A Pirate I Was Meant To Be?
Beta Read by VStarTraveler
Chapter Three
"Do you remember this at all?" Elaine asked as they followed after Elliot towards the Woodsbury family home.
"It's coming back, a girl my parents wanted me to marry lived in that house. We were close friends, but I never wanted to marry her or any of the other girls from here. I remember that much." Guybrush stopped walking and was looking at Elliot in confusion.
Elaine encouraged her husband to tell her what he could remember.
"Um, Ellie, isn't this the house?" Guybrush asked his sister. "Or am I just remembering wrong. Or have they moved?"
"I was just testing you, congratulations, you passed," Elliot told him, a grin plastering her face.
"If I didn't remember, what were you going to do? Have us walk in circles around the island?" Guybrush asked.
"Yes, until I grew bored," Elliot replied.
Guybrush was nervous as his sister opened the door to his family home. Elaine squeezed his hand reassuring him that everything would be alright.
If there was any doubt that this was Guybrush's biological family, it was quickly pushed aside. In the family room were dozens of family portraits and one of them was Guybrush looking just how he looked when he'd washed up on Melee Island.
"Ellie, I wasn't expecting you home, and you brought guests," Mrs. Woodsbury said to her only daughter, pulling her into a hug.
Mr. Woodsbury stood up and stood directly in front of Guybrush. Guybrush gulped, nervous as to what his father would say.
The pirate hunter pulled the pirate into a hug. "If you told me, I would've let you, son. She's a lovely lady, that wife of yours. One of the decent pirates. Is that why you became a pirate?"
"Pirate!" Mrs. Woodsbury stood up seeing that the young man was her missing, presumed dead son. "Oliver Ulysses Woodsbury, you left your family, made us all sick thinking that you were dead to become a pirate!"
It looked like Guybrush had remembered something—he still had the same middle name.
Guybrush gave his father and mother a sheepish grin. "Ah no, I actually forgot everything. It's all still fuzzy, like it didn't actually happen to me, that I have someone else's memories. I've remembered flashes during the past, like the name of Charles. It's only because of Elliot that I remembered where I came from and who you are."
"I had no idea you didn't remember," his father admitted. "If I did, I would've tracked you down. You always were so happy when I did see you."
"You knew my Ollie was still alive and didn't tell me!" his mother screeched at his father.
"I knew it would break your heart if you knew he left to become a pirate," Mr. Woodsbury admitted.
- Monkey Island -
Guybrush's parents had settled down and were filling him in on his life that he could barely remember.
"How long have you two been married?" Mrs. Woodsbury asked.
"Nineteen years, Mrs. Woodsbury," Elaine replied.
"Call me Dorothy. Do you have any children?
"No children," Guybrush replied.
"Why ever not? I'd like to be a grandmother, and you two aren't exactly getting younger," Dorothy pointed out. "It doesn't look like I will get any from your brother or sister."
"It wasn't a choice. I can't have children, LeChuck made certain of that. Since I refused all his advances and would not be having his children, he made sure I couldn't have anyone's child," Elaine explained.
"Nasty piece of work, that pirate," Oliver senior shook his head. "I was proud that my son was the one who defeated him and not just once, multiple times. Think LeChuck's gone forever?"
"With how much LeChuck dabbled in voodoo, probably not," Guybrush replied. "I'll be there to kick him in the butt next time he shows his face in this world."
Guybrush and Elaine filled his parents in on his adventures, how they actually happened and not the second-hand information that everyone else heard. Dorothy was sharing stories about Guybrush's childhood. Said pirate felt relieved that his parents accepted him as who he was now, even going as far as calling him" Guybrush instead of Ollie.
