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A Bet, Some Rum, and a Wedding
Chapter 22: The Cat

"I'll think about it." Amy smiled and put her head on Jack's shoulder. Jack was waiting any second for the crazy Irish guy come running around the corner screaming, but nothing happened. Disappointed in this, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He slowly moved down his hand from Amy's waist to halfway to her hip. He waited for Amy to say something or look at him, but she never did. Deciding to catch her while she was still off guard, he started to move his hand down farther. Amy suddenly stopped in the middle of the street and grabbed his