Chapter 6: Rules, rights and fights
By: Vipera berus
Disclaimer: Do I really need to put this up anymore? Is there really someone who doesn't know that I certainly do NOT own the Pirates of the Caribbean –movie, Jack Sparrow or Will Turner? Well, I don't!!! It's true, I swear!!! (But if Disney is kind enough and gives me Jack, I'll faint, alright. Although, that will never happen… sniff…)
Author's Note: I'm updating again!!! I'm sorry that it took a bit longer than before, but I had problems on how to start the chapter. I hope it's not crappy…
Sorry for re-posting all the chapters and all the thanks to the reviewers are here! (I changed my pen name as well, if anyone didn't notice!) I don't think I put these in the previous chapters and sorry about that but hopefully this is good enough:
Thanks to the pirates who reviewed! :
(You know who you are, Rummy!!! My faithful reviewer!!!;) I'll be delighted to ask help if I get problems, thanks for offering help, I really appreciate it!!! I speak Finnish, Swedish, a few words of German and English of course! I've studied English for five years as often as I've got the time and I'm still learning it!!!)
(Nyoko-san reviewed in chapter 2, thanks a million to ye!)
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A hard one to write, this one: sixth chapter!!! Enjoy! It'll be a really long chapter, 'cause there's much to explain…
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"Four years ago, I arrived to Port Royal, in search of a ship for myself. Well, as a pirate I couldn't possibly walk into town looking like I did so I had to get a disguise; a dress. The ships in the harbour were worse than sinking boats, and I couldn't possibly be OK with a sinking boat, now could I? So, I met Lieutenant James Norrington. (That was the first time he saw me in a dress. Remember when he told us that our last meeting, Sparrow?) James was a fine, good-looking man at the time, I mean it…well, anyway, I introduced myself as some bloody dress clad snob to him as I did to you, Sparrow, and he quite fancied me the first time he saw me! just like you, Sparrow…"
Pause.
"Yeah, I needed a ship so I told him a little lie that my made-up father wanted the best vessel as he was a very rich and powerful man in the south who would buy it once he got the thing. James believed me and started building the best ship his men could muster. Happy times, those were when I fooled him royally, as royally I fooled you, Sparrow…"
Chuckles.
"Er…It took him nearly seven months to get it to the shape I wanted. Well, I obviously told James I acted by my nonexistent father's commands…Ha! And he still believed me!!! What a blighter!!! Of course that was only the easy part. Then I met Elizabeth Swann."
Pause.
"She knew of my closeness to James. And you hated it, didn't you, because you had your doubts about my identity?" Tony Evans's gaze met Elizabeth Swann's in a competition. Elizabeth nodded soundlessly. "And Miss Swann just wanted to ruin everything for me. Well, at the time Liz was a young silly girl who wasn't ready to marry James just yet. But me, being older than her, had my chances, although I never even considered taking them…urgh! Me, the most respected pirate, marrying a man of the law? He was not my type…but anyway, Liz became quite jealous 'cause she fancied him, I think."
Pause.
"Finally, the last day of my Port Royal visit was coming into an end. And I just desperately needed a drink from the nearest tavern, so I went over and I had no idea I was being followed by Miss Swann who wanted to break up me and James."
Tony laughed.
"She found out about me but before she managed to scurry over to her safe little home and tell the truth about me, some rather large friends of mine caught her. They weren't such nice men, if I'm being honest. I saved her from them and she swore not to tell anyone about me. But that wasn't it. She was being nosy and I needed to teach the silly girl a lesson, so the first chance I got that night, I stole some very nice jewels from the Swann mansion and got a nice price from 'em too! Anyway, that's not the point. Liz was pissed off at me and decided to break out little agreement and told James the truth about me the very same morning."
Pause. Tony glared at Elizabeth with hatred.
