--Hello everyone! Please try not to be so harsh with me and this fic, it's
my first one so please please review and tell me if i need to correct
anything! I'll try to update every day or every few days. Oh, one more
thing, sorry if my English isn't that good, I'm Canadian yes but I've lived
almost all my life in south America... it's really not that bad but with
slight imperfections at some points--
By the way: '........' for thinking
"......." for talking
-Chapter 9-
Sharlene sighed as she opened the door to "The Drunken Maiden" and closed it behind her as she stepped inside. The storm had finally came to and end but there was no sun as it was beginning to set in the horizon.
The pub was crowded as ever, singing pirates, giggling whores, the frustrated shouts of Beth as she tried to stop two men from slaughtering each other, just another normal night thought Sharlene as she walked towards the stairs to her room, dodging some of the drunken men in the process.
She was trying to make a speech on her mind of how she would tell Beth about her leaving tomorrow, she had already told Harold whom to her great surprise had taken it quite normally (meaning he had screamed on her face until he had no breath left).
"Look Beth "she said to the wall in front of her "something has come up and I will be leaving tomorrow morning-
"No! how could I tell her something like that? 'Something has come up'? what kind of explanation is that to give to someone who has cared for you all this time?!" she yelled.
"She deserves more, she has to know the truth-
"Who 'as ter know the truth?" came Beth's voice from the door.
Sharlene looked up and gave her a serious look
"Beth, we need to talk" - she patted the side of the bed meaning Beth to sit down.
"Alrigh' pet, what's that yeh wanted to talk 'bout?" asked Beth curiously
"Well" she let out a heavy sigh "you see... I er... well today I went to this pub and- and there I met this very nice guy who offered me to be part of his crew..."
"Aha... an'?"
"And... well Beth.. there's something I've been hiding from you since the day I came here...um... remember my first day when you told me I could make a great pirate out of myself? Well.. I kinda thought about it and have yearned to become one since then..."
"So yeh wanna sail on a pirate's ship? This man yer talkin' 'bout's a pirate?" she asked rather calmly
"Well... ye- yeah...I mean I know they are dreadful and careless and merciless and all sort of things but this man, this captain I should say... he promised me I would be safe... I mean he asked me this after I had beaten the crap out of a lad who had tried to rape me practically" she said this in only one breath
"So he thinks yeh 'ave what it needs ter become one? A pirate a mean?"
"I guess, that's what he meant I suppose"
"Are yeh sure 'e doesn' want anythin' else from yeh than just ter have yeh working as any crew member on 'is ship?" Beth's said a bit urgently "'nything could 'appen te yeh 'bord that ship!"
"You don't know him Beth I-
"An' yeh think yeh know 'im do yeh?!" she shouted " 'e's a pirate, Lene, all pirates 're alike, 'e will probably take yeh as one of 'is many whores for 'is crew's 'ntertainment!, I won' let that happen te yeh do ya hear me?!" "But Beth! "she pleaded "this is what I've wanted all my life!"
"What?! To be raped by a bunch of 'orny pirates?!"
"No! nothing will happen to me Beth! I know how to defend myself I swear! It's that... I've always wanted to become a pirate damn it! I'm just sick and tired of this life, having to serve some fucking bastards who the only thing they do is drink rum and suggest you into a pleasure night EVERY SINGLE FUCKING GOD DAMNED TIME I ASK THEM WHAT THEY WANT TO FUCKING DRINK! AND I KNOW THAT SINGING AT HAROLD'S IS GREAT, BUT I WASN'T BORN TO DO SUCH THINGS! I WAS BORN TO BE A PIRATE! AND I CAN'T FUCKING BE ONE! IT'S JUST NOT FAIR BETH!" and burst into tears.
Beth automatically surrounded her with her arms and calmly comforted her.
"Shh, 'tis alrigh', Lene, if this idea of becomin' a pirate really got yer mind blowing then I suppose ye'll just 'ave to give it a try"
"Oh Beth!" Sharlene said crying and hugging her tightly "You don't know how much this means to me, thank you, thank you so much"
"t's okay dear, now ye'll 'ave ter promise me sumethin'" Beth said looking Sharlene in the eye and placing both hands on her cheeks " promise me ye'll be awfully careful when ye go 'round the ship, an' if whenever yeh dock back in Tortuga yeh feel like leavin' those scallywags, don' 'esitate to come 'ere, understand?"
