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I'm SORRY!!! I know, I know, I haven't written in a gazillion years... I'm such a lazy bum... been to lazy to type... But I did write the story down in my notebook, if it counts for anything... *perks up* But now my big sister Sada (known as Kaye in the world of fanfiction) has offered to type up my written works for me so we can speed up production. GO SADA!!! *a crowd gathers and starts cheering wildly chanting "ALL HAIL SADA, ALL HAIL SADA" Yeahhh!! Ok, now for the next chappy. I've been wanting to write this part for awhile but I've been putting it off for fear that I wouldn't be able to capture the emotion on paper. It's sad. Poor Jack. Poor Cela. Whaa! This is sad! My head hurts! I want my ada! But this is one of my favorite parts. The setting of this story is kina weird, post COTBP, but... well read on, you'll see. I need a hug. *wipes eyes and walks off* Enjoy! (or else)
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Daddy's Little Secret
(Nighttime on the Black Pearl, two days later.)
Cela: (Is sitting on Jack's bed, surrounded by her books and toys. She's humming the song about "really bad eggs" as she goes about her task of selecting her favorite book. Uncle Will told her to pick out her favorite book and see if she can get Jack to read it to her. She selects one her ma *sniff* used to read to her, "Cat at Sea," a book about a cat that goes to sea in search of dogs that have wronged him.)(Dislounges herself from all the other various toys and stuff and runs off through the lower decks in search of Jack, screaming his name to the top off her little lungs.) JAAAAAAAAAAAACK!! JAAAAAAAAAAAAACKK!! *breath* DAAAAADDDDDYYYYYYYYY!!!! (After a few minutes of this she is rewarded with a "alright, I'm coming, quit yer hollorin'!!") OK!! (After awhile Jack comes tromping up behind her.)
Jack: (Is slightly peeved. He was giving orders on deck and had to have Will finish the job. Well he isn't the half-wit he once was. No. Now he's more of a 3/5 wit. Still, he's getting there...)(Spots the book in Cela's hand and knows what she's up to. Will had been pestering him "to be more of a father to Cela" Hell, he hasn't had her for two bloody weeks! Seems like he thought reading to her would be a good idea.)(Gives a little jump of surprise as Cela seemingly attacks his midsection with the force of small, excitable comet.) Omfff!
Cela: (Hugging Jack and speaking WAY to fast for anyone but herself to understand.) HeydaddyJackwillyoureadmethisstoryUncleWillsaiditwouldbeagoodideaanditsmyfav oritebooksowillyoupleasereadittomepleasepleaseplease??
Jack: (Forcefully removes Cela before she crushes his rib cage.)(Sorts out what Cela just said in his mind for a moment then smiles.)... Sure I'll read ya yer book. (Holds up a finger.) But just one. (Points to the open space below the hatch to the deck.) Why don't we go pull up a bit of floor? (They walk over to the spot. He sits on the floor cross-legged and pats his lap.)
Cela: (Giggles and climbs into Jack's lap. He opens to book in front of her and quickly flips through it while she watches with great interest.) Do you like the book Jack?
Jack: (Makes a face. The book is, well...boring. It's full of sentences like "the cat went to sea," "the water is blue," and "the do is mean.") Hmmm... this book is a tad dull. I think I'm gonna spice it up a bit, savvy? (Cela nods.) Right. (Opens to the first page.) This book is called "Captain Cats and the Scurvy Dogs (also know as the English Fleet)"
Cela: (Goes all innocently confused wide eyed.) I thought it was called "Cat at Sea" daddy.
Jack: (Smiles.) Aye, it was. But that's boring, remember?
Cela: Oh, ok. (Snuggles back into Jack's lap as he starts the story.)
Jack: (Turns page. It says "Cat is on an island. Cat is sad) Once upon a time there was a fellow named Captain Cats. Now Captain Cats, with the Captain probably being more important than the Cats, was a great pirating Captain, just like me. But lately he had been deprived of his ship and crew because his traitorous first mate *coughbarbossayoubastardcough* marooned him on some godforsaken island. And he was pretty pissed off about it too. Sooo he... (Turns page. It says "Cat build a ship.") So he wades out into the water and waits for three days... (Jack tells the rest of the story in his "special" way, pulling out his sword and acting out the more dramatic parts of the story,)
Cela: (Giggles madly as Jack stands up and lops off the head of an imaginary "flea bitten mutt," swinging his sword two inches from her nose.)(Laughs and stands up and joins the fray as an Englishman, wildly swinging an imaginary sword.) I'll get you yet, Captain Cats! Yah!
