Chapter 16
Three New Lives...
Jack, after seeing the door open, raced to his cabin, Bandit and Jonathon hot on his heels. What he saw made him stop in his tracks, his jaw hung open. Bandit, not realizing that Jack had stopped so suddenly ran straight into him, and Bandit followed suit bumping into Jonathon.
"Would ye move already?" Bandit huffed, pushing Jonathon down, and knocking over Jack and Jonathon. Bandit dashed over the two fallen men and into the cabin.
"Bloody 'ell Bandit, ye do that again and it'll be the cat fer ye," Jack swore, making Bandit panic at the though of the cat o nine tails, a horrid whip used to beat insolent crew members. Jack pulled himself up and swayed into the room. The three girls were smirking back and forth between each other, a gun was in Rakasha's hand while each Gabriella and Saihrena had a cutlass aimed at the neck of a man sitting calmly on his bed. Jack stepped over the bodies of the three men lying mostly at the door, but he noticed with shock that one of the men was lying deeper in the room, a stab wound through his heart.
"Hello Jack, glad you could join us," Rena said, sauntering over to him and smiling brightly.
"Well what's all this then luv?" He asked, staring from Rena to the bodies, to the man on his bed.
"This is Captain Jacque, Captain of the merchant vessel you just took over," she said pointing at the man on the bed, "and these," she pointed at the men lying dead on the floor, "are shark bait one, shark bait two, and food for the crew," she finished with a twinkle in her eye.
Captain Jacque stood at this outrage. "I demand to have the bodies of my men for proper burial," he demanded. Jack waved him away and smiled at Rena's joke, this man had obviously said something to upset her and she wanted to get back at him.
"Sounds like good eating Princess," Jack said, bowing before her and offering her extreme courtesy in front of the other Captain.
"How dare you, you vile whore," Jacque said, this time he remained seated though.
"Dun' ye 'ave any manners at all?" Jack asked. "Ye should treat a Princess with respect and courtesy, and M'lady Saihrena Senire' is anything but a whore." Jack stepped up to Jacque and put his sword to the insolent mans head. "Apologize," he growled dangerously.
"This woman is not princess Saihrena. The princess Saihrena Senire' was killed years ago. This woman is no more a princess then I am, I will not treat her as such," Jacque said, holding his nose in the air. Saihrena stared at him, a mixture of anguish and amusement upon her face. When she looked into his eyes however her amusement ceased, he looked heart-broken. She studied him carefully, did he know her?
"I'd do as 'e said if I were ye," Jonathon said from behind Jack, and Bandit, Gabby, and Kasha all nodded their agreement. Jack cocked his pistol.
Jacque quickly turned towards Saihrena and bowed his head, "I am dreadfully sorry Princess, please forgive my rudeness." Jack un-cocked his pistol and stepped away.
"Now the questions what do we do wit ye?" Jack pondered to himself as he stepped to Rena.
"We could always have him on the menu with his men?" Rena smirked, forgetting her thoughts from a few moments ago.
"Aye, that we could, sept I normally like more meat and less ass," Jack said with mock severity.
"Touché," Rena muttered. "Is everything off his ship yet?"
"Yeah, we was gonna burn it," Jacks eyes lit up as Jacques eyes filled with tears at the thought of his ship burning. "We could throw 'im on it, let 'im go down with 'is ship. What do ye think?"
"Or, perhaps we could ransom him, he looks like he would have some one rich that might care for him more then money. Jacque, what's your last name?" Saihrena demanded.
"I will not tell you," he cried.
"Okay, then down with the ship you go," she roared.
Jacque cringed, "Okay, I'll tell you if you promise not to kill me," he said.
"Alright, we have an accord," she smirked, and reached out for him to shake her hand. He looked at the proffered hand, then reached out and tentatively shook it.
"My name isn't really Jacque, I lied to you M-M'lady," the man murmured, watching Jack. Jack just nodded and moved his hands for him to continue. "My name is Ramón De'jard, I am cousin to the King of Spain," the man declared. Saihrena's jaw dropped to the ground. Jack stared at her for a moment, shaking his head slightly. She ignored it and kneeled in front of him.
"Ramón?" She whispered, watching him closely. "I didn't know you Captained a ship." He stared at her for a moment.
