A/n: Ok here is the next chappie, I couldn't put the last two together
cause they would have been very long . . . here is another semi-long
chapter, hope you like, I think its very interesting. Thanks Jeyke for your
review by the way, that's cool you live in the alps . . . wish I did, lol.
And I love that line too . . .
It was late that night and Ellie hadn't seen Jack all day, she felt bad but, she couldn't let it get him down. She sat in her room when she felt the temperature suddenly drop to a cold degree, though there was no where for the coldness to have come from. She closed her eyes and yawned; she was dead tried, working on a ship even for fun takes a lot of work and energy. She grabbed a blanket that had fallen to the floor and pulled it tightly to her neck; she shivered slightly as the hair on her back stood up. This was all very odd, the way it had just become so cold and then she felt as if she was being watched. It was very eerie.
She was asleep now after about an hour she finally gave into her eyes and let them rest. The door opened and there was a burst of cold air through out the small room, Ellie's body shivered under the covers of the bed. Ellie turned to the other side of her bed to try and stay warm when a cold hand brushed her face. Ellie was startled awake to come face to face with a very young girl. She had silvery blond hair and blue eyes, a very pale completion and just stared at the Ellie with no expression what so ever. The girl could not have been more than two. Ellie was more than frightened now, she had never seen anyone who looked like this before; the girl was almost transparent. All Ellie could say was "hello?" in less than a whisper, she had been robbed of her voice. The girl looked at her as she reached for Ellie's face. Ellie protested by lifting her hand to stop the little girls; her hand went straight threw the young girls. /Oh my god, Jack your ship is haunted!/ she thought terrified. She sat there as the girl backed away; she almost looked hurt, emotionally. The girl faded out of sight like mist.
The girl was gone now and all Ellie could do was sit, she was much to scared to move. Where had the girl come from, who was she, was she truly a ghost or a vision . . . Ellie didn't know but, none of her visions had been like this before. She had not known of Elizabeth and Will's lose but, neither had anyone ever seen a ghost of there child before. Ellie listened intently to the ship's movements and the creaky noises it made as it swayed gently in the water only made the situation worse. She sat there till dawn very shook up what was she suppose to say, she saw a ghost on the ship and it was a little girl, certainly not! She would most defiantly be called insane after hearing /this/ story.
Ellie dressed in some breaches and a loose shirt which she had taken from Ana Maria. Surprisingly they fit well and where very comfortable. She gathered her things and put them away, while doing so she noticed the map in the top drawer of the desk. She pulled it out. It was old and wrinkled and torn on the corners. Ellie wandered if Jack had gone looking for the treasure at all or if he had looked at the map and memorized it, that would be very shallow of him but, he could be that way at times. She really had no clue if the treasure was still around or where the map had been. She grabbed it and left the room still quite scared of the hours' before advents.
She climbed the stairs and was glad to see Jack at the wheel, though he wasn't looking to happy. 'hmmm, he's probably still upset or something, maybe I shouldn't talk to him but, that's probably what's killing him. I guess I have to talk to him- I mean I don't want to be on odd ends with him . . . and it might be a fairly good idea to tell him of the early mornings advents. Ok I will talk with him.' She thought over a few moments time. She carefully approached Jack and tapped him on the shoulder,
"Jack . . . I don't want to be mad at you and I – have a few comments and questions to make . . ." she said slowly and careful as to not stir him up. "Really, what if I don' want ta hear them?" he asked coldly. "I think you might," she paused before saying . . . "I truly didn't mean what I said before Jack. I hope you know that- I – I also think you a-re the bes-t /Captain/ to ever sail these parts – not just these parts, the whole ocean Captain Jack Sparrow . . ." she meant it, it came purely from her heart, though hard to say to him, she wanted him to know. "Hah" was all he said. She turned to walk away and uttered a slight scream when he grabbed her wrist out of no where. She was so shook up about what she had seen earlier anything sudden was sure to scare the living day lights out of her.
"Ye all right love?" he asked a little surprised. "Ye-yeah, I'm fine. But can we talk?" she asked him. "I guess we can, lets go to my room for some privacy, don' wan' a scene like yesterday?" he asked unsure of her reaction. "No and I can assure there will /not/ be another one, I promise. . ." she was then escorted to his cabin, a quite large one indeed. There was a table filled with papers next to the right side of his cabin's wall, a bed on the left side; a little larger than hers and some chairs and such placed around the room as well. She commented nicely on his room as they went to sit down near the table.
