Boat Life In Five Senses

Prompt #036 – Smell, #037 – Sound, #038 – Touch, #039 – Taste, #040 - Sight

By: Kuroi Neko-kun

Summary: Sometimes there are things that the five senses can’t bear when living on a boat.

Disclaimer: Oddly, CBS owns all fandoms here.

Warning: Some slash mentioned.

Rating: FRM

Beta: Onigami_nanashi (Ryan)

A/N: Pirateverse drabbles! I have drabbles for pirateverse!

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Prompt #036 – Smell

His nose curled as the ghastly smell attacked his olfactory senses. This was definitely not the best way to wake up. If he could describe it in a nutshell the smell was a cross between rotting fish and Flack’s mould covered boots with copious amounts of vinegar. Whatever it was, it was not lingering on his ship any longer.

Danny knew it was time to use his captain powers to use.

He got up and pulled a shirt on and exited his quarters. Following the stench, it led him to the deck where Ryan and Speed was bent over what seemed to be a pot. He nearly took a double take when he got closer. Deciding to use a safe distance, Danny hollered at them.

“What the hell are you two making? It smells like ass!”

Speed turned to him pulling up the mask he was wearing and gave him a simple answer.

“Stink bomb.”

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Prompt #037 – Sound

Giving up on tossing and turning, Flack finally got up. He couldn’t take it anymore. This was the last time he was going to put up with Danny’s antics. He’d already followed the other man through thick and thin, putting up with every single one of his so called ‘adventures’ when all he did was attract trouble with marines and pirates alike. And Flack was the one who had to back him up. It was frustrating because all he wanted was a good night’s sleep for god’s sake! It wasn’t too much to ask.

He burst into the captain’s quarters, expecting to find Danny awake but what he found was the captain sprawled out on his bed completely dead to the world.

And the inane snoring that bothered Flack from the bunks below deck was louder than before. Pissed off, he overturned Danny’s bed before leaving and grumbling about his babysitting gig.

Danny woke up, watching his first mate leave.

“What was that about?”

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Prompt #038 – Touch

Danny realized that this was the first time he had touched his navigator this way. When he took her on his ship, he’d treated Aiden with nothing but respect. He may be captain but he realized that he relied on her a lot for their survival in the sea. At first, he had some attraction towards her but when time went on, it meant nothing. Their friendship meant a lot more to him. But Danny still loved to tease and she loved to use her feminine wiles against him.

Even with the teasing and subtle flirting, he had never held her the way he did now. With his arms around her, he pulled her closer.

She tugged at his shirt, sobbing into his chest, still clutching on the piece of paper with the horrible news of her mentor’s death.

He shushed her and tried to make things better.

And that was when Danny realized that he never had hugged Aiden before. He also hadn’t been the one that she was relying on.

It made him realize that Aiden wasn’t just his navigator anymore.

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Prompt #039 – Taste

They took Ryan for granted. When the chef fell sick, Speed announced that Ryan was under quarantine until he figured out just what exactly the young chef caught.

Ryan wasn’t allowed to near the kitchen until he was better. Speed told them by a week’s time Ryan would be up and about. That meant that one of them had to cook and Tony decided to do it.

Now staring at the green soup was supposed to be some sort of specialty at Joyluck Island, Danny couldn’t help but wonder when exactly Ryan would be fit enough to cook again. He watched as Flack bravely spooned it and took a sip. He quickly dashed out the dining area and was presumed to be puking out on deck. Several minutes later, Speed declared that Tony’s cooking was a hazard to health and that the soup was biohazard material.

This overjoyed Danny but the question still remained: Who was going to cook for them for the week?

There was no way they could live that long with bad cooking.

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Prompt #040 – Sight

He put his foot down on the matter. It was a rule on his ship after all. In fact it was a golden rule, sacred to pirates at sea… well, to him anyway.

He didn’t need his crew to be giving a show to everyone and their grandma on this ship.

“There will be absolute no sex in any part of the ship unless in your own quarters,” he said, turning away as he let the ladies get dressed. “That’s the law. The both of you know it since the day you got on the ship. I already banned Don and Ryan from having sex in the kitchen. That applies to both of you in the engine room.”

He turned and got an eyeful. Kate was all over Sara again. Danny took a breath, calmed himself down before shouting at the top of his voice.

“DO THAT IN YOUR QUARTERS!”

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