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AN: Wow, a lot of people want Thomas dead, so I guess that means something bad is going to have to happen to him, huh? Well, we'll all find out later. Enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 5: Worried Parents and Plots Revealed:
Captain Jack Sparrow was not in a very good mood. Here he was, standing in the Governor's mansion, and the doctor wouldn't even let him or his wife in to see their son! Jack soon began pacing back and forth through the Governor's parlor room, his wife sitting on the couch, anxiously twisting her handkerchief in her lap. Jack couldn't believe that he had been that stupid, leaving his children all alone like that. He should have taken them with him to the Governor's mansion; if he had, Jay wouldn't be upstairs with a knife wound and his daughters would still be here. In his mind, Jack went over the events of the night.
Things seemed to have gone wrong the moment after Jack and Lara had left their children at the Turners' house and knocked on the door of the Governor's mansion. It had turned out that the Turner family hadn't been at the Governor's house after all: they had gone to a dinner party at another home on the other side of town. Governor Swann had invited Jack and Lara inside, but the Sparrows had decided to go and retrieve their children, promising to return to the mansion with the young Sparrows in tow. The Governor had then assigned several guards to accompany them.
Not an hour after they had left their children did they return to the Turner home, finding numerous dead figures lying in front of the house, and their son lying semiconscious in a bush by the side of the porch, his side slowly oozing blood, and their daughters nowhere in sight. Alarmed, the assigned guards had picked up the young man and carried him to the Governor's home, where a doctor had been called for at once. Commodore Norrington had been sent for, and he and two dozen red-coats had gone to the Turner home to investigate the scene. The only good thing that had happened was that Commodore Norrington had found a few survivors among the attackers and had taken them to the fort to be questioned. Hopefully something useful could be squeezed out of them soon so that Jack and Lara could go and find their children.
Jack stopped pacing to look at his wife. He had never seen Lara so frightened, not even when she herself had been kidnapped by Thomas all those years ago! Concerned, Jack walked over to the couch and sat next to her, putting his arms around her and pulling her into a tight and comforting embrace.
"It'll be alright, luv," he whispered to her, stroking her back. "Jay will be fine, you'll see! He's a Sparrow, after all." He looked down and saw her smile up at him. "Ah, there's my bonnie lass," he said, smiling down at her. The two of them sat there for several moments, enjoying the comfort the other's presence had to offer.
Suddenly, the door to the parlor burst open and in rushed the entire Turner family, looking as though they had run all the way there from the other side of town. The Sparrows couldn't help but stare at the ruffled mess the three of them resembled.
"Lara!" Elizabeth exclaimed, racing to the side of her closest friend. Lara quickly stood up and the two women hugged each other as tightly as they could. The two Turner men walked over as well.
"Lizzie, what are you doing here?" Lara asked, releasing her friend, though they still clasped hands. "I thought you were at a dinner party!"
"We were," Elizabeth replied. "Father sent a messenger after us and they told us you were here."
"Welcome back, Jack," Will said, reaching out and clasping Jack's hand.
Jack felt himself blink a few times in surprise at the sight of Will and Bill Turner standing side by side. The two looked remarkably alike, except Bill's hair was a few shades lighter than his father's. "Uh, thanks, Will," Jack said, shaking his old friend's hand. He then turned to Bill. "Well, lad, ye sure have grown since the last time I saw ye!" Jack reached out his hand for Bill to shake.
The younger Turner gave Jack a small smile and took the offered hand. "Good to see you too, Uncle Jack," he said. Bill then started looking around the room. "Where are Jay, Jewel and Kat?" Jack and Lara exchanged glances.
"Ye mean ye don't know?" Jack asked them. The blank looks on the Turners' faces was answer enough. "Jay, Julia and Kat were attacked on yer front porch, Will, and Jay was wounded in the side. Julia and Kat are missing, so we're thinking that they were kidnapped and taken out of Port Royal by someone. Norrington's questioning some of the survivors left behind." Elizabeth went pale in shock while Will and Bill simply stood and stared at the Sparrows for a few moments. Then, abruptly, Bill turned around and headed for the door.
