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Disclaimer: Once again I DON'T OWN POTC!!! Maybe one day when I am old and very very rich I will buy Disney and finally own POTC but that day has not yet come so I will sit here and plan my taking-over Disney for now.
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Chapter eleven: Bad news.
The next day I was right as rain again and back to my duties onboard the Pearl. Jack said it was the 'mighty healing powers of the sea' which had got me back on my feet so quickly where as Ed insisted that it was his 'mighty healing powers' which had done it. Either one I was happy to be back on my feet. My duties were finished in double quick time and I found myself itching for more. So I decided to help Anamaria swab the decks.
The heat from the sun and the spray of the sea mist made an equal balance in temperature and I began to sing a round of 'Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me. Anamaria soon joined in and we began mopping the floor in tune. Of course Jack began to hum the tune and soon the whole crew were in an uproar.
"We're rascals and scoundrels, we're villains and knaves, Drink up me 'earties, yo ho, We're devils and black sheep and REALLY BAD EGGS!!"
As the verses went on we became louder and louder. I swear that if a ship was on the furthest horizon they would have heard our singing. Finally it came to an end and everyone collapsed laughing on the decks. Except for Jack of course who was trying desperately to keep them on course.
With the deck shining cleaner than it had ever been before we retired below deck for a light lunch.
"Been having fun?" It was Ed. He wasn't up on deck at the time we had been singing as he was having to treat another member of the crew with a nasty gash they had obtained while drawing the sails in earlier that morning.
"Aye!" I replied heartily, "bit of a sore throat now though!"
"I'm sure you have!" he chuckled, "look I need to check your wound so pop by the later aye?"
I sighed, "honestly Ed its fine!" but he insisted and I thought it best to just get it over and done with. "Ok ok fine!"
I was true to my word, even though I wasn't keen on being prodded and poked again, and turned up at his cabin later on that day. However when I opened the door it was not Ed but Jack who was standing there. I peered around to see where Ed was.
"No its just me and you luv" came Jack's voice.
"Oh, huh?" I was confused.
"I needed to talk to you where I knew no one else could hear and I gathered that because everyone keeps well away from the doctors area this was the best place to go. I organised it with Ed." He smiled cheekily as though we were naughty students who had gotten out of a class.
"Oh alright" I said sitting down on the bloodstained table. I ran my fingers over the dents and scratches where desperate patients had clawed their fingers into it in agony and where the knife had slipped into the table. "What did you want to talk about?"
He became suddenly serious and sat beside me clasping his hands together, then unclasping them and waving them around in a more Jack Sparrow manor.
"You know we've been sailing towards...It...for the last week," he said finally, "And all the while the crew have been blissfully unaware. They all think we are sailing towards Tortuga for one last time."
I sat there in silence for a few moments not believing my ears. I also thought we were sailing towards Tortuga to collect provisions and have one final laugh. But now the realisation that we could be only days away from our death suddenly sunk in. Although I had hid my fear up until now underneath I had had to block it out of my mind. The very thought of it sent my whole body into a sweat of fear. I didn't believe I could defeat it. Not really.
"Luv?" I heard Jack whisper to me. I looked up into his face brushing away my tears.
"Jack... I'm scared," I said finally revealing my true feelings about the impossible task ahead. He looked at me with pity and for a moment I almost thought he would say that he, too, was as afraid as I was. But the true Jack Sparrow would never admit to something like that.
"I know you are luv, but don't worry I'll be there all the time. After all we're the Sparrow and the Magpie aye?" he chuckled. I looked at him and frowned.
"How can you take this as a joke?" I questioned, "We're going to die and disappoint the whole of your world plus condemn them all to death!" I clasped my head in my hands and tried desperately to hold back the threatening tears.
"My world?" he answered after a while. I gulped. I hadn't meant to say that, it was my world now this was where I lived. "What do you mean 'my world'? Its just as much yours as it is mine...isn't it?"
I couldn't bare it. I had totally landed myself in it and the last thing I wanted to do was to lie to Jack. There was silence for a few moments but I could feel his eyes on me burning right through me looking for an answer.
I lifted my head from my hands and stood up. I couldn't tell him the truth. He would think I was mad.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Neither of us moved. The knock came again along with a "Cap'n?"
"Aye?" Jack said reluctantly turning his piercing gaze from me to the door.
The door opened and Ed stepped in. I didn't wait to find out what he wanted with Jack and just legged it out of the door.
I ran straight up onto the deck. It was nighttime now and the stars had come out. They dotted the sky like a thousand fireflies trapped in a small jar. As I leant on the side of the ship a light breeze came and swept my hair to the side cooling me from the humid atmosphere of below decks.
I looked out across the silent sea, everything was so peaceful. The deck was deserted except for the light snores coming from John who was fast asleep in the crows nest even though he was supposed to be on watch. I couldn't believe that we were nearly there. Nearly at the great peril that awaited us. Nearly at our death.
Well one good thing would come of it...I could see my mother again. But what if I don't? What if this world has a different heaven from my world? "What if I never see her again?" I said out loud.
