What Happens Now?
By Rurple101
Chapter One
Angelica couldn't believe that she had gotton herself into such a shambles for the past ten years. Since she had gone to take her vows and she had met Jack Sparrow, her life had changed course for the worse in the name of God.
She had become a pirate who stole, lied, fought and did wicked things. She had turned herself against her faith and before she had blamed Jack for all that.
But now she looked back carefully at her past as she looked out to sea, she knew that it might have been her own fault. Her mentors at the convent had told her to concentrate and not let in any distractions if she had wanted to commit herself to God. When she looked back, she was glad that Jack had come and led her to change herself.
Jack wasn't the bad person; he was just a part of her life that wouldn't forget easily and that he was the first to show how much it hurt to be human. Even remembering yesterdays' conversation on this very beach was interesting. She still couldn't believe that she was forgiving him for that fateful day all those years ago in Spain…
It was a typically charming and beautiful day in Seville. The day was already looking out to be good for her because today was the day she would get married, married to a well-known pirate who sailed the seven seas several times over. Captain Jack Sparrow.
She hadn't seen Jack since the day before, as she had believed it to be bad luck if he saw her right before the wedding.
She was wearing a simple but elegant pure white wedding dress with a lovely assortment of flowers. She had typical white daises and an elegant rose in the centre. Jack had given (a token of his care) her a dreadlock which he had cut off and she now used it to wrap her flowers in a tight band. Some people thought it to be tacky, for Angelica it was sweet and was one of those things she knew Jack would do to be romantic.
Before she knew it, it was time for her to descend down the aisle. She walked carefully to the church, her heart hammering in her chest. She was trembling by the time she reached the grand white doors. She opened them and gasped of what she saw inside.
Nobody was there. It was messed up and there was no sign of her family or Jack. She was looking round when she spotted a silver bead with a piece of paper on the floor. She picked it up and recognised it as Jack's.
'Dearest Angelica,
I'm sorry but I had te leave. I had to escape the guards that came hunting down for meh…yer know for being a bleedin pirate. Yer family ran for it and only lead me to write yer note and leg it. I will come back fer yer when I do.
Love
Capt. Jack Sparrow '
Angelica was shocked and upset, he had left her. Left her on their wedding day!
She sank to the floor and cried. If it were the last thing she would do, then it would be that she would get her revenge and tell him how hurt she had been.
But she hadn't told Jack. There hadn't been a moment to tell him that she had been depressed and hurt when he had gone. When she got the idea to impersonate him, that would have been a way to lure him to her. He had been just as handsome and quirky as he had been years ago.
He had fought with her and won. She once again, felt the safe aura radiate off him when he held her and whispered "I've always wanted to do that, Hello Angelica."
It was frustrating. He had been so odd with his motives. Throughout the entire journey he hadn't trusted her, being the daughter of Blackbeard. But then he had saved her, tricked her into saving herself and Blackbeard, her father being killed.
Once they had got onto the island, she had panicked. What if he left her to die here?
"Admit it Jack," she had whispered in what he thought to be a distraction. "-You still love me."
Then he had rattled on about a dog as a sister. It had hurt her, to know that he just didn't care for her as he had. She had confessed to him that she still loved him. He just grinned his mad grin and annoyed her.
"Jack-" she said as he started walking towards the longboat. He didn't turn round. She put her head in her hands and walked in the opposite direction, trying to control the urge to cry. She didn't mange to keep it at bay. She started crying softly to herself, wrapping her arms round her body, and refusing to look and see if Jack had left her yet.
But then she felt hesitant arms wrap themselves around her frame as well and rub her back as she cried. She sobbed and sobbed, sobbing and telling Jack in her own stupid carefree way that he had hurt her all those years ago. After five minutes he spoke.
"I didn't think that you could cry like that" he said in an off voice, a voice that she hadn't ever heard from him. It was curious, hesitant and worried all in one.
"Well I can!" she spat.
She looked up at him so he could see the pain and hurt in her eyes. "You have no idea how much I was hurt all those years ago when you left me! On our wedding day! You complete idiot!" she screamed, pushing him off her and storming away, to the opposite side of the small island, away from the longboat.
"Go on off like you planned and did what you did all those years ago when I loved you with all my heart and was convinced that you loved me as much! You would rather trade me for a bottle of rum!" she hissed.
