Ch 4: Sword fighting lessons, Tortuga, and our Adventure.

Me: Disclaimer: I don't own POTC. If I did I would be rich.

M.J.D: And I'd have Johnny Depp.

Me: If anyone who liked Johnny Depp and owned POTC they'd have him too.

M.J.D: Well they can't because he's mine.

Me: Right, okay. The only person who owns him is his girlfriend and his kids.

M.J.D: Well you like Sean Norrington.

Me: I made him to be like a boyfriend to me so yeah.

M.J.D: Whatever.

Me: That's my line.

Sean looked out of the cabin to a dark and raging sea. He liked the sea like that; it was moody and dark, like him.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Jack said staring out at the sea.

"Yes captain, it is."

"So what are ye doing up Sean?"

"I don't know. I guess I couldn't sleep. Do you know how that feels?"

"Yea I do Sean."

"I used to sneak out all the time just to see the sea like this. Used to drive my father crazy. Looking for me at 6:00 in the morning to find me waiting to see the sunrise."

"Ye really want to be a pirate, eh Seannie boy?"

"Yes, for as long as I remember." He said with his green eyes looking out toward the sea. "All my life I wanted nothing to do with being pompous and imperative. I just wanted to travel the open ocean, battling my way through its rough waters on a ship of my own. You may think I'm crazy, Captain Sparrow, but it's true."

"I don't think yer're crazy lad."

"You may find this odd but I was actually born on a ship. My mother was going back to England because of the war between England and her colonies, and my father went to the Colonies, to fight in the war."

"Oh, really. So I guess it started there."

"What did?"

"Yer love of the sea. From the moment ye were born, the minute ye took yer first breath, ye breathed in some of that irresistible salty air."

"Oh, I guess that is how it started."

"Now, Seannie if ye want to be a pirate ye have to learn how to sword fight. So 'ere." He handed Sean a sword.

"But, don't pirate's cheat?"

"Yea, so?"

"Does that mean I can cheat?"

"If ye want."

"Alright." Sean was smirking.

Sean started out by rotating his sword twice and standing in a fighting position. Jack chuckled and rubbed his sword against Sean's. Then the fight began. Jack kept advancing at Sean desperately trying to get him to screw up or falter, but Sean was swinging his sword like he was a pro. Jack started to get frustrated and tried pulling his dirtiest tricks on him. Sure it was a little boy, but would he let a boy ruin his reputation. The tricks shocked Sean but not to the point that it scared him out of his breeches. Sean just took the tricks and let them backfire. Sean started dashing around the ship hiding behind the mast and the helm knowing full well that Jack wouldn't make a move for fear that he would hurt his beloved ship. Jack was raging mad now, the boy was smirking. Sean started to climb the rope ladder; this was too much for Jack. He cut the rope ladder causing the boy to swing violently around the ship.

"Woahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Sean screamed. Jack smirked; either the boy would fall into the water or surrender.

"Do ye surrender Seannie, or are ye ready for a swim with the fishies?"

"I'll never surrender to you Jack Sparrow," Sean yelled, still swinging in the air.

"Fine, and its Captain boy, Captain!"

Sean back flipped on the rope and landed right next Jack, flicked his hat off, disarmed him of his weapon, and said, "and it's Sean, not boy." He was smiling. Jack was at a setback; get his hat and surrender, or his sword and put this kid in his place. Jack narrowed his eyes and back flipped over to his sword. He picked it up and surveyed the hole in the deck. He said, "I'll make sure he pays for hurting ye Pearly, you're a dead boy Seannie."

Jack kicked at Sean's sword and it flew out of his hands. Sean looked at it contemplatively and looked at Jack feigning a frightened look. His mother always told his female cousins if they wanted to defend themselves the kick a man between his legs. It could prove to be useful to a guy. Jack swung his sword at Sean's head; Sean ducked and kicked at Jack. He kicked Jack in a very personal place. Jack groaned and Sean took this time to grab his sword and go to the crippled Captain. Sean rolled him over and pointed his sword at his neck.

"Looks like I win, eh Captain?"

"No boy ye didn't." Jack said strained. And with that he knocked Sean over and he lost his sword yet again and was now at the other end of the sword breathing heavily.

"So do ye surrender?"

"Yes." Sean whispered.

"Good." Jack removed the sword from his throat and helped him up. "Ye'er really good ye know."

"Thank you and yes, I do."

"What are ye doin up there?" Anamaria screeched from downstairs, making Jack cringe.

"Does it concern ye?"

"No but..."

"So shut yer gob!"

"Whatever ye say cap'n."

"That woman will be the death of me one day."

"Oh really. So where are we going Captain?"

"Tortuga."

"Where is that?" But before Jack could answer, Master Twigg said, "Land Ho!"

