Tessi's Point Of View


Tessi had been walking along the beach and came across Elizabeth and Jack in what seemed like an argument. She walked closer so that she was within earshot, and leaned against a tree, what would be the point in trying to hide.

"Are you the pirate I've read about or not? How did you escape last time?" Came Elizabeth's accusatory tone, it was like music to my ears, for a while, Elizabeth was being nice, and sweet, it was scaring me.

"Last time…I was here a grand total of three days, all right? Last time," Jack sounded slightly bitter and pulled open a door that I hadn't seen in the sand, either I was too far away or it was hidden, "The rumrunners used this island as a cache. Came by, and I was able to barter a passage off. From the looks of things, they've long been out of business. Probably, have your bloody friend Norrington to thank for that." With that he disappeared into the hole in the ground, and brought up four bottles of alcohol, andI assumed that it was rum.

"So that's it then? That's the secret grand adventure of the infamous Jack Sparrow? You spent three days lying on a beach, drinking rum?" She sounded disgusted, and Jack just handed her a bottle and continued on.

He stopped when he saw me, and then started towards me, since I was a little out of his path. He handed me a bottle and put his arm around me saying, "Welcome to the Caribbean love."

I looked at the bottle dubiously and walked with him, I sat down along side Misty and Jack handed her a bottle and sat on my other side, Elizabeth arrived shortly and sat on Misty's other side, Elizabeth and I looked at Misty expectantly and after she took a drink, Elizabeth and I looked at each other and whispered to ourselves, "Drink up me 'earties," and took a drink of our own bottles.

Jack looked at us curiously and said, "What was that?"

I would have answered, but I was fighting against the grimace that was threatening to come up on my face. I had forgotten how much Rum burned my throat.

"It's a song that we used to sing when we were younger." Elizabeth answered, seeing that I wasn't going to.

"Sing it for me," Jack said looking at me, slightly pleading.

I laughed and before taking another sip I said, "It's going to take much more rum before I sing Jack," and then as I was taking a sip, Jack tipped the bottle up a little bit, and gave me a devious smile.

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Out of the four of us, my bottle of rum was the fullest. I had never minded drinking, but I just didn't like rum. Elizabeth was only a sip ahead of me anyway. We were all dancing around the fire singing, "We're devils and black sheep and really bad eggs. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me."

"I LOVE THIS SONG!" Jack yelled as he fell down.

I laughed and said, "You should, you've made us sing it twenty times."

Jack ignored this and said, "When I get the Pearl back, I'm gonna teach it to the whole crew, and we'll sing it all the time!"

"And you'll be positively the most fearsome pirate in the Spanish Main." Elizabeth added plopping down into the sand, very unlady-like. Misty sat down too and started playing with the sand; I was the only one still standing, but I was dancing around because I felt like it, but Jacks next words sobered me a little.

"Not just the Spanish Main, love, the entire ocean, the entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails that's what a ship needs but what a ship is, what the Black Pearl really is, is freedom."

I sat down next to him and put my head on his shoulder and said, "Jack, it must be really terrible for you to be trapped on this island."

"Oh yes," Jack said as he put his arm around my shoulder, his voice had changed from the reflective tone he had just used, "But the company is infinitely better than last time, I think. The scenery has definitely improved."

I just rolled my eyes and sat up a little bit straighter, men always ruined, nice, moments, whether it be sentimental or romantic, the ruin it.

"If you two wanted privacy, all you had to do was ask." Misty said laughing.

"I don't think I've had enough rum to even hear you talk about my sister like that." Elizabeth said grinning a little along with Misty.

Jack nodded and said, "I know exactly what you mean," and then proceeded in taking a large swig. Elizabeth and I pretended to take a large swig as well, when I only took a sip, and Elizabeth didn't drink at all. I shook my head as Jack passed out, and we all tried to figure out how to get off of the island.

It was getting late but we wouldn't go to bed until we figured it out, the fire was almost out and I got up and poured what would equal a sip of my rum onto the fire, and it roared to life. "Watch it, you'll burn you're eyebrows off." Misty said,I looked over to Misty and Elizabeth and we all shared mischievous smiles. It was close to sunrise so we threw sand on the fire, and then built it thirty feet away from Jack. Elizabeth and I went over to the cache of rum and food as Misty built the fire up again.

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Author's Point of View

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They had thrown on the last box of rum and ducked to avoid the explosion, when they heard Jacks frantic screams.

"No! Not good! Stop! Not good! What are you doing? You burned all the food, the shade, the rum!" Jack yelled.

"Yes, the rum is gone." Misty said, slightly annoyed, her ears were still ringing from the explosions, she sits down with her back to the fire, watching the horizon.

"Why is the rum gone?" Jack asked, slightly desperately.

Tessi rolled her eyes, and Elizabeth said, "One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels."

"Two," Tessi said interrupting, "that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire Royal Navy is out looking for us, do you really think that there is even the slightest chance that they won't see it?" Tessi sat down next to her sister and leaned back on her hands, and waited patiently, even though inside she didn't want to go back home, she wanted to be with Jack.

"Just wait, Captain Sparrow. You keep a whether eye out give it an hour, maybe two, and you'll see white sails on that horizon." And with that Elizabeth sat down and stared at the horizon as well.

Jack took out his pistol and aimed it at Tessi and then Elizabeth, and decides that he shouldn't shoot them, and walks away. After getting up onto a hill, he started to mimic Tessi from the night before. "'Must be terrible for you to be trapped here, Jack, must've been terrible for you.' Well it bloody is now!" he shouted back at where the girls are sitting.

He turns around and sees the Dauntless and groans saying, "There'll be no living with her after this."