It had been a long week since we left Tortuga. I could honestly say that I missed Jack. I loved my ship to death but I missed him to much to want the trip to last any longer.
Finally though we did reach the blasted island. There were many reasons I didn't like this island. The first being, the islands natives were cannibals. The second being they all knew that I was stuck in my human form. They had even at one time thought that if they ate me I would be released. Thankfully I'd saved myself by telling them that if they ate me I would poison them to where every time they moved it would crack a bone. They'd backed away then.
So here William and I were being rowed out from my ship to the island. I knew of course that we couldn't use the little dinghy to get all the way on to the ship.
"-and there for we have to jump off." I finished explaining to William. He finally nodded. I turned and waved at a cheerful Maxall before jumping off the dinghy and into the ice cold water. When I came up for air I heard the splash of William following me. Together we swam on to the island. I almost expected the cannibals to attack us the moment we stepped on to the island but they didn't. We both headed off to the ship that we saw beached on shore in the distance.
When we finally reached it William started shouting up to it, trying to get the crew to come out. I looked about it. Seeing that the ropes were no longer wet and the urchins on the bottom of it had fallen off from lack of water I didn't think he was going to get anybody.
"Jack? Jack Sparrow? Marty? Cotton? Anybody?" He shouted but didn't get anyone like I'd expected. He looked off in to the woods, which I wasn't about to go near.
"Eh…How about we split up, we'll cover more ground like that. Meet up at the Pearl, if you've found no one or not." I ordered. I'm sure that William had gotten used to it, seeing as how when you're Captain that is what everyone wants. He turned to go off in to the island but I started walking further along towards where I think I once remembered the town being. Sure enough after almost a half hour of walking I came upon the starting of stairs that would lead to the high village that was set on top of a bunch of natural pillars.
I started my long walk up the stairs.
For the next hour I didn't meet anyone but I had to stop many times to take breaks so that I wouldn't pass out and fall off in to the long chasm. When I finally got close to the pillars I heard drum beats. I walked and walked until I came to their camp. At the first pillar, strangely there was no one there. I searched and searched, to find no one at all. But when I got to a bridge the led me to the main camp I just happened to look down only to see two swinging balls. I looked at them incredulously until I saw that there were people in them, familiar people. I thought for a moment about helping them but since I didn't see Jack in any of them though I did see William, I'd let them find their own way out.
I made my way farther across the bridge and finally I found all of the weird natives. They seemed to be surrounding a large pile of wood, most likely for a roasting of some poor chap, but I whistled and they all turned to me. As one they fell to their knees screaming praises. I walked by them with my head held high. I walked all the way to the bonfire to see what poor member of Jack's crew I'd be saving only to see Jack himself there. I walked to where he could see me. He looked at me for a moment in shock before smiling sheepishly.
"Hello, love." I raised my eyebrows.
"After almost what, four, five months that we haven't seen each other, I find you tied to a stick about to be eaten by cannibals that just happen to worship and not want to eat me, all you have to say for yourself is 'hello, love.'" I said darkly. His smile turned even more sheepish. Suddenly the head cannibal bowed his way to me. I turned to him trying to muster up some of the language.
"Lali Mu gu hida" He said offering me a crown of bones. I felt my nose twitch at the smell but I allowed them to put it on me.
"Ma say Hedre Ighddr Kali Kali ten dada." I said back and he dropped to his knees. I'd accused him of putting Jack over me.
"My say hujy lam as." He said and gestured back to his people (my people and I would never.)
"An Hunis I indf Lumh lind lised" I said back. (But here I find you giving him the royal treatment.) "I liki kilj younh pope uigh and say say." (I want you to turn yourself away in shame. ALL OF YOU!) I yelled the last part. They all turned still bowing until they faced the ocean. Without waiting I huffed up the piece of log that Jack was tied to until it was out and he was able to stand up. He opened his mouth to thank me but I shushed him. I pulled out my sword as softly as I could I began cutting his ties until suddenly I heard one of the natives start shouting. Jack and I turned as one to see a little teenage one carrying a bunch of fire pointing at us. (she's letting him escape)
Jack and I both began running. I pulled my sword back in fear of cutting Jack as we ran away. We ran and ran until we escaped them. Now we were stuck between jumping over a short distance to get to the other side or facing two large hungry women. I turned to Jack and began cutting.
"I blame you for this." I said darkly as I finished cutting. The women charged at us but Jack and I jumped together. Sadly we almost made it, if it hadn't been for that damn snake that to this day I insist was placed there to make me hate snakes we would have made it. But alas here Jack and I were screaming like idiots as we grasped each other and fell and fell. I'm guessing because of how many bridges we fell through that our landing did not in fact kill us. No, instead we thankfully only had the breath knocked out of us. I thanked Jesus and pulled my head up.
