--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 10-
Gibbs headed for the captain's quarters with Sharlene shortly following. He then stopped in front of a door with the word "Captain" written on it in gold, he knocked and waited for an answer.
"'ome in 'oever yeh 're" came a voice from the other side.
Gibbs pushed the door open and stepped inside the room, Sharlene stud behind him just in case she wasn't actually wanted or just because she didn't want the captain to think she was anxious to see him (which in fact she wasn't). She didn't want him to get any wrong ideas about her.
"Capt'n, I brought the lass, yeh wanned te see 'er?" asked Gibbs in a bored tone.
"Aye aye, brin' 'er in"
Gibbs motioned Sharlene to go inside the room who shyly walked upto Jack's view who in fact wasn't even looking her way.
He was leaning on a desk with his hands on the wood at each side of him, looking at a large piece of paper which Sharlene couldn't deduce what it was.
She deduced however that his cabin was the most amazing, most elegant cabin she had ever seen (not that she had seen many though). The walls were a beige colour, they had all kinds of maps hanging on them as well, the desk where Jack was leaning on was below a large window were you could see the beautiful Caribbean ocean through it. There was a large wooden table opposite to the desk with unmeasured quantities of food on it, there was also a small cabinet against a wall; but what really caught her eye was the tremendous queen size bed at the very back of the room beside the cabinet; it had crimson red sheets, puffy white pillows and it's wooden headboard was carved with the drawing of a sparrow.
'How nice' she thought and sighed inwardly.
Jack then turned his head towards her and Gibbs and smiled
"'bout time" he said with a laugh
"Aye, sorry 'bout that" said Gibbs not really apologising "I be leavin' then"
"Thank yeh Gibbs" and he closed the door as Gibbs left.
He turned around to face Sharlene who was all but interested on him. She was looking at everything, everywhere with great interest and had to tear her eyes off a large sword hanging on a wall to hear what Jack was blabbering.
"Sorry, what were you saying?" asked Sharlene
He narrowed his eyes slightly
"Yeh tend t' do that a lot don' yeh?!" he asked in mock anger "will I always be 'aving t' practically yell at yeh t' get yer attention?!"
She laughed a bit and said
"No, sorry Jack, the thing is that I was just fascinated by the decorations of your cabin" she said and started observing everything again. He chuckled
"Aye, I've got a 'ery good taste don' yeh think?" he said with a smug grin "And 'tis CAPTAIN, Jack, or CAPTAIN, Sparrow or even CAPTAIN, Jack Sparrow... whichever yeh think suits me better" he said with a snobby smile.
She laughed again "I suppose you do have a great taste, CAPTAIN"
He gave her a toothy grin, revealing a few gold teeth
"Well, luv, what do yeh say we fill our stomachs with this wonderful food Gibbs prepared for us? He said nearing the table filled with food and sat at the end of it.
Sharlene made her way to the other end of the table and sat down opposite to Jack who was now staring intently at her with his elbows resting on the table and his head on his hands. "I- I thought you were hungry?" Sharlene said after a while, quite shyly from all the staring Jack had made towards her.
"Aye, I was, but I'm 'aving second thoughts 'bout 'ow I should satisfy this 'unger of mine" he said with a small smirk
Sharlene blushed deeply as she caught the hidden meaning behind his comment. She still didn't understand why was everyone addressing her as a young woman... well she was now 17, maybe that was being a young woman... she had been suggested before, but only by drunken men... that was quite acceptable...but to have this sober man speak to her with such boldness about having sexual activity with her was a totally new subject. This in fact created the double embarrassment clearly showed on her face.
"Well, I don't know about you but I'm craving for food so if you don't mind"- she picked up her fork- I'll start ravishing this delicious-looking meal here in front of me" she said hoping with every inch of her soul this comment would break the tension that Jack had started merely seconds ago.
Jack kept boring his eyes at her as she ate, but she paid little attention to it; If not, if she ever looked up into his eyes she would probably faint from all the heat he was producing in her. God she was embarrassed, though she didn't know why she acted so childish in front of Jack when he lunched those cheeky comments at her; she had dealt with far worse than this without breaking a sweat and look at her now! She was completely vulnerable to this man's eyes!
It seemed Jack had given up on his torture as he started eating as well. There was a short moment of silence after that when he spoke up
"Wew, wuv, tew mui" he said as he chewed and swallowed a piece of meat "did yeh 'ave any problems involvin' me crew t'day?"
"Er... nope, they were all gentlemen, as far as a pirate can go of course" and laughed a bit. Jack chuckled
"Glad t''ear that, luv" -he smiled- "but 'tis time yeh tell me a wee bit 'bout yerself, what d' yeh say?" he looked at her expectantly.
