The Lost Ingots of Tagus
by Aldesina
Chapter 5: The Stowaway
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Disclaimer.....As you are probably all very well aware, I do not own anything, if I did I would be rolling in it, since I am not, and I do NOT own the story I am poor, and can only write fanfiction about it. Ah sigh, oh well, on with the story
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The Dragoness
"So?" Will inquired. Bootstrap looked over at his son
"So how about you let your father get some rest. Your sister can show you two a room and we can all turn in for the night?"
"How about you explain why she's my sister?"
"I'm not technically your sister." The two Turner men looked over at Diablo
"Bootstrap just calls me his daughter to keep the crew from wondering who I am and how come your father isn't screwing me."
Will blinked at the girl
"Well why are you here?" Elizabeth asked.
"All in good time my dear, all in good time." Bootstrap said. The many, many goblets of wine he consumed were beginning to take their effect. After the curse had been taken off he realized that he couldn't nearly drink as much as he could. Then again, he was actually able to taste the drink so he didn't complain too much.
"Come along you two, there's a nice guest room above board, it's rather comfortably furnished, it should room two without a problem, I'll show you to it." Diablo motioned with her hand to follow her, and disappeared outside the door.
Will looked at his father who was slightly tipsy and kind of out of it.
"We'll finish this tomorrow." Bootstrap Bill smiled at him lazily
"It's sooo good to see you again son." He got up and clapped Will on the back
"You have no idea." Will nodded at his father, took Elizabeth's hand and they both wished Bootstrap Bill goodnight. He waved at them and they went outside where they found Diablo waiting for them with a lantern and some more food.
"You didn't eat that much in there, so I figured you might want some more back in your room." She waved her lantern over "This way now, it's only a step or two away from your father's room"
"Where do you sleep?" Will asked her suddenly
"On the third and final room topside, right next to yours" Diablo smiled gently at the slightly worried faces of Will and Elizabeth. "Don't look so abashed, and don't think there's knotholes and such that I'm gonna peek through and check on you, or any other sorts of nonsense like that.
"I wasn't…"
"You were, no matters though." Diablo opened the door to a fairly large sized room. It was simple, with a bed built into the wall and cabinet built into the wall on each side of it. There was a large table nailed down to the left of the room, and chairs surrounding it. On the right was a vanity that lacked a chair but had a good sturdy mirror. The whole place had the just washed look to it, as though someone had just cleaned up in here minutes before they came in. In fact Diablo had seen to it that someone had cleaned it up right before. Diablo set the food on the table and went to go light the lanterns in the room.
"This looks a bit like a woman's room" Will remarked
"Well it was designed with your mother in mind." Will turned to look at Diablo,
"But according to my father's story, by the time my father brought the ship he had already heard of our deaths."
"Well first of all this is not the ship that he bought at the South American shore. This was custom made later on. Besides even though he thought you two were dead it didn't mean that the man couldn't mourn and long for something."
Will turned and looked at Diablo
"You seem to know an awfully lot about my father" Diablo merely looked back at him
"I've been with your father for a good ten years, is it ten? No it's been more like fifteen years. He's told me many things about your family, the Black Pearl, Jack, and some of the more interesting legends and myths that he heard while on the shores of well everywhere."
"Why's he so pissed off at Jack?" Elizabeth asked
"Yes he seemed very keen on either avoiding the subject of Jack or taunting him" Will said, he put his sword down on the table and took another glass of orange juice.
"Oh that" Diablo rolled her eyes, "They're not mad at each other, they just play off each other, or against each other or what not."
"It's a game?"
"One that they played every time they ran into each other in Tortuga" Diablo sat down at the table and Elizabeth joined her "That little taunt back at Port Royal was probably just an invite for Jack to come and join the party"
"You're kidding, he sounded absolutely steaming mad when I brought up Jack earlier today." Will said, taking a seat at the table "Said something about jealousy?"
" He's a bit of a over dramatist isn't he?" Diablo grinned and popped a grape in her mouth "Besides, if he wasn't it would take all the excitement out of their relationship, not to mention make our raids completely boring"
"He used to always love to tell stories and jokes at home"
"So you can imagine how much of a wanker he is out here."
Elizabeth laughed and Will shook his head in disbelief,
"It's still a little hard to process"
"Are you going to tell us how you met Bootstrap Bill?" Elizabeth asked Diablo
"I thought we were going to continue all the stories tomorrow?" Diablo said as she sliced some bread and a bit of ham and speared a pickle "Here have a sandwich"
"Thanks" Will and Elizabeth said simultaneously
"Dad said he would start telling us again tomorrow, you didn't" Will said as he took a bite of his sandwich.
"What? So you just assumed that I would keep telling you stories till the early light of dawn?"
"Good suggestion." Elizabeth said reaching for some mustard
"Sounds like a plan" Will said "Pass the mustard"
Diablo blinked, me and my big mouth.
"Ok then children" She said placating them like a mother did to her children at bedtime, "But only one, so what would you like to hear about?"
