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Py: *calls from across the room* Yes I doooo!!
Sess: Ignore her drugged-up-on-Nyquil ravings
Py: I'm not drugged up on Nyquil! I've only drunk one bottle today.
Sess: O.o
Slightly Hazy
Chapter 5: A bit of bad luck
"Here Miss," A maid says as she places a bed warmer in between the covers of Elizabeth's bed. "It was a difficult day for you, I'm sure."
"I suspected Commodore Norrington would propose, but I must admit, I wasn't entirely prepared for it." Elizabeth replies.
"Well," The maid says confused, " I meant you being threatened by that horrible pirate, sounds terrifying."
"Oh, yes, it was terrifying."
"But the Commodore proposed." The maid changes the subject with an excited voice. "Fancy that. That's a smart match, Miss, if it's not too bold to say."
"It is a smart match," Elizabeth says, wistfully. "He's a fine man. He's what any woman should dream of marrying."
"Well," The maid says in a timid voice. " That Will Turner, he's a fine man, too."
"That is too bold." Elizabeth coldly states as she realizes how true the maid's words are.
"Well," The maid says respectfully as she leaves. "Begging your pardon, Miss, it was not my place."
"But it is mine." Jacque says as she steps into Elizabeth's room, having heard the latter portion of their conversation. "You know that she's right."
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Elizabeth scoffs as she fiddles with her bedspread.
"Of course you don't, Miss I-had-a-dream-about-you-last-night-and-I'm- telling-you-this-in-front-of-my-father-because-you-mean-nothing-to-me." Jacque mocks.
"Oh.you're horrible." Elizabeth says, aggravated. "You're just jealous that Commodore Norrington proposed to me."
"Oh, really?" Jacque asks as she begins to loose her reign on her temper. "Well then, perhaps I should find someone for myself, and, unlike you, I find nothing wrong with Will Turner." She says and exits the room, leaving Elizabeth to mull over her situation.
"Come 'ere, boy. Nice juicy bone, come 'ere. Come on." One of the pirates in the neighboring cells coaxes the mangy dog that held the keys to the cell.
"You can keep doing that forever," Jack says nonchalantly from his corner of the cell. "The dog is never going to move."
"Well, sorry if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet." One of the other pirates jeers at them.
"Actually," You say as you observe the pirates. " You did resign to getting yourselves caught, at the very least, when you set foot into Port Royal and remained together. How is it that all six of you managed to get caught?"
"We was betrayed." One of them ominously states.
"Yeah," You mumble to Jack. "Betrayed by their own loose tongues, most likely."
Jack is about to answer when the familiar crack of a cannon fills the air.
"I know those guns." He murmurs as he scrambles up and looks out the window. "It's the Pearl." He states with a mixture of delight and hatred in his voice.
"The Black Pearl?" One of the prisoners asks. "I've heard stories. She's been praying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors."
"Dimwit." You say to him. "If there's no survivors then where do the stories come from, hm?"
Jacque awoke to a loud boom in the air. Sitting up, she runs to the balcony, where she sees the Black Pearl firing from the harbor. Already in a pair of boots, she runs down the hallway to Elizabeth's room and meets Elizabeth at the top of the staircase.
"What's happening?" Elizabeth yells over the noise.
"Pirates!" Jacque responds.
Both girls' eyes widen as they hear someone pounding on the door. They turn to find the butler with his hand already on the handle.
"Don't!" They both cry as he opens to door to reveal two grungy pirates who immediately shoot him.
"Look, girls!" The taller of the two cries as his companion smiles wickedly.
Jacque and Elizabeth run into the nearest bedroom, locking the door.
"Miss Swann," One of the maids cries desperately from her hiding spot in the closet. "They've come to kidnap you."
"What?" Elizabeth cries as Jacque shakes her head, knowing the martyr attitude that this will wake in Elizabeth.
"You're the Governor's daughter." The maid finishes, as if it was the most obvious solution in the world.
"They haven't seen you." Elizabeth says in a determined voice. " Hide and at the first chance you get, run to the fort. You should do the same, Jacque."
"No way." Jacque says, rolling her eyes at Elizabeth. "Do you actually expect me to stay out of this? Plus, the pirates have already seen me."
"But you could be killed." Elizabeth argues.
"So could you." Jacque retorts.
They both turn as they hear the door handle being rattled and sprint into the next room.
