Chapter 18:
A/N: Okay last one was sweet this one will move a little faster, I was just in a lovely mood earlier that's all. Time for some action! lol, More candy anyone?
Disclaimer: I don't own it! *pouts*
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RECAP:
Jack stood and walked over to her, he crouched down next to her rubbing her back. There were no words he could say or even think of he was dumbfounded beyond belief. He moved Salina to where she was leaning up against his chest the tears still running down her face.
"Don't leave me, don't ever leave me." She whispered in between sobs, "I can't bare to loose you again."
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Jack ran his fingers through her unruly blonde hair and then kissed her head, "You won't."
The room became quiet with the setting sun. it's beautiful rays of pink, orange, and red danced across the far-wall etching a lovely designed that dumbfounded Salina. She could no longer think and even as the old woman spoke she did not comprehend her full sentence.
"I believe it's best for us to start our search then eh? Not going to find much of a ship after dark."
Salina looked up at the woman puzzled; her eyes still flush with wet tears, now comprehending what she said. "You'll help us then?" The woman nodded and motioned for them to enter back into her room.
Jack helped pull Salina from the floor but the stubborn side of her wouldn't allow it. She pushed herself up from the ground and stood wiping her tears, "don't need no help from a man," she eyed Jack for a minute then sniffled, "not to stand up that is."
A gentle smile crept across her face as she weakly walked into the room, still in shock of what she had said. 'I love him', Salina couldn't believe those words left her mouth. It had been so long since she admitted something and she felt wonderful now that she had, but crazed at the same time. 'Where would this lead? Back to an apartment in a bed? Dear lord, please no! This is the last thing I need on my mind at the moment! Elizabeth and the crew are in danger and I'm here thinking about', she turned her head and looked at Jack then quickly shook the thought from her head.
"Please take a seat," the woman motioned to them, "So a ship in the Caribbean has your crew and your ship and you want me to locate it right?"
"Aye, that's about it," Jack stated trying to clutter his mind with work instead of the previous situation; it all confused him.
"Well then, do you have anything from the ship besides yourselves? Something like a diary, shirt, sword, something that had been left on the ship for a while?"
Salina searched her mind frantically for any memory of things that were on that ship along time and the only thing that came to mind was Jack, 'GOD DAMMIT! AHHHHHHHHH!' She thrust her hand to her forehead and rested her head on the table in front of them.
"Everything all right in there, love?" Jack questioned, as he looked her over suspiciously.
There was a muffled reply from under her arm, "Yes I'm perfectly fine! Please continue!" Her long hair draped over her sleeves and dangled at her side.
Jack gave one more questionable glance at her before he continued, "right then, everything that was on the ship was also lost when me ship was stolen."
The woman glanced at him eagerly seeming as though she knew something that he over looked, "not even a small token of affection?"
"Affection? Didn't we just have enough of that?" Jack protested his voice becoming raspy.
Salina peeped one eye out from under her arm and watched him intensely. The woman spoke again thia time in a more stern tone, "Not actual affection, a token of affection!"
Jack sat there a moment a bit confused as to what she was getting at, and then it struck him. "Ah that!" He reached inside his pocket and pulled out a long silver chain with two charms strung on it, the necklace was a little charred around the edges but still in good working order.
Salina through her head up, her disorderly locks flying about. "THAT'S MY NECKLACE!"
"Please child calm yourself! You don't want to give yourself a headache now do you?" The old woman persuaded, and Salina let her temper slide as the necklace was passed from Jack to the old woman.
She grumbled and crossed her arms to her chest, "Do I look like a child to you? I'm thirty-one years old, I am hardly a child anymore."
"Then stop acting like one!" The old woman snapped and Salina was left in her anger and disappointment.
Jack sat in his chair trying desperately to hold back his humor but it got the best of him and he began laughing.
Salina turned to him and gave him the dirtiest look she could conjure, "I suppose this is funny to you?" Jack nodded his head still laughing, "Well at least I'm not thirty-nine and acting like a child!"
Jack stopped his laughing and glared at her, "How do you know my age?"
"Jack you're talking to a woman who sailed on a ship with you for two years and who knows more about you than you know about yourself. You don't think she'd know how old you were?"
