Chapter 25
As Jack returned to his cabin to grab some rum, his heart began beating faster and his stomach kept flipping as he thought of how Mari had acted with Will. She had really opened up and relaxed a little. Part of him wasn't sure he liked this more girlish side of her and the other part, mostly the creature inside of him part; wanted her to relax like that around him. Be calmer and friendlier. But he knew that wasn't going to happen. She guarded her feelings too well for that. He sighed wistfully as he began o comprehend what this feeling was. He had always known, deep down inside. Because it was the way he felt about the sea, and the Black Pearl. The feeling was love. He realized that he had fallen in love with Mari. But it doesn't matter, Jack thought, she could never love me. I'm just some drunken scallywag, she is calling her captain. But it was nice to have that feeling for another human being. It was different from how he had felt with any other woman, Anamaria for example. She was just a friend, Mari could be so much more, but she wouldn't want to be, not with me. Jack thought.
Inside her cabin, Mari lay on the bed, bandaged and clothed, waiting for the bell that signaled her watch.
"That's Jack's watch too," Mari said aloud and he stomach flipped at the thought of him. Orion screeched. Almost as if scolding her for hiding her feelings. In fact she had already worked that out.
"Mari sat up half glaring at him.
"Ok, so I love him! But what does it matter? He could never feel the same way about me. His only love is the sea and the Pearl. The sea should be my only love. It's safer to love the sea than to love someone who can hurt you. I didn't like that pain Orion. It was almost the end of me. You saw it." Mari said, remembering what had happened after she had left Dodger in the bar.
Mari staggered to the docks, there was a storm coming and the waves were choppy and rough. A person could easily drown in the water. She had set Orion down on the dock and stood at the very edge. Teetering on the edge of life and death. Her heart ached, ached unbearably. Like it was being crushed and mended then crushed again. It hurt too much. It was too much to bear. She stretched out her arms to jump. Orion was flapping and screeching, trying to make her stop, he was trying to drag her back by her tunic. She bounced up and down on the balls of her feet and waved Orion off.
"Goodbye." She said and jumped…
"Mari!" Jack seized her arm and pulled up, but she was heavy with dead weight and her hands were lick with sweat. Orion was trying to pull her up by her shirt.
"Mari wake up! It's only a dream snap out of it!" Mari snapped awake at the sound of Jack's voice and gasped as she realized what happened.
"Give me your other hand quickly!" He shouted. She grabbed his hand and put her feet firmly on the side of the ship to help hoist herself up. Mari and Jack collapsed on the deck panting heavily. Orin was panting too.
"Thanks." She said.
"What was wrong love?" Jack asked, suddenly realizing how true that one word was when talking to Mari.
"Really, really bad dream. I guess I ended up almost reliving it; except it would have ended differently." Mari said still breathing hard. Then the bell for their watch rang out.
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