Sunset Dreamer

[Dreamweaver32]

Fifty-One: Scot4949 – Captain Trevithick.


I slowly turned round to find myself staring down the barrel of a gun.

“Sonya, what the hell are you playing at? We have to find who killed Juliet, put the gun away, there is no time to lose!” Judging by the bloodstains on her blouse and skirt, I think Juliet’s killer had just found me. Her eyes had madness about them that I had never noticed before.

“Frank, I fooled you all. It was always my intention to take over Savage’s organisation; you just gave me the right opportunity and if that interfering bitch of an FBI agent had kept her pretty little nose out of it, I might have succeeded. But now, I have to escape and you are going to help me, or, and believe me Frank, I will kill everyone on board.” Oh I believed her all right, from the look in her eyes she was more than capable of carrying out her threat, I just had to find a way to unarm her and lock her up with Clarke.

The distraction came from Ally; she was pounding on my cabin door and calling out for me and as I started to make my way back to the cabin, Sonya told me to stay where I was. I paused for a moment, just long enough to tell her to go to hell and that I was going to see what was wrong with Ally, when without warning, Sweet Dreams keeled over to the port side as Charlie must have taken a sharp turn to the starboard. Unused to this type of manoeuvre, Sonya was thrown off balance and I immediately threw myself on top of her. There was a muffled bang, as the gun went off and I felt a searing pain in my side. What I did not expect was the ricochet, from the steel bulkhead, making a nasty hole in the side of Sonya’s neck and an even bigger one on the other side. Maybe there is a God after all, I thought. The shot had brought everyone running again and I told one of the models to get something to cover Sonya.

My main concern was for Ally, still shouting and crying and locked in my cabin, she sounded terrified, so I unlocked the door and she fell into my arms sobbing,

“Frank, I can’t stand it, being locked away in the cabin like this. I don’t know what Juliet put in the brandy, but mixed with the sedative you gave me, I think I am going round the bend. Let me go with you, please.”

I should have realised that Juliet must have given her something to help lower Ally’s resistance to her sexual approaches. Well, I wanted to believe, that she wouldn’t just jump into bed with any attractive woman who made a pass at her; so I guess my male ego, is as fragile as any other mans. Reluctantly, I agreed to her request and taking her hand, we turned to leave the cabin.

It was then that she noticed I was covered in blood and demanded that I let her examine my wound. I told her that most of the blood was Sonya’s and explained what had happened and how it was her who had killed Juliet. After absorbing this bit of information, she still wanted to see the wound for herself.

 

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Fifty-two: Sienna – Allyson.

I took Frank back to his cabin to tend to his wound. He insisted there was nothing to worry about, but when he removed his shirt there was a small gash in his side that looked as if it had been gorged by fingernails and no doubt those belonging to Sonya.

“I need to clean it up. It could get infected.” I told him. I reached for the medicine chest and Frank dragged me to him as he sat on the bunk. All I was wearing was a shirt that covered my nakedness and I was still feeling dizzy and strange from the strange concoction of sedative and the alcohol that Juliet offered me.

“Not so fast young lady. While we have a few minutes in all this chaos that’s going on I need to talk to you.”

“I’m not going anywhere.” I replied, resisting him so that I could carry on doing what was needed to be done. I made him lie on the bunk while I cleaned his wound and dressed it. “Carry on Frank, you can talk. It will keep your mind off what I’m doing.”

“I want to know for sure what is going to happen when all this is over? Especially you and I. What are your plans Ally?” I looked up at him as I ran the swab over his gash cleaning away the dried up blood. “You know that you and I are now an item.”

“You mean you want me with you for as long as possible, don’t you?”

“Damn! You know I mean that girl, so what are your plans in all of this?”

“I’m not sure. I could be arrested and interrogated by the authorities. Afterall I was part of Clark’s group.”

“You are innocent and I know that. Besides I want to give up all of this stuff and retire properly. This is the one and only operation I’ve been on whilst being out here and to tell you the truth its my last. I only took this location because I was offered the job. I want to quit and settle down for good while I have everything I need. And that includes you Ally.”

Frank was a mystery to me the first time we met and he was even more of a mystery at that moment in time. What I originally thought of him was emerging as something else. An under-cover agent was one of the things I certainly did not expect and what he said about quitting may never really happen. It was time for me to listen and make up my mind about my future now. Things began to change for me during the past few days and I had fallen in love with someone I didn’t really understand.

I finished his dressing and he sat up on the bunk holding my shoulders as I knelt between his legs. “Well Ally, what are your plans? I need to know.” I looked at him without an expression on my face and I wanted so much to give him an answer there and then. But there were uncertainties and fears running through my mind.