"Bill, where are you going?" Will said, grabbing his son's arm and preventing him from leaving.
"I have to find them, Father," Bill said, anger flashing in his eyes.
"Bill, we can't just go off and search for them," Elizabeth gently told her son. "We have to find out where they went with the girls, and then we can go and look for them."
"Yer mother's right, lad," Jack said. "Since the Commodore has some of the surviving attackers in the prison and is questioning them now, we'll know something before the night is out. For now, all we can do is wait."
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An hour later, the door to the parlor opened and a servant announced the doctor into the room, along with the Governor. Jack and Lara immediately stood up.
"Doctor, how is my son?" Lara asked, clutching her husband's hand.
"He'll be fine, Mrs. Sparrow," the doctor said, smiling at her. "The wound looked worse than is actually was. He'll be alright in a week or so." The Sparrows and Turners let out a collective sigh of relief. "In fact, you may go in and see him for a short time, Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow."
Jack and Lara raced out of the room and up the stairs before the doctor finished his sentence. They stopped in surprise when they spotted two red- coats from their previously assigned guard in front of a room; it appeared that the Governor wanted Jay to be well guarded from any more attacks. After nodding to the guards, the two Sparrows went into their son's room.
The sight of their son lying in a bed with a bandage around his torso nearly broke his parents' hearts. Jack and Lara took a seat at their son's right side, Lara holding her son's hand while Jack placed his own hands on his wife's shoulders, offering her strength and comfort at the same time. A moment later, Jay's eyes fluttered open, and he smiled at the sight of his parents.
"Mum, Dad," he said, squeezing his mother's hand.
"Jay, are you feeling alright?" Lara asked him, quietly. "Do you need anything?"
"No, I'm fine," he replied. Taking a look around, a puzzled look settled on his features. "Where are we? This isn't the Turner home," he said, looking at his parents.
"This is the Governor's home, lad," Jack explained. "We've been here before, remember?" Jay nodded. "Well, ye were just never allowed upstairs, the servants always thought ye and yer sisters might break or steal something, with ye being pirates and all. Anyway, yer mum and I were heading back to the Turner home with a small company of guards and we spotted ye in the bushes by the porch. There were dead and wounded men all over the porch of the house, lad. What happened after we left the three of ye?"
Jay closed his eyes. "We were attacked the moment you and Mum were out of sight," he said. "They were all dressed in black, and we would have been ambushed if one of them hadn't stepped on a branch. Then Jewel, Kat and I started fighting them, just like you and Mum taught us, Dad." Jay looked up and saw Jack gave a small smile of approval. Jay smiled in return, but then a look of sadness settled on his features. "I was wounded and shoved over the side of the porch. I felt alright, though, and I winked at Jewel to let her know that I was okay, and that I was going to tell you what happened. Then I heard the men telling Jewel that they were going to be taken unharmed. Jewel wanted to know where they were going to be taken, but another said that a Mr. Pierce wanted them alive and unharmed. I heard someone get hit with something, and then all was quiet. I sort of drifted off after that." He looked at his parents and saw that they were both deathly pale. "Mum, Dad, what's wrong?"
"Tell me ye didn't say Mr. Pierce, Jay," his father quietly whispered.
"That's what I heard," Jay said. "What's wrong, what's going on, Dad?"
Jack shifted uncomfortably from one foot to another while looking down at his wife's pale and frightened face. He patted her shoulder and proceeded to answer his son. "Jay, Mr. Pierce would also be Thomas Pierce, a raving lunatic of a man who once kidnapped yer mum while she was carrying ye and Julia. He went a bit mad after we told him about us being married and having twins, and I suppose now he wants what he's always wanted, which would be yer mother as his wife and the two, or should I say three, of you as his children." He felt Lara shiver at his last sentence.
