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Chapter 2
Reintroductions via London
Captain Jack Sparrow was wondering through the crowded streets of London looking for a tavern. He was in dire need of a drink.
Lady Nithers was on her way to the tailors' when she ran into aforementioned pirate. Literally.
"My apologies sir." She said before looking at him. He had already recognized her.
"Maya?"
She looked at him and a huge smile overcame her pretty face.
"Well, I'll be, Captain Jack Sparrow." Her perfect English left her at that moment and she was once again a pirate.
Jack remembered everything that had ever occurred between them when she spoke. All the memories of their three days filled his brain, and consumed his every sense. He could smell her again, touch her again, taste her again, and experience her again. She was just as beautiful as the day she left him. It took all his will not to reach out, grab her, and claim her as his own once again.
She ran her eyes over his body. After all the time that had passed she could remember the location of every scar and every tattoo.
"I know a place we can talk." She led him through the streets to a little wooded area outside a park.
While they were still standing she pulled him to her and put her lips on his. This surprised him at first but then he began to kiss her back. She eventually pulled away and looked at him.
"Has the sea been a good mistress?"
"You were better." He pulled her face to his again.
She kissed him for a few more minutes before once again breaking away.
"What are you doing here Jack?" She sat down against a tree and he sat down beside her.
"I'm in the market for a ship. You know of any?"
"Several, all of which are heavily guarded. What ever became of your Pearl?"
"Ahh, she still lives, love. I got her back, then I lost her again to the same bloody man who took her before."
"Barbossa?"
"Aye. What of you, love?"
"Besides missing you terribly, I was able to convince a man of considerable nobility that I was a lady. And I am now Lady Nithers, wife of Viscount Nithers."
"You always were a lady, love, don't see how anyone could see otherwise."
It was odd, but almost instantly after being in each other's company they were able to slip back into the comfort they had with each other on the island. It was almost as if they had never parted, much less for over a decade.
She turned around so she would be able to lay her head down in his lap.
"I was a Pirate Lady, Jack. Now I am an English lady. I attend balls, sometimes held in my husband's honor; I hang on my husband's every word. I lead the most boring of little lives."
He began stroking her face with his rough pirate hands, but to her they were perfect.
"Why did you marry him, Maya?"
"Because I wanted security, Jack. I didn't want to be an old woman forced to beg. Does that make me a horrible person?"
He looked into her eyes and smirked, "No love, that makes you a pirate."
She lay in his lap a moment longer before she started to get up. He grabbed her wrist before she could.
"Where are you going?"
She softly smiled at him before kissing him lightly on the lips. "Jack, I have to go home. Rupert will be wondering where I am. I am so glad I got to see you again. I suppose this encounter will be consuming my thoughts for another decade."
He slowly and reluctantly let her go. For some reason he didn't want her to walk away. He wondered what meant more to her than security; if she was young forever than she wouldn't need it. It was then Captain Jack Sparrow had a wonderful idea.
"Maya?"
She turned around to him with a playful smile. "I know you will miss me, Jack. But it is you who said your first and only love was the sea. If you hadn't have said those words, I would have been by your side until I died. You knew that. That's why you told me. But I don't begrudge you any. You're a pirate. I couldn't expect anything more. Until I see you again, my love."
Just as she turned to walk away, Jack suddenly got up and grabbed her from behind. She thought he was going to begin kissing her neck and was rather disappointed when he didn't. Instead he leaned into her ear.
"What if I could offer you everything you've always wanted."
"What?"
"Eternal youth, love. Freedom. A lifetime aboard the Pearl. With me."
"You don't have the Pearl, and how can you offer me everlasting youth? And if you can offer these things, what do you want from me?"
"Your help, I need you to help me once again reclaim the Pearl so we can sail to Aqua De Vida, and claim our life eternal." At this point he turned her around to face him.
"What say you?"
"Water of Life? Ah, Jack." She wanted to go with him so badly it hurt. She wanted him to take her away from her securities. But she was too afraid, she needed Rupert, and she knew he needed her. She also knew Jack's propensity to believe the fantastic. Water of Life sounded far too good to be true. Although she knew that a lifetime with Captain Jack Sparrow was an impossible dream, she knew a little while couldn't hurt.
"A fortnight."
"What?" He looked incredibly puzzled.
"I will sail with you for two weeks. I will help you reclaim your Pearl, and then I shall return to my incredibly boring, but incredibly safe, life. Do we have an accord?"
He knew she was a good pirate, and if anyone could, she could help him reclaim the Pearl. He also knew that two weeks could turn into a lot longer. And even if it didn't, two weeks with her was far better than nothing.
"Aye."
She pulled away from him and stuck out her hand. He smirked and pulled her close to him.
"I had a different way of consummating this agreement."
"I am a married woman, Jack."
"Aye, love. In paper and gold. But we both know you'll always be mine."
"Such conceit. And who do you belong to, Jack Sparrow?"
"I am enslaved to my own desires."
"As am I." She said before grabbing the back of his neck and kissing him.
After they parted it was arranged that they would meet in the same spot at sunrise the next morning. Maya had to concoct a plan.