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This chapter is mainly to sort things out... But please tell me if things don't work out.
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Chapter ten : Me tale is as follows...
(Fen)
Fen stood block still, chewing her lip. A very unpirate-like habit. But then, who was to say what pirates did and didn't do? Eh? That was the real question, wasn't it? And whilst you thinking about that subject, you could also start asking yourself why on earth - "Shut up Fen," she muttered under her breath, "you've finally ruined once and for all any hope of adventure, so don't add to it." She scowled to herself, and continued to mutter a string of curses and profanities, oblivious to the rest of the world.
The other three just waited, like their angry captain had ordered. But they stared at Fen with a look of near hatred written on their faces. Who was this damn boy? Yeah all right to take hostages but usually Jack informed the crew... This time, stuff it... Jack would certainly explain, just give him enough time...
(Fen) So this was how Jack found them when he returned - Fen standing in one corner and everyone else scorning him... or her... or whatever the blasted pest was ...
"Anamaria... give Fen some bloody hard work to do... Then go and get yerself a rum or... whatever... Kestrel, go with her, and Gibbs, do whatever you bloody want to... I'll be at the helm." He stated, looking only at Anamaria and Kestrel, before walking off. Anamaria grinned - she could defintely find someone some hard work... There was loads of it on a pirate ship, and even if there hadn't have been, she would have easily invented something.
(Fen)
"Well, mate, how about I show you wherethe kitchen is... 'Spose you can cook... then there'll be a mop and then if you finish that quickly, or even if you finish it slowly, you can mend clothes..." She smiled gleefully and Fen scowled even more. "Well, it isn't really like I have all that of a choice, now is it?" Fen said sarcastically. Kestrel looked at her curiously and mumbled "Funny", then followed them both out the cabin, leaving only Gibbs.
He had his eyebrows raised... in all his time on the Pearl, Jack had never been without orders. He'd better go and have a little talk with him. Everything was going to go wrong otherwise, and flip, they had enough problems what with Will and Elisabeth - Gibbs pursed his lips at the thought - without adding uncooperative hostages to it all.
He sighed and walked out of the cabin, closing the door mindlessly behind him.
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(Jack)
"Cap'n... Cap'n?!" Jack turned listlessly towards him, from his sitting - or more of, slumping - point on the edge of the Pearl, frowned and said "Do you need something, Gibbs?" "I should think so... We've known each other for a long time... haven't we?"
"Yes..." Jack answered somewhat hesitantly.
"And in all that time, I've never given ye cause to doubt me, have I?" "No... spit it out, Gibbs - what do you want?"
"Ye've been acting awful strange, since Will went missing, acting like it was yer own fault, like ye were the one that caused it..." Jack gripped the wood under his fingers tighter, "Of course I'm not, don't care an ounce about the whelp, it's just that Liz's missing him and I can't not help her, now can I, us being so close..."
"Stow it Cap'n, even if ye won't admit it, ye killin' yerself. Ye disappeared, everyone swears ye were hung and then ye appear out of the blue, just as we agreed on, with a young lad that looks more like a lass and ye don't even tell any of the crew anything what happened..." His voice started getting angrier, but Jack interrupted wryly, "So you want explanations, I supppose?" "Well yes, that would be a start."
Jack sighed, lowered his head and stood up straight again, beginning his story.
"It started just afore I left Anamaria in charge of the Pearl. I'd found a clue, a... piste 'bout where Will had gone, some pirate, name was Kailey," he motioned with his arm, "was said to 'ave passed by the port a couple of days back, asking for a willing crew, saying something about treasures and ransom. I told Anamaria, who was with me at the time to wait fer me at Tortuga, with the Pearl, whatever happened, for a total of three weeks... If I wasn't there, the Pearl was hers... after all, I owed her a ship.
"I got meself onto Kailey's crew. Just I'm such a famous man these days that he recognized me... So afore I could even search for dear Will, I was marooned because someone drugged the rum, and - ""Someone drugged the rum?" "I was stoned after the first one..." He replied matter-of- facterly. "So as I was saying, he had me marooned with a bottle of rum, so I'd not have any hard feelings on his regard," Jack's face told what he thought of that - not much, "and I ended up stuck on an island, in the middle of bloody nowhere. I was a bit, well, not in me right mind, when this lad - I thought he was a girl at first - ambushed me when I was umm... asleep, but even though I was suffering from some kind of hangover, I managed to take him captive. But you see, I couldn't get off the island without some help... Didn't have any rope or anything... So I agreed to have him on me crew if he'd give me some... which he did... Then he knocked himself unconscious - tripped over and - "
"Tripped over?" repeated Gibbs dubiously." "Yeah... tripped over, then the bloody Cussers' were after us and we somehow found Anamaria. Then, well, we were to have a talk and explain things, but the whelp had covered me poor ship in rose petals... Rose petals," he said hopelessly, shaking his head, "We went to me cabin and I remebered something Kes had said, and kind of thought that Fen probably WAS a girl after all, so I tried to use some of me... umm... innate charm, and it resulted in the whelp tryin' to cut me tongue out." "Aaahh, ye troied to use your innate charm on a lad?" added Gibbs. Jack continued, ignoring the remark. "So to finish with, I am now stuck with a crew member that I can't trust, Will's still missing, Elisabeth is going to have me guts for garters and all I know 'bout Kailey is he's Barbossa's half brother." He frowned funnily and stared out sea once again. "But, Cap'n" Gibbs asked, trying to piece the story together, "Why d'you give him ye cabin? And if you can't trust why is he still here?"