"But Dad, Jewel, Kat and I are too old to have our minds trained to think this Thomas is our father," Jay said. "And why would he just kidnap Julia and Kat?"
"Perhaps he thought Julia was me," said a soft voice. The two Sparrow men looked at Lara, who still sat quite pale with shock and fear. "You always said she looks just like I did at that age, Jack. If Thomas was in Port Royal and had seen her in town, perhaps he mistook her for me. After all, if he had just me, he could father all of the children he wanted." She started trembling in fear at the thought of Thomas using her daughter in her place. "As for Kat, perhaps he thought she was a servant of hers, and perhaps he realized that the three of them were too old to manipulate into his own children."
Jack's hands started trembling in anger. "If he harms one hair on their heads, luv, I'll kill him with my own two hands," he said, his voice hard and cold as steel. "I promise ye that." Suddenly, Jay yawned, and Jack smiled down at his son. "Ye get some rest there, lad, while yer mum and I go downstairs and tell the Turners what a fine lad ye are for defending yer sisters." Jay nodded once before falling asleep. Then Jack and Lara each kissed him on the forehead before heading downstairs to tell everyone what had happened, and who was behind it.
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After explaining what had happened and who had kidnapped Julia and Kat, there were several angry faces in the room. Governor Swann, Will and Elizabeth were silently fuming in their chairs while Bill looked like he was ready to get on a boat and search for the girls all by himself. Only the looks on his parents' faces prevented him from doing anything drastic. Suddenly a servant entered the room.
"Sirs, madams," she said, curtsying. "There's s messenger here from Commodore Norrington. Should I show him in?"
"Yes, Bess, please do so," the Governor replied. The servant curtseyed again and left. A moment later, a man in a blue coat and uniform entered the room and bowed. "Well, lad, what's going on?" the Governor asked.
"Sir, Commodore Norrington has sent me with news about the prisoners," the man stated. The Governor signaled for him to proceed. "Sir, the prisoners were unwilling to cooperate at first, but when we threatened to turn them over to Captain Sparrow and his crew, they were most willing to give any information we wished for. It appears that Mr. Thomas Pierce has made an arrangement with a nobleman of England, claiming he would be able to return the lord's missing child of twenty five years to him. In return, Mr. Pierce would receive any sort of payment within the lord's power. Apparently, the prisoners were misinformed that Miss Julia Sparrow was Mrs. Lara Sparrow, and that was why she was taken. Miss Katherine Sparrow was believed to be Miss Julia's servant, and Mr. Jack Sparrow II was thought to be the lady's bodyguard. That was all the information given to the prisoners. If the information was correct, the daughters of Captain and Mrs. Sparrow should be heading towards England at this very moment."
The Governor nodded. "Thank you, and give the Commodore our gratitude," he said. "Also, inform the Commodore that he may do whatever he wishes to the prisoners," he continued, waving his hand at the soldier in dismissal. The soldier bowed, turned, and left the mansion.
"Well," Will said. "What do we do now?"
Jack turned and stared at him. "What do ye mean, 'what do we do now?'" he asked angrily. "We go after the filthy dog, that's what! Now that I know where he's headed, we can follow him and get our girls back!" He looked at Lara, who nodded in response. "I'll go and tell the crew to stock up the Pearl and get ready for some serious fighting. After that, we can head over to England and kill the bloody bastard that has our daughters!"
With those words, Jack stalked out of the mansion and slammed the door, leaving his wife to talk out the details of the rescue mission with the Turners and the Governor.
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AN: Jack is really pissed off, now, isn't he? Now he'll have to get all violent on Thomas's ass, huh? Well, I'll think of something nasty to happen to Thomas, don't worry. Anyway, please help keep my creative mind working by giving positive reviews! Thanks, and Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to you all!
