(A/N – Hello again... the world is ending... there's no more bagels and cream cheese!!! I blame my Jack clone... ok, so I'll just order pizza! lol. Well, chapter three, right here, right now... enjoy it... cya below!)
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- Disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer... yada yada yada... blah blah blah... zip zip zip... pirates pirates, pirates... yeah, yeah, yeah...
-I own Jessica, Lindsay, Arielle Faye Turner, the Meridian, Rebecca Barbossa, and two more characters I must fail to mention until later or it's a story spoiler... and we don't want that, do we?
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CHAPTER THREE: "I have a light bulb!"
"Packing?" Jack asked. "Ye can't bring all this rubbish with ye..." He picked up my white dress I had worn to the ninth grade Farewell Dance the month before we met. I took it from him after finding my old book bag in the mess.
"And why not?" Lindsay asked as I hung my dress back up carefully.
"People are gonna think ye're loopy!" Jack said. "Ye're gonna get us killed!"
"People already think you're crazy, right?" Jessica asked them. "Bringing us and all of our stuff will just prove that you were right." Whoa... Jessica said something smart (WHAP Jess, I swear I will kill you if you ever hit me with your shoe again!)... Jack and Will exchanged a quick glance, but then started ravaging through my room with us.
"Don't bring too much," Will said. "What if you're in battle and can't get to it?" Battle? Hmm...Ah! Idea!
"I have a light bulb!" I said quickly. Jessica and Lindsay smiled and came closer. But then there was those two who must inject there professional opinion boldly ("Hey, that's Jack..." Will said. "Shut up, Will..." Jack said. "Least I'm not a eunuch..." WHAM-POW-BLAM-SPLAT!!! Break it up! SMACK!! "Ow..." Jack said.)...
"Light bulb? Isn't that the light thingy?" Jack asked. "Ye got three, love..." He pointed to my studio lights that he was almost eye level with. Not my fault it's a low ceiling at six feet...
"Jack, light bulbs are also ideas," Lindsay said.
"Ideas?" Will said. We stared at them like 'get a clue...'
"Go figure, Lindsay," I said. "They've never seen cartoons that much..."
"So what's the light bulb?" Jessica asked eagerly.
"Well, if there is an emergency, we could put stuff in our book bags for easy travel..." I said. "You know, fill them with an extra pair of clothes, food..."
"CD player," Lindsay said.
"DVD player!" Jessica piped.
"Laptop," Lindsay said quietly as we smiled.
"Yeah, yeah..." I said. "And then we just grab them if we ever need 'em." Immediately, Jessica and Lindsay bounded for their book bags. I started to stuff my CD player and CDs in my black book bag when Will tapped me on the shoulder.
"Sorry about the scare," he said.
"Ah, no biggie," I said. "Here, have some pixie stix." I handed him some pixie stix that I had stashed in my book bag from I don't know when. He smiled.
"I remember these," he said. He snapped one in half and ate it. He face puckered a bit. "Been a while since I've had them, though..." I smiled, and shoved the pixie stix back in the side pocket... another idea...
"Light bulb!" I screamed. Jack jumped when I had yelled, tripped, and crash-landed onto the remainder of the closet that wasn't packed yet.
"What?!" Lindsay asked.
"Are you gonna be able to stomach pirate food?" I asked...-stares-...
"What?" Jessica asked.
"Well, I've read up on it, and pirates don't really have all this good food," I said.
"I like gruel!" Jack said, standing up. "What wrong with our diet? There's cheese in it..."
"But are there cheese curls?" I asked. Jack opened his mouth, but closed it. Haha... I rock at this... "Anyhoo," I said, "I don't think I can last even a few days on gruel..." Lindsay and Jessica screwed up their faces like me. Gruel...yuck...
"So let's raid the kitchen!" Lindsay said. I widened my eyes and looked up at Jack and Will.
"Tell me, you two over the whole 'killing the kitchen' phase?" I asked. More exchanged looks... duh... of course they are! They have the ruby now... "Scratch that," I said. "Up to the kitchen!"
-- Living Room Basement Again – 20 minutes later --
"Ye can't bring all this rubbish!" Jack yelled again. All these bags that Jessica, Lindsay, and I had filled with food, clothes, and other junk surrounded us. We each had three bags... one for clothes and stuff, one with food, and our emergency book bags. We had changed out of our pajamas, too... hey, would you go to the Caribbean in pj's?
"Well, we are!" I said.
"Deal with it!" Jessica said.
"But... how..."
"Jack, we'll get to the ship just fine," Lindsay said. "We're big 21st century teenage girls. We can take care of ourselves.... How are we getting to the ship?"
"We'll be going back into Arielle's room in the Governor's house, down the stairs, and to the docks," Will said. "It'll be a miracle if you don't attract the entire Royal Navy to you with all this stuff!"
