Hey there, I hope you like this chapter. It might clear a few people's
mind. Give them a bit of time to relax. Anyways, thanks for coming to read
my story!
Before I start, let me remind you I don't own any of the characters, settings, and so on in Pirates of the Caribbean, except for the ones I make up...sooner or later. I am not getting paid for this either, it is pure pleasure.
Enjoy
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Taking Your Chances
Bleeding and Seething
Anamaria stood, too shocked to open her eyes and turn around. She hadn't felt the tearing pain of a bullet ripping through her chest. Instead when she closed her eyes, she felt a heavy load, which she could only guess was Jack (since he was right next to her), shove her out of the way. Jack saved her? But that meant... where did the bullet go?
She finally opened her eyes, still facing the wrong way to see Gibbs a little off to her left with a smoking gun. The pistol and his eyes were still locked onto whoever the target was. Anamaria turned slowly afraid of what she would see. The whole Pearl was silent just like the waves, watching, waiting.
The first thing she saw was Del lying on the ground, curled up in a tight ball. The pistol that had been pointed at Anamaria only seconds early was right next to her, but she made no move to reach for it. Del's arms were tightly wrapped around her stomach and blood was pouring out around them, staining the deck a brilliant red. Anamaria stayed staring at Del for hours it seemed, amazed at the sight of so much blood. Even for her, being a pirate all her life, she had never seen anyone bleed as much as that girl.
More frightened than ever before, Anamaria slowly twisted around a little more and her breath caught in her throat. Jack Sparrow was sprawled out facedown on his stomach a small pile of wine red blood under him. Anamaria covered her mouth to keep from screaming out, her eyes filling with tears. 'No,' she thought, 'I can cry for days, but I have some trash to take care of.'
Spinning around to face the foe that, without physically hurting her, had caused her the most pain she would ever feel. Anamaria snarled as the helpless girl's life drained out of her slowly, feeling no pity for the poor creature. Chuckling, which came out more like a choking noise, Anamaria picked up the discarded gun, coked it and pointed it strait at Del's head.
"You deserve to die more than anyone on this filthy earth." Anamaria whispered with an eerie calmness.
"Who are you, to speak of what I deserve." Del responded weakly.
"Because if you ever loved anything at all, you would kill yourself without hesitation." Anamaria answered in the same calm voice.
"Oh, but I have..." Del smiled slightly as Anamaria's finger went to pull the trigger.
"Luv, would you stop bloody chatting and help your old cap'n out?"
Anamaria's eyes grew very round and large. 'Jack?' Her finger loosened on the trigger. 'Jack?' Her arm fell to her side. 'Jack?' She turned hoping that she wasn't just imagining his sweet husky voice. 'Jack?' All she could think about was him, her Captain. 'Jack?' Please be Jack!
"Jack?" Anamaria turned, tears spilling out of her eyes. There he lay propped up on his elbow, scowling down at the blood soaking his effects. "Jack!" She flew at him, grabbing his neck tightly and crying all over his already wet shoulder.
"Aughhhhhh! Off, off, off, get off my leg! Owwwww!" Jack yelled right into her ear. "It hurts, ouch!" Anamaria immediately backed off and Jack threw a self-pity party, mumbling and grumbling about the bullet hole in his leg just above his knee. "Stupid bloody women, first one has to shoot me in the bloody leg. No, course she doesn't hit me in the head, where it would have been instant. But bloody women and their bloody ways have to be so bloody long and painful! And then this one, comes and jumps on me like I'm some bloody bed. Sheesh women, can't you see the blood everywhere! Don't just come jump at the first bloody bright thing you see! Stupid, stupid, stupid, bloody wome..."
A resounding smack quieted the pirate captain down instantly. Anamaria glared at him, tears till forming on the edge of her eyes and spilling down her cheeks. He stared at her, seeming to finally realize she was weeping for him. Jack smiled gently and pulled her back into a light hug. She cried harder when she felt his safe arms around her.
After a few minutes, Anamaria looked up suddenly, right into Jack's eyes. He searched her eyes for a few moments, before he figured what idea had popped into her mind.
"Don't luv. She ain't worth it. She's dieing already, she doesn't need the help." Jack said softly still staring deeply into her eyes.