"Uh... well, you know my full name by now..." she thought about what she was going to say about herself, obviously thinking it would be best to lie about her past and how she had came back in time and all, she didn't want him to think she was nuts or something.
"I honestly don't know where I was born as uh... I was raced by Spanish people in Spain when I was just a baby, that's what they told me anyway, and well we were supposed to move to England 'cause my father had gotten a new job there." She paused for a moment to think about what she would tell next and saw Jack still staring at her. Man he was distracting!
"But on our way to England, the crew of the ship we were sailing on did a mutiny against their captain, taking all other passengers, including myself, as captives."
She paused to think of what to frame next. Jack was now all ears and was eager to find out more about this woman, she was positively the woman he had searched for... but... she was different... first of all, that accent she had, she was probably from some foreign country as she had just said. But was all this the whole, blank truth? Or was she hiding something? It sounded like a made-up story to him... "And well, after a couple of endless months, the ship finally paused at some island I personally had no idea that existed and left us there to starve" she tried to sound as much bitter as possible, she HAD to be a good actrice for this man to believe her.
"Thank god a merchant ship had come by one day after and gave us a "lift" to the nearest populated island"
There was a silence after this last sentence. Jack kept looking at her with an unfocused look on his beautiful chocolate eyes -'wait, did I said beautiful?! Nah, not beautiful.. um.. um... nice? No no... um... ordinary! Yes! Ordinary, simple, brown eyes'-.
Maybe he hadn't believed a word she had just said? 'Please let it not be the case' she inwardly begged 'oh god please'.
After a good 5 minutes he spoke.
"Well, luv" he said with a rather unsatisfied smile "that was A wonderful story but I was actually lookin' forward to yeh tellin' ol' Jack yer true life story 'stead of a filthy lie...!!!" he had no smile on his face, no grin, no playful twinkle in his eyes... he was being too damn serious and it was scaring the soul out of her.
"I - I don't know what you're talking about captain, it was the whole truth! Fresh from within my very soul!" she was now desperate "you're the first person to hear this bloody -'hmm, British word...!'- story cause I felt too broken and, and alone and empty to even think about what I went through on that ship! I gave you my trust and confidence on a silver tray and you're now throwing everything on my face! How can you not believe what I just said! How can't you!" she ended with a frustrated cry. After all, although this was all a filthy lie, like Jack had just said, she couldn't understand how couldn't he not trust her... besides, if that would have actually turned out to be true, she would have probably reacted the same way she had just pretended to react.
Jack was taken aback, he didn't expect this kind of outburst. Just a little blush or stupefied look on the lass's face and then the hesitant but still true story... not a bloody hysterical, dramatic outcry!
"'tis alrigh' then, luv" his voice was gentle now "I believe yeh, if ye say 'tis the truth then 'tis the truth for me" he said with a gentle smile.
She inwardly gave a tremendously heavy sigh of relief and managed to crack a small smile.
"Thank you for believing me captain..." she paused a bit "and sorry about that outburst of mine... it's- it's just that I get pretty mad when I'm not trusted or believed in"
"I understand, it 'appens to all of us luv" he grinned.
He gulped the rest of the rum in his bottle - she was awed about the fact that he had drunk the whole bottle and almost thought that what he had just been drinking was actually water instead of alcohol! No normal human being could manage to stay fully conscious after drinking nearly one litre of rum!- and spoke again.
"So, yeh said that merchant ship 'ad sailed yeh an' yer family t' Tortuga I s'ppose"
"Yup".
"But what 'appened to it? yer family I mean, did yeh leave them in Tortuga so that yeh could come 'board me Pearl?" he questioned untruthfully.
'Shit, what now?.... come on Sharlene, think, THINK!... ah! got it'
"Well..." she tried to sound as sad as possible "my mother was savagely raped and- and murdered by a filthy bastard one or two weeks from the day we had arrived... my father left me to work the streets when he sailed away from Tortuga merely days after mom had been killed, fortunately for me that didn't last much as I got a job in a pub, I was still working there when I left"
Jack didn't bite it, he knew she was not telling him the truth, well, not the whole truth as the last bit about the pub was true as he had been told she worked there when he had heard her sing at "The Strain".
-Some kind of flashback-
The day after he had gone looking for her. He had been told she was not in the pub at that moment, so with all his hopes quite gone down the drain he had planned on having a few drinks at some bar and then maybe return to "The drunken maiden", as the pub where she worked was named, to have another go at finding her.
