Chapter 37

The Darkest Night

Rena opened her eyes to darkness, she tried to inhale but couldn't. She screamed and inhaled water and she realized what had happened. She kicked her feet, hoping they were propelling her upwards and not down deeper, for she would surely drown otherwise.

Her chest was about to explode, she had chosen the wrong direction and swam down instead of up, she was going to die. She closed her eyes, noticing it made no difference in the dark, warm waters of the Caribbean at night. Rena screamed in frustration, making no sound. Her legs continued to kick feebly, her arms pulling her in her chosen direction. She touched something in the waters, cool and slippery. Everything faded and she was no more.

"Who is it?" Paula asked him. Jack stood and walked cautiously to the woman lying in a heap on the floor. It was Rena. He kneeled down next to her and felt her throat for a pulse, it was beating slowly.

"It's the Captain," Jack said, turning to the assembled mutineers. He flinched as that thought went through his mind, though he didn't know why.

"Let me out now, the ship is ours," Paula said, excitement in her voice. Jack nodded and looked around for the keys.

"On the wall," the pirate, he thought his name was Jake, said. Jack looked over and sure enough there they were. He grabbed them and ran to his wife, unlocking her cell. She stepped forth and smiled.

"Now pick her up and follow me," she ordered as she walked to the steps. She looked down at Rena with a look of hatred, and then kicked her hard in the head. Jack frowned as he saw his wife do this. "Jack, pick her up,' Paula ordered and walked up the stairs. Jack walked to her and picked Rena up tenderly, holding her tightly in his arms. He was having second thoughts.

"Come on, we dun' 'ave a lot o time," Jake said. Jack nodded and headed up the stairs after his wife. When he reached the deck he heard Paula addressing the crew.

"Captain Rena has been killed; I will be taking over this ship now." A few of the crew began to charge at her but stopped as they saw Jack emerge from below deck with Rena. Their jaws dropped and they glared at him with a look of hatred. Jake, Jessie, and the fifteen other crew members the had been conversing with stepped up the stairs and the rest of the crew turned their glares on them.

"Toss her overboard Jack," Paula said and he turned his attention back to her.

"But-" he started but was cut off quickly by his wife.

"Throw her now," the woman ordered, the look of hatred intensifying. He realized then that this was not the woman he had married.

"No," he whispered, his eyes turning hard.

"This is your last chance Jack," she growled as she pulled a pistol from her waist.

"That's Captain Sparrow to you," he roared. She shot. He couldn't feel the pain at first, all he could see was Rena being ripped from his arms by Jake. He reached for her but before he could take a step the pain caught up with him and he fell to the deck.

The last thing he saw was Jack flinging his love over the side of the Pearl, his Black Pearl. He was home and hadn't even realized it.

"Saihrena," he whispered.

Muahahahahaha! Wow I'm evil! I am so mean to you all! I must be a sadistic person or something, hmm... Well if you think I'm going to pull now what I did to you last chapter, well I must tell you now that you are... WRONG! I'll have another chapter up tonight I just want you guys to review a bit first, but no matter what I'll have another chapter up, probably by 10ish. So hope you liked this chapter, chapter 38 will be up later. OH and before I forget I want to thank you all SO much for your reviews, I got 20 reviews for chapter 36 alone, thank you all so much! And just so you know, reviewing chapters that you haven't reviewed before doesn't count towards the numbers I set down, but it's nice of you to try, hehehe. Ok, I'm off to do my dishes and then write some more. So I bid you ado!