Chapter Three - Musings and Memories Alternate chapter
Disclaimers: I do not own POTC or any of the characters from the movie. I only own the things that were not in the movie. I am not making any money, so please do not sue me.
Rating: R. Rape, magic, and language.
Sorry for the heavy subject matter in this chapter, but is important to the story.
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Gibbs, Anna, and Akiva were sitting in the galley, talking.
"So, ye be wantin' us to sail up to Port Royal, let the entire British Royal Navy know we are comin' and try to rescue Jack" asked Gibbs sarcastically.
"No, I want you to sail us to just out side the port at NIGHT, drop anchor and let Cotton's parrot fly in, find Jack and let him know we are here. Savvy?" replies Akiva.
"And why would you be carin' what happens to Cap't Jack? Did ye fall for him?" Asked Anna.
"Anna, pleased. You are crazy if you think I could EVER fall for a self centered, drunken, lunatic." Stated Akiva.
"Who said I wa'n't crazy?" Retorted Anna.
"Would you two stop?! Mary mother o' God!" Yelled Gibbs.
All three were quite for several minutes.
"Lass?" Said Gibbs, looking at Akiva.
"Yeah Gibbs?"
"Why, truly, do you care what happens to Captain Jack Sparrow?"
"I just don't agree with lettin' him swing when he has done nothin' wrong."
"He is a pirate, lass, that be reason enough."
"That is NOT a good enough reason for me and it shouldn't be for you or Anna either." Akiva said while lookin' Gibbs straight in the eyes. "You let him swing and you will be as much of a traitor as Barbossa was." As she finished saying this she looked Anna in the eyes.
"I know girl, which is why we are goin' after him." Anna said to her quietly. "Gibbs, go tell the crew we are goin' to Port Royal."
"Aye, Anna. Do you want me to take the wheel?"
"Sure, I could use some sleep. Have one of the men wake me at sun rise." Said Anna.
About six hours later, could no longer sleep, so she came up on deck to relieve Gibbs.
"Gibbs, go get some sleep."
"I'm fine Anna. You should still be sleepin'. Sun up isn't for about three hours."
"I can't sleep anymore. Go, man, you've been up for almost an entire day."
About two days later, Anna, Gibbs and Akiva were talking while Anna was steering, when the look-out in the crows nest called out 'land ho.'
They slowly sailed around the island until the Battlement came into view and then dropped anchor. Cotton sent his parrot off to find Jack and let him know that the Pearl was wanting for him and that it was up to him to find a way out of the noose.
The Pearl was sitting and waiting for about twenty minutes when they saw Jack clime onto the top of the Battlement wall, for a few seconds he is standing there ands gesturing wildly when he suddenly fell backwards. For about thirty seconds Akiva stood staring at the spot where Jack had hit the water. When he finally surfaced, she started laughing hysterically.
By the time Jack had swum to the ship and been pulled up, Akiva had herself back under control.
When Jack landed on the deck.
"Thought you were s'posed to keep to the Code." He says while looking up at Gibbs.
"We figgered they were more actual guidelines." Gibbs says and chuckles softly.
Gibbs offers Jack a hand, which he accepts, and helps him up.
Cotton, who was standing on Gibbs' right, hands Jack his hat.
Jack smiles, says, "Thank you," and places his hat back on his head.
"Captain Sparrow," Anna-Maria says from where she has been leaning on the wheel, she comes up behind him, and drapes a blanket around his shoulders, "The Black Pearl is yours." She says smiling.
Jack glances at he wheel with a weird look in his eye, smiles and half walks, half sways over to the wheel. He slowly stroked the wheel, almost like one would touch a lover. He glances around him, and notices that the crew is just standing around, watching him.
"On deck you scabrous dogs!" Jack calls out. "Hands to braces! Let down and haul to run free!"
The crew scattered to follow there captains orders.
