Author's Note: Sorry for not updating in months, well here it is chapter two.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean
-Pirates of the Caribbean
Death in a Red Ruby
Chapter Two
What She Knows
"Do you think we should go back?"
"And risk being brought to the gallows… I think not."
"She's taking awfully long."
"Don't worry Will, she'll be here soon." Mr. Gibbs comforted him with a pat on the back as he walked up to the main deck leaving Will to look out for Elizabeth as Jack sat inside the captains cabin deciding were to start this venture.
"Boat ahoy!" Yelled the parrot of the toungless crew member. That's when Will and the crew saw the small row boat in the distance.
"You won't speak of it…"
"Well… it is a bit of a shock; I would have never expected Jack to have bared a child..." Emma looked away and into the clear water… how good it would be to drowned her sorrows and knowledge. Elizabeth watched as the girls expression turned to something less then content. "He doesn't know… does he?
"I've never met him before… he left before he knew my mother was expecting."
"Why did he leave?" Emma gave her a surprised glare; she didn't even know the answer to that one.
"I don't know."
It had taken them quiet a while to reach the tremendous ship in the small row. Emma couldn't take her eyes off of the beauty of the Black Pearl; it was something she had only seen in her dream and heard only in stories. She hadn't noticed that Elizabeth was calling her from the deck high above her or the row slowly drifting away from the side latter. She looked down into the water once again, it's either now or never, she thought as she took of her hat and held on to it.
The water was warm as she jumped in; she had almost forgotten the way it felt, but within ten seconds, she was out. The latter was a little ways up, but she had no problem climbing what needed to be. Elizabeth was there to help her in and then she looked around. Each one staring at her as if they had never seen a young lady before. She glanced to her rags… they were soaked as well as everything on her. She placed the small hat on her dripping hair and drifted her sight to a door opening… it was him. He was looking down to a scroll of some sort and his face showed concern.
She didn't speak or couldn't because she couldn't find the words for it. No longer was the crew staring at her; they had gone back to there duties upon seeing the captain. Will curiously eyed her… she seemed odd and familiar at the same time. Elizabeth was the first to break the silence.
"Hello Jack…" Jack lifted his eyes from the scrolled maps to the voice.
"Aw Ms. Swan, welcome aboard the Black Pearl." He looked over to the girl next to her. "And what might be your name, miss."
"Emma…" She said it as she let go of the breath she didn't know she wasn't holding.
"My welcomes to you also." He said as he patted the young girls shoulder. Then there was a moment of silence as she watched him, fully taking in his features. Her mother never really liked to go into details on how her father looked, not that he looked hideous, but she found that her mother was indeed correct when she said they looked similar. Apparently Jack hadn't noticed or he would have thought he had a long lost sister or cousin or something. She was suddenly brought out of her thoughts. "Now young madam… where exactly would ye like to be dropped off at?"
She couldn't speak… she didn't want to go; she had only just met him. Why was he sending her way? Wasn't he supposed to take care of her like a father should... oh yeah she had almost forgotten he didn't know they were of the same flesh and blood and that they had only met minutes ago. Well she wasn't going anywhere if she had anything to do with it.
"I don't have a place to stay." She put on the most innocent face possible in her soaked, but nonetheless drying posture. Then she looked up at him; he was thinking quiet lengthily.
"Oh no… its mighty bad luck to have just one women on board, but to have three; we'd surely die before we start this voyage." Mr. Gibbs had been listening in on what was about to unfold. Sparrow always had a good heart when it came people very much like he had once been. No place to call his own.
Emma looked up to the old, pudgy man had spoken. So they we on a mission… she was good at those things; if nothing else.
"I could help you on this voyage, maybe?" She asked the captain hopefully.
"How would a young lady such as yourself help. It's dangerous… and just how old are you, nine… ten? " Jack looked down at the girl with one brow up and a grin plastered on his face.
"I'm sixteen." Emma looked down too her feet. There was more silence and it seemed that Elizabeth was always the one to break it.
"Come on Jack." Jack looked up to Elizabeth and then back to Emma and sighed. That was all he could do for a response before he was interrupted.
"Captain…" All eyes went on the little man way up on the outlook post. "I think it's about time we get going… soldiers a flockin' the area around the port!"
"Right." Jack said as he ran on his toes onto the steering deck. Emma looked at the man steering the ship; he must have been very young when he found my mother, being that her mother was only 31 before she died three years ago. Then she looked around herself… everyone was going to there stations and she was left alone as Will and Elizabeth went down into the cabin below deck.
"Can I tell you something?" Will looked at her quizzically.
