Ta-da! It's 'Love is an Adventure'…again. I'm so sorry it took me so long to repost the chapters. This story was deleted because of my Harry Potter disclaimers. Which I am sad about because I loved writing them and I know many of you loved them too. So let's have a moment of silence for the Harry Potter Disclaimers (moment of silence). Ok now that's done, this is the sequel to 'A Bet, Some Rum, and a Wedding'. The story also got deleted, I don't know why yet, and I hope to also have that story up soon also.
Disclaimer: I'm going to have to do disclaimers the old, boring way. So… I do not own anything Pirates of the Caribbean. All the things that were not in the movie are mine. And here is 'Love is an Adventure'…again.
Chapter 1: Where did that apple come from?
Jack opened the door and looked inside. There was no sound of movement from within the room. He walked in the rest of the way in and closed the door behind him and caught sight of the bed. The thought of lying on the nice, soft bed made him start to doze off. Yawning, he walked over to the bed, and got under the covers. He grabbed a pillow and placed under his head and closed his eyes. Suddenly, he felt something warm wrap around his leg and wrap around his stomach.
"Where have you been?" Jack opened his eyes and laid on his back. Hovering above him was a smiling Amy Jones.
"I had to dock the ship."
"How long does it take?"
"We arrived in Tortuga on time. What more do ye want? I had to make sure no one saw me."
"The rest of the crew already knows you sneak in here at night. The only one we have to watch out for is Gibbs."
"And that's why I was late. How much longer do we have to keep this up?"
"Don't know. We've been doing fine for the past ten months."
"It gets sort of tiring."
"I know. It does get annoying. Gibbs wouldn't like us sharing a room unless we were like married or something. But for now we have to live with it. And you're here now at least. That counts for something." She patted him on the cheek and laid down on her side of the bed.
"Did someone miss me?" Jack wrapped his arm around her waist and gave her a kiss on her cheek.
"I do get kind of cold in this big bed all by myself. That's where you come in."
"I can help ye with that."
"I know you can." Jack bent down to kiss Amy and pulled her closer to him.
"Remember, we're meeting Sarah and Johnny tomorrow. I haven't seen them for about five months now. And I want to see my ship."
"I know. You've been reminding me everyday for the last two weeks."
"I didn't want you to forget."
"You wouldn't let me."
"I know." The captain smiled and placed a kiss on her neck and rubbed her stomach.
"Well I don't know about ye, but I'm tired and I could really use some sleep."
"You're tired? Well ok then, if you say so." Amy closed her eyes and hugged her pillow.
"What? Did ye have somethin' else in mind?" he said with a smirk playing at his lips.
"I did, but since you're tired we can wait until another night. Goodnight Jack." She hugged her pillow tighter and turned herself away from Jack.
"On second thought I'm not tired. I'm awake."
"Now, now Jack. You said you were tired and I don't want you to be mad at me for keeping you up all night."
"I won't get mad at ye. I promise. I'll hold nothing against ye." He took his arm away from Amy and hovered himself over her.
"Jack you said you tired and I'm holding you to that."
"I changed me mind! I didn't know what I was saying before!" Amy opened her eyes and looked up at Jack. She placed one of her hands on his face and used the other the brush a lose hair out of his face.
"Jack, you said you were tired. So I'm going to let you get some sleep. You need it."
"I don't need sleep!"
"Yes you do. And I'm starting to feel tired now too so it's too late to do anything. Now go get some sleep." Amy blew Jack a kiss and went back to hugging her pillow.
"I was lying! I'm wide wake! I didn't mean it!"
"Go to sleep Jack."
"But I'm not tired!"
"Goodnight Jack." Jack sighed and rolled onto his back.
"Me and my big mouth."
"So you finally admit it."
"I thought ye were supposed to be asleep."
"Sleep talking." Jack grunted to himself and closed his eyes. Amy took pity on him and let go of her pillow and scooted towards him. Jack smiled and grabbed Amy waist and pulled her on top of him. She tried to crawl off of him but his grip was too strong and he wouldn't let her go.
"Jack let me go."
"Asleep. Can't do anything."
"Jack…" He started to snore and tightened his grip around her. "So stubborn. Fine. Night Jack." Amy buried her neck in the crook of his neck and closed her eyes.
"Night," the pirate captain said.
"I thought you were supposed to be asleep."