"Now, bring me that horizon." Jack says quietly. He starts humming the tune to 'Pirates life for me' He pulls out his compass that doesn't point north and quietly half sings, half says, " And really bad eggs." He turns the wheel a little and sings louder, "Drink up, me hearties, yo ho!" He snaps shut the compass and continues steering.
About an hour later he notices Akiva, who has been working hard with the rest of the crew.
"Girl." Jack called.
Akiva turned to look at him. "Yes captain?" She asked.
"Will you be stayin' with us, luv?" He asked
"May I be allowed to speak freely?"
"This ain't the bloody Navy, luv, ye can say what ya like, as long as ye be willin' to deal with the consequences." He stated while looking her straight in the eyes and moving his eye brow suggestively.
"Well, first please don't call me love, second my name is Akiva, and." She was going to continue talking, but Jack cut her off.
"This is my ship, LOVE," Jack said, emphasizing the word love, "And I will call you what ever I feel like callin' ye, savvy?" He asked, looking as her expectantly.
"Savvy. May I continue?" She asked.
"Please do." He said, looking at her.
"Like I was saying, I would be very appreciative if you could drop me off at the nearest, Gypsy friendly, port." Akiva looked up at Jack to find him staring at her. "What?" She asked.
"Nothin', lass." He said and glanced away, "And why won't you be stayin' wit' us?"
"Mr. Sparrow," She began.
"Captain, lass, it's 'Captain' Jack Sparrow." He said with a huge smirk on his face.
"Fine, CAPTAIN Sparrow, this boat, ship, sorry, has been my prison for four years. How can it ever be anything else?" She asked him, genuinely perplexed.
"Only you can answer that, luv. Only you can decide whether you can let go of the past and find a reason to stay. We will be arrivin' in Tortuga in about a week. You have until then to decide whether you stay or go. We are going to be pickin' up some supplies. Until then I expect you to work as one of me crew. Savvy?"
"Yes captain. I understand. But, please, tell me, what possible reason could I have for wanting to stay?"
Jack looked at her with a very weird look in his eyes, a sly smile and said in a serious voice, "I don't have a clue."
"I thought cluelessness was a common state for you." Akiva said with a big smile on her face.
For the next two days Akiva work hard. While she was working, she was often thinking how she would make a living once she left the Pearl.
/"I could always sign on to another ship. Perhaps a merchant ship, at least that way I wouldn't have to worry about being hung for piracy."/
/'No, you would be hung for being a witch.' Said a small voice in the back of her mind./
/"I am not a witch!" She argued./
/'Oh really? Then what do you call being able to read peoples thoughts, moving things with your mind, and putting images in others heads?'/
*OK, sorry, quick A/N- think of Prue on Charmed for the moving things with her mind and Emma off of Mutant-X, at the beginning of the series, and you will know what I mean when I say 'putting images in others heads.' Again sorry about the interruption. Back to the story*
/"Yeah, but I will never use them to hurt people, only help."/
/'You would have used them on Barbossa and Javier.'/
/"Only because of what they did to me and what they stole."/
/'And what did they steal?'/
/"My innocence."/
Akiva was brought out of her thoughts by a hand clamping down on her shoulder.
"And what planet might ye be on, pet?" Asked Jack in a very amused tone, for Akiva had been completely zoned and lost in thought, when she should have been tying the riggings.
Akiva jumped about a foot into the air, quietly shrieked and spun around.
"Captain." She breathed.
" Sorry 'bout that. Didn't mean to frighten ya love." Jack said sincerely.
"It's ok, you just startled me, is all. What can I do for you?"
"You could work on the riggings like you are su'posed to be doing and not daydream for starters."
"Sorry, I guess I just got lost in thought."
"No worries, pet. Care to tell ol' Jack what ye be thinkin' 'bout?" He asked with a suggestive smile.
