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Chapter 22
Adjustments
It was not common practice for a pirate to become attached to any one person. And Captain Jack Sparrow did not go against this practice. He liked Gibbs, Will and Elizabeth, but his life did not revolve around them by any means.
His new life did hold promise. And it had somewhat affable people. Aside from Mrs Bucket of course. He would have to make some adjustments. A tavern inside the Chocolate room, and women, but other than that, Captain Jack Sparrow could see himself adjusting to this life very well.
There was the problem of freedom. He felt a man was never truly free until he could go anywhere he wanted and do anything he wanted to do. With the Black Pearl he could do that, he did do that.
Jack placed his palms on the dresser and looked at his reflection in the mirror, a vast improvement to be sure, but there was no denying he was not himself. The tanned, weathered skin had been replaced by a pale, soft covering. There was no bandanna and no beads, no pirate brand to make him who he was.
"What have you gotten yourself into Jack, Barbossa would have loved this ay?" Maybe that man was behind it. Jack dismissed the thought, people have no power from the deepest circle of hell.
He was without the Pearl and without his precious freedom. He would have to live a life like Norrington, the thought turned his stomach. Which he noticed growled with hunger. He dismissed it, he had no idea what rooms were what, although his navigation sense was superb, he wasn't going to risk it in an unknown factory.
Jack plopped on the oversized bed with the plush purple comforter. It reminded him of something, but for the sake of censorship, we won't mention what. Jack inadvertently reached for the hat to pull over his eyes. Noticing one wasn't there, he took a pillow and covered his head with it.
Life as a candy maker. What had he ever done to deserve this? He never committed mutiny, never betrayed anybody. Maybe he was being punished for that thing with Scarlett. But he was a pirate after all, certain things were expected from him.
He would make the best of it. He had that boy's help, and what appeared to be the whole world at his disposal. He would use that to his advantage. Captain Jack slowly smirked, "If you're not with the one you love, love the one you're with." With that last thought, the pirate Captain drifted into a dreamless sleep.