Chapter 23:
A/N: ah, the sweet smell of morning air! *gets poked in the back by an impatient reader* Yeah, yeah, I know. On with the story, I got it! Here it is! Hershey kiss? *holds out Hershey kiss to the reader who shakes her head furiously* Well can't say I didn't try. *winces* Ouch that hurt, watch how hard you poke that thing! OUCH!
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"Jack we have to get to Elizabeth!" Salina slammed the door shut and glared at the man who sat comfortably behind his desk. The room was bright full of extravagant light that flowed through the windows.
"What do you think we're doing?" He looked down at his maps ignoring her statement.
"No Jack, you don't understand! We have to find her before she dies!"
Jack waved his hand hastily at her, his eyes still fixed on his precious map. "DAMN IT JACK, LISTEN TO ME!" Salina ripped the map out from under his arms.
"What the bloody hell do you think you're doing? Give me map back!"
"I'm making you listen, that's what I'm, doing!" Salina folded up the map and stuck it in her back pocket. Jack stood up in anger and would have lunged at Salina if the point of her cutlass wasn't forced upon his throat.
"You won't run me through, you can't."
"Try me," she said in a low stern voice pressing the sword further and further against his neck. "Now you will listen to me Jack if it kills me. We have to get to Beth now because she is very weak and ill."
"And how would you know this? You haven't seen her for days, like the rest of us."
"Well generally when you get morning sickness you're ill, and very weak."
"Wait, morning sickness?" Salina lowered the cutlass and sheathed it looking at a most perplexed Sparrow. "Morning sickness as in being-."
"Pregnant? Yes, she is. But you can't say a thing to Will, because I'm not supposed to know. I happened to be walking passed his door and I could hear him muttering incoherently to himself."
"You eavesdropped on him?" Jack raised his eyebrow at her.
"No I didn't eavesdropped I just listened in on his secret thoughts."
"You eavesdropped."
"Fine! Maybe I did! But that still doesn't solve our problem, what if Barbossa knows? What might he do? We have to get to her Jack, we have to now!"
"Right, right, I completely understand you, love. But could I be having me ru- I mean map back now?"
Salina squinted her eyes and studied him for a moment. She walked around the desk, leaned down and smelled him. "Jack, please tell me you're not drunk."
"And what if I am, will you punish me?" He smiled in the seductive way of his and Salina tried to back up.
"Oh no, Jack! Ahh!" Salina toppled backwards onto the floor her hair dangling from her ponytail. "Jack, please not now! Don't do this! You're drunk! Filthy stinking drunk!"
Jack had her pinned to the ground and the smell of rum overwhelmed her. "Jack please think of Elizabeth! She could be dying!"
"We can save her tomorrow, right now I've got me hands full!"
"Jack get off of me!" His right hand ran smoothly through her ponytail undoing it.
"Jack please It's only eight o'clock!" Salina's voice was shaky as she tried to relieve herself of him.
"You were always better in the morning." He began kissing her neck intimately.
"Jack! Get the Hell off of me!" Salina pushed him up by his shoulders, an evil look forming on her face gave Jack the conclusion that she didn't want this.
The door opened and Will walked in, "Jack? You okay? I heard shouts." Will looked around the room for Jack; Salina was grateful that he could not see behind the desk.
"Jack, I'm terribly sorry for this." Salina whispered to him as she watched Will's feet from under the desk.
"Sorry for what, love?"
"Sorry for this," Salina brought her knee up and made contact with his groin.
Jack backed off of her and rolled on the floor in agony. Salina stood and looked at Will, "You'll find him behind the desk with his rum."
"Bloody ell' woman! You're going to paralyze me for life!"
"Good! I won't have to worry about any little Sparrow's running around now will I?" Salina felt through her hair pulling out the fabric that held her hair up. "Will, in another hour he won't remember a thing, he's too drunk! I'm going to go to the helm and steer this blasted ship in the right direction, do us a favor and watch over the dear Captain, will ye?"
