Misty's Point of View


I couldn't stop grinning for some reason, Jack was pissed, and it was invigorating burning all the food, the shade and the rum. I was feeling hyper I just couldn't stop the giddiness of it all.

Here I was on an island with no one but my sisters and a pirate Captain that couldn't decide who he wanted to kill first. Perhaps I was going insane, perhaps I had, had too much sun, either way I jumped up on an impulse.

I looked up at the sky and laughed and then proceeded to dancing around with my skirt holding it out skipping about, "I got cabin fever, I got cabin fever, and I got cabin fever!" I said knowing I really didn't have cabin fever but I felt like I should sing it.

Tessi looked up at me and raised an eyebrow, "What the hell?" She asked smirking somewhat, Elizabeth looked amused and sat up and linked her arms with mine and started singing with me, and trust me this time we weren't drunk.

I would hazard to guess that it was the whole situation of it that made me feel insane, and just, like I couldn't keep my thoughts together. And acting crazy seemed to help me cope, Tessi watched us in mild amusement.

She snorted, "I now know where you got you're craziness." She said referring to Elizabeth, as we danced around, but the happiness was short lived. Jack came stomping down towards us with a scowl on his face.

Elizabeth and I stopped and let go of our dresses but our arms were still linked, "Happy now?" He barked, "Norrington and his men are here! You'll be able to leave now Princess Tessi." Jack said angry but I could tell he was hurt, he really liked Tessi.

Elizabeth and I looked at each other a loss of what to say. Tessi kept staring straight out at the ship, trying to keep her tears at bay. She didn't respond, and Jack stalked off. Elizabeth and I sat on either side of Tessi sighing.

She sniffed a little and looked down at her hands messing with them, "I never asked to be rich." She whispered.

I shrugged, "Jack's being an ass right now. He didn't need to say what he did." I replied looking at her, "It'll work out." I finished.

We heard a familiar scream in which we all groaned at we sat up and turned around, "Girls!" It was our father he was standing next to the boats as Norrington, Gillette and Groves came up, Jack was just coming out of the clearing as another Solider ran after him and grabbed him.

We smiled bitterly to ourselves as we were taken to the ship, "You're Father has been worried sick." Norrington said snootily, I cringed, I almost regretted burning that Rum.

I looked up at Norrington in mock interest, "Really? I didn't think it was possible." I said he looked down at me and frowned.

He stopped and spoke up, "I should think you would be happy for you're rescue." He said as he grabbed my arm forcefully making me yelp in pain.

Tessi looked up and glared at Norrington, "Jeez you don't have to rip her arm off Puffy Wig." She said grinning somewhat, I sniggered.

He glared, "My name is Norrington." He said.

I raised an eyebrow, "And who the hell would even remember a name like that?" He said nothing as we were all put into the boat, Jack kept stealing glances at Tessi and she refused to look at him although I could tell it was killing her.

Our father kept hugging all over us, Tessi and I wanted to hurl, we were uncomfortable being hugged by our father, he rarely showed affection, it was usually to look good or get something out of us. Elizabeth however dealt with it, though we could tell she probably had the urge to push him off her.

He kept hugging us in chest crushing hugs, "Father please," I said quietly not making eye contact, he looked at me and settled back down and Tessi breathed a small breath of relief.

Within minutes we were on the Dauntless and climbing up, I just had this sinking feeling, I didn't want to be here, I wanted to jump off and swim away. I knew I couldn't swim but I was going back to a life I hated. The Cotillions, the nonsense talk, the same boring and mindless people, it wasn't something I was excited to be going back to.

I could tell Tessi and Elizabeth weren't either. We climbed up and onto the deck, "The Pirates have taken Will," Elizabeth began as we stepped onto the deck, down the stairs and in front of our Father.

"Yes, it's a shame," He said, but Tessi and I both knew he didn't give a shit about Will, whether or not he was our friend he would forever remain a blacksmith to our father.

Elizabeth persisted, "But we've got to save Will!" She said looking at him.

I felt hands on my shoulder, "What Tessi?" I asked but I turned my head to the side to see Tessi grinning and rolling her eyes, I turned around to see Nicholas in person. The person I had been dreaming about every night, I felt the urge to hug him and for once in my life I listened to my heart and I did, I hugged him.

