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A Bet, Some Rum, and a Wedding
Chapter 16: The Chickens

"Ah yes, there's my perverted little pirate." Amy walked across the deck to meet Jack carrying his coat, hat, and effects in her arms. He was leaning against the railing staring out into the ocean.

"You hurt me."

"What?"

"You hit me in the same eye that's still recovering from that punch you gave me a few days ago," Jack complained.

"Oh, well that's your problem. If you just had walked up here and waited for me like I asked for, it would have never happened."

"But you knew I wasn't going to do that."

"I was hoping you would actually listen to me for once."

"I do listen to you...sometimes."

"Not about these kind of things you don't."

'Fine, its my fault that I got hit. Happy?"

"I guess."

"May I have my things back please?" Amy noticed that the usual hint of playfulness in Jacks voice was gone and so was the smirk that he always had on his face.

"Of course." Amy handed Jack back his things and watched him put them on. She noticed that he didn't even look at her once and kept staring out to sea.

"'Jack, are you ok?"

"Yes I'm fine." His voice actually sounded serious and stern and he was still not looking at her. Now Amy knew that Jack was angry with her. She hated when people were angry with her. "Jack, I'm sorry that I hit you. I just meant for it to be a small hit to make you go away. Even though I had every reason to hit you, I'm sorry that it hurt. Don't be mad at me." Amy put her hand on Jacks shoulder and tried to make him turn around but he wouldn't.

"Jack." Amy tried to sound as sincere as she could. She really was sorry that she hit Jack hard. She wasn't sorry that she hit him; just that she hit him hard. Eventually, Jack turned around and sighed.

"There is something that would make me feel better." He had his regular voice back. Amy was relieved that Jack wasn't mad at her any more and smiled at him.

"What?" Jack now had his usual mischievous smirk on his face and that glint in his eye that started to make Amy worried about what he was thinking. Before she knew it; she saw that her feet were off the ground and was in Jacks arms. He was walking towards the railing of the ship carrying her.

"JACK WHAT ARE YOU DOING? PUT ME DOWN!" Jack held Amy over as far over the edge as he could. Amy looked down and saw that she was hovering over the water and screamed.

"Don't you dare drop me! If you do I'll kill you!"

"How many times have you threatened to kill me?"

"I've lost count. Just don't drop me!"

"You really don't want me to drop you, do you?

"You think?" Jack let Amy drop a few inches down, but still held on to her. When he did, Amy screamed and wrapped her arms around Jacks neck.

"If you drop me I'm taking you down with me!" Jack dropped Amy another few inches making her scream again and tightened her arms around Jacks neck. Jack smiled at Amy and starting laughing to himself.

"You think this is funny?"

"Yeah, I do."

"You were never really mad at me were you?"

"No, I really was mad at you. But then I thought it might be nice to get revenge instead.'?

"You just wanted to get revenge on me!"

"Uh, Yeah." Amy narrowed her eyes and stared at Jack. Jack dropped Amy just one inch this time, but she still screamed and tightened her arms around Jack, making Jack chuckle.

"STOP THAT!"

"Can't help it."

"Just don't do that again."

"You deserved it."

"Maybe I did."

"Did I just hear you say what I thought you say?"

"That depends. What did I say?"

"You said that you deserved me threatening to drop you into the ocean."

"Yes. I did say that. Regrettably. Just this once though. I don't want to fight. I hate fighting. But if you do anything like this ever again, I'll hit you."

"I believe you."

"You should." Amy and Jack both giggled softly and smiled. Jack dropped Amy another inch, but she didn't scream the time. She made a small squeal and tightened her arms again. Jack laughed at this.

"Will you bloody hell stop that!"

"Sorry. It's fun to see you get scared."

"I'm so glad to know that you get entertainment out of my misery."

"You're welcome." Amy growled at Jack and gave him the glare of death.

"You have a very tight grip you know."

"What? Oh yeah your neck. It's your fault. Making me hang on to you for dear life."

"Oh, so you are trusting me with your life now?"

"What, No!"

"Then why are your arms around my neck?"

"Because you just happen to be the only thing I can grab onto this second."

"Sure."

"Really!"

"I don't think that's the real reason."

"I don't have time to fight right now. Can you let me down now please?"

"Are you sure about that?"

"Put me down on the deck safely and softly. And feet first!" Jack turned around and let Amy down softly on the deck, feet first. Once she felt her feet on the wooden floor again, she let go of Jack and stepped away.

