Disclaimer: I do not own anything but Kelly and the plot line. I do not in anyway own PotC although I wish I did. sigh
A/N: Okay, here is the third chapter of my story. T he last we saw, the girl was saved by Jack from the pirate and is now on the Black Pearl. I have to beg you not to kill, but I don't anyone was really all that worried or interested in this story. Please review since that is the only thing that keeps me going is the idea that people are reading this. I apologize for not having done this. I have been extremely busy and have had tons of school work. I am actually in our car on my laptop as I write this and hopefully I will be able to get my computer hooked up there to post this. By the way, one interesting thing happened to me that also prolonged this. I went to a concert. I went to the most amazing rock band ever, The Darkness! They are best. Amazing vocals from Justin Hawkins, the unmatchable talent of Dan Hawkins on guitar, the wonderful Ed Graham who plays drums perfectly, and the unbelievably cool Frankie Poullain put together make the best live show ever. I have never had so much fun in my life. I recommend, if you haven't already, that you go buy Permission to Land which is the best album out for the longest time!
A Secret Surprise
Chapter 3
The girl looked up at the pirate sitting in front of her. She was trying to take in everything she had just experienced. Although she felt that she shouldn't trust any pirate, she couldn't help but feel safe around this one. He seemed kind and was talking to her sweetly. 'He did save me after all.' she thought. 'And, he hasn't thrown me in the brig or done anything to harm me.' She had so many more questions and decided to ask them before she answered anything he asked her. She couldn't seem to bring herself to utter a word however. The pounding in her head was too much for her to take. Reaching her hand behind her head where the pain seemed to be coming from. As she touched her hand to her head, she felt a searing pain and gasped.
Jack saw the girl reach behind her and gasp as she touched her head. "Hold on, luv." he said. "Let me see that." He pulled her hand away and lifted up her hair. There, he saw a cut at the top of her neck where the hair met the skin. "Ouch…" he said quietly to himself before talking to her. "That would explain why you were knocked unconscious." He grabbed the bottle of rum that was near the chair he had been in along with a spare piece of cloth he found. As hard as it was for him, Jack poured some rum onto the cloth. "Here, this will help clean out the cut and keep it from getting infected." he told her. "But it's going to sting for a minute though."
He saw the girl nod, and he held the cloth against the cut. He heard her breath in sharply as he gently pressed it against the cut a couple of times to clean it. She clenched her eyes shut as obvious pain riveted through her. "There." he said quietly to her sighing as well happy that he was done. He hated inflicting pain on others whenever he could avoid it. "All done."
The girl looked up into his eyes clearly searching for answers. It was then she was finally able to form words in a coherent way. "Who are you? Where am I? And what happened?" she asked frantically spitting out all she could at once. It was then that Jack noticed this girl had dark brown eyes as he had.
Jack smiled at her sudden outbursts of questions. "I am Captain Jack Sparrow. You are on the Black Pearl, and I saved you from a pirate trying to kidnap you. You fell into the water, and I am guessing by that cut, you hit your head on something. You were unconscious, and when you didn't come back up, I dove into the water and saved you."
The girl's eyes widened upon the beginning of his explanations. Jack wasn't sure if it was because of what she had heard or something else, but he decided to brush it away and let her speak up about it if she wanted to. "Now luv, back to me question." he said to her. "What might yer name be?"
Once again, Captain Jack Sparrow had asked the girl her name. The girl knew her name, but couldn't seem to make her self say it. "Ke… Kelly." she began shakily. "I'm Kelly Sparrow." 'Could this be true?' she asked herself. 'Could this really be my father?' She had no memory of her father. Her mother was a prostitute in Tortuga, but when Kelly was only 11, her mom had left for some other port without telling her. Kelly had searched around to no avail for her mother, so she had become a pirate hoping just to survive. No one had ever warned her though how hard it would be to get someone to accept her since she was a girl.
As she looked up at the man in front of her, she could see he was now the one with wide eyes unable to speak. She smiled slightly as he looked at the bottle of rum in his hands and easily downed the rest of the bottle. He held his eyes closed obviously in thought. This sign of drinking though only helped confirm her suspicions. Her mom had told her that her dad was a pirate who sailed the Caribbean, and that he was pretty famous to everyone. She said his last name was Sparrow, and he was a bit of drunk. So far, everything added up.
