Disclaimer: Own Alex. Thats all. Pathetic right?
This chapter is mostly a dream sequence. Well more like a few. It tells the outcome of Alex's mother and she finally has the memory of how her mother..well I'll just let you all find out yourselves.
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Whatever pulled Alex pulled her hard enough. She did not see the pirates face but the last thing she saw was the hard eyes of the Bosun on the other side of the ship and then her head smacked against the wooden plank of the ship, knocking her out cold. It seemed as if no one noticed the lone trail of blood leading from Alex's head down the main decks. The pirates were too involved in their fight and her father had already swung across.
Smoke swirled around the deck of The Black Pearl. It was night and little Alex was watching her mother spin around a fire, touching it with her bare hands once in a while. However this version of Alex contained the soul of 18 year old Alex. Staying hidden behind the left-hand staircase, Alex watched her mother in wonder. It hurt her to know that when she awoke, she would have no standing memory of her mother. Only in her nightmarish dreams. Suddenly Anna's eyes glanced over to her hiding place and she smiled. With her hand she motioned her young daughter over to her. Sucking back a breath, Alex walked timidly over to her mother and when she was close enough, Anna grabbed Alex's 2 hands and they both spun around the small fire.
Giggling, Alex held onto her mother's hands tightly until she felt so sick that she let go. As Alex steadied herself, her mother kept twirling around and around with her arms outstretched. Suddenly her mother's body seemed to lift into the air. As if she was flying and Alex could only watch in wonder as the scene before her eyes seemed to fade into another one. Now she was standing in her nightdress looking into the captain's quarters as her mother and father told Barbossa the whereabouts of the treasure. Alex stood in the shadows and as the scene once again faded she saw a glimpse of her father being thrown overboard. Crying out as her mother held her back, Barbossa looked towards the both of them and smiled, evilly.
The scene once again changed and now there was no little Alex. It was Alex's present day self and she was no longer wearing her pirate garb. She was back in the blue cobalt dress and down below decks. Whirling around at the sound of whimpering, her skirts swished around her feet as she ran barefoot out to the main decks. What she saw was something Alex had not been able to remember for years. There was Barbossa and the rest of the crew. Pushing through the spellbound crew, she finally came to a stop. The crew was all standing behind Alex as Barbossa had her mother's long brown hair in his grasp and he was screaming at her. "Now that we are rid of your husband, you will be next. And if you want Alexandra to remain alive you will tell me that you are practicing witchcraft against me!" Her mother looked up at Barbossa defiantly before saying, "Go to hell."
In a rage, Barbossa grabbed her mother by the arm and stood her up straight. "If I cannot have you, then no one else will," Barbossa said. He nodded to the Bosun, who in turn brought out the sword that Barbossa currently had on his cutlass. Without another word, he plunged the sword through Anna's stomach and twisted it upward. Alex, in response, pushed her hand to her mouth and fell to her knees in shock As she did this, a little blue of red ran past Alex's line of vision. It was her 10 year old self and she threw herself towards Barbossa, but was held back by Pintel, who did the only kind thing Alex had seen him do. He turned Alex away from the sight and glanced back at Barbossa as he picked up Anna in his arms and caressed her dead face. He then handed the body off to the Bosun who tossed her mother's body overboard. In fact, as Alex looked behind her at the crew, the crew all looked generally shocked but knowing they would be killed as well if they helped the Sparrow family, just watched in disbelief.
Barbossa wiped his sword clean before looking to Pintel, who was cradling younger Alex in his arms. "Take her down to her parents room and leave her," he said, before walking away back to his cabin. Pintel and Alex's younger version faded, as well as the crew behind her. Until Alex was all alone on a blood soaked deck and terrible memory. She felt sick that Barbossa wanted her mother so much that he had resorted to staring at Alex. The scene began to fade out around Alex and everything in her line of vision went black.
As Alex opened her eyes slowly, she realized she was tied to a mast along with the rest of the crew of the Interceptor. Liz was to her right and a man with a parrot on his shoulder was on her left. "Any of you so much as thinks the word parlay, I'll throw you to Davy Jones locker," Pintel said, as he circled the captives. At that moment, Liz lifted up the rope holding her back and grabbed Alex's hand. As Liz ran across the deck, Alex fell to her knees holding her head. Her hair felt extremely crusty, and as she pulled her hand back, she saw that it was covered in dried blood. Wiping the stain on her breeches, she stood as the Interceptor blew into pieces.
Getting her bearings, she glanced behind her. Her father was being held back by the whole crew and the crew Liz and Will had been with were all tied onto the mast. Looking around at them all in horror, Alex realized that Will was missing. Whirling around, she saw Liz had stopped her actions and now just stood shell-shocked. Feeling a sudden urge of energy, Alex ran forward and threw herself at Barbossa. "You bastard STOP IT," she screamed. Barbossa had caught her mid attack and was holding her arms out to her sides in order for him not to be hit by her flailing hands.
"Welcome back missies. You took advantage of our hospitality last time. Holds fair you return the favor," he said, before throwing Liz to the filthy pirates and Alex onto the wooden deck. "Enough with throwing me. I already have a concussion," Alex muttered. As Liz screamed in disgust and terror, Alex looked behind her and saw Will climbing onto one of the railings. "Will," Alex shrieked.
Did you like it? Personally..I liked it better than most of my chapters. I took the plot from Sleepy Hollow but changed it around a bit.
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