"He was waiting for me with a dozen of his cuties but I had something for him too. While I were in Port Royal, some pretty good sailors passed the town whom I got to know. Soon I had a crew, worthy of a place aboard my new ship. There was a battle that day in the harbour. I won, that's why James is so sour. Finally, I sailed away on my ship into freedom without corsets!!! Later some interesting news reached my ears. Liz was covering up for me. Sure she told everyone about me being a slimy pirate, but she were in debt to me pretty much. She convinced her father that I wasn't that much harm, although James never believed it… I left him heartbroken, what can I say? The Governor did as his precious daughter told him to. No one was after me. I had my freedom with my Serpent's Revenge…"
As Tony finished her story, the table she, Jack, Will, Elizabeth and Gibbs sat around fell silent. The sun was setting as the Black Pearl was carried forward on the oceans' soft waves with the strong wind. The sky up above was clear with no clouds to obscure the forming stars and the brightening moon.
"'S tha' what yer ship's called?" Jack asked after a long silence. Tony thought she heard sarcasm in his voice…
"Yes. She's called the Serpent's Revenge. I have my reasons to that actually." Tony replied coldly, now coming back into herself after the long emotional story about her first port Royal visit.
Finally Jack had decided to put on some clothes, which made Tony disappointed but as he reminded her constantly that he knew she wanted to see him naked, she thought better not to say anything only repeat I want to see him naked, I want to see him naked, I want to see him naked, in her mind and then hit herself for not thinking such things about the evil git. She had been forced to give back his coat to him but she was still wearing his shirt and his sash around her waist.
"Aha…well, where is she now?" Jack asked, locking her gaze with his. Blue eyes met brown in competition. Tony lowered her eyes to the table a little too quickly.
"I – I… It's personal…" she muttered, examining her fingernails, careful not to lock eyes with Jack once more.
"What? The whereabouts of yer ship?" came Jack's interested voice.
"Aye! I already said that it's personal, OK?" she snapped angrily and stood up from the chair she sat in.
"Very well. Jus' thought ye might share these personal issues." Jack said, receiving a murderous glare from Tony. Jack dropped it as did everyone else around the table.
"But Elizabeth, you said you'd never seen or met pirates before Jack?" Will asked Elizabeth as they were still thinking about Tony's story. Elizabeth sighed.
"Well, I couldn't possibly count Tony as a pirate, could I? I had never heard of female pirates and she didn't act like one either before the night in that tavern. And those awful men weren't pirates. I'm sorry to tell you Tony, but they were fat sailors!" Elizabeth said with lowered eyebrows as Tony rolled her eyes.
"They helped me to Tortuga from where I picked up my real crew. And they continued to work for me so you could call them pirates now!" Tony argued with her hands on her hips while she still stood. Dead pirates… she thought.
"Alright, ladies – " Jack interrupted their row. Tony scowled at Jack. " – and pirates." he added with a grin. "That's no information we want to hear if men are fat or not. But I do have one interesting question fer ye, love." Jack said cocking one eyebrow higher. Tony stared at him as she sat back down.
"Fire away then, dear Captain." Tony said sarcastically, twirling a string of her brown hair around her finger.
"Where'd you go after ye left Port Royal? I only heard people tell that ye dropped dead only days later. So where'd you disappear?" Said Jack, fixing a intense stare on her. She shifted uncomfortably in her seat. Jack was unknown to the fact that he hit a golden spot of hers.
"Uh…that's personal as well…" she muttered in answer, not having the energy to argue with him anymore.
"Can't hear ye, love." Jack said mockingly, as he cupped his ear with his hand and leaning forwards over the table. This was only making it worse for her.
"You deaf, Sparrow?" Tony spat. "Something wrong in your ears? Or did your stupidity finally take over your brain so you don't even understand words as language?" she continued and found herself standing once again in anger. "Do I have to yell in yer ear, huh? It's goddamn P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L, SAVVY?!?!" she yelled tiredly and rushed out of the galley, her chocolate brown hair fluttering like a flag after her.
Jack looked at the others.
"Did I say something wrong?" he shrugged.
"Tha' woman's bad luck, Jack." Gibbs spoke up in his rough voice. "I don't know why you agreed taking her aboard. I tell ye this, Cap'n, she'll bring us trouble fer sure…"
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After an hour Jack walked to his cabin his mind on one question; Where did she go after that Port Royal year? She disappeared for three years and now was the first time she was seen after that. He needed to know what happened during those three years. What was she hiding? Why was it so personal to her? Where did her ship go?
