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This chapter contains a section that might cause some readers to feel or possible relive a dramatic event from their past.  This is not the intention of the scene.  But to help out those who don't want to experience this, just look for the ******Start****** to know when to start to skip over the event.  Then you can safely return when you see ******Stop******.

For everyone else, any resemblance to a real life situation is purely coincidental and is not based any one person or real life situation.

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You weren't sure how long you were laying on your dad's bed crying when you heard the door open back up. In fact you were so upset that you didn't really hear he closing it again. All you knew was that there was suddenly a hand rubbing your back as he sat down on the bed beside you. Which made you cry even harder, and led him to lift you up and pull you into his arms.

"When I left, I was expecting to come back to my girl smiling again. I never thought that I would come back to see you upset." Your dad quietly said in your ear as he held you tightly against his chest. "Did something happen between you two?"

"I think he just broke up with me? But I don't know?" You said through your tears.

"Why do you say that?" He quietly asked as he moved your hair behind your ear.

"He closed his laptop on me. And I can't seem to get him back on." You said just before you felt your throat threaten to close up completely as the raw emotions of it all was starting to hit you with full force again.

"Now why would he do that?" Your dad asked as he rubbed your back as he tried to calm you back down.

"I think he's jealous. I happen to mention Keith and Chris and he practically lost it." You said as you gripped your dad's shirt tightly with your hands.

"Perhaps he's more upset that he can't be here, then he is jealous about them." Your dad replied as he slightly squeezed you before he started to rub your back again. "It can be very frustrating when the person you care for is upset and you can't do anything about it. And they can sometimes seem like they're jealous. When in reality, their pissed that they can't be there to help out. And this can especially be the case, when there is no way that they can change what had happened."

"Even if their the one who hang up?" You asked as you gave him a tearful look.

"Especially if they are the one who hangs up." He replied as he wiped away the tears on your cheeks with his thumb. "Just let him cool off for a bit. Then you'll see what I mean."

"But how do you know?" You asked as you searched his face.

"Let's just say that there were a few fights that your mom and I had that were just like this." He replied as he gave you a sad look.

"Was there ever a time when you thought that she would leave you because of it?" You asked as you looked at him.

"Perhaps once or twice." He replied. "But we always seemed to work things out in the end."

"Did you ever think about leaving mom?" You asked as you searched his face.

"There were a couple of times." He replied with a sad look as he glanced off in a slight daze. "But both times I just couldn't do it. No matter who or what was involved. I loved you and your mom too much to leave you like that."

You then wrapped both arms around his neck and held him tight. "I'm glad you didn't."

He wrapped his arms around your waist and held you close. "So am I."

That night after your shower, you tried desperately to get some sleep. But it didn't seemed to want to come. Your mind was racing and your heart was hurting too much to relax enough to sleep. So you went down to the mess decks as you thought that perhaps you could wear yourself out by helping out with mid-rats. But after seeing Chris come up to get food. You found yourself suddenly hurting more. And all you could do was walk away as he stood on the other side of the counter as he was picking up food from Kevin for the bridge watch team.

After leaving the mess decks, you walked back to the fantail of the ship and stepped out into the dark. Now after your first experience with pure darkness, you were better prepared this time. Because instead of you just stumbling around. You kept one hand on the bulkhead and you stayed put until you could start to see again as your eyes adjusted. Then once you could make out the railing that ran along the side of the ship, you walked over to it.

Once you reached the railing you could feel the wind blowing past the ship as it cruised along. You took a slow deep breath as you enjoyed the breeze as it cooled your face. As you stood there, you could hear the rhythmic rumble of the engines as they slightly vibrated the railings under your fingers. You couldn't help but to start to relax from the smooth rhythm of the ship as she sailed through the dark waters.

You closed your eyes as the cool breeze blow past your face and you let the smooth rhythm start to calm you down. After a long while, you opened up your eyes and looked out over the ocean as you thought again about what had happened. You felt your heart start to sink again as you recalled Ignis' cold look at you. Then you had to close your eyes and dropped your head as you could once again hear his harsh tone.

