A/N: Hey everybody! :) I'd like to give thanks to my wonderful reviewers! And I can't say much cause I got to finish homework so I'm just cramming this stuff in. And it isn't one of those horrible cliffhanger chapters! And sorry 'bout some mistakes. Enjoy!
Jack looked as if he had seen a ghost for his face turned pale, just like Elizabeth when she saw me earlier. He slowly advanced toward me as if he were in a trance and stopped at the side of the tub.
I noticed that my body was visible and I saw his eyes advert to other places than my face. "Turn around!" I screeched and wrapped my arms around myself, covering parts he wasn't supposed to see. He listened and quickly spun around as I jumped out of the tub and wrapped a towel around myself. He spun around as if on cue, his eyes roaming and soaking in what I looked like.
"How many days have you been here?" he finally said something. I was happy to hear his voice again… It seemed like millions of years that I hadn't heard him.
"Just today." I secretly wished him to kiss me yet he had his… new woman. There was an awkward silence between us. "I… I'll go get dressed."
"N-no. I mean, yes. Ye go 'head." Jack said nervously as I left the bathroom to find some clothing.
I wished he had done something more…like run to me and spin me around in circles… or kiss me… Maybe I should act clueless about his new 'girl' and kiss him? A small smirk formed on my face. That would be the test…
I quickly ran back to the bathroom and threw my arms around Jack, kissing him passionately. I knew there was something wrong for he seemed so reluctant to return the kiss. Elizabeth was right… I pulled away quickly and slapped him across the face before I ran out of the room as fast as I could.
"Celine!" I heard Jack growl angrily and chase after me. I was fuming with rage… How could he if he loved me? I ran around the twists and turns of the hallway and jumped into a room, slamming the doors shut, locking it.
"Celine?" a person said behind me and I jumped up with a squeak.
I faced the person with a guilty smile. "Hello." I said as Will laughed.
"Elizabeth told me everything." Will explained and blushed slightly when he realized I was wearing only a towel.
"Has she now?" I said nervously as I heard footsteps run past the room.
"Yes-," Will said but got interrupted by the poundings on the door.
"Celine! I know you're in there." Jack bellowed with annoyance.
"Hide me!" I hissed and glanced around the room and dove under the office desk. The door burst open and I heard Jack walk in with angry strides.
"Jack?" Will queried, as I strained to hear their conversation. I prayed that Will would keep his mouth shut about my whereabouts.
"Great to see ye lad. But now 'm lookin' for Celine… You wouldn't know where she is, would ye?" Jack asked and I imagined him twitching with anger. I bit my tongue, stopping myself from laughing at such sight.
"Uhm… No." Will said and Jack stormed out of the room. Will then shut the door and I crawled out from underneath the desk.
"Thanks Will." I said and walked towards the door. "You never saw me here, right?"
"Yes." He laughed as I left back to my room… Or I tried to get back to my room.
The stupid house was confusing with so many twists and turns that I couldn't remember which way I came from. I spotted a person and waved him or her over, hoping for directions. "Excuse me, do you know which way is the guest room." I called as the person stepped out of the shadows. I took a step back and gasped as Jack's face came into view. I turned to run but his hand snaked its way around my wrist.
"What'is wrong wiv' you?" Jack growled and pulled me against him.
"Nothing! What is wrong with you! I thought you loved me." I squirmed in his grasp, wiggling my hands to break the grip. He stayed silent, as those words seemed to pierce right through him. "You promised me… that I wouldn't die."
"You aren't dead." He said calmly and his features softened. "But I thought you were dead… for two years."
"I was… until I… magically… came back to life again." I said and yanked my arm free. "But you don't love me." I stated but he denied it.
"I do love ye." He said, advancing towards me as I stepped further and further away from him.
I scoffed irately yet I felt like crying. "You don't." I whispered, hoping that a lower voice would cover my cracking voice. "I bet she's beautiful."
"Who?" Jack asked gently while I tear found its way down my cheek.
"Your… your…" I couldn't finish the sentence and I began to sob. His arms wrapped around me yet I was disgusted by his actions. "Don't touch me." I hissed and pulled myself out of his embrace. Why didn't he love me? Was I not beautiful? Was it because I didn't have a huge bosom and that I didn't flaunt my body? His arms still found a way and wrapped themselves around me again in another attempt to calm me. "No!" I cried and threw a weak punch at Jack's chest. "I hate you… I don't want to see your face again!" I tried to shove him away but his hand rubbed my back.