"Ah... yes... well... you see... He's got this map... And he'll only show it if he gets me cabin..." Jack tried to make up an excuse for the cabin bit, but all in all the only thing that was unmistakenly true was that Fen had a map - he'd seen it when the whelp was slung over his shoulder - and that he thought he could maybe fiddle it off him if he waited a bit.
"I don't believe an slight bit o' what ye just said... but I'll let it be... How 'bout we get that Fen ter clean up these damned petals and then follow Anamaria and Kes to teh tavern, eh?" Jack shrugged his shoulders "True, wouldn't mind a rum or two... hmmm, maybe even more. We'll set sail first thing tomorrow."
They walked off, under the bright light of the full moon, to find the other two and to inform Fen of her 'duties' - which she wasn't very pleased about...!
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Finished! Hope that cleared things out a bit...
Night : Glad you liked it!!!
Liy@ : Thanks for the advice... he can wait for a while longer then...!
SparrowsFreedom : Cor... thanks..!
etheriumsangel : Jack thought Fen was a girl after all... And also thought he'd use his charm on her... but then it went a bit wrong... because Fen didn't appreciate being kissed...
Daydreambeliever : I know... such incentive it is... You'll find Jack on Baker Street, in the appartement just next to Sherlock Holmes' (he's trying to decode some treasure map, but needs a bit of expert help...), I've already told him you're coming!!!
Kristhegreat : Oooohhhh, thanks ever so much, I'm really pleased you liked it! ^^
And I just got a tiny confession to make... The review counter was saying different things each time I looked at it, so I tried to make sure it was working by sticking a review in, thinking I could delete it... But I can only delete anonymous reviews... So beg your pardon infinitely... (Oh, and the review counter wasn't working...) Please forgive me...
Thanks to all me lovely reviewers, wouldn't mind if there were more of ye....
This chapter is mainly to sort things out... But please tell me if things don't work out.
ENJOY!!
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Chapter ten : Me tale is as follows...
(Fen)
Fen stood block still, chewing her lip. A very unpirate-like habit. But then, who was to say what pirates did and didn't do? Eh? That was the real question, wasn't it? And whilst you thinking about that subject, you could also start asking yourself why on earth - "Shut up Fen," she muttered under her breath, "you've finally ruined once and for all any hope of adventure, so don't add to it." She scowled to herself, and continued to mutter a string of curses and profanities, oblivious to the rest of the world.
The other three just waited, like their angry captain had ordered. But they stared at Fen with a look of near hatred written on their faces. Who was this damn boy? Yeah all right to take hostages but usually Jack informed the crew... This time, stuff it... Jack would certainly explain, just give him enough time...
(Fen) So this was how Jack found them when he returned - Fen standing in one corner and everyone else scorning him... or her... or whatever the blasted pest was ...
"Anamaria... give Fen some bloody hard work to do... Then go and get yerself a rum or... whatever... Kestrel, go with her, and Gibbs, do whatever you bloody want to... I'll be at the helm." He stated, looking only at Anamaria and Kestrel, before walking off. Anamaria grinned - she could defintely find someone some hard work... There was loads of it on a pirate ship, and even if there hadn't have been, she would have easily invented something.
(Fen)
"Well, mate, how about I show you wherethe kitchen is... 'Spose you can cook... then there'll be a mop and then if you finish that quickly, or even if you finish it slowly, you can mend clothes..." She smiled gleefully and Fen scowled even more. "Well, it isn't really like I have all that of a choice, now is it?" Fen said sarcastically. Kestrel looked at her curiously and mumbled "Funny", then followed them both out the cabin, leaving only Gibbs.
He had his eyebrows raised... in all his time on the Pearl, Jack had never been without orders. He'd better go and have a little talk with him. Everything was going to go wrong otherwise, and flip, they had enough problems what with Will and Elisabeth - Gibbs pursed his lips at the thought - without adding uncooperative hostages to it all.
He sighed and walked out of the cabin, closing the door mindlessly behind him.
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(Jack)
"Cap'n... Cap'n?!" Jack turned listlessly towards him, from his sitting - or more of, slumping - point on the edge of the Pearl, frowned and said "Do you need something, Gibbs?" "I should think so... We've known each other for a long time... haven't we?"