"Then what would you have me say? That it's fine? That there's no issues with these guys acting like that? Because it seems to me that they might be doing it to get someone's attention."........

"If it's nothing, then why did you get nervous when I asked you about them?"

You couldn't help the tears as they started to roll down your cheeks once again as you stood there by the railing as the sea seemed to glow. That was when you opened back up your eyes and looked down and saw that the sea actually was glowing a bright blue. Because the waves crested bright blue, instead of white as the ship's wake moved away from the ship. Only for it to turn pitch black again as the wave moved further out.

You became lost in the moment as you watched the waves moving away from the ship in beautiful waves of blue. You had heard some of the crew talk about bioluminescence and how it was tiny little organisms that created it as the ship cut through the water. But you had no idea it was that beautiful. As you watched though, you couldn't help but to think of Noctis' bright blue eyes. The color almost perfectly matched his eyes.

This made your heart sink even more, since you still couldn't talk to Noctis. Perhaps if you could, then he might be able to help out with Ignis. No instead you were stuck in the middle of the ocean with no one but the blue sea to stare at and remind you of who you couldn't talk to. You gripped the railing tightly as you braced yourself as you felt everything around you start to fall away as you began to get lost in your thoughts. You were so into your thoughts in fact, that you didn't hear the person coming up from behind you.

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At least not until you suddenly felt one hand wrap around your wrist and twist it around and pin it to you back. While the other arm quickly wrapped around your neck as they put you into a headlock maneuver. Instantly you tensed up and couldn't breath as they were tightening the grip on you as a means of controlling you by near suffocation. You reached up as you tried to grab their arm with your loose arm. Only to have them quickly whip you around and pin you up against the bulkhead face first.

"Oh I don't think so sweetheart." You heard Keith's voice say in a low grumble. "Now that I know that escape. I'm not about to let you do it. Not when I like this little trick of yours of how I can get you to pass out instead."

"Why?" You gasped as you tried to talk. "Why are you doing this?"

"Well, you see." He said as he put his head right beside your ear. "I hate to be ignored. And especially by anyone who would go for that fuck head Chris instead of me."

"So I figured that I would make you pay attention to me." He said in to your ear before he licked your earlobe. "And why not do it while I fuck the shit out of you."

Hearing his words, you immediately started to freak out as you realized that he was serious about it as he bit your earlobe as he pulled you closer. You quickly started to wiggle and move as you tried to free yourself from him. You knew that you had to get away. This was not going to end very well for you otherwise. He was going to take you, whether you agreed to it or not. And it seemed with as much force as he could.

But then right as you felt you were starting to make some room to escape, he pinned you harder against the wall. "Oh no you don't. Your my fucking little bitch tonight. Your going to regret ignoring me you fucking cunt."

Then you half screamed as he started to roughly kiss and bite your skin as he moved up and down your neck. You tried to frantically move away from him as you moved your neck and head around. But then he aggressively grabbed your hair and yanked it back. You cried out from the jerk as you felt your hair being pulled out of your scalp.

"The more you move, the rougher I get." He growled in your ear.

Then he dropped the hand down that was on your neck and forcibly grabbed your breast and started to squeeze it hard. You cried out again in pain as he seemed to be trying to squeeze the life out of them. He then slammed your head against the wall, which caused you to see a few stars from hitting the metal so hard.

"Scream again, and I'll just have to fucking knock you out instead." He growled before he bite your neck hard.

You choked back a cry as he ripped open the front of your shirt. Then he moved his hand inside your shirt and tightly gripped your breast and your hair as he continued to attack your neck. The tears started to stream down your cheeks as you realized that this was happening. You couldn't get out. He had you trapped.

You closed your eyes as you started to cry as you silently wished that he would just knock you out instead. At least then you wouldn't remember any of the pain or his touch as he was having his way with you. Then your whole body started to almost convulse as his hand moved down further and started to feel up your pearl. This only seemed to encourage him as he pressed up harder against you as he quickly undid your pants and shoved his hand down into your underwear. You could feel his hardened member up against your back as he started to grind into you as he bit down hard on your lower neck.

