Disclaimer: Still don't own the fabulous Captain Jack Sparrow, or the
other characters.
AN: Someone asked how old Elena is. She's twenty-two years old, after the party the crew threw. And I'm sorry about her being called "lass" too much. I don't know why, I just like it when Jack says "lass" in the movie, he's just so sexy! Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 7: Revenge Taken:
As Elena walked through the streets of Tortuga, she saw many familiar faces. She had left this town over five months ago, and it seemed as though many of its patrons hadn't even left! Actually, it was likely that they hadn't. People tended to lose track of time while having fun in Tortuga.
After twenty minutes of walking, Elena finally found what she had been looking for: a shop called The Golden Ribbon. She had always wanted to buy things to make her shabby tavern outfits more presentable, but had decided that it was more important to get out of the pirate city as soon as possible. Now, with her treasures from the Pearl, Elena could finally have a decent dress like she used to have before the pirate attack on her father's fleet! Growing more excited, Elena entered the shop and was awed by the selections; there were yards of ribbons, dozens of containers of colored beads, rolls of laces, and acres of threads in every color one could imagine! Before she could dive into the varieties of gown decorations, a serving woman approached her.
"Can I help you, miss?" the meek little thing asked. She was smaller than Elena's five foot three inches, and had limp, lifeless, pale brown hair and pale blue eyes.
"Yes," Elena said, pulling out the crème cloth that Annamaria had given her. "I need ribbons, lace, and a great deal of thread to help make a gown. Do you have any of the colors I'll need?"
The serving woman nodded. "We just got a few rolls of gold ribbons and threads," she said, smiling. "We also have a new lace that has gold thread shot through it. It will be fairly expensive, though. We don't see it very often." The woman quoted the total price of what the whole thing would cost.
Elena frowned at the price. She wanted the gold ribbons and threads, but would have to pass on the lace; it was more than she wanted to spend. But then, when would she be back here again, and with so much money to spend? It wasn't as though she would need another new gown soon (she did travel with pirates, after all), and there was no where else to wear such a lovely thing. Deciding to splurge a little, she nodded. The serving woman wrapped up all that she needed and Elena put the package in the same sack that carried the cloth. She then unlocked her treasure box and pulled out six rings with fair-sized jewels in them.
"Is this enough?" Elena asked. "I'm afraid I have no coins, only what my captain gives me from the pirate raids."
The serving woman looked at the rings for a moment before looking up at Elena. "Your captain?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. "You don't look like a pirate."
"Actually, I'm the cook on the Black Pearl, not an actual crewmember," Elena said, smiling a little. Her smile vanished as the woman's face paled.
"You sail with Captain Jack Sparrow?!" the woman exclaimed before looking around the shop as though the Pearl's captain and crew were hiding there, waiting to leap out and rob her at any moment.
"Yes," Elena said, shifting uncomfortably. "Is something wrong?"
"No!" the server said quickly. "No, everything's fine. These rings should cover it. Thank you for stopping by!" The woman snatched up two of the rings and put them in her pocket as Elena blinked in surprise.
"Well, good-bye then," Elena said as she gathered up the four remaining rings, put them and the treasure box into her sack, and left the shop. She didn't know that what she had paid was a little less than half of what it should have cost her.
After an hour of walking around town and looking into windows, Elena decided to head back towards the ship. As she turned around, her purchases still in her arms, something hard connected with the back of her head and all went black.
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As her eyes fluttered open, Elena realized that she was in a ship's cabin, but knew that she wasn't on the Pearl. She instantly looked up and around the bed she was in. No, definitely not the Pearl; the wood was normal colored, not black, and this wasn't her cabin or Jack's, though she was definitely in the Captain's cabin of whatever ship she was on. As she was glancing around, she saw a window and looked out: she could see the ocean and that the light was beginning to fade. Considering her situation, that couldn't be a good thing; this meant that she was probably a fair distance away from Tortuga and the Pearl. Her bag, which appeared to be still holding her cloth, purchases, and treasure box, sat on the bed right next to her. Before she could reach over and check their contents, the door flew open and revealed a sight that she'd hoped to never see again. The captain of the ship (and he was the captain, dressed as he was) had pure black hair and stony gray eyes. He was so tall that he had to stoop a little to get inside the cabin, and his appearance stopped Elena's heart in her chest.
