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Pirates of the Caribbean: Treasures of the Lost Abyss

Chapter 3: The Turners in Tortuga

The morning had left and the day had reached noon. The sun shone fiercely down from the sky and burnt the necks and faces of the inhabitants of a lone boat in the water.

The boat, which looked a little overcrowded and strangely like a wooden rowboat, belonged to Jack Sparrow. The other inhabitants were Will, Elizabeth, Thomas and Meghan. This was the Turner family. As well, there was Meghan's luggage which probably weighed as much as a fully grown person anyway. This would explain why water was slowly creeping in over the side and Will, Thomas and Jack were rowing quite intensely in order to reach Tortuga before the boat sunk.

By three o' clock that afternoon, Tortuga was coming in close and the boat was about to sink. The majority of the boat had decided to abandon it and swim the last few feet to the shore – that is everyone except Meghan.

"But Mum, all my things are going to get wet and how am I supposed to swim while I carry two suitcases." Meghan whined as more and more water leaked into the boat.

"Should have thought about that before you brought all that luggage," Elizabeth teased.

"Yes, but I thought we'd be on a BIGGER ship!" yelled Meghan.

"'ey, if you want help, jus' ask!" Jack Sparrow prompted.

"Fine, can someone please help me?" Meghan asked bitterly.

"Sure, your father and I will do it," her brother offered politely.

So Thomas and Will used the luggage as swimming boards and paddled their way towards shore. Elizabeth and Jack swam leisurely talking about how life had treated them.

Everyone had been on shore for five minutes when Meghan finally crawled out of the water looking like a drowned rat. She wasn't too happy about that.

Her mood didn't improve once they had walked into the town of Tortuga. Prostitutes lined up on street corners, drunkards waddled drunkly up and down the streets and little beggar boys ran wild. Meghan's eyes scaled the many inns and pubs all up the avenue.

Jack seeing her disgusted face, walked up to her and ruffled her wet hair.

"Don' worry, the inns are nice…….enough, and we're not going to be here too long," he said.

This didn't change Meghan's mind but she reminded herself that it was this or being at home with the maids.

The five of them walked up to the inn that they were to be staying at. It was called the "The Last Beggar" and it looked surprisingly better than most in Tortuga.

Once they had settled, they all went down to the bar to have a bite to eat as the afternoon was wearing away and dinnertime was upon them. Meghan, repulsed by the characters in the bar at this time, seated herself between her father and her brother, opposite Jack and Elizabeth. Jack got up and pulled a 6th chair up to the table.

"I'm expecting someone," Jack smiled.

"Oh," Will said, "have you found someone?"

"Nah, it's me niece!"

Thomas looked up.

"She'll be about your age now, Tom," laughed Jack.

But Thomas wasn't paying attention to Jack, he was gazing at the exotic girl who had just entered through the pub's doors.

She looked right at Thomas and walked over.

"Ah, there she is," said Jack as he followed Thomas's gaze. It turned out that she wasn't looking at Thomas but rather at her uncle.

"Uncle Jack!" she yelled delightedly. The girl ran over and gave him a big hug.

Jack smiled and pulled her off of him to get a better look.

"You haven't changed a bit."

"Jack, you've only been gone a couple of days," she played with her thick brown hair which had been completely done in braids with beads, like her uncles, on the ends.

Her skin was very dark and, once again like her uncle, her eyes were neatly done with charcoal around the edges.

"Jill, meet everyone," Jack introduced her to the others seated around the table.

When she got to Thomas he gave her a beaming smile, and she laughed, flushing slightly.

Meghan reluctantly said "Hi!" She still wasn't sure about this girl. Everything about her, the hair, the way she dressed (Jill was wearing a ragged skirt made out of many different fabrics, a dirty, white, sleeveless shirt, with no shoes and patches of dirt spotting her body) just wasn't appropriate in Meghan's mind.

"Nice to meet you all," she smiled, "Uncle, I'm going to meet Billy now, I'll be back tonight ready for tomorrow." She kissed him on the cheek and ran out the door.

Thomas's heart dropped from its fluttery state to a dull thud, thud, thud.

'She had someone. She had someone named Billy. Of course she had someone though, how could a pretty girl like that not have someone,' he thought dejectedly.

"I'm a little tired, I think I'll retire early." He made sure to hide his disappointment.

Thomas got up and left, Meghan followed (she had had enough of the creeps in the bar staring at her.)

"Are you not hungry?" Elizabeth called after them.

"Nope," they both replied miserably and carried on up the stairs.

Will, Elizabeth and Jack stayed on to talk about their plans for tomorrow, which would begin first thing in the morning. They were to commandeer a ship and head for the Lost Abyss on the trail of Barbossa and the Pearl.

"That doesn't solve the matter of finding a crew, we can't commandeer and sail a ship all the way to the Lost Abyss with just five people," Will pondered.

"Leave it to me," Jack mumbled.

Jack after having quite a few drinks was now well past being considered sloshed but he had been drunk so many times it was just a state of mind for him. He got up and staggered out of the bar in search for a crew.

Will and Elizabeth laughed. Will looked lovingly into his wife's eyes and asked if she was excited.

"You bet," she laughed.

"I love you."

"Me too!"

Will kissed her gently and guided her upstairs to the room.