"Jack, I thought about what you said and I was just so shocked it scared me, so I thought more about it and I feel you where right about what you said. How I have these powers and such and they rove my mind crazy since I didn't know how to use them nor did I know they existed." "So you agree with me, is that it . . ." he said. "Is that suppose to be a trick question?" she asked jokingly. "Neh, just a comment, love."
"Well, there are some things I'm unsure of and I have something to tell you about what . . . I saw a few hours ago- it –it was qu-ite . . .disturbing," was all she could get out. Jack raised an eye brow a little confused and pushed her to go on. "Well, last night it was very late and the room just went very – c-cold all of the sudden, like it dropped 10 degrees and there was nothing to make it do that . . ." she paused, "Then I started to feel like I was being watched-" jack interrupted her "There was someone watching you! One of my crew!?" she was a little taken aback by his sudden protectiveness over her. "No, no! Let me tell you what happened . . ." Jack seemed to relax a tiny bit with her assurance. "It was even later after I had fallen asleep that I felt my room door burst open with a cold draft blowing trough it – I still had my eyes closed and turned to the other side of the bed when I felt- a –a han-d, a cold, cold one touch my face, a small child's hand." He looked at her strange and said . . . "is that it?" "Oh no," "then go on" he told her at once. "ok, I opened my eyes to meet a young girls gaze, she could of only been 2 Jack, you know there is no girl on your ship that looks like that nor any child and well she wasn't a vision either, she couldn't have been, she had silvery blond hair, almost white, blue, crystal blue eyes, and pale, oh so vary pale skin. She reached for my face and I was about to push her hand away, when I did . . ." she was scared to go but did, "It- i-t wen-t though i-it, Ja-ck, I was so scared, she was like a ghost, But I havn' ever known a girl who looked like her, I know I haven't Jack. Oh, who was she, I'm so scared she is going to come back . . .It doesn't make any sense at all . . ." she stopped there. Jack reached or her hand and she let him hold it
"Sounds strange te me, love." He said. "That's why I'm telling you! Have you by any chance known a young girl who looked like her at all?" she questioned suddenly. "Uhh," he thought and then, "As a matter of fact, yeah, yeah I have, sounds like Will and Liz's lil girl-" Ellie was shocked she hadn't seen any little girl. "They do, then where is she?" "Heaven, if there is one." Jack said. "Oh, oh dear, maybe she was a ghost, she had the wrong person maybe?" "Dough it, Ell, you have a gift for things like this, you know about it now, maybe there will be more strange things that occur around you know. There hast-a be a reason their lil' girl came looking for you, may hap she had a message for you to give te them, maybe one fer ye. . ." Jack trail off in his thoughts. "Yeah, right . . ." was all Ellie could utter.
"Well ferget it for now at least, Jack I have something more important to ask you . . ." she paused, he nodded and she went on. "Ok you know that map you gave me? Did you by any chance use it or memorize it?" Jack laughed, "I can be shallow, but /not/ that shallow, what do you take me for Miss Ellie!?" he asked shocked yet amused. She laughed with him . . . "I don' no, just seemed like the thing you'd do, I guess." "Guess is does, don' it." "So have you even seen it?" she decided to push. "Not one inch of it, saved it all fer ye." He told her proudly. "So you didn't- see the note?" "What note?" "There was a note from Neely she had written and folded inside of it before she died that night incase she ever needed to get it to me." "What'd it say . . .?" Jack wondered aloud. "It's private . . .fer now," she laughed. "Oh, I see, be smart with me then . . ." and Ellie left the room in a completely happy mood, so was Jack.
She was so happy she ran down the deck and didn't even see George Ross coming down the deck with a coil of ropes. She literally toppled over him making his perfect ropes fall all over the ground in a complete disarray. She landed right on top of him with a "Oh, I'm /so/ sorry, sir. I- I . . ." she bent down and started to re-coil the ropes. "Miss, tis' alright," he told her. "No, I should help you with these, it was completely /my/ fault, I ran into you Mr. . ." "Ross, Miss, George Ross," She smiled and said "Nice to meet you, it's Ellie, Ellie Hones." He smiled back showing some ugly teeth, yet he was rough around the edges he had a good heart and was full of life; he was a total gentleman.
She picked up two ropes and helped him carry them all the way to the storage room. The pair had a nice long talk about each other and then went about there business. Though now good friends, she felt even better. 'He was quite nice, I think I like him a little' she told herself with a slight laugh. She saw Elizabeth coming over to talk with Will and she look half shocked and frightened all the while she looked amazingly happy. Ellie only smiled wondering what her news to Will might be.
