'Interesting'
A/N: I know it's been a million years but I finally got to the 3 installment of How You Remind Me.
Maria and her father stood at the helm of the Black Pearl silently watching as the crew worked to keep the ship afloat and sailing.
"What was she like?" she asked suddenly, surprising Jack.
"Your mother?"
"Yeah, Will and Elizabeth they didn't have much to tell."
"They didn't know her. No one really knew your mother. Proud t' say that I'm the only damned one who really did. She was mysterious, a dark beauty. Dangerous…cutthroat- had to be on a ship full of men. She was a hard worker, strong as any man best damned first mate I've ever had." She smiled.
"She sounds as something in a fairytale."
"She was better than any fairytale lass." He wanted this now. To remember- "Damn that woman was a screaming banshee! She could give you a hangover if you didn't have one I tell ya!" he said with a toothy grin… remembering. "But I do reckon I could manage a few more headaches and hangovers if she were back here on the Pearl," he added quickly.
"Am I like her? Will said I was."
"Ah, the whelp… or eunuch if you prefer. Aye the boy's right. Perfect copy of her- Maria Sparrow…Turner.
"Sparrow," she said earning a nod and a grin from her father.
"Hellcats you both are…were." For a moment they were both silent neither thinking of what to say to each other.
"What was her last name?"
"She didn't have one. She was a runaway slave, fled down to the Caribbean. I met 'er in Tortuga 1697, fell in love wit' 'er."
"If you loved her why didn't you marry her?"
Jack shrugged his shoulders. "Wasn't really the marrying kind. Kinda wish I had now, then I could at least say I lost me wife… She's the reason you're here you know? It was either you or her. I chose Anamaria. But Anamaria chose you and-"
"Father-"
"Wait Maria-" he said but not continuing. He untied the sash around his waist. "It was a gift from your mother to me 15 years ago. May 21, 1699."
"Your birthday," Maria stated simply. A day she had never spent with him.
"Aye," he said tying the sash around her waist. She wore the same clothes her mother wore when she was aboard a ship: a white shirt and brown breeches. After he spoke there was another silence to behold as they both pondered over their thoughts for a moment.
"Why didn't you come to see me?" Maria asked finally taking Jack completely off guard.
"Why, ay? Well, strictly between us Maria," he said taking a look around to make sure no one was there to hear his dark secret, "whenever I even thought of Anamaria I would begin to… to… uh… cry. I thought maybe that if I didn't see you anymore -since you reminded me so much of her- I would forget all about her and move on with the rest of me life as the scallywag I was before you were born." Who ever would have thought: Jack Sparrow pouring his heart out to a woman? Well, pouring his heart out to anyone other than his beloved Pearl.
"As stupid as that sounds, father, it actually makes sense."
"Didn't think-," he started before she cut him off.
"Still- incredibly stupid and you know now that I think about it more it seems to make less sense."
"Bloody hell Maria! I told you: I apologize! And that's something I had rather reserved for you and your mother only."
"Yes I know you've apologized father but I never made it a fact that I accepted it." Jack's eyes went wide when she said this.
"Then what are you saying Maria?"
"What the bloody hell do you think I'm saying? I don't accept your apology. You left me there for 4 years without ever coming to see me. A…And then you tell me that you were going to let me die. To tell you the truth I don't exactly know if I can." He stared at her for a moment, shocked, without the words to voice to her.
"So what do you want me to say Maria. Did you want me to lie to you?"
"You're a pirate. Your whole life and career is based upon lies and lies and more bloody lies!" She stayed quiet for a while as she wiped the tear from her eye. "But no. I didn't want you to lie."
"So you don't want me to lie yet you don't want to here the truth. What do you want then?"
"You don't get it!" she yelled storming back to her cabin. Jack watched her go not bothering to follow her until later that night.
"Maria," he called knocking on the door to her cabin. Upon getting no answer he knocked on the door harder. "Maria!" He called again. He sighed before he pushed the door open when he got no answer. She sat at the window watching the water lap against the ship.
"Are you trying to be my 'daddy' now? I think it's a bit late father," she said sarcastically never taking her eyes off of the water. "I should have known it was a bad idea to come with you."
"So you want to go back to Will and Elizabeth ay?
Maria nodded toward the window. "Yes. It would probably be for the better."
"Good," he said clapping his hands together. You're not going."
"I'm not!" she exclaimed finally taking her eyes off the water and jumping up.
"What kind of father would I be if I let you have everything you wanted luv?"
"The kind that hadn't visited me in 4 years."
"Exactly! Take a good look Maria. I'm a new man. The same man who left you for 4 years yet remarkably different!"
"You make absolutely no sense."
"It's a riddle, savvy?" He smirked closing the door. Beyond both sides the both said:
"This is going to be very interesting."
And so is the tale of the reunion of the rouge swashbuckler Captain Jack Sparrow and his daughter Maria Victoria Sparrow. After years of hardships there seems to be a bright horizon for these folk. I bid you good tidings and farewell.
A/N: How ya like dem apples Catherine?(You better be reading this tonight) Anyway thanks to the reviewers of How You Remind Me and all of my loyal subjects. I got much love for yall. Hope you enjoyed this fic. I had fun writing it so I hope it holds your entertainment for a few minutes. Special thanx to Lykosdracos and Empathy is Me.