Jack: (Dodges Cela's "blow" and pretends to stab her in the heart.) You'll never get me, ya scurvy dog! Not as long as I live! (Cela grabs her heart and swoons in an dramatic death.)
Cela: (Falls to the floor.) Ohhh... you got me... (Jack laughs and sheaths his sword.)
Jack: (Sits on the floor and Cela climbs back into his lap. This is kinda fun, playing with his daughter. Maybe this whole "fatherhood" thing is really all it's cracked up to be. And Cela really seems to like him. He didn't think that was going to happen. Not this quickly anyway. He sure loves her too. Maybe for her birthday, he's have to guess when that is, he could get her a sword, and...)(Suddenly a loud CRASH sounded from down the hall. Cela jumps and Jack gives her a reassuring hug.)
Cela: (Snuggles more deeply into Jack's lap. Another noise comes from overhead. She and Jack look up as someone pulls open the hatch, illumining them in a ray of moonlight.)
Hatch Opening Pirate: (Looks down and realizes he's interrupting something.) Umm... sorry, I heard a noise, wanted to make sure everything's alright...
Cela: (All of the sudden Jack's lap doesn't feel quite right. It's all bony and hurty.)(Takes her eyes off of the Hatch Opening Pirate and looks at Jack. But he isn't. Jack is gone. In his place there is a skeletal monster.. Horrible. Disgusting. It turns it's ugly head towards her and rolls yellow eyes back forth. It's zombie like, semi-flesh covered chest heaves as it rasps her name, forcing her to look at it's rotting, expressionless face.)AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! (She gives an involuntary, body shaking shudder and claws her way out of the lap. She scrambles as far as she can into a dark corner, so that all you can see of her is two round eyes, shaking with fear.)
Jack: (Stands up and roars at the Hatch Opening Pirate.) CLOSE THAT BLOODY HATCH THIS INSTANT YOU FOOL OR I'LL HAVE YOUR HEAD!!! (Cela whimpers in the corner and the eyes disappear as the hatch is hastily slammed shut.)(He regains his normal form and extends a hand to Cela.)(Almost frantically.) It's alright Cela. come on, come to daddy sweetie. come on out, it's ok. I'm not gonna hurt you, please, come out.
Cela: (Kicks the hand that comes towards her and shouts) Get away from me, you're not my daddy!! (Goes further into the darkness and wishes that she was anywhere but here. With him. He might look like a man, like her father, but she knew, she knew, that he wasn't. She didn't know what he was. But she did know that he scared her.)
Jack: (Pulls back his hand as if he's been physically burned. Emotionally, he's been stabbed in the heart.)
(At this moment, Will walks by the scene. He's not sure what's happening, but it doesn't look good. He walks over. Jack Grabs his shoulder.)
Jack: (Desperately.) Will, you gotta help me. Cela, she, she, saw me. (Will nods and starts talking to Cela in a soothing voice.)(Jack retreats to the corner opposite Cela. He sits with his back pressed against the wall, his legs pulled in towards his body, enveloped in shadow. Here, in the darkness, he couldn't scare anybody. Here, he can't hurt Cela anymore. When she first looked at him, her eyes were so full of fear and horror. She'd run from him, rejected him. He wasn't her father anymore. She hated him. She'd seen his true for and she hated him for it. When she kicked his hand, his whole world had come crashing down. Right when she was starting to warm up to him, this happens. Before she loved him, and he her. Now she's seen him for a monster and will run when he comes near. The way she looked at him. He is a monster. he doesn't deserve her. What was he thinking, trying to raise a child? She hates him. she'd never love hi again.)
(Meanwhile, Will is trying to comfort Cela and get her to understand what's going on.)
Will: (Squats down to Cela's eye level. He can see her small outline shivering in the corner, hardly distinguishable from the wall and shadows except for her eyes, which started shining at hi when Jack went into the corner.) Cela? (the eyes blink.) Cela? Why are you hiding down there?
Cela: (Study's Will intently for a moment before replying.) Who is that in the other corner?
Will: (Raises his eyebrows slightly, trying to give Cela the feeling that her question was silly.) He's your daddy. You know that don't you?
Cela: (Struggles for a moment, trying to put her feelings into words.) But. he's not. He's scary Uncle Will.
