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I do have bad news, though. I've been writing so frequently because I am still on my Winter Break and I'll be going back to school on the 3rd curses school. So I won't be able to update as often as I have been, but I'll try to get a chapter up at least once a week!
Disclaimer: I have yet to convince Disney to let me keep POTC and the cast wink wink, but I'm still trying! I do own Kora Baxter!
"I always thought you should have been buried with your mother and brother when they died. You're just a burden to me," expressed my father.
"Yes sir…" I replied, eyes dead set on the floor.
"You look at your father when spoken to," he said along with a violent slap to my left cheek.
Never flinch, don't let him know you're pained by what he does to you… don't let him win.
"Yes sir," I repeated, this time looking at my father's face.
"You know, it's not too late for you to get into their grave," he said. With that he swiftly grabbed me from behind and bound my arms together. I tried to struggle out of his grip but he was much stronger than I.
"Father, please! I've done nothing but given up my life for you!"
"That's exactly what you're going to do." I turned my head to get a glimpse of him, tear flowing down my cheeks. He picked up his cutlass from the wall and unsheathed it.
"NO!!! STOP IT!!!" My voice echoed throughout the room.
"KORA, are you alright?!" My eyes immediately opened to meet the gaze of Jack. He must have been in the room with me the whole time. Concern and fear was painted all over his face. My tears were continuing to flow down my cheeks mingling with sweat.
"It was just…just a dream," I said somewhat incoherently. I sat up as far as I could with the restraint of the bandages attached on me.
"What happened, luv?"
"My father…why would he say those things?"
"Your father isn't here Kora, it was only a dream," he explained to me to calm me down.
"It was so real…I could feel him binding my arms together…"
"Binding?! You better be able to explain this, luv."
"He tried to kill me, to send me six feet under with my mother and baby brother," I managed to choke out. My lips began to quiver from my own fright.
I tried to recall every detail of my dream to Jack. He tried to get closer to comfort me, but I didn't let him. I gathered the blankets all over my body and crawled over to the far corner of the bed.
"You know I won't bite, darling," he reassured me. I've heard his reputations everywhere throughout my whole life. There is no way I'm going to allow him to get too close with me. Hell, I've only known the man for a few minutes! I did, however, move back to my original spot; he doesn't seem so bad…
"I'm sorry, it's just…"
"…because of your father, correct?" he asked.
"How did you know?"
"Your fear of your father is written all over your face. What exactly happened between you and him anyways?"
I turned my head away from him, trying to stop the tears from escaping, yet they never will stop. Fuck it, let them go. I took a minute to gather my thoughts about what I should tell him, and what not to. He is just a stranger to me, why would he care to hear my life story? Yet somehow there was something about him that made me feel like I could tell him everything.
I took a deep breath and finally told him what I dreaded to even hear.
"He beat me, constantly. He beat me for nothing in particular, even!"
His eyes widened as I told him my family history with my father; the beginnings, the effect on him from my mother's and brother's death, and his addiction. He listened to everything I said, a first for me. He was so intent to hear what I had to say. I felt wanted when I was talking to him to the point where my tears came to a hault.
"…but why would you care about my past anyways, Mr. Sparrow,"
"Please, call me Jack. And I care about your past because of the way I found you last night; jumping off the cliff…why did you do that anyways?"
Shit, what should I say? Should I just say I fell, or tell him the truth? I look into his eyes, seeing my reflection in them and how I look. Disturbed, afraid, hurt. Yet beyond my reflection I see someone who's understands all that I've gone through. Just tell him. I guess I was thinking for too long because he disrupted my thoughts.
"You were trying to kill yourself, weren't you?"
I crumbled right then and there. My tears came back to me and my emotions finally let everything all go through; I just can't keep this bottled up anymore. By body just fell over, my upper body collapsed on my lower. My whole body was just quivering with my pain from everything that has happened to me, past and present. Jack moved closer to me and wrapped his arms around me, cradling me almost.
"Luv, everything is fine now. You're finally away from your bastard of a father, just breathe,"
We just sat there for a moment, myself within his arms. It was almost peaceful, loving even. Then my paranoia came back. What if he's just like my father…I can't get this close. I slowly got out of his grasp and turned my head to face his.
"Why did you save me? I'm not someone worth anyone's trouble."
"No one deserves to kill themselves. Granted I didn't know your situation or anything but you just seemed like you needed to try again in life…a second chance."
"No one has ever cared about me, yet here you come, the famous and wanted Captain Jack Sparrow, saves a nobody like me."
"You just need the right person, that's all."
"Who would give a fuck about me?! A heavyset girl covered in bruises! That's completely sexy, bah!" Why am I even talking about this?!
"No need to get flustered over this luv. Looks isn't everything. Yet personally I think you're quite gorgeous."
My heart stopped when listening to the words he said. Gorgeous? Since when was I seen as gorgeous? He's just trying to make me feel better.
"Now lets get you out of my cabin and show you around the Black Pearl!"
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