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Py: Yay! For the first time in a few weeks, I'm actually healthy for an update!
Sess: -.-'
Py: *looks at Sess* Oh, and by the way- Slightly Hazy's received its very first fanart!*squeals* It's a pic of Cap'n Maru by Ayashe. It's sooooo cool. *tears well up in eyes* Thank you so much Ayashe, this chappie is dedicated to you for wasting your creativity on me. The link to it is in my profile. It's really cool, I'm so unable to do anything art-related on the computer, although I've started my own sketch of Sess as Cap'n Maru and I hope to be able to put it up when I figure out how to set up my scanner.
Sess: *smirks* Yes, but fanart is very much appreciated.
Py: Are you saying I can't draw!?! *whips out frying pan of doom and whacks Sess over the head*
Sess: @.@ *falls over*
Py: Oops, I guess that was a little too hard.Oh well, on with the chapter!
Slightly Hazy
Chapter 13: Trust?
"What are you doing?" Jacque asks Barbossa as she and Jacque are dragged towards the lifeboats.
"Takin ye to the boats, missie." Barbossa answers with a sneer. "An' here I thought you were the smart one."
"I meant, why are you taking the both of us ashore?" Jacque says, struggling slightly against Pintel's hold. "You only need to take one, wouldn't you just be hauling extra weight by taking the both of us."
"I suppose you're right, Miss Turner." Barbossa stops and turns to Jacque. "But ye see, here's the problem; Bootstrap Bill spoke only of his child- not children. One of you are lyin' an' I suppose we'll just 'ave to spill both of your blood 'afore we figure out what to do with ye. Now get in the boats!"
*
"Hm." Jack says as he looks through the spyglass and to the Black Pearl. "They've been taken to shore, both of them."
"Great," You mumble. "She couldn't 'ave even managed to stay on the bloody ship, could she."
"You never answered me," Will says, turning to you as he rows. "How exactly you know Jacque."
"Old friend. Practically family." You state simply.
"She told me all of her remaining family died in a shipwreck on the crossing from England." Will says suspiciously.
You smile slightly at the memory; two years seemed a lifetime away. Sighing, you look over the side of the rowboat and your eyes widen as you find the shallows glittering with gold.
"What code is Gibbs to keep to if the worst should happen?" Will asks Jack, changing the subject.
"Pirates Code." Jack states simply. "Anyone who falls behind gets left behind."
"No heroes amongst thieves, huh?" Will states in a patronizing manner.
"You know, for havin' such a bleak outlook on pirates, you're well on your way to becomin' one." Jack states.
"Yup, you've already sprung two pirates from jail, helped to commandeer a ship of the fleet, sailed with a buccaneer crew out of Tortuga," You list as Will looks over the side of the boat. "And, you're completely obsessed with treasure."
"That's not true." Will denies in a childish manner, pouting. "I'm not obsessed with treasure."
"Not all treasure is silver an' gold, mate." Jack says and flashes a smirk at you as Will falls silent.
Standing up, you leave the rowboat and follow Jack into the caverns.
*
Jacque winces against the painful grip on her arm. Upon arrival to the main cavern, Barbossa had decided that Jacque defied him too much for his liking and had ordered Bo'sun to hold her in place with his vice-like grip. Looking around from her perch on the gold heap, the pirates have crowded the pile enough to make anyone feel claustrophobic and are chanting creepily, somewhat reminding Jacque of her old school's foot ball team.
"Gentlemen!" Barbossa calls, bringing silence to the mass. "The time has come. Salivation is nigh! Our torment is near at end!"
Idly, Jacque wonders how long Barbossa had been rehearsing this speech.
"For ten years we've been tested an' tried an' each man here has proven his mettle a hundred times over an' a hundred times again!" Barbossa shouts to his crew, teasingly waving a gold knife in the air.
" Punished we were, the lot of us - disproportionate to our crime. Here it is, the cursed treasure of Cortez himself." Barbossa says as he kicks the lid off of the stone chest in front of Elizabeth and Jacque. "Every last piece we 'ave returned. save for this!"