Will: How was he scary Cela?
Cela: (Struggles again.) He, he, was all bony, and, scary, and, and. (Searches her limited vocabulary for the right word.) .and dead! (There's movement in the other corner. Cela gives a frightened look in that direction.)
Will: (Shots Jack a sympathetic glance. He can't begin to imagine what he's going through over there.)(Wants show Cela the good side of Jack, to banish her fears of him. He wants her to hear herself.) Well, what's wrong with that? Did he hurt you?
Cela: (Stops shaking and eases up a bit while she thinks about this.)(Answers slowly.).well,.no. He just, he just looked scary, and his lap was all bony, and.
Will: (Seriously.) You know your daddy would never hurt you, and you know that the man in the corner is indeed your father. You know he loves you with all his heart. Don't you love him too? (Cela nods.) Then why don't you come out of that corner and show him? He can really use it right now.
Cela: (Comes out of her corner, her eyes shining unnaturally bright. She walks up to Will, who gives her small hand a quick reassuring squeeze.)(She eyes Jack's outline tentively, sitting alone in the corner.)
Jack: (Tears roll down his cheeks, unknown to him, he's so caught up in his own dark thoughts. Suddenly, someone rushes forwards and throws their arms around his neck. He raises his head. It's Cela. She's hugging him. She whispers "I love you daddy" in his ear. The world comes rushing back to him. He hugs her tightly and whispers) I love you too.
Cela: (pulls back a bit.) Daddy, why is your face all wet?
Jack: (Wipes a cheek unconcernedly.) I thought I'd lost you.
Cela: You didn't lose me. (Rests her head on his shoulder.) I'm right here.
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Well that's the long awaited chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. It was very hard to write. I hope I was able to convey every thing I wanted to. It turned out to be a lot sadder than my usual writings, But it won't get much worse than this. I also wanted to say that I am open to suggestions for a better story summery; I can't stand the current one. I would also like to saw that in the first chapter, I did change Molly to Ana Marie. Sorry about any confusion, I think I always meant for it to be like that, I just couldn't remember her name. I think the next chapter will be one explaining a lot of things. I'll try to get it out as soon as possible. So R&R, and, till next time!
I'm SORRY!!! I know, I know, I haven't written in a gazillion years... I'm such a lazy bum... been to lazy to type... But I did write the story down in my notebook, if it counts for anything... *perks up* But now my big sister Sada (known as Kaye in the world of fanfiction) has offered to type up my written works for me so we can speed up production. GO SADA!!! *a crowd gathers and starts cheering wildly chanting "ALL HAIL SADA, ALL HAIL SADA" Yeahhh!! Ok, now for the next chappy. I've been wanting to write this part for awhile but I've been putting it off for fear that I wouldn't be able to capture the emotion on paper. It's sad. Poor Jack. Poor Cela. Whaa! This is sad! My head hurts! I want my ada! But this is one of my favorite parts. The setting of this story is kina weird, post COTBP, but... well read on, you'll see. I need a hug. *wipes eyes and walks off* Enjoy! (or else)
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Daddy's Little Secret
(Nighttime on the Black Pearl, two days later.)
Cela: (Is sitting on Jack's bed, surrounded by her books and toys. She's humming the song about "really bad eggs" as she goes about her task of selecting her favorite book. Uncle Will told her to pick out her favorite book and see if she can get Jack to read it to her. She selects one her ma *sniff* used to read to her, "Cat at Sea," a book about a cat that goes to sea in search of dogs that have wronged him.)(Dislounges herself from all the other various toys and stuff and runs off through the lower decks in search of Jack, screaming his name to the top off her little lungs.) JAAAAAAAAAAAACK!! JAAAAAAAAAAAAACKK!! *breath* DAAAAADDDDDYYYYYYYYY!!!! (After a few minutes of this she is rewarded with a "alright, I'm coming, quit yer hollorin'!!") OK!! (After awhile Jack comes tromping up behind her.)
Jack: (Is slightly peeved. He was giving orders on deck and had to have Will finish the job. Well he isn't the half-wit he once was. No. Now he's more of a 3/5 wit. Still, he's getting there...)(Spots the book in Cela's hand and knows what she's up to. Will had been pestering him "to be more of a father to Cela" Hell, he hasn't had her for two bloody weeks! Seems like he thought reading to her would be a good idea.)(Gives a little jump of surprise as Cela seemingly attacks his midsection with the force of small, excitable comet.) Omfff!
