A Pirate's Life For Me:
Captain Jack Sparrow, Savvy?
CHAPTER THREE"Oh Jack… You scared me." I breathed out in relief when turning and seeing it was him who had come up behind me.
Quickly grabbing the piece of leather that holds my hair, I started to pull my hair back up.
"Leave it down, Love." I heard Jack say softly as I looked up at him and blushed.
"So how are you liking the pirate life?" He finally asked with a smile, breaking the awkward silence.
"Umm… it's alright… I guess." I said with a soft chuckle.
"Of course it's only alright for now… Ye haven't learned the pirate song… or seen any treasure… or drank any rum…" He said with a raised eyebrow. I couldn't help but notice how he emphasized the word 'rum'.
After some more silence, I looked up at Jack-my hair still whippin' in the wind- and gave a pleading smile.
"Could you teach me, Jack? Could you teach me the pirate song… show me treasure… and show me to drink rum?" I asked pleadingly.
"Are you sure that's what you want, Miss Turner?" He asked with a smirk, before taking a swig of his rum.
"Just call me Jo-and yes, if I'm to stay on this ship of yours, I want to learn." I said proudly.
"Alright then, we have an accord. Let's see how well you parry." He said, setting down his rum bottle and unsheathing his sword-while he tossed me an extra one.
"Umm okay…" I said, a little hesitant of parrying with Jack. Sure, I'm pretty good at sword fighting, but Jack… he's said to be the best in the Caribbean.
Taking my fighting stance-Jack allowed me to take the first swipe. He blocked it of course and began proceeding to come at me afterwards. The clangs and tinks of the swords we battled with, resounded throughout the empty deck as the sun slipped down lower in the horizon.
"Yer very good… I give you that…" Jack said, almost sounding breathless as we continued to parry about the deck.
A moment later, it got more heated-and faster- and I was beginning to stumble in my footing. Finally, my foot found an old rum barrel, causing me to stumble backwards and fall to the deck, dropping my sword in the process.
I looked up to see Jack's sword pointing at me, and him wearing a smirk while looking down at me.
"But yer not that good. Never let go of yer sword-it's yer life, remember that." He said, his smile fading-leaving a stern expression written across his face, and sheathing his sword back to his hip.
Sighing, I took his hand he offered to help me up as I regained my footing and looked up at him again.
"Enough parrying for now. Let's drink some rum, shall we?" He said smiling, pulling two rum bottles out of his jacket.
I chuckled a bit and gladly took a bottle from him, both of us taking a seat by the railing.
And that's where we sat for hours… drinking rum, laughing, and singing 'A Pirate's Life For Me' – both of us fairly drunk.
He told me funny stories how him and Will met, how he met Elizabeth… and how Will and Elizabeth saved him from getting hung in Port Royal. I don't remember ever laughing so much in my lifetime as we sat there drinking the rum.
"She burned your rum? Really?" I asked, stifling the hysteric laughter that was trying to break free.
"Bloody Elizabeth sure did. Burned me precious rum…… Hey, it's not funny!" Jack said, turning to me when I couldn't hold the laughter in anymore. I was laughing so hard by now that I rolled onto my side on the deck, holding my stomach that was beginning to get sore.
"What's going on here?" I soon heard someone ask from the stairway.
Sitting up, I quieted down and stopped laughing when seeing Will and Elizabeth standing there-looking at the both of us suspiciously.
"Nothin', Mate… Just getting to know Jo a bit better." Jack slurred, while standing up with a smile.
We could all clearly tell that Jack was drunk. I stifled my giggles some more as I looked over to see Will looking at Jack like he was insane.
"Go to bed, Jo. It's late and you have to be up early in the morning to work." Will demanded, his eyes not leaving Jack.
I nodded and began to follow Elizabeth down to the room-but not before looking back at Jack and flashing him a smile.
JACK'S POV
"What are you doing, Jack?" Will asked him suspiciously after Jo and Elizabeth had went below deck.
"Me? I'm drinkin' me rum." Jack said, flashing a smile.
"Not that. What are you doing with Jo?" Will asked rolling his eyes in annoyance.
"What do you mean, Mate?" Jack asked innocently.
"You know exactly what I mean, Jack. She's my sister-don't let her get attached to you, because I know how you are." Will said sternly, then walked away, going below deck to his and Elizabeth's room to talk with Jo.
BACK TO JO'S POV
"Wow… I've never seen you with your hair down." Elizabeth said politely- trying to make small talk until Will got back.
"No one has." I mumbled, sitting down on the mattress I've been sleeping on.
"Oh." She said quietly.
"You shouldn't get attached to Jack." She finally said, breaking the silence.
"And why not?" I questioned, looking over at her.
"Because, he's a womanizer, Jo." Will's stern voice came from the doorway.
"But.." I started to protest on why I was up there.
"I don't want an explanation. I just want you to be informed not to get attached." Will interrupted, looking over at me with concern.
"Alright." I finally said, looking down at my feet.
"Goodnight." I finally said, laying down and facing my back towards them. Soon, beginning to fall asleep, I had only one person on my mind……
Jack…
The next morning when I awoke, I had a slight headache from the amount of rum I had drank last night. Will and Elizabeth had already went on deck, so I went onto the small bathroom to get dressed.
After arriving on deck a short time later, I was greeted with someone handing me a pail of soapy water and a large scrub brush. Looking up, I saw it was Will before he walked away without a word to me.
Guess he's still angry… I thought as I stooped down on my hands and knees and began to vigorously scrub the deck.
Hours went by quickly, and soon it was late afternoon. My hands were sore, along with my back, as I sat up and looked around to see that I wasn't even halfway finished yet. I hadn't even talked to Jack all day… saw him a few times… but he seemed to ignore me. The sun was beginning to set as I slowly made my way below deck towards Will's room.