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Suddenly you felt him being yanked back and gasping. Then the next thing you knew, you were falling to the deck in a heap as he released you completely. You curled up into a ball as you slumped against the bulkhead. All you heard was the sound of someone hitting what sounded like a punching bag at the gym.

Then after a while, there was nothing but the silent soothing sound of the engines and waves. Then you felt someone's hands on you. Your freaked out and started scooting back from them. The non-skid deck was tearing at your clothes and your exposed skin as you fought to get away from them.

"Get off me!" You shouted.

"Hey hey hey." You heard Chris' voice say in a calm way.

"It's just me. I won't hurt you. I won't even touch you if you don't want me to. I just want to help you." He said as he crouched down in front of you. "Are you okay to stand?"

You sat there shaking frantically as you slowly realized what had happened. Chris had just saved you from Keith. You don't know where he came from. Or how he knew where you were at. Or even how he got Keith off of you like that. But he had.

You looked up at Chris as he was knelt down in front of you as he looked at you. You started to cry again as the trauma started to hit you. You then quickly reached up and wrapped your arms around his neck and pulled him close. He slowly wrapped his arms around your back as you broke down into heavy sobs.

"Hey." He quietly said as he held you close as you trembled in his arms. "Your okay now. Let's get you to sickbay. We can call your dad from there and security as well. And don't worry. I have a feeling that Keith will be spending the rest of the trip in the brig. Or at least until we get to port. Then the Port police and courts can have him."

You tightened your grip around his neck as he wrapped one arm under your legs and the other around your back. Then he stood up as he picked you up in the bridal carry. Then he turned around and headed up to sick bay. Leaving behind a bleeding and unconscious Keith on the deck by himself.

Once again you were back in medical, as you sat on the edge of the bed while Doc bandaged up your neck from the bite marks. He had said that it was necessary since quite a few of them actually broke the skin and were slightly bleeding. Chris stood by the door and watched as Luna sat beside you and held your hand as she tried to keep you calm. Your dad had already come in and checked on you to find out what had happened. But then he disappeared shortly after that to go 'have a chat' with Keith. But you knew that there wasn't going to be much talking when you saw the blazing fury in your dad's eyes as he left.

"It looks like your neck got the worst of it." Doc said as he tucked in the end of the bandage.

Then he stood back up and searched your face and head again as he glanced at the bandage on your split forehead from being slammed into the wall. "He didn't penetrate did he?"

You only shook your head since you couldn't seem to respond back. Your entire body was beyond tense as you could still feel him touching you, hear him breathing in your ear, and even smell his musky cologne mixed with saltwater. The whole event had you so shocked that you hadn't spoken a word. In fact you hadn't been the one to tell your dad what had happened. Chris had been. Which was one of the reasons why he was still there.

The other was that your dad told him to wait there until he got back. He had said that he wanted to talk to him about what had happened. But as you sat there, Chris seemed to be more on watch then anything, as he kept glancing up at every single sound that he heard. But when he saw that it was nothing, he would look back at you. You weren't sure whether to be nervous about this or grateful.

"Now I want you to take it easy for awhile. We should be arriving in port in a few days and soon you'll be able to leave the ship. You can still work in the kitchen if you want. But I wouldn't push yourself during your training for a bit. Give your body a chance to heal before you get back into it again." Doc said as he glanced in your eyes with his flashlight one last time before he stood back up as one of his assistants walked up to him with a pill bottle.

He took the bottle from them and glanced at it really quick before he handed it to you. "Take these if you need them. It's not a really high pain killer, but it is a good muscle relaxer. Your going to be pretty sore in the morning I'm afraid."

You slight nodded at him as you took the pill bottle and looked at it. There weren't a lot of pills in there. But that was fine with you. You didn't really want him to give you anything anyway. You weren't really a big fan of taking pills.