"See who again luv?" Jack had snuck up behind me and was leaning next to me.
"My mother," I didn't think it would matter, after all it could mean something different entirely like I'd never go home to see her in Tortuga because I might die.
"Your mother?"
"Aye," I breathed, "You know she loved starry nights. She used to look up at them and we'd name them silly names like Jimmy Boy Jim Bob," I stopped and gulped, the last thing I wanted to do was to start crying in front of Jack.
I could feel Jack's eyes on me so I turned away from the sea and stared into the crows nest instead trying desperately to clear my mind from my old life.
"John's fallen asleep," I muttered giving a loud and completely fake laugh.
"Luv I..." Jack started but I cut him off.
"I should go and wake him, we could be nearly under attack for all we know!" and I quickly climbed up the rigging calling out John's name so that anything Jack was trying to tell me was completely unheard.
"JOHN!" I yelled in the poor man's ears. He shot bolt upright banging his head on the mast and causing him to yelp in pain.
"Aye?" he said sleepily, then realising he was supposed to be on watch he said, "I wasn't asleep I swear! Jus'...jus'..." I could see his eyes searching for an excuse, "Jus' resting me eyes is all!" he finally settled on.
I smiled at him and his pathetic excuse and backed down the rigging.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, I could feel a mad prickling sensation on the back of my neck, which sent shiver after shiver down my spine.
I reached the bottom of the rigging and stared in wonder. It was as though everything had stopped dead in its tracks. No breeze swept my hair. No wave rocked the boat. And no ripple glazed on top of the black sea.
I looked over to where Jack was standing but he was crouched on the floor covering his ears. I soon found out why. A terrible screeching noise like fingernails on a blackboard rang shrill through the air.
I crawled towards Jack crouching beside him with terror lined on my face. What was happening??
I looked into the sky and stopped dead. One by one the stars were going out.
Slowly we were being plunged into darkness.
The lanterns flickered and glowed black before being completely extinguished by an invisible wind.
The moon, once so large and yellow, was darkening like a dying flame until it vanished completely forcing us into the blackest night I had ever experienced before in my whole life. No shapes or shadows loomed as there was no light to see. I almost wondered if I had gone blind.
No sound of waves or birds could I hear. The only thing preventing me from thinking I was dead was the light breathing of Jack somewhere by my side. I tried to ask what was happening but no voice escaped from my lips.
Suddenly my right wrist became a fury of pain as though someone had ripped the skin from the bone and jabbed a million needles in its place.
On my right wrist where my tattoo of a Magpie lay.
Disclaimer: Once again I DON'T OWN POTC!!! Maybe one day when I am old and very very rich I will buy Disney and finally own POTC but that day has not yet come so I will sit here and plan my taking-over Disney for now.
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Chapter eleven: Bad news.
The next day I was right as rain again and back to my duties onboard the Pearl. Jack said it was the 'mighty healing powers of the sea' which had got me back on my feet so quickly where as Ed insisted that it was his 'mighty healing powers' which had done it. Either one I was happy to be back on my feet. My duties were finished in double quick time and I found myself itching for more. So I decided to help Anamaria swab the decks.
The heat from the sun and the spray of the sea mist made an equal balance in temperature and I began to sing a round of 'Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me. Anamaria soon joined in and we began mopping the floor in tune. Of course Jack began to hum the tune and soon the whole crew were in an uproar.
"We're rascals and scoundrels, we're villains and knaves, Drink up me 'earties, yo ho, We're devils and black sheep and REALLY BAD EGGS!!"
As the verses went on we became louder and louder. I swear that if a ship was on the furthest horizon they would have heard our singing. Finally it came to an end and everyone collapsed laughing on the decks. Except for Jack of course who was trying desperately to keep them on course.
With the deck shining cleaner than it had ever been before we retired below deck for a light lunch.
"Been having fun?" It was Ed. He wasn't up on deck at the time we had been singing as he was having to treat another member of the crew with a nasty gash they had obtained while drawing the sails in earlier that morning.
"Aye!" I replied heartily, "bit of a sore throat now though!"
"I'm sure you have!" he chuckled, "look I need to check your wound so pop by the later aye?"
I sighed, "honestly Ed its fine!" but he insisted and I thought it best to just get it over and done with. "Ok ok fine!"
I was true to my word, even though I wasn't keen on being prodded and poked again, and turned up at his cabin later on that day. However when I opened the door it was not Ed but Jack who was standing there. I peered around to see where Ed was.
"No its just me and you luv" came Jack's voice.
"Oh, huh?" I was confused.
"I needed to talk to you where I knew no one else could hear and I gathered that because everyone keeps well away from the doctors area this was the best place to go. I organised it with Ed." He smiled cheekily as though we were naughty students who had gotten out of a class.
"Oh alright" I said sitting down on the bloodstained table. I ran my fingers over the dents and scratches where desperate patients had clawed their fingers into it in agony and where the knife had slipped into the table. "What did you want to talk about?"
He became suddenly serious and sat beside me clasping his hands together, then unclasping them and waving them around in a more Jack Sparrow manor.
