A/N: OMGNESS! (chatspeak...-headdesk-) It's been a year and one day since Mr. Cotton's Parrot was started!!! And I thought I would be done by now!! XD Oh well.
I gave up on Jack-torture. He was incorrigible. Instead I spent my time with Norry.
Right now he was scrubbing the deck.
"NORRY!" I squawked helpfully, pointing at a teeny little dry space near him.
He shot me a death glare. "I suppose being part of the-" He looked around at the pirates with disgust-"CREW means I'll have to put up with you from now on, won't I?"
"YUP," I replied cheerfully.
Norry scowled. "Excellent," he sighed, going back to the scrubbing.
I dropped onto his scruffy little head.
He froze-and then realized what had happened. "Do you mind??" he hissed. "I'm supposed to be..."he paused. "SCRUBBING," he spat out.
"ADMIRAL!" I shrieked. Norrington flinched.
"MUST you mock me?" he demanded, snatching me off his head.
"Yup."
He groaned.
Hehehehe. Norry.
"What do they call you anyway, useless creature?" he asked after a moment. It took me a second-he was squeezing REALLY HARD.
I shrugged as best I could.
"No name?" he mused. "Not even Filthy Little Bilge Rat?"
Shrug.
"Hm. Well, your name is Norry now."
"WHAT!?!?" I/newly dubbed Norry screamed.
"You seem rather fond of it," he snickered. "Norry."
"NORRY!!!" I shrieked.
Nope. Now that it was MY name he was unaffected by it.
"James?" Elizabeth said. "What are you doing?"
"Having a little talk with Norry," he replied, giving me a triumphant look.
"Oh, is that its name?"
"NO!" I protested.
Wait, wasn't Lizzie supposed to be talking with Jack??
Could it be...persuasion? Had I missed it??
Lizzie looked frustrated, and Jack was straightening something inside his clothes.
Oh, yah. I was thinking I missed persuasion.
Drat.
Norrington got up and slammed himself against the railing next to Lizzie with drunken grace. "It's a curious thing," he drawled. "There was a time when I would have given anything for you to look at me like that."
Lizzie looked at him, at Jack, and then back at Norry, her face all red. "I don't know what you mean," she said primly.
"Oh, I think you do," James said with a sly grin.
Elizabeth turned redder. "Don't be absurd," she replied. "I trust him, is all."
Yeeaaaaaaaahhh. Okay. Norrington wasn't going for that any more than I was. Hello, Jack was a pirate. Pirates CAN'T be trusted. Lizzie of all people should have known this.
Good grief, I thought Airhead Liz was reserved for the first movie.
"Hmm," Norrington said. And that was all for a moment. Then, "So you aren't wondering how your LATEST fiancé ended up on the Flying Dutchman? Not at all?"
OH. BURN.
Elizabeth looked at him, and then over Norrington at Jack.
Satisfied with his day's evil, Norrington crouched to his bucket and cheerfully dumped the contents over the side.
It was probably deliberate that some of the bucket water hit me in the face.
ARGH. Didn't include enough stuff from the movie to satisfy myself, but I enjoyed writing this chapter. Helen-parrot finally got a name, which she will be called by everyone now. ;p Which is a relief, because "Hey YOU! BIRD!" was getting old.
