Interesting Reaction in the Galley

[Arabella Porter]

“What the bloody hell is going on in here?” I yelled, storming into the galley where a giant cloud of pirates stood cheering. I lifted my gun and everyone ducked at the sound of the gunfire. “Everyone!” I shouted, “Move!” there was a dense silence as they obeyed the order like robots and a path was cleared for me to enter into the middle of the cloud where there was a small clearing. At the middle, Ezra was straddling Daniel with a raised fist as Daniel laid there, puffy red and bleeding. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” I demanded. Ezra’s eyes had a rebellious sarcasm in them to which my response was walking forward and kneeling down next to him. “An A.B.S can’t serve on this ship if he can’t hear. Don’t give me an excuse to throw you overboard when we cross over Singapore,”  

“You should have heard what this ship’s rat called me,” Ezra argued,

“What are you, five?”  I stood up and scolded the whole crew, “Was I pressganged onto a ship of little boys? That’s a real goddamn shame. When I tell stories about being first mate on this bird, they’ll give me a pirate name. How does Babysitting Bells sound?” There was a whisper of snickers and laughs from the rest of the crew.

“I was defending my manhood!” the man shouted,

“Yes Ezra and you’re doing a good job at destroying it. Let me humiliate you for a moment. Are you lacking so much confidence that when a younger boy calls you names, you feel that you have to prove yourself by beating the living devils out him?” Not a single human sound was made. After a few moments Ezra whispered,

“You better watch yourself Miss Porter, I’m bigger and stronger than you and there's a lot of things I could do to show it. You better watch your-,”   Ridiculous. I flipped my grip on my gun and held it at the barrel before whipping him in the cheek with it. He yelled in pain before rolling off of Daniel and holding his cheek.

“That’s pathetic Ezra. Daniel’s had a fever of one hundred and two and when he’s just strong enough to make it to the galley today; you bash him to the wood. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard in a long time. If you’re going to act like a kid then I’m going to treat you like one. Don’t even bother stepping into this galley tonight expecting dinner. We practically communicate through insults on this ship and finally someone says something serious and you try to cripple him? I won’t have it and I can assure you that the Captain won’t have it. Now,” I turned to the rest of the crew,

“I need one of you sorry sods to get Daniel on one of these tables and another to fetch me the medical supply box from storage,” the crew just stood there, “Well?” Chanter was the first one to get to the Galley door where Mercurian stood watching. He stepped aside for Chanter to get through. Joseph helped Daniel onto a table.

“Thanks, Bells,” Daniel grunted,

“Did you even try to fight back?” I asked, as the rest of the crew, including Ezra, shuffled out of the galley, “When we land in Bangladesh, the whores won’t let you in. You’ll be walking from room to room,” I trailed off into laughter when he grinned,

“He thinks he was being manly when he threatened you,” Daniel said as Chanter brought in the medical supplies,

“Now some might assume he’s a homosexual; not that there’s anything wrong with him being so,” I replied,

“Why’s that?”

“This morning while we were turning, remember? He said I was practically one of the guys,”

“Oh yeah,”

“Yeah, what the hell did you call him anyways?”

“Well, he was battering me,” Daniel coughed, “about bringing a girl on the ship at every stop. He’s in the room next to me and he says that I’m too loud,”

“So?”

“So not that there’s anything wrong with him being so, but I told him he was just jealous because I was giving them a ride instead of him,”