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Chapter Five: Katy
Jack was exactly right when he said that they would arrive in Tortuga no later than dusk. The Black Pearl docked in the harbor minutes before the sun disappeared over the horizon. The sky was orange, not red. Gibbs wasn't too pleased.
"Can't get an ounce of luck 'ere, can I?" he grumbled and took a sip of rum from his flask.
"Aw, just because there's two women on board, your luck has vaporized and you are going to die lonely," Anna said helping Anamaria tie the ship up at the dock.
Gibbs glared at her and helped Will with another rope.
Jack sauntered off his ship once the gangplank was lowered and everything was securely in place. He smiled and waved to his crew.
"We'll be 'ere fer two nights, and two nights only! Go and do as ye please! I've got meself some business to take care of," he said to the crew and sauntered away deep into the town.
Anna stood on the dock with her arms crossed in front of her, shaking her head as Jack left. She turned to walk back up on the ship but was stopped by a gentle hand grabbing her arm. She looked up to see Will smiling weakly down at her. She smiled back.
"Yes?" she asked glancing at the ship.
"I need you to come with me," he said quietly.
Anna raised an eyebrow in question. "I thought that you of all people would want me to stay on the ship."
"You can handle Tortuga, at least I think you can, especially if I'm with you," Will said lightly but his eyes pleaded with her to come with him.
"Okay…" she said skeptically.
Will led Anna down a narrow street that was filled with drunken pirates and whores. He looked back at her, seeing if she was okay with walking through there but she seemed unfazed by them.
"You don't seem to be as uncomfortable here as you were the last time we came," Will said over the yelling of the drunks and guns firing.
"I've seen worse," she said simply and grimaced as the thought of Madagascar popped back in her head.
Will smiled for a second just thinking of what places Jack dragged her over the last year.
They finally reached a small tavern at the end of the street where there wasn't as much chaos or noise. The tavern was a lot quieter than the Faithful Bride, where Jack took them last year. Will lead Anna to a table in the back and they sat down.
"What's such a big deal that I had to come all the way out here for it?" Anna asked examining her fingernails as though she was bored.
Will cleared his throat nervously. "I want you to finish what you were telling me," he said quietly.
Anna knew exactly what he was talking about but chose to act clueless, hoping she wouldn't have to tell him anything.
"What are you talking about?" she asked looking at him innocently.
"You know what I'm talking about," he said seriously. "What you were about to tell me on the ship but then you were called away."
'Damn,' she thought. 'Nothing seems to get by him anymore.'
"Oh…" she said looking down in her lap. "…that."
Will waited for nearly a minute as Anna sat in silence trying to figure out how to tell him the truth without hurting him too badly.
"Anna…" he said trying to get her to speak.
"Could I have something to drink?" she said knowing she'd need it.
Will nodded and got up from the table going to the bar. A young barmaid with long auburn hair and bright green eyes stood there washing a mug and putting it back in its place.
"What can I do fer ya?" she asked placing her hand on her hip and smiling up at Will.
Will thought about what to give Anna. He looked back to see her with her head in her hands leaning on her elbows on the table. "Two rums, please," he said looking back to the barmaid.
"Sure," she said grabbing her newly cleaned mug and another one, pouring rum into them so that they were practically overflowing.
"Thank you," Will said putting a couple of coins on the bar and walking back over to Anna. He put a mug down in front of her, startling her out of her deep thinking.
"Oh, you scared me," Anna said trying to calm herself taking a huge gulp of her rum. "Thank you."
Will nodded. "So, about that story," he said, trying his best to get this story going.
"Oh, right, well, um, where did I leave off?" Anna knew exactly where she left off.
"You said someone was coming upstairs and you thought it was me. Then you said that it was Commodore Norrington," Will said.
"Oh, right. Um, yeah, it was Commodore Norrington," she said weakly, looking down at her hands that held the mug.
Will waited patiently, trying not to sound annoyed.
"He…he walked down to…Elizabeth's…room," she said just above a whisper.
Will's brow furrowed in worry. "Did he…"
"I heard a knock on a door…a-and then…voices. It was Norrington and Elizabeth talking. She was surprised at first," Anna said and swallowed hard. "She was telling him…to…to stop coming."
Will raised an eyebrow at this. 'Is he harassing her?' he thought.
"Jame…Norrington said…that he loved her," Anna squeaked out.
Will laughed nervously. "I've always known that."
Anna shook her head. "There's more. He said…bad things about you…about how you were…below her," she said finishing so quietly that Will had to strain to listen to her.
"I expect that from him," he said trying to shake off the hurt that statement planted.
