(A/N – Jack is still asleep and Thank Goodness! He needs a nap... he is way too cranky... sheesh. Well, while he's asleep, I'm gonna dash down to Mark's and grab some rum... chill out, it's just a gallon of iced tea...cya at the bottom! If I'm back by then...)
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x) Lauren - OMG!!! Sorry lol... I had no idea you were impacted by Frances! Everything alright? Well, I hope so! You're like my only reviewer, and I'm glad at least someone likes it! I've had this ready since Tuesday, but my account was suspended for that one story for a week! Sorry! It's my fault... lol. Thanks a lot for keeping up with me! And I love long reviews! They make me feel special! lol... Well, hope you like this one!
.:: Here's your chance to point and laugh at Stewy from the last chapter! ::.
-One of these days, I'm gonna... oh, never mind. DISCLAIMER!!! Happy now, Disney? Stop smirking... us fans will rise against you someday! lol
-Let's see... I own Lindsay, Jessica, Arielle Faye Turner, Rebecca Barbossa, The Meridian, and the two soon-to-come mystery characters that arrive in chapters six and seven I believe... I know it's suspense, but that's what makes you keep coming back! lol... ))
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CHAPTER FIVE: "A spook?"
Jessica, Lindsay, and I gawked at the blacksmith's shop as Jack started to climb a ladder into the rafters to our right. We dropped the bags and looked around in amazement. Jessica ran over to the spot where Will and Jack had first met, and Lindsay came after her. Jessica tossed Lindsay and sword and got herself one.
"You seem somewhat familiar," Jessica said, mocking Jack's voice. "Have I threatened you before?"
"I have a point of avoiding familiarity with pirates," Lindsay said. "You threatened Miss Swann!" she yelled.
"Only a little!!!" Jessica yelled. And from there, they started to swordfight like a couple of losers (WHAP! Stop hitting me! Like a stuffed pig really hurts, Lindsay!). I sat on the edge of the fireplace watching them make a parody of the scene. I got bored and walked back to the ladder Jack had climbed, and IO went up, still hearing Jess and Lindz screw up all the lines.
"Who's up here?" Jack asked as I balanced my way on the beams over to him.
"Me," I said simply. "Black Grace." Jack turned around, and I went over to his little living place. It was really cool with all the stuff in it. I'd love to live in this little cubby!
"Like it?" Jack asked me.
"Love it," I said, looking around. It was quiet for a second and all I could hear was Lindsay and Jessica still screaming down below. "You've been here a year almost?" I asked finally.
"Pretty close," he said. Then he tossed me the pouch tied at his side.
"What's this for?" I asked.
"The ruby," he said. "You and the Littles are to keep it safe. I trust ye." Great... he had to say he trusted us... now I know we're gonna lose it to Rebecca... I nodded, and he started for the ladder. I made to follow him when he stopped.
"You do that an awful lot, you know," I said after slamming into him back for the second time that night.
"Aye..." Jack said. "Quiet down there!" he whispered loudly to Jessica and Lindsay who had now started playing Questions Only again it seemed.
"Sorry!" Jessica whispered.
"Yeah! Sorry!" Lindsay said. "You two comin'?"
"We'll be down," I said. "So what's the hold up this time?" I asked Jack.
"Ye'll need effects," he told me. "Down the ladder with ye." I started down when Jack's bag went speeding past me and hit the hard dirt floor. When we were both down, Stewy and Linkin came over.
"We going?" Jessica asked.
"After we get ye geared up," Jack said. He went and gave me a sword like Lindsay and Jessica had, and then he went over to an old wooden cupboard. As he went through it, Lindsay, Jessica, and I looked at our swords proudly. I'm gonna get a swordfight out of this deal after all...
"Yer guns," Jack said, handing us pistols, "and shots are in there. Now let's get ye to the ship." We went back over to the ladder and threw our guns in our bags, but the swords wouldn't fit, and besides, they were too cool to throw in some bag... so, we attached them to our sides, got our things, and ran back out into the alleyway.
"So where to?" Lindsay asked. Without word, Jack led us back out into the street, and we headed towards the sounds of the ocean. The air was already salty, but it still would be much better at sea. My life's dream is coming true! YES! Anyhoo... when we finally reached the docks, Jack started to slow up.
"Now what?!" Jessica asked.
"Red coats!" I said. We ran down under the dock and hid as two officers came along and decided to sit on the dock. I sighed with Lindsay, and Jack scowled.
"Blimey, it's early to be up like this," the one leaning against the post said.
"I know, mate," the other said. "But it's duty, you know."
"Get out of here already..." Jessica said through gritted teeth anxiously.
"Wait," Jack said. "Those are... wait, I know this..."
"No way!" I said.
"Yes way..." Lindsay said in awe. "Murtogg and Mullroy!"
"Did you hear that?" the standing one said. From a better look, I could see it was Murtogg – superstitious weirdo... but so cool! Better than Gibbs, anyways. What are that chances of this happening?!
"Here what?" Mullroy said.
