Beach

@Lee Hanui (C) (I'll post here because it is the only beach I was able to find :')

The soft sounds of the waves and the clingling of his wet clothes to his body slowly woke Hyungseok up.
The first thing he was seeing was, surprisingly, sand. Wet, sticky sand that was all over his body, in his face, in his hair but there was fresh air he was able to breathe. Really slowly he sat up and looked around confused.

He was alive.

The memory was blurry but Hyungseok remembered a heavy storm and huge waves. They all had tried their best to hold on whatever but Hyungseok had seen quite a few get thrown off the board, taken with the waves.
He had been one of them.

Still he was alone on this beach.

Slowly Hyungseok got up, checking his body. There were a few bruises but nothing majorly dangerous. When he looked up and checked the beach again he could see the dark clouds wander away at the horizon, almost tinting it black. But for this place, the storm was over.

Really slowly Hyungseok started to walk, rubbing his arm. It was cold and his wet clothes were not helping. Still, he was surprised. He had been the only one not able to swim and still he had survived such a heavy storm. He had passed out from the lack of air and yet he was not dead. How many guardian angels had he had?

A bit further the young male spotted a house – he could see light shimmering from the window and he blinked. Maybe they were nice, whoever lived there, so he could at least ask if they could help him get his clothes dry. Because if it wasn’t the storm killing him, maybe it was pneumonia and Hyungseok did not want to risk it. Not at all.

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) Hyungseok chuckled and ruffled Ryeowook's hair.
"That is because you look amazing in your comfy clothes," he said softly and tilted his head. "I mean, you really really look good with it, you can pull it off." While Hyungseok really didnt feel that he looked good at all. Even though he had probably be one of the most hygienic pirates ever. At least something.

@Park Hyungseok (P) Ryeowook nodded slowly. "But I'm feeling bad then because I would've stayed in my comfortable clothes otherwise..." he muttered, seriously debating on whether to get dressed now as well or not.

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) "Mhhh we dont need to but I havent dressed properly in a while," Hyungseok admitted shyly. After all they hadnt left the house since they had been drunk. "And they smell nice and fresh." He chuckled and rested next to Ryeowook after he had gotten dressed.

@Park Hyungseok (P) Ryeowook raised an eyebrow when he saw the older go ahead and get dressed. "You want to go now?" he asked, not sure if he was already motivated enough to leave their room now.

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) Hyungseok nodded and grabbed a few clothes, dressing himself a bit more nicely to go out.
"Sounds great." After all the beach here was damn beautiful but the town was really nice as well.

@Park Hyungseok (P) Ryeowook nodded. "Yes, it is. I'm glad it is," he replied and nodded once more. "Alright, then let's go out and see what we can do outside later!"

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) Hyungseok smiled and nodded then.
"My wound is healing well, right? I think I can do that," he nodded and smiled brightly at Ryeowook. He enjoyed spending time with him.

@Park Hyungseok (P) "Do you think you're fit enough to go for a walk?" Ryeowook asked back, looking at his best friend curiously.

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) Hyungseok chuckled and ruffled Ryeowook's hair softly.
"Thank you so much," he hummed and smiled warmly. "How are you feeling? Do you wanna go out and do something or nah?"

@Park Hyungseok (P) Ryeowook smiled happily at the hug and closed his eyes, feeling comfortable. He could sense Hyungseok was comfortable as well. "You're welcome~" he replied with a soft blush when he was called 'sweetheart'.

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) Hyungseok smiled warmly and chuckled. He felt so welcomed when Ryeowook was with him. He walked over and hugged him softly.
"Thank you, sweetheart."

@Park Hyungseok (P) Ryeowook quickly sat up again and beamed at the other. "Welcome back~!" he cheered and held his arms out for Hyungseok to come hug him.