"Gotcha." One of the pirates declares as he grabs hold of Elizabeth's arm.
"Not yet, you don't." Jacque asserts as she hits the other pirate on the head with a bed warmer before emptying the hot embers onto the pirate's head.
The girls run to the stairs, but find themselves cornered by another pirate. As they begin to advance on the girls, a cannonball flies through the window and smacks the pirate on the stairs into the wall.
"Come on!" Jacque yells to Elizabeth as the run into the dining room, barring the door with candlesticks. Jacque runs over to one of the nearby closets and opens it. Beckoning to Elizabeth, who was trying unsuccessfully to release a sword from the mantelpiece, they run inside, closing the doors just as the two pirates force the doors open.
"We know you're here, Poppets," One of them taunts as he looks around the room.
"Poppets." The other repeats in a crazed voice.
"Come out and we promise we won't hurt you." The first pirate says as he smiles wickedly at his cohort. "We will find you, poppets. You've got something of ours and it calls to us. The gold calls to us."
"Gold calls." The other repeats as the light between the doors of the closet disappears.
"Ello, Poppets." The pirate says menacingly as he opens the doors, to find the girls truly cornered.
"Parley!" Elizabeth yells in a panicked voice.
"What?" Both Jacque and the pirate ask.
"Parley. I invoke the right of parley. According to the code of the brethren, set down by the pirates Morgan and Bartholomew, you have to take us to your Captain." She says in a confident voice.
"I know the code." The pirate states.
"If an adversary demands parley you can do them no harm until the parley is complete." Elizabeth continues in an all-knowing voice that Jacque could see was getting on the pirate's nerves.
"To blazes with the code." The crazed-sounding pirate says as he brings his blade closer to Elizabeth's neck.
"They want to be taken to the Captain." The other pirate says as he lowers his companion's hand. "And they'll go without a fuss. We must honor the code."
"It's the Pearl. It's the Pearl." Jack continues to mumble as he stares out the window, transfixed by the ship in the harbor.
"We get it already." You say as you pull on Jack's shirt, dragging him away from the window.
"What'd you do that for?" Jack asks, turning to look at you.
"What do you think." You begin but are cut off as Jack glances out the window and grabs your waist, throwing you onto the farthest corner of the cell as a cannonball smashes into the outer wall, sending debris flying.
You open your eyes and look over Jack's shoulder to find that the cannon had blasted a hole through the cell wall. Your 'friendly neighbors'' cell wall.
"My sympathies, my friends." One of them says, laughing as he looks at you and Jack while his comrades climb out the hole.. "It's no matter of luck, at all."
"Oh yes it is," You mutter as Jack looks at you curiously. "Someone obviously hates you."
Jack flashes you a toothy smile as he stands up, and you watch as he inspects the fist-sized hole in your size of the wall.
"I don't think that you'd be able to fit thought that one, luv." He says as you lightly kick him in the shin.
Jack just smiles as he wanders over to the other side of the cell and picks up the bone that is lying on the floor.
"Come on doggy," He says as he waves the bone in front of the dog. "It's just you an' me an' the lass here now. Come on, good boy."
"This is your brilliant plan?" You ask as you come to stand next to Jack, who shrugs. You roll your eyes and hold your arms open through the bars and make a slight clicking noise with your tongue.
"What? How'd you know that?" Jack asks as he watches the dog cautiously approach you. "Never mind Come on, bit closer. That's it you filthy, slimy, mangy cad."
You hit Jack over the head as the dog runs off. "Look what you did! Don't insult anything else that might help us! I almost." You look up as a crash sounds and good ol' Smith is thrown down the stairs, followed by two pirates.
"This ain't the armory." One of them states, as you ponder the depths of idiocy for a moment.
"Well, well, well," His companion says as he steps closer to the cell. "Look what we have here, Twigg. Cap'n Jack Sparrow."
"Last time I saw you," Twigg spits in a menacing voice. "You were all alone on a godforsaken island, shrinking into the distance. His fortunes aren't improved much. And the girl's can't be any better if she's stuck here with him." He comments as he looks to the open wall of the neighboring cell.
"Worry about your own fortunes, gentlemen." Jack says in a calm, confidant voice. "The deepest circle of Hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers."
The pirate growls, and thrusts his arm through the bars and grabs Jack by the throat.