Anamaria shook her head and stood, the pistol still tightly clenched in her hand, never had she dropped it. Unwavering she walked towards Del, leaned down and grabbed the bloody girl by the ruff of her clothes. She hauled her over to Jack, who with the stairs help, was now leaning against them.
"Tell him what you know!" Anamaria screamed at her, jabbing the gun furiously into Del's small back.
Del looked slightly confused, "What?"
"Before you almost killed him, you told Jack that everything would be explained."
"I did say that didn't I? Well I said in good time, at the moment, however, I personally don't think it's a good time." Del answered smartly.
Anamaria growled, "Easy Ana!" Jack tried to step in before she did something she would regret.
"Why don't I just kill her now. She mustn't know anything, she's just holding out to see if we fix her up, so she can live again." Anamaria argued, keeping her eyes on Del.
"Fine, if you want to kill her, do it, she sure deserves it, but I'll have no part of it." Jack looked on disapprovingly.
"Why don't you fight me fair and square?" Del interrupted.
"What?" Anamaria looked at her surprisingly.
Del took hands off her stomach, breathing deeply through the pain. She glanced to her left, to make sure. 'Yep they were definitely coming, just as long as she held out for a few minutes.' "I said why don't you drop the pistol, pull out your sword, give me one and fight me like a true pirate would?"
"I don't think this is a good idea, Ana. Ana?" Jack looked around only to see Anamaria taking one of the crew's swords, and her own out. She tossed one to Del who barely had the strength to catch it.
'Why would she choose this way to die, when she can't even move? Something must be up her sleeve...' Jack's thoughts were drowned out by the sound of steel meeting steel.
Anamaria parried slowly so that the fight would last longer, she didn't want to kill Del just yet. Her patience however would soon run out, and the time to play with the girl would be over. That's when she would run Del through, fair and square just like she wanted.
The fight went on four life times for Jack. He knew that Anamaria should have no problem winning, but she was simply toying with Del right now. Still he felt like something wasn't right, but he couldn't figure out what. He kept a close eye on Del throughout the whole battle, just in case.
Del looked behind her as quickly as possibly, and smiled. 'They're here!' Quiet as mice, her master and his crew crept onto the Black Pearl; staying unseen to all those accept her.
Del looked back forward at the sweating pirate bearing down on her. Taking a deep breath she threw her sword to the ground and stepped up to Anamaria encircling her own hands around her bloody stomach again. She instantly saw the magnificent blade at her chest, pointing to the place where her heart lay.
"What are you doing?" Anamaria asked.
Jack leaned forward off the stairs, and felt the cold blade of a sword under his neck. He tried to call to Anamaria, but the blade pressed gently against his vocal chords. He could only watch.
"It seems, that I've come up with an idea to get you killed. You see the only way that my husband kills people is if they've done something to him. And although you haven't done anything to him yet, you're about to." With those final words, Del leaned back and rammed herself into the sword.
Blood spurted out of the hole in her chest as she slumped to the ground, dead. Never would she get up again. The man, who had so confidently placed his blade under Jack Sparrow's chin, let out a furious roar. Keeping the sword still unmoving, he pulled his pistol and aimed it at the shocked Anamaria.
The crew of the Black Pearl dived for their weapons only to find themselves face to face with pistols or swords of the man's crew. Somehow, they had snuck aboard through all the commotion on the two fighting women.
The man with the blade under Jack's neck spoke with a slight European accent. "Bitch!" He roared at Anamaria. "How dare you kill her when she'd thrown down her sword!"
"I didn't! She stepped right into my blade. I didn't kill her!" Anamaria tried to argue back with the unknown man.
"Be quiet!" He calmed himself slightly and turned back to Jack. "Excuse me Cap'n Jack Sparrow, but I've yet to introduce myself. My name is Zachary, Cap'n of the Betrayal. And though, it does sound classic, I've come to avenge myself."
"What the bloody hell did I do to you? I don't even know you!" Jack seethed through his clenched teeth.
"Not me, you don't know me. You knew my father and mother though. Killed them, you did. My father, Cap'n Bailey of the Last Breath, and my mother, Dania Bailey. You'll die for what you did to them." He pointed to Anamaria. "And you, you'll die too."
