"And a wife!"
"Will, look outside- if it's really dark and the ship isn't moving then you need to get out of my cabin."
"I asked you what lies in your past that was in Fairport and you said your father! But you didn't tell me the whole truth!"
"Will, how many times do I have to say…pirate."
"Why didn't you tell me that Julie was your wife?"
Jack finally sat up in his bed, "You never asked."
"Why can't you just tell me the truth! I did ask! I asked what lied in your past in Fairport!"
"Well technically, I didn't really lie…only half…"
"I'm serious Jack."
He paused, "Yer really upset about this, aren't you?"
"Jack, I had to find out from a stranger that you're a married man."
"I'm sorry lad…"
"Are you really?"
"What do you mean, am I really?!" He said getting up and walking over to him.
"Jack, I am tired of being lied to!"
Now that, Jack understood completely. He had been lied to and betrayed in worse ways than he thought possible. Now Will was experiencing that truth in life. People aren't honest, least of all pirates.
Idiot. Jack told himself. "Will, I know how it feels to be lied to…and I am sorry."
Will stood there a minute looking at him and then said, "I know you not telling me about a wife isn't a huge deal, but Jack- I want to be able to trust you freely without having to consider it. And if I can't trust you with little things then I can't trust you with the big things."
Jack had never considered that. He completely and fully trusted Will…even with his life. Because time has shown that Will was a dependable man. He would never doubt Will. But Jack had never thought that Will doubted him.
Now that he did, however, he found that Will was completely right. Jack had cheated and slyly saved his life a couple of times, but never truthfully. He had never told Will about his past with Barbossa- he heard it from Gibbs. And now this. Why was it so hard for Jack to tell EVERYTHING when someone asked him?
"Well what do you want me to do?"
"Tell me about Julie."
Jack looked outside and then at Will, "Be in the galley tomorrow mornin' and I'll tell you everything you want to know."
****
"Come in!" Julie called to the person behind her door. In walked in Tommy and she immediately tensed. She put down the book she was reading and looked at him full on, promising herself that her fear wouldn't get the best of her this time.
"Tommy. What can I do for you?"
He shut the door and crossed his arms behind his back, "Tell me something Ms. Davis…do you know where the Captain keeps his maps?"
She paused, "His desk one would imagine…why do you need to know?"
He shrugged. "That map of Black Beards' treasure might be useful."
She eyed him carefully. "The Captain has already given the bearing up, am I correct?"
"To who?"
Julie suddenly realized something, "Tommy, go and ask a crewmember, and please do not call upon me for such useless matters." She said getting up, ready to show him to the door.
He took a step to the side and blocked her walking way, "Useless? You think that map is useless? Don't you realize how much treasure Black Beard could've collect in his time in the West Indies?"
"Tommy, you'd be surprised how much I know about him."
"Oh really?"
"Tommy, please. I would like to have some peace and quiet can you please leave?" She said reaching for the door. Only he grabbed on to her wrist. She looked at him, "What'd you think I was going to do? Slap you? Now leave, please!"
He paused and felt something on her wrist. He ran a finger over it many times, "What's this?"
"Tommy…"
His looked hushed her and he grabbed her wrist and pulled it towards him. He lifted up her cuff and raised an eyebrow when he looked at it. She forced her wrist out of his hand. "Well, isn't that a piece of interestin' info'mation?"
****
Jack sat down next to Will in the galley that morning. He hadn't gone back to sleep since Will came in. He was thinking about their friendship and Julie- who he was supposed to tell Will all about. He sighed. He could do this. He could tell Will. Will was someone he could trust.
And whoever heard of Captain Jack Sparrow getting nervous?
"What do you want to know?"
Will looked at Jack. He too had also been thinking early that morning. Everything he said in Jack's cabin he wasn't sure he believed it. Will had trusted Jack with a lot of things. He had told him of Elizabeth when he would be able to tell no one else, he had trusted him not to leave him on the island when Jack told him to stay behind instead of going with him and Julie and he had trusted Jack so many years ago.
You forget your place, Turner.
It's right here, between you and Jack.
If someone were to ask him right at this moment if he thought of Jack as a good, trustworthy friend, he would say yes. Because even if Jack didn't always come out with the truth right away, he did sooner or later. "Jack I'm sorry about this morning…I didn't have a right-"
"No lad, you had every right. I owe you an answer. An answer from a…friend, aye?"
Will nodded. "Where did you meet her?"
"St. Thomas. I grew up there, as did she."
"How did she become your wife?" Will asked, thinking that was the obvious question.
Jack sighed, he was thinking it would come to that but was hoping it wouldn't. "Get ready to hear me life story kid," He took in a deep breath and then let it out, "My father was Commodore of St. Thomas and most of the virgin islands, so you can imagine how growing up in his house must've been like. He was married to a woman named Kathleen. It was one large, big happy family…until she past away. I was 16 when she did. After her death my father had turned from Commodore to a evil-rule-the-house-maniac. When I turned seventeen I snapped. I packed my bags and left my house when he was at work.
"From the time I was born from the time I left Jules is in every single one of my memories. She was there when I lost my first tooth…actually she was the CAUSE of it. She was there when I learned to read and was there when we were instructed to call each other by 'Mr.' and 'Ms.' Titles. She was even my first kiss. When I left my house to turn pirate- she didn't. I thought I'd never see her again even though I promised to.
