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Chapter 5
I sit there drinking the rum out of the bottle. I look over at Elizabeth and Jack to see that she is still sipping on her bottle of rum and stareing into the fire lost in thought. Jack has made a larger dent into his bottle of rum than either of us have, but then he has more experiance in drinking it than we do.
He turn's and look's in my direction again, when he see's that I am looking at him he flashes a grin at me. I quickly look away from his intense gaze. I hear Elizabeth mutter something.
"Did you say something Miss Elizabeth?"
"Just a song I remember from my childhood. When I thought that it would be exciteing to meet a pirate." she replie's.
"Well what is it lass?" Jack ask's her.
"I really don't feel like it Jack. Kagome do you know the song 'A pirate's life for me' ?" Elizabeth ask's me.
"Yes I do Miss Elizabeth, why?"
"Well would one of you sing it to me? Please, I luv song's about pirate's." Jack say's.
I look at his pleading expression, and realize that he has the puppy dog eye's down pat. I don't have the heart to disappoint him over something so minor.
"Allright but you have to realize that it is a song for children, most people learn it when they are little. It goes like this."
"Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho!
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot.
Drink up me 'eartie's yo ho!
Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me!
We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack.
Drink up me 'eartie's yo ho.
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.
We're devil's and blacksheep, we're really bad egg's.
Drink up me 'eartie's yo ho!
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me." I sing softly.
I look at him and realize that it is the first english song that I had learnt as a small child. I had to smile at the memory of me trying to teach it to Shippou and then explaining to him what a pirate was. I remember him asking why any one would want to steal and hurt people. I had to smile at the memory of his childish innocence.
I look up to see Jack stareing at me.
"What is it Captain Sparrow?"
"I take it you have fond memory's of this song then luv?" he ask's me.
"Yes it is the first english song that I learnt as a child. I was remembering when I taught the song to my son and explaining to him what a pirate was, and him asking why any one would want to steal, and hurt people."
"You have a son Kagome?" Elizabeth ask's me.
"Yes, I adopted him after his parent's were killed. He was five year's old then, he just recently turned fifteen. I think it is cute, he's just now at the age where he's noticeing girl's." I tell them.
"He sound's like a lucky lad to have had you take care of him. What is the boy's name?" Jack ask's me.
"His name is Shippou, he has red hair and green eye's. He love's to play practical joke's on everyone. I miss him."
"You must have been very close to his parent's to take and raise there son after they were killed." Elizabeth say's.
"I never met his parent's. They were already dead when we found him. He was so lost and alone, and absolutely adorable. I just couldn't bear the thought of leaveing him alone, so I took him with me and have raised him as if he was my own child. Much to the dismay of my traveling companion's, Inuyasha and Shippou fought constantly from day one. Miroku said that niether wanted to share my attention with the other one."
"You traveled with two men and a boy?" Elizabeth ask's me.
"No, I traveled with three men, two women, a little boy, and a little girl. We were like a family to each other. Two of the men were half brother's, the first time I met Sesshoumaru he was trying to kill Inuyasha and me. So you could say that they didn't like each other when I first met them. But they eventually got over there difference's, and even if they are each other's favorite person, at least they aren't trying to kill each other."
"Lass can I ask you a question?" Jack say's.
"What is it Captain Sparrow?"
"Which of the men is your husband?"
"None of them are, I'm not married. Even though allmost all of the rest of them are now though."
"Are you engaged?" Elizabeth ask's me.
"No. How could I meet or get to know anyone with all the travelling our group did. Beside's Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha treated me as a younger sister, someone that they had to guard and protect from thing's."
"I thought that you said that you could wield a sword?" Elizabeth say's.
"I am very good with a sword and just as good without one in a fight. They both made sure that I can protect myself. What I meant when I said that they protected me is that they kept people away from me that they felt weren't good enough. Even though they both want me to be happy with whoever I fall in love with and get married to, they want whoever it is to be able to keep me safe as well as loved and cherished."
"You sound like you were very close to those two." Elizabeth say's.
"They are my best friend's, and like any friend's we all have our difference's. And sometime we fight with each other and tease and make fun of the other, but I know that I would go to any length to help them in any way that I can, and I know that they would do the same for me. I would trust those two with my life and they have never let me down in any situation we've ever been in. They have saved my life more time's than I can count."
"You are lucky to have someone who care's about you like that lass. Most people aren't lucky enough to ever find anyone who give's a damn about them. Myself included. I learnt the hard way not to trust people, cause when you trust someone they have the power to hurt you." Jack say's right before he take's a large gulp of rum.
