"watch out, sweetling…keep that rapier up a bit higher…..that's it…good…parry, thrust…good!"
Jack smiled to himself as he heard the woman he had taken as his wife, the woman who held his heart as sure as the chest held his old friend's instructed her daughter in the fine, or at least livable, art of swordplay. He kept working on the map, using his compass and other tools to map out the path they would take the Pearl to avoid the worst of the storms…and the various Naval ships that had bounties on his and his crew's head. His quarters were not truly large enough for sword practice, but in order to keep the girl from the rest of his sea rat crew, with the exception of Mr Gibbs, who was her keeper most times, this was the only place to practice. The girl stumbled under her mother's quick, powerful strikes and threw her arm out blindly, aiming at her mother, but coming very close to Jack instead. Without looking up from the map, he drew his sword and blocked the downward strike. Deanna stuttered, apologizing even as she turned her back on her mother to look at Jack; and her mother took advantage of the lack of the attention to smack her daughter across her butt with the flat of her blade. The girl screetched, spinning around, dropping her sword and grabbing her butt. "You cheated!" Jack and Anne shared a look filled with amusement before Anne said, stealing Jack's normal words, "Pirate!", in an amused, obvious tone. Then, Anne said, "Never turn your back on a person with a sword…it's a good way to get dead…."
"But you BOTH have swords!", and since she was now facing her mother, Jack took the opportunity to lay the flat of HIS blade across her butt, which caused the girl to shriek again, turning to glare at him! "How am I supposed to keep my eye on BOTH of you? One of you will ALWAYS get behind me!" Jack kept his eyes on the map in front of him as his beloved said, "It's not easy…but you have to keep your attention on every sword around you…nobody said it was easy….", The girl slammed her fists down on her hips, in an unconscious imitation of her mother, making Jack smile, as she said, "So I just have to keep both of you in front of me, all time?" AT that moment, Mr Gibbs walked into the open door of the room and used the flat of HIS blade to smack the girl on the butt, another shriek, as she turned to glare at him, then backed up into a corner, glaring at everyone in the room. Mr Gibbs continued putting the rum down on the table and leaving, a smirk on his face, and Jack smiled, picking up the bottle and using his teeth to pull the cork out of the bottle and taking a swig. He offered the bottle to his love, who shook her head, so he shrugged and took another drag, before he said, still not looking up from the map, "Well…putting one's rear in the corner is one way to keep it secure, love…just make sure not to get so stuck there you go down with the ship, Savvy?"