"Sleep talking."
"That's my excuse."
"And now it's mine."
"Pirates. Have to steal everything."
"Yep."
Amy stretched out her arms and yawned. Not to her surprise, Jack had already woken up and was already gone. He did this every time he came into her room. Usually he had to get up earlier to avoid Gibbs and visit his captain duties. She moaned and opened her eyes. The sun was shining into her room and for once, it didn't wake her up.
"I really should get curtains one of these days." She turned onto her side and looked at her clock on her nightstand. It read 6:45. In five minutes she would have to get up to get to breakfast on time. Amy sat up and leaned against the headboard and looked around her room. It looked like a completely different room from what it looked like before when Anamaria lived here. Instead of having dark mahogany furniture, she now had much lighter colored oak furniture and the room actually looked clean…well, mostly. She had gotten rid all of Ana's old furniture, except for a desk and dresser which she gave to Sarah as a gift. The new furniture had mostly came from merchant ships the Black Pearl had raided over time except for one bookshelf which she took from her room on her ship. The only other things she had taken from her ship were all her clothes, books, and a few other possessions. Everything else came from merchant ships. On her four-poster bed she had a soft, crushed purple velvet bedspread with a flower design sewed on in gold threading. That was the one thing in her room she had gotten herself. She saw it in a shop one day and loved it so much, she stole it.
Amy looked over at her clock again and saw that it was 6:51. Moaning, she took the blankets off of her and swung her feet over the side of the bed. She stood up, sloppily made her bed, and walked across the hard wooden floor to her dresser. She dug out an ivory shirt, dark brown pants and her purple sash. Once all her clothes were out, the blonde pulled her nightgown over her head and began to undress.
"Mornin' everyone." Amy walked into the galley and smiled at the crew. Many of the men gave her a small nod instead of saying hello. She spotted Jack sitting at his usual spot at the head of the table and sat down at the empty seat next to him.
"Morning Jack." She gave him a peck on the cheek and started to pour oatmeal into her bowl.
"It seems like someone is well rested."
"And wishes he wasn't." She chuckled and rested the oatmeal back on the table.
"Jack, you needed rest. If you didn't need it, you wouldn't have said that you were tired."
"I took it back."
"But you still meant it. The only reason you took it back was for something else. You really were tired and you know it."
"What's yer point?" Amy laughed at herself and smiled at Jack.
"Just forget about it, ok? I'll make it up to you some other time." She winked at Jack and gave him a little smirk. Jack grinned back to her and tossed her an apple.
"I'll hold ye up to that." Amy took a bite out of her apple and began eating her oatmeal.
"I just remembered something. Johnny works in the morning so he won't be available. He'll be free later in the afternoon. So that means you have the whole morning to yourself."
"Aren't you goin' to be here?"
"Nope. Heading over to see me ship. If I'm right, Sarah is going to say that she lost track of time and thought we were coming in tomorrow and was going to clean my ship today. So I'm going to have to drag her over there myself and force her to help me clean my ship. It probably needs it after five months. Afterwards, I'll come and get you and then head over to Sarah's house where we can drink some much needed rum."
"Sounds like a plan. I have a few things I need to tend to meself while I'm here."
"I don't want to know. As long as it doesn't involve some whore or stealing or something else illegal, I don't care."
"No whores. Not sure 'bout the stealing part." Amy laughed and finished off her breakfast. She pushed herself away from the table and stood up while grabbing an apple.
"Well either way, don't get killed."
"Can't make any promises." She smiled and playfully hit Jack on the head.
"You better not. Well, I'm off to drag Sarah out of her house to clean my ship. It's her own bloody fault for being lazy. See ya later." Amy bit into her apple and walked out the door. Jack watched Amy leave the room and went back to eating his own apple. He looked up at the crew and saw them staring at him.
"What?"
"Have ye done it yet?" asked Duncan.
"Does it look like I have?"
"When are yer goin' to? Ya can't keep holding this off much longer."
"Ye don't think I know that. I was goin' to take today to prepare and then do it tonight."
" 'Bout bloody time."
"Does this concern ye?"
"No."
"Then stop complain' and shut up. I'm goin' to do it tonight, savvy?"
"Yes."
"Good." Jack nodded at the crew and kicked his feet up on the table as he continued eating his apple.
