The Struggle Between Two Pirates
Chapter 13: Tale of a Dream
Later that day, the two ships sail through the Caribbean. The sky is becoming a darker shade and the breeze is nice and cool. Katrina, Jack, Gibbs, and Koehler talk on the quarter deck.
"So ye just cut off his hand like that? No warnin'?" Gibbs asks Katrina.
"Aye, I did." Katrina replies with pride.
"She is in fact one of the most wicked pirates on Earth, don't forget." Jack reminds Gibbs.
They all laugh and Koehler smacks Jack in the arm jokingly. Barbossa walks out of his cabin and looks around. He looks up at the quarter deck and finds who he's looking for.
"Katrina!" Barbossa calls out.
Katrina, Jack, and Gibbs all look over at Barbossa while Koehler walks off to do something else.
"May I have a word with ye?" Barbossa asks.
Katrina walks away from the group and walks down to the main deck. Barbossa goes back into the cabin. Jack and Gibbs watch Katrina walk down the stairs and into the cabin. After she walks in and is out of their site, they continue talking.
"Do ye know what's gotten into Barbossa?" Gibbs asks.
"Maybe he had too much of the Rum." Jack replies. "I'm sure it's nothin'."
Katrina shuts the doors after she enters the cabin as Barbossa is sitting at the table with his left elbow resting on the table and with his eyes fixed on the ring. Katrina turns and looks at him as she stands still. Barbossa looks up at her as he rests his back against the chair moving his elbow away from the table. Katrina looks a bit concerned and confused.
"Come Katrina. Take a seat."
Katrina slowly walks towards the table; she goes to a chair across from Barbossa, and sits herself down staring at Barbossa. He looks down at the table then looks up at the ceiling. His fingers on his right hand strokes the arm of the chair.
"Barbossa, something is wrong and you must tell me. I can't bear to see ye so unlike yourself. You have the crew worried as well." There was a silence for a few seconds, and then Barbossa looks over at Katrina. He has the look as if his whole world collapsed on him. Katrina becomes more worried, but she leans forward hoping Barbossa would tell her what is bothering him.
"I had a terrible nightmare durin' me sleep." Barbossa began.
Katrina is a bit dumbfounded by these words. She looks away troubled at what this nightmare might have been. She thought it must have been terrible since Barbossa has been lost since the waking hours of the morning.
"Didn't find you nor Jack on board, found a note statin' from Jack that you and him took off, ne'er to return."
Katrina lifts an eyebrow. She is now already more interested in this nightmare than before.
"But truth was that Jack took ye while you slept, but being a dream no knowledge of that came to me and the crew. I felt betrayed, I felt me chest drown inside me, and I couldn't understand why ye left me for Jack. I wanted to find the both of ye and kill ye off. I could see you and Jack in an ol' woman's home. Jack kept ye prisoner and he wasn't himself. He told ye about what he'd done and you became furious. Winds changed for me and the crew and it led us to you and Jack. The two of ye went out at night and found a sailor with a ship willin' to help. You grabbed a knife and took it on board with you. They tried to trick ye into becomin' unmindful, but you were too smart to let that happen. Then we found you and Jack on that small ship but you and he were fightin' while you were clapped in irons."
Katrina leans in closer and rests her arms on the table listening very carefully to Barbossa. She sees how much this nightmare troubled him.
"Jack went off sayin' you were usin' me as you used him before, to not trust ye, but a fight broke out. You saved me from Jack's cutlass, but I wasn't convinced still. You fell into the ocean and as I was 'bout to kill off Jack, someone ran into me and I pushed Jack o'erboard. He took you captive again after he took ye out in a boat. He rowed o'er to the Pearl and Pintel, me monkey and I went aft' ye."
"Is that when you were convinced that Jack lied?"
"Aye indeed it was. You awoke but pretended to be out cold. Jack brought you on board the Pearl but there was no way to escape. Ye brought us o'er faster than we could go, we got on board, and you took Jack by your chain ready to strangle him to death. But he broke free and threw you to the floorboards and I pointed my pistol at him. Just then he pushed me arm pointin' another direction and I tried to shoot him before he did, but it was too late.the shot hit ye and I was devastated. I shot Jack and ran to yer side. Ye told me ye loved me. I felt somethin' I never had felt before. I had let ye know before you went that I knew what love was now."
