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A Bet, Some Rum, and a Wedding
Chapter 11: The Meeting

"Gibbs?" The man turned around and indeed it was Gibbs. He had no expression on his face at first, but once he realized who he was looking at he looked like he had just seen a ghost.

"Bless my soul, it's Amy Jones. I would recognize that face anywhere. Well, don't just stand there, come here!" Gibbs stood up from his chair and was nearly knocked over by Amy because she moved so fast when she came to hug him. Amy hugged Gibbs so hard that when she let go her arms felt numb.

"See, I told you you would love the surprise." Amy smiled at Jack and hugged him.

"Thank you so much Jack. This really does mean a lot to me."

"It was nothing. See I had I good reason for being late last night."

"You went to see him last night?"

"How do you think he knows how to be here."

"In that case, I forgive you for being late. Actually I'm glad you were late." Amy turned away from Jack and looked at Gibbs.

"It's so nice to see you again. It's been years since we last saw each other."

"Aye, it's been too long. Well you two don't have to stand there all day, sit down. Kyle should be bringing us some drinks anytime now." Amy sat down next to Gibbs and Jack sat down on the other side of Amy.

"So Amy what have you been up too since we last saw each other? Ye haven't gotten into any trouble have ye?"

"No, not yet."

"Good to hear it." Gibbs picked up his mug and took a small sip and then turned to Jack.

"So Jack, there's been something on my mind."

"Yes, what is it?"

"How do you know Amy?"

"You remember that bet I was telling you about?"

"Jack, no. Amy is this true?"

"Yes, Gibbs, it's true."

"You didn't try to hurt her or do anything to her, did ya, Jack?"

"Well, you see, that's a very interesting question. Amy, why don't you explain it to him."

"Why thank you, Jack."

"Don't tell me he tried to hurt you."

"Well, he didn't try to hurt me exactly but…"

"Jack, if I find out that you did anything to her, I'm going to kill ye!"

"Relax Gibbs, it wasn't anything like that. Well, you see, Jack snuck onto my ship to get away from Norrington. When I walked back to my bedroom I found him sitting on my bed. We started talking, during which he called me a eunuch."

"Sorry. I was just getting you back for the answer you gave me."

"What was the question?"

"That's not important. Eventually, we started drinking rum and I pretended that I was really drunk and had no idea what was going on."

"I'm not sure I like where this is goin'."

"Don't worry it turns out fine, kind of. Well anyway, I decided to see if Jack really did act the way I've heard about him, you know from the stories. All he thought about was drinking, sailing, and women and that kind of stuff. So what I did was I pretended like I was really into him and saying how handsome he was and how I would love to have a guy like him and stuff like that. He did just what I hoped he would do. He decided to take advantage of this situation."

"Jack."

"Sorry, you know how I am. I didn't know who she was at the time."

"Well, what he did was he basically said the same things to me as I said to him and I thought he was going to far so I slapped him."

"Good work, Amy. Sorry, Jack, but you deserved it."

"I know."

"I yelled at him how I couldn't believe that he tried to take advantage of me and he was heartless and had no respect for women. And long story short, the night ended with Jack agreeing to a bet where he couldn't drink rum and be with anyone for six months and had to live on my ship until the bet was over. Which is now seven."

"I was hoping you would forget about the extra month."

"I never forget things like that."

"Well it seemed like you took control over the situation. Good work. But Jack, why did you agree to the bet?"

"Well if I didn't agree she would have thrown me off her ship and I would have been caught by Norrington's men and hanged. I basically chose life over death."

"Aye, I would have done the same thing. Look, Kyle is back with the drinks."

" 'ello everyone. So, Amy, do you like the surprise?"

"I love it." Kyle put down all three drinks and waved goodbye to the three of them. Jack quickly took his drink and gulped about half of it down.

"That feels so good."

"I thought you weren't allowed to drink any rum."

"No it's ok, let him. It'll make up for last night."

"What happened last night?"

"Why don't we let Jack explain this one?"

