Look an update!!! Sorry it's taken so long to get this bad boy up but when one hath no computer of her own then its hard to update as frequent as one would like. Anyways, thanks to all those who have reviewed my little story and all that I appreciate it! Glad that you guys have stuck around. As for in the story and Teague's life c'mon you know I had to use Keith's real life!! It just sounds like a work of fiction! Lol But I love Keith so we're square.
This chapter starts to delve into Jack's past so when you picture the past Jack in your head for this and upcoming chapters I would google search a picture of JD from Chocolat. That was what I was picturing so it might make things easier for some. Also it' a lot of dialogue so bear with me. Anyways enjoy!!!! I worked hard on these for ya!!!
Disclaimer: Everything is Disney's and certain things in the chapter belong to the Rolling Stones! No suing and no I don't have Johnny Depp locked in my basement...that you know of. COUGHCOUGH.
Elizabeth sighed contentedly as she laid her head on Jack's bare chest. She could not believe the events of the night. She had gone from becoming Captain, to Pirate King, to Mrs. Jack Sparrow all within hours of each other. Mrs. Jack Sparrow...she had always dreamed of marrying a pirate but she always thought that pirate would be Will Turner yet here she lay with Jack's ring on her finger and him snoring softly beside her.
She studied said ring on her finger and found her mind wandering. Where had he got the ring? He had said it was his mother's right? That question led to thoughts of what his mother was like and who she was. Was she still alive? She was married to a man of many mysterious and she doubted that if she were to ask Jack some of these questions if he'd tell her the whole truth. Still, the first stories written about the notorious Jack Sparrow weren't until he was 21 years old so who had he been before that day? There was 21 years of mysteries. Then with having learned that Captain Teague was his father only added to that mystery. Had Jack always been a pirate? Or who did he use to be?
Elizabeth sighed as the questions assaulted her mind to no end. There was only one way that she was going to get the answers though and therefore ease her mind. Slowly she sat up and eased off the bed so as not to wake Jack. She gathered her clothes up and put them back on quickly. She glanced at Jack again and smiled. She couldn't remember ever being this happy. She leaned over Jack and gently pressed her lips against his. He involuntarily smiled under the touch.
"I love you, Lizzie," he mumbled in his sleep.
She smiled. "I love you too, Jack. Go back to sleep," she whispered into his ear and he complied rather easily and fell back into steady breathing rhythms.
Elizabeth wasn't quite sure what was in store for her as she boarded the decks of the Satisfaction (couldn't resist!!!). She had read many stories about it when she was young and she heard tales of the terrible crew. With one hand on her sword she carefully proceeded towards what she believed to be the Captain's quarters. She reached out and pressed a shaky palm against the door handle when she felt a hand grab her shoulder and she let out an involuntary squeal of shock and fear.
"I was wondering when ya would show up 'ere," Captain Teague said coming out of the shadows and releasing his grip on Elizabeth.
Elizabeth turned to face him slowly. "You were expecting me?" she questioned.
"Aye. I'm sure ya have plenty of questions so why dontcha head on in and take a seat eh?"
She eyed the man suspiciously before she turned the knob and entered. It looked pretty much the same as the one on the Pearl although Jack was a bit messier than his father it seemed. She walked over and took a seat at one of the chairs around the Captain's mahogany desk. Teague didn' t sit right away and rather stood across from her making her feel slightly uncomfortable.
"Captain Teague my name ..." she started.
"Elizabeth Swann, Pirate King. Or is it Sparrow?" he asked with a knowing grin.
"How did you know?"
He raised a finger to the ring on her wedding finger and she blushed slightly.
"It's Sparrow, sir,"she said with a smile and a nod.
"Lizzie Sparrow, eh? Ne'er thought I'd see the day that Jackie would settle down. He's always loved women since he was a small lad and the women have always loved him. Went from town to town wooing virgins, widows and married women he did. Along with a Tortuga strumpet or two," he added that last part with a smile. "I knew something changed today when I saw ye two together. He fell hard fer ye little lady," he said and turned his back on her for a moment. "Rum?" he called out to her.
"Sure,"she said and accepted a glass from him and he just drank from the bottle and finally sat down across from her. "Well, I was coming here to talk to you about Jack," she said sipping the rum.
"What's there to say?"
"Well, there's just some things...a lot of things that I don't know about Jack. I've read his stories but I don't know who he really is. I was hoping that you could fill in some of the blank pages as it were."
Teague looked at her thoughtfully and nodded his head."I'll do what I can but I missed many of his years for pirating," he said with a trace of regret in his voice. "What do ye want to know lass?"
"Can we start with where he is from?" she asked.