Akiva blushed at this and Jack was thinking she was blushing because she thought he was coming on to her, which, of course, he was. But that is not at all why she was blushing, as
Jack would soon find out. She was blushing because of the memories that his closeness to her brought to the surface of the mind.
"You still with me love?" Jack asked in a worried tone, although if you didn't know him well, you would probably never know the difference.
"Yes, captain, I'm here." Akiva answered.
"Care to tell me what might be botherin' ye?" Jack asked.
Akiva looked up and in to his dark brown eyes and found nothing but concern in them.
She looked Jack dead in the eyes and asked,
"Can I trust you, Jack?"
Jack let her lack of calling him captain because he say that what she needed was not a captain, but a friend, and he would give her a friend for as long as she needed it.
"Aye, lass, you can trust me." Jack said this with as much sincerity and conviction as you can put into six little words, hoping she would trust him, because if there was one thing Jack would not break, it was his word and honor.
Akiva just stared at him for a minute, trying to determine whether or not she really could trust him with her most guarded secrets. As she stared into his eyes and very lightly touched his mind with hers, all she found was honesty and the fact that he would not betray her.
"Good, can we go talk in the quarters then? I really don't want anyone to over hear."
"Yes, let's go." Jack answered and let her to the captains cabin.
"So, what had you so lost out there?" Jack asked once they were in this cabin and sitting across from each other at the table.
"I was thinking about the memories this ship contain and wondering if I could ever look at it as anything beside a prison." Akiva said sadly.
"Tell me what happened to you. How long have you been here? What did Barbossa do to you?"
"I have been here four years and don't you already know what he did or had done to me?"
"I have an idea of what hap'ened, but I want ye to tell me."
"Why?" Akiva asked with sadness in her voice.
"Because it may help ye get over it, if ya tell someone else."
Akiva looked at him sadly and asked, "Do you really want to know?"
"Yes, I really want to know." He answered.
"Then hows 'bout I show you?"
"And how are ya gonnin' ta do tha'?" Jack asked, a little confused and very slightly worried of what she might do to him.
"Well, see, Jack, I have these abilities." She stated.
"Abilities? Like what?"
"One, I can read people's mind, but only when they want me to. Of course, people don't know I can read thoughts, so they don't put up barriers. And don't worry, I don't go around listening to everyone's thoughts and I have not read your. Two, I can move things with my mind."
"Show me." Jack said.
Akiva glanced around and saw a map lying rolled up on Jacks desk. She kept looking at it and it started to move into the air.
Jack was looking at in astonishment.
"Are you doing that?" He asked.
Akiva nodded and then the map started moving back down and went back to it original spot.
"So, how, exactly, are you going to show me what Barbossa did?" Jack asked.
"Well, I will join our mind. It won't harm you, Jack. All it will do is allow you to see my memories. Is that ok?"
"Will it hurt you?" Asked Jack.
"No, captain, it wont." Answered Akiva.
"Then be all means, proceed."
Akiva got up and looked at Jack
"We need to be sitting on the floor." She said.
So Jack got up and they sat down across from each other, cross legged. Akiva scutted closer to Jack and placed her hands on both sides of his head. Jack jerked abck at little at her touch.
"It's ok, I won't hurt you, relax."
Jack moved back towards her and allowed her to touch his head again.
{"May I come in?"} Jack had been watching Akiva when he heard this, and her mouth had not moved.
"What." He began.
{"Don't speak Jack, think your answer. Now may I come in?"}
{"Yes"} Jack thought.
{"Good job, now close you eyes, and focus on me only, ok?"}She said.
{"OK"}Jack answered.
Instantly Akiva could feel Jack mind opening up to hers
{"Are you ready to know what Barbossa did?"}
{"Yes."}
*This next part is all in Jacks mind, so anything he feels or does in all in his head, not in the real world.*
At that moment Jack felt what left like a wave hit him. He closed him eyes and when he opened them he was no longer in his body, but what appeared to be the body of a young girl.
