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Take a dive

Scar and I crouched behind some crates just off of the port in which Shanks' ship was docked. We glanced over at where Isyla, Killian, and Seamus were crouched behind another set of crates. Finnegan and Charles were waiting just beyond them pretending to be drunks asleep just near the dock on the sand. Finally the distraction began. A fight broke out on the neighboring ship and a crowd began to gather around them in a ring. The two guards we were waiting for decided to get in some betting action. As soon as they were on the other ship we made our move. Finnegan and Charles jumped up from the sand and onto the dock where they bolted up the docking planks to scout ahead. They gave us the all clear signal and Killian's group ran on board. One more whistle and it was our turn. a three note whistle rang out and we sprinted for the ship. We flew up the plank and with Scar on my heels we ran to my storage room. We passed Izzy's group and when we made it to my storage room she gasped. "Woah girl. That's a lot of metal." I smiled. "Yeah but luckily they're all pretty light." I swung open the porthole and peered down to make sure Mack had one of the carts ready. He held a thumbs up and I turned back to Scar. "Okay we're all set. Let's do this." She nodded. We started grabbing each of the bundles and started shucking them through the window. Mack made short work of catching them and tossing them onto the hay filled cart. Applaud erupted from the fight crowd and i glanced out in panic. The guards had decided to be the new fighters. Good, I thought. We tossed the last two bundles out to Mack and then we picked up some of my smithing tools and tossed them out as well. Scar raised a question brow. "These are super rare tools that i took months to build. If you guys want swords, I'll make them, but I can't without these." She smiled and nodded. Finally, I told Scar to meet up with Killian and the others. I had to run to my chambers to grab something. We went our separate ways and I bolted to my room. I grabbed a sack and opened my chest and started stuffing it with clothes and boots. My journal was the last thing to go in on top. I ran over to Isyla's room and did the same. Once I had everything I ran back to the group. They were almost clear. All the barrels had been taken out of the room and rolled down to the other waiting carts. There was only five crates left. Killian hoisted one up and started heading back out. Scar and Izzy lifted one together. Finnegan, a big burly guy with shaggy orange hair picked up one and took it out. Charles came barreling back into the room to grab another crate and slammed into my back. "s**t sorry lassie!" He heaved up one more crate and made out with it. I smiled. It was working. Killian came bounding back in and said "We have a problem. That fight is almost over. Help me with the last one and let's get out of here." I nodded and as we picked up the last one, we heard the unmistakable click of a pistol being c****d. We glanced up to find Rorick in the doorway. "Cal what are you doing? My father is out searching for you himself and I come in here to find you stealing from him?" Disgust rolled over my whole body. I snarled at him "Like you have ANY right to patronize me. You know just as well as I do that all of this, belongs to Isyla and myself. NOT your father. You don't have any right to call me Cal anymore either. You lost that privilege and you know it. So don't come in here pointing that pistol at me when you know damn well that your father tried to have us murdered, and where were you? Having the time of your life with the blonde bar maid." He flinched. "Cal it wasn't what it looked like-" Killian growled his disapproval. "Mate You can't look the woman you were supposedly in love with and about to marry in the eye and tell her that slimy lie. Best own up to what ya did and be an honorable man." Rorick looked like he just registered that I was standing with a man."Who the hell are you?" He swung the pistol to aim at Killian. "KIllian." He said with a smirk. I started slowly reaching for the knife in my boot while Rorick's attention was on Killian. Rorick noticed the movement and swung the pistol back to me. "Cal stop! Whatever this man is making you do I can kill him and this will all be forgiven. Father will welcome you back, we can get married and we will find your sister and be a family again." My stomach knotted. My brows furrowed. "You really think he would take me back?" I said in a small voice. I looked up at Killian. "I'm sorry, I can't help you steal this stuff. It isn't right." Killian looked at me in disbelief. His face a mixture of confused emotions. I slowly went to Rorick's side. He smiled at me and held the gun to Killian again. I slid my arm around his waist and put my other arm on his chest. I smiled sadly at Rory. "I'm sorry. Can you forgive me?" "There's nothing to forgive." Rory leaned in to kiss me with closed eyes. I made my move. I ripped the knife from Rory's belt and slashed across his back. He howled in pain and staggered back to brace himself against the wall. I glowered at him with a fury so hot it burned. "You manipulative son of a b***h. Did you really think I would forgive you? That I would run back into your arms?" I snapped. I stalked towards him. Killian grabbed the last crate and grunted his way out the door. Before leaving he said "Don't be long or I'm coming back for you." I nodded and he left. I glanced back at Rory. I flipped his knife over in my hands. Blood was seeping from his shirt. "I don't ever want to see your face again Rory. This is goodbye." I lifted the knife to stab him when an explosion rocked the ship, I missed and stabbed into his shoulder. He howled. I gritted my teeth and left him. I ran down the hall with the sack bouncing on my back. I slid on deck to see the guards rushing to get back. "s**t!" I mumbled. I whipped back to run up the stairs and to the back of the ship. Killian was waiting with the cart, crates covered with other items. He saw me and Knew what i was going to do. I whipped off the sack and threw it over the side. One of his men caught it and loaded it. I on the other hand was about to dive. I heard a hoarse yell and turned around. Rory was trying to make his way up the stairs. "Cal wait! I'm sorry! Please!" I flipped him the bird and turned back. I jumped head first into the crystal blue water. I dove in with water rolling across my body, bubbles rising to the surface and curved back up. I broke the surface and inhaled. Killian shouted for me and I swam to meet him at the dock. He grabbed my arms and helped me lift myself up. I was soaked from head to toe, dripping on everything. Killian grabbed me be the hips and lifted me onto the cart and then pulled himself up. His man took the reigns and the horses sped off. I looked at Killian and smiled. "Give the signal Captain." He smiled back. "Seamus, Now!" a few seconds passed and screaming began. A few more seconds and a loud explosion rang out. Seamus had trailed the gunpowder from the storage room that Shanks kept all his gunpowder and weapons in. He'd be out of commission for a bit. We made our way to Killian's ship and loaded the crates and barrels along with my swords on board. I was still a soaking wet mess when Killian gave the orders to set sail. He walked over with Scar to where Isyla and I were waiting."Girls, My sister will show you where you will be staying. You'll be right next my quarters and on the other side is hers. We only have one spare room right now so for now you'll have to share." "That's fine, we're used to it." Scar walked over. "We haven't been properly introduced. I'm Scarlet but you can call me Scar. I'm one of Killian's younger sisters. If you need anything I'll be right next door." "I'm Isyla, but you can call me Izzy! Of course you already know Calypso." I smiled slightly shivering."You can call me Cal." She beamed at us. "Let's go get you into something more dry shall we?" She grabbed our hands and pulled us away. In glanced at Killian who was grinning at us. Scar showed us to our quarters and Izzy was excited to see I had grabbed our clothes. I took a towel that Scar offered and started filling the bath. Scar left us to our own devices and when I sank into the tub, Izzy started rubbing shampoo into my hair. "So what happened on the ship?" I sighed. "Rory found me and Killian alone in the storage room and held a pistol to us. So i pretended to forgive him and got close, ripped out his knife and left it in his shoulder after slicing his back. There wasn't enough time so I had to leave." Her fingers stopped moving. "Cal?" "Hmm?" I responded. "You and Killian worked really well together huh?" My eyes slid open to see her grinning at me like a fool. "I guess we did yeah. Why do you have that look on your face?" She beamed at me even more. "No reason." She said. I finished my bath and started drying off. Isyla in turn took her bath and with our hair still damp but the rest of us dry, we moved to explore the ship.