Author's Note #1: I'm gonna finish this thing for real this time! I promise! I just saw Finding Neverland and Peter Pan and Pirates of the Caribbean in two nights, so here I go!
Author's Note #2: There may be some changes around here. Hope it doesn't break anyone's heart.
Author's Note #3: Sorry bout the shortness of the last chapter. I'll make it up to you, I promise.
CHAPTER 8: HOOK'S HOSTAGE
Angelina peered around the corner. No sign of that strange little man. He had run off after she and James intimidated him. She didn't like a stranger on her ship. She was going to have to do something about him, but not after she was done with James.
"No one?" He asked.
"No one." She replied and proceeded to kiss him.
Jchin had made his way back to Echo's cabin and informed her. They decided to do a little investigating before they alerted the crew. But what they didn't count on was a small ball of light hovering at the open window.
Tinkerbelle knew just who to find. She was off to locate Angelina.
Silently, a black hat rose above the side of the ship. Hook climbed over the railing. He had heard treasure beyond his wildest dreams while waiting for a time to come up.
Suddenly, there was a scream.
A sword was in his face.
Damn.
James and his hussy.
Hook and James both dove for Angelina's mouth to shut her up.
Hook got to her first and grabbed her from James's grasp. "Well, James, we meet again. And, my lady, Angelina was it? Yes, James's hussy." Angelina kicked him in the shin. "Oh, feisty are we?"
"For goodness' sake, Jacobus let her go." James was starting to feel like a real idiot since he realized that he forgot his sword.
"I think not, James." Hook back towards the railing with Angelina still struggling.
"What are you doing!"
"Taking a hostage." Hook said matter-of-factly. "Really James, you've lost your sense of evil, haven't you?" Hook asked as he disappeared over the side.
James's next shout brought the entire crew running.
"What are you doing man?" Jack asked as James climbed over the railing.
"Saving her, what does it look like?"
"Uh, I hate to break it to you, but we're in the air, James. That would be extremely stupid." Kat said blatantly.
Meanwhile, on the HMS Ferret the people were very much more behaved.
Lina had lessened her Will hunting to sitting and mumbling outside the cabin door. Gabby and Orla hadn't bugged Jesse since building the ferret house and were actually not running around and causing general havoc. Echo had not come out of her room since running away from Sarah, and Jchin had stayed undercover and went to do some more investigating for his mistress.
"Damn!" James yelled after Hook disappeared.
"What's th mattr, laddie?"
"Hook's taken Angelina. When I get my hands on that bastard..." James mimed wringing Jacobus's neck.
"Naw, doon'cha wanna make 'im suffer?"
James stopped and he turned to Pippin. "You're a bloody genius!"
"Ah knoow."
"Now what would it take for you to take up with my crew, my lovely?" Hook asked. Angelina sat defiantly staring into the distance while Hook walked around the chair. He stopped and brushed her hair away from her face from behind. Her face stayed stone. As he let it run through his fingers he took a deep breath, inhaling the hair's aroma. Her head jerked away mechanically, but still she was silent.
Hook was getting irritated. "Damn it, talk to me!" He slammed his hook into the table nearby, succeeding in getting it stuck.
Angelina snorted. Angered, Hook pulled his hook out of the table and held it to her neck. "What did you say?"
"Nothing." She replied simply.
Tinkerbelle had found James, but Angelina was not with him, as she had thought she would be. She alighted on his shoulder as he leaned the barrier and looked in the direction of the Jolly Rodger.
James turned and gave her a small smile. "What do you want, Tink?"
Tink mimed Angelina by pointing to James and then gave him a sultry look and shrugging. This display made James burst into laughter and he almost shook the fairy off of his shoulder.
Tink flew in front of his face with a small glare, scolding him by shaking her finger in his face.
James held up a hand to let her land on, still chuckling. Tinkerbelle posed the question again and James decided to pantomime the answer to her as well, getting a very bad reception from the fairy, who had no intention of being made fun of. He curled his finger into a Hook and mimed grabbing someone and pointed to the general area that the Jolly Rodger should have been occupying.
Satisfied with getting at least some form of answer she still scowled as James laughed.
Tink pointed to herself and pointed to the Jolly Rodger. James stopped and nodded slowly, getting her drift. She then smiled, and he did as well, exclaiming "Oh Tink! Thank you!"
Finding herself liking the man, she batted her eyes and blew a kiss as she flew off.
James shook his head. "Little thing likes me does she?"
In a matter of a few minutes, Hook had roused Angelina's interest with a treasure hidden somewhere in Neverland. They were now at dinner.
"As I see it, you're advancing your position, lovely."
"Don't call me lovely." She said, only half meaning it.
"Ah yes, I forgot. James. Right."
"Yes."
"Well, like I said, you'd be ADVANCING your position."
"What do you mean?"
Hook had got up from his seat and was again behind Angelina's chair. He took her hand and kissed it and then took her hair and did the same. "Why by leaving him behind."
After Jack had left Rum's cabin, he mulled over what he had been told. Just as she had shut the door, she had put a finger to her lips to signify his silence to the rest of the crew.
He would have whatever he wanted. WHATEVER he wanted.
His mind swam. He decided he needed some rum and a nap.
Tinkerbelle had made her way to the window of Hook's cabin and found something that pleased her.
There was Hook, leaning over Angelina's chair.
She giggled and flitted in to see what was truly going on.
"Just think of the treasure to yourself. You wouldn't get much between those two ships of nimrods."
"Wait just a minute!" Angelina protested at her friends being called names.
"Excuse me, lovely. I apologize." Hook said, not altogether convincingly.
"I said..." Angelina didn't finish her sentence as Hook lightly kissed her lips.
"WHAT IN BLOODY HELL!" She screamed, jumping up.
Tinkerbelle dissolved into giggles.
Rum was in an outrage. "Why does she DO that!"
"What?" Kat asked.
"Who?" Jane chorused.
The entirety of the Pearl was in the captain's quarters for a meeting, minus James who had been deliberately forgotten by Rum because she wanted to vent about a certain hostage.
"ANGELINA! Why does she always have to get herself taken hostage!"
Jane ran a had through the air in front of Rum, her eyes closed. "I sense some hostility here," she concluded.
"No shit!" Kat said in mock wonder.
"YouwannaknowwhatIthink..." Charlotte slurred.
"NO!" Rum and Kat yelled.
"Well,sheesh,fine.I'lljustsitrighthereandshutmymouth."
"IsokCharlotte,Iagreewithyou...Ithink..." Jack slurred, patting her back.
"To me, this whole situation has to do with one person..." AnnaMariea concluded, more out loud to herself than to anyone else.
Rum and Kat turned away from their hostile staring contest. As one, they paused, and then sprinted to AnnaMariea's perch on the side of the bed. "Who?"
"James and Hook."
The suspense of the moment was broken by Jane's comment of "That's two people."