"Of course Beth" she said with a smile "of course" and hugged her again.
********************
Morning had arrived and Sharlene was already getting everything ready for her new adventure. She had put in a large bag everything she would take with her such as the new clothes she had bought, some socks, books, and comb. She was dressed in a pair of breeches, a green shirt and a pair of boots. She had put on her blue bandanna as well.
When everything was packed she ran downstairs, almost falling over thanks to the heavy weigh she was carrying. Beth turned and a sad smile appeared on her kind face.
"Yeh're all set then?"
"Yeah, I didn't take any of those dresses you gave me.. guess you know why" and laughed slightly.
"Aye, Lene, 'tis 'kay, remember what I told yeh, be careful, keep yer mind cool and everythin' will be alrigh'"
Sharlene nodded and hugged Beth for what it seemed to be the last time. And she was off.
She walked for a couple of minutes down the streets and onto the docks. There she saw a huge ship being boarded with big wooden boxes (food supplies she thought), heavy barrels and cannon balls (she gulped and the sight of them).
She marched down the docks and stopped in front of the working men. She was looking for Jack but he was nowhere to be seen.
Then she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around just to come face to face with Captain Jack Sparrow.
"'ello luv" he said "glad we didn' had te postpone the voyage a couple of minutes more"
She chuckled and said
"Glad you didn't leave me with the illusion of sailing with you"
He grinned smugly.
"I- I mean with you and your crew of course" she said blushing slightly.
He chuckled and said: "Alrigh' luv, come aboard me pride an' joy" he said waving his arms towards the huge ship.
"It's gorgeous.. and- and HUGE!" said while she gave the ship another look.
"Aye, that's me Pearl"
"That's it's name? The Pearl?"
"Nah, the Black Pearl" he said not taking his eyes off his ship.
Sharlene blinked in realisation... this.. this ship, she had heard of it... it was the once cursed ship! The same ship that had massacred hundreds of towns and took everything they could find leaving many people penniless and even homeless! Where had she gotten into!? She was cut out of her thoughts by a waving hand in front of her face.
"Yeh alrigh' luv?" he said with a slight glint of concern in his eyes
"Yes, I'm fine, sorry, what were you saying?"
He narrowed his eyes at her but said
"I said that we board the ship now that's fully packed" he said smiling excitedly and leading her aboard the ship.
"All 'ands on deck!" he shouted to his crew which rushed towards the deck of the ship to get the thing moving.
Everyone was eyeing her with great curiosity and a bit of nastiness in their eyes.
"This beautiful youn' lady, named Sharlene Irvine" - she stared at the floor with extraordinary interest not wanting to look at the other men's stares- "will be joinin' us in our venture" he once again shouted to his crew moving his hand pointing at Sharlene who was extremely embarrassed by now.
"If any of yeh dare te even scratch 'er I personally will cut yer 'eads off an' use them as decoration fer me cabin" the men fell silent "is that clear?!"
"Aye" they all said in unison and went back to work.
"Well that worked out superbly what d' yeh thin' luv?" Jack said with a grin.
"I guess they now know what their not supposed to do" she said with a small smile.
"Capt'n" a gruff voice said from behind.
"Aye... luv? This's Gibbs, me 'irst mate" he said looking at the other man.
"Pleased to meet you Mr. Gibbs" she said with a small bow.
"Nah lass, call 'e jest Gibbs" he smiled and looked back at Jack "Capt'n, we're ready te set sail". "Very well, let's be off".
"Aye Captn'" and he shouted the rest of the crew to move on.
"An' Gibbs" Jack said " the lass's new at this kinda thin' so try an' 'elp her a bit would ya?" now in a whisper so that she wouldn't hear.
"'course Capt't, i'll teach 'er a few thingies"
"Good" Jack said and swayed towards the helm.
Sharlene was wondering around the ship, amazed by what all these men together could do, she wanted to learn all she could, she didn't want to be confused by a lazy womany.
"'ey lass, 'ere let me tell ya a couple of things" said Gibbs and taught Sharlene the ways of a crew.
After showing and explaining Sharlene every single thing she could be able to do, Gibbs went down the ship to start making lunch (after all, he was going to cook for at least 20 people).
Sharlene was getting tired fast, she had worked for hours before yes, but not as much as now, she was sweating madly, struggling with some knots Gibbs had taught her to do before, she just couldn't untie them.