AN: Wow, a lot of people want Thomas dead, so I guess that means something bad is going to have to happen to him, huh? Well, we'll all find out later. Enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 5: Worried Parents and Plots Revealed:
Captain Jack Sparrow was not in a very good mood. Here he was, standing in the Governor's mansion, and the doctor wouldn't even let him or his wife in to see their son! Jack soon began pacing back and forth through the Governor's parlor room, his wife sitting on the couch, anxiously twisting her handkerchief in her lap. Jack couldn't believe that he had been that stupid, leaving his children all alone like that. He should have taken them with him to the Governor's mansion; if he had, Jay wouldn't be upstairs with a knife wound and his daughters would still be here. In his mind, Jack went over the events of the night.
Things seemed to have gone wrong the moment after Jack and Lara had left their children at the Turners' house and knocked on the door of the Governor's mansion. It had turned out that the Turner family hadn't been at the Governor's house after all: they had gone to a dinner party at another home on the other side of town. Governor Swann had invited Jack and Lara inside, but the Sparrows had decided to go and retrieve their children, promising to return to the mansion with the young Sparrows in tow. The Governor had then assigned several guards to accompany them.
Not an hour after they had left their children did they return to the Turner home, finding numerous dead figures lying in front of the house, and their son lying semiconscious in a bush by the side of the porch, his side slowly oozing blood, and their daughters nowhere in sight. Alarmed, the assigned guards had picked up the young man and carried him to the Governor's home, where a doctor had been called for at once. Commodore Norrington had been sent for, and he and two dozen red-coats had gone to the Turner home to investigate the scene. The only good thing that had happened was that Commodore Norrington had found a few survivors among the attackers and had taken them to the fort to be questioned. Hopefully something useful could be squeezed out of them soon so that Jack and Lara could go and find their children.
Jack stopped pacing to look at his wife. He had never seen Lara so frightened, not even when she herself had been kidnapped by Thomas all those years ago! Concerned, Jack walked over to the couch and sat next to her, putting his arms around her and pulling her into a tight and comforting embrace.
"It'll be alright, luv," he whispered to her, stroking her back. "Jay will be fine, you'll see! He's a Sparrow, after all." He looked down and saw her smile up at him. "Ah, there's my bonnie lass," he said, smiling down at her. The two of them sat there for several moments, enjoying the comfort the other's presence had to offer.
Suddenly, the door to the parlor burst open and in rushed the entire Turner family, looking as though they had run all the way there from the other side of town. The Sparrows couldn't help but stare at the ruffled mess the three of them resembled.
"Lara!" Elizabeth exclaimed, racing to the side of her closest friend. Lara quickly stood up and the two women hugged each other as tightly as they could. The two Turner men walked over as well.
"Lizzie, what are you doing here?" Lara asked, releasing her friend, though they still clasped hands. "I thought you were at a dinner party!"
"We were," Elizabeth replied. "Father sent a messenger after us and they told us you were here."
"Welcome back, Jack," Will said, reaching out and clasping Jack's hand.
Jack felt himself blink a few times in surprise at the sight of Will and Bill Turner standing side by side. The two looked remarkably alike, except Bill's hair was a few shades lighter than his father's. "Uh, thanks, Will," Jack said, shaking his old friend's hand. He then turned to Bill. "Well, lad, ye sure have grown since the last time I saw ye!" Jack reached out his hand for Bill to shake.
The younger Turner gave Jack a small smile and took the offered hand. "Good to see you too, Uncle Jack," he said. Bill then started looking around the room. "Where are Jay, Jewel and Kat?" Jack and Lara exchanged glances.
"Ye mean ye don't know?" Jack asked them. The blank looks on the Turners' faces was answer enough. "Jay, Julia and Kat were attacked on yer front porch, Will, and Jay was wounded in the side. Julia and Kat are missing, so we're thinking that they were kidnapped and taken out of Port Royal by someone. Norrington's questioning some of the survivors left behind." Elizabeth went pale in shock while Will and Bill simply stood and stared at the Sparrows for a few moments. Then, abruptly, Bill turned around and headed for the door.
