Journey to the Unknown

Chapter 5

(Authors note)TW: SA

I'm sorry if this chapter hurts anyone or brings up anything they don't want. You can read this or skip to where the TW is no longer in affect. Thank you for reading and much love to all those who have gone through the ringer and made it out! I'm proud of you. I went through similar so writing this first part is going to be hard. And I'm sorry! Love to all!

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Holy s**t! What in the actually hell!?

"Now lay there girlie! Lay still and be nice and quiet for me!" He climbs on top of my with the knife against my throat. Help! Anyone that can hear me help me. For the love of god.

He's got my arms by my side so I can't move and the knife pricked my skin. "You're gonna lay there and be a good little slut for me. Give me what I deserve!" He tears my night gown in two pieces showing my bear chest. "Ahh very nice little girl!" I recoil and this only makes him drive the knife a little deeper drawing more blood. A whimper escapes my mouth as his hand snakes up and grabs one of breasts.

Just then the door slams open. Jason. "Get off of her! Damnit!" He grabs the man off of me and the look of relief is evident on my face. And adoration. He pummels the culprit and he seems he's going to kill him. "Jason stop you'll kill him!" I yell at him. "He put his dirty hands on you! I'm not stopping!"

~~~~~~~~~~~TW averted: may now resume with regular programming lol~~~~~~~~~~~~

He only stopped when I hugged him from behind. With one last blow to the man he slumps down looking lifeless. If it wasn't for the way his chest was rising and falling I thought he oils be dead. But sadly no. "What is going on down here!?" My fathers voice bellows. "Someone tried to hurt Evelyn!" Jason yells back. "WHAT!!!!!???" My father yells. Possibly waking every member on the ship.

My father walks up to me and grabs my face in his hands. "Are you hurt? Why are you bleeding?" Jason hears this and perks up. "Say what now?" My father points to my neck. "He cut me, but I'm alright. Promise. Shaken but other than that. I'm alright." I'm trying to hide how scared I am. They don't seem to believe me and Jason tries to take me in his embrace. But I flinch away. "I'm sorry, spit fire." He says.

"It's not your fault. I just wanna be left alone right now. And I don't wanna be touched." Yeah. Several different emotions play out in my head. Scared, anxious, nervous, disgusted, and a few others. But Jason looks hurt like he wanted to be the one to comfort me. "I-I- I'm gonna lay down." I stutter out. And Jason nods and walks away. My father stands there, "Do you need anything, anything at all?" I shake my head no.

"Im gonna put a lock on the damned door so no one gets in. Bullshit!" He mutters the last part to himself and walks off. I attempt to get some sleep but nothing comes. A few moments later there's a knock at my door and I stiffen. Thinking it's him again. "Relax, fire. It's just me. Can I come in?" I breathe of breath of relief and let him come in.

"Hi." I say in a small voice. He just smiles at me with sorrow in his eyes. "Im sorry I couldn't protect you. I really am. I should've been here but I wasn't." He's belittling himself, but nothing was his fault. "Jason, you did nothing wrong. It's not your fault. It's okay." He looks up at me, "I just should've watched out for you!" He yelled the last few words which made me flinch. He saw my action and quickly enveloped me in a hug. I flinched again and he cursed himself and let go.

I put my hand on his leg, "Jason, it's okay. I'm fine. Promise. Just one thing." He looks at me with interest, "Yes?" Wonder in his eyes. "Promise you're not going to hurt that man. Just throw him off at our first stop. Don't hurt him." He looks at me for a long minute. "Okay. But, I can't promise anything about your father." I shake my head and smile at this. My father. Something I'd never say because I didn't know about him till recently.

My life has gone up and downhill ever since I got on this ship. What a day and a half.

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As I sit on her make shift bed and look at her, her eyes start to droop and slowly close. She leans on my shoulder and mumbled something I can't quite make out. "Time for bed, spit fire." I tell her She agrees and smiles softly at me. No more fire in her eyes after what went down. I feel so bad for not being there for her. But, I made it when things were about to take a turn.

I go to turn around and leave but she grabs my shirt. "Stay." It's a silent plea, one I'm happy to oblige for her. I stay with her, beside her bed, rubbing her hair as she falls asleep. She looks beautiful and peaceful.

When I know for certain she's asleep, I make my way out of her room and above deck. "How is she?" Jon asked me. "As well as she can be with the events that unfolded in there. She was scared and frightened." I tell him honestly. I'm pretty good at reading people when I get a good look at them, and I know fear when I seen it in her eyes. "Blasted! I can't believe my own crew member did this to her!" He talks as if the culprit is still part of our crew.

"No disrespect Jon. But he is no longer part of our crew. I promised her I wouldn't hurt him and I'm keeping that promise. But I told her I wouldn't be so sure with you. We can either throw him off now or wait till we port at the docks later this evening." It was already early morning when all this went down meaning we were closer to our first destination.

"Aye. We'll drop him off in the hands of the general at the ports tomorrow. For now, get some rest jay. You look like shit." I laughed at him and went below deck to my hammock. I really hope she'll be alright till she wakes up. If not, I'll be there to comfort her. I don't know what it is about this girl that makes me wanna protect her. But I will stop at nothing to see her smile at me in an adoring way again.

And I mean nothing!

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Hope y'all are likin it so far!! More twists and turns are comin!! Just wait and see!!!

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