/"What the hell?"/ Jack thought.
{"Don't be scared, you are seeing through my eyes from when I was first taken by Barbossa."}
/"Interesting."/
Jack looked around and realized that he was in the same cell that Akiva had been in when he had first met her. He could hear footsteps coming down the stairs toward him.
He looked up and saw Barbossa and another pirate that he didn't recognize. As they were unlocking the door and coing into the cell he heard Akiva's voice.
{"The other one is Javier."}
{"The guy you mentioned when we first met?"}
{"Yes, and don't try to talk or move because this is my memory and you can't change a memory, ok?"}
{"Yeah, sure, luv."}
"So little gypsy wench, you tried to escape? Did you really think you could get away?" Barbossa asks.
Javier comes over and hits young Akiva/Jack across the face, hard. Very hard, already there is a bruise forming.
"Answer him wench!" Javier yells.
"No." Comes they soft and weak voice of a little girl.
For a moment everything freezes.
{"How come I felt that?"}Jack asked.
{"Because you are reliving my memory."}Akiva answers. {"Do you want to stop?"}
{"No, keep going. Don't stop and don't tone it down."}
Time startes moving again.
"Then why did you run, little gypsy?" Asks Barbossa.
"I don't know." Young Akiva answers.
For the next twenty minutes Barbossa asks young Akiva questions and Javier continues to hit her when he doesn't like the answer or the way the answer was given, which is nine times out of ten.
"Well little wench, I hope you have had as much fun as I have. Javier, she is all yours." Barbossa says and leaves.
Jack can feel all the pain and fear that Akiva is feeling. He is amazed that she has not once cried out. Slowly Javier advances on Akiva. He unlocks the chains around her wrists that have been holding her arms up above her head and that were attached to the wall. As her wrists are released, Akiva loses her balance and falls to the ground. She lays there, totally exhausted. Slowly Javier rolls her over and he pins her arms about her head with one hand, while the other is undoing her shirt. Akiva starts to try to get out of his grasp, but he his to strong for her.
"The more you fight me, the more I will make this hurt, understand? Don't even try to fight, it won't work. Got it?"
Akiva nods.
"Good." Javier says.
For the next hour Javier beat and raped her. When he was done, he got up and left a bleeding and cold Akiva on the cell flood. She has deep scratches on her back from when Javier had dragged her across the floor.
Jack feels Akiva leave his mind and becomes conscious of the cabin around him once again. He looks over at Akiva and sees tears streaming down her faces. He moves over to her, picks her up, carries her to his bed, and lays her down. He then turns to leave and give her some time to rest, but he is stopped when a hand grabs his arm.
"Jack," Akiva says in a rough, tired voice. He turns and looks at her.
"Yes, love?" He askes in a tender, caring voice.
"Stay with me." She says.
"Are you sure?"
"Please Jack; I don't want to be alone."
Jack just smiles in understanding and climes into the bed, goes under the covers, and wraps his arms around her waist.
"Thank you, Jack."
"Your welcome. Now go to sleep."
"OK." Answers Akiva and drifts off into a much needed, blissfully dreamless slumber.
Jack wraps his arms more tightly around her, pulling her to him and join's her in the land of dreamless, healing sleep, for his body his still hurting from reliving her memories.
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*Authors Note*
So, what do you think of it so far? PLEASE REVIEW!!!! *Sniffels* Please?!?! Will update soon, probably within the next two days, it all depends on my Muse. I love my Muse. She is wonderful! *I know, I am sucking up, oh well!* Well I am going to shut off my laptop and get some sleep 'cause it is like 4:00 AM and I have been writing since about 1:15 AM. What can I say? When I can't sleep, I write. I don't CHOSE when my ideas pop up they just do. Blame it on the Muse. As she always say, "A Muses work in never done." Night people.
Rose.
A/A/N - No I don't REALLY believe in magic or muses. I just think it is fun to write about.
