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I'm Lily Sparrow Savvy? Cursed Child
Well here you are! The first chapter of Lily Sparrow Cursed child, this is the third of the Lily Sparrow stories so if you haven't read the others then I suggest you do to avoid confusion
"Mother!" shouted an eight year old Lily Turner from the other side of the Black Pearl.
"What's it now Lily?" asked her mother, Elizabeth Turner, standing up and walking over to her frustrated daughter, her long honey coloured hair swaying behind her. I followed, wanting to see what the children had done this time.
Charlotte, my daughter, who was seven years of age with a mouth as loud as a foghorn and Jack Turner, who was Will and Elizabeth's child and the spitting image of his father, had the tendency of leaving poor Lily out of their games.
The poor lass was left out a lot so when Jack and Charlotte finally let her play, they gave her the rubbish parts to play in their pirate games. Lily was only happy with this because she was so desperate to join in with her slightly older twin brother and her friend who the Turner children had both come to call a cousin, much like my husband Oliver and I had become 'Uncle Oliver and Auntie Lily'
"Mother! Jack and Charlie won't let me play and I want to play with them! They won't even let me be Barbossa!" Lily explained in a whiney, irritated tone of voice. I smiled at her, knowing she had her mother's spirit and her father's fortitude.
"You don't want to be Barbossa, sweetheart" I said softly, "Barbossa was an extremely mean man who ate too many apples and tried to do very wicked things to women" I explained, cringing as I remembered the time when Oliver and I were kidnapped by Barbossa and I was almost raped by him. It was extraordinary that Barbossa's ship was the place that Oliver and I started as a couple, it was where we had both realised we loved on another.
"Why don't you barter with your brother and Charlie? Surely you have something to offer them?" I asked the left out eight year old. I watched as she thought about what she could negotiate with.
"My doll!" she exclaimed eagerly. "The other two use my doll in their games!" she explained, but then her grin turned into a scowl.
"What's the matter?" Elizabeth asked her daughter.
"But I don't want to give them my doll" she said exasperatedly, "I want to keep it, I love my dolly" she sighed.
I looked at the little brown eyed girl and leant closer to her, holding her arms tenderly.
"Aye Lily, but you can always pilfer it back" I said to her. I leant closer to the little girl so my mouth was just brushing her ear; she squirmed as my breath tickled the side of her face. "Pirate" I whispered to her. I pulled away from her in time to see Lily's face light up with glee
"Thank you Auntie Lily" she beamed before skipping to the cabin that she and Charlotte share at. Jack has his own cabin because he is the only lad.
"You certainly have a way with our children Lily" Elizabeth praised me as we went back to the stairs leading up to the helm. We sat on the third step up, completely blocking people from getting up or down the stairs.
"As do you Elizabeth" I replied, I thought the statement through, thinking it to be true, I was good with dealing with their arguments and tantrums and Elizabeth was good at their injuries and illnesses, she was also good at being with them for great lengths of time, if I was with more than one of them at a time I would end up throwing myself off the ship.
Elizabeth and I laughed at each other light-heartedly before looking upon the scene unfolding before our eyes with the children. I noticed Lily had her doll at the ready and she was sneaking up on Charlie and Jack, who were playing with a bit of rope hanging over the side of ship, I sighed, how many times do I have to tell the three of them not to go near the rail until they were a bit older?!
Lily prodded Jack on the shoulder and tolerantly waited for him to turn around. I don't know if he was ignoring the prod or just didn't feel it because whichever one it was he didn't turn around.
"OI!" Lily shouted, growing more and more impatient by the second. Jack and Charlie turned around, looking at Lily.
"What?" asked Jack, seemingly annoyed by the interruption. I sometimes wondered if Jack and Charlie had something more going on than just being friends, but then I remembered they were only seven and eight.
Charlie gave Lily a friendly smile. Charlie and Lily were friends, best of friends even but when Charlie got together with Jack it caused a bit of trouble. Jack was the same, away from Charlie he was the overprotective, caring playful twin brother that Lily deserved, but with Charlotte he had a tendency of not paying her any interest whatsoever.
"I want to play with you" Lily said boldly.
"No" said Jack in a whiney voice, he shot a look towards Elizabeth and I, as if he thought we had something to do with this, he couldn't be closer to the truth.