Will nodded and Salina walked out of the room slamming the door behind her. Will climbed on the desk and looked down at Jack, "So you tried to bed her and she refused?"
"Eh put a cork in it Turner!" Jack picked up his rum bottle and took another big gulp as William sat on the desk laughing.
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"Well Mrs. Turner, I'm glad to have your help on this little escapade. It's an honor."
"Save the fancy talk Barbossa I'm just doing this to salvage my family." Elizabeth cleared her throat and tried to sit up. "I would never do anything to solely help the likes of you."
"Well if this is the closest I can get to your blessed help, than so be it. I still thank you. Now, what would you say to a warm breakfast?" Barbossa's smile disturbed Elizabeth but she nodded and ate willingly.
"Now share with me your ideas for their capture," he propped his feet up on the desk.
"First, I need to know where we are going. You are going to have to make me next in command on this ship if you expect this to work right. I need to know all the details of our voyage, all the ups and downs, stocks, things like that for my plan to work." Elizabeth picked up an apple and bit into it, "and lastly why you are back. How did you come into being and why is it so precious to capture Jack and Salina? I know it may seem like a lot but it is vital."
"Why might it be a vital thing?" Barbossa sneered as he picked up a roll from the breakfast plate; he studied it and then smelled it.
"Well, it's like that roll. You see how you can smell the roll; you can feel and see it? But what's the point if you can't eat it? Well I need all this information so that I can help you capture Jack and Salina otherwise what's the point?"
Barbossa sat quietly in his chair reviewing her point, "You present a good argument," Barbossa stood and walked back over to the bed extending his hand, "it's a deal." Their hands met and shook promptly, "But if I should find that you double-crossed me it will be your neck dangling from the rope!"
"Have no fear of that Barbossa," she bit into the apple again, the juice running down the side of its leathery surface.
"So what's your plan?" Elizabeth's grin widened and she whispered into Barbossa's ear.
"But before we can even begin, I have to be healthy enough to stand and fight again." She continued looking down at her weak body.
"How long will that take?"
"About a day. Where are we heading?"
"Bridgetown, we'll be there in two more days."
"I wasn't aware that it took this long to get over there."
"It doesn't, we were set back. Some bloody fool forgot to pull the starboard anchor up when we left Tortuga so we had to patch a piece of the ship up."
"I see, well I really must be getting my rest now, when I wake later we will discuss this further." Elizabeth turned over in the bed and listened as Barbossa left the room..
"God Will, I'm so sorry for doing this." Her voice ventured off into a deep sleep.
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Salina walked out of the cabin and leaned up against the railing of the ship. She rubbed her temples furiously and thought about the situation she was just in, she didn't want it that way. She didn't want to be known as the one he slept with when he was drunk, the accident. Salina wasn't going to do that again, she wasn't going to be the butt of his jokes and be humiliated. That just wasn't her style.
Cat came running over to her; mop still in hand, "Salina! Hey, there's a ship!" She pointed out into the ocean at a faint shadow glinting in the sun's light.
Salina looked up into the sun and tried to see the ship, "Cat there's not ship. It's just your imagination."
No! Look!" Cat pressed her hands to Salina's face and forced her to look.
"SWEET MARY MOTHER OF GOD! WE FOUND THEM! IT'S THEM!" Salina started jumping up and down happy as can be and Cat slowly backed up.
"Salina what's gotten into you?"
"No time to talk now we must tell Will and Jack," Salina grabbed Cat's hand and dragged her along.
Salina flung opened the door to the cabin, "We've found them! They're straight ahead of us! They're there!" Her excitement lightened the room.
Jack tried to stand up from behind the desk and he ended up falling over onto the floor. The glass rum bottle he had in his hand shattered on the floor. "Jack!"
Salina went over to him and helped him up, "dear lord Jack how drunk can you get? Look at your hand! You're bleeding, you stupid cad! I wouldn't be surprised if you killed yourself one day because of this."
"I've been a pirate longer than you, love, I think I can take care of meself," his words slurred together as he sat on the floor next to her.