@Sen Mitsuji (P) Jessica could only feel her anger boil more with this Pirate Captain. Her face was piratically going beet red as she tried containing her rage that only grew inside her. There fault? There fault!?!? Not His?!! "Y-you.." she could barley speak without her voice shaking. Her hands became fists that trembled. "Y-you! You were the one who ordered them to attack the ship and didn't stop them!!!" she yelled at him, trying to rip her arm away from his grip as she was lead by him to the captins quarters. Tears slipped down her cheek and she quickly looked down or just away. How? How could he be so heartless??? She mentally was killing herself over this one. She couldn't...she didn't wanna live anymore. This burden was too big for her-and she had tried. Tried so so hard to stick with it; to make her family proud and follow the rules and be caring to everyone and rule the kingdom right. But she keeps making mistake after mistake. She only wish she could run away, and just...breath. But she can't. And if she did, her kingdom would really fall, and Ferric would become extinct because of her selfish desires.
Things only got worse though. She heard him speaking to her, though so badly she wanted to put DuckTape over his lips. She felt the ship rock, and it only brought on more tears, and a single soft sob to escape before she quickly tried to contain everything. But thunder struck, and her whole system went rigid 'Jessie' ...Only few people had ever been aloud to call her that. His voice...he knew her. And she knew him. Her heart felt like it had stopped beating. She felt terrified. Everything was silent.
She slowly looked up, tears slipping down into her lap. She gasped, feeling like suddenly all her air left her. Her eyes went wide, and her body paled. 'N-no...No' she thought, but she knew him. She knew that face. Suddenly flashbacks were hitting her like a bag of bricks to the gut, over and over and over again. Their childhood. They're friendship. No, best friendship. His disappearance. "N-No..." her voice shook, and strained. She felt nauseous and faint.
"N-no" she denied it. It couldn't be him. It couldn't be Sen. A sob escaped her lips, but she felt like she couldn't hold back anymore. She moved off the sit, suddenly not feeling it was comfortable anymore. She moved back, turning away from him as her legs gave out, and she dropped to the floor on her knees. She put one hand on the wall, and one over her eyes, biting her lips as sobs just escaped. Tears fell freely, and her body shook like she was in the northpole with no clothes on during a blizzard. She slumped against the wall, afraid of turning around to where he was. She felt like screaming. She ran her hands through her hair, gasping and taking shallow breaths as she cried.
"S-Sen,..." she barley was able to make out his name so the other knew not only did she know, but also to remember the little boy she once knew. She put the side of her hand into and bit down, trying to calm herself down. She couldn't do this. Not here. Gosh now she really wanted to be dead. 'This can't be real...no' she thought over and over.

@[H] Jung Jessica (RE) This woman, this woman from his past... She reminded the man of simpler time, a time where guns, swords, fighting and killing didn't exist. Times were simple and he could enjoy being a child, but that was so long ago that it felt more like a dream, a dream that he vaguely remembered. But he remembered her, he remembered playing with her, laughing with her and he remembered when she looked at him with joy, pure joy and happiness. Unlike now, now she looked at him as if he were some evil monster, like he was the devil himself and that stabbed the man, it stabbed him right in his heart if he still had one. This woman seemed to be the same, well in the sense that she still seemed to worry more about others than herself which in a lot of ways was foolish but in others it was noble. She was still the same little girl he knew long ago, the same girl that would always wish to play the prince and princess game. The game in which the prince would rescue the little princess and the prince and prince would live happily ever after. In that game happily ever after happened, but this wasn't a game, this was reality, this was real life. There was no happily ever after, there was no sweet beautiful endings where no one got hurt, where no one died... Maybe it was time this woman learned that?
" i was raised to never apologise if I do not mean it. In this case I can not mean it because it was the women and men that make up my crew that caused the death of your men. So why should I apologise for something they did?" He asked as he spoke the words he used to say when didn't wish to play a game she wished to play when they were younger, or if he didn't want to carry her around. Of course hearing from his father to apologise but Sen's mother raised him more than his father. She told him no one should apologise if they do not mean what they say. It just wastes the time of the person apologising and the person receiving the apology. It was pointless. In a sense sen was still the same boy as before, the same hardheaded man, but the death of his mother and father. The death his father had caused. That night Sen's father tried to kill the three of them once he became over come with madness, Sen's life changed, he never saw this woman again and shortly after the deaths he left... He became the 'monster' he was today. In a sense he could thank his father for that, but he was a grown man now, he had to take responsibility for the things he had done and the man he was.
Slowly guiding the empress aboard his ship, he guided her to his quarters of the ship. Allowing her to take a seat wherever she desired before seeing her hide her face. He knew what she was doing, he knew she was crying and that actually caused the man to speak as he leaned against the closed door, watching her. "I sense hatred, resentment maybe?" He asked as he looked up at the ceiling as he felt the faint shake of the ship at they hoisted the anchor. " do you hate what I've become Jessie?" He asked calmly as he pulled his hat off and sighed softly once he spoke her name, her little nickname he had always called her. Maybe she didn't remember, maybe she wasn't even who he thought she was, maybe he was going mad. In any case, he was curious. Curious to see if she really was who he thought, the little girl who he remembered playing with, or maybe that was just his mind. His mind wanting to give him some false sense that he had some normality in his life.

