All of you reviewers make my day! I'm serious, I love you guys! I think I'll put up two chapters just cause i'm so pleased!
CHAPTER TWELVE: TROUBLE IN PORT ROYAL
"Jack. . . Jack," Will whispered early the next morning. "Get up. We'll go to the physician's now so that no one will be out."
Will and Elizabeth pulled on their coats and covered Johnny as Jack roused Sunni. The streets of Port Royal were empty, as it was only a little after dawn.
"Dr. Morgan! Dr. Morgan," Will pounded on the town doctor's door. A moment later, a disheveled looking old man opened the door.
"What's wrong, Mr. Turner?" the gray-haired man asked in a hushed tone as he pulled on a jacket. "Is young John sick?"
"No," Will pushed Sunni forward. "We have a situation."
"Miss Caitlyn!" the doctor exclaimed. "I had heard you were kidnapped by pirates not weeks ago! When did you return?"
"Last night," Sunni answered. "Please, sir, may we come inside?"
"Well," the doctor sighed after he was done examining Sunni. "The lass is definitely pregnant. The baby, by all signs, looks healthy, as does the mother. Now, who may ask is the father?"
Jack glanced at the floor as Sunni came out of the examining room. He smiled quickly, clasped his hands in front of him, and stepped forward. "That would be me."
"Ah," the man nodded. "Tis a good thing, then."
"What is?" Jack furrowed his brows.
"That I sent my assistant to retrieve an officer of the royal navy."
"What?" Sunni demanded, stepping toward the doctor.
"Now, miss, there is nothing to worry about. We can easily dispose of the baby without anyone needing to find out. Your father doesn't even need to know, if you like."
"You can't arrest Jack," Elizabeth stepped forward. "Father said there would be no repercussions for his presence in Port Royal-"
"I didn't call because the man was in Port Royal, he shall be arrested for the rape of Miss Caitlyn Swann. That is why we must dispose of the baby."
Sunni gasped, throwing her hands over her stomach.
Suddenly, an officer of the navy charged in through the front door, sword drawn. "All right. Hands up, pirate. Don't even think of reachin' fer yer sword."
Jack took a deep breath and slowly raised his hands toward the sky. Will muttered an obscenity of disbelief. Elizabeth grasped her baby closer to her. Sunni set her jaw.
"There shall be another ten men here shortly to arrest you, Sparrow, and send you straight to the gallows where you belong. Commodore Norrington will make sure there will be no miraculous escapes this time."
When Jack heard the zing of a metal sword being unsheathed, he looked to William, but he was still unarmed. Will nodded to something at his right. It was then that he realized that HIS sword had been unsheathed.
Sunni stepped forward from the right of Jack, bearing his favorite weapon. He about shouted at her, but she spoke first. "Drop your weapon, sir," she commanded.
The young officer looked confused at first, but then chuckled. "You mean to threaten me?"
"You will step aside and allow Captain Sparrow to leave, or I will be forced to end your pathetic existence earlier than intended."
He raised an eyebrow. "Is that so, little lady?"
"As her sister, I can assure you that she will make good on her promise. She knows what she's doing," Elizabeth sighed in resignation.
"Is that so-"
The man never finished his sentence when Sunni advanced, feinted left, struck his sword with ferocity, and then whacking his wrist with the blunt side of her knife. The man's hand when numb for a second and he dropped his weapon, letting it clatter to the ground. Sunni kicked it away with her foot, and held her own pointed to his throat.
"I just disarmed you without shedding a single drop of blood, son," Sunni said, sounding uncomfortably like Jack. "How does that make you feel?"
The young man did not respond. Instead, his eyes rolled upward as his legs gave out underneath him. He fell to the ground, revealing Will standing behind him with a bedpan with which he had struck the officer.
"That was good, luv," Jack said with a degree of reverence toward his wife.
"Where's the doctor?" Elizabeth cried.
The foursome looked around, seeing no one in the doctor's waiting room.
"He must have already run for help," Elizabeth answered her own question. "Will, you get Jack back to the Pearl. I'll take Sunni back to the house and we'll think of a good lie to get out of all of this."
Will nodded. "C'mon, Jack, there's a back exit."
"Jack," Sunni called before they could leave. She flipped the sword so that handle was facing her husband, then she tossed it to him.
Jack caught it, and then rushed forward to give her a hasty kiss. "Stay here, let Elizabeth take care of you. I'll be back soon. Take care of our baby." With those instructions, he and Will disappeared.
"C'mon, sis," Elizabeth said, hoisting Johnny up on her hip. "We have a lot of explanations to cook up."
"Oh god," Sunni cried, putting her hand to her forehead. "What if the doctor tells Father that I helped Jack escape after he already determined that I was pregnant? How are we going to explain me being pregnant without making the price on Jack's head triple?"
Elizabeth shook her head. "C'mon, we'll get it all figured out when we get home. We need to leave, right now. The soldiers are on their way."
Sunni pursed her lips and nodded.
