A present to Father's Day – Jacks having an argument with his father
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Chapter Four:
The meeting was ordered to the early morning. Barbossa woke Lizzie up and gave her some water.
"Here Missy, drink that and now listen carefully." Lizzie was still frightened, she never had thought that Barbossa was that evil, he had treated her in the past a little more lady like and know she was the pirate king and he had no respect for her.
"I'm going to tell them that you didn't care anymore about your title and that there'll be a new voting for the king and I expect of you to vote fer me. If not, I'll shoot ye later."
Lizzie nearly didn't dare to ask and whispered "What about Jack? We need all pirate lords, don't we?"
"Aye, ye're right! Ye're going to tell them, that Jack couldn't come and has told ye that ye could vote fer him as well." Barbossa grinned evil and dragged her out of the room into the direction of the great hall where the meeting was going to begin soon.
Jack and the Governor had spent the whole night in the room, and he kept Jack off from sleeping
"How do you know that my daughter will be at the meeting?"
"'cause she's the pirate king." Jack answered annoyed
"Why is she the pirate king?"
"'cause she got voted."
"Who had voted for her?"
"I bloody have, could I sleep now?" Jack nearly shouted at the Governor which kept quiet for a minute
"Why have you voted for her?" the Governor asked interested
Jack sighed "She was the best choice of the whole room"
"And how are we going to saver her tomorrow?"
"No idea if I don't get any sleep" Jack griped
The Governor insisted of being at the meeting as well, Jack knew now from where Lizzie had got the stubbornness. So he sent Gibbs and the Governor at the meeting, told them to stay in a dark corner, to not get noticed. He himself walked in the other corner waiting for the meeting to begin.
Barbossa entered and pushed Elizabeth forward. When Jack saw her, he didn't believe his eyes. Her wrists where full of bruises, her hair messy, her face pale and hurt, she seemed thinner and weaker than he had ever seen here before. Anger grew inside him and automatically his hand wandered to his pistol but he stopped himself. Now it's not the opportune moment he told himself.
Barbossa opened the meeting
"Dear friends I've ordered this meeting by request of the pirate king. She wanted to give the title to someone else, isn't it right Miss Swan?" Barbossa looked at her and pressed a dagger at her waist and expected her to say something, Lizzie felt so horrible that she just could nod her head a slight bit.
"But not all pirate lords are here, so we can't vote" remarked Misses Ching
"Oh Jack is missing, I forgot, but Miss Swan go on" Barbossa dragged the dagger more close to her.
"Well…Ja…Jack told…me…that" she felt a lump in her throat "I could vote for him as well" she whispered and she was holding back her tears and she knew she couldn't do it for a long time.
"Who makes ye believe I'm not here?" Jack came out of his corner "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, mate! How often shall I tell ye this Hector?" Barbossa hadn't believed he would find out so soon where he was going, in the surprise he pulled away the dragger and Lizzie ran into Jack arms.
"I thought you wouldn't find me." She whispered in his shirt while Jack was stroking her back trying to calm her down. Suddenly she turned around.
"I do want this titled!" she shouted at Barbossa holding Jack's pistol in his direction. "You just kidnapped me and then arrested me and finally beat me up, let me starve. Don't forget you've done it to the pirate king! I should exclude you from this, but now I need time to regain my strength and as long as I need this time, throw him in the brig here and no one is allowed to bring him neither food, nor rum! Savvy?" two pirates took Barbossa and brought him to the brig of Shipwreck Cove.
"For today the meeting is over. We'll see each other in two days again!" she told everyone. Finally everyone had left the room, going to get drunk. Suddenly Gibbs and her father came across the room.
"Father!" she shouted "It's so good to see you." She ran into his arms and the Governor frowned
"Has this man really done all this to you?"
"Yes, he has." Lizzie answered soft-spoken, still in his embrance "But now it's over, Jack has saved me another time!"
"That's why we should return to Port Royal as fast as we could!" he told her "There you'll have your save life."
"But that's not what I want father, I don't want to return, the sea is my home now!"
Gibbs re-entered the room, bringing some food and drinks and they sat down at the table, when suddenly a shot was heard. Everyone looked up seeing Teague looking out of his room.
"Jackie I have to talk to ye!" he shouted down and Jack closed sighing his eyes and whispered "But I don't want!" Nonetheless he stood up and walked up to his father.
"So boy, you haven't changed much since I saw ye last time, besides ye have some more crinkles in yer forehead." Teague told him
"What is it that ye want?" Jack asked angrily, he doesn't want to speak with him at all. He still hated him for the past.