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) Hyungseok peeked into their room and smiled warmly.
"I am back, tada!" he said and grinned brightly at the other, happy to see him again. It always felt like coming home, he liked that.

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@Park Hyungseok (P) Ryeowook didn't know what to do with himself while Hyungseok was gone, so he simply turned aroung on the bed over and over again, drawing random patterns on the sheets.

@Sen Mitsuji (P) (Opps! I was just reading over your reply, and I realized you didn't shoot the one guy the second time; after the line "waved a gun around" You just wacked his head to knock him down >3< sorry about that!!!
Just pretend that she rips otu of Sen's grip and looks over the wound on the males head, as it was bleeding or something)

@Sen Mitsuji (P) Jessica was kicking her feet into the air like a wild horse, fighting and trying to rip out of there grips. She was looking desperately for something to grab onto, or something to wack them with, but upon seeing the fallen on the deck, red paint that looked exactly like blood spread all over the boards and walls of the royal ship, her heart stopped and her body froze. Suddenly the men weren't there holding her. Her peoples dead faces and cries were ranking up in her head. She felt like she couldn't breath. Her breaths got more shallow, and she trembled in anger and sadness.
A gun shot cracked through the air, making Jessica jump back to attention, and she heard the cry of one of the males holding her, and suddenly only one hand held her arm, pulling her away and started yelling in a harsh tone. Jessica's eyes widened as the one of the source of the yelling was the Captin. She wanted to freakin claw her hair out of her head. How many times had she been through this routine, and still didn't win? She knew the council was right: she needed a husband and she needed an heir. This was, what, the 30th time she felt she had been taken prisoner and used as a pon in somebody elses game. She was still so weak when her people needed her most.
She hated this!!!
"And yet you allow them to harm men?" she suddenly said, anger boiling as she was furious at this man. At all of these men around her. She barley noticed the red soaking up her white dress. She watched as the captain pointed his gun at a mans head, and right as she said "wait-" he pulled the trigger. She jumped, and ripped her arm as hard as she could from the males grip, coming to the man that had just been killed and pressed the blood from the hole in the mans head, trying to stop it. Her hands shook, and she whimpered for him as she tried to help him. The others were shocked at her move.
She barley heard their apology, but even so she said. "Apologize to the men you've slaughtered that have families expecting them to be home for dinner." she watched the males eyes go dead in seconds, and her heart trembled.
She felt her arm be grabbed and she was pulled up by the captain. She tried ripping from him again but he was stronger and more prepared. She was dragged onto the boat which he had placed, and plunked onto a seat. She bent over, pressing her head into her knees as her body shook and rattled. She wasn't cold. She was crying into her bloody dressed. But she cried with silence, refusing to cry in front of anyone. But once again she was being taken from her home, used for money, and then handed back with a scratch or scar of remembrance.

