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Chapter 6
Jack's pov;
I take another large gulp of rum after Kagome said 'drink up me 'eartie yo ho.' What I had told her was the truth I had never met any one like her before in my life. I mean at first glance she appear's to be a thin young man, but in knowing the truth that she's a woman and not a boy just make's me wonder what kind of life that she has had to lead.
Why does she dress like a boy any way? She'll have a hard time finding a husband dressing like that, maybe that's what she meant when she said that it was hard finding someone to love you as you were and not what they wanted you to be.
Look at her sitting there in the sand, drinking rum with me, a pirate. She seem's so innocent and trusting. I can understand why her friend's kept a close watch over her. Hell I just met her and I want to protect her from thing's and keep her safe. I've not ever felt this way about any one or any thing, except The Black Pearl.
Even her look's are different from any that I've seen before. She's far from the classic definition of beautiful. Elizabeth is the classic beautiful woman by the standard's around here. No Kagome is some thing different all together. I guess the biggest difference between her and any other woman that I have ever met is that she is confident in her ability's to protect her self. She seem's an odd combination of contradiction's, she's strong, she's self sufficent, she seem's very capable to take care of her self. But she is also very innocent, trusting, and she also seem's very fragile at the same time.
I guess in her own way she's beautiful, with her peaches and cream skin, her long black hair, her dark blue eye's, her heart shped face, and her full lip's. Even as petite as she is make's her unique, she barely reaches my chin, most women around here are about Elizabeth's height, and she's almost as tall as I am.
Yes I guess that I do think she is beautiful. I also love the way I can make her blush with just a look in her direction. She's truly beautiful when she blushes, her cheek's all rosy and her trying to hide it from me.
Around her I feel as if I am worth something. As if I can trust her in any situation, and I have never felt that way toward's anyone before her. If I'm not careful I could fall for this girl. I know that I'll never be able to be worthy of any decent woman, much less some one as innocent as she seem's. No Jack ol' boy you don't stand a chance with a girl like her, you don't deserve a chance with a girl like her.
I look over at her to see that she's looking at me. I grin at her only to watch her blush and look away. I take another drink of rum, and watch her as she does the same. She suddenly turn's toward's me and look's me in the eye's.
"Jack how did you get involved in this situation? I know why Elizabeth and Will are involved in it, but why are you?"
"Well luv, in a way this is all my fault. I was the one who originally got the idea to go after the cursed treasure. I was the Captain of The Black Pearl and I knew how to find the treasure, and I was stupid enough to trust the wrong person with the information on how to find it. I guess in a way I was lucky that they mutineed against me, and marooned me on this very island, because if they hadn't I would have been cursed right along with them."
"But what make's you care about what happen's to the other's?"
"Who said I cared? I could just be after revenge for what they did to me. After all they did leave me here to die."
"But you escaped that fate Jack. So your doing all of this for revenge?"
"And to get the Pearl back. It belong's to me, it's all my father had to give me when he died."
"So it's all about getting your ship back then? Do you think that a ship is more important than someone's life is?"
"To me the Black Pearl is more than a ship. With it wherever we want to go we go, that's what a ship is. It's not just the keel and a hull and a deck and sail's, that's what a ship need's. But what it is...... What the Black Pearl really is .... is freedom. When Barbossa took The Black Pearl away from me he took more than my ship from me....... he took away my freedom, he took away the only home I ever had or knew. Can you understand why I want my ship back as badly as I do?"
"Yes, now I do. You want your home back.......and your freedom. I can understand wanting those thing's back Jack, but what are you willing to sacrifice to get it back? Are you willing to sacrifice Will & Elizabeth's future for it? I know that I've not met Will, but I can tell that Elizabeth love's him from the way she talk's about him, and he must love her to do everything that he has to ensure her safety. Are you willing to let your thirst for revenge against Barbossa destroy them?"
"No! I don't want them to get hurt, I guess not even for the Black Pearl. Your right luv, nothing should mean more than the live's of two people in love. But if there is any way for me to salvage my ship without those two getting hurt by it, I'll do it...... Now I have a question for you lass, why do you care if I think more of a ship then of those two? As you said you don't know them, so why do you care about perfect stranger's happiness?"
"I don't know why Jack......I just do. I guess that I just want people to be happy in life, everyone deserve's to be in love and happy. Everyone look's for those thing's in there live's, but not every one find's it. I guess you could say I want people who has found it, to keep it. If only to prove to myself that all the searching is worth what you go through to find it."