"Well the average American today is super lazy," I said. "Not my problem."
"Problem!" Jack said. "Ye can't bring all this!"
"We'll be fine," Lindsay said. "You gotta trust us."
"Yeah... we're your daughters, right?" Jessica said.
"Not technically..." Will said.
"Still!" Jessica yelled. "We're your kids and we're smarter than you by 400 years! Trust us! You may have learned a lot last summer, but you just tipped this world's surface!"
"Iceberg sounds better," Lindsay said.
"So?!" Jessica said. Will put a hand on Jessica's shoulder to stop her rage.
"I trust you!" Will said. "Feel better?"
"I guess..." Jessica muttered until her perkiness returned ("It's hyperness!" Jessica yelled. "I am NOT PERKY!!!" Ok, got it...). "Let's get out of here!"
"Hey!" I said. "Wonder if cell phones work there?" Ok, I know...
"Gleeglespaw," Jessica said.
"What?!" I asked.
"Stupid question, stupid answer," Lindsay laughed.
"What in the blood hell is a gleeglespaw?" Jack asked.
"A word I just made up," Jessica said. "Hey! It can be our war cry in battle! GLEEGLESPAW!!!" Jessica screamed. We stared at her... uhh...
"Uhh, Jack?" Lindsay said.
"Yeah, Jane?" Jack responded.
"Just rip out the ruby and get us to Port Royal, savvy?"
"That's my line!"
"Tough cookies!"
"Cookies! What?! Wait..." Jack flustered.
"Shut up before you hurt yourself," Will said to Jack. Jack eyed him as he pulled out the ruby and sat on my stuff.
"So, how's it work?" Jessica said.
"Well, when we used it last summer, we found out that was the incorrect way," Will said. "We found out the right way to use it, and it's a lot easier than before. Before when we went back last summer, we landed hard on the deck. But now it's easier because we know who to use it."
"And that would be...?" Lindsay asked.
"Just sit tight," Jack began, "make sure everyone's touching, – we squished shoulder to shoulder – "now we close our eyes, -eyes closed- "count to three, and we'll be there." My eyes opened.
"Wait... it's too easy..." I said.
"I told you it was easy to do it," Will said.
"Come on..." I said. "There's gotta be a twist! Like Harry Potter!"
"Harry Potter?!" Lindsay shouted.
"What the freak..." Jessica said.
"Like Floo Powder or whatever..." I said. "In the fire..." They stared at me... go figure. I'm just gonna shut up about it.
"As you were sayin..." Lindsay said to Jack.
"Aye..." Jack said. "We count to three with the eyes closed. On one, you're still here, on two you're travelin', and on three, you're in the new place." Everyone looked at me. I was skeptical. This sounded so cool! But way too easy... grr... my brain sucks...
"Ok..." I said. "Let's do this." I smiled faintly. I hope we get back in time... I hope nothing happens while I'm gone... I hope those Converse sneakers are still at the mall when I get back...
"Ready?" Jack asked us. I debated... ready? How ready was I? I was probably gonna come back with Jessica and Lindsay to find it headlined in some paper that three teenage girls were missing and presumed dead, but that's the chance you had to take to spend time with your two best friends and hotness. I was up for it now... somewhat. An adventure, Ravii, it's the adventure of a lifetime...
"Close your eyes," Will instructed. We did. "Now, if we don't count together, we'll be lost," Will said. Ok, so now we're getting technical, but no biggie.
"Ok," Jack said. "Go." Everyone counted slowly with their eyes shut.
"One..." I'm still here...
"Two..." Traveling, but I feel nothing! Dude...
"Three," the six of us said firmly. My eyes flashed open the instant there was silence. They widened... I wasn't in my basement anymore. I was in some other place. My eyes darted around the familiar room as Jessica and Lindsay jumped up and down uncontrollably excited.
"Holy crap! We're in Port Royal!" Jessica shrieked.
"I know! I know! I KNOW!" Lindsay said with a humongous smile like Jessica's. I smiled, too. This was so unbelievable... I loved it! It was real... I stood up, and Lindsay and Jessica put their arms on me while they jumped more and more, and I started jumping, too.
"I'm in Port Royal," I said in amazement. "I don't believe it!" My voice rose from disbelief to excitement.
"Believe it!" Lindsay said as we jumped up and down like mad. Jack and Will rushed over and settled us, and we smiled hugely at them. Stifling energy after something this cool has just happened to you? Not easy... we had stopped jumping, but our nerves hadn't...
"Shh!" we heard a different voice say as it swept towards us. "My father will hear you!" We all looked up to Elizabeth running on tiptoes towards us, and our smiled grew again.
"Elizabeth!" Jess, Lindz, and I said in unison.