Then you heard a couple familiar voices coming from the passageway as you recognized Bob's voice. "I've already called ahead to the port authorities. They'll be waiting on the pier when we arrive. They have assured me that they will keep him detained until the company is done with the lawsuit."

"Thank you." You heard your dad say right as they reached the door.

"I really appreciate you getting right on that." Your dad said as he stepped into the patient room.

"It's the least I could do, considering it was one of my crew members who caused this." Bob said as he followed your dad as he entered the room.

They both turned at the same time and looked at you as you watched them. Then your dad gave you a slight smile as he walked over to you. You slightly smiled back. Then after he sat down beside you, he reached his arm around you and pulled you closer to him. You gladly leaned in and placed your head on his shoulder.

"Ready to head back up?" Your dad asked as held you tight.

All you did was nod at him. Then the three of you stood up and started to head for the door. Chris stood back up as well as the three of you approached him. You glanced at him for a moment and saw him giving you a gentle smile.

"Can you follow me back to my stateroom?" Your dad asked him. "I have a few questions to ask you?"

"Of course." Chris responded in a calm voice.

You were laying in your bed in your stateroom with your head on your pillow. The room was quiet except for the air that was blowing on you from the vent in your rack. The red light on the floor was the only lighting. Which usually didn't bother you. But even with the low lighting and the quietness of the room. You were wide awake.

You had tried to close your eyes several times so that you could try to get some sleep. But every time you did, all you saw, felt, and smelled was him. And you would wake up in a pool of sweat. So instead, you now just laid there staring at the door.

You wanted to talk to Ignis now more than ever. But with him not talking to you. All you could do was just curl up into a ball as you tried to calm back down. Which wasn't really helping out matters any. You needed to feel, hear, and smell something different then him.

Then it dawned on you what you could do that might help you out. You slowly crawled out of bed and put on your slippers. Then you walked out of the stateroom. After you dogged the door back down completely, you headed for Mustang country .

The passageway was bright compared to your dark stateroom. And that was even with the lights turned down due to the low lighting for the evening. But you were grateful for it being darker since you were walking around in your knee length pajama shirt. The passageway was quiet except for the sound of your slippers as you walked through it. But you were relieved for that. since you really didn't want to see anyone right now.

But right as you rounded the last corner as you approached the Mustang country, you were stopped in your tracks as you spotted Chris as he was approaching you. You froze in your tracks as you tried to find some place to duck out of sight before he spotted you. But right as you turned around, you heard him clear his throat. You stopped in your tracks as you prayed that he was just clearing his throat.

"Hey. Your heading the wrong direction if you're going back to bed." You heard Chris say behind you.

You dropped your head as you swallowed as you tried to steady your nerves. You hadn't counted on seeing him at this hour. You really didn't want to see anyone right now. There was only one person you wanted to see and that was your dad. Yet here was Chris once again.

"Hey. I'm sorry. I was just joking. I didn't mean to upset you. I'll just be leaving now." He said in a quieter tone.

Then you heard him turn away from you and continue. Your heart sank. You knew that you should say something. After all he had been the one to help you out. But you hadn't said a word after it had happened. Not to anyone. But as you looked up and saw him walk away, you knew that you should.

"Thank you." You said to him before you dropped your gaze. "Thank you for helping me tonight Chris. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't stopped him like that. And I'm afraid of what he would have done if you hadn't."

You kept your eyes down as you heard him turn and walk back up to you. Then you saw his shoes come to a stop right in front of you. You then saw his hand reach out to you. You gave it a curious look before you looked up at him.

You were a bit thrown off when he gave you a warm smile. His whole face seemed to lighten up. And his blue eyes seemed to glow as they reminded you of the bioluminescent that you had seen before everything had happened. You looked at him in wonder as he looked like a completely different person now.

"Your welcome." He said as he reached over and grabbed your hand.

You smiled as you wrapped your fingers around his hand as he lifted it up and gave you a gentle kiss on the top of your hand. He then lowered it and gave you a genuine smile back. You couldn't help but to smile back as you looked at him. He was acting completely different,when compared to the bored and cold looks that you had gotten from him before.  Which gave him very handsome and affectionate appearance.