Ellie went back to her eerie room and looked trough some old junk in her closet; her room had once held Jack's miscellaneous items he never used and perhaps the closet had never been cleared out. There was a trunk with an old rusted lock on it and this immediately drew Ellie closer; she was board and it seemed to just be calling her to come look inside. She fingered the old lock; it had beautiful patterns across its old worn surface.
The lock had no key but, the moment Ellie put the slightest pressure on it the metal lifted loose. She carefully took the lock off and placed it on the ground near her dress's fringe. The top to the trunk was heavier than one's Ellie had been use to in her small home, but even though she lifted it quite easily. The insides where just as dusty as the outside, if not more. There where papers, portrait, trinkets, etc. But one portrait drew Ellie's attention more than the other's; it was a young boy and his, what looked to be, mother. Her hair was neat and pinned into place properly, she had long black hair and green eyes. She was more beautiful than any other woman Ellie had ever encountered in her life; she was almost so beautiful that it was hard to believe she was a real person once.
Ellie brushed the dust from the small painting away and turned her eyes to the young boy of who could have only been 6 or 7. He had black brown hair and piercing brown eyes, the darkest part eyes to have looked up at Ellie in along time. The boy looked almost sad and was in trousers and a loose shirt which didn't match his mother's perfect clothing, etc. Ellie wondered if perhaps the boy was Jack and mayhap his mother; she had never came up in any of their conversations and so Ellie never knew anything of her. She didn't even know of his father except that he had passes his famous tri- corner hat to Jack; Ellie once wondered if his father had been a sailor of any kind.
She looked down into the Trunk and dug threw it a little more when she came across an old letter, one that looked to be in Jack's hand writing, though he never really learned to write, he figured out enough to get himself by on. She also picked this up, it was very old Ellie could tell because when you barley touched it the paper broke away or cracked. The letter was short and sweet, but to who she wasn't sure, it read:
/Dearest love,
I have only known you for so long but, I feel as if I have been connected to ye for more than we might have ever shared. I love yer hair, yer eyes, yer smile. One thing I could do for the rest of me days is look at you and never blink, for if I did, I would fear you may be gone, for love can be lost in the blink of a second, as can anything else. I would never want that to happen to you n' me. We share a bond like I could have never thought possible in all my dreams. I love ye so, please don't ever leave and come back to me as soon as you can.
You make my days happier,
Yer one an' only Jack . . ./
The letter ended there, Ellie want so to know who it was for; he seemed to really care for them, more than she had ever seen Jack care for anyone and to think it was all expressed in this tinny letter. She touched the old paper and remembered the days John use to write her when he was away with long journeys. She smiled and told herself 'you can't keep putting the blame on yerself, he's gone, it was meant to be, you shared yer time, now get on with life.' But nothing is ever that simple but, still Ellie tried to turn away and focus on life now.
She rested the note on top along with the panting on top of all the old things. She thought of Jack more highly now, to think he could love with such passion made her want to hug him. Her day had been great and she was filled with joy. Dinner was nearing and so she tidied herself as she left for the 'dinnin' hall' as Jack called it.
Ellie bumped into Elizabeth on the way there and she was out of breath. "Are you alright?" asked Ellie caringly. "Oh I'm wonderful, Ellie. I have been Dying to tell someone other than Will, so I'm very glad to have ran into you, we are going to announce it at dinner to everyone but, well I have to tell you, I would tell Ana too but, I can't seem to find her." She said quickly. "Ok, what?" asked Ellie very excited. "Me and Will are having a child!" she screamed in glee. "Oh my, can you have a child on a ship?" "Well for now we will be staying and then when it is near the birth we shall leave, we may come back after the baby is born, though I am not to sure I want to raise a small thing like a baby on a ship, at lease not right away. Oh I'm so excited . . ." she beamed at Ellie. "I'm happy for you . . ."
She hesitated asking about the couple's first child but, it just came out. "You and Will had a baby girl a while ago didn't you," she tried to sound as modest as she could. "How did you know about that," she started a little off guard. "Um- a--- Well," Elizabeth gave her an odd look and so she went on. "Ok, Jack told me . . .only a little about it though, I am sorry, I really am, I don't usually invade people's personal issues such as these but I had asked him something and it came . . .about as the . . . answer." "What did you ask Jack," she looked confused, not upset that she knew though. "Well I had a strange . . . encounter . . . yeah I guess you could call it that, and well . . ." Ellie went into the story of the night before. Elizabeth was very fascinated but, it didn't seem to make any sense to her what so ever. "I see. . ." Liz finally said at last. The two walked to dinner after that.
