It was a week before her nineteenth birthday when the Islanders spotted the ship. Every pirate on the island hurried to prepare for a battle. For the ship they had spotted had been a British ship and it was heading directly for the island. To make sure that that the ship was British they had John Robin put his eye to the spyglass. It was not until he looked that they realized that the ship was under a pirates care and most likely Pilfering Nick returning from his annual Cornwall attack. It was a sigh of relief that was let out all around the island when this information was learned because this would mean the British Royal Navy would have found their hideout and would cause relocation.
It was around midnight when the crew of the mysterious ship stepped on the shore as silent as a moth. Only one person heard the foot steps. Jazminda had always been a light sleeper because she lived on an island with pirates and meaning she was never safe from wandering hands or wandering eyes. When she heard the sound of unfamiliar steps, she crept from her bed and grabbed her sword and dagger and waited silently behind the door. She heard a rustling and then heard the noise of cheese on rusty hinges. She was confused, first of all how did the intruder know that the hinges on her door were rusty and second of all how did she know what the noise of cheese on hinges sounded like? She wasted no time pondering these questions once the door opened. She crept up behind the tall figure and put her dagger to his back.
"Don't move" she whispered. The man looked seemingly familiar with his emerald green eyes and spiky blonde hair. The stranger looked shocked. Jazminda drew her sword, asking in a challenging voice, "What are you staring at"? He answered in a most beckoning voice,
"Well, it's not every day that you see a beautiful woman in her undergarments in a tower on an island full of pirates." Jazminda raised her sword and jabbed at the air next to him in a threatening way to tell him 'defend your self'.
For 5 minutes they fought their swords clanging against the others until Jazminda broke the all but silent atmosphere with an odd question while there was a chair blocking him.
"Do I know you? Have we met before?" He jumped over the chair and replied
"You might remember me; I came here about eleven or twelve years ago and helped you steal a boat and sail around this island among other things." Jazminda dropped her sword in surprise on the wooden floor with a thud.
"Jack?" she whispered in an excited tone. In response Jack crumpled on Jazminda's bed and wiped his brow.
"You've improved with a sword since I last saw you Jaz," Jack said between gasps. Jazminda threw herself at him and hugged him until he laughed breathlessly,
"Okay, okay! You can stop suffocating me!"
"I can't believe it's you! I thought the captains banished you to England?" In a serious voice he replied,
"Well, I came back for three reasons, first to show the Seven Captains of the Seas that I am still a pirate although my mother was not. Secondly, I wanted to know if you would like to go back to England with me because to tell you the truth, I miss you and feel very alone without you. Finally over the past few years I have learned information about most of our parents that would interest you greatly."
Jazminda's silence that followed Jack's proposal was suddenly broken by the pounding of footsteps on the old, rickety stairs. Before Jazminda or Jack could do anything or grab anything an unfamiliar pirate with a beet red face and sweat dripping from his brow, burst in.
"Jack! We can't find the port were the ships are kept and the guards are getting suspicious!" Jazminda spun to face the babbling pirate.
"You, gather your comrades and split them up into seven groups and tell them to report to the entrance of this tower. Make sure you stay hidden! Go, now."
In shock that a woman was on an island full of pirates and that she could speak so forcefully, the sailor didn't even bother to look at Jack to make sure of his orders and disappeared down the stairs. Jazminda turned to Jack and told his in a matter a fact voice,
"I guess I'm coming with you since I refuse to marry Billy." Jazminda started to pull some plain cotton dresses out of a large, wooden trunk at the foot of her bed, she put one on. Next she pulled out a ragged sack out from under her mattress and started to shove the rest of the dresses is the sack. Finally she pulled a small box out from under her bed and put that in her sack. During this process Jack studied Jazminda but spoke not a word. Jazminda slung the sack over her broad shoulders and said in a cheerful tone considering that she was leaving her home of 14 years, "Let's head on out!"