Chapter 13:
A/N: Whoa! Next Chapter is here! Please read!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything! You hear me? ANYTHING! (but anything does not include POTC, heh!) *Mickey appears* But it does in this case! *fake laugh as she watches Mickey leave* Stupid blighter.
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Salina's eyes fluttered opened and she gazed around at Jack's cabin. "Oh lord, please tell me that Jack didn't bed me!"
"Relax Salina. Jack's been outside the whole time steering as usual." Will commented as he looked over her shoulder once again.
Salina lay in the white sheets looking at him questionably, "You didn't bed me did you?"
Will's eyes widened in shock, "NO! I have a wife thank you!"
"Oh so you bedded her?" Salina smiled devilishly at him knowing that she was getting on his nerves.
Will was about to retort back but he found a better solution, pressing his fingers to her wound. Salina let out a bellowing scream that echoed throughout the entire ship. Through gritted teeth she spoke huskily, "Damn you to Davie Jones' locker! Argh!"
"Serves you right." Cat entered the room with a smile, her bright green eyes streaming through her thick black lashes and boring into Salina's head.
Cat sat in a chair on the opposite side of the bed looking at the grown woman with amusement. Salina rolled her eyes, "I'm glad I'm your bloody entertainment for the day."
"Don't worry I'm almost done." Will looked down her arm and noticed a rose tattooed to her forearm, "where did you get that?"
"Get what?"
"That tattoo?"
Salina gave him a glare before answering, perhaps he really hadn't known, and "It was a long time ago, a sore subject to be sure so f you don't mind dropping it I'd be much obliged."
"A sore subject eh?" Cat looked up at Will with a small thread of distress. "Does it have to do with Jack?"
Salina closed her eyes and let the events of that particular day flow through her mind. The day that she had stormed out of a pub and Jack talked to her about it then went with her to get the tattoo he was her counselor then, she loved that memory it was one of her better ones. She lay there in silence for a while as Will and Cat studied her reaction to the question at hand.
Her eyes opened and she stared at the ceiling waiting for the question to be posed again, which never happened. "You know you're as persistent as your father was." Salina smiled a moment before continuing, "Like I said it was a long time ago and I'm going to leave it at that. Now if you are done with my arm I'd like to get back to work."
Will removed his hand from her shoulder and allowed her to sit up and stretch. "I'll be off now," with that salina stood and walked back out onto the deck rolling her sleeve back down and covering up the tattoo.
"That woman has a lot of secrets," Will suggested as he watched Salina vacate the room.
"Aye, that she does but I think Jack may have more."
"I think you may be right."
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Salina stepped out onto the deck and let the sea breeze whip through her damp heavy hair. She looked around and saw everyone hard at work not worried about what the future would hold. A shiver went up her spine and she noticed Elizabeth walking towards her.
"Beth?"
"Salina can I ask you a personal question?"
"What's this about Beth?"
"Do you love this life? The life of a pirate?"
Salina scoffed, "Of course, it's in me veins. Why do you ask? You're not thinking of being a pirate are you?"
"Maybe, Its just lately I have felt rather free spirited a little like I'm leaving behind a life."
"What type of a life? Or is it that you want to leave behind a life of love and live one of adventure?" Salina raised an eyebrow and looked at the younger woman with curious eyes.
Elizabeth didn't answer and allowed her eyes to float to the floor as she shoved passed Salina down to the lower quarters.
Salina rolled her eyes, "Young love. Does it always have its troubles? If so why does it pull me into them?" She sighed and began to work again.
"Perhaps it feels a certain attraction to you." A husky voice sternly noted.
"Perhaps I just linger in trouble." Salina replied not even turning to see whom she was speaking with.
"Perhaps that is the irresistible attraction that you poses." The man who contained the husky voice leaned on the railing in front of Salina.
"Jack I wish you'd quite your useless acts of trying to seduce me, It aint going to work. So bug off!" Salina pushed him aside and continued to tie the ropes.
