Misty woke up unusually early the next morning, which was odd for her because most of the time, Misty was lazy, secondly she had been on a cleaning spree that last two days; one would think she would be tired. She had finally left Anamaria's room and gone back to sleeping in the same room with Nicholas. Although it didn't seem like it, Nicholas was always up before her, and he barely spoke two words to her. After cooling off from their last fight, Misty had decided to try it again with Nicholas much to Tessi's dismay. Misty knew Tessi was still slightly irked with Nicholas, but it really didn't matter because he was acting even weirder then before, and he rarely ate dinner with all of them.
Misty looked over at Nicholas' bed and as per-usual he was already up. She sighed and sat up in bed and rubbed her eyes, she was growing more and charier of him day after day, part of her wanted to poke around on his side of the room, but she didn't. She threw her legs over the side of the bed and stood up. She sniffed herself.
"Oi, I need a bath." She mumbled to herself, she walked over to her bags and pulled out an additional set of clothes, Elizabeth had nicked from Norrington's stash, and she was also smart enough to pilfer some soap from their lavatory before leaving home. Otherwise, just jumping into brine, wouldn't help the unpleasant odor much.
She got what she needed and then walked out onto the deck and stretched, thankfully her room was near the helm so all she had to do was scream, "Oi! Sparrow! Stop the ship, I need to bathe!" Jack looked over at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Lass, we have to make it to Port on reasonable time-" He was cut off by Misty marching over and lifting her arm up. "- right, stopping the ship." Jack said pushing her away, she wasn't sure whether to grin in triumph or be offended she stunk that bad.
Jack and her seemed to be the only ones up save for a few crew members, but most of them we half-asleep leaning against crates, Tessi, Elizabeth, Will and Anamaria were still sleeping, they never got up at this hour. The sun was just coming up, so it was probably around 5:00 AM. Once he weighed anchor to stop the ship (all the while grumbling about women taking control) Misty not so modestly stripped down till she was completely nude.
Yeah – this definitely woke the crew up.
She bristled at them all, men, leave it to them to notice a nude woman in a 500 mile radius. Not that she was 500 miles away from them, it was the point that men could be slow in spotting an upcoming storm but when it came to seeing a nude woman, they were faster then lighting.
She grabbed the soap and jumped overboard. The cool water felt good against her skin, she felt so grimy, the whole time she was bathing Jack whined, and begged her to hurry up. This of course only made her go slower just to get on his nerves, she scrubbed her head vigorously and scrubbed her body down, once she did that she dived under the water to free herself of the soap. When she surfaced little soap bubbles floated around, she sighed contently and floated around a bit enjoying the water, when she started to hear Jack lift the anchor.
"SPARROW, DON'T YOU DARE!" Misty screamed at the top of her lungs, Jack winced but did not desist in his lifting of the anchor. The ship started to move and Misty started to panic.
"SPARROW, YOU SCALLYWAG!" Of course after Misty screamed this she figured that was probably a flattering remark to Jack.
"Pirate, love!" He called from the helm, amused by Misty's screaming. Misty started swimming like some retarded aquatic creature to catch the side of the ship, but since she was kicking in the water frantically, she was getting nowhere fast.
She growled when she caught the anchor as it was being lifted and climbed up the chains, and finally with much difficulty hopped onto the deck of the ship. She was obviously wet though, so she sort of did the splits and slid across the desk, towards Jack who was grinning like a Cheshire Cat. She growled and stomped over to her clean clothes, and dirty clothes and picked them all up in a heap and walked into her cabin; slamming the door. Jack winced and called: "Are you angry, love?" He asked, knowing the obvious answer, and that this would probably get him more in trouble, but he was too amused right now to care.
There was silence and then: "LIVE IN FEAR, SPARROW!" She screamed.
Misty furiously put her clothes on which just consisted of the white British Navy pants, and one of their white shirts, she didn't bother to put shoes on, and she left her hair down, she never really cared to mess with her hair. She was lazy that way. She whipped open her cabin door still pretty pissed, and slammed right into someone.
She looked up to see a groggy Will with a confused expression on his face. "What's with all the ruckus?" He asked staring down at Misty who was looking quite perturbed.