That was it, leaving the knots she went straight to the first man that came into view
"Sorry to bother you, mate, but could you lend me your dagger for a second if you don't mind?"
The man looked quite alarmed by this statement and Sharlene immediately new why and laughed
"Oh no, no, it's not for what you think, don't worry, i'm not planning on slashing anyone for the time being" she said with a wicked smile, and received a chuckle and a smile in return, and got the precious dagger that would facilitate her life.
She return to her working spot and was about to slice the damned knot when a strong hand grabbed her moving arm and whispered in her ear
"Yeh don' wanna be doin' that lass, we 'on't 'ave another descent rope 'board the ship and if yeh cut that one"-he pointed at the knot Sharlene had been about to cut-" we'll be 'aving to use the Pearl's oars to get to our one month destination as there would be no standing sails to take us 'nywhere, and neither do yeh or me or the crew wanna be fagged out, savvy?" -he turned to look at her, offering her an expecting smile.
"Oh... s-sorry Captain" she said quite embarrased looking at the floor and then looking up afain "but would you PLEASE help me with this knot? I've been trying to undo it for 15 minutes now and i can't even get it to losen up!" now a bit exasperated He chuckled
"Sure, luv" he said "le' me 'ave a look at it" he then gave the knot a few twists with his hands and it was off easily. Sharlene stood there, wide eyed. She then narrowed her eyes as she saw Jack chuckle again and said
"Sometimes i just WISH i'd be a man you know?! It's just so much easier to do this kind of skutwork! It's so not fair!"
Jack laughed and whispered in her ear again which this time made shivers go down her spine
"Yeh be watchin' out fer what yeh wish, luv, it may come true an' get us all unhappy... specially meself" he smirked slightly and with that he walked back to the helm.
************** It was getting darker and the crew was starting to go downstairs for dinner. Sharlene was heading that direction as well when Gibbs stopped her.
"Nay lass, the Capt'n ordered yeh ter go eat with 'im"
"Oh, I thought everyone dined with everyone here" said Sharlene quite surprised.
"Well, he only eats 'lone on special occasions" and winked at her who stared quizzically at him.
He just chuckled and led her to the Captain's quarters.
--Alright folks! This chap has ended and hope you liked it! just by making a simple review I shall go on with the story savvy?-
By the way: '........' for thinking
"......." for talking
-Chapter 9-
Sharlene sighed as she opened the door to "The Drunken Maiden" and closed it behind her as she stepped inside. The storm had finally came to and end but there was no sun as it was beginning to set in the horizon.
The pub was crowded as ever, singing pirates, giggling whores, the frustrated shouts of Beth as she tried to stop two men from slaughtering each other, just another normal night thought Sharlene as she walked towards the stairs to her room, dodging some of the drunken men in the process.
She was trying to make a speech on her mind of how she would tell Beth about her leaving tomorrow, she had already told Harold whom to her great surprise had taken it quite normally (meaning he had screamed on her face until he had no breath left).
"Look Beth "she said to the wall in front of her "something has come up and I will be leaving tomorrow morning-
"No! how could I tell her something like that? 'Something has come up'? what kind of explanation is that to give to someone who has cared for you all this time?!" she yelled.
"She deserves more, she has to know the truth-
"Who 'as ter know the truth?" came Beth's voice from the door.
Sharlene looked up and gave her a serious look
"Beth, we need to talk" - she patted the side of the bed meaning Beth to sit down.
"Alrigh' pet, what's that yeh wanted to talk 'bout?" asked Beth curiously
"Well" she let out a heavy sigh "you see... I er... well today I went to this pub and- and there I met this very nice guy who offered me to be part of his crew..."
"Aha... an'?"
"And... well Beth.. there's something I've been hiding from you since the day I came here...um... remember my first day when you told me I could make a great pirate out of myself? Well.. I kinda thought about it and have yearned to become one since then..."
"So yeh wanna sail on a pirate's ship? This man yer talkin' 'bout's a pirate?" she asked rather calmly
"Well... ye- yeah...I mean I know they are dreadful and careless and merciless and all sort of things but this man, this captain I should say... he promised me I would be safe... I mean he asked me this after I had beaten the crap out of a lad who had tried to rape me practically" she said this in only one breath
"So he thinks yeh 'ave what it needs ter become one? A pirate a mean?"
