Hey, peoples I'm back! With a sequel to 'Uncle Jack'... If you haven't read that yet, go away and read it! But if you don't want to you don't have to; Oh and I can't think of a name for this story! Help would be appreciated Here goes...
Chapter 1: Just the beginning after all.
A long sigh came out of Nicola's mouth. She was now twelve. It had been eight years since she first met her uncle, and four years since his last visit.
"James, please... The kids, you're going to wake them up, be a little bit quiet!" Nicola could hear her mother hiss at James Norrington, Nicola's father. They had just come from the town meeting.
"Look, right now I don't give a damn if the children are awake of not." Norrington argued. "What are we going to do about it now? No... What are you going to do about it?"
Eversince James found out about Ria's 'Pirate Brand' burn -which was about two years ago- James went on about Ria hiding that secret from him, whenever the word 'Pirate' was to be heard.
"What do you mean, what am I going to do now?" Ria screamed too. "It's not my fault that they changed the island law! You're the commodore... Can't you just deal with it?" She asked, a bit of concern in her voice.
"Well, I don't want to picture myself hanging in the gallows - with my family swinging beside me!" He yelled back.
Now Nicola knew what they were argueing over, there had been a new law made. Any pirate in this island that gets caught, gets hung with their family. She sighed again. It was times like this that she missed her uncle Jack. She wanted to be happier again. Nicola used to cry and sob when her parents started arguing for the first few times, but now she got pretty well used to it.
"Nicola?" A small quivering voice called. Nicola turned around to see her little sister. "I'm scared!" She sobbed as she ran to Nicola.
"It's alright... Everything's going to be fine, come on Amy. Let's go to bed." Nicola tried to comfort her sister, Amy as she dragged her to her bed.
More arguing was to be heard then, "James... If you dis my brother like that again, I'll..." Ria yelled. "I'll pack my things and leave, with the kids!" Then she whirled around, and stormed into her bedroom.
Nicola always heard those words from her mother. Like "If you say that again, I'm leaving!" Or, "Don't you ever say that... Or I'll run off and never come back." She heard her father sigh and go out to sleep in his office for the night. Soon Nicola's naturally dark-rimmed eyes began to blink slowly as she fell asleep.
Soon, when Ria thought everyone had gone to sleep in the household, she tiptoed out of her room and went into Nicola's and Amy's room. She quietly examined Amy. Amy had blondish hair -don't know which side she got that from- But her hair was getting darker. She had her thumb in her mouth as she snored gently. She seemed very small for her age, she was five.
'Nicola hasn't changed much.' Ria thought to herself as she smiled. Except her eyes had turned totally dark brown. But something in her eyes looked icy cold, but sweetly warm at the same time. Her hair was dark brown shoulder-lengthed and had darker curls at the end, from Ria's side.
Ria smiled as she could see a strong resemblence of Jack in Nicola. She shook her head slightly before walking back to her bedroom.
The next day, Nicola came down to have breakfast, acting as though nothing had happened the night before. "'Morning mommy, and father." She called as she sat down.
"Good morning..." Her father half mumbled, as he stood up as though he had finished his breakfast already. "Well, I've got to go to work now, sweetie... See you later." He said a bit boredly,as he gave Nicola a peck on the cheek.
Nicola simply rose an eyebrow, as if she was getting too old for these. "See you, father!" She said back, and James was gone. She sat down in front of the table as Ria just came out from the kitchen with Nicola's breakfast. "'Morning Nicola!" She greeted, as she handed Nicola her porridge. "Is Amy still asleep?" She asked as a silence was about to form.
"Yes..." Nicola answered shortly. She ate her porridge uncomfortably, as if she was disturbed with the presence of her mother. When she finally finished, she got up to get changed and get ready for school.
When she came back down again, Amy was up, and Ria was having her breakfast with Amy. "I'm going to school now, mum!" She called, out as she put on her shoes. As she heard a faint "See you later!", Nicola finally shouted back, "Bye!" And went to school.