Elizabeth flinches as Barbossa catches the medallion around her neck and the mob in front of them erupts in anxious yells.
"An' who among us has paid the blood sacrifice owed to the heathen gods?" Barbossa continues.
"Us!" The pirates shout angrily, clearly worked up.
"An' whose blood must yet be paid?"
"Theirs!" The crowd calls as they raise their weapons and begin chanting again.
"You know," Barbossa says as he grabs Elizabeth's wrist and forces it open over the chest. "The first thing I'm goin' to do when the curse is lifted? Eat a whole bushel of apples."
Jacque watches stiffly as Barbossa lowers the knife to Elizabeth's hand and the crowd grows suddenly silent as Barbossa begins to recite the words to complete the blood ritual.
"Begun by blood, by blood undone." Barbossa says and then slashes Elizabeth's palm and forces her fingers to wrap around the meadllian.
"That's it?" Elizabeth asks, clearly disappointed by the severity of a heathen blood sacrafice.
"Waste not." Barbossa says with a smirk and releases Elizabeth's hand and closes his eyes, waiting for a sign that the curse has been lifted.
"Did it work?" A pirate asks form the crowd, breaking the silence. "I don't feel no different." Ragetti's voice states from the crowd.
"How do we tell?" Pintel asks as Barbossa rolls his eyes at his crew's stupidity, takes out his pistol, and shoots Pintel in the chest.
"You're not dead!" A pirate yells, outraged, at the still standing Pintel.
"No, I'm not." He says sounding very relieved. "Hey- he shot me!"
"It didn't work! The curse is still upon us!"
"Calm down lads." Barbossa states calmly as he nods to Bo'sun to bring Jacque foreword. "I foresaw this an' that's the reason there are two 'Miss Turners' up here."
Jacque begins to struggle as much as she can in Bo'sun's grip as she watches Barbossa backhand Elizabeth.
"Be still." Bo'sun orders as he flexes his hand threateningly over Jacque's throat.
"Now, lass," Barbossa says with a sneer. "Ye'd best be hopin' that that truly wasn't yer sister, for I'd hate to learn that the both of ye'd lied to me."
All of Jacque's struggles stop the second she feels that blunt and bloody gold blade of Barbossa's press into her palm. She watches in a somewhat morbid fascination as a pool of blood forms in her hand before Bo'sun releases her and Barbossa presses the cold metal of the medallion into her hand.
Clink.
Jacque hadn't even noticed that she'd closed her eyes until the snapped open at the sound of the medallion dropping in the chest.
"No! Curse ye!" A pirate yells up at Jacque as she realizes that he'd just stabbed his neighbor in the stomach and found him still very much alive.
"You, maid!" Barbossa yells as he whirls around to face Jacque. "Your father, what was his name. Was your father William Turner?"
"No." Jacque answers as Barbossa backhands her in frustration, but not hard enough to move her.
"Where's his child?" He asks as he shakes Jacque's shoulders. "The child that sailed from England eight years ago, the child in whose veins flows the blood of William Turner. Where?"
Jacque continues to look at Barbossa blankly and watches as his expression contorts into rage.
"Damn ye!" He yells and punches her in the stomach, making her double over as she rolls down the side of the heap, barely aware of the rising yells of the pirates through the growing blackness of her vision.
* (A/N: Ok, so I had a little trouble with the timing of the previous scene and this one, just keep in mind that they're happening simultaneously. ^.~ )
You crawl up the side of a hole in the cavern and your eyes widen as you find Jacque and Elizabeth standing before the crew of the Black Pearl, noticing how Bo'sun is restraining Jacque.
"Jacque, Elizabeth." Will mutters, his eyes fixated on the image before him.
"I really hope you 'ave some grand plan, Jack." You mutter.
"Just trust me, luv." Jack says seriously and you nod, turning your head back to the scene on the treasure heap.
"Jack!" Will hisses, attempting to scramble up, no doubt, to rescue Lizzie and Jacque.
