Notes: I hope you enjoy this story, please review if you can and the next chapter should be very soon! XD
Disclaimer: I sadly do not own anything Pirates, but Hannah Garnet is my own character.
The Caribbean sun pierced down onto Hannah, making her golden curls sparkle as she walked down the busy streets of Port Royal. She could feel the rough pebble road under her worn old boots as made her way to the market square.
Hannah had raised herself after her parents died in a shipwreck, and she was an only child, left alone in the growing world. When she got to Port Royal the Governor had helped her out a little. He gave her a shabby cottage in the cliffs, but it was better than living on the streets. She had become very skilled in getting her food for free, sometimes the innocent act or the sad story but it was mostly down to stealing it herself, and had not yet got caught.
Hannah had just turned twenty one and had spent eight years looking out for herself, when her story was about to take a turn in a different direction…
Like most days, she went down to the market for her food for the day, or sometimes a couple of days. She smiled at the man on his fruit stall, distracting him from the apple she was sliding in her pocket and then went off to see what else was on offer. Her empty stomach rumbled as she stared at the loaf of bread on the bakery stall opposite her. She strolled across the street and casually picked up the bread as the baker quickly turned round as she begun to wander off and he exclaimed "Are you going to pay for that?"
"Oh" Hannah turned with a nervous smile "Sorry, must have forgotten, my mind is a bit everywhere with my parents being dead and all"
"Very well, that will be tow shillings then" the baker replied
Hannah stared at him blankly as she had no money to give him, which the baker soon figured out.
"You weren't going to pay, were you? Theft!" the baker accused loudly, while pointing at her making everyone in the market stop and stare. Then to her dread, two marines came running over and one of them asked "Is this true, miss?"
Without thinking her way through the situation, she threw the loaf of bread on the floor and ran off, pushing her way through the crowds. The tow marines followed her as she tried to make an escape. As she hurried along the streets, the clanging of her panting feet echoes down the narrow set of the houses as the marines still followed closely behind. Hannah turned her head to see how close they were, but she gasped as she tripped up on a built up pebble which sent her tumbling to the ground. She knew there was no point in attempting to get up as the two marines were already behind her and pulled her to her feet.
As they walked towards the fort, Hannah grew worried as she realised she could possibly face the noose. She had to escape, find a ship that was going to Tortuga where there would be less chance of ever finding her and being safe from the law.
So, with this thought in motion, she elbowed the marine to her left, grabbing his arm and swung her feet into the other one's stomach, sending them both to the ground. She smiled to herself, admiring her aims, but then somebody came behind her, smashing the end of their gun onto her gentle head as she tumbled to the hard ground.