"How about starting out with your real name, it can't possibly be Diablo, I mean it's like a call name, like Bootstrap or something right?" Elizabeth asked
"Ahh the name, yes well I don't like my name, it's long winded and stupid and sounds like something out of a poorly written er……love story"
"You mean like those romance novels where the heroine has be rescued by a handsome and masked stranger?" Elizabeth asked. Diablo cringed.
"Something along the lines of that."
"Well what is it?" Will asked
"Marafjksdlfjs" Diablo mumbled off into her sandwich
"What was that?"
"Maradjlfkhs" She mumbled off again into her glass of wine.
"Come again?"
Diablo rolled her eyes
"Maralette"
Elizabeth and Will looked at each other
"That's so pretty!" Elizabeth exclaimed. "And really exotic, who came up with it?"
"My mother did when she decided that I needed an English name."
"Well it doesn't sound English."
"When I say English, I mean a name in the English language, not necessary a British name."
"Oh"
"Tell us about your family." Will said
"No"
"Why ever not" Elizabeth pouted, "You seem to know an awful lot about ours"
"That's not the point. No"
"Fine, then tell us how you ended up sailing with my father." Will said. Diablo laughed
"Are you sure you wouldn't rather hear it from his lips?" She smiled at the two of them "I'm sure he can spin a much more interesting tale then I"
"Yes but for some reason I think I'd be getting the reliable version if I asked you for it." Diablo asked again
"No, no, don't get the Captain wrong, he's never at fault with his facts, he just over dramatizes things that really don't mean a thing at times. He's quite the story teller as you would know." Will smiled a little sheepishly
"Yes I would, now will you get on with the story?"
"Well it's really a matter of chance."
"Chance?" Elizabeth asked
"Well if you remember, I had just fought off those two tradesmen and I had to get out of that continent as fast as possible. I was a slave, or at least I was a ware, and that pretty much guaranteed that I was going to be a slave, and I had committed three murders already. It was not a good record to have in a place where I knew no one and had no connections. Obviously the fastest way to get off a continent was by ship, so I stole into one of the barrels that was being loaded onto a particularly large ship figuring that I would not be noticed because of the sheer size of the vessel. With any luck on my side I could go wherever that ship was destined to go and try to make my way home from there."
"Where is your home?" Elizabeth asked
"China."
"Well that's impossible, how in the world were you going to get back all the way over there, it's all the way on the other side of the world. It would take months, and not many merchant ships fancy the trip all the way across the Atlantic Ocean just to brave another body of water" Will exclaimed
"Not to mention a ship is an enclosed area, you would have been discovered within the day" Elizabeth added
"Ahh, but explain that to stubborn twelve year old"
"So you got in the barrel and went in the ship anyway?" Will asked
"Pretty much."
"How come my father didn't kick you off the ship when he discovered you?"
Diablo smirked at him
"I'll leave that story for him to tell. Besides" Diablo raised her hands at their protests "I have fulfilled my storytelling obligations for the night" Diablo got up and walked over to the exit of the room.
"I'll leave you two to settle in for the night. There should be fresh blankets in the shelves next to the bed and pillows as well"
"Wait," Elizabeth called out "Can I ask one more question before you go?" Diablo seemed to consider this for a little
"All right, but make it quick."
"How old are you?" Diablo seemed slightly surprised by the question
"If my calculations are correct, I should be twenty eight"
"You're that old?"
"Will!"
"Well I'm astonished, I apologize for my outburst but you look younger then most um, almost thirty year olds."
Diablo blinked at him trying to smile but couldn't succeed in pulling her lips around her teeth
"Don't worry too much about it. Good night."
"Good night."
Diablo left the room closing the door shut lightly behind her.
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Author's Note; Whew and another chapter is done! Six should be up by the end of the week, we're just about to find out exactly where they are headed and why
And to answer some questions and addressed concerns that where in the reviews, here's a short list of answers
Bootstrap being angry at Jack; Sorry about that didn't mean for them to come off as hating each other, more like an ambiguous relationship that unfolds later on
Norrington and Governor Swann being mean to Jack; Yes it was established at the end of the movie that they no longer believed that all pirates are bad, no I am not going to paint Norrington or Governor Swann as the bad guys. But the truth of the matter is just because Norrington no longer despises Jack doesn't mean that he like him, and doesn't mean that he's going to let Jack get off scott free for all the other crimes that he has committed. They merely gave him a breather in light of his good deeds.
What pairing is this?; Well there are two, one is obviously Will and Elizabeth, but they are merely the secondary pairing, The primary pair will be revealed within the next few chapters.
Why the title?; heheheheheheh that's coming in the next chapter
And why did they want to take Elizabeth in the first place?; Also coming up in chapter 6
Randomly YES! I have heard about the sequel I also heard that all the main characters are signed up to be in it WOOT I can't wait.
I hope this clears some things up, As usual please read and review! Love ya forever if you do, it's currently 2:00AM and I'm off to sleep.
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