Hey all! This is my first PotC fic, though some of you may know me from my
GWing fic A Reason To Change. Anywho, sorry if Jack ever seems OOC, but at
his age you'd be different too, maybe thinking of getting a more permanent
girlfriend and so. I have 8 chapters of this done on paper, I'll try to get
it all posted ASAP. Enjoy!
Parings: So far none excepting the engaged Will and Elizabeth, but you'll see in the future what the parings change to and/or become. Rating: PG for swearing and battle scenes Summary: Riana is a cook on the Black Pearl and visits Port Royale. She meets Will, friend of her friend Melody, who meets Jack, and all seems to be well for the little trip to sea until Riana falls for William-engaged to Elizabeth-Melody thinks she's falling for Jack, and cursed sailors take Anna Maria.
A Different Destiny Chap. 1 Of a Lady's Return from the Sea
"Jack, I can ru-un f-for myself, you know," Riana said as Jack ran as fast as he could over the rocky path. He had his arm around her chest half carrying her. Her legs flew out behind her and she ran on her toes, bouncing with his every movement. "You're squashing my chest."
" 'Aven't got time for your short legs, luv," Jack panted. "Sorry," he added as an afterthought.
Shots rang out around their heads. "Sparrow! You'll be dead when I catch you!" Garrett Smith screamed from his house, holding his daughter back by the ruffles of her half undone dress.
"Bye, love!" the blonde wench cried after him.
"Why'd ya have to try and tumble her anyway?" Riana grumbled as Jack slowed, reaching the dock. The Black Pearl was off a distance behind some rocks.
"Why da ya think, luv? But no more governor's daughters for me, I shoulda learned me lesson the first time."
"Aye," Riana grumbled. Jack set her down.
They boarded the Pearl a while later and Riana went to Anna Maria.
"Ah, missy, we're behind," the taller black girl said. She wasn't much of a cook, but was trying to help get dinner ready for the crew in Riana's absence.
Riana had been a good learner and was a good cook out of necessity. She's lost her only family, her poor father, to illness years ago. Good thing she had no one else, for ever since her "short visit" to her friend Anna Maria she's been part of the crew, thanks to neither of them noticing they'd left dock the night she came up.
"Well, lets' see what we have to do," she said, rubbing her hands together and hearing Jack give orders to start off to Port Royale.
To visit her friend, she'd go back home.
********
Melody sighed, dusting off a book cover with a great puff of breath. 'Twas a shame not many people read books-oh, they *bought* books, to be sure. The upper class was in competition to have the most of everything. But few could hold a real in depth conversation; she'd seen that when they'd come into her bookshop, A Place of Fancy.
"Why, Melody Michelle, working so early?" teased Scarlet Marie O'Hairra, who always called Melody by her first and middle name on the first sighting of the day.
Melody brushed a strand of mahogany-brown hair over her ear and offered a smile. "Early to work, early to leave," she said.
Scarlet, a blonde who hated her fancy-smancy name and went by Marie instead, said, "Well, *that's* true enough. But dear, I must bring sad new. Well, I *hope* it's sad news; I'd be devastated if you found it good, surely in good taste you simple couldn't-"
"Marie," Melody interrupted, "what is it you wish to say?"
Ordinarily easily offended, Marie smiled to her good friend. "Dearest, I'll be gone for a good two months-I *do* hope they are good-in paris, to mingle with good society.
"And we don't have that here?" Melody chuckled.
Marie wrinkled her nose most becomingly, as befitting a socialite princess. "Oh, no, dear. Not like they have in Paris. I *do* hope I'll land a rich husband who isn't *very* old."
Marie discussed her plans with Melody for a while, and then left for morning tea with other friends. Melody was just getting back to inventory when her shop door's bell rang, signaling another guest. It was Mr. Pritt, the mailman.
"Here you are, Miss Arrowin. Your mail."
"Thank you, Mr. Pritt."