"Why I would love to. It's better me explaining this than the first night we met. Well you see I wanted to get revenge on Amy for calling me something. While she was gone, I decided to pour salt in her rum. As I was doing the deed, she had walked up and saw me."

"And it was a good thing too."

"Well, being as I didn't want her to get mad at me I told her that the salt makes the rum taste better."

"Why did you say that?"

"Well I didn't have a lot of time to think and it was the best thing I thought up."

"You know that isn't true right, Amy?"

"Oh I know alright. Just listen to what I made him do."

"Since she knew that putting salt in rum just made it taste worst, she made me put it in my own rum."

"Which I had to do because the first time you just made it look like you were pouring salt into your mug but was really pouring it into your hand."

"Well I didn't want to drink it. But she promised that if I drank it, she would drink it too. So foolishly I agreed to it."

"Like you had a choice."

"So we both drank our rum and we ended up getting sick, which meant I couldn't drink any more rum for the rest of the reception unless I wanted to be sick for the rest of the week, according to Amy."

"Trust me, that's what happens. You get sick like hell for a week."

"And how do you know this information?" asked Jack.

"Well me and Sarah were at her place one night and we were really bored and we started to put different things into our rum to see what it tasted like. The last thing we tried was salt and we felt sick, but we just figured it would pass and drank some more rum. We ended up going in and out of the bathroom all night puking. Orange juice tastes very good in rum you know."

"I'll have to remember that."

"Why did you want to put salt in her rum again, Jack?"

"I have to talk to you 'bout that. You promised that you wouldn't tell anyone my real name. Well, she found out."

"How did ye find out?"

"Tom told me. I told him I was having a problem with Jack that he wouldn't stop calling me luv, and told me to call him that the next time he called me luv."

"Sorry Jack. Probably just slipped out."

"Well now four other people now know my real name is Walter besides you and me."

"Who are the other three?"

"Sarah, Johnny, and Kyle," Amy interrupted.

"Who's Johnny?"

"Sarah's husband."

"Sarah got married? I never thought she would. When did she get married?"

"Yesterday. I'm meeting them before they leave for England today. You can come if you want to. I'm sure Sarah will be happy to see you again."

"Sure I'll come. I'd like to tell her congrats on getting married. Tell me, how does this Johnny fellow treat her. He treats her fine right?"

"If he didn't I would have kidnapped her and stopped her wedding. Johnny is wonderful. He is a true gentleman."

"He better be for his own sake. No one will treat Sarah badly, same goes for you Amy." Gibbs stared at Jack.

"What? I would never hurt Amy, or Sarah. You know I'm not like that."

"I know you wouldn't hurt them. I just think you would try other stuff on them, especially Amy."

"Gibbs! I can take care of myself you know. Besides if he would he tried anything he would have done it by now."

"Aye, but you don't know Jack the way I do."

"You know I can hear everything you say. I am sitting right here."

"Sorry Jack. It's just that I'm very protective of Amy. She's like a daughter to me. I do trust her with you, it's just sometimes you get drunk and things happen."

"I can guarantee you I will never hurt Amy."

"You better not."

"Trust me I won't." Gibbs took a drink of his rum and looked at Jack.

"I've been wondering, how did ye come across that black eye? I didn't notice it last night." Both Amy and Jack let out a small laugh.

"What? What's so funny?"

"Do you want to tell him or should I?"

"I'll do it. I'm the one who did it."

"You gave Jack that shiner?"

"I had a good reason too. Let's see where do I begin?"

"With the coat."

"I know that. It was sarcasm."

"Oh."

"Yeah, well, Sarah told me that I had to bring a date to her wedding and that meant Jack."

"You went with Jack?"

"Is it so hard to believe that she went with me?"

"I'd rather go with Jack than someone Sarah sets me up with."

"Point well taken. Continue."

"I told him that he was coming and that he needed to dress up and he didn't have a coat so I let him use my father's coat. As he was trying it on, he noticed the bullet hole in the coat, and so I explain all about my father, his death, and eventually you. That's how he knew in the first place that I knew you."