Jack, up to point had remained quiet. But now he got up and grabbed her shoulders and forced her to look up at his angry face.
"I told ye in that letter! Those bloody guards from the Navy followed me here and tried to capture me! You are lucky that they knew nothing about you! They caught me at one point and demanded me to tell me why I was at the church dressed as a Groom! They demanded to know who was me bride and said they would catch you unawares! I had to suffer-" he pulled his top down and pointed at his mid chest where he had several knife stab wounds which now resembled scars. "-THAT for you Angie."
She looked up at his shocked face and then back at his cut wounds. She sighed, blinked slowly and looked back up at Jack. "Say sorry and I'll say it back."
He looked like he was making a hard choice for a moment before he nodded.
Angelica started "I'm sorry Jack. It's just that I was barely nineteen backs then. I was still a very young maiden and I hadn't experienced heartbreak like that. You were the first man I ever kissed, fell in love with and despite my background, make love to me. You were hard to overcome and I don't think I ever will. You seemed to help me rediscover my life path. I look back and know that I didn't have faith in what I was going to commit in. Thank you for that."
Jack sighed and pulled her close, held onto her tightly and rubbed soothing circles on her back. He wondered how on earth he was going to say everything all in one. He wasn't that good in confessions…only when he was angry.
"I'm sorry for leaving you Angie. But like I said if those petite guards hadn't tried to caught me, then we wouldn't be here, we would be on some ship with a ring on each of our fingers and a married couple. Knowing me, we would have had lots of fights over me rum. But I wouldn't ever trade you, for a bottle of rum." He pulled back and smiled at her. She smiled back happily.
"…A barrel of rum maybe…" he continued but was cut off when Angelica yelled something in Spanish.
"I was jokin!" he half yelled, covering his head from the blows from the hysterical woman.
"I'm still going to leave you here Angie. Just shoot that gun to attract a passing ship. This is a popular trading route with pirates. You will be able to get a ship. I will be staying at Tortuga as I have business to trade with Gibbs. It's a mission that will be short and cannot involve you Angie, I know what you will say, that you can handle yourself. But I don't want you to be there when I attempt to blow up Port Royal because that is where the Navy is based. Savvy?"
He looked at him and seemed to decide what to do.
"How long can I survive here without food or water?" she asked. Jack held up one finger as if he was remembering something. "Oh yes! I forgot!"
He hurried abck to the longboat and pulled out a small sack. He bought it back and put it at the base of one of the palm trees.
"Right, that is a small supply of food. To my guess, Port Royal will be destroyed in at leats three days. After that if all goes well or unwell, I will come back and get you if you haven't got a ship yet." Jack said and turned to her.
Overcome with emotion that he did after care for her she ran forwards and flung her arms round him. "Gracias Jack. Usted sabe que yo tengo fe en ti."
"Hmm" Jack said. "I know you do, Miss Enseñe."
She gasped. "You learnt some Spanish?"
"Luv, there are loads of places where French, English and Spanish are dominate languages. A pirate needs to know a decent amount for his share!"
He grinned at her confused look.
"Jack…" she said as she stroked his cheek.
"Yes, luv?" he asked, turning his face at her so he could gaze into her chocolate brown eyes.
"Do you love me?" she whispered huskily, but quietly.
Jack gave her a calculating look before grabbing her shoulders and easily slid his lips over hers. She gasped slightly as she remembered the old feeling of Jack's kisses. They had always (and still) tasted like salty water, Rum and a scent that could only be described as Jack.
They shared a long slow and passionate kiss, his hands around her waist and hers round his neck.
Jack pulled back as she slowly opened her eyes to look into his chestnut eyes.
Jack just said one word, a word that meant everything to her and caused her to faint in his arms out of tiredness. She was carefully laid down on the sand under the tree and Jack took out his knife, cutting off another dreadlock, and placed it in her hand and brushed the hair out of her face.
He then set off down towards the longboat, got in and took one long gaze at Angelica before he started rowing back away from the scene and repeating to himself the word that left Angelica on the ground.
"Yes."
What do you think? Please tell me, I prefer JackxAngelica than JackxElizabeth. A lot more convincing.
Please review.
This will continue into a story of Romance and Adventure, following Jack and Angelica…maybe.
Rurple101 xx