"I thought you were going to stay a bit longer with the others?" came a feminine voice from somewhere in front of him. Jack snapped out of his thoughts and stopped. The cabin was dark so he couldn't see much around him, but his eyes stopped at a form that was shadowed against the moonlit window. It was Tony.
She stood beside his table with her back at him. He could see a half empty rum bottle on the desk beside her. Then he noticed that her skin seemed to glow in the moonlight. Her skin? She should be covered under his shirt? But when he looked at her properly, he noticed that she was moving. It looked like she was putting on some clothes. She bent down and dragged a couple of breeches over her legs. Then she straightened up again, without any clothe on her upper body.
She had a perfect curve. He just had to admit this as he looked at her. She looked so beautiful that all he wanted to do was throw her on his bed and make her his. Of course this awoke a new desire for her inside him that had been buried from their first encounter. Lust. Why not? She was a woman after all, and he was a man. But Jack noticed that she was upset. Did their earlier conversation bring up some memories in her? As he stared at her naked, glowing back, he could see a little snake tattooed on her shoulder. Serpent's Revenge…It had been hidden with her top the first time he had seen her with almost no clothes. But now she stood in front of him without clothes, or at least without any shirt above her upper body. He advanced on her with small steps but his plans were crushed by her following words;
"I hate you Jack. I wish I would've stayed in Port Royal." She sniffed as she put on a shirt that looked very much like his favourite one. He noticed that she was wearing his breeches as well! he stopped a few feet behind her. She took the bottle from the desk and drained it with one go.
"The feeling's mutual, love." Jack replied with a sigh. Tony turned around to face him as she held the empty bottle tightly to her chest. "I never gave ye permission to take me rum, lass. Give tha' back!" He said angrily and snatched the bottle back.
Tony rolled her eyes. "Well, It's a bit late fer that, isn't it?" she said with a grin. "I mean, it's all in my stomach by now, but if you want me to piss it for you in that bottle again, I could do it!" she laughed heartily. "Well don't worry, I'll buy you a new one in Tortuga, love." She mocked as Jack put on the candles in the cabin and the whole room lit up. She walked to his bed and fell down on it so she lay on her back with her hands behind her head, staring at the ceiling.
"Ye're a sorry excuse of a pirate, Evans. I've said that before and I'm saying it again. Besides ye don't 'ave the money to buy me the rum I'd like to – " Jack stopped mid-sentence.
"You'd like to what, Captain?" Tony asked and started humming a song in a low voice. She was about to turn her head around to look at him but the sound of a pistol being cocked against her temple made her attempt impossible. "Uh oh… what've I done now?" she asked as her temper started to rise again. "I know I borrowed yer clothes but I can give them back if that's a problem? And you shouldn't point a gun at a unarmed pirate, woman pirate at that!" she added hastily, inching away from the pistol and Jack who towered over the bed and her.
"Don't act stupid, love – "
"Oh, I'm the stupid one now?" she asked sarcastically, cutting him off. The pistol came into contact with her temple forcefully. She winced in pain as she stopped moving and lay motionless on her back above Jack's bed.
Jack would've laughed at the situation if it hadn't been so serious. A minute ago, he had felt like shagging the girl who now lay on her back above his bed, looking frightened.
"I'm talking about the money, Tony! Or did 80 000 shillings slip out of yer mind?" Jack said with gritted teeth. She gave a nervous laugh.
"Umm… yeah, I think it did, actually. Funny how such little things can – " Tony said but was cut off by Jack.
"It's no little thing! Me crew are waiting fer some loot an' ye better get 'em to me in Tortuga or I'll have yer head blown into pieces meself!" he hissed with the pistol pressing against her temple.
Oh, how I wish I'd never boarded this ship from Hell…how could I forget about the money? Stupid arse… Tony thought with a sigh. To her surprise, Jack's outbursts was over. The pistol left her temple and she heard him return to his desk, muttering wildly. She sat back up on the bed, surveying her surroundings.
The cabin wasn't as big as hers had been aboard the Serpent's Revenge. This was cosy but a lot darker. The windows to Jack's quarters were blurry and dirty, she wouldn't approve that. She wanted the sun to shine through them brightly, not dimly as they apparently did aboard the Black Pearl. There was a bed, which she sat on, a desk, Jack sat behind it glancing at her from time to time, a bookshelf filled with dusty books, maps and other stuff that could be needed on the sea and a clothe trunk from where she had found the clothes she wore at the moment. Other than those furniture, the room was filled with lots of maps and papers here and there on the walls and on the dark wooden floor.
