~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~******* LIBRARY *******~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Both Nika and Karen sit in big armchairs facing the windows out to the west, where the last hour or so of sunlight faded in a beautiful array of colours. Karen and Nika are silently reading when their silence is interrupted by the sound of Jonathan's voice.
"Excuse me, but do you have any books that I might be able to read?" he asks politely.
Karen sighs, marks the page in her book, and gets up. "What types of books do you like to read Mr. Norrington?" she asks formally.
"Well I tend to like fiction. Mostly action- adventure stories." He says.
"Hmm.... let me see." She says looking for a book for him, as a host and hostesses daughter should. "Aha! Here we are!" She hands him a book. He looks it over appreciatively.
"Thank you, Ms. Turner." He says, smiling a debonair smile.
The girls read in the library until the room is so dark they can no longer see the pages in their books. They retire to their rooms and go to sleep, after winding their alarm clocks.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~******** JACK'S DREAM ********~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Two girls stand at the helm next to Jack, who is steering currently. Suddenly a shout from above them, from the Crow's Nest.
"Cap'n! There be an enemy ship out thar, and they look ready to attack!"
"Thanks for the warning mate! How far out is that boat?"
"About 10 minutes away from us Cap'n!"
"Thanks again!" Jack shouts. To the girls, he says, "Now girls, you've been training for over 2 years now. If attacking pirates board, I'll expect ye, to fight. Understand?"
"Yes Father," a ten- year old Nika says, nodding her head.
"Yes, Uncle Jack." a ten- year old Karen says, also nodding her head.
As the enemy ship approaches, twenty or so grappling hooks attach themselves to the rails of the deck, and enemy pirates fly over to the ship. Nika and Karen each take out a sword.
"Stay together, and don't go to far away from me!" Jack yells, and he and the girls go down the stairs to fight with their crew. The girls at four foot five inches tall didn't pose much of a threat to the enemy pirates at first. Until that is, Nika and Karen start stabbing the enemy pirates. Fist to make a move on a pirate is Karen, who stabs an enemy that had one of her favorite pirates, Mr. Johnny Pleake, in the leg and then in the arm. Mr. Pleake then promptly throws the pirate overboard and starts on with the fighting. Nika who was very wary about any enemy pirates just stabbed and ran as she went. Soon the fight was over, and the retreating pirates could scarcely be seen, moving as fast as their boat could take them. Both Karen and Nika rip a scarf off of a dead body, and wipe their swords with them, before re-sheathing them. Captain Jack Sparrow smiled proudly that they got through their first fight, with Karen only having a gash on one side of her face and Nika a gash on her knee.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~********* WILL (SENIOR'S) DREAM*********~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Standing outside of a door, just waiting, was something neither Jack Sparrow, or Will Turner Snr. could do. Harder than that still was the fact that they were standing outside of a door, hearing their wives screaming in the pain of childbirth. This was Jack's first child and he was quite nervous, and Will's second child, and he was even more nervous than Jack. Pacing back and forth between the door that separated them from their wives and to the end of the hall, was all the 2 men dared to do. Downstairs in the Parlor room, farthest away from all the noise, was the entire Sparrow and Turner Families, plus the entire crew of the Black Pearl.
Finally after at least 12 hours of waiting a nurse came out of Elisa's room. "It's a girl!" She announced to the waiting men. Jack whooped and Will congratulated him. "You can come in after we've cleaned them and the room up a bit." Then she went back inside the room.
Will, still hearing his wife's screams continued to pace. Two hours later, both nurse's came out of both rooms. The one from Elizabeth's room spoke first. "It's a girl!" She announced also. Will smiled, and Jack congratulated him. "You can come in once I've cleaned them up a bit."
The second nurse spoke, "You can come in now Mr. Sparrow, but ONLY Mr. Sparrow, for now." and she left with Jack, while Will waited until he could see Elizabeth and their new baby girl. Sooner than expected, the nurse came out and told Will to go in.
"Hello Elizabeth." He said quietly, as he spied the feeding baby in her arms.
"Will, she's beautiful! Look at her. Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes." Elizabeth cooed. She handed Will the baby after she was done feeding.
"What shall we name this beautiful girl?" he asked.
"What about Karen, after my mother?"
