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Chapter 8

Tortuga

When Satya returned to Jack's cabin she found him utterly intoxicated. Seems as though in the time she was gone he had polished off nearly an entire bottle of rum.

Jack saw Satya enter the room and remained seated. Ah, there were two of her vexing him now. He thought he was doing himself a favor trying to numb his lustful feelings toward her with the bite of rum. To his dismay he still felt them and was more uninhibited about them instead.

Jack sat with his feet propped up on the table. "Did ye have to dry the beef yerself luv?" Jack chided. He took his mustache between his fingers and smoothly curled up the ends.

Satya approached him keeping her distance seeing that he was a little more saucy than usual. She put the beef on a plate and slid it across the table toward Jack.

Jack smiled as seductively as he could in his drunken state. He took a piece of the beef and leaned back in his chair.

She sat down across the table from Jack taking a orange from the fruit basket she had brought earlier. She peeled it and took a bite and noticed the captain watching her out of the corner of her eye.

Why was it that whenever she eats anything she makes it look so much tastier than I know it is? Thought Jack to himself unconsciously opening his mouth to mimic her taking a bite. He leaned back a bit to far in the chair until he took a tumble backwards. "Ah luv, I think I spilt me rum!" He said almost incoherently.

Satya flew to his aid and found him laying on the floor with his feet still on the table. She was sure that the fall would have most likely broken his wound open causing him to start bleeding again. She knelt at his side and gently pulled his shirt back and peaked underneath his bandage and checked the wound. Luckily it seemed alright.

Jack wasn't at all concerned with his wound or anything else but the prospect of getting Satya's attention. It had been over six months he had been in a woman's company. He had been either in jail or at sea and now felt as though he were about to explode. "Luv, could you help me o'er to the bed?" he slurred.

Satya once again helped him up. She wondered how many more times in their relationship this would happen. Probably not many she thought sadly to herself. It wasn't in her destiny to stay around long. Satya gently removed his feet from the table. She then knelt beside him once again and put his arms around her. Being in his arms felt good to her but she didn't let on. She gently lifted him up into a sitting position.

Jack saw the look of sadness pass across Satya's face. Once he was in the sitting position again they both sat stared at each other for a moment. He reached over and brushed the hair away from her face. If only he knew what was going on behind those dark eyes.

When his hand touched her face it sent a tingling sensation through her. She had never felt that way before. Satya snapped herself out of the gaze he had caught her in. She had almost lost her self in his thoughtful amber eyes. She got under his good arm once again and together they struggled to stand up.

Jack staggered to the bed with her help and they both collapsed on it just as they reached it.

Satya quickly bounced up and started to head for the door when Jack gently grabbed her wrist.

"Where you goin' luv? Why don' ya stick aroun' and keep ol' Jack company?" He said trying to read her face. He could see she seemed somewhat frightened and took it that she was afraid of what his intentions might be. This made him feel bad. It wasn't his intention to scare her. "Don' worry luv. I won' touch ya." He said his expression sincere. "Just come lay her with me. No sense in going down with the other lot. Savvy?"

Satya nodded and returned. She grabbed the pad she had slept on the night before and rolled it out on the floor. She looked up at Jack knowing he probably thought she despised him. Little did he know that she was scared to death to get to close to him and lose control of herself.

"I guess that will do luv." He wasn't going to push it with her. Jack laid there for a while and watched her when she wasn't looking as she went to sleep. The moonlight glowed on her hair giving it an almost purple hue. Her skin looked so soft and flawless. He actually couldn't believe that he would have loved to have her in bed with him just to lay next to her. That had never been the case before. He snapped himself out of it and told himself he would feel better after a night in Tortuga. That would alleviate his problems. A good night with Giselle should turn his thinking around. Hell, he thought to himself, it had been six months since he bedded a woman it was no wonder he was acting so strange. Jack smiled a little as he mused that he would probably get aroused by the Queen of England herself if she were here with him instead of Satya. No worries he tried to convince himself, all would be better soon.

Days later at the dock at Tortuga

The week passed quickly and now the Ocean Venture was pulling into dock at Tortuga. Jack was excited to finally arrive. It had been a while since he had seen his favorite strumpet Giselle and he was eager to make her re-acquaintance. Once the crew secured the vessel to the dock many of them got ready to have their time at Tortuga as well.

"Wait!" Blackhorn yelled to the crew as his men fell into place by the ships exit points. "I will only be letting Captain Sparrow leave for now."

The whole crew groaned.

"Put them in the brig for now men." He ordered. "Once Captain Sparrow has returned with my compass . . . you will all be free to go."

Jack turned his attention back to Blackhorn. "I will be sending a mate from the pub to repair me ship and rename 'er. Thought I'd give ye the h'eds up."

"What will you be naming her?" Blackhorn questioned. He saw nothing wrong with her current name.

"I will be renaming me ship the Black Pearl."

"The Black Pearl?" Blackhorn questioned.

"Yes, named after a beautiful young lass named Pearl I had the pleasure of being pleasured by in Singapore. Let's just say she left a lastin' impression on me. " Jack said with a seductive smile."

That information was more than Blackhorn wanted to know. He wrinkled up his nose at the thought of Jack receiving or giving pleasure to anyone.

Jack turned to his crew. "Won't be long mates. I just have a few things to tend to then I will be returning to complete the trade and ye will all be free to go. Savvy?"

"And if you don' come back, we will be feeding your little strumpet Satya to the fishes." Barbossa seethed.

"Where is the little poppet anyways?" said Pintel.

Ragetti, who was usually hanging around with Pintel surveyed the boat with his one good eye. "I haven't seen 'er since early this mornin'. Maybe she fell overboard to Davy Jones locker."

In all the excitement Jack hadn't noticed that Satya was missing. He tried to think back to when he last saw her and that was right after he got up in the morning. She had brought him breakfast and left to go to work with the crew. That was the last he saw her. It was very uncharacteristic of her not to be near him in someway. Now she was missing.

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