Chapter 7: A Night in Tortuga

We arrived in Tortuga about an hour after the sun set. There were drunk pirates everywhere chasing after girl, most of them looking dirty.

"This is Tortuga?" I said looking at Jack. He had a very pleased look on his face. Like this, place, was his baby.

"You don't sound very happy about it."

"Well it seems kind of…"

"Kind of what?"'

"Filthy."

"You'll like it! Trust me, eventually you will like it, and if you don't, just pretend. Savvy?"

"Alright, but only for you, now give me some rum, maybe then this place wont look like a dump."

"Aye luv! Follow me, and stay close, not all pirates are as nice as I." Soon we both ended up with rum in our hands and Jack and I had a little contest to see who could drink the most at one time. It took three bottles of rum for me to win. Jack stopped halfway through the third one and almost fell backwards. After my last sip I let out a big long belch. Jack gave me a funny drunken stare.

"Um… better out than in?" I said with a smile. "Will's missing out, this is a lot of fun."

"He said he would catch up with us."

"What did he say he was do-" A man came up behind me and grabbed my arm. "OUCH! Get your filthy hands off-" He started kissing me. My eyes got really big and I kneed him in the mommy daddy button full force. He screamed and started cursing at me. He finally got the strength to stand up strait and tried to strike me.

"Why you bloody wench!" He screamed at me, only I wasn't standing there anymore.

"That is no way to be treating a lady." Jack said pointing a pistol at the man's face.

"Aye, sorry Jack, I didn't know she was yours."

"That's Captain Jack Sparrow to you." The man then walked away to find another girl to torment.

"Yours? How many women have you been with around here?"

"That's not important luv…"
"Well sure it is," I said cutting him off, "I would like to know."

"What have you heard?"

"Well there are many stories I suppose-"

"Not nearly as many as people would like to believe. It's mostly just gossip."

"I see. So what stories aren't gossip?"

"All in good time, luv."

Jack handed me a bottle of rum, which I took a nice long drink of.