"Oh," he paused a moment attempting to create a comeback, "I bet you a mug of rum I know more about you than you know of me!"
Before Salina could reply the old woman cut in, "What the bloody Hell is wrong with you people?"
Jack and Salina both turned their heads simultaneously and looked at the flustered woman. "What?"
"Your crew is in danger and all you two can think about is rum and a bet? Who are you people?"
"Pirates, love. Thought we made that clear when we first entered?" Jack replied with a smirk.
Salina slouched in the old wooden chair, she heard a crack and thought it best to stand before it bust in half right under her. "Please continue with your search," she insisted to the mystic.
"Fine then," the woman took the necklace into another room with her, "I will return shortly with the location of your ship and crew." Salina nodded and walked over to the windowsill in the front room.
The wood planks creaked as she walked on them. Salina peered out of the window and down the street at the harbor. The bright colorful lights had moved away and the sun was on the verge of disappearing into the sea. "I wonder where Will and Cat are." She pondered to herself as she crossed her arms to her chest once more.
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"Run!" Cat dashed past Will running head on down the crowded evening streets of Tortuga trying desperately to get out of an ongoing chase.
Will caught up with her and they turned a sharp corner still running away, "What did you do?"
"All I did was steal an apple and-."
"And what?" Will scolded loudly as she turned into a vacant alley.
"And this!" She held out a small pouch and shook it at him.
Will took the pouch and opened it, inside were gold pieces and jewels. "Why did you have to go and do that Cat? Now we're being chased like dogs!"
"Oh turner you really need to learn how to live," Cat sighed exhaustedly and leaned against a wall recovering her breathing to a steady pace.
"I suppose, but aren't we to be doing something?"
Cat inched closer to him, "What did you have in mind?" A sly grin placed itself on her face and she moved closer to him.
"Oh Lord, please tell me your Captain doesn't rub off on you that much?"
Cat's pleased expression vanished, "And what if I am just like her, what then? Would you be terribly upset?" She studied Will's reaction for a moment and when she wasn't satisfied she went about harassing him more, "Oh I forgot you like your women to be rich and stuck up with perfect hair and beautiful clothes. You wouldn't have a rough neck like me, I'm too dirty, well suits yourself! Couldn't deny that it would've been fun!" With that she turned and marched out in the street.
"Where are you going?" Will shouted at her and she turned to look at him.
"Well seems how we've got time to kill since they aren't back yet, she paused a moment thinking to herself, 'gee I wonder what they're doing? Well they're probably a lot warmer than me at the moment.'
She turned back to Will, "I was goin' to go get me a whiskey and sit out by the peer until they came! Care to join me! Ye can be my escort," she teased just to see his appalled reaction but when there was none she became very uneasy. "What?"
Will shook his head and walked up to her, "You were saying before that I don't know a good time so would you care to show me then?"
Cat smiled and took his arm, "right this way sir, you'll find ever flowing rivers of alcohol, plenty of pleasurable company, music high enough to lift your spirits and me, your beautiful spectacular hostess!" will laughed as she led the way down the street pointing out several places as they walked as if he were a tourist. "And over here that's smell Bill's place he's a good cook but he has a god awful stench that seems to carry with him!"
"How do you know all of these places so well if you haven't been here in years?"
Cat raised her eyebrow, "Who says we haven't?" Will gave a puzzling glance to her, "every time we'd pass this island Salina would tell me to keep track of how far away we were by the end of the day and after everyone had passed out safe for the person in the crows nest we'd take a rowboat and secretly come back here. I can't recon why she'd come back, but we had ourselves loads of fun. She'd always tell me that you knew you were in heaven when you could go to a place where men gave you free rum just to see your shoulder. Some men are just so desperate, thank god you're not one of them!"
"Well you two seem to be very close."
"Don't be getting any ideas, she's like my sister not my lover!" She shouted at William.
"No! No, I wasn't meaning it like that!"
"Better not have or else you'd get a grand whipping!"
"Oh what you think you can whip me?" Will proclaimed.
"Yes, but some other time, savvy?"
"Why, you chicken?"
