Disclaimer: No.
A/N: Love me, hate me, break my heart, leave me standing in the dark…
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Will's Wakening Pt II
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Was it just me or were those guys in the back booth staring at me quite a lot? I could feel their eyes prying into my back, and the vibe I received from them was of sheer malice. The waiter set the food down in front of me, but the woman didn't leave. I looked up at her and smiled, she smiled back.
"Where have you been?" She asked, tone low.
"Excuse me?" I asked back.
"Jack said you died,"
Jack? Jack who?
"Anyways, I can understand if you don't want to be all around him," she smiled. "I was like that too, but ya know, running a crew with him to Isle de Mureto and back to Tortuga, ya just get use to him."
A pirate!
"Are you okay?" She asked me, now looking concerned. "You don't look too well,"
"I'm sorry you're name escapes me,"
"Anna Marie, remember?" she asked testily, tapping one foot on the ground, and crossing her sun kissed skin arms. "You are becoming too much like Jack, already loosing you're short term memory, anyways," she sat down next to me. "Be extra careful when leaving tonight okay? Those guys in the back have been watching for since you came in."
"I know they have,"
She nodded at me, gave me a quick kiss on the cheek and left for the back again. I dove into my food, all the while thinking… Anna Marie, that's a familiar name, Tortuga? A place I knew well… Did I know her? Obviously, but how well? Or was she someone who knew me? I finished my food and set the money on the table and looked at Anne Marie. She walked over and picked up the money and dropped a letter to me on the counter.
I opened it and read it quickly:
William,
Those are the pirates that have been after everyone for a while now, they aren't dead, another curse hit them, and they are set to kill you and Jack and Elizabeth and Norrington though every life. Gibbs, Cotton and I are here to help you and Jack, just give us the word.
--AM
I nodded at her and left the building, the men in the back shifted, but did nothing. I looked around and quickly crossed the street. I looked back toward the Chinese Imperil, two people walked out of the Red Rooster and hurried over to the Chinese Imperil, they looked vaguely familiar, still, I shrugged and headed down the street into the alley. I climbed a fire escape on to the top of a building. I sat there for a long time, watching things go by, until those two people who hurried into the Chinese Imperil, ran out with several people on their heels. I watched them run down the alleys, on the roof tops I followed them until they escaped into a man hole, covering it over again, and the perusing people ran right by it, none the wiser. I smiled, that guy was pretty smart, but now what would he do? Why were they chasing him? Did he do something wrong?
I shrugged it off and returned home, what business was this of mine? I closed the door to my apartment right behind me and sat in the dark listening to noise of my neighbors, crying, yelling, and moaning. Well at least someone was getting laid, if not raped, heh, well; again what business of this was mine? I crawled to my bed and under the covers before closing my eyes and letting the sleep claim me.
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Again, when in doubt end the chapter.