"So your saying that you want to see people who has found what you're searching for keep it, if only to prove that it's worth all the trouble that you go through to find it. Do you have so little faith in your self in being worthy of some one to love you."
"Well in a way, yes. I've been searching for a long time, and I still haven't found him yet. I would just like to know that it's worth it. I mean look at my friend's, they all have found the one person that they want to spend the rest of there live's with, and out of our group I'm the only one who is still single. I alway's thought that I wouldn't have any trouble in finding my true love, and that is the only thing that I have had, trouble. What about you Jack? Have you found the one person that make's you feel content by them just being near you?"
"No, but the I've not been searching for her either."
"Why not? Aren't you lonely?"
"At time's, yes I'm lonely. But you have to think though, For the last ten year's I've been trying to get my ship back. I haven't had a lot of time to think about being lonely."
"Strange isn't it? You've been trying to get your ship back for the last ten year's and I've been on my adventure for the last ten year's. It's enough to make you think that we were supposed to meet each other, that for some reason we both had to wait the ten year's to meet each other."
"How old are you Kagome? You don't look old enough to have been on an adventure for ten year's."
"I just turned 25. How old are you Jack? Because you don't look much older then me."
"I'm almost 30. I was almost 20 when Barbossa took my ship from me."
"I thought so. You were awfully young to be a captain of a ship weren't you?"
"I guess so. That could have been one of the reason's that the crew turned against me."
"Well I guess we should finish our rum and then turn in for the night. Are you sure about the two of us shareing the blanket? I would be all right with out one. Like I said earlier, I'm used to campng out on cold weather."
"And I told you earlier that if we didn't share the blanket that I would be the one with out one. Savvy?"
I watch her face as she think's about what I've said. I can tell that she's uncomfortable about the situation, but she also doesn't want me to sleep in the cold either. She look's at me and smile's shyly.
"Savvy! Jack."
We both start drinking the rum again. After a while I notice that she's gotten quiet so I glance over at her only to see that she's asleep. I stand up and walk over to where she's laying. I pick up the bottle and see that it's almost empty. She's a unique woman all right, one that I would like to know better. I reach and pick up the blanket behind her and unfold it and spread it out over her. I quickly finish off what's left in her bottle, then I lay down next to her under the blanket. With the size of the blanket I pull her into my arm's so we'll both be under it. I notice that she fit's in my arm's like she was made to be there. I also notice that she is so light in my arm's. I close my eye's to go to sleep.
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I wake up the next morning from the best sleep that I've had since I was a child, to find that some time during the night Kagome had shifted from my arm's and was now laying on top of me. I smile and hug her tightly in my arm's. I suddenly smell smoke and not like smoke from a campfire either, no it smell's like it much larger. I quickly glance around to see that Elizabeth is no longer laying asleep where we had left her last night. As much as I hate to wake her I shake Kagome's shoulder. Her eyelid's flutter open, when she notice's how she is laying her face turn's red, and she quickly roll's off of me. She sit's up on the ground and look's around. I sit up and look around only to see Elizabeth throwing something onto a huge fire and it exploding. I jump up and start running toward her.
"No! Not good! Stop! What are you doing? You burned all of the food, all of the shade, All of the rum!"
"Yes the rum is gone!"
"Why is the rum gone?"
"One, because it's a vile drink that turn's even the most respectable men into complete scoundrel's, and that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire royale navy is out looking for me, do you really think that there's even the slightest chance that they won't see it?"
"But why is the rum gone?"
"Just Wait Captain Sparrow. You give it one hour, maybe two, and keep out a weather eye out and then you'll see white sail's on that horizan." She sit's down on the beach, and is looking out at the sea.
I pull out my pistol and point it at her, and realize that she's not worth the shot that I've been saving for Barbossa for the last ten year's. I quickly shove the pistol back into my sash. And I storm away, walking at a fast pace away from her, before I do something stupid like strangle her.
I hear someone following me, I turn around to see that it Kagome walking up to where I've stopped. When she reaches me I continue walking along the sand dune's away from Elizabeth. Kagome walk's closer to me and put's her hand on my shoulder, to stop me.
"Jack are you all right?"