At dinner Ellie sat between Ana and Gibbs, and the rest seated around the table where, Will, Elizabeth, Jack, Ross, Shiller and someone who was only known by 'Tom'. They ate and so did every other table, when the crew had finished Will and Liz stood. They announced "we are having a child . . ." happily. "The crew threw rice and things at them in applause, Jack stood and congratulated them, making sure they where still going to stay with the ship, at least until the baby came. He got out his rum and gave the crew there own bottles, there was also wine for those who wanted it. Will, Ellie and 'Tom' had only a glass a wine. Elizabeth had a glass of water and all made cheers with each other in the celebration.
The day had been long and eventful, yes defiantly eventful. Ellie's hair was spread across the floor of the /Black Pearl's/ deck. She was searching the skies for shooting stars and constellations when she heard rapid foot steps coming her way. It was defiantly a woman's for they where heavily walked and in a different pattern than any woman Ellie had even heard in her life time. She turned her head in an awkward position to see the man approaching from behind her. It was off course one of the crew, in fact it was George Ross, the man she had had a nice chat with much earlier that day.
She looked back up at the stars and saw one of them twinkle down at her, like a wink from her father's eye; when ever Ellie say a star flicker like that she remembered her dad, a person she had not even been related to, but she still cared that she had hurt him so. She smiled faintly and said to the skies "I'm sorry . . ." she hesitated before saying, "dad." She winked back at the star and just hoped if her dad was looking down upon her at that moment that he could see her signaling back. Right after that she heard "Hello, Ellie. Lookin' at the stars, mighty strange the 'eavens are . . ." the man trailed off. "Hello Mr. Ross . . . Yeah, they are," "Oh don' be silly, call me George," "Right, George." She said back to him.
"Well, I best be getting to work, captain put me on look out tonigh'" "really, you think I could have look from up . . ." she pointed at the crows nest, just big enough for two men, she and him would fit easily. ". . .There . . ." "I can't see why not, ye gotta be careful though, miss." He told her. "Oh I will!" she was on her feet in less than a second. The two climbed up the mast, Ellie first and Then George . . . Just /incase/ something where to happen.
The two sat quietly looking out to sea; Ellie had never seen a sight like it before. She began to shiver and George lent his coat to her, "Oh no, you keep it on," but he still pushed it onto her shoulders. "Thanks . . ." she smiled. George reminded Ellie of a father type man, she felt comfortable around him, like he could have been her real dad.
She had fallen asleep up there with George and when morning rose Jack was Calling to bother of them "Ross! . . .Ellie, Get down from there righ' now!" Ross shook Ellie awake and they both descended the mast. "Aye Captain!" he said as he touched the ground. "What did I say about ladies in the crow's nest, I don' even let Ana up there. . ." "She looked so . . . she had never seen anything like it before." He stopped there and Ellie cut in, "Jack, it was my fault really I pushed him into it . . ." he smiled at her and said "it's not smart to go up there /especially/ when ye have never been trained to do so . . ." she smiled innocently and told him "I'm sorry," "Tis' alright, Ross, don' do it again, yer off the hook."
Jack asked Ellie to come with him so they could start searching for the treasure, he knew Neely had said it was in the east when she had been searching for it and now they where 2 days into their sailing he need instruction; for the first time from a woman, not being a pirate. He had once gotten help from Ana Maria.
"So you want te get this treasure don' ye?" He asked her mildly. "Ah, the treasure; is that all you think about . . .?" she said aloud. He smiled wickedly and laughed a little amused; "Not /all/ that I think about, but it is fun to go after" he smiled down on her with a cocky look upon his face. She sighed, I guess, a little adventure in life never hurt right?" "Never . . ." was all Jack would say. "Do we have to go to Tortuga?" "No, where're goin' to Buckley Island . . . Ye can see it now, on the horizon . . ." "What's that, wait do I want to know?" "Not any different then Tortuga, cept it be over in English Territories, perhaps more. . . Interesting that Tortuga though . . ." he paused and Ellie question him. "Interesting?" "Yeah, It has more, uh, random occurrences," he said innocently. "Right"
Ellie said "Well after we get there we can decide on all of the details and get me some 'real' cloths . . ." she said getting into spirit. "Now we're talking, love!" Jack said giving her a clap on the back that nearly knocked her over, half because she wasn't expecting it. "I wonder if," she wasn't thinking this a good idea but, she had to have a little fun in life. "I can still hold my liquor like you . . ." she finished. "Eh, you want some rum, then?" he asked her disbelieving. "Yeah . . . I think I will have a bottle o' rum, for ol' time's sake." The two had there rum and talked of some memories they had not and never would forget . . .
