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A Bet, Some Rum, and a Wedding
Chapter 6: The Coat

"Sarah!" Amy exclaimed.

"Amy!" Her best friend, Sarah, shouted. Jack's temporary roommate had travel through town and arrived at her friend's house. After a friendly hug, Amy and Sarah hugged and began to walk down the street to go shopping.

"I still can't believe you're getting married," Amy started a conversation between the two of them.

"I know. I always thought that I was the type that would never get married, that was until Johnny came along. He's treats me so much better than all those other guys I've been with, you know how bad they were."

"I kept trying to tell you to leave them but you kept saying that he didn't mean it or it was just a one time thing. You finally left them after about the fifteenth time they hit you. You deserve so much better than them, Sarah. Johnny is really good for you. He's the most decent man you've ever been with."

"I know and that's why I love him. I'm so glad you came to Tortuga. I was worried you were never going to come. You always come every few months. I was going to go ahead with the wedding without you but you showed up at the last possible minute."

"That's me. Coming at the last possible second for everything." Sarah let out a small giggle and smiled.

"Do you want to see what my ring looks like? I'm not wearing it but I can show you it in the jewelry store."

"I would love to go see it."

"There's the store right on the corner there." The girls walked towards the store when Sarah casually looked to the side of her to speak to her friend andnoticed she was hiding behind a building.

"What? Do you see something?"

"Come here." Amy grabbed the sleeve of Sarah's dress and pulled her behind the building to join her. "I saw Jack coming out of that store. I can't let him see me."

"The same Jack that lives on your ship?"

"Yes. I told him I was going dress shopping with you today and he could do whatever he wanted. But why did he go in the jewelry store? Maybe he stole something."

"I think he got something for you."

"You think? Maybe he did. I don't know." When Amy looked up at Sarah she had a playful smirk on herface.

"You like him don't you?"

"What? No, I don't like him. He's a pirate," Amy denied.

"So? You love him, don't you?"

"I don't know. Maybe. I have no idea what's going on." Sarah squealed and started making small jumps off the ground.

"This is so great! My best friend finally fell in love. I can't wait until you get married. I'm going to be your maid of honor, right? We have to start planning your wedding right away. We'll need flowers and a cake and a dress…"

"Slow down. I'm not getting married anytime soon. Even though I might love him, that's way, way, way too far in the future."

"Fine. But the second you get engaged, you must tell me."

"I swear that I will tell you when we get engaged. That's not going to be for a long time from now, and it might not even happen. Just don't get your hopes up Sarah. I can't promise anything."

"I promise I won't start to plan your wedding anytime soon. But why don't you try some wedding dresses on, just for fun?"

"Sarah."

"Ok, fine. No more wedding talk about you. Is he gone yet?" Amy poked her head from around the corner to see if Jack was there and saw no sign of him anywhere.

"He's gone, thank god. Now come on. I want to see your wedding ring." Sarah and Amy came out from the building and walked to the store. Sarah asked the clerk if they could see the wedding ring and he pulled it out for them to see. It had alternating diamonds and rubies in the middle with silver bands on the sides. It was simple, but very beautiful. Sarah was trying to get Amy to try on the ring just for fun and she eventually caved and tried it on. She felt happy when she put it on. She could imagine her wedding day right then. She was in a simple white dress and the groom was wearing a red bandanna with kohl around his eyes.

The rest of the day, Amy and Sarah never saw Jack again. They went to a couple of dress shops before they finally found the dresses they wanted. Sarah got a simple white dress with fabric that had flowers on it and a simple diamond necklace with one stone on a silver chain to match her wedding ring. Amy got a dark purple dress that had a similar design as Sarah's but the flowers were smaller. She decided not to buy a necklace to go with her dress, no matter how much the bride-to-be insisted. But secretly, the main reason was to save space incase Jack gave her a gift.

After a long day of walking around Tortuga, Amy left her dress at Sarah's house for tomorrow and headed back to her ship. All day she had been thinking about why Jack went to the jewelry store. She knew that Jack would never even think about proposing right now because it was to way soon, or maybe because he didn't love her, which was the most likely reason. She decided to drop the thought completely and focus on her best friend's wedding.

When Amy went back on to her ship, there was no sign of Jack. She was kind of glad that he was not back yet so she could think about what had happened today and what the whore said the night before. The blonde wanted to believe it so bad, but she kept thinking that it was a mistake. Jack couldn't love her. Jack Sparrow could never fall in love. She sat on her bed thinking about Jack for hours. She finally fell asleep growing tired from thinking about Jack.

Jack came back to the ship about an hour after Amy fell asleep. He looked inside her bedroom to see if she was there. He saw her sleeping on her bed.

'My god she is so beautiful,' Jack thought. 'She looks so peaceful when she's asleep. The necklace I got her will look perfect on her. I just have to wait for the opportune moment to give it to her, but now I think I'm going to get some revenge first. Sorry about this luv.' Jack slowly walked over to Amy and put his mouth very close to her ear, very much like Amy did to Jack, and was about to yell in her ear when Amy's eyes suddenly opened in his face and scared Jack and made him jump back quickly.

"My god, why did you do that?"

"I had no idea you were that close. I'm a very light sleeper."

"I can tell."

"Why were you so close to my face?"

"I was going to yell in your ear. You needed a taste of your own medicine, luv. It really did hurt when you yelled in my ear."

"Sorry. I will try to come up with a way that won't cause you any pain and for the last time don't call me luv! The next time you do, I'm going to call you that name I was talking about."