"Not yet." Jack says quietly as you help him pull Will back down. "We wait for the opportune moment."
"And when's that?" Will asks angrily. "When it's of greatest profit to you?"
"May I ask you something?" Jack says, clearly irritated with Will's rashness. "Have I ever given you reason not to trust me? Do us a favor, I know it's difficult for you, but please stay here. and try not to do anything stupid."
"He's right, Will." You say as Jack walks off. "No matter what else Jack may be, he's an honest pirate an' I trust him."
Will snorts in disbelief and you turn away, trying to reign in your temper, for once. After a moment you turn back to Will, or rather where Will was.
"Damn you, Turner." You hiss as you run down the dark cavern.
*
A/N: Hey, so that wasn't as long as usual, but I've got to go do an Advanced Algebra and Trig project that was given back around Thanksgiving and I still haven't started yet ^.^;
Sess: You're such a procrastinator- you never get anything done.
Py: That's what you're for my wonderful muse ^.~
Sess: What did I do to deserve this?
Py: Well, attempting to kill your only remaining family, viciously hating humans until Rin, and using up a bottle of conditioner a night might have something to do with it.
Sess: *glare* Rhetorical question.
REVIEW RESPONSES
Twisted: WHAT?!? NOOOOOOOO! Oh yeah, well your cloned clone Sess will never be as good as mine cuz mine's got a sexy pirate outfit.
Sess: How many times do I have to tell you- I AM NOT A TOY!
Py: yes you are.
The sad thing is, I am the exact same way as you about needles. Oh well, I never have to do it again, or at least not every month- so I'm good. Hey, if we had out Sess's meet, do you think they'd rip each other apart? Thanks!
SleepingBeauty1988: Thanks, is this soon enough?
Ayashe: THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH! *glomps ayashe* Sess: *pouts* Don't worry Sess, I still love you. Anyways, that pic is soooo great! In all actuality, I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do in the end.although I do know that I'm going to torture my reviewers by doing something that, as far as I'm aware, no you/jack fic has ever done *evil giggle* I luv how the cuffs turned out too! I luv the whole thing, actually. You speak Italian? Cool. I only speak Spanish and broken Japanese.
SophieW: Thanks, no it does not feel nice.
Cryptic Storm: Yup, we're will's babysitter. ^.~ Sorry, but as long as Jack's around, "you" will never take Will's side, and I figured, since I'd already knocked Jacque out, it'd be a bit redundant to do the same for you. Oh, well I had no clue about the age thing, but I don't care. I mean, didn't everyone like get married and stuff when they were younger then? Thanks again.
Stacey Lofton: Thanks. All knowing red hat? Elaborate, please. Of course you can borrow the frying pan of doom sometime, but you just can't threaten me or Sess with it ^.~
LeaRobins Leana Scarlette: Thanks. You'll feed me to the sharks? Fine. if you can get through Sess first *smirks*
Lady_Aurora: Wow, thank you. Nothing's wrong with havin' memorized the whole movie ^.^ By the way, have you been severely trampled yet? I try to update every Saturday, so hopefully you won't need to go through that again. Oh, in response to your hi, Sess growled at you, but don't worry that's his way of sayin' "hi thanks for the review" Sess: No it isn't! *py polishes frying pan of doom lovingly* I mean, sure.
Bonnie Lass: Thanks, I'm workin' on my own Cap'n Maru pic, but go to the one on my profile to see Ayashe's- it's really cool.
YugiYamiKim: Thanks.
QueenOfCurls: Thanks Jac. I'm so glad that you're finally reviewing constantly- it took you long enough! J/k ^.^ See you in the hell we call school.
CastlesInTheAir: Thanks. Yeah, fighting's great, and, for the record, you're rather good at it. Well, I don't think that Jack or Will will find out who "I" really am until towards the end, but I don't know cuz I haven't exactly figured out what I'm going to do with the ending. I do know, however, that "you" and Jacque will slip up from time to time. Lizzie'll get Norrington, although I really do think that she liked Will. oh well, I seem to have to have a bit of angst in every one of my fics
Py: Yay! For the first time in a few weeks, I'm actually healthy for an update!