Jack stood laughing, amused at her frustration, "Do I tire you, love?"
Salina starred him sternly in the eye watching the words flow from his mouth, "As a matter of fact ye do, so if ye don't mind leaving that would be wonderful."
"So it's okay for you to pester me, but when it's you working and me being the obnoxious brat then there's a problem, eh?"
"Sounds about right."
Jack stepped up behind her this time wrapping his hands around her fairly built abdomen. "Is that right?" He began in a whisper massaging her sides, his tender touch causing memories to fly through her mind, memories she had forgotten, ones she did not want to remember.
Salina closed her eyes biting her bottom lip tightly as her hands rolled over the top of his. "Aye, it is," she grabbed his hands and flung them from her body storming off down the deck, not even looking back at the man she left standing dumbfounded in the center of the deck.
"Salina," he called to her hoping that she might turn around and come back to him, even though he knew it would never happen.
Salina spun around and looked at him with longing eyes, "You know next I'm in trouble I think I'm just going to stick it out on my own because I find it too hard to keep business separate from pleasure!" She sighed enthusiastically and looked back up to him, "if you decide to come talk to me, nothing more, I'll be in my cabin. But the only thing I will have you discuss with me is that of our little adventure and I don't mean one that ends in your bed." With that she turned back around and walked heavily down the steps to her quarters.
She entered her room and slammed the door examining the small crowded room. "I HATE HIM!" Salina picked up a wooded chair and tossed it against the wall allowing the broken splinters to fall to the floor.
She slid down the back of the door pulling her knees to her chest and wrapping her arms around them, "But I love him so much more." Her lips became shaky and she could feel the cold tears pulling at the corners of her eyes, "No! I will not cry for him ever again!"
There was a sudden knock at the door and Salina scooted away, standing and then wiping her face to rid it of its painful disposition.
"Salina are ye okay? I heard a crash."
"I'm just fine."
"May I come in?"
Salina sat on her minuscule bed and stared at the door a moment before responding, "Sure."
Cat stepped in and looked around noticing the broken pieces of a chair scattered in the corner, her eyes turned to Salina who was trying desperately to fight away her tears of rage. She walked over and sat down next to the older woman, 'Are you sure you're all right?"
Salina put her head in her hands and then lifted it back up shaking her head, "No, I'm not. But," she smiled at Cat, "don't worry about me." Salina peered at Cat's palm with curiosity.
"What? Do I have something on my hand?"
Salina snapped out of her daze and recoiled her thoughts, "oh, no. It's just I was thinking about your scars, the ones on your right palm."
"I already told you god knows how many times what happened."
"I know, it's just they remind me of something," she picked Cat's calloused hand up and examined it, "Come with me a moment."
Salina pulled Cat out of her room and ran recklessly up on6to the deck. "Where are ye taking me Salina?'
Salina shoved opened Jack's door and rushed over to his desk slumping down in his chair and rummaging through his crinkled maps, "Come here, let me see your hand."
"I thought you said you weren't going to talk to me, eh?" Jack inquired as he glared over her shoulder at the maps.
"I'm not, I'm simply using your maps, savvy?"
Jack leaned further down and rested his neck on Salina's shoulder rubbing his hands up and down her arms. "That's fine by me, because we don't have to talk at all."
Salina looked up at Cat, who was laughing at the two of them, and rolled her eyes. "Jack if ye don't mind?" There was a certain frustration in her voice.
He smiled and backed away, "As ye wish." Jack turned and was about to leave when the sudden urge to continue harassing Salina hit him. "But, make sure you see me when you're done. We have, " he paused a moment looking at Cat, "things to discuss, savvy?"
Salina relaxed and gave a pleasing grin to the sinful man at the door and spoke in a most harmonious voice, "Aye Jack we WILL have many things to discuss once I find the coordinates to this treasure of which you have vaguely described. B Have a nice day!" With that she went back to the maps, constantly looking in between Cat's palm and the rigid parchment.
