Chapter 2.
The open sea and father's crew.
When Lilly awoke the next morning there was no telling that her "dead" father was ever there, 'Huh, just a dream caused by wishful thinking I suppose,' she thought to herself before being pulled away from her 'dream' when her mother came rushing through the door and over to her bed. "Mother, what are you doing here?" she asked a bit shocked and not quite awake yet. Her mother sat at the edge of her bed and glomped her until Lilly convinced her to let her breathe.
Her mother asked, "How are you feeling darling? Did you sleep well?"
Lilly thought about telling her mother about seeing her father last night, but thought better of it, 'Don't want to go making her think you've gone off the deep end, now do you?' she thought trying to hold a smirk off her face, but failed miserably.
Her mother noticed and asked, "What are you smirking at Lilly?" while she looked around the room half expecting to find a clown or something that was making funny faces, but found nothing so she turned back to her daughter to find her looking thoughtful and confused, "Are you alright Lilly? You're acting very strange this morning?" her mother asked concerned.
'Well you'd be acting strangely if someone tried to kill you two days ago, too!' Lilly thought bitterly, but corrected herself and just sighed and said, "Yes mother I'm fine it's just that the whole Norrington incident hasn't fully left my mind and to answer your question about my smirk… I was just thinking of father and the fun we used to have together." 'Well it's the partial truth,' she thought.
Her mother seemed to think this over before saying, "Alright dear, but hurry up and get ready, we're going to leave soon." Lilly looked at her mother confused and Elizabeth seemed to understand and said, "We're going to the fort today for Lieutenant Bradley's promotion don't you remember? You were working on his sword for weeks."
GAH, THE PROMOTION, she had completely forgotten about that!!!!!!! She hurried up and got dressed before they left to go get the sword and go to the fort. On their way there she thought about Bradley, she really hated him and his 'stuck up, I'm so much better than you personality', 'No, she thought, 'ladies never hate they dislike greatly' she reminded herself. Yeah well Bradley and that philosophy and that stuff about her being a lady could all go down to Davy Jones' locker for all she cared! Another reason why she hated him so much was that he kept making passes at her and so far he was up to 566 and on her last nerve, 'Huh, only 100 numbers away from being the devil's number. And I think he is the devil himself, sometimes' she thought to herself not even bothering to hide the smile and a certain gleam in her eyes that would make even the hardest of sailors scream like little girls. And what made it so hilarious was that he was almost a whole 17 to 18 years older than herself!!! She was a whole what… 13 going on 14 next March and he was in his late 20's early 30's!!! He was old enough to be her father practically!!!!!!! At that thought a shiver ran down her spine, 'No don't think that!!' she mentally berated herself for thinking such a horrid, evil thing such as that!!!!
About 15 min. later they arrived at the fort, 'Well look at the bright side Lilly, at least your two best friends were forced to come! But honestly, I wouldn't wish this fate on anyone because it's worse than torture!!!!! But again look at the bright side, at least you won't have to suffer alone!!!!' Lilly thought a little sad for her friends. It was because of one of two reasons; one, that both of them are related to Bradley and if your curious of who and how then let me explain, the first would have to be Thomas (Tommy) he was Bradley's 15 year old little brother. She really didn't want to think about what life must be like to live with Bradley! Her other best friend would be none other than Bradley's and Tommy's cousin, Anastasia (Anna) and the funny thing is that there might be a 1 to 2 year gap in age difference, but all three of them were like each others own personal family when your real one won't help you. Now for 2 years this fall was their anniversary for when they first started to sabotage Bradley's efforts to make it this far and the plan was still in action, all they needed to do was to make a last and final strike!
As she started to get a little impatient she started to remember when the three of them had started this whole thing, and as she glanced toward her left she saw Tommy and Anna do the same thing and together the three of them were lost in the memory.
Flashback.
A 12 year old Lilly and Anna and a 13 year old Tommy were all around a camp fire telling some of the stories they had heard from some of the docking sailors, about Davy Jones and of the legendary treasure of the Isle de Moita and of course the pirate crew who stopped the evil Captain Barbosa, they mostly talked about becoming a pirate crew of their own and sailing the ocean.
"And when we do die, I honestly think that the sailors and pirates will join us all on one crew!" a very enthusiastic Tommy said.
"No," said a very indifferent Lilly, "because they're going to have to choose between death or sailing a hundred years on Davy Jones crew."
"Oh please, spare my ears please I beg you!" said Tommy's older brother Bradley, sarcastically. "Who told you all that rubbish, hmmm the sailors down at the dock or that now dead William Turner?" Bradley sneered.
