Early 18th Century, Tortuga:
"I'm not like you; I won't do very well on a ship. Jack, I wasn't born to live out at sea, I'd feel captive in on a ship." I spoke to my dear friend and partner; we sat down on the beach just a few feet from the small home where I stayed while he was gone. He was trying to convince me to leave with him on another of his crazy adventures. He laughed such a pure, honest laugh, "Siddie, you really think that I don't know that? I just want you with me. You know what happens if you stay here much longer." At those words he lost his usual smile to a frown. "No. I don't." Truthfully I was all too aware of my fate if I stayed in Tortuga without him again.
"You become one of three things, a bitter house wife to someone who you won't love," he started but I interrupted him, "How do you know I won't love them?" I asked, raising my eyebrows at him. "Because they wouldn't make you a house wife if they loved you and you would never love someone who didn't love you, now where was I? Ah yes or a barmaid or you'd work at the brothel." I shuddered at his last word. "Being stuck on a boat would be better, or am I to work for the Trading Company as well?" I argued with him, he just returned from a job for them and had to leave me behind.
"Sid, I don't work for them anymore," he pulled up his sleeve to reveal a swollen, red, puffy burn in the shape of a P. I grazed it with the tips of my fingers, "Jack, darling, what happened?" He reaches his other hand to my face and lifts my chin up so our eyes meet, "No worries, love. I did what I know was right. I must confess to you though, I had to make a bargain to raise the Wicked Wench after they burned it." I jump up, he follows suit, "What do you mean a bargain?" Jack looks away, and then wraps his arm around my waist, "I think you should rename the beautiful vessel." I figure that he'd tell me when he was ready so I think about a name. "The Black Pearl, that's it."
"Hmm, the Black Pearl, I love it Siddie!" he kissed my lips, which made me lose my balance and we fell back onto the sand. "Do we have a crew?" I inquired while he played with my hair. "Yes, we do. Our first mate is some older man by the name of Hector Barbossa." He pulled me closer to him, "Let's leave as soon as we can, Jack," I whispered into his chest. "We can go tomorrow, I had it all planned out."
The Next Night:
I stood on the dock in front of the Black Pearl as I waited for Jack to return. Soon I saw him walking towards me with a man I suspected to be Barbossa. "Ah, Siddie, I'd like you to meet Hector," Jack said as he moved closer to me, Hector reached out his hand, he had a firm grip and a wicked smirk as we shook hands. "Miss Latro, it truly is lovely to meet you after all the talk Jack has done about you." I smile at him, "Well, Jack is known to have a sliver tongue, I only hope that he says things that make me shine in a much better light than I actually do." I leaned and kissed his cheek. Jack cleared his throat, "Well, to the Pearl?" he grabbed my hand as we walked onto the ship together for the first time.
The Black Pearl was even more beautiful up close than from afar, never have a seen a ship and fallen in love until I saw her. I left Jack's side and ran to the wheel, gliding my fingers across every inch of the polished wood before a noise made me pull back. "You'll make a perfect pirate, Sidera," his voice was full of admiration as he stood behind me. I smiled at him, running my hand across his face, "Only because I will have learned from the best." He turned me around so we were both facing the wheel. Behind me he slid his hands up from my waist to my hands placing them on the wheel. "Let's sail the Caribbean, love."
"Only with you, Captain Jack Sparrow."
2 Years Later:
"Sidera, listen to me you need to go to the nearest town. There is one about a few miles north that I marked on this map." Jack was frantic as ever as he searched through the Captain's quarters. He was looking for something in the desk, "Why, Jack?" I stood from the bed walking towards him, placing a hand on his shoulder. "I think they are going to mutiny," his voice cracked, "I can hear their whispers." He was throwing stuff now from the drawers. As a shirt flew past my head I spoke "Jack, I am your wife, if they mutiny then I'll be with you when they do." He stopped searching and looked at me, walking me backwards. He pinned me on the bed, "Listen to me then Mrs. Captain Sparrow, I don't want you hurt so you will get in that dingy and leave this ship!' Jack was never forceful or demanding of me, so I understood now that he was scared.
I nodded my head and he let me up, he laid his hand on my cheek, "Siddie, you need to go to the town and start a life, use your maiden name, do not use your name as Sparrow until I come to you." Tears started to form and Jack pulled me closer to him, "What if you don't come?" I said as a sob broke out of my throat. "I promise I will come back for you, as soon as I can." I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him. He broke us apart, "Come on Siddie, I'll help you with the dingy." The deckhands were gone and the ship looked abandoned, it was obvious why Jack felt worried.
I climbed into the dingy and Jack put a bag in it that I hadn't seen him carrying. "What's that?" I asked him, still standing up. "Just some things for you, now remember to go north, the first island you see has a town on it, Port Royal, I believe." I frowned and he grabbed the back of my head pulling me into a kiss, "I love you Sidera." I kissed him again before I sat down, "I love you as well Captain Jack Sparrow." He took off his hat and bowed, "Be safe my wife."
As I sailed away from the Black Pearl I felt my heart break from the separation from Jack for the first time in years.