She looked over and glared at Sparrow's back who was humming, "A Pirates Life for Me," while steering and obsessively checking his compass every five seconds. All Will had to do was watch where her glare was pointed at and he didn't need anymore of an answer. "Ah." Will said sighing, as Elizabeth and Tessi came out.
"Who dared to wake us up at this godforsaken hour?" Tessi bit out, Tessi and Misty usually were extremely hard to get up in the mornings, they'd rather sleep till noon, but lately Misty had been restless, feeling a sort of foreboding, that weighed on her, and it wasn't just Nicholas causing it.
Elizabeth on the other hand, wasn't bothered by getting up early, so she was actually looking pretty chipper. Tessi wanted to smack her, not because she didn't love Elizabeth, but when Tessi was tired and grumpy, chipper people pissed her off.
Will shrugged, "No clue what's been going on, all I know is Jack is the cause of it." He yawned heavily, Ana who had already gotten up sometime through the whole ordeal hopped down from the masts smirking.
"What?" Elizabeth asked Ana, upon seeing the smirk.
"Misty decided to bathe, and in the middle of it, Jack started to lift the anchor back up, and sail off without her, leaving Misty to flail after the ship like some retarded porpoise, and grab onto the rising anchor, she nearly was left in the middle of sea. Quite a amusing visage, I must say." Ana chortled.
Misty glared and Tessi sniggered, "Nice." She muttered to herself, Misty huffed and stomped off towards the crows nest, while muttering; "Excuse me for wanting to smell nice."
Tessi yawned again and said; "I'm going back to bed." And with that, she went back into her cabin and went to sleep till about noon. When she came back out, Misty was still in the crows nest.
Tessi sighed and decided to go up and see what the fuss was about, and if she was still sore about what Jack did to her. Once she was up there, she sat next to Misty and said; "Still rowing with Jack?" She asked.
Misty shrugged, "No, but he will pay later on." Misty smirked as if she was already forming a plan in her head.
Tessi smirked, "I don't doubt it, but make sure it's amusing." She replied, but Misty still seemed down.
They both lapsed into a silence before Tessi spoke up, "Hey – we haven't talked much, you okay?" She asked.
Misty sighed and was quiet, Tessi knew enough to wait, and try and be patient, albeit it was hard to be patient, considering she was Tessi. "I dunno. I'm probably being inane…" Misty trailed off.
Tessi smirked, "When aren't you?" She asked, and when Misty didn't laugh, Tessi realized this wasn't the time to joke, "What's wrong?" Tessi asked.
"Well, I just get this strange sense of foreboding…" Misty trailed off, "…and its Nicholas…" Misty sighed.
Tessi tensed a little at the mention of the mans name, she still hadn't forgiven him for hitting Misty, "What about him?" She asked trying not to sound terse.
"Well – once I cooled off I decided to go back, and try and make up with him, but he barely says two words to me, and he's always up before me, and in bed before me, he never eats with us anymore, and he's acting strange. He's changed. A lot. Maybe not for the better, and…I just get this odd feeling, not just from him but I just feel like something bad is gonna happen." Misty sighed.
Tessi grew silent, truth was she felt something bad was gonna happen too, but she couldn't be sure. She was still tense wondering when their Father would have the Royal Navy after them, and if it would engage in a huge battle. She really didn't want it to, she wanted her Father to let them go and give them their autonomy; but she knew that would be unlike him, and he was more or less sending Norrington and his men out, and they were all probably making plans.
Tessi sighed deciding just to comfort her sister and not tell her what she was really feeling, otherwise Misty would be a basket case. "It's nothing, as far as Nicholas just let it go, and if he decides to leave us at the next port then let him, there's bound to be someone else somewhere for you. In any case you should be worrying about Will." Tessi said.
Misty looked over at her, "Hmm?" She asked.
"Remember? Will pummeled Nicholas in the face, you got angry." A voice said, it was Elizabeth, she had climbed up the crows nest.
Misty couldn't help but smile, at first when Will had pummeled Nicholas she thought, Nicholas was gonna take it out on her, but it was different then she had expected: he stayed away from her, and she was completely fine with that to a point, if she had to choose between him rampaging at her every five seconds or ignoring her, she'd choose him ignoring her. Maybe Will did help a little. "Oh, yeah. I should talk to him then." Misty sighed.