Somehow in the fall I'd landed half on top of Jack so now my head was above his and my long hair fell like a curtain over both our heads.
"Hello, love." I said repeating Jack's words as I looked into his deep brown eyes. He smiled happily and pulled me down by my hair (sexy) so that he could kiss me. I kissed him back and Jack rolled me over kissing me with so much passion, a true 'I'm happy to see you.' As we broke for air both Jack and I grinned.
"I missed ye, love." Jack said and kissed me again, that was until we heard a bunch of yelling from a distance. I squealed and pushed Jack off of me so that I could stand up. I had a moment to wonder vaguely how the hell they got down here so fast when it had taken me an hour before Jack was tugging on my hand and we were off again.
We ran so long that with all this exercise I was almost sure that I was going to die from it. Soon, with my guidance, Jack and I curved around a pile of rocks to see the Black Pearl half in to the water. I yelped mid scream and ran faster. Jack pushed himself and his funny run so that we were soon at the pearl.
"Good doggy!" Jack screamed, and sure enough when I glanced back a dog was there. I felt the animal lover in me give in and with a snap of my fingers the dog disappeared and would reappear on my ship which was waiting just out of harms way. I jumped in to the water and on to the netting of the Black Pearl with Jack right beside me. I kept climbing and fell over the side gasping for breath. I vaguely heard Jack's voice over the roar of the waves.
"Alas my children, this is the day you shall always remember as the day that you almost…" I heard another roar and I looked through the railing to see Jack soaked and with a blank look of defeat on his face. "Captain's Jack and Cass." He said before climbing the rest of the way up. I let out a noise when he almost stepped on me. He looked down at me in surprise before helping me up. I went to say thank you but he kissed me instead. I grinned like a loon when he took my hand and kept me by his side. (Ha! Take that father er Governor Swann!)
"Let's put some distance between us and this island and head out to open sea." Gibbs voiced his opinion seemingly happy to be away from the cannibals. I waved cheerfully at him and Marty and Cotton. They all waved back though Gibbs was a little distracted with trying to get orders from Jack.
"Yes to the first, yes to the second, but only in so far as we keep to the shallows as much as possible." Jack said to him a little fast.
"That seems a bit contradictory, Captain." He said confused though I completely got it. Oh, God, have I gone mad? Understanding what Jack Sparrow says is defiantly a sign of madness.
"I have every faith in your reconciliatory navigational skills, Master Gibbs. Now, where is that monkey, I want to shot something." Jack said angrily. I kissed his cheek, grinning as something fell between us. While the others looked down I only glanced down before handing Jack my gun. He grinned at me and went to kiss me only to be stopped by William. And so the interrupting begins!
"Jack, Elizabeth is in danger." He said, reminding me just why I was away from Port Royal in the first place.
I sighed and cuddled into Jack's arm instead of kissing him. Wait why does his armpit smell like Paprika? Don't ask questions Destiny, it never ends well.
"Have you two considered keeping a more watchful eye on her? Maybe just lock her up somewhere." Jack said and started walking up the stairs, pulling me along by the hand. I was way to happy to be with Jack again so I let William tell Jack.
"She is locked up, in a prison bound to hang for helping you." William informed Jack getting madder by the second.
"There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one's mistakes." Jack said turning us both around now that we were at the helm. We were met by the sight of William with someone else's sword. He pointed it at Jack's throat. I groaned. Honestly, could these two not get along at all!
"I need that compass of yours, Jack. I must trade it for her freedom." William threatened. I winced and had the sudden urge to scream that it was my bloody compass and I want to know who gave it away with out making sure everyone knew how mine it was.
Jack moved the sword William had pointed at his throat the other side and looked around me, placing his arm atop my shoulders, and spoke to Gibbs who just happened to be at the wheel. "Mr. Gibbs."
"Captain?" he asked like he hadn't just been listening to every word intently.
"We have a need to travel upriver." Jack said nervously and they both glanced at me. I looked back oblivious to what they were talking about.
"You mean a need as in a trifling need, fleeting, as in, say, a passing fancy?" Gibbs asked nervously. The more they spoke the more suspicious I became.
"No, a resolute and unyielding need." Jack said before moving to were the maps were supposed to be flattened out at. I followed him scowling and so did William except he was most likely scowling because he wasn't getting what he wanted. I glanced behind the ship for a moment to see my own following us.
