Chapter 4: Thoughts of the future and a cozy fire
Later that night, everyone else had gone off to bed. The sky was clear and the stars were visible. The moon was out and full. Isabella swung over to the Pearl and walked toward a figure sitting on the bow spar.
"Evening Jack." Isabella said to the figure as she approached.
"Evening. What are ye doin' out at this hour? Ye should be asleep." Jack inquired, turning to Isabella.
"So should you." she countered. She walked out onto the bow spar and took a seat next to Jack. "What are ye doin' out 'ere all alone?"
"Just thinking." he replied, looking out to sea.
"What about?" Isabella questioned very curious.
"You, me, the life we may one day have if we ever decide t' leave the ocean behind. . ." Jack's voice trailed off. A moment of silence passed between the pirates.
"Do ye want t' leave this all behind? I mean, go an' live in Tortuga at the house or something and have a family?" Isabella asked, trying to sort out the situation at hand.
"Well, no. Not if you don't want to." Jack replied, facing Isabella. Without hesitating, Isabella made her decision and voiced it.
"I don't. What I want is fer ye not to think about that sort of stuff. 's not like ye. These thoughts never use t' come t' ye." she looked deep into his eyes. He tried to look away, but she held his attention, and his eyes with her own. "Besides, even if we did decide t' 'ave a family, ye know as well as I do that there'd be no way either one of us could stay away from ships or the ocean very long. It's our life. We were born pirates. The sea is our home."
"Yer right. An' besides, it would be too difficult t' explain t' a young child 'bout piracy if they weren't born on a ship and raised on one like we were." Jack concluded.
"My point precisely." Silence falls once more and Isabella releases Jack from her penetrating stare and looked out at the full moon. "What made ye think of that anyway?"
"I dunno." Jack replied, looking out to sea as well. "It just kind of came into me mind and I'm not really sure why." He turned back to Isabella, and now it was his turn to hold her gaze with his. "It doesn't bother ye that it's on me mind, does it?"
"Not at all. Its crossed me mind a few times in the past few years as well, so it's nothin' I'm terribly concerned about." she reassured Jack as her arm rested around his waist lovingly. Jack smiled and put his arm around her shoulders and drew her over to him.
"I didn't think it would bother ye. Jus' makin' sure though." The two pirates sat out and looked at the stars for a while longer. Jack on occasion kissed Isabella's neck. After a while, a breeze picked up and the temperature dropped a bit, sending Jack and Isabella into Jack's cabin. Jack lit a fire in the wood fireplace and the two sat on the couch facing the fire.
"It's been so long since we've done this. I miss our nights when we'd sit in front of the fire, drinkin' coffee and talkin'." Isabella told Jack, the firelight danced on her face, giving it a warm glow.
"Would ye like to start that ritual back up?" he stood and headed over to a coffee pot and poured the two of them coffee. Isabella sampled the warm coffee that Jack handed her when he returned.
"Mmmm. This is great. Thank you Jack." she leaned into him lovingly and he started undoing her braided hair. Midway through taking out one braid, he stopped.
"Hope ye don't mind." Isabella's eyes were closed in happiness.
"Not at all. I love yer fingers runnin' through me hair." Isabella sighed. Jack finished removing the braid and started on the second one. Isabella sighed again, eyes still closed as she savored every minute of it. Once both braids were out and her long black hair hung free, Jack noticed Isabella had fallen asleep in his arms. His left arm, which she was leaning on had fallen asleep, but Isabella looked so like an angel, he didn't want to wake her. Instead, he kissed her forehead and after a few moments, drifted off to sleep himself.
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