Now anyone who knew Lilly well enough would never and I mean never insult her father because when they did you can be sure that you'd see them swinging from the gallows the next morning. For awhile Tommy and Anna almost considered letting Lilly go and hang him from the gallows, but thought better of it. 'Save the major crimes to when we're older and have more freedom,' they always told themselves. When they had finally managed to get her to sit down Bradley started this whole big speech that basically had the gist of how pirates are evil misfits who don't deserve to breathe the same air as we do.
During this Tommy leaned over and said in a whispered tone, "Give me death or give me a musket so I can shoot his head and mouth off!"
At this Lilly and Anna couldn't help but let out a few giggles or risk being sent to the doctor for internal bleeding. Bradley just glared at them and started something he shouldn't have because once the words left his mouth, he was playing with fire. Lilly looked at her friends before saying, "Do I have your permission to start a full out war with him?"
The cousins looked at each other before looking back at her like they were insane and chorused, "You do, but not without us!!" And so with them chasing Bradley a life long devotion and pledge, which they later made, they agreed to make Bradley's life a living hell!'
While they were thinking about it they had been oblivious to the fact, that they had missed their chance to humiliate Bradley. Because while they spaced out there for a minute he had already been promoted and it was the party, 'If that's what you want to call it' thought Lilly and company.
And if you thought that they were bored that is a big understatement (and to give you readers some help I'll describe what its like). Right now Tommy was trying to stay awake, but was failing miserably, Anna was playing with her hair and chewing her tongue as if in deep thought and Lilly was daydreaming, but still aware enough to notice Tommy fall out of his chair asleep and snoring, quite loud I might add.
Anna decided to ask the question that they were thinking about, "Lilly what do we do now? I mean terrorizing my cousin is all that was keeping me going."
Lilly looked at her and shrugged, but then she thought about it some more and seemed to perk up and answered her friend, "Anna I think I have a solution to our problems!" she finished her announcement by looking at the loudly snoring Tommy and with a bored yet amused look on her face proceeded to kick him on the shin which in of itself was very effective.
"What, what I'm awake, I'm awake!?! And which one of you kicked me?" Tommy asked getting back into his chair.
Lilly and Anna looked at each other and shook their heads at the easy joke opportunity and just looked back at him before Anna decided to break the silence, "Lilly has an idea of what we can do now since our Bradley terrorizing days are over."
"What do you mean those days are over? Those days are never over, at least for me." Tommy commented on his cousins words.
Lilly watched from the side lines as they threw words at each other while thinking, 'I am friends with a psychotic brother and his insane cousin.' She finally got a headache from them bickering and said, "Will you two please shut up so I can tell you what my plans are!!!" They finally stopped fighting in midsentence, so they still had their mouths open, "And close your mouths, you'll catch flies." Lilly said before they huddled and discussed her plans.
A few hours had passed and the whole port was asleep when a ship came into the dock unnoticed. But little did the unsuspecting people of the port realize that the ship was a pirate ship! The captain of the ship stood at the railing of his ship thinking to himself while his crew were making themselves busy by getting ready to raid the unsuspecting port. 'Huh, I really hope we can get this over and done with before anyone realizes we're here,' he thought while looking over his crew and smirking when seeing some of them almost trip because of their excitement. 'I still can't believe Jack convinced me to do this. Well, actually, I can because the crew does need some excitement, but I just hope they actually FOLLOW my orders and not hurt anybody this time. And even if they do hurt somebody the extent should be to just knock them out.' He finished his thought with a sigh and turned around to find his first mate, Jack Sparrow, talking to Jack's son, Nathan.
Will walked over to the pair and cleared his throat to get their attention. It worked because it scared Jack into yelping in surprise while his son just shook his head and chuckled at his father's nervousness. "Jack, I want you to go and tell Pintel to be ready to fire at my command," he said as Jack caught his breath and nodded and turned to walk away.
Nathan looked at his captain and asked if he wanted him to do anything. Will stood there and thought for a minute before saying, "Actually, Nathan, there is something you could do for me. I want you to go to the Governor's house with two other men and find a girl around the age of 13 and bring her back with you, alright?" he finished but added as an afterthought, "But if you hurt her or anyone else at the house, you will have to answer to me, savvy?"
When Nathan nodded and took of to find his two men Will turned back to the port and thought, 'I'm sorry Elizabeth, but this is the only way I can see our daughter without being caught.' Finishing his thought he turned and looked at his crew one more time before turning back and raising his hand and shouting, "FIRE!!!!" and dropping his hand to the sound of cannon fire.