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It was a freak hurricane when he first met Jill Sparrow though he of course didn't know who she was at the time.
He was a Captain back then and was in route back to Port Royal with cargo full of spices and powder. The hurricane came out of nowhere and the winds hit with such force that James was nearly blown off the ship. Thankfully Port Royal was only a few miles off, the island could be seen from the ship, but then worse came to absolute worse.
Lightning struck the ship and destroyed the mast. The entire ship caught aflame in a matter of moments.
As they were abandoning the ship into the longboats, he heard one crew member cry out in distress as the falling mast had trapped him. Of course James knew they were living on borrowed time until the fire reached the powder but he couldn't just leave a man behind, it was beyond dishonorable. He quickly set to work freeing him and when he was freed James simply tossed him off the ship towards the longboats which were rowing a safe distance away from the ship. And just as James went in to dive right after, the wooden floor gave way from under him and his foot was caught.
"Captain!" He heard his lieutenant fearfully call as James desperately tried to free himself. "Captain jump now! The fire's almost reached the powder! CAPTAIN CAN YOU HEAR ME!? YOU MUST JUMP NOW!"
At his frantic words, James quickly freed himself as fast as possible and jumped into the water. A moment after he did that, the ship exploded and everything went dark.
What James felt next was a wet palm on the side of his forehead, brushing back his wet raven locks. He could feel rough sand beneath him and feel it in his hands as he balled them into a fist. He felt pain course through him as he made the journey back to consciousness but he welcomed it. Pain meant one was alive and James was fortunate enough to be one of those men. He was alive and he obviously he was on land. He had made it, but how? In all retrospect, he should of drowned. The lifeboats with his crew were too far out to save him and all the smoke from the explosion would most likely make him impossible to spot should they have even attempted a rescue.
When he blearily opened his eyes to find out who it was that was touching him as if they were familiar with his person, he was stunned at the sight he saw.
It was a woman! She had beautiful wide set dark chocolate-almost black-eyes, framed by long, thick equally dark lashes lined with kohl that bore into his gray ones and brown beaded dreadlocks that were dripping sea water all over his practically bare chest. Her sun-kissed skin was flawless and shone radiantly in the sunlight that was peeking through the dark storm clouds. She had soft and exotic facial features, definitely not British, and James found his eyes straying to her generous sized breasts which were only covered by starfish. Her entire being looked like it was carved by the angels themselves and James felt himself wanting to kiss those full pink lips to see if they tasted just as good as they looked.
She was the single most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
"CAPTAIN NORRINGTON!" It was his lieutenant's voice and James head turned towards the familiar sound. "CAPTAIN JAMES NORRINGTON ARE YOU OUT HERE!? CAPTAIN-oh thank the Lord you're here Captain! You're alive!"
It was his Lieutenant all right, working his way through the rough sand and treacherous rocks that stood in his past, a relieved look on his face. He must of been on one of the beaches in the far side of the Island of Port Royal which were uninhabitable and forbidden to enter as it was so dangerous. James turned his eyes back to the breath-taking woman to find out who she was but he found himself alone.
She was gone.
"No wait!" He cried as he got up, stumbling a bit. "Come back!"
But there was no one there and not a single footprint in the sand indicted anyone was even there to begin with. But James knew she was there and she was real, that woman was too beautiful to be mere hallucination, there was no way his mind could come up with something that magnificent!
Besides who saved him then? God knows James simply didn't float here on his own. But then James supposed the woman would have to be some sort of siren or mermaid to manage that feat as no human woman could of done that.
"There was a woman here." James murmured to his lieutenant when he finally reached him, practically in a daze as he stumbled a bit getting up. "She was...she was beautiful. The most beautiful woman I have ever seen!"
James felt light-headed and nearly fainted but his lieutenant managed to catch him in time.
"I think you're still a little faint headed from the shipwreck and all that sea water, Captain." His lieutenant replied, clearly not believing him as he slung him onto his shoulders. "We need to get you to a doctor."
As his lieutenant pulled him forcibly back toward civilization, James could have swore when he briefly glanced back he saw a pair of dark eyes staring at him from behind a jagged rock in the sea.
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