Elizabeth grinned, "Good, perhaps once you make up Will, you'll stop your cleaning sprees, because ever since the fight between you and him; you've been dreadful." Elizabeth teased, it was partially true, keeping busy helped keep her mind off the fight with Will, and especially Nicholas. She had been a slight basket case since then.
Misty smirked; "Yeah well, someone has to keep this ship clean, what with you and Tessi playing Matchmaker and sunbathing, you lazy girls." She teased.
Elizabeth and Tessi grinned, "Why of course! We have to be beautiful Caribbean Beauties." Tessi joked.
Misty shook her head and climbed down the Crows nest, "Right." She mumbled grinning.
Misty hopped down onto the deck and looked around, it was probably a little past noon, the sun hit her face, and she could feel the heat, normally it had been cool out, but today it seemed really hot. The sun had started to tan the three Swann girls, because they weren't as pale as they were a year ago, when they first started an adventure with Jack Sparrow to save Elizabeth, and when Elizabeth was first taken by Barbossa.
She inhaled the sea air deeply, loving the smell and the soothing sound of the waves, she looked to her left and right and found Will nowhere, so that meant he was either below in the galley pigging out on all the sweets and other foods the girls had cooked up, or he was below sleeping where the crew slept, or on the other side of the ship. She turned left and walked across the desk and saw Ragetti chasing after his wooden eyeball, she smirked; that man was forever loosing his eye.
She turned a corner and found Will on the other side of the ship sharpening his sword, he was sitting on a crate, and he stopped for a minute and wiped the sweat off his brow with the back of his hand, and then went back to sharpening the sword. His hair was tied up in its usual ponytail, and most of his shirt was untied because it was blistering out.
"Hullo." She said softly causing Will to jump slightly, he looked up and offered her a smile returning her 'hullo.'
She walked over and sat down on the crate next to him, he looked over at her curiously, as if asking; are you still mad at me?
She sighed, "I'm not mad, don't think I ever was mad at you, more or less the situation. Nothing to forgive, kind of proud of you." She offered a smirk.
Will smiled; "It was a good punch wasn't it?" He boasted.
"Yes, it was. Probably learned it from me. Remember when I was 15? And that kid made fun of you for being poor?" She asked.
Will smirked, "Yes…" he trailed off laughing, "You punched him so hard he flew across the mud and into the chicken feed, causing him to look like one tasty meal for chickens." Will laughed.
Misty laughed, "Yeah, and he probably wouldn't have flown, if it hadn't been so skinny, and didn't the chickens start pecking at the food on him?" She asked.
Will laughed and nodded; "Yeah – and to make matters worse, Tessi came at him with a bucket of dirty water and poured it all over him." Will crinkled his nose, "It stunk." He said.
Misty nodded, "Yeah – that was because that water was used to scrub the horses down with; so he smelled like horse." Misty sniggered.
Will and her were silent and Will spoke up after a bit; "You were always the one getting into fights with the boys, Tessi was the one plotting more crafty schemes that didn't involve her having to tackle a boy to the ground." He smiled.
"Yeah, Father always hated it, because I'd come home and have my dress all muddy, and my hair pulled out of its bun." She smiled.
They fell into another silence, it felt like she was remembering these childhood things a lot lately, maybe because things were more carefree then.
Misty always felt something nagging at her, she didn't know what it was, she wasn't sure if it was because of her feeling like something was about to happen or maybe Nicholas, or maybe the fact she found out her Mother was still alive somewhere.
Part of her was annoyed. Why hadn't she come looking for them? Why hadn't she taken them with her, away from their Father? She sighed and leaned against the crates content with the sound of Will sharpening his sword.
For the better part of the day, Misty felt bored and drank rum causing her to be slightly tipsy, but Jack said they were nearing some Triangle, she couldn't remember the name of it, something Devil, it sounded freaky, and gave her a nasty feeling. She wondered how far they were from it, Jack said they would pass over the Triangle and then soon enough arrive at the Port, and hopefully, get there before the Navy, Misty prayed they did. Especially since they had gotten a head start not to mention the Black Pearl was the fastest ship in the Caribbean.
After about an hour Misty wandered around the deck, and she noticed it was wet. She raised an eyebrow, and I'm sure you've all been there. Your bored and stupid things that you know will probably end you up in trouble, you do just because you're bored. She looked up and saw a rope hanging from the mast, Anamaria hadn't secured it yet.