However, to his great surprise he had found her right where he less expected her to be. She was sitting at a table in the corner of the joint waiting to be served, then a bloke sitting near by had come up to her, suggesting her into a pleasure event. He had expected her to giggle or to playfully push him away... but no, oh ho ho no... they had talked for about half a minute when the bastard had smashed his lips against hers. He had felt his blood boil with anger and had been about to kill the living daylights out of him when he saw her kick him in the shins, then punch him and kick him hard on the stomach.
He was awed, he had never, EVER in his life as a pirate had seen a woman (not a pirate woman but an ordinary lady) react in such a violent yet amazing way. He was fascinated about the fact that she had beaten the crap out of him with her bare hands.. ejem.. fists before he had thought of doing it himself. She indeed was a unique one.
He was drawn out of his thoughts himself, it had been an interesting show and he was willing to see more but he had business to attend to and so he had gone to salute her....
-End of flashback-
But still he didn't say anything about it this time, he knew eventually -when they became close friends (and if possible something a wee bit more intimate than that) as he had planned to - she would open up to him and tell him her whole story, fresh from within her REAL sole. He chuckled inwardly at this very last thought.
"Well luv" he finally said "I can see yeh 'ad a very difficult life for a strumpet such as yerself" he couldn't hide the bitterness of his words. Sharlene still knew he didn't believe her.
"Do you still not believe me captain? What am I to do for you to believe me?" she asked in her normal calm tone "I have nothing or no one that can prove what I've just said, so you should rather believe me or not, your choice".
Jack was getting exasperated but kept his cool.
"I 'ready said I believed yeh lass, what other proof do YEH need so as to believe ME?".
"I suppose only your words should be enough to satisfy me" she said already getting bored of all this truth or lie thing. "So, it's getting late and I'm exhausted"
Jack felt what was coming and inwardly smirked.
"Where would I be sleeping?" she asked unconcerned.
--THE END!
Of this chapter I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm planning on doing a good 20 chapters at LEAST. Just in case the worst would happen, keep to the code....
(laughs) Nah, just in case you ask yourselves why I'm being so annoyingly slow on updating, I'll tell you I've just started school so I'm gonna be more busy with school homework and stuff... so please don't kill me. Ok that's about it then... bye!--
By the way: '........' for thinking
"......." for talking
-Chapter 10-
Gibbs headed for the captain's quarters with Sharlene shortly following. He then stopped in front of a door with the word "Captain" written on it in gold, he knocked and waited for an answer.
"'ome in 'oever yeh 're" came a voice from the other side.
Gibbs pushed the door open and stepped inside the room, Sharlene stud behind him just in case she wasn't actually wanted or just because she didn't want the captain to think she was anxious to see him (which in fact she wasn't). She didn't want him to get any wrong ideas about her.
"Capt'n, I brought the lass, yeh wanned te see 'er?" asked Gibbs in a bored tone.
"Aye aye, brin' 'er in"
Gibbs motioned Sharlene to go inside the room who shyly walked upto Jack's view who in fact wasn't even looking her way.
He was leaning on a desk with his hands on the wood at each side of him, looking at a large piece of paper which Sharlene couldn't deduce what it was.
She deduced however that his cabin was the most amazing, most elegant cabin she had ever seen (not that she had seen many though). The walls were a beige colour, they had all kinds of maps hanging on them as well, the desk where Jack was leaning on was below a large window were you could see the beautiful Caribbean ocean through it. There was a large wooden table opposite to the desk with unmeasured quantities of food on it, there was also a small cabinet against a wall; but what really caught her eye was the tremendous queen size bed at the very back of the room beside the cabinet; it had crimson red sheets, puffy white pillows and it's wooden headboard was carved with the drawing of a sparrow.
'How nice' she thought and sighed inwardly.
Jack then turned his head towards her and Gibbs and smiled
"'bout time" he said with a laugh
"Aye, sorry 'bout that" said Gibbs not really apologising "I be leavin' then"
"Thank yeh Gibbs" and he closed the door as Gibbs left.
He turned around to face Sharlene who was all but interested on him. She was looking at everything, everywhere with great interest and had to tear her eyes off a large sword hanging on a wall to hear what Jack was blabbering.
"Sorry, what were you saying?" asked Sharlene
He narrowed his eyes slightly
"Yeh tend t' do that a lot don' yeh?!" he asked in mock anger "will I always be 'aving t' practically yell at yeh t' get yer attention?!"
