Fisherman's Luck (Wolvenrogue and Avandris)

[wolvenrogue]

Born and raised in middle-income family in the suburbs. Often troubled with fitting in due to her introverted personality and overly cautious tendencies, she made few friends and often worried that her existence was of even less consequence than that of an annual flower. After graduating high school, things did not get much better for her as her family was generally lacking in support due to financial troubles after her father was laid off from his job. On the way back home from work after the late afternoon shift she could feel a presence behind her, but at the moment she thought she was just being paranoid... As soon as she turned the corner toward her house she discovered how wrong she had been to lower her guard.

Her mouth was covered, and then she was blindfolded, and tied, then thrown in the trunk of a car, She couldn't know, she had just been kidnapped into the Chinese prostitution trade, and would soon be on a boat headed for China and Taiwan.

As the boat stopped for supplies she saw her chance for escape, and slipping away as the drunk crew slept. not knowing where she was, and needing a safe place to sleep, she slipped into the hold of a fishing vessel and curled up to sleep. She woke the next morning to the sounds of diesel engines starting.

For Bob Mackie it was just the first day of another 2 month fishing trip. He had loaded the boat the night before, and had her rigged and ready to go. He was up early and off to the dock.
He climbed aboard the boat and started her twin diesels, letting them warm up. Little did he know he had more than just cargo aboard. He cast off lines and headed out to sea.

 

[Avandris]

A young woman lay curled upon empty sacking, concealed behind a number of crates and boxes of supplies. Huddled into as tight a foetal position as was possible, the girl had drawn her knees up to her chest and wrapped arms about them. The position looked entirely too uncomfortable to allow sleep, but clearly the girl needed the rest far more than she needed the comfort.

Flame red hair tumbled about her shoulders and back, partially concealing the pale freckled face of the slumbering female. Her slender arms and feet were bare (clothing lost in her abduction and transport), wrists raw from where they had been bound, delicate fingers curled tightly against her palms into firm little fists, and smooth brow furrowed deeply as she slept. The clothing that remained upon her slim frame were a pair of worn jeans and two, yes two, tank tops one on top of the other - the first white and the second a soft pink, though it was rather grubby now considering all that had happened. Call centre work hardly had a dress code.

Suddenly the girl's eyes snapped open, startling emerald green irises revealed to the world and she pushed herself upright hurriedly. What was that noise? That vibrating? She glanced around hurriedly before scrambling to her feet rapidly only to topple back down onto the sacking as her vision swirled and the floor tilted with the movement of the boat.

Resorting to crawling on her hands and knees, Elyse made her way out from behind the crates, peeking toward the stairs that led up above decks. She bit down upon her lower lip and ducked back, setting her back against the crate and drawing her knees back up to her chest, trying to summon the courage to venture outside.

 

[wolvenrogue]

Bob looked out over the azure blue water of the bay, as the powerful twin diesels churned the water behind the boat and drove it relentlessly out to sea. He loved the first day of a fishing trip it would be almost 2 months before he sought land again, but after two weeks of home he was more than ready. The water again. His bronzed body was dressed as it usually was in only a pair of cut off Levi's. In the warm weather of the South Pacific, there was little need of any other clothing once one skin had become accustomed to the bright sun, which it happened long ago in his case. The hard work of fishing had toned his 6 foot, 170 pound frame, and the muscles rippled on his shoulders and torso. His Sandy hair topped the chiseled features of his face, and he looked at the world through piercing blue eyes.

After running for nearly an hour, and consuming almost $400 worth of diesel, Bob slowed the engines to and idle, and went below to get his fishing gear as he opened the hatch, the bright light fell on the tiny woman huddled against the crate just inside. "What are you doing here?" He asked. "Come up out of there", he said. He took her by the hand, and pulled her out into the bright sun. "You do realize that you will be here now for two months, there's no way for me to get you back to shore."

 

[Avandris]

Elyse's eyes scrunched shut as light suddenly poured down through the hatch, illuminating the hold and revealing her hiding place. She had no desire to come out of there, in fact she shuffled further away from the man or at least would have done had her hand not been seized and her slender form was pulled out onto the deck. Twisting sharply, the girl tried to tug her hand free of his grasp, crying out in discomfort as his fingers rubbed against her raw wrist. "Let go! Let go of me!!"

She stumbled backward, having somehow wrenched herself free, edging further and further away from the stranger. Only when she was satisfied that she was a safe distance away did she sweep her surroundings with an uneasy glance and upon finding nothing but sea returned her gaze to the sandy haired man, careful to back away should he advance.

 

[wolvenrogue]

Bob was half amused, and half annoyed at the young woman's presence. He hadn't been teasing her, she in fact had nowhere to go, and even if he had wanted to there was no way that he could afford the diesel fuel it would take to return her to shore, and in the seas no patrol boats of any kind operated, and rarely did he see other vessels. By stowing away, she had in essence trapped herself with him for the next two months. Fortunately he had plenty of food and supplies to feed her along with himself. Bob never went to sea without much more than he needed. One never knew what kind of surprises might be encountered in these waters. This however, was far beyond anything he had expected.