"I guess, that's what he meant I suppose"
"Are yeh sure 'e doesn' want anythin' else from yeh than just ter have yeh working as any crew member on 'is ship?" Beth's said a bit urgently "'nything could 'appen te yeh 'bord that ship!"
"You don't know him Beth I-
"An' yeh think yeh know 'im do yeh?!" she shouted " 'e's a pirate, Lene, all pirates 're alike, 'e will probably take yeh as one of 'is many whores for 'is crew's 'ntertainment!, I won' let that happen te yeh do ya hear me?!" "But Beth! "she pleaded "this is what I've wanted all my life!"
"What?! To be raped by a bunch of 'orny pirates?!"
"No! nothing will happen to me Beth! I know how to defend myself I swear! It's that... I've always wanted to become a pirate damn it! I'm just sick and tired of this life, having to serve some fucking bastards who the only thing they do is drink rum and suggest you into a pleasure night EVERY SINGLE FUCKING GOD DAMNED TIME I ASK THEM WHAT THEY WANT TO FUCKING DRINK! AND I KNOW THAT SINGING AT HAROLD'S IS GREAT, BUT I WASN'T BORN TO DO SUCH THINGS! I WAS BORN TO BE A PIRATE! AND I CAN'T FUCKING BE ONE! IT'S JUST NOT FAIR BETH!" and burst into tears.
Beth automatically surrounded her with her arms and calmly comforted her.
"Shh, 'tis alrigh', Lene, if this idea of becomin' a pirate really got yer mind blowing then I suppose ye'll just 'ave to give it a try"
"Oh Beth!" Sharlene said crying and hugging her tightly "You don't know how much this means to me, thank you, thank you so much"
"t's okay dear, now ye'll 'ave ter promise me sumethin'" Beth said looking Sharlene in the eye and placing both hands on her cheeks " promise me ye'll be awfully careful when ye go 'round the ship, an' if whenever yeh dock back in Tortuga yeh feel like leavin' those scallywags, don' 'esitate to come 'ere, understand?"
"Of course Beth" she said with a smile "of course" and hugged her again.
********************
Morning had arrived and Sharlene was already getting everything ready for her new adventure. She had put in a large bag everything she would take with her such as the new clothes she had bought, some socks, books, and comb. She was dressed in a pair of breeches, a green shirt and a pair of boots. She had put on her blue bandanna as well.
When everything was packed she ran downstairs, almost falling over thanks to the heavy weigh she was carrying. Beth turned and a sad smile appeared on her kind face.
"Yeh're all set then?"
"Yeah, I didn't take any of those dresses you gave me.. guess you know why" and laughed slightly.
"Aye, Lene, 'tis 'kay, remember what I told yeh, be careful, keep yer mind cool and everythin' will be alrigh'"
Sharlene nodded and hugged Beth for what it seemed to be the last time. And she was off.
She walked for a couple of minutes down the streets and onto the docks. There she saw a huge ship being boarded with big wooden boxes (food supplies she thought), heavy barrels and cannon balls (she gulped and the sight of them).
She marched down the docks and stopped in front of the working men. She was looking for Jack but he was nowhere to be seen.
Then she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around just to come face to face with Captain Jack Sparrow.
"'ello luv" he said "glad we didn' had te postpone the voyage a couple of minutes more"
She chuckled and said
"Glad you didn't leave me with the illusion of sailing with you"
He grinned smugly.
"I- I mean with you and your crew of course" she said blushing slightly.
He chuckled and said: "Alrigh' luv, come aboard me pride an' joy" he said waving his arms towards the huge ship.
"It's gorgeous.. and- and HUGE!" said while she gave the ship another look.
"Aye, that's me Pearl"
"That's it's name? The Pearl?"
"Nah, the Black Pearl" he said not taking his eyes off his ship.
Sharlene blinked in realisation... this.. this ship, she had heard of it... it was the once cursed ship! The same ship that had massacred hundreds of towns and took everything they could find leaving many people penniless and even homeless! Where had she gotten into!? She was cut out of her thoughts by a waving hand in front of her face.
"Yeh alrigh' luv?" he said with a slight glint of concern in his eyes
"Yes, I'm fine, sorry, what were you saying?"
He narrowed his eyes at her but said
"I said that we board the ship now that's fully packed" he said smiling excitedly and leading her aboard the ship.