It was Captain Green, and his ship was the Blue Star, the one that had attacked her father's fleet and abandoned her in Tortuga.
The tall captain smiled at her. "Good to see ye again, my dear," he said, bowing.
Elena frowned. "What is it you want, Captain?" she asked, crossing her arms and frowning at him.
"Ouch, lass, don't ye even want to say hello?" he asked, clutching his chest and grinning.
"Not particularly," she said. "Now, what do you want?"
"Straight to the point, aren't ye?" Captain Green asked, taking a seat in a nearby chair, across from where Elena sat on the bed. "Very well, then, here's the situation. I made a deal with someone, and yer a part of it. All I had to do was steal ye away from yer current employer and drop ye off at another port, and I got more than I could have hoped for as a reward." His grin broadened considerably, telling Elena that his reward was something that wouldn't be good for her.
"Would you mind telling me the details, and what exactly your reward is?" Elena asked, fear gripping her heart.
"Easily, lass," Captain Green replied. "I arrived in Tortuga a week ago and met a prostitute. She told me that she'd give me the best pleasure I'd ever have if I took her away from Tortuga and got rid of a girl she hated the next time I saw her near or around Tortuga with her pirate employers. When I heard her describe the girl she hated, I recognized and remembered who ye were and agreed to do that favor. I then got to spend three nights in paradise with that lovely wench. Later on, after I dropped the wench off at another port, she told me who ye sailed under, and that she'd heard when the ship would be in. Well, imagine how happy I was to learn that ye sailed with my arch-enemy, Captain Jack Sparrow. Not only did I get the best nights of my life from that wench, but now I get to see the famous Jack Sparrow suffer as the woman he loves disappears on him!"
Elena stared at him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Deciding to do neither one, she simply blinked at him before answering. "Captain Sparrow is not in love with me," she stated, looking at her captor.
Captain Green raised a black eyebrow. "Don't be daft, girl," he said, waving his hand at her. "Of course he loves ye! I've heard how he treats ye, treatin' ye to quiet meals in his cabin, havin' long talks with ye, and giving ye a part of the plunder when ye don't even take part in the raids! That's absurd, ye know; everyone who doesn't take part in the raid doesn't get a share! Didn't ye know that?"
Elena gaped at him. "He said that it was part of my wages!" she protested.
The Captain burst out laughing. "Did ye think that ye'd get a part of the booty as a cook, and only a cook?" he asked, still laughing. "All a ship needs is a halfway decent cook who is also a crewmember. If Sparrow is giving ye part of the booty as yer wages, then he's either generous, stupid, or in love with ye! He never gives out money that easily!" He laughed even harder as he wiped tears of mirth from his eyes. After he'd calmed himself down, he looked over at her again. "No, lass, Captain Sparrow is head over heels in love with ye, and if ye didn't see it, ye have to be as daft as he is!" With those words, Captain Green stood up and headed for the door, turning around after he had opened it. "This'll be your cabin until we get to the next port, lass. I've got another elsewhere." He then closed the door behind him, locking it. Elena simply stared at the door before thinking over what had just been revealed to her by her captor.
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Back on the Black Pearl, Jack was getting worried. Elena hadn't returned to the ship. She had gone out in the early afternoon and it was now nightfall. How long did it take to buy ribbons for a dress?! Something told Jack that it definitely did not take this long, especially when Elena wouldn't want to be caught out, alone, in Tortuga at night! During their private conversations, his bonny lass had told him that, at night, she had always stayed within the safety of the tavern she worked at and only went out during the day, when all of the drunks and men were asleep.