Sess: -.-'
Py: *looks at Sess* Oh, and by the way- Slightly Hazy's received its very first fanart!*squeals* It's a pic of Cap'n Maru by Ayashe. It's sooooo cool. *tears well up in eyes* Thank you so much Ayashe, this chappie is dedicated to you for wasting your creativity on me. The link to it is in my profile. It's really cool, I'm so unable to do anything art-related on the computer, although I've started my own sketch of Sess as Cap'n Maru and I hope to be able to put it up when I figure out how to set up my scanner.
Sess: *smirks* Yes, but fanart is very much appreciated.
Py: Are you saying I can't draw!?! *whips out frying pan of doom and whacks Sess over the head*
Sess: @.@ *falls over*
Py: Oops, I guess that was a little too hard.Oh well, on with the chapter!
Slightly Hazy
Chapter 13: Trust?
"What are you doing?" Jacque asks Barbossa as she and Jacque are dragged towards the lifeboats.
"Takin ye to the boats, missie." Barbossa answers with a sneer. "An' here I thought you were the smart one."
"I meant, why are you taking the both of us ashore?" Jacque says, struggling slightly against Pintel's hold. "You only need to take one, wouldn't you just be hauling extra weight by taking the both of us."
"I suppose you're right, Miss Turner." Barbossa stops and turns to Jacque. "But ye see, here's the problem; Bootstrap Bill spoke only of his child- not children. One of you are lyin' an' I suppose we'll just 'ave to spill both of your blood 'afore we figure out what to do with ye. Now get in the boats!"
*
"Hm." Jack says as he looks through the spyglass and to the Black Pearl. "They've been taken to shore, both of them."
"Great," You mumble. "She couldn't 'ave even managed to stay on the bloody ship, could she."
"You never answered me," Will says, turning to you as he rows. "How exactly you know Jacque."
"Old friend. Practically family." You state simply.
"She told me all of her remaining family died in a shipwreck on the crossing from England." Will says suspiciously.
You smile slightly at the memory; two years seemed a lifetime away. Sighing, you look over the side of the rowboat and your eyes widen as you find the shallows glittering with gold.
"What code is Gibbs to keep to if the worst should happen?" Will asks Jack, changing the subject.
"Pirates Code." Jack states simply. "Anyone who falls behind gets left behind."
"No heroes amongst thieves, huh?" Will states in a patronizing manner.
"You know, for havin' such a bleak outlook on pirates, you're well on your way to becomin' one." Jack states.
"Yup, you've already sprung two pirates from jail, helped to commandeer a ship of the fleet, sailed with a buccaneer crew out of Tortuga," You list as Will looks over the side of the boat. "And, you're completely obsessed with treasure."
"That's not true." Will denies in a childish manner, pouting. "I'm not obsessed with treasure."
"Not all treasure is silver an' gold, mate." Jack says and flashes a smirk at you as Will falls silent.
Standing up, you leave the rowboat and follow Jack into the caverns.
*
Jacque winces against the painful grip on her arm. Upon arrival to the main cavern, Barbossa had decided that Jacque defied him too much for his liking and had ordered Bo'sun to hold her in place with his vice-like grip. Looking around from her perch on the gold heap, the pirates have crowded the pile enough to make anyone feel claustrophobic and are chanting creepily, somewhat reminding Jacque of her old school's foot ball team.
"Gentlemen!" Barbossa calls, bringing silence to the mass. "The time has come. Salivation is nigh! Our torment is near at end!"
Idly, Jacque wonders how long Barbossa had been rehearsing this speech.
"For ten years we've been tested an' tried an' each man here has proven his mettle a hundred times over an' a hundred times again!" Barbossa shouts to his crew, teasingly waving a gold knife in the air.
" Punished we were, the lot of us - disproportionate to our crime. Here it is, the cursed treasure of Cortez himself." Barbossa says as he kicks the lid off of the stone chest in front of Elizabeth and Jacque. "Every last piece we 'ave returned. save for this!"