"Oh is that so? I'd like to see you bandage this right now." Salina tore a piece of her shirt and cleaned Jack's cut out with rum from a second bottle hidden under the desk.
"Salina?" Cat looked around the room as if trying to find something.
"Yes Cat? What is it?"
"Where's Will?"
Salina looked around the room and didn't see him, "Jack? Jack?" Salina shook him slightly.
"Dear lord woman! What ye want?" Was his only reply; the stench of rum filling his breath.
"Where is Turner? Jack where is Will?"
"He's over there," Jack pointed to a small closet, "poor boy got so drunk off one bottle, I can last longer than that!"
Salina pushed Jack's mouth away from her face, "I'm sure you can," she rolled her eyes and looked up at Cat, "Cat will you go see if he's okay, I kind of can't move at the moment."
Cat gazed down at Salina laughing; Jack was half laying on her, his head propped on her shoulder. There was a sudden commencing of snoring. "Oh god no! He's passed out on me cat!" Cat walked over to the closet laughing the whole time.
"AND REALLY BAD EGGS!" Will popped out of the closet with a rum bottle in hand. Cat screamed and fell to the floor, still in shock of seeing Will drunk. "Whoa, that must've hurt." He slurred watching Cat on the floor.
"Here I'll help you up," he leaned down to help her up but ended up falling to the floor himself.
"Oh this is just wonderful! We finally catch up to Barbossa and these two decide to have a little fun and get drunk! Now we're left, how in the bleeding ell' are we supposed to do this alone?" Salina let out a scream of frustration.
Jack stirred in his sleep and wrapped his arms around her waist, "My treasure, gold, silver-." He continued to mumble in his sleep.
"Just wonderful, I'm held captive by a drunken buffoon! This really makes my day!"
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A/N: Don't Change that Web-site! More to come soon! Stay tune for scenes from the next chapter! (I've always wanted to say that!!!) More drunken stupidity, evil plotting, irritated pirates, battles, fighting, the whole nine yards coming to you soon! Thanks for reading, and please don't forget to review, thanks! Until next time, TA!
A/N: ah, the sweet smell of morning air! *gets poked in the back by an impatient reader* Yeah, yeah, I know. On with the story, I got it! Here it is! Hershey kiss? *holds out Hershey kiss to the reader who shakes her head furiously* Well can't say I didn't try. *winces* Ouch that hurt, watch how hard you poke that thing! OUCH!
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"Jack we have to get to Elizabeth!" Salina slammed the door shut and glared at the man who sat comfortably behind his desk. The room was bright full of extravagant light that flowed through the windows.
"What do you think we're doing?" He looked down at his maps ignoring her statement.
"No Jack, you don't understand! We have to find her before she dies!"
Jack waved his hand hastily at her, his eyes still fixed on his precious map. "DAMN IT JACK, LISTEN TO ME!" Salina ripped the map out from under his arms.
"What the bloody hell do you think you're doing? Give me map back!"
"I'm making you listen, that's what I'm, doing!" Salina folded up the map and stuck it in her back pocket. Jack stood up in anger and would have lunged at Salina if the point of her cutlass wasn't forced upon his throat.
"You won't run me through, you can't."
"Try me," she said in a low stern voice pressing the sword further and further against his neck. "Now you will listen to me Jack if it kills me. We have to get to Beth now because she is very weak and ill."
"And how would you know this? You haven't seen her for days, like the rest of us."
"Well generally when you get morning sickness you're ill, and very weak."
"Wait, morning sickness?" Salina lowered the cutlass and sheathed it looking at a most perplexed Sparrow. "Morning sickness as in being-."
"Pregnant? Yes, she is. But you can't say a thing to Will, because I'm not supposed to know. I happened to be walking passed his door and I could hear him muttering incoherently to himself."
"You eavesdropped on him?" Jack raised his eyebrow at her.
"No I didn't eavesdropped I just listened in on his secret thoughts."
"You eavesdropped."
"Fine! Maybe I did! But that still doesn't solve our problem, what if Barbossa knows? What might he do? We have to get to her Jack, we have to now!"
