Disclaimer: Unfortunately, neither Elizabeth, nor I, own the rights to Pirates of the Caribbean so we have no right to claim other characters as our own (except Beth and Meg, of course...Through we did come up with the names for CD and Greg (also known as Grapple) ...late night in Houston...LOL). The Pirate King and Pirate Prince will forever belong to Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
The next morning, before meeting the crew, Meg walked down below deck. Beth was still asleep.
"Beth...hey Beth! Wake up!"
Beth mumbled and Meg smirked at her.
"You have absolutely no idea what you did last night, do you?"
"What to you mean?" she woke up fully. "What did I do?"
Meg continued smirking.
"Megan! WHAT DID I DO?" Beth sat up and grabbed Meg by her upper arms.
"Well…you were drinking…you were flirting with guys…really old…ugly…guys. So I dragged you back over to Will and you kissed him and confessed your love to him and then you fainted," Meg continued to smile. Beth flopped back down and began crying.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Meg became concerned. "I thought you did love him?" Beth blew her nose on her blanket that Meg had only found that morning. "Ah…see now, that's disgusting,"
"It's just a hammock sheet," Beth said between sobs.
"But I went digging all over the ship at 5am to find it!"
"Sorry…"
Will appeared at the top of the stairs. Beth saw him and started crying all over again. She lay back down and put her pillow (also found by Meg at 5am) over her head. Will came down, also concerned. Meg backed out of the room and went up on deck.
"Elizabeth?"
"Go away, Meg,"
"It's Will…"
Beth said nothing.
"Elizabeth?" he laid a hand on her arm. "What's wrong?"
Beth continued to cry under the pillow. Will pleaded for her to stop sobbing and to tell him what was wrong. Beth finally took the pillow off of her head.
"Please tell me what's wrong…" Will whispered.
"I'm sorry…I just…can't talk…right now," Beth choked out. Will looked at her blankly for a moment.
"Oh," he said and ascended the stairs. Beth felt awful. She finally forced herself to get out of her hammock and to go on deck…hopefully not to talk to Will. She did see Will at the far end of the ship but Beth was looking for Meg. She did find her. Jack was talking to the pirate girl who was nearly falling asleep in her place. But before Beth could say anything to Meg, Jack announced that it was time to look over the new crew.
"Feast your eyes, Captain," said Gibbs as he, Jack Will, Beth and Meg walked past the men. "All of them faithful hands before the mast. Every man worth his salt…and crazy to boot,"
Will looked down the line.
"So this is your able-bodied crew?"
Jack paused in front of a sailor with a colorful parrot on his shoulder.
"You, sailor!" Jack shouted.
"Cotton, sir," said Gibbs.
"Mr. Cotton," continued Jack. "Do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of danger and almost sudden death?"
(Johnny: Oh gosh, I hate this bloody line! Where are the writers? I'm gonna kill them!)
Mr. Cotton looked from Gibbs and back to Jack, not uttering a word.
"Mr. Cotton! Answer man!"
"He's a mute, sir," explained Gibbs. "Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the parrot to talk for him. No one's yet figured how…"
Mr. Cotton opened his mouth as Gibbs explained. Meg and Beth had seen the movie so many times that the sight of the stub of tongue did not bother them. Jack started to walk on but stopped.
"Mr. Cotton's…parrot…same question?"
The parrot squawked.
"Wind in the sails! Wind in the sails!"
"Mostly we figure that means 'yes'," said Gibbs.
"O' course it does." Jack replied and turned to Will, Beth and Meg. "Satisfied?" Meg and Beth both kind of nodded and shrugged but Will snapped at Jack.
"Well, you've proved them mad,"
"And what's the benefit for us?" interrupted a feminine voice. Jack stared in the direction of the voice and began walking towards a sailor with the brim of their hat covering their face. Jack grimaced and lifted the brim and took off the hat.
"Anamaria,"
SMACK!
She had slapped the captain.
"I suppose you didn't deserve that one either," said Will.
