In the Navy
Maybe nothing more than a cock-and-bull story
(c) 05/2013 Coyote/Kojote/Mike Stone
It took me some time - clearly a huge understatement - to get this finished. Even though I already had most of it written, I was hesitating, correcting, going over it again and again. Reading what I got from others to help me get better and so on.
Apparently I needed to write some other stuff in English and get through that way faster - and I had to stop being too anal and trying to really get everything right . to come around.
So this will have its flaws for sure, but I hope it will be a fun read and I'd appreciate comments.
I'd also appreciate any pointed out flaws of this. I'm still learning and I'm far from being as content with my English writing as I am with my German stuff, which in turn isn't perfect either.
So tell me what you thin, please. ;-)
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II.
Only a couple of hours after having sex with not only one, but two beautiful women on board of their ship in the crews quarters - a scenario that before would have been too hilarious to even dream about for me - I found myself visiting the Norwegian town of Stavanger.
I didn't see much of it though, because my attention was completely focused on the girl at my side.
Hand in hand, we had left her ship to get some private time away from wary eyes. Especially those of Kristanna's sister. At least I suspected so.
We had visited a bar and got a drink, but we both found it too loud to talk and too crowded to enjoy the company of each other the way we wanted. Or at least the way I longed for.
Kristanna apparently felt just the same and dragged me out of there soon.
We were on our way to somewhere. I think she had a destination in mind, but I didn't care at all. I only wanted to look at her every two seconds or so to make sure I wasn't dreaming.
Feeling her fingers in my hand did help, but there were other reasons to look at her. Like... her beauty. And the way she looked back and smiled. And stuff...
We were heavily distracted, which turned out to be a bad idea.
When three guys stepped up in front of us, I realized this. My first thought was, we could have avoided it by taking another route. Looking into the face of the one in the middle, I already was in doubt about this possibility.
He had waited for us and he wasn't alone.
I was pleased to see the bruise at his jaw. I had only given him one punch, but apparently it had been a good one.
Not as pleasing were the two tall guys accompanying him. In fact, the way the scowled at me was the polar opposite of 'pleasing.'
From the moment the trio stepped into sight, I had a very bad feeling about how this would possibly end. A concern, which proved to be right....
Kristanna stepped forward and confronted her Ex without showing any fear.
She didn't wait for him to speak up. She apparently had a pretty clear impression of what this was about. She immediately started yelling at him in Norwegian; her tone and the waving gestures she made implied that she tried to chase him away.
Unfortunately, whatshisname didn't give a shit about what she did or said. He tried to speak to her twice. When she wouldn't listen, he decided to do the one thing I really couldn't stand: He pushed her to the side.
Kristanna yelped and stumbled; she tried to keep her balance, but failed and fell to her knees.
As I said before, I had this chivalrous streak in me back then. I wasn't confident or cool or anything, but I did act upon my urges pretty often. And things like this urged me into rather stupid actions.
Chris-whatever and his buddies watched my
girlfriend for a week
fall and were distracted, but even if they had been closing in I wouldn't have hesitated. Without thinking, I repeated what had worked once, and this time I was able to put my whole weight into the fist I planted right into the motherfuckers face.
It hurt like hell when I broke, or at least disjointed, his nose. I actually thought I might have broken something in my hand, too; but if his loud scream was any indicator, it hurt him more.
He stumbled back and fell onto his butt while yelling and holding his face in his palms. I shook my hand, cursed and thought about looking after Kristanna, but I didn't get the chance.
The two companions of that asshole reacted pretty fast after their buddy was out of the picture. One of them caught my attention with calling me names and the other took advantage of my distracted state.
I hadn't been in many fights until then and I was about to learn an important lesson regarding the importance of not completely concentrating on one of two opponents right there and then. Unfortunately, the lesson came a second too late to make any good of it. At the same instance, I also learned a thing or two about honorable behavior and its worth in an actual fight.
The whole body of asshole number two slammed into my side before I even realized he was jumping into my direction. He tackled me and brought me down hard.
I lost my breath when hitting the ground and that gave him the opportunity to get over me. His fists said hello to my stomach three times and to my ribs twice, while I couldn't get my wits together to do anything about it.
This whole thing could have gotten much worse though, if Kristanna hadn't had a real brain behind her angelic face. After trying to stop the guy kneeling on top of me and getting caught by number three, she screamed for help. And she did it in German!
In hindsight, she probably couldn't have done any better.
Maybe some Norwegians would have helped, maybe not; but at this time of the evening, there were about one hundred German sailors out in the streets. Most of them were not far away, since there was only this one street with bars to go to.
Hearing a female cry for help in German brought a couple of them to the spot in no time. The first thing they did was to secure the guy who was beating somebody into the ground.
One of my comrades helped me to my feet, two others were holding my fist-happy new 'friend' and three more were facing number three, Kristanna and whatshisname. The tension was at its maximum for a moment.
By chance, one of my comrades on the scene was a higher-ranking petty officer. He tried to do the right thing and order us back to the ship, but my girl -
my girlfriend
- was in the clutches of her Ex and his buddy. So that's what I told him.
Again, this could have gotten much worse. None of my guys would have let me down on this and we outnumbered the others now. Once more, it was Kristanna who rescued the situation.
She was already struggling against the one who was holding her and eventually she got the leverage to kick back and hit home with her heel. Even I winced sympathetically when the guy howled like a banshee and grounded out, while holding his crown jewels.
I forgot about all that just a few tenths of a second later, when Kristanna reached me and hugged me fiercely. It hurt, but... in a good way!
She didn't say anything, but clung to me, even when one of our lower ranking officers reached the scene and demanded attention. Of course, he tried to find out what had happened and of course, he didn't get any more answers after it was apparent that the Norwegians were in the Navy, too.
Them being some real fucked up assholes wasn't anything that qualified as a reason to get any superiors involved.
Our lieutenant didn't buy the story about the real nasty case of bad luck that was responsible for one Norwegian falling onto his nose, another one falling onto his balls and me falling onto my chest. Yet he couldn't do anything about it and finally scurried away.
My comrades hesitated to go back to their business. I didn't fill them in to what was the reason for the rumble; it was pretty clearly something about me being with a Norwegian girl. They would have gotten protective and kinda clingy, if not for Kristanna... again.
"I'll take care of him," she told them. "And I doubt that he'll want any bystanders when I show him my gratitude."
She managed to say that in a way that even the least fluent in English understood very clearly.