"No, but those men are back!" She pointed to a group of pirates in front of her and then pulled William down a side street. They kept running not stopping for anything.
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The old woman came out of the back room, "I have found where they are located!"
"And?" Jack insisted giving a dirty look. Salina hit his side and he winced slightly.
"They are heading towards Bridgetown in Barbados."
"Barbados that's at least a three day journey from here!" Jack burst out again.
This time Salina didn't hit him or scold him, she didn't even say anything because she wasn't paying attention. "Jack we have to go!"
"I know we have to go, me ship is taken by the un-dead!"
"No I mean we have to go now! Will and Cat just ran by and it seems like they're in a lot of trouble!"
"Well how do you know that?"
"The mob of pirates chasing them was a very direct clue!" Salina turned to the woman, "Thank you so much." She grabbed Jack and ran outside.
"But Sal- Salina! Let go! Dear Lord woman!"
"What?"
"Your grips like a mans!"
"Jack we don't have time for you to harass me!"
"Well I guess you don't have time to go back in there and get the necklace she just stole from you then, eh?"
Salina clasped her hand to her neck, "My necklace. I'll be back!" Salina walked heavily into the house again and into the back room.
"You are not allowed back here!" The old woman shouted and Salina caught a glimpse of the younger woman with her necklace strung around her stick like neck.
"THAT'S MINE! GET IT OFF YOUR NECK YOU FILTHY WHORE!" Salina shouted at the younger woman.
"How dare you speak to my granddaughter that way!"
Salina aimed her pistol at the lasses head, "If you don't remove it from that sick neck of hers I'll remove it myself and it'll be a might messy in here!
The old woman's lip quivered and she moved to her granddaughter, her pale flesh turning red as she handed the chain to Salina.
"Thank you kindly. Good day to you ladies." Salina bowed slightly and exited the house shoving the chain in her pants pocket as she rushed down the steps to Jack.
He turned in the dim light of the almost completely engulfed sun, "Did you get it?"
"What do you think?" She smiled and began to run in the direction in which Cat and Will had headed.
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A/N: Well that's it for now tomorrow is another day! I'll have more tomorrow I promise! Until then, TA!
A/N: Okay last one was sweet this one will move a little faster, I was just in a lovely mood earlier that's all. Time for some action! lol, More candy anyone?
Disclaimer: I don't own it! *pouts*
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RECAP:
Jack stood and walked over to her, he crouched down next to her rubbing her back. There were no words he could say or even think of he was dumbfounded beyond belief. He moved Salina to where she was leaning up against his chest the tears still running down her face.
"Don't leave me, don't ever leave me." She whispered in between sobs, "I can't bare to loose you again."
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Jack ran his fingers through her unruly blonde hair and then kissed her head, "You won't."
The room became quiet with the setting sun. it's beautiful rays of pink, orange, and red danced across the far-wall etching a lovely designed that dumbfounded Salina. She could no longer think and even as the old woman spoke she did not comprehend her full sentence.
"I believe it's best for us to start our search then eh? Not going to find much of a ship after dark."
Salina looked up at the woman puzzled; her eyes still flush with wet tears, now comprehending what she said. "You'll help us then?" The woman nodded and motioned for them to enter back into her room.
Jack helped pull Salina from the floor but the stubborn side of her wouldn't allow it. She pushed herself up from the ground and stood wiping her tears, "don't need no help from a man," she eyed Jack for a minute then sniffled, "not to stand up that is."
A gentle smile crept across her face as she weakly walked into the room, still in shock of what she had said. 'I love him', Salina couldn't believe those words left her mouth. It had been so long since she admitted something and she felt wonderful now that she had, but crazed at the same time. 'Where would this lead? Back to an apartment in a bed? Dear lord, please no! This is the last thing I need on my mind at the moment! Elizabeth and the crew are in danger and I'm here thinking about', she turned her head and looked at Jack then quickly shook the thought from her head.
"Please take a seat," the woman motioned to them, "So a ship in the Caribbean has your crew and your ship and you want me to locate it right?"
"Aye, that's about it," Jack stated trying to clutter his mind with work instead of the previous situation; it all confused him.
"Well then, do you have anything from the ship besides yourselves? Something like a diary, shirt, sword, something that had been left on the ship for a while?"