She laughed a bit and said
"No, sorry Jack, the thing is that I was just fascinated by the decorations of your cabin" she said and started observing everything again. He chuckled
"Aye, I've got a 'ery good taste don' yeh think?" he said with a smug grin "And 'tis CAPTAIN, Jack, or CAPTAIN, Sparrow or even CAPTAIN, Jack Sparrow... whichever yeh think suits me better" he said with a snobby smile.
She laughed again "I suppose you do have a great taste, CAPTAIN"
He gave her a toothy grin, revealing a few gold teeth
"Well, luv, what do yeh say we fill our stomachs with this wonderful food Gibbs prepared for us? He said nearing the table filled with food and sat at the end of it.
Sharlene made her way to the other end of the table and sat down opposite to Jack who was now staring intently at her with his elbows resting on the table and his head on his hands. "I- I thought you were hungry?" Sharlene said after a while, quite shyly from all the staring Jack had made towards her.
"Aye, I was, but I'm 'aving second thoughts 'bout 'ow I should satisfy this 'unger of mine" he said with a small smirk
Sharlene blushed deeply as she caught the hidden meaning behind his comment. She still didn't understand why was everyone addressing her as a young woman... well she was now 17, maybe that was being a young woman... she had been suggested before, but only by drunken men... that was quite acceptable...but to have this sober man speak to her with such boldness about having sexual activity with her was a totally new subject. This in fact created the double embarrassment clearly showed on her face.
"Well, I don't know about you but I'm craving for food so if you don't mind"- she picked up her fork- I'll start ravishing this delicious-looking meal here in front of me" she said hoping with every inch of her soul this comment would break the tension that Jack had started merely seconds ago.
Jack kept boring his eyes at her as she ate, but she paid little attention to it; If not, if she ever looked up into his eyes she would probably faint from all the heat he was producing in her. God she was embarrassed, though she didn't know why she acted so childish in front of Jack when he lunched those cheeky comments at her; she had dealt with far worse than this without breaking a sweat and look at her now! She was completely vulnerable to this man's eyes!
It seemed Jack had given up on his torture as he started eating as well. There was a short moment of silence after that when he spoke up
"Wew, wuv, tew mui" he said as he chewed and swallowed a piece of meat "did yeh 'ave any problems involvin' me crew t'day?"
"Er... nope, they were all gentlemen, as far as a pirate can go of course" and laughed a bit. Jack chuckled
"Glad t''ear that, luv" -he smiled- "but 'tis time yeh tell me a wee bit 'bout yerself, what d' yeh say?" he looked at her expectantly.
"Uh... well, you know my full name by now..." she thought about what she was going to say about herself, obviously thinking it would be best to lie about her past and how she had came back in time and all, she didn't want him to think she was nuts or something.
"I honestly don't know where I was born as uh... I was raced by Spanish people in Spain when I was just a baby, that's what they told me anyway, and well we were supposed to move to England 'cause my father had gotten a new job there." She paused for a moment to think about what she would tell next and saw Jack still staring at her. Man he was distracting!
"But on our way to England, the crew of the ship we were sailing on did a mutiny against their captain, taking all other passengers, including myself, as captives."
She paused to think of what to frame next. Jack was now all ears and was eager to find out more about this woman, she was positively the woman he had searched for... but... she was different... first of all, that accent she had, she was probably from some foreign country as she had just said. But was all this the whole, blank truth? Or was she hiding something? It sounded like a made-up story to him... "And well, after a couple of endless months, the ship finally paused at some island I personally had no idea that existed and left us there to starve" she tried to sound as much bitter as possible, she HAD to be a good actrice for this man to believe her.
"Thank god a merchant ship had come by one day after and gave us a "lift" to the nearest populated island"
There was a silence after this last sentence. Jack kept looking at her with an unfocused look on his beautiful chocolate eyes -'wait, did I said beautiful?! Nah, not beautiful.. um.. um... nice? No no... um... ordinary! Yes! Ordinary, simple, brown eyes'-.
Maybe he hadn't believed a word she had just said? 'Please let it not be the case' she inwardly begged 'oh god please'.
After a good 5 minutes he spoke.
"Well, luv" he said with a rather unsatisfied smile "that was A wonderful story but I was actually lookin' forward to yeh tellin' ol' Jack yer true life story 'stead of a filthy lie...!!!" he had no smile on his face, no grin, no playful twinkle in his eyes... he was being too damn serious and it was scaring the soul out of her.