"But when you close yourself off from people Captain Sparrow you miss out on so many thing's in life. You'll be alone and miss the opportunity to feel emotion's like love, compassion, and friendship. True you should be wary of people you don't know, but unless you give them a chance you'll never get the opportunity to know them. Sometime's you'll be hurt by giving someone a chance, but you stand to gain so much more. No one should go thru life alone. Everyone deserve's to be loved and to have true friend's, even a pirate."
Jack is stareing at me. I can see a whirlwind of emotion's pass thru his eye's. I can see the pain, sadness, lonelyness, anger, hatred, despair, humor, hope, and love shining in his chocolate colored eye's. He has the most expressive eye's that I have ever seen in my life. I could lose myself looking into them. I want to help him realize his potential to be the person that I can see in his eye's. His eye's suddenly fill with despair.
"But who could ever love a pirate like me lass. I have nothing to offer anyone, I couldn't offer anyone what most people want." he say's sadly.
"And what do you think most people want Captain Sparrow?" I ask him.
"Safety, security, a home, and a place to raise a family. Hell because of this brand on my arm I can't deny what I am. A Pirate, and that is the only thing that anyone will ever see me as. Hell the only reason I didn't get hung the last time I was caught was because Will needed me to get him to where The Black Pearl was so he could rescue Elizabeth. He didn't break me out of jail for any other reason, certainly not because he wanted to be my friend. He despises pirate's, and when he found out that his father was one he was more than a tad upset about it. So you tell me lass what can I offer to a woman. I have nothing, hell I am nothing." he say's sadly.
I look at him as he take's another large gulp of rum. I can feel the pain he's going thru as if it was my own.
"You. You have yourself to offer Captain Sparrow. That is all anyone can offer, and to the right woman that will be more than enough. And your wrong about yourself Captain Sparrow. You are not nothing. Your Captain Jack Sparrow. And not all people seek safety, security, a home, or a place to raise a family. Some seek excitement, adventure, danger, and someone who love's them for themselve's."
"So do you think I'll ever find someone who could love someone like me?"
"Yes, but only if you allow yourself to accept love."
"What about you lass? What are you seeking?"
"Just someone who love's me for myself."
"That should be easy enough for you to find."
"If it is so easy than why am I still alone. It seem's as if I have been looking for someone to love and who love's me my whole life. And I'm still searching for him Captain Sparrow. I don't know if I'll ever find him?"
I take a large gulp of rum and glance over to Elizabeth to see that she has fallen asleep. I stand up and walk over to my bag and pull out the blanket's. I walk over to where she is laying and cover her with the smaller one of the two. I take the bottle of rum out of her hand and put the stopper back into it. I walk back over to where Jack is sitting and hand him the bottle and the other blanket, and then I sit back down on the sand.
"You'll need the blanket tonight Captain Sparrow. The night air is chilly."
"What about you Kagome? I guess that you just have the two blanket's. I'm right aren't I?"
"Yes you are Captain Sparrow. I'll be fine, I'll build up the fire and sleep next to it. I'll be fine. I've slept in cold weather before."
"You can call me just Jack if you like lass, and we can share the blanket. It'll get to cold for either of us to sleep without one, I promise I won't try anything, at least not on purpose with you."
"I don't know Captain Jack, it would be highly improper for the two of us to sleep together. I could gain an unwanted reputation. Even though it is quite innocent."
"Kagome, first off just call me Jack, not Captain Jack. Secondly you want me to learn to trust people, but for me to trust anyone they're going to have to trust me as well. So what I'm asking you is do you trust me? I know you really don't have any reason too, after all you just met me for the first time today, and you probably shouldn't trust anyone that you just met. But I'm asking you to trust me, I promise that I won't consiously try anything if we share the blanket, and if you refuse to share the blanket then I'll be the one without one. I refuse to sleep under it alone, Savvy?"
I look him in the in the eye's and see that he's pleading with me to trust him. I can tell that he really want's to prove that he is trustworthy. And for some unknown reason I do trust him. I smile at him and nod my head in acceptance.
"Allright Jack, I do trust you. I know that I shouldn't yet, but I do trust you."
"Well thank you lass for giving me the chance that I can be trusted by someone. Like I said earlier, I've never met anyone like you before and will more than likely never will again. You're a special woman Kagome, more than you'll ever realize. But I think that we have some rum to finish before we go to sleep. It would be a shame to waste it, don't you think?"
"Aye I do Jack. Drink up me 'eartie yo ho!"
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That's all for this chapter. I hope you like it. Please read and review for me.
Thank's
echo21
P.S.
I just want to thank Sheya for the advice. I'll try to do better, and please keep pointing out what I'm doing wrong so I can correct it in the future chapter's.