Salina searched her mind frantically for any memory of things that were on that ship along time and the only thing that came to mind was Jack, 'GOD DAMMIT! AHHHHHHHHH!' She thrust her hand to her forehead and rested her head on the table in front of them.
"Everything all right in there, love?" Jack questioned, as he looked her over suspiciously.
There was a muffled reply from under her arm, "Yes I'm perfectly fine! Please continue!" Her long hair draped over her sleeves and dangled at her side.
Jack gave one more questionable glance at her before he continued, "right then, everything that was on the ship was also lost when me ship was stolen."
The woman glanced at him eagerly seeming as though she knew something that he over looked, "not even a small token of affection?"
"Affection? Didn't we just have enough of that?" Jack protested his voice becoming raspy.
Salina peeped one eye out from under her arm and watched him intensely. The woman spoke again thia time in a more stern tone, "Not actual affection, a token of affection!"
Jack sat there a moment a bit confused as to what she was getting at, and then it struck him. "Ah that!" He reached inside his pocket and pulled out a long silver chain with two charms strung on it, the necklace was a little charred around the edges but still in good working order.
Salina through her head up, her disorderly locks flying about. "THAT'S MY NECKLACE!"
"Please child calm yourself! You don't want to give yourself a headache now do you?" The old woman persuaded, and Salina let her temper slide as the necklace was passed from Jack to the old woman.
She grumbled and crossed her arms to her chest, "Do I look like a child to you? I'm thirty-one years old, I am hardly a child anymore."
"Then stop acting like one!" The old woman snapped and Salina was left in her anger and disappointment.
Jack sat in his chair trying desperately to hold back his humor but it got the best of him and he began laughing.
Salina turned to him and gave him the dirtiest look she could conjure, "I suppose this is funny to you?" Jack nodded his head still laughing, "Well at least I'm not thirty-nine and acting like a child!"
Jack stopped his laughing and glared at her, "How do you know my age?"
"Jack you're talking to a woman who sailed on a ship with you for two years and who knows more about you than you know about yourself. You don't think she'd know how old you were?"
"Oh," he paused a moment attempting to create a comeback, "I bet you a mug of rum I know more about you than you know of me!"
Before Salina could reply the old woman cut in, "What the bloody Hell is wrong with you people?"
Jack and Salina both turned their heads simultaneously and looked at the flustered woman. "What?"
"Your crew is in danger and all you two can think about is rum and a bet? Who are you people?"
"Pirates, love. Thought we made that clear when we first entered?" Jack replied with a smirk.
Salina slouched in the old wooden chair, she heard a crack and thought it best to stand before it bust in half right under her. "Please continue with your search," she insisted to the mystic.
"Fine then," the woman took the necklace into another room with her, "I will return shortly with the location of your ship and crew." Salina nodded and walked over to the windowsill in the front room.
The wood planks creaked as she walked on them. Salina peered out of the window and down the street at the harbor. The bright colorful lights had moved away and the sun was on the verge of disappearing into the sea. "I wonder where Will and Cat are." She pondered to herself as she crossed her arms to her chest once more.
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"Run!" Cat dashed past Will running head on down the crowded evening streets of Tortuga trying desperately to get out of an ongoing chase.
Will caught up with her and they turned a sharp corner still running away, "What did you do?"
"All I did was steal an apple and-."
"And what?" Will scolded loudly as she turned into a vacant alley.
"And this!" She held out a small pouch and shook it at him.
Will took the pouch and opened it, inside were gold pieces and jewels. "Why did you have to go and do that Cat? Now we're being chased like dogs!"
"Oh turner you really need to learn how to live," Cat sighed exhaustedly and leaned against a wall recovering her breathing to a steady pace.
"I suppose, but aren't we to be doing something?"
Cat inched closer to him, "What did you have in mind?" A sly grin placed itself on her face and she moved closer to him.
"Oh Lord, please tell me your Captain doesn't rub off on you that much?"
