"Excuse me sir, but do you happen to have any rum on you?"
Kate let out a high pitched scream! "AHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"AHHHHHHHH!", the man returned.
"AHHHHHHHH!"
"Wil………"
"AHHHHHHHH!"
"Woul………"
"AHHHHHHHH!"
"WILL!", the man shouted, "For the love of parlee, would you quit it! If people hear you screaming like that, they're going to think you really are a eunuch!"
"I………I………I'm not Will."
The man peered closer into the shadowy shop. By the dim light of the coals, Kate could see his long, dark hair was done in dreadlocks, with beads hanging off the ends of most of them. He wore a bandana about his forehead, and his beard was braided into two small strands. Across his chest was a strap that carried a gun and sword. He was a pirate.
"By the powers! Elizabeth! Bloody hell, you've shrunk! They been starving you for the past two years? Wouldn't be surprised. Bloody royals, never understood any of their crazy rules! Now, Pirates Code, THAT holds a bit of sense!"
Kate wondered if he was talking about her mother. And if the Will he was talking about was her father. "I'm not Elizabeth either."
"You're not! Well………then who the bloody hell ARE you!"
Eyeing his gun again, Kate thought it best to tell him what he wanted to know. "Katherine Turner."
The man looked as though some great realization had just appeared in his mind. But he still seemed a bit unsure. "What's your fathers name, luv?", he asked.
"Will Turner."
"Will Turner? As in Will Turner the blacksmith who works in this shop? Will Turner, as in the Will Turner who's, I assume, married to Elizabeth Swann?
"The same."
"He's your father?"
"Yes!"
A smile spread across the pirate's lips. "Aye!" He seemed to forget Kate was there for a moment, as he began rambling a bit to himself. "Will, you old dog! I knew you liked her, but I didn't think you'd be getting Elizabeth knocked up that fast!"
So it was her parents! Kate grabbed a sword off the rack and held it, not very skillfully, at the man's throat. "How do you know my parents, pirate?", she demanded.
The pirate laughed heartily. "Lassy, do you know who I am?"
Kate was silent, trying to figure out a clever way to say that she didn't.
"You mean your father never told you! That's just like Will! He defeats a band of cursed pirates and doesn't even gloat about it!"
"Wait", said Kate, "Cursed pirates? You mean the crew of Barbossa aboard the Black Pearl?"
"Can't think of any other's at the moment.", he said, "And they're not aboard the Black Pearl anymore, I'll drink to that! Speaking of which, you never answered my first question. DO you have any rum?"
That did it! Only one pirate in existence would be mad enough to ask someone for rum when they held a sword to his throat. Even if they were a 9-year old girl! His identity was certain.
"You're Captain Jack Sparrow!"
For a second, Jack looked very surprised. Then he replied, "I must be drunk! Somebody called me Captain!"
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DO YOU LOVE IT! Who am I kidding; it's Jack. Who doesn't love him?