"What? Leave her out of this. This is between you and me. She did nothing to you or your parents. That was me alone!" Jack yelled trying to get Zachary's attention away from Anamaria.
"No, she had nothing to do with my parents. But you killed Delana. Delana, my life, my love, my wife!"
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New twist again! Yeah, people like my story. And people like my other story too. Thanks a bunch cool reviewers.
Amber Myst: You like softball and volleyball too! Cool! They take up so much time, but dang they're fun aren't they? Well I hope you liked this Chappy as much as the last. Not that bad of a cliffy this time.
Hollaiuar: Ahhh my favvy reviewer! I was afraid you weren't gonna review this time. I was pretty scared. But alas, you saved me! Thanks! I hope I didn't keep you too long in waiting for the chapter. Thanks again, my coolest reviewer. Hope you like!
Charley: Hey I'm a star this time!!!!!!! I like stars, but goddess's are pretty cool too. I hope you don't hold a gun to my head (you're a little creepy/jk) Hope this chapter rocks too, just like the last one.
Eccentric Banshee: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, don't cry please! I won't do it again (okay, well that's a lie, but I wont make it so bad) Thanks for the review though, welcome to the cool reviewers club!
Kungfuchick: They aren't dead! (not yet at least) So there will be no harsh words understand. ( Thanks for the review!! I'll update as soon as possible.
wyte-tygre: I'm glad you like my Mary sue part and my cliff hanger. Maybe you will like this one too? Hopefully? Anyways thanks for the nice compliments, they make me feel all cool!
Flare Conlon: It is okay! Relax, you know what happens know. You're okay, calm down. Thank you thank you thank you for the reviews!
Immortal Nymph: Wow, I like you! You give some great compliments. Thanks for thinking I'm such a great writer and have so much talent. I try the best I can. Anyways thanks a lot for the review. It was very sweet!
If I forgot anyone, I'm really sorry! It is late on a school night, and I'm updating just for you. Anyways thanks all my cool reviewers. Hope to hear from you again. Hope you liked the chapter, and thanks for reading it! Ta...
-Rachel
Before I start, let me remind you I don't own any of the characters, settings, and so on in Pirates of the Caribbean, except for the ones I make up...sooner or later. I am not getting paid for this either, it is pure pleasure.
Enjoy
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Taking Your Chances
Bleeding and Seething
Anamaria stood, too shocked to open her eyes and turn around. She hadn't felt the tearing pain of a bullet ripping through her chest. Instead when she closed her eyes, she felt a heavy load, which she could only guess was Jack (since he was right next to her), shove her out of the way. Jack saved her? But that meant... where did the bullet go?
She finally opened her eyes, still facing the wrong way to see Gibbs a little off to her left with a smoking gun. The pistol and his eyes were still locked onto whoever the target was. Anamaria turned slowly afraid of what she would see. The whole Pearl was silent just like the waves, watching, waiting.
The first thing she saw was Del lying on the ground, curled up in a tight ball. The pistol that had been pointed at Anamaria only seconds early was right next to her, but she made no move to reach for it. Del's arms were tightly wrapped around her stomach and blood was pouring out around them, staining the deck a brilliant red. Anamaria stayed staring at Del for hours it seemed, amazed at the sight of so much blood. Even for her, being a pirate all her life, she had never seen anyone bleed as much as that girl.
More frightened than ever before, Anamaria slowly twisted around a little more and her breath caught in her throat. Jack Sparrow was sprawled out facedown on his stomach a small pile of wine red blood under him. Anamaria covered her mouth to keep from screaming out, her eyes filling with tears. 'No,' she thought, 'I can cry for days, but I have some trash to take care of.'
Spinning around to face the foe that, without physically hurting her, had caused her the most pain she would ever feel. Anamaria snarled as the helpless girl's life drained out of her slowly, feeling no pity for the poor creature. Chuckling, which came out more like a choking noise, Anamaria picked up the discarded gun, coked it and pointed it strait at Del's head.
"You deserve to die more than anyone on this filthy earth." Anamaria whispered with an eerie calmness.