"Yes… of course." He knew something was wrong. He hadn't seen that face in a very long time. With the end of Barbosa and his crew of cursed and walking corpses; and the end of Elizabeth's father highly persuading her to marry the commodore, they had both gotten married. When they thought about it, that had only been a little less than a year ago.
"It involves Jack…" Will swallowed hard… she better not tell me she fell in love with him, he thought to himself. Elizabeth looked at him with a little surprise; his face showed very much concern.
"Will don't look like that. It's not like I fell in love with him." Well that took a lot of weight off his shoulders.
"What is it?" She didn't know if it was any of her business to tell him, but she had to get this thing out of her head.
"Don't tell Jack." He didn't like the sound of that. "Well the young girl I brought with me here…"
"Yes?" He urged her to keep speaking.
"She claims she that Jack Sparrow is her father." Will was too shocked to speak and that only caused Elizabeth to sigh. "I didn't believe her at first, but then you put the two next to each other and they both looked the same." That would explain why she looked familiar in Will's eyes.
"Why can't Jack know this?" Elizabeth sighed once more and looked up to the opening that led up to the deck and then back down to her companion.
"Emma doesn't want him to know."
"And why would that be?" He asked suspiously.
"I don't know really."
Emma had been staring out into the horizon as the sunset as it cast a orange glow on the ocean before her. How good it would be to drown her sorrows and knowledge, she thought again as she had done before. She was always thinking like that around the water. If she had a choice of where to die; it would defiantly be in the ocean. But the ocean didn't only reminded her about death… it also reminded her of the little things. Like how her mother used to wash her hair and how she used to play in the rain as a very young girl. Then there was one more memory it brought up.
"Emma, you going to catch cold it you don't come inside." Emma wasn't looking at her mother; she was looking at a boy maybe two years young then her 7 year old self. He was holding hand with his father was they ran through the rain to find shelter.
"Father… cant we just stay out and play in the rain for a little while longer?" The rest of the conversation had been a blank because she was no longer paying any attention to them. She faced her mother this time, her young face showing only confusion. They stood in the rain together in silence until the young girl spoke.
"Why don't I have a father?"
"You should go down for the night." Emma looked up to the person who had brought her out of her memories. She hadn't seen this women when she had boarded the ship, then she looked around at her surroundings; it had gotten dark fast.
"I don't like being inside… I think I'll sleep out here… if thats alright."
"I have no problem with it." Emma looked at the woman one last time and then back out into the darkening ocean. She didn't want to be bothered at this time, but the woman hadn't left. "I used to be like you…young, free spirited… and I didn't have a family." Emma didn't look back to her when she spoke again… she's was nothing like I am, she thought. She was special; she knew things normal people didn't. The fact that she knew where the Red Ruby was, was something that no person but she self knew.
It grew silent again.
"My name is Annamaria." She held out a hand to the girl, but she didn't take it.
"Emma." She repeated her name for what seemed like the thousandth time and if she didn't know better than she was going to ask her what her second name was.
"I suppose you don't own a second name, am I right?" Well that wasn't expected. "Neither do I." Annamaria sat next to the girl and glared at her through the corner of her eye. "So why had Jack let you stay?" Emma hadn't been listening, she was thinking of something to ask Annamaria about her father.
"How long have you known your captain?" Emma looked at her again as she tried to think about the answer to that question.
"It should be about two years now."
"Oh… this voyage…" Emma changed the subject; she really didn't know what to ask her out of the some many questions that raced through her mind. "…what exactly are we looking for that would be so dangerous." Annamarie didn't know she should tell her, but what harm could come from a child?
"Well Jack had heard of this great treasure; it was worth more than anything and everything. Something that any man would die to get there hands on but only two people knew of it's location and one of them had already di…" The words faded as the realization hit her… The Red Ruby.
"I will tell you this only once and never more… I need you to never talk about this to no person. The treasure of the Red Ruby lies in a depth beyond that know to man, but it isn't of water… an island of dirt and sand is where you can find it… protect it with your life… if not you will surely die…"
"Are you alright?" Annamaria looked at her skeptically.
"Yes… I'm fine… I think I will go down for the night…" Emma stood and passed the surprised woman who had been sitting next to her. This wasn't good. They were after something that she had great knowledge of and yet she couldn't help them, for all there sakes. They shouldn't be looking for the Red Ruby; it had more then price on its head; it had power that was more than any of them and herself could ever control. Power that would in time, kill them all one by one…
AN: good, bad? Boring? Yea, but sorry I was just trying to get everything out in the open for everybody if anyone's confuse by the anything just ask and I'll explain! Thanks for reading… next chapter will be up shortly!