Challenging a Sparrow (revised)


disclaimer: I don't own Pirates of The Caribbean, I'm a fan who likes to make up stories about her favourite characters. Aggie, however is an original character.


Recommended music for this Chapter

Letters To Cleo – I Want You To Want Me

Flyleaf – Breathe Today

Bif Naked – We're Not Gonna Take It


Previously: Aggie meets up with Jack and tells him that she's a scavenger. Also she confesses that she has the Eye of Fatum a trinket that may be their way to get around the curse of the Isla du Muerta treasure. Aggie and Jack come to an agreement and decide to go after the treasure. Meanwhile, back home, Elizabeth has her suspicions about Aggie's kidnapping and talks to Will. Will tells Elizabeth that Aggie and Pat are in fact married. Meanwhile, we find out that Pat is in fact a part of Raven's crew, a captain Aggie bested in the race for the Eye of Fatum and who wants revenge.


Chapter three: Friend or Foe

"Okay, we're inside you can get your tongue away from my neck now." Aggie said as she closed the door to Jack's cabin behind her.

"Sure about that luv?"he said before quickly nibbling on her earlobe. Aggie moaned and leaned back against the skilled pirate but snapped out of her trance when an image of Pat flashed before her eyes.

"Positive, let go." she said as she pushed away from him." Jack grinned as she watched her inspect the room.

"I suppose it'll be okay. We'll take turns sleeping in the bed I suppose." she suggested.

"Ye can either share me bed or sleep on the floor." Jack said. "It's my bed luv."

"Our little plan gave me no other option then to share a room with you so you can at least agree to sharing the bed equally."

"I agree pet. That's why ye get to chose first. Left or right side?" he grinned.

"Fine, I'll take the left." she gave in. She could still sleep on top of the covers if Jack refused to come to his senses. The pirate captain grinned, revealing several golden teeth.

"So what do you want me to do while I'm aboard the ship." Jack grinned suggestively. "Except that."

"Help out with the small stuff, ye can help in the galley and clean now and then, mend some of the sails."

"Jack, I have experience on ships, I can do other stuff."

"Ye start with the small stuff, so the crew won't get suspicious." Aggie sighed.

"Maybe I can just sit up on deck so you guys have something pretty to stare at." Jack grinned.

"Ye may be very pretty luv, but ye don't compare to the horizon." She crossed her arms over her chest and glared daggers at the pirate captain. Jack turned around to go back onto deck so he could take the helm. He wanted to set sail as soon as possible. Aggie stopped him.

"I'd better not find any sketches of myself in your journal mister Sparrow." He turned.

"It's CAPTAIN Sparrow." he bellowed.

-o-o-o-

"The two of you are married?" mister Dearaugo stared at the carpenter. Patrick nodded.

"I apologize sir, but I love your daughter and I just want to do anything in my power to get her back home safely."

"You went behind my back and married my little girl." the man looked as if he was ready to commit murder.

"Mister Dearaugo. Patrick and Aggie love each other. Don't you want Aggie to be happy?" Elizabeth looked up at the impressive looking man.

"I want her back!" he said.

"Then we'll go look for her. Will knows pirates mister Dearaugo. If he has a ship and crew, I'm sure he can find her." Elizabeth smiled at her husband.

"What makes you so sure?"

"Well he found me when I was abducted by pirates." she said. The man shook his head.

"That was only because he loved you."

"Then we'll take Patrick with us. He loves Aggie, he'd die for her the three of us will find her." Patrick repressed a grin, he had pictured himself begging mister Dearaugo for a ship, and here was the governors daughter doing it for him. Things couldn't have worked out better.

"All right then. I shall put my fastest ship at your disposal mister Turner." he agreed. Will nodded.

"I promise you we'll do anything we can to bring Aggie back safely." Aggie's father nodded.

"She must be so afraid."

-o-o-o-

"Chicken." Aggie said with a grin as she looked at Gibbs over her cards.

"Fine" Gibbs slid several golden coins and some tobacco to the centre of the table. Aggie grinned.

"Read 'm and weep." she said as she laid out her cards. "Guess I win again. Sorry boys." She slid her winning towards her and gathered them in her bag.

"What are ye doing?" Jack asked as he walked in on the poker game.

"Just a friendly game of poker Sparrow." Aggie answered.

"And ye didn't think to invite me."

"You want to play?" Aggie asked.