Elizabeth flinches as Barbossa catches the medallion around her neck and the mob in front of them erupts in anxious yells.
"An' who among us has paid the blood sacrifice owed to the heathen gods?" Barbossa continues.
"Us!" The pirates shout angrily, clearly worked up.
"An' whose blood must yet be paid?"
"Theirs!" The crowd calls as they raise their weapons and begin chanting again.
"You know," Barbossa says as he grabs Elizabeth's wrist and forces it open over the chest. "The first thing I'm goin' to do when the curse is lifted? Eat a whole bushel of apples."
Jacque watches stiffly as Barbossa lowers the knife to Elizabeth's hand and the crowd grows suddenly silent as Barbossa begins to recite the words to complete the blood ritual.
"Begun by blood, by blood undone." Barbossa says and then slashes Elizabeth's palm and forces her fingers to wrap around the meadllian.
"That's it?" Elizabeth asks, clearly disappointed by the severity of a heathen blood sacrafice.
"Waste not." Barbossa says with a smirk and releases Elizabeth's hand and closes his eyes, waiting for a sign that the curse has been lifted.
"Did it work?" A pirate asks form the crowd, breaking the silence. "I don't feel no different." Ragetti's voice states from the crowd.
"How do we tell?" Pintel asks as Barbossa rolls his eyes at his crew's stupidity, takes out his pistol, and shoots Pintel in the chest.
"You're not dead!" A pirate yells, outraged, at the still standing Pintel.
"No, I'm not." He says sounding very relieved. "Hey- he shot me!"
"It didn't work! The curse is still upon us!"
"Calm down lads." Barbossa states calmly as he nods to Bo'sun to bring Jacque foreword. "I foresaw this an' that's the reason there are two 'Miss Turners' up here."
Jacque begins to struggle as much as she can in Bo'sun's grip as she watches Barbossa backhand Elizabeth.
"Be still." Bo'sun orders as he flexes his hand threateningly over Jacque's throat.
"Now, lass," Barbossa says with a sneer. "Ye'd best be hopin' that that truly wasn't yer sister, for I'd hate to learn that the both of ye'd lied to me."
All of Jacque's struggles stop the second she feels that blunt and bloody gold blade of Barbossa's press into her palm. She watches in a somewhat morbid fascination as a pool of blood forms in her hand before Bo'sun releases her and Barbossa presses the cold metal of the medallion into her hand.
Clink.
Jacque hadn't even noticed that she'd closed her eyes until the snapped open at the sound of the medallion dropping in the chest.
"No! Curse ye!" A pirate yells up at Jacque as she realizes that he'd just stabbed his neighbor in the stomach and found him still very much alive.
"You, maid!" Barbossa yells as he whirls around to face Jacque. "Your father, what was his name. Was your father William Turner?"
"No." Jacque answers as Barbossa backhands her in frustration, but not hard enough to move her.
"Where's his child?" He asks as he shakes Jacque's shoulders. "The child that sailed from England eight years ago, the child in whose veins flows the blood of William Turner. Where?"
Jacque continues to look at Barbossa blankly and watches as his expression contorts into rage.
"Damn ye!" He yells and punches her in the stomach, making her double over as she rolls down the side of the heap, barely aware of the rising yells of the pirates through the growing blackness of her vision.
* (A/N: Ok, so I had a little trouble with the timing of the previous scene and this one, just keep in mind that they're happening simultaneously. ^.~ )
You crawl up the side of a hole in the cavern and your eyes widen as you find Jacque and Elizabeth standing before the crew of the Black Pearl, noticing how Bo'sun is restraining Jacque.
"Jacque, Elizabeth." Will mutters, his eyes fixated on the image before him.
"I really hope you 'ave some grand plan, Jack." You mutter.
"Just trust me, luv." Jack says seriously and you nod, turning your head back to the scene on the treasure heap.
"Jack!" Will hisses, attempting to scramble up, no doubt, to rescue Lizzie and Jacque.