"Was it that blue coat that he wore all the time?"

"Yes it was."

"Aye, I remember that coat."

"But I was telling him how my father was killed by a pirate ship and I couldn't remember the name of it. So the next day when I went over to Sarah's house to help her get ready for her wedding and she reminded me that the name of the ship was the Black Pearl and that Jack was once the captain of it."

"I forgot that the Pearl was the ship tha' killed your father. You don't mind that I work on the ship tha' killed your father do ye?"

"No, it's fine Gibbs. Now that I know that the captain that killed my father I dead, I'm fine with it. I just wish I could have done it myself."

"I had fun killing him, incase you would like to know."

"I'm just glad you killed him. How did you kill him? Did you cut his throat and make him die a slow and painful death?"

"Well, no. I just shot him."

"You should have made him die a slow and painful death. That's what I wanted to do."

"Well under the circumstances, I couldn't."

"I know."

"I did stab him though."

"Really?"

"Of course he was under that curse at the time so it didn't hurt him at all."

"Damn it."

"Sorry."

"Can we get back to the story now?"

"Sure. Once Sarah reminded me that Jack was once captain, I wanted to kill him. So I ran back to the pub where I was supposed to meet him and I punched him and kicked him because I thought he killed my father. Of course a few minutes later, Kyle told me that Jack was captain ten years ago, not nine when my father was killed. And then I was sorry that I beat him up for no reason, and Kyle took care of him until the wedding."

"What have you to been doing all this time? You've been getting drunk, getting sick, and beating each other up! What else have you done?"

"There was that one thing with the rum and your hat."

"Oh yes I remember that. Why did you throw my hat over bored?"

"I don't know. I wanted to see you swim and get revenge on you I guess."

"Wait- what is with his hat and the rum?"

"I'll tell this one. You told the last one."

"No, I'm telling this one."

"No I am."

"I am."

"I am!"

"I am!"

"I am!"

"Will you two just settle down!" Gibbs yelled. Jack and Amy both put their heads down like they were little children getting yelled at.

"Sorry," they said in unison.

"Now why don't both of you tell the story. Amy you start."

"Thank you. Well, for the last couple of weeks, when Jack got up his breath smelled like rum. I started to think that he kept a flask of rum in his coat and was drinking it every night. So one day I asked to see his coat and found a flask in his coat…"

"…Then she said that she was going to take it away from me and I asked her if she was going to take my sword away next, seeing as she already took my hat away."

"You took his hat away from him?"

"Can't we just get back to the story?"

"And she said that she would, and I started to get a little mad about it."

"A little? You were yelling at me like crazy! But I was just joking about it and asked him to make the same face he made before when I told him I was going to take his sword away because I thought he looked really funny. He started to get mad again about me making fun of him and stormed out of the room..."

"…But I knew she would come after me, so I stood next to the stairway hiding outside waiting for her. And sure enough seconds later, she came running up trying to stop me. Then she said that because I played a trick on her that she was going to pour all the rum out in that flask I had in my coat..."

"…She I ran down stairs and had the bottle all ready to be poured out the window but Jack came and tackled me before I could. So we fought for a few minutes and until I pretended to hit my head on my bed..."

"…That made me let go of her and she ran to the window and poured the rum out..."

"…You never should let your guard down. But he got really mad at me and took my perfume off my dresser and poured that out the window..."

"…Then she got even more mad at me and took my hat out of a chest and said she was going to throw it over bored. So I followed her and I took a book off her shelf which happened to be a book that her father gave to her right before he died…"

"…He came storming up the deck and hung my book over the edge of the deck as I did to his hat. I yelled at him not to throw my book over bored and we agreed to give each other our stuff back before things got to far. So, he gave me my book back first but before he could get his hat, I threw it into the ocean..."

"…So I had to go swim after it, while she ran downstairs and locked her bedroom door. I came climbing up the side of her ship and crawled through her bedroom window, and started yelling at me for getting water all over her floor. I still wanted to get revenge on her, so I told her that there was a beautiful sunset outside and she walked over to the window and…"

"He pushed me off my own ship." Gibbs just looked at them like they were talking nonsense and had no idea what they were saying.