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Disclaimers: I do not own POTC or any of the characters from the movie. I only own the things that were not in the movie. I am not making any money, so please do not sue me.
Rating: R. Rape, magic, and language.
Sorry for the heavy subject matter in this chapter, but is important to the story.
{ } - indicates mind talking. / / - means personal thoughts. ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
Gibbs, Anna, and Akiva were sitting in the galley, talking.
"So, ye be wantin' us to sail up to Port Royal, let the entire British Royal Navy know we are comin' and try to rescue Jack" asked Gibbs sarcastically.
"No, I want you to sail us to just out side the port at NIGHT, drop anchor and let Cotton's parrot fly in, find Jack and let him know we are here. Savvy?" replies Akiva.
"And why would you be carin' what happens to Cap't Jack? Did ye fall for him?" Asked Anna.
"Anna, pleased. You are crazy if you think I could EVER fall for a self centered, drunken, lunatic." Stated Akiva.
"Who said I wa'n't crazy?" Retorted Anna.
"Would you two stop?! Mary mother o' God!" Yelled Gibbs.
All three were quite for several minutes.
"Lass?" Said Gibbs, looking at Akiva.
"Yeah Gibbs?"
"Why, truly, do you care what happens to Captain Jack Sparrow?"
"I just don't agree with lettin' him swing when he has done nothin' wrong."
"He is a pirate, lass, that be reason enough."
"That is NOT a good enough reason for me and it shouldn't be for you or Anna either." Akiva said while lookin' Gibbs straight in the eyes. "You let him swing and you will be as much of a traitor as Barbossa was." As she finished saying this she looked Anna in the eyes.
"I know girl, which is why we are goin' after him." Anna said to her quietly. "Gibbs, go tell the crew we are goin' to Port Royal."
"Aye, Anna. Do you want me to take the wheel?"
"Sure, I could use some sleep. Have one of the men wake me at sun rise." Said Anna.
About six hours later, could no longer sleep, so she came up on deck to relieve Gibbs.
"Gibbs, go get some sleep."
"I'm fine Anna. You should still be sleepin'. Sun up isn't for about three hours."
"I can't sleep anymore. Go, man, you've been up for almost an entire day."
About two days later, Anna, Gibbs and Akiva were talking while Anna was steering, when the look-out in the crows nest called out 'land ho.'
They slowly sailed around the island until the Battlement came into view and then dropped anchor. Cotton sent his parrot off to find Jack and let him know that the Pearl was wanting for him and that it was up to him to find a way out of the noose.
The Pearl was sitting and waiting for about twenty minutes when they saw Jack clime onto the top of the Battlement wall, for a few seconds he is standing there ands gesturing wildly when he suddenly fell backwards. For about thirty seconds Akiva stood staring at the spot where Jack had hit the water. When he finally surfaced, she started laughing hysterically.
By the time Jack had swum to the ship and been pulled up, Akiva had herself back under control.
When Jack landed on the deck.
"Thought you were s'posed to keep to the Code." He says while looking up at Gibbs.
"We figgered they were more actual guidelines." Gibbs says and chuckles softly.
Gibbs offers Jack a hand, which he accepts, and helps him up.
Cotton, who was standing on Gibbs' right, hands Jack his hat.
Jack smiles, says, "Thank you," and places his hat back on his head.
"Captain Sparrow," Anna-Maria says from where she has been leaning on the wheel, she comes up behind him, and drapes a blanket around his shoulders, "The Black Pearl is yours." She says smiling.
Jack glances at he wheel with a weird look in his eye, smiles and half walks, half sways over to the wheel. He slowly stroked the wheel, almost like one would touch a lover. He glances around him, and notices that the crew is just standing around, watching him.
"On deck you scabrous dogs!" Jack calls out. "Hands to braces! Let down and haul to run free!"
The crew scattered to follow there captains orders.