"William," Jack said reaching in to the many folds of his clothes. "I shall trade you the compass, if you will help me to find this." Jack unraveled a dirty cloth and on the cloth was a drawing of a weird key. I knew automatically what the key went to. I jerked away from the both of them and turned to Mr. Gibbs so as to avoid Jack's curious glance. Oh, I knew that key to well, I also knew where that accursed key was and who he was going to send to get it. The only thing I didn't know is why would Jack need it?
"You want me to find this?" William asked completely oblivious to my turmoil. I leant against the Black Pearls railing and put my head in my hands. I didn't like where this was going. If Jack needed that key, then he needed the chest, if he needed the chest he needed the heart, and if he need the heart then he had some reason to need leverage against Davy Jones himself.
I nearly groaned at my luck. I would fall in love with the one man who was on the wrong side of Davy Jones. I turned to glare at the back of Jack's head as he answered.
"No, you want you to find this Because the finding of this finds you incapacitorially finding and or locating in your discovering the detecting of a way to free your dolly belle ol' what's her face, savvy?" Even I was confused on that one. I'm guessing though the reason Jack said that was to annoy me and confuse William.
"This is going to save Elizabeth?" William asked, trying to understand Jack. Well join the rest of the world because we don't understand him either.
"How much do you know about Davy Jones?" Jack asked mysteriously. I grimaced. Oh Jack you've no idea just now much I knew about Davy Jones.
"Not much." Innocent little William said.
"Yeah, it's gonna save Elizabeth." Jack answered. William looked like he was about to say something else but Cotton shrugged a barrel into his arms and pointed him off in some direction. Jack shooed him away with his hands. I thought about going to ask Jack about the many questions rattling around in my brain but I was unsure if he'd answer them. After all, maybe in the long time we'd been apart Jack had stopped loving me. No, now I'm just being pessimistic.
I turned to signal my ship over but I was blocked by a body, namely Jack's. I looked up to see his perplexed eyes.
"Leaving so soon, love." Jack asked taking my hand and pressing it to his lips. I felt my self begin to give in so I reeled myself back and took my hand back slowly.
"I had hoped that our meeting again would be filled with merriment but it seems you've been hiding things Jack." I said darkly and Jack took a step back as if slapped, in fact I actually thought about slapping him. "William may be a novice of the legends, but I am not. I know everything about Davy Jones and what that key opens. So I'm giving you one chance, Captain Jack Sparrow, to tell me why exactly you need the heart of Davy Jones." When I finished I had Jack pressed up against the railing opposite of were we started. Jack stuttered for a moment and I rolled my eyes. I turned around to signal my ship but once again Jack stopped me.
He took me by the hand and jerked me in to following him, past the bewildered crew and poor William. He all but shoved me in to his quarters and slammed the door. He fell against it and locked it madly as if but a crack was there someone would hear us. I raised my eyebrows, incredulously.
"Jack?" I asked calmly. He turned back to me hesitantly.
"May I start by saying, love, that I love the outfit." He said nervously and looked around the room for something. He pulled up a half bottle full of rum and uncorked it before handing it to me. This was unlike Jack; he always took the first drink. I took the rum cautiously and waited for Jack to start talking. He seemed to realize that his pathetic attempt at flattery didn't work.
"Well, love, there is no good way to say this, but I may have at one time made a certain deal with one Davy Jones…" Jack said and at once my temper flared. I could feel the fury course through me at once. Jack leant back on to the desk as if he bent far enough back he could avoid my anger. In his attempt to get away from me a certain necklace caught the light, the necklace I'd given him when Jack's been in danger of being hung. Though the sight of him wearing it calmed me considerably I was still to furious for Jack's good.
"YOU MADE A DEAL WITH DAVY JONES!" I screamed royally pissed off. I took a step towards Jack and he scrambled over the desk and hid on the other side. "CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU!" I took in a deep breath and glanced at the lamp beside Jack's head. The glass was cracked making me realize I was creating a mess of things with my power without even knowing it. I took a deep long breath and then a swig of rum in hopes of calming down enough not to burn the whole ship down. "Would you like to tell me why you made a deal with him, and what that deal would be?" I asked much calmer. As the fight left me I sank into the seat beside the table. Jack cautiously rose from where he'd hid himself on the floor.
"Once upon a time-" Jack started but I cut him off.
"Jack, please, love, I'm tired, just the truth, yeah?" I asked and he softened from his cautious position and strutted to me. To my surprise and secret delight he straddled me. (A/N: That isn't weird is it? I've always wondered if a guy could straddle a girl…since it's always the girl doing it I figured I'd switch it for once…)
"I asked him to raise the Pearl from the depths of the ocean. I would have 12 years as her Captain and in return when those 12 years were up he could have my soul." Jack said and I nuzzled his neck. I let out a deep sigh of frustration.