 

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Fifty-Three: Dreamweaver32 – Captain Trevithick.


I was glad Ally insisted on checking on my wound, more for the fact that I wanted answers from her and even just to have a few moments alone with her, than, I thought I needed nursing. She was still dressed in the shirt and nothing else and as her soft fingers tended to the graze on my ribs, I felt myself wanting to make love to her. I tried to pull her closer to me, but, she was having none of it and she pushed me flat on the bunk.

“Carry on Frank, you can talk. It will keep your mind off what I’m doing.” She said whilst concentrating on my wound.

I told her that I wanted to give up all this cloak and dagger stuff for good, that I wanted to properly retire and live out the rest of my life, with her included in it, but, I could see from the way she looked up at me, that she was not convinced about our future together. Something was bothering her and I could not tell what, so I leant forward and kissed her.

I felt her hesitate at first, but gradually she responded and soon our kiss became more passionate. I pulled her onto the bed and lay her beside me and gazed into the depths of her sea green eyes. They were as deep as the ocean, but nowhere near as cold and there was a sparkle to them, that wasn’t there before we kissed. Had she thought I wouldn’t want her, after catching her and Juliet in a similar embrace? Was that what she was worried about? We kissed again and I undid the buttons on her shirt, revealing her body to me, once more.

Nothing had changed; my feelings for her were every bit as strong as before, I just had to let her know that. Slowly, I kissed and licked my way down her pert young body. I was just about to pay homage to her temple of love, when a shout on the intercom, stopped me in my tracks.

“Captain to the bridge, Captain to the bridge! Get up here quick Frank! You’re gonna love this!” I looked into her eyes and she smiled.

“You better go Frank, I’ll get cleaned up here and wait for you, so don’t be long Ok? You have started something and I would like you to finish.” I gave her a hug, which nearly crushed her slight frame and took her breath away. I kissed her again and said that she was not to worry, there was nothing going to keep me from finishing what was started.

I hurried up to the bridge and there was the Medusa, surrounded by four FBI Apache attack choppers. Their spotlights lit her up like daylight and we could clearly see de Boeur waving a white flag, the lure of easy money not looking quite so attractive now. Savage was weaving Medusa all over the place, but to no avail and the air was split by the thunder of one of the choppers firing its machine guns across her bows. That was enough for de Boeur and most of the crew and they threw a dinghy over the side and all jumped in after it. Black smoke began to billow from Medusa’s exhausts and I had a feeling that Tommy might just have something to do with that. I told Charlie to keep a safe distance from Medusa as Savage was so unpredictable and like a cornered rat, he could be capable of any kind madness.

As if on cue, he appeared on the bridge roof of Medusa, brandishing, what appeared to be an AK47. He let off a stream of rounds at the nearest chopper and all hell broke loose. All four choppers opened up and strafed the Medusa, from bow to stern. That once proud ship was disintegrating as we watched and suddenly, the night sky was lit up. Its fuel tanks exploded and burning debris was hurled into the air like a firework display gone wrong. The sea was littered with hissing fragments of decking and plastic. We were far enough away to be out of the danger zone and I told Charlie to steer a course to pick up the survivors. It was a pretty bedraggled bunch we picked up from the lifeboat, all the fight had gone out of them and I was very sad to see that there was no sign of Tommy Smitts amongst them.

Once we had them safely locked away and ready to be handed over to the authorities, I left Sweet Dreams in the capable hands of Charlie and hurried back to my cabin, my heart was beating twenty to the dozen and I felt like a lovesick teenager going on his first date.

 

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Fifty-four: Sienna – Allyson.

I could hear the noise of what was going on outside and snuggled up on the bunk wrapping a blanket around me for comfort. It was one of those times when one never forgot there might be a God and so I started to say a prayer in my mind knowing that if there were a God, then he would hear me, hopefully.

After about twenty minutes everything went quiet. I emerged from under the blanket and looked around the cabin. The door handle moved and not knowing what was happening I pulled the blanket over me quickly as someone walked in closing the door behind them. I peeped out and saw Tommy Smitts leaning with his back against the door holding a handgun. He looked over at me and put a finger to his lips. “Its OK. I won’t hurt you. Just keep quiet.”

I remained under the blanket, holding it closer to me and wondered what was going on. Where was Frank? Was he all right? Then in the distance, like as if my prayers had been answered I could hear Frank’s voice giving out commands. “What are you doing?” I asked Smitts, but he just gestured me to keep quiet.

