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I think I may have butchered Jack's language a little bit...ok a lot, but i'm not used to writing pirate. I've also probably over acted the characters personalities a bit, but it amused me to do so. This is my first fan fic of POTC there may be a spoiler or two from DMC. This story is a bit sappy but it does have its moments.

thank you for R&R i appreciate it muchly

Crash bang...I don't like storms or hangovers lol

Chapter 26: Hang Over & Storms

"Oh god what is that pounding?" I thought closing my eyes against the light peeking into the room and stuffing the pillow over my head. "It was the rum." I realized groaning softly hearing a voice near my ear whispering my name. I rolled back over and chanced a peek out from under the pillow instantly wishing I hadn't as the pounding in my head doubled. "Why did this have to be my first real hang over…I never got them before…of coarse never drank a whole lot either." I thought irritably and sighed cautiously removing the pillow and staring into familiar brown eyes.

"Shhhh." I murmured as Jack stifled a chuckle a big smile evident on his face. "I don't feel so good." I muttered as Jack nodded knowingly and placed a hand against my face that smile of his growing at my misery. "Not funny." I grumbled flinching at my slightly raised voice and glaring at him.

"Aye tis true they are not fun…ave ye had one before luv?" Jack asked me as I shook my head and moved my hand against his hand on my face thoughtfully.

"No…but I've drank before…why do I get one now." I said practically whining and seeing him smile at this too. "Yick." I muttered purposely placing my hand over his face to see what he would do. I felt my hand dropped away and saw an even bigger grin followed by a chuckle.

"Morning." Come Elizabeth's cheerful voice as she came into the room and smiled carrying something on a tray. "How are you this morning Brandi?" she questioned as I flinched at her chipper voice wanting to hit her with the tray.

"How do you think?" I asked cynically and glaring at her. "I have a bloody hang over…it hurts." I muttered startled when she laughed at me and shook her head.

"Here take this and this." Elizabeth said as I glanced at the two liquids in my hand and eyed her suspiciously. "One will stop the pounding in your head and the other will settle your stomach." She said rolling her eyes. I drank the liquid for my stomach first finding it to taste like mints and then took a sip of the other liquid nearly spitting it out in surprise.

"Rum…how is that supposed to help?" I asked her hearing her laugh at this and turn to say something to Jack. I saw she was about to lecture him on the island we were going to be heading too and even against my better judgment I ran for the deck.

"No light…bad, evil…mean light." I thought miserably as I covered my eyes from the glaring sun feeling the dull throb in my head start up like a set of war drums. I made my way slowly across the deck avoiding crew members making there rounds and went up by the wheel eyeing Will thoughtfully who apparently was in charge as a look out on the island since we were anchored. "Go get your wife…she's at it again." I thought seeing him smile faintly before watching me sit down on the deck leaning against the wheel very carefully my face buried in my knees. "I hate hangovers and it won't go away." I thought hearing shifting as someone stood over me.

"Rum takes off thee edge lass." I heard Gibbs murmur as I glanced up carefully avoiding the bright light that was insistent on making my morning hell. "Ere…an don argue." He said handing me a bottle of rum watching as I took a sip and sighed slightly lowering my head back down to the safety of my knees.

"It's too early for rum Mr. Gibbs and thank you." I said softly finding it was helping and giving him a slight smile before he disappeared to his duties. "Your bloody wife is cranky this morning Will." I started to say more but thought better of it.

"Elizabeth is yelling at Jack again?" Will pretended to ignore the dirty look I gave him and smiled staring ahead at the island in view. "What is the danger on this Island?" he wondered allowed as I shrugged remembering to ask Jack that same question.

"BRANDI!" Elizabeth screeched as I jumped staring down the deck at her seeing her tapping her foot expectantly. "Get down here…now." She emphasized that last part as clearly as she could.

"No…I'm not moving." I thought waving down at her and leaning back down on my knees. I heard a deep sigh and looked up seeing Will was eyeing his approaching wife with caution. I felt a sharp whap against my arm and my eyes shot up to face a furious looking Elizabeth. "Oh now what the hell did Jack do?" I wondered rubbing my arm absently and sighing. "What?" I grumbled as Elizabeth swatted my arm again.

