Chapter 18. The beginning!
The crack of dawn was no welcome time aboard the ship. The sound of baby cries filled the air.
"Can't ye make that thing shut up? Porpey yelled at Elizabeth.
"Listen!" Elizabeth shouted over Neoma's cries. "If you want this baby to hush, then you are going to have to leave us be down here I need privacy to nurse her."
Porpey grunted, rolled his eyes and left. Elizabeth undid her dress top, and allowed her Neoma to eat.
Eponine yawned and the cut on her lip re opened. For the past month after the baby each man had gotten a turn at Eponine doing what ever they pleased with her. Most would just sit there and ask her questions. If they didn't like what she said she would get a smack in the face, if they did she would be left alone. And the rest would just spend their time taking something she had only given to Jack. And through that month she could only think of what Jack was going to think of her after this. But somehow she kept her strength up through Neoma. "You're doing a really good job Elizabeth. Just think we'll be off this stinking boat in a day or so."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because we've been on it for about a month now." She smiled, and held onto the new bruise she got on her eye that night.
"Land Ho!" a crewmember of the Black Pearl yelled up to the Captain. Jack pulled out his telescope and looked to where the man was pointing.
"Thank God!" Jack turned to Will who was also peering towards the direction. "I really need to get onto some dry land."
"You Jack? Need dry land?" Will laughed. "I never thought I would ever hear you say that."
"Yes well something about these waters remind me of what lies behind us." He sighed. "Sure that's Chaz 'ex."
"As long as my mother was a whore, it is."
"Good will reach it by night fall, set up some traps and then hopefully get out of sight before Percy Belle shows."
"I think were a good 2 days ahead of him. You set a straight coarse."
The sun was rising over the horizon. Elizabeth, Eponine and Neoma were on the deck enjoying fresh air. Glad do be away from the smell, and for Eponine the memories, of the prison hold.
"I really wish we could help Jack and Will." Eponine looked down into the dark blue water.
"I'm afraid that we need their help more then they need ours. They have a plan, and we have baby." Elizabeth tucked the blanket closer into Neoma.
"I'm just afraid that when the fighting starts, is were going to be stuck in the cells without any hope of getting out if it starts going under."
The day had gone, the night had come, and the morning was coming again. The crew of ship had gone to shore, all except for Rhys and the women captives. They were again locked down in separate cells, in the hull of the ship that was about to go into battle with one of the most feared Pirate Captain's.
"Rhys can't you just unlock the doors let us get out of the way." Eponine was pleading. "For the baby's sake! If not me; Elizabeth and Neoma, Please? You can still barter with me."
"Eponine you know I couldn't do that. They would make me walk the plank if I helped ye. And you're not much by yourself anymore. Besides the fighting should only be taking place in the sand of that island. Not on the water. That's why the crew took all the guns that we had...besides the cannon's." He sat outside the cells leaning against the ships wooden hull. The shadow that was on half his face, made it show what he really is, half man, and half pirate. On one side a nice caring man, with his own child to worry about. And the other side a man who took orders and followed them, no matter how bad they could get.
"Rhys I know you don't want to lose the position you have created for yourself on this ship. But if you help us get off, I'm sure Captain Sparrow will accept you on his ship for a crew member."
He seamed to consider it for a moment, got a stern face, stood up, and started to walk up the stairs. As the sun caught his face he turned, "What makes you think he'll still be alive after today?"
"There they are." Will was looking through the telescope. Jack and Will were both looking towards the ship anchored in Chaz 'ex bay. "It looks like they have sent all the crew a shore."
"Let me have a look." Jack took the scope. "Good, this is the beginning! Let's send half my crew to the shore's to make a distraction. I'll take 2 men and go and get their ship ready to fight, take the rest of my crew and bring it around. We'll attack from the water."
Three wet me jumped on board the ship startling the only crewmember left aboard.
"You aren't going to take them," The man stepped on top of the latch hold of the prison hold.
"We aren't goin' to take who?"
The man spoke up louder. "You can only take them over my dead body."
"That can be arranged!" Jack held out his pistil to the man's forehead. From underneath Jack could hear screaming. "Who do you have down there?"
The voices got louder and Jack couldn't believe it, they were women's voices, and also a small cry joined them. Jack looked at the other men with him. "Start getting this ship ready for battle. I'll take care of this." The men hurried along and stared to load cannons. Jack didn't want to wait, and by the look of the man he was unarmed.
Jack went to push him off the latch but as he did Rhys quickly thrust a small wrist dagger into his left hip. Jack cringed, pulled it out, and shot the man in his stomach.
Rhys smiled. "Now by my dead body, you can have them."
"Thanks mate." Jack whispered, and the man took his last breath and died. The screaming still continued as Jack threw open the latch, with difficulty. Blood was running through his right hand fingers as he held on to the wound as he descended the steps.
But as he reached the last step, he realized that nothing would have prepared him for this sight. Elizabeth was hold in the corner of her cell; her once large stomach had now been replaced by a bundle of blankets that she held.
He turned to Eponine, that as she found out who was walking down the stairs, her desperate screaming turned into desperate tears. Her once flawless skin had now been cut and bruised, the tears running down it stung as they reached the wounds, and she had been stripped down to her undergarments. Jack no longer thought about his wounds, but the wounds that must be all over her young helpless body.
Author's Note
I know that seams a little far fetched about her being sexually abused, but seriously, you have to think about it. Pirates ship, full of horny, sexually active men, who don't care who they kill, or hurt in the process of them getting what they want.
Anyway...another chapter should be on its way soon!( Don't worry it will all be better soon!
