Gallows

[CrystalSmith]

Raven looks at him, coughing slightly, she lowers her head flinching when she sees the knife, "Yes, I'll behave." She murmurs quietly, letting a tear fall. She lets out a sigh if relief as he cuts the rope. She hesitates, stands slowly, holding onto the pole for support, not wanting to stumble. She looks at him and bows her head slowly before lifting it again and looking at him. She rubs her wrists that were red from the rope. She touches her wounded arm and flinches again.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"We didn't want to hurt you, you know." He says, raising his eyebrows and crossing his arms across his chest. "You just gave us no choice. Now follow me." He says, gesturing for her to follow him, he leads her into the engine room, letting her look at the equipment, and he keeps a close eye on her, before harshly saying, "don't touch anything." He didn't want her messing up his stuff. He pushes his hair out of his eyes before walking over to the large window and looking out of it, he grabs a small golden telescope and looks through it, watching the world go by. He puts it down and looks at Raven. "You look tired. And hungry. Do you want to sleep first, or eat first?" He asks her. He was trying to be his usual self, though he was still on guard.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Raven nods and follows him, "Well you did take me from my home. I get homesick awful easy." She comments quietly, looking around. She looks around and sighs, she holds her hands up, gesturing to him that she understood. She looks at him, her whole body on edge, "I'm fine, I slept a bit before and I don't want you food." She says trying to be as nice as possible. She looks down at her clothes touching the ring on her finger.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"You'll have to eat eventually," he says, shrugging his shoulders and raising his eyebrows. "You should at least get changed, those clothes look so uncomfortable, and not to mention slightly ridiculous. You stick out like a sore thumb, kid." He says, before walking over to the control panel, and pressing a button. He speaks into a microphone, requesting clothes, then moves away from the panel. He leans against a wall and looks down at his feet before looking at Raven. A lady with broad shoulders and messy hair walks into the room carrying a sack of clothes. She thrusts it into Ravens hands with disgust before looking at Gio and smiling. "Captain, Cook said t' tell ya that food is ready." She says before smoothing out her dress and walking from the room.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Raven looks at him, "I like these clothes." She mutters looking at the woman that came in. She sighs as the woman gave her a dirty look. She looks at the clothes in the back, resisting the urge to scrunch her nose up at them. She sighs slowly, "They all hate me." She murmurs quietly looking him and then away again.

 

[CrystalSmith]

(Got to go, need to sleep, got school in the morning.)

 

[buildingaspaceship]

((Okay, same, woo for the same British time zones xD goodnight))

 

[CrystalSmith]

((Morning xD ))

 

[buildingaspaceship]

((Oh my god I want to go back to sleep .-.))


"Yeah, they'll hate you for a while." He agrees, putting his hands on his hips and shrugging his shoulders, "But what do you expect, your father is a royal ass to us." His mouth is in a straight line and he looks out of the window again. "Get changed, and then meet me downstairs, you need to eat." He says, before heading outside of the engine room and down a small flight of stairs, into the food deck. People were already sat around, most grumbling about being awake and holding their heads, hangovers. Gio grinned and slammed his gun on the table next to some people. "GOOD MORNING." He yelled, causing a few of the awake people to grumble back at him.

 

[CrystalSmith]

((Aha, me too.. ^-^))


Raven narrows her eyes, "Well I'm royal to and if you couldn't see you thought as scum by my people." She says, she hated how they insulted her. She looks at the clothes and mumbles to herself, she looks at the clothes and changes into one of the duller, more comfy dresses, she takes off her tiara and lets the rest of her hair fall loose. She kept her boots on before heading down towards the food deck. She walks down the flight of stairs slowly, looking down at everyone. She looks at the Captain and sighs. She stands at the bottom of the stairs and looks around, she was indeed feeling hungry but she didn't want to eat, she didn't even feel like sleeping, she just wanted to leave.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

