Chapter Twenty-Nine
Jack's Sparrowisms
- Atlantis -
The dungeon-like room was quiet for a moment. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of water dripping down from above. Then, the sound of boots scratching against stone broke the unusual silence, causing the Queen to wince uncomforably everytime the obnoxious sound broke through. "Funny thing about pirates, Mrs. Turner."
"Do tell, dearie." Lila replied to him, eyeing the brig that was in the far corner of the room. Mercer's hands met the table before her with a loud bang, causing the young goddess to jump and look into his silver eyes. His lips curved into a scowl as he said, "You're liars."
"All evidence to the contrary, love-"
"-don't give me that." The old naval officer hissed at her in a tone that made Will, who was tied up in the corner unable to materialize, make a sudden movement towards Mercer and Lila. Lila was watching Will carefully as the two men restraining him pulled him back rather roughly. Lila was struggling against her best efforts to make no sign that this bothered her, and looked back up at Mercer who said, "My daughter-"
"-isn't your daughter. You're just mad that that your so-called son is going to rule over Atlantis someday, therefore banning together with me and sending you into the nine layers of hell." Those words seemed to roll of the youngest Sparrow's lips as she twirled a gold coin in her fingers. Delicate though they looked, everyone in there knew that they could wield a sword like many couldn't wield, since she had been taught by none other than the likes of both Grant Teague Sparrow and Davy Jones alike. Will was watching as she played with, what appeared to be, Aztec gold. Lila dropped it in the pile and said, "Isn't that why you kidnapped Rupert, Mercer? So that he'd never figure out who he was?"
"Ah, brillant are we, my dear. Your mother was as well. Your father is questionable." Mercer began pacing the room, as Lila eyed a piece of parchment on the desk before her. She sat up straighter, trying to look over at it, but Mercer's voice cut her off. "Since you'll more than likely be dead in the morning, I will tell you. I kidnapped Rupert shortly after his birth. Athena and I had relationships on and off for years-"
Lila wrinkled her nose slightly at that, as she eyed Mercer. Now, had he looked like either Will or Jack, Lila could have seen why Athena might have considered it. But Triton wasn't bad-looking. He looked every bit like an older Rupert, which was saying something, since Rupert was very handsome. But, to her, Mercer would always be a dried up vegetable. Not Will or Jack, who in her mind, were the two most gorgeous pirates in the Spanish Main.
"-I didn't want him to have the power that I wanted for myself. Everytime I met with Athena, I placed Rupert into hiding back in London. Then, she was with child. After Saphira was born, I knew the same thing would happen, though thankfully, I didn't have to do anything. When she was four, Jack Sparrow was stupid enough to think he killed Athena, I took that as my chance to take Saphira as well, making Triton believe she was killed with Athena."
"You framed Jack." Lila said, her voice slipping. She dropped the other coin she had picked up and had been tossing in the air, and stared at the man. Mercer's lips curved into that same smile as he said, "Of course I did. He was young enough to believe it-"
"-you scarred him. How the bloody hell could you? He was only sixteen."
"Because I simply don't care. I want your power. I want Saphira and Rupert dead. I want immortalitly." Lila stared at him for a minute, before it sank in. She glanced down as he said, "You''re the neice of Davy Jones, Mrs. Turner. Your husband took his place, I do believe you know the law of the Dutchman very cleary." Lila knew it, having practically grown up on the Dutchman when she was younger. Lila glanced over at Will, and their eyes locked for a heart pounding second. "Where's the key?"
"I don't know." Lila replied, truthfully, since after their previous argument, she had given it back to Will. Mercer had been about to say something, but at that moment, the door opened and in came some of his guards.
"Sir, we found these four wandering the castle." One of them said, ushering Jack in. Lila groaned inwardly upon seeing the grin that Jack shot her. Behind him was Saphira, Ana and Rupert. Mercer whirled around at Lila, and said in reference to Jack (of course knowing the truthful answer), "Don't supposse you know him, Your Grace."
"Never seen him before in my life." Lila replied cooly as the men pushed the four of them in. Mercer rolled his cold eyes, before saying to Jack, "Mr. Sparrow. Take a seat." Jack glanced at Lila who just shook her head and put it on the table in front of her. Will groaned as the guards pushed Rupert, Saphira and a cursing Ana into the cell beside where he was being restrained.
"Mr. Sparrow."
"Wha'?" Jack asked, leaning back on the back legs of his chair. Lila wordlessly put a hand on the back of it, and pushed him back on all fours. Jack made no sign that this bothered him and said, "Wha' can Captain Jack Sparrow do for you, mate?"
"William Turner."