"No! She's taking a huge chance with our live's. She's burning everthing that she can on one chance that the royal navy is in this area, and if they aren't then she has cut down our chance's of survival, until we can be rescued. There's also the possibility that instead of the royale navy seeing that fire, that a pirate ship will. Believe me there are some very evil men that are pirate's. Most aren't like me or the one's that I alway's had on my crew's. I never would allow them to hurt women or children, we only killed when we had no other choice. Or protect our selve's or the ship. Hell most men would back down than to cross blade's with a pirate. I alway's used there fear to my advantage, so I wouldn't have to kill them. Now because of her we could very well be found by pirate's who take delight in rape and torture, and there is no way I can protect the two of you."
"Jack calm down, true what she did can be a very stupid thing, but we can hope for the best and the royale navy will be the one to find us."
"Like that's much better luv'. True she and you would be safer with them, but they still want ot hang me for being a pirate. I should of let her drown!"
"There hanging you because you saved some one from drowning? I alway's thought that the english were idiot's, and after hearing this I'm now positive of it. If anything they should have rewarded you for being noble enough to save whoever it was!"
"It was her, Elizabeth was the one who drowning. Oh after she explained that I was the one who saved her they were all smile's and thank's until they saw the brand on my forearm. After they saw that then they wanted to hang me, oh not because I had done anything in there town but because that I was caught smuggling in India. No matter what I do, I'll never be able to change because of that brand will alway's be there."
"If you could change would you?"
"At time's, but there is no reason for me to change, because no matter what I do I'll alway's be branded a pirate."
"And if you could lose the brand that mark's you, would you stop being a pirate?"
"I've never thought about it. But what's the use it's already to late, it's there for the world to see. Beside's I don't know how to be anything else but a pirate."
"Jack can I see the brand?"
I look at her for a moment, and then I hold out my right arm for her to see. She pushes my shirt sleeve back out of the way, and run's her fingers across the brand, my arm tingle's from her touch. I look into her eye's and watch as she closes them. I watch as she start's concentrateing, the tingling in my arm intensify's. I look down at my arm that she has in her grasp, to see that her hand's are glowing pink. I gasp at the sight, she opened her eye's and looked down at my arm. Her hand's stop glowing and she remove's it from my arm. The skin where the brand was is unblemished, as if there had never been anything there. I look at her in wonder.
"How did you do that Lass? I've not ever seen anything like it in my whole life!"
"I am a miko Jack. I was trained to heal people."
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That's all for this chapter. Please read and review, let me know how I can make it better.
Thank's,
echo21
Chapter 6
Jack's pov;
I take another large gulp of rum after Kagome said 'drink up me 'eartie yo ho.' What I had told her was the truth I had never met any one like her before in my life. I mean at first glance she appear's to be a thin young man, but in knowing the truth that she's a woman and not a boy just make's me wonder what kind of life that she has had to lead.
Why does she dress like a boy any way? She'll have a hard time finding a husband dressing like that, maybe that's what she meant when she said that it was hard finding someone to love you as you were and not what they wanted you to be.
Look at her sitting there in the sand, drinking rum with me, a pirate. She seem's so innocent and trusting. I can understand why her friend's kept a close watch over her. Hell I just met her and I want to protect her from thing's and keep her safe. I've not ever felt this way about any one or any thing, except The Black Pearl.
Even her look's are different from any that I've seen before. She's far from the classic definition of beautiful. Elizabeth is the classic beautiful woman by the standard's around here. No Kagome is some thing different all together. I guess the biggest difference between her and any other woman that I have ever met is that she is confident in her ability's to protect her self. She seem's an odd combination of contradiction's, she's strong, she's self sufficent, she seem's very capable to take care of her self. But she is also very innocent, trusting, and she also seem's very fragile at the same time.
I guess in her own way she's beautiful, with her peaches and cream skin, her long black hair, her dark blue eye's, her heart shped face, and her full lip's. Even as petite as she is make's her unique, she barely reaches my chin, most women around here are about Elizabeth's height, and she's almost as tall as I am.
Yes I guess that I do think she is beautiful. I also love the way I can make her blush with just a look in her direction. She's truly beautiful when she blushes, her cheek's all rosy and her trying to hide it from me.
Around her I feel as if I am worth something. As if I can trust her in any situation, and I have never felt that way toward's anyone before her. If I'm not careful I could fall for this girl. I know that I'll never be able to be worthy of any decent woman, much less some one as innocent as she seem's. No Jack ol' boy you don't stand a chance with a girl like her, you don't deserve a chance with a girl like her.
I look over at her to see that she's looking at me. I grin at her only to watch her blush and look away. I take another drink of rum, and watch her as she does the same. She suddenly turn's toward's me and look's me in the eye's.
