On the Black Pearl...
Jack marched up the ramp and past his stunned crew, going into his cabin and slamming the door shut. "Wow, I wonder what's buggin' him," Anne said.
"You wanna ask him?" Shorty asked. There was suddenly a crash and several naughty words from Jack's cabin. "Nah," All four of them said at the same time, shaking their heads.
"Obviously, he has women trouble," Will said. William Turner was the brown- hair, brown-eyed son of "Bootstrap Bill" Turner. He was about 18 years old and engaged to Elizabeth Swan, the gunner of the ship, a young blond-haired daughter of a wealthy aristocrat. Will was the 1st Mate.
"No, really," Elizabeth said sarcastically, "I thought he was having hormonal problems!"
Will blinked, "What's the difference?"
"For example, you are an egotistical pirate, and he's just a lonely old man," Elizabeth explained.
"I HEARD THAT!" they heard from the captain's quarters.
"I'm...not in this conversation..." Anne said, sneaking off.
"Neither am I," Shorty said, also fearing his captain's wrath.
"You're on your own with this one," Will said, patting Elizabeth on the shoulder while trying to sneak away.
"OH, NO IT'S NOT! It's YOUR turn to deal with the DEAR captain..." Elizabeth insisted, pushing Will towards the door before he can get away. "Since he is your DEAREST friend..." She then shoved him into the cabin and slammed the door shut with a, "Sucker..."
"What do YOU want?" Jack asked, sitting at his desk. He was currently writing something down, dipping the quill into a puddle of ink on the table, because he'd knocked his inkbottle open in his frustration. "Pardon the mess, a bit of..." he looked around at the mess he'd created within minutes in his cabin looking for the right word, "...redecorating..."
"Who are you stressed over more, Elizabeth or Esmerelda?" Will asked.
"Who do you think?" Jack snapped. He then groaned. "Look at me, I'm a mess...over what? A girl! I must have dated at least 20 in my lifetime, so what is it with just ONE?"
"Because she inspires you, maybe?" Will asked. "Adds some spice to your life that the others can't seem to?"
"Of course she adds spice, she's a gypsy!" Jack said, throwing up his hands. "Think about it, she's almost the same concept as a pirate, despised by all, fiery tempered, exotic, not seeming to be from this world! And she's not going to let anyone hold her down for anything..." Jack stood up and walked to the window. "Am I crazy? Have I just finally went off the deep end?"
"Did all the other girls have that kind of personality?" asked Will.
"Of course not, not one person has the personality like Esmerelda! Those girls were all the same sensitive little wenches that seemed to have the free time on their hands at the moment. Esmerelda isn't sensitive, if someone upsets her, she won't cry home to mommy, she strikes back!" Jack responded.
"If you love her then fight for her, don't just sit here and cower in your cabin..." Will looked around, "...redecorating!"
"I would fight back, but you remember the last time I went sword to sword with another man? He was dead, rotting, and fighting back with the temper that I could never have! How discouraging do you think that was? I don't fight myself all that much, I'd rather outwit the man!"
"Well, you've proven you're good at that more than once, Especially against guards! And let's face it, the lights are on in this guy but you might as well keep knocking, cause nobody's gonna answer." "Well, I have to admit, if there's anything that I have that he doesn't, it's got to be a brain," Jack smirked.
"Then go for it!" Will declared.
Jack seemed more encouraged. "All right, I'm going to go for it!" he declared. He then stopped and muttered, "Tomorrow..." and passed out onto the bed.
"Memo to self..." Will muttered. "Over excitedness is not a good thing for Jack Sparrow...causes drowsiness."
We'll get back to the Black Pearl later and Jack's progress towards declaring his love for Esmerelda. Now, let's see what's happening elsewhere...
"Wow, you had a boyfriend five years ago?" Ryo asked. "You never mentioned him to me before."
"She doesn't like to talk about it," Clopin muttered.