"Well, um, that was a very interesting story. Never heard anything like that before. Did you do anything to Jack after he pushed you off your ship?"

"Why yes. She-" Jack started but was cut off by Amy's handing covering his mouth.

"Let's save that story for another day, shall we?" Gibbs looked at both of them like they were hiding something, but Amy just smiled at him like nothing ever happened.

"You two are hiding something from me."

"Yep," the two said in unison.

"And you're not going to tell me."

"Nope," they said in unison again.

"Well, I know how hard it is to get something out of ye when you have your mind set on not telling anyone. It seems like we're all out of rum. How 'bout I get both of ye some more?"

"Thank you Gibbs. You really don't have to do that you know. Kyle will come take care of it eventually."

"No it's fine Amy. I've been away from ye so long I have to do something nice for ye."

"Thank you Gibbs." He took all three of their mugs and looked at them.

"Seems like you two have some things to sort out anyway," and left with a small smile.

"He scares me some times."

"I know. But he is right about one thing. We do need to talk about some things."

"Like what?"

"We cannot tell him about what happened between you and Anamaria. Especially what she did to me."

"I figured that."

"It also probably wouldn't be a good time to discuss what I did to you after you pushed me off my ship. He's still a little shocked about the hat and rum thing."

"And we are not telling him about last night."

"We can never tell him about that. Never. Or about how you snuck into my bed."

"Or how about I kissed you on the first night we met."

"No. We can never tell any of these things to him. Unless it's like fifteen years from now and we can get away really fast after we tell him. Even then we probably shouldn't tell him."

"I will never tell Gibbs about last night. Who knows how he would act then."

"I know. That's why I tried to avoid anything like that."

"So what aren't we telling him again?"

"Let's see, the kiss."

"Anamaria."

"The dress thing."

"Last night."

"And how you snuck into my bed. That pretty much covers it."

"Yep."

"I still don't feel right about keeping all this from Gibbs, but we have no choice. We'll probably kill us both, especially you."

"I know. He's coming back." Amy looked in the direction that Gibbs was coming and smiled at him. Gibbs walked over and gave Jack and Amy their drinks and sat back down. Amy still kept smiling at him and Jack tried to avoid looking at him.

"Are you two ok? You've been acting strange."

"We're fine. Aren't we Jack? Jack!" Jack was staring into space until Amy said his name.

"What? Oh yes, we're fine."

"I don't believe you."

"Well Gibbs if you don't believe me and Jack, that's your problem." Gibbs looked at Amy again and took another drink of rum. Eventually he stopped looking at Amy and looked at Jack.

"So Jack, I'm surprised you haven't asked about how the Pearl is doing."

"I've been meaning to ask you about that. Are things going fine?"

"Yes, yes. Everyone is fine. The ship is doing great. We were starting to get worried about ye when you didn't come back that night and we saw Norrington. We started to think that he captured ye. But we did just what you told us to do, head for Tortuga and wait there. Sure enough, there you were."

"Norrington could never capture me, no matter how good he is. Glad you had faith in me Gibbs."

"Never lost it."

"And the crew has been treating you with respect?"

"Yes, they have. The only strange thing that has happened was when we stopped in Port Smith to get supplies and Anamaria came running back beggin' to leave as soon as possible. Other wise, everything has been fine." Jack looked straight up at Gibbs's face with a very stern look.

"Oh no." Amy hit her head with her hand thinking how stupid it was for Gibbs to tell Anamaria was there.

"Anamaria is still on the Pearl?"

"Yes, of course. Why wouldn't she be?"

"The nerve of that woman to step back on my ship after what she did to Amy!"

"Amy? What did she do to Amy?"

"Is she on the ship right now?"

"She probably is but…" before Gibbs could finish his sentence, Jack had already gotten out of his chair, making it fall on the ground, and started to walk towards the door.

"Come on! We have to go stop Jack before he does something really stupid!"

