The men had already tipped her a penny each, a days wages for a young barmaid, and she well knew that plenty of flirting would earn her more besides. ...Most of the other customers had slipped quietly into the darkness of a Saturday night, the locals only too aware that bibulous seamen were best avoided, and although these were private merchantmen rather than Royal Navy sailors they could still cause trouble later. Old Joe, who ran the inn looked over from his position behind the bar and rolled. Please spend a few minutes talking among yourselves and then send your leaders and officers to me with your answer. Don’t take too long, though, as I don’t think the pirates will wait while you talk it over. They want to take this nice big ship away from us, and feed us all to the fishes.”I didn’t actually feel rushed, everything took so LONG out here. The ships really weren’t very fast. Although, Filo kept reminding me that the ship almost certainly had oars like ours so it would be more. " Jason fumbled his words, straining to maintain eye contact as he looked into her deep beautiful blue eyes. "I'm not sure how to tell you this really so I guess I will just come out and say it." The irony of his choice of words was not lost on him. Five years earlier Brianna's name was Bryan and she came out to Jason telling him her plan to transition to a woman. "I've been your best friend as long as I can remember and we've always been close but I really feel like we've gotten closer these. She had to find a way.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The next twenty minutes or so seemed to Amanda like hours. She waited for her rapist to fall asleep. She waited until the even heartbeat and the steady rise and fall of Julio's chest against her back made her completely certain that he was fast asleep. Then she made her move. Very gingerly, she slipped out of his arms and off the bed. Looking around the bedroom suite, she managed to use the moonlight shining through the windows to find the.