Pirates Of The Caribbean: Not all treasure is gold and silver
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the rights to The Pirates of the Caribbean however any characters I do create are my own so no stealing!
Rated: R!! (Due to scenes of a sexual nature, violence and language)
Note: to see note, see previous chapters (1 and 2)
Chapter 3:
The early morning light crept between the curtains in Will and Elizabeth's cabin, the pair laid curled together on the bed fast asleep, blissfully unaware that the ship was now only a few hours from Tortuga. The shaft of light stretched across the floor over the discarded items of clothing left by the pair the night before. Elizabeth began to stir, twisting slowly she sleepily opened her eyes and looked about. Will was still sleeping his breathing deep and slow.
Elizabeth sat up carefully clutching the sheet to her chest, she gazed about a slight smile about her lips as she noticed the clothes strewn across the floor. She could still recall the way his hands felt as they trailed their tantalizing path across her body, the soft brush of his lips against her neck and the feel of him as they moved together. Elizabeth blushed realizing the direction her thoughts were heading, she turned to look at Will as he lay there sleeping so peacefully. Moving very slowly and carefully so not to wake Will, she leant forward and placed a light kiss against his lips.
Will opened his eyes and gazed at Elizabeth, the early morning light giving her an unearthly look. He smiled at her and lifted a hand to caress her cheek, her skin feeling so soft beneath his fingers.
"Good morning."
"Morning Elizabeth"
Snuggling up against him Elizabeth rested her head beneath Will's chin her fingers reaching up to play with his hair. The two lay like this for a while enjoying the feeling of each other's presence and listening to the murmur of the voices of the crew as they went about up on deck. Will kissed the top of Elizabeth's head and began to move.
"Where are you going?"
"To get dressed, have some food and find out our progress."
"Oh, well don't go up on deck without me, will you?"
Elizabeth giggled watching Will as he dressed quickly. She stood up clutching the sheet to her chest as she made her way round picking up her various pieces of clothing. Once she had changed and they had both been past the kitchen to salvage what little breakfast was left, the thing with pirates was when they ate they ate in vast quantities leaving little just in case that had to be their last meal in a while. Together Will and Elizabeth made their way up on deck, there was a gentle breeze and the sky was dotted with a few odd little wisps of white cloud.
Jack stood at the helm humming a tune to himself and staring out at the small dot in the distance, which was either Tortuga or the other pirate ship. Elizabeth recognised the song as the one they had sung when they were 'marooned' on that island together. Jack saw the pair as they approached him and grinned.
"Sleep well?" Jack looked at them knowingly and tried to hold back a laugh as he saw Elizabeth blush and Will look uncomfortably at the floor. He nodded knowing that the pair would say no more on the subject. "I gather you two came to talk to me? Or are you here just to admire the view?" Jack waved an arm around.
"Yes Jack we just wanted to know where we are and how everything was progressing."
"Well we shall be arriving at Tortuga in," He fumbled about around his coat and pulled out a very battered and tatty looking pocket watch, which when he opened emptied sand and water onto the deck. He stared at it for a moment and sighed throwing it over his shoulder into the sea. "Well a few hours."
"And the other…umm…ship?" Elizabeth asked quietly ever hopeful that Jack hadn't forgotten the intentions of them being here.
"Oh they are heading there as well, Mr Gibbs confirmed that earlier this morning when he was up in the crows nest. Anything else?"
Elizabeth shook her head and smiled and walked off towards where Anamaria stood working. Will watched her as she walked away over to where Anamaria stood before turning back to face Jack.
"Thank you for helping us Jack."
Jack waved a hand in the air and shook his head.
"Think nothing of it, savvy?"
"Aye, savvy."
Alexandra stared at the dress that had been thrust into her arms just moments before by one of the foul smelling crew. She looked down at the gown that was a deep red and edged with white lace.
"And what am I supposed to do with this…wash it?"
"No wea' it"
"Wear it? For what possible reason may I enquire?" The pirate stared at her with a looked of utter stupidity and confusion. Alexandra sighed and dummed it down. "Why you ignorant fool?"
" 'Coz Cap'ain said so."
Alexandra sighed knowing that she was going to get absolutely nowhere with this conversation. She nodded and waved a hand at him hinting that he should leave. The pirate looked at her irritated as if he expected her to strip down in front of him. Of all the thoughts!