"Why does Jack want to know where Anamaria is?"

"I'll explain later. Come on, we have to go after Jack!" Amy got out of her chair and grabbed Gibbs's arm and pulled him out of his chair. Amy led Gibbs out of the pub and stopped in the middle of the street to look for Jack but did not see him anywhere.

"Crap, I can't see him. Which way is the Pearl?"

"It's to the right but…" Amy pulled his arm and led him towards the docks, yelling his name out every chance she could. Finally, when she got close to the docks she saw Jack doing a small jog towards the Pearl.

"JACK! Jack wait! Stop right this second before you do something stupid! Jack Sparrow stop this second! Jack!" Amy let go of Gibbs and ran after Jack. Fighting through the crowd, she finally caught up with Jack and tried to catch his arm, but was moving to quickly. She could now clearly see the ship that had to be the Black Pearl. Jack was still walking very fast, that Amy could hardly keep up with him.

"Jack stop before you do something stupid! Don't do something you're going to regret!"

"I won't regret what I'm going to do to her! She deserves it after what she did to you!" and just kept moving. Amy ran after him as fast as she could, but she was always a slow runner and wasn't gaining on Jack. She could now see Jack walking aboard the Pearl and walking up to the deck.

"Oh no! He already made it up to the deck! Who knows what he's going to do to her! JACK DON'T DO THIS! Jack! Jack don't kill her!" She knew that Jack would kill her without any problem. His anger was getting the best of him this time. Amy finally got to the ship and walked up on deck to find to whole crew staring at her.

"Where is Jack?" Amy asked to the nearest crewmember.

"Why do you want to know?" asked one of the crewmembers.

"WHERE IS HE?"

"He's over there. Who are you?" Amy ignored the man and ran towards where he said Jack was. And sure enough, there was Jack hanging Anamaria off the ground by her shirt.

"Jack stop this! Don't do anything you'll regret! Jack please stop this!"

"Why should I? She threatened to kill you! What other reason does she need to die!"

"Jack this isn't you! You're not acting like yourself! This is your anger talking! Jack don't you dare kill her!"

"I'll kill her alright and I won't regret it!"

"Jack I'm telling you to stop this right now before you do something stupid! Yes she did something wrong and she should be punished but she doesn't deserve to die! Jack listen to me! Do not kill her!"

"Watch me!" Jack took out his sword and was going to stab Anamaria, but was stopped when he felt a pistol being held to his head.

"I SAID, do not kill her Jack. If you do I'll kill you." Jack slowly put his sword down and looked at Amy, still pointing her pistol at his head.

"You wouldn't." Amy put her finger on the trigger.

"I can and I will. When I believe in something, I set my mind to it. No matter what I have to do to get it." Jack dropped his sword on the ground and lowered Anamaria slightly but still holding her off the ground. Amy put her pistol away and crossed her arms.

"You will apologize to Miss Jones here. You will then gather up what you can of yours that you can carry on your back and leave this ship and never set foot on it again. And make sure I never see your filthily, disgusting face again for your own safety. You might not be so lucky next time." He lowered Anamaria to the ground and made her face Amy.

"Say you're sorry to Miss Jones."

"Amy I'm-"

"Miss Jones!"

"Miss Jones, I swear upon my life that I am sorry for threatening you and hurting you. I was a foolish slut and I will never do it again. I swear on my life that I will never harm you again. And if I ever see anyone trying to hurt you, I will come over and kill them personally myself. Is that good enough, Jack?"

"Don't ask me, ask Miss Jones here." Amy got a small smirk on her face like she had an evil plan in her head and looked at Jack. Jack had a few confused look on his face and seemed very interested in what she was going to do next.

"Oh Anamaria, it's fine." She took her away from Jack and put her arm over her shoulders. He was shocked at what she was doing.

"I completely understand where you are coming from. I know what it feels like waiting for a man to come along when they said they would." Amy and Anamaria started walked towards the railing of the deck.

"Jack said he would come for two years and he never did." Both of them had reached the railing.