Sighing, Jack called out for Annamaria. "Anna, have ye seen our Lena?" he asked.
Annamaria's eyebrows rose. "Ye mean she's missing?" the female pirate asked, concern evident in her voice. "Is it safe for her to be out there alone and unarmed?"
Jack frowned. "Yer right, Anna," he said, tucking his pistol into his belt, clipping his cutlass onto his hip, and setting his hat on his head. "I'm going out looking for her. Ye stay here and have the rest of the crew keep an eye out for her." He took off down the ramp, towards the noisy town, leaving a worried Annamaria to watch the ship and keep an eye out for Elena.
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After hours of looking, Jack was fuming. His lass (and she was his lass, because he'd never let another man touch her as long as he lived) was missing and no one had seen her! Actually, that wasn't true. A shopkeeper of The Golden Ribbon had told him that a girl of Elena's description had been in and purchased some ribbons, lace, and thread, but that had been well over six hours ago. Now the trail had gone cold, and Jack was getting angrier by the minute. Finally, Jack decided to take a break at the Ragged Dog, Elena's old workplace. After ordering a mug of rum, Jack took a place in a corner to listen to the locals chat. He was halfway through his rum when he heard something that made the liquid stick in his throat.
"Did ye hear that Captain Green and his crew were here?" said a drunkard, talking to thin air as he consumed another mug of alcohol. "He was just here, picking up a wench before leaving, and then he comes back a week later without that blond wench that he took with him! Then, no sooner has he docked then he has the guts to ask about a red-haired wench that worked here and has been gone for months! The nerve of that dog!"
Jack's eyes widened. Captain Green had his lass? It was very likely. Green hated his guts, and if he'd heard about Jack taking on Elena and possibly fancying her, that would explain the lass's disappearance; but who was the blond? Jack got up and moved over to the drunkard's table, right next to his. The drunk looked up, his eyes blurry.
"What can ye tell me about the blond wench of Green's?" Jack asked, signaling to a serving lass to bring over a couple more drinks. As the drinks were placed in front of the drunk, he began to talk pretty quickly as he downed one mug and moved onto another.
"That Green thinks that he's God's gift to women!" the drunk slurred, gripping his mug angrily. "He comes in here, and picks up that wench, what was her name? Shelly? Sheila?"
"Sally?" Jack asked, his heart pounding in fear and anger.
"Aye, that's it!" the drunk exclaimed. "He picks up that Sally with no problem, and me wanting her for weeks! Then, immediately after Green takes her to his ship, the Blue Star sails off, then comes back a week later without Sally. Green brings his stuffy self up here and asks about some red-head. He asked around and heard that she was arriving here on Sparrow's ship today, and then took himself off towards town. Green and his crew left this afternoon. He must have found who he wanted."
Jack's blood had turned to ice after hearing that information. Green had taken Captain Jack Sparrow's bonny lass! This was not going to stand. As soon as Jack got his lass back, he was going to take that blond-haired wench, hang her off the railings, then chase down Captain Green and toss him off the crow's-nest of the Pearl! No one steals Captain Jack Sparrow's lass and gets away with it!
First, however, he was going to have to search all of the surrounding islands and find Sally. If anyone knew where Green had taken Elena, she would. After that, the wench was going to spend a lot of time in the brig with the rats, at least until Jack found Elena. After that, maybe he'd let Annamaria and Elena deal with her in their own ways. After all, it was only fair, and angry women can get very creative when it comes to revenge.
The thought of Annamaria and the Pearl brought Jack out of his thoughts. He immediately thanked the drunk and paid the serving wench to keep the man's cup full until he passed out. The girl nodded and Jack headed back towards his ship, his teeth grinding in anger. He was going to find his lass if it was the last thing he did!
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AN: Oh my gosh, I got over fifty reviews! Okay, the minute that I find out that I've got more than one hundred reviews is the minute that I write a Jack/Elena "loving" chapter, and the story gets an "R" rating! How about it? If you want to see some "Jack loving," you'd better review! Please?!