Once changed into the gown Alexandra walked over to the window of the cabin, she could remember when she first had to change on the ship and had complained bitterly that the windows were not covered at all. The Captain had pointed out that there was no one around for miles that could see in through that window. She had gone quiet at that comment and decided that sometimes it was better to admit defeat than be seen as a fool. From the window Alexandra could see the land approaching slowly from the distance, hopefully there would be someone of some intelligence and sense on that island who would grant her shelter but then again it was pirates taking her there so who knew what lay on that island.
By late afternoon the Jaded Dragon was docked and the crew had gradually decreased as more and more of them made their way onto the land in search of…well Alexandra wasn't sure just yet but probably something as vulgar as they were. She had been locked in the Captains cabin now for too long with nothing to do well apart from plot and mutter and curse and generally hate all pirates and all things related to pirates…but that wasn't the point. Yawning she lay back on the bed and closed her eyes trying to imagine that she wasn't here and was instead sat on the balcony with Elizabeth discussing everything and anything. But the thought of her sister and her home brought tears to her eyes. I wont ever see them again.
She knew who to blame for all this, of course it was a very long shot but with all that time on her hands she had been able to work out the source of all her troubles, and it lay on a certain Captain, who she had never met but had heard tales of since she was a mere child. Actually it was more likely to be her nanny's fault as she had told her the tales of the legendary Black Pearl. But all the stories and tales that she had heard well had led her to dream about being a pirate herself.
But now that she had experienced the trauma of being near pirates and having to actually live with them, meant that she now no longer felt the need to ever see the Black Pearl or go near it. It was a pity though since as a child it had been the one thing she had kept to the most. While most girls dreamt of being a princess or some damsel in distress she had dreamed of being a pirate. But that was all behind her now.
Alexandra heard the door click and sat up watching the handle as it turned and the door swing slowly open. There Captain Loros and two of his crew, one held rope the other a piece of rag and Captain Loros carried a small bottle. She began to crawl backwards on the bed but she knew there was no escape.
"Now don't be scared my dear Miss Swann, we are here to make the experience much better for you. So there is no need to struggle just let us do our job and it will be all over and done with in no time."
Alexandra stared at the Captain and got up for the bed trying to reach the window and climb out before he could get to her. But she was grabbed and tied by the two crewmembers and a gag slid into her mouth.
"Ya should 'ave listened to the Cap'ain pretty."
Alexandra closed her eyes trying to shut the voices and their faces out. She felt a rough hand gently tilt her head back and the gag removed briefly. Before she could let out a cry some form of liquid was tipped into her mouth and covered again, the same hand pinched her nose so she couldn't breath.
"I advise you swallow that drink before you choke to death my pet."
The Captain met her gaze with his cold hard eyes waiting for Alexandra to swallow. She did as she was told and took a deep breath in through her nose the best she could once he had let go. Almost immediately her head began to spin and Alexandra felt woozy. A crewmember laughed as she tried to stand but ended up staggering across the room bumping into a wall and slowly sliding to the floor. The last image Alexandra could see was the crewmembers as they approached her before she blacked out to the world.
The Black Pearl glided into the port as the sun had begun to set, the crew were looking forward to their visit to Tortuga but Will and Elizabeth were to busily concerned with the rescuing of Alexandra to pay too much attention to Tortuga. The plan had been repeated may times to the crew and too Jack who at the time had consumed a rather large amount of rum and wasn't too sure whether he had arrived or was leaving Tortuga. The plan was that the crew, including Elizabeth and Will, were to go ashore and find out as much as possible about the Jaded Dragon, then sometime in the early hours of the morning, just after the soon rose, they would go over and raid the ship, rescue Alexandra and leave as soon as possible. Well that what they had hoped to do but usually any plans Jack made had a high chance of not going according to plan.
Elizabeth and Will followed Mr Gibbs through the streets since Jack had decided to just 'check a few of his regular places' before joining the others back at the Black Pearl a couple of hours before the sun would rise. He had been last seen staggering up some alleyway singing loudly at the top of his voice in a drunken slur, which no one could understand. Mr Gibbs was leading them to the 'Lame Donkey' the 8th tavern they had visited that evening, it was nearing midnight and Elizabeth was beginning to show signs of tiredness. Will caught up with Mr Gibbs and tapped him lightly on the shoulder.
"Mr Gibbs, I am going to take Elizabeth back to the ship since she can hardly stand let alone walk. I will meet you at the," He looked about trying to find a tavern that was well lit upfront. " I will meet you outside the 'Dancing Monkey' in an hour."
Mr Gibbs nodded and wished a very sleepy Elizabeth good night and watched as Will carried Elizabeth back towards the harbour.
