Hello everyone! Thank you for reading and reviewing! Just FYI this story doesn't really take place after any particular movie, I'm just using the characters along with my OC in an original story line but if I had to pick a movie it would follow I would say sometime after the first one. Just FYI for anyone who was wondering. : ) Enjoy!
Paige held her breath, trembling with fear as she watched the pair of black boots slowly enter the room. They froze for an instant, as if the wearer of them was suddenly suspicious about something within the room. Paige closed her eyes tightly and forced herself to stop trembling, fearing that in the silence of the room the man would hear her shaky breath and trembling body. A few, long seconds ticked by and the man began to move about the room again, pausing every so often as if waiting and listening for whatever or whoever had set him on edge.
"Mister Gibbs!"
Paige jumped at the sudden, booming sound of the man's voice in the enclosed space. She clamped a hand over her mouth to keep herself from crying out and waited to see what happened next. An older man came running into the room, his boots falling heavily on the old wooden planks as he raced in to answer his captain's call.
"Aye, Captain?" said the older man, "What is it you be needing?"
The man with the black boots began his pace around the room once again, "You ever get the feeling, Mister Gibbs, that something isn't quite right? Like…someone is watching you…or something in a room isn't as it was since you last left it?"
"Aye, Captain…is something the matter with your quarters?"
The man in the black boots paced passed the bed once again as he answered, "I believe there is something amiss Mister Gibbs…but I can't place my finger on what it is. But…something is not as it once was and I want to find just what it is that is making what once was no longer what it once was."
The man he called "Mister Gibbs" blubbered for a moment, trying to make sense of his captain's train of thought, "Uh, yes, yes Captain. What would you like for me to do?"
"Search the room," ordered the man in the black boots, "I want every goblet, every glass, every picture, every item overturned and inspected. Whatever this vile thing is that is causing my quarters to feel…infected…must be ousted immediately. I won't have it bothering me during our voyage."
"Aye Captain, we can't have something bothering you. Your mind must stay focused on plundering and looting!"
"Indeed Mister Gibbs…now, let us commence our search shall we?"
Paige trembled violently under the bed. Now it was only a matter of time before she was discovered. Her plan had gone horribly awry. She silently cursed herself for her stupidity. What had possessed her to believe that stealing away on a pirate ship and hiding would save her? She might as well have jumped off the ship and drowned in the sea…at least that would have saved her the torture she was sure to be forced to endure now.
Suddenly a face appeared right next to where Paige was laying. She screamed as the man in the black boots reached out and grabbed her ankle and dragged her out from under the bed. Paige screamed with everything she had, sure that her life was about to end right then and there.
"Well, Mister Gibbs," said the man in the black boots, "I believe I've found what has upset my stateroom…a screaming stowaway wench!"
"What a set of pipes, eh Captain?" replied Gibbs, putting his fingers in his ears, "That scream could wake the dead!"
"Aye," agreed the man in the black boots as he picked Paige up and tossed her onto the bed, "Shackles, Mister Gibbs."
Gibbs ran out of the room and returned a moment later with two pairs of shackles. He gave them to the man in the black boots and glanced over at Paige. She had stopped screaming and now sat trembling terribly on the bed.
"The wench is terrified, Jack," said Gibbs, "She may be a stowaway but look how she shakes with fear!"
The man just grunted in reply as she shackled Paige's wrists and ankles, "Don't they all when they face capture by pirates?"
"I was just trying to escape my ship," said Paige in a small, shaky voice, "I was trying to get away…from the fighting. I'll leave when this ship returns to a port…I swear it. I mean no harm, I don't want anything from you…I just want to get off this ship."
Gibbs exchanged a look with his captain, "Aye, you see Captain? She's a simple stowaway, no harm no foul."
The man grunted, "A stowaway is a stowaway and you know the punishment for such peoples. Take her on deck, show her to the crew and announce what crime she is charged with then throw her in the brig Gibbs."
"Aye Captain," said Gibbs as he grabbed Paige's arm and hoisted her to her feat, "Come on malady."
Paige cast one last desperate, pleading glance in the captain, "Please, sir…I promise I'll leave and you'll never have to see me again!"
The captain smirked a little in amusement at her pleading, "Aye love, but you've stown away on the Black Pearl with Captain Jack Sparrow at the helm…and letting you go would just not be the way I run my ship, you see. So it's off to the brig with you! Good day!"
Paige felt a cold, sick feeling stab her in the gut. This was the beginning of the end, she could feel it in her bones. This man…this Captain Jack Sparrow…was a pirate to the core. She wouldn't be released so easily. Gibbs pulled Paige out of the captain's quarters and led her up the stairs and out onto the deck.
Jack Sparrow watched the young woman leave, "Pity," he mumbled to himself, "The wench is rather beautiful…those green eyes…if only she were a pirate…"
Jack shook his head and grumbled something about turning soft before he walked over to the far side of the room and picked up a glass bottle. He popped the cork off of it and took a long swig of his precious rum. He sighed in contentment and sang, "Aye, drink up me hearties yo ho!"
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"Listen up lads!" shouted Gibbs as he dragged Paige out onto the rolling deck of the Black Pearl, "Lookie at what Captain Jack and I have found! A stowaway!"
The crew of rugged, dirty pirates cheered as they gazed at Paige. A few catcalls and hollers rang out as they studied her.
"She's a girl!" shouted one of the pirates, who seemed to be missing an eye.
"Aye! And a pretty one at that!" agreed another pirate next to him who appeared to be balding rather quickly.
"What did Captain Jack say to do with her?" called out another pirate, "Did he give her to the crew to enjoy?"
The hollers and cheers grew louder at that prospect. Paige gasped in horror as she contemplated what that would entail. She looked at Gibbs, desperately hoping he would object to such a horrific suggestion. Gibbs frowned at the crew and shook his head.
"No, me lads, I'm afraid the captain has ordered her to be locked up in the brig."
The crew all sighed and groaned in disappointment while Paige let out a sigh of relief. Although the idea of being locked up in a stinking, rotten old cell on a pirate ship was appalling she much preferred that to being thrown into the hands of nasty, dirty pirates who probably hadn't seen a woman in months.
"Come on malady," said Gibbs, "It's off to the brig with you now!"
Paige winced as Gibbs tightened his grip on her arm and led her away. She silently prayed that the insides of the Black Pearl wouldn't be the last thing she'd see on this earth…
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