Jack turned and walked out, slamming the door behind him, "Damn women, the whole lot of em'!"
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"If ye don't mind me asking, how are my scars going to help ye find a treasure? I'm mean to me it seems kind of mad but hey if it makes sense to you please share your thoughts with me."
"I'm not exactly sure, all I know is what Jack told me."
"Oh great we're going on his word," she let out an over-emphasized groan and slouched over the desk.
"Well it's better than none, I s'pose. I've found it!" Salina dropped Cat's hand and pulled the map out from underneath all the others and looked it over carefully. She stood and ran out of the room onto the deck and up to the helm where Jack stood steering.
"Find something of interest, love?" He asked with a raised brow.
"As a matter of fact I did, but I am a little puzzled." She brought the map over to him and pointed to a certain spot, " I found the coordinates based on her scars but there is no island or anything in that region."
Jack leaned over enjoying her closeness to him, he grazed his hand across her back and she moved away, "Jack please try to pay attention for a moment!"
"I haven't the slightest idea of what you are speaking about," he gave his seductive grin, the one that makes Salina shiver with passion inside.
She turned her face back to the map avoiding his comment, "Jack you know these maps better than anyone else so what lies in that spot?" Salina brought the map back over to him and he studied it for a short period of time then broke out in a roaring laugh.
Salina looked him over with questioning eyes, "he's gone mad."
"No," Jack tried to settle his sudden burst of joy, "no, do you see where that spot is? What's the one place in the Caribbean that has a significant tie to us other then Port Royal and Tortuga?" This time he looked at her with seriousness.
She bit her lip before she replied, "Sakura Island?" Jack nodded his head, a slight smile shaping on his salty lips. "But why would Barbossa go back there?"
"Haven't got the slightest idea, love. But we're nearing Tortuga, we should be there by nightfall."
Salina rolled her eyes, "Oh joy." She took the map and walked off.
A/N: Whoa! Next Chapter is here! Please read!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything! You hear me? ANYTHING! (but anything does not include POTC, heh!) *Mickey appears* But it does in this case! *fake laugh as she watches Mickey leave* Stupid blighter.
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Salina's eyes fluttered opened and she gazed around at Jack's cabin. "Oh lord, please tell me that Jack didn't bed me!"
"Relax Salina. Jack's been outside the whole time steering as usual." Will commented as he looked over her shoulder once again.
Salina lay in the white sheets looking at him questionably, "You didn't bed me did you?"
Will's eyes widened in shock, "NO! I have a wife thank you!"
"Oh so you bedded her?" Salina smiled devilishly at him knowing that she was getting on his nerves.
Will was about to retort back but he found a better solution, pressing his fingers to her wound. Salina let out a bellowing scream that echoed throughout the entire ship. Through gritted teeth she spoke huskily, "Damn you to Davie Jones' locker! Argh!"
"Serves you right." Cat entered the room with a smile, her bright green eyes streaming through her thick black lashes and boring into Salina's head.
Cat sat in a chair on the opposite side of the bed looking at the grown woman with amusement. Salina rolled her eyes, "I'm glad I'm your bloody entertainment for the day."
"Don't worry I'm almost done." Will looked down her arm and noticed a rose tattooed to her forearm, "where did you get that?"
"Get what?"
"That tattoo?"
Salina gave him a glare before answering, perhaps he really hadn't known, and "It was a long time ago, a sore subject to be sure so f you don't mind dropping it I'd be much obliged."
"A sore subject eh?" Cat looked up at Will with a small thread of distress. "Does it have to do with Jack?"
Salina closed her eyes and let the events of that particular day flow through her mind. The day that she had stormed out of a pub and Jack talked to her about it then went with her to get the tattoo he was her counselor then, she loved that memory it was one of her better ones. She lay there in silence for a while as Will and Cat studied her reaction to the question at hand.