"You might want to keep going before someone else catches you in PJs." He said with a smile as he then lowered your hand and released it.

"Yeah." You smiled back. "That might be a bit embarrassing."

"It just might." He smiled back as he turned back around to continue on his way.

"Wait a minute." You called after him.

He stopped and looked back at you. "What's up?"

"Why are you up? Didn't you have watch last night?" You asked as you searched his face.

"No. I had an earlier watch last night." He returned back.

You cocked your head as you gave him a confused look. "Then why were you picking up food for the watch team?"

"Well I had just gotten off watch. And my relief hadn't had a chance to grab it before they showed up. So I told them I would bring it up to them." He replied back with a slight smile.

"So you were being nice." You said as you gave him a confused look.

"Well yeah. It is my watch team after all." He said with a slight smile.

"You confuse me." You replied as you crossed your arms as you searched his face. "Why is it that you were cold to me before, but now your this super nice guy?"

"I've always been a super nice guy." He replied as he slightly smirked back. "And I was cold towards you because every time we meet you were either slamming into me and almost knocking me down. Or you were scaring me half to death by either yelling or almost falling off the ship because you stumbled out of the bridge at night during rough seas. How would you react if someone was doing that to you?"

You dropped your arms as you looked at him in astonishment. "Well I..."

"Oh and your constant staring at me and not saying a word was really freaking me out." He continued with a smile.

You dropped your gaze as you got a bit embarrassed. "Yeah, I'm sorry about that."

"Don't be." He returned. "I get it now."

You looked back up and saw that he was smiling at you. "Stop by the bridge tomorrow night if you get a chance. I want to show you something."

"At what time?" You asked as he smiled at you.

"Any time after dark. I'll be on watch until midnight so we will have plenty of time." He said with a smile.

"Okay." You replied with a soft voice. "I'll stop by."

"Good. Now you might want to continue to your dad's stateroom before someone besides me sees you in your pajamas." He said as he did a quick glance at you with a smile before he turned around.

And with that, he turned back around and continued down the passageway. You smiled after him as you stood there for a moment before you turned and continued to your dad's stateroom.

As you opened the door, you heard your dad snoring softly. You quietly closed the door. Then you walked up to his rack. He was laying on his back and had one arm over his eyes as he slept. You reached up and gently touched his arm. He jumped from the contact. Then he slowly moved his arm down as he looked around. Then he slowly focused on you as he started to wake up.

"Dad?" You asked as he slowly looked at you as he pushed himself up onto his side.

"What's up kiddo?" He asked in a deep voice as he fought to wake up.

"Can I sleep here with you tonight?" You asked as you looked at him with hopeful eyes. "I can't seem to relax in my own rack."

He gave you a curious look for a moment. But as he looked at you, he couldn't help but to slightly smiled at you. Then he moved further back in his rack so that he was up against the bulkhead. He then lifted up the covers so that you could climb in. You smiled at him and slipped into the bed right in front of him

"It's not as big as my king bed at home." He reply to you as you got settled in front of him as he laid back down on his side and put his hand up by his head and under his pillow so that his elbow was sticking out in front of him.

"But if it will help you sleep. Then we can make do." He replied as he pulled the covers back up and over the two of you

You put both of your hands by your head as you rested your head on his arm. Your dad brought the covers up to your chin. Then he settled back down as he rested his top arm on his side while he laid his head on his pillow and arm. Then you heard a deep yawn from him as he settled back down again.

You then reached up and pulled his arm down and curled up with it. Your dad slightly hummed at you. Then he gave you a kiss on your head.

"Night kiddo." He said in a deep voice again as he closed his eyes and let the pure exhaustion take over.

"Night dad." You replied as you curled up with his hand in front of you.

