Chapter 7: Give him a chance
Meanwhile Henry and Gibbs were tending to the main sail outside of the cabin.
"They've been in there quite a while" said Henry "do you think the girl accepted his apology yet?"
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Morgan screamed from inside the cabin.
"Something tells me no" said Gibbs, shrugging.
Morgan ran out of the cabin and started running around the main deck of the pearl. The entire crew stopped and stared, they had never seen anyone freak out before. To make matters worse Jack came stumbling out of the cabin and began chasing her.
"Get back here, young lady!" he yelled after her.
"Stay away from me!" she yelled behind her.
"What's going on?" yelled Henry, joining the chase behind Jack.
"She's my long-lost daughter!" panted Jack.
"Morgan?" Gibbs asked Jack, joining the chase.
"Aye!" he said still chasing Morgan.
Morgan then crawled up the rigging and climbed to the crow's nest, Jack, Henry and Gibbs stopped running smack into each other. Morgan curled up in the crow's nest and hugged her knees.
"Morgan Sparrow! You get down here right now before you break your neck!" Jack called up to her.
Morgan didn't answer.
"MORGAN!" Jack shouted.
"Leave me alone!" Morgan yelled down to them "You didn't want me then so why would you want me now!"
"That does it" Jack said to Gibbs "hold me effects, I'm going up after her."
"Wait!" said Henry "let me try and reason with her."
Jack stared. "You? Why you?" he asked him.
"Because I know what it's like to be away from your father so long" said Henry, already crawling up the rigging.
"Fine, but don't blame me if she throws you from the crow's nest!" said Jack.
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Morgan wiped her tears away when she heard someone come up the rigging. She prayed it wasn't Jack; she didn't want to talk to him, not after he abandoned her. She sighed in relief when she saw it was only Henry.
"Oh, it's you" she sneered.
"Hello to you as well" Henry rolled his eyes and sat beside her.
"Look if you're going to tell me to forgive Jack then you're wasting your time" Morgan said a bit more delicately.
"Why won't you forgive him?" Henry asked her.
"Why?" she said angrily "He gave me up! I grew up not even knowing who my parents are! Kids used to tease me about it! They used to call me 'orphan Morgan'! I bet Jack didn't even give me a second look when he gave me away! Do you have any idea what that's like?"
Henry's eyes flickered with sadness. "Yes, I do" he said.
Morgan turned to him eyes full of sympathy. "I'm sorry" she said "I know what happened to your father… I shouldn't have"-
"Listen Morgan" he told her "I know for a fact that Jack loves you and he tries. I lost my father when he went to sail the sea but you have a chance. Fate brought you here and gave you that chance… don't you think you can give your dad one?"
Morgan looked down at Jack; he was at the helm looking at his compass.
She sighed. "Fine, I'll think about it" she said "in the meantime, can you find me some clothes? I really don't want to flaunt my bikini in the eighteenth century."
He smiled "sure, but we don't have any dresses on board."
"Ugh! I hate dresses! Just something like what you have on will do"
"You really are Jack child" he said climbing down the rigging.
Morgan couldn't help but smirk.
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Henry came back with a change of clothes, Morgan got changed keeping her bikini on underneath. She thought about what Henry said and finally as night fell across the Caribbean sky and the crew was in the galley eating, she decided to come down.
When she came into the galley and the crew went silent.
"Morgan! I saved you a spot!" Henry called her over to the spot between him and Jack.
Morgan sat down and glanced up at Jack, she couldn't believe the man she had admired all these years was her father.
The room had an uneasy silent so Gibbs spoke up to ease the tension.
"So Morgan does anything on the pearl seem familiar?" he asked her.
"No… should it?" she asked.
"I guess you wouldn't remember" the first mate shrugged "you were only on the ship for the first six months of your life."
"I was?"
"Aye" some of the crew answered.
Scrum laughed "I can still remember you crawling around on deck with your dad here running after you!"
The crew nodded fondly.
"Jack, remember how proud you were when she got a hold of you pistol, threw it and it fired off and hit the monkey!" reminded Gibbs.
Jack smiled, remembering.
"Oh my gosh! Was the monkey okay?" Morgan asked worriedly.
"It's an undead monkey, so sadly it was okay" said Jack.
Morgan laughed.
The crew shared their fondest memories of baby Morgan over dinner. Little by little the ship started to feel like home to Morgan, soon she started to feel tired and Jack took notice.
"Do you want to go to bed?" he asked her.
"Sure" she rubbed her eyes.
Jack took her to his room and made up a cot for her beside his bed. She lay down and he tucked her in.
"Are you too old for a kiss good night?" he asked her meekly.
"Between you and me, I still sleep with stuffed animals" she said embarrassed.
"Oh! That reminds me…" he left the room and came back with a stuffed fish.
"Your mother made this for you, she called it your fishy and you always slept with it" he said giving it to her.
"Thanks… dad" she said.
"Your welcome" he kissed her head "good night, Guppy."
"What did you call me?"
"Guppy" he said "I gave you that nickname when you were still in your mother's stomach. You were always my guppy."
She smiled "I think I can get used to that?"
"Good, because that's not changing!" he said playfully stern.
She giggled "goodnight dad."
"Goodnight Guppy" he said shutting the door and returning to the helm.
AN: Yay! Father-daughter bounding! You know the drill my pirate peeps! Reviews!