"Celine-," Jack tried to explain but I wouldn't allow those words to burn my ears.
"No. I'd rather be dead again!" I ran away from Jack and finally spotted my room. I ran into the room and slammed the doors shut, blocking them from opening by placing a chair in front of them. I then locked the balcony doors and draped the curtains shut before I collapsed onto the bed, pouring out all my tears onto the pillow.
"Celine." Jack called from outside of my door and gave a tired sigh.
"Go away and never come back." I yelled furiously, and wiped at my eyes madly.
It felt like hours and hours and I slowly crawled off the bed and grabbed my nightgown. I threw off my towel and slipped on the nightgown before I threw a robe on.
I made my way towards the door and I placed my ear against the door, listening for Jack but I heard nothing. I removed the chair from the doors and pulled the doors open, scanning the area for Jack but he wasn't anywhere in sight. I found the stairway and walked down them quietly. A clock chimed and I glanced in the direction of the clock. It was an hour before midnight.
I walked out of the front door and out onto the streets, barefooted. I was searching for the Black Pearl. I spotted a drunken Mr. Gibbs walking out of a tavern and I followed him. I smiled inwardly at the old man. He was too drunk to realize that I was following him. I continued to pursue him through a thicket of trees, wincing as I stepped on a couple of twigs.
The Black Pearl came into view but it was really hard to recognize it for it camouflaged with the night. I waited until Gibbs climbed up the ship before I made my move to climb up. I landed on the deck with a dull thud and quickly scrambled to the captain's quarters. The door was slightly ajar and I decided to peek inside.
My heart was stinging with pain as I saw Jack kiss another woman with the most passion I ever seen. His hands were tangled in her hair and slowly made their way down to her shoulders. I quickly turned away, hoping I would see no more.
"Jack." The woman moaned and I ran before I could hear anymore of their actions. I let out a screech of surprise as someone pulled me into the shadows.
"Celine?" the familiar voice of Mister Gibbs said. And I thought he was too drunk to recognize anything...
"Yes?" I answered as he let out a hearty laugh.
"The cap'n will be happy to see you!" Mister Gibbs laughed and started to bring me towards Jack's cabin.
"Uh… NO! You can't bring me in there." I said and tried to stop the old man from getting any further.
"Cap'n Jack nearly went mad once ye…" Mister Gibbs wore the same expression as Jack and Elizabeth when they thought I was dead. "You're a ghost?" Mister Gibbs started to panic and let out a yelp.
"Sh! Keep it down. I'm not a ghost!" I defended as he calmed down. "I just suddenly woke up and then I'm alive again…"
"Well, the Cap'n will be awfully 'appy. Although we got another lass 'board." Mister Gibbs said, sounding like he disapproved the girl that Jack was with.
"But-," I protested as Mister Gibbs pushed open the cabin door. I squeezed my eyes shut before I slowly opened them. Jack was straddling the woman and he was wearing only his shirt and breeches. His belts were tossed carelessly on the floor in a heap along with his vest.
"Oh sorry, Cap'n." Mister Gibbs cleared his throat and I looked at the ground as if it were the most interesting thing in the world.
"I better get going back to Elizabeth's house… She'll worry where am I." I said as I felt my head pounding. "Bye Mister Gibbs." I darted out of the room and I heard Jack throw his cabin doors fully open. His feet were stomping on the ground as he strode over towards me. I climbed down the ladder and started to run.
"Celine!" Jack shouted and followed me. His legs were much stronger and he caught up without much trouble. "That's not what it looked like."
"What?" I said as he grabbed my wrists. "What I saw in the cabin?" He nodded his head vigorously. "Oh don't lie to me Jack."
"Celine, don't be like this." He said and I scoffed at him.
"Be like what? A person with a broken heart?" I snarled hatefully.
"It's been two years Celine and I heard nothing about you… All I know was that I asked and ol' friend to bring you to life again." He replied quietly.
"I see… So that's it? For all these years we have chased after each other to find that neither of us get each other. Neither of us love each other. We all just lied to each other, saying 'oh, I love you'. Go ahead and slap me if I'm wrong. Cause I'm mighty well right!" I growled and suddenly his hand flew across my face. I clutched my cheek as tears formed in my eyes from the blow but I still managed to glare at him. "Now that was just a lie." I snapped, ignoring the pain throbbing on my cheek. "Please spare me and go back to your lover."
"You're making this 'arder than it 'as to be." Jack said lowly as his hand cupped my cheek, slowly massaging it.