As Barbossa said these words, Katrina saw tears beginning to surface in his eyes, a sight she had never seen. She was surprised by it, couldn't believe this nightmare had such an affect on him.
"Ye died.in me arms and that was the end of it. When I awoke this mornin' and found ye there sleeping and when I found Jack at the wheel, I had realized that it wasn't real, only a dream and a horrible one it was. But what did it mean? I began havin' doubts about ye, Jack, the crew, our lives together. Somethin' in me fell ill at ease."
Barbossa lifts his left arm up and places his elbow on the table again and focuses his eyes on the ring. Katrina looks at it as well. Barbossa then looks Katrina over.
"This ring, the fact that you placed it on this finger had me realize that what we have is real."
Katrina perks herself up a bit, looking at Barbossa and the ring. She takes her hands and wraps them around Barbossa's left hand.
"Dreams often at times tell of uncertainties. We are pirates and feared ones at that and we share this thing called love that even ourselves are unsure of, but when it comes down to it, it doesn't matter what the world thinks of our love. It may not feel right for a pirate to have such feelings for another but it is likely for those who do not look for it end up finding it in odd situations between the most unlikeliest to ever fall in love. And this dream."
Katrina leans over the table as she still sits, her hands with Barbossa's are closer to her face.
"This dream reveals that you and I can love through any means possible even with our evil tricky ways, we can look passed that and really feel something more. Do you understand?"
Barbossa seems to get it now and sits back wondering about everything Katrina had just said. She gets up out of the chair and walks to the other side where Barbossa sits. He looks up at her as she sits in his lap. She wraps her arms around him, scoots down a bit and lays her head on Barbossa's shoulder. Barbossa rubs her back with his right hand as his left hand lies on Katrina's thigh.
"You mean the world to me Barbossa. It's crazy, I know, but it's the truth."
Barbossa and Katrina look into each others eyes.
"And ye mean everythin' to me Katrina. If ye knew how pleased I was to find you alive, I-"
There is a knock at the door. Barbossa and Katrina look at the door feeling rudely interrupted.
"Who be interrupin'?" Barbossa asks.
Chapter 13: Tale of a Dream
Later that day, the two ships sail through the Caribbean. The sky is becoming a darker shade and the breeze is nice and cool. Katrina, Jack, Gibbs, and Koehler talk on the quarter deck.
"So ye just cut off his hand like that? No warnin'?" Gibbs asks Katrina.
"Aye, I did." Katrina replies with pride.
"She is in fact one of the most wicked pirates on Earth, don't forget." Jack reminds Gibbs.
They all laugh and Koehler smacks Jack in the arm jokingly. Barbossa walks out of his cabin and looks around. He looks up at the quarter deck and finds who he's looking for.
"Katrina!" Barbossa calls out.
Katrina, Jack, and Gibbs all look over at Barbossa while Koehler walks off to do something else.
"May I have a word with ye?" Barbossa asks.
Katrina walks away from the group and walks down to the main deck. Barbossa goes back into the cabin. Jack and Gibbs watch Katrina walk down the stairs and into the cabin. After she walks in and is out of their site, they continue talking.
"Do ye know what's gotten into Barbossa?" Gibbs asks.
"Maybe he had too much of the Rum." Jack replies. "I'm sure it's nothin'."
Katrina shuts the doors after she enters the cabin as Barbossa is sitting at the table with his left elbow resting on the table and with his eyes fixed on the ring. Katrina turns and looks at him as she stands still. Barbossa looks up at her as he rests his back against the chair moving his elbow away from the table. Katrina looks a bit concerned and confused.
"Come Katrina. Take a seat."
Katrina slowly walks towards the table; she goes to a chair across from Barbossa, and sits herself down staring at Barbossa. He looks down at the table then looks up at the ceiling. His fingers on his right hand strokes the arm of the chair.
"Barbossa, something is wrong and you must tell me. I can't bear to see ye so unlike yourself. You have the crew worried as well." There was a silence for a few seconds, and then Barbossa looks over at Katrina. He has the look as if his whole world collapsed on him. Katrina becomes more worried, but she leans forward hoping Barbossa would tell her what is bothering him.
"I had a terrible nightmare durin' me sleep." Barbossa began.
