"What's your idea then Sparrow?"
"Captain Sparrow, if you be so kind."
"Well then, Captain." She almost spit the words out. "What is yer Oh so great idea o'getting us out o'here?"
"I don't have one luv" Jack said, with one of his well known foolish grins. He went to the far end of the cell he shared with Will, and sat down, pulling his hat down, hiding hisface.
Ana Maria let out a fustrated growl from the other cell, and slung herself down on the waterfilled floor. Apperantly The Hasty Shadow had a leak. Will stood by and watched. From his point of view, it would seem that there was nothing to do. They were trapped. No matter how you looked at it, they were now officially stuck. Jack and himself were stuck in one cell and Ana Maria, Gibbs, Cotton and Ric in the other cell. Rest of the crew was still onboard The Black Pearl, but without knowing of the little adventure Jack and his companions had just begun.
"Ya know, if ye hadn't been so god damn obsessed with that bloody treasure, we cud'a been in a sweet little tavern right now, drinkin loads of rum!" Ana Maria piped up from her posistion from the floor.
"Ye'r as bloody obsessed as me, if not worse! 'Sides, I'm not the one who found the bloody map! Am I, Ana Maria?" Jack glared at her, daring her to accuse him of more. Ana Maria blew out a breath and looked around the room. The brig was dark, cold and water covered the floor. Jack might have gotten her with that remark, but she still felt the need to complain, and now, defend herself.
"But ye'r the Captain!" She said, turning her head back to Jack, getting up at her knees and moving over to the end of the cell. " Aye, I mighta been the one who found the map and I mighta been the one who encourage ye to look for it. But ye, Captain Jack Sparrow, ye already knew of the treasure 'fore I told ye of it. I cud see it on yer eyes! Ye knew going after it would be dangerouse. Ye wer..."
"That's enough, lass" Gibbs voice chimed through. Ana Maria glanced up at him before sitting back down, bringing her hat down, hiding her face. Unconsciously mimicking Jack.
"Yer both guilty in bringing us here. Matter o'fact, we're all guilty in that little matter. We all knew there was a risk going after the treasure. We've all heard the ledgend of the Black Star. Seeing how noone's ever found it and no map has ever shown it's face, one thought the ledgend was just that, a ledgend. I bet that even you, Ana Maria, thought that we were the only ones knowing the location of the Black Star. Aye?" Gibbs looked at Ana Maria. When she didn't answer, he kicked her in her foot.
"Aye..." Ana Maria raised her eyes, and caught Jacks. That bastard was laughing! He was laughing at her! She could feel the anger building up in her, the anger she had just managed to get under controll. Apperantly her rebuilding anger must have been clear for everyone, because only seconds before she attacked the bars, Will piped up.
"Ana Maria, please, calm down. And Jack, don't prevoke her. We will all need our strenght for later. Now I think we should all rest. I know I will." Then he sat down opposite from Jack and closed his eyes. The locked up pirates around him stared at him for a while, then they're eyes turned to Jack.
"Bloody eunuch" was his only respons, before he settled in, motioning for the others to do the same. Young Ric, the playfull little nipper he was, settled down next to Ana Maria, spooning her. He felt her tense, and he tensed with her, waiting for the blow. When it didn't come, he relaxed again, though his curiosity just hit sky level. Then she turned in his arms, fist raised. Before he could react he was flying over to the other side of the cell, with something that would be one hell of a bruise next day.
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"What the bloody hell was that!"
Jacks voice brought Will out of a peaceful sleep and he shot up in an sitting posistion. His eyes rested on Jack who was standing up, holding on to the bars and trying to look up the stairs from the brig. Will laid back down again, groaning when realizing that he wasn't at home with Elizabeth afterall. Then he too heard it. What ever commontion that had brought Jack and his fellow pirates out their sleeps. It was a loud racket up on deck. The sound kept coming closer and closer. Until...
"EY! Be carful with that mate! That's me arm, and I'm planning on keeping it a few more decades!" A womans voice rang as the door to the brig was opened. Down the stairs came a beautifull woman withher hands cuffed behind her back. She wore a dark red baggy shirt, brown breechers and a dark green bandana. Her brown elbow-lenght hair was unruly and showed clear signs that she had just been in a fight, and her brown eyes carried so many emotions Will had diffucult for naming them. Behind her came a pirate, he pushed her infront of him. He didn't look mouch diffrent from the rest.
"HEY! Yer bloody hurting me!" the woman yelled. Her escort chukled and pushed her one more time.
"That's kinda the point young missie." The woman stumbled a little and then regained her balance.
"Ye're not 'pose to hurt a lady. Ain't right with the rules. It's like hitting a guy with glasses. Ye wouldn't do that."
"I wouldn't?"
"No! 'Course not! Haven't you read the book of rules for fighting? It clearly says that ye're not allowed to hit people with glasses, handicap, children or women. Only a fool would hit any of those. And ye're not a fool are ye?" Her last statment left Peggy, her dear escort, unsure. Peggy wasn't among the birghtest, and her little speech had made him somewhat confused. Not sure what to say, he took the easy way out.
"No, I'm no fool."
"Good, then you wouldn't hurt me either then." Lucky for her, Peggy's brain was of the size of a raisin. Messing with his mind was a small thing to acheiv.
"I guess not." Peggy held on hand to his chin, his other hand supporting his first one.
"Great! It's good we had that settle then!" She smiled and it lit up the entier room. "Now, if would be so kind and remove these cuffs, they're hurting me, and I will walk into that cell without any struggle at all." She turned her back to Peggy, so that he could easly reach her cuffs and unlock them.
"Ye will lock ye're self up. Willingly?" Peggy reached behind his back for the keys.
"Aye. I'm a woman. I'm stupid. Can't help it." Peggy unlocked the cuffs, and she turned and took the keys from him. She gave him a dazzling smile and then unlocked the cell next to Jack and Will. Then she slipped in and locked the door, handing the keys over to Peggy.
"Thank you sweetie." And she blew him a kiss. Peggy started moving to the stairs. Blushing. Jesus... He stopped when he reached the door and threw a last look at the strange woman. She gave him a little fingerwave and he went out on deck, thinking that women had to be the stupidest creature God ever created.
Standing in the cell she couldn't help but think that men had to be the stupidest creature God ever created. She drug the key to her cell out of her clevage andsniggered as let herself out. The weakest sex my ass.
Finally free she lifted her head and took a look at her roommates.
"Well, what do we have here? Ya know, I'm no expert, but it seems to me that a room at a tavern wudda been more comfortable..." She locked eyes with Jack. "Ye seem somewhat familiar. Do I know ye? What's yer name?" She leaned against Jacks cell with her legs crossed, left arm around her own waist and right arm supporting itself on it's mate. The keys was dangeling from her right hand, making circles in the air.
Jack moved closer to the cell andhe stoped when he was just inches away. "The book of rules for fighting? I didn't know there were books for that kinda things."
"Me neither. But if it exsist, I don't think it sells very well." She winked at him. "Now, do ye want me to unlock ye, or is this starting to feel like home?" She asked. Ana Maria got up on her legs and leaned back to the wall. "Who exactly are ye?"
"I can understand why ye're asking, but I do not think this is the right moment to do the 20 questions routine. For now this will have to do; my name is Carina and ye can trust me, savvy?"
"Savvy." With that the cells were unlocked.