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Chapter Ten; The Mutiny

Barbossa walked over the ship to tell the crew of what he had just heard. They all agreed that tonight was the night to act upon the mutiny, and they all laughed greedily thinking about all the treasure that would be theirs.

Barbossa spared no time for getting the compass, but he still had the common sense to wait until nightfall to get it.

All day he glared at Jack who was steering the ship in a lazy-looking manner. Barbossa could tell he was thinking about something. When Jack finally did go to sleep he crept into the Captain's quarters. What he found shocked him a bit.

Monice had fallen asleep writing something, and she was leaning over the desk that was facing the bed that Jack was in sound asleep. Barbossa smiled wickedly and walked over to the bed as silently as he could.

He took the last step towards the bed and a loud creak of the floorboard deafened Barbossa. He shut his eyes for a moment and when he opened them to his surprise he found Jack still sleeping soundly. He let out a breath that he didn't realise he was holding and stopped halfway through his next step when he realised that he didn't know where Jack actually kept the compass. Chiding himself he figured that the next place Jack would keep the damned compass would be either in his coat, or in the desk that Monice was currently sleeping at. Barbossa took the first option and backtracked over to the coat that was hanging up by the door.

He thoroughly checked all it's pockets and growled lowly when he still couldn't find the compass. He threw three shillings in frustration on the floor and they bounced off the floor with yet another loud clang. Barbossa's heart rate was practically through the roof and he stood frozen to the spot out of fear that anybody would wake up. All he heard were loud snores coming from the desk, and steady breathing from the bed. He almost laughed at the stupidity from the both, but stopped himself at the last moment in case that they woke up- again.

Barbossa looked towards the desk and sighed (silently of course) in frustration. How would he look through all the drawers without waking one or the other up? Maybe even both! Grumbling about his bad luck he once again attempted to creep stealthily to the desk.

BANG!

Barbossa felt a sense of déja vu as adrenalin pumped through his body. What was that noise? Keeping his feet where they ere, he leaned to look around so he could see the floor in front of the desk. There lay a piece of charcoal. He frowned and without thinking walked over to it to inspect the object. When he looked at it closely he saw that part of it was very blunt. Barbossa went over to see what Monice had been doing. He took the piece of parchment that she was working on and saw a. . . rough sketch of Jack. He bit down on his tongue to stop laughter erupting from his belly. The wench had feelings for Jack! Wait 'till the crew heard this! Still smiling he placed the paper back carefully (though he didn't know why) by Monice and continued on his hunt for the compass. Barbossa soundlessly rooted through the draws for the broken compass and he finally found it in the left-hand side drawer.

With the smile still plastered on his face he opened it. He frowned once again as he noted that folded up and tucked at the top of the compass was a very aged piece of parchment. He shrugged and tugged it out. When he got the paper out, yet another piece of parchment fell out- only this one was not as old. Barbossa placed the second piece of paper on the desk to look at as soon as he had read the first one.

He carefully unfolded the parchment only to find that it was actually a map. Not only that, but it was a map to the treasure that they were looking for. Not believing his luck he tucked it into his pocket to study later. Barbossa turned his attention towards the other piece that had fallen out earlier. Once again he had to control his laughter when he saw what it was.

It was another drawing. Not of Jack, no, but it was drawn by Jack. It was Monice standing, looking out towards the sea. Trust Jack to do something like that. Barbossa also put this into his pocket and put the compass back, thinking that he had no need for it now.

All Barbossa had to do now was get out of his future quarters and tell the crew. He would save the picture for later. On his way out, Barbossa took the picture of Jack too.

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Jack frowned in his sleep as loud bangs were coming from his door. He sighed and rolled over, digging his head in the pillow hoping to block out the noise. He growled and eventually got up out of his warm bed and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. He stood swaying for a while, looking longingly at his bed, when another loud bang emitted from the door.

"Blimey, they're keen to see their captain," he muttered to himself and he smiled to himself as he saw Monice. She'd have a bad back today!

He reached for the door, but before he managed opened it the wooden frame splintered and the door swung open with a loud crash. Jack winced as two of his crew grabbed him by the arms and dragged him outside roughly. Out of the corner of his eye he saw two other crewmembers drag Monice out as well. One was sporting a bloodied nose and Jack couldn't help but smile. Poor beggar woke her up.

Jack wondered what the hell was going on, just a second ago he was sound asleep, and now he was being dragged along his own ship towards the mast. But when he saw Barbossa smiling like a Cheshire cat showing all his rotting teeth, it hit Jack like a ton of bricks. The mutiny was beginning.

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