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Chapter 12 - Devastating News
Jack was jarred awake by a loud pounding on his cabin door. He looked over at Shay laying next to him and didn't even remember falling asleep. "Bugga," he said aloud before carefully climbing over Shalynn. He then quickly got dressed and opened the door. Anna was standing on the other side.
"Capin' close the door and come out 'ere with me."
Jack closed the door and walked farther onto the deck.
"I was just in town gettin' more supplies when I overheard people talkin'. The Commodore be sick sir."
Jack thought about that for a minute. Shay was going to be upset when she heard about this.
"Thank you lass, are we ready to be settin' sail now?"
"Yes Capin'."
Jack nodded and walked back into his cabin. Shay hadn't even moved from her position. He also heard her softly snoring. Jack hated to wake her, but this was important.
"Shay love, wake up." Jack gently shook her shoulder. Shay stirred and woke up.
"I didn't even know we fell asleep," she said while yawning.
"Love, I have some news."
Shay just looked up at him.
"Your father be sick, lass."
Shay shot up and said "What?"
"Anna was in town and she overheard people talkin' about the Commodore. They said your father has fallen ill."
Shay then started to cry. Jack didn't handle crying women very well. He felt awkward.
"Will you take me to him Jack, please?" Shay leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Of course love." Jack wrapped his arms around her and held her while she cried. Why he agreed to go back to Port Wilhelm, he didn't know.
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Shay hadn't been herself the whole week. Jack had said they still had at least a week until she got home. She just wanted to get home to her father. She had no idea what was even wrong with him or anything. He could die and she wouldn't be there. She didn't even want to think about that.
Shay looked out onto the ocean and thought about her time with Jack, to get her mind off of her father. Jack was an unusual man. He was unorthodox. She liked that, because she always hated going along with the rules. The only thing that she didn't like was that, Jack didn't fit into her life. Her father would never have that.
"'Ello lass, how ye be doin'?" Gibbs walked up and stood next to her.
"I'm doing fine, really Gibbs." Shay smiled at him.
"I used to be good friends with the Commodore once." Gibbs said to her.
Shay looked over at him and seen that he was looking out onto the ocean, like he was thinking back.
"We were just lads then. Once his parents became wealthy, he forgot about ol' Gibbs." He then patted her back and walked away.
Shay just thought that was so hard to believe. Her father was a good man and a good leader. She had always looked up to her father. She just didn't like the life she had led.
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Since the Pearl couldn't make port, Jack and Anna took her on a life boat to the side of town. They said they would go with her, but stay in the shadows. They ran through town, trying to stay unnoticed. Once they reached her home, she looked back at Anna and Jack, and then ran inside. She heard voices from the parlor so she quickly ran there. When she stopped just inside the archway, she seen her father and the Governor sitting there drinking afternoon tea. Shay was confused. She watched as her father got up and came over to her.
"I heard you were ill father." Shay thought he didn't look very ill.
"My dear, you are home." He laid his hands on her shoulders and smiled at her. "I have a surprise for you."
He turned around and out of the corner of her eye she seen a man stand up out of chair. She looked back at her father.
"Shalynn meet Johnathon Garret. I have arranged for you to be married to him. A week from Sunday." Her father smiled at her and Shay thought her legs were going to give out on her.
She couldn't believe it. "This was all a trick. You are not really sick are you?"
Her father shook his head and put a hand behind her back. She felt herself being pushed into the room but she still couldn't believe her legs were holding her up.
The man named Johnathon Garret reached for her hand and kissed the back of it. "Your father said you were beautiful, but he didn't mention that you were much more than that."
Shay wanted to spit in his face. She knew this wasn't his fault but she was getting more and more furious by the second. She jerked her hand away and started backing out of the room.
"I don't believe this, why would you do this to me father?"
"I can't always have you running off with pirates, my dear." Her father made a motion with his hand and before she could run, guards filled the doorway. Shay was going to be sick.
"Father you can't do this to me!" Shay was becoming hysterical. She was starting to panic.
"Look who we found Commodore." She turned around to see them walk in with Jack. He was in shackles and stripped of all of his weapons.
"Send him to the gallows," her father said without another thought.
Shay's legs then did give out on her when she fainted and crumpled to the floor.
