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A Rival Captain

Urania stayed quiet she didn't want to say anything that might put her at a disadvantage. Though, how could she be at any lower point than this, being capture and forced into marriage. She let out a soft growl at the thought. As they entered 'their' quarters she looked around his ship was fairly impressive she had to admit. She was somewhat happy to see that there were couches. Hopefully this meant that she could weasel her way out of sleeping with him.
 
"There's a day bed in the bedroom." He said to her slowly before he headed towards the bedroom and into the closet. "I've been up since dawn I'm going to bathe." He said as he rummaged through it. "In any case, like I said, I wanted you but mostly your attention, I won't rape you or force you into anything, well besides staying here for the time being."
 
"So was I randomly picked? Or did you know of me and chose me?" She asked finally. Now that it was just her and him she felt alittle less intimidated. No not intimidated. She refused to feel intimidated by someone that didn't have her respect.

She watched him but continued to keep her distance as he undressed. She didn't have any shame and wasn't going to act shy. She didn't feel the need to. And worse case scenario if he went back on his word and decided to rape her she wanted to know what she was dealing with, so to speak.
 
He looked to her and smirked. "2nd map on the wall." He said without leaving the closet. The second map had a number of x's each ports she'd visited in the last six months and the courses between them along with those of another ship. Putting the two together it would show that he tracked her and when it was convenient intercepted her ship at his leisure.

He stripped down to his undergarments and wrapped a towel about his waist. The bulge beneath this towel hung well down past where it would have ended on an average man. However he was more focused on keeping the towel covering his pubis as though hiding something. "Excuse me." He said before he slipped into the room with the bath and closed it behind him. Once tucked away he sighed. "Can't believe it rubbed off." He whispered to himself before he filled the tub.
 
Urania turned to look at the map as Blackwater excused himself. Once she realized what she was looking at she growled, "You've got to be fuckin' kidding me!" If he had been this close all along and she never noticed he had to be better at this than she originally gave him credit for.

"So if this one was for tracking me what are the others for?" She asked knowing that he could hear her.
 
"Treasures, leads, rivals, bounties." He said softly. "See how yours is the only one with a heart at the top." He said as he disrobed once the tub was filled with warm water from a nearby stove. He slipped in and sighed contentedly before relaxing somewhat. "In any case, you weren't hard to find, you became rather complacent. " He said softly.

"Look at the other wall" The other wall being covered with maps, some of which were atop one another with large circles on them. "I complete at least one a week."
 
She shook her head some. She'd not realized that she forgot about the basics. The need to switch it up. If she'd remembered that then chances are she wouldn't be in this mess. She walked over to the bed and pressed down on it. It was soft. She sat on it and next thing she knew she was laying down with her boots off.
 
He was soon done washing and had taken some time in the bath, far more time than it took to get dressed and stepped out. He wore trousers and a shirt. A flesh colored smudge was on the edge of the trousers but he quickly wiped it away. "Best bed you've ever felt huh? Most pirates hoard treasure, I spend mine on luxury, better ships, better weapons for my men, better provisions." He said slowly before he patted the bed. "I bought this last, they're incredibly difficult to steal in one piece. People usually set on fire or some such, goose down, very expensive but best sleep you could ask for. Also our engineer came up with a device to lower the feeling of rocking." He added pointing to the feet of the bed which were anchored to strange lifts anchored to the floor.

"There's more hot water, you could bathe if you wish, I'm not some peeping tom." He said motioning to a closed door. "That closet is yours, I think I got the sizes right, the jewelry can be worn by anyone but if you want for anything let me know."
 
She jolted upright at hearing his voice. She'd actually dosed off a bit. "I think I'll pass." She said at his offer. She still hadn't gotten off the bed though. "You still haven't explained though." She started. "Why are you so interested in me? Why no one else?" As much as she tried to shake her memories she couldn't remember ever seeing him before. Much less talking to him.
 
"You're one of the top female pirates in the world. You run a tight ship, you command loyalty. You've beautiful, intelligent, and confident." He said simply without a pause or hint of irony. He made his way to the dresser and trailed his fingers along it. "I know what I want, and I pursue it, if I care to stack the deck in my favor is that so wrong?" He asked her. Slowly he ran his fingers along his muscular stomach up to his face with a smile. "If you found me desirable, would you not take me as your own?" He asked slowly before he ran his fingers down along his trousers. "I saw you try to sneak a peek at it before, why? I'm not going to assault you with it if that's your concern. Its too big to just jam inside of someone." He said before turning once more.
 
Urania had actually been unaware that she was considered to be at the top of piracy. She smirked a bit, taking a moment to be proud of herself and her crew. She looked him over again though. "If you haven't noticed Blackwater..." She started, standing up. "I don't have any shame when it comes to the male anatomy. I've fought others while they were naked before. It's not going to bug me to see yours." She responded. Her tone having no emotion behind it.
 
He slipped down his trousers to reveal his substantial length hanging between his legs. In truth it looked rather off on his lean body to have something of such a size but just above it to the right of his pubis there was a slight smudge as though make up had been applied, coverup specifically. "It was a rather cold rub down after the bath so its not at its full." He said briefly before quickly slipping back up his trousers and smiling to her. "That and such a cold woman." He added his face plastered with a simper.
 
She raised a brow managing to catch the slight smudge that he had. She still wasn't all that impressed. Urania now wondered whether or not she should ask about the smudge and gave a mental shrug. "You seem alittle off down there." She said glancing back down at his groin then looking back up at him. "You wouldn't happen to have seen a specialist lately have you?" She asked smugly.
 
