Chapter 11 – Mr. Gibbs

"More importantly, it is indeed a sad life that has never breathed deep this sweet, proliferous bouquet that is Tortuga , savvy?" Jack said as they walked through the isle of Tortuga, and straight into the village. . He looked at Ruth and Will who were looking at the town itself.

"What do you think?"

"It'll linger." said Will

Jack : I'll tell you mates," Jack told them. "If every town in the world were like this one, no man would ever feel unwanted."

Suddenly a woman knocked up with him.

"Oh sor..." Mia looked up. "Jack?"

"Amelia?" Jack said. She looked at Ruth.

"Ruth? Will?" The two friends looked at Mia.

"Mia?" Will asked. "What are you doing here?"

"Well I was going to try and save my pathetic brother," she looked at him. "Only to find him alright, and putting my two friends in danger."

"Wait..." said Ruth. She looked at the Sparrow siblings.

"Jack...Mia... is your sister?"

"Half sister, if you want to get technical," Amelia said.

"Why didn't you say anything?" Will asked her.

"Well, Will, Ruthie, you got to understand..." said Mia. "I couldn't tell you or anybody that Jack was my brother. Or, well, you know, Norrington could have overheard me say that to someone and..."

"We understand," Will and Ruth said. Mia looked at her friends abruptly.

"You do?" she asked. They nodded. "Hm, that was easier than I thought."

Suddenly a woman with red hair approached him. Jack smiled when he saw her.

Jack : Scarlett!" Jack shouted. The wench slapped him in the face. Ruth and Will had their eyes wide open. Mia grimaced. She should have seen this happening. Giselle came up closer.

"Not sure I deserved that. Giselle!" Jack shouted.

"Who was she?!" Giselle asked.

"What?" Jack asked her. Giselle slapped him.

"And who are you!?" Giselle asked Ruth.

"Uh, I'm..." Ruth began.

"Oh, she's Jack's girlfriend," Mia said. Ruth and Will looked at her. Giselle looked at Jack and slapped him.

"If you want my advice," Giselle said, walking up to Ruth. She pointed at Jack accusingly. "find a man who won't flirt with every girl he meets."

"Oh, I'm not really his girlfriend" Ruth said.

"Oh, but she is," Mia said. "You don't need to be modest, Ruth. He was cheating on you with Giselle, and cheated on Scarlett with Giselle."

Giselle slapped him a third time before storming off. Mia laughed.

"I may have deserved that first one, but the other two, no," Jack sneered at his younger sister. Mia just smiled smugly. "What are you doing in Tortuga anyways?"

"Here to find a crew, but I have got nothing to spring you out of jail!" Mia said. "But I see you found out on your own. What are you guys doing in Tortuga?"

"Mia, they took Elizabeth and Jane," said Will. Mia looked at them. She was very shocked to learn that her greatest friends were missing as well. Sure, the Swann sisters, the Turner siblings and Mia were a group of friends (excluding Elizabeth when Ruth grew older).

"By who?" Mia asked.

"By Hector Barbossa of the Black Pearl," Jack said. Mia hoped she wouldn't hear that name again. She remembered when she was thirteen years old and her father left when she was eighteen years old when she got a job as a maid in Norrington's house. Barbossa had left her brother on Rumrunner's island and had marooned Jack on the island. And for ten years, he wanted to kill Barbossa. The current captain of the Black Pearl had never been the same eighteen years ago, when he had lost his wife and child. The last Mia heard of Arabella Barbossa, née James and her daughter was that the baby girl had been adopted by a rich family. Mia didn't know who the mysterious parents were, but she knew that Hector Barbossa wasn't the same when his wife and daughter were forced to leave. It was perhaps one of the hardest things that Barbossa had to endure, leading to his now cruel and selfish nature.

"Then let's go kill the son of a bitch," said Mia. "And , thankfully, I found someone that all of us know."

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Mia took them to an alley, where Jack and Mia threw a bucket of water at a man laying there. Will and Ruth thought he looked familiar.

"Curse you for breathing, you slack-jawed idiot!" yelled the man.

"Hello, Mr. Gibbs," said Mia. Mr. Gibbs looked to her.

"Mother's love! Jack! Mia! You should know better than to wake a man when he's sleeping. 'S bad luck," said Mr. Gibbs.

"Mr. Gibbs?" Ruth said, remembering him when she was a child. "Is that you?"

"And Miss Ruth Swann," said Gibbs. "I haven't seen you since you were a little girl.

"You two know each other?" Jack asked surprised.

"Actually, I thought you would forget about me by now?" Ruth asked.

"Oh, I remember you, little Miss Ruth Swann, I'd never forget you. The little girl who sung and dream about pirates all day."

Jack had to admit, he never heard of a Governor's daughter be so fascinated with pirates. Now, it made Jack feel as if he knew her a little bit closer.

"Oh, really?" Jack asked, looking at Ruth.

"Oh, shut up," Ruth said, not daring to look him in the eye.

"I must say, are you two..." Mr. Gibbs asked, almost in an alarming tone.

"No!" the two of them shouted.

"Back on to business," said Jack. He looked at Mr. Gibbs. "Now, I know how to reverse your bad luck. The man who did the waking buys, the man who was sleeping, a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition from the man who did the waking."

"Aye, that'll about do it." said Gibbs. Suddenly, Will took a bucket of water and splashed it onto Mr. Gibbs.

"Blast! I'm already awake!

"That was for the smell." Said Will and RUth couldn't help but smile.