"Wonderful, darling. And her middle name will be Elizabeth, after her mother. Karen Elizabeth Turner. I like that."
"It's a beautiful name."
"Shall I go and ask Jack if he's ready to let our daughter's meet their lovely families?"
"Of course, go on darling. You know what to do if she gets fussy, right?"
"Yes dear, now rest. We'll all be needing it." he says with a smile.
Will goes into the hallway, and knocks on Elisa's door, after getting the okay from the nursemaid. "Jack, are you ready to show them off, yet?"
"Yes, just a minute Will." Will hears some whispering behind the door, and then Jack comes out with a baby girl in his arms. "Will, meet Nichole Elisa Sparrow. Nichole, meet your godfather, Will Turner." The baby cooed in Jack's arms.
"Jack, meet Karen Elizabeth Turner. Karen, meet your godfather, CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow." Karen cooed in Will's arms.
"Shall we go introduce them to their families?"
"Of course. We can't keep them to ourselves forever."
They go down the stairs and into the Parlor, where around 35 people wait. The first to notice is Will's first and only son, William.
"Father, Uncle!" he says getting up and running over. "Do I have a sister or brother, and what do I have as a cousin?" the 5-year old asks excitedly.
"Everyone? We'd like for you to meet our daughters." Jack announces. "This is Nichole Elisa Sparrow."
"And this is Karen Elizabeth Turner." Will says.
"Karan? and Neecole? Can I call them Kar-bear and Nika... I can't say them right." William asks.
"Of course you can call them that son." Will says, getting approval from Jack first.
The girls are passed around the room and cooed at, until the nurse says that the girls couldn't be near too many people for long at first, so she takes them upstairs to their shared nursery.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~***** BREAKFAST*****~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At breakfast that morning, Will and Jack were both smiling for some reason unknown to the rest. It was silent except for the slight sound of clinging while everyone ate their food. Soon, after everyone was done the girls went out to shop for a while, taking their mothers with them. Jonathan traveled back into the library to read, and the two eldest men went to the ship to help repair her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~******IN THE SHOPS*****~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The girls went out to the stores and had bought enough fabric for 2 new dresses to be made, petticoats and all. They went to the finest seamstress in Port Royal. All in all, they'd spent about 10 pieces of silver this day.
Going home Elisa, Elizabeth, and Nika return to the Turner/ Sparrow home, while Karen goes to see her grandfather. The butler opens the door for her and leads her into the parlor where she waits for her grandfather. Soon after the old man comes wobbling in with his cane. Karen goes to help him, but he gestures at her with his free hand to sit back down. When he sits down he begins to talk.
"Now, Karen dear... What is it that you wanted to talk to your dear old grand dad, hmm?"
"Well Grandfather, I was wondering, why do you keep forcing Jonathan down my throat, when you know that we despise eachother? You've seen us fight before Grandfather! Don't you remember?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**** FLASHBACK****~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Two 9 year old girls run down the plank before their parents, one accidentally hitting another boy waiting for his father.
"Oh! So sorry! Didn't mean to do that." A young Karen says.
"Watch your step," and he says his last word with venom, "pirate!"
"I'm not a pirate! I am the daughter of one of the Queen's finest retrieval men, you lark!"
"Well then you're a pirates daughter! You shouldn't be here in Port Royal! We don't need anymore SCUM!"
"Scum? You think I'm scum?! Well then what are you, for being so rude to a lady? The things sticking to the side of that rather small boat?" She said gesturing to the boat the boy came from.
A man just walked down the plank of the other boat, with Karen's Grandfather.
"Grandpa! It's so good to see you!" the 3 children of the Pearl yelled as they hugged them.
" 'Grandpa', so these are your grandchildren?" Commodore Norrington asks.
"Yes they are his grand-children, Jonathan." Elizabeth says walking to the group with the rest of the Sparrows and Turners.
"Then she is nothing but a pirate! That's what daddy told me." the young boy says snottily.
"I am NOT!" Karen yells, pushing the boy into the water next to his ship.
"Can't say he didn't deserve that one. Let's just hope that this problem will work itself out, aye?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~****** END FLASHBACK*******~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Dear I know... but I was just hoping that you and he could become friends. You two have always had the worst relationship, and I just don't want that, when I can see the potential for friendship or more between you two." Governor Swann replies to his grand-daughter.