The crack of dawn was no welcome time aboard the ship. The sound of baby cries filled the air.
"Can't ye make that thing shut up? Porpey yelled at Elizabeth.
"Listen!" Elizabeth shouted over Neoma's cries. "If you want this baby to hush, then you are going to have to leave us be down here I need privacy to nurse her."
Porpey grunted, rolled his eyes and left. Elizabeth undid her dress top, and allowed her Neoma to eat.
Eponine yawned and the cut on her lip re opened. For the past month after the baby each man had gotten a turn at Eponine doing what ever they pleased with her. Most would just sit there and ask her questions. If they didn't like what she said she would get a smack in the face, if they did she would be left alone. And the rest would just spend their time taking something she had only given to Jack. And through that month she could only think of what Jack was going to think of her after this. But somehow she kept her strength up through Neoma. "You're doing a really good job Elizabeth. Just think we'll be off this stinking boat in a day or so."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because we've been on it for about a month now." She smiled, and held onto the new bruise she got on her eye that night.
"Land Ho!" a crewmember of the Black Pearl yelled up to the Captain. Jack pulled out his telescope and looked to where the man was pointing.
"Thank God!" Jack turned to Will who was also peering towards the direction. "I really need to get onto some dry land."
"You Jack? Need dry land?" Will laughed. "I never thought I would ever hear you say that."
"Yes well something about these waters remind me of what lies behind us." He sighed. "Sure that's Chaz 'ex."
"As long as my mother was a whore, it is."
"Good will reach it by night fall, set up some traps and then hopefully get out of sight before Percy Belle shows."
"I think were a good 2 days ahead of him. You set a straight coarse."
The sun was rising over the horizon. Elizabeth, Eponine and Neoma were on the deck enjoying fresh air. Glad do be away from the smell, and for Eponine the memories, of the prison hold.
"I really wish we could help Jack and Will." Eponine looked down into the dark blue water.
"I'm afraid that we need their help more then they need ours. They have a plan, and we have baby." Elizabeth tucked the blanket closer into Neoma.
"I'm just afraid that when the fighting starts, is were going to be stuck in the cells without any hope of getting out if it starts going under."
The day had gone, the night had come, and the morning was coming again. The crew of ship had gone to shore, all except for Rhys and the women captives. They were again locked down in separate cells, in the hull of the ship that was about to go into battle with one of the most feared Pirate Captain's.
"Rhys can't you just unlock the doors let us get out of the way." Eponine was pleading. "For the baby's sake! If not me; Elizabeth and Neoma, Please? You can still barter with me."
"Eponine you know I couldn't do that. They would make me walk the plank if I helped ye. And you're not much by yourself anymore. Besides the fighting should only be taking place in the sand of that island. Not on the water. That's why the crew took all the guns that we had...besides the cannon's." He sat outside the cells leaning against the ships wooden hull. The shadow that was on half his face, made it show what he really is, half man, and half pirate. On one side a nice caring man, with his own child to worry about. And the other side a man who took orders and followed them, no matter how bad they could get.
"Rhys I know you don't want to lose the position you have created for yourself on this ship. But if you help us get off, I'm sure Captain Sparrow will accept you on his ship for a crew member."
He seamed to consider it for a moment, got a stern face, stood up, and started to walk up the stairs. As the sun caught his face he turned, "What makes you think he'll still be alive after today?"
"There they are." Will was looking through the telescope. Jack and Will were both looking towards the ship anchored in Chaz 'ex bay. "It looks like they have sent all the crew a shore."
"Let me have a look." Jack took the scope. "Good, this is the beginning! Let's send half my crew to the shore's to make a distraction. I'll take 2 men and go and get their ship ready to fight, take the rest of my crew and bring it around. We'll attack from the water."
Three wet me jumped on board the ship startling the only crewmember left aboard.
"You aren't going to take them," The man stepped on top of the latch hold of the prison hold.
"We aren't goin' to take who?"
The man spoke up louder. "You can only take them over my dead body."
"That can be arranged!" Jack held out his pistil to the man's forehead. From underneath Jack could hear screaming. "Who do you have down there?"
The voices got louder and Jack couldn't believe it, they were women's voices, and also a small cry joined them. Jack looked at the other men with him. "Start getting this ship ready for battle. I'll take care of this." The men hurried along and stared to load cannons. Jack didn't want to wait, and by the look of the man he was unarmed.
Jack went to push him off the latch but as he did Rhys quickly thrust a small wrist dagger into his left hip. Jack cringed, pulled it out, and shot the man in his stomach.
Rhys smiled. "Now by my dead body, you can have them."
"Thanks mate." Jack whispered, and the man took his last breath and died. The screaming still continued as Jack threw open the latch, with difficulty. Blood was running through his right hand fingers as he held on to the wound as he descended the steps.
But as he reached the last step, he realized that nothing would have prepared him for this sight. Elizabeth was hold in the corner of her cell; her once large stomach had now been replaced by a bundle of blankets that she held.
He turned to Eponine, that as she found out who was walking down the stairs, her desperate screaming turned into desperate tears. Her once flawless skin had now been cut and bruised, the tears running down it stung as they reached the wounds, and she had been stripped down to her undergarments. Jack no longer thought about his wounds, but the wounds that must be all over her young helpless body.
Author's Note
I know that seams a little far fetched about her being sexually abused, but seriously, you have to think about it. Pirates ship, full of horny, sexually active men, who don't care who they kill, or hurt in the process of them getting what they want.
Anyway...another chapter should be on its way soon!( Don't worry it will all be better soon!