A Pirate"s Destiny

He was an ass but I fell in love

Ruby

It was late at night as I stood on the Deck watching the dark ocean waves reflecting the moon. The ship softly rocked from side to side, it was an extremely warm night, I could feel the storm on the horizon which was causing me not to sleep. Suddenly two large muscled arms slipped around my small waist, sighing I lean back against the six foot man. He had long black hair pulled back into a loose ponytail at the base of his neck. He had hazel eyes that were shadowed, he had a handsome face but he also had a scar over his right eye. His skin was paler than my own, I found him in the North men's territory. He was all muscle, and his sword hung on his left hip. Gently he leans down and kisses my forehead. "What is on your mind, Lil Red?" he asks softly. He could feel me stiffen and chuckles knowing I hate being called little. Turning around in his arms i look up at the him considering my words carefully.... "I feel a storm is coming... and I feel uneasy Garet." i confide in him as I run my hands up his across his abs, I marvel at how hard his body is. I feel him slip a finger under my chin so i can look up at him, he could see my green eyes were troubled. Gently he kisses my lips, his need for me is growing stronger i realize. "We will face it together." He tries to reassure me suddenly as he picked me up, and this time I didn't fight him so he continued to carry her downstairs to the captains cabin.

Originally I only agreed to take Garet on because he was a good swords man and he was tired of the cold the Heathens constantly endured. He was an ass when we first met, but after he realized Captain Red was not a woman to cross he started to fall in love with my sassy mouth, and the fact I was not afraid of their Clan Leader. I never backed down when Clive tried to make me bow to him. In Fact i decided to make it fun and simply challenged him to hand to hand combat if he wanted me to bow down to him he would have to win. It took less then ten minutes and Clive was bowing to down to me. The d**k dished out several hard blows but i was taught to give what I received. One moment i felt myself stumbling backwards the next i found a way to snake my way around and up Clive's body till my legs were wrapped around his neck. He crashed down to the ground and before the snow settled I was standing over Clive waking him up. From then on all the Heathens were ready to do the trades, Garet was then given the job to be my body guard. When I was ready to leave he simply asked permission from both myself and his clan leader if he could come along with me. He promised Clive he would always protect me no matter where I go which I did not understand then. Clive hated to see his brother leave but after I agreed to take the Garet, Clive decided my mouth could get me in trouble it would probably be best to send a body guard along. So Garet started his new life as a pirate.

We were in the middle of a plundering of another ship when Garet sees the other Pirate captain trying to shoot at me. Before I knew what was going on Garet took the bullet and used his sword just a half moment later to kill the captain. As I watched him start to go down I called out to Garet before calling a halt to the fighting, racing to his side I could see he was hit in the chest i yelled for our doctor, then turned and faced the pirates that were both my own and those of the others ships. I gave them one option submit now or die. I honestly didn't care which they chose, the former first mate of the ship a pirate by the name of Brian stepped forward and pledged his life to me. After he made his approach the rest followed suit, they all had seen how blood thirsty their new Queen had been, and knew from my reputation that once you were pledged to me the only way out was to die. On this day none wanted that, their own Captain had been a cruel man but he never offered to allow them to advance or go to other ships. I immediately started working on the first mate he was to be Captain, some of my men would stay and help them recover from their loses and I appointed he brother Cole to bring them to the southern islands to train them in their ways. I noticed a few boys who couldn't even hold a sword and I refuse to have cowards for pirates. Everyone must be able to defend themselves I thought as I ordered the crews to clean up and sort the wounded. Once all was squared away and Cole and the ship the Tss was on its way to the south. I then allowed myself to go check on Garet.

He was bandaged and sleeping, the bullet hadn't caused too much damage. I was thankful the former captain was an i***t, I sat beside the sleeping man for awhile, as I listened to the reports of the wounded and those who had been killed. We lost four good men and planned to honor them. I also knew it was time to head home too so I could tell their families. Like the queen before me,, I would personally met with all the families when tragedy hit, also she preferred her people to know the true her, no one who served under her did not wonder if she cared or not. In fact she always did her best to bring her people home as healthy as she could. But now and then fights caused deaths and each one taught me I must be strong for all of my people. As I was about to leave and let the doctor do what he needed to Garet woke up.

"Hi short stack!" Turning quickly I laughed at Garet's goofy grin, "do you want punishing Sir?" "Only if its you punishing me love, I would love that short stack..." Rolling my eyes, I whispered a soft thank you as I looked into Gare'ts eyes. He smiled softly and told me he would do it again any time, though i prayed he never would have to. He asked the doctor if he could leave, and the man nodded as he went back to his other patients. "Do i have permission to follow you my queen.?" "Only if you knock off the nicknames," I told him as we went up towards the captains cabin."No Promises......short stack."

Within a month I allowed Garet to become my husband. I knew it was a gamble but he had no want for power so I knew he wouldn't take my place as captain nor try to take my Position over the ocean and seas. I looked up from the captains log when I heard a creek on the thresh hold. I could see Garet just standing there with a small smile. He was watching me and had been for quite some time, I had been so engrossed he had been able to observer certain small habits until he accidentally made a board creek he saw me look up. I had a small smudge of ink on my right cheek, I was tired and a bit uncertain as I stared up into his eyes they were a happy bluish green at the moment. My full lips were in a small frown but I allowed myself to stretch for a moment. Then suddenly Garet was beside me, I had been couped up in the cabin a lot since the deaths doing logs and reports for her files. I expected this for every Captain, so I did my best to continue showing good habits. Garet pulled me in his arms, he was tired of me not being where he felt I belonged. He felt I needed sunlight, in his opinion I was looking a tad bit paler, carefully he carried me to the deck. After a few months of this strange action most of the pirates just expected it from him now. They all knew if I didn't want him too he would not. I had made that clear after the first time. Today I did not mind. I stood on the deck after Garet set me down, but he kept his arms firmly around my waist. His body against my own felt good and he didn't give a s**t who saw him he wanted me safe always; and now that was I with child he had told me there was no way he was going to allow me to be in the open with out him being close enough to protect us. I have not told anyone other than Garet of the pregnancy, I knew I would be staying in the south for awhile but it was no use to worry my pirates.