" 'Or more.'?! Grandfather, what did you mean 'or more'? There's nothing there, but animosity and dislike for each other."
"Well dear, you know, just an old man thinking. I've often heard from a philosopher or two that the greatest hates spring into the most true of loves. I'm just wondering if that is what's going to happen with you and young Mr. Norrington."
"Grandfather, I highly doubt that any of that will happen. Jonathan and I just dislike each other too much to have any love. Even if I was interested, which, I'm not!"
"Alright dear. Well it's nearly time for lunch, and I've got company coming here to talk about politics. I think you'd better head home."
"Good day grandfather." Karen says hugging the old man.
"Good day my little Karen."
Karen's Grandfather leads her to the door, and she walks back home. She opens the door to her own home and goes into her room to find, who other than Jonathan sitting on her bed reading her diary.
"GET OUT!" She screams. Nika and Jack come running into the room. "How dare you come into my room! AND not only come into my room, but go through my personal things!" She snatches the book from Jonathan's hands and puts it back in her original hiding spot. The now scarlet red girl turns back around to face the intruder.
"Now Karen..." Jack starts, "C'mon, calm down. Take a breath." He says, trying to calm the girl.
"Yeah Karen listen to your Uncle." Jonathan says.
"YOU have no right to tell me what to do, Jonathan! Get out, before I do something I'll regret."
"I just wanted to say-"
"OUT!"
The boy realizing he'd really screwed up this time, scuttled out the door. Karen, still scarlet starts pacing the room, rambling on about how Jonathan and Barbossa should team up against her.
"Kar, come on... He's out of the room now... You can breathe!" Nika says.
"I am breathing Nika. I'm just quite angry as all. Can you remember what those monks from the east taught us? The calming techniques? 'Cause I could use them right about now."
"Okay, just a sec." Nika replies. She walks over to where her father is standing, and whispers, "Daddy, could you please leave... We really should do this alone. Plus your presence might agitate her even more."
"Alright then, luv. Just call if ya need me," and with that Jack leaves the room and Nika closes the door. Both girls sit down and Nika leads them in the relaxing techniques that the aforementioned monks taught the crew a few years ago.
Both Nika and Karen sit in big armchairs facing the windows out to the west, where the last hour or so of sunlight faded in a beautiful array of colours. Karen and Nika are silently reading when their silence is interrupted by the sound of Jonathan's voice.
"Excuse me, but do you have any books that I might be able to read?" he asks politely.
Karen sighs, marks the page in her book, and gets up. "What types of books do you like to read Mr. Norrington?" she asks formally.
"Well I tend to like fiction. Mostly action- adventure stories." He says.
"Hmm.... let me see." She says looking for a book for him, as a host and hostesses daughter should. "Aha! Here we are!" She hands him a book. He looks it over appreciatively.
"Thank you, Ms. Turner." He says, smiling a debonair smile.
The girls read in the library until the room is so dark they can no longer see the pages in their books. They retire to their rooms and go to sleep, after winding their alarm clocks.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~******** JACK'S DREAM ********~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Two girls stand at the helm next to Jack, who is steering currently. Suddenly a shout from above them, from the Crow's Nest.
"Cap'n! There be an enemy ship out thar, and they look ready to attack!"
"Thanks for the warning mate! How far out is that boat?"
"About 10 minutes away from us Cap'n!"
"Thanks again!" Jack shouts. To the girls, he says, "Now girls, you've been training for over 2 years now. If attacking pirates board, I'll expect ye, to fight. Understand?"
"Yes Father," a ten- year old Nika says, nodding her head.
"Yes, Uncle Jack." a ten- year old Karen says, also nodding her head.
As the enemy ship approaches, twenty or so grappling hooks attach themselves to the rails of the deck, and enemy pirates fly over to the ship. Nika and Karen each take out a sword.