"You know I never would have dropped you."

"Yes you would have."

"Well, maybe, but I wouldn't have dropped you in this situation."

"Yeah, you would have Jack."

"Ok fine. I'm just trying to lighten things up."

"Well, you're doing a very bad job."

"Thanks for the compliment." Amy chuckled.

"So you ready to go?"

"I guess." Jack was waiting for Amy to lead the way to where they were going, but she never moved.

"Uh Jack aren't you going to lead the way?"

"No, I was waiting for you to do that. I have no idea where we're going. I thought you knew where to go."

"And I thought you knew where we were going!"

"What gave you that idea?"

"I don't know. Its seems like you always have a plan for everything."

"Well it sounded like you had a place in mind to go!"

"What made you think that?"

"You changed and you told me to wait up here for you."

"'I said that because I thought you were going to take me somewhere! I thought you knew I still have a few hours before I go meet Harry!"

"Don't remind me."

"Do I hear a hint of jealously?" Amy put her hand behind to ear like she was trying to hear what Jack just said and had a grin on her face.

"I just don't trust him."

"Jack, you promise you would give him a chance."

"I know, I know."

"Well then give him a chance!"

"And how do I do that?"

"You accept the fact that I'm going to lunch with him."

"And Gibbs will be there."

"Yes. With Gibbs there nothing could happen to me. He'll be there watching us the whole time."

"That'll be the only thing that'll keep me from going insane."

"Well, it'll keep you from getting more insane."

"True."

"Well now that we have that settled, where are we going?"

"Don't know."

"Can you at least think of something? Come on, your Captain Jack Sparrow. You always think on your feet. Think of something now. I don't want to be stuck doing nothing all day." Amy walked up to Jack and placed her hand on his shoulder urging him to think of something.

"I could bring you back to the Pearl. You know, show you my ship, meet the crew."

"Are you sure that's wise? What would they think of you bring a woman onto your ship?"

"'It wont be the first time." Amy crossed her arms over her chest and looked at Jack.

"No, I didn't mean that!"

"It wont be the first time you've brought a woman aboard your ship? And why were you bringing them onto your ship in the first place? Were they just doing business?'?

"You could say that."

"How many have you brought on?"

"What?"

"How many woman have you brought on?"

"I don't think you should know. Even if you should, I'm not going to tell you."

"You don't even know how many!"

"Of course I do."

"Then how many? Just give me an estimate. Don't worry. I'll give you time to think of a lie."

"No more than a hundred I think."

'That's typical Jack Sparrow for you. Well, are we going to be leaving or not?"

"Hey you're the one who started this whole thing. I'm ready to leave."

"Lead the way then." Amy signaled for Jack to go ahead and he smiled and turned around to leave, but turned back to Amy with a very curious look on his face.

"'I've been meaning to ask you this."

"What?"

"How did you escape from my ship?" Amy smiled and let out a few small chuckles.

"Well you see I waded out into sea and I stayed there for three days and three nights. Then I roped a couple of sea turtles together and made a raft." Amy made over exaggerated hand movements, much like Jack does, and tried to imitate his voice. She was letting out small giggles and biting her lip to keep her from bursting out laughing.

"Are you mocking me?" Amy would have said yes, but nodded her head instead because she knew if she opened her mouth, nothing but laughter would come out.

"And you think this is funny?" Amy bit her lip harder and nodded. She looked liked she would fall over any second from laughing too much.

'"You shouldn't have done that." Amy stopped laughing to herself.

"What?" Jack picked Amy up again in his arms and started to walk off the ship.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

"I'm taking ye to the Pearl."

"An you're going to carry me all the way there?"

"Nobody makes a fool of Captain Jack Sparrow and gets away with it. And it seemed that you enjoyed so much it just a few moments ago that I thought you might like to do it again."

"I'm not going to tell you."

"Well then, guess you wont be walking on your feet." By now, Jack had gotten off the ship and were now starting to walk in the streets. Jack tossed Amy up in the air a few inches and readjusted his arms, making her squeal.

"Will you ever stop doing that?"

"You were slipping."

"Are you sure you didn't do that just to annoy me?"

"That was just a bonus." Amy rolled her eyes back and sighed.

"You know I'm surprised that you aren't struggling to get free."

"Well if I did I would probably make you drop me on the ground, which would hurt, then my clothes would get dirty and I would have to change, and then when I fell I probably would have hurt you in some way, making you mad at me, and then you would just think of some other way to annoy me, and then we would both be mad at each other and trying to get revenge, and, well, it wouldn't be a very pretty sight. Its just better not to struggle at all."