"And why not?" asked Lily, looking back and forth between her mother and her brother, not really sure what to do. I smiled at her reassuringly so she stayed put.
"Because we don't you to play with us" said Jack giving Charlie a nudge.
"Well what do you say to I'll give you my doll and you let me play with you?" asked Lily
"Aye" said Charlie instantly. I knew she didn't like leaving Lily out, she had even told me one night when I put her to bed. Jack was thinking the proposition over in his head.
"We have an accord" he said in the end, using correct pirate's terminology. I smiled knowing that father had taught the children how to speak like a pirate.
The three kids idolised my father. A few years ago everyone would have laughed at the thought of the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow teaching children how to be pirates, but it was true, the pirate captain had sat with the kids since they were babies, telling them his stories and all the adventures they will go on. He had already taught them how to pick locks, how to climb the rigging, how to talk their way out of things, how to bargain and many more pirate things. I think the next thing on his list is how to commandeer a ship, and a navy ship no less, well, that was Jack Sparrow for you.
Will Turner also had a hand in teaching the children pirating skills, as had Oliver, but they let Jack do most of the work unless they had some time to spare. The likeness in the two men had increased dramatically since Bill revealed that they were cousins. I suppose that it was just because we hadn't noticed it before that we were taking notice now.
I heard Elizabeth giggle as the three children play fought with each other, tumbling onto the deck and falling over each other.
I noticed muffled cries of discomfort coming from the bottom of the pile, seeing a long flow of wavy black hair spread out at the bottom of the pile, I stood up and walked over to the pile of struggling children. I picked up Jack and Lily, setting them on the deck apart from one another, then dragged my little girl up off the deck and into my arms.
"You ok love?" I asked as Charlotte straightened herself out. She looked at me with Lily's doll in her hand, a knowing smile creeping up onto her face.
"Aye mum, I'm ok, I won!" she beamed. I smiled at her and glanced at the doll.
"So that is what you're fighting for eh?" I asked, slightly laughing. The doll was the oldest toy that Lily owned, she loved it even though it had one eye missing, a torn dress and matted blonde curly hair. She had had it since she was one, Elizabeth and Will had bought it her when we stopped in Port Royal one week just to check upon the mansion they had left behind.
They sometimes stayed there as a kind of holiday when they felt like it. Norrington had tried to capture me and father a couple of times but as always I had proved to be a distraction to the commodore and a ticket to get away from the clutches of the Royal Marines.
"Mum, Lily says I look like you" Charlotte said unexpectedly, but meaningfully, I knew she had been pondering on this for a while.
"Aye, ye do love" I said. I looked upon my daughter, her black wavy hair resting on her shoulders, big brown eyes staring back at me and she had the same face shape as I. Elizabeth said that she had my willpower, strong opinions and my way of making people do what I want without even realising it, but she was just as good-natured as Oliver. Not that I wasn't of course, it was just that I had a temper on me at even the worst of times.
"Oh" Charlotte replied and I set her down next to the twins and watched them run off to play with each other.
I chuckled to myself and walked back to Elizabeth, I smiled at her but then I noticed that her attention wasn't on me, it was on the horizon.
"Elizabeth?" I asked, getting slightly concerned. I followed her gaze to find what she was looking at. I saw a large ship in the distance, crisp white sails billowing in the wind, catching up to us rapidly.
Without thinking I rushed to the stairs, stepping over Elizabeth and climbed the rest of the way up to the helm, I rushed to father who was at his natural place at the helm. I could tell he hadn't spotted the ship because he was taking no action to get away from it.
"Da'?" I asked, coming up beside him.
"Luv?" he replied, taking his eyes away from the helm and looking at me.
"There's a ship, look" I said, pointing to the ever-nearing ship, "looks like a navy ship" I said, trying to see its features.
"Nah" Dad replied, "it's a pirate ship, and its low in the water and I'd say its an inexperienced pirate ship at that, you can tell by the way its sailing, not in a straight line at all and from the look of the sails they aren't tied down properly, they could easily fall" Dad explained.
"So we are to attack?" I asked mischievously with a smile on my face.
"Aye luv, round up the crew and get the kids out of the way" Dad replied.
I ran across the deck shouting about what was to happen and Elizabeth ushered the children into the cabin.
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