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CynicalReader: (whispers) What are we going to do with her?

OptimisticReader: I don't know, but I'm sure she'll be fine.

PickyReader: How can anyone be fine after a brutal stabbing like that?

CynicalReader: She's a Mary Sue after all which means super healing powers.

AllReaders: Ah, of course, super healing powers.

Ethel opened her eyes to find herself lying comfortably on a nice squishy bed. A moment after this realisation, the sharp pain in her stomach came flooding back in full force. So much that she nearly fell unconscious again.

Jack: There love, hang in there. You'll be alright. Jack is taking good care of you now.

ObsessiveReader: Okay, who talks in the third person anymore besides Elmo?

Ethel: (struggles to look up) Where … what … when … what happened?

Jack: You killed that man, that's what you did! I'm impressed, where did you learn to fight like that?

Author: I'm sorry guys, I've totally and completely lost the "voice" for Jack. I haven't watched the movie in ages, and I've moved onto a new "obsession".

Danielle: Betrayal-cakes!

Author: No! Never! I'll be good!

Ethel: I don't remember, but when I picked up that sword, it's like, it all came flooding back you know?

Apparently, Jack didn't know, but to mask the awkward silence, he pulled away the blankets to check on Ethel's wound.

Wesley: Day-um, that's hot.

Ethel: Where the hell were you? Just when I was about to get killed, you run off! Some protector you are!

Wesley: Did I say protector?

Ethel: Um, I … don't remember but you –

Wesley: EXCUSE ME, BUT DID I SAY PROTECTOR? I'm merely here to guide you to a higher purpose.

Ethel: And what might that be may I ask?

Wesley: Not in front of the L-O-V-E-I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T.

Ethel: Oh, right.

Jack: You're healing up quite nicely. Faster than is expected. You're quite an unusual one aren't you?

Ethel: (giggles)

AllReaders: (groan)

Jack covered Ethel again to keep her warm and Ethel relished in his warm touch. Jack leant close and Ethel held her breath, waiting. In a flash, he grinned and left Ethel with a wink.

Wesley: Um, the hell?

AllReaders: Just kiss already!

CynicalReader: Oh god, it's like Season 1 of Alias all over again!

That was the second time he had almost kissed her. Ethel didn't want to admit it, but this was also the second time where she didn't mind or refuse being kissed.

Ethel: I don't like Jack Sparrow. I have no feelings for him. I don't love -

Ethel looked towards the monkey as he opened his mouth to say something, but found that there was something terribly wrong. She grasped at her neck but found that her pendant was gone! Gone! And the one that she had ripped off the man that she had killed was gone as well. She looked around frantically, only to find that they were nowhere in sight.

Ethel: Wesley, it's gone!

Wesley: Gone!

Ethel: Yes, gone!

Wesley: What are we going to do?

Ethel's heartbeat quickened and she felt her blood boil with anger. What else could've possibly happened to it? Jack must've took it while she was unconscious. The nerve of him! And to think that she was developing feelings for him!

Ethel: Oh, he'll pay for what he did!

Ethel sat up, dressed in her clothes, stood up and made for the door with Wesley securely on her shoulder. She strode out onto the deck to find herself stumbling and buffeted by the wild waves and the winds. She looked around for Jack but suddenly felt lightheaded. She felt Wesley jump off her shoulder when the world started to spin and she became dizzy. She had a faint recollection of falling before a loud splash.

Please forgive me if I happen to use some lines from previous chapters. I'm losing the "funny".

-You never had the "funny". You copied the "funny" from Regina-

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