Title: "Trouble"
Author: Kat Lee
Rating: G
Summary: There's always trouble.
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Author's Note: 244. That's the number of stories that were sitting on my hard drive collecting dust because I lack the energy and time to take care of them as I once did. My betaing pattern has always been to write, then type up if written on paper, the story, read it aloud to my beloved Jack and our children, editing as I go, and then finally format and post. Sadly, this part is simply taking too much of my time and energy, and my beloved Jack and I have too little time together in person these days to be able to keep up with my stories. So what to do? Give up writing? I actually considered it for a while, tried to make excuses to myself other than the large number of stories collecting cyber dust on my computer, as to why I lacked the energy and Muse to write new tales. And then, with the turn of the new year, I decided to stop running and face the problem. The problem is, quite frankly, that once one gets so bogged down in formatting and editing that writing is no longer a pleasure but the actual posting of those writings becomes a hassle and - egad! - work, it's time to cut something out, and that will never be the writing process. So, in short, yes, there will be mistakes in this tale. Yes, it's missing about half of the header information I usually include. But I wrote it for pleasure and am posting it in hopes of sharing that pleasure with others. Do with it as you will.
"You know there's goin' to be trouble."
"There's always trouble where Captain Jack goes."
Jack flashed them a wide, gold-toothed grin.
"At least, he does leave me eye alone."
Jack nodded.
"Mostly."
Jack scowled at Pintel. His silent scowl encompassed Ragetti as well as the other Pirate agreed, "When we're not fighting 'im."
"If I may, gentlemen - "
"This here's a private conversation - "
"Yeah. 'Tween me an' Pintel to determine which one o' you Captain's we're goin' with."
"I was just goin' to point out, that two fine Pirates such as yerselves hardly need a Captain. Ye need a ship, granted, but ye know, if I had two such fine, sea-faring Pirates as yerselves on me crew an' gained a second ship, I'd be hard placed as to which one o' ye tae put in charge o' that second vessel."
"Captain o' me own ship?" Ragetti asked; Pintel stared at Jack.
"I don't see why not." Jack waved a ringed hand through the salty air. "Ye'd certainly be grand masters o' yer own ship an' crew, given th' chance."
"I don't know if I'd wanna be Captain. Too much trouble, havin' to order everybody around an' see we all get our pieces an' goin' down wit' th' ship an' what all."
Jack wrapped an arm around Ragetti's shoulders. "Then we'd make Ragetti here th' Captain, an' ye his First Mate."
Pintel brightened. "First Mate Pintel. Got a nice ring t' it."
"It does, doesn't it?" Jack grinned. "Captain Ragetti sounds rather nice too, don't ye think?"
"Aye, it does!"
Jack beamed at the foolish Pirates he'd just taken from Barbossa. He'd lose them, too, he was sure, when they got their own ship. They'd never mutiny on him by themselves, but Jack was sure during the first week they had their ship, they'd run her aground.
The End