CHAPTER TWO As the Pearl, put down the anchor, Gibbs met Elizabeth as she boarded.
"So where's Jack Sparrow, Gibbs?"
"In his quarters, Miss."
"Thank you.," she said.
"Aye but he be busy with important business and say that if ye wants to talk to him, ye must wait with ye chickens." Elizabeth smile turned to anger as she continued walking towards his door. Gibbs smiled knowing the crew and him would be in for a great laugh. She paused and then opened the door and was shocked to find Jack dangling upside down from the ceiling. He then curled up and down.
"Jack?"
"Aye, Elizabeth." he said curling up and down again.
"What are ye doing?"
"Aye, we be sailing back from Spain and ye contraption be a curler, and it works ye mid-section."
"Well, I need to talk to you."
"Speak."
"Jack, I need a favor from you."
"Aye, but those who gain favor must provide a lost."
'And what does ye ask for."
"Although Elizabeth, ye ask a pirate, the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow is a gentleman."
"Who'd steal from his own blood if it be of worth."
"Aye, atlas Elizabeth, you have turned a cold shoulder on the most highly distinguished, Jack Sparrow." suddenly he pulled a string and it release him but he flipped and landed back on his feet. Elizabeth turned her head to avoid ogling his bare chest, which glisten with sweat.
"Since we had common bo-" Jack smiled looking at her not facing him, he then rubbed his chin with his index finger and thumb. "I'd thought young Mr. Turner would of plucked ye womanhood by now." Suddenly Elizabeth turned in anger towards Jack, she came towards him to slap him but he countered by catching her hand and twisting her close to him. He looked into her eyes and she was silent. He passionately kissed her and thirty seconds later, they broke apart. She just stood staring at him as he turned away.
"Your favor?"
"My favor?" she replied forgetting she'd asked.
"Aye, the one you asked for?"
"Oh, yes. Will asked me to marry him but my father said that unless he gets his blessing in the next week he won't."
"So where is young Turner?"
"He went to Turtoga to become a captain among the King's army."
"How ironic?"
"So I need to get to Turtoga."
"Why not another ship?"
"My father owns the docks, he'd order them not to."
"So you only came to use me."
"Yes, I did." she said looking at him weird.
"Gibbs." he yelled. "Gibbs!" Gibbs appeared through the door.
"Gibbs, change course...Turtoga."
"I aye." he said leaving.
"Thank you, Jack."
"I ask of you one thing."
"Yes."
"You must never speak to me."
"But?"
"The sea cast beautiful imagery but sometimes it can be deceitful like life." he turned and walked over near the window.
"Jack-" he ignored her. For the next three months, they sailed as silence fell among the ship. Jack stayed without sleep at the helm, while the crew took command under Gibbs and Ana Maria.
"Aye, miss, the crew be wonderin' if ye could talk to the Captain?"
"I don't think-"
"Miss. Elizabeth, steering a ship without rest can drive even the most sane man insane. He doesn't say a word, just stares into the sun."
"Aye, a gypsy once said to me that staring into the eye of the sun is a form of torture, for he burns his soul with his afflictions." Ana Maria added.
"He's torturing himself?"
"Aye matety, and only ye have the power to bring him back." Ana Maria said.
"Me?"
"I've known Jack Sparrow along time and never once has he changed course for someone other than himself, he holds you dear." Ana Maria said.
"Maybe with a deep passion, Miss."
"Gibbs, I deny you inquiry."
"Sorry, miss. Please talk to him." he said as Elizabeth looked up at
Jack who stood still behind the wheel.

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