Tearing open the first envelope, she read,
Mel, I'm coming to see ya soon! By this Monday I will, so look for me by morn! ~Riana
*knock knock knock*
~End chap.~
Parings: So far none excepting the engaged Will and Elizabeth, but you'll see in the future what the parings change to and/or become. Rating: PG for swearing and battle scenes Summary: Riana is a cook on the Black Pearl and visits Port Royale. She meets Will, friend of her friend Melody, who meets Jack, and all seems to be well for the little trip to sea until Riana falls for William-engaged to Elizabeth-Melody thinks she's falling for Jack, and cursed sailors take Anna Maria.
A Different Destiny Chap. 1 Of a Lady's Return from the Sea
"Jack, I can ru-un f-for myself, you know," Riana said as Jack ran as fast as he could over the rocky path. He had his arm around her chest half carrying her. Her legs flew out behind her and she ran on her toes, bouncing with his every movement. "You're squashing my chest."
" 'Aven't got time for your short legs, luv," Jack panted. "Sorry," he added as an afterthought.
Shots rang out around their heads. "Sparrow! You'll be dead when I catch you!" Garrett Smith screamed from his house, holding his daughter back by the ruffles of her half undone dress.
"Bye, love!" the blonde wench cried after him.
"Why'd ya have to try and tumble her anyway?" Riana grumbled as Jack slowed, reaching the dock. The Black Pearl was off a distance behind some rocks.
"Why da ya think, luv? But no more governor's daughters for me, I shoulda learned me lesson the first time."
"Aye," Riana grumbled. Jack set her down.
They boarded the Pearl a while later and Riana went to Anna Maria.
"Ah, missy, we're behind," the taller black girl said. She wasn't much of a cook, but was trying to help get dinner ready for the crew in Riana's absence.
Riana had been a good learner and was a good cook out of necessity. She's lost her only family, her poor father, to illness years ago. Good thing she had no one else, for ever since her "short visit" to her friend Anna Maria she's been part of the crew, thanks to neither of them noticing they'd left dock the night she came up.
"Well, lets' see what we have to do," she said, rubbing her hands together and hearing Jack give orders to start off to Port Royale.
To visit her friend, she'd go back home.
********
Melody sighed, dusting off a book cover with a great puff of breath. 'Twas a shame not many people read books-oh, they *bought* books, to be sure. The upper class was in competition to have the most of everything. But few could hold a real in depth conversation; she'd seen that when they'd come into her bookshop, A Place of Fancy.
"Why, Melody Michelle, working so early?" teased Scarlet Marie O'Hairra, who always called Melody by her first and middle name on the first sighting of the day.
Melody brushed a strand of mahogany-brown hair over her ear and offered a smile. "Early to work, early to leave," she said.
Scarlet, a blonde who hated her fancy-smancy name and went by Marie instead, said, "Well, *that's* true enough. But dear, I must bring sad new. Well, I *hope* it's sad news; I'd be devastated if you found it good, surely in good taste you simple couldn't-"
"Marie," Melody interrupted, "what is it you wish to say?"
Ordinarily easily offended, Marie smiled to her good friend. "Dearest, I'll be gone for a good two months-I *do* hope they are good-in paris, to mingle with good society.
"And we don't have that here?" Melody chuckled.
Marie wrinkled her nose most becomingly, as befitting a socialite princess. "Oh, no, dear. Not like they have in Paris. I *do* hope I'll land a rich husband who isn't *very* old."
Marie discussed her plans with Melody for a while, and then left for morning tea with other friends. Melody was just getting back to inventory when her shop door's bell rang, signaling another guest. It was Mr. Pritt, the mailman.
"Here you are, Miss Arrowin. Your mail."
"Thank you, Mr. Pritt."
Tearing open the first envelope, she read,
Mel, I'm coming to see ya soon! By this Monday I will, so look for me by morn! ~Riana
*knock knock knock*
~End chap.~