As you laid there, you closed your eyes and let the rhythmic sound of his breathing matched with the ship's engines, slowly calm you completely down. Then you took in a deep breath as you let his natural musk and faint traces of his favorite cologne fill your scenes. Then you smiled as his thumb slowly rubbed your hand until he stopped completely when he was fast asleep again. You signed when he stopped. Then you snuggled up closer to him and within a couple moments, you fell asleep yourself.

The next day you did your usual routine so that you could keep your mind busy. Which Henry was very happy to have you back in the kitchen again. Because apparently all of the officers were very upset when they heard that you had gone to medical, twice. They had all been asking him a million questions, to which he couldn't answer a single one. The only thing that he had been able to tell them was that you had been given the night off on doctors orders.

So when they saw you walk out their plates, they were all immediately asking if you were okay and if you needed anything. You couldn't help but to smile at all of them as they seemed to very concerned when they heard about what had happened. Alex and Bob had informed the rest of the officers so that they understood why Keith was locked up in the brig and was only being given bread and water for food. You had heard a bit of that conversation as he asked them all to stay in the wardroom for a moment after breakfast so that they could brief them. You kept busy as you were cleaning up as they all talked as a group.

Once you were done you headed down to the labs with Luna. You had the most fun in the labs that day since they let you and Luna actually feed the fish. Then you had a chance to play with the two baby seals that they had been nursing back to health after they had been found on their deathbeds from starvation after their mother was killed. You couldn't get over how much they loved the small Rainbow trout that the crew had caught for them before they had left.

During lunch, the officers were a lot friendlier towards you. Even Jeff the supply officer, who was usually the only one complaining, was asking how you were feeling. Which that in itself was surprising. But the overall concern of everyone was very kind. Of course by time lunch was over, you were tired of answering that question.

After lunch you were back in class with everyone else again. But this time, you were more in the assistant mode again as your dad just had them running through some of the drills that the two of you were all to familiar with. Everyone seemed to be more keyed in, then they had been the day before.

And a couple of them had asked if you were okay,like Jen. In fact she gave you a hug when she saw you at the beginning of class. But for the most part, everyone just gave you a cheerful smile as they listened intently to you when you had to correct a few of them on their form. Chris seemed to be the one who was the most tentative as he kept glancing at you and giving you a slight smile each time you met his gaze.

When dinner finally came around, you were starting to get excited about what Chris was going to show. He hadn't really said much about it when you had asked about it at practice. But after talking with Henry about what it could possible be. Henry just simply smiled and said that you would going to enjoy it very much.

Then after everything was finally cleaned up, you headed upstairs for your own practice with Luna, your dad, and with Bob. Your dad and Bob had really gotten into a great rhythm with each other as they were running through the drills. They didn't really talk as they worked with each other, in fact for the most part the only noise was them calling out each strike as they controlled their breathing. You and Luna weren't quite to that point with each other yet. But you were able to run through the drills at an easy pace so that you could review them with her.

Once everyone was done, everyone headed to their staterooms to clean up for the night and relax. Luna had decided that she wanted to talk a bit with Alex about what was going to happen with Keith. Your dad said that he wanted to inform Korn about what had happened and see if they had made any progress yet or not. This freed you up to head up to the bridge and see what it was that Chris wanted to show you.

Your dad had been a bit nervous about letting you go up at first. But after a few words from Henry in private, he was suddenly more relaxed about it. This didn't help out your nerves though. But then again, you weren't just nervous because you weren't afraid or anything. Far from it in fact. You were nervous, because you had no idea what it was about. So with a hint of excitement, you gave your dad a peck on the cheek. Then you headed up to the bridge.

******Author Note******

Here we go again. But this time it's a lot for recent trauma. But will it prove to cause more problems? Or will it help to drive you further with your training? Only time will tell.

I do hope that you liked this chapter though. I tried not to get to graphic with the attack. I didn't want anyone to be triggered due to the event.

And again I want to thank everyone for us reaching yet another milestone as this book has hit 18k reads!! You are all amazing and have made this journey total incredible. I couldn't have done it without you. And as always.....

Thanks for reading. :)

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