Of Gin and Rum
Rated: T(just to be safe)
IMPORTANT A/N: okay, so I haven't written an actual story in a long time. I have just been really busy. I still am but quite frankly I miss writing. Now personally, I suck with updating but I really am going to try hard with this story. I still have a few days before I go back to school so if I get good reviews I could possibly update again before I go back to school. After that, I will try to put one out once a week but I cant promise but I will try. And okay, I got inspired with the story when I just finished watching Sweeney Todd and then watched Pirates Of the caribbean 3. (I also saw some fan-art which got me inspired even though the story had nothing to do with it.) I am really sorry if the characters get OOC but for some parts to make this work they have to a little bit. I really do try hard to keep them in character though. As for the other character in the story I really hate making new people but I have to for this part no one else fit it. BUT I PROMISE SHE ISNT A MARY-SUE! Also the story takes place during the third POTC movie and its not completely following Sweeney Todd (or POTC for that matter) also, please excuse the spelling or grammatical errors I am a little sick so my not-so-great proof reading skills are a bit worse and im having some problems finding a betta so if any one Is willing please tell me (and i'm a die hard Sweenette and Jaszabeth fan. So sorry I will try to not incorporate it but I must a little bit ) so enjoy!!! P.s. Im sorry this is so long but its really the only one there will be.
It was a cloudy day as all the shops were closing early except Mrs. Lovetts meat pie shop. Toby was asleep on the couch, gin in hand, while Mr. Todd was finishing up one of his last customers for the day as Mrs. Lovett was bringing up a fresh batch of pies. It was nearing summer when things would start to slow down again.
Meanwhile, over at the docks a rather large ship with black sails sailed into the port. It looked rather beaten up and in need of repair. Jack Sparrow strolled across deck and over to a scruffy looking man with a monkey perched on his arm as some grimy crew members followed.
"So its settled then, we stay here until the pearl is in running order." the man with dread locks said.
"One week tops, once we fix it up we go to shipwreck cove, and there will be no arguing that fact Jack" He said pointing a dirty finger at him. He turned to a woman with unruly mousy brown hair pulled into a loose bun atop of her head. "Marley, you will also be accompanying us with no argument, go with Jack to make sure he honors the call." He continued. She nodded and strode over to accompany Jack Sparrow.
Jack turned to face the crew. "you herd him, go! meet back here at dawn tomorrow, we need this up and running!" Jack commanded as a Mr. Hector Barbossa grimaced at Jack.
With in a Half an hour the pirates were spread out across town in various places to stay, as the Black Pearl was in no order to be on. It had been severely damaged after an incounter with some other ships.
Marley and Jack saunterd down Fleet Street until they came upon a pie shop. They ducked in for the rain was just starting. Mrs. Lovett looked up as she herd the bell ring.
"Hello, can i help you?" She said cheerly but a little baffled at the clothes they were wearing.
"Actually, yes you can, we will take two meat pies" Marley said with a small smile and sat down at the closest table to the door.
"And some rum two" Jack sparrow said sitting down at the same table.
"Sorry love, we haven't any rum. But we do have gin" She said putting the two pies onto plates and pulling out a bottle of gin.
"I'll take some" Marley said as Jack grimaced a little.
"I'll pass." he said looking at the table. She brought the pies over to them along with the glass of Gin.
"So, are you from around here?" Mrs. Lovett said lightly looking at their clothes. Very rarely do you see a man with dread locks and a woman with a pistol around here.
"No, Everywhere you could say." Jack said taking a huge bite out of the meat pie.
"Oh, what do you mean?" She said a little confused at the everywhere.
"Life at sea" Marley cleared up the statement.
"so your sailors?" She asked them.
"Pirates" Jack quickly corrected her.
"Pirates you say?" She said taking a seat at the stool across the room. "What brings you to Fleet Street?"
"Our ships a little beaten up, it should be repaired by the end of this week, until then we are going to have to find a place to stay." Marley said swallowing a huge hunk of her pie. It was like they hadn't eaten in months.