"Who are you, to speak of what I deserve." Del responded weakly.
"Because if you ever loved anything at all, you would kill yourself without hesitation." Anamaria answered in the same calm voice.
"Oh, but I have..." Del smiled slightly as Anamaria's finger went to pull the trigger.
"Luv, would you stop bloody chatting and help your old cap'n out?"
Anamaria's eyes grew very round and large. 'Jack?' Her finger loosened on the trigger. 'Jack?' Her arm fell to her side. 'Jack?' She turned hoping that she wasn't just imagining his sweet husky voice. 'Jack?' All she could think about was him, her Captain. 'Jack?' Please be Jack!
"Jack?" Anamaria turned, tears spilling out of her eyes. There he lay propped up on his elbow, scowling down at the blood soaking his effects. "Jack!" She flew at him, grabbing his neck tightly and crying all over his already wet shoulder.
"Aughhhhhh! Off, off, off, get off my leg! Owwwww!" Jack yelled right into her ear. "It hurts, ouch!" Anamaria immediately backed off and Jack threw a self-pity party, mumbling and grumbling about the bullet hole in his leg just above his knee. "Stupid bloody women, first one has to shoot me in the bloody leg. No, course she doesn't hit me in the head, where it would have been instant. But bloody women and their bloody ways have to be so bloody long and painful! And then this one, comes and jumps on me like I'm some bloody bed. Sheesh women, can't you see the blood everywhere! Don't just come jump at the first bloody bright thing you see! Stupid, stupid, stupid, bloody wome..."
A resounding smack quieted the pirate captain down instantly. Anamaria glared at him, tears till forming on the edge of her eyes and spilling down her cheeks. He stared at her, seeming to finally realize she was weeping for him. Jack smiled gently and pulled her back into a light hug. She cried harder when she felt his safe arms around her.
After a few minutes, Anamaria looked up suddenly, right into Jack's eyes. He searched her eyes for a few moments, before he figured what idea had popped into her mind.
"Don't luv. She ain't worth it. She's dieing already, she doesn't need the help." Jack said softly still staring deeply into her eyes.
Anamaria shook her head and stood, the pistol still tightly clenched in her hand, never had she dropped it. Unwavering she walked towards Del, leaned down and grabbed the bloody girl by the ruff of her clothes. She hauled her over to Jack, who with the stairs help, was now leaning against them.
"Tell him what you know!" Anamaria screamed at her, jabbing the gun furiously into Del's small back.
Del looked slightly confused, "What?"
"Before you almost killed him, you told Jack that everything would be explained."
"I did say that didn't I? Well I said in good time, at the moment, however, I personally don't think it's a good time." Del answered smartly.
Anamaria growled, "Easy Ana!" Jack tried to step in before she did something she would regret.
"Why don't I just kill her now. She mustn't know anything, she's just holding out to see if we fix her up, so she can live again." Anamaria argued, keeping her eyes on Del.
"Fine, if you want to kill her, do it, she sure deserves it, but I'll have no part of it." Jack looked on disapprovingly.
"Why don't you fight me fair and square?" Del interrupted.
"What?" Anamaria looked at her surprisingly.
Del took hands off her stomach, breathing deeply through the pain. She glanced to her left, to make sure. 'Yep they were definitely coming, just as long as she held out for a few minutes.' "I said why don't you drop the pistol, pull out your sword, give me one and fight me like a true pirate would?"
"I don't think this is a good idea, Ana. Ana?" Jack looked around only to see Anamaria taking one of the crew's swords, and her own out. She tossed one to Del who barely had the strength to catch it.
'Why would she choose this way to die, when she can't even move? Something must be up her sleeve...' Jack's thoughts were drowned out by the sound of steel meeting steel.
Anamaria parried slowly so that the fight would last longer, she didn't want to kill Del just yet. Her patience however would soon run out, and the time to play with the girl would be over. That's when she would run Del through, fair and square just like she wanted.
The fight went on four life times for Jack. He knew that Anamaria should have no problem winning, but she was simply toying with Del right now. Still he felt like something wasn't right, but he couldn't figure out what. He kept a close eye on Del throughout the whole battle, just in case.