"Stay together, and don't go to far away from me!" Jack yells, and he and the girls go down the stairs to fight with their crew. The girls at four foot five inches tall didn't pose much of a threat to the enemy pirates at first. Until that is, Nika and Karen start stabbing the enemy pirates. Fist to make a move on a pirate is Karen, who stabs an enemy that had one of her favorite pirates, Mr. Johnny Pleake, in the leg and then in the arm. Mr. Pleake then promptly throws the pirate overboard and starts on with the fighting. Nika who was very wary about any enemy pirates just stabbed and ran as she went. Soon the fight was over, and the retreating pirates could scarcely be seen, moving as fast as their boat could take them. Both Karen and Nika rip a scarf off of a dead body, and wipe their swords with them, before re-sheathing them. Captain Jack Sparrow smiled proudly that they got through their first fight, with Karen only having a gash on one side of her face and Nika a gash on her knee.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~********* WILL (SENIOR'S) DREAM*********~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Standing outside of a door, just waiting, was something neither Jack Sparrow, or Will Turner Snr. could do. Harder than that still was the fact that they were standing outside of a door, hearing their wives screaming in the pain of childbirth. This was Jack's first child and he was quite nervous, and Will's second child, and he was even more nervous than Jack. Pacing back and forth between the door that separated them from their wives and to the end of the hall, was all the 2 men dared to do. Downstairs in the Parlor room, farthest away from all the noise, was the entire Sparrow and Turner Families, plus the entire crew of the Black Pearl.
Finally after at least 12 hours of waiting a nurse came out of Elisa's room. "It's a girl!" She announced to the waiting men. Jack whooped and Will congratulated him. "You can come in after we've cleaned them and the room up a bit." Then she went back inside the room.
Will, still hearing his wife's screams continued to pace. Two hours later, both nurse's came out of both rooms. The one from Elizabeth's room spoke first. "It's a girl!" She announced also. Will smiled, and Jack congratulated him. "You can come in once I've cleaned them up a bit."
The second nurse spoke, "You can come in now Mr. Sparrow, but ONLY Mr. Sparrow, for now." and she left with Jack, while Will waited until he could see Elizabeth and their new baby girl. Sooner than expected, the nurse came out and told Will to go in.
"Hello Elizabeth." He said quietly, as he spied the feeding baby in her arms.
"Will, she's beautiful! Look at her. Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes." Elizabeth cooed. She handed Will the baby after she was done feeding.
"What shall we name this beautiful girl?" he asked.
"What about Karen, after my mother?"
"Wonderful, darling. And her middle name will be Elizabeth, after her mother. Karen Elizabeth Turner. I like that."
"It's a beautiful name."
"Shall I go and ask Jack if he's ready to let our daughter's meet their lovely families?"
"Of course, go on darling. You know what to do if she gets fussy, right?"
"Yes dear, now rest. We'll all be needing it." he says with a smile.
Will goes into the hallway, and knocks on Elisa's door, after getting the okay from the nursemaid. "Jack, are you ready to show them off, yet?"
"Yes, just a minute Will." Will hears some whispering behind the door, and then Jack comes out with a baby girl in his arms. "Will, meet Nichole Elisa Sparrow. Nichole, meet your godfather, Will Turner." The baby cooed in Jack's arms.
"Jack, meet Karen Elizabeth Turner. Karen, meet your godfather, CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow." Karen cooed in Will's arms.
"Shall we go introduce them to their families?"
"Of course. We can't keep them to ourselves forever."
They go down the stairs and into the Parlor, where around 35 people wait. The first to notice is Will's first and only son, William.
"Father, Uncle!" he says getting up and running over. "Do I have a sister or brother, and what do I have as a cousin?" the 5-year old asks excitedly.
"Everyone? We'd like for you to meet our daughters." Jack announces. "This is Nichole Elisa Sparrow."
"And this is Karen Elizabeth Turner." Will says.
"Karan? and Neecole? Can I call them Kar-bear and Nika... I can't say them right." William asks.
"Of course you can call them that son." Will says, getting approval from Jack first.
The girls are passed around the room and cooed at, until the nurse says that the girls couldn't be near too many people for long at first, so she takes them upstairs to their shared nursery.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~***** BREAKFAST*****~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At breakfast that morning, Will and Jack were both smiling for some reason unknown to the rest. It was silent except for the slight sound of clinging while everyone ate their food. Soon, after everyone was done the girls went out to shop for a while, taking their mothers with them. Jonathan traveled back into the library to read, and the two eldest men went to the ship to help repair her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~******IN THE SHOPS*****~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The girls went out to the stores and had bought enough fabric for 2 new dresses to be made, petticoats and all. They went to the finest seamstress in Port Royal. All in all, they'd spent about 10 pieces of silver this day.