It felt odd, I didn't really know him yet I did, he chuckled, "It's good to see you too Misty." He said smiling I swore Tessi was grinning because she probably saw hearts in my eyes; Nicholas kissed me on the forehead as I let my hands slip away from the back of his neck.

Our reunion was cut off by my Father's harsh voice, "No! You girls are safe now. We will return to Port Royal immediately. Not go gallivanting after pirates!" He said harshly.

I glared and so did Tessi, but it was Tessi who spoke up, "Well, you went gallivanting after pirates when you looked for us! Will is our friend and you're just going to leave him to die?" She asked.

He narrowed his eyes, "Will is a blacksmith and-" But his words made me so angry that I cut him off.

"And a hard worker, a harder worker then you will ever be! You think lifting a spoon to you're face is a hard days work! You don't know what a hard days work is!" I snapped at him harshly.

If I hadn't been so angry I would have seen the hurt and even more boiling anger in his eyes, "Don't raise you're voice to me young lady!" He said.

I stood my ground, "I'm eighteen years old! I'm not a child! I would have rather been stuck on that island then with you!" I screamed.

He stopped and looked at me, his old features showed hurt but I didn't care and neither did Tessi, "You condemn pirates for their ways, but they know what work is! How can you be so blind? Some of them are good men! Their ships are more then a keel and hull and masts, its freedom to them!" Tessi said looking over at Jack who seemed to smile a bit.

Elizabeth spoke quietly, "You condemn him to death." She said looking at him, Will was our friend, none of us may have loved him as a husband but he was a dear friend and he would have chased after us if it was us in danger.

Our father stood and stared at us for a moment and then spoke solemnly, "The boy's fate is regrettable, but so was his choice to engage in piracy." He said turning away.

Jack pushed past, Tessi, Nicholas and I with his two index fingers in the air, despite the anger I was feeling, I couldn't help but grin, "If I may be so bold as to interject my professional opinion," He began earning a look of disgust from our Father, "The Pearl was listing near scuppers after the Battle." He grinned, "It's very unlikely she'll make good time. Think about it, the Black Pearl." He said mysteriously, "The last real threat in the Caribbean mate, how could you pass that up?" He asked.

I smiled, it was a good point however Norrington didn't take to it, "By remembering I serve others Mister Sparrow not only myself." He droned.

I snorted, "Right, and you didn't come all this way just to gain a certain someone's love? You're selfish and will only do something if it suits you." I said mouthing off.

My father walked over and smacked me, "Have respect!" I grabbed my face in pain, and Tessi glared, "Leave her alone you poor excuse for a father!" She yelled pushing him, this only provoked him, Nicholas tried to break it up but our Father was too angry.

He walked over grabbed our arms and threw Tessi and I in the Commodore's office, we laid on our sides glaring at the door. We both stood up and banged on the door, "LET US OUT YOU HORRIBLE FATHER! YOU SHOULD BE CASTRATED SO YOU CAN'T HAVE ANYMORE KIDS!" I screamed beating on the door; Tessi had stopped and had this evil grin on her face.

I liked it.

I grinned back, "What do you have in mind dear sister?" I asked rubbing my hands together.

She held up her hand that had been covered by Norrington's desk…she held up a pair of scissors and I knew what she meant, our father felt it was very ladylike to have long beautiful hair, this would piss him off.

I could hear them talking outside, "Let them out!" I heard Nicholas yell, "They had a point." He said. "Why would you throw them in there? If I ever had a child I would never treat them like that!" Nicholas barked.

"Enough," Our father scolded, "Norrington is this how you're men act towards their superiors?" He asked, I scoffed, superior? Right.

"Willows," Norrington said, "Enough, or it's the Rawhide." He warned, I glared at the door.

I picked up a paper weight and threw it at the door, "YOU'D LIKE THAT NORRINGTON YOU KINKY BASTARD!" I screamed and turned back to Tessi who came around.

"Nice," She said, "Now I'm going to cut you're hair, and you mine." She said, she walked behind me and started snipping, I grinned wider and wider every time I saw my hair fall to the floor, by the time she was done it had many different layers due to the fact we had chopped at it, and it was above my chin.

"Thank you," I said grabbing the scissors from her and starting on hers, she wanted it chin length so it was longer then mine and we would look somewhat different from each other. After we were finished we walked to a mirror and smiled at our handy work.

"Not too bad." Tessi said.

I had already turned around, "We should trash this place." I muttered looking around; it was ugly and quite frankly obsessive compulsive.