"There were some VERY bad MEMORIES! Let's see would I, Esmerelda, LIKE TO TALK YOU, RYO, ABOUT THOSE BAD MEMORIES. I THINK NOT. LET'S JUST DROP THE SUBJECT! OK!" Esmerelda hollered at Ryo who was now cowering against the ship's wall.
"I was just asking, you don't have to yell," Ryo said, raising his hands. "Now, if you'll just calm down, I can show you around the ship."
"HOW AM I SUPPOSE TO CALM DOWN WHEN I GUY, I USED TO DATE IS JUST RIGHT ON THE NEXT SHIP, JUST CONFESSED HIS LOVE FOR ME, WHEN I AM ALREADY ENGAGED! I DON'T THINK THAT I CAN CALM DOWN, DO YOU?" Esmerelda Hollered as she walked around the 'Fire Soul' with Ryo.
Ryo sweatdropped, laughing nervously, "You know, you're going to look back on this someday and laugh..." he said. "You have to decide now, who do you love? The handsome and charming Phoebus, or the dirty, drunk, yet incredibly free-willed Jack Sparrow?"
"I can't have these complications right now, I don't know who I like or love right now," Esmerelda complained, as she went off the ship and walked by the 'Black Pearl'.
Anne looked off the ship and said, "Hey, isn't that Esme-whatsit girl?" "Esmeldy?" Shorty said.
"No no, Emesda," Anne said, snickering.
"No you IDIOTS it's ESMERELDA! You better get it right before the Captain hears you." Will replied slapping his forehead in the process.
"We're just foolin'," Anne said. "And besides, mon capitain is probably still asleep."
"What was that?" Elizabeth laughed, as she heard a thump from the captain's courtiers. "Looks like the dear Captain just woke up for his beloved sleep."
"I'm okay!" they heard, as Jack staggered out, rubbing his head. "Whose idea was it to make the bed that high?"
"Yours, sir," Anne said innocently.
"Don't get smart with me!" Jack declared, swaggering out to see what they're doing. "What's so interesting about being over here?"
"Where looking at this raven haired woman, who just happens to have walked by the ship. I think that you might be interested in WHO it is." Will declared, as he pushes Jack toward the ledge to see who they are looking at.
"Oh..." Jack said, looking down at Esmerelda.
"Well, aren't you going to say anything to her?" Shorty asked.
"Oh, no!" Jack declared. "Not yet! I'll talk tomorrow, not now! Not now!" He backed away from the rail as he said that.
Esmerelda walked by the ship and went straight for the edge of the docks, to sit or stand and think about what she should do. Esmerelda thought 'basically I love Phoebus, he is the one for me, since Jack had gone and used My sister to declare his feelings were true about me. How am I supposed to love him again when he went and betrayed me, using Elizabeth? Does he have any idea how much he hurt me when I found him in the tavern, upstairs IN BED WITH HER?'.
She suddenly heard a scream and a splash right next to her. Jack popped out of the water and yelled up at the ship, "Why can't you just say 'We insist' like normal people?!" He then looked up at Esmerelda. "Oh, um, hi, Esmerelda..." he said with a nervous laugh. "So, you...come here often?" he asked jokingly, swimming to the dock.
"Often enough since you decided to commit adultery," Esmerelda replied snidely.
"I'm a pirate, what do you want me to do, dress in drag and do the hula?" Jack asked. "Listen, what you saw there, it meant nothing! And by the way, what were you doing opening the door to the room upstairs in the tavern anyways?" he asked, getting up onto the dock.
"TRYING TO FIND YOU, WHAT DO YOU THINK I WAS TRYING TO? FIND SOMEBODY ELSE WHEN I WAS PERFECTLY HAPPY WITH THE GUY I WAS WITH. I THOUGHT THE WORLD OF THE MAN I WAS WITH, HE TREATED ME LIKE AN EQUAL. NOT LIKE SOME GYPSY WHORE WHO WENT AROUND SHAGGING EVERYBODY SHE COULD GET HER HANDS ON. THEN WHEN I FIND THE MAN I LOVED WITH ANOTHER GIRL, ONE WHO WAS MY SISTER, THEN ALL HELL IS BROKEN LOOSE. WHAT WAS I SUPPOSE TO THINK OF YOU AND ELIZABETH?" Esmerelda hollered, as she turned her back on him. "Oh he is just having a one night stand nothing to worry about?"