"Oddly enough, one day in Singapore, I saw a woman who looked fairly attractive from the side and who seemed a tad bit familiar. I got up my courage and walked over to her. Sure enough, it was-"
"Captain!"
Jack sighed. Why did people insist on talking to him? "What is it Tommy?"
"Captain, I have some disturbing news."
"Such as?"
"Ms. Davis be not what you think she be."
Oh, don't even get me started on Ms. Davis. I'm coming after her next… Jack sighed at his crew member, "What be she?"
"Pirate."
Jack looked at him unimpressed while Will fought to keep down his shock. "Fascinating. Thanks very much Tommy and I will deal with that immediately." Jack paused, "How did you find out such a thing?"
Tommy paused and stared at his Captain. "One of her cuffs was unbuttoned and she lifted up her arm. I saw the brand easily."
Jack nodded, eyeing him, "Dismissed."
When he was out of sight Will practically jumped out of his seat, "She's a pirate? Did you know that? How? When?..."
"Will, calm yerself and listen to the rest of my story. Okay, so I was in Singapore and about to make a move on a pretty lass…when I tapped her shoulder I was met with beautiful gray eyes."
"Julie."
"Aye. She immediately told me of how she had thought piracy had sounded interesting at that point in her life but she had gotten sea sick. Well, we spent about a month together there and we got married."
"Got married?! What about your ship?"
"That's the thing lad…this was during the whole ten-year Barbossa thing. We were married for three years before I left…"
"You left Julie to go after Barbossa? Did you even tell her about it?"
Jack dropped his head, remembering the pain he must've caused his wife. "No. I left during the night. I don't even know what she did…That was the last time I saw her before this week."
"Which explains the slap."
"To answer the question that you should've asked at the Carters, Yes, I definitely deserved that one."
****
Jack opened the door to Julie's cabin without knocking. She had her back to him, staring out her window. "When do you expect us to reach the island, Captain?"
Jack narrowed his eyes; somehow she always had the uncanny ability to know if it was him in the door. Of course, so did he. "Not 'til the end of this week. You worried about dad?"
She nodded.
"You should go talk to Will Turner about it luv, I bet he'll understand." She turned around and met his gaze. Right away he noticed something was wrong but he pushed the matter back.
"I'm sorry Jack…it just came out."
He nodded, "Sure, okay."
"What?"
"Do you suppose it slipped out because maybe you think the two of you can 'stick together' because Elizabeth left him and I left you?"
"No. Not at all."
"Oh? Why not?"
"Because the difference between our two situations is that Elizabeth actually feels remorse about what she did."
"How the blast do you know that?"
"A woman knows, Captain."
Jack felt the ice on that comment. She hadn't used Captain in a while. "You think I don't feel remorse for what I did?"
She whirled around on him, walking towards him, "What were the first words you said to me when I entered that bloody house?"
He paused, "Something about your hair?"
"Yes, something like that. You said absolutely nothing about…what happened. Didn't even try to defend yourself."
"First of, it wasn't the most opportune moment and second- If I did say anything, you would've still slapped me!"
"Oh right! Of course, how could I forget the opportune moment? Captain Jack Sparrow always has to do things at the most opportune moment!" She said, raising her voice, her temper rising along with it. She was waving her hands around and using them when she spoke, something she no doubt picked up from Jack and she was pacing the cabin. All these were signs of her anger and frustration, and Jack could tell.
"What's wrong with the doing things at the right time?"
"Well one, you don't even call it that! You create this phrase for yourself that you practically live by AND the fact that the most important things in your life did not happen at the most 'opportune moment' for you." She said stopping in front of him, her gray eyes boring into his brown eyes.
Jack paused, that was true- but he didn't want to think about that right now. "Well that's not what I'm here to talk to you about! Why did you tell Will we were married?"
"Was I not supposed to? We haven't even talked about what had happened!"
"That's because I don't want to remember it!" as soon as that came out of his mouth he regretted it. Julie's face changed instantly from terrible anger to hurt.
She paused, "Of course. How could I forget? You don't want to remember anything about your past." Jack noticed her accent in that more than he had when she was yelling.
"Jules, I'm sorry, I didn't…mean it that way."
She shook her head and said something in French that Jack barely caught. "Yes, yes you did. So I guess I'll do something that I should've done a long time ago…I release you Jack Sparrow. You're free and no longer married to me."
He just stood there, dumbfounded, "You can't do that."
"I just did."
"No…you can't just say that…you have to get it official or something…"
"Jack, our marriage wasn't exactly official. You had a friend who didn't speak English do the ceremony. And wasn't he a pirate?"
"Well yes but-"
"Jack, please leave me alone…"
He stood there and stared at her for a minute or two as she crossed her arms and turned her back to him. He nodded once and left the room, shutting the door behind him.
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Author Thanks:
Emma436: You are hilarious. I love your reviews…ummm was it really a shock to you that they were married? That's good. I was hoping it would be a surprise. Uhm what will happen between them…what do you think will happen? I'm sure you never thought this was going to…the whole 'divorce' thing. Oh well. Tell me what you think.
PED-Sarah: Omg you're right about the conscience thing- so sorry. Thanks for the review. I love how you're always the first one to read my stories! YAY!
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