"Now, bring me that horizon." Jack says quietly. He starts humming the tune to 'Pirates life for me' He pulls out his compass that doesn't point north and quietly half sings, half says, " And really bad eggs." He turns the wheel a little and sings louder, "Drink up, me hearties, yo ho!" He snaps shut the compass and continues steering.
About an hour later he notices Akiva, who has been working hard with the rest of the crew.
"Girl." Jack called.
Akiva turned to look at him. "Yes captain?" She asked.
"Will you be stayin' with us, luv?" He asked
"May I be allowed to speak freely?"
"This ain't the bloody Navy, luv, ye can say what ya like, as long as ye be willin' to deal with the consequences." He stated while looking her straight in the eyes and moving his eye brow suggestively.
"Well, first please don't call me love, second my name is Akiva, and." She was going to continue talking, but Jack cut her off.
"This is my ship, LOVE," Jack said, emphasizing the word love, "And I will call you what ever I feel like callin' ye, savvy?" He asked, looking as her expectantly.
"Savvy. May I continue?" She asked.
"Please do." He said, looking at her.
"Like I was saying, I would be very appreciative if you could drop me off at the nearest, Gypsy friendly, port." Akiva looked up at Jack to find him staring at her. "What?" She asked.
"Nothin', lass." He said and glanced away, "And why won't you be stayin' wit' us?"
"Mr. Sparrow," She began.
"Captain, lass, it's 'Captain' Jack Sparrow." He said with a huge smirk on his face.
"Fine, CAPTAIN Sparrow, this boat, ship, sorry, has been my prison for four years. How can it ever be anything else?" She asked him, genuinely perplexed.
"Only you can answer that, luv. Only you can decide whether you can let go of the past and find a reason to stay. We will be arrivin' in Tortuga in about a week. You have until then to decide whether you stay or go. We are going to be pickin' up some supplies. Until then I expect you to work as one of me crew. Savvy?"
"Yes captain. I understand. But, please, tell me, what possible reason could I have for wanting to stay?"
Jack looked at her with a very weird look in his eyes, a sly smile and said in a serious voice, "I don't have a clue."
"I thought cluelessness was a common state for you." Akiva said with a big smile on her face.
For the next two days Akiva work hard. While she was working, she was often thinking how she would make a living once she left the Pearl.
/"I could always sign on to another ship. Perhaps a merchant ship, at least that way I wouldn't have to worry about being hung for piracy."/
/'No, you would be hung for being a witch.' Said a small voice in the back of her mind./
/"I am not a witch!" She argued./
/'Oh really? Then what do you call being able to read peoples thoughts, moving things with your mind, and putting images in others heads?'/
*OK, sorry, quick A/N- think of Prue on Charmed for the moving things with her mind and Emma off of Mutant-X, at the beginning of the series, and you will know what I mean when I say 'putting images in others heads.' Again sorry about the interruption. Back to the story*
/"Yeah, but I will never use them to hurt people, only help."/
/'You would have used them on Barbossa and Javier.'/
/"Only because of what they did to me and what they stole."/
/'And what did they steal?'/
/"My innocence."/
Akiva was brought out of her thoughts by a hand clamping down on her shoulder.
"And what planet might ye be on, pet?" Asked Jack in a very amused tone, for Akiva had been completely zoned and lost in thought, when she should have been tying the riggings.
Akiva jumped about a foot into the air, quietly shrieked and spun around.
"Captain." She breathed.
" Sorry 'bout that. Didn't mean to frighten ya love." Jack said sincerely.
"It's ok, you just startled me, is all. What can I do for you?"
"You could work on the riggings like you are su'posed to be doing and not daydream for starters."
"Sorry, I guess I just got lost in thought."
"No worries, pet. Care to tell ol' Jack what ye be thinkin' 'bout?" He asked with a suggestive smile.
