The Blood In My Veins | Black Sails (Under Constructions)

Running Out Of Time

Opening the small, creaking door, I made my way inside and jumped on top of the surprisingly soft bed, not caring to take off my clothing first. I listened to the working people outside as I positioned myself on my side, my face facing the wall and I closed my eyes. It didn't take long before I dozed a bit and felt a comfortable warmth warming up my back while strong hands snuck around my aching body, holding me close as I drifted off to real sleep.

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Billy, Flint, Charles and Madi had launched their raid on Mr. Underhill's plantations to liberate its slaves and recruit more men power, while I was left alone in our hideout. It was boring not being with them, but perhaps it was for the best.

I had literally launched myself at Charles when they arrived here again and he had explained what serious business had happened.

During the battle, Flint had killed Mr. Underhill, but was determined to spare his wife and daughter who were later killed by Billy and their hatred grew.

However, there had been another snag.

They had seen a raid coming, so to protect their gains, they had spread the loved-ones of the slaves amongst all the seven bloody plantations on this island. The problem is that all the seven plantations must rebel at once to be able for us to add them.

"We have no choice but to leave the island." An unknown man stated as we were hiding in an old and abandoned house which was located somewhere on the coast of Nassau.

"No one is leaving anything. We came here to take Nassau. We leave once that is done or not at all." Flint calmly made it clear to the Maroon as he stared at the ocean before pointing at me to leave Charles' side and follow his gaze. I did as he asked just because I was curious and saw a man in the distance on a white horse approaching us fast.

"Take Nassau?! With what army? Whatever slaves are still alive on this island will never fight alongside a pirate again. Not after last night." Nobody else had noticed the man arriving except for Flint and I and excused myself before stepping outside to intercept the man.

"Last night...." Madi began and seemed pretty angry towards the man, noticeable because I could hear her outside the little house with a stern tone hearable in her voice. "There were also pirates who fought alongside us. Against terrible odds and at great cost. Billy and his men are our enemies now, but these men are not. And as long as that is true, our alliance with them holds."

My focus was no longer on the conversations inside the old cottage when I saw it was Jayson riding the horse. Laughing, a warm feeling touched my heart and I pulled Jayson off of his horse to embrace him very tightly. He was not surprised and even did exactly the same, but kept the embrace soft to not hurt me while he in the meantime waved at Charles. He had been glaring at us to make sure it was someone that caused no damage to us and when he noticed it was him, he nodded back before switching his attention back to Flint and Madi. Jayson looked down and back into my eyes as he let go of me and a big smile was painted onto his face.

"It's been a pretty damn long time being separated."

"Wasn't long enough." I playfully joked and I could see the face of Jayson change immediately from happy to already annoyed, making me laugh even harder. "You're all here or did you swim on your own?"

"We received your letter so we came as soon as we could, though, it would have been too suspicious to sail right to where you were hiding and.... you changed places like three times so it took a while to figure out where you bastards were this time."

"Got a point there.... I'm happy you made it."

"Anything bad happened?"

"No, not really." Even a moron could hear I was lying, but I didn't want to tell him everything that had happened, that would take too long, and he would probably hear it from other people so I just shrugged and told him I and the rest were currently okay, hoping he would let it go for now.

To my surprise he did and out of a sudden I spotted Flint and Madi walking past us, fully ignoring us as they were completely in their own world.

"You know where you're going?"

"I saw her last employed in the tavern. I'll begin there." I furrowed my eyebrows as I watched the two and so did Jayson.

"I see new people joined the war?" Jayson whispered and I just nodded, trying to understand what the fuck they were talking about.

"We don't need to persuade her to do anything yet. Eventually, we'll need to garner support to help incite Nassau to revolt against the governor, but what we need right now is information. How many soldiers there are, what kind of sympathy exists for our cause."

"I know. Thank you."

"What for?" Flint glared at Madi with a perplexed face expression and Madi just smiled in return.

"Last night. You did not have to side with me. It was costly for you to do so."

"Well, it would have cost far more for me not to have done so." The rest I couldn't hear. The two had walked way too far ahead to eavesdrop on them and I made my way onto the small hill to join the rest. This was going to be a hard chapter in history, but we would succeed.

I was certain of it.

We all were.

The only thing we needed was the perfect timing and more manpower to help us.