A/N: Yes! Everybody was in character last chapter! I was trying my hardest to keep it that way, so if you notice you or your OC are out of character, let me know and I'll try to fix it.
Disclaimer: I don't own POTC or any of these characters except for Sandra and (my) Angel. SirenoftheStorm's story inspired me to write this one. Credit also goes to Camilla Sandman.
Chapter 3
Angel had watched and laughed to herself as her "students" and fellow classmates had poked at their food uncertainly. Well, they weren't really her students considering she was a student too, but she would tutor those who needed help. But whatever they were to be called, it had been quite humorous watching the ones from the twenty-first century poke at and eventually give in and eat their meal.
It had been like that for her when she had first been given "pirate food" too. She had not been a pirate all her life, but had been kidnapped by pirates at the age of fourteen. It was still a mystery to her why they had not killed her along with many of the people she knew, but the captain had insisted on her staying on their ship. The other pirates had not liked the decision, but never mentioned it unless they were sure they were alone. She figured the captain kept her because she reminded him of the daughter he once had, but she did not like to dwell on the past. Well, except for when the Pearl attacked the ship she was on and Jack's crew accidentally rescued her. She liked that part.
But now was not the time to think of her past. She had to focus on her present and the students she had to administer a test to.
Angel took one more sip of rum from her brown mug and stood. Most of the students were finished with their meals and were attempting to make small talk except for the boy that sat by himself.
"Alrigh', everyone, you had better eaten all ye want 'cause it's time for yer tests!" She hollered to them, even though there was no real need to yell. She just liked to be heard.
"What if we don't want to take it?" Asked the girl with shoulder length, red hair that became blonde at the bottom.
"Wha's yer name?" Angel asked as she strolled up to the girl.
"Christine Gabriella Martin," she replied, slightly annoyed that her question had not been answered.
"Well, Christine, you don' have a bloody choice!" The brown haired girl said quite a bit louder than was necessary. "None of you have a choice. Ye either take it, or you start from level one in pirating. Which will it be?"
There was silence among the students as some turned to their newly established acquaintances and whispered to one another. Finally Christine spoke quietly, "I'll take the bloody test…"
"Can't we drop out if we want to?" Asked the girl with long, orange and black hair.
"No," Angel replied. "Once yer here, yer here. Besides, most of you wouldn't have a place ta go if you were ta drop out." She let the truth sink in momentarily before adding, "I'm sorry if I'm hard on ye, but I don' like quitters and I'll push each and every one of you as hard as necessary for you ta go on. Ye may not like me sometimes, but we'll all be alrigh'. I promise."
The students were again silenced. The authority that came from this one girl was almost frightening. And she was not even a teacher! She was just a student and a tutor.
"If ye'll all follow me, I'll give take you ta where ye take yer test," Angel finally broke the silence and began leaving the room with out waiting for anyone.
The group scrambled after her, not wanting to be left alone in a strange place without someone who knew their way around it. They followed her back through the kitchen and down a small hallway to their right. A cozy study greeted them at the end of the hall. The rug was plush and red and thin, white curtains fluttered lazily in front of the open windows. An empty fire place stood behind a large wooden desk and bookshelves lined the wall just to their right.
"Everyone take a seat," Angel ordered as she sat on the edge of the wooden desk herself. Students grabbed chairs from their original locations and pulled them around to the front of the desk. Those who did not have chairs either leaned on the wall, or sat on the floor. "Alrigh' before we start, I wan' ta go around the room and learn yer names and a bit about you so I know who I'm yellin' at."
A chuckle ran through the group.
"Lets start with you," Angel pointed to a girl with dark, blonde hair and blue eyes who sat on the floor next to the door.
"Um, alright," she began. "I'm Elisabeth Turner, but call me Lissie. Um…I have been on a ship all me life and I know a fair amount about them. I have a lot of pirate skills because I've been with them for most of my life. I hate rum and I'm allergic to cats."
Some students laughed to themselves at the last sentence. After the laughter died down, Angel motioned for some one else to go next. After a moment of silence, the other Angel spoke.
"I'm Angel, but you can call me Angela so that way we won't get mixed up. I love a good adventure and I'll probably get one here! I love candy and a guy back in my time named Mike," she paused for a second and shrugged. "Um, I guess that's it."
"Alrigh' next," the brown haired girl on the desk said with a glance around the room. She spotted the girl with black hair and brown highlights and motioned for her to speak.
"I'm Emma Moineau and I'm from London, England," she said. "I'm Indian, French, British, Polish, and Portuguese. I don't take crud from anyone. I have a brother and a sister and a step-mom and step-dad. And I'm looking forward to this class."
"Good!" Angel said with a smile and looked around the room again and spotted a boy with dirty-blonde hair. "Since yer the only boy in the class, go ahead and tell us a bit about yerself."
He looked up with a look of surprise then quickly wiped the expression from his face. "I'm Benjamin O'Flaherty. I'm good at pick pocketing. I can't set foot on a ship or I'll be seasick and sometimes I can't sleep at night."