A/n: Next chapter will tell more of Ellie's history with Jack and there lives. If anyone has Ideas feel free to give them, they are always welcomed and I probably would use them if they where good and fit the story. Love you all!
It was late that night and Ellie hadn't seen Jack all day, she felt bad but, she couldn't let it get him down. She sat in her room when she felt the temperature suddenly drop to a cold degree, though there was no where for the coldness to have come from. She closed her eyes and yawned; she was dead tried, working on a ship even for fun takes a lot of work and energy. She grabbed a blanket that had fallen to the floor and pulled it tightly to her neck; she shivered slightly as the hair on her back stood up. This was all very odd, the way it had just become so cold and then she felt as if she was being watched. It was very eerie.
She was asleep now after about an hour she finally gave into her eyes and let them rest. The door opened and there was a burst of cold air through out the small room, Ellie's body shivered under the covers of the bed. Ellie turned to the other side of her bed to try and stay warm when a cold hand brushed her face. Ellie was startled awake to come face to face with a very young girl. She had silvery blond hair and blue eyes, a very pale completion and just stared at the Ellie with no expression what so ever. The girl could not have been more than two. Ellie was more than frightened now, she had never seen anyone who looked like this before; the girl was almost transparent. All Ellie could say was "hello?" in less than a whisper, she had been robbed of her voice. The girl looked at her as she reached for Ellie's face. Ellie protested by lifting her hand to stop the little girls; her hand went straight threw the young girls. /Oh my god, Jack your ship is haunted!/ she thought terrified. She sat there as the girl backed away; she almost looked hurt, emotionally. The girl faded out of sight like mist.
The girl was gone now and all Ellie could do was sit, she was much to scared to move. Where had the girl come from, who was she, was she truly a ghost or a vision . . . Ellie didn't know but, none of her visions had been like this before. She had not known of Elizabeth and Will's lose but, neither had anyone ever seen a ghost of there child before. Ellie listened intently to the ship's movements and the creaky noises it made as it swayed gently in the water only made the situation worse. She sat there till dawn very shook up what was she suppose to say, she saw a ghost on the ship and it was a little girl, certainly not! She would most defiantly be called insane after hearing /this/ story.
Ellie dressed in some breaches and a loose shirt which she had taken from Ana Maria. Surprisingly they fit well and where very comfortable. She gathered her things and put them away, while doing so she noticed the map in the top drawer of the desk. She pulled it out. It was old and wrinkled and torn on the corners. Ellie wandered if Jack had gone looking for the treasure at all or if he had looked at the map and memorized it, that would be very shallow of him but, he could be that way at times. She really had no clue if the treasure was still around or where the map had been. She grabbed it and left the room still quite scared of the hours' before advents.
She climbed the stairs and was glad to see Jack at the wheel, though he wasn't looking to happy. 'hmmm, he's probably still upset or something, maybe I shouldn't talk to him but, that's probably what's killing him. I guess I have to talk to him- I mean I don't want to be on odd ends with him . . . and it might be a fairly good idea to tell him of the early mornings advents. Ok I will talk with him.' She thought over a few moments time. She carefully approached Jack and tapped him on the shoulder,
"Jack . . . I don't want to be mad at you and I – have a few comments and questions to make . . ." she said slowly and careful as to not stir him up. "Really, what if I don' want ta hear them?" he asked coldly. "I think you might," she paused before saying . . . "I truly didn't mean what I said before Jack. I hope you know that- I – I also think you a-re the bes-t /Captain/ to ever sail these parts – not just these parts, the whole ocean Captain Jack Sparrow . . ." she meant it, it came purely from her heart, though hard to say to him, she wanted him to know. "Hah" was all he said. She turned to walk away and uttered a slight scream when he grabbed her wrist out of no where. She was so shook up about what she had seen earlier anything sudden was sure to scare the living day lights out of her.
"Ye all right love?" he asked a little surprised. "Ye-yeah, I'm fine. But can we talk?" she asked him. "I guess we can, lets go to my room for some privacy, don' wan' a scene like yesterday?" he asked unsure of her reaction. "No and I can assure there will /not/ be another one, I promise. . ." she was then escorted to his cabin, a quite large one indeed. There was a table filled with papers next to the right side of his cabin's wall, a bed on the left side; a little larger than hers and some chairs and such placed around the room as well. She commented nicely on his room as they went to sit down near the table.
"Jack, I thought about what you said and I was just so shocked it scared me, so I thought more about it and I feel you where right about what you said. How I have these powers and such and they rove my mind crazy since I didn't know how to use them nor did I know they existed." "So you agree with me, is that it . . ." he said. "Is that suppose to be a trick question?" she asked jokingly. "Neh, just a comment, love."