"It's ok Anamaria. I forgive you. I would have done the same thing." Amy gave Anamaria a friendly pat on the arm. She smiled at Anamaria and then grabbed both of her arms and threw her over the side of the ship screaming all the way. Once she heard a splash, she looked over the edge to see if she could see Anamaria above the water and saw her swimming towards the docks.

"Don't you ever threaten to kill me again or try to hurt Jack! The next time I see you I won't even give it a second thought about coming over there and beating you up! I never, ever want to see your slimy, filthy, ugly, face again near me, Jack, or anywhere near this ship you slutty bitch if you want to live. You hear me!" She waited for a reply from Anamaria. Nothing.

"I said do you hear me? Don't you make me come over there!"

"Maybe you should!" Anamaria shouted back form the water.

"If I come over these I'm going to kill you!"

"No unless I kill you first you whore!"

"You did not just say that!" Amy picked up a bucket that was near her feet and threw it at Anamaria.

"Never call me a whore again! Now do you hear me?"

"YEAH, I HEAR YOU!"

"Good! Now go back under the rock where you came from you came from at the bottom of the ocean you sea scum!" She saw that Anamaria had swam out of view and gave an approving nod out to sea and started smiling feeling accomplished that she got revenge on Anamaria. She turned around to see the whole crew staring at her in surprise, especially Jack.

"What? You didn't think I would let Jack have all the fun did you? I have to get my own revenge on her too you know. Show's over people, get back to work!" Surprisingly, the crew obeyed her and got back to work. Jack still just stood there looking at Amy in utter shock.

"Wow…ah…I never knew you could be like that. That came out of nowhere. You would make an excellent pirate."

"You've never seen me when I was mad. I guess I've always kind been one. I have my own ship, I love to boss people around, and I love to drink rum."

"You're well on your way to becoming a pirate. And the crew listened to ye. I've never seen them take to anyone so fast. It even took them a week to listen to me."

"Are you saying that I'm becoming a better pirate than you?" giving Jack a playful smile.

"Let's not get carried away. I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, the…"

"Don't say it! I've had enough of that Captain Jack Sparrow stuff. Where's Gibbs?"

"Don't know. Didn't he come with you?"

"I pulled him along until I saw you and let him go. He's probably around here somewhere. Hope he didn't see us."

"Probably did."

"How are we going to explain this to him?"

"Don't know."

"Well, I really should get ready to go meet Sarah and Johnny."

"What makes you think you're going to leave?"

"Why wouldn't I?"

"You're going to stay right here until Gibbs comes back."

"Jack, I would if I could, but I really have to get ready to meet Sarah. I promised I would. So I'll just be heading on my way. Good day Jack." Amy turned around and started to walk off the ship but was stopped by a pair of strong arms that grabbed her waist and put her over his shoulders.

"JACK WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I have to get back to my ship! Put me down now! I have to go meet Sarah and Johnny! Put me down this second Wal-" but was cut off by Jack's hand covering her mouth. Amy started squirming and hitting Jack, but he wouldn't let her down. Jack had walked across he deck and was now downstairs and was heading to what Amy thinks will be Jack's room.

"I told you not to call me that! Especially in front of me own crew! If they found out, they will never let me forget it! Now you are going to stay right here until you, me, and Gibbs can talk." Jack now was in front of a door and looked liked he was looking for the right key. It took him a while since Amy was still squirming and it was very hard to concentrate. Eventually he got the right key and opened the door. He walked into his cabin and let Amy down semi-softly on the bed.

"You will stay in my cabin until further notice. Hope you find it to your liking. I'll send some food down soon. I have to go straighten things out so I'll leave you to yourself. Ta!" He walked very quickly out of the room and locked it. Amy sprinted off the bed and tried to open the door, but she knew it was useless. She gave the door one hard kicked and leaned against it.

"I HATE YOU!"

So the wait was a little longer. I updated ok? I probably will have the next chapter up quicker. I having having trouble uploading this for the past few days, but i finally got it! And thanks to Renata for editing this wonderful chapter. Thanks for the reviews! Peace out.