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We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me
'earties, Yo Ho!
We kidnap and
ravage and don't give a hoot.
Drink up me
'earties, Yo Ho!
Yo Ho, Yo Ho!
A pirate's life for me.
We
extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack.
Drink up me
'earties, Yo Ho!
Maraud and
embezzle and even hijack.
Drink up me
'earties, Yo Ho!
Yo Ho, Yo Ho!
A pirate's life for me.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho!
A pirate's life for me
.
We
kindle and char, inflame and ignite.
Drink up me
'earties, Yo Ho!
We burn up the
city, we're really a fright.
Drink up me
'earties, Yo Ho!
Yo Ho, Yo Ho!
A pirate's life for me.
Strappings sails the ocean blue
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
He's off to get Jack and crew.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.
We're
rascals, scoundrels, villans and knaves.
Drink up me
'earties, Yo Ho!
We're devils and
black sheep, really bad eggs!
Drink up me
'earties, Yo Ho!
Yo Ho, Yo Ho!
A pirate's life for me.
We're
beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.
Drink up me
'earties, Yo Ho!
Aye! But we're
loved by our mommies and dads!
Drink up me
'earties, Yo Ho!
Yo Ho, Yo Ho!
A pirate's life for me.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho!
A pirate's life for me.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho!
A pirate's life for me.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho!
A pirate's life for me.
That's all there was, no signature, just the song. Elizabeth knew it well so it was easy to spot the actual message. Actually, it was so unlike the other verses any person that actually read the whole thing could probably find what the message was. Although she had to admit, if a person was just skimming it, they would probably just think it was the song, and toss the note aside. So what was the blank paper for?
Elizabeth picked it up and studied it hard. She turned it over, studied that side, but still couldn't find a single mark on it. Leaning back on her banister, she thought about what the girl had said when she bounded up onto the stage earlier that day.
"Help me"
From the message it sounded like Jack needed the help. Strappings sails the ocean blue, he's off to get Jack and his crew.
She was sitting on her bed, leaning on the head board staring at the four line stanza as Will came in. She put the papers on the table by the bed and got up to greet him. "I have to go talk to her."
"You want to talk to that thing?" Will said disgusted. "It attacked you!"
"First of all, that thing is a girl." She said, "second, it's the girl who helped me on the ship, and when she 'attacked' me she gave me these." Elizabeth handed him the papers and he looked over them.
"It's just a song and a blank piece of paper, another reason why you shouldn't go talk to her, she's insane!"
"It's a song, but there's an extra verse, look. It says Strapping is going to get Jack and the rest of the crew."
"Didn't we sink them? He must have swam to Tortuga and got himself another crew. Still, we sunk them before, Jack can sink them again."
"We don't know that for sure. What if he got stronger crew and a better ship? Also, Jack's missing two important crew members." She took his hand but he looked past her out the window, an annoyed expression on his face. "Let me go see her."
"I don't want you having those nightmares anymore." He said, looking guiltily down at their hands. "With her showing up again, giving you these papers, I'm afraid you won't sleep peacefully. I want to protect you Elizabeth."
"They aren't nightmares, they're just dreams, and maybe with my questions answered they'll go away." She smiled at him and they walked to the door. Giving him a kiss goodbye, she left for the prison.
Prison is a cold place. Not just the temperature. The whole atmosphere is deathly chilly and dark. Long, low lit lines of smooth, gray bars. Not silver, actually, not even shiny. Those phrases were too good for the description of these prison bars. These gray and dull bars, because that's all they added up too, stretched up to the stone ceiling that matched the stone floor. Shackles called for wrists and ankles as they hung on the wall opposite these stone and metal cages, and the people who were formally in them sat or stood wherever was comfortable, if there was such a place, like animals. Nothing in this place could possibly be in anyway inviting. Except for maybe one girl.
This one girl looked misplaced among all the rest of the prisoners. Mainly because she was the only girl out of all of them, but also because she was smiling. The others thought her insane. She attacked the governor's daughter! She would receive some sort of harsh punishment indeed. They told her this of course. They told her that the governor thought of his daughter as the most precious thing alive and that she might just be in the most trouble out of all of them. Actually, half of them didn't believe that. They did much worse things then that. They also didn't hear all the details. Everything they heard was from the guard who brought her in to the cell next to the men. The guard had also been trying to get her to stop her wild smiling.
There she sat though, staring back at the faces trying to avoid her gaze. Other than the period of time it took to attempt to explain to her why she shouldn't be smiling, the prison had been silent. It wasn't a normal silence though, this one hung in the air, they were nervous. She laughed silently to herself and turned her head to staring out the bars she was leaning on to try to get them to talk. She needed entertainment. Her entertainment for the night came by other means though.