"Oh, well might I know your names?" Mrs. Lovett asked them.
"I would be Captain Jack Sparrow" He emphasized captain when he said it flashing her a toothy grin.
"Marley Wild" she said taking yet another bite out of her pie.
"Ah," she said and trailed off as Toby came into the room.
"I didn't know we had any customers today" Toby said approaching the counter.
"Yes, love" Mrs. Lovett said sighing a little.
"I'm Toby who are you?" Now, generally Toby was never this talkative with customers but since they were the only ones of the day he figured he might as well.
"Im Marley Wild" she said to the child. Normally, she was not the nicest of the bunch but hey, it was just a child.
"Captain Jack Sparrow" He said finishing off the last bit of pie.
"Your Jack Sparrow?!" The child exclaimed. Mrs. Lovett was taken aback a little that Toby knew of him. He did spend half his life in a work house so he probably did hear a lot more then a normal child would.
"Captain Jack Sparrow" He corrected.
"You escaped from a island only using sea turtles!" Toby voice filled with interest and curiosity.
"That was me, my crew had committed treason and left me on an island. Now, when you do this you are supposed to leave a man with one bullet and pistol…" Jack started to tell the story to Toby as Marley rolled her eyes and collected the dishes and the glass from the table and brought them over to Mrs. Lovett.
"Care for some help with the dishes?" She motioned to Jack "That might take a while." She said walking over to the sink. "If your really want to" Mrs. Lovett said. She generally did not get any help with the dishes. Not that Mr. T wasn't a help. Without him she would still have no customers.
"So where do you plan on staying?" Mrs. Lovett asked her.
"I'm not sure yet" Marly replied honestly.
"We have an extra room here if you really needed a place to stay." She offered. It was only for a few days and the pie shop was slow this time of year anyway. They were pirates, they had probably killed before so they shouldn't be too terrified of the meat pies.
"That would be great, thank you" Marley said. She honestly did not know how she can go from complete maniac one minute to a completely "normal" person.
"Sure let me just tell my other tenant." She said and began to walk up the stairs. She knew he would have a problem with it before she even asked but, hopefully he would not mind…she knew that was 100 sure of that not being possible.
She walked into the barber shop. As normal, Sweeney was staring out his window. "Love, I need to talk to you."
"Then talk." He said with no emotion in his voice. He couldn't stand when she would do this.
"I met two people to day" she hesitated a little, she could tell he wasn't one to take this lightly. "They needed a place to stay for a few days so I said they could stay in the spare room.
"What?" He hissed outrage growing in his voice.
"They were pirates, it's not like they haven't killed before. They wont be a bother they will be out most of the day anyway!" She said trying to calm him down.
"Why would you do that!?" He came closer to her gripping his razor. He knew he wouldn't kill her though, he always knew he wouldn't, but she didn't know that.
"They needed a place to stay!" She said grasping how stupid it sounded.
"this doesn't mean I'm going to stop practicing." He said taking out his razor from his pocket and opening it.
"I'm not saying you were. Toby lives here and he doesn't know." she said. "what if they find out?" he asked walking back to the window.
"They kill! Their pirates! They do it all the time." She said.
"Leave" He said the anger still not gone from his voice. He knew it was a simple way out of arguing. She never quite backed down from an argument. Even with him. He sat back down onto a stool.
"I'll bring up dinner later." She said stepping out the door.
Back downstairs Marley was sitting with Jack and Toby while Jack was still going on about how he got his beloved Black Pearl Back. Mrs. Lovett walked back down the stars and sighed. She walked back into the shop.
"Mrs. Lovett! I was just about to start another one of my amazing escape stories. Care to listen?" He said in a abnormally happy mood. Marley snorted a laugh at Jack's enthusiasm. Apparently Toby's curiosity went to his head.