"You know we've been sailing towards...It...for the last week," he said finally, "And all the while the crew have been blissfully unaware. They all think we are sailing towards Tortuga for one last time."
I sat there in silence for a few moments not believing my ears. I also thought we were sailing towards Tortuga to collect provisions and have one final laugh. But now the realisation that we could be only days away from our death suddenly sunk in. Although I had hid my fear up until now underneath I had had to block it out of my mind. The very thought of it sent my whole body into a sweat of fear. I didn't believe I could defeat it. Not really.
"Luv?" I heard Jack whisper to me. I looked up into his face brushing away my tears.
"Jack... I'm scared," I said finally revealing my true feelings about the impossible task ahead. He looked at me with pity and for a moment I almost thought he would say that he, too, was as afraid as I was. But the true Jack Sparrow would never admit to something like that.
"I know you are luv, but don't worry I'll be there all the time. After all we're the Sparrow and the Magpie aye?" he chuckled. I looked at him and frowned.
"How can you take this as a joke?" I questioned, "We're going to die and disappoint the whole of your world plus condemn them all to death!" I clasped my head in my hands and tried desperately to hold back the threatening tears.
"My world?" he answered after a while. I gulped. I hadn't meant to say that, it was my world now this was where I lived. "What do you mean 'my world'? Its just as much yours as it is mine...isn't it?"
I couldn't bare it. I had totally landed myself in it and the last thing I wanted to do was to lie to Jack. There was silence for a few moments but I could feel his eyes on me burning right through me looking for an answer.
I lifted my head from my hands and stood up. I couldn't tell him the truth. He would think I was mad.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Neither of us moved. The knock came again along with a "Cap'n?"
"Aye?" Jack said reluctantly turning his piercing gaze from me to the door.
The door opened and Ed stepped in. I didn't wait to find out what he wanted with Jack and just legged it out of the door.
I ran straight up onto the deck. It was nighttime now and the stars had come out. They dotted the sky like a thousand fireflies trapped in a small jar. As I leant on the side of the ship a light breeze came and swept my hair to the side cooling me from the humid atmosphere of below decks.
I looked out across the silent sea, everything was so peaceful. The deck was deserted except for the light snores coming from John who was fast asleep in the crows nest even though he was supposed to be on watch. I couldn't believe that we were nearly there. Nearly at the great peril that awaited us. Nearly at our death.
Well one good thing would come of it...I could see my mother again. But what if I don't? What if this world has a different heaven from my world? "What if I never see her again?" I said out loud.
"See who again luv?" Jack had snuck up behind me and was leaning next to me.
"My mother," I didn't think it would matter, after all it could mean something different entirely like I'd never go home to see her in Tortuga because I might die.
"Your mother?"
"Aye," I breathed, "You know she loved starry nights. She used to look up at them and we'd name them silly names like Jimmy Boy Jim Bob," I stopped and gulped, the last thing I wanted to do was to start crying in front of Jack.
I could feel Jack's eyes on me so I turned away from the sea and stared into the crows nest instead trying desperately to clear my mind from my old life.
"John's fallen asleep," I muttered giving a loud and completely fake laugh.
"Luv I..." Jack started but I cut him off.
"I should go and wake him, we could be nearly under attack for all we know!" and I quickly climbed up the rigging calling out John's name so that anything Jack was trying to tell me was completely unheard.
"JOHN!" I yelled in the poor man's ears. He shot bolt upright banging his head on the mast and causing him to yelp in pain.
"Aye?" he said sleepily, then realising he was supposed to be on watch he said, "I wasn't asleep I swear! Jus'...jus'..." I could see his eyes searching for an excuse, "Jus' resting me eyes is all!" he finally settled on.
I smiled at him and his pathetic excuse and backed down the rigging.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, I could feel a mad prickling sensation on the back of my neck, which sent shiver after shiver down my spine.
I reached the bottom of the rigging and stared in wonder. It was as though everything had stopped dead in its tracks. No breeze swept my hair. No wave rocked the boat. And no ripple glazed on top of the black sea.
I looked over to where Jack was standing but he was crouched on the floor covering his ears. I soon found out why. A terrible screeching noise like fingernails on a blackboard rang shrill through the air.
I crawled towards Jack crouching beside him with terror lined on my face. What was happening??
I looked into the sky and stopped dead. One by one the stars were going out.
Slowly we were being plunged into darkness.
The lanterns flickered and glowed black before being completely extinguished by an invisible wind.
The moon, once so large and yellow, was darkening like a dying flame until it vanished completely forcing us into the blackest night I had ever experienced before in my whole life. No shapes or shadows loomed as there was no light to see. I almost wondered if I had gone blind.
No sound of waves or birds could I hear. The only thing preventing me from thinking I was dead was the light breathing of Jack somewhere by my side. I tried to ask what was happening but no voice escaped from my lips.
Suddenly my right wrist became a fury of pain as though someone had ripped the skin from the bone and jabbed a million needles in its place.
On my right wrist where my tattoo of a Magpie lay.