Katrina is a bit dumbfounded by these words. She looks away troubled at what this nightmare might have been. She thought it must have been terrible since Barbossa has been lost since the waking hours of the morning.
"Didn't find you nor Jack on board, found a note statin' from Jack that you and him took off, ne'er to return."
Katrina lifts an eyebrow. She is now already more interested in this nightmare than before.
"But truth was that Jack took ye while you slept, but being a dream no knowledge of that came to me and the crew. I felt betrayed, I felt me chest drown inside me, and I couldn't understand why ye left me for Jack. I wanted to find the both of ye and kill ye off. I could see you and Jack in an ol' woman's home. Jack kept ye prisoner and he wasn't himself. He told ye about what he'd done and you became furious. Winds changed for me and the crew and it led us to you and Jack. The two of ye went out at night and found a sailor with a ship willin' to help. You grabbed a knife and took it on board with you. They tried to trick ye into becomin' unmindful, but you were too smart to let that happen. Then we found you and Jack on that small ship but you and he were fightin' while you were clapped in irons."
Katrina leans in closer and rests her arms on the table listening very carefully to Barbossa. She sees how much this nightmare troubled him.
"Jack went off sayin' you were usin' me as you used him before, to not trust ye, but a fight broke out. You saved me from Jack's cutlass, but I wasn't convinced still. You fell into the ocean and as I was 'bout to kill off Jack, someone ran into me and I pushed Jack o'erboard. He took you captive again after he took ye out in a boat. He rowed o'er to the Pearl and Pintel, me monkey and I went aft' ye."
"Is that when you were convinced that Jack lied?"
"Aye indeed it was. You awoke but pretended to be out cold. Jack brought you on board the Pearl but there was no way to escape. Ye brought us o'er faster than we could go, we got on board, and you took Jack by your chain ready to strangle him to death. But he broke free and threw you to the floorboards and I pointed my pistol at him. Just then he pushed me arm pointin' another direction and I tried to shoot him before he did, but it was too late.the shot hit ye and I was devastated. I shot Jack and ran to yer side. Ye told me ye loved me. I felt somethin' I never had felt before. I had let ye know before you went that I knew what love was now."
As Barbossa said these words, Katrina saw tears beginning to surface in his eyes, a sight she had never seen. She was surprised by it, couldn't believe this nightmare had such an affect on him.
"Ye died.in me arms and that was the end of it. When I awoke this mornin' and found ye there sleeping and when I found Jack at the wheel, I had realized that it wasn't real, only a dream and a horrible one it was. But what did it mean? I began havin' doubts about ye, Jack, the crew, our lives together. Somethin' in me fell ill at ease."
Barbossa lifts his left arm up and places his elbow on the table again and focuses his eyes on the ring. Katrina looks at it as well. Barbossa then looks Katrina over.
"This ring, the fact that you placed it on this finger had me realize that what we have is real."
Katrina perks herself up a bit, looking at Barbossa and the ring. She takes her hands and wraps them around Barbossa's left hand.
"Dreams often at times tell of uncertainties. We are pirates and feared ones at that and we share this thing called love that even ourselves are unsure of, but when it comes down to it, it doesn't matter what the world thinks of our love. It may not feel right for a pirate to have such feelings for another but it is likely for those who do not look for it end up finding it in odd situations between the most unlikeliest to ever fall in love. And this dream."
Katrina leans over the table as she still sits, her hands with Barbossa's are closer to her face.
"This dream reveals that you and I can love through any means possible even with our evil tricky ways, we can look passed that and really feel something more. Do you understand?"
Barbossa seems to get it now and sits back wondering about everything Katrina had just said. She gets up out of the chair and walks to the other side where Barbossa sits. He looks up at her as she sits in his lap. She wraps her arms around him, scoots down a bit and lays her head on Barbossa's shoulder. Barbossa rubs her back with his right hand as his left hand lies on Katrina's thigh.
"You mean the world to me Barbossa. It's crazy, I know, but it's the truth."
Barbossa and Katrina look into each others eyes.
"And ye mean everythin' to me Katrina. If ye knew how pleased I was to find you alive, I-"
There is a knock at the door. Barbossa and Katrina look at the door feeling rudely interrupted.
"Who be interrupin'?" Barbossa asks.