Important Note: So I'm going to be trying to update ALLOT of the next week, since I'm headed down to the Caribbean over my Christmas Break. I will have my compy, but won't be able to update. SO, my apologies, and hopefully I'll make up for it.
Disclaimer: I do in fact own Captain Awesome…wait! That's me! Haha just kidding, I own nothing POTC related etc. which is pretty much everything. Geez, now I feel POOR.
Oh, and prodigous…its just another word for amazing. That's how I came up with it.
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Sometimes the best map will not guide you
You can't see what's round the bend.
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend.
--Pacing the Cage, Jimmy Buffett
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"Eh, I don't really know what to say," I shrugged, but diverted my eyes. This was one of those subjects that I never discussed. No one knew about this back home, besides my father and brothers. But that was back home, this was here and now. Besides, that incident was…8 years ago? I haven't had a real "home" since then, but it's one of those facts that you get numb too, and you just don't think about it too often.
His face was serious though, not buying it. Oh, I had so many reasons not to talk to him. So many. Like for one, I have trust issues. I happen to get turned on allot. For another, I don't' want to be like the pity queen, something I've been called so very often.
But in the back of my mind, I couldn't ignore that this was truly a whole new time, a whole new place. No one knew me here, well, not that well. And Jack could judge me all he wants, but…But that was just it. If I open my mouth up around Jack, well, he could use it against me in so many ways. What would be so bad about trusting someone? Some random person who lives 100 years behind everyone else and these events?
Maybe I should just talk, I can imagine all the bad, but I can also imagine the interesting good that might come. The whole…. sharing bit? But it's so complicated, because it is something that happened a long time ago. Yet I do think about it constantly. Because it was big, and it changed everyrything.
I shook my head, "I'm sorry, its just complicated, and long, and well…you don't really want to know."
I expected something like "You're right I don't" and for him to laugh, but he didn't. Instead, he shook his head.
"Look, Percy, we don't…ah…always get on the best…. but you know all about my sister, so let me know about you."
Ew…that was weird.
"I don't know what there is to say! Honestly…. well, how do I know? When I was 17, my mother died. I was the last person to see her when it happened. I refused to speak to anyone about it, because I knew it was my fault. One day, my father told me that if I refused to tell him, he was going to kick me out of the house. And he did. That's how I know what it's like…to have someone hate you, that's supposed to love you."
"How did she die?" I shook my head again, and turned away. I wasn't going to get sucked into the whole moment of the thing.
"She was in a terrible accident, but she hadn't been killed right away, it wasn't until the accident got worse that she died." In reality, she died in a car accident I was right beside her when she hit the car in front of us. That she survived. Then another car came out of nowhere and…. and that's where it ends.
"So, now you know. And I am going to help you, I may not have been able to make my family love me, but I will help your sister open her eyes." I felt so corny saying this, but I had a new goal in my life, and it felt so good. I was happy. He wasn't. He was still staring at me.
"You don't want to say anything else about it."
"Nope, that's it. So, what's for dinner?"
He looked a bit confused, but perhaps that was his thinking face.
I just laughed, "Look, Jack, I know its kind of weird the way I put it all, but it's honestly…. been so long since it happened." The funny thing was, I felt like I was reading a script. I'd said that so many times, well about this and other stuff. But it's one of those things that you just keep saying and saying hoping it will just be true. But I can't ignore that what happened changed everything about me, and everything that happened to me.
"You…think...that it's not a big deal?" He shook his head, "Fine, but you're bizarre."
As if that were something new. I noticed he dropped it too easily, and I knew it was coming to come back up eventually. We'll deal with that when it happens.
"So what are you going to say to your sister when you see her? What if she's married to David?" I asked.
"I'll just show her this diary, and then I'll tell her the truth."
"Oh, right. Nice plan."
"Short, simple, easy to remember."
"That's what I was thinking."
He got up to head out on deck, and I followed him. Once we were outside, he pulled me aside, "Ah, but of course you're smart enough to know to keep this between you and your Captain?"
"Aye. Of course." I nodded, "And you understand that applies to everything I've told you, as well, right?"
"Aye.
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I made a second attempt at climbing the rigging that night, but Jack tried to stop me. We argued it over, 'til we agreed on something.
"'Kay, so I'm going up to the crows nest. See ya around." I said casually, walking over to it.
"No, you are not." He passed the helm off to someone else and grabbed my arm.
"'Course I am. Watch."
"No, I mean, I'm not allowing you. Can't have you falling."
I sighed, "Why on Gods good earth would someone like YOU be allowed up there, and not ME?"
He rolled his eyes, "Because God's well aware of my good looks and skills."
"What do good looks have to do with climbing?"
"Well, obviously they're what distracted you when you last went up there."
"UGH! You make no sense whatsoever, Captain! I'm going up there, and if you're so concerned that you'll distract me, go hide away somewhere."
I pulled my arm free, just as he casually retorted, "Like you do? In the rum locker? Yes, that went well."
I glared at him, "Oh do shut up! I bet that I'm faster then you at climbing. That's what your problem is. You know it. You see how fast I get to the top, and it scares you! A girl beats the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow."
"Do I sense a challenge coming on, milady?"
"I don't know, do you?"
"Alright, fine, let's go. A race to the top."
"Deal, let's go."
"Great."
"And NO DYING!"
"Ok."
"Let's do this, then."
"Yes."
"Now."
"Alright, fine."
"Shouldn't we be going over to the rigging?"
"Aye, that we should."
"Then let's go."
"Right."
We were both silent. Then we looked at each other and started walking.
What had I gotten myself into? Oh well. If I loose, I loose. But I wasn't going to loose. Was I?
No, I probably was. This was going to be my 2nd time climbing up there, and he's lived on this ship. Darnnn, I suck.
We both stood on the deck and looked at the ropes. "So," I asked, "How should we do th-"
"Go!" He said, jumping onto the rope and climbing. It didn't take too long for me to catch up, or get ahead of him,
I had thought I had it in the bag, up until he grabbed my leg. "Leg grrrrreeeeeooo!"
"You're not speaking English love." He called, tugging my leg. I was frustrated, trying to kick him. That's when I slipped and lost my grip. "WAH!"
He grabbed me by the waist before I could slip down and fall off.
"Come on, you said you weren't going to die. That's cheating!"
I glared at him, "And you grabbing my leg wasn't cheating?"
For a moment we just stared at each other, half glaring half just…staring. His arm around my waist, we were a bit tangled in the roped together. Wow, I don't think I've really looked at him before., and seeing the look on his face, perhaps he hadn't really looked at me either. With his brown eyes, and his…
Once I regained my footing, I pulled free and climbed back up, beating him. "VICTORY!"
I cried, and looked down at him triumphantly. But he wasn't looking at me, he was looking at something else, and although it was something strange for the Captain to say, he still called out, "LAND HO!"
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So there's a bit of awkward insight of Percy's life. It is important, so you know, don't forget it. Hahaha. Anyways, hope you liked it!
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