"Right, right, I completely understand you, love. But could I be having me ru- I mean map back now?"
Salina squinted her eyes and studied him for a moment. She walked around the desk, leaned down and smelled him. "Jack, please tell me you're not drunk."
"And what if I am, will you punish me?" He smiled in the seductive way of his and Salina tried to back up.
"Oh no, Jack! Ahh!" Salina toppled backwards onto the floor her hair dangling from her ponytail. "Jack, please not now! Don't do this! You're drunk! Filthy stinking drunk!"
Jack had her pinned to the ground and the smell of rum overwhelmed her. "Jack please think of Elizabeth! She could be dying!"
"We can save her tomorrow, right now I've got me hands full!"
"Jack get off of me!" His right hand ran smoothly through her ponytail undoing it.
"Jack please It's only eight o'clock!" Salina's voice was shaky as she tried to relieve herself of him.
"You were always better in the morning." He began kissing her neck intimately.
"Jack! Get the Hell off of me!" Salina pushed him up by his shoulders, an evil look forming on her face gave Jack the conclusion that she didn't want this.
The door opened and Will walked in, "Jack? You okay? I heard shouts." Will looked around the room for Jack; Salina was grateful that he could not see behind the desk.
"Jack, I'm terribly sorry for this." Salina whispered to him as she watched Will's feet from under the desk.
"Sorry for what, love?"
"Sorry for this," Salina brought her knee up and made contact with his groin.
Jack backed off of her and rolled on the floor in agony. Salina stood and looked at Will, "You'll find him behind the desk with his rum."
"Bloody ell' woman! You're going to paralyze me for life!"
"Good! I won't have to worry about any little Sparrow's running around now will I?" Salina felt through her hair pulling out the fabric that held her hair up. "Will, in another hour he won't remember a thing, he's too drunk! I'm going to go to the helm and steer this blasted ship in the right direction, do us a favor and watch over the dear Captain, will ye?"
Will nodded and Salina walked out of the room slamming the door behind her. Will climbed on the desk and looked down at Jack, "So you tried to bed her and she refused?"
"Eh put a cork in it Turner!" Jack picked up his rum bottle and took another big gulp as William sat on the desk laughing.
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"Well Mrs. Turner, I'm glad to have your help on this little escapade. It's an honor."
"Save the fancy talk Barbossa I'm just doing this to salvage my family." Elizabeth cleared her throat and tried to sit up. "I would never do anything to solely help the likes of you."
"Well if this is the closest I can get to your blessed help, than so be it. I still thank you. Now, what would you say to a warm breakfast?" Barbossa's smile disturbed Elizabeth but she nodded and ate willingly.
"Now share with me your ideas for their capture," he propped his feet up on the desk.
"First, I need to know where we are going. You are going to have to make me next in command on this ship if you expect this to work right. I need to know all the details of our voyage, all the ups and downs, stocks, things like that for my plan to work." Elizabeth picked up an apple and bit into it, "and lastly why you are back. How did you come into being and why is it so precious to capture Jack and Salina? I know it may seem like a lot but it is vital."
"Why might it be a vital thing?" Barbossa sneered as he picked up a roll from the breakfast plate; he studied it and then smelled it.
"Well, it's like that roll. You see how you can smell the roll; you can feel and see it? But what's the point if you can't eat it? Well I need all this information so that I can help you capture Jack and Salina otherwise what's the point?"
Barbossa sat quietly in his chair reviewing her point, "You present a good argument," Barbossa stood and walked back over to the bed extending his hand, "it's a deal." Their hands met and shook promptly, "But if I should find that you double-crossed me it will be your neck dangling from the rope!"
"Have no fear of that Barbossa," she bit into the apple again, the juice running down the side of its leathery surface.
"So what's your plan?" Elizabeth's grin widened and she whispered into Barbossa's ear.
"But before we can even begin, I have to be healthy enough to stand and fight again." She continued looking down at her weak body.
"How long will that take?"
"About a day. Where are we heading?"