Elizabeth Turner, followed by a guard with keys and shackles, came up to her cell. The guard addressed her, "Mrs. Turner would like a word with you. Come on now." The girl stood up and back up a step or two as the guard unlocked the door to the cell and came in, placing the shackles on her wrists which was 'common procedure' as he explained while she questioned him why she needed to have them on to be put into a cell just down the hall in the 'visitor's room'. She also questioned why they even needed a visitor's room but after ranting a bit he had no real explanation for it either. No prisoner ever had actual visitors. Even if they did, the visitors usually just stormed in and talked to the person without caring who heard. Elizabeth had asked for a private meeting.
The guard had left (after hesitantly handing over the keys to Elizabeth who wanted a completely private chat and promised the girls return to her cell as soon as they were finished), and they could no longer hear his footsteps walking away, they studied each other, and the girl again felt that heavy silence that begged to be broken.
"I was wondering when you would come," the girl said. "I'm sure you have some questions."
"Yes, your 'note' was quite vague." She replied, holding up the two pieces of paper.
"Well?" The girl leaned back in her chair that had been conveniently placed in the cell with her and stared at Elizabeth. Her smile had been replaced with a serious 'what are you waiting for look'.
"Well, first off, explain the song."
"It's pretty self explanatory. He wants revenge, he's after Jack."
"Yes, I got that part. How though? We sunk the ship, we shot practically everybody! The survivors couldn't have possibly been able to swim in the cold water all the way back to Tortuga!"
"Things aren't always as impossible as they seem."
Silence filled the room again as thoughts rolled around in Elizabeth's head, bringing her back to her first meeting with this girl. "How did you get onto the ship?"
"What ship?"
"Jack's ship, the night we were fighting Strappings. You were there, how did you get there? How did you disappear so quickly? Where did you go?"
The girl smiled, but not a smile like she gave to the men in the prison cells, or the guards. A warm smile. This girl was quite an enigma. "I did what I had to do, like I had to give you the message earlier today. Right now, all I know is that he is after Jack, but he hasn't gone out and done anything yet. If you can, warn him. He doesn't want just Jack though, he wants you too."
Elizabeth took a second to take everything in, still confused of course. "Why would he notice if I wasn't there?"
"You did shoot three of his men." She said matter-of-factly.
"So, do you want to be let go?" Elizabeth said, holding up the keys, thinking she got as much out of the girl as she could this time.
"As much as I want to stay, my master will be wondering where I am, so if you could I would greatly appreciate it."
Elizabeth opened the cell door and escorted the girl out to the front of the prison, "One last question before I let you disappear again," Elizabeth said. "What was the blank sheet for?"
The girl smiled slyly and replied, "I figured if the song didn't get you to come visit me, the curiosity from the blank sheet would." And with that, she raced off into the night fog, leaving Elizabeth to think about how exactly she was going to explain this to the guard, and how she was going to explain the news to Will.
A/N
sad pathetic REALLY SORRY! music okay, I have no real explanation that can get me out of not updating for this long of a time. What has it been 2 months? I'm really really sorry and I HOPE you all will stick with me. This is just a boring chapter so I've been holding off, and who knew finals were the easiest week of the year? I mean, you get no homework, and come on, who actually studies… Ok, I studied but not that much, then after finals, WHOA! The big bang occurred and homework shot out everywhere forming stacks and stacks of papers and heavy books that rammed into my backpack, I swear there is something circulating around all my books and binders in my little school universe. Wow, if ANYONE can get what I was talking about there, you are a very smart person or you are in my science class…Or maybe it's easier to reference then I'm thinking… Heh, I'm starting to rant to myself, and giving excuses. Sheesh I'm pathetic. Ok, you can disregard that WHOLE thing, I just don't like theoretical science.
Again, really sorry for taking this long and feel free to yell at me while you give constructive criticism in your reviews that I know you are all going to submit! Right? Right!
-Milkeh
And of course I can't forget my reviewers!
Williz- Thankyou! I love compliments. Hopefully this one was good too. I think it's a little boring especially compared to the other two chapters which was why I wanted to add it to the end of the second one but I think it worked out better this way.
mz-turner- heh, ya know, I totally forgot that you used enigmatic in your review until I went to look to repsond to them. I've been obsessed with the word these days, I actually used it in this chapter. I'm very very sorry it took this long to update. Hopefully you are a very very patient person And I am also proud to say that I am up and well with no germs in sight!
Kappeh Kappek Kappeh- I'm sorry, it will never happen again! I am also sorry that I have to keep you in the dark, although I sortof like this superiority I have over everyone. You'll have to help me with wording though, that's what I'm guessing it is.
Everyone- Hehe, you all mentioned not knowing the girls name SO instead of rebbing it in more in all three review responses I decided to rub it in here! Yes, I think newt chapter I'll mention it, possibly. Definitely within the next three chapters. Although if I hadn't said anything in my last A/N you guys probably wouldn't have said anything but that's what I'm here for right? To rub things into your inferior computer screens! Ok, I should stop now, I'm a bad person for not updating. The every week thing just isn't going to work though. Next update will be soon though I promise. I need to make up for lost time! See you next chapter and remember, R&R! I accept anonymous now if that was a problem last time.