Chapter 5
I sit there drinking the rum out of the bottle. I look over at Elizabeth and Jack to see that she is still sipping on her bottle of rum and stareing into the fire lost in thought. Jack has made a larger dent into his bottle of rum than either of us have, but then he has more experiance in drinking it than we do.
He turn's and look's in my direction again, when he see's that I am looking at him he flashes a grin at me. I quickly look away from his intense gaze. I hear Elizabeth mutter something.
"Did you say something Miss Elizabeth?"
"Just a song I remember from my childhood. When I thought that it would be exciteing to meet a pirate." she replie's.
"Well what is it lass?" Jack ask's her.
"I really don't feel like it Jack. Kagome do you know the song 'A pirate's life for me' ?" Elizabeth ask's me.
"Yes I do Miss Elizabeth, why?"
"Well would one of you sing it to me? Please, I luv song's about pirate's." Jack say's.
I look at his pleading expression, and realize that he has the puppy dog eye's down pat. I don't have the heart to disappoint him over something so minor.
"Allright but you have to realize that it is a song for children, most people learn it when they are little. It goes like this."
"Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho!
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot.
Drink up me 'eartie's yo ho!
Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me!
We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack.
Drink up me 'eartie's yo ho.
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.
We're devil's and blacksheep, we're really bad egg's.
Drink up me 'eartie's yo ho!
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me." I sing softly.
I look at him and realize that it is the first english song that I had learnt as a small child. I had to smile at the memory of me trying to teach it to Shippou and then explaining to him what a pirate was. I remember him asking why any one would want to steal and hurt people. I had to smile at the memory of his childish innocence.
I look up to see Jack stareing at me.
"What is it Captain Sparrow?"
"I take it you have fond memory's of this song then luv?" he ask's me.
"Yes it is the first english song that I learnt as a child. I was remembering when I taught the song to my son and explaining to him what a pirate was, and him asking why any one would want to steal, and hurt people."
"You have a son Kagome?" Elizabeth ask's me.
"Yes, I adopted him after his parent's were killed. He was five year's old then, he just recently turned fifteen. I think it is cute, he's just now at the age where he's noticeing girl's." I tell them.
"He sound's like a lucky lad to have had you take care of him. What is the boy's name?" Jack ask's me.
"His name is Shippou, he has red hair and green eye's. He love's to play practical joke's on everyone. I miss him."
"You must have been very close to his parent's to take and raise there son after they were killed." Elizabeth say's.
"I never met his parent's. They were already dead when we found him. He was so lost and alone, and absolutely adorable. I just couldn't bear the thought of leaveing him alone, so I took him with me and have raised him as if he was my own child. Much to the dismay of my traveling companion's, Inuyasha and Shippou fought constantly from day one. Miroku said that niether wanted to share my attention with the other one."
"You traveled with two men and a boy?" Elizabeth ask's me.
"No, I traveled with three men, two women, a little boy, and a little girl. We were like a family to each other. Two of the men were half brother's, the first time I met Sesshoumaru he was trying to kill Inuyasha and me. So you could say that they didn't like each other when I first met them. But they eventually got over there difference's, and even if they are each other's favorite person, at least they aren't trying to kill each other."
"Lass can I ask you a question?" Jack say's.
"What is it Captain Sparrow?"
"Which of the men is your husband?"
"None of them are, I'm not married. Even though allmost all of the rest of them are now though."
"Are you engaged?" Elizabeth ask's me.
"No. How could I meet or get to know anyone with all the travelling our group did. Beside's Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha treated me as a younger sister, someone that they had to guard and protect from thing's."
"I thought that you said that you could wield a sword?" Elizabeth say's.
"I am very good with a sword and just as good without one in a fight. They both made sure that I can protect myself. What I meant when I said that they protected me is that they kept people away from me that they felt weren't good enough. Even though they both want me to be happy with whoever I fall in love with and get married to, they want whoever it is to be able to keep me safe as well as loved and cherished."
"You sound like you were very close to those two." Elizabeth say's.
"They are my best friend's, and like any friend's we all have our difference's. And sometime we fight with each other and tease and make fun of the other, but I know that I would go to any length to help them in any way that I can, and I know that they would do the same for me. I would trust those two with my life and they have never let me down in any situation we've ever been in. They have saved my life more time's than I can count."
"You are lucky to have someone who care's about you like that lass. Most people aren't lucky enough to ever find anyone who give's a damn about them. Myself included. I learnt the hard way not to trust people, cause when you trust someone they have the power to hurt you." Jack say's right before he take's a large gulp of rum.