"So," Jack says as he stares at the now skeletal arm. "There is a curse. That's interesting."
"You know nothing of Hell." The pirate spits, giving Jack's neck one final squeeze before leaving in search of the armory.
"I take it they don't like you very much." You remark as you and Jack watch their shadows disappear.
"You could say that." Jack says, still gazing in the direction of the pirates. "Very interesting."
Py: Ok, next chappie we'll get to meet Will and find out what the heck's going to happen to Lizzy and Jacque, finally meet Barbossa, and we'll head for Tortuga!
Hey, did anyone else see that Johnny Depp is People Magazine's Hottest Man of the Year? ^.^
Review Responses:
Purple Stain: Thanks! I'm trying to put more character into the "you" character as I go along. You stole Shippo? He's so cute!!! Can I hug him? (Sesshomaru: *glare* -.- Py: *sticks tongue out as Sess*) That's a great description and I'll try to include as much of it as I can. I'd trust Jack too- I mean come on- he's Jack. I love the drinking game idea.*begins to plot Will's drunken demise while evil, malicious laughter erupts in the background* ^.^
Cryptic Storm: Glad I could help. Yes, the messes that can occur are key. Ooh, the pure chaos I can ensue! I love having power! Yeah, about the e- mail.I got the quotes thing, and replied, so you should be able to reply to that, but if I don't get it by the next chapter I'm gonna ask you to put it in your review. My server's been givin' me problems and it's bouncing about half of my e-mails back. I don't know why. *pout*
Bluelady198: Hey, sorry about your review not getting' through in time, you were right, by the way. There'll be another chance towards the end of the story, 'cause I'm too sick right now to think of another one for Tortuga. Sorry!
CastlesInTheAir: Yeah, there'll be another chance later, probably around the end. I understand the head hurting, mine's pounding and making my vision blur at the moment- look at all the pretty colors- anyways, thanks and feel free to share whatever thoughts you have.
Thanks to everyone else who reviewed!
Oh, and please review this chapter too! The button's right down there (
Py: That Nyquil's kickin' in. I can barely.*rests head on desk*
Sess: Oh well, she's been sick all week. She'll post this tomorrow. *Carries Py up to her room*
Py: *calls from across the room* Yes I doooo!!
Sess: Ignore her drugged-up-on-Nyquil ravings
Py: I'm not drugged up on Nyquil! I've only drunk one bottle today.
Sess: O.o
Slightly Hazy
Chapter 5: A bit of bad luck
"Here Miss," A maid says as she places a bed warmer in between the covers of Elizabeth's bed. "It was a difficult day for you, I'm sure."
"I suspected Commodore Norrington would propose, but I must admit, I wasn't entirely prepared for it." Elizabeth replies.
"Well," The maid says confused, " I meant you being threatened by that horrible pirate, sounds terrifying."
"Oh, yes, it was terrifying."
"But the Commodore proposed." The maid changes the subject with an excited voice. "Fancy that. That's a smart match, Miss, if it's not too bold to say."
"It is a smart match," Elizabeth says, wistfully. "He's a fine man. He's what any woman should dream of marrying."
"Well," The maid says in a timid voice. " That Will Turner, he's a fine man, too."
"That is too bold." Elizabeth coldly states as she realizes how true the maid's words are.
"Well," The maid says respectfully as she leaves. "Begging your pardon, Miss, it was not my place."
"But it is mine." Jacque says as she steps into Elizabeth's room, having heard the latter portion of their conversation. "You know that she's right."
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Elizabeth scoffs as she fiddles with her bedspread.
"Of course you don't, Miss I-had-a-dream-about-you-last-night-and-I'm- telling-you-this-in-front-of-my-father-because-you-mean-nothing-to-me." Jacque mocks.
"Oh.you're horrible." Elizabeth says, aggravated. "You're just jealous that Commodore Norrington proposed to me."
"Oh, really?" Jacque asks as she begins to loose her reign on her temper. "Well then, perhaps I should find someone for myself, and, unlike you, I find nothing wrong with Will Turner." She says and exits the room, leaving Elizabeth to mull over her situation.
"Come 'ere, boy. Nice juicy bone, come 'ere. Come on." One of the pirates in the neighboring cells coaxes the mangy dog that held the keys to the cell.
"You can keep doing that forever," Jack says nonchalantly from his corner of the cell. "The dog is never going to move."