Outside, the town was coming awake, especially when four or five men from the navy marched into the doctor's. Elizabeth and Sunni continued to walk on, as if nothing had happened.
"I think," Sunni said, as they strolled down the cobblestone, "that the only solution is to kill the doctor."
Elizabeth laughed. "Well, at least you still have your sense of humor."'
"I'm being serious."
"You two! Ladies!" a soldier called out.
Elizabeth and Sunni froze. Slowly, they turned on their heals to see the officer running from the physician's. They did not bother running, carrying their babies.
The man did not utter a word; he just dragged Sunni into an alley and threw her up against the wall.
"Hey! Watch it-" Sunni shouted in protest.
The man produced a rope and began tying her wrists.
"Do you know who this is?" Elizabeth thundered. "You're tying up Caitlyn Swann, the governor's daughter!"
As Jack and Will were scurrying through old ladies' yards, taking a back route to the Pearl, Jack suddenly stopped.
"What is it?" Will hissed.
"I just got an awful feeling."
"Don't tell me you and Sunni have some kind of psychic connection, too," Will muttered.
Jack just gave him a Look. After a moment, he waved a hand to the younger man. "Follow me."
"Sure, she's the governor's daughter," the officer sneered, "an' I'm the Commodore."
"You're obviously a lowly soldier if you don't even realize who we are," Sunni insulted as she struggled against her bonds. "Just what is the meaning of this, you lowlife sack of puss?"
The soldier backhanded her, his rings digging into her cheek. Sunni slowly turned her face back towards the soldier, her hair splayed across her face and her eyes wild. She spat in his face.
"No pirate's whore will spit in my face," he growled. "I will see to it that you are hung."
"What kind of an ingrate are you to call me a pirate's whore?" Sunni shouted. "You will be the one who is hung once our Father finds out what you have done you dirty fool."
"Do you hear shouting?" Jack whispered to Will as they snuck closer to the physician's office.
"Someone's cussing up a blue streak," Will commented, after straining his ears.
Jack nodded. "That's my wife."
"I know all about you, lass," the soldier went on. "The physician told me all about you assisting in Jack Sparrow's escape. An' I also know about the lil' package of his that you be carryin'."
Great, what kind of lie could Sunni cook up now? She knew they should have killed the doctor.
"A lady cannot be punished for pregnancy by rape!" Elizabeth declared, repositioning Johnny on her hip.
Sunni allowed her head to fall back. Oh, great. Now Jack would be hunted like a wild rabbit.
"Then why'd she assist in his escape?" he sneered.
"I'm sick of this," Sunni finally declared, and swung her bound hands around and upwards, hooking the soldier in the jaw. He stumbled backwards into the brick building.
"C'mon," Elizabeth pulled Sunni away, now that the man was out of commission.
"Do not move!" the officer ordered, still clutching his jaw with one hand. But in the other hand, he held his sword pointed at them.
"You wouldn't dare harm a pregnant woman," Elizabeth declared.
"Elizabeth, take Johnny out of here," Sunni told her, willing her voice to stop shaking. She was not as sure as Elizabeth was.
Suddenly, he lunged for them, swinging his sword for Sunni. She lifted her arms, deflecting the stab, but received nasty cuts on her forearms for her troubles. This was crazy to fight this man unarmed and bound at the wrists. She reached out and threw a foot toward his groin, connecting. He growled, fell to his knees and stabbed at her again, striking her shoulder, but not her heart.
Elizabeth had set Johnny down to come to her sister's aid, but someone beat her to the punch. Jack and Will seemed to come flying out of nowhere, pummeling the offending officer. Their wrath killed the soldier in less than a few minutes.
"Boys," Elizabeth called out as she supported her bleeding sister. "Hurry up! We don't have all that much time."
There seemed to be fire in Jack's eyes as he sheathed his sword. "Sunni's comin' with me. She ain't safe here either." He swept her up in his arms as he past them.
"You can't just take off with my sister now that they know she's back! And she's hurt!"
"One," Jack held up an irritated finger. "She may be your sister, but she's also my wife, an' two, what th' 'ell ye want me ta do? Leave her here to be hanged?"
"He's right," Will breathed. "I'll tell you what," he said to his wife. "We'll meet up with them in a month in Jenga an' work this out. Right now, they need to leave Port Royal, immediately. Now, go!"
Jack nodded and took Sunni and ran.
"Ye still with me, luv?" Jack asked as he ducked and sprinted through citizens' yards.
"I'm here," Sunni said through clenched teeth. "Just get me ta th' Pearl."
The crew was loading crates of supplies onto the ship when Jack and Sunni burst through the brush and onto the abandoned dock.
"Haul up th' anchor!" Jack ordered as he handed Sunni over to Perch. "Take her to me cabin," he said. "Full sail!"
"Cap'n, what happened?" Gibbs demanded as Perch carried Sunni off.
"Long story," Jack mumbled. "Right now we need to put as much ocean between us and Port Royal as possible.
