A/N: Well here we are again, sorry about the wait. Thanks to Sweetpeathe1st for a review! If I'm feeling nice I'll post two chappie's today.
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PS: I am feeling nice.
Chapter Seven: The Seven Seas
Sage wakes the next morning, in the arms of Jack, but knowing that they hadn't slept together the previous night. She gently moves Jack's arm from above her and leaves the cabin. On deck she can see that the sun is about to rise, so she climbs to the crows nest to watch it rise, and look over the seven seas. As soon as the sun rises, she can hear the crew waking in their quarters, and Benjamin is the first to come on deck, closely followed by a few more of the crew, some going straight to the galley for breakfast. Jack emerges from his cabin a few minutes later, quickly descending to the galley. Sage stays in the crows nest, not really hungry yet.
After the sun is properly risen, she sees Jack come back on deck, and open the door to his cabin, look inside, and close it again. As the crew slowly filter up from the galley, to start a hard days work tending and sailing the ship she hears Jack call out to Gibbs.
"Gibbs! Ye seen Sage abou'?"
"No, Captain, she no' in ye cabin?" he asks, a little suggestively for Sage's liking.
"No Gibbs, she's no', otherwise I wouldn' be askin' ye would I?"
"No, Captain." Jack looks about the deck, then retreats back into his cabin. Sage smiles, wondering how long it would take him to work out where she was. She knows some of the crew have seen her, so they didn't send anyone up for the watch.
Sage sits, thinking about The Silver Bell, thinking about he crew, wondering what state both were in, and where both were. Even without the Map of Hoards, they knew that she'd been talking about the Isla de Cantar, so she wondered if they were sailing in the same direction, after all they were coming from the same place going to the same place. But they were probably in front, seeing as Jack hadn't asked her about the map until a few days aboard the Pearl, and Benjamin had led them off course. Wherever they were, wherever they were going, she knew her ship was in good hands.
An hour or two later, she notices Jack back on deck. She smiles at the thought of last night. By the sound of his voice, he'd been all over the ship looking for her. She lays down in the crows nest, leaning just over the edge so if he looked up, he'd be able to see her.
He begins going round the crew, talking to them briefly, most shaking their heads, but then one points up to the crows nest and Jack looks up, Sage gives him a little wave. She rolls back up, getting prepared to go back down the rigging, but as she dangles her feet from the crows nest, she sees Jack climbing up to her. He reaches her quickly.
"An' jus' wha' de ye think ye're doin' up 'ere? Avoidin' workin'?" he asks, sitting next to her.
"Of course not, I'm merely on watch Captain," she replies smartly.
"An' no one's come up ter relieve yer of watch?" he asks. She shakes her head.
"Nope."
"When'de ge' up, love?"
"Before sunrise."
"So ye've been up 'ere since before sunrise?" Jack asks. She nods.
"Ye were worried about me?" she asks.
"No."
"Aye, ye were Jack, I heard ye meself."
"I jus' noticed we were missin' someone, an' I don' like ter be missin' me crew," he says. "Means there's one less person workin'."
"Well if ye'd prefer I'd go down Jack. But, ye know, no one can see us up here," she says suggestively.
"Wantin' a rerun of las' nigh'?" Jack asks, matching her tone.
"Ye remember las' night?" Jack nods. "Ye weren't drunk?!?"