"Bill, where are you going?" Will said, grabbing his son's arm and preventing him from leaving.
"I have to find them, Father," Bill said, anger flashing in his eyes.
"Bill, we can't just go off and search for them," Elizabeth gently told her son. "We have to find out where they went with the girls, and then we can go and look for them."
"Yer mother's right, lad," Jack said. "Since the Commodore has some of the surviving attackers in the prison and is questioning them now, we'll know something before the night is out. For now, all we can do is wait."
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An hour later, the door to the parlor opened and a servant announced the doctor into the room, along with the Governor. Jack and Lara immediately stood up.
"Doctor, how is my son?" Lara asked, clutching her husband's hand.
"He'll be fine, Mrs. Sparrow," the doctor said, smiling at her. "The wound looked worse than is actually was. He'll be alright in a week or so." The Sparrows and Turners let out a collective sigh of relief. "In fact, you may go in and see him for a short time, Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow."
Jack and Lara raced out of the room and up the stairs before the doctor finished his sentence. They stopped in surprise when they spotted two red- coats from their previously assigned guard in front of a room; it appeared that the Governor wanted Jay to be well guarded from any more attacks. After nodding to the guards, the two Sparrows went into their son's room.
The sight of their son lying in a bed with a bandage around his torso nearly broke his parents' hearts. Jack and Lara took a seat at their son's right side, Lara holding her son's hand while Jack placed his own hands on his wife's shoulders, offering her strength and comfort at the same time. A moment later, Jay's eyes fluttered open, and he smiled at the sight of his parents.
"Mum, Dad," he said, squeezing his mother's hand.
"Jay, are you feeling alright?" Lara asked him, quietly. "Do you need anything?"
"No, I'm fine," he replied. Taking a look around, a puzzled look settled on his features. "Where are we? This isn't the Turner home," he said, looking at his parents.
"This is the Governor's home, lad," Jack explained. "We've been here before, remember?" Jay nodded. "Well, ye were just never allowed upstairs, the servants always thought ye and yer sisters might break or steal something, with ye being pirates and all. Anyway, yer mum and I were heading back to the Turner home with a small company of guards and we spotted ye in the bushes by the porch. There were dead and wounded men all over the porch of the house, lad. What happened after we left the three of ye?"
Jay closed his eyes. "We were attacked the moment you and Mum were out of sight," he said. "They were all dressed in black, and we would have been ambushed if one of them hadn't stepped on a branch. Then Jewel, Kat and I started fighting them, just like you and Mum taught us, Dad." Jay looked up and saw Jack gave a small smile of approval. Jay smiled in return, but then a look of sadness settled on his features. "I was wounded and shoved over the side of the porch. I felt alright, though, and I winked at Jewel to let her know that I was okay, and that I was going to tell you what happened. Then I heard the men telling Jewel that they were going to be taken unharmed. Jewel wanted to know where they were going to be taken, but another said that a Mr. Pierce wanted them alive and unharmed. I heard someone get hit with something, and then all was quiet. I sort of drifted off after that." He looked at his parents and saw that they were both deathly pale. "Mum, Dad, what's wrong?"
"Tell me ye didn't say Mr. Pierce, Jay," his father quietly whispered.
"That's what I heard," Jay said. "What's wrong, what's going on, Dad?"
Jack shifted uncomfortably from one foot to another while looking down at his wife's pale and frightened face. He patted her shoulder and proceeded to answer his son. "Jay, Mr. Pierce would also be Thomas Pierce, a raving lunatic of a man who once kidnapped yer mum while she was carrying ye and Julia. He went a bit mad after we told him about us being married and having twins, and I suppose now he wants what he's always wanted, which would be yer mother as his wife and the two, or should I say three, of you as his children." He felt Lara shiver at his last sentence.