Cela: (Hugging Jack and speaking WAY to fast for anyone but herself to understand.) HeydaddyJackwillyoureadmethisstoryUncleWillsaiditwouldbeagoodideaanditsmyfav oritebooksowillyoupleasereadittomepleasepleaseplease??
Jack: (Forcefully removes Cela before she crushes his rib cage.)(Sorts out what Cela just said in his mind for a moment then smiles.)... Sure I'll read ya yer book. (Holds up a finger.) But just one. (Points to the open space below the hatch to the deck.) Why don't we go pull up a bit of floor? (They walk over to the spot. He sits on the floor cross-legged and pats his lap.)
Cela: (Giggles and climbs into Jack's lap. He opens to book in front of her and quickly flips through it while she watches with great interest.) Do you like the book Jack?
Jack: (Makes a face. The book is, well...boring. It's full of sentences like "the cat went to sea," "the water is blue," and "the do is mean.") Hmmm... this book is a tad dull. I think I'm gonna spice it up a bit, savvy? (Cela nods.) Right. (Opens to the first page.) This book is called "Captain Cats and the Scurvy Dogs (also know as the English Fleet)"
Cela: (Goes all innocently confused wide eyed.) I thought it was called "Cat at Sea" daddy.
Jack: (Smiles.) Aye, it was. But that's boring, remember?
Cela: Oh, ok. (Snuggles back into Jack's lap as he starts the story.)
Jack: (Turns page. It says "Cat is on an island. Cat is sad) Once upon a time there was a fellow named Captain Cats. Now Captain Cats, with the Captain probably being more important than the Cats, was a great pirating Captain, just like me. But lately he had been deprived of his ship and crew because his traitorous first mate *coughbarbossayoubastardcough* marooned him on some godforsaken island. And he was pretty pissed off about it too. Sooo he... (Turns page. It says "Cat build a ship.") So he wades out into the water and waits for three days... (Jack tells the rest of the story in his "special" way, pulling out his sword and acting out the more dramatic parts of the story,)
Cela: (Giggles madly as Jack stands up and lops off the head of an imaginary "flea bitten mutt," swinging his sword two inches from her nose.)(Laughs and stands up and joins the fray as an Englishman, wildly swinging an imaginary sword.) I'll get you yet, Captain Cats! Yah!
Jack: (Dodges Cela's "blow" and pretends to stab her in the heart.) You'll never get me, ya scurvy dog! Not as long as I live! (Cela grabs her heart and swoons in an dramatic death.)
Cela: (Falls to the floor.) Ohhh... you got me... (Jack laughs and sheaths his sword.)
Jack: (Sits on the floor and Cela climbs back into his lap. This is kinda fun, playing with his daughter. Maybe this whole "fatherhood" thing is really all it's cracked up to be. And Cela really seems to like him. He didn't think that was going to happen. Not this quickly anyway. He sure loves her too. Maybe for her birthday, he's have to guess when that is, he could get her a sword, and...)(Suddenly a loud CRASH sounded from down the hall. Cela jumps and Jack gives her a reassuring hug.)
Cela: (Snuggles more deeply into Jack's lap. Another noise comes from overhead. She and Jack look up as someone pulls open the hatch, illumining them in a ray of moonlight.)
Hatch Opening Pirate: (Looks down and realizes he's interrupting something.) Umm... sorry, I heard a noise, wanted to make sure everything's alright...
Cela: (All of the sudden Jack's lap doesn't feel quite right. It's all bony and hurty.)(Takes her eyes off of the Hatch Opening Pirate and looks at Jack. But he isn't. Jack is gone. In his place there is a skeletal monster.. Horrible. Disgusting. It turns it's ugly head towards her and rolls yellow eyes back forth. It's zombie like, semi-flesh covered chest heaves as it rasps her name, forcing her to look at it's rotting, expressionless face.)AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! (She gives an involuntary, body shaking shudder and claws her way out of the lap. She scrambles as far as she can into a dark corner, so that all you can see of her is two round eyes, shaking with fear.)
Jack: (Stands up and roars at the Hatch Opening Pirate.) CLOSE THAT BLOODY HATCH THIS INSTANT YOU FOOL OR I'LL HAVE YOUR HEAD!!! (Cela whimpers in the corner and the eyes disappear as the hatch is hastily slammed shut.)(He regains his normal form and extends a hand to Cela.)(Almost frantically.) It's alright Cela. come on, come to daddy sweetie. come on out, it's ok. I'm not gonna hurt you, please, come out.