"That be Tortuga Master Sean." He pointed out to an island on the horizon.

"Oh..." Was all Sean could say.

Jack's Cabin

Jack was looking out at Tortuga. "I'll get ye back Belle, I promise." He was interrupted by a knock on his door.

"Who is it?

"It's Will."

"Come in." Will walks into the cabin.

"So we're in Tortuga again?"

"Yep Captain Obvious we are."

"What about the boy?"

"Him? He'll stay on the ship. I don't want him hurt or...mishandled before his daddy comes and gets 'im."

"Are you going to let him go, just like that? You just started to like him."

"I like the boy, but his dad's not gonna listen to me on his being a pirate. It will be 'preposterous' as he would say."

"Will he listen to Sean?"

"From what that boy tells me his father is only concerned with making Commodore Norrington Jr. as an exact replica of Commodore Norrington Sr."

"But won't he except Sean's wishes?"

"Pompous folk only want what they want for their kids. They don't listen to anybody else, not even their own children." Jack said seriously, like he was talking from experience. Will knew not to press on the subject further.

"So will I tell Sean he's staying here?"

"I will, he'll listen to me."

Sean's Cabin

Sean was sitting on his bed painting another picture. He had changed his clothes, now he looked more like a pirate. He was wearing khaki pants that fit loosely on his small waist, a large unbuttoned white shirt and a black sash across his waist. He heard a knock at his door.

"Yes?" He answered.

"It's Captain Jack."

"Oh, come in!"

"Hey Seannie, me and the crew are goin to go into Tortuga and..."

"You want me to stay on the ship, right?"

"Yeah."

"Oh, alright."

"That's it no arguing?"

"Yes, I'm not a complainer. I listen to everything my elders or betters tell me to do."

"Well at least you 'ave the better right. Alright, see ye laddie."

"Bye!"

As soon as the door closed and he heard the footsteps die away, Sean climbed out the window and into the streets of the unfamiliar spit of land that is Tortuga.

With Jack and Will

They were walking silently through Tortuga. 'What are we doing here?' Will thought. Jack seemed to know where he was going. Every twist and turn he knew them all, for he was looking for someone special. They entered a pub called "O'Flattery." Jack went right to the back of the pub to a door.

"I'm 'ere to see Matthew O'Flattery." Jack said.

"Password." The guard replied.

"'Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirates life for me.' Now will ye let me in?"

"Come in."

Jack went in a Will saw a man no older than 45 sitting at a table drinking rum. He was short and had graying hair; his eyes were gray and watery.

"Matthew, me ol' pal, I ave one question to ask ye; Where's me sister?"

"I don't know what yer talking bout." Jack pointed his pistol at Matthew's head.

"Matthew, I'll say once gain, Where's me sister?"

"Alright she's in this town." He handed Jack a slip of paper and Jack read it over.

"Yer sure she's ere?"

"Yep, now can I get back to me drinking?"

"Sure."

Jack let go of the man and left the bar with Will.

Meanwhile with Sean

Sean was walking around the foreign streets that is Tortuga. He asked the crew what Tortuga was but all he got were 'it's a wonderful town' or 'it's one place that all men are welcome.' Sean was expecting to see a nice quiet little town, but all he saw a vast land of drunken pirates and a bunch of whores. Sean was disgusted at the state of the town. If this was what the pirates called wonderful, then he was thinking less of being a pirate or at least, one on the Black Pearl. Then heard a little girl scream. Sean, being a boy that grew up in a town that was sacred to women, ran over to the where he heard the scream. What he saw shocked him, he saw a little girl, about his age, being grabbed by her waist by two men. Sean unsheathed his sword from his buckle and pointed it at one of the men's throat.

"Let her go." Sean said dangerously.

"What if we don't?" The man holding the girl said.

"Do you really want to find out?"

"What can a little boy do?"

"Do you know what colors I sail under?" Then men shook their heads. "The Infamous Captain Jack Sparrow of the Black Pearl."

The men screamed, dropped the girl, and ran away. Sean smiled, so Jack was known widely throughout the world, or at pirate strongholds. Sean put his sword away and went over to the girl. She picked her head up and looked at Sean. He held out his hand and picked her up. She was about as tall as him; she had blue eyes and straight brown hair. She looked at him and smiled.

"Thank you for saving me, sir," she said, she also had a strong British accent. She extended her hand and he kissed it.

"Your welcome, miss. Whats your name?" He asked.

"Abigail, yours?"

"Sean Norrington."

"Hmm..." She said surveying him over.

"What?"

"You don't look like a pirate to be sailing under the colors of Jack Sparrow."

"Well, you don't look like a kid to be walking the streets of Tortuga at night, it's dangerous, men are looking for whores and prostitutes."

"Well, they find me."

"Wait, you're a...whore?"