"Jack how did you get involved in this situation? I know why Elizabeth and Will are involved in it, but why are you?"
"Well luv, in a way this is all my fault. I was the one who originally got the idea to go after the cursed treasure. I was the Captain of The Black Pearl and I knew how to find the treasure, and I was stupid enough to trust the wrong person with the information on how to find it. I guess in a way I was lucky that they mutineed against me, and marooned me on this very island, because if they hadn't I would have been cursed right along with them."
"But what make's you care about what happen's to the other's?"
"Who said I cared? I could just be after revenge for what they did to me. After all they did leave me here to die."
"But you escaped that fate Jack. So your doing all of this for revenge?"
"And to get the Pearl back. It belong's to me, it's all my father had to give me when he died."
"So it's all about getting your ship back then? Do you think that a ship is more important than someone's life is?"
"To me the Black Pearl is more than a ship. With it wherever we want to go we go, that's what a ship is. It's not just the keel and a hull and a deck and sail's, that's what a ship need's. But what it is...... What the Black Pearl really is .... is freedom. When Barbossa took The Black Pearl away from me he took more than my ship from me....... he took away my freedom, he took away the only home I ever had or knew. Can you understand why I want my ship back as badly as I do?"
"Yes, now I do. You want your home back.......and your freedom. I can understand wanting those thing's back Jack, but what are you willing to sacrifice to get it back? Are you willing to sacrifice Will & Elizabeth's future for it? I know that I've not met Will, but I can tell that Elizabeth love's him from the way she talk's about him, and he must love her to do everything that he has to ensure her safety. Are you willing to let your thirst for revenge against Barbossa destroy them?"
"No! I don't want them to get hurt, I guess not even for the Black Pearl. Your right luv, nothing should mean more than the live's of two people in love. But if there is any way for me to salvage my ship without those two getting hurt by it, I'll do it...... Now I have a question for you lass, why do you care if I think more of a ship then of those two? As you said you don't know them, so why do you care about perfect stranger's happiness?"
"I don't know why Jack......I just do. I guess that I just want people to be happy in life, everyone deserve's to be in love and happy. Everyone look's for those thing's in there live's, but not every one find's it. I guess you could say I want people who has found it, to keep it. If only to prove to myself that all the searching is worth what you go through to find it."
"So your saying that you want to see people who has found what you're searching for keep it, if only to prove that it's worth all the trouble that you go through to find it. Do you have so little faith in your self in being worthy of some one to love you."
"Well in a way, yes. I've been searching for a long time, and I still haven't found him yet. I would just like to know that it's worth it. I mean look at my friend's, they all have found the one person that they want to spend the rest of there live's with, and out of our group I'm the only one who is still single. I alway's thought that I wouldn't have any trouble in finding my true love, and that is the only thing that I have had, trouble. What about you Jack? Have you found the one person that make's you feel content by them just being near you?"
"No, but the I've not been searching for her either."
"Why not? Aren't you lonely?"
"At time's, yes I'm lonely. But you have to think though, For the last ten year's I've been trying to get my ship back. I haven't had a lot of time to think about being lonely."
"Strange isn't it? You've been trying to get your ship back for the last ten year's and I've been on my adventure for the last ten year's. It's enough to make you think that we were supposed to meet each other, that for some reason we both had to wait the ten year's to meet each other."
"How old are you Kagome? You don't look old enough to have been on an adventure for ten year's."
"I just turned 25. How old are you Jack? Because you don't look much older then me."
"I'm almost 30. I was almost 20 when Barbossa took my ship from me."
"I thought so. You were awfully young to be a captain of a ship weren't you?"
"I guess so. That could have been one of the reason's that the crew turned against me."
"Well I guess we should finish our rum and then turn in for the night. Are you sure about the two of us shareing the blanket? I would be all right with out one. Like I said earlier, I'm used to campng out on cold weather."
"And I told you earlier that if we didn't share the blanket that I would be the one with out one. Savvy?"
I watch her face as she think's about what I've said. I can tell that she's uncomfortable about the situation, but she also doesn't want me to sleep in the cold either. She look's at me and smile's shyly.
"Savvy! Jack."
We both start drinking the rum again. After a while I notice that she's gotten quiet so I glance over at her only to see that she's asleep. I stand up and walk over to where she's laying. I pick up the bottle and see that it's almost empty. She's a unique woman all right, one that I would like to know better. I reach and pick up the blanket behind her and unfold it and spread it out over her. I quickly finish off what's left in her bottle, then I lay down next to her under the blanket. With the size of the blanket I pull her into my arm's so we'll both be under it. I notice that she fit's in my arm's like she was made to be there. I also notice that she is so light in my arm's. I close my eye's to go to sleep.
