Navy's sailors ate their dinner and it took some time before they started to feel sick and layed at deck holding their stomachs. Christine felt bad for them but she sneaked around and finded keys of cell and when men were too sick to ignore her, she walked to there where they kept pirates captured. She smiled happily to Barbossa and other pirates.
"How ye got here lass?" Barbossa asked and tried to hide his confusion.
"Same as always, from stairs" she answered and opened lock. Pirates came out of cell and they were clearly more happier at this side of bars than behind of them. Men gone to closet where navy had put their all weapons and Barbossa tooks his gun and sword too. Christine hoped that anyone wouldn't just have came to down right now.
"Captain, I have plan how we get free from here but you need to do as I say, alright?" she said to Barbossa who looked to her.
"Tell me that plan lass" he said and raised his other eyebrown. This woman had more brains than he had thought.
"Right now you have to just wait. I give to you signal when you can come up" she said and left pirates together. Christine walked up and looked around. There were men laying all around deck, some of them had already died and others were just taking their last breath. Christine smiled little, her plan had worked and she was so happy about it. Of course, she felt sad for those poor navy men but what else she could have done.
"Stay still witch" she heard suddenly from behind her.
Christine turned around and saw this ship captain. He holded gun and pointed with that to her. Christine looked first scared to gun but then couraged her mind. She took serious look and looked to captain into eyes. In them wasn't anything what she saw in Barbossa's eyes.
"I dislike when you call me that way, I am same kind of women than all other millions women around world" she said to him and tried to avoid looking to gun.
"You have bring curse to my ship" captain continued. Christine took deep breath and holded her want to roll her eyes. Of course they thought that woman bring bad luck to ship. It wasn't her fault that she was woman (even she was proud that she was woman and not man). Captain pointed with gun still to her but didn't noticed when pirate captain with peg leg walked smootly and quietly to behind Dovewing's captain and pressed gently his own gun to Dovewing's captain back. Dovewing's captain freezed and Christine didn't knew should she move or not.
Barbossa smirked little to Dovewing captain and talked behind him "It is uncivilized to talk to beautiful lady in that way that and blame her of bad luck. Right now I see that ye are only one who have bad luck at here and it is yer own fault". Barbossa nodded to Christine who ran next to him and Barbossa made Dovewing's captain turn around.
Navy's captain looked helpless. All from his crew had died, thanks to that dammit girl. He should have knew that this was with those pirates.
"I see now that parts have chanced, now we are at winning and ye should come nicely to our ship cell to get as good threatment as we got at yer ship" Barbossa continued and Christine noticed that he really enjoyed of moment. There was too many swords and guns that navy's captain should have fight back, so without chance to make choice, he gone to Queen Anne's Revenge and he was locked to one of it's cell with rats. Pirates untied ropes what connected those two ships and after when they had steal all what they could from Dovewing, this were burning until it started to sank slowly.
Pirates started to working again at their dear ship and it started to sailing slowly ahead. Barbossa looked behind to smoke what rised into air from burning navy's ship and then he looked to Christine who stood next to him.
"We all are owe to ye our lives, without ye we would got hanged" he said with little smile to Christine.
Christine smiled back "You are welcome and you aren't in any owe to me, I have saved your life just once when you have saved my life twice, captain".
Barbossa laughed to her comment. At first time she really did heard him laughing and it made her feel good. "Perhaps ye are right in that one lass" he said to her.
"Captain, what you are going to do to that navy's captain?" Christine asked little worried.
"Don't ye worry about that, we drop him to some apandonned island and continue our sailing" Barbossa answered and it made Christine felt good. That navy's captain deserved that after how he had threated pirates and how he had called her an witch.
Barbossa took hold of her shoulder and looked to his crew. "Alright you damn sea mutts, listen now ye all because I am not going to say this twice!" Men looked to their captain and knew that this had something important to say. Christine looked to him too and wanted to hear what he had in his mind. He holded gently from her other shoulder and looked to his crew.
"As captain I say that it is time to name Queen Anne's Revenge first mate. That sailor have show that what is important at sea, loyality to own crew, obey captain of ship and showed courage what have really few sailors. Hail now to your first mate Christine" he said and pushed Christine little ahead that she had to take couple steps.
Men were little shocked but more shocked were Christine herself. She thought that Barbossa were kidding, but he never didn't done such a thing. While men did cheer to their new first mate, Christine looked to Barbossa and asked confused "What? Me? Why?" .
"Didn't I just told all reasons to crew" he said with smile.
"But why me? I... I don't know anything about sailing... what if I fail or... or... " she started to hesistate and think and that made Barbossa laugh more. He touched her shoulder gently.
"That's why I teach to ye all what ye need to know, lass. Now, my first command to my first mate is that ye get men back to their work again" Barbossa said to her and took step back.
Christine looked moment helpless around to men. Yes, she had working with them but it was totally different thing than order them. She cleaned her throat and said with little quiet voice "Um... Hey, could you go back to work" but men just laughed to her. Alright, that they get what they ask, she thinked and looked mad to them "I am this ship first mate and that who don't go to work now go next to meet Davy Jones locker!" she yelled as loud as she could. Men looked to her moment and then rushed back to their works.
Barbossa turned helm and looked to her "I guess that ye come good pirate after all lass".
Christine smiled and started to listen old captain lessons about life on ship and how to survive as pirate. Till long to night she listened him until moon raised and she had to go to sleep and first time in her life she knew that she wouldn't have to leave Queen Anne's Revenge in long times.
Next chapter will going to be last one of this my Eyes like ocean, keep looking, I'll add it when it is ready =).
Note to all new readers:
I am finnish so don't expect me to write correct english, I know that there are writing errors because english isn't my native language. I still do my best that there is as less as it is possible those little mistakes.
I am not going to get beta-reader, even you ask it all time ^^
Only positive comments and comments about story are appreciated, not nagging about writing errors. To me story is more important than mistakes at text. And only positive comments makes me want to share this fic with you. If you just send negative comments about my way to write, fic, characters, etc. I don't update this fic anymore, so it's all about you guys =).
Christine is mine creation, PotC belongs to Disney and I am not writing this to make money =3.
