Ch 7: Shipmates

[tootsiemuppet]

Don't forget your old shipmate!

Your old shipmate. Don't forget him.

'Yes, sir so I took the liberty of reducing sail' 
It was an extraordinary breach of discipline. But Dillon knew that as well as he did: there was no good purpose to be served in telling him of it publicly.
'Whose watch, is it at present?'
'Mine, sir,' said the master. He spoke

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[snakey]

"Sir, sir," piped Babbington into Jack's ear.
"Hush, sweetheart," murmured his captain, whose dreaming mind was occupied with quite another sex. "Eh?"

*died laughing* I wonder what Babbs made of it?

[tootsiemuppet]

Hahaha I know. I loved that. XD

Now imagine if Marshall had woken him up.

[sharpiefan]

...or Stephen...

[tootsiemuppet]

Stephen would have taken it in stride. Marshall might not have. ;D

[snakey]

And Marshall and his painstaking series of lunars,.

"Very happy to - approbation - " His vocabulary failed him, and he finished by jerking his head and clasping his hands by way of expression. It was curious to see this burly fellow - a hard-faced, formidable man - moved by a feeling that called for a gentle, graceful outlet..

*hearthurt*

[mylodon]

That scene kills me. The whole chapter is, for me, about Marshall; the knots he ties himself in and the pressure Dillon is putting on him. And I am mad at POB for
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making this wonderful character for me to fall in love with and then not using him again.

(And I am trying very hard not to write fic in which Marshall turns out to be the long-lost brother of Captain Jack Harkness.)

[snakey]

I really want to write Marshall!fic at some point - partly just because I so want him to have
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I seem to remember someone writing a fic that kind of did that - I'll have to hunt it down!

And I for one will read your fic if you write it.

[mylodon]

Ooh - that sounds like a story worth reading. (I've used Marshall as the master of Hornblower's ship in an ongoing saga; it was nice to let him be the hero on occasions!)

[snakey]

Question: Do people think Dillon did the right thing?

[tootsiemuppet]

Ha-h'm...

*shuffles uncomfortably, clears throat Hornblower-style*

[snakey]

*eyebrow*

[esteven]

You mean him blackmailing the master?

The crew and the owl

[esteven]

'And think of our poor doctor, all alone among them damned trees - why, there might be owls.
While that remark shows how the crew cherish their doctor (and makes me break up every time I read it), can someone please explain why owls are considered ferocious and dangerous to Stephen?

Re: The crew and the owl

[tootsiemuppet]

Oh, and this: "they put him down tenderly, well above the high-water mark, adjured him to take care of all them nasty sticks laying about". :D

Anything would be dangerous to Stephen. ;D

Re: The crew and the owl

[esteven]

They already have the measure of him as the complete landlubber who cannot be let out of sight.

Re: The crew and the owl

[snakey]

You want to watch out for sticks. Can't trust 'em. Shifty buggers.

A "new" crewmember

[esteven]

Someone called Bonden makes his first appearance and he must be fairly important when he is already accompanying Jack ashore in search of the doctor.

Re: A "new" crewmember

[tootsiemuppet]

I noticed this!!! It made me so happy. :D

Re: A "new" crewmember

[esteven]

I am sure we will hear more of this competent seaman, who is trusted by his captain to have everything ready needed for a land expedition.