@[H] Jung Jessica (RE) "It's just not your day today boys." Sen's words that he spoke when he first stepped aboard the Royal ship still echoed through the air as blood painted the bottom desk of the ship. Watching a few of his crew members looting the fallen soldiers, Sen thought this was just a normal raid. But soon he would realise just how wrong he was. As his white, puffy sleeved shirt blew in the wind, the man slowly walked over to one of the fallen soldiers and looked at the crest on his uniform before speaking. " it would appear we are off the coast of ferric ladies and gentlemen. Let's be on our best behaviour alright?" He joked as smiled before he heard one of his men call for him causing the captain to turn around and suddenly found himself looking at someone he hadn't seen on over ten years. She was a lot older now but he was sure of it, the woman he was looking at was indeed Jessica. It was there he noticed the cut on her side and neck and that caused his once playful smile to disappear as he looked at each of the men before pulling out his gold engraved colonial pistol and pulled the hammer of the pistol back before shooting one of the men in the foot and pulled the woman away from them as he held her arm with one hand and blew the smoke that was flowing from the barrel of the gun. Hearing the man scream in pain as the others flinched, Sen spoke in a rather cold tone as he looked at the men. " what have I said about women?" He asked before shouting, " what have I said!?" He questioned before they answered in fear. "... D-don't harm th-them." It was amazing how men could turn into cowering children in seconds when someone waved a gun around. Sen thought as he pressed the barrel of his gun against one of their foreheads before pistol wiping him causing him to fall to the ground as he said in a rather calm but frightening tone. "On your knees..." He ordered and sure enough they did just that. " apologise to the woman." He ordered and within moments the men did just that before Sen guided the woman to the side of the boat. " get your asses up." He said as he looked down at the woman before glancing over at the plank of wood that connected the two boats. " forgive me your highness but it would appear you're coming with me this evening." He said calmly as he forced the woman aboard his ship as he pulled her arm to force her to follow him.

@Sen Mitsuji (P)
Jessica threw herself against the door, with shaky hands trying to lock it. She heard fast feet, and quickly shoved a chair under the door, right as a big man slammed himself against it. She gasped, doing her very best not to scream. She needed to remain calm. She ran to the desk, and searched for a wepon. She saw a pistol in one of the drawers, and hesitated.
'...no' she thought, shaking her head and taking it out, quickly throwing it out the window. Her eyes widened. That was it! She ran to the window, barley tripping on her long white dress of fabric which blew with the ocean wind so gracefully. She yanked the window down as hard as she could, and the big man started calling that someone was down there, and she grabbed her heel, throwing it off and started smashing the beautiful blue glass window.
But right on time the big man with a couple other guys came crashing in, breaking the door down and entered the premasis. The males held out there swords toward her, some smirking as they knew she was something. "Ha! Well what do you know, the Empress of Ferric," a male called out, recongnizing the tatto on her bare shoulder, as her white dress was only straps. She grit her teeth, thinking fast and slammed her body into the table to knock it down, and shoved it with a loud grunt towards the males. it slide and knocked two off balance, but she had no time. She grabbed a chair, and the one came at her right, she slammed the chair down onto him, but just when he sliced her side.
She cried out in pain, but she had to keep going. She ran to an opening at the door, but the closed in to quick. One grabbed her arm and another her long silky hair. She yelled as they yanked her back, holding a knife to and arm locked her.
"come on now miss Empress~" one whispered in her ear, his lips. "We'll have more time to play later~" she ripped her head away, her neck getting cut with the knife, but they got her under control quick enough.
They dragged her onto the deck for the mostly dead crew to witness, as well as their captin. "Captin!" one called, his breath smelling aweful.

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) Hyungseok hurried to bring the tray back. Even though they were most likely safe here there was always the threat of soldiers coming over at any point - and if that happened he was pretty much ed if they recognized him.
He thanked the owner and bowed before rushing back upstairs to Ryeowook.

@Park Hyungseok (P) Ryeowook leaned down and happily closed his eyes. The entire atmosphere was comfortable and he somehow still couldn't believe how lucky he had been to have found Hyungseok again.

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) Hyungseok smiled and nodded before he hummed.
"Okay, I'll be right back," he said before bringing the tray down.

@Park Hyungseok (P) Ryeowook thought about it for a moment, then he nodded. "Alright, let's do it like that," he agreed with a soft smile and eventually gave in. He leaned back against the headboard.

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) "It is okay," Hyungseok said softly.
"It itches a bit but I think it is healing properly. You can check on it after I return, how about that?"

@Park Hyungseok (P) Ryeowook pouted. "But what about your leg? Doesn't it still hurt?" he asked instead, not feeling entirely happy with having Hungseok walk again.

@[H] Kim Ryeowook (C) "Nah, it is fine," Hyungseok said and smiled warmly.
"Besides, you arent properly dressed yet."
He winked at him - of course, they had only taken their clothes off before going to sleep last night.

@Park Hyungseok (P) Ryeowook hesitated, then he nodded. "I could do that, too..." he replied, though, and sat up properly again.