HELLO! xD
I´m personally not satisfied with the ending of my One-Shot „Forever and Always" and I know all of you nice reviewers wanted Angelica and Jack to be together -and so did I- but I just feel like this is the way the fanfic should end. Long story short, no, I won´t be updating „Forever and Always". Don´t hate me xD
I don´t own Pirates of the Caribbean, or the characters except Chrissy, Alayna and Arthur (and his crew)… bla bla… I think you know by now ;)
Have fun reading!
Somewhere in the middle of the ocean…
Angelica Teach turned around again. She was in the middle of the sea. Suddenly, something caught her eye: a ship, not too far away. Now all that was left to do, is to avoid being taken for a snack by the sharks.
Aboard the Black Pearl
„You see! I told you! I told you she wasn´t going to be there anymore! This endless searching for her is useless. We´ve even asked in Port Royal and no one knew of her. She´s gone, dad! We can go find the chest ourselves!" Jack exclaimed while making wild gestures with his hands.
He was fed up of pretending to be Angelica´s babysitter who had to absolutely find her now. He just wanted to go somewhere far away, where she surely wouldn´t be and stay there for a while.
The thing that annoyed Jack the most was his father´s constant guitar playing. He was talking to him and he didn´t even appear to listen!
„Dad… FATHER!" Jack lost it now. Captain Teague was the definition of calm. But now, even he had had it with his son.
„FOR GOD´S SAKE, JACK! STOP WITH THE WHINING AND NAGGING AND BEHAVING LIKE A CHILD! YOR WHOLE CREW IS HELPING YOU FIND THAT DAMN CHEST, JUST SO YOU WILL SURVIVE! WHAT ARE YOU, 10? YOU´VE GOTTA MAN UP, JACKIE, ´CAUSE I´VE HAD IT! All you have to do is find your lass and get her to give you a damn map!"
The whole crew just stared at Captain Teague. Jack swallowed. The worst thing was, his father was probably right.
„She´s not „my lass", dad." Teague heard Jack whisper in a hoarse voice.
Those words tore him apart. He wouldn´t ever admit it, but he knew his son was only truly happy when Angelica was around. He´d seen it many times. Even when they fought, he could still see the admiration in both their eyes. It was so sad. They could have been married by now, had Jack ever asked her.
When the old pirate looked up, he only witnessed his son close the door of his cabin in a huff.
Gibbs approached him and as soon as he´d reached Teague, he asked him: „Cap´n? Are ye sure Jack´s a man?"
Teague´s gaze slowly wandered up to Gibbs´ face and his eyes narrowed. Then he frowned. „Excuse me…?"
Gibbs kept a straight face as he stated: „He´s just acting like a female when it´s her time of the month." Then, the pirate left Teague alone to choke from his laughter. Never had a man ever said anything so true.
Screams and calls caused Captain Teague to stop laughing for a moment. „HELP ME!" Concerned, he got up and marched over to the bow of the ship.
There was a person, in the water! He appeared to be drowning!
„Men! Man over board! Throw him a rope and pull him up!" Teague ordered Jack´s crew without even thinking.
Quickly, a man called James threw a rope down to the drowning sailor and he, Gibbs and Larry started to pull him up on board.
The man was waring a white shirt, nothing more… but as they pulled him further up, James, who was at the front, shouted: „It´s a woman! Captain Teague, sir! It´s a woman, we can´t have a woman on board, it´s bad luck!"
„YE CAN´T LET HER DROWN! PULL ´ER UP, NOW!"
The men all turned around, startled by the sudden loud voice that belonged to no other than Jack himself.
Gibbs grabbed the woman´s arm and helped her on board. Then he just stared at her.
Angelica. Angelica Teach.
Her hair was dripping and her long white blouse, that went up to her thighs, was soaked through, making it almost completely see-through.
Teague came to her aid, as he realized how umcomfortable she was and wrapped her in a towel.
Then, Angelica saw him: Jack Sparrow. Her face dropped and anger glistered in her eyes. She took a step towards him, but Jack had already locked himself in his cabin again.
He´d seen her. He´d seen her from his window. He would´ve preferred to let her stay there, but when he saw how his crew refused to continue pulling her up when they recognized her as being a woman, something snapped inside him. No. No, he couldn´t just let her drown.