The food hall was much quieter than usual, but as the usual breakfast of meat and bread was placed in front of each person, people began to look a lot happier. The cook, a jolly fat man who had a grin on his face the size of their legendary sail, walked over to the princess and clapped her on the back before thrusting the plate into her hands. "Welcome to the Dreaming Raider, miss," He smiles, before walking away and handing a plate to Gio, who grinned down at his food happily. The conversation became slowly louder, laughter and joy spreading through the deck as Gio began to dig into his plate. He enjoyed his food on the ship immensely, and he was fortunate enough to have snagged the best cook he could find. And he told a good joke too, he always made the men laugh when they weren't feeling so up to their tasks.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Raven flinches and grabs the plate, as it's thrust into her hands, "Thank you." She says quietly, sitting down in a random seat. She looks down at the food, eating it slowly. She couldn't help glance at the Captain. She sighs and looks down, she felt physically sick, the hungry and anger really getting to her now. She hated that they could be so happy, the laughter, she didn't like it. She felt so sad and in a way homesick. She wanted to go home.


After finishing her meal, she sits in silence, staring into space.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

The crew finish their meals almost as soon as they started them, eating like animals being fed in a zoo, some even stole food off other peoples plate. It was hectic, to say the least. Gio was digging in to his last piece of meat, and pushed his plate away from him, when he stood. He looked around the room, people were yelling and throwing food at each other, some already had ale in hand. He looked over at Raven, then around again, before jumping up onto the table with a loud bang, his boots shining in the candlelight and his gun strapped to his waist. The room went silent.


"Pirates!" He yells, as if he didn't already have the rooms attention. "Last night we set off on a quest to find a treasure," he says seriously, then uses his gun to point at Raven, "and we got it."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Raven looks at him, her eyes narrowing, "I'm not some treasure to be tossed around." She says loudly, staring at the men and women, "You all hate me, that much I see but I ask your Captain one thing, why am I here? Why am I even of use to you?" She says standing, she had built up some courage, this much was obvious. She stares at the Captain, her eyes giving a cold stare.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

He grins widely, lowering his gun though it was still in his hand. "You want to know why you're here? Are you so dumb as to not know the affairs of the castle? Does your father not tell you anything?" He asks, walking down the long table and kicking some of the plates out of the way and the ales over. "You're here because you're revenge, for what your father did to me, to us," He says, the room still silent, he had reached the end of the table now, and was now looking down at Raven directly, he kneels so that he was face to face with her, finishing his sentence, "to pirates." A few people begin banging on the tables loudly, the idea of revenge in their name an exciting topic.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Raven looks away, she could guess now, this not being hidden from her face, it drops. Her father had told her about the captain's sister and how they took her, she looks at the floor, "I was not part of that, Giovanni, but neither could I stop them," she says quietly staring at him. She knew it was wrong what her father did, but she couldn't make it right, after his sister was taken Raven was banned from going to the dungeons, her father afraid that she'd help the pirate girl. Raven looks at the floor and sighs, "So, you're going to keep me here, do you not even want to know if she's alive or does that not matter to you." She says quietly, thinking for a moment, she pauses, her face full of sadness, "Don't punish me for want my father did because I'm nothing like him." She says quietly to Gio, looking around slowly at the others.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"Why would I need you to tell me if she's alive or not?" He says slowly, moving back from her face and walking back down the table, "I have people working on finding that out as we speak. And as for you being here, no, girly. Im not punishing you." He laughs a little and stops walking. "I'm punishing your father." He smiles before turning and looking at her from the end of the table. "I want him to feel the grief I felt when he knows that you are gone, I want him to feel desperate, like he'd do anything to get you back, including take your place. I want him to experience what we felt, when he took one of us, the anger, the ache where you know that there is nothing you can do because you'll be slaughtered on sight." He says. "Your father targeted the wrong ship. And he is going to regret that."