"Good morning Mr Appledorn..." The class chanted to the man in the front of the classroom, Mr Appledorn, who was their teacher. Just as he called Nicola's name out from the class roll, she barged in, panting as she was running because she realized she was late.
"Nicola Norrington..." The teacher repeated, as he rose an eyebrow calmly.
Nicola did a cheesy fake grin. "I'm here..." She said between her pantings.
Mr Appledorn gestured for her to sit down in her usual seat. Nicola always thought that the teacher let her off easy because she was the commodore's daughter and he was also a close friend of Will. As she sat down and got out her stationary, Mr Appledorn wrote on the blackboard in bold letters, 'PIRATES'. Nicola's heart thumped with excitment.
"As you can all see we are now learning on a new topic on pirates. Paul, please turn around and face the front and listne. For goodness sake, I should use a whip like the other classes..." He threatening joked. Mr Appledorn was known as the nicest and the youngest teacher in Nicola's school, and Nicola was lucky to have him. "Now, I want to know what you all already know about... Pirates. Starting from you, Jasmine." He called out.
The girl called Jasmine said, "Pirates have parrots..." And Nicola nearly laughed. But the teacher seemed to be satisfied. When it was soon Nicola's turn, she had rolled her eyes so many times, that it began to hurt a little.
After Bruce had called out. "Pirates wear a hat!"
Suddnely it was Nicola's turn. "Pirates..." She stammered. She was too busy mocking the other kid's comments that she didn't realize she didn't have one for herself. "Pirates..." She continued, when Mr Appledorn gave her a kind of encouraging look. "Pirates eat apples!" She managed.
Mr Appledorn paused for a while, thinking if Nicola was trying to make fun of his last name, but it didn't sound like it. "Good enough..." He commented. When they have gone around the whole class, Mr Appledorn asked, "Now, do you all know about the new law in Port Royal?"
There were mixed answers but most of them meant 'yes's.
"Can anyone tell me what the new law is?" He asked again. When everyone put their hands up, he noticed one operson's hand not up, Nicola's. He walked up to her desk silently.
On the other hand, Nicola was too busy to notice the silence as she was drawing a quick but good sketch portarit of her uncle Jack. And as a shadow covered it, she gasped then quickly covered the art with her arms.
Mr Appledorn simply gave Nicola a curious but annoyed look. "Why isn't your hand up? Don't you know the answer?" He questioned, smartly.
Nicola looked up at him. "Um... What was the question again?" She asked, sheepishly. But she knew the teacher wouldn't tell her.
That was when Nicola's best friend whispered silently, "What the new law is, here in Port Royal..." But it wasn't silent enough. This teacher was young and wasn't as deaf as their maths teacher.
"You two both on detention.. Now what is the answer to my question?" He questioned again.
Nicola sighed, followed by a groan from her best buddy. She resisted to roll her eyes. "The new law, if a pirate is caught here on Port Royal then it will be hung with it's family." She didn't like it one bit referring the pirate as an 'it'. But she acted as though she was bored and calm. She knew her father wouldn't be happy about the detention slip. He'll go on about how she's ruining his reputation. But it wasn't rare that Nicola got a detention. It was actually kind of daily and quite normal.
As she thought it couldn't get worse, Mr Appledorn moved Nicola's arm out of the way so he could see what she was trying to hide from him.
Nicola gasped then croaked, "NO!" But too late... He saw her artwork, and he actually looked half impressed. He stared at Nicola for a while then at the painting.
"Well, I see clearly who you've drawn, You've drawn the infamous Jack Sparrow! I can't wait to see his family tree when he gets caught and hung!" He cracked up at his lame as comment.
Nicola wanted to yell, "I can't wait to see your stupid penguin look when you're surprised that I'm on the family tree of uncle Jack's! Anyway uncle Jack's much better and faster than you, so no-one could get him, especially you!" But she just managed to contain herself.
Wow, how was it? I kinda rushed it a bit. Please review! By the way I like reviews, Just thought you'd want to know. LoL... Catch y'all up at the next chappy, o and memba the title might change soon