I whacked his hand away from my face, hating that I loved him so. " You never loved me. That's why I died."
His eyes became fierce like a fire and he grabbed my shoulders harshly. "I loved you and I still do. I don't know what 'as gotten in ye lately-,"
"What has gotten into me? Seriously Jack. Don't lie to the both of us. Who is that girl in there? Not a whore perhaps? Maybe it is your lover." I pushed Jack away from me by placing my hands on his chest. "You only can love one person in this world, Jack, not two." I whispered and I looked towards the ground. "And I'm not the one your heart beats for. It's her, not me. You've been to heaven with her and you've been to hell with her. You've been everywhere with her. But not me." I solemnly walked away but Jack wouldn't give up.
"Celine. Listen, will you!" Jack shouted and I spun around abruptly, causing him to smack against me. The both of us fell to the ground, him on top of me. "What'd you expect me to do? Wait around all these years? And what if you never did come back?"
"Then you have made your choice… because I am not willing to wait all these years. I am not willing to wait to be taunted, to be reaching out for a piece of meat that is dangling on a string yet I can never reach it. I will not-," I was cut off by his lips on mine.
He pulled away and grunted in my ear. "I want you right now. I'll prove to you that I love you."
"No Jack…" I pushed him off of me and arose from the ground. "You don't love me. You have another woman waiting." He suddenly lunged at me and pinned me against a tree. "Let me go!"
"Is that all you do? Run when you're afraid?" he said and I kept on wriggling in his hold.
"I don't run. I'm accepting the facts." I elbowed Jack in his gut and hurriedly ran through the forest. I continued to run until a tripped over a tree root, sending me onto the ground. I let out a choked cry and buried my face into my hands. Why couldn't he have let me get married to Evan? Why did he make me suffer so? I painfully cried myself to sleep, dreaming that Jack would truly love me.
I awoke to the crunching of leaves but I left my eyes shut. I felt the presence right in front of me. The thing seemed to sit in front of me before it started to pick me up. I then screamed like a mad woman and I was placed back onto the ground. I opened my eyes to see that it was Jack.
I scurried to my feet and I narrowed my eyes at Jack. "What do you want?"
"Wonderin' why ye are sleeping out in the forest." He teased and I balled my fists up at my sides.
"Maybe I like sleeping out in the wild. I remembered when I slept with my fiancé out in the forest." I lied and Jack grabbed me with anger.
"You never slept with him." He said, sounding as if he wanted my statement to be false. But it was false.
"Of course I did. We felt the urge to." I snapped, holding my laughter under my breath. "At least he loved me and stayed loyal."
"Loyal me arse." Jack grumbled under his breath. "He was the one who turned us in."
"That was because I lied to him. But if you never came along we would've been married and had a couple of children." I smiled at Jack's hurt face.
"You want children? Perhaps I could settle that." He said and started to remove my robe but I slapped his hands away from me.
"I don't want you to do anything." I retorted fiercely. "You already have a family of your own."
"Will you stop arguing for a minute!" Jack shouted above me.
"Well maybe I would if you would." I narrowed my eyes at him before I scowled at him. "Why are you chasing me anyways?"
"'M not chasin' you. I just… 'ope we can be… f-fr-frie-friends again." Jack said, struggling with each word.
"Friends?" I echoed as a hollow pit formed in my stomach. "Sorry but I don't think I will go gallivanting around with pirates."
"'M not askin' you to sail wiv' me… I just want to be friends." He said, as my heart was deteriorating, piece by piece. Did he just say that he didn't want me to sail with him?
"From one second to the next, you keep changing things! You say you love me and now you just want to be friends? What do you want from me?" I started walking away at a quick pace.
"Well, seeing that you don't want me to love you then I thought we might as well be friends." Jack pursued me with haste.
" Thank you much for the kind offer but I'll have to refuse." I said as angry tears brimmed at the edges of my eyes. "You already got your friend… on your ship."
"She means… nothing to me." Jack said as I clenched my jaw tightly, wishing that he would shut up about her.
" No!" I gritted my teeth together and pounded my feet against the ground. "Of course she means nothing." I said sarcastically and Jack seemed to think I meant it.
"I'd knew you see it my way." He said cheerfully while I rolled my eyes.