Someone tried to open the cabin door and Smitts had locked it from the inside. “Ally? You OK? Open the door hun…” It was Frank trying to get in and Smitts seemed to recognize the voice too and he slowly unlocked and opened the door.

Smitts pointed the gun at Frank. “Take it easy Trevithick!” He pulled back the hammer on the gun and Frank lifted his hands looking at me and then back at Smitts.

“What the fuck are you doing Tommy? Put that thing down, it might go off.”

“No chance. Not until you guarantee I can get off this tub a free man. So it’s up to you?”

“Ally, are you OK?” Frank asked and I nodded my reply, pulling the blanket closer. “Tommy, you are scaring the lady, now give this thing up. You know I trust you. So hand it over.” But Smitts quickly turned the gun onto me. “Wow! Come on man!”

“No! You let me down more than once Frank. Remember?”

 

[Dreamweaver32]

Fifty-Five: Dreamweaver32– Captain Trevithick.


I did not know what to expect when I heard the door to my cabin being unlocked. I was certainly not prepared to see Tommy Smitt standing there, gun in hand and Ally cowering under a blanket. I needed to defuse this situation quickly and find out what the hell Tommy wanted from me.

“Let you down Tommy? You let yourself down mate! When we left the Navy, I asked you to join me in business. You decided that you wanted to have a good time with your pay off gratuity and to travel the world as a tourist for a change, have a blast and worry about the future later. That was your choice and your decision. Now turn the gun on me and leave Ally out of this, Ok?”

“Yeh! So what was wrong with wanting a bit of fun Frank? Had we not given enough to the Navy? I wanted to go into business with you, but, later, after I had enjoyed myself a bit.” He replied bitterly.

I remembered talking like this with him before, it was no use then and I’m sure it would be no use now either. I reminded him that when he returned from his jaunt around the world, stony broke, that it was me, who had tried to get in touch with him again. By then my marriage was heading for the rocks and I stopped sending him messages and phoning him. I had enough to worry about and was planning my new life out here.

“Basically Tommy, you are a good man, a little fucked up right now, but, as I saw from you helping Ally get off Medusa, you still have some decency left. Don’t throw that away too Tommy. I will do all I can to help you get through this and after, I will still take you on as my fleet engineer. We go back too far Tommy and you know you can trust me, don’t you?”

I saw some of the fight go out of him as my words slowly sank in. He knew that he only had himself to blame and he meekly handed over the gun. And after Charlie took him away and locked him into an empty cabin, I turned to Ally and asked if she was all right. She looked back at me and burst into tears.

“Oh Frank, I was so scared, I thought he was going to kill us both. Hold me Frank; I want to feel safe again.”

I went over to the bunk and took her in my arms, we kissed and I stroked her hair. Before long, one thing led to another and we made love. It was gentle, but none the less passionate than before. After, we lay together, Ally curled up against me and I sensed that all was not well, she still had doubts and; if I were to be honest, I did too. We both stayed silent, wrapped up in our thoughts. Eventually, we both started to speak at once; we laughed and told each other to go ahead. I reached up, put my finger to Ally’s lips.

“ Shush hon, let me go first, please.” She gave me that cheeky little grin and nodded, “Ally, I love you and I think, at this moment in time, you love me too. Fate has brought us together, for whatever reasons? I have no idea. I would love to spend the rest of my days with you, painting, sailing the islands and being with you. But…Ally, how long would it be before you wanted more than that? You are young, vibrant and you need to expand your knowledge. You want to see what the rest of the world has to offer and I know you want to make your mark in life.”

As I was saying all this to her, I could hear the music from the steel band getting closer and knew that we would be alongside soon and that I would have to deal with the Coastguard and the FBI. I hugged her tightly.

“There will always be a special place in my heart for you Ally, as there will always be a welcome here. Come back to me occasionally, whenever you want to chill out and get away from it all, I will be here hon.” By then, there was a catch in my voice and a dampness around my eyes which I didn’t want her to see, so I got up and crossed over to my locker. From inside, not wrapped yet, was a picture, one that Ally had been so attracted to when we first met. I handed it to her. “Ally, I would like you to have this. Keep it with you forever and I will know, that you will always have ‘Sweet Dreams’…”

There was a fleeting look of relief on Ally’s face as I finished, because she had been wondering how to tell me that she couldn’t remain with me. She took my face in her soft hands. “Thank you Frank, you are a special man and I will never forget you. Now go and get ready to do all those captainly things that you must do. And when you get back, I will be gone. I hate goodbyes, so go…now, before I change my mind and stay.”


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