Chapter 2 Where are my cigarettes?!?
Alyth awoke in a large bed. Her face hurt, and she lifted a hand, gingerly feeling around her left eye. With a hiss of pain she pulls her hand away, and looks around the room she's in. The room is small, but spacious. Books, and what look like maps, cover one wall from the floor to the ceiling. A small desk sits across from the bed she's lying in, papers littered the top.
"Where am I?" Alyth ponders out loud, as she notices a few empty bottles rolling around on the ground making a clanking noise. 'Wait, why are they rolling?' She notices for the first time that everything is moving, swaying gently back and forth as if she were, "at sea," she says, and stands up quickly. "What the hell is going on?" Suddenly her memory comes flooding back. Her car breaking down, the walk to Greeley, the van. Her thoughts stop, and she starts to hyperventilate. 'What if they kidnapped me and took me to sea? No one will ever find me out here.' She thinks, and sits down on the large bed again, trying to regain her breath. Alyth hears movement outside the door, and quickly lays down, pretending to be asleep.
"I dun know where the lass came from, er 'ow she got onboard me Pearl, but I'm not throwen er overboard Gibbs. She's obviously urt, and needs me elp, savvy?" She hears a voice say through the door.
"Aye Cap'n," another voice says, and the door bursts open. Shutting her eyes lightly, she tries to slow her breathing so the man doesn't realize she's awake. She feels eyes on her, and forces herself to calm down, hoping he won't rape an unconscious girl. She hears him sigh suddenly, and hears his footsteps as they lead away. The door opens, and suddenly closes, and she waits for a second before opening her eyes and looking over. With a start she sees a man, standing in front of the door watching her.
"I thought ye might be awake," he says, walking over to her.
"Who are you, what do you want from me?" Alyth screeches as she moves to the other side of the large bed, trying to get as far away from the man as possible.
"Calm down lass, I won't urt ye," he says, moving his hands in a calming fashion.
"Where am I? Please, I just want to go home," she whispers, watching him walk to the bed, and stop just at the threshold.
"Me name's Captain Jack Sparrow, and ye are onboard me ship the Black Pearl," he says, watching you for some sign of recognition. When she just shakes her head, he goes on, "as fer why yer here, I aven't got a clue. "bout an hour ago ye appeared on deck, and I brought ye in here te get some rest. I was kinda hopin ye could fill me in as te why yer here."
"I don't know, the last thing I remember was being assaulted, and then waking up here," she says. "My name is Alyth, and it would be great if you could take me to the nearest airport so I could go home."
"Wheres Air Port?" He asks, looking genuinely confused. "I dun think I ever heard of it."
"I don't mean a place, I mean an actual airport, you know where planes fly people to..." She breaks off as she sees his expression of bewilderment.
"Fly people? Ye musta hit yer head harder then I thought," Jack says, watching her closely.
"You don't know what an airport is?" Her eyes open wide in wonderment as he shakes his head. "What year is it?" She asks suddenly, hoping that this man is messing with her.
"Well is round 1600, not sure xactly though, kinda hard fer me te keep track 'n all." Alyth's mouth drops open at his response.
"Where's my bag? Did I have a bag with me when you found me?" She asks, jumping off the bed and searching around the room.
"Yea, it's in the corner," Jack points and she runs to it, thanking God the entire way. When she reached it Alyth dropped on the ground and began to rummage through until she found a carton, and a light. Ripping open the carton, she pulls out a pack and opens it quickly. When the pack is finally open she pulls out a cigarette, sticks it in her mouth and lights it, taking a long drag.
"That's better," she whispers, then looks at jack who is staring wide eyed.
"ow'd ye do that?" He asks, watching her closely.
"Do what?"
"Ye made fire in yer hand, without any flint er anything," he says amazedly, and Alyth realizes that they didn't have lighters in the 1600's.
"It's called a lighter Jack," she says, showing it to him while she takes another long drag.
"What's that?" He asks, and she notices for the first time that he's staring at her lips.
"It's called a cigarette, you see, this is going to be kind of hard to explain." Alyth stands from the floor, bringing an empty bottle with her to ash in, she walks to the bed and sits down. She looks up, studying him for the first time. She sees his dark, dreadlocked hair, parts of it had beads, coins, and even a bone braided in it. His eyes were dark brown, the color of mahogany, he was undeniably gorgeous. He wore a light white shirt that opened at the top showing off a dark tan, and lean muscles. Long boots came up to his knees, and a tricorn hat adorned his head. His dark eyes were gazing intently at her, waiting for her to go on. She unconsciously took a drag of her cigarette and began.