"Not yet." Jack says quietly as you help him pull Will back down. "We wait for the opportune moment."
"And when's that?" Will asks angrily. "When it's of greatest profit to you?"
"May I ask you something?" Jack says, clearly irritated with Will's rashness. "Have I ever given you reason not to trust me? Do us a favor, I know it's difficult for you, but please stay here. and try not to do anything stupid."
"He's right, Will." You say as Jack walks off. "No matter what else Jack may be, he's an honest pirate an' I trust him."
Will snorts in disbelief and you turn away, trying to reign in your temper, for once. After a moment you turn back to Will, or rather where Will was.
"Damn you, Turner." You hiss as you run down the dark cavern.
*
A/N: Hey, so that wasn't as long as usual, but I've got to go do an Advanced Algebra and Trig project that was given back around Thanksgiving and I still haven't started yet ^.^;
Sess: You're such a procrastinator- you never get anything done.
Py: That's what you're for my wonderful muse ^.~
Sess: What did I do to deserve this?
Py: Well, attempting to kill your only remaining family, viciously hating humans until Rin, and using up a bottle of conditioner a night might have something to do with it.
Sess: *glare* Rhetorical question.
REVIEW RESPONSES
Twisted: WHAT?!? NOOOOOOOO! Oh yeah, well your cloned clone Sess will never be as good as mine cuz mine's got a sexy pirate outfit.
Sess: How many times do I have to tell you- I AM NOT A TOY!
Py: yes you are.
The sad thing is, I am the exact same way as you about needles. Oh well, I never have to do it again, or at least not every month- so I'm good. Hey, if we had out Sess's meet, do you think they'd rip each other apart? Thanks!
SleepingBeauty1988: Thanks, is this soon enough?
Ayashe: THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH! *glomps ayashe* Sess: *pouts* Don't worry Sess, I still love you. Anyways, that pic is soooo great! In all actuality, I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do in the end.although I do know that I'm going to torture my reviewers by doing something that, as far as I'm aware, no you/jack fic has ever done *evil giggle* I luv how the cuffs turned out too! I luv the whole thing, actually. You speak Italian? Cool. I only speak Spanish and broken Japanese.
SophieW: Thanks, no it does not feel nice.
Cryptic Storm: Yup, we're will's babysitter. ^.~ Sorry, but as long as Jack's around, "you" will never take Will's side, and I figured, since I'd already knocked Jacque out, it'd be a bit redundant to do the same for you. Oh, well I had no clue about the age thing, but I don't care. I mean, didn't everyone like get married and stuff when they were younger then? Thanks again.
Stacey Lofton: Thanks. All knowing red hat? Elaborate, please. Of course you can borrow the frying pan of doom sometime, but you just can't threaten me or Sess with it ^.~
LeaRobins Leana Scarlette: Thanks. You'll feed me to the sharks? Fine. if you can get through Sess first *smirks*
Lady_Aurora: Wow, thank you. Nothing's wrong with havin' memorized the whole movie ^.^ By the way, have you been severely trampled yet? I try to update every Saturday, so hopefully you won't need to go through that again. Oh, in response to your hi, Sess growled at you, but don't worry that's his way of sayin' "hi thanks for the review" Sess: No it isn't! *py polishes frying pan of doom lovingly* I mean, sure.
Bonnie Lass: Thanks, I'm workin' on my own Cap'n Maru pic, but go to the one on my profile to see Ayashe's- it's really cool.
YugiYamiKim: Thanks.
QueenOfCurls: Thanks Jac. I'm so glad that you're finally reviewing constantly- it took you long enough! J/k ^.^ See you in the hell we call school.
CastlesInTheAir: Thanks. Yeah, fighting's great, and, for the record, you're rather good at it. Well, I don't think that Jack or Will will find out who "I" really am until towards the end, but I don't know cuz I haven't exactly figured out what I'm going to do with the ending. I do know, however, that "you" and Jacque will slip up from time to time. Lizzie'll get Norrington, although I really do think that she liked Will. oh well, I seem to have to have a bit of angst in every one of my fics