"Yes, yes," Elizabeth said as she hugged each of us, "wonderful to see you again as well! But please be quiet."
"Yes, Arielle's over here," Will said.
"Who fancies a peek?" Jack said. We walked over to the crib in the center of the room. Inside was a tiny baby girl with light brown hair and brown eyes, and she was stirring from her sleep.
"I can't believe she doesn't have darker hair like Will's," Jack said. "Still gets me..."
"Oh, but it'll get darker through the years," I said. "She'll be another spitting image in the Turner line." After a moment of admiring the sweet cuteness of baby Arielle, Jessica spoke.
"When's her birthday?" she asked.
"January 26th," Elizabeth replied. "She's almost six months old."
"And so little," I said. "Jace was never that small."
"Jace?" Will asked.
"Her baby brother," Lindsay said. We looked on at Arielle a bit more to see if she had made up her mind whether or not to sleep or wake up. When she stopped moving except for the rapid rising and falling in her chest, we quietly walked to the end of the bedroom.
"This room is familiar," I said. "I've seen it before."
"It's my old room," Elizabeth said. "Will and I live here while they finish building us a home down the shoreline a ways. It should be nearing completion. It's going to be lovely when it's done."
"Cool," Lindsay said. "How much longer til it's done?"
"A few more months," Will said. "Should be done by Christmas."
"We'll have to have you all over for dinner on Christmas," Elizabeth said. "It'll be quite nice..."
"Uh, Lizzy?" Jessica asked. "What did your father and Norrington say when they found out about last summer? Did they think you and Will were nutters like everyone else in the Caribbean?"
"Well, he couldn't believe we had ran off with Jack again," Elizabeth said. "Said it was irresponsible and that. Then he said that even though we had snuck off with Jack that the whole story was a lot of lies he'd choose to overlook. Norrington said the same, but he tried to drag the whereabouts of Jack out of us. That's when we had them on Isle de Muerta and sailed back."
"Governor Swann found out about the story a week after we had left Jack, Gibbs, and Anamaria on Isle de Muerta," Will said. "He was upset, but by the time the wedding was over, we had secretly sailed out to get Jack, and returned, the Governor had put it behind him."
"Although I'm not too sure about Norrington," Elizabeth said. "People still circle the story and every time he hears it, he eyes us suspiciously."
"Norrington's a paranoid freak," Lindsay said.
"Yeah, but you kept Jack hidden all this time," I said. "I don't think he'll find him."
"Not with us sailing out again," Jack said. "I'm unstoppable!"
"And loud!" Elizabeth said, hitting Jack in the shoulder. "Arielle's asleep!"
"Sorry, luv..."
"So what do we do from here?" Lindsay asked.
"Yeah, it's like four in the morning..." Jessica said, checking her watch.
"Well, we could always keep ye here until sunrise and take ye down," Jack said, "or we can take ye to the ship now so ye won't been seen as easily and we can show ye yer room."
"Sounds good to me!" I said.
"Second one!" Jessica said.
"Wait!" Lindsay said. "Why can't we all just sneak off and set sail now?"
"I don't want my father to find I've sneaked off again and have us followed," Elizabeth said. "Then they would find Jack and you. And I need to tell someone to care for Arielle." Yep, that seemed to screw it up...
"Is that good?" Jack asked Will and Elizabeth. "I'll take them now so they can't be seen with all this junk," he said, motioning to our mountain of bags.
"It's not junk!" Lindsay retorted. "It's necessary!"
"Don't even," I said. Elizabeth saw our pile of stuff and smiled. She understood... that was good.
"Aww, but don't you wanna talk?" Jessica said. "We haven't seen you in a year, and you said we could talk in Port Royal."
"On the ship," Elizabeth said. "We can talk when we set sail."
"Exactly when will that be?" Jessica asked.
"Eight o'clock this morning," Will said.
"Four hours?!" Jessica said.
"Jess, chill out," I said. "It'll give us time to get our sea legs and get situated anyways." Jessica frowned a bit, but smiled again.
"Ok..." she said finally. "We better get down there."
"I'll go with them," Will told Elizabeth. "I'll be back up here in a couple of hours... right before sunrise."
"Alright," Elizabeth said. "Careful." Before we picked up our bags with the help of Jack and Will, Elizabeth went down the line we made and told us to be careful not to be seen.
"The ship looks like the Interceptor, only it's deep red," Elizabeth told us after she went through the line. "It should be the third ship docked on the wharf."
"We'll find it just fine," Jack said. We picked up the bags and headed for the door. Elizabeth gave us one last piece of advice to be careful, but we knew Jack and Will probably had more experience in being sneaky. I mean, come on... one's a pirate and the other is the best swordsman in the Caribbean. No offense, Lizzy (-evil glare from Elizabeth- Hey, Will? Time to get down to the ship, eh? )...
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