Anna took another swig of her rum and took a deep breath. "He said something about remembering that night," she said.
"What night?" Will asked more to himself.
"Elizabeth kind of…pleaded with him to stop," Anna said.
"Stop what?" Will asked anxiously.
"Talking about that night Norrington referred to," she said. Her throat closed up. She couldn't reveal anymore. Will's eyes were growing dark and sad. She couldn't watch.
"Go on," he said weakly.
Anna opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out.
"It's okay, Anna," Will tried to say softly and kindly but was unable to do so easily.
She swallowed and opened her mouth to speak again. "He mentioned 'many nights after that.' Elizabeth tried to make him stop talking but it didn't work. He said…that it wouldn't matter if she left you…" she trailed off. She didn't dare look into his eyes.
There was an awkward silence. Anna couldn't go on. Her heart clenched with every word she spoke and remembering the night, remembering what Norrington said about her.
"It's too late now. I can't leave Will. I can't stand seeing him broken hearted," Elizabeth sobbed.
"Yes you can! He's got that little whore, Anna Wilson, out at sea to keep him satisfied," Norrington spat out.
The anger Anna felt that night boiled up inside of her again. She suddenly felt like telling Will everything. That he had to know it all.
"Norrington asked her for one more night," Anna spat out still staring at the liquid in her mug. "At that point I had opened the door to see what was going on outside, and there they were, kissing like they were on their own honeymoon night."
Will was taken aback by Anna's sudden outburst. He looked at her suspiciously as she held the mug in her hand so tight that her knuckles were white.
"Then Norrington asked her if she would marry him instead of you and she said no like a good little girl. But he asked if she loved him or you and the confession leaked out, she said she loved him…" Anna's voice grew until the last sentence, where it dimmed down. She didn't look up at Will but she could almost hear his heart break.
There was an awkward silence. Anna chose to continue. "I was so surprised at hearing that, that I jumped back not gracefully at all. They heard me of course. That's when Norrington found me…" she said quietly, hoping Will would say something.
There was another awkward silence. She looked up slowly, making sure Will was still breathing. He was awfully quiet. Though, instead of seeing sadness or anger towards some object that was supposed to be Elizabeth, it was anger towards her.
"Will, I'm so sorry," she whispered, leaning forward to comfort him, hold his hand, and be there for him.
"I thought better of you, Anna," was all he said.
"What?" she asked, surprised by his comment.
"When you told me to marry Elizabeth, I thought you were better than this. That you cared about a person's heart. I never expected you to try and break mine, using Elizabeth as a tool just because you were jealous," he said trying to keep is voice steady.
"Will, I…I never…it's not like that!" Anna said as her voice grew in anger to his accusation.
"Elizabeth would never do that to me!" Will said trying as best he could to keep his voice down.
"I know what I saw Will!" Anna argued back. She should have known he would be like this.
"Apparently you were dreaming or something," Will mumbled to himself but Anna could hear him.
"Dreaming? Do you think I'm some kind of lunatic?" she nearly shrieked.
The poor barmaid, who just happened to hear the whole conversation, stood in horror at the sight before her.
"If you have a story that couldn't be possibly true, then yes, I think you are some kind of lunatic!" Will yelled back. "Or a liar."
Anna was standing now. Tears flooded her eyes but she would not cry, not there, not then. She balled her fists so tightly that her nails dug deeply into her palms. She trembled slightly from her sadness and anger. She couldn't say anymore without bursting into either sobs or attacking Will for his stupidity so she turned and ran out of the tavern.
The sky was dark by the time she got out. The air was cool like that night in Port Royal. She stopped just outside the tavern and let the tears fall down her red hot cheeks. She crossed her arms in front of her and walked to the side of the building where her legs gave out under her and she fell to the ground. She leaned her back against the cool stone wall and bit her lip to keep the sobs away, but it didn't stop her tears. Her head felt light and dizzy.
Will still sat inside the tavern, staring at the door that Anna had just slammed shut out of extreme fury. He knew he shouldn't have accused her of lying but he couldn't believe that Elizabeth would do that to him.
'She has been acting distant lately,' he thought to himself remembering the events days before he ran away.
No matter how hard he tried to put everything together and not blame Anna, he always ended up using her story as a lie to cover up the true hurt he felt inside. His heart knew that every word Anna said was true and that it took a true friend to come forward and tell him something like that.
…………………………
Anna decided to walk back to the ship once she had calmed herself down from the shock of her fight with Will. He hadn't come out of the tavern and it had been an hour since she left. She didn't expect him to come out any time soon and got up to walk away.