"Well, actually, a whorelette, a whore-in-training."

"Doesn't your parents object?"

"My mothers a whore, so she wants me in the family business." She paused and darted her eyes around. She leaned closer to Sean.

"But between you and me, I want to be a pirate. My mother knows this but she doesn't want to give me up."

"Yes I understand."

"Come we should go somewhere safe."

"What is safe in Tortuga?"

"The whorehouse, run by Momma Mayma."

"Oh, that's comforting."

As Sean and Abigail walked to the whorehouse, Sean asked Sean about his childhood.

"How did you become to be a pirate?"

"Well, I lived in Port Royal with my father, Commodore James Norrington. My mother died about two years prior due to natural causes, then I ran away since I felt my life was supposed to be on the sea not in a pompous household where I wasn't loved."

"I guess that is a sad story, but mine is worse. When I was five my father came home exceedingly drunk, I was supposed to have dinner ready for him, I came out with dinner and I thought it was good but he didn't like it, so he started beating me. Since my mother was almost never home, and when she was she was having some 'fun' with my father; as her occupation suggests, she never knew about this. So one day when I was 10, I was cleaning the house and he came home. He looked around and told me it wasn't clean, so he slapped me, dragged me upstairs by my hair, threw me on the bed, and...and." She was starting to cry. Sean gave her a hug and sat her down on a rum barrel. He picked her up and looked in her eyes. As she looked at his green eyes she found the strength to continue her heartbreaking story.

"Well, he raped me Sean." She looked away from Sean. His green eyes opened with shock.

"R...raped you."

"Yes, he did. Then my mom came in and saw him...so she pulled him off me and shot him with a pistol that she stole from a guy she was...working with."

"Well, that beats my story by a long shot. I'm sorry."

"I'm not done yet. Well it's no small wonder that people die everyday around here, but my mother could've lost me. So Mayma was looking for my mother and she took us in and here I am."

"That's horrible and you give people the pleasure of ...doing that to you. God!"

"Well, your just a pompous little shit who has a father that doesn't love him boo hoo that's so fucking sad." Sean pulled out his sword at her throat and hissed,

"I usually don't threaten ladies but you're just a fucking slut that doesn't deserve to live."

"You wouldn't dare." She said as the blade came closer to her neck.

"Try me." He said as he pulled the blade back, when he did she cringed, making Sean stop and feel sorry. He dropped his sword and put his sword away and put his arm around Abigail.

"I could never hurt you, Abigail, let's go to Mayma's."

"Alright."

They arrived at Mayma's a few minutes later. The whorehouse looked better that the rest of Tortuga, maybe because of all the money the whores get. Abigail knocked on the door and stepped back. The door opened and a short, pudgy woman with thin lips and brown eyes.

"Abigail, getting a little younger, how old is this one, ten, eleven." Mayma said hugging Abigail.

"Fourteen, I'm fourteen." Sean said stiffly.

"And sharp-looking too." Abigail whispered.

"Excuse me but I'm still standing here."

Just then a giggle interrupted Sean, then Jack and Scarlet came down the stairs, kissing and groping each other. Jack saw Sean and stopped.

"Seannie boy, what are ye doing off the ship?"

"Um I wanted to have some fun?"

"Abigail!" Scarlet said, coming down the stairs. "What are you doing, I thought you were working."

"Sean saved me. The men wanted more than they could have."

"Well, isn't that nice of Sean?" Jack said coming down off the stairs and grabbing Sean by his sash. "We'll be leaving now, 'ere Mayma." He tossed Mayma a bag of coins, tipped his hat and left.

"Captain, wait." Scarlet said, running after him.

"Scarlet, how could I ave not say goodbye to ye."

"Captain I have a proposition for you."

"Aye what is it?"

"Take my daughter."

"What! No! One bloody kid is enough, I don't see whats in it for me."

"Ten free whores when you come back to Tortuga next time." Mayma said.

"And all the rum I can drink by me onesies?"

"Yes."

"Ye've got yerself a accord, Mayma. Scarlet, I 'ope to see ye again. Come along Abby."

"Yes sir! But I would like to walk with Sean."

"Fine." Jack put Sean down and stormed off in a huff. "Bloody children!" He screamed.

Sean and Abigail laughed and left the wretched place that is Tortuga.

Back on the Pearl

"Set the sails, weigh anchor, port to starboard, lets go! Anamaria get on lookout now."

"Aye, Aye sir!"

"Sean, take Ms.Abby to yer room."

"Yes, captain."

"Were we be goin' Captain." Gibbs asked.

"Singapore."

"Aye sir." Gibbs left Jack to his own devices.

"I'll find ye Belle, I promise."

Me: God ten pages. Well R&R.

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M.J.D: Whatever.

Me: Bye.

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