"You really thought that out."

"It's not that hard to figure it out. Are you going to let me down now?"

"Didn't you hear me before? I'm not letting you down."

"You mean you were serious?"

"Yes I was serious. Why wouldn't I be? When it comes to revenge, I'm very serious."

"YOU MEAN YOU AREN'T GOING TO LET ME DOWN?"

"Yes."

"I figured you would get tired and thought you had annoyed me enough and eventually let me down."

"No. You are not going to be on your feet again until you tell me how you escaped from my ship. I can carry you all the way there and then some."

"You just had to be serious." Amy grunted and looked away from Jack.

"Stupid, bloody, stubborn pirate," she mumbled under her breath.

"What was that?"

"Nothing." Jack tossed Amy up in the air again, only this time he tossed her up a few inches higher and made her scream.

"STOP DOING THAT!" Jack chuckled and looked at Amy with a grin.

"You were slipping."

"Slipping? Slipping? Slipping my ass." Amy growled and looked away from Jack and looked ahead to see where they were. They still had a long way to go.

'Jack is probably walking slowly because he knows this is annoying me. I bet he's enjoying this. He gets to watch me scream and getting scared all my while he annoys me! Stupid, bloody, stubborn, evil, scheming pirate. But at least I can kind of enjoy this one though. I mean, I'm being carried by Jack. If he knew I enjoyed this, I would never live it down. I just wish he would stop tossing me in the air! I really do hate that. I just wish he didn't know that I hate it. I wonder what he was thinking while he was holding me over the water. I put my arms around his neck by instinct. I wonder if I was choking him a little. I had my arms pretty tight. Serves him right. Well as much as I am enjoying this, I must think of a revenge plan. I can't do a lot right now, seeing as I can't run away because a certain stubborn, evil pirate wont let me down! Which I am happy of, if he would just bloody stop tossing me up in the air! I can't stand that! Ok back to revenge plan. What could I do? I could take something from him, but what? How about his hat? They only way he could get it back is if he used an arm which means he would have to let me go, and give me a chance to run away! He couldn't do anything until he let me down. I'll even start cleaning it in front of him. He'll hate that.'

Amy sighed and rolled back her eyes. She looked from the corner of her eye to make sure that Jack wasn't looking at her and saw that he was looking forward. Amy got an evil smirk on her face and looked up at his hat. It would be no problem getting it. She checked one more time to make sure Jack wasn't looking and swiftly took his hat off of his head and placed on her own.

"How do I look?" Amy smiled as Jack looked at her.

"What are you doing with my hat?"

"Just trying it on."

"Give it back to me."

"I don't want to. I like your hat."

"Give it to me or I'll-"

"You'll do what? You can't just reach over and grab it from me because you have to carry me. And unless you want to put me down on the ground, you cant do anything about it." Jack let out a small huff and tossed Amy up in the air again,

"Will you ever stop?"

"I will once you give me back my hat." Amy pointed her nose up in the air and looked away from Jack. Secretly, she laughing at herself for acting snooty, but she didn't want Jack to know that. She took the hat off of her head and placed it on her chest as Jack watched curiously, and cautiously. She gathered up the end of her right sleeve, so the cloth covered her hand, and started to clean Jacks hat.

"What are you doing to my hat?"

"I'm cleaning it. What does it look like?"

"Don't do that! Nobody ever cleans my hat!"

"Well now I am, and you cant do anything about it." Amy stuck out her tongue at Jack and concentrated on cleaning. She knew that Jack was going to toss her up in the air. That was the only thing that he could do to annoy her. She continued cleaning, but was ready for him to toss her up. As she was cleaning his hat, Jack tossed her up in the air. Only this time, her hand was in midair during the toss and it flung backwards and hit herself in the face.

"Jack! You made me hit my nose!"

"Sorry."

'"You're not sorry." Amy looked away from Jack, while rubbing her nose, and then got a smirk on her face. She resumed cleaning Jacks hat, this time spitting on it and then started cleaning it.

"You just spat on my hat!"

"It gives it that extra shine." Amy spat on it again and rubbed it in even harder.

'Stop doing that!"

"Stop tossing me up in the air!"

"I'll stop tossing you up in the air if you stop cleaning my hat and put it back on my head where it belongs."

