Jack gathered his belongings in a pile and bundled them together inside one of his shirts. Sorting through them, however, he came across his old captain's journal. He disappointedly read over its two entries several times. The descriptions were vague and the facts were few. He sighed, how many people actually put their own name in a journal anyway? It seemed that Will and Elizabeth were his only two friends. He frowned at the thought. Well, it was more than he had now.
He left the room he had been letting at the Tortuga Inn at half past midnight and snuck onto his intended vessel. He crept silently into the decks below and squatted in a corner, pulling a barrel over himself.
The next morning, or what Jack guessed to be the next morning, the ship set sail for Anguilla. And three horrific days later, he felt the anchor drop. He waited patiently, listening to the comings and goings that indicated the crew's unloading cargo, until the opportune moment to attain his freedom. Lifting the barrel off him, he stepped out from underneath it and strained his ears to listen for any movements from above. Hearing nothing, he took to the upper decks and finally the docks.
He stalked through the streets, in search of an inn. He went into the first one he spotted and paid for a night's lodging. But, before he went upstairs, he requested a bath be drawn up. The innkeeper nodded and set one of his staff to bringing one up.
Satisfied, Jack took to the stairs and found his room. He unloaded his things, took his bath, and sat afterwards on his bed, wondering where to begin his search. As sleep did not come to him as quickly as he would have liked, he decided to retrieve his journal from the stand on which he had placed it. He took out his quill and inkwell and set to writing.
A/N: I know my chapters are really short and I spend so much time on the smallest matters after I skipped fifteen years. I apologize for the shortcomings on my behalf. But I hope you all can look past that and at the story itself instead and enjoy it. If I do and so do you, then that's all that matters!