Her eyes opened and she stared at the ceiling waiting for the question to be posed again, which never happened. "You know you're as persistent as your father was." Salina smiled a moment before continuing, "Like I said it was a long time ago and I'm going to leave it at that. Now if you are done with my arm I'd like to get back to work."
Will removed his hand from her shoulder and allowed her to sit up and stretch. "I'll be off now," with that salina stood and walked back out onto the deck rolling her sleeve back down and covering up the tattoo.
"That woman has a lot of secrets," Will suggested as he watched Salina vacate the room.
"Aye, that she does but I think Jack may have more."
"I think you may be right."
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Salina stepped out onto the deck and let the sea breeze whip through her damp heavy hair. She looked around and saw everyone hard at work not worried about what the future would hold. A shiver went up her spine and she noticed Elizabeth walking towards her.
"Beth?"
"Salina can I ask you a personal question?"
"What's this about Beth?"
"Do you love this life? The life of a pirate?"
Salina scoffed, "Of course, it's in me veins. Why do you ask? You're not thinking of being a pirate are you?"
"Maybe, Its just lately I have felt rather free spirited a little like I'm leaving behind a life."
"What type of a life? Or is it that you want to leave behind a life of love and live one of adventure?" Salina raised an eyebrow and looked at the younger woman with curious eyes.
Elizabeth didn't answer and allowed her eyes to float to the floor as she shoved passed Salina down to the lower quarters.
Salina rolled her eyes, "Young love. Does it always have its troubles? If so why does it pull me into them?" She sighed and began to work again.
"Perhaps it feels a certain attraction to you." A husky voice sternly noted.
"Perhaps I just linger in trouble." Salina replied not even turning to see whom she was speaking with.
"Perhaps that is the irresistible attraction that you poses." The man who contained the husky voice leaned on the railing in front of Salina.
"Jack I wish you'd quite your useless acts of trying to seduce me, It aint going to work. So bug off!" Salina pushed him aside and continued to tie the ropes.
Jack stood laughing, amused at her frustration, "Do I tire you, love?"
Salina starred him sternly in the eye watching the words flow from his mouth, "As a matter of fact ye do, so if ye don't mind leaving that would be wonderful."
"So it's okay for you to pester me, but when it's you working and me being the obnoxious brat then there's a problem, eh?"
"Sounds about right."
Jack stepped up behind her this time wrapping his hands around her fairly built abdomen. "Is that right?" He began in a whisper massaging her sides, his tender touch causing memories to fly through her mind, memories she had forgotten, ones she did not want to remember.
Salina closed her eyes biting her bottom lip tightly as her hands rolled over the top of his. "Aye, it is," she grabbed his hands and flung them from her body storming off down the deck, not even looking back at the man she left standing dumbfounded in the center of the deck.
"Salina," he called to her hoping that she might turn around and come back to him, even though he knew it would never happen.
Salina spun around and looked at him with longing eyes, "You know next I'm in trouble I think I'm just going to stick it out on my own because I find it too hard to keep business separate from pleasure!" She sighed enthusiastically and looked back up to him, "if you decide to come talk to me, nothing more, I'll be in my cabin. But the only thing I will have you discuss with me is that of our little adventure and I don't mean one that ends in your bed." With that she turned back around and walked heavily down the steps to her quarters.
She entered her room and slammed the door examining the small crowded room. "I HATE HIM!" Salina picked up a wooded chair and tossed it against the wall allowing the broken splinters to fall to the floor.
She slid down the back of the door pulling her knees to her chest and wrapping her arms around them, "But I love him so much more." Her lips became shaky and she could feel the cold tears pulling at the corners of her eyes, "No! I will not cry for him ever again!"
There was a sudden knock at the door and Salina scooted away, standing and then wiping her face to rid it of its painful disposition.
"Salina are ye okay? I heard a crash."
"I'm just fine."
"May I come in?"