"London. I met his mum down on the docks one day when I was a merchant sailor and she told me that it was her dream to experience the freedom the seas offered. Said there was nothing better than the spray of the sea hitting yer face. I fell fer her. But she was from a wealthy middle class family and so ye can imagine how much I was liked. When she was pregnant with Jack I was already off to sea and didn't know about it. Her family disowned her. Kicked her out from her house and called her a whore," Teague said bitterly. "She ended up living with some friends of hers who ran a general store below their little apartment. They were poor but damn good people. They had their own son as well. Figure he was about eight or so."
"That's terrible. How old was she when this all happened?" Elizabeth asked.
"Seventeen," Teague whispered as an image of her flashed in his mind. "Katherine, Jack's mum, didn't deserve that. Such a sweet spirit she was. I swear at ya Jack looks just like her.'Specially those damn eyes. Anyways, when I got back from one of my many travels she was seven months pregnant and I figured the least that I owed her was to marry her. I got to know the family she lived with pretty well and their boy, Joshamee, was particularly interested in me pirating. After a few months though I was restless. Needed to be on the sea. I told Joshamee to always watch out fer Katherine and especially my boy when he was born and I was gone again," he finished sipping the rum.
"Joshamee?" she asked trying to place the name and then it dawned on her. "Joshamee Gibbs???"
"Aye. Jack's first mate. You're a sharp girl," he said with a smile.
"That explains a lot in itself," she said stunned."So you left before he was born? Didn't witness the birth?"
"Not one of me prouder moments. I had a calling fer the sea though. I couldn't stay on land that long. Next time I saw Katherine, I figure Jack was about six months old with this head of dark hair. Cute kid he was," Teague smiled. "So, that continued fer awhile. Spending some time with the family and then leaving for piracy. I'd disappear for months at a time but ne'er once would Katherine complain. She always welcomed me back with open arms and listened to all of my tales patiently. Fer being such a good woman I would bring her home little trinkets, such as that ring ye be wearing, and her eyes would light up. She still lived with the Gibbs and worked in their shop and Jack and Joshamee were best friends, practically blood brothers. Me wife raised me boy good in my absence. She taught him how to read and write by the time he was five and taught him manners and other schooling she had learned. Boy is all scallywag now but don't let him fool ya. Smart as a whip. Master tactician. He's smarter than most scholars I've known. Could talk his way out of anything. He was always real polite and respectful when I'd visit but as he got older I knew that my leaving was growing old. By the time he was twelve he almost outright hated me and piracy. He watched his mum cry all those years when I left and I think that's why he hated me," he finished and gave it a moment for all that to set in.
"He was just protecting his mother, and you didn't exactly give him many reasons to like you or piracy," Elizabeth rationalized.
"Aye. When he was sixteen I told myself that I'd stay fer good and try to patch things up with Jack. Instead of Katherine's warm greetings when I returned though I was met with Jack at the door, and he sure had grown in the two years since I'd seen him last. His hair was longer and usually tied up in the back, he'd grown several inches and he was strong and quick with a sword. I suspect Joshamee taught him most of it but Josh had joined the Royal Navy by then and was posted elsewhere. So I say to my son how good it was at see him and how much he'd grown and the next thing I know I'm on the ground with blood coming outta my nose and he told me ne'er to come back. I was locked out fer three days before Katherine found out and welcomed me home with open arms. I'll never know what she saw in me," his voice faded.
"A good man?" Elizabeth offered knowing that was what she saw in Jack.
"Maybe. I was a useless scallywag just like me boy told me. I kept trying to get him to come out to sea with me but he ne'er would even though we both knew he had a calling fer it. I stayed fer a whole year but when he was seventeen the East India Trading Company was on my heels and I had to make way again and Jack said that I deserved to be run off. That he hoped they caught me and hung me. I couldn't believe it."
"That doesn't sound like the Jack that I know," she said stunned.
"It's not. Jack was a very different young man back then. Now that he's a pirate and has tasted the sea he understands things much better and we have long since reconciled. Now, he's scared of me almost," Teague laughed.
Elizabeth smiled. "So what happened next?"
Teague smiled ruefully. "Jack honored his call to the sea when he was eighteen."
"And became a pirate?"
"No!"Teague laughed. "He joined the East India Trading Company."
Elizabeth looked at the man before her in shock. She knew that Jack had dealings with the EITC in the past but not that he was an actual member. "You're joking."
"Wish I was lass. But how do ye think he came to know Cuttler Beckett? He sailed under him. That was his Captain."
"That explains his hostility," Elizabeth rolled her eyes. "Then what?" she asked on the edge of her seat.
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HAHAHAHA. Cliff hanger!!! Sorry this chapter was extremely short and too much dialogue but in the next one we get to go back in time and see some of Jack's misadventures with Beckett which is fun and get a little action in on this tory. Sorry it was short. REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!!