"What is that name anyway?"

"You'll have to wait and see. So, what did you do all day?" Amy changed subjects sitting up straight once again.

"Oh, ye know the usual. Met some of my friends, gambled, stole some stuff."

"Sounds like you had a nice day. I found out today that the wedding is going to be in the afternoon and afterwards we're all going to the pub for a small reception."

"Exactly, how many people are going to be there?"

"You, me, Sarah, and Johnny."

"Who's Johnny?"

"Sarah's fiancé."

"Oh. I guess the wedding is going to be very short then, eh?"

"Yes, it will be."

"Do I have to wear anything special to this wedding?"

"All you have to do is wear a coat for the ceremony. Afterwards you can take it off."

"There's just one problem."

"What?"

"I don't have a coat."

"That's true. I know what you can wear!" Amy got up from her bed and opened the chest in front of her bed. She took out her father's coat and handed it to Jack. "Try it on. It should fit." Jack examined the coat then took it and tried it on. He looked at himself in the mirror and saw that it fitted well enough.

"This will do. What's this hole? We should probably fix that." There was a hole right above the pocket in the front and started picking at it.

"NO! We don't have to fix it. Just leave it where the way it is. It'll be fine."

"Why? Is there something special about this coat or something?"

"It was my father's. He died wearing that coat." Jack quickly stopped fidgeting with the hole and looked at Amy with a very sincere look.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know."

"It's ok. You had no way of knowing."

"You were very close to your father, weren't you?"

"I was. He was the only person I had in this world after my mother died. This was his favorite coat. Every time I look at it, I think of him. He died when I was fourteen. I still remember the day that I found out he was killed. He was killed by pirates, you know. Someone shot him, that's way the hole is there. It's a bullet hole. I just wish I could remember what the name of the ship was. It was the Black something. Do you have any ideas?" Jack's eyes widened with fear when she said the name of the ship. He knew the Black Pearl killed him. It was most likely Barbossa who killed him though. Still, he knew there was a slight chance he could have done it.

"Um, no. Don't have any ideas."

"I remember the name and then forget it again. I just wish I could remember it always. I would love to kill the captain of that ship. He deserves to die for what he did to my father. I'll probably never get the chance to though. I would do anything to get a chance to kill him." Jack made a very large gulp as his fear grew. If she every remembered the name of that ship, he was dead.

"Well, someday I hope ye get the chance to kill him. Or ye could just forget all about it and move on."

"No, I want to kill him."

"Well, just keep it in mind."

"There was one good thing that came out of my father's death."

"What?"

"I got this ship. After I found out that my father was dead, I ran down to the docks to find my dad's loyal assistant. I didn't want to leave the Caribbean to go live with one of my relatives in England. I love it here too much. He was always kind to me. He helped my dad sail back and forth from England. You see, my father owned a merchant ship and delivered goods from England to here. I always went with him because I didn't want to be left alone with some governess. That's how I got to love sailing. My father's assistant was the only person in the world I trusted besides my father. After my father's death, he joined another ship's crew and took me along with him. I had to pretend I was his nephew during the many years I was with him. He taught me everything there is to know about running a ship. Once I was old enough, he gave me this ship. He had got it many years before planning on sailing it one day but he decided I needed it more than he did. He knew I couldn't stay with him forever. He became like am second father to me. After I left we wrote letters to each other but eventually lost contact. I haven't seen him in years. I've always wandered what happened to him, but I never found out."

"Just out of curiosity, what was the name of your father's assistant?" Sparrow asked.

"His name was Joshamee Gibbons, but I always called him Mr. Gibbs." Jack's face grew in surprise. He couldn't believe it. His own first mate knew Amy. He was surprised that he never talked about her before. He knew practically everything about Gibbs, but not this. There was a very good chance it was the same person.

"You know Gibbs?"

"Yes, Why? Do you know him?"

"Yes I know him very well. He's my first mate on the Bla- me ship." Amy's face lightened up with happiness and had a very huge grin on her face.

"Really? I haven't seen him forever. Is he doing alright? Has he ever talked about me? Tell me everything."

"He is doing fine. He's the best first mate I've ever had. I can see why yer father worked with him. He's never talked about ye before, though."

"I'm not surprised. He never really did like to talk about his past. He probably did it for my own protection too, incase someone wanted to get revenge on him or something. I wish I could see him again. It's been so long. There's so much we have to catch up on."

"I think I could arrange that." Amy's face lightened up even more, if possible, and smiled like she had just heard the best thing ever, which she did.

"Really, Jack? Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Sounding like a little girl and ran up and hugged Jack. She nearly pushed Jack over because she was moving so fast, but he was able to hold his ground. "This means so much to me!"

"Yer welcome Amy. You really want to see him don't ye?"

"He was like a father to me. It would be like seeingmy own father again."

"I'll see what I can do, luv."

"I told you not to call me that. But since you know Gibbs, I'll let it go. The next time you do call me that, I will call you that name."

"Sure you will."

"I mean it, or you want me to call you it right now."

"I'll wait and be surprised."

"I think you're going to really hate it."

"Somehow I doubt that."

"I know you will."

"Fine, whatever you say. I'm going to hate it."

Look! I updated much quicker! Go me! lol. I'm going to try to post another chapter this weekend, but hold me to it. And special thanks to me beta Renajah, who I forgot to thank last chapter and for her incredibly sore mouth. One more thing….only 2 reviews people? I know you can do better than that. Let's go for 4 or 5 next time. Alright? Thanks! Love ya all!