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"No....I won't....I didn't mean it John....I didn't mean it John! AHH!" Joe woke from his horrid nightmare with a start, he was breathing hard and sweating. Who was he fooling, he wasn't going to sleep, he might as well have killed John back there. Years of John being like a father and Joe destroyed it within minutes. It was no longer a bond like it use to but now just pirate and government. He stood up and put on some pants, a shirt, and one of his guns holstered. Taking a drink of water he looked at the map, not seeing anything within the waters they were sailing. It was very possible that he could be sending his men to death, something was changing with Joe though. He wasn't the man he used to be, helping others, just trying to make life easy for those that came by. No, he had became exactly what his enemies thought of him. He was now the image of a pirate, he was out there to make his money and that was it. If someone died along the way, so be it, they should have been somewhere else at the time. Joesph was barley there anymore, no, now, now he was truly Buckshot Rodgers.

"Where's the Captain?! I need to see the Captain!" It seemed Alice was a little upset, Joe was to busy thinking of what the hell to do and who he was to bother. "Come out and speak to me!" She was at his door now, he thought back to the days when he would wait for her and Maverick to get out of school so they could play. He really was a different person, that little guy wouldn't even recgonize himself if he saw Buckshot. He could feel a boiling anger building up inside of him as she kept calling for him. The memories washing back faster bringer every bit of rage that they could muster with them. "Come out and tell me what you did to my father!" Joe slammed his hands down on his table and turned to the door walking like he was going to burn the ship down with his feet. He unlocked the doors and threw them open sending Alice backwards and onto the ground, the doors cracking a little from the force. Your father?! You want to know what I did to your father?! I shot him! I shot him in the gut so he could bleed out painfully! I gave him a choice and he picked the wrong one! That's the code we live by, and that's the code he died by!" Buckshot pulled his pistol from his holster and pointed it at Alice as he cocked the hammer back. "You want to know who I am!? YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO KILLED YOUR FATHER?!!? I'M CAPTAIN BUCKSHOT RODGERS, AND YOU BEST BE WELL GETTING USED TO THIS SHIP MISS TURNER, CAUSE THERE'S A CHANCE IT MAY BE THE LAST THING YOU SEE!" He stood above her, wielding a rage that the devil would cower from. As he stood above her, joe fought his way to the surface, pushed past buckshot to see what he had done to his childhood friend, his sister. Though Joe kept a straight face he was horrified, he could see that everyone was horrified. Joe let the hammer back and slipped the gun in his holster. Turning back to his cabin he caught the eyes of Maverick, Jessie, and Arron. His face still filled with rage, Buckshot still on the top. "Now you get her under control and keep her that way! If I wake up and don't see that sun, the ocean will have another body to consume!" He turned and entered his cabin, taking one more look of Alice on the floor of the ship before he slammed the doors shut and locked them. He stood there for a minute, just standing. "Dammit!" He yelled as he turned and flipped one of his desk as he sunk to the floor. his arms on his knees as he stared at the back porthole into the night sky. "...What am I...." Joe shook his head in disbelief as he knew that turning back, was no option.

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About a week and a half had went by since that night. Sailing west in hope that he had not killed everyone on this ship in hopes of land. Suddenly he saw something, It looked as if the horizon was bumping up, like, land. "Jessie! JESSIE! On the horizon, what is that?!" Buckshot yelled up to the crows nest as he held tightly at the wheel, waiting for a answer.