She was destined to be with him, destined to love him. But can he love her? Can he give her all she deserves? It is set before, during and after all the movies
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Chapter 1:
I remember the first time I saw him. He was young still, with a little stubble just under his chin. He looked up towards his father, excited about the voyage ahead. My guess was he was about 15 or 16. I was only 8, but I knew who he'd be in my life. I knew he would be the man in my life. I just didn't know how, why or when. And that made a big difference.
"Father isn't it bad luck for a woman to be on board?" He asked. He sneered at me, as if threatened by my presence. I could tell he was nervous and scared, but he hardly showed it.
"Aye, she is but a wee little child yet, Sparrow, she has no luck in her veins." The Captain replied. It sounded cruel to me that he would say such a thing, he didn't even know me. I mopped the deck and moved to my quarters. My mother was engaged to a pirate; which is to say she became with child and he felt obligated to be with her. As a trade for our safe passage my father and I were to clean the deck and do the muck work the crew members wouldn't.
When we arrived safely at Tortuga, my father's home city, we settled in to our quiet little home. Quiet and Tortuga don't mix very often but there was a little place off the coast in which the whores and drunkards did not travel. I called that home until I was old enough to leave. I am now 16. I always felt my life was meant to be great.
I traveled a lot in hopes of finding my dreams, but a few months had passed and I was quickly getting discouraged. I needed to know where exactly my life was heading. I was talking with a crew member about my distress, and he was kind enough to point me to a voodoo lady deep in the jungle.
I know it sounds as if I'm rushing the first part of my story but it really doesn't start until I meet Tia Dalma. The witch lady whom many feared, but all trusted.
I wish I could say I knew I was getting into, but in fact had I, I certainly would have went back home. When our little boat oared its way down the river, I seemed to have lost time. I didn't realize that time had indeed stopped.
"Here you are child. You must enter at your own will, she is already expecting you." The man who brought me here informed me. I shook his coarse and dirty hand, smiled sweetly, afraid he was going to ask for some payment. But he looked just happy to be getting out of there. I didn't have time to change my mind, so I entered.
The front door did not fit the doorway made for it. Her potions and candles were scattered about, it amazed me that she could find anything in that place. But it seemed that that was the only she could find something.
"Come, child, don be 'fraid, you have somting to ask, I have de answer ye seek." Those were the first words out of her. She talked like I've never heard anyone speak before.
"Um...Yes, I heard that you were a witch of some sort—". She cut me off.
"Yes of some sort, what is it ye want?" She asked impatiently. I still was standing just barely in her front door. She sat at a round table; she smiled at me, waiting for my reply.
"I want to know my future." I said plainly.
"Don us all? I can see only a 'lil of you child. Yes, I see the interest in ye eye. Captain Jack Sparrow, to him you are bound." She was standing so close I could feel her hot breath on my skin. I got the bumps my mother said was from being afraid. My cheeks grew hot at the mention of Jack. I knew he became captain a long time ago. He voyages to Tortuga quite often.
"I'm making ye scared. You thought not one knew of him, didn't ye? I know all, child. Jack Sparrow is a dangerous pirate. You are a sweet girl. Why do ye wish to find him?" Tia asked.
"You know all things remember, you tell me, Tia Dalma." I snapped. I didn't know why it upset me so easily; I suppose it was because I had not the answers.
"Him heart has never found another, him heart has never felt what it can. To him you are to be his escape. Love is a powerful thing; do ye wish to have it?" She grabbed her own heart, and then moved to the amulet around her neck.
"Do you love Tia?" I asked. I was curious, but I knew the answer. I saw the look in her eye, and I caught that brief second she regretted something.
"At one time we all love, I loved him fully, but my nature got the best. You can love." Tia Dalma went into a room very well hidden from the entrance. She rumbled around, and I heard a few things crash. When she came back out she carried a small chest, she handed it to me.
"What is it?" I asked holding a necklace in my hands.
"If you don't want it give it back." She snapped. I closed my hands fast so she couldn't snatch it.
"No I want it." She smiled and looked past me. A man was standing there. One whose face I could never forget.
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