"I just wanted to apologise and ask if ye could give me a second chance to get along with ye?" Teague asked carefully and saw the anger growing in Jack who finally started shouting
"What? Ye want that I give ye another chance? Why should I even think about after all ye have done?"
Downstairs everyone listened intently when Jack started shouting, they could hear every single word.
"I hate ye and ye know I won't change me mind! You've destroyed everythin', caused the death of our mother and has separated me from my twin brother! What for exactly do you want to apologize for?" Jack's face had turned red "And that's not enough? I've heard you've raped a young girl and now I do have sisters as well and her mother died during giving her birth and ye didn't even care about her?
Teague who was getting angry as well, he didn't like it when his son was shouting at him
"Son, ye know as well that I wasn't made for this life as an aristocratic, I hated being in this society and around all this people, bound to it just through blood and no way out of it! You know exactly what I mean. Why have ye chosen the same path like me? Becoming a bloody pirate, look at yer brother, he's become some snotty Governor on a bloody Caribbean island. Ye had the same chance, so don't blame me."
Downstairs the Governor couldn't believe his ears, this horrifying pirate was an aristocratic person once? He didn't know what he should think about this at all. Gibbs as well was surprised, he didn't know much of Jacks past, but that was even for him to much, he needed a bottle of rum! Lizzie just smiled "Peas in a pod" she thought. But somehow she liked the idea, now she knew that he came from the same class like she and so she could tease him with that, he'll probably hate it. But the shouting interrupted her thoughts.
"So tell me why the bloody hell did ye came here son?" Teague still continued shouting and Jacks emotions were cooking "I just wanted to rescue Lizzie, she's more important than you perhaps you don't know this feeling, but I do care for people and especially for some special more than others. Probably any person was ever important to ye so ye couldn't understand! And I bloody wanted to know why the painting of my map had disappeared?" he finally asked the question he wanted to ask since he had arrived.
Downstairs two pirates stormed in the hall, making such a noise that Teague and Jack went to the balcony to see what was happening.
"King Swan, Barbossa had somehow disappeared but the Black Pearl still is anchored. So he must have chosen another ship."
"Thanks for the information and make sure the Pearl is still in our hand."
"Aye!" the two pirates ran back out of the room
"Well, son, if ye want to see the drawing of the map you have to find the rest, when ye put it together it'll appear. So where is the rest of the map?" Teague said calmly
"Bloody hell!" Jack whispered "Barbossa has the rest of this map!"
"But ye still have yer compass, don't ye?
"Yes, but it's bloody broken!" Jack started shouting again, it made him feel better
"So ye don't know what ye want? Or do ye?" Teague teased him
"I do know what I want but it doesn't help me to find the stupid map!" Jacks face turned red again, he hated arguing with his father, he always felt a little inferior
"So it's her ye want, isn't it right?" Teague looked down the window, he knew exactly that they could hear every word, but he wouldn't tell it to his son. "Why don't ye tell her?"
"She is bloody married to a whelp, a eunuch!"
Lizzie had to smile at hearing this words, he would never call William different.
"But I've heard Barbossa married her on your ship, he didn't own this ship, ye do, so he hadn't the power to marry them. Boy, ye disappoint me, such an easy thought and ye're not smart enough to think about that." Teague teased him
Lizzie eyes widened as well as the Governors. She wasn't married? Well, in fact Barbossa wasn't captain of the Pearl and she never signed any documents. She didn't know what she felt, on the one hand she was happy but on the other not, she wasn't sure at all about her feelings. She loved Will in a way, but still if she would have been married to him, she couldn't seem him for ten years, and even one year is a very long time. She knew it.
Jack didn't know what he should answer, his bloody compass always pointed at her and now it should be that easy, she wasn't married? She wasn't Misses Turner, but still, he didn't know what she felt for him, once she had killed him, so was hard to say.
"Well, to help ye thinking. If yer bloody compass doesn't work ye have to find yer twin, his name's Eric Cage and he's Governor of Beef Island, but be careful, I don't know if he likes to see ye and then ask him about yer sister Florence, she lives somewhere and she has the talent to find every ship. And now I need some sleep, this was a stressful talk."
Jack walked down and everyone was just staring at him, eyes widened.
"Have ye heard the …the conversation?" Jack asked and everyone nodded "The entire…conversation?" and they still nodded "Oh bugger!" Jack said out loud.
