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Chapter 3

Ruby took her seat at the head of table, while Jack took the very opposite side. Sephora and will sat on the sides, across from each other. The food was set on the table: lamb and beef stew, using supplies they had picked up from their last town. Someone passed Ruby a plate and she took a huge bite of her lamb leg. Way down along the table, Jack winked at her and took a large swig of his rum. She smiled a bit and took another bite. Sephora and Will were talking across the table, but Ruby tried to concentrate on her bowl of stew, spending plenty of time looking at her dirty spoon, wiping it off and then finally, drinking the soup out of the bowl. She wiped her mouth on the back of her sleeve and looked back across at Jack, who raised his bottle to her and took another long swig. Ruby smiled a bit bigger, taking a drink of her own rum.

"Where is we off to next, Cap'n?" asked her crewmate to the right of her, Bagley. Ruby swallowed her second swig of rum and answered.

"Port Chickering, and hope the Grey Jewel doesn't get there first," Bagley nodded and returned to his food. Ruby looked back at Jack who winked again, obviously getting drunker by the minute, as his rum was almost half empty. Ruby heard Sephora giggle, which was rare, but not since Will had been aboard, and finished off her lamb, then her stew. Picking up her unfinished bottle of rum, she stood up and walked up the stairs to the deck, taking a drink at the top of the stairs, the walking a bit unsteadily over to the edge. She leaned down, her elbows resting on the edge, rum in her hand, looking out onto the ocean.

She heard footsteps coming up the stairs, but didn't turn around, drinking a bit more rum. As soon as the footsteps came closer she turned to see Jack walking drunkenly, an almost finished bottle of rum in hand, toward her. He came over and flopped his arm over her shoulder, and finished off his rum.

"Aye, what a lovely night it is then, love," Jack brought the bottle to his lips again, raised it, but then realized there was nothing left, he dropped it and looked at the bottle in Ruby's hand. "Are you going to finish that, love?" In response Ruby took another long swig, looking out over the ocean, her eyesight blurring a bit, and rested her head on Jack's shoulder. She sighed. Jack swayed a bit, but tightened the grip on her shoulder.

"Jack, I been missin' ya badly, ya know that," Ruby slurred her words and took another drink. Jack looked down at her.

"Have ya then, love? Well, let's see what we can do about that," Jack quickly picked Ruby up, and hung her over his shoulder. Her rum sloshed around in its bottle and she giggled. Jack climbed down the stairs and into Ruby's room, throwing her down onto the bed. Ruby finished off the rum and threw the bottle down, giggling. Jack jumped onto the bed and leaned over to kiss Ruby. She sat there for a minute before breaking away.

"I can't sleep with you, Jack Sparrow." Jack looked at her, raising an eyebrow.

"Why not?" He asked, confused. Ruby laughed, laying down on the bed, looking at him.

"'Cause we're bloody drunk, that's why!" She laughed again, looking up at the ceiling. Jack lay down next to her. Ruby sighed and turned over, cuddling up against Jack, suddenly sleepy. She closed her eyes and felt Jack pull the sheets up over them both and soon she was asleep.

Ruby opened up eye, closed it, then slowly opened both eyes to look out at one window in her room that only showed a view of the water. Without moving, she looked around the room. She was lying on her side in her own bed. That was good. She looked down at the arm that was draped over her. Jack. She looked down, making sure she still had all her clothes on and held her head, which hurt something fierce. Ruby looked over at the cot that was lying beside her bed. Sephora! Where had she slept? Ruby turned a bit at the waist and whispered, "Jack!" His mouth twitched a bit. She tried again, louder. "Jack!" He mumbled something about cats. She rolled her eyes, pushing his arm off of her. "JACK!" He sat up this time, looking around, groping for his pistol.

"What in bloody hell do you want!" He squinted and looked around, then finally at Ruby. "Ah, love, just you then," Jack smiled. "Well then, don't ya know what bad luck it is to wake a man when he's sleeping?" Ruby smiled a bit.

"Do you now where Sephora is?" jack looked around.

"Nope."

"Well then we have to find her!" Ruby scrambled out of the bed, tying her bandana tighter. Jack took his time standing up.

"Not to worry, love. She's probably just in ol' Will's room," Jack put is hat on a bit sideways. Ruby looked at him and walked out of the room and down the hallway to Sephora's room, where she knocked on the door. She waited and Jack came to stand beside her. She knocked again.

"Sephora?" Ruby called. Jack put a hand to his head.

"Not so loud, love, just open the door," Ruby twisted the handle and pushed the door open. Sephora was in there alright, in very much the same position as Ruby had woken up this morning, only she didn't have any clothes on, by what Ruby could tell, and will was laying beside her. Jack let out a hearty laugh at this, but Ruby quickly put a hand over his mouth and shut the door quietly. Once the door was closed, Ruby let her hand down from Jack's mouth to see he was still smiling. "You're not gonna leave them like that, are you, love?" Ruby just looked at him, turned quickly and walked up the stairs to the deck. Jack followed her. "What I mean, love, is that you can't expect the girl not to have a little fun now and then, right?" Ruby didn't answer, just began pulling on a rope, helping get the sails up to catch the big wind that was going to blow them in the direction of Port Chickering. Jack smiled, grabbing Ruby around the waist. "And love, after us last night, how could you not expect it?" Ruby looked him in the eye.

"I didn't sleep with you Jack Sparrow," Jack grinned.

"Ah, but you have, love," Ruby turned red.

"Jack!" Jack shrugged at her.

"Well you have, haven't ya?" Ruby twisted out of his arms. Jack stood just as close to her before, lifting her chin up to meet his gaze, grinning like a cat. "And you will again, love," Ruby smiled a bit, but Jack's attention had been drawn to something behind her and she turned around to see Sephora and Will emerge from the stairway.