"Nah, the stakes are to low for me."

"I'm calling it a night." Gibbs said. "She already cleaned me out." the other two crew members agreed, leaving Aggie and Jack alone.

"Who's at the helm?" Aggie asked as she watched the pirate getting a bottle of rum from the cabinet.

"Jules." Jack answered as he sat down at the other side of the table.

"You look tired, you've got dark circles under your eyes." Jack grinned as he ran his finger over the kohl surrounding his eyes.

"Helps keeping the sun out." he explained. Aggie stretched and yawned.

"I'm going to sleep." she said. Suddenly Jack leaned over the table and grabbed her wrist.

"Wait a minute pet. I want to talk to you about something." Aggie looked down at where his hand wrapped around her wrist.

"About what?"

"About the Eye." Aggie grinned.

"I'm not giving it to you Sparrow." Jack grinned.

"You forget pet. We're in the middle of the ocean and you're a stranger aboard a pirate ship. You can either give me to Eye, or force me to take it." she blinked.

"I thought we were business partners." she said.

"I'll keep my end of the deal luv. I just want the Eye, to make sure it's safe." Aggie shook her head.

"It's safe with me."

"It'll be safer with me." Jack insisted. "Hand is over luv. Or I'll just take it." Aggie looked at him defiantly. She wasn't about to give up her most important possession to this pirate. She hadn't fought of Raven for this. With a smug grin on her face she raised held up the pendant before slowly letting it slide down in her cleavage. Jack grinned amused.

"That only makes my job of taking it much more fun pet. You do realise." as he advanced, arm outstretched to go in after it.

"You wouldn't dare!" Aggie squealed as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"Obviously ye don't know me luv. I wouldn't hesitate for a second to retrieve yer little trinket. But to be fair. I'll give ye until noon tomorrow to simply hand it to me." with that he left the cabin.

-o-o-o-

Jack woke in the middle of the night. There was someone moving about the room. He didn't move, just pretended to be asleep until he felt the other side of the bed sag under someone's weight.

"Knew ye couldn't stay away pet. We're the barrels on deck to hard fer yer back?" he asked with a grin as he turned around to wrap an arm around her waist. She seemed bigger, fatter then he remembered. "Luv, maybe you went a little over the top on yer rations today." he said.

"Captain, as fond as I am of ye, I'd appreciate if ye cut it with the spooning." Jack pulled back his arm as if it were burned and rolled back, right out of bed. He landed on the floor with a loud 'thud'.

"Damn it GIBBS!! What the hell are ye doing in me bunk!!" Jack yelled at the top of his lungs at his first mate.

"The bloody wench kicked me out of me own bed. She told me you asked her to trade with me 'cause ye couldn't sleep from her constant whining."

"Out of me bed!!" Jack yelled. He stormed out of the room and kicked the door to his first mates cabin open. Aggie sat up startled.

"Captain!" she said grinning when she saw the look of anger on his face. Jack froze for a second seeing her there in her over sized white shirt, one shoulder exposed and her brown curls spilling onto her shoulders. "Jack?" she snapped him out of his thought. He marched up to her and before she realised what he had planned he reached down the front of her shirt and pulled up the Eye of Fatum. "Jack!!!" she squealed undignified by his action. "How dare you."

"Luv, ye lost yer right to squeal when ye send Gibbs to me bed. Now I have this, ye'd better be watching yer tongue and yer steps around me, cause your nothing more then an accessory now savvey?"

"I hate you!"

"Goodnight pet." Jack said, turning around to return to his own cabin.

"Goodnight...MISTER Sparrow!"

-o-o-o-

"It's CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow." Elizabeth corrected her father. "And he and Will will make sure nothing will happen to me."

"I just got you back home and again you wish to leave on another adventure!? Lizzy, think of your fathers poor heart." Weatherby Swann said as he placed his hands on his daughters shoulders. "Please reconsider, Will and Patrick are fine man, they can find Aggie by themselves."

"Father, Aggie is my best friend."

"And you are my only daughter!" he said.

"I have to go."

"You don't have my permission. Besides, what if another ransom not it send here? Who will keep in touch with Will and Patrick, and keep them informed?" Elizabeth sighed. That was actually a pretty good argument.

"Will..." Elizabeth sighed. Will nodded.

"I know, he's right. You'd better stay here. I'll keep you informed on what's happening and if we need you I'll send for you." she nodded. Will leaned in and kissed his wives forehead.

