Chapter 16: Happy Living with Pirates

Jack has been acting so strange lately. What is going on in his head? I mean really, what is it, the lack of rum? Or is he just on the verge of being completely insane?

When I broke from my thought's I was standing directly behind Jack while he was steering his ship. I have no clue how I got there, startled, I jumped back while my pant leg made friends with a nail popping out of the deck sending me toppling to the ground. Jack, hearing a noise behind him, turned around to investigate.

"Are ye alright luv?" He said looking down at me, "I didn't even know ye were there."

"I didn't either." I said as I unhooked my pant leg. Jack gave me a funny look that told me he was confused. "When do we reach land?" I inquired.

"Why don't you see for yerself?" I gave Jack a blank stare. "Climb up to the crows nest!"

"Oh no! I am not going back up there!" I said as I stood up and dusted off my pants.

"Alright luv, not this time, but someday, I will get ye up there!"

"Oh no you wont!"

"Yes, I will. And to answer yer question, we'll be at Port Royal in an hour or so." There was an awkward silence between us for a minute or two. Again he gave me that longing stare.

"What?" I asked as though he had accused me of something.

"What? I didn't say anything."

"Why do you keep looking at me like that?"

"Looking at ye like what?"

Wow, this is a pointless conversation. "What's the first thing you're going to do when we get to land?" I asked, changing the subject.

"Hide from Norrington and his powder wigged goons."

"Who's Norrington?" I wondered.

"Long story luv, maybe I'll tell ye about it sometime, just not now."

"You promise?" I asked wanting to hear the story.

"Yes, I promise."

"Alright. I'm going to hold you to that promise." I said as I wandered to the bow of the ship with a smile on my face. I don't know what it was, but I was starting to feel all funny inside when I talked to Jack.

I looked towards the horizon and saw land start to become visible. My attention then turned to a couple of gray blobs in the corner of my eye. I looked down and saw a couple of dolphins leaping out of the water in front of the ship. I rested against the ships railing and just watched the dolphins.

"Beautiful aren't they?" I was startled and I leaped forward almost falling into the ocean.

"Jeese! You scared me out of my skin!" I said as I gathered myself.

Jack just stood there and smiled, his gold teeth sparkling in the sunlight. I leaned back against the railing, my back to the sea. Jack walked closer to the railing so that he may take a look at the dolphins.

"I never thought anything like this would happen to me." I thought out loud.

"Anything like what?" Jack asked turning his attention towards me.

"This!" I exclaimed. "I was a maid on the verge of depression, a maid! Not where I wanted to be in my life. And now, I'm here. On a pirate ship, Captain Jack Sparrow's pirate ship, wearing pirate clothes! I don't think I've ever been so happy before." I said with a smile.

"I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing." Jack commented. "I don't think anyone who isn't a pirate has been happy about being with pirates. And ye never told me ye were a maid!"

"You never asked."

"What else is there about you I don't know? And when did you find time to go on a killing spree at Port Hobo while ye were a maid."

"That's a good question, I don't even remember doing that! Except for that dream I had. Wouldn't it be funny, if they mixed me up with someone else!"

"I don't see the humor."

"Yeah, me either." This made Jack smile, apparently he finds my nonsense funny.

A/N: Ok, I was going to continue… but I cant remember what I was going to do… oh well, hope you enjoyed, sorry these chapters are short, oh and if you want to, email me and give my poor brain dead… brain…. Some ideas, but ha, I do know how I'm going to "end" it muahahahahahaha… I like it, its there in my head… but I cant get to it! Ahhhhh!

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