"Well I don't see why not love." she said joining them. After a few hours, and epic tails, Jack and Marley went to the spare room where they would be staying the next five days as Toby sat at the very table as Mrs. Lovett finished up the last of the dishes when Mr. Todd came down.
"where are they?" he said without an hello.
"In the spare room. Apparently they are going to the docks tomorrow morning to start to repair the ship with the rest of their crew." She said pulling out a plate for him and taking out a pie from the oven.
"do either need a shave?" He asked her examining her razor.
"One is a woman so no and the other seems pretty happy with his facial hair" she said.
He staid silent. As she spoke up again. "how many did you get today?"
"five." he said then looked at Toby. "Toby its late go to bed." He said flatly. The last thing he wanted was for him to find out anything.
"But i'm not ready" Toby argued. Sweeney Todd not wanting to argue got up grabbed a bottle of gin and shoved it at him.
"Yes sir!" Toby said and took the gin and hurried off into the living room.
"Why did you take them in?" He asked for the second time today.
"To tell you the truth, I don't know." she said. She yawned "I'm off to bed. I'll see you in the morning Mr. T" she said and smiled then went off to her room. She wasn't completely tired but the less arguments she had with Mr. Todd the better.
He sat there picking at the pie as Jack came up from the spare room. "what are you doing here?" Sweeney said with no patients in his voice.
"Captain Jack Sparrow. Mrs. Lovett took us in for a few days. And you would be?" Jack asked the man. His hair is more messed up then Barbossa's...the thought to himself and grinned.
"Sweeney Todd" he said.
"Care for a shave?" Mr. Todd asked him while playing with his razor.
Jack reached his arm out. "No mate, i'm happy with this" He said.
"Well if you change your mind you know where to find me." He gripped his razor and left to go up to the upper level of the building.
Jack looked at the door that He had just left from. "An odd one isn't he." He said and sauntered out of the shop and down to the closest bar. When he stepped in he in no time recognized the face of Mr. Gibbs.
"Mr. Gibbs!" Jack hollered across the bar and approached him.
"Captain! Where have you been? The majority of the crew are about at bars. Elizabeth and Will managed to get into an inn and Tia Decided to stay at the pearl." He said about to take a swig of rum but before he could Jack took it and drank it.
"Marley and Me found a meat pie shop and the owner let us stay there. Her other tenants a little off though." Gibbs raised an eye brow at him. Jack wasn't the one to call someone a little off.
"Ay Jack, but soon we will be back on the pearl." Gibbs said ordering another Rum.
"Ay" he said finishing off the last bit of rum. When no one was looking he reached over the counter and grabbed the bottle of rum.
"I'll see you tomorrow Mr. Gibbs" he said and left the bar, rum in hand.
The next morning at five o'clock Marly and Jack got up and left for the docks. The weather was still a bit gloomy but it always tended to be that way. When they got to the docks they sighted about half the crew.
Jack walked over to Mr. Gibbs as soon as he arrived. "Mr. Gibbs! Where prey tell is the rest of the bloody crew?" He asked flailing his arms around.
"apparently some jumped ship captain." He paused. "Figuratively of course."
Jack looked around Marly, Barbossa, Cotton, Cotton's parrot, Tia Dalma, Elizabeth, Will, Pintel, Regettie, Gibbs, and a few men from Sao Fengs crew. "well we have enough but it wouldn't kill us to pick up a few more people."
"Well we can deal with that later" Barbossa spoke.
"Tia, Will, Elizabeth, Pintel and Regettie can start to patch up the holes on the lower deck and the rest of us can start to fix up the upper deck." Jack said almost to himself but before he knew it people were all over about the black perl trying to find spare materials they needed. Barbossa began to approach Jack.
"You best start to find some new crew members, Jack. This time, don't sit in a bar and find people who are half dead to fight. It's going to take a lot more than that." Before Jack could manage a response he continued. "I'm sure even you could handle that task." He said and strode off to the ship. Jack immediately thought of two people, But it would take a lot of work to get them to agree.
To be Continued.