Salina sat on her minuscule bed and stared at the door a moment before responding, "Sure."
Cat stepped in and looked around noticing the broken pieces of a chair scattered in the corner, her eyes turned to Salina who was trying desperately to fight away her tears of rage. She walked over and sat down next to the older woman, 'Are you sure you're all right?"
Salina put her head in her hands and then lifted it back up shaking her head, "No, I'm not. But," she smiled at Cat, "don't worry about me." Salina peered at Cat's palm with curiosity.
"What? Do I have something on my hand?"
Salina snapped out of her daze and recoiled her thoughts, "oh, no. It's just I was thinking about your scars, the ones on your right palm."
"I already told you god knows how many times what happened."
"I know, it's just they remind me of something," she picked Cat's calloused hand up and examined it, "Come with me a moment."
Salina pulled Cat out of her room and ran recklessly up on6to the deck. "Where are ye taking me Salina?'
Salina shoved opened Jack's door and rushed over to his desk slumping down in his chair and rummaging through his crinkled maps, "Come here, let me see your hand."
"I thought you said you weren't going to talk to me, eh?" Jack inquired as he glared over her shoulder at the maps.
"I'm not, I'm simply using your maps, savvy?"
Jack leaned further down and rested his neck on Salina's shoulder rubbing his hands up and down her arms. "That's fine by me, because we don't have to talk at all."
Salina looked up at Cat, who was laughing at the two of them, and rolled her eyes. "Jack if ye don't mind?" There was a certain frustration in her voice.
He smiled and backed away, "As ye wish." Jack turned and was about to leave when the sudden urge to continue harassing Salina hit him. "But, make sure you see me when you're done. We have, " he paused a moment looking at Cat, "things to discuss, savvy?"
Salina relaxed and gave a pleasing grin to the sinful man at the door and spoke in a most harmonious voice, "Aye Jack we WILL have many things to discuss once I find the coordinates to this treasure of which you have vaguely described. B Have a nice day!" With that she went back to the maps, constantly looking in between Cat's palm and the rigid parchment.
Jack turned and walked out, slamming the door behind him, "Damn women, the whole lot of em'!"
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"If ye don't mind me asking, how are my scars going to help ye find a treasure? I'm mean to me it seems kind of mad but hey if it makes sense to you please share your thoughts with me."
"I'm not exactly sure, all I know is what Jack told me."
"Oh great we're going on his word," she let out an over-emphasized groan and slouched over the desk.
"Well it's better than none, I s'pose. I've found it!" Salina dropped Cat's hand and pulled the map out from underneath all the others and looked it over carefully. She stood and ran out of the room onto the deck and up to the helm where Jack stood steering.
"Find something of interest, love?" He asked with a raised brow.
"As a matter of fact I did, but I am a little puzzled." She brought the map over to him and pointed to a certain spot, " I found the coordinates based on her scars but there is no island or anything in that region."
Jack leaned over enjoying her closeness to him, he grazed his hand across her back and she moved away, "Jack please try to pay attention for a moment!"
"I haven't the slightest idea of what you are speaking about," he gave his seductive grin, the one that makes Salina shiver with passion inside.
She turned her face back to the map avoiding his comment, "Jack you know these maps better than anyone else so what lies in that spot?" Salina brought the map back over to him and he studied it for a short period of time then broke out in a roaring laugh.
Salina looked him over with questioning eyes, "he's gone mad."
"No," Jack tried to settle his sudden burst of joy, "no, do you see where that spot is? What's the one place in the Caribbean that has a significant tie to us other then Port Royal and Tortuga?" This time he looked at her with seriousness.
She bit her lip before she replied, "Sakura Island?" Jack nodded his head, a slight smile shaping on his salty lips. "But why would Barbossa go back there?"
"Haven't got the slightest idea, love. But we're nearing Tortuga, we should be there by nightfall."
Salina rolled her eyes, "Oh joy." She took the map and walked off.