 

[CrystalSmith]

Raven sighs, "You do realise he won't really be bothered, sure he'll lose his heir to the throne but I'm easily replaced, that's how it's always been. The throne means more to him than me, all I've had my whole life is, Princess walk with your back straight, always be presentable." She says mimicking what everyone said to her, she wanted to vent about her life now, "I mean, you lot, never once had to attend a ball in hope to find a husband or wife, right? And you've never been expected to marry anyone, someone that you don't even know. Yes my father made a mistake but your pirates, you can't even claim that you've not done anything bad. You travel the sky, taking what you want, when you want it. You don't have standards, you run things the way you want to run thing." She rants standing up, and turning, climbing the stairs and heading the the deck she woke up on. She sits and leans against the same pole, she stares into the sky.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

When she left the room, Gio stood on the table as the others roared into life, slamming their fists on the table. They were a rowdy bunch, he had to admit, though they all knew how to listen when he demanded it. He didn't need them to listen now, as he jumped down from the table, his boots clapping with the hard wood of the deck, and stormed upstairs to see her. He walks over to her and grabs her arm tightly, pulling her closer to him and leaning his face close to hers. "She was a child!" He yells at her, "she was thirteen years old!" A memory of her flashes in front of his eyes and he sees her smiling face. Suddenly letting go of Raven, in shock, the memory fades, and anger washes over him again. "She never did anything wrong, she never hurt anyone! If your father wanted a pirate he should have taken me!" He had spent months of his life wishing it had been him and not her, there would have been more of a fighting chance to escape if that had been the case.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Raven flinches as he grabs her arm, she looks at him, not wanting to cry. "I get that, Giovanni! I do, but I couldn't do anything about it, okay. I wasn't allowed anywhere near where she was being held. I knew her once upon a time, she was a friend, back when I wasn't just locked up in the castle, when my mother took my out and we explored, when I was just a child." She yells back at him, she doubted that he knew that she knew his sister, it was a very long time ago, "And if you didn't know, my mother was taken by pirates, maybe not you but pirates none the less." She screams, turning away from him. She hated bringing up the past, she hated remembering. She sits back down and sighs.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"Good." He says bluntly, "But I don't see why that justifies him taking her. If she's dead," he says, pointing at her and narrowing her eyes, "then you're going to hell. All of you. This fucking royal family will die." He turns swiftly and walks from the deck, up to the engine room, and sits in front of the large window. He takes the pocket watch off, and holds it in the palm of his hand tightly, before opening it. Aside from the watch in there, that had long since stopped telling the time, a picture of his family. It wasn't like pirates to be so sentimental, usually you avenged their deaths and they lived on in your heart. But as he traced his finger over the picture, and closed his eyes, putting his head in his hands, he felt guilty once again.


She had been taken on a trip to the town. He was supposed to be watching her but he'd been distracted showing off a sword in a fight, too distracted to hear her call for help on time. It was his fault, and no one could tell him otherwise.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Raven sighs, the problem was she didn't know whether the girl was alive or not, that was something her father remained a secret, "And what, you take the throne from them?! Then kill me now because she's more than likely dead." She says to him sadly as he walks away, of course she didn't know if it was true or not. She lets tears fall, sighing again. She wipes her cheeks and sighs.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

He spent hours sat in the engine room, occasionally making changes to the course that they were going, and every so often glancing out of the window, but he didn't put the ship into auto until late afternoon. As he walked outside and felt the warm sunlight on his back, he twirled his gun between his fingers and whistled, walking over to a few people playing some board game on the wooden deck. Bored, and feeling very unlike himself, he walked over to the game and kicked the pieces away from the board, smirking at their angered faces. "We're being too soft. We're pirates, why aren't we stealing things?" He questions them, slamming his palms on the table with a large grin on his face.

 

[CrystalSmith]

Raven sat in the same place, not moving, not saying anything. She says just staring at the sky, she watched the sun change places, move across the sky. She mumble to herself a few times, mostly complaining. She stands suddenly, heading over to the edge of the ship. She looks over the edge at everything below them, not knowing what she was doing.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Totally distracted for around five minutes with the talk of stealing and coin, Gio didn't remember the girl that they had stolen the day before. But now, after a moment, he looked up and saw her standing at the edge of the ship. He remembers the anger that he felt this morning, and slowly leaves the conversation and walks over to Raven. He sneaks behind her, then suddenly puts his hands on her shoulders to make her jump, a grin spreading on his face.