Chapter 8: "A Week From Today..."
Shavai looked over at Will as he his teeth chattered away. Shavai thought he looked so handsome being wet from head to toe. He pulled the blanket tighter around himself. Will began speaking again after a few moments "You know," he took a deep breath "I never knew any girl that was shorter than I was that could push me overboard." Shavai grinned at the comment "You mean 'Tossed', William." She corrected him with the attitude an english teacher would use on a failing student who was retarded. Will gave a half-hearted smile to Shavai and glanced at the ring on his finger. The gold band signified he was married. Or WAS currently.
Shavai gave him a glance "What's the matter now?" Will looked at her "I was trying to tell you earlier. I was married to Elizabeth Swan-" Shavai cut him off.
"And you were married."
"Yes. But only until last June." He paused a moment and looked at the sky. "She caught malaria and held on for a few days...until she couldn't any longer." Shavai finally understood. Elizabeth had been Mrs. Will Turner until the previous year. But no longer; there was hope for Shavai yet. Shavai struggled to force words out "I'm sorry." She said, about to the point of stabbing herself with her sword before brightening up and smiling broadly "Time to splice the mainbrace!" Will turned bewildered "Do what, miss?!" Shavai returned from a bag with a bottle of rum "Time for a drink, Mr. Turner." Shavai put the bottle to her lips and swung her head back with it and gave a loud exhale "Aye, that's what I've missed." Will looked completely shocked.
"I've never heard a woman say such a thing."
"Presuming you've been with women before."
"What does that mean?"
"What do you think it means?"
"I think something rude." Will said folding his arms.
"Then you'd be right because it wasn't a compliment."
"Wait- I'm lost. Are you complimenting or offending?"
"Neither really."
"Then tell me what it means."
"What's WHAT mean?"
"You mean you don't know?"
"Of course not, otherwise I would've told you. Now, What'd I say?!" Shavai began to reach for her sword.
"Wait- I don't have to take this!" Will stood up and walked head on into a door. Shavai snickered "There's a door there you poxy,poxed idocincrisy." Will stumbled backwards. "I've noticed." Shavai put her sword back and looked at Will "Alright, bucko. You want to show you're a man? Let's do it." Will looked stunned "I hardly know you!" Shavai rolled her eyes 'Typical man.' she thought. "Once again, you never cease to amaze me. I'm challenging you to a duel. My swag shall be the prize." She placed her bag of gold coins, dubloons, and jewelery on a barrel and unsheathed her sword. Will unsheathed his. "Are you ready, m'lady?" Shavai snickered at him.
"Ladies first." Neither moved.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Shavai asked chuckling.
Shavai took a step to the left - Will to the right. Shavai made the first lunge with her sword Will slammed his sword ontop of hers making the sword head to the ground. Shavai shoved him away and started slicing at him. He grabbed a mop and pushed it into her stomach. She cut the handle in half. Will threw it to the side. He headed toward the barrel with her bag on it. "Naughty boy. You know you can't weasel out of this." She slammed her sword sideways on his backside as he fell over and rolled to make sure the place Shavai hit with her sword and the place he was kept as seperate as possilble. He finally got his to his feet and Shavai came weilding her sword. With one clean swipe, Will moved her sword to the side. Shavai pulled a small pouch from her pocket. Will walked backwards to catch it, when he caught it. he slipped on the wet deck and Shavai held her sword an inch from his chest and he was forced to let his fall. He sighed "You cheated." Shavai opened her mouth but before any words were said he finished her sentence "I know, I know. Pirate."
Jaden walked over to Megan slowly "Ahoy." She lowly said as she approached her. "What could possibly be the reason to so dreary on this night?" Megan sighed. "Do you remember when you found me?" Jaden smiled "That I do. You were drowning in a storming sea of your own blood you could barely tell was a part of the ocean. It's remarkable no sharks found you before I did." Megan chuckled "Yeah." Jaden looked over the edge into the water. "I wonder to this day where all the blood went." They both smiled again. They both stared at the water for one awkard moment of silence that seemed to go on forever. "And as the water seemed getting deeper, and I struggle to be free. All the life doesn't matter, because of what's been done to me." Megan recited smiling at Jaden and Jaden looked back seeing Will and Shavai. Closer than normal, Will on the ground with Shavai standing over him. Jaden pointed and they both broke out into laughter. "Perfect angel, everything's broken let me help you be free, everything will be alright and you won't fall, long as you trust in me." Jaden finished reciting and they both focussed their attention back on Shavai and Will.
"Oh dear. Shavai's fallen for the euphnic. Whatever shall we do?" Jaden sighed and looked at Megan. Meganjust looked at Jaden and smiled bringing a small flask out of her pocket. "We let her make her own mistake while we sit back and splice the mainbrace with a clap of thunder." Jaden grinned. "Just what I needed."
Couple of bottles later
The crew was watching as Jaden and Megan rolled around the deck. Even the lookout used his telescope to watch them and just occasionally look down at them. Some of them sat around on the deck looking at them. "Seven beats a foot!" Megan looked at Jaden as she said the new found knowledge. "No! No, no, no! A thousand times no! It's the water shoving off the boat of the dreaded island of the monkies! Do ye'r math!" They both looked at each other silently and erupted with laughter. "The rock from your mother's grave!" Megan and Jaden toasted their bottles together. "To freddom!" Megan looked at Jaden suspiciously "You just said 'Fred'um'. Are you insulting me?" Jaden gulped "No?" Megan pulled out her pistol and pointed it at Jaden "Are you sure?" Jaden gulped again. "Yes?" Megan put her gun away "Oh good. Ok, now where were we?" They both picked up their bottles and finished drinking them.
A few minutes had passed when Jack came up from below the deck to see what everyone was staring at. "What in God's name is going on here?!" Jacinda looked down from where she laid on part of the mass "That would be your girlfriend and her friend." Jack could almost shoot Jacinda but turned the other way and began walkng into the wall. "Once again your stupidity overtakes your ego!" Jacinda looked as Jack backed from the wall and then punched it, hurting his hand. "You know that's an ananimate object, savvy?" Jack pulled his pistol out and aimed it at Jacinda. "I already bloody know!" He furiously put it back in it's place. It wouldn't look good being a feared pirate and your last victim was your sister. Jack sighed as he looked around at the crew. The Black Pearl just a piece of a memory now. He was once again abandoned on an island and now the people that marooned him on the island took over the ship. He had no idea who they were. It all started with that girl...
She had long chestnut brown hair and wide eyes that looked so innocent, she couldn't hide a thing. but she had a dark side and led the mutiny against Jack and claimed the Black Pearl as hers. Her and her boyfriend. Jack never did find out the boy's name. Just that he had black hair and piercing brown eyes that looked like burning embers when the light caught them. As if he had been placed under a spell...
Jack finally found Jaden laying on the deck staring at the stars a while later; rum bottle in hand. "Jack? Is that you" Jaden asked not even looking in his direction. "Aye." Jack looked down at her and then up at the stars "How can you stare at something so bleak?" Jaden sat up and handed him the rum bottle. "I don't see little dots. I see stories. That's how I see them." Jaden looked at Jack as he concentrated on them. "Jack, how long do we have?" Jack counted on his hands "A week from today, before the treasure's gone for another thousand years." Jaden sighed. "No, Jack. How long do we have?".Jack looked at her contemplating their fate and helped her up and put his arm around her waist and held her close to him. "I don't know, love. I don't know..."