Cela: (Kicks the hand that comes towards her and shouts) Get away from me, you're not my daddy!! (Goes further into the darkness and wishes that she was anywhere but here. With him. He might look like a man, like her father, but she knew, she knew, that he wasn't. She didn't know what he was. But she did know that he scared her.)
Jack: (Pulls back his hand as if he's been physically burned. Emotionally, he's been stabbed in the heart.)
(At this moment, Will walks by the scene. He's not sure what's happening, but it doesn't look good. He walks over. Jack Grabs his shoulder.)
Jack: (Desperately.) Will, you gotta help me. Cela, she, she, saw me. (Will nods and starts talking to Cela in a soothing voice.)(Jack retreats to the corner opposite Cela. He sits with his back pressed against the wall, his legs pulled in towards his body, enveloped in shadow. Here, in the darkness, he couldn't scare anybody. Here, he can't hurt Cela anymore. When she first looked at him, her eyes were so full of fear and horror. She'd run from him, rejected him. He wasn't her father anymore. She hated him. She'd seen his true for and she hated him for it. When she kicked his hand, his whole world had come crashing down. Right when she was starting to warm up to him, this happens. Before she loved him, and he her. Now she's seen him for a monster and will run when he comes near. The way she looked at him. He is a monster. he doesn't deserve her. What was he thinking, trying to raise a child? She hates him. she'd never love hi again.)
(Meanwhile, Will is trying to comfort Cela and get her to understand what's going on.)
Will: (Squats down to Cela's eye level. He can see her small outline shivering in the corner, hardly distinguishable from the wall and shadows except for her eyes, which started shining at hi when Jack went into the corner.) Cela? (the eyes blink.) Cela? Why are you hiding down there?
Cela: (Study's Will intently for a moment before replying.) Who is that in the other corner?
Will: (Raises his eyebrows slightly, trying to give Cela the feeling that her question was silly.) He's your daddy. You know that don't you?
Cela: (Struggles for a moment, trying to put her feelings into words.) But. he's not. He's scary Uncle Will.
Will: How was he scary Cela?
Cela: (Struggles again.) He, he, was all bony, and, scary, and, and. (Searches her limited vocabulary for the right word.) .and dead! (There's movement in the other corner. Cela gives a frightened look in that direction.)
Will: (Shots Jack a sympathetic glance. He can't begin to imagine what he's going through over there.)(Wants show Cela the good side of Jack, to banish her fears of him. He wants her to hear herself.) Well, what's wrong with that? Did he hurt you?
Cela: (Stops shaking and eases up a bit while she thinks about this.)(Answers slowly.).well,.no. He just, he just looked scary, and his lap was all bony, and.
Will: (Seriously.) You know your daddy would never hurt you, and you know that the man in the corner is indeed your father. You know he loves you with all his heart. Don't you love him too? (Cela nods.) Then why don't you come out of that corner and show him? He can really use it right now.
Cela: (Comes out of her corner, her eyes shining unnaturally bright. She walks up to Will, who gives her small hand a quick reassuring squeeze.)(She eyes Jack's outline tentively, sitting alone in the corner.)
Jack: (Tears roll down his cheeks, unknown to him, he's so caught up in his own dark thoughts. Suddenly, someone rushes forwards and throws their arms around his neck. He raises his head. It's Cela. She's hugging him. She whispers "I love you daddy" in his ear. The world comes rushing back to him. He hugs her tightly and whispers) I love you too.
Cela: (pulls back a bit.) Daddy, why is your face all wet?
Jack: (Wipes a cheek unconcernedly.) I thought I'd lost you.
Cela: You didn't lose me. (Rests her head on his shoulder.) I'm right here.
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Well that's the long awaited chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. It was very hard to write. I hope I was able to convey every thing I wanted to. It turned out to be a lot sadder than my usual writings, But it won't get much worse than this. I also wanted to say that I am open to suggestions for a better story summery; I can't stand the current one. I would also like to saw that in the first chapter, I did change Molly to Ana Marie. Sorry about any confusion, I think I always meant for it to be like that, I just couldn't remember her name. I think the next chapter will be one explaining a lot of things. I'll try to get it out as soon as possible. So R&R, and, till next time!