"Bridgetown, we'll be there in two more days."
"I wasn't aware that it took this long to get over there."
"It doesn't, we were set back. Some bloody fool forgot to pull the starboard anchor up when we left Tortuga so we had to patch a piece of the ship up."
"I see, well I really must be getting my rest now, when I wake later we will discuss this further." Elizabeth turned over in the bed and listened as Barbossa left the room..
"God Will, I'm so sorry for doing this." Her voice ventured off into a deep sleep.
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Salina walked out of the cabin and leaned up against the railing of the ship. She rubbed her temples furiously and thought about the situation she was just in, she didn't want it that way. She didn't want to be known as the one he slept with when he was drunk, the accident. Salina wasn't going to do that again, she wasn't going to be the butt of his jokes and be humiliated. That just wasn't her style.
Cat came running over to her; mop still in hand, "Salina! Hey, there's a ship!" She pointed out into the ocean at a faint shadow glinting in the sun's light.
Salina looked up into the sun and tried to see the ship, "Cat there's not ship. It's just your imagination."
No! Look!" Cat pressed her hands to Salina's face and forced her to look.
"SWEET MARY MOTHER OF GOD! WE FOUND THEM! IT'S THEM!" Salina started jumping up and down happy as can be and Cat slowly backed up.
"Salina what's gotten into you?"
"No time to talk now we must tell Will and Jack," Salina grabbed Cat's hand and dragged her along.
Salina flung opened the door to the cabin, "We've found them! They're straight ahead of us! They're there!" Her excitement lightened the room.
Jack tried to stand up from behind the desk and he ended up falling over onto the floor. The glass rum bottle he had in his hand shattered on the floor. "Jack!"
Salina went over to him and helped him up, "dear lord Jack how drunk can you get? Look at your hand! You're bleeding, you stupid cad! I wouldn't be surprised if you killed yourself one day because of this."
"I've been a pirate longer than you, love, I think I can take care of meself," his words slurred together as he sat on the floor next to her.
"Oh is that so? I'd like to see you bandage this right now." Salina tore a piece of her shirt and cleaned Jack's cut out with rum from a second bottle hidden under the desk.
"Salina?" Cat looked around the room as if trying to find something.
"Yes Cat? What is it?"
"Where's Will?"
Salina looked around the room and didn't see him, "Jack? Jack?" Salina shook him slightly.
"Dear lord woman! What ye want?" Was his only reply; the stench of rum filling his breath.
"Where is Turner? Jack where is Will?"
"He's over there," Jack pointed to a small closet, "poor boy got so drunk off one bottle, I can last longer than that!"
Salina pushed Jack's mouth away from her face, "I'm sure you can," she rolled her eyes and looked up at Cat, "Cat will you go see if he's okay, I kind of can't move at the moment."
Cat gazed down at Salina laughing; Jack was half laying on her, his head propped on her shoulder. There was a sudden commencing of snoring. "Oh god no! He's passed out on me cat!" Cat walked over to the closet laughing the whole time.
"AND REALLY BAD EGGS!" Will popped out of the closet with a rum bottle in hand. Cat screamed and fell to the floor, still in shock of seeing Will drunk. "Whoa, that must've hurt." He slurred watching Cat on the floor.
"Here I'll help you up," he leaned down to help her up but ended up falling to the floor himself.
"Oh this is just wonderful! We finally catch up to Barbossa and these two decide to have a little fun and get drunk! Now we're left, how in the bleeding ell' are we supposed to do this alone?" Salina let out a scream of frustration.
Jack stirred in his sleep and wrapped his arms around her waist, "My treasure, gold, silver-." He continued to mumble in his sleep.
"Just wonderful, I'm held captive by a drunken buffoon! This really makes my day!"
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A/N: Don't Change that Web-site! More to come soon! Stay tune for scenes from the next chapter! (I've always wanted to say that!!!) More drunken stupidity, evil plotting, irritated pirates, battles, fighting, the whole nine yards coming to you soon! Thanks for reading, and please don't forget to review, thanks! Until next time, TA!