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I wake up the next morning from the best sleep that I've had since I was a child, to find that some time during the night Kagome had shifted from my arm's and was now laying on top of me. I smile and hug her tightly in my arm's. I suddenly smell smoke and not like smoke from a campfire either, no it smell's like it much larger. I quickly glance around to see that Elizabeth is no longer laying asleep where we had left her last night. As much as I hate to wake her I shake Kagome's shoulder. Her eyelid's flutter open, when she notice's how she is laying her face turn's red, and she quickly roll's off of me. She sit's up on the ground and look's around. I sit up and look around only to see Elizabeth throwing something onto a huge fire and it exploding. I jump up and start running toward her.
"No! Not good! Stop! What are you doing? You burned all of the food, all of the shade, All of the rum!"
"Yes the rum is gone!"
"Why is the rum gone?"
"One, because it's a vile drink that turn's even the most respectable men into complete scoundrel's, and that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire royale navy is out looking for me, do you really think that there's even the slightest chance that they won't see it?"
"But why is the rum gone?"
"Just Wait Captain Sparrow. You give it one hour, maybe two, and keep out a weather eye out and then you'll see white sail's on that horizan." She sit's down on the beach, and is looking out at the sea.
I pull out my pistol and point it at her, and realize that she's not worth the shot that I've been saving for Barbossa for the last ten year's. I quickly shove the pistol back into my sash. And I storm away, walking at a fast pace away from her, before I do something stupid like strangle her.
I hear someone following me, I turn around to see that it Kagome walking up to where I've stopped. When she reaches me I continue walking along the sand dune's away from Elizabeth. Kagome walk's closer to me and put's her hand on my shoulder, to stop me.
"Jack are you all right?"
"No! She's taking a huge chance with our live's. She's burning everthing that she can on one chance that the royal navy is in this area, and if they aren't then she has cut down our chance's of survival, until we can be rescued. There's also the possibility that instead of the royale navy seeing that fire, that a pirate ship will. Believe me there are some very evil men that are pirate's. Most aren't like me or the one's that I alway's had on my crew's. I never would allow them to hurt women or children, we only killed when we had no other choice. Or protect our selve's or the ship. Hell most men would back down than to cross blade's with a pirate. I alway's used there fear to my advantage, so I wouldn't have to kill them. Now because of her we could very well be found by pirate's who take delight in rape and torture, and there is no way I can protect the two of you."
"Jack calm down, true what she did can be a very stupid thing, but we can hope for the best and the royale navy will be the one to find us."
"Like that's much better luv'. True she and you would be safer with them, but they still want ot hang me for being a pirate. I should of let her drown!"
"There hanging you because you saved some one from drowning? I alway's thought that the english were idiot's, and after hearing this I'm now positive of it. If anything they should have rewarded you for being noble enough to save whoever it was!"
"It was her, Elizabeth was the one who drowning. Oh after she explained that I was the one who saved her they were all smile's and thank's until they saw the brand on my forearm. After they saw that then they wanted to hang me, oh not because I had done anything in there town but because that I was caught smuggling in India. No matter what I do, I'll never be able to change because of that brand will alway's be there."
"If you could change would you?"
"At time's, but there is no reason for me to change, because no matter what I do I'll alway's be branded a pirate."
"And if you could lose the brand that mark's you, would you stop being a pirate?"
"I've never thought about it. But what's the use it's already to late, it's there for the world to see. Beside's I don't know how to be anything else but a pirate."
"Jack can I see the brand?"
I look at her for a moment, and then I hold out my right arm for her to see. She pushes my shirt sleeve back out of the way, and run's her fingers across the brand, my arm tingle's from her touch. I look into her eye's and watch as she closes them. I watch as she start's concentrateing, the tingling in my arm intensify's. I look down at my arm that she has in her grasp, to see that her hand's are glowing pink. I gasp at the sight, she opened her eye's and looked down at my arm. Her hand's stop glowing and she remove's it from my arm. The skin where the brand was is unblemished, as if there had never been anything there. I look at her in wonder.
"How did you do that Lass? I've not ever seen anything like it in my whole life!"
"I am a miko Jack. I was trained to heal people."
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That's all for this chapter. Please read and review, let me know how I can make it better.
Thank's,
echo21