"I'd be watching me step if I were you, Evans, 'cause from now on, I'm watching it with ye. If I don't get any money until the third day after our arrival at Tortuga, things will get bloody, savvy?" Jack said to her from the desk. "Till we get to that place, I advice ye to follow the rules and rights that are given to ye."
"And what kind of rules and rights are you, oh gracious Captain of mine, possibly talking about?" Tony asked with a smirk, not bothered about his earlier threats.
"Make no kind of trouble aboard me ship. As to say, never start a fight with anyone o' me crew – "
"How about starting a fight with you then? Is that banned as well?" Tony said lightly. She was still smirking. She heard Jack grit his teeth as he tried not to run up and strangle her.
" – and never touch me possession or you'll be killed. But you can for the matter go and clean up the shit buckets, they haven't been cleaned up for a while. That's one right you got." Jack said wickedly with an evil grin that exposed his gold teeth. Tony grimaced.
"I think not. I'm no servant or yours so go and pick the shit up yourself! I'm sure you'll attract much more stinking whores if you smell like droppings. But in my opinion it doesn't matter if you go and do that, you smell like shit anyways…" Tony said and giggled as she lay back on the bed and continued to stare at the cracking wooden ceiling.
She couldn't hear Jack muttering in anger or rustling with the maps and papers anymore. Tony turned her head to look at the desk but came face-to-face with the roguish pirate Captain himself. There were only a few inches between their faces. She could even see her own reflection in his dark brown eyes that had captivated her twice before, this being the third time. She tried to speak but her voice got stuck in her throat. Jack was crouching beside the bed, his eyes flashing in anger but his face calm.
"I smell like shit, eh?" he asked, his voice sounded both angry and amused, Tony couldn't place it. She smiled at him innocently.
"You never said that provoking you was part of the rules and rights, darling." Tony replied softly, managing a chuckle after her words. Jack got a bit nearer, their noses almost touching.
"Shouldn't you be choking and holding your hands to your nose right now when we're being so close, if I smelled that bad?" Jack whispered and licked his lips very slowly. Tony's heart started to race. Was he going to kiss her?
Is he going to kiss me? she thought and glanced at his lips. He sure was handsome and very attractive despite his evil nature and bad temper there was no denying to that. Not to mention his fabulous body… Tony could've melted right then and there…
"Cat got your tongue?" he whispered, staring into her deep blue eyes and then at her slightly parted lips. She shivered as his breath fluttered onto her face. He could've counted her freckles…
"Maybe the reason why I'm so speechless is the fact that you stink really badly and I'm not able to open my mouth and talk because of the horrid smell of shit floating around here." Tony replied softly, a small smile twitching at the corner of her mouth.
"It could be you as well." Jack said with a smirk. They were still very close, but the romantic closeness was gone.
"Or it could be the both of us." Tony said with a giggle. She rolled to her stomach, away from him and started to pick dirt from underneath her fingernails with her legs crossed in the air.
Jack looked at Tony for a moment longer.
Her sweet brown hair flowed down to her shoulders like waves. Her blue eyes were now focused on her fingernails but a second ago they had been on him. His eyes followed her form up and down until he stood up and returned to his desk and the maps he had been looking at earlier as the black Pearl continued to sail towards the pirate haven called Tortuga…
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Author's Note: End of the sixth chapter! Tell me what you think? I had really fun writing that shit scene there but it was a bit boring because they didn't go anywhere, but in the next chapter, I promise they'll get to Tortuga!!! YAY! What do u think? REVIEW!
Did you notice that Tony is starting to warm up to Jack and the others. She was a fierce one in the beginning but now she's shown she's human! What do you think is upsetting her so? Can anyone guess? And is she attracted to Jack? ;)
And what's with the upper body things for them both?...
Ooooh!!! I'm sooo excited about how this is going to cointinue!!! I have a great feeling about it, I really do!!! And it's going to be a long story, for if you noticed, there isn't a treasure involved yet and no Captain Redd yet either, but they'll show up in some chapter…
Hugs! ;)