Akiva blushed at this and Jack was thinking she was blushing because she thought he was coming on to her, which, of course, he was. But that is not at all why she was blushing, as
Jack would soon find out. She was blushing because of the memories that his closeness to her brought to the surface of the mind.
"You still with me love?" Jack asked in a worried tone, although if you didn't know him well, you would probably never know the difference.
"Yes, captain, I'm here." Akiva answered.
"Care to tell me what might be botherin' ye?" Jack asked.
Akiva looked up and in to his dark brown eyes and found nothing but concern in them.
She looked Jack dead in the eyes and asked,
"Can I trust you, Jack?"
Jack let her lack of calling him captain because he say that what she needed was not a captain, but a friend, and he would give her a friend for as long as she needed it.
"Aye, lass, you can trust me." Jack said this with as much sincerity and conviction as you can put into six little words, hoping she would trust him, because if there was one thing Jack would not break, it was his word and honor.
Akiva just stared at him for a minute, trying to determine whether or not she really could trust him with her most guarded secrets. As she stared into his eyes and very lightly touched his mind with hers, all she found was honesty and the fact that he would not betray her.
"Good, can we go talk in the quarters then? I really don't want anyone to over hear."
"Yes, let's go." Jack answered and let her to the captains cabin.
"So, what had you so lost out there?" Jack asked once they were in this cabin and sitting across from each other at the table.
"I was thinking about the memories this ship contain and wondering if I could ever look at it as anything beside a prison." Akiva said sadly.
"Tell me what happened to you. How long have you been here? What did Barbossa do to you?"
"I have been here four years and don't you already know what he did or had done to me?"
"I have an idea of what hap'ened, but I want ye to tell me."
"Why?" Akiva asked with sadness in her voice.
"Because it may help ye get over it, if ya tell someone else."
Akiva looked at him sadly and asked, "Do you really want to know?"
"Yes, I really want to know." He answered.
"Then hows 'bout I show you?"
"And how are ya gonnin' ta do tha'?" Jack asked, a little confused and very slightly worried of what she might do to him.
"Well, see, Jack, I have these abilities." She stated.
"Abilities? Like what?"
"One, I can read people's mind, but only when they want me to. Of course, people don't know I can read thoughts, so they don't put up barriers. And don't worry, I don't go around listening to everyone's thoughts and I have not read your. Two, I can move things with my mind."
"Show me." Jack said.
Akiva glanced around and saw a map lying rolled up on Jacks desk. She kept looking at it and it started to move into the air.
Jack was looking at in astonishment.
"Are you doing that?" He asked.
Akiva nodded and then the map started moving back down and went back to it original spot.
"So, how, exactly, are you going to show me what Barbossa did?" Jack asked.
"Well, I will join our mind. It won't harm you, Jack. All it will do is allow you to see my memories. Is that ok?"
"Will it hurt you?" Asked Jack.
"No, captain, it wont." Answered Akiva.
"Then be all means, proceed."
Akiva got up and looked at Jack
"We need to be sitting on the floor." She said.
So Jack got up and they sat down across from each other, cross legged. Akiva scutted closer to Jack and placed her hands on both sides of his head. Jack jerked abck at little at her touch.
"It's ok, I won't hurt you, relax."
Jack moved back towards her and allowed her to touch his head again.
{"May I come in?"} Jack had been watching Akiva when he heard this, and her mouth had not moved.
"What." He began.
{"Don't speak Jack, think your answer. Now may I come in?"}
{"Yes"} Jack thought.
{"Good job, now close you eyes, and focus on me only, ok?"}She said.
{"OK"}Jack answered.
Instantly Akiva could feel Jack mind opening up to hers
{"Are you ready to know what Barbossa did?"}
{"Yes."}
*This next part is all in Jacks mind, so anything he feels or does in all in his head, not in the real world.*
At that moment Jack felt what left like a wave hit him. He closed him eyes and when he opened them he was no longer in his body, but what appeared to be the body of a young girl.