The street was getting more crowded and as long as she hid her face and made herself look as much like a man as possible, no one would bother her. Some drunken pirates yelled at her and whores smiled suggestively at her, thinking she was a man, but no one bothered her.
When the Black Pearl came into sight in the harbor, Anna felt a prickling on the back of her neck, like someone was watching her. She stopped, turned around, and looked for anything, but all she could see was the usual Tortuga night scene, nothing different. She turned around slowly and started to walk towards the ship again. The feeling of being watched came back. She began to pick up her pace as the Pearl grew closer and closer. Just before she could reach the dock, though, something grabbed her arm and pulled her into a dark alley, pushing her against the wall.
"You should know better than to wander the streets at night alone," a voice said, though it sounded like a woman's voice.
"What do you want…?" Anna started to say but was cut off.
"Shut up!"
Anna tried to see through the darkness what was attacking her but could only see a silhouette of a hooded figure. The figure grabbed Anna's arm again and pulled her to a door in the alley. It opened the door and pulled Anna up a narrow staircase and to a room with a bed, a night stand, and a dresser. The figure pushed Anna to the bed and lit a couple of candles.
"What are you…?" Anna started but was once again cut off.
"I thought I told you to shut up!" the figure said throwing back the hood of its cloak revealing a woman's head with dark brown hair that fell halfway down her back. She threw the cloak to the side of the room and faced Anna, glaring at her with bright green eyes.
Anna looked into the woman's eyes and an image of the little girl with brown hair and those same green eyes on the ship in her dream came back to her.
"Who are you?" Anna asked quietly.
"Do you not know?" the woman asked softly.
Anna didn't know what to say.
"I should have known you wouldn't remember me, Anna," the woman said as her green eyes grew sad.
"How do you know my name?" Anna asked trying to figure everything out.
The woman looked directly into Anna's eyes without blinking. "I'm your sister."
"What?" Anna practically yelled. "I don't have a sister! I was an only child to my mother and father."
"Who was your mother and father?" the woman asked.
Anna blinked and opened her mouth to speak but stopped herself.
"Tell me."
"Lieu…Lieutenant Wilson a-and Mary Wilson," Anna said quietly.
The woman smiled. "I knew you'd say that."
"What? Who are you?" Anna said standing up to attempt to run away.
"Firstly, don't even try to run away, there would be no point, and secondly, my name is Katy Searles, your sister whether you like it or not!" the woman, Katy, yelled making Anna flop down on the bed.
The image of the little girl came back, the girl named Katy.
"Searles?" Anna asked knowing that name from the story Jack told her about Captain Robert Searles and the Adriana.
"Yes, Searles," Katy said sounding annoyed.
"I thought no one survived the attack, though," Anna whispered but Katy could hear her.
"If no one survived then you and I are both dead," Katy said.
Anna sat quietly for a moment taking all this information in. No, it couldn't be true…could it? She never had a single memory of Katy or anyone on the ship…but that dream.
"If I am supposedly your sister and was on the Adriana when the navy attacked and sunk her, how old was I?" Anna asked looking up at the woman skeptically.
"Three," Katy said without missing a beat.
"How old were you?"
"Thirteen."
"Then how come you weren't with me my whole life, how come you weren't with me in Port Royal?"
Katy sighed and leaned against a wall. "I was already in love with the sea. The soldiers tried to get me to live in the same house as you, but I ran away. I didn't want to leave you but I had to."
"Where could a thirteen year old girl run away to?" Anna asked.
"I was a stowaway most of the time, until I found some men's clothes and pretended to be a boy and got a job on a merchant vessel. Once it was too hard to hide being a woman, I moved to Tortuga, where I met Jack," Katy said.
"Wait…Jack knew you?" Anna asked.
Katy nodded. "He helped me from getting hurt and found me a good place to stay where no one would bother me.
"He told me that no one survived when the Adriana was sunk," Anna said quietly.
"He doesn't know I have a sister, but I think he suspects it. He wouldn't tell you if he knew it anyway."
"Was he talking to you for information about this treasure that the Silent Blade and the Adriana were going after?" Anna asked looking back up at the woman leaning on the wall.
"Yes. Now enough of your questions, they'll be answered eventually. I need you to answer some of my questions right now. Tell me everything you remember about your life," Katy ordered walking over to Anna and sitting down next to her. "I need to know my sister."
Katy smiled at Anna, trying to be welcoming. Anna smiled back feeling a sense of ease around Katy even though she didn't know her. She swallowed all of her doubts and told her story.
A/N: Sucky ending, I know. I needed a place to stop because I need to get sleep sometime! I know the whole "lost sibling" thing is pretty common and kind of annoying but it works with my story. Hope you enjoyed it anyway! Please review!