She grinned and grabbed onto it and backed up and then ran and swung up into the air whooping and hollering, it was bloody fun to her...she swung quite a few times getting her momentum up, she could see the crew members below her, in fact a few times she passed the crows-nest and waved to Tessi and Elizabeth as she flew back and fourth, "What the hell? I don't want to know." Tessi sighed, Elizabeth giggled.
Misty flung back and fourth, "Hi," she swung back and then forward, "Tessi," she again swung back and forward, "How," back and forward, "Are," she swung again, "You?" Misty was basically insane.
Tessi went for sarcasm: "I just learned three languages and wrote a book, all in all it's a slow day." She said leaning against the crows-nest wondering what the hell got into her twin, she wanted to ask if Misty gotten into the rum.
It was all good fun to Misty till…
…she fell overboard, when she over-swung across Jack's head. Jack saw a shadow and then heard a splash, she was facing the side of the ship, and scowling at her stupidity.
Bloody hell. She mentally cursed herself, the rope was swaying back and forth above her, but too high to reach, and the ship was moving away from her at a steady pace.
Misty was about to scream that she had fallen over-board when she heard; "MISTY? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? JACK STOP THE SHIP!" It was Tessi who was looking over the crows nest at the small dot in the water that was Misty, and she was being left behind, Misty was again looking like a retarded porpoise trying to reach the ship.
"WHAT? NOT AGAIN? WHY? ANOTHER ONE OF YE LADIES NEED TO BATHE?" Jack screamed up at the crows nest.
"NO. JUST DO IT. MISTY WAS TRYING TO BE A BIRD AND FAILED." Tessi yelled back.
Elizabeth huffed, "Must we scream?" She asked rubbing her ears.
Jack was confused and went to ask what the hell Misty being a bird had to do with stopping the ship, but seeing the glare of Tessi from the crows nest, made him weigh anchor. Twice. In one day. Captain Sparrow was not a happy camper, these ladies were stopping him from reaching a Port, where he might be able to get drunk, reek havoc, and do other Pirate-y things. All Jack saw was Tessi from her eyes up, he didn't even see a nose since the rest of the crows-nest was hiding it. It looked freaky. What was freakier was that Tessi and Misty were twins so it felt like both Misty and Tessi were glaring at him.
The anchor finally hit the bottom and the ship stopped, Misty took a while to swim up to the ship, since she had been chasing behind it, being left in the waves. Once she got to the side of the ship, Gibbs threw a ladder down, Misty climbed up it and Jack brought the anchor up again once he saw her on the deck and getting the water out of her hair and clothes.
Tessi peaked over the side of the crows-nest looking at her twin, and shook her head watching Misty ring her clothes and hair out. She turned to Elizabeth: "Four things, to keep Misty from: alcohol, boredom, father's razor, and ropes. Rum: 5 shillings, months supply of food 200 shillings, having an insane rope swinging twin sister: priceless." Tessi said smirking.
Elizabeth looked at her quizzically, "Father's razor?" She asked.
Tessi smirked, "I'd rather not go into it. Let's just say it involved Father's wine collection, cheese, cream, boredom, ropes, his razor, and a shiny surface." Tessi sniggered at the memory.
Elizabeth raised an eyebrow, not sure she wanted to know now.
Misty sighed once she had gotten most of the water out, Jack was looking at her oddly, and she said; "Shut. Up." Daring him to even ask what happened, Jack clamped his mouth shut and turned back to the helm, he knew well enough not to piss a woman off.
It took about 15 minutes before Misty was her chipper self again, she had found her way towards Jack, and sat down on the deck next to him and stared; "Stop starin' lass, you won't be steering my ship, and that's the second time I've had to stop, and get you back on board." He grunted braver now since Misty wasn't steaming from her ears.
Misty sighed, "How old are you Jack?" She asked.
"Not a day over 16," he responded; grinning impishly.
She snorted, rolling her eyes, "Please, Sparrow, spare me the bull and tell me how old you are." She replied blinking up at him.
His lips twitched, causing his goatee to move and the beads in his goatee to jingle in the wind. It reminded her of the wind-chimes she had at home, outside her balcony.
