocean. The world had plummeted into darkness and rainy night,

Amelia forgot her own place and became frightened by the movement of a figure by the bed. Her heart pounded against her pale bosom as the figure grew more into a man. This man however wasn't what she'd expected.

His jet black hair was fine and rich, nicely brushed. His orbs dark but gentle with golden flecks and the perfect amount of unshaven stubble on his face to make him seem a bit...dangerous. His presence was dominating by the way he looked at her gawking eyes

His lips seemed thin and soft but not cracked and split. As he came closer, he clearly was a captain by his dress standards of a imperial red coat and black trousers and boots. He was wearing a white blouse and neck ruffle. He could've mistaken her any day for being a captain of her father's Navy. He towered six inches above her own tall frame.

His warm right hand pushed her jaw back up, confusing her until she'd realised her mouth had been open the entire time. Her cheeks rosed as she became humiliated and felt like a cod fish.

A small, knowing smile formed on his mouth. "You were expecting someone else it would seem?" he almost chuckled.

"I assumed you'd be older and with a Hook and peg leg sir." She confessed.

"Well you got one thing right at least." He smirked and held up his left hand...well actually..... He went to his table of maps and papers and sat down to over go some information. He chuckled at her horror. His hand was a hook.

"Welcome aboard 'The Jolly Rodger' your Highness, I am Captain James Hook." He said softly. His voice was like caramel and cream when he spoke to her. It was calming and sweet. But the princess realised her stupidity for falling her girlish desires for a man. How odd? She'd never felt this way to any of her suitors. Not even to her beloved cousin.

She scoffed and smirked herself. She sat herself in a chair in front of his table desk.

"Thank you Captain Hook? Funny name really. I am Princess Amelia of Great Britain, my father is his royal majesty King George the second. I would truly like to say it's a pleasure to meet you, but under the circumstances, well..." Amelia bit back at her capture. She refused to show respect to a filthy man like a pirate no matter how handsome.