Jack meanwhile was sat in the backroom of a large tavern amongst various other pirates, in front of him was a large platform where a rather round, pig like man stood yelling at the top of his voice for some quiet. Gradually the amount of noise began to decrease and the pig man grinned clapping his hands together rubbing them in circular motions.
"Well gentlemen tonight we have a lovely selection of whores, broads and other such types of the female world brought in fresh today onto the market. And your lucky selves shall have first pick at these beauties!"
A loud cheer went up at the mention of whores, after the noise again had died down the pig man bowed as the first two girls were brought up. The bidding began as various pirates and men yelled various prices at the pig man. Soon there was a battle between two men who yelled prices until one of them backed down. At this the girls were dragged to the edge of the platform and pushed down into the waiting mans arms.
Jack sat there listening to the pig man as he introduced more girls and carried the biddings through, he noticed a whore begin to approach him and he smiled knowing that he would probably be lucky tonight. She sat beside him and pressed herself up against his side leaning close she whispered in his ear. Jack's eyes widened and he sat out his rum all over the table.
" 5 gold pieces!!"
As he went to carry on his ranting about the price the whore had just whispered to him her heard the pig man say something that shocked him even more.
"SOLD! To the man with the red bandana and the rum bottle raised."
Jack reached his spare hand up to his head and felt his bandana which he knew to be red, then he glanced up at his raised rum bottle before slowly turning to look up at the platform to see what he had just bought for 5 gold pieces. There lay in the arms of a bald headed and very tattooed looking pirate a young woman clearly unconscious, he raised an eyebrow and went to protest when he felt a hand clap down on his shoulder. He looked at the hand and then followed along up the arm to a face.
"Can I err…help you?"
"Yes you just bought that fine specimen of a lady from me. I tell you know she is perfect, just right for you very pleasant untouched by any other hand."
"Ah well that's the thing I was actually bidding for the girl I was just…"
It was then that Jack was able to get a better look at the young woman in the tattooed pirates arms. She had long hazel brown hair that covered her lightly tanned face. He stared at her forgetting that there were two other men stood there, she was very beautiful and looked so peaceful lying there. Perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing that he had bought such a pretty thing like her. But all the same…5 gold pieces!
"Well we cant take her back now sir, so I will be needing 5 gold pieces and we will be on our way."
Jack sighed realizing that for once that he couldn't get out of this situation. And for some strange reason he didn't mind the thought that much that he now owned a very pretty young woman. Well at least that solved the problem of not having a woman. Reaching into one of his pockets Jack pulled out the money and handed it to the man nodding half-heartedly. He took the young woman from the other pirate and waited till they were gone before trying to decide what to do next. He couldn't just drag an unconscious woman around the other taverns so he would have to call it an early night and return to the Black Pearl.
An hour later Jack stood in his cabin the young woman lying still peacefully asleep on his bed. He had tried to wake her but from what he could tell, in his slightly more than usually drunken state, the other pirates had drugged the poor girl. She didn't look like she was going to wake anytime soon so being the gentleman he decided that perhaps he should make her more comfortable before going up on deck to wait for the others. Leaning over the young girl he began to untie the laces at the front of the gown.
Unknown to Jack, who was intently untying the laces, the young woman was starting to stir. She opened her eyes slowly and looked about taking in her surroundings, it was then that she could feel someone tugging at her gown. She looked down and found herself staring at what she could only assume was a pirate…who at that moment was trying to undress her.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH… get your filthy hands off of me you foul-smelling, wretched, ugly pirate!"
Jack looked up but before he could register what was happening he received a very sharp slap.
"I don't think I deserved that."
Jack watched the woman scramble from the bed and hide behind the table. He stared at her in disbelief as she reached out and grabbed one of his whiskey bottles.
"Ah! No! Not the whiskey, please love."
"Don't call me love! You bastard!"
The bottle flew through the air narrowly missing Jacks head, he turned to look at the shattered glass and the spilt whisky and then back at the woman who was now brandishing a candelabra. Jack waved a finger at the girl.
"No don't you dare throw it!"
"I don't plan to throw it scum…I plan to bash you to tiny little mushy pieces with it!"
Jack's eyes widened at this threat and he waved his hands in the air.
"No you don't want to do that! I wasn't do anything I was trying to be a gentleman, savvy?"
"I'll give you savvy!!"
The woman lunged at jack who darted out of the way and made a run for the cabin door. Throwing it wide open he ran up the steps and onto the deck quickly followed by the young woman who had removed her dress and was now chasing him in her under layers.
Well that's all for this chapter your going to have to wait till the next one to find out what happens to poor Jack!