AN: Someone asked how old Elena is. She's twenty-two years old, after the party the crew threw. And I'm sorry about her being called "lass" too much. I don't know why, I just like it when Jack says "lass" in the movie, he's just so sexy! Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 7: Revenge Taken:
As Elena walked through the streets of Tortuga, she saw many familiar faces. She had left this town over five months ago, and it seemed as though many of its patrons hadn't even left! Actually, it was likely that they hadn't. People tended to lose track of time while having fun in Tortuga.
After twenty minutes of walking, Elena finally found what she had been looking for: a shop called The Golden Ribbon. She had always wanted to buy things to make her shabby tavern outfits more presentable, but had decided that it was more important to get out of the pirate city as soon as possible. Now, with her treasures from the Pearl, Elena could finally have a decent dress like she used to have before the pirate attack on her father's fleet! Growing more excited, Elena entered the shop and was awed by the selections; there were yards of ribbons, dozens of containers of colored beads, rolls of laces, and acres of threads in every color one could imagine! Before she could dive into the varieties of gown decorations, a serving woman approached her.
"Can I help you, miss?" the meek little thing asked. She was smaller than Elena's five foot three inches, and had limp, lifeless, pale brown hair and pale blue eyes.
"Yes," Elena said, pulling out the crème cloth that Annamaria had given her. "I need ribbons, lace, and a great deal of thread to help make a gown. Do you have any of the colors I'll need?"
The serving woman nodded. "We just got a few rolls of gold ribbons and threads," she said, smiling. "We also have a new lace that has gold thread shot through it. It will be fairly expensive, though. We don't see it very often." The woman quoted the total price of what the whole thing would cost.
Elena frowned at the price. She wanted the gold ribbons and threads, but would have to pass on the lace; it was more than she wanted to spend. But then, when would she be back here again, and with so much money to spend? It wasn't as though she would need another new gown soon (she did travel with pirates, after all), and there was no where else to wear such a lovely thing. Deciding to splurge a little, she nodded. The serving woman wrapped up all that she needed and Elena put the package in the same sack that carried the cloth. She then unlocked her treasure box and pulled out six rings with fair-sized jewels in them.
"Is this enough?" Elena asked. "I'm afraid I have no coins, only what my captain gives me from the pirate raids."
The serving woman looked at the rings for a moment before looking up at Elena. "Your captain?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. "You don't look like a pirate."
"Actually, I'm the cook on the Black Pearl, not an actual crewmember," Elena said, smiling a little. Her smile vanished as the woman's face paled.
"You sail with Captain Jack Sparrow?!" the woman exclaimed before looking around the shop as though the Pearl's captain and crew were hiding there, waiting to leap out and rob her at any moment.
"Yes," Elena said, shifting uncomfortably. "Is something wrong?"
"No!" the server said quickly. "No, everything's fine. These rings should cover it. Thank you for stopping by!" The woman snatched up two of the rings and put them in her pocket as Elena blinked in surprise.
"Well, good-bye then," Elena said as she gathered up the four remaining rings, put them and the treasure box into her sack, and left the shop. She didn't know that what she had paid was a little less than half of what it should have cost her.
After an hour of walking around town and looking into windows, Elena decided to head back towards the ship. As she turned around, her purchases still in her arms, something hard connected with the back of her head and all went black.
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As her eyes fluttered open, Elena realized that she was in a ship's cabin, but knew that she wasn't on the Pearl. She instantly looked up and around the bed she was in. No, definitely not the Pearl; the wood was normal colored, not black, and this wasn't her cabin or Jack's, though she was definitely in the Captain's cabin of whatever ship she was on. As she was glancing around, she saw a window and looked out: she could see the ocean and that the light was beginning to fade. Considering her situation, that couldn't be a good thing; this meant that she was probably a fair distance away from Tortuga and the Pearl. Her bag, which appeared to be still holding her cloth, purchases, and treasure box, sat on the bed right next to her. Before she could reach over and check their contents, the door flew open and revealed a sight that she'd hoped to never see again. The captain of the ship (and he was the captain, dressed as he was) had pure black hair and stony gray eyes. He was so tall that he had to stoop a little to get inside the cabin, and his appearance stopped Elena's heart in her chest.
