Hello, firstly I am so sorry for not updating sooner but things just got away from me. Christmas stuff than getting back to school stuff. This chapter was originally going to be much longer but just so you don't all give up on me I thought I'd post this half now. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year or Whatever you celebrate. Again sorry for the lateness of Chapter and Please Review.
Chapter fourTortuga Part 1
Will sat at a table and watched Roseanna walk through the galley. She walked amongst the crew slapping a back here, a kick over there, a snide remark, he had to admit she looked a lot better now than she had before, though in all fairness she had been through a lot. But Lord she would have to be the prettiest thing he'd ever seen.
He was pulled most abruptly from his thoughts when Jack sat next to him. Jack passed him a tankard. Full of rum no doubt he thought to himself. Jack smiled and leaned back in his chair placing his soft booted feet onto the table. Will raised an eyebrow slightly and shook his head. Jack catching his gaze just grinned.
"I didn't know you had a daughter," Will stated offhandedly.
" Ye didn' ask mate." Jack replied in the same bored tone.
Will rolled his eyes.
'It's not something that generally comes up in polite conversation." He answered exasperatedly.
Jack looked at will before jumping up and glaring at him.
"How dare ye!" he seethed
"Huh?"
"Accuse me of being parry to POLITE conversation!" he bellowed. The whole room stopped.
"I didn't mean.. Uh.. Okaay…." Will was lost for words, wishing he hadn't opened his mouth. Jack watched him stumble before going quiet; he then leaned over slapped Will on the back and grinned.
"I'll forgive ye just this once."
Will sighed in relief before glaring at Jack and grabbing his tankard swallowing the contents in one gulp. He cringed as the rum burned his throat before refilling his tankard. He'd better get used to it, he thought to himself, by the looks of things he was gonna need it.
Roseanna was sitting in the crow's nest, singing a song Ana Maria's brother Jacob had taught her.
"Blow the wind Southerly, Southerly, Southerly, blow the wind over the sea…."
Will was sitting on deck slightly tipsy from numerous tankards of rum. He'd come above hoping that the fresh air might revive his reeling senses. It was while doing so he heard the most beautiful voice. He looked toward the sound and found it in the form of Roseanna who was sitting in the crow's nest. He felt someone walk up behind him, he turned it was Jack.
"Mesmerizing, isn't it?" Jack asked with a haunting shadow of a smile. " Just like her mum in that respect. Rosie's mum could stop a whole room with two notes." Again that ghost of a smile. They both fell silent to listen to Roseanna.
'my lover to m….. Tortuga." That single word tore from her throat in a joyous cry. Both Jack and will looked up just in time to see Roseanna fall from the Crow's nest.
Jack held his breath and watched as his daughter lost her balance. He started forward to catch her. In the end it wasn't necessary she grabbed the rigging and hung on for dear life. Once Jack saw that she wasn't in any immediate danger he turned on her…
"Roseanna Cate Sparrow! How many times do I have to warn you to be careful up there. Do you not understand how dangerous it is up there. If that doesn't work think of me. I aint what I used to be the ol' ticker could give way at any moment."
Roseanna looked at her father rolling her eyes, before replying brattily;
"Jack you're a dope your not over the hill yet and even if you were you'd be to stubborn to die because that would make me happy." With a small shriek she jumped from the rigging into Jack's waiting arms. This obviously an old argument. Will settled back to watch.
"ah no that's not true and you know it lass."
'Jack face up too facts anything that makes me happy gets a black mark in your book."
Jack looked at her and rolled his eyes.
"Now lass that's a bot harsh, you know that's only for most things."
Roseanna looked at Jack then buried her head in her hands, she turned her back and Will could see her shoulders shaking. Jack started forward and pulled Roseanna close.
"Lass I didn't mean it you know that I'm sorry you just make me worry that's all."
Roseanna shrugged him off, spun round to face them before throwing her head back and laughing.
'Captain Jack Sparrow you're a push over I have you wrapped around my little finger."
"Ouck no lass that's not fair, your not allowed to do that."
" It's my daughterly right"
Will burst into fits of loud uncontrollable laughter. Both Roseanna and Jack turned to stare,
"What?" they asked in chorus.
"You have no idea how much you sound like the Swans!"
" Ah! I was waiting for you to bring up the fair lass."
Will cringed he really did not want to talk about the fair Genteel Lady Elizabeth Swann.
"Who the hell are we talking about?" Asked Roseanna Warily.
" Ah calm down lass there's nothing to worry about, we're talking about the light and love of Will's life, remember me talking of the lass we rescued from Barbossa and his crew of motley misfits."
"Oh yeah the one you hit on whilst you where on the beach."
"it was the rum! The Rum I swear it was the Rum!."
Roseanna looked at Will, who was staring off into the
distance.
"What's it matter" he said in a low pain filled voice. " You can have her, It's
over between us, good riddance too Miss Elizabeth Swann too if you ask me."
"Now Lad that's harsh, when I left yer, yer were madly in love and soon to be married."
Will looked at Jack and shook his head.