"That…pirate…bloody pirate said that this island is called Sapphire Island, but won't tell me what the dangers are. He purposely is ignoring me now and I can't remove the damn pillow from his head." Elizabeth growled sounding very dangerous, even to the point where I was worried about arguing with her. I watched her for a moment jumping as she stomped her foot in a childish way and flopped down beside me pouting.

That was a side I hadn't seen of Elizabeth much and it was odd seeing her act so childish and allowing Jack to get away with something. I laughed at her, mostly because I couldn't help thinking about how unnerving her actions were at relating to cartoons I always watched. She turned glaring hard at me and swatted my other arm as hard as she could manage forcing me to yelp in surprise as I massaged the stinging sensation away. "Moooody." I thought miserably noting my hang over was dulled to a mild throbbing sensation and sighing. She stood walking over to Will and snuggled close to him burying her face into his shoulder muttering over and over many things I tuned out, just to ignore them.

"Find out what we have to fight." Elizabeth ordered turning quickly from Will's embrace and pointing at me. First off I didn't like orders and wasn't very happy with her tone of voice, and what was worse she had snapped at me. I wanted to throw something at her and thought better of it realizing I was still annoyed and had my hangover. "Now…move along." She said waving her hands in an almost Jack fashion as I glared and swatted at her hands ignoring her request. "Don't you dare order me around." I thought crossly.

"Bite me." I muttered standing and walking as far away from Elizabeth as I could and flopping down on the other side of the deck. "I don't take orders Lizzie!" I called seeing her flinch at the nickname and pointedly glare at me.

"I wouldn recommend tha name luv." Jack whispered softly as I jumped turning to his voice seeing him watching Elizabeth at a distance apparently complaining to Will. "I used tha to tease er a lot…she hates it." He said smiling as I handed him the rum bottle Gibbs had given me and watching as he leaned on the railing of the ship eyeing the island thoughtfully in the distance.

"What kind of trouble is on that thing?" I asked Jack as he blanched turning to me in a quick hand moving Jack gesture. "I mean it stands to reason all of the Islands have been worse then the next…Sapphire Island has to be far worse yet." I pointed out seeing him carefully looking at me through his kohl lined eyes as though I would throw him overboard or something.

"Really…hadn noticed." Jack said brushing off my question and turning back to the island unaware of me standing and leaning on the railing beside him. "I want to know…you almost got killed last time." I thought angrily. "It's not t'all dangerous actually." He said turning to look down and jumping as he came face to face with me.

"And curses aren't real." I muttered sarcastically seeing him go to say a smart retort and look at me in a puzzled way for a moment, which was the same one he gave Elizabeth when finding the medallion around her neck. "I watched you almost die three times from one stab wound…I think it would be nice to know what will happen this round." I mumbled as he sighed eyes narrowing in thought.

"Aye…but ye see, I'm not entirely sure what tis on that island." Jack spoke this softly and waited for a response flinching away. After a minute of hearing nothing he turned to look at me seeing my mouth was creased with a fine line, but I couldn't say a darn thing. "Go rest luv…yer goin to need it." He said as I nodded walking to his cabin and going to sleep on his bed.

"Rum and Sea…all Jack." I thought snuggling deeper in the pillows and yawning tiredly ignoring the migraine that wanted to keep thumping in my head. I felt the ship rock and rolled from the bed with a start. "What was that?" I wondered as I scrambled into my boots and the jacket Jack had given me, I then made my way quickly up on deck and squealed in surprise at the sudden cold sheets of rain that hit me in the face soaking me instantly. "Oh great a storm." I thought grabbing onto the step railing leading to the wheel. "Where's Elizabeth?" I wondered seeing Will was working with other crew members and Jack was steering the ship trying to keep it steady, I jerked in surprise as I felt someone grab onto me and saw Elizabeth had just come from the room she shared with Will and was equally surprised by the cold rain.

"Back below both of ye." I heard Anna-Maria scold as Elizabeth and I nodded making a beeline for Jack's cabin, and sliding all over on our way.

Once inside Jacks cabin I slid out of my coat and saw Elizabeth do the same. Our hair was soaked but otherwise we were fairly dry and unharmed. The water was moving the ship back and forth like crazy to the point where she and I collided into a heap on the floor of Jacks cabin and proceeded to get pounded by books from the bookcase we fell into. We then slid hard into Jacks desk greeted by maps and empty rum bottles banging on our bodies which we tried to shield with our arms.