"I was being sarcastic. And no, I don't see it your way." I said heatedly and something sharp pierced through the skin of my foot. I let out a sharp cry as I collapsed onto the ground. I hissed in pain and looked at my skinned palms before I checked my foot that stepped on a sharp rock. My foot was bleeding and I twitched with annoyance. "Ugh! Bloody perfect!" I yelled as Jack peeked over my shoulder at my wound.
"'ere, let me clean it up." Jack started to lift me up, carrying me bridal style.
"Put me down! I don't need your bloody help." I flung my arms wildly at him but it didn't seem to affect him. "Stupid blighter! Listen to me!"
"What's that? I think I'm 'earing little voices in me 'ead." Jack said sardonically as I sent him a mean glare.
"Go gawk at yourself in the mirror!" I snapped with resentment but he let out a laugh.
"That nev'r gets old." He mocked as the Black Pearl came into view. "Hang on." He said and wrapped one arm around my waist while he used his other hand to climb up the ladder. I squealed and clutched onto him for dear life as he climbed upwards.
"Let go of me!" I howled as he grunted when we made it over the railing. He then lifted me up again as I continued to shout things at him.
But his mere reply was only a simple, "No can do." He carried me all the way to his cabin while wearing a silly smirk.
He finally put me down on his bed and dug around from a rum bottle and a cloth. I attempted to stand but he walked towards me and pushed me back down. "This'll 'urt." He said gently and poured some rum over a cloth. He gingerly cleaned the bottom of my foot and I whimpered as it stung.
It was silent all of a sudden as his eyes stared at mine with great intensity. He slowly crawled forth and captured my lips into a tender kiss, slowly slipping his tongue into my mouth. As always, my traitorous body returned the favor and I let out a moan of satisfaction.
"I'll ravage you day and night." He huskily said in my ear and I shivered from the warmth of his breath. "Night and day until you won't be able to utter a single word. And you won't be able to move from the bed-,"
The doors flew open and a woman stood there with surprise. "Jack?"
"Aye, Leah?" Jack slowly retreated from me and placed the rag in his hand onto the nightstand. She glanced at Jack with demanding eyes that asked who was I. "Oh, this is me friend, Celine."
"I hope it's not another whore." She said prissily, and glared at me sternly.
"I'm not a woman who sells my body if that's what you mean." I said with venom dripping in my voice. "Perhaps you're a whore?"
She gasped with outrage and looked at Jack as if she were asking him to put an end to my act.
"Now, now, g'rls." Jack said, hoping we would get along.
"See Jack. This was a useless visit. I'm going back to Elizabeth." I hopped off the bed and slammed my shoulder against the woman called Leah as I walked by her. "Excuse me." I mocked before I slammed the doors on her face. I snickered and wobbled my way towards the side of the ship.
Jack came barging out of the room and grabbed my arm roughly. "I will not 'ave you disrespecting anyone on me ship."
"And I was just about to find the exit." I gave a sickly sweet smile. I continued to stagger to the railing but he yanked me back.
"Maybe some time in the brig will clear your 'ead." He dragged me to the brig as I protested with anger.
"What the- You can't just throw me in the brig! If anything, I never wanted to be on this ship!" I argued as he shoved me into a brig and locked the door. I let out a shrill scream and grabbed the bars of the cage and shook them wrathfully.
"Bloody 'ell, woman!" Jack plugged his ears and ran upstairs, leaving me locked in the cell.
"Let me out!" I screeched louder but no one came. I glanced around the cell and found an empty bucket. I grabbed it and threw it with much force against the bars and the wood cracked apart, flying into pieces. "Let me out!" I screamed again. I screamed and screamed until my throat became raw and sore. I collapsed to the ground and sobbed into my hands.
Lately I had become so weak… Maybe it was love. And if it was, then I would stop loving forever. I would loathe Jack for the rest of my life.
I didn't care how long time passed by but it seemed like it was getting late. I was starving with hunger and my stomach let out a loud gurgle. Jack must've forgotten about me.
"What in the name of God!" I heard Mister Gibbs exclaim with shock. A clinking of keys rung in my ears and then I looked up at Mister Gibbs as the key was inserted into the lock.
I hurriedly sprung to my feet as the door was opened and I almost trampled over Gibbs as I dashed out. "Thank you Mister Gibbs. You're a good man." I said thankfully and walked swiftly to the railing, wincing each time my injured foot connected with the ground.
I climbed down the ladder and limped through the forest and towards the town. Hopefully Elizabeth would be in her house to listen to my pathetic story…
A/N: Please leave a review! :) And I hoped everyone liked this chapter. Even though it is quite sad.