"But Dad, Jewel, Kat and I are too old to have our minds trained to think this Thomas is our father," Jay said. "And why would he just kidnap Julia and Kat?"
"Perhaps he thought Julia was me," said a soft voice. The two Sparrow men looked at Lara, who still sat quite pale with shock and fear. "You always said she looks just like I did at that age, Jack. If Thomas was in Port Royal and had seen her in town, perhaps he mistook her for me. After all, if he had just me, he could father all of the children he wanted." She started trembling in fear at the thought of Thomas using her daughter in her place. "As for Kat, perhaps he thought she was a servant of hers, and perhaps he realized that the three of them were too old to manipulate into his own children."
Jack's hands started trembling in anger. "If he harms one hair on their heads, luv, I'll kill him with my own two hands," he said, his voice hard and cold as steel. "I promise ye that." Suddenly, Jay yawned, and Jack smiled down at his son. "Ye get some rest there, lad, while yer mum and I go downstairs and tell the Turners what a fine lad ye are for defending yer sisters." Jay nodded once before falling asleep. Then Jack and Lara each kissed him on the forehead before heading downstairs to tell everyone what had happened, and who was behind it.
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After explaining what had happened and who had kidnapped Julia and Kat, there were several angry faces in the room. Governor Swann, Will and Elizabeth were silently fuming in their chairs while Bill looked like he was ready to get on a boat and search for the girls all by himself. Only the looks on his parents' faces prevented him from doing anything drastic. Suddenly a servant entered the room.
"Sirs, madams," she said, curtsying. "There's s messenger here from Commodore Norrington. Should I show him in?"
"Yes, Bess, please do so," the Governor replied. The servant curtseyed again and left. A moment later, a man in a blue coat and uniform entered the room and bowed. "Well, lad, what's going on?" the Governor asked.
"Sir, Commodore Norrington has sent me with news about the prisoners," the man stated. The Governor signaled for him to proceed. "Sir, the prisoners were unwilling to cooperate at first, but when we threatened to turn them over to Captain Sparrow and his crew, they were most willing to give any information we wished for. It appears that Mr. Thomas Pierce has made an arrangement with a nobleman of England, claiming he would be able to return the lord's missing child of twenty five years to him. In return, Mr. Pierce would receive any sort of payment within the lord's power. Apparently, the prisoners were misinformed that Miss Julia Sparrow was Mrs. Lara Sparrow, and that was why she was taken. Miss Katherine Sparrow was believed to be Miss Julia's servant, and Mr. Jack Sparrow II was thought to be the lady's bodyguard. That was all the information given to the prisoners. If the information was correct, the daughters of Captain and Mrs. Sparrow should be heading towards England at this very moment."
The Governor nodded. "Thank you, and give the Commodore our gratitude," he said. "Also, inform the Commodore that he may do whatever he wishes to the prisoners," he continued, waving his hand at the soldier in dismissal. The soldier bowed, turned, and left the mansion.
"Well," Will said. "What do we do now?"
Jack turned and stared at him. "What do ye mean, 'what do we do now?'" he asked angrily. "We go after the filthy dog, that's what! Now that I know where he's headed, we can follow him and get our girls back!" He looked at Lara, who nodded in response. "I'll go and tell the crew to stock up the Pearl and get ready for some serious fighting. After that, we can head over to England and kill the bloody bastard that has our daughters!"
With those words, Jack stalked out of the mansion and slammed the door, leaving his wife to talk out the details of the rescue mission with the Turners and the Governor.
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AN: Jack is really pissed off, now, isn't he? Now he'll have to get all violent on Thomas's ass, huh? Well, I'll think of something nasty to happen to Thomas, don't worry. Anyway, please help keep my creative mind working by giving positive reviews! Thanks, and Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to you all!