She sniggered to herself, Jack was a human wind-chime, with all the beads he had in his hair, along with all the other crap, including a bone. She wondered silently how hard it would be to bathe Jack, and maybe take all that out of his hair, and brush it, making it shiny. She tried picturing Jack without all the beads in his hair, long, clean and with his red-bandana in it.
It was scary. She wasn't sure he'd be Jack Sparrow without all his decorations decorating his hair.
Jack pulled her out of her musing by answering; "Well – love, your right, I'm not 16. I'm 14." What the hell?
"Now you're just being stupid, you may act like a 14 year old hormonal boy, but you're definitely older." Misty said, Jack huffed and said no more on the subject.
"Where's your Father?" Misty asked.
"My Father, eh? I wouldn't know." He said pulling his compass out of his jacket and looking at it again, he stared for a few minutes and then clamped it shut and stuffed it in his pocket.
"What's the Devil's Triangle?" She asked, deciding to play twenty questions with Jack out of boredom.
Jack sighed heavily, "It's a part of the ocean." He responded.
"Why's it called the Devil's Triangle?" She asked.
Jack was getting irritated with all these questions, "It's said that Davey Jones lives in the Devil's Triangle beneath the sea, and pulls down sailors, pirates, and their ships, into a graveyard, it's said that Davey Jones takes the sailors and pirates to man his ship." Jack replied informatively, yet uncomfortably.
This sparked Misty's curiosity; "What's his ships name?" She asked.
Jack looked down at her; "The Flying Dutchman, now, go run along and play." He sighed heavily, couldn't anyone understand, the need to sail a ship in complete silence, listening to the waves and the gulls cry? Hell – Jack didn't understand it, he just liked it.
"Am I annoying you?" She asked smirking at him.
"Yes." He replied frankly.
This didn't offend her in the least, in fact it fueled her to ask more questions, "Do you believe Davey Jones is real?" She asked.
"Do you know the meaning of, "Go away?"" Jack asked; waving his hand in a dismissal sort of way.
"When was the last time you had a bath?" She asked.
"Two years ago." He said randomly.
Misty seriously wondered if that was true, because he did look rather dirty, but the smirk on his face, gave it away that he had lied. "Liar." She smirked.
"Pirate, dearie." He responded, she watched as he swayed with the ship back and fourth, no wonder he looked drunk on land, apart from – well…being drunk half the time.
She snorted to herself, she would know, Misty seemed to have a knack for getting slightly tipsy, or full on drunk.
Jack started to ignore Misty's questions, annoyed that he was ignoring her she said; "Just so you know, Tessi burned the rum." She smirked when he turned and looked up at the crows-nest glaring and starting to panic; it reminded her of when they had been stranded on the island, and burned all the food, shade and rum.
"THE RUM! I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE HID IT!" Jack said waving his arms around frantically.
"Wow – you are way too obsessed, and I was joking." She laughed standing up from the deck.
Jack frowned, "You don't joke about burning the rum, rum is sacred to a pirate." Jack said swaying a bit, pointing at her spastically, giving away the fact he was drunk and probably had a bottle of rum somewhere near him. You'd think Misty would be scared with some drunken pirate sailing the ship, but since Jack was nearly always drunk, and knew what he was doing, while intoxicated, she wasn't worried at all.
She sniggered to herself, remembering what Tessi had said once: "Jack is PWI." Misty had asked her what it meant and Tessi said; "Pirating while intoxicated." Misty of course had thought that was hilarious.
Misty heard Jack call Gibbs over and then he said; "Hide the rum." Gibbs nodded at the solemn look on Jack's face and ran off to have the crew help him hide all the rum.
Misty shook her head and then looked up at the sun, it was probably right around 5:00 PM, she decided she should probably go below and start supper, she didn't want to hear Jack whining about how hungry he was.
Stretching a little, she turned away from Jack causing him to sigh with relief, with that she went below to look for something to cook, thank God, they were nearing a Port, they were gonna need food soon; but Jack always managed to get enough supplies to last through till he got to the next port.
Even if he didn't he had his crew fish for porpoises, which Misty found was actually really good.
She sighed with relief once she got below, she had no clue how hot it was till she got below and found it was nice and cool. She grabbed a rag and wiped sweat off her face and neck.
She wished now that she had put her hair up. She decided that sometime soon, she'd be taking the scissors to her hair, and cutting a lot of it off, to keep cool, long hair on a ship in the sun all day, did not mix.
