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Monkey's PlayA/N: Reviews are always welcome.
"Take that and that!" Jack shouted.
He pranced all over the ship stabbing at random invisible people.
The rest of the crew stood in interest watching the short seven-year-old boy, who had apparently no idea what he was doing. He had recently been great entertainment for the crew for the past few weeks though by now they were getting tiered of it. Especially having to pick him up out of the water after his fake dramatic deaths of him stumbling backwards and gasping for air while grasping his side in pain and finally, of course, falling overboard.
"Jack! Give it a rest will ya mate?" Calico called over the heads of the rest of the crew.
Calico was Jack's Father. He had been Captain of the Black Pearl for a good eleven years but had to bring Jack on board at the age of four, after his mother died of a tragic disease in Tortuga. He now realized, that was the worst mistake of his life. Jack did nothing but talk all day long and prevented everyone from doing their duties. Luckily he enjoyed being up in the crows-nest. By putting him up their Calico could hear himself think again and actually do his own duties without having to worry about him.
Jack on the other hand was always looking for new things to do and soon developed a new way of grabbing the riggings and swinging high over the heads of the rest of the crew. Getting down on the other hand was a different story. Normally he would land in the water or on his father's head though once he hit the wheel in the worst spot possible, he was not being easy on the goods, if you get my drift and stayed in bed for two whole days with plenty of ice packs. But the worst place or person he landed on was Barbossa.
Barbossa had never really liked Jack. From the first moment he met him those three years ago. Though Jack never truly understood why. Though through the years he would find the answer he was looking for.
That night Calico was determined to get it through to his son that if he did not settle down he might be jeopardizing his life on The Pearl and in general.
"Hey Dad did you se…" Jack began but Calico cut him off.
"First of all mate it's Captain,and if you even think the word Dad or anything related I'll have you're tongue. Second of all, in this conversation all you will be doing is listening. If one word even comes out of you're mouth while I am talking to you, unless I ask you a question, there will be hell to pay. Savvy?"
At this remark Jack shut his mouth tight and his attention immediately went to Calico.
"Jack I have tried and tried to be a good father to you but it's about time I lay down the rules. You are only seven at the moment and all of this may not make much sense to you so, I'll make this brief. Mate you're to dang wild. You're up their swinging on ropes and talking a mile a minute to EVERYBODY. The Pearl hasn't had one day of peace in four years. If you don't shut up and start acting like a person and not a monkey you are going to get kicked of this ship and most likely never see me again. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes D… Captain. Perfectly" Jack sighed
"Good. Now time for bed see you in the morning." Calico said as he patted him on the head and hustled him out into the hall.
"Night" Jack grumbled as he sulked out of the room.
The next day the crew of The Pearl woke to silence. Of course, this surprised everybody. So as usual they got dressed and headed for the galley. Their Jack sat, already with a plate filed with food and he was shoving his face full of it.
"Morning" Jack said as he put a large sausage in his mouth.
The crew was astonished, normally when they get up Jack had already eaten his breakfast gone on deck and began messing around. Today he appeared to have slept in and was extremely hungry. The rest of the crew sat down next to him and filled their own plates with food. The whole time they were speechless and could not take their eyes of Jack.
"So… mate… what ya been up to lately?" Asked Barney one of the older crewmembers trying to make small talk and break the silence.
"Not much, and you?" asked Jack in reply though never looking up from his plate.
"Oh, you know, the usual." Barney answered, then the room went silent again.
The rest of breakfast went on the same way. The room was so silent you could have heard a pin drop. But it was after breakfast when people started to think Jack was weird. He had gotten up from the table and went up on deck as usual. But instead of going off into his own little world he immediately walked over to his father.
"Is there anything you would like me to do at the moment CAPTAIN?" Jack asked him.
Calico gave Jack a crooked smile, "There's always stuff to be doing lad but you're supposed to get your orders from Gibbs remember?"
At this Jack turned on his heel and marched over to the round, twenty year old man that sat on the apple barrel taking ever so often swigs out of his flask. When Jack asked for what he should do, he almost got blown over with shock.
"Wait! What did you just ask me lad?" Gibbs asked with both astonishment and shock in his voice.
"I asked you what my duties were." Jack replied coolly.
Gibbs didn't know what to do. Yesterday the kid was totally out of control and now he's here asking me for his duties. Gibbs thought to himself for a minute, and then decided it would be best to keep the kid out of every body's way so he put him on kitchen duty.
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