It was Captain Green, and his ship was the Blue Star, the one that had attacked her father's fleet and abandoned her in Tortuga.
The tall captain smiled at her. "Good to see ye again, my dear," he said, bowing.
Elena frowned. "What is it you want, Captain?" she asked, crossing her arms and frowning at him.
"Ouch, lass, don't ye even want to say hello?" he asked, clutching his chest and grinning.
"Not particularly," she said. "Now, what do you want?"
"Straight to the point, aren't ye?" Captain Green asked, taking a seat in a nearby chair, across from where Elena sat on the bed. "Very well, then, here's the situation. I made a deal with someone, and yer a part of it. All I had to do was steal ye away from yer current employer and drop ye off at another port, and I got more than I could have hoped for as a reward." His grin broadened considerably, telling Elena that his reward was something that wouldn't be good for her.
"Would you mind telling me the details, and what exactly your reward is?" Elena asked, fear gripping her heart.
"Easily, lass," Captain Green replied. "I arrived in Tortuga a week ago and met a prostitute. She told me that she'd give me the best pleasure I'd ever have if I took her away from Tortuga and got rid of a girl she hated the next time I saw her near or around Tortuga with her pirate employers. When I heard her describe the girl she hated, I recognized and remembered who ye were and agreed to do that favor. I then got to spend three nights in paradise with that lovely wench. Later on, after I dropped the wench off at another port, she told me who ye sailed under, and that she'd heard when the ship would be in. Well, imagine how happy I was to learn that ye sailed with my arch-enemy, Captain Jack Sparrow. Not only did I get the best nights of my life from that wench, but now I get to see the famous Jack Sparrow suffer as the woman he loves disappears on him!"
Elena stared at him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Deciding to do neither one, she simply blinked at him before answering. "Captain Sparrow is not in love with me," she stated, looking at her captor.
Captain Green raised a black eyebrow. "Don't be daft, girl," he said, waving his hand at her. "Of course he loves ye! I've heard how he treats ye, treatin' ye to quiet meals in his cabin, havin' long talks with ye, and giving ye a part of the plunder when ye don't even take part in the raids! That's absurd, ye know; everyone who doesn't take part in the raid doesn't get a share! Didn't ye know that?"
Elena gaped at him. "He said that it was part of my wages!" she protested.
The Captain burst out laughing. "Did ye think that ye'd get a part of the booty as a cook, and only a cook?" he asked, still laughing. "All a ship needs is a halfway decent cook who is also a crewmember. If Sparrow is giving ye part of the booty as yer wages, then he's either generous, stupid, or in love with ye! He never gives out money that easily!" He laughed even harder as he wiped tears of mirth from his eyes. After he'd calmed himself down, he looked over at her again. "No, lass, Captain Sparrow is head over heels in love with ye, and if ye didn't see it, ye have to be as daft as he is!" With those words, Captain Green stood up and headed for the door, turning around after he had opened it. "This'll be your cabin until we get to the next port, lass. I've got another elsewhere." He then closed the door behind him, locking it. Elena simply stared at the door before thinking over what had just been revealed to her by her captor.
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Back on the Black Pearl, Jack was getting worried. Elena hadn't returned to the ship. She had gone out in the early afternoon and it was now nightfall. How long did it take to buy ribbons for a dress?! Something told Jack that it definitely did not take this long, especially when Elena wouldn't want to be caught out, alone, in Tortuga at night! During their private conversations, his bonny lass had told him that, at night, she had always stayed within the safety of the tavern she worked at and only went out during the day, when all of the drunks and men were asleep.
Sighing, Jack called out for Annamaria. "Anna, have ye seen our Lena?" he asked.