Going home Elisa, Elizabeth, and Nika return to the Turner/ Sparrow home, while Karen goes to see her grandfather. The butler opens the door for her and leads her into the parlor where she waits for her grandfather. Soon after the old man comes wobbling in with his cane. Karen goes to help him, but he gestures at her with his free hand to sit back down. When he sits down he begins to talk.
"Now, Karen dear... What is it that you wanted to talk to your dear old grand dad, hmm?"
"Well Grandfather, I was wondering, why do you keep forcing Jonathan down my throat, when you know that we despise eachother? You've seen us fight before Grandfather! Don't you remember?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**** FLASHBACK****~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Two 9 year old girls run down the plank before their parents, one accidentally hitting another boy waiting for his father.
"Oh! So sorry! Didn't mean to do that." A young Karen says.
"Watch your step," and he says his last word with venom, "pirate!"
"I'm not a pirate! I am the daughter of one of the Queen's finest retrieval men, you lark!"
"Well then you're a pirates daughter! You shouldn't be here in Port Royal! We don't need anymore SCUM!"
"Scum? You think I'm scum?! Well then what are you, for being so rude to a lady? The things sticking to the side of that rather small boat?" She said gesturing to the boat the boy came from.
A man just walked down the plank of the other boat, with Karen's Grandfather.
"Grandpa! It's so good to see you!" the 3 children of the Pearl yelled as they hugged them.
" 'Grandpa', so these are your grandchildren?" Commodore Norrington asks.
"Yes they are his grand-children, Jonathan." Elizabeth says walking to the group with the rest of the Sparrows and Turners.
"Then she is nothing but a pirate! That's what daddy told me." the young boy says snottily.
"I am NOT!" Karen yells, pushing the boy into the water next to his ship.
"Can't say he didn't deserve that one. Let's just hope that this problem will work itself out, aye?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~****** END FLASHBACK*******~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Dear I know... but I was just hoping that you and he could become friends. You two have always had the worst relationship, and I just don't want that, when I can see the potential for friendship or more between you two." Governor Swann replies to his grand-daughter.
" 'Or more.'?! Grandfather, what did you mean 'or more'? There's nothing there, but animosity and dislike for each other."
"Well dear, you know, just an old man thinking. I've often heard from a philosopher or two that the greatest hates spring into the most true of loves. I'm just wondering if that is what's going to happen with you and young Mr. Norrington."
"Grandfather, I highly doubt that any of that will happen. Jonathan and I just dislike each other too much to have any love. Even if I was interested, which, I'm not!"
"Alright dear. Well it's nearly time for lunch, and I've got company coming here to talk about politics. I think you'd better head home."
"Good day grandfather." Karen says hugging the old man.
"Good day my little Karen."
Karen's Grandfather leads her to the door, and she walks back home. She opens the door to her own home and goes into her room to find, who other than Jonathan sitting on her bed reading her diary.
"GET OUT!" She screams. Nika and Jack come running into the room. "How dare you come into my room! AND not only come into my room, but go through my personal things!" She snatches the book from Jonathan's hands and puts it back in her original hiding spot. The now scarlet red girl turns back around to face the intruder.
"Now Karen..." Jack starts, "C'mon, calm down. Take a breath." He says, trying to calm the girl.
"Yeah Karen listen to your Uncle." Jonathan says.
"YOU have no right to tell me what to do, Jonathan! Get out, before I do something I'll regret."
"I just wanted to say-"
"OUT!"
The boy realizing he'd really screwed up this time, scuttled out the door. Karen, still scarlet starts pacing the room, rambling on about how Jonathan and Barbossa should team up against her.
"Kar, come on... He's out of the room now... You can breathe!" Nika says.
"I am breathing Nika. I'm just quite angry as all. Can you remember what those monks from the east taught us? The calming techniques? 'Cause I could use them right about now."
"Okay, just a sec." Nika replies. She walks over to where her father is standing, and whispers, "Daddy, could you please leave... We really should do this alone. Plus your presence might agitate her even more."
"Alright then, luv. Just call if ya need me," and with that Jack leaves the room and Nika closes the door. Both girls sit down and Nika leads them in the relaxing techniques that the aforementioned monks taught the crew a few years ago.