"There is no point in running", he said. "There's nowhere to run to. You are 65 miles from the nearest island, and these waters are filled with sharks. I doubt you would last an hour if you tried to swim. My name is Bob, and I hope we can be friends, because if not, this will be a miserable stripped for the both of us." He leaned against the pilothouse and crossed his arms across his chest, and waited to see what the young woman would do. He had nothing to fear from her as he was easily twice her size. He hoped that she could see that he did not have bad intentions for her, and would calm down and talk to him.

 

[Avandris]

Elyse could see that what he was saying was the truth, there was no where to go, no where to run to. Wrapping both slender arms about her body as she now took a moment to take in the man in front of her. He was much taller and stronger than her, neither of which comforted the girl in the least. A small shiver travelled down her spine despite the warmth of the sun, eyeing the horizon again as if to double check that there was indeed no land in sight. Trapped, trapped again.

Slinding down onto the dock, she hugged her knees to her chest, glancing about herself uncertainty. What was she to do now? Biting down upon her lower lip, she leant her forehead against her knees, huddled there on the deck.

 

[wolvenrogue]

Bob watched her but only for a moment. "Well ma'am you have stowed away on an active fishing vessel and I have work to do the do your best to stay out of the way please." Bob went below and started bringing up fishing tackle and laying it out on the deck. He knew the routine well and his hand was practiced letting out the long line he started attaching books and baiting them one by one hundreds of them is a ran over roller off the Stern. Once the 500th book hit the water he threw a large float overboard marking his line. And punched the button on the GPS recording the position. Turning to the young woman still cuddled on the deck he said "you look hungry and I'm guessing you'd like a shower. I'd be happy to offer you both, but you're going to have to trust me. In point of fact you don't have much choice. There is no one else around, and without me you're going to die out here. As I said before this can be a very long voyage if we can't be friends." He left her and turned to go down to the galley and put a pot of coffee he hadn't had time to get a cup before he left. He took out some bacon sliced it and started cooking it. It wasn't long before it's delicious smell worked its way up out of the galley and onto the deck. He stuck his head up and asked" are you sure you're not hungry?"

 

[Avandris]

She stayed where she was the entire time he set up his line, though she raised her head to watch after some time had passed, watching the rhythm of the fisherman baiting each hook before casting it out along the line. Her stomach growled at the very mention of food, Elyse tightening her grip upon her knees as the stranger told her yet again that she had little choice but to trust him. As he disappeared from sight, she eyed the galley entrance, soon enough drawing in deep lungfuls of the appetising aroma of bacon.

"I...I am a little..." She replied quietly and finally uncurled her arms from about her knees, carefully unfolding herself and rising to her feet. Elyse approached cautiously, watching Bob warily as she approached him. Just out with arms reach, she paused, her shorter slimmer stature dwarfed by his. There she stood, silently, until he moved to provide her entrance before making her way back down into the boat.

 

[wolvenrogue]

"I'm glad you changed your mind. I wouldn't want you getting sick on me, and we have plenty of food." Bob cracked six eggs into a skillet, add a little milk and scrambled them up into a nice fluffy bundle. He put three pieces of bacon and a large scoop of eggs onto a plate, and handed it to her with a fork. "Sit down and eat" he said as he handed her a steaming cup of coffee and then filled his own plate before sitting down across the table from her. "As I said before my name is Bob would you mind sharing yours. I'd rather not call you " hey you" for the next two months." Bob it is breakfast and waited patiently for her to answer.

 

[Avandris]

She hovered nearby, swaying slightly as her arms returned to encircling her slender body, watching him as he moved about the small kitchen area and prepared them both something to eat. The more the aroma of bacon wafted toward her, the more her stomach growled and by the time a plate was pushed into her hand she was ravenous. Sitting down as instructed, Elyse began to tuck in to her food swiftly, taking several small mouthfuls before she took a moment to pause and savour the taste.

Emerald hues glanced up sharply as he spoke again, reintroducing himself and requesting her name. She swallowed faintly, curling her slender fingers about the warm cup of coffee before she uttered her name in a soft breath, "Eylse." Raising her cup, the young woman blew gently across the surface of the steaming liquid before taking a small sip.

 

[wolvenrogue]

"Eylse" he repeated "it's a beautiful name, much better than "hey you" when you say" he said smiling at her. He watched as she finished her her breakfast, and ask if she was still hungry. "I could easily make some more" he said. "How is it that you came to be on my fishing boat anyway? Don't worry, I'm glad for the company, and I don't plan on having your arrested or any such other thing is that."

 

[Avandris]

A faint smile flickered across the girl's lips at his attempt to lighten the mood, shaking her head lightly as he offered more food. The slight upturn of her lips vanished as his questioning turned to how she had ended up here in the first place, fixing her eyes upon the milky liquid that still remained within her cup. "I was...kidnapped, I was on my way home and someone, maybe more than one, grabbed me....I woke up on a boat, my hands were tied but I managed to break free.." She tightened her grip upon the cup, pressing her lips firmly together as she trailed off into silence.

 

[wolvenrogue]

Bob rummaged through a drawer and came up with a large man's tee shirt and a towel, and a bar of soap. "I think you might like a shower" he said as he opened the door to the head and hung the shirt and towel on the towelbar. "Its salt water, but it will get the dirt off and and make you feel better. You can where that shirt while you wash and dry your clothes." He showed her how to work the faucet and closed the door behind her as she entered the tiny "head".