"Sarah, come on. I haven't seen my ship in five months and I want to make sure it is still in good condition." Amy was pulling Sarah's arm while dragging her across the deck. She was trying to pull back Amy from going below deck and trying to pull her back to the streets.
"How about we see it later? Like when it's dark and you can't see as well," Sarah tried to convince Amy.
"No. I want to see my ship. It can't be that bad." Amy gave Sarah one final tug on the arm and finally made it below deck. She let go of Sarah's arm and headed straight for her bedroom door. She reached out her arm to turn the doorknob but Sarah stepped in front of her before she could reach the knob.
"Do you really want to see your room? I mean, why don't you just wait till later, when it's darker and you can't see?"
"Sarah I'm going to see my room whether you like it or not. So live with it."
"Ok. Just remember I lost track of time and I thought you were coming in tomorrow. I was going to clean today. I swear. Don't yell at me."
"Let me see my room first and then I'll see about not yelling." Sarah sighed and stepped away from the door. Amy turned the knob and opened her door. She saw her room for the first time in five months and it looked…filthy. A thick layer of dust could be seen on top of all the furniture, the desk was covered with old papers and pieces of trash, the floor had dirt all over it, and there was a strange odor coming from the room. Basically, every inch of her room was covered with some form of dirt. Amy just hung her mouth open from the shock of how dirty her room was.
"SARAH, HOW COULD LET MY ROOM GET THIS DIRTY?"
"I'm sorry! I was so busy the last few months with my job and Johnny and other things…"
"You work at a bloody dress shop! How could you be busy there? Was there a sudden shortage of dresses or something?"
"People just happen to wear dresses as clothing. They will always be a need for them."
"But you couldn't take just an hour out of your day do clean up a little bit? I've never seen my room this messy before! And that trash on my desk was not there before!"
"Oh, stop your whining. It's not that bad."
"NOT THAT BAD? There's new trash on my desk, a thick layer of dust everywhere, and there's that horrible stench coming from something."
"I think that might be an apple."
"An apple! How did an apple get here?"
"Well, I came here one day and I was going to clean up a bit and I brought an apple to eat and I lost track of it…"
"You mean there's a rotting apple somewhere in my room?"
"Most likely." Amy screamed inside her mouth and stomped out of the room.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to get some buckets and mops! We are going to clean this place up! I will not have my ship this dirty!"
"We!"
"This is all your bloody fault. Besides you said that you were going to clean up anyway today. And that's what you're going to be doing. We're going to be here all morning."
"Well I can't exactly work in a dress."
"You clean your own house in a dress. My ship won't be any different. Besides you said you were going to clean today anyway. So pull up your hair and get ready to work." Sarah leaned against one of the dust-covered bedposts and sighed.
"Stubborn pirate. Been around Jack too much."
"Hand me that rag." Sarah handed Amy the rag and continued mopping the floor. Both of them had been cleaning Amy's room for almost two hours now. Most of the room was already clean, except for some of the floor and Amy's dresser. Amy had gotten hot from working so she now had taken her boots off and rolled up her pants and sleeves and her hair was in a ponytail. Earlier she had spilled some water on her shirt and now had the front tied up exposing some of her stomach. She dumped the rag into a bucket of water and started scrubbing the top her dresser.
"So…what's between you and Jack these days?" Amy looked at Sarah and then shook her head concentrating on cleaning her dresser.
"Someone is a bit nosey, aren't they?"
"I just want to know. I haven't seen you for five months. You have to be telling me what's been going on in your life."
"Well what about your life?"
"I work in a dress shop and I have a husband. Not much to tell."
"And yet you were so busy you forgot to clean my ship."
"I have been busy, but with things you won't care about. So…has everything been going alright between you two?"
"Yes everything has been going fine."
"You sure?"
"If I wasn't sure, don't you think I would be telling you about it?" Sarah nodded in agreement and went back to mopping.
"So…has he proposed yet?" Amy stopped scrubbing her dresser and looked at Sarah. She just looked back at her with an innocent smile and put her weight on the mop. "I was just wondering."
"Do you really think Jack would be the kind to get married?"
"I thought Johnny wasn't the kind to get married either. But then one day he proposed and I said yes. And we've been together for over a year now. People can surprise you." Amy sighed and went back to cleaning.