"All 'ands on deck!" he shouted to his crew which rushed towards the deck of the ship to get the thing moving.
Everyone was eyeing her with great curiosity and a bit of nastiness in their eyes.
"This beautiful youn' lady, named Sharlene Irvine" - she stared at the floor with extraordinary interest not wanting to look at the other men's stares- "will be joinin' us in our venture" he once again shouted to his crew moving his hand pointing at Sharlene who was extremely embarrassed by now.
"If any of yeh dare te even scratch 'er I personally will cut yer 'eads off an' use them as decoration fer me cabin" the men fell silent "is that clear?!"
"Aye" they all said in unison and went back to work.
"Well that worked out superbly what d' yeh thin' luv?" Jack said with a grin.
"I guess they now know what their not supposed to do" she said with a small smile.
"Capt'n" a gruff voice said from behind.
"Aye... luv? This's Gibbs, me 'irst mate" he said looking at the other man.
"Pleased to meet you Mr. Gibbs" she said with a small bow.
"Nah lass, call 'e jest Gibbs" he smiled and looked back at Jack "Capt'n, we're ready te set sail". "Very well, let's be off".
"Aye Captn'" and he shouted the rest of the crew to move on.
"An' Gibbs" Jack said " the lass's new at this kinda thin' so try an' 'elp her a bit would ya?" now in a whisper so that she wouldn't hear.
"'course Capt't, i'll teach 'er a few thingies"
"Good" Jack said and swayed towards the helm.
Sharlene was wondering around the ship, amazed by what all these men together could do, she wanted to learn all she could, she didn't want to be confused by a lazy womany.
"'ey lass, 'ere let me tell ya a couple of things" said Gibbs and taught Sharlene the ways of a crew.
After showing and explaining Sharlene every single thing she could be able to do, Gibbs went down the ship to start making lunch (after all, he was going to cook for at least 20 people).
Sharlene was getting tired fast, she had worked for hours before yes, but not as much as now, she was sweating madly, struggling with some knots Gibbs had taught her to do before, she just couldn't untie them.
That was it, leaving the knots she went straight to the first man that came into view
"Sorry to bother you, mate, but could you lend me your dagger for a second if you don't mind?"
The man looked quite alarmed by this statement and Sharlene immediately new why and laughed
"Oh no, no, it's not for what you think, don't worry, i'm not planning on slashing anyone for the time being" she said with a wicked smile, and received a chuckle and a smile in return, and got the precious dagger that would facilitate her life.
She return to her working spot and was about to slice the damned knot when a strong hand grabbed her moving arm and whispered in her ear
"Yeh don' wanna be doin' that lass, we 'on't 'ave another descent rope 'board the ship and if yeh cut that one"-he pointed at the knot Sharlene had been about to cut-" we'll be 'aving to use the Pearl's oars to get to our one month destination as there would be no standing sails to take us 'nywhere, and neither do yeh or me or the crew wanna be fagged out, savvy?" -he turned to look at her, offering her an expecting smile.
"Oh... s-sorry Captain" she said quite embarrased looking at the floor and then looking up afain "but would you PLEASE help me with this knot? I've been trying to undo it for 15 minutes now and i can't even get it to losen up!" now a bit exasperated He chuckled
"Sure, luv" he said "le' me 'ave a look at it" he then gave the knot a few twists with his hands and it was off easily. Sharlene stood there, wide eyed. She then narrowed her eyes as she saw Jack chuckle again and said
"Sometimes i just WISH i'd be a man you know?! It's just so much easier to do this kind of skutwork! It's so not fair!"
Jack laughed and whispered in her ear again which this time made shivers go down her spine
"Yeh be watchin' out fer what yeh wish, luv, it may come true an' get us all unhappy... specially meself" he smirked slightly and with that he walked back to the helm.
************** It was getting darker and the crew was starting to go downstairs for dinner. Sharlene was heading that direction as well when Gibbs stopped her.
"Nay lass, the Capt'n ordered yeh ter go eat with 'im"
"Oh, I thought everyone dined with everyone here" said Sharlene quite surprised.
"Well, he only eats 'lone on special occasions" and winked at her who stared quizzically at him.
He just chuckled and led her to the Captain's quarters.
--Alright folks! This chap has ended and hope you liked it! just by making a simple review I shall go on with the story savvy?-