Jack knitted his eyebrows in complete confusion. He met his friend's hazel eyed gaze momentarily, before looking back up at Mercer. "Okay...Jack Sparrow." Lila smirked when Jack said that in his usual cocky tone of voice. He reached out and spun the globe that was in front of him, only to receive a smack on the hand from Mercer. Jack instantly pulled his hand back as Mercer spat, "You know him."
"Um..." Jack looked back at Will and said, "The whelp?" Everyone in the room turned to look at Jack when Mercer nodded, waiting for his reply. "Never seen 'im 'fore in my life." Jack clicked his tongue with a smirk, knowing that somewhere in the dark brig, Rupert had just winced. The room went silent, before Mercer said, "You do."
"I don't."
"Who sprang you from the gallows."
"Elizabeth Swann. I honestly think she was a man now tha' I do really think 'bout it. I mean, no woman could ever do 'alf those thing she did. I mean, honestly." Jack leaned closer to Mercer, ignoring the fit of quiet laughter he had just sent Lila in, and the glares he was getting from Will, "Who on earth calls a woman King unless she is in fact a King? She mustn't 'ave been a Queen who was in all actuality a King."
Mercer stared at Jack with a blank expression as if he was trying to figure out if Jack had indeed just said that. Jack was looking rather pleased himself as he took hold of the coin that Lila had had in her hand moments ago. Will was shooting Jack a murderous glare, but Lila on the other hand was still laughing. "Pirate King. Think 'bout it."
"What the hell did that have to do with anything?" Mercer spat at him.
"Don't know. Just amused me. Thought I'd share." Saphie groaned from inside the brig somewhere as Jack said that, wondering how much rum her fiancee had drank in the last few days. Apparently alot since his speak was rather slurred, more so than usual.
"William Turner."
"Alrighty." Jack replied, causing Mercer to smack his head and stare at the smirking Pirate Lord. Jack was apparently finding this whole situation amusing. "Mate, I told you. I've never laid eyes on tha' man 'fore in my life. Must be millions of William Turners in the Caribbeans."
"Where's the key?"
"With the chest."
"Where's the chest?"
"With his wife? Or on." Will smacked his head at Jack's statement, causing Lila to look over at Jack with a mixed expression of amusement and complete horror. Ana smacked Rupert's arm, since he had started laughing at that remark. Jack was still smiling, still pleased, as he waited for Mercer to continue. Mercer wasted no time, as he said, "Thought you didn't know him?"
"You thought alot of things, mate. So do I. Funny, none of them are really wha' I think I thought 'fore I thought it." Lila sighed, as Mercer grew more and more frustrated with the Pirate King by the minute. Lila glanced over at Will, who was now seeming to be more mad at the 'chest' remark than he had been about the 'Pirate King' remark. Either that, or he flat out didn't like Captain Jack Sparrow that much at the current moment. Lila sighed, and waited for the two men to start up again.
"I have the chest, I need the key." Lila was about to ask him how on earth he managed to get the chest, but Jack smirked and said, "I bought the milk, you bought the whole damn cow."
"What the hell does that even mean?" Mercer spat at him, looking as if he wanted nothing more than to shoot Jack until he was nothing more than ashes. Captain Jack Sparrow leaned across the table and tapped his own head as he said, "You figure it out, mate."
"You don't 'ave the chest."
"Yes I do. I told you I do."
"No, 'is wife 'as it." Will glared at Jack, stopping him before he could even make another remark. Jack winked at Will and said, "I 'ave the key."
"What?" Mercer and Lila both asked at the same time. Mercer knitted his own eyebrows in complete confusion as he stared at Will then back to Jack. Jack shrugged as he said, "Wha' can I say? Months alone on a ship can get lonely."
"Oh, damn." Will muttered, angrily under his breath as Lila's eyes grew wide, staring at Jack in complete horror. Jack looked over at the Queen and said, "It's true, love. Wha' can I say? I found myself completely smitten with the boy, and felt compeled to steal 'is 'eart away from the one tha' it truly belonged to. Because, I think we all know it wasn't the 'King'." Jack made little quotation marks with his fingers as he said "King". During any other circumstances, Lila would have laughed at that, but she didn't, as she honestly was confused and disgusted.
"William, I think you have some explaining to do." Lila hissed at her husband, for the first time really talking to him in at least a day. Will opened his mouth to say something, but Jack interrupted him and said, "Don't deny it, darlin'. We all know you're a eunuch."
"Yes, which is why Lila just bloody had my daughter!"