She looked around the galley and pulled things out checking to find what she would cook. She found a bag of rice, and some beef along with a bunch of vegetables, so she decided to make a stew with rice, it was simple and filling at the same time. She pulled the rice out and measured enough to feed them all, especially with Jack, he always ate so much. Once she did that she started chopping vegetables and cooking the meat.
Elizabeth and Tessi came down and decided to help out because they were bored, and annoyed with Ragetti and Pintel's fighting.
"What happened?" Misty asked as Elizabeth sat down next to her and started taking the meat and making balls out of it to put in the stew.
Tessi rolled her eyes working on the rice, "Same old same old. You know Ragetti loosing his eye, or rubbing it, and complaining that it splinters, Pintel telling him to stop, and pissed off because Ragetti has yet to get himself a glass eye." Tessi sighed.
Misty snorted, "Well, have you HEARD it? When he rubs it, it makes a freaky squeaking sound." Misty shuddered.
Elizabeth shook her head, "They act like an old married couple sometimes." She laughed.
Tessi and Misty laughed too, "So, what? Would Pintel be the male of the relationship, and Ragetti be the female, per-say?" Misty asked.
"Oh, God." Elizabeth said, "I don't even wanna think about it." She said.
Tessi smirked, "It's amusing, because they do act like a married couple, I think Misty's right though, Ragetti would be the female, if there even would be a relationship, I doubt it though."
Misty laughed, "This is when you know you're bored, when you're talking about 'what if' couples on this ship."
Elizabeth shrugged, "Nothing else to do, what about that new girl and that new boy, that's working on the ship?" She asked.
Misty grinned, "She'd probably make the boy her bitch, she's kind of…bossy." Misty said.
Tessi sniggered, "It's funny, because when he's off sitting by himself, you wanna go up and ask him, if that girl has shoes that need licking; because he rarely is away from her not doing something for her."
Misty shook her head; "How old are they anyway?" She asked.
"No, clue, late teens, early adulthood, I'd say." Elizabeth replied.
"Hmmm – well there's so many people on this ship, that you two should never be bored. And if you keep it up, you'll be know as the Pirate Matchmakers." She sniggered.
Elizabeth elbowed her; "Hey! Its fun, and we're helping romance blossom." She defended.
Misty laughed, "I'll remember that when Anamaria and Will find out and 'thank' you two." She said stressing the word 'thank.' Anamaria's way of thanking them would be doing some kind of torturous thing for meddling where they didn't belong. Will would either get upset, or he'd be extremely shy.
Tessi smirked, "Heh. Will is probably gonna get shy, Ana is the one that'd get violent, I think she intimidates him a little bit; now she'd wear the pants in that relationship." Tessi grinned.
Misty and Elizabeth nodded in agreement, for about an hour or so the girls chatted about nothing in particular while dinner was being prepared, once it was, they set the table, and the crew and basically everyone but the person taking over at the helm for Jack; rushed in like a pack of rabid dogs who hadn't eaten in a year.
Elizabeth, Misty and Tessi watched the whole thing with amused expressions, Tessi shook her head and said; "Pigs, no manners at all." She walked passed Pintel who was shoving food in his mouth and smacked him upside the head causing him to choke.
He looked over at her, "Oi, what was that for?" He asked.
"No reason, just felt like hitting something, and you were the unfortunate sap, that was in my line of fire." Tessi smirked.
Jack shooed a crew member away from Tessi and plopped down next to her and dug in just as pigishly as the rest.
Tessi, Misty and Elizabeth looked at each other, and said together: "Men."
After dinner most of the crew went to bed, as dinner wasn't over till about 7:00 and Jack expected them up bright an early, to start the day.
Somehow Jack, Elizabeth, Tessi, Misty, and Gibbs, all landed in a cabin, that had huge windows, and lit candles everywhere. Gibbs insisted on playing poker, Jack wanted to make it strip poker, but since Tessi had no clue how to play poker, they decided on strip rummy.
So there Tessi, Jack, Misty, and Gibbs sat at a table playing strip rummy. Elizabeth didn't play, she stood behind everyone making noises and looking at their cards.
It was currently Misty's hand and she was deciding what to discard, Elizabeth had already been around the table and knew what was in everyone's hand. Misty grabbed a card and went to lay it down but Elizabeth spoke up; "Mmm, Mmm." She said hinting Misty shouldn't do that.