Cat's pleased expression vanished, "And what if I am just like her, what then? Would you be terribly upset?" She studied Will's reaction for a moment and when she wasn't satisfied she went about harassing him more, "Oh I forgot you like your women to be rich and stuck up with perfect hair and beautiful clothes. You wouldn't have a rough neck like me, I'm too dirty, well suits yourself! Couldn't deny that it would've been fun!" With that she turned and marched out in the street.
"Where are you going?" Will shouted at her and she turned to look at him.
"Well seems how we've got time to kill since they aren't back yet, she paused a moment thinking to herself, 'gee I wonder what they're doing? Well they're probably a lot warmer than me at the moment.'
She turned back to Will, "I was goin' to go get me a whiskey and sit out by the peer until they came! Care to join me! Ye can be my escort," she teased just to see his appalled reaction but when there was none she became very uneasy. "What?"
Will shook his head and walked up to her, "You were saying before that I don't know a good time so would you care to show me then?"
Cat smiled and took his arm, "right this way sir, you'll find ever flowing rivers of alcohol, plenty of pleasurable company, music high enough to lift your spirits and me, your beautiful spectacular hostess!" will laughed as she led the way down the street pointing out several places as they walked as if he were a tourist. "And over here that's smell Bill's place he's a good cook but he has a god awful stench that seems to carry with him!"
"How do you know all of these places so well if you haven't been here in years?"
Cat raised her eyebrow, "Who says we haven't?" Will gave a puzzling glance to her, "every time we'd pass this island Salina would tell me to keep track of how far away we were by the end of the day and after everyone had passed out safe for the person in the crows nest we'd take a rowboat and secretly come back here. I can't recon why she'd come back, but we had ourselves loads of fun. She'd always tell me that you knew you were in heaven when you could go to a place where men gave you free rum just to see your shoulder. Some men are just so desperate, thank god you're not one of them!"
"Well you two seem to be very close."
"Don't be getting any ideas, she's like my sister not my lover!" She shouted at William.
"No! No, I wasn't meaning it like that!"
"Better not have or else you'd get a grand whipping!"
"Oh what you think you can whip me?" Will proclaimed.
"Yes, but some other time, savvy?"
"Why, you chicken?"
"No, but those men are back!" She pointed to a group of pirates in front of her and then pulled William down a side street. They kept running not stopping for anything.
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The old woman came out of the back room, "I have found where they are located!"
"And?" Jack insisted giving a dirty look. Salina hit his side and he winced slightly.
"They are heading towards Bridgetown in Barbados."
"Barbados that's at least a three day journey from here!" Jack burst out again.
This time Salina didn't hit him or scold him, she didn't even say anything because she wasn't paying attention. "Jack we have to go!"
"I know we have to go, me ship is taken by the un-dead!"
"No I mean we have to go now! Will and Cat just ran by and it seems like they're in a lot of trouble!"
"Well how do you know that?"
"The mob of pirates chasing them was a very direct clue!" Salina turned to the woman, "Thank you so much." She grabbed Jack and ran outside.
"But Sal- Salina! Let go! Dear Lord woman!"
"What?"
"Your grips like a mans!"
"Jack we don't have time for you to harass me!"
"Well I guess you don't have time to go back in there and get the necklace she just stole from you then, eh?"
Salina clasped her hand to her neck, "My necklace. I'll be back!" Salina walked heavily into the house again and into the back room.
"You are not allowed back here!" The old woman shouted and Salina caught a glimpse of the younger woman with her necklace strung around her stick like neck.
"THAT'S MINE! GET IT OFF YOUR NECK YOU FILTHY WHORE!" Salina shouted at the younger woman.
"How dare you speak to my granddaughter that way!"
Salina aimed her pistol at the lasses head, "If you don't remove it from that sick neck of hers I'll remove it myself and it'll be a might messy in here!
The old woman's lip quivered and she moved to her granddaughter, her pale flesh turning red as she handed the chain to Salina.
"Thank you kindly. Good day to you ladies." Salina bowed slightly and exited the house shoving the chain in her pants pocket as she rushed down the steps to Jack.
He turned in the dim light of the almost completely engulfed sun, "Did you get it?"
"What do you think?" She smiled and began to run in the direction in which Cat and Will had headed.
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A/N: Well that's it for now tomorrow is another day! I'll have more tomorrow I promise! Until then, TA!