"Wha'? Tha' was Barbossa's child." And that remark earned complete and utter silence from the room. Lila gave Jack a murderous glare, to which Jack replied, "Bloody 'ell, love. Lighten up. I was kiddin'. William gave me the key after you and 'im 'ad got into back on the Dutchman. I was keepin' it for 'im. 'Ell." Jack rolled his chocolate eyes at that, causing Lila to look as if she was going to exlode. She was about to say something, but Mercer (who apparently everyone in the room forgot he was there) said, "ENOUGH!"
The two Sparrows were torn out of the argument that most everyone knew was about to happen. Lila rolled her eyes and hissed, "You disgust me."
"Darlin', I 'ave told you at least a dozen times." Jack turned to Lila and took both of her hands in his, causing Saphira's jaw to drop and Will's eyebrows to go up. Way up. "It will never work out between us. So you need to stop throwin' yourself at me, and move on. You're degradin' yourself, and it's quite embarrassin' for me-"
"-oh shut up, you pig." Lila spat, pulling her hands out of his. "I would never throw myself at you. I do that to a bloody pig before I did it to you. At least it would smell better."
"Ah, touche, my dear. 'Tis not wha' you would 'ave said a few years ago." Lila's face turned completely red as she whirled around and stared at Jack in complete horror. Will's eyes narrowed in Jack's direction, and if looks could kill, between Will and Lila, Jack would have already been long dead, quicker than he could fear it.
"To answer your question, mate-" Jack said, turning back to Mercer whom, once again, everyone had forgotten he was there. Mercer's face was murderous as Jack leaned across the table and said, "-no idea where Captain Turner's thump-thump is. So sorry."
"Sparrow."
"Turner." Jack hissed in William's general direction. Lila glanced at Will, then to Jack and said, "He knows where you put it? I'm your wife and I don't even know-"
"Li, love. You went a bit crazy back on the Dutchman-"
"-so you thought I was going to stab it? William!"
"Lila!"
"Jack!"
"Shut up!" Will and Lila both yelled at Jack, since he had just yelled his own name. Jack opened his mouth to speak, but was cut off when Mercer yelled, "ALL OF YOU SHUT UP!" Needless to say, all of them shut up. "I've bloody had it." He nodded at his men, who all shoved and pushed Will, Lila and Jack into cells. Lila and Will were placed into seperate ones, and Jack of course was placed with Lila. Lila stared at Mercer in disbelief as if he had just asked her to stab Will's heart. "Oh you have got to be kidding me." She grumbled, sitting on the barrel by the half-pin barrel hindged bars. Lila looked at them, and then looked across at the former blacksmith.
A smirk crept across his handsome face, before he rested his head against the wall. Jack, who was content on bothering Lila until the day she died (which, considering she was a goddess, probably wouldn't be in the near future), walked over to her with a smirk. But at getting a glare from both Saphira (who was in the cell beside them) and Will, Jack sat back down and rested his own head against the wall, tilting his hat somewhat in his face.
"You try and escape, Turner. And I'll have your head." Mercer spat. Not sure if that was directed at herself or Will, Lila glanced across the brig at Will. And as if all on cue, Lila, Will and Jack looked at the half-pin barrel hindges and said, "Damn."
"What now?" Jack turned his head in the direction he heard his rather distressed fiancee's voice coming from. Lila sighed, leaning against the cell that was joined with Will's, as Jack said, "Don't know, darlin'. Ask the Queen."
"Don't know, ask the King." Lila shot back at him, causing Jack's smirk to turn into a look of anger. Jack opened his mouth, but Saphie (who couldn't possibly have seen him in the dark brig) knew that Jack had done that and said, "Not now, love." Jack closed his mouth, and sat on the opposite side of the cell. After a long sigh (more so to annoy Lila than anything else), Jack said, "I sent word to Bill before we left. He should be comin' soon with my father."
Both Will and Lila looked up at Jack in a mix of shock. Jack smirked and said, "Wha'? I knew we were goin' to get captured. So I told him ahead of time...now-" Jack said, looking more so at Will, "He was rather mad 'bout somethin'. I do recall it had somethin' to do with Will, a mast and Lila-"
"Jack, shut the hell up before I come over there and shove my sword down your throat." Lila spat at him, causing Rupert to laugh again, only to be smacked by Ana once again. The infamous captain and Pirate Lord rested his head back against the the wall, before he said to them, "So, wha' now?"
"We wait." Was Will's reply. But soon after Will said that, light seeped through the room. A few muffled voices were heard, before another figure was thrown into a brig, and a few glances and squints later, they figured out who it was.
None other than King Triton himself, face to face with Saphira and Rupert once again. But, would he remember? They were just about to find out