Tessi turned around and looked at the place, you walked through two brown doors that had windows but they were scrambled, there was a big puke colored Oriental rug laying on the brown wood floor, the desk was a light brown, with maps, paper weights, pens, ink, and pictures. Behind the desk was a window and when you looked down you could see the ocean as we slowly sailed along.

The smell of the sea made me sigh happily, the sounds of the ocean also calmed me down a little to the left of the room was a curio cabinet with different nautical trinkets. It was a white color there was a chair and a small bed that was mussed up.

I walked over to the desk and smirked, Tessi and I both grabbed the ink and poured it all over the maps and the desk and the floor, we then looked through the drawers and found more so we poured it all over the bed.

We took the ink bottles walked over to the door and smashed them against the door and heard, "Stop that racket you insolent girls!" It was our father he still felt we were children and that we were just these brats.

It wasn't our fault we were probably like our Mother, smarter, knew what work was and actually had hearts for our friends, and didn't care what society thought.

"We first get here and it's like he hasn't seen us for ten years and now we're insolent!" Tessi said loud enough for him to hear and huff at.

We both grabbed wigs as we heard, "Please, Commodore do this for me, as a wedding gift." We both looked at each other and gasped and ran toward the door and screamed, "WHAT!"

There was silence for a moment before our stupid father laughed happily, "Elizabeth, are you accepting the Commodore's proposal?" He asked.

"YES SHE IS!" We said at the same time,as if it was the most obvious thing in the world which it was, but our Father is so stupid he needs people to repeat things. He's a tad slow the poor old chap.

"I am." She said, our hearts sank for her and we looked at each other sadly before walking back to the wigs, I grabbed a match and lit both wigs, they started on fire and burned slowly as it charred the wig.

"Well this is wonderful!" We heard our father said happily, we could almost see him bouncing on the balls of his feet.

I giggled and Tessi laughed as we grabbed some water and doused it, they looked pathetic. I saw wine in another part of the room and grinned running over to the bed jumping up on it, "Weddings! I love weddings, drinks all around!" Jack said happily.

Tessi rolled her eyes, "HERE'S YOU'RE STUPID DRINK!" She screamed throwing it at the doors watching it shatter.

I grinned, "Nice." I said pouring out all the wine onto Norrington's bed and then jumping on it, "Help me, maybe we can break the bed." I said.

Tessi ran over and got onto the bed and started jumping, we jumped as hard as we could but it wouldn't budge we jumped down and looked around, we walked over to the desk and pushed it over and grabbed all the photos and tore them apart, at this point I was laughing and crying, I wanted out, I felt trapped and I hated everything Norrington and my Father stood for.

"HERE'S TO DISTROYING PUFFY WIGS STUFF!" I yelled as we grabbed two more bottles of wine, we toasted and then took two huge gulps and then threw them down, Tessi sat down on the ground playing with the fabric on the rug.

I sat down with her, "That was fun," I began, "But we really have to find a way to leave, or we're gonna go insane." I said feeling a tad childish.

Tessi looked over at me and raised an eyebrow, "Wow, I was under the assumption we already had, I mean look what we did!" She said.

I looked around and knew she had a point. The bed was red and black from ink and wine, it was slightly caving in due to how much we jumped on it, the curio cabinet's doors use to have glass in it till we broke it, the little knick knacks were everywhere some of them broken apart.

The desk was tipped over with ink running down, the maps were ruined and the photos were torn up and had wine dripping off them.

The door to where we were thrown in had glass, wine and ink dripped down, the glass was more stuck in the door then falling off, the rug we were sitting on had cut marks were I sliced away at it with the scissors and the paintings on the walls had weird faces on them where I had painted weird things on them with the remaining ink.

Tessi did the last painting which had a weird drawing of Puffy Wig, I felt it was the best drawing anyone could do of him. He had a small oval body, stick arms and legs, a huge head with a puffy wig on it and small eyes. "You have a point." I said grinning somewhat, it was all done in a fit of anger, sadness and desperation.

"It was fun." She said.

I nodded, "I know, I had fun cracking his mirror he had in the drawer of the desk, and the powder was fun to spread around." There was white powder stuck to ink and wine everywhere. "It's victory snow."

Tessi looked at me and rolled her eyes, but said nothing as we looked at our masterpiece I felt a small weight being lifted of my chest…for a while.