Hey people sorry it took me so long to update I had a lot to do and a lot of school work... I hope you like my story so far so well here is chapter 7.... so I hope you enjoy this chapter and thank you for the reviews! :D
Chapter 7
When we finally trick Norrington to "give us" the Interceptor, we set out sailing toward Tortuga. I was standing beside Jack at the helm and looked out toward the sea and the horizon ahead of us. "Well I guess you didn't get in the way.... so far," Will said as he sharpened his sword. I nodded as I looked over at him. "Told ya," I said as I left Jack's side, "I'll be in the crows nest if you need me, Captain." Jack nodded and kept steering the ship as I climbed the rat lines to the crows nest.
After a week at sea I was sitting up in the crows nest looking out toward the sea. I had changed drastically in that one week to the point where I threw my dresses over board and was now decked in a pair of Jack's pants with a rope tied around the waist, one of Will's shirts, a pair of Jack's old boots, and last but not least a bandana that Jack had gotten me along time ago that he had kept for a reminder of me.
'Why did Jack keep this thing for so long? He already had a lot of things that could remind him of me anyways,' I thought as I looked down from the crows nest only to see Jack at the helm, 'Then again he was the one that got me that for my birthday so it would mean something to him since I wore it all the time...' I looked back out at the sea in front of us and saw a ship.
I called down to Jack, "Cap'n, there's a ship ahead!" Jack looked ahead and saw the ship. "Jade, get down here and give Will a hand!" Jack barked back.
I nodded and crawled over the side of the crows nest, "Aye Cap'n!"
As I hit the deck, Jack called out, "Drop the anchor!" I looked at him like he was mad but then looked over and saw the white flag flapping at the top of the mast. So Will and I went to work lowering the anchor into the sea below.
The Captain of the other ship boarded ours with a girl beside him. The girl was about my age, had curly reddish blonde hair, she had hazel eyes, and something in the back of my mind knew her but I couldn't remember from where.
"Well I thought that this was a naval ship but I guess I was highly mistaking...Well if it isn't Jack Sparrow and who are these two?" the Captain said.
" Will you just tell us why you are here so we can get on our way?" Will growled frustratedly knowing the longer we were held up here the longer it would take to get to Tortuga to find a crew that was crazy enough to help Jack on this quest to go retrieve Elizabeth.
I glared at Will knowing that we were very much out numbered. I mean any ship sailing right now would out number us since we only had three crew members. Only two out of the three sailed since they were babes up until a point for one of those two people.
Will looked at me, "What?" "Keep your mouth shut in this kind of situation, Will, or you might get us all killed since we are out numbered," I growled in a whisper.
The captain of the other ship turned to Will and smiled. "So your name is William.... What is your name Missy?" he asked. "Her name is Ja-" Will didn't have time to answer the question after I stepped on his foot "accidentally".
"The boy has a point what is it that you want, Captain Thomas?" Jack said trying to get the captains attention away from me. "Well Y'see me adopted daughter don't want to sail with me and my crew no more... She wants to be apart of a crew that no body knows who she is or who watched her grow into be a nice young woman," Captain Thomas replied as my attention was brought back to the girl that stood there.
"I knew she had to be adopted or something because she doesn't look anything like him," Will whispered. I stomped on the other foot to make him shut up.
" Do you realize we are out numbered, Will? Now wouldn't be the time to start talking about Captain Thomas," I growled in a whisper that Will could only hear.
"We could use more hands," Jack said, "We could take her off your hands as it were." "I knew we would come to an understanding, Captain Sparrow," he said as he turned to his daughter and hugged her before he swung back to his ship .
"So what's yer name lass?" Jack said as he turned toward the girl. "Autumn Taylor, sir," she replied.
Jack looked at me then at Will. I rolled my eyes when they weren't going to introduce themselves. "Hello, Autumn, I'm Jade Taylor. The one behind me is Will Turner and the man beside me is Captain Jack Sparrow, but of course you have already met him," I said, "It's nice to meet you." I held out my hand, she took it , and we shook.
Later that night, I watched the sea from the crows nest. I yawned and stretched my arms about my head as my eyes started to droop with tiredness. As I let my arms drop to my sides, something in my mind clicked and more memories from my past flashed before my eyes.
*~FLASHBACK~*
"COME ON AUTI MOMMY WANT'S US!" my younger self cried as I jumped up and down on a bed. "But Ja we stayed up almost all night.. can't we sleep?" a voice came. "BUT MOMMY WANTS-" I was interrupted by my mother. "Jade-"
*~END OF FLASHBACK~*
"Jade!" I heard someone yell up to me. 'I hate when that happens' I thought. I looked down and saw Jack looking up at me.
I smiled to myself as I was the beauty of how the moonlight danced across his face and how the stars reflected in his eyes even all the way up here I could see them.
"Aye!" I called down to him.
"Come down!" he called up. I nodded and climbed down.
As soon as I got down I notice that Jack beside me when he spoke, "Let's get some rest." I watched his back as he made his way below deck. I sighed since I knew I couldn't argue with him not being there, or that would make me look as if I had gone mad with the heat of the day. 'Well I have been up in the crows nest since dawn this morning. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if I did go mad with the heat,' I laughed to myself as I headed toward the stairs that Jack had disappeared down.
When I made it off the stairs, I was starting to feel the sleepiness of being out in the fresh air over take me. My eyes were slowly drooping to close and I felt horrible. I spotted Jack and slowly made my room as I said, "Good night, Jack," I whispered softly as I headed toward my cabin.
"JACK!" I was shaken out of my sleepy state as I turned to see Will stomp toward Jack. "Where am I suppose to sleep?!" I heard Will yell at Jack.
' Oh great,' I thought. "Will, you can have my room. I don't really care where I sleep," I said softly. Jack and Will turned and walked briskly toward me. "What?!" Jack said. "Will can have my room," I said firmly since I was sick of hearing Will fuss with Jack over the tiniest things, " I don't care where I sleep as long as he won't complain anymore."
Will look at me with an apologetic look in his eyes. "Are you sure?" He asked. "I am too tired to repeat myself again, Will," I growled, "either you sleep there or sleep on the deck, but if I were you I would choose to sleep there since the deck is to hard to sleep on."
Will nodded and walked inside my room with a faint good night he closed the door.
"Now where are you going to sleep?" Jack asked skeptically. "I'll sleep on one of the bunks below," I said as I walked away.
I didn't get that far as Jack had blocked my way of going any further. "No Your Not," He growled, "You can sleep in my cabin. I'll take the bunk."
I glared at Jack, "No it's okay you can sleep in your cabin I'll be fine sleeping on a bunk. Plus I don't think that you want me in your cabin because if you force me in there you know that I will do damage like I did so many times before to you."
As if remembering Jack's eyes went wide and he sighed in defeat and frustration but nodded non-the-less, "Okay fine." I smiled and kissed his cheek sweetly. "I just didn't want you to catch a cold. If you did I would feel bad," I said sweetly as I walked away.
Well there is Chapter 7 like I said I am so sorry that I haven't updated in a while just got a lot to do and I am going to be going to competition a week from this Friday so I will try to update as soon as I can and I hope you like this chapter so one last thing I need to say is...
Jade: I'll take it from here... PLEASE REVIEW
