We Ride With the Tide

CHAPTER FIFTY - EPILOGUE

Lizzie's POV

There was days in the past six years that I would wake up and expect everything to have been a dream, a wonderful and impossible dream but then I remember to list off the things that seemed impossible and count them in my head before I opened my eyes and was greeted with the shining sun filtering through the windows of Harry and I's cabin and listened to the waves crashing against the side of ship and could never not smile knowing that it hadn't been a dream and today wasn't any different as I laid in bed completing my ritual before I stood seeing as Harry was already awake as usual with his early riser tendencies.

I finally got up and made my way to the wardrobe pulling out some clothes heading to the bathroom where I showered and changed clothes and fixed my hair so it was pinned back out of my face before I placed my old pirate hat atop my head and slipped my boots on then made my way up onto the deck of the ship smiling when I spotted Uma at the helm.

"Hey girl, see your finally awake" she smiled at me as I headed up to the upper deck and that's when I spotted the little angel standing in front of her hands on the wheel, a little pirates hat on top of her light brown hair and she turned her brilliant ocean blue eyes towards me.

"Mommy!" she slipped out from in front of Uma and ran towards me with her little wooden sword bounding on the side of her hip and I smiled wrapping my arms around her.

"Hi baby girl" I hugged and kissed her cheek good morning. "Aunt Uma teaching you how to steer?" I asked her.

"Yes, I can almost do it all by myself now" she smiled as I set her back down.

"I wouldn't expect anything less, you are the co-captains daughter" I smiled at her looking back at Uma as we smiled at each other, four years ago we finally achieved our dream in saving up for a ship of our own, the partner ship in the Hook family business meaning business had doubled in our trading company and we had appropriately named the beauty the 'Lost Revenge II' since it just felt right with Uma and I returning to a Co-Captaincy leadership with our old crew members following us over from the Jolly Rodger which Captain Hook and Harriet still ran.

Isobel Hook was born five years ago when Harry and I had been married for nearly a year when we had actually decided to try for a baby, the scare we had 2 weeks after our honeymoon had come negative thank god since neither of us had been ready then and I was relieved because when we finally had decided to try I knew that meant we were ready and it took us only 2 months before I had fallen pregnant with Izzy and she was the best thing we ever did.

"Where's your father?" I questioned my daughter.

"Crow's nest" both Izzy and Uma replied and I looked up seeing Harry standing in the crows nest and smiled.

"I'm surprised your not with him Izzy" she usually loved to follow Harry around the ship.

"That's not a captain job, mommy" she replied making me laugh, she was such a sassy pants sometimes.

"You're spending to much time with your Aunt" Uma looked up.

"That's because I'm awesome, isn't that right Iz?"

"Right" I scoffed shaking my head at my best friend before I headed for the mast.

"Liz, you know your not supposed to climb" Uma warned me but I ignored her rolling my eyes and started climbing up the pegs since the ship wasn't going that fast.

"Hey you" Harry turned lowering his spyglass.

"Liza" he sighed coming over and helped me into the crows nest. "You know-"

"Yeah I know but I thought you'd be lonely up here by yourself given our daughters currently miss sassy steering the ship with Uma instead of being your mini me" he chuckled as I grabbed his spyglass and put it to my eye looking out at the horizon checking our surroundings for any rocks or shallow reefs but it was all clear.