"You see, I'm from the time 2004. I was on my way home from school when my..." She stops, thinking of a word for car that he would understand, "carriage broke down and I had to walk the rest of the way. Before I got there these bastards kidnapped me and tried to rape me." She watches as his eyes get an angry glare in them suddenly, but he motions for her to continue. "I was in their carriage, and one of them punched me in the face. I couldn't see for a few minutes, and then when I could see I looked up and saw... you, I remember seeing you before I blacked out." She stops, and watches his for his reaction.
"Ye say yer from a difrent time luv? That's kinda hard te swallow," he whispers, watching her wearily.
"You're telling me."
"Ow'd ye get here?"
"I don't know. I suppose I was lucky, and in a way you rescued me. Thank you Captain," she says, and watches as he nods in approval, she slowly takes another drag of her cigarette finding it gone. Alyth drops it in the bottle, and sets the bottle on the ground.
"Well, I suppose the question is what are we gonna do wit ye now?" She shrugs at his question, not knowing either. Jack shakes his head, a smile playing on his lips. "Well I spose ye can stay in Ana Maria's cabin wit her, she prolly won't mind the company. Unless o'course ye'd rather stay in here wit me?" She hears the slight hopeful tone in his voice as he asks her.
"I think Ana Maria and I will get along fine." Alyth says with a smirk. With a sigh he nods his head, and then suddenly gets a wicked grin on his face. "Ye'll have te work if ye want te stay onboard, do ye know anything bout ships? Cause if ye don't I can always use a nice set o hands."
Alyth looks at him incredulously before saying, "yes, my father owns a few, I used to work on one when I was younger. It's been a few years though so I might need some reminding." She tries quickly to remember as much as possible about her time aboard ships. Jack nods, with a slightly agitated look on his face. Alyth smirked as she saw this.
"Well then, come 'n meet the crew of The Black Pearl," Jack said, bowing and motioning towards the door.
Jack watched the girl in amusement as she explained her story. He didn't know whether to believe her or not. She was absolutely beautiful. She had long, white blonde hair that seemed to cascade down her back. Her eyes were dark blue, and they sparkled as she sucked on the "cigarette" in her mouth. His eyes kept getting drawn back to her lips. They were full and almost pouty, he kept wondering what it would be like to kiss them. When her story was finished he just watched her, finally he decided to take her story at face value and let her join his crew. Besides, he figured if he gave it a little time he was sure to have her sharing his bed in no time. With a smirk he tells her to come meet the crew, knowing they wouldn't be as happy at their arrangement as he was.
"So what kind of ship is this anyway?" The girl, he thought her name was Alth, asked him.
"A pirate ship luv," he said smirking and waiting for her displeasure.
"Sounds cool," she said, and he blinked in surprise and confusion.
"Sounds what?" He asked as he followed her out of his cabin.
"Sorry, cool means, good, or great," she said, and he blinked in surprise again.
"So yer not afraid of us luv?"
"No, why should I be, you're the one that saved me and are now employing me somewhat."
"Well ye know, that employment could be a lot more," he pauses as if trying to come up with the right word, "enjoyable, if ye want." Jack smirks at his own cleverness, watching her closely.
She smirks right back at him before answering, "I'm sure I'll be plenty happy working with the crew, Captain." He nods in an annoyed manner, not understanding how this sexy lass could be refusing him, Captain Jack Sparrow.
"Hey ye scurvy dogs," Jack yells, "Come here and meet the new crewmember." He watched as the crew gathered around the two of them. "What's yer name again luv?" Jack whispered, and was repaid by an evil glare.
"Alyth," she said, and he quickly turned from her icy stare.
"This here be Alyth, and she'll be workin wit ye all until she decides te leave us or we decide te leave her," Jack yelled, making sure everyone could hear him. He heard a few voices whispering about a witch, and he quickly glared their way. "The lass is te be treated the same way as everyone else, and if I hear any difrently there'll be me te deal wit, savvy?" He yells, and is quickly rewarderd by nods from everyone. "Good, Ana Maria."
"Yes Captain?" A mulatto woman asked, stepping forward from the large crowd.
"Show the lass here the ropes, she'll be stayin in yer cabin wit you from now on," with that said, Jack turned away from the strange, lovely girl, and left her in Ana Maria's care.
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