Angel was obviously waiting for more, but he said nothing else. She shrugged and only said, "I have a brother named Benjamin." Then she motioned towards a girl with black, wavy hair who looked to be Asian.
"My name is Jibsi and I'm from Singapore. I'm Catholic, therefore I don't eat beef. I must have coffee every morning and chocolate everyday. I have asthma," she paused at some of the confused looks she was getting from the people from the seventeen hundreds. "It means sometimes I can't breath if I get scared or too excited."
Angel seemed a bit uncertain as to how she would affect the class, but it was not her job to run it. Just administer this first test and act as a tutor. She quickly shook the thought from her mind and motioned towards a girl with long, brown hair and blue eyes. "Why don't you go next?"
"Ok I'm Mary Parr and I'm from Metroville, California," she explained. "Um, I like chocolate and milk and I hate power-hungry people. I've never been on a ship before, but I know some about them."
She seemed hopeful that the last part would make up for her lack of being on a ship. Angel did not seem to pay the lack any mind as she said, "Alrigh' you next."
The girl with orange and black hair looked up and realized she was being spoken to. "Uh, I'm Emily. I love music like My Chemical Romance, Green Day, and stuff like that. I break out into song randomly and sometimes shout rum without warning."
Angel shrugged and said, "I have no idea who those are. You go next."
The girl with sandy-blonde hair quickly looked up at the girl on the desk and said, "I'm Sandra and I love the Pirates movies. Um, I don't know much about ships and the only time I've ever been on one was when I was little. I love music too and cappuccinos."
Again, Angel was left confused. "Still don't know wha' they are. Go ahead."
"I'm Christine Gabriella Martin," she began. "I'm from Tortuga, but I'm not a prostitute. I hate those women. I was a seamstress then a bar maid. I can take whatever the world and this school throws at me."
"Good attitude, I suppose," Angel said and motioned to another blonde haired girl.
"I'm Catalina," she said. "I'm from the year 2007. I like movies with fast cars and car chases. I know just a little bit about ships, but I've spent a fair amount of time on them. I'd really love to learn how to be a pirate, though! I think it would be cool."
"Good! You'll learn here," the brown haired girl on the desk looked around the room once more and spotted a girl with black hair sitting alone in a corner. "And how about you?"
"I wouldn't ask her anything," Sandra spoke up.
"Why?" Angel turned her green eyes to the girl.
"She's very…random…" Catalina supplied. "She doesn't answer your questions."
Angel furrowed her brows and looked back to the girl. "She'll have to learn. Tell me, what's your name? And answer my question."
The girl in the corner squirmed uneasily as all eyes turned to her. Finally she said almost inaudibly, "Mei Yung."
Angel continued watching her for a few more seconds before looking back to the class and shrugging. "Good enough."
The girl reached around behind her to a pile of papers none of the other students noticed until now. She stood and began handing them out. "These are yer tests. I would advise ye not ta cheat 'cause this is only to see wha' level yer at. Ye won't fail it. After ye take the tests, give 'em back ta me and go outside ta the backyard. Will is goin' ta test yer sword fighting skills. Alrigh'? Any questions?"
The room remained silent. The group was just eager to get started with this and go see Jack and Will…whenever that would happen.
"Alrigh' then. Go ahead and begin," Angel announced after the moment's silence. She made sure each student began their tests before turning and leaving the room.
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Angel returned to the group half an hour later to find only Lissie, Sandra, and Emily finished. She silently gathered up their tests so as not to disturb the others and led the three out of the study. They followed her obediently down the hall and through the dining room they had eaten, or at least choked down, their breakfast. The brown haired girl opened a back door and sunlight streamed in, temporarily blinding them.
"Here they are," they heard Angel call to someone.
As soon as their vision grew used to the light, they spotted Will standing out in the sun, holding a sword that glistened in the sunlight.
"Oh good," Will sheathed his sword and walked up to the group. Emily accidentally let a small squeal escape. "Hello, ladies. My name's William Turner."
Sandra and Lissie nodded politely and gave the appropriate response. Emily was barely able to reply with out squealing again, but she managed it.
"These girls got done with their tests first," Angel explained as she motioned towards the three girls. "I, well the head-master, needs you to test their sword fightin'."
"Alright, no problem," he replied and turned to the three. "Who's first?"
"Me!" Emily answered immediately.
Will chuckled and nodded, "Fine. Come with me and I'll get you a sword."
When the two were finally out of earshot, the three remaining girls began snickering.
"Looks like Will's got an admirer too," Sandra laughed.
"Aye, it does," Angel replied with one last chuckle. "Alrigh', you two, I'm going to go see who else's done. I'll be righ' back. Don't go anywhere."
"We won't," Lissie promised as the two watched the brown haired girl disappear back into the house.
The two leaned up against the building behind them and watched as Emily and Will began to swordfight. She fought very well. Much better than Sandra expected from some one from the twenty-first century and much better than she herself could do.
The two stood in silence, both watching the swordfight in progress. Sandra wished she could think of something to talk about. She had always hated these type of lulls that never seemed to have an end. But she could not think of anything they had in common.
A few more minutes passed before Angel appeared again with Mary, Emma, and Benjamin. She gave these three the same instructions about not going anywhere before she left once again.