"Well, there are some things I'm unsure of and I have something to tell you about what . . . I saw a few hours ago- it –it was qu-ite . . .disturbing," was all she could get out. Jack raised an eye brow a little confused and pushed her to go on. "Well, last night it was very late and the room just went very – c-cold all of the sudden, like it dropped 10 degrees and there was nothing to make it do that . . ." she paused, "Then I started to feel like I was being watched-" jack interrupted her "There was someone watching you! One of my crew!?" she was a little taken aback by his sudden protectiveness over her. "No, no! Let me tell you what happened . . ." Jack seemed to relax a tiny bit with her assurance. "It was even later after I had fallen asleep that I felt my room door burst open with a cold draft blowing trough it – I still had my eyes closed and turned to the other side of the bed when I felt- a –a han-d, a cold, cold one touch my face, a small child's hand." He looked at her strange and said . . . "is that it?" "Oh no," "then go on" he told her at once. "ok, I opened my eyes to meet a young girls gaze, she could of only been 2 Jack, you know there is no girl on your ship that looks like that nor any child and well she wasn't a vision either, she couldn't have been, she had silvery blond hair, almost white, blue, crystal blue eyes, and pale, oh so vary pale skin. She reached for my face and I was about to push her hand away, when I did . . ." she was scared to go but did, "It- i-t wen-t though i-it, Ja-ck, I was so scared, she was like a ghost, But I havn' ever known a girl who looked like her, I know I haven't Jack. Oh, who was she, I'm so scared she is going to come back . . .It doesn't make any sense at all . . ." she stopped there. Jack reached or her hand and she let him hold it
"Sounds strange te me, love." He said. "That's why I'm telling you! Have you by any chance known a young girl who looked like her at all?" she questioned suddenly. "Uhh," he thought and then, "As a matter of fact, yeah, yeah I have, sounds like Will and Liz's lil girl-" Ellie was shocked she hadn't seen any little girl. "They do, then where is she?" "Heaven, if there is one." Jack said. "Oh, oh dear, maybe she was a ghost, she had the wrong person maybe?" "Dough it, Ell, you have a gift for things like this, you know about it now, maybe there will be more strange things that occur around you know. There hast-a be a reason their lil' girl came looking for you, may hap she had a message for you to give te them, maybe one fer ye. . ." Jack trail off in his thoughts. "Yeah, right . . ." was all Ellie could utter.
"Well ferget it for now at least, Jack I have something more important to ask you . . ." she paused, he nodded and she went on. "Ok you know that map you gave me? Did you by any chance use it or memorize it?" Jack laughed, "I can be shallow, but /not/ that shallow, what do you take me for Miss Ellie!?" he asked shocked yet amused. She laughed with him . . . "I don' no, just seemed like the thing you'd do, I guess." "Guess is does, don' it." "So have you even seen it?" she decided to push. "Not one inch of it, saved it all fer ye." He told her proudly. "So you didn't- see the note?" "What note?" "There was a note from Neely she had written and folded inside of it before she died that night incase she ever needed to get it to me." "What'd it say . . .?" Jack wondered aloud. "It's private . . .fer now," she laughed. "Oh, I see, be smart with me then . . ." and Ellie left the room in a completely happy mood, so was Jack.
She was so happy she ran down the deck and didn't even see George Ross coming down the deck with a coil of ropes. She literally toppled over him making his perfect ropes fall all over the ground in a complete disarray. She landed right on top of him with a "Oh, I'm /so/ sorry, sir. I- I . . ." she bent down and started to re-coil the ropes. "Miss, tis' alright," he told her. "No, I should help you with these, it was completely /my/ fault, I ran into you Mr. . ." "Ross, Miss, George Ross," She smiled and said "Nice to meet you, it's Ellie, Ellie Hones." He smiled back showing some ugly teeth, yet he was rough around the edges he had a good heart and was full of life; he was a total gentleman.
She picked up two ropes and helped him carry them all the way to the storage room. The pair had a nice long talk about each other and then went about there business. Though now good friends, she felt even better. 'He was quite nice, I think I like him a little' she told herself with a slight laugh. She saw Elizabeth coming over to talk with Will and she look half shocked and frightened all the while she looked amazingly happy. Ellie only smiled wondering what her news to Will might be.
Ellie went back to her eerie room and looked trough some old junk in her closet; her room had once held Jack's miscellaneous items he never used and perhaps the closet had never been cleared out. There was a trunk with an old rusted lock on it and this immediately drew Ellie closer; she was board and it seemed to just be calling her to come look inside. She fingered the old lock; it had beautiful patterns across its old worn surface.
