[mir/thunder] yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me
“So. What you want to join my crew.” Sanghyun looks the boy over. He looks quite young but Sanghyun has been sailing long enough to know that looks can be quite deceiving in their line of work. “What’s your name?”
“Mir.”
Sanghyun smirks. “Mir is definitely not your real name.”
Mir doesn’t even blink. “Are you trying to tell me Thunder is your real name? Kinda arrogant, if you ask me.”
“That’s fair.” Sanghyun says, ignoring the last comment. He eyes Mir’s lined eyes. He looks like one of the boys Changseon sometimes has draped over himself when they meet up on land. “Are you going to tell me you’re a captain, too?”
Mir scoffs. “You don’t believe me. Then again, I suppose it’s to be expected. I doubt you’ve earned the title demon of the sea by trusting random strangers, after all.” He scratches his elbow and Sanghyun’s eyes drop to his arms. Mir has really nice arms. “It’s no use telling you I’m a captain because I’m not. I was sent here by one, though. I’m told I can be very… convincing.” He traces his upper lip with his tongue and smirks when Sanghyun’s eyes immediately follow the movement.
“How did you find me?”
“My captain has a lot of connections.” All playfulness disappears from Mir’s voice and he frowns. “At least until he was mutinied. Or he was going to be, if I hadn’t warned him and got him off the ship before the planned date.” Mir doesn’t say anything else. Sanghyun narrows his eyes.
“You’re not telling me something. You can’t expect me to take in a mutinied captain and his right hand when you start off with lies.”
Mir sighs. “Have you heard of lieutenant Yang Seungho?” Sanghyun nods. There isn’t a pirate who hasn’t – the guy is the number one reason the pirate ships are more of a rarity these days. “Well, my captain managed to capture him.” Sanghyun raises an eyebrow but Mir continues, “The crew wanted to kill him, of course. The captain wanted to get information out of him first but they got… attached in the process. When it became clear lieutenant Yang wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon the crew decided they feel betrayed and started planning the mutiny.”
Now both of Sanghyun’s eyebrows are up in his hairline. “Let me get this straight. You capture Yang Seungho, your captain fucks him, the crew mutinies your captain. And now you want to get them aboard my ship. I’m assuming Seungho’s still with you?”
Mir nods. “Well,” Sanghyun says slowly, “I am not meeting this captain of yours without back up.”
And to think Sanghyun was dreading this trip to land.
Changseon is casually cleaning his guns as they walk to the place the captain and his hostage are supposed to be. Nobody blinks twice at them because this is Tortuga and nobody blinks twice at anything.
They are walking in silence, watching him, until Mir speaks up. “I don’t know why I’m surprised you’re friends with the Lee Joon.”
“Please,” Changseon snorts. He stows the gun he’s holding and takes out another one. “If we hadn’t grown up together I would have nothing to do with this loser.”
“I think you’re forgetting all the times I’ve saved your ass from the royal guards, Joon, sweetie.” Sanghyun’s voice drips fake sweetness and Changseon snorts again. Mir just eyes them quietly.
“Anyway,” Changseon speaks again, his tone flippant. “Is this captain of yours named G.O? I heard some fuckers last night telling a story similar to yours. That’s a pretty dumb nickname for a captain of a pirate ship, if you ask me.”
“I’m not.” Mir says flatly, but then smirks “But I think so too.”
Changseon turns and raises an eyebrow at him and when Sanghyun snorts, raises an eyebrow at him as well.
“Well, well.” Changseon says after a while, when they reach the brothel G.O and Seungho are supposedly hiding in. “This should be interesting.”
***
There’s a girl sitting on deck with her legs crossed. She’s cutting an apple and she salutes Sanghyun with the hand holding her knife. She gives the other three a quick once over. “Yo, I’m Dara.”
Sanghyun motions at her. “Go gather the crew, we have new recruits.”
She raises an eyebrow but gets to her feet. “I didn’t know we were looking for more people?”
“We weren’t.” he eyes his new crew members. Seungho is in chains because there’s no way Sanghyun is letting the Yang Seungho on his ship out of chains. His eyes linger on Mir and Mir smirks when he catches him staring. “There were certain… circumstances.”
Dara raises an eyebrow again. “Cool.”
“Uh,” G.O mutters when Dara has disappeared inside the ship. “Isn’t a woman on board considered bad luck?”
“I dare you to say that to her face.” Sanghyun laughs and it seems to weird G.O out further.
Unsurprisingly, he says nothing when Dara comes back with the rest of the crew.