Del looked behind her as quickly as possibly, and smiled. 'They're here!' Quiet as mice, her master and his crew crept onto the Black Pearl; staying unseen to all those accept her.
Del looked back forward at the sweating pirate bearing down on her. Taking a deep breath she threw her sword to the ground and stepped up to Anamaria encircling her own hands around her bloody stomach again. She instantly saw the magnificent blade at her chest, pointing to the place where her heart lay.
"What are you doing?" Anamaria asked.
Jack leaned forward off the stairs, and felt the cold blade of a sword under his neck. He tried to call to Anamaria, but the blade pressed gently against his vocal chords. He could only watch.
"It seems, that I've come up with an idea to get you killed. You see the only way that my husband kills people is if they've done something to him. And although you haven't done anything to him yet, you're about to." With those final words, Del leaned back and rammed herself into the sword.
Blood spurted out of the hole in her chest as she slumped to the ground, dead. Never would she get up again. The man, who had so confidently placed his blade under Jack Sparrow's chin, let out a furious roar. Keeping the sword still unmoving, he pulled his pistol and aimed it at the shocked Anamaria.
The crew of the Black Pearl dived for their weapons only to find themselves face to face with pistols or swords of the man's crew. Somehow, they had snuck aboard through all the commotion on the two fighting women.
The man with the blade under Jack's neck spoke with a slight European accent. "Bitch!" He roared at Anamaria. "How dare you kill her when she'd thrown down her sword!"
"I didn't! She stepped right into my blade. I didn't kill her!" Anamaria tried to argue back with the unknown man.
"Be quiet!" He calmed himself slightly and turned back to Jack. "Excuse me Cap'n Jack Sparrow, but I've yet to introduce myself. My name is Zachary, Cap'n of the Betrayal. And though, it does sound classic, I've come to avenge myself."
"What the bloody hell did I do to you? I don't even know you!" Jack seethed through his clenched teeth.
"Not me, you don't know me. You knew my father and mother though. Killed them, you did. My father, Cap'n Bailey of the Last Breath, and my mother, Dania Bailey. You'll die for what you did to them." He pointed to Anamaria. "And you, you'll die too."
"What? Leave her out of this. This is between you and me. She did nothing to you or your parents. That was me alone!" Jack yelled trying to get Zachary's attention away from Anamaria.
"No, she had nothing to do with my parents. But you killed Delana. Delana, my life, my love, my wife!"
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New twist again! Yeah, people like my story. And people like my other story too. Thanks a bunch cool reviewers.
Amber Myst: You like softball and volleyball too! Cool! They take up so much time, but dang they're fun aren't they? Well I hope you liked this Chappy as much as the last. Not that bad of a cliffy this time.
Hollaiuar: Ahhh my favvy reviewer! I was afraid you weren't gonna review this time. I was pretty scared. But alas, you saved me! Thanks! I hope I didn't keep you too long in waiting for the chapter. Thanks again, my coolest reviewer. Hope you like!
Charley: Hey I'm a star this time!!!!!!! I like stars, but goddess's are pretty cool too. I hope you don't hold a gun to my head (you're a little creepy/jk) Hope this chapter rocks too, just like the last one.
Eccentric Banshee: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, don't cry please! I won't do it again (okay, well that's a lie, but I wont make it so bad) Thanks for the review though, welcome to the cool reviewers club!
Kungfuchick: They aren't dead! (not yet at least) So there will be no harsh words understand. ( Thanks for the review!! I'll update as soon as possible.
wyte-tygre: I'm glad you like my Mary sue part and my cliff hanger. Maybe you will like this one too? Hopefully? Anyways thanks for the nice compliments, they make me feel all cool!
Flare Conlon: It is okay! Relax, you know what happens know. You're okay, calm down. Thank you thank you thank you for the reviews!
Immortal Nymph: Wow, I like you! You give some great compliments. Thanks for thinking I'm such a great writer and have so much talent. I try the best I can. Anyways thanks a lot for the review. It was very sweet!
If I forgot anyone, I'm really sorry! It is late on a school night, and I'm updating just for you. Anyways thanks all my cool reviewers. Hope to hear from you again. Hope you liked the chapter, and thanks for reading it! Ta...
-Rachel