The lock had no key but, the moment Ellie put the slightest pressure on it the metal lifted loose. She carefully took the lock off and placed it on the ground near her dress's fringe. The top to the trunk was heavier than one's Ellie had been use to in her small home, but even though she lifted it quite easily. The insides where just as dusty as the outside, if not more. There where papers, portrait, trinkets, etc. But one portrait drew Ellie's attention more than the other's; it was a young boy and his, what looked to be, mother. Her hair was neat and pinned into place properly, she had long black hair and green eyes. She was more beautiful than any other woman Ellie had ever encountered in her life; she was almost so beautiful that it was hard to believe she was a real person once.
Ellie brushed the dust from the small painting away and turned her eyes to the young boy of who could have only been 6 or 7. He had black brown hair and piercing brown eyes, the darkest part eyes to have looked up at Ellie in along time. The boy looked almost sad and was in trousers and a loose shirt which didn't match his mother's perfect clothing, etc. Ellie wondered if perhaps the boy was Jack and mayhap his mother; she had never came up in any of their conversations and so Ellie never knew anything of her. She didn't even know of his father except that he had passes his famous tri- corner hat to Jack; Ellie once wondered if his father had been a sailor of any kind.
She looked down into the Trunk and dug threw it a little more when she came across an old letter, one that looked to be in Jack's hand writing, though he never really learned to write, he figured out enough to get himself by on. She also picked this up, it was very old Ellie could tell because when you barley touched it the paper broke away or cracked. The letter was short and sweet, but to who she wasn't sure, it read:
/Dearest love,
I have only known you for so long but, I feel as if I have been connected to ye for more than we might have ever shared. I love yer hair, yer eyes, yer smile. One thing I could do for the rest of me days is look at you and never blink, for if I did, I would fear you may be gone, for love can be lost in the blink of a second, as can anything else. I would never want that to happen to you n' me. We share a bond like I could have never thought possible in all my dreams. I love ye so, please don't ever leave and come back to me as soon as you can.
You make my days happier,
Yer one an' only Jack . . ./
The letter ended there, Ellie want so to know who it was for; he seemed to really care for them, more than she had ever seen Jack care for anyone and to think it was all expressed in this tinny letter. She touched the old paper and remembered the days John use to write her when he was away with long journeys. She smiled and told herself 'you can't keep putting the blame on yerself, he's gone, it was meant to be, you shared yer time, now get on with life.' But nothing is ever that simple but, still Ellie tried to turn away and focus on life now.
She rested the note on top along with the panting on top of all the old things. She thought of Jack more highly now, to think he could love with such passion made her want to hug him. Her day had been great and she was filled with joy. Dinner was nearing and so she tidied herself as she left for the 'dinnin' hall' as Jack called it.
Ellie bumped into Elizabeth on the way there and she was out of breath. "Are you alright?" asked Ellie caringly. "Oh I'm wonderful, Ellie. I have been Dying to tell someone other than Will, so I'm very glad to have ran into you, we are going to announce it at dinner to everyone but, well I have to tell you, I would tell Ana too but, I can't seem to find her." She said quickly. "Ok, what?" asked Ellie very excited. "Me and Will are having a child!" she screamed in glee. "Oh my, can you have a child on a ship?" "Well for now we will be staying and then when it is near the birth we shall leave, we may come back after the baby is born, though I am not to sure I want to raise a small thing like a baby on a ship, at lease not right away. Oh I'm so excited . . ." she beamed at Ellie. "I'm happy for you . . ."
She hesitated asking about the couple's first child but, it just came out. "You and Will had a baby girl a while ago didn't you," she tried to sound as modest as she could. "How did you know about that," she started a little off guard. "Um- a--- Well," Elizabeth gave her an odd look and so she went on. "Ok, Jack told me . . .only a little about it though, I am sorry, I really am, I don't usually invade people's personal issues such as these but I had asked him something and it came . . .about as the . . . answer." "What did you ask Jack," she looked confused, not upset that she knew though. "Well I had a strange . . . encounter . . . yeah I guess you could call it that, and well . . ." Ellie went into the story of the night before. Elizabeth was very fascinated but, it didn't seem to make any sense to her what so ever. "I see. . ." Liz finally said at last. The two walked to dinner after that.