"I - I don't know what you're talking about captain, it was the whole truth! Fresh from within my very soul!" she was now desperate "you're the first person to hear this bloody -'hmm, British word...!'- story cause I felt too broken and, and alone and empty to even think about what I went through on that ship! I gave you my trust and confidence on a silver tray and you're now throwing everything on my face! How can you not believe what I just said! How can't you!" she ended with a frustrated cry. After all, although this was all a filthy lie, like Jack had just said, she couldn't understand how couldn't he not trust her... besides, if that would have actually turned out to be true, she would have probably reacted the same way she had just pretended to react.
Jack was taken aback, he didn't expect this kind of outburst. Just a little blush or stupefied look on the lass's face and then the hesitant but still true story... not a bloody hysterical, dramatic outcry!
"'tis alrigh' then, luv" his voice was gentle now "I believe yeh, if ye say 'tis the truth then 'tis the truth for me" he said with a gentle smile.
She inwardly gave a tremendously heavy sigh of relief and managed to crack a small smile.
"Thank you for believing me captain..." she paused a bit "and sorry about that outburst of mine... it's- it's just that I get pretty mad when I'm not trusted or believed in"
"I understand, it 'appens to all of us luv" he grinned.
He gulped the rest of the rum in his bottle - she was awed about the fact that he had drunk the whole bottle and almost thought that what he had just been drinking was actually water instead of alcohol! No normal human being could manage to stay fully conscious after drinking nearly one litre of rum!- and spoke again.
"So, yeh said that merchant ship 'ad sailed yeh an' yer family t' Tortuga I s'ppose"
"Yup".
"But what 'appened to it? yer family I mean, did yeh leave them in Tortuga so that yeh could come 'board me Pearl?" he questioned untruthfully.
'Shit, what now?.... come on Sharlene, think, THINK!... ah! got it'
"Well..." she tried to sound as sad as possible "my mother was savagely raped and- and murdered by a filthy bastard one or two weeks from the day we had arrived... my father left me to work the streets when he sailed away from Tortuga merely days after mom had been killed, fortunately for me that didn't last much as I got a job in a pub, I was still working there when I left"
Jack didn't bite it, he knew she was not telling him the truth, well, not the whole truth as the last bit about the pub was true as he had been told she worked there when he had heard her sing at "The Strain".
-Some kind of flashback-
The day after he had gone looking for her. He had been told she was not in the pub at that moment, so with all his hopes quite gone down the drain he had planned on having a few drinks at some bar and then maybe return to "The drunken maiden", as the pub where she worked was named, to have another go at finding her.
However, to his great surprise he had found her right where he less expected her to be. She was sitting at a table in the corner of the joint waiting to be served, then a bloke sitting near by had come up to her, suggesting her into a pleasure event. He had expected her to giggle or to playfully push him away... but no, oh ho ho no... they had talked for about half a minute when the bastard had smashed his lips against hers. He had felt his blood boil with anger and had been about to kill the living daylights out of him when he saw her kick him in the shins, then punch him and kick him hard on the stomach.
He was awed, he had never, EVER in his life as a pirate had seen a woman (not a pirate woman but an ordinary lady) react in such a violent yet amazing way. He was fascinated about the fact that she had beaten the crap out of him with her bare hands.. ejem.. fists before he had thought of doing it himself. She indeed was a unique one.
He was drawn out of his thoughts himself, it had been an interesting show and he was willing to see more but he had business to attend to and so he had gone to salute her....
-End of flashback-
But still he didn't say anything about it this time, he knew eventually -when they became close friends (and if possible something a wee bit more intimate than that) as he had planned to - she would open up to him and tell him her whole story, fresh from within her REAL sole. He chuckled inwardly at this very last thought.
"Well luv" he finally said "I can see yeh 'ad a very difficult life for a strumpet such as yerself" he couldn't hide the bitterness of his words. Sharlene still knew he didn't believe her.
"Do you still not believe me captain? What am I to do for you to believe me?" she asked in her normal calm tone "I have nothing or no one that can prove what I've just said, so you should rather believe me or not, your choice".
Jack was getting exasperated but kept his cool.
"I 'ready said I believed yeh lass, what other proof do YEH need so as to believe ME?".
"I suppose only your words should be enough to satisfy me" she said already getting bored of all this truth or lie thing. "So, it's getting late and I'm exhausted"
Jack felt what was coming and inwardly smirked.
"Where would I be sleeping?" she asked unconcerned.
--THE END!
Of this chapter I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm planning on doing a good 20 chapters at LEAST. Just in case the worst would happen, keep to the code....
(laughs) Nah, just in case you ask yourselves why I'm being so annoyingly slow on updating, I'll tell you I've just started school so I'm gonna be more busy with school homework and stuff... so please don't kill me. Ok that's about it then... bye!--