"Well, sorry if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet." One of the other pirates jeers at them.
"Actually," You say as you observe the pirates. " You did resign to getting yourselves caught, at the very least, when you set foot into Port Royal and remained together. How is it that all six of you managed to get caught?"
"We was betrayed." One of them ominously states.
"Yeah," You mumble to Jack. "Betrayed by their own loose tongues, most likely."
Jack is about to answer when the familiar crack of a cannon fills the air.
"I know those guns." He murmurs as he scrambles up and looks out the window. "It's the Pearl." He states with a mixture of delight and hatred in his voice.
"The Black Pearl?" One of the prisoners asks. "I've heard stories. She's been praying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors."
"Dimwit." You say to him. "If there's no survivors then where do the stories come from, hm?"
Jacque awoke to a loud boom in the air. Sitting up, she runs to the balcony, where she sees the Black Pearl firing from the harbor. Already in a pair of boots, she runs down the hallway to Elizabeth's room and meets Elizabeth at the top of the staircase.
"What's happening?" Elizabeth yells over the noise.
"Pirates!" Jacque responds.
Both girls' eyes widen as they hear someone pounding on the door. They turn to find the butler with his hand already on the handle.
"Don't!" They both cry as he opens to door to reveal two grungy pirates who immediately shoot him.
"Look, girls!" The taller of the two cries as his companion smiles wickedly.
Jacque and Elizabeth run into the nearest bedroom, locking the door.
"Miss Swann," One of the maids cries desperately from her hiding spot in the closet. "They've come to kidnap you."
"What?" Elizabeth cries as Jacque shakes her head, knowing the martyr attitude that this will wake in Elizabeth.
"You're the Governor's daughter." The maid finishes, as if it was the most obvious solution in the world.
"They haven't seen you." Elizabeth says in a determined voice. " Hide and at the first chance you get, run to the fort. You should do the same, Jacque."
"No way." Jacque says, rolling her eyes at Elizabeth. "Do you actually expect me to stay out of this? Plus, the pirates have already seen me."
"But you could be killed." Elizabeth argues.
"So could you." Jacque retorts.
They both turn as they hear the door handle being rattled and sprint into the next room.
"Gotcha." One of the pirates declares as he grabs hold of Elizabeth's arm.
"Not yet, you don't." Jacque asserts as she hits the other pirate on the head with a bed warmer before emptying the hot embers onto the pirate's head.
The girls run to the stairs, but find themselves cornered by another pirate. As they begin to advance on the girls, a cannonball flies through the window and smacks the pirate on the stairs into the wall.
"Come on!" Jacque yells to Elizabeth as the run into the dining room, barring the door with candlesticks. Jacque runs over to one of the nearby closets and opens it. Beckoning to Elizabeth, who was trying unsuccessfully to release a sword from the mantelpiece, they run inside, closing the doors just as the two pirates force the doors open.
"We know you're here, Poppets," One of them taunts as he looks around the room.
"Poppets." The other repeats in a crazed voice.
"Come out and we promise we won't hurt you." The first pirate says as he smiles wickedly at his cohort. "We will find you, poppets. You've got something of ours and it calls to us. The gold calls to us."
"Gold calls." The other repeats as the light between the doors of the closet disappears.
"Ello, Poppets." The pirate says menacingly as he opens the doors, to find the girls truly cornered.
"Parley!" Elizabeth yells in a panicked voice.
"What?" Both Jacque and the pirate ask.
"Parley. I invoke the right of parley. According to the code of the brethren, set down by the pirates Morgan and Bartholomew, you have to take us to your Captain." She says in a confident voice.
"I know the code." The pirate states.
"If an adversary demands parley you can do them no harm until the parley is complete." Elizabeth continues in an all-knowing voice that Jacque could see was getting on the pirate's nerves.
"To blazes with the code." The crazed-sounding pirate says as he brings his blade closer to Elizabeth's neck.
"They want to be taken to the Captain." The other pirate says as he lowers his companion's hand. "And they'll go without a fuss. We must honor the code."
"It's the Pearl. It's the Pearl." Jack continues to mumble as he stares out the window, transfixed by the ship in the harbor.
"We get it already." You say as you pull on Jack's shirt, dragging him away from the window.
"What'd you do that for?" Jack asks, turning to look at you.