"Fine. Here's your precious hat." Amy picked up Jacks hat off her chest and placed on his head. She slapped to top of it semi-hard and she felt that she had hit Jack on the head, which she intended to do.

"What was that for?"

"Had to make sure it was on nice and tight." Jack looked away from Amy and looked at where they were going. They were over halfway there. They had just started to reach the docks, but had to walk down to the very end to reach the Black Pearl. Amy bent her neck backwards slightly and felt that it was stiff from holding it up so long. She tried to rub her neck, but it didnt help much.

'My neck hurts so much. Rubbing it wont help. I need to lean against something. Lets see what are my options? I could lean my head all the way and make it look like I'm a dead person that Jack is carrying, and cause him embarrassment, or I could lean against Jack. Well if I lean my head backwards I'm eventually going to get dizzy because all the blood is rushing to my head and eventually Ill have to pick my head up again and Ill be right back where I started. But if I lean against Jack I know I will not get dizzy and actually be kind of comfortable. Of course then hell bug me that I'm enjoying this, which I am, but he doesn't know that. So it's either embarrassment for Jack or me. This is really hard to choose.'

"Oh, to hell with it." Amy moved her head partially sideways and put her head right up against Jacks chest.

"What are ye doing?" Jack looked down at Amy with his eyes sort of filled with surprise, but was taken over by the curious grin that was taking over his face and the sound of his voice.

'"I am saving my head from falling off."

"Really?"

"My neck; I was getting very uncomfortable from holding it up and I couldn't take it any more. So I considered my options and I chose this one."

"Or you just want to get closer to yours truly."

"Oh yes Jack, that's exactly why I put my head against you! I just had to get closer to you! I have this undying love for you and I just couldn't take being so far away from you! I just cant get enough of you!"

"So you admit it then."

"That was sarcasm, you idiot."

"I don't think it was."

"Can you just for once think that everything is not about you?"

"I could, but no."

"You know what, go ahead and believe whatever you want because I don't really care anymore."

"Well good because were here." Amy looked ahead of them and sure enough there was the Black Pearl. Amy was saddened by this but was mostly thankful that they were here so she could walk again.

"Jack, I think you should put me down now."

"I told you I'm not putting you down." Jack was now starting to walk onto the ship.

"But I really think you should put me down now." Jack was now on the deck.

"Why should I?" Jack heard someone cough behind him and turned around to see who it was. It was Gibbs. Jack quickly let go of Amy making her fall onto the deck floor, hard.

"You idiot! I told you to put me down, but not like this! Couldn't you have at least let me down feet first?"

"Sorry." Jack put out his hand towards Amy and pulled her up.

"Uh Jack, why were ya carrying Amy?" Gibbs asked.

"Oh, Jack was carrying me because I um…"

"She tripped over something!" Jack finished for her.

"Yes that's it! I tripped over something and hurt my ankle. It wasn't pretty. But now my ankle miraculously healed. I'm fine now." Amy forcefully put on a smile and nudged Jack to do the same.

"Is that a feather in your hair?" Gibbs asked. Amy bit her lip and searched for the feather in her hair and found it sticking out near the top of her head.

"Oh would you look at that? You see there were these crazy chickens running through the streets. Yeah that's it! They had foam coming from their mouths and running all over the place. Scary sight. In fact, that's what I tripped over. One of the chickens ran right in front of me and I tripped over it. And Jack was as so kind as to carry me here." Gibbs looked a Amy like she was going crazy and knew that that wasn't the real reason why Jack was carrying her.

"I know you two aren't telling me the truth, but I'm not sure if I want to know the truth. The crew and I were just about to head down for breakfast. Want to join us?"

"Sure, I'll come. Jack said he was going to introduce me to the crew anyway. Well be there in a second." Gibbs nodded and head below the deck. Once he was gone, Amy slapped Jack on his arm and looked at him very annoyed.

"Why didn't you tell me I had a feather in my hair?"

"I didn't see it! Honestly, I didn't see it."

"You're lying. If you told me that it was there I wouldn't have had to come up with the crazy chicken story!"

"'Where did you come up with that story anyway?"

"Well chickens have feathers and they run around here all the time so I thought it could be believable. Hey, it's a lot better than saying 'Oh this feather is from the pillow fight that me and Jack had this morning!"

"But crazy chickens?"

"It works. Now, I don't know about you but I'm hungry, so I'm going to eat. You can just stay up here all by yourself if you want to." Amy turned around and followed where Gibbs had left. Jack sighed and ran to catch up with Amy.

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