"Well...yes..." Jack said, scratching his head. "And besides, I don't think you were trying to find me, persay, I think you were spying on me." Jack leaned against a pillar, "After all, how would you know to look in that one particular room which I'd NEVER been in before in my life when you didn't even know I was at that tavern because I had told no one?"
"It's easy to have some one followed, when you know the right people. I knew something was up when; you were so busy on so many nights. I had Elton follow you to the tavern then had him come back to report to me when you finally did something wrong." Esmerelda shrugged, as she crossed her arms across her chest. "You told me that you wanted to spend the rest of your life with me at one time, then I find you in bed with my sister." Esmerelda whispers before she starts to walk the other way.
"Well, maybe if you actually followed me yourself, you'd have figured out what was going on yourself, instead of hearing it from unreliable sources. You see, not always are the right people actually right. How many of the times you investigated did you go yourself? That once, maybe? That's what I thought. Cause you know the only thing that your sister and I did the first few nights was just dinner and a little dancing, but we drank a little too much that night and, well..." Jack shrugged. "You know what happened. Of course, you didn't stick around long enough for me to explain anything. You yelled and hollered and threw things and left, but I never even got a word in, that's why I left the next morning very early. I didn't want to deal with you while I was on an extremely painful hangover after all of that..." Jack surprisingly said this all very calmly, while taking interest in the dirt under his fingernails.
The next thing that Jack knew was he was in the water again after Esmerelda punched him hard in the face and sent him flying into the water. "That was for dissing my brother," she hollered down to him. "Are you going to take that from a mere girl of 20?"
"Actually, yes, because you know the rules of the pirates? One of them is that it's incredibly rude to take revenge on a lady, even if she just tried to drown you by knocking you across the kisser."
"Oh so now I'm a lady after all these years, how necessary for you to say, I might of thought you would have called me a man. Since you did when I punched you the last time I saw you." Esmerelda explained, as she leaned over the dock, closer to Jack.
"When did I call you a man?" Jack asked, crawling back onto the dock again. "What did I say that made you think I thought you were a man?"
"You are so impossible," Esmerelda replied aggravated as she stormed off the towards the 'Fire Soul'.
"Gee, and here I thought that was my charm..." Jack shrugged, walking to his ship.
"Oh, that was lovely," Anne said. "You went down to make amends. You got punched, insulted, and thrown into the water..."
"Oh, shut up..." Jack said pushing her overboard.
"What ever happened to 'incredibly rude to get revenge on a lady'?" Shorty asked, looking at Anne overboard.
"One, she's not a lady, and two, they're not actually rules they're more like...guidelines..." Jack said, walking to his cabin."
"Everything is guidelines to you, Jack Sparrow!" Elizabeth said, as she was swabbing the deck.
"Only when convenient!" Jack laughed, shutting the door to his cabin.
Esmerelda stormed on to the deck right passed Phoebus, after her fight with Jack.
"Hey, how'd it go with Romeo?" Ryo asked, hanging upside down from a thick nail protruding from the mast. "Did you kiss and make up?"
Esmerelda glared at Ryo and then went to the deck's pier holding her knees to her chest. Esmerelda looked over at the 'Black Pearl', wondering what Jack was doing at that moment.On the 'Black Pearl':
Jack sighed, looking out the porthole of his room. 'What in the world am I gonna do?' he thought. 'I'm 27-years-old, I've had at LEAST 15 girlfriends in the last 10 years, so why am I getting so bent out of shape over this?!' "WHY WON'T YOU JUST GET OUT OF MY THOUGHTS?!" he finally screamed, losing his balance and falling off of the bed. "Ow..." he groaned. "I'm okay...really..."