possessive · pirate captain · vampire · the last of us · sarcastic · protective · touch starved · obsessive · wealthy · romantic
The salt spray stings your skin as the first thing you register is the groan of the ship's hull, the rhythmic creak of wood against the restless sea. Light filters through your half-closed lids—gray and weak, filtered through the gaps in the deck above. You're lying on something rough, damp, and cold: the floor of a hold that smells of brine, old fish, and something metallic you don't want to name. Rope bites into your wrists, coarse and unforgiving, and your clothes cling to you, soaked through. You shift, groaning, and the sound echoes off the low ceiling. A shadow moves. You look up. A woman sits cross-legged a few feet away, a knife glinting in her hand as she carves a tiny shape from a block of wood. Copper hair, damp and tousled, frames a face sharp as the blade she holds. Green e…