"But when you close yourself off from people Captain Sparrow you miss out on so many thing's in life. You'll be alone and miss the opportunity to feel emotion's like love, compassion, and friendship. True you should be wary of people you don't know, but unless you give them a chance you'll never get the opportunity to know them. Sometime's you'll be hurt by giving someone a chance, but you stand to gain so much more. No one should go thru life alone. Everyone deserve's to be loved and to have true friend's, even a pirate."
Jack is stareing at me. I can see a whirlwind of emotion's pass thru his eye's. I can see the pain, sadness, lonelyness, anger, hatred, despair, humor, hope, and love shining in his chocolate colored eye's. He has the most expressive eye's that I have ever seen in my life. I could lose myself looking into them. I want to help him realize his potential to be the person that I can see in his eye's. His eye's suddenly fill with despair.
"But who could ever love a pirate like me lass. I have nothing to offer anyone, I couldn't offer anyone what most people want." he say's sadly.
"And what do you think most people want Captain Sparrow?" I ask him.
"Safety, security, a home, and a place to raise a family. Hell because of this brand on my arm I can't deny what I am. A Pirate, and that is the only thing that anyone will ever see me as. Hell the only reason I didn't get hung the last time I was caught was because Will needed me to get him to where The Black Pearl was so he could rescue Elizabeth. He didn't break me out of jail for any other reason, certainly not because he wanted to be my friend. He despises pirate's, and when he found out that his father was one he was more than a tad upset about it. So you tell me lass what can I offer to a woman. I have nothing, hell I am nothing." he say's sadly.
I look at him as he take's another large gulp of rum. I can feel the pain he's going thru as if it was my own.
"You. You have yourself to offer Captain Sparrow. That is all anyone can offer, and to the right woman that will be more than enough. And your wrong about yourself Captain Sparrow. You are not nothing. Your Captain Jack Sparrow. And not all people seek safety, security, a home, or a place to raise a family. Some seek excitement, adventure, danger, and someone who love's them for themselve's."
"So do you think I'll ever find someone who could love someone like me?"
"Yes, but only if you allow yourself to accept love."
"What about you lass? What are you seeking?"
"Just someone who love's me for myself."
"That should be easy enough for you to find."
"If it is so easy than why am I still alone. It seem's as if I have been looking for someone to love and who love's me my whole life. And I'm still searching for him Captain Sparrow. I don't know if I'll ever find him?"
I take a large gulp of rum and glance over to Elizabeth to see that she has fallen asleep. I stand up and walk over to my bag and pull out the blanket's. I walk over to where she is laying and cover her with the smaller one of the two. I take the bottle of rum out of her hand and put the stopper back into it. I walk back over to where Jack is sitting and hand him the bottle and the other blanket, and then I sit back down on the sand.
"You'll need the blanket tonight Captain Sparrow. The night air is chilly."
"What about you Kagome? I guess that you just have the two blanket's. I'm right aren't I?"
"Yes you are Captain Sparrow. I'll be fine, I'll build up the fire and sleep next to it. I'll be fine. I've slept in cold weather before."
"You can call me just Jack if you like lass, and we can share the blanket. It'll get to cold for either of us to sleep without one, I promise I won't try anything, at least not on purpose with you."
"I don't know Captain Jack, it would be highly improper for the two of us to sleep together. I could gain an unwanted reputation. Even though it is quite innocent."
"Kagome, first off just call me Jack, not Captain Jack. Secondly you want me to learn to trust people, but for me to trust anyone they're going to have to trust me as well. So what I'm asking you is do you trust me? I know you really don't have any reason too, after all you just met me for the first time today, and you probably shouldn't trust anyone that you just met. But I'm asking you to trust me, I promise that I won't consiously try anything if we share the blanket, and if you refuse to share the blanket then I'll be the one without one. I refuse to sleep under it alone, Savvy?"
I look him in the in the eye's and see that he's pleading with me to trust him. I can tell that he really want's to prove that he is trustworthy. And for some unknown reason I do trust him. I smile at him and nod my head in acceptance.
"Allright Jack, I do trust you. I know that I shouldn't yet, but I do trust you."
"Well thank you lass for giving me the chance that I can be trusted by someone. Like I said earlier, I've never met anyone like you before and will more than likely never will again. You're a special woman Kagome, more than you'll ever realize. But I think that we have some rum to finish before we go to sleep. It would be a shame to waste it, don't you think?"
"Aye I do Jack. Drink up me 'eartie yo ho!"
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That's all for this chapter. I hope you like it. Please read and review for me.
Thank's
echo21
P.S.
I just want to thank Sheya for the advice. I'll try to do better, and please keep pointing out what I'm doing wrong so I can correct it in the future chapter's.