Rat In a Trap (Erika)

[Ellen Orland]

Pirates... Of course i had to be pirates….

And to think that day felt as normal and mundane as any other that came before it, For her entire life, Ellen Orland has lived in something of a perfect bubble, and nothing ever penetrated that bubble. No sadness, no stress. Nothing ever got through that massive perfect world that Ellen lived in, Every day was spent in the lap of luxury and every day after it would be the exact same thing as far as she thought.

But that night? You could see the shock on her face as the sound of the bubble bursting echoed through her mind.

It had started so innocently too, A strange sound had woken her up at the dead of night, which wasn’t usual her father told her explicitly that he was on his ship that night and wasn’t going to be returning back that night so logically speaking there was no reason why there would be any sound made outside her door.. Naturally Ellen’s curiosity seemed to get the better of her and she crept out of room to discover what the nose was. Finding absoutely nothing there, she was about to turn back around and go back to sleep…..

And that’s when a pair of rough hands grabbed her from behind…

A lot of screaming, scratching and biting later she found herself in quite possibly in the most disgusting, depredated room she’s ever seen, if they were going to keep her in a cell surely they should have at the very put her in a CLEAN one she thought bitterly as she marched back and forward and permanent scowl on her face horrified at this circumstances

...but no matter she’d soon deal with this

“I DEMAND TO SEE THE CAPTAIN. NOW.” She screamed out in a clear loud voice her words echoing through her cell as she banged her hands off the bars “I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME. I KNOW YOU’RE THERE. HELLO?! HELLO?! DON’T YOU IGNORE ME! COWARDS! LET ME OUT NOW! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! 

[Erika Smith]

Erika stood outside the door they'd left the noble girl inside. She had to sigh at the constant words that seemed to flow from the blonde's lips. She really had a knack for the dramatics, though, in fairness, Erika supposed she couldn't really blame her. The poor girl had been kidnapped, after all.

By mistake, mind, but kidnapped nonetheless.

Opening the door, the brunette stepped inside the dim room. The distance between the two and the darkness helped the brunette conceal her identity. That, at least, had been planned.

"I'm pretty sure we already did this to you," Erika said calmly. "Unless this is nothing more than a bad dream, then, jokes on you, I suppose." She couldn't help but grin at that, though her expression quickly grew somber once more. "I'm sure this chamber isn't exactly what you're used to, but it'll have to do for now."

She looked over the room; it had been an old storage room, but they'd rarely had the use of it. There was no windows and only one door. And said door was currently guarded because of the girl.

[Ellen Orland]

No, Ellen was not finding this amusing in the least. This was not funny, not in the least. She could practically smell the booze, poor personal hygiene and general barbarian behaviour wafting off these slowly rotting walls of this water logged ship, Disgusting utterly disgusting. She could NOT wait till she was let out of this cell, because of course she would be let out. Ellen couldn't see a situation where she wasn’t let out in the near future either by choice or her father bringing down the combined might of the navy down on their head.For whatever reason there was for any of this is, this was a stupid move. They had brought whatever came next down on their heads.



Ellen’s head twitched in the direction of the voice and towards the clearly feminine shape in the dim, a snarl appearing on her face at the girl’s jovial tone….was she making jokes?! Was this amusing to her?



It wouldn’t be for long…..



Ellen pressed herself against her bars as close her eyes boring a hole through the girl in the darkness designed to make her quack in her boots “I don’t want you, I don’t require some kind of cabin gir. I REFUSE to cooperate until the captain of this ship, PERSONALLY apologize and let me out of this cell. I’d suggest abandoning ship dear. Trust me, you don’t want to be here for what happens next.

[Erika Smith]

Amusement lit the brunette's eyes up as she pulled out a chair. She sat down, but remained in the darkness. "Oh, sweetheart, I am the captain." Erika folded her hands in her lap and sighed. The girl was partly right; she didn't want to be here for whatever happened next. This had all been a mistake. The girl shouldn't be here; her father should have, but Erika couldn't very well tell the girl that.

No, she had to play her cards carefully.