At dinner Ellie sat between Ana and Gibbs, and the rest seated around the table where, Will, Elizabeth, Jack, Ross, Shiller and someone who was only known by 'Tom'. They ate and so did every other table, when the crew had finished Will and Liz stood. They announced "we are having a child . . ." happily. "The crew threw rice and things at them in applause, Jack stood and congratulated them, making sure they where still going to stay with the ship, at least until the baby came. He got out his rum and gave the crew there own bottles, there was also wine for those who wanted it. Will, Ellie and 'Tom' had only a glass a wine. Elizabeth had a glass of water and all made cheers with each other in the celebration.
The day had been long and eventful, yes defiantly eventful. Ellie's hair was spread across the floor of the /Black Pearl's/ deck. She was searching the skies for shooting stars and constellations when she heard rapid foot steps coming her way. It was defiantly a woman's for they where heavily walked and in a different pattern than any woman Ellie had even heard in her life time. She turned her head in an awkward position to see the man approaching from behind her. It was off course one of the crew, in fact it was George Ross, the man she had had a nice chat with much earlier that day.
She looked back up at the stars and saw one of them twinkle down at her, like a wink from her father's eye; when ever Ellie say a star flicker like that she remembered her dad, a person she had not even been related to, but she still cared that she had hurt him so. She smiled faintly and said to the skies "I'm sorry . . ." she hesitated before saying, "dad." She winked back at the star and just hoped if her dad was looking down upon her at that moment that he could see her signaling back. Right after that she heard "Hello, Ellie. Lookin' at the stars, mighty strange the 'eavens are . . ." the man trailed off. "Hello Mr. Ross . . . Yeah, they are," "Oh don' be silly, call me George," "Right, George." She said back to him.
"Well, I best be getting to work, captain put me on look out tonigh'" "really, you think I could have look from up . . ." she pointed at the crows nest, just big enough for two men, she and him would fit easily. ". . .There . . ." "I can't see why not, ye gotta be careful though, miss." He told her. "Oh I will!" she was on her feet in less than a second. The two climbed up the mast, Ellie first and Then George . . . Just /incase/ something where to happen.
The two sat quietly looking out to sea; Ellie had never seen a sight like it before. She began to shiver and George lent his coat to her, "Oh no, you keep it on," but he still pushed it onto her shoulders. "Thanks . . ." she smiled. George reminded Ellie of a father type man, she felt comfortable around him, like he could have been her real dad.
She had fallen asleep up there with George and when morning rose Jack was Calling to bother of them "Ross! . . .Ellie, Get down from there righ' now!" Ross shook Ellie awake and they both descended the mast. "Aye Captain!" he said as he touched the ground. "What did I say about ladies in the crow's nest, I don' even let Ana up there. . ." "She looked so . . . she had never seen anything like it before." He stopped there and Ellie cut in, "Jack, it was my fault really I pushed him into it . . ." he smiled at her and said "it's not smart to go up there /especially/ when ye have never been trained to do so . . ." she smiled innocently and told him "I'm sorry," "Tis' alright, Ross, don' do it again, yer off the hook."
Jack asked Ellie to come with him so they could start searching for the treasure, he knew Neely had said it was in the east when she had been searching for it and now they where 2 days into their sailing he need instruction; for the first time from a woman, not being a pirate. He had once gotten help from Ana Maria.
"So you want te get this treasure don' ye?" He asked her mildly. "Ah, the treasure; is that all you think about . . .?" she said aloud. He smiled wickedly and laughed a little amused; "Not /all/ that I think about, but it is fun to go after" he smiled down on her with a cocky look upon his face. She sighed, I guess, a little adventure in life never hurt right?" "Never . . ." was all Jack would say. "Do we have to go to Tortuga?" "No, where're goin' to Buckley Island . . . Ye can see it now, on the horizon . . ." "What's that, wait do I want to know?" "Not any different then Tortuga, cept it be over in English Territories, perhaps more. . . Interesting that Tortuga though . . ." he paused and Ellie question him. "Interesting?" "Yeah, It has more, uh, random occurrences," he said innocently. "Right"
Ellie said "Well after we get there we can decide on all of the details and get me some 'real' cloths . . ." she said getting into spirit. "Now we're talking, love!" Jack said giving her a clap on the back that nearly knocked her over, half because she wasn't expecting it. "I wonder if," she wasn't thinking this a good idea but, she had to have a little fun in life. "I can still hold my liquor like you . . ." she finished. "Eh, you want some rum, then?" he asked her disbelieving. "Yeah . . . I think I will have a bottle o' rum, for ol' time's sake." The two had there rum and talked of some memories they had not and never would forget . . .
A/n: Next chapter will tell more of Ellie's history with Jack and there lives. If anyone has Ideas feel free to give them, they are always welcomed and I probably would use them if they where good and fit the story. Love you all!