"That noise..."
"What noise?"
"It was more of a voice, come to think of it now..."
"Blimey, man!" Mullroy said. "Stop with the nonsense! You're on duty!"
"Yes sir," Murtogg muttered. We looked at Jack who pressed a finger to his mouth. He stepped into the water a bit and motioned us to go to the next dock to hide. Jessica ran low and fast when the rest of us jumped.
"I know I heard something that time!" Murtogg whispered as he spun around with his gun out. Jack held me and Lindsay back, and we looked up as footsteps started on the dock above us. Jessica was wide-eyed under the other dock some twenty feet away.
"Murtogg! Get a grip!" Mullroy said. "Nobody's there!" Jack pushed me forward, and I took the chance to dash to the other dock. I made it just as Murtogg fired a shot into the air.
"Go away!" Murtogg whispered loudly. "Shoo!"
"Shoo?" I mouthed to Jessica who stifled a giggle in her palm. I looked back at Jack and Lindsay, and Jack chucked a plank of wood into the water away from us. Murtogg and Mullroy clutched their guns closer to them.
"See! There is something!" Murtogg said as he and Mullroy headed off after the sound. Lindsay ran to us next followed closely by Jack.
"Ye all here?" he asked. We nodded. "All right... off to the next," he said. Lindsay went first this time, then Jessica. I went shooting across the moonlit sand next, then Jack. Then we heard the returning voices of Murtogg and Mullroy coming.
"There's nothing there," Mullroy assured Murtogg for the millionth time. "You're wasting you breath and shots on nothing!"
"It could be a spook you know," Murtogg said.
"A spook?" Mullroy asked.
"Yeah... like a pirate or something!"
"Or four," Lindsay whispered from next to me. Jack turned to us quickly.
"This is the third ship..." he said. "This should be our ride here. We need to get on it before they catch us."
"How?" I asked.
"Yeah!" Jessica said. "They're right there!"
"I'll distract 'em, savvy? Just get on board and stay low," Jack said. "Don't go below decks til I come aboard." We nodded, he handed us the bags he had carried for us, and Jack ran back to the second dock and waded into the water.
"Go!" Lindsay said as I tore my eyes away from Jack. I ran up the sandy slope with all my things weighing me down. I hope I don't slip or trip or fall... oh, or get caught... that would kind of suck.
I raced up the gangplank and slid on my knees against the side of the ship. I scooted when I heard Jessica coming, and them more scooting when Lindsay came. We crawled to the bow to get a better look of what Jack was up to. We peered over the side just enough to see Murtogg and Mullroy spinning around in circles with their guns still out.
DING! DING! DING!
Our heads spun around to the ship docked on the second dock. Murtogg and Mullroy raced onto the ship to find the bell ringer. Our eyes darted around looking for Jack on the Dauntless' deck.
"There!" Jessica said, pointing out a black figure climbing the mast. We ducked lower after a gunshot rang out. Murtogg and Mullroy had spotted Jack, too. My heart sank. Jack was spotted... but even though this was bad, Jack always found a way out. That's the good part.
Jack was now in the crow's nest and untying a rope. Murtogg and Mullroy were climbing the ropes sloppily, and Mullroy slipped. When they weren't looking, Jack swung over to the Meridian and landed a few feet from us. We crawled over to him.
"You ok?" I asked. Jack nodded and waved us off.
"Follow me," he whispered. We ran crouched over until we were to the staircase that led below decks. We were down just in time to hear the defeated and confused shouts of Murtogg and Mullroy.
"Good job, Jack," Lindsay said as we started down a hallway.
"Had some practice with those two, I have," Jack said. "Too slow and too superstitious to keep up with Captain Jack Sparrow." We smiled as Jack opened the second door on our right. He stepped inside and when we saw it, our jaws dropped.
As soon as we came in, there was a beautiful bunk bed going along the back wall with a chest of drawers and oval mirror beside it on the left wall. On the long wall to our right was nothing but a candle on a shelf, and in the very corner on the right wall was another similar bunk bed. There was a writing desk next to the door, and between the desk and bunk bed was another flower-adorned table. And in the very center of the room, and big rug.
"Whoa..." I said in awe. I looked at Lindz and Jess, and we bounded in. I ran for the bunk right in front of me with Lindsay hot on my trail, and I slammed into the bottom bunk with all my bags.
"Hey! I want bottom!' Lindsay moaned.
"Oh, shut it and get up there," I said. Lindsay smirked and climbed the wooden ladder to the top bunk. Jessica was over in the other corner getting comfy on the bottom bunk. She pulled the table of flowers toward her, threw the flowers out the porthole, and sat her alarm clock on it.
"Now that's better," she said, setting the clock from her wristwatch. I sat my clock on the edge of the chest of drawers, and I put a picture next to it – the picture from last summer with Linkin Park, the pirates, Holly, and JP.
"Wait til I tell –"Lindsay said smiling.
"There'll be no tellin' a soul ye came," Jack said. We frowned. Oh well...