"Elizabeth, please, you're making me doubt myself here." Misty said putting the card back, Elizabeth smirked, this was better then playing the game.
Misty stared at her cards again when Tessi spoke up; "For the love of God Misty, just discard." She smirked when Misty looked up and stuck her tongue out.
She finally picked a card quickly and laid it down before Elizabeth could say anything, thankfully she didn't lay down a card that anyone needed, otherwise she would have been helping someone out.
Gibbs did a lot of "Hmmm's," or "Uh huh," or "Yes," throughout the game, talking to himself. Jack did a lot of odd facial expressions, his poker face wasn't straight faced and stoic is was weird. Just because he had a grin on his face, did not mean he was doing well, Misty still couldn't figure out why he'd grin when he was so obviously loosing.
The first hand Gibbs lost and was forced to remove clothing, Misty had to admit, she was weary about it. She wasn't sure she wanted to see Gibbs topless or something.
All he removed first was his shoes, thankfully, the next hand Jack lost and all three girls grinned, only to have him remove his shoes, now Jack topless definitely would not be a bad thing.
Elizabeth continued to go around peeking at people's cards, and in actuality she was helping the girls to cheat.
This caused Gibbs and Jack to loose nearly every hand, the only clothing the girls had removed were jackets they had put on after dinner, since it had gotten cold because night had fallen. However if one of them lost again, it definitely would have been a little bit more risky, since it would have had to have been their shirts or pants.
But when the guys started removing more and more clothes, both Tessi and Misty stopped it, firstly because they didn't need nor want to see anymore of Gibbs, he was nice and all, but old. Secondly, because Jack had been drinking rum the whole time and was getting silly, thirdly, was because the girls were tired. It had been a long day.
Especially for Misty, what with her falling overboard twice, not to mention the heat for some reason made Misty tired. Tessi was just tired because for some reason she felt stressed out at times, and she was feeling the same bad feelings Misty was: that something bad was going to happen, and Tessi was afraid her and Misty's feelings were gonna come true.
Tessi also still had that letter that seemed to cause unrest with her. The girls told the guys goodnight, and that they were turning in. The guys nodded and Tessi and Jack kissed goodnight.
Misty left not wanting to see that, and Elizabeth went out on deck, she wasn't quite as tired, and she decided to talk to Will a bit, they hadn't talked much, besides her trying to set him and Ana up; she wanted to talk to him normally for a bit.
Misty and Tessi told Elizabeth goodnight, and they both went to their respective cabins.
Misty got into her cabin and saw Nicholas was already asleep, she couldn't remember seeing him at all today, she wondered where he had been. There were only so many places on a ship he could be, she saw he had a plate of food near his bed, so after the rest of them had eaten he must have waited till they left to get his dinner.
She sighed throwing herself down on her bed, and sitting there staring at his sleeping form. He definitely had changed a lot while she had been gone; he wasn't the old childhood friend she had known, at least not much anymore.
She ran her fingers through her hair and laid down keeping the candle burning on the wall, she was tempted to go through his things to see if there was anything he was hiding.
She felt herself being tugged in that direction by her curiosity, but she ignored it, he was in the room; she could only imagine what would happen if she was caught by him.
He'd probably get really angry and another fight would break out, and either Tessi or Will would kill him this time, or at least scare the crap out of him.
Hell – Tessi and she were close, and even Tessi's temper scared Misty sometimes, because at times it seemed like fire was blazing in her eyes.
Misty could remember several instances where Tessi and their Father would get into horrible screaming matches, it would get nasty.
Deciding to let the matter of Nicholas go, she sat up and blew out the candle and laid back down. After all – it was probably her imagination, Nicholas wouldn't possibly be doing anything that could ruin this freedom, it wasn't as if he was working for the Royal Navy.
Misty laughed to herself; yes she was just being asinine, after all – she always had been a little paranoid, this time wasn't any different.A/N:Okay, I hope you liked this chapter, and I realize you probably think this is going really slow, but there are plot points being laid out, and once we get it going, you'll realize it. I figure in about 2-3 chapters it'll get more exciting, so hang in there. TBC of course. Also if there is long lapses in our updates, check our profile, because every now and again we post updates, about what's going on.