Sorry for the short chapters. You see I have nine hand written pages of
this story. All I really want to do is get this out. So I type it little by
little, decide that it's good enough and BOOM! I up date.
Disclaimer: *insert standard disclaimer here.* Don't feel like it.
Chapter whatever:
"So lass, ye never did tell me of yer problems at home. In the eight days we've been together, ye've mentioned nothing." Jack commented innocently.
"Oh that's because it is nothing. Papa just found this rich man that he wants me to marry. But I don't like him. He's scrawny, spoiled, can't fight worth a farthing, AND he's dead set that all pirates are 'evil demons that must be slaughtered mercilessly.' I told papa that I'd sooner marry you than look twice at him."
"Why do I think I should be insulted?" Jack broke in.
"Because you should. No then, papa wasn't to happy about that so I volunteered to go save your hide this time."
"There's that thought again."
"Shut-up Jack. So anyway I left hoping that he would cool off by the time I got back." She looked at Jack as if daring him to comment again. "I sincerely hope he does."
"Ah he will, Bonnie. If your mother has any say in it he will see reason. Now about that comment, you know the one where you said you'd sooner marry me." Her laughter was his only answer. From then they sailed in silence to her parents ship, the Gull, off the coast of Cuba. (A/N See I could have ended this chapter here. This is where it ends in my book. (On my paper? Whatever.) See how much I love you all.)
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"Now Bonnie, please be reasonable! You can't just go and 'commandeer' a ship when you haven't even been home a week!" Elizabeth cried in frustration. "Think of the sort of life you have out there! Think of my peace of mind, which I only have when you and your father are home, might I add. Think of James!" At the last bit Bonnie turned from her place at the door.
James was the man her father thought would make her a suitable husband. As far as she was concerned, James could rot in the ocean deep.
"I will marry James the day Commander Norrington shakes hands with Jack and calls him 'brother'. As I told you before, I will marry a pirate or die unwed! And no one, not even father will tell me otherwise." She yelled and stormed out the door of her parent's cabin and jumped off the deck.
She swam the short distance to the island. 'That was refreshing.' She thought as she wrong the water out of her hair. She shook her head in a feeble attempt to dry it before going to the harbor.
'Oh great. He's being led to the gallows now. Well, not much time then.' She thought. She spotted her father in the crowd and winked at him. He shook his head. She shrugged. He rolled his eyes and tossed her another sward. 'For Jack' He mouthed. She grinned and nodded.
She ran forward and planted her feet in front of the guards. She squared her hips and put her fists on them. She stared the officers down.
"Sorry gentlemen; but I'm afraid you have something of mine. And I want it back." Her sleeveless top showed the tattoos of previous run-ins with the law for all to see. "Ah commander! Jolly good to see you again! Remember me? I hope you do because I'm the one that helped Jack escape the last time you had him. I'd be heart broken if you forgot me!" She pouted. Then she grinned and hurled her small dagger through the air.
It sliced through the ropes on the hangman's noose; rendering it unusable. She tossed Jack the spare sward and jelled at him to run in the chaos. She grinned as he did and yelled to her father.
"Oh Papa! We're headed to the place that you and mama grew up to see grandfather. I'm taking Jacks pearl with me, tell mama!" She called.
She grabbed the hangman's rope, swung with it onto the roof, saluted, and back flipped of the back of the building. Laughing she picked the locks on Jack's irons. The boarded the Pear; and sailed back to Port Royal.
Chapter whatever:
"So lass, ye never did tell me of yer problems at home. In the eight days we've been together, ye've mentioned nothing." Jack commented innocently.
"Oh that's because it is nothing. Papa just found this rich man that he wants me to marry. But I don't like him. He's scrawny, spoiled, can't fight worth a farthing, AND he's dead set that all pirates are 'evil demons that must be slaughtered mercilessly.' I told papa that I'd sooner marry you than look twice at him."
"Why do I think I should be insulted?" Jack broke in.
"Because you should. No then, papa wasn't to happy about that so I volunteered to go save your hide this time."
"There's that thought again."
"Shut-up Jack. So anyway I left hoping that he would cool off by the time I got back." She looked at Jack as if daring him to comment again. "I sincerely hope he does."
"Ah he will, Bonnie. If your mother has any say in it he will see reason. Now about that comment, you know the one where you said you'd sooner marry me." Her laughter was his only answer. From then they sailed in silence to her parents ship, the Gull, off the coast of Cuba. (A/N See I could have ended this chapter here. This is where it ends in my book. (On my paper? Whatever.) See how much I love you all.)
~*~
"Now Bonnie, please be reasonable! You can't just go and 'commandeer' a ship when you haven't even been home a week!" Elizabeth cried in frustration. "Think of the sort of life you have out there! Think of my peace of mind, which I only have when you and your father are home, might I add. Think of James!" At the last bit Bonnie turned from her place at the door.
James was the man her father thought would make her a suitable husband. As far as she was concerned, James could rot in the ocean deep.
"I will marry James the day Commander Norrington shakes hands with Jack and calls him 'brother'. As I told you before, I will marry a pirate or die unwed! And no one, not even father will tell me otherwise." She yelled and stormed out the door of her parent's cabin and jumped off the deck.
She swam the short distance to the island. 'That was refreshing.' She thought as she wrong the water out of her hair. She shook her head in a feeble attempt to dry it before going to the harbor.
'Oh great. He's being led to the gallows now. Well, not much time then.' She thought. She spotted her father in the crowd and winked at him. He shook his head. She shrugged. He rolled his eyes and tossed her another sward. 'For Jack' He mouthed. She grinned and nodded.
She ran forward and planted her feet in front of the guards. She squared her hips and put her fists on them. She stared the officers down.
"Sorry gentlemen; but I'm afraid you have something of mine. And I want it back." Her sleeveless top showed the tattoos of previous run-ins with the law for all to see. "Ah commander! Jolly good to see you again! Remember me? I hope you do because I'm the one that helped Jack escape the last time you had him. I'd be heart broken if you forgot me!" She pouted. Then she grinned and hurled her small dagger through the air.
It sliced through the ropes on the hangman's noose; rendering it unusable. She tossed Jack the spare sward and jelled at him to run in the chaos. She grinned as he did and yelled to her father.
"Oh Papa! We're headed to the place that you and mama grew up to see grandfather. I'm taking Jacks pearl with me, tell mama!" She called.
She grabbed the hangman's rope, swung with it onto the roof, saluted, and back flipped of the back of the building. Laughing she picked the locks on Jack's irons. The boarded the Pear; and sailed back to Port Royal.