Jack held his eyes closed trying to think through this whole ordeal. 'There is no way this girl is my daughter.' he thought frantically. 'I'm bloody Captain Jack Sparrow. I can't have a daughter.' In his mind though, he couldn't help but realize how much this girl had looked like him. As he opened his eyes, he could see the girl looking up and smiling at him. He wondered how she could be smiling at a time like this, and how he could ever be a father. He then did the next logical thing to him. "ELIZABETH!!" he screamed. "WILL!!! GET OVER HERE!!!!!"
The bed shifted slightly as Kelly jumped in fear at his sudden yelling. He could tell that she was panicking, and he mentally kicked himself. Scaring her was the last thing he needed and wanted to do. He smiled sheepishly at her and shrugged. "It seems like the logical thing to call them here." Kelly just smirked, and once again, Jack noticed the resemblance between them.
Back in their room, Elizabeth and Will had been sitting on their bed talking. The night had certainly been full of adventures. "So, what do you think made Jack defend that poor girl?" Elizabeth asked Will.
"Well, I am guessing it was a combination of things." he told her. "Jack is a good man. Although he doesn't try to let on, he really doesn't like to disrespect women, and that wasn't even a woman. That was a young girl. Plus, Jack had it in for that guy after he threatened you."
Elizabeth grimaced at that thought. "Don't even remind me." she said sullenly. "I was freaking out enough, even with you and Jack sitting right there defending me. I can't even begin to imagine what was going through that girls head as she was being chased with no one to help her." She shook her head thinking back to the days that she had been captured by Barbossa. At least then, she had the comforting thoughts that Will or even Norrington had been after her to rescue her. She could only guess that this girl had no one to turn to for help.
Just then a scream erupted through the air calling out their names. "What was that? Will asked frantically. "That sounded like Jack." Standing up quickly and not knowing what was going on, Will grabbed his sword and dagger before running out of their cabin room. He turned quickly and pounded up the stairs. He listened quickly before entering the deck to make sure no one was right there. Assuring himself nothing was going on on the deck, he quickly ran across the deck and immediately knew where the scream had come from. 'The girl.' he thought. 'What's going on in there?' Reaching the Captain's Quarters, he threw open the door and ran in.
Elizabeth, who had acted just as quickly as Will had, was right behind him holding a sword. Sure she had no clue how to use one, but she had brought it just in case. As she and Will looked into the bedroom, they could see Jack and the girl both sitting on the bed. Everything looked quite normal except for the fact Jack looked slightly freaked out and the girl looking quite smug. "What's going on in here?" an exasperated Elizabeth asked. "And when did she wake up?"
The girl straightened up slightly, or at least she tried to. About half way up, she felt slightly woozy and began to fall back onto her hands. Jack's quick reflexes caused him to grab her arm and straighten her up. "Careful…" he told her as he propped up pillows behind. Grimacing slightly he looked up towards Elizabeth and Will, then back at the girl. "Why don't you go ahead and tell them your name."
The smirk came off of the girl's face as she looked up expectantly for Jack to introduce her instead. When he made no move to do anything of the sort, Kelly decided she had to herself. "I… I'm Kelly." she told them figuring that was enough, but obviously Jack didn't think so as he shot her a glare. "Kelly Jaclyn Sparrow is my full name." By this time, she had dropped her eyelevel and seemed extremely interested in her hands. They were small, but still were rough and calloused as obvious evidence as her time she had spent on ships. The only noise she heard after that was an obvious gasp from who she presumed to be Elizabeth and the sound of a dropping sword from Will.
A/N: Okay, please don't kill me. Like I said before, I am incredibly sorry I did not do this sooner. Blame my writer's block and lack of time. I am now going on to continue and writing the fourth chapter and will most likely get up tomorrow or even later today. Adios amigos, and remember, BUY PERMISSION TO LAND BY THE DARKNESS! You will not be sorry!