"Then you were as foolish as I was. She didn't want me, she wanted what she believed she could make me. She wanted the world, I could only give her my heart. She wanted glitz and glamour the huge mansion and a husband that would earn millions." Will stopped choked by too much emotion, he was going to continue when Roseanna interrupted finishing his thoughts perfectly.
"You wanted a simple life, small house not far from the armoury, a wife maybe to help you but most of all to love you, and to be loved in return, to give you babies as a sign of that love. A simple yet incredibly happy life."
"Precisely. It's as if you read my mind."
Roseanna smiled faintly staring off into the distance.
"You're just easy to read, being in love'll do that to you." She told him softly.
Jack watched his daughters face intently. He didn't like the look on her face, she was only eighteen, too young to be talking about love and perfect lives and such. He decided too get to the bottom of this by voicing his fears.
"An how would you know?" He questioned her softly.
"About what?"
"What it's like to be in love is there something I should know are you and Gibsy …. Hell what am I asking you for?"
Jack stopped turning abruptly before he started yelling again.
"Gibsy, Gibsy me lad get up here. Jonathan Liam Gibbs up here now!"
Gibsy came running up on deck looking form Jack to a bewildered Roseanna.
Roseanna looked at the way Jack was looking from Gibsy to her and back. Realization dawned on her.
"No Way! Jack I know you're mad but that's positively stupid."
Gibsy looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Is it, Is it Roseanna I give you too much space you and Gibsy are close. I thought you were safe with them so I didn't watch you. Perhaps I should've."
"Oh come on Jack this is stupid, ask him yerself."
Jack did just that.
"Gibsy have you slept with my daughter."
Gibsy looked at him before bursting into fits of uncontrollable laughter. Upon seeing the look on Jacks face he stopped.
"My God, your serious, captain that's positively barmy even for you."
"You keep telling me that, but is it, is it really?"
Jack's voice rose with every question. Hearing the voices Ana Maria and Mr Gibbs came on deck. Jack looked at Mr Gibbs.
"I want you and yer son of my ship, I can't trust yer."
"Pardon?" Mr Gibbs spluttered.
"Yer both scum, an' I wont have the likes of you on me ship."
'Steady on Jack, What've we done?"
"Your son has been shagging my Rosie."
Mr Gibbs turned and looked at his son.
"Is Jack telling the truth." he asked him." Before Gibsy had a chance to answer Jack interrupted.
"Course I'm telling the truth came from my own daughters mouth."
Roseanna tried to inform Mr Gibbs that she had said no such thing and that her father was grossly mistaken but gave up when Mr Gibbs started blaming Roseanna by telling Jack that if his daughter hadn't thrown herself at his son than there wouldn't be a problem. Both Gibsy and Jack had problems with that and both turned on Mr Gibbs protecting Roseanna's honour. Roseanna stood dumbfounded not sure how to take the things Mr Gibbs was saying about her. But things continued the insults became steadily worse. Mr Gibbs' insults about Roseanna's person were bordering on insubordinate. Jack was clenching his jaw and dreaming if torture, while Roseanna was being simple and was thinking of a nice normal bleeding. It was now that Ana Maria cut in;
"Gentlemen You need to stop and listen to yourselves, then ask your children."
Both men stopped then looked at their children. Roseanna was standing next to Gibsy arms around herself wondering if the whole crew thought she was a lying stealing Tortuga whore. She cut her thoughts short, duh Pirate equals lying stealing Tortuga whore, but still hearing it from a man she considered a second father hurt. She felt arms around her and looked up it was Gibsy. She smiled then remembered what had gotten them into this mess. She shrugged herself out of Gibsy's embrace then looked at Jack and Mr Gibbs.
"Captain, Mr Gibbs I assure you that Jonathan Liam Gibbs and I, Roseanna Cate Sparrow have had no intimate contact that would be deemed inappropriate by either parties, parents and or guardians."
"Ur, em, what the bloody hell?" asked Mr Gibbs scratching his head. Roseanna pushed to her limits and sick of trying to justify something that hadn't happened, threw up her hands and screamed at the top of her lungs.
"WE DID NOT SHAG!"
Both men looked at her still not quite believing.
"Do you want to check? "cause I assure you that my virginity is still intact…" she stopped there flushed with anger, her cheeks quickly turning red at the gales of laughter coming from Will and Ana Maria. She turned to Gibsy
"I said that out loud didn't I?"
Gibsy nodded pityingly then seeing her mortification took her into his arms. She let him cuddle her while waiting for Mr Gibbs and Jack too start breathing again. Jack came too first
"That settles that then, er, ok" he stopped than noticed they were drifting towards the docks of Tortuga.
"Prepare too dock" he yelled.
With that command the crew and Will ran to do just that. Leaving Roseanna and Gibsy behind.
"So it was all Just a shield huh little Rose all talk and no action. Your still an innocent." Gibsy whispered too her.
Roseanna hit him, he smiled and kissed her forehead, while not to far away someone watched.
The end. Next chapter we actually get into Tortuga. Review please, even if it's just to tell me it sucks.
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