--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--

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"......." for talking

-Chapter 12-

There he was, facing her, with a very pleased expression on his sleeping face, his head resting comfortably over one of the cheeks of her rare end with one hand groping the other one. The rest of his body was spread along his side of the bed.

Sharlene had to bite her lower lip to stop herself from bursting out laughing or shrieking, whichever sound came out of her mouth would surely awaken Jack and this would not be a good idea. She could just imagine the smug look on his face and those saucy comments of his going her way. And such an embarrassing scene would it turned out to be as well...

She breathed out a heavy sigh but made it soft enough to get rid of her temporal stress thanks to the extremely uncomfortable situation and keep Jack the way he was, the way she preferred him, peaceful, asleep, NON- SPEAKABLE.

She tried to move without waking him but failed, whenever she moved, his body moved... he was bloody glued to her ass! He must have liked it a lot as he wouldn't let go of her... she gave up the idea of moving to free herself so she switched to plan B; she turned her back until one of her arms could reach his, then she tried to move his groping hand away from her bum cheek and succeeded. Her goal now was to move that big, hard head of his from her other pillow transformed cheek. She couldn't use both hands as she was using one as support... she tried using her only hand to move the head but wasn't strong enough. She was getting exasperated and could now feel little "ants" pinching both of her legs; she couldn't even move them! They were fucking asleep!

-"That's it"- she said out loud and poked Jack on the head with her index finger.

No answer

-"Jack"- she said in a motherly tone -"time to wake up sleepy head"- No answer.

-"Jack"- she poked him again twice -"Jack wake up"- poked him again -"JACK"- poked him again -"JACK!!!"- she yelled near Jack's ear who jumped nearly 2 feet from the bed and landed right on his face. Then looked up, rubbing his over-volumed ear with his palm and looking sleepy and confused.

-"Whoa!! That was one hell of a start...!- he narrowed his eyes at her -"heeey, what the bloody depths was that for?!"-

She smiled sweetly to him, now happy that she had achieved her goal of freeing her legs AND bum. -"Sorry Jack, you were sleeping on top of me, so I couldn't move, so I had to wake you up"-

-"Aye Lene but yeh could've been a wee bit more gentle with poor ol' Jack 'ere, 'tis not nice for a man such as meself t' start the day like this"- he said trying to figure out a way out of the entangled sheets around his legs "- I would prefer yeh kissin' me good mornin' if that's too much t' ask?- he said grinning

She rolled her eyes.

-"Sure Jack, anytime"-

-"I would be very very pleased if yeh did that any time, but yeh see, although yeh can't evidently resist me charm,- gaining an eyebrow lift from Sharlene- I'm only askin' for a mornin' kiss, 'tis all-"

-"Whatever you say, Jack, whatever you say"-

She waited until he got changed so that she could begin her own BY HERSELF (of course this wasn't at all easy as he had- for the second time- suggested that she changed right there in front of him)

-'As if I would do a thing like that'- she spoke to herself as she finished putting her boots on 'that bloke still thinks I'm some kind of harlot'-.

She finished combing her hair and went straight to start a new beautiful day aboard the Pearl... -'Beautiful day my ass'- she said under a heavy curtain of pouring rain. A sudden harsh movement from the ship made her lost her balance and slip, landing right on top of Gibbs.

She gave him a toothy grin, -"Sorry, not my fault"-

-"Aye aye, I get that all the time don't worry"- he said with a mock smile on his face, trying to get up but was soon rejoined with the wooden floor by no one else but Sharlene again.

-"I can't help it! sorry!!"- she stud up with the help of a hanging rope and helped Gibbs up. -"Finally! Thank god I had this bit of rope here hanging from...- she looked up the rope- from...oh-my-god...- she looked back down with an innocent yet worried look on her face- err... Gibbs?"-

-"Aye? What is it lass? Can't yeh see I'm trying t' keep all the sails of the main mast in order so that we don't get blown off?!"-

-"Yeah well, that was exactly what I wanted to tell you.... you see - showing him the rope she had balanced herself from- doesn't this belong to that main mast?"- she said a bit too urgently.

-"What 're yeh- he looked up and his eyes grew wide- HOLY CRAP! JONES!, COTTON! 'OME 'ERE NOW!"- In no time, not only two but half of the crew members were climbing up ropes and up the mast, trying to tie the rope around the now half-torn sail. Nearly all the crew had drawed their attention to the scene developing in the upper part of the ship. They didn't see Cotton slip over the railing and fall into the water, he couldn't yell as he was not able to speak at all; the only one to see him fall was Sharlene. She knew no one had seen or heard him so without thinking twice or even warning anyone she threw herself as close as possible to the sinking body of Cotton.

This time, Gibbs had seen her just when she was about to hit the water and immediately assumed that she had accidentally been thrown off board.

-"Woman 'ver board!"-

A few crew mates had gone to the railing to find the drowning body of the woman, but what they found was the woman saving a man that had probably got thrown off board before. They saw a rope tied around her waist and attached around the railing of the ship.

Jack who uptil now had been shouting orders to his crew had noticed the bustle around the other end of the deck and was the first one to notice the rope around Sharlene and grab it to pull both of them aboard.

She was exhausted, she had tried without rest to find Cotton over the crushing waves. When she had reached him at last, she was about to pull herself up but was beaten up by someone else as she felt a tug on the rope and was slowly pulled all the way over board. She had tied the rope around Cotton as well and when she was sure enough that neither of them would fall back again, she gave in, closed her eyes and blacked out.

When Jack had pulled them up, he saw Cotton wide eyed but breathing steadily, however, he was worried about Sharlene, she had fainted, was pale faced and shivering. He took her to his cabin as fast as he could, he carefully placed her over the bed and covered her with everything he could find so as to keep her warm. But she was still pale and shivering madly, he placed his hand on top of her forehead and felt her burning. He panicked, he shouted for Gibbs' help who burst open the door into the cabin.

-"Gibbs, mate, she's burnin' fire, she's shiverin', help me, do sumthin', brin'-brin' some cold water and a piece of cloth, fast!- come on man!"-

-"Aye cap'n"- he was gone and back in no time.

-"Please Lene, wake up, I need you here, please luv, open those eyes, please-" -"Captn', she's movin'"-

-"Well of course she's moving man, she's shiverin'!"- Jack yelled a little too loud

-"No, capt'n, look"- Sharlene was shifting and fluttering her eye lids. Jack rushed to her side and grabbed her hand.

-"Yes!, come on now luv, wake up!"- she stopped moving -"come on Lene! Wakey wakey!"- she stopped shivering.

-"Well at least she stopped shakin'"- said Gibbs encouringly.

-"Aye, 'tis a good sign righ'?... righ?!"- -"Aye Jack! Calm down! You're not actin' yerself!"-

-"Don't be ridiculous Gibbs, 'course I'm- he stopped abruptly- wait, Gibbs, she's- she's- she's not-"- -"She's not shiverin' aye"- -"Nah mate! She's cold as ice! And- he lowered his head to her chest- I can't 'ear her heart beat!"-

-"What do yeh mean yeh can't hear 'er heart beat?! Argh! Move! let me see"- Jack was so anxious that he jumped to the side for Gibbs to inspect Sharlene's body closer. After a while, Gibbs turned his face towards Jack. His eyes were wide with worry.

-"She's.... sh-she's..."- -"She's WHAT?! Mate!?"- after a couple of seconds of intense silence, Gibbs spoke up

-"She's dead capt'n"-

--There, finally! Man I took long to update! But here it is! Hope you like it! Please review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--