"Please hurry and get her home safely."

"I'm sure that as soon as we find Jack, he'll help us find her." Elizabeth nodded.

"He's a good man." Will smiled. "Say hi for me, will you?" she said.

"Off course."

"Good luck." Elizabeth enveloped her husband in a tight embrace.

"Thanks, it'll be okay. We'll find her soon enough."

"Patrick." Elizabeth turned to the man already busily preparing to set sail. "Look at you, you look like a natural." he grinned.

"I guess, that my worries are guiding me." he said.

"I'm so sorry about what happened to Aggie, but I'm sure you'll find her." he smiled and hugged her.

"I'm so scared for her." he said. "God knows what those scoundrels are doing to her."

"You will have her by your side again soon." she assured him.

"Thank you Elizabeth, and you to Will for coming with me." Will nodded.

"Off course, that's what friends are for." Patrick nodded. Will and Elizabeth kissed goodbye and he helped her off of the ship so she could wave them off as they left.

-o-o-o-

Jack sat at his desk staring at the Eye of Fatum. It looked so insignificant. The door flew open just as he took a swig from the bottle of rum on his left. He grinned.

"Morning luv. Did ye sleep well?" he asked. She didn't answer.

"I want it back Jack." she said coldly. He grinned.

"That ain't gonna happen pet."

"It's mine! You stole it."

"Pirate." he reminded her. A primitive high-pitched growl erupted from her.

"You're infuriating." He looked up at her and grinned.

"Infuriating or irresistible." her face turned a bright shade of red. "I could swear I heard a little moan last night when I took the pendant." he said amused.

"That's not true!" She yelled. He shook his head.

"Can't fool me pet. But I'll have to disappoint ye. Yer not my type."

"You're not my type either!" the grin on his face broadened.

"Prove it then." Jack said, leaning back in his chair, so it tilted onto two legs.

"What do you mean?"

"I kiss you, and if you don't respond in any way...I'll give ye yer little trinket back." Anger flashed in Aggie's eyes.

"I don't feel anything for you except resentment." she said, crossing her arms over her chest.

"So we have a deal then?"

"What makes you think I trust you enough to keep your end of the deal?" Aggie asked. Jack shrugged.

"I don't."

"And what if I do?" she asked.

"If you do what?"

"Respond?" Jack winked suggestively.

"Then Gibbs gets his cabin back." he said. "So lass? Do we have a deal?"

-o-o-o-

"We're making good time. We should be in Tortuga by tomorrow." Will said as he walked up to Patrick and the captain.

"That's good." Patrick said. "I wonder if they heard something from Aggie back home."

"If they did there'll be a message waiting for us at Tortuga. Elizabeth is very inventive about getting her messages across." Will said with a smile. He noticed the sad look on Patrick's face and realised how insensitive he was bragging about his own wife.

"I'm sorry." Patrick looked up.

"About what?"

"Talking about Elizabeth while your sick with worries about your own wife."

"That's all right. You and Elizabeth went through a similar thing and you two came out stronger." Will smiled.

"And so will you and Aggie." Will promised before he turned around and left.

"What do you wanna do about Turner? He likes to do check ups on the stage of the ship and one of these days he'll be heading down to the brig. If he finds the real captain..." Patrick shushed him.

"Then he stays in the brig. All the men aboard are on Raven's payroll even if Turner finds out the truth, there's nothing he can do against that many men." Patrick nodded.

"Has word been send to Raven about our heading?" Duke, the captain, nodded.

"He's meeting us there." Patrick answered as he glanced around to make sure Will wasn't nearby. "When we get there Turner and myself will head into town and once we do Raven will take over the ship. We'll leave Turner in Tortuga."

"What about you?"

"I get left behind. Otherwise he'll know I was in on it. And it's much to convenient to have a guy on the inside if someone hears from Aggie." Duke grinned.

"Are you sure you haven't come to believe your own romantic lies about you and your wife?"

"I don't give a damn about her...I only married her cause she's to good a lay to let go to waste." Duke snickered.

"Perhaps Raven will pass her along to the crew after he be done with her." Patrick forced a smile.

"Maybe."


A/N: And we have a chapter three ladies and gentlemen. Seems like things are going in the right direction. Hope you enjoyed. And as always your beloved author drops down on her knees and begs for reviews.