Voyage • Jim Hawkins x Reader

• Chapter 11 •

Jim and I began to walk through the forest covered planet. I was a little behind him because my legs were still sore from when I fell on the ship and the cut on my left leg didn't help much. The trees in the forest looked more like huge fungi though. Morph came along with us. We were alone together, well pretty much alone, Morph doesn't really count, and it was quiet so I decided I would try talk about Silver.

"Jim?" I asked trying to catch up a little.

He slowed down, "What is it (Y/n)?" he asked.

"I just, I can't believe what Silver did, can you? I thought he actually liked us." I said sighing.

"I'm going to be honest, I don't wanna talk about that now." He said, looking around, not making eye contact.

"Oh um alright." I decided to change the subject, even at the expense of my own dignity, in a sense. "Moving on from that, I am sorry about what I said last night. I know you must have been weirded out, you know I didn't think you'd actually hear me- well I didn't mean for you to hear me. That's why I said it so quietly..." I said awkwardly.

"I thought it was cute" He chuckled slightly. I blushed. How does he make me do that so easily. "I mean, I do like you too" He said rubbing the back of his neck and smiling shyly.

My eyes widened as I turned to face him, "Really?" I said, completely baffled by the thought of him having a crush on me.

"Yeah why wouldn't I?" He asked.

Before I could give him all the reasons he wouldn't, he shushed me.

"What?" I asked.

"Shhh..." He looked around reaching behind his back to grab the gun from his waistband.

I realised why he was hushing me, I heard it too, a noise coming from the bushes. He powered up the gun and we walked toward the bush that the noise was coming from slowly. I trailed quietly, right behind him. We edged closer and closer to the bush when,

"Aghhh!" We all said at once.

A robot looking thing jumped out in front of us, Jim stumbled back, knocking me over in the process. The robot hopped on top of Jim. It was gold but looked slightly broken.

"This is fantastic!" He exclaimed. "Carbon-based life form has come to rescue me, and what's better there's two of you!".

"What is going on?" I asked as I wobbled to my feet.

"Oh I just want to hug you and squeeze you and hold you close to me!" The robot said pulling Jim and I into a tight hug.

"Alright okay. Let go of us you weirdo!" Jim said pushing himself out of the robots arms.

"Oh don't be mean Jim! He seems nice. Sure, a little clingy...but nice." I said trying to pull the robots arms off of me. "Could you please get off of me?" I asked.

"Oh sorry, sorry, sorry." He stepped back slightly. Jim stood beside me and stared at the robot suspiciously. "It's just, i've been marooned for so long" He put on of his arms around Jim's shoulder and the other around mine, "I mean solitude's fun. Don't get me wrong. For heaven's sakes, after a hundred years, YOU GO A LITTLE NUTS!" He laughed.

Jim looked over at me and raised his eyebrow. I mouthed the word 'what?' and he pointed to the robot and motioned that it was crazy.

"We have to give him a chance." I whispered to Jim whilst the robot was messing with Morph.

"Ugh fine." Jim rolled his eyes.

I turned to the robot and cleared my throat, " I'm (Y/n), this is Jim and the little pink guy is Morph. What's your name?" I asked.

"I am...My name is, uh......B.E.N.!! Of course, I'm B.E.N....Bioelectronic Navigator" He flicked the compass that was on his chest but it opened up. "Oops" He said pushing it back in. He grabbed Jim and I's hands and shook them, "It's a pleasure to meet you (Y/n) and Jimmy!".

"It's just Jim." Jim said as he pulled his hand away.

B.E.N. tried to continue, "Anyway-"

"Look we're kind of in a hurry. We gotta find a place to hide and there's pirates chasing us" Jim said taking my hand and trying to walk away. I wouldn't move, I felt bad for this lonely robot.

"Pirates! Don't get me started on pirates!" B.E.N. said walking back over to us. "I don't like them. I remember Captain Flint. This guy had such a temper!".

Oh my gods!! I thought to myself. "I bet you're happy we didn't leave now Jim, huh?" I elbowed him.

"Wait wait wait. You knew Captain Flint?" Jim asked.

"As in THE Captain Flint?" I added.

"I think he suffered from mood swings, personally." B.E.N. said sitting down on a rock. "I'm not a therapist, and anyway but I...You let me know when i'm rambling."

Jim turned to me, eyes wide, "But that means...but wait-"

"He has to know about the treasure." I finished Jim's sentence.

We both looked at the robot for an answer. "Treasure?" he asked.

"Yeah, Flint's trove?" Jim said eagerly. "You know the loot of a thousand worlds?!".

"I still can't believe you knew Captain Flint oh my gods!" I said, pretty much to myself.

"It's well...a little....little...little fuzzy" B.E.N. stood up, and opposite us. He stopped for a minute, "Wait. I-I remember. Treasure! Lots of treasure buried in the centroid...c-centroid...centroid of the mechanism." He looked like he was malfunctioning. "And then there was this big door opening and closing, and opening and closing" he said as weird images of a triangle looking doors appeared on his eyes. "Captain Flint wanted to make sure nobody could ever get to his treasure so I helped him." The wires still the back of his head that were popping out began to buzz and electric energy was coming out of them. "Agh! Data inaccessible! Reboot!" He kept repeating himself. He was completely short circuiting.

"B.E.N.?! B.E.N.!" Jim slapped the robot across the face.

B.E.N. stopped for a moment then looked up at Jim and I, "And you are?"

"Wait no! What about the treasure B.E.N.?" I pleaded.

"I want to say Larry and Betty." He said looking at us, confused.