He couldn´t let any woman drown, so especially not one he had somewhat had „stirrings" for, once.
But now, she was here, on his ship, on his Black Pearl and he feared for his life. She was angry… no, she was furious, he could see it in her dark, chocolate-brown eyes.
He wasn´t sure that she wouldn´t kill him. She´d tried it before. St. Dominique. Jack felt a shiver run down his spine. That was when he´d left her. After La Martinique. She´s tried to shoot him, but he escaped. He still feared love more than death. Love was his death. Literally. Being kissed by Elizabeth had killed him. And it was all Because of curiosity. And when he had left Angelica, she´d almost killed him. And this time, he had left her again. Now, she´d definitely kill him. Jack shook his head. Who had he become? A clown that ran from everything? A joke of a pirate that couldn´t even face a girl?
NO.
No, he was the great Captain Jack Sparrow and nothing could ever harm him! Not even the Kraken had killed him… well, he did escape the locker, after all.
Jack got up from his bed, stepped outside, ready for anything and…
SLAP! SLAP!
Jack moaned in pain and turned his head away from her. He´d never been slapped that hard before in his entire life.
Aboard the Queen Anne´s Revenge
„Captain Barbossa? What shall I do now?" Chrissy turned up behind Barbossa, who was steering the Revenge at the helm.
Barbossa grinned his famous grin. „Just look out at the sea, missy. What do ye see?"
Chrissy shot him a glance, but then obeyed and concentrated on her surroundings. Something was… familiar.
Then, she realized something. This was terrible… Oh… Sh*t…
„WHITE CAP BAY?!" Chrissy skrieched at Barbossa. „WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU DOING, DUDE, ARE YOU INSANE? THERE´S MAN-EATING SEAMONSTERS HERE, EVERYWHERE!"
Chrissy covered her mouth with her hand, quietly apologizing for her lack of respect towards the Captain, but silently cursing herself for forgetting not to use such language. She was in the 1700s, after all. They didn´t know her type of English.
Barbossa stared at her. What was wrong with this girl?
„…Aye, ye recognized it. Ye ask, why web e going this way and I shall answer: BECAUSE I SAY SO!"
Chrissy flinched at his sudden outburst, but stayed. Barbossa continued, even though she didn´t expect him too:
„Because the Royal Navy is out, searching for pirates and my sources tell me that they happen to be around Tortuga momentarily. Meaning:…"
Chrissy finished off his sentence: „…We must go the other way, or else we´ll get hanged."
Barbossa nodded, satisfied and took a swig of his rum.
Maybe the girl wasn´t so stupid after all.
Tortuga
Captain Arthur sat at a table in his favourite inn, only this time, he was uncomfortable. Edward Teach was sitting opposite him, seemingly staring into his very soul.
„Where is he? Sparrow? What did they tell you?... Who told you anyway?"
Arthur coughed. „Well… your trustworthy daughter Angelica, who is very pretty, by the way, but also very stubborn… well, in the end she…"
Blackbeard slammed his bottle down on the table. „I DON´T CARE! AND GET YER FILTHY HANDS OFF HER!"
Arthur held up his hands, signalling surrender. „Alright, alright, ya don´t need ta yell!" Arthur said, trying to calm his „boss" down.
Blackbeard rolled his eyes and gestured for him to continue.
„Well, as I was saying… your… daughter, Angelica, told us we´d certainly find Sparra here."
Blackbeard´s eyes narrowed. „He was here, gone now. HOW COME SHE IS ALWAYS IN CONTACT WITH THAT BASTARD EXCEPT NOW?!" Blackbeard roared and smashed two innocent bottles on the floor. Most people in the room stopped what they were doing to see what was going on back there in the corner of the inn. Then, seconds later, they realized there was no fight, so thye resumed to minding their own business.
„He… left? Where´d he go?" Arthur asked, while getting up, as Blackbeard was doing the same. Blackbeard shrugged. „Filthy sea-scumbag just escaped… never has the courage to fight… he knows I´m after him, he wants to kill me, now." Blackbeard laughed. „Ha! Impossible. He needs my gold dagger for that." Then, his laughing stopped, so did Arthur´s.
„Captain… is there anyone else except you, who has a map to the chest to rule the wind and tides?" Arthur carefully asked.
Blackbeard´s face darkened.
„Angelica."
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