"But Jack's different. He's a pirate. Slept with every whore in Tortuga. Has his own ship. Lives life to the fullest. I mean, I know he loves me and all. But I'm not sure he would be the kind to make a big commitment like that. It would be like taking away his freedom. I'm still surprised he loves me and admits it."
"If he did married you, it wouldn't be much different. You already live with him, you're going to be in his life forever, and he loves you. You're kind of already like his wife. The only difference there would be is that it would be recognized by law. Otherwise, you can go back to living your life the way it was before. And you can get lots of presents."
"But still, I don't think Jack would be able to make a commitment like that."
"He already has, unofficially. If you got married, it would only make it official."
"Listen. I love Jack and he loves me. We don't have to get married to prove it. I like the way we live now and I could stay like that for the rest of my life. I'll always have Jack with me and that's all that matters. Even though it would be nice to get married…"
"I knew it! You do want to marry Jack!"
"I've thought about it. I think it would be kind of nice. But if he doesn't ask me, I can live with it. I don't need to be married. Having Jack with me is all I need."
"But you want to. Just ask him what he thinks about it and see what he says. It couldn't hurt."
"I've thought about it. I think I'll talk to him tonight."
"Good. I just want you to be happy."
"I am happy."
"But I want you to be fully happy. If you don't get married, fine. I won't hold it against you."
"Thank you. Aren't you supposed to be mopping? Get back to work!" Sarah sighed and went back to mopping.
"Of course you know if you did get married, you would have the honeymoon to look forward to." Amy stopped scrubbing her dresser and looked at Sarah.
"Sarah!"
"What? Don't tell me you wouldn't be." Amy smiled and threw her rag at her.
"Hey!" Amy laughed and Sarah threw the rag back at her. Both of them laughed as Amy finished clean her dresser. Above deck, she could hear footsteps getting louder and someone calling her name.
"Amy?"
"We're down here Jack," Amy yelled. Jack's loud footsteps were heard coming down the stairs and walked into Amy's room.
"Well it seems the two of ye have been working hard."
"We had to because somebody left my room in such a state of mess."
"I'm sorry! I said I was going to clean it today!" Sarah said trying to defend herself.
"Well we're done now so you can stop complaining. Sarah, can you get a towel from the storage room?"
"Um, sure." Sarah put down the mop she was holding and walked out of the room. Amy picked up the mop and a bucket and placed them by the door.
"What are you doing here?" Amy walked up to Jack and let her hair fall out of a ponytail. Jack only ginned back at her and grabbed her waist and pulled her into a kiss. Amy laughed and placed her hands on his shoulders. She pulled away from Jack and smiled at him.
"Is this why you came here?"
"No. It's just the way ye look. You look so…" Jack grinned again and rubbed the exposed part of her back with his hand. Amy smiled and let out a small moan. She placed one hand on his neck and moved the other onto his back.
"Jack Sparrow you little-" but was cut off. Amy smiled as Jack deepened the kiss. She had both of her arms firmly behind his neck and Jack pulled her as close to him as possible. He had one arm tightly around her waist and one hand on her behind. She couldn't help but moan in pleasure until someone interrupted them.
"I leave you two alone for one second and this is what you do?" Amy pulled away from Jack and leaned her forehead against his.
"I swear that woman has the worst timing," she mumbled.
"Well it seems like you two were having a good time, especially you Jack." Amy took her forehead off of his and looked at Jack. He caught on what Sarah meant and took his hand off Amy's behind.
"What could you possibly want right now?" Amy said with an icy tone.
"I couldn't find the towels."
"Well look somewhere else. Like in the storage room. Away from here. Now."
"I did and I still couldn't find any." Amy growled at her and let go of Jack.
"Fine. I'll just have to find them myself." Amy looked at Jack one last time and headed towards the door. When she passed Sarah, she narrowed her eyes as she mouthed the words 'marry him' to her. She watched Amy walk into the storage room and then turned to Jack.
"I want to talk to you about something."
"And I need yer advice on something."
"What?"
"Close the door." Sarah closed the door and walked towards Jack.
"What is it?"
"I need yer advice on somethin' for Amy."
There's the first chapter. I'm leaving for Florida for a week on Saturday so I'm going to post some extra chapters to last while I'm gone. If you liked it, please review! How many people liked Dead Man's Chest? I loved it! I saw it twice in one day. Hope you enjoyed the chapter. TA!