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Captain Will "Blade" Tuner of The Cutthroat Viking a blood thirst pirate, feared thought out the seven seas but most all the Caribbean. When pirates ransack Port Royal, a former enemy returns AU version of The Cruse of the Black Pearl
Chapter 10
I rowed the longboat back to the Viking. I climbed the ladder to the main deck. Hudson and the rest of the crew stood there watching me as I walked to my cabin. I turned around to face them after feeling their eyes watching me for some reason.
"What the bloody hell are yu lot looking at?" I said annoyed at the crew, they all stare past me to the door of my cabin. I turn slowly around to find my father standing there. That was what they had been staring at a dead man that was still alive.
I ignored the crew and open the cabin door and walk inside followed by my father. He shut the door behind him. I took a seat at the desk and pulled a bottle of rum from the bottom draw and sat it on desk with two glasses.
"So that girl" My father asked as he took a seat, I looked at him confused as I poured the rum into the glasses.
"What girl is that papa?" I said as I set the half empty bottle on the desk. He gave a look as if to say you know which one I mean.
"Oh the pretty little blonde" Bill said as I set my empty glass down on the table. I said nothing as I poured myself another drink.
"Elizabeth" I said putting down the half empty glass. My father gave an odd look, as I spoke her name.
"Ah so that be her name then" He said pouring himself another glass of rum. I stared out one of the windows in the cabin.
"Aye it would be. I'd never thought I'd ever fall in love with a woman at least of all a Governor's Daughter no less" I said getting up from my chair and leaning against the wall.
"She must be quite something then" Bootstrap said remaining in his chair and looking over the various maps and document sitting on the desk, his eyes caught sight of the letter from my mother that she had written to him almost a month after I had been born.
"That she is," I said still staring out the window; Bootstrap gave an odd look when I set down my glass and walked towards the door. By now the crew were going about their own business on deck when we walked out of my cabin. We walked down below deck and headed in the direction of the brig
"What is it exactly you want to show me Will" Bootstrap asked as we entered the brig I looked down the hallway to the only occupied cell.
"Ben" I said simply walking to the cell that Ben was in shacked to the wall. Bootstrap's eyes grew wide when he saw Ben in the cell in front of us.
"Why is he locked in the brig Will" Bootstrap asked lookin me in the eye. I said nothing. He didn't know that it had been Ben that had sold me to those Spanish dogs all those years ago for passage to the nearest port.
"Why don't you tell him dear brother" Ben said not lifting his head from were it was bowed and not looking up at Bootstrap and I.
"You shut your mouth you bastrad," I growled with so much anger, Bootstrap looked at me. He could see I was barely keeping my temper in check as it was.
"Tell me what Ben" Bootstrap asked looking between Ben and I. Any blind fool could see the hatred between us.
"The real reason I spent all those years on the Santa Maria, was because Ben sold me to those bastrads for a passage to the nearest port" I said looking Ben square in the eyes I as final told our father the reason I had spent those years on the Santa Maria.
"You sold your own brother those Spanish bastrads Ben" Bootstrap said in disbelief at what I had just told him. Ben said nothing in his defence. My father took this as an answer of yes that Ben had sold me to those Spanish dogs.
We left the brig and walked back up on deck. The crew were going about their daily tasks without so much as a word from Bill and I.
"Set a course for Tortuga, step to it yu bilge rats or one week of no rum" I yelled from the helm. The crew didn't need to be told twice. Bootstrap just leaned against the rail and watched as I barked orders to the crew to set a course for Tortuga.
The only two surviving crewmembers of the Red Dragon, Fredriko and Ampredrias were standing at the helm with Bootstrap, Donavon and myself. It would take a week and a half to reach Port Royal and another two days to reach St James from Devil's Avenal.
If we had good weather we would reach Tortuga in two days. We had to pick up a crew in Tortuga to sail the Black Pearl to Port Royal for Sparrow's hanging. The two days had past rather quickly it had been just on dawn when we docked in Tortuga.
"Gibbs I need you to find me a crew that be half mad as Sparrow on this god forsake rock they call an island," I said to Gibbs as he went in the direction of the Faithful Bride.
"Turner how long it been" I turned around to find a familiar face that of Ana Marie. " Oh about six months or so" I said leaning against the wall with a smirk on my face.
"Word has it Sparrow on his way back to Port Royal to hang, and yur in need of a crew to get the Black Pearl back for him am I right" Ana said I nodded in in reply that I was indeed in need of a crew and Sparrow was his way back to Port Royal.
"Good so when I get my hands I can kill him," Ana said somewhat under her breathes but I had heard every word that had come out of her mouth.
"What did he do this time" I asked it had not been the first time Sparrow had done something to piss her off.
"He stole my boat again" Ana said with anger in her eyes. I wouldn't like to be Sparrow when she got a hold of him.
"Yu mean leaking trash of a boat" I said under my breath hopin and silently praying that she didn't hear one word of what I had just said about her boat that Sparrow had stolen. It was later that day the sun had long since set most of crew were on land enjoying what time that they had in port.
I was staring up at the ceiling. My thoughts were a drift on one person. That was Elizabeth. How could one fall in love in such a short time, I had my far share of women but none had ever been more then a day.
A knock on my cabin door woke from my thoughts. I got up and limped across the room to answer the door. My father stood on the other side of the door.
"What seems to be troubling yu Will" Was the first words that came out of his mouth. How fathers knew when something was wrong with their children I will never know.
"It's nothing, I've just got a lot on my mind that all" I said staring out the window of the cabin.
"Hm I guess it be that of a woman then" Bootstrap said placing a bottle of rum on the desk.
"Aye it is," I said taking a seat at the desk. I poured him and myself a drink. I stared aimlessly out the window to the horizon.
"Women are a mystery in them selves that for sure" My father said looking me in the eyes. He knew from the way I was looking out the window, that I was in love with this girl he had only met once but had not spoken to.
"How that be father," I said taking a sip from my glass. He gave me a sideways glance as if to say you know what I mean.
"Their always anger at us for something, even if we aren't even bloody there or we haven't done anything wrong to angry them" My father said putting the empty bottle on the desk.
"Aye that be true alright" I said finishing my glass of rum and pulled another bottle from the bottom draw of the desk.