"And I'm afraid there'll be no apologies. You're right where you're meant to be, dearie." She could practically smell the snobby upperclass attitude reeking from the girl. This was a person who was used to getting everything she pointed at and it only made Erika loathe the nobles further.

How was all of this fair?

[Ellen Orland]

How was this fair? What did Ellen ever do to deserve this? She had done nothing to these bandits, she was a pacifist, unlike these…..”people” -And she uses that term loosely- she never tried to solve these problems by any kind of violent means, Why would she? A caveman solves their issue was fists or brutal means, no Ellen took pride in the fact she was far more cerebral than that….

Yet despite that, Ellen couldn’t help but let her eyes raise in mild surprise at the woman, claiming that she was the captain, she wasn’t what she expected, he expected someone...well...male, large Grizzled. Scarred. Not a girl around about her own age….who was rather pretty and decisively non-scarred or grizzled looking.

Objectively speaking of course

Ellen tried to hide her surprise and put on a front of confidence a smirk playing along on her face backing off from the cell slightly appraising her ever so slightly “Well, captain” Ellen snarled putting as much derision as she could into the word “Captain”as she tried to settle down into her bunk leaning forward slightly her eyes never leaving her captor “Let’s consider the circumstances shall we? If you kidnapped me, you know who my father is, if you know who my father is you certainly know WHAT he does. You just kidnapped the daughter of the FINEST pirate hunter in all of goldcrest. You have two or three hours before he comes home from patrol and notices I’m gone, now what do you think will happen when he does?! Ellen asked the question with her hands outstretched as if inviting any potential answers to that question. “ He’ll come after you and he’ll bring his entire fleet with him. Now I’m sure you can try and outpace him but how long do you think you can run an entire armada headed by a man who brings thousands of your kind in a week. He’ll know every path you could take, any trick you could pull. You try to out run him, he’d track you down like a dog. You try and hide he’d find you. You try and fight him? He’d cut you and your crew down in ribbons,”

Ellen paused for a moment letting her words sink in, utterly certain that all of her words were the god’s honest truth. Of course they were, An operation like this? This would be child’s play to him “There may be no apologises now, but when he gets here? Then you’d be apologizing and begging for your life...but by then it’ll be too late...Now, if you take me back now, he MAY go easy on you. Maybe you’ll just end up in prison for the rest of your natural born life. You run? And you’d be where you’d belong...dangling at the end of a rope….dearie...

[Erika Smith]

Erika patiently waited for the younger blonde to finish speaking; She was partly right, Erika supposed. She had to give the girl that. Though, most of her words fell on deaf ears. She didn't say anything Erika didn't already knew and Erika would rather take the risk of being followed than spending the rest of her life in a poor jail cell. Then again, she supposed the blonde hadn't really considered that.

Everything happened for a reason, after all. All you had to do was wait for said reason to appear.

"Are you done?" Erika finally asked once the blonde had finished her long, not very impressive rant. "Guess there's only one way I'll figure out whether or not that rope is made for my head or not." She shrugged simply at that, even thought the blonde couldn't see it in the poorly lit room. "You might as well keep your threats to yourself, love, because even though you think we're illiterate rats who ate from the wrong barrel of poison, we do have the ability to formulate thoughts. Now, before you throw another rant and lines of insult at me, I'd like for you to consider one thing..."

She paused, making sure that it was dramatic too, to allow the young girl to understand the seriousness of the situation she found herself in. Then, Erika continued, her voice sterner and colder. "You're captured by pirates. Pirates. Your insults mean nothing, nor does your noble position. You have absolutely no power here and the more insults you throw at us, the harder we'll be on you, so I really suggest that you play nice unless you want to find yourself sleeping with rats rather than staying inside this relatively clean storage room. But hey, it's entirely up to you."