A few seconds later, Will and Emily returned to the house. Emily wore a big grin as she took her place with the rest of the students.
"Alright, next?" Will asked.
"I'll go," Lissie pushed herself away from the building and followed Will out into the open.
Sandra watched them go and leaned her head against the building. "I'd kill for a mocha latté right about now…"
A couple of the other students agreed with a chuckle as Angel once again appeared with Angela, Catalina, Jibsi, Mei, and Christine.
"Sorry ta leave ye again," Angel said, looking a little exasperated. "Jack was supposed to be here righ' now. I have to go find him so he and I can test yer sword fighting skills as well. It's too much work for poor Will."
More excitement spread through the group as the girl began to leave. Suddenly, she turned back towards the group and added, "Emily, ye can rest since you've already been tested. Be sure ta tell Lissie that when she gets done."
"I will," Emily nodded, still happy from her experience with Will.
Angel disappeared into the house again, this time calling Jack's name. Some of the girls giggled excitedly at the chance to see their favorite pirate captain. The listened to Angel's calls in hopes of hearing Jack reply, but they never heard him and eventually Angel was out of earshot. Soon impatience began to settle over some of the girls. They eventually had to content themselves to thoughts of Jack.
"Someone lookin' for me?"
Several heads turned so fast they almost got whiplash. Jack had walked up along the backside of the building without anybody taking notice. In one hand was a half-full bottle of rum, of course. A few squeals escaped from the group and especially from Sandra for the man was right in front of her.
"Angel was lookin' for you," Jibsi supplied then pointed back towards the door. "She went back inside lookin' for you."
"She'll be back out 'ere in a minute," he replied casually as he took another drink of his rum.
The girls who had massive crushes on the man did not even glance away when Will walked back up to them with Lissie.
"Ah, Jack," he said, "you're finally here. Where's Ang-"
"Sorry, I can't find 'im," Angel explained to the group as she emerged from the house. "He's prob- Jack! Took you long enough ta get here."
"So sorry, love," he replied in a way that implied he was not really sorry for anything. "Had ta get me rum."
"I'd better get a drink," she ordered good naturedly. "Alrigh', people, us three are all goin' ta test yer sword fighting. Now who do I get?" Jibsi lifted a hand and walked over to the girl. "Good. You girls and Benjamin work it out amongst yerselves about who will get Jack and Will."
The two walked out into the open area, leaving the group of love-struck Jack fan girls to tear each other apart. Luckily, that never happened. Will took Benjamin and left while Jack had fun teasing each of his fan girls over which he would pick to swordfight with first.
"Lessee…" he looked over the group, pointing randomly at one girl or another and getting her hopes up before pointing at another one. Finally, he pointed at one girl and did not pick another. "Wha's yer name?"
"E-Emma Moineau," she replied excitedly, pushing her way through the group to the man.
"Emma, you'll do," he began walking away and tossed over his shoulder, "Come on."
She excitedly followed the man out into the open backyard.
Sandra crossed her arms and grumbled something under her breath. Many of the other girls had similar reactions, she noticed. Others did not seem to mind as much. With a sigh, she leaned against the building and hoped she would get to fight next.
Angel returned to the group shortly after Jack left and looked around the group. She pointed to Sandra and said, "You, come on."
The girl's mouth dropped as Angel began leaving. She wanted Jack to test her! There was no time to argue, so she reluctantly hurried after the brown haired girl. Surely she would get a chance to be alone with Jack sometime during this class.
Their fight went by fairly fast, or so Sandra thought. She had no clue how to swordfight. The most she knew was how to hold the sword and that she had to block her opponent's sword. And with Angel, blocking was not always easy. This girl was obviously an expert fighter. But before she had much of a chance to think, she was being brought back to the group to girls.
Will and Benjamin came back to the group as Angel and Sandra did and Catalina quickly volunteered to be Will's next partner. Angel picked Mei out of the group to be her next partner.
Sandra sat down on the cool grass, exhausted after such a short fight. She noticed Jack and Emma returning to the group and jealousy filled her. That was supposed to be her!
After another round of teasing and pointing, Jack picked Angela and the two walked off together. Will and Catalina returned shortly and as Christine was the only person who had not been tested, she became Will's partner.
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At the end of their fighting session, they all gathered around Angel, who began laying down the rules that the head-master had laid down for her.
"Those of you in…odd…clothes need to go into town and buy some pirate clothes," she explained and passed out some money she had been given. "In other words, man's clothes. You can buy a dress too, if ye 'ave enough money and if ya wan' ta. Don't leave this area. You all must 'ave a partner with ye at all times. Nobody's ta go off by theirselves. Any questions?"
Silence greeted Angel, Jack, and Will. The girl smiled. "Good. Ye 'ave the rest of the day ta rest and get somethin' ta wear. Come get somethin' at eat now. Supper's at sundown."
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A/N: The end of chapter three! Yay me! Though the sword fighting part seemed a little rushed to me…That might just be me though. Please review! Oh, Flightstorm, is it alright to call Benjamin Ben for short?
