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Things are tense. Very tense. And Gibbs keeps eying the lifeboats. Thinking that soon he and the captain will have to use one.

Not that Gibbs is letting on about that fear. He's busy inspecting the ship in the early morning, hoping that maybe he can forestall the mutiny one day more.

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"Er, yes." He pauses, trying to recall details. "You had hair, didn't you?"

His smile freezes.
"why's it always gotta be 'bout the hair?" he says with a sigh. "Yeah, was ten years younger then too. Got held up in another world for a while."

"That would explain why you seem different." That and how sometimes Gibbs' memory takes a blow or two from all that rum. "Did the angel send you through time?"

"Angel?" He blinks in confusion. He sort of missed that plot. "Nah, door just went bust an' didn't appear for a longass time. I was visitin' Alanna, Adam, and the kids, next thing I knew I was a long lost member of the family."

These things happen.

"Alanna adopted you...you should have just said as much." That's as good as a letter of introduction from the king and Jack Sparrow. Probably better.

Probably better than, actually. Considering how the last meeting between Sparrow and Raph went down. Pirate hit Raph upside the head with a bottle of rum, knocking the ninja to the floor in a heap.

"Didn't know whether or not you knew of her, to be honest."

Beat.

"But then again, she did spend an awful lot of time here before she got married..."

"Aye. She and I got pretty close. If she trusts you, I trust you.

"Though I hadn't any notion it had been that long for her." No wonder he never sees her around.

He chuckles.
"I wouldn't go so far as to say she trusts me. Think it's more that she's been stuck with me seein' as I'm the only one that can stand her kids for long stretches of time."

That's Raph, ever the babysitter.

"She hasn't kicked you out in ten years. Or killed you. She doesn't suffer fools gladly." Or at all.

"Not gladly, no."
Again, another knowing smirk.

"She is well, though. They both are, actually. Kids are springin' up like weeds every day."

Which was something new for Raph to experience, never having had much experience with children before Milliways. And certainly not in watching them grow up.

"Well, once this is done, and you get back to Tortall, tell Alanna that Gibbs sends his regards and that he hopes she's well. And that she should visit the Bar." And just knowing that the captain has found a ninja who's trained with Sir Alanna goes a long way to putting Gibbs at ease for the first time in weeks.

"I think that can be arranged."

While Raph's job here is to not play favorites and remove or otherwise immobilize any and all threats to Liz's claim to the ship, Gibbs is really starting to grow on him.

"You know, provided we live through this."

Strange that Gibbs has that effect on people. Even ninjas.

"Provided we live through this." He gives a sly smile, and then begins to make his way along to let the captain's secret weapon go back to being secret.

As the pirate moves away, the ninja returns to his shadow. In no time at all he's gone.

"I'll see you 'round."
Though, it sounds more like keep your head down anything else.

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