Title: Jacey Gretchen Gibbs
Disclaimers: I don't own any pirate/ship and I don't wish to.
Genre: adventure/romance
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Joshamee is in dire need for Jack to do some honest pirating so that he then on turn could free his rebellious daughter with the money.
Set: some time after AWE.
Pairing: Jack/OC.
Gibbs looked after the young attractive lass, who had just shouted obscenities at him merely because of his former connection with Jack. Her hips and back side was nicely dancing from side to side as she climbed the stairs to her house angrily. The wench would've never spoken to a common drunken sailor like him otherwise, but the news that Jack was back in Tortuga traveled fast from whore to whore.
Joshamee Gibbs found out about it at the other side of the island the same night his old captain's newly stolen and claimed fourth rate ship of the line docked at the harbor. with its original name, HMS Alexander Brio still visible on the transom. Gibbs took a brief look at it while running to the Faithful Bride, as the most likely place he'd find Jack Sparrow. He had to admit, the full rigged warship was a good choice in a certain sense this time, nobody would've dared to steal it off Jack cause they would've been fearing the Royal Navy's retaliation.
"Ye recruitin?" In his big hassle to get there Gibbs bumped into the table Jack was sitting at. The pirate captain was going to be there for a while, possibly for the whole night, depending on how drunk he got, him maybe leaving wasn't the reason why Gibbs hurried to get to him.
Once he steadied the table, Jack looked the intruder over, then gave a lopsided nod, "jest taking what I can."
"Any chance ye need a first mate, quartermaster, boatswain, another crewmember maybe?" Gibbs tried, wincing, not sure how Jack'll take his presence. It was mostly his fault after all that his captain had lost the Pearl once again to Barbossa and since then, they haven't met.
Jack rose and patted him on the shoulder so hard that the older man staggered into the chair at the opposite side from Jack. "For some reason, not many would want to join Captain Jack Sparrow."
"Could tell ye the reason," Gibbs leaned close, as if he was telling his old captain a secret, "but me throat is too dry."
Jack rose a hand to indicate the waitress he wanted another bottle, but Gibbs was quicker, "lass! The rum I paid fe in advance last week! Here, now!"
The pirate captain didn't oppose to such delights, even if it was inconceivable that a drunkard like Gibbs would save up any money, let alone two bottles of rum!
"Ye should at least scrap the paint off that pride of the navy ye command, then I could maybe round ye up some volunteers." The shorter man suggested.
"Ye got a lil role reversal mix up in yer head, Joshamee. It'd be ye scrappin, and perhaps you rounding up too. In fact that latter'd be a responsibility of me first mate if I'm not mistaking," he patted the other on the shoulder.
"Aye," Gibbs agreed, ready to assume any position Jack put him in, as long as he was close enough to bargain with him, "if I'm recruiting in the near future, may I ask what is the nature of this venture of yers? Jest in case potential recruits ask."
"Hanyson."
"The land of darkness ye mean?" Gibbs jumped back a little, "the one enshrouded in perpetual darkness? Where no one ventures out of fear, but the people in the surrounding area know it to be populated, as they can hear human voices inside?"
"Aye, that one. Got business in there with a certain map indicating the way."
"Ye mind if I don't tell the crew our destination? They'll like it a lot better if we said we were going to pick up all we plundered previously from...where is it Jack ye hid it again? Ye know, my share and all, I'd like to know." Gibbs tried to edge the conversation towards the main aim of him daring to come inside slapping distance to his old captain. He asked about the gold, yet he wouldn't have been surprised if Jack would've lost it all since, or decided Gibbs' share should be taken off him in change for the Pearl, however irreplaceable the ship was.
"I've got the prospects of somethin much more better than good old shinies."
"It's shinies I need Jack this time though," Gibbs admitted, then leaned close as if someone could've been listening, "for the daughter," he whispered, "Jacey. Do ye remember me tellin ye about her?"
Jack pursed his lips in a quizzical manner, "ye sure ye can hold on to the money fe ribbons and pearls and not spend it on rum all the way to England?"
Gibbs shook his head, "somehow, I thought as well, that she'd stayed that six year old girl in pink who waved good bye to the HMS Dauntless and Miss Elizabeth, even though I did notice young Elizabeth growing up," he unfolded a piece of paper and shoved it under Jack's nose, "it's from Jacey's mother and I've not heard of her since the navy'd relieved me of military duty. They could never wash their name clean after that, so she says here. Jacey was wrongly accused and criminally convicted and as a good looking lass the punishment was she was to be sent to become a wife of a new colonist in Virginia. That's their fate if they're lucky enough, isn't it? Of late, I've been scared to use the services of any new wench here in Tortuga, ye know, just in case. Cause how would I recognize me Jacey?"
Jack nodded, slowly, several times, thoughtfully, "ye don't need the gold, ye need Captain Jack Sparrow!" He raised his cup and drank to his own health, "tell any recruit we're on the way to Virginia!" He stood, dusted his hat and walked off back to the ship, now sure that the business of more crewmembers will be taken care of.
Tbc