"No, that one I deserved," replied Jack before turning back to Anamaria.
"You stole my boat!"
"Actually—,"
SMACK!
Meg gave Jack a sympathetic look before he turned back again.
"…borrowed, borrowed without permission, but with every intention of bringing it back to you—,"
"But you didn't!"
Jack paused.
"You'll get another one,"
Anamaria pointed her finger at Jack.
"I will…"
"A better one," Will added.
"A better one!" Jack repeated to her.
"That one!" Will pointed to the Interceptor.
"What one?" asked Jack turning to Will. Meg pointed to the Interceptor offhandedly as Will nodded towards it. Beth motioned to it with both hands.
"That one!" Jack said in disbelief. He saw the crew looking at him and regained himself. "Aye! That one. What say you?"
"Aye!"
"AYE!" the crew then ran off to help bring aboard provisions.
"No, no, no, no, no," said Gibbs. "It's frightful bad luck to bring a woman aboard, sir,"
Meg and Beth both raised an eyebrow.
"Hasn't stopped me before," Jack started. "And it'd be far worse not to, however,"
Later, Jack, Beth, Will and Meg were sitting in the main cabin. Meg was sipping rum again, as was Beth and Jack. Will was standing on one side of the cabin while Jack was at the other and the girls were in the middle. Will looked rather gloomy so Jack handed him some rum. Will looked at it confused as Jack resumed his sitting position (slouched down and legs out as far as possible) in a chair.
Meg looked over at Will who was still confused with the rum. She put down her own bottle, and walked over to Will while Jack and Beth watched.
"Hey Will?" Meg said. "Open your mouth," he did and with that Meg shoved the tip of the bottle in his mouth and tilted all the way back, forcing Will to drink. Will sputtered, grabbed Meg's arm and brought the rum away from his mouth.
"Don't…do that," he said rather fiercely. With every moment his grip was tighter on Meg's wrist.
"Umm, that kinda hurts…can you let go…please?" Meg said a little timidly. Will let go and Meg backed away. He wiped his mouth and coughed. Meg faced Beth.
"Your boyfriend just killed my arm!" she pointed her finger at Will.
"Well, you just killed my boyfriend!" Beth replied.
Then, shocked, and with Meg's arm still pointing at Will, they both looked from Will's face to Jack's. Jack smirked.
"Well done! That was very entertaining!" he said smiling. Beth groaned.
"I'm going to go get some dinner," she said and started to walk out. She tripped over Jack's outstretched leg.
"Here!" she yelled at him. "You want it? Take it!" she shoved her rum in his hand and left. Jack looked at the rum bottle and at Meg. They raised their bottles to each other and chugged. Will left to go below deck.
When Beth walked out on deck, lightning flashed and water began pouring from the sky. She groaned. Jack heard the storm and put on his hat and coat. He then bolted out of the cabin and up to the helm. Meg ran out also and slammed into Beth. They both fell backwards onto the deck rubbing their foreheads.
"Ow…" said Meg. Beth got up and held out her hand to Meg and helped her up. They went below deck, figuring that there was nothing for them to do.
LOL I looove this chapter...it holds a good memory! I accidentally choked Beth whilst pouring "rum" (It was water in a half pint Ozarka water bottle) down her throat as she was playing Will at that moment. I didn't realize she was choking because we had done it twice before and nothing happened. Anyway, she ran into the bathroom and tossed her cookie...really! We each had half a cookie about 15 min before and she upchucked it! Then her dad came down the hall because he heard Beth coughing. Beth said that she just had some drainage and he went on his way. We went back into the den (where we were acting some of this out because my brother, Jacob,wouldn't leave us alone) and there were drops of water everywhere. So we started to clean it up and he walked in. We told him that he couldn't come in because we were cleaning. He why and Beth said because one of the dogs had an accident and he believed us! LOL Yea...I felt really bad for choking her but it was hilarious. Hey...you got an extra story! R&R please!