Walking along a dark corridor, I felt myself getting pulled backwards by my waist into a room. The unknown person knowing that I might scream out, clamped a hand gently over my mouth while pulling me back.
"Sshh.. It's just me." I heard Jack whisper before letting go of me.
"Jack?" I asked, turning around to face him.
"The one and only, Love." He said with a smile.
"What are you doing?" I asked, laughing, then looking around to see that we were in his room.
"I still have more to teach you…" He said with a mischievous smile.
"Oh… really? I thought you weren't speaking with me anymore…" I said shyly, looking into his beautiful eyes.
"No, Love. That's yer next lesson. Pirates are usually secretive." He said, smirking.
Catching on to what he meant, I nodded and smiled.
And that is when Jack and I started our secret friendship. No one was to know, well, with the exception of Jack and myself, of course.
A week had went by fast again-this time I had much more fun… Sneaking to Jack's room every night… drinking rum… parrying with him. He was quickly becoming the best friend I never had… despite that I had more feelings for him than that. But I heeded Will and Elizabeth's warnings of him being a womanizer out for only one thing. Speaking of Will, I couldn't help but notice that he was beginning to get suspicious with my late night disappearances. I was starting to run out of excuses.
"And where are you going tonight!" Will was asking in disbelief.
"Umm… I'm going to swab the deck…" I said. It was the first thing that came to mind, and I'm unsure of how this excuse would work since it was the middle of the night.
"Swab the decks?" Will questioned, with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes-under the full moon… so that it's not so hard for me to do so in the heat tomorrow." I said smiling.
"Umm… Okay.." He said, finally accepting the excuse, allowing me to go.
Whew… I'm going to have to start thinking of better excuses… I thought as I quietly tip-toed to Jack's room. I had my sword at my side- I always carry it- as I slowly entered into his dark room. Just as I was turning around from closing the door, I saw a sword flying in my direction-causing me to unsheathe mine in a flash and block it.
"Yer getting better, Love." Jack said, leaning forward with a smile.
I laughed as he pulled back and lit some candles, giving the room a soft orange glow. Handing me a small bottle of rum, he sat down on the bed and motioned for me to sit next to him.
We were soon laughing and joking with each other as always.
Not long after I had been there-Will came rushing in.
"Jack, there's a ship coming up on us." Will said breathlessly, not noticing that I was sitting there next to Jack with my eyes wide in fright. Not in fright because there's another ship coming… but because I just got caught.
Finally noticing me, Will looked over at me with a frown.
"Jo?" Will asked, before a look of anger swept over his face.
"Will, I can explain…" I started, standing up.
"We'll talk about this later, Jo." He said, cutting me off and walking out of the room.
"Oh, why me!" I shouted, throwing my hands up in the air and plopping back down on Jack's bed.
"Don't worry, Love. Stay in here." Jack said, patting me on the shoulder before walking out of the room to go on deck with Will and the rest of the, now awake, crew.
JACK'S POV
When Jack got on deck, he saw the ship he was exactly expecting it to be-McDouglas.
"Damn." Jack muttered before he turned and started shouting orders to the crew.
His first worry was immediately set on Jo down in his room. They had developed a very good friendship recently, like no other that he's ever had. In fact, he was almost debating with himself if he just happened to be falling in love with her.
Nah. Captain Jack Sparrow doesn't love.
Will caught their little secret friendship tonight, but for now, that was the least of their worries. McDouglas and his crew had just made their way beside the Pearl… and this time, McDouglas seems to have many more men in his crew.
BACK TO JO'S POV
I still sat in Jack's room as I heard the fighting begin on deck.
Pacing back and forth, I contemplated whether I should go up and fight or not.
Elizabeth is up there… Why can't I be? I thought, looking to the closed door.
Something kept telling me that Jack didn't want me to come up there, but I didn't care anymore. It had suddenly got quiet up on deck, and that sometimes wasn't a good sign.
Grabbing my sword and taking a deep breath, I ran as fast as I could to go on deck- my long hair flowing gracefully behind me since I had been wearing it down a lot recently because Jack liked it that way.
After arriving on deck, I was greeted with a terrible sight. Jack's crew, including Will and Elizabeth, were tied against the main mast… but Jack was no where to be seen.
"Come on, Jack… Where are you?" I whispered quietly to myself, scanning around for him and trying to remain unnoticed.
Finally spotting where he was at, I saw a man about his age-with long, dirty blonde hair and a trimmed beard- standing over Jack, whose hands were being tied behind his back.
My eyes widened when seeing the man standing there (I was assuming he is the Captain of the other crew), unsheathing his sword and pointing it at Jack's throat.
"No!" I screamed. It was all I could think of doing at the moment. However, it obviously worked because the man's head snapped in my direction.
"Well, what do we have here?" The man asked, eyeing me over as I stood there, my sword unsheathed and pointing in his direction.
"I don't think you want to be doin' that, Missy." He said menacingly.
"Leave Jack alone." I said in a threatening tone, ignoring his comments.
"Jo… don't be doin' anything stupid." Jack warned, pleading.
"I tell you what, Miss…" The man started, but stopped for a brief moment to learn my name.
"Turner." I stated angrily.
"Okay. Miss Turner. I tell you what. If you beat me- I'll leave Jack, you, and his crew alone… and you'll never see me again. But if I win.. you come with me." He said, a mischievous smile forming.
Looking around confused, I saw Jack still telling me not to do anything stupid as I finally looked up to the man and nodded.
"Like that…" I heard Jack mumbled in disappointment as I took my fighting stance.
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