"Yes..." Jack answered somewhat hesitantly.
"And in all that time, I've never given ye cause to doubt me, have I?" "No... spit it out, Gibbs - what do you want?"
"Ye've been acting awful strange, since Will went missing, acting like it was yer own fault, like ye were the one that caused it..." Jack gripped the wood under his fingers tighter, "Of course I'm not, don't care an ounce about the whelp, it's just that Liz's missing him and I can't not help her, now can I, us being so close..."
"Stow it Cap'n, even if ye won't admit it, ye killin' yerself. Ye disappeared, everyone swears ye were hung and then ye appear out of the blue, just as we agreed on, with a young lad that looks more like a lass and ye don't even tell any of the crew anything what happened..." His voice started getting angrier, but Jack interrupted wryly, "So you want explanations, I supppose?" "Well yes, that would be a start."
Jack sighed, lowered his head and stood up straight again, beginning his story.
"It started just afore I left Anamaria in charge of the Pearl. I'd found a clue, a... piste 'bout where Will had gone, some pirate, name was Kailey," he motioned with his arm, "was said to 'ave passed by the port a couple of days back, asking for a willing crew, saying something about treasures and ransom. I told Anamaria, who was with me at the time to wait fer me at Tortuga, with the Pearl, whatever happened, for a total of three weeks... If I wasn't there, the Pearl was hers... after all, I owed her a ship.
"I got meself onto Kailey's crew. Just I'm such a famous man these days that he recognized me... So afore I could even search for dear Will, I was marooned because someone drugged the rum, and - ""Someone drugged the rum?" "I was stoned after the first one..." He replied matter-of- facterly. "So as I was saying, he had me marooned with a bottle of rum, so I'd not have any hard feelings on his regard," Jack's face told what he thought of that - not much, "and I ended up stuck on an island, in the middle of bloody nowhere. I was a bit, well, not in me right mind, when this lad - I thought he was a girl at first - ambushed me when I was umm... asleep, but even though I was suffering from some kind of hangover, I managed to take him captive. But you see, I couldn't get off the island without some help... Didn't have any rope or anything... So I agreed to have him on me crew if he'd give me some... which he did... Then he knocked himself unconscious - tripped over and - "
"Tripped over?" repeated Gibbs dubiously." "Yeah... tripped over, then the bloody Cussers' were after us and we somehow found Anamaria. Then, well, we were to have a talk and explain things, but the whelp had covered me poor ship in rose petals... Rose petals," he said hopelessly, shaking his head, "We went to me cabin and I remebered something Kes had said, and kind of thought that Fen probably WAS a girl after all, so I tried to use some of me... umm... innate charm, and it resulted in the whelp tryin' to cut me tongue out." "Aaahh, ye troied to use your innate charm on a lad?" added Gibbs. Jack continued, ignoring the remark. "So to finish with, I am now stuck with a crew member that I can't trust, Will's still missing, Elisabeth is going to have me guts for garters and all I know 'bout Kailey is he's Barbossa's half brother." He frowned funnily and stared out sea once again. "But, Cap'n" Gibbs asked, trying to piece the story together, "Why d'you give him ye cabin? And if you can't trust why is he still here?"
"Ah... yes... well... you see... He's got this map... And he'll only show it if he gets me cabin..." Jack tried to make up an excuse for the cabin bit, but all in all the only thing that was unmistakenly true was that Fen had a map - he'd seen it when the whelp was slung over his shoulder - and that he thought he could maybe fiddle it off him if he waited a bit.
"I don't believe an slight bit o' what ye just said... but I'll let it be... How 'bout we get that Fen ter clean up these damned petals and then follow Anamaria and Kes to teh tavern, eh?" Jack shrugged his shoulders "True, wouldn't mind a rum or two... hmmm, maybe even more. We'll set sail first thing tomorrow."
They walked off, under the bright light of the full moon, to find the other two and to inform Fen of her 'duties' - which she wasn't very pleased about...!
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Finished! Hope that cleared things out a bit...
Night : Glad you liked it!!!
Liy@ : Thanks for the advice... he can wait for a while longer then...!
SparrowsFreedom : Cor... thanks..!
etheriumsangel : Jack thought Fen was a girl after all... And also thought he'd use his charm on her... but then it went a bit wrong... because Fen didn't appreciate being kissed...
Daydreambeliever : I know... such incentive it is... You'll find Jack on Baker Street, in the appartement just next to Sherlock Holmes' (he's trying to decode some treasure map, but needs a bit of expert help...), I've already told him you're coming!!!
Kristhegreat : Oooohhhh, thanks ever so much, I'm really pleased you liked it! ^^
And I just got a tiny confession to make... The review counter was saying different things each time I looked at it, so I tried to make sure it was working by sticking a review in, thinking I could delete it... But I can only delete anonymous reviews... So beg your pardon infinitely... (Oh, and the review counter wasn't working...) Please forgive me...