"The Governor did good on this ship!" I said as Lindsay climbed down from the top bunk. Jessica ran over to us and the three of us sat on my bed.
"Aye," Jack said. "Now we'll be layin' out some rules..."
"Like?" Lindsay asked.
"Well, for one," Jack began, "ye must let no one in here 'cept me, Will, & Lizzie. We don't want the crew to be confused even more with all this future stuff. Savvy?"
"Aye, sir!" Jessica said. "Just Will, Elizabeth, and you!"
"Right," Jack said. "Now, the crew I'll be getting will know who ye are no doubt from that story floatin' round. But they don't know what ye look like. So, ye keep those pendants well hidden. And when I stop in Tortuga, I expect you three would like to run ramped through the streets?"
"Would we?" Jessica asked excitedly.
"Well, ye can so long as those necklaces are hidden. If anybody finds out who ye are, we're in deep. We don't need a situation on our hands."
"So does this mean we can't blast anyone with silly string?" Jessica asked sadly.
"Sorry, luv, but no," Jack said. "Not unless they know who ye are or they're too drunk to tell. But they shouldn't know because ye won't tell anyone, right?"
"Aye," the three of us said.
"Good..." Jack said. "I know I'm probably wastin' me breath because ye three do kinda stand out from the rest of us... the way ye do everything is different..."
"Is that a problem?" Lindsay asked.
"No," Jack said. "It's just, I'd rather the whole Caribbean not know ye were here."
"But I thought you wanted to prove everyone wrong?" Jessica asked. "Why did you bring us to help kill Barbossa's daughter if you didn't want anyone to know?"
"Ye wanted an adventure, and I brought ye," Jack said. "Just keep yer mouths shut about it and ye might be fine. If anyone asks who you are, you are to respond with those names that we gave ye – Black Grace, Bloody Jane, Mad Mary," he said, looking at each of us. "They'll ask if ye are the lassies from the rumored stories, and I want ye to admit only what ye must. Say 'aye' and get out of there."
We nodded again.
"So, only speak when spoken to in other words?" Lindsay asked.
"Exactly what I'm tryin' to say," Jack said with a sigh. "So! I'll let ye get settled and Elizabeth, Will, and meself will be in after we set sail. Oh, and Gibbs and Anamaria know about ye, but they aren't comin' in here, savvy?"
"Savvy," Lindsay said.
"Where are you going now?" Jessica asked.
"To get me cabin settled as well," Jack replied from the doorway. "Me cabin's the last on the left if ye need me. Will and Elizabeth will be in the one right across from me – last on the right."
"Ok," I said. "We'll see you later." Jack nodded and shut our door. I looked at Lindsay and Jessica who were exchanging looks of evilness. "What?" I asked.
"Let's get this party started!" Jessica said, jumping up. Lindsay jumped up beside her and climbed the ladder to her top bunk. She threw her things down on the floor beside me and jumped off the bunk.
"This is so great!" I said.
"Oh yeah!" Lindsay said. I pulled out my purple boom box and put batteries in it and Lindsay and Jessica set out a few things to eat on the dresser. I threw in a CD I had burnt a while back when I started 10th grade, and we were jamming while making this room our own. Oh, and I guess I should also mention the Lindsay and Jessica know about Jack giving us the ruby. That's sort of important...
"There!" Jessica said after pinning up her Linkin Park poster on the wall where her bunk was. She now had the little table covered in little things like her alarm clock, pumpkin seeds, gum, a stack of CDs, incense burner, and two candles. She lit the candles and incense as I put the last of my clothes in the dresser. The dresser was now covered in food, a big green tiki mug filled with Jolly Ranchers, our favorite little trinkets, and other cool junk.
"I think that does it...." I said, looking around at the room satisfied. It wasn't all that recognizable now with all the 'stuff from the future' in it. Posters were up, we stuck glow-in-the-dark stars all over the ceiling, and the bags we had were along at the ends of our bunks overflowing like crazy.
"What time is it?" Lindsay asked after the CD had played two and a half times through. I looked at my alarm clock on the edge of the dresser.
"It's like 7:15," I answered with a yawn. Lindsay yawned from the bunk above me, and Jessica did as well as she sat down beside me on my bed.
"How about some shut eye?" Jessica said.
"Yeah," Lindsay said, looking down at us, "I'm wiped."
"But Jack, Will, and Elizabeth will be hear in a little bit," I said.
"They can wake us up," Jessica said.
"Ok," I said. "But just a bit. I'll set the alarm." Jessica yawned and drug herself over to her bed and slumped into it, and Lindsay slammed back into the bunk above me. I unlit a few candles and lit the few on the dresser behind my alarm clock. I set the alarm for eight, and I fell blurry-eyed back into the comfiness of my replacement bed. What a night... fours hours ago, I was home having a totally normal sleepover with my friends without a care in the world. Then all of this craziness happens... again...
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-SLAM!!! I'm back! Oh no... Jack's awake...
RUM!!! It's not for you! You have the real thing! Back off! AHHHHH!!!
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