"You shouldn't have done that Jack." I said tired. I'd just been on an emotional rollercoaster the entire day. I'd like to just sleep in my own bed with Jack by my side. Since I'd never allowed Jack to see it. "That was very reckless of you. Your soul for just 12 years and God now I understand why you wanted the Pearl back so badly." I said sadly. I should've known that no sane (Not that Jack is) man would go through that much when he all ready had a ship.
"I fear, love that the 12 years are up. Davy Jones sent over Bootstrap to give me this." Jack said and uncovered a hand that I had not noticed was wrapped in cloth. I took it and inside of it was a black spot. I winced as the dark 'magic' (for lack of better word) nearly soaked in to my own skin. And that's when an idea came to me.
"Do you love me Jack?" I asked again like so many times before. Jack looked at me strangely.
"Of course, I love you like I've love no other. So much so that's it's frightening at times." Then Jack's eyes suddenly widened as they took in my sorrowful expression. He dropped from my lap and on to his knees so that he had to look up at me. His eyes started watering, something that I've never seen in Jack's eyes.
"Love, please don't leave me." I gasped in a silent breath and my face stayed the same in shock, which didn't help Jack's fading mental state. Though it did tell me just how much Jack loved me. "I'm sorry, love, I'll get this all fixed up, soon, we're going to see Tia Dalma and everything will be right again. I'm sorry, please, don't leave me. I'll do anything you ask of me." Jack said and a tear actually fell from his eye, which mercifully snapped me out of my shock. I grabbed Jack's face in my hands and kissed him. He grabbed the back of my head and kissed me as if his life depended on it. I split it so that I could see Jack again. He opened his dazed eyes, which I'm sure mine were to, to look me in the eye as well.
"Jack, I didn't even consider leaving you, not for a moment." I said breathlessly and with deep passion. Jack smiled widely.
"I love you; you are the only women who will ever stay by me side." Jack said. I grinned lopsidedly at him. Suddenly his face became thoughtful and I looked at him strangely. When Jack thinks, shit happens. I watched curiously as he rose from his kneeling position and fumbled around the room muttering to himself. I waited patiently as he threw things in to the air, some just missing me. He seemed to find what he was looking for because he turned back to me. I watched cautiously as he returned back to kneel in front of me. "You gave me such a lovely gift, and I have yet to repay you-" He fingered the necklace, the jewel on the front glowed at his touch and I felt my heart warm, just like every time he touched it.
That's how I'd know if he was thinking about me when we were apart, Jack would touch it and my heart would flutter.
"Jack, I didn't want you to give me anything in return." I started but Jack waved me away.
"It doesn't matter this isn't in return." He seemed to grow nervous, in turn making me so. "You, uh, said you loved me, and I've said I loved you, and I do, dearly. So I was thinking maybe…Uh…I know that I love ye with all of me miserable black heart. And I am quite handsome." I smirked at Jack's ego. "I uh, love everything about you and I do love you…" I was greatly confuzzled. Jack Sparrow himself was rambling romantic words one after another, what had the world come to. I mean not that Jack wasn't romantic; this just seemed a little…off.
"Ah, bloody hell, I'll just say it. Captain Lady Cassandra Myst…Will uh… Will ye be me bonny married lass?" Jack asked and held up a beautiful ring. It was a shining silver and was woven to perfection with a clear shining crystal surrounded but two black pearls. "I found it when the ship was raised from the depths I thought maybe…" Jack continued to ramble for a moment. I stared blankly at him.
What the hell? Honestly! This goes from Jack telling me he's probably going to die at anytime to a marriage proposal. I'd lived almost the entire time in this one life avoiding marriage proposals and now I was getting one from a man I couldn't resist even on a good day! I started to semi hyperventilate at the same time Jack's face seemed to fall. I realized that I'd not answered him for a good five minutes so in answer I squealed myself hoarse and jumped him and I mean jumped him.
I took him to the ground and snogged him as if my life depended on it. My hands were in his hair and his in mine. We rolled around together on the floor completely immersed in each other but I pulled back to grin down at Jack who had ended up beneath me. He held up the ring to me and I held out my hand. He sat up right in my face and pushed the ring on to my finger. I automatically kissed him again.
We stayed in that cabin for nearly two hours kissing, and making plans.
"What ship are we going to take though?" I asked. Jack and I had settled on his bed and were happily cuddling.