"What do you think." You begin but are cut off as Jack glances out the window and grabs your waist, throwing you onto the farthest corner of the cell as a cannonball smashes into the outer wall, sending debris flying.
You open your eyes and look over Jack's shoulder to find that the cannon had blasted a hole through the cell wall. Your 'friendly neighbors'' cell wall.
"My sympathies, my friends." One of them says, laughing as he looks at you and Jack while his comrades climb out the hole.. "It's no matter of luck, at all."
"Oh yes it is," You mutter as Jack looks at you curiously. "Someone obviously hates you."
Jack flashes you a toothy smile as he stands up, and you watch as he inspects the fist-sized hole in your size of the wall.
"I don't think that you'd be able to fit thought that one, luv." He says as you lightly kick him in the shin.
Jack just smiles as he wanders over to the other side of the cell and picks up the bone that is lying on the floor.
"Come on doggy," He says as he waves the bone in front of the dog. "It's just you an' me an' the lass here now. Come on, good boy."
"This is your brilliant plan?" You ask as you come to stand next to Jack, who shrugs. You roll your eyes and hold your arms open through the bars and make a slight clicking noise with your tongue.
"What? How'd you know that?" Jack asks as he watches the dog cautiously approach you. "Never mind Come on, bit closer. That's it you filthy, slimy, mangy cad."
You hit Jack over the head as the dog runs off. "Look what you did! Don't insult anything else that might help us! I almost." You look up as a crash sounds and good ol' Smith is thrown down the stairs, followed by two pirates.
"This ain't the armory." One of them states, as you ponder the depths of idiocy for a moment.
"Well, well, well," His companion says as he steps closer to the cell. "Look what we have here, Twigg. Cap'n Jack Sparrow."
"Last time I saw you," Twigg spits in a menacing voice. "You were all alone on a godforsaken island, shrinking into the distance. His fortunes aren't improved much. And the girl's can't be any better if she's stuck here with him." He comments as he looks to the open wall of the neighboring cell.
"Worry about your own fortunes, gentlemen." Jack says in a calm, confidant voice. "The deepest circle of Hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers."
The pirate growls, and thrusts his arm through the bars and grabs Jack by the throat.
"So," Jack says as he stares at the now skeletal arm. "There is a curse. That's interesting."
"You know nothing of Hell." The pirate spits, giving Jack's neck one final squeeze before leaving in search of the armory.
"I take it they don't like you very much." You remark as you and Jack watch their shadows disappear.
"You could say that." Jack says, still gazing in the direction of the pirates. "Very interesting."
Py: Ok, next chappie we'll get to meet Will and find out what the heck's going to happen to Lizzy and Jacque, finally meet Barbossa, and we'll head for Tortuga!
Hey, did anyone else see that Johnny Depp is People Magazine's Hottest Man of the Year? ^.^
Review Responses:
Purple Stain: Thanks! I'm trying to put more character into the "you" character as I go along. You stole Shippo? He's so cute!!! Can I hug him? (Sesshomaru: *glare* -.- Py: *sticks tongue out as Sess*) That's a great description and I'll try to include as much of it as I can. I'd trust Jack too- I mean come on- he's Jack. I love the drinking game idea.*begins to plot Will's drunken demise while evil, malicious laughter erupts in the background* ^.^
Cryptic Storm: Glad I could help. Yes, the messes that can occur are key. Ooh, the pure chaos I can ensue! I love having power! Yeah, about the e- mail.I got the quotes thing, and replied, so you should be able to reply to that, but if I don't get it by the next chapter I'm gonna ask you to put it in your review. My server's been givin' me problems and it's bouncing about half of my e-mails back. I don't know why. *pout*
Bluelady198: Hey, sorry about your review not getting' through in time, you were right, by the way. There'll be another chance towards the end of the story, 'cause I'm too sick right now to think of another one for Tortuga. Sorry!
CastlesInTheAir: Yeah, there'll be another chance later, probably around the end. I understand the head hurting, mine's pounding and making my vision blur at the moment- look at all the pretty colors- anyways, thanks and feel free to share whatever thoughts you have.
Thanks to everyone else who reviewed!
Oh, and please review this chapter too! The button's right down there (
Py: That Nyquil's kickin' in. I can barely.*rests head on desk*
Sess: Oh well, she's been sick all week. She'll post this tomorrow. *Carries Py up to her room*