Annamaria's eyebrows rose. "Ye mean she's missing?" the female pirate asked, concern evident in her voice. "Is it safe for her to be out there alone and unarmed?"
Jack frowned. "Yer right, Anna," he said, tucking his pistol into his belt, clipping his cutlass onto his hip, and setting his hat on his head. "I'm going out looking for her. Ye stay here and have the rest of the crew keep an eye out for her." He took off down the ramp, towards the noisy town, leaving a worried Annamaria to watch the ship and keep an eye out for Elena.
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After hours of looking, Jack was fuming. His lass (and she was his lass, because he'd never let another man touch her as long as he lived) was missing and no one had seen her! Actually, that wasn't true. A shopkeeper of The Golden Ribbon had told him that a girl of Elena's description had been in and purchased some ribbons, lace, and thread, but that had been well over six hours ago. Now the trail had gone cold, and Jack was getting angrier by the minute. Finally, Jack decided to take a break at the Ragged Dog, Elena's old workplace. After ordering a mug of rum, Jack took a place in a corner to listen to the locals chat. He was halfway through his rum when he heard something that made the liquid stick in his throat.
"Did ye hear that Captain Green and his crew were here?" said a drunkard, talking to thin air as he consumed another mug of alcohol. "He was just here, picking up a wench before leaving, and then he comes back a week later without that blond wench that he took with him! Then, no sooner has he docked then he has the guts to ask about a red-haired wench that worked here and has been gone for months! The nerve of that dog!"
Jack's eyes widened. Captain Green had his lass? It was very likely. Green hated his guts, and if he'd heard about Jack taking on Elena and possibly fancying her, that would explain the lass's disappearance; but who was the blond? Jack got up and moved over to the drunkard's table, right next to his. The drunk looked up, his eyes blurry.
"What can ye tell me about the blond wench of Green's?" Jack asked, signaling to a serving lass to bring over a couple more drinks. As the drinks were placed in front of the drunk, he began to talk pretty quickly as he downed one mug and moved onto another.
"That Green thinks that he's God's gift to women!" the drunk slurred, gripping his mug angrily. "He comes in here, and picks up that wench, what was her name? Shelly? Sheila?"
"Sally?" Jack asked, his heart pounding in fear and anger.
"Aye, that's it!" the drunk exclaimed. "He picks up that Sally with no problem, and me wanting her for weeks! Then, immediately after Green takes her to his ship, the Blue Star sails off, then comes back a week later without Sally. Green brings his stuffy self up here and asks about some red-head. He asked around and heard that she was arriving here on Sparrow's ship today, and then took himself off towards town. Green and his crew left this afternoon. He must have found who he wanted."
Jack's blood had turned to ice after hearing that information. Green had taken Captain Jack Sparrow's bonny lass! This was not going to stand. As soon as Jack got his lass back, he was going to take that blond-haired wench, hang her off the railings, then chase down Captain Green and toss him off the crow's-nest of the Pearl! No one steals Captain Jack Sparrow's lass and gets away with it!
First, however, he was going to have to search all of the surrounding islands and find Sally. If anyone knew where Green had taken Elena, she would. After that, the wench was going to spend a lot of time in the brig with the rats, at least until Jack found Elena. After that, maybe he'd let Annamaria and Elena deal with her in their own ways. After all, it was only fair, and angry women can get very creative when it comes to revenge.
The thought of Annamaria and the Pearl brought Jack out of his thoughts. He immediately thanked the drunk and paid the serving wench to keep the man's cup full until he passed out. The girl nodded and Jack headed back towards his ship, his teeth grinding in anger. He was going to find his lass if it was the last thing he did!
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AN: Oh my gosh, I got over fifty reviews! Okay, the minute that I find out that I've got more than one hundred reviews is the minute that I write a Jack/Elena "loving" chapter, and the story gets an "R" rating! How about it? If you want to see some "Jack loving," you'd better review! Please?!
