Calypso's Gold

4

Lauren's Pov:

Waking up was hard. All I wanted to do was slip back into the painless sleep. However, ironically it was the pain that woke me up. I tried to move my arm that fell asleep but the pain from the hot healing tight skin caused me to flinch and let out a groan. I  freeze when I hear a mumble and movement from my bed. I had forgotten about the girl. Camila. I turn my head and come face to face with the sleeping brunet. Studying her face I notice her small but delicate looking lips, her dainty nose, her long and dark eyelashes and her little mole at her hairline on her forehead. I look and see that the bruise is still on her face but is already turning green. The girl starts to shift in bed and I watch helplessly as she moves her arm onto my back. "GAHH!" I yell trying not to scream, "Fokin shit!". "OH MY GOD! I'm so sorry!" Camila yells moving her arm as fast as possible and jumping out of bed, "Sorry, sorry, sorry! I didn't mean to. It was an accident!". After the stinging stops I manage to turn my head to look at her and watch as she walks around in circles while she keeps apologizing.  I watch in amusement as she keeps going on and on about how it was an accident and that she didn't mean to. "Ey" I say trying to get her attention, "Ello?" I ask as she keeps pacing. "Camila!" Camila stops and looks at me worried. "Its' alright. Nuh harm don. Now stop worrin' and walkin 'round." "I'm so sorry Lauren I didn't mean to hurt you" Camila says as she looks at me with sincere eyes. The shirt I had given her had fallen over her shoulder and her hair was messy from sleep. "S'alright lass. Don' worry 'bout it." Camila sighs and walks nervously toward the bed. She sits on the edge next to my side and looks down at my back.

I close my eyes in shame and turn my head away from her. "What happened? Why did they do this to you?" she asks, "It's what I deserve fa disobeyin' orders" I reply while steadying my breath. The way her voice sounded so concerned and nurturing scared me. It put me on edge because I don't remember the last time someone had spoken to me that way. "That's not right. They shouldn't do that to you." Camila says with disgust. "Yah don even know what they wanted of meh" I say while turning my head back over to look at the young girl, "For all ya know they coulda told meh ta do somethin that would save lives". Camila looks at me staring hard, right into my sole. She instantly answers, "I don't think you did anything wrong. I think you said you didn't want to do something that would be hurtful to someone or something" I couldn't help the scoff that came from my mouth. "Ya don even know meh lassie...don get any ideas tha I'm a good person cause I'm not. I've killed, pillaged, tortured an many other things good people don do". I watch as Camila shifts uncomfortably while she thinks. Her brow frowned and her nose scrunched, "But you tried to save me from being taken from my home" she says while raising  her eyebrows daring me to deny the fact. "Aye...I did. It was for me good deed of da year. A pirate needs ta do at least one thing decent" I say while looking over to the door, "But, yah failed at keepin hidden an now look at da mess you're in." I look back at Camila and see that she's embarrassed. A light pink tint has shown up on her cheeks. She looks down at her hands playing with her fingers, "Yea...that was really dumb of me. I still can't believe that this is happening, it feels like a dream that I can't wake up from." "Dis ain't even da bad part I'm afraid ta say. Soon I'll have ta put ya in da brigs with da rest". I watch as she slowly turns her head to meet my eyes. I can see the emotion as clear as day in her dark brown pools. "I mean I guess I understand why you have to. I don't want you to get in trouble again. Would you tell me why you got punished?" "S'nothin important. Capin' was wantin somethin an I didn wanna do it" I close my eyes and take a deep breath flinching at the tight tug of the raw skin. Camila must have noticed my flinch because she cautiously put her hand on my upper arm, "Is it okay if I do this?" she asks as she starts to trail her fingers lightly over my skin, "I just hate seeing people in pain. Whenever I feel bad my m-...my mom strokes...well she stroked my back like this and I loved the feeling" she takes a deep shaky breath but caries on, "I guess your arm will do since your back is occupied." Camila lets out a sad laugh. "It's fine" I say not really knowing what to say other than that. The strokes of her fingers feel so good that I end up drifting off to sleep. 

Camila's Pov:

I watch as Lauren's back steadily rises and falls with her breathing. With her asleep I get more courage to move my hand up her arm along the scar on her neck to her thick head of brown hair. The hair that is so perfectly messy and full. I can't quite comprehend why a girl like her would be a pirate, it doesn't make since to me. I look back at the wounds covering her whole back and wish that Lauren had never been whipped. I don't understand why I feel so strongly about this pirate but the cautious part of me just doesn't care anymore. I should be running out the door and planning an escape but here I am sitting by a defenseless pirate not running or planning but playing with her hair. The way she talks with her stoic face does make me nervous because I don't know what she's thinking. She's a dangerous pirate who can kill so easily but judging by her actions so far, she would not hurt me if she can avoid it. 

A few minutes later the door flies open. I jump startled and see the pirate that took me along with others standing in the doorway. The pirate that took me marches forward and grabs me on the arm forcing me to stand up, "Ello beauty", I flinch away from the closeness of his face, "Ya fun time is ova now lass. Time ta go to da brigs till we ave anotha party." He winks then forces his mouth onto mine holding my neck so I can't move my face. "Ey!" The pirate stops forcing himself on me. I relax a bit at the sound of Lauren's voice. , "Stop bein an ass Bruce an just take da girl." My heart falls instantly at her words. Bruce finally looks at Lauren and laughs "Looks like ya doin great Jauregui! Best ya can make it t'marra for da next party. Heard Vane wants ya lots afta he whipped ya!" I look back and forth between the two pirates not quite understanding, "Capin wants wha he wanted yesterday" Bruce winks at Lauren and slaps her on the back. I gasp as I watch helplessly. However to my relief and shock Lauren didn't make a sound. I could only see a slight flinch at her pain. "Aight Bruce you've had you're fun. Let's get this lass into the brigs with the rest of em." one of the pirates in the doorway says with a thick British accent. Bruce grabs my arm and pulls me away from the familiar room and out onto the deck. 

My eyes squint from the brightness of the sun. I see pirates everywhere working on the ship doing different things. As I look out to the ocean I see nothing but water. I start to panic at the sight. The realization that this is actually happening is quickly setting in and the horror is hitting hard. But just as quickly as I was outside I was getting shoved into the bottom of the ship. The smell hits me like a brick. I gag and try to cover my nose and mouth with my arm. The smell of urine, old ocean water, and other unidentifiable odors easily leak through and makes my eyes water. Bruce laughs at my struggle and shoves me down the steep wooden stairs. I fall fast and hard down them landing at the bottom in a sickening layer or questionable liquid. My clothes are now covered in the awful smell and my body aches from the fall. Bruce ruffly grabs my arm lifting me up and shoves me forward. I look around and see women and children in the small cells with hardly any room to move. The pirate walks me down past most of the cells and stops in front of one that has a little less people in it. He pushes me up against the metal cell and puts his body on mine and thrusts his hips on me a few times. I struggle to get free but he's too strong. I can feel his hard member against me and shut my eyes desperately wanting to be anywhere else. Bruce roughly pulls my hair to the side causing my head to move and bights my exposed neck hard. He laughs sickeningly while he opens the cell up and shoves me in it. One of the older women catches me so I wont fall as I cry into her arms shaking and feeling violated and disgusting. 

I close my eyes, 'Please don't let this horrible ordeal be like that everyday'.

Hello! Happy late holidays! I updated! Woo! 

Sorry about the long ass wait. College is hard and keeps you busy. It's not long but it's something :)The comments are hilarious and one of the reasons I wrote this chapter haha Hopefully I can update again soon! 

Have a good day!! :)