"Bloody hell…we're going to get killed in here." Elizabeth yelped as I jerked her away from another case that proceeded to spill books on the floor. "Seems like he would secure them somehow." She muttered crossly as we scrambled up onto the bed both leaning against the wall as the ship rocked back and forth violently.

"We were safer on deck." I said sarcastically as Elizabeth nodded, suddenly both of us were giggling and oddly found what was happening to us funny. "Jack can clean it up…I'm not." I stated as both of us leaned against the wall rocking with the ship.

There was a loud yell above deck and both of us eyed the door worriedly, suddenly the ship jerked and both of us went head over heals sliding into a bookcase. We were being pummeled by books and chests again both of us raising our arms to shield ourselves. Elizabeth was the first to scramble to her feet and helped me up as we both grabbed our coats heading to the stairs that lead up on deck. I then carefully made my way up the steps pausing as Elizabeth glanced over my shoulder at the mess of scrambling pirates on deck. Jack was ordering around everyone and it appeared all was under control as far as we could tell. Finally two hours later the storm had died to a mild drizzle and the ship rocked only slightly.

"William?" called Elizabeth as I glanced around seeing no sign of Gibbs, Will, or Anna-Maria. "Will!" she called again sounding frightened.

"Jack, where's Will, Gibbs, and Anna?" I asked making my way up beside him holding onto the railing of the stairs tightly as the ship moved continuously but less rough then it had earlier.

"Over there helping Cotton." Jack said pointing as I motioned to a frantic Elizabeth seeing her relief and watched her run to help. "Ye alrigh after yer first rough storm?" he asked me as I glanced at the choppy waters and frowned starting to get nervous.

"Maybe…once I can stop falling all over the place." I muttered as I stumbled into the railing and groaned painfully at the bruise I would have by morning on my knee. "I don't have sea legs, remember." I mumbled cynically.

"Aye…I do remember luv." Jack said indicating the night I flipped over him and he won out over my judgment to his injuries. "We be headin to the island tomorra." He said as I nodded startled when I stumbled down the stairs feeling arms catch me. "Thank ye Gibbs." He said thankful someone had caught me from falling down all the stairs into a heap on the deck.

"Yes…thank you Mr. Gibbs." I said gratefully as I stood and made my way back on deck, my balance no better or worse then before. "Whoa!" I shouted in surprise as my feet both slid from under me and I crashed on the floor with a hard thud. "Owy." I whined crossly as I rubbed my head laying there flat on my back eyeing the dark cloudy sky above me and frowning.

"Are you hurt?" questioned Elizabeth as I stared up at her concerned face and frowned miserably. "What do you think?" I wanted to ask but stopped myself. "You're head." She whispered placing her hand on the bump forming on the back of my head and frowning in concern.

"I'll be fine…not the first one I've had." I mumbled as she reached out offering me her hand to assist me to my feet. "Why can't I stay on my own two feet?" I thought staring up at the offered hand and sighing accepting it climbing to my feet. "I don't like storms at sea." I said as she chuckled nodding in agreement.

As soon as I found my feet again I made my way back to Jacks cabin and sat there waiting for him to come in for the night. The storm had passed and the ship was rocking with ease on the starting to settle waters, before I heard a click and glanced up watching him make his way into the cabin. There was something bothering him, but he avoided my questioning look and went straight over to a map on his desk lifting the bag of Sapphires from Entrapment Island thoughtfully. "Now what?" I wondered standing and walking over seeing him look up his face masking any emotion, his mouth in a thin thoughtful line.

"What's wrong?" I asked seeing Jack was glancing in the bag of sapphires and moving them around inspecting a couple before tying the bag shut and tossing it on the desk frustrated.

"Tha storm came out of nowhere…it has to ave somethin to do with the island." Jack said glancing hard at the map on his desk as though he was lost in thought. I could see one of his schemes was forming in his head, but he said nothing.

"So we're going to get drowned by the island?" I questioned as Jack looked up with an arched brow as though I was the crazy one. "Ok, that was a little strange to say, but we almost did drown." I mumbled as he shrugged this off and glanced around his cabin, he noticed for the first time the disaster it had become.

"Wha happen to me cabin?" Jack turned to look at me wide eyed seeing everything that was strewn over the floor.

"The storm tried to kill Elizabeth and I in here with all your things." I muttered sarcastically as he sighed nodding before ignoring the mess and going back to the map. "Clearly he's going to be a while." I thought yawning and curling up on the far side of his bed.