LAST TIME:
"Please, keep playing," Dinah turned around and blushed.
Jack sat next to her, "I would love to know if you just remembered that or if you've been practicing…"
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"I heard it last night." Dinah said after a long pause. She looked out into the ocean and watched the wake that the boat was making.
"How could that be, lass?"
Dinah didn't want to admit it but the man wouldn't leave her alone, "In my dream, Captain."
"Hmph."
"What was that?" She asked looking at him, who was looking out at the sunset.
He shrugged. They were silent for a couple of minutes until she started playing again.
Jack started humming and she stopped. "Keep going!"
"No thanks. All of a sudden, it didn't sound right."
He turned and looked at her. "You look nice with a hat on."
Dinah narrowed her eyes, "What do you want, Sparrow?"
"Nothing, I'm just paying you a compliment."
"Ha!" She got up, "The last time someone paid me a compliment, I got myself in trouble." Dinah turned and started walking to her cabin.
"What, with Douglas?" She stopped and slowly turned about and faced him.
"First- call him Captain Hall. You don't know him. And second, no, with you."
"You make it sound like you didn't have fun, lass, and I know that's not true."
"Is that why you brought me on this ship again? To 'show me a good time'? Because if that's it you might as well have left me on The Douglas. I'm not doing that again, Captain."
"You wanted to stay on that ship, is that what you're telling me?" Jack asked, standing up.
"I'm telling you to let me go! I don't like being on this ship, I don't really like ships anyhow!"
Jack hit his chest with his hand, acting like he was mortally wounded. Dinah rolled her eyes and started walking again.
"Miss Milton!" Dinah stopped again and turned around.
"Where are you sleeping?" Jack shouted across the ship.
"In Ana's cabin, why?" she shouted back, thoroughly annoyed.
"That just won't do, you can have my cabin!"
She marched up to him and asked, "What's with you, Captain? What do you want?"
Jack smiled sweetly. "Just trying to make you comfortable, luv."
Dinah's face flushed to two shades of red before slapping him.
"I don't need you to make me comfortable just like I didn't need your rescuing and just like I didn't need your…"
Jack waited.
"Just forget it! You stay away from me or God help me I will kill you in your sleep." And with that she left.
Jack smirked. He was just about to walk up to her cabin but Gibbs came up to him, "What're tryin' to do Cap'an?"
"Just repaying her for all the months she made me miserable, Gibbs. But she crossed the line, now I'm really mad." Jack walked over to the cabin and swung the door open. He found Dinah pacing the floor and when she saw him come in she tried to smack him again but he grabbed her hand and held it tight in his.
"Listen 'ere luv, I'm going to warn you and ask you something and you will obey and answer. I am the captain of this ship and I can come near you whenever I want and there will be no killing going on, Savvy?"
Dinah clinched her teeth and nodded, but Jack felt her trying to get out of her hold. She's uncomfortable.
"If you tell me why you hate 'luv' so much then I'll stop calling you that."
Jack waited.
Dinah stared at him, not willing to answer. She knew why she hated the name and if he didn't know then he was dumber than she thought. "I'm not you wife or one of your crewmen, so I'm not going to obey you, you know that." She said, forcing her wrist out of his grip. "And as for the luv- I don't like pet names, especially from pirates."
Jack scratched his cheek and looked at her as he thought about what she said. It's not a pet name. Why would she call it that? I call everyone luv…well except for Ana Maria, I learned quickly that I was NOT supposed to ever call her that…but what's the deal here? She's never protested about it until this morning…ahh well, let her win this one.
"Fine." Jack said, leaving the cabin and shutting the door behind him. The minute he left she grabbed her dress and cried in pain. The sound was kinda muffled and she hoped that Jack didn't hear it. With tears burning at the corners of her eyes, she looked at her wrist and saw that it was already starting to bruise. Wow, he was mad. She said rubbing it, hoping somehow that it would disappear. I guess he doesn't take threats very easily…especially in front of everyone.
That night when Ana Maria came in from dinner, she had been playing a drinking game with some of the boys and they lost…unfortunately it took them awhile to loose. True, she could hold in her liquor, and true, it took an awful lot of rum to get her truly drunk, but she was a little unsteady.
She walked in to find Dinah on her cot. She smiled; luckily she had stolen two mattresses for herself before the crew had even gotten Jack from Port Royal, more than a year ago. She could give one to Dinah tonight. She was about to tell her friend to get up but then she saw her wrist.
"Good God! What is that thing on your wrist, mate!?" She asked picking it up and looking at it closer.
"It's one heck of a bruise, that's what it is."
"Aye, but how'd you get it? You've only been 'ere for one day!"
"I said something that didn't quite sit well with the captain…"
Ana frowned, looked and the bruise and then put her fingers to match the set imprinted on Dinah's skin. She winced.
"Oh sorry, mate. But that's a weird way of…doing whatever to someone who upset you."
"Yea, well Jack isn't very usual."
Ana nodded in agreement then burped, "Come to think of it, he was saying something about it down below…something about…you always getting' on his nerves and he don't know how to handle you…and that he never did…"
Dinah sighed and sat up.
"Get up mate and I'll make your bed."
Dinah got up, bit the inside of her lip and then said, "Well, I'm gunna go take a walk…"
"Okay, just don't take a walk on the plank,"
"I'll be sure not to do that." Dinah said smiling, Ana was funny when she had been drinking. She opened the door and found Jack with his hand up, ready to knock. He had three pillows in his hands. Dinah quickly crossed her arms, making sure he wouldn't be able to see her wound.
"I…uh…I remembered that you like a lot of pillows to sleep with and that uh…"
"Three Captain?"
"Well I also knew that Ana wouldn't pass up the opportunity to take one for herself. In the back they heard Ana agreeing with him.
"Well then by all means Captain, give them to the woman." Dinah said, then slid past him. She walked over to the port side of the boat and rested her elbows on the edge. She could clearly see the moon rest itself on the ocean, slowly it would raise itself up into the night sky and she was going to stay here until it did.
She ran her fingers over her freckle-covered cheeks and then took off her hat. She threw it on the deck and sighed. Why did Jack bring me here? It must have been something else than just getting me away from Douglas. For starters it was a spur-of-the-moment thing, which Jack is famous for…and it had to be for himself. That man does absolutely nothing for others, so it couldn't have been for Ana….I'm so confused!
Jack leaves me on the shore of a beach close to my house, while I was sleeping no less! And two years later he comes back into my life and expects what? Sex? Love? Friendship? Money? Sex, maybe. Money, maybe. But nothing comes to mind that would absolutely force him to choose to bring me on board ship!
That man is the biggest puzzle that God put on this Earth! Dinah sighed again and ran her fingers through her hair. "I don't want to go through this again…" She said quietly. She heard footsteps and she turned, Jack was trying to be quiet while going to his cabin, No one can be quiet in bloody sea boots. She turned her head quickly back around, making sure that he wouldn't know that he was there. In a way she was glad he heard that. Then maybe he would lend her a boat and let her go. Doubtful.
She thought about her mom and what she must be doing right now. Freaking out probably. Douglas probably told her about how Jack Sparrow and his crew of miscreants came aboard his ship and stole everything, including the fair Miss Milton.
"Poor mother. She must not have anyone to bug but poor father…ohhh…poor father."