/"What the hell?"/ Jack thought.
{"Don't be scared, you are seeing through my eyes from when I was first taken by Barbossa."}
/"Interesting."/
Jack looked around and realized that he was in the same cell that Akiva had been in when he had first met her. He could hear footsteps coming down the stairs toward him.
He looked up and saw Barbossa and another pirate that he didn't recognize. As they were unlocking the door and coing into the cell he heard Akiva's voice.
{"The other one is Javier."}
{"The guy you mentioned when we first met?"}
{"Yes, and don't try to talk or move because this is my memory and you can't change a memory, ok?"}
{"Yeah, sure, luv."}
"So little gypsy wench, you tried to escape? Did you really think you could get away?" Barbossa asks.
Javier comes over and hits young Akiva/Jack across the face, hard. Very hard, already there is a bruise forming.
"Answer him wench!" Javier yells.
"No." Comes they soft and weak voice of a little girl.
For a moment everything freezes.
{"How come I felt that?"}Jack asked.
{"Because you are reliving my memory."}Akiva answers. {"Do you want to stop?"}
{"No, keep going. Don't stop and don't tone it down."}
Time startes moving again.
"Then why did you run, little gypsy?" Asks Barbossa.
"I don't know." Young Akiva answers.
For the next twenty minutes Barbossa asks young Akiva questions and Javier continues to hit her when he doesn't like the answer or the way the answer was given, which is nine times out of ten.
"Well little wench, I hope you have had as much fun as I have. Javier, she is all yours." Barbossa says and leaves.
Jack can feel all the pain and fear that Akiva is feeling. He is amazed that she has not once cried out. Slowly Javier advances on Akiva. He unlocks the chains around her wrists that have been holding her arms up above her head and that were attached to the wall. As her wrists are released, Akiva loses her balance and falls to the ground. She lays there, totally exhausted. Slowly Javier rolls her over and he pins her arms about her head with one hand, while the other is undoing her shirt. Akiva starts to try to get out of his grasp, but he his to strong for her.
"The more you fight me, the more I will make this hurt, understand? Don't even try to fight, it won't work. Got it?"
Akiva nods.
"Good." Javier says.
For the next hour Javier beat and raped her. When he was done, he got up and left a bleeding and cold Akiva on the cell flood. She has deep scratches on her back from when Javier had dragged her across the floor.
Jack feels Akiva leave his mind and becomes conscious of the cabin around him once again. He looks over at Akiva and sees tears streaming down her faces. He moves over to her, picks her up, carries her to his bed, and lays her down. He then turns to leave and give her some time to rest, but he is stopped when a hand grabs his arm.
"Jack," Akiva says in a rough, tired voice. He turns and looks at her.
"Yes, love?" He askes in a tender, caring voice.
"Stay with me." She says.
"Are you sure?"
"Please Jack; I don't want to be alone."
Jack just smiles in understanding and climes into the bed, goes under the covers, and wraps his arms around her waist.
"Thank you, Jack."
"Your welcome. Now go to sleep."
"OK." Answers Akiva and drifts off into a much needed, blissfully dreamless slumber.
Jack wraps his arms more tightly around her, pulling her to him and join's her in the land of dreamless, healing sleep, for his body his still hurting from reliving her memories.
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*Authors Note*
So, what do you think of it so far? PLEASE REVIEW!!!! *Sniffels* Please?!?! Will update soon, probably within the next two days, it all depends on my Muse. I love my Muse. She is wonderful! *I know, I am sucking up, oh well!* Well I am going to shut off my laptop and get some sleep 'cause it is like 4:00 AM and I have been writing since about 1:15 AM. What can I say? When I can't sleep, I write. I don't CHOSE when my ideas pop up they just do. Blame it on the Muse. As she always say, "A Muses work in never done." Night people.
Rose.
A/A/N - No I don't REALLY believe in magic or muses. I just think it is fun to write about.
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