*Zoe*
Zac is muttering to himself as we make our way down to the crews quarters. He looks like he could take of someone's head and honestly I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that anger.

When we arrives Joel is slumped between two men, Joslin's brother standing in front of him. Joel is bleeding from both his nose and mouth and I am not sure if he is even conscious. Zac steps up. "Let him go right now".

"Stay out of this, this has nothing to do with you". Her brother turns his head to glare at Zac. "I don't tolerate anyone defiling my sister, especially not some freaking white cracker, so take your bitch and fuck of".

Zac breathes through his nose. "Don't ever refer to her like that again or I will fucking end you. Why don't you try picking on someone your own size for once ?"

"Damn you just don't know when to stop do you ?" He tries to punch Zac, but he is to fast, ducking and punching him in the guts and kneeing him in the face as he tumbles.

The two other men lets go of Joel and I hurry to his side, to check on him. He is gasping slightly, and seems very groggy. When I look up again Zac is standing his feet apart, his breathing gasping slightly. "Are you done ?"

The three other men is laying on the floor, it looks like they are done. I hear footsteps and see Tom come running. He stops looking at the three men. "What happened here ?"

"Oh nothing special, we just had a little talk about how you treat women and only pick on people your own size". Zac says with a slight smile.

"A talk ?" Tom looks from Zac to Joslyn's brother, moaning on the floor, his face smeared with blood from his nose. "Why is he bleeding then ?"

"Because he's an idiot". Zac says with a small shrug.

Tom chuckles, raising one eyebrow. "l didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose".

"I think it's a new phenomenon". Zac says with the most innocent smile, before coming over to check on Joel.

*Zac*
"How is he ?" I look at Zoe, as she has been checking Joel over. I have grabbed his hand, squeezing it softly, to let him know I am there.

She smiles softly at me. "Better than I feared, there don't seem to be anything broken, but he need to get by the ship's doctor for a check up".

"Where does it hurt Joel ?" I lean down, trying to get eye contact with him. I swear if there is any serious damage I am not done with those fuckers.

Joel groans and blinks, his voice hardly more than a whisper. "Would be easier to list where it doesn't hurt, because everything but my ass and my toes hurt".

Joslyn shows up with Ben and the security, and she is instantly beside Joel, fussing over him, while he tries to tell her not to worry.

The security of course want to talk to me, so Tom and Ben gets Joel to his feet, both supporting him, as Joslyn shows them the way to sick bay. I would have preferred to go, but they want to question both me and Zoe separately.

Before she leaves with one of the security team, she leans in, kissing me on the cheek and whispering in my ear. "That was absolutely sexy Zac".

I send her a cheeky smile. It had felt good getting some of my anger out. Also the hurt and fear I am still fighting on a daily basis. But what kind of scares me is that I still feel on a high, feeling the adrenaline coursing through my body and I know I need to have Zoe calm me down when I am done here or I might do something stupid.

After telling them everything, they decide that I couldn't have acted differently. I get a feeling those guys weren't exactly well liked by the security guys. And they take them into holding, awaiting to see if Joel wants to press charges and what the cruise company will say.

I get on my way to find Zoe. I need her badly right now. The demons are definitely at play in my mind. I need her to tell me they are wrong, to pull me back from the ledge again. I don't regret what I did, but well it was definitely more than I could cope with.

"Zac !" I suddenly hear my name called and I feel my heart drop. Just what I need. That bitch to ruin my day even further.

I turn and try not to hiss at her or punch her in the face. "What do you want ? I don't really think you and me have anything more to talk about".

She just smirks at me in a way that gives me chills of the bad kind. "Oh but we do Zac, I got something I need to talk to you about".