His expression fell before he turned away. "No, just you know, saw a female friend earlier" He joked ignoring the fact he'd just had a bath. He slipped back up his trousers before she got too curious and shook his head. "I have seen a specialist lately about getting something cosmetically changed. " He said truthfully. "If you could give me a moment." He said as he slipped back into the bathroom." He pulled up the screen and due to her indifference assumed she wouldn't peek in on him as he began to remove the cover up so he could reapply. As he did so if she were to be watching she'd have briefly seen a rather intricate heart tattoo come into view with the initials Z.L. set in the middle. "Damn slave mark." He grumbled to himself as he set to mixing a proper foundation.
 
Urania took the time and actually waited for him. "Is it something I should be concerned about provided you convince me to stay?" She asked laying down on the bed again. To her dismay the bed was very comfortable. Almost too comfortable. She sat up a bit leaning back on her elbows as to try not dozing off again.
 
He simply walked back out his member hanging down as he gave up. "You'll see it one day anyway and everyone on the ship knows. I used to be a slave, specifically a sex slave." He said flippantly before he made his way to his dresser. Opening a drawer he pulled out a bottle of rum and took a long hard swig from the bottle.

"I had been trained from childhood to be a swordsman, my father took me to a tournament one year, and we were attacked. By Zara Lovelace, the previous Pirate Empress as she was called. My father was killed defending me, and as for me, well when I was caught I was taking a bath. She was amused to see "such a little boy with such a big thing" so she kept me. I spent my time on the ship learning what I could from those around me. They all envied me in a way yet felt sorry for me but all of them feared her too much to help me. She'd kick me around the ship, call me her little slut, she'd force me to pleasure her regardless of who was around. Till one day, I got my hands on a sword. It was the first time my hands hadn't been bound to her waist, or a bedpost, or a railing in months." He said slowly before taking another swig. "I challenged her to a duel, she laughed at me and told me to put up my guard, it was all funny, till I ran her through." He sat on the bed briefly lost in memory. "I remember it so vividly, feeling her slump against me, the shock in her eyes, her last breath kissing my cheek before blood ran down my shoulder as it gushed from her mouth."
 
Urania listened. She new of the woman, if you could call her that, that he was talking about. There were still stories that floated around about her on occasion. She was one of the most feared pirates that there had ever been. "Sorry to hear about that." She said softly. She was alittle taken off guard but tried to keep a steady mind. She looked at him. Truly looked at him. Taking in his appearance and the look in his eyes.
 
"I killed twenty men that day." He said slowly his eyes staring at the wall as though trying to bore a hole. "I was just fourteen, I just wanted to go home, and they kept coming, the crew was in chaos thankfully so it wasn't twenty all at once, men were killing each other trying to cease command. Eventually I slipped away on a small little sloop they had tied up. I stole two of her necklaces, a few rings and as many provisions as I could manage. I got home a month later to find my house in shambles, my mother's rotted corpse face down on the rocks where she'd thrown herself from the balcony upon hearing my father and I had been killed. I killed the brigands within, opened father's safe, took what I needed and headed off. I traveled for a while after securing the deed to the house, gave myself an education." He drifted out for a moment while staring at the wall.
 
Urania laid back down. A part of her wanted to get closer and hug him. She didn't let herself though. She simply closed her eyes and shook her head. "I guess everyone in our line of work is running from something, aye?" She half opened an eye and looked at him. She wanted to say more but she still was trying to keep her distance. She didn't want to get too close. She still had a crew to keep in mind.
 
"I grew up, got older, but couldn't forget what had happened, what I had been. So, I took to port and found a ship, I took what money I had left, hired on a crew, and began training them. We hit our first merchant ship on the eve of my seventeenth birthday, it went sloppily, hostages that could have been ransomed were killed, the captain's wife feared for her safety and accidentally hung herself trying to escape. So messy, but successful, its been seven years since." He said slowly before he looked to her. "I'm not running from anything, I'm walking towards it, I don't know quite what it is, I have a goal, but there's something beyond that, its merely a waypoint along my journey."
 
She opened both of her eyes this time and leaned up, so that she now laid on her side facing him. "And you want a woman in your life now for what reason?" She asked looking at him alittle confused. "Or is that something completely separate?" She asked watching him, taking in his body language.
 
"No one likes to travel alone. You try to acquire a companion quickly, I figure, its nothing but time and a face that I'll lose." He added with a shrug. "I want someone I can see as an equal, someone who I look at and want to hold in my arms and treat as my lover and my comrade." He said slowly as he continued to drink before he flopped back the empty bottle clattering to the ground next to the bed. Staring at the ceiling he sighed. "Maybe therein lies my flaw, I just want to get to it, now, I don't want to wait."
 
Urania sighed softly closing her eyes. "It depends as to how you chose to look at it. If could be a flaw or it could be something more admirable." She said softly. Her lips slowly spreading into a smile. "You were determined to get what you want and you refused to take any other answer. That's actually a very admirable trait...Or at least to me it is."
 
"Is that a pirate I more or less coerced and kidnapped admitting she finds me admirable?" He asked slowly before he shook his head. "Now I've heard...everything." His words got slightly slower as the rum took effect and he kicked off his trousers fully. Slipping under the sheets he rolled onto his side. "Mmm that and drinking, lots of drinking." He Said softly as he shifted about and yawned. "Been up since before dawn planning on how to do this thing without killing anybody."
 
Urania got up off the bed. She didn't mind sleeping in the same room as him. Hell it was probably safer than being out on deck with the crew. She laid down on the couch, "And so you are aware. Just because I find you admirable doesn't mean that I like you. You still have to earn it. I have others that I hate and still find them to be admirable." She said said with a yawn.
 
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