"I don't know…" Jack said thoughtfully. I could tell that he didn't want to make me give up my ship but when I thought about it, I'd much rather have Jack then my ship. Not that I didn't love my ship but when you think about it, why would you put an object before a man who is willing to love you for the rest of his?
"I'll give up my ship, I suppose." I said drawing patterns on Jack's chest through his shirt. "I know how much it meant to you Jack, I can't ask for you to give it up. No not the Pearl. I can live without mine, in fact I've been doing so for so long that I don't think I'm a fit Captain for my crew. They want the younger me, the one who didn't have anything better to do then plunder and pilfer her black guts out. You, you go on adventures, and that's what I ache for, that and you yourself." I explained my motivation. Then I paused. "Though, I would like to show you my ship." I said slyly. Jack grinned and stood up leaving me on the bed.
He gestured dramatically for me to get up. I groaned.
"I didn't mean now Jack." I whined but got up just as eager. I hadn't let Jack see it in the past because I'd wanted to have it in the water and sailing so he'd really see its wonder. I'd miss it when I gave it up.
"Show the way, love." Jack said. I walked out of the Captain's quarters and unlocked the doors of the office. I headed out on to deck and the whole crew stopped working to stare at Jack and I. Apparently my yelling before had been louder then I thought and now everyone knew we'd had a fight. I felt Jack's body heat behind me and suddenly he yelled. "What are you looking at you scabrous dogs, back to work the lot of ye!" They all turned back to work. I walked over to the side of the ship and gestured wildly to grab Maxall's attention when I saw him sit up from where he'd been looking for my signal I stopped waving wildly. He got the idea and I heard him yelling for them to come up beside the Pearl.
"You'll love her Jack. The Diamond is wonderful. I'll have no qualms of giving it to Maxall, the man deserves it after what he has went through for me. He'll keep good care of it to." I said airily as we waited for the diamond to come along the Pearl. It didn't take but a few minutes, in which I wondered over the fact I could call Jack my fiancée now.
"Ahoy, Captain!" Maxall called knocking both me and Jack out of our staring contest with the ring on my finger. I grabbed a hanging rope and swung to the Black Diamond, with Jack following my example. For the next hour that it took for the sun to go down I showed Jack around my ship. I smiled brightly at him as we finally came to the end of my tour. I unlocked my quarters, my favorite part of the ship.
The deep crimson of the bed shone with the light of the setting sun that was visible through the many windows.
"Isn't it lovely, Jack?" I asked and turned in the middle of the room to see Jack staring at me. I blushed, something that only ever seemed to happen in Jack's presence. I fell back on to my large bed and yawned.
"We need sleep, love." Jack said as he walked to the edge of the bed where I was. I nodded my head in agreement and started shucking the un-needed clothes until I was in only a shirt and pants. Jack followed until he to was only in his shirt, pants, and bandana. I scooted up in to the middle of the bed and Jack laid beside me.
"Do you ever take that scarf off?" I asked sleepily getting under the covers. Jack grinned and gathered me up in to his arms, so that I'd lie on his chest.
"No." He answered with a mere shake of his head.
"Right." I answered. "Goodnight, Jack." I said and pretended to fall into a deep slumber. I waited only ten seconds before I felt Jack's breathing deepen and he fell in to a true sleep. I lifted myself carefully so that I could make sure Jack would stay asleep. When I was sure he would not awaken I gently turned the hand that he had shown me over, to face palm up. I looked at the black spot there. What I was about to do, would most likely not end well for me, but would save Jack from a death in the locker. I bit my lip and looked at Jack's innocent sleeping face. The sayings were true one looks sweeter in sleep.
I sat completely straight, determined to save Jack. I placed my palm against the spot and shuttered. I breathed deeply in and out, my power pulsing with my breaths. Slowly, ever so slowly, I felt the black magic surging to my palm. Finally, what seemed like hours later the darkness stopped surging, it had all transferred to my hand. True enough when I pulled my hand back there on my palm rested the black spot.
With something that small it was hard to believe it would attract the kraken. I could of course fight off the kraken but then it would go after Jack and that would make this completely unnecessary. I fell on my side with a sigh.
I'd just saved Jack, and doomed myself.
JxC JxC
So how's it going out there? Yeah I know you're all mad at me for putting this up instead of the TonyOC but I couldn't help myself. I don't know if I'll be able to hold myself back long enough to separate the chapter's when I post them so who knows what'll happen? Also if you'd like me to put Destiny in one of your favorite movies or books let me know and if I've read or seen it I might do that. I hope you like it!
