Be careful what you wish for: Chapter 2

By: Too lazy

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Elizabeth woke up not long after Jack had fallen asleep. She was careful to extract herself from his grasp so as not to wake him up. As she dressed and put up her hair she watched him sleep and smiled. When Jack slept he looked so innocent as if he was not the scheming, dirty, constantly drunk, wretched, good man that he was when awake.

Elizabeth quietly left the cabin and headed up deck, she helped Gibbs tie down some stays then set to work in the galley making a breakfast for the crew. She carried a single plate up the deck and handed it to Cotton who was still steering the Pearl to no destination in particular.

"Here you are Cotton," she handed him the plate of dried meat, a cut apple and bread. Taking a piece of apple from the plate she held her hand near Cotton's parrot.

"And here you are Mr. Cotton's parrot." The parrot took the offered treat in its beak and flew up to the mast to eat in peace. She took over steering the ship while Cotton ate his breakfast.

Elizabeth was particularly found of this old pirate because when she had first come aboard he was the only one who readily accepted her. He also reminded her of her father because of his age and the way he seemed to care about his parrot the same way her father had cared for his wig. Elizabeth's cheerful mood vanished as she thought of her father. The six months before she found Jack at the tavern were filled with heartache at best.

One week after her life had returned to normal with the exception that she was now going to marry a Blacksmith instead of a commodore, her father died from a heart attack. After the funeral she and Will had married, at the time they both agreed life was too short to wait. But things had changed. A month in to the marriage and Will decided to join the navy here by leaving Elizabeth alone trapped on island in a gilded cage to wait for old age to come and to wait for old age by her self no less.

On confronting Will on the problem their talk turned into a shouting match, the match turned into rage and then Will had slapped her. He took advantage of her shock and began yelling about propriety and a husband's duty and what hers was to be. At that moment she punched him so hard he fell to the bedroom floor unconscious and days later her hand still hurt from giving him that punch.

Taking the small amount of money she had managed to hide from Will she jumped the first boat out of Port Royal and having gotten her freedom sailed to Tortuga and never looked back.

Elizabeth at once took a job as a barmaid to pay for her room but since that was not enough to keep her going she quickly learned to survive you had to do some bad things...such as pickpocket and seduce men, then drug them, and steal their wallets. But despite it all she was happier except instead of having adventures she was still trapped on an island.

And that was when Jack's drunken words from her single night on the cursed island came back to her. "It's not just keel, haul, deck and some sails that's what a ship needs, but what a ship is…what the Black Pearl really is…is freedom."

Now here she was sailing the Black Pearl, having her freedom and adventures filled with the threat of death and wonder and had also tamed the one only Captain Jack himself…taming might not be the best choice of words for him though. Elizabeth blushed slightly.

"Approaching Ship! Starboard side!" the yell from the Crow's nest startled Elizabeth out her pleasant Day dreams and back to reality. Taking out the Spy Glass she had taken from another Captain upon her first raid she looked at the ship.

"Wake the Captain!" She shouted to Gibbs never taking her Spyglass from the ship. Spanish merchant ship, a real beauty ripe for the taking…wait something was not right…Elizabeth felt the Spy Glass being pulled from her hands. Jack was now looking at the ship and a smile bloomed across his face.

"Ready the guns!" he ordered and the ship came to life with crewmembers rushing back and forth to follow the orders of their captain.

"Raise the Roger's!" Jack took control of the wheel.

The Spanish Ship did not try to out run nor did put up a fight. Jack loved when things went like this. "Good to see a man who knows the rules." said Jack in perfect Spanish as he looked at what had been set up. The captain of the Ship Vega had sent up the white flag and had set three large chests brimming with gold, two barrels of rum and three barrels of spices on deck.

Elizabeth and Gibbs had the same thought in their minds, this was just too easy. Right after the Vega's waiting cargo had been loaded things took a turn for the worst. About twenty armed Spanish soldiers emerged from the Cargo hold.

A battled ensued, swords and cutlasses clanking against each other, cannons and guns being fired and the scent of blood, sweat and gun powder overpowered everyone senses. The battle lasted not more then a few minutes…the captain of the Vega had been shot dead by Jack and Jack collapsed holding his side. He had been shot as well. Elizabeth felt her heart miss a beat.

With one Captain dead the remaining soldiers surrendered, as fast as possible Cotton and Elizabeth picked up a now unconscious Jack as quickly as they could and brought him to his cabin as Gibbs and the rest of the crew set sail as fast as they could.

Gibbs then returned with the necessary supplies to help Jack and set to work removing the Bullet. This was not his first time doing this. Elizabeth stayed by Jack's side and helped Gibbs tend to him. When all was finished she was relived to know that Jack would live for another raid, she never let the tears of worry fall. As he slept she kissed Jack's brow lightly and left with Gibbs to tend to the matter of deviding the swag and such.

Going through the swag with Cotton and Gibbs and the rest of the crew each took out a set portion and what was left went to the captain and the up keep of the ship. Elizabeth taking the Captain's and her share to the Cabin set it near the bed. Taking her share she lit a few candles and took out a very lovely necklace.

It was a sliver pendent with frost blue stone set in the shape of a pentagram at each point also had a small ruby inset. Elizabeth sat in front of a mirror and put the necklace on.

"My, don't you look ravishing luv." Jack spoke wirily giving a small grin from his position on the bed. Elizabeth smiled and went over to him.

"Good to see you among the living Jack." She sat carefully next to him.

"That's a nice shiny bobble you got there Lizzie girl, I take it we made off with all the goods intact." His voice sounded tired but his eyes were excited.

"Indeed we did quite well. Even managed to save the Rum" he smiled at her and Elizabeth placed her hand on his. "I'm glad you're alright." She said not looking at him but his wound.

"Yeah well it was worth the risk then eh?" he asked smirking.

"Risk?" She abruptly faced him and her voice became stern. "What do you mean risk? You mean you knew about the soldiers on the Vega?"

"Aye, I did the ship was riding to high and they gave up to easy." He explained wistfully. Elizabeth dropped his hand and stood up facing him her eyes never leaving his.

"You imbecile, we lost five men today, three more wounded. Yet that could have been prevented Jack had you thought about the situation before leading the crew into a death trap!" her voice was rising now, not caring that Jack had been shot just hours earlier.

"Well excuse me for my bad judgment luv, but we are pirates and pirates take risk." He spat. Elizabeth felt rage just burning inside of her.

"Taking risk is one thing but I expected more from a Captain." Elizabeth turned and left slamming the cabin door on Jack and his protest words.

It was night now; Elizabeth had not been back to the Cabin but had Gibbs taking care of Jack. When Gibbs would approach her Elizabeth merely said. "I am not speaking to him." and Gibbs would put up his hands in surrender and walk off.

Leaning on the starboard rail of the ship she played with the pendent on her neck and sighed. "I just wish Jack would think about things, be rational and look at the situation before he jumps into the fray…I wish he was just less adventurous and worried about things more than what he does…" Elizabeth let the pendent slide from her hand; she did not notice the center of the frost blue star glow red.

Thinking things over for a couple of hours and making up her mind she decided to apologize. Jack was a great Captain even if he made mistakes. But then who did not make mistakes, 'I married Will' She thought as she went to the cabin to see him sleeping she sighed; Elizabeth undressed and slid under the silk sheets quietly. "You're a good captain Jack." She kissed him lightly on the mouth and blew out the candle near the bed. Sleep came quickly that night