[Ellen Orland]

Ellen didn’t know what she was expecting. Certainly the idea that the captain to break down and weep in fear and instantly let her go, no, no doubt that was optimism to the point of delusional. This might have been Ellen's fault for trying to apply a logical argument to a pirate, of course, that wouldn’t work, if Ellen had learned anything, is that pirates were all together impulsive suspicious ideas that really had no regard for the consequence for their actions. She was sure that it seemed like a fantastic idea to the pirates, to kidnap her….once you ignore the obvious danger involved in such an endeavour. Logic doesn’t equate with the natural pirate mindset as Ellen was quickly learning…


Ellen blinked a little in irritation once the good captain asked in plain language if she was done, which made it quite apparently that she hasn’t taken in a word that she said, Ellen’s eyes narrowed just a little towards the dart feminine sharp in the corner, she was rather dense now wasn’t she? “Threats?” Ellen looked up suddenly a frown forming on her face “No, not a threat. FACTS. This is what’s going to happen and you’re too stupid to see that!” Ellen pointed out can’t believing how she seemed to be ignoring the obvious facts.


Ellen sat in silence for a moment regarding the captain passively before a little laugh escapes her, part out of amusement, part of out of needing to release her pent up tension “You think you intimidate me?! You’re-You’re just a girl….Who's in WAY over your head. We both know that, we also know if anything happens to me, there’s no ranson. You harm me in anyway, my father will burn this ship and everyone in here. How do you think this is going to end? With you just being handed your gold? We both know there's only so many ways this could end it’s not going to be good. For you at least...all I have to do is wait, till it all comes crashing down around you.....You don't scare me but you should be scared.

[Erika Smith]

Once again the blonde continued down a path that would only prove to further worsen the circumstances she found herself in. Try as she might, Erika was having none of her bullshit. After all, she had far more important things to do than listen to some entitled rich girl make demands and threats she concealed as facts.

After all, neither of the two knew how things would turn out. Not the girl and not Erika. She supposed they'd only have to figure it out themselves and she'd allow the girl to remain confident that her white knight would jump in to save her.

Whereas Erika would do everything in her power to prove her wrong.

Rising to her feet, Erika walked towards the door leading out into the hallway. "Move her to the old laundry room. Make sure she's fed and given water. Give her a bucket for her... Other needs," she told the guards standing watch outside. "Oh, and..." She turned towards the girl once more. "I hope you don't mind your personal hygiene not, well, being the best. I'm sure you understand."

And with that, Erika opened the exit door. "Good day, Miss. Orland. Enjoy your stay."

[Ellen Orland]

No, this captain had it in reverse. She had the exact opposite way of viewing this, whatever SHE did, she had to pay for it. Every sin she sees fit to commit, when her father catches up with her will gladly weight up every single action of her and the crew and he’ll pass judgement accordingly. So it was in her best interest to try and even the scales as much as she could by treating Ellen with her due amount of respect.

That was a reasonable thing to ask now was it?

Honestly, she was pretty much the closest thing this girl had to a friend, she was trying to help her, she was telling her in her own special way that there were profound consequences for her if she did the wrong thing. If she didn’t handle this maturely like Ellen was perfectly willing to do it could end up with dire consequences for her, she wasn’t threatening she was repeating facts. She didn’t seem to know the stakes as high as they were.


But it was clear that she had no such intention as first Ellen’s eyes went wide as if the captain had just slapped her square in the face, her eyes going wide and his skin growing pale as her throat bobbed a little as the full weight of her words hit her horror going through her system “You’re kidding!” She stated her eyes flickering from one guard to another….”You’re kidding!” she said more urgency as if begging for someone to tell her it was a joke,eventually she got up from her seated position and pressed herself against the bars her eyes narrowed in part fear and part disgust “YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO ME! YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING”

[Erika Smith]

Before closing the door behind her, the brunette paused and issued a sigh. "I told you; the more insults you throw at us, the worse your stay here will be." She paused then, as if mulling it over for a moment. "My actions aren't the only ones that come with consequences, Miss Orland." The young girl could spew her venom as much as she wanted, but the only person she was making it worse for was herself.

She could think what she did was clever or smart, but in theory; she was simply telling them all what they already knew. They were prepared to deal with the consequences - was the girl?

"I'll bring someone down with food for you," she added finally.

"If you behave, we'll talk again."

And with that, Erika shut the door firmly behind her.