"You did not know anything about me Miss," he said snobbily.
"Don't act that way, I'm still older than you and I outrank you," she growled, standing and sticking a finger in his face to emphasize her point.
"What do you mean you are older than me? And I'm sure you do not out-" his voice broke off as he looked up at her. "No, but they all said you were dead," he whispered in awe.
"Well that's what Raul wanted, he wanted me dead," she told him. "You see Jack wasn't lying, I am Princess Saihrena.
"What do you mean girl? I was there, he mourned you. You must come back with me away from these," he stopped and glared at Jack before spitting, "pirates."
"I did go back, I went to Raul first, he denied that I was me, I then went to John but," she stopped as tears began to choke her.
"Yes, I heard about that, I'm sorry," he whispered.
"Well why don't we leave you two to talk," Gabriella said loudly, pulling Jonathon's arm and taking him from the room, Rakasha was pulling Bandit next. They stood at the door and motioned for Jack to leave, but he just smirked at them and waved. They took the hint and left. Ramón glared at Jack as he sat on the bed and pulled Saihrena down on his lap. She squealed in surprise but made no move to get up, she was a pirate now after all. Ramón saw this and glared even harder at Jack.
"So ye two are cousins?" Jack asked.
"Yes, he is my first cousin," she told him.
"Well I'm sorry te tell ye this Ramón was it? But Rena here is a pirate lass now, after almost bein killed twice by 'er relatives, ye'll 'ave te excuse me if I dun' trust them anymore," Jack said.
"A p-pirate? Saihrena what is this man talking about?" Ramón yelled.
"You see when mother and I were on our way to see John the crew of the ship we were on killed mother and sold me into slavery to the Sultan Suleyman II, the Sultan of Turkey. I became his "wife" in his harem, Jack here rescued me after a being his wife for a little over a year. He then took me to Raul in Spain where he denied me, as I told you, and then as we were leaving he fired on the Pearl trying to kill me. Oh yes, I almost forgot he had me shot at before we left as well. We the headed for Portugal where I found out the King Morgead wanted to force me to marry him, this was after I found out that he had killed John," Saihrena finished in a huff. Ramón's jaw was hanging slack, his eyes were bulging in his head. She smiled sweetly at him. "Now I will show you to your quarters." She stood and motioned for him to follow her. She lead him to the cabin she had been occupying. "I hope you will be comfortable here," she said, then closed and locked the door.
"Come here," Jack ordered, and when she did he pulled her into a deep kiss. She kissed him back, holding onto him fiercely.
"Thanks, I needed that," she whispered when their kiss ended.
"So yer positive ye want te be a pirate?" He asked suddenly, and smiled as she nodded vigorously. "Good," he said, then pulled her into the middle of the deck where Gabriella and Rakasha were standing.
"All hands on deck ye scaberdous dogs," Jack yelled, causing a flurry of movement. They waited a few minutes until everyone was standing on the deck circling the four of them. "I've been meanin te do this fer a while now, seems like as good a time as any though," Jack said, smirking to the crew. The three girls had no idea what was going on.
"Jack what-"
"Today we are going to welcome three new members to our crew," Jack cut Saihrena off, and smiled in thanks to Jonathon as he handed Jack three pieces of paper and a quill pen. "Today Saihrena, Gabriella, and Rakasha will be joining our ranks. Now I 'ave been informed by both Bandit and Jonathon that they 'ave somethin to ask these two ladies 'ere." Jack stepped back from them and allowed the two men to enter.
"Gabriella, would ye be me wife?" Jonathon asked at the same time that Bandit knelt before Rakasha and asked, "Rakasha, will ye marry me?" The girls looked at each other as smiles broke on their face.
"Yes," they said simultaneously and hugged and kissed their men.
"With that outa the way, we'll 'ave two weddin's aboard the ship once we get te Port Royal. Now if ye ladies would sign these contracts the party can begin," Jack called and watched as they each looked at the contract, and without reading it they trusted him so much, signed it one by one. "We'll need te teach em some things, I'll teach ye the sword, Bandit can teach ye the pistol, and the rest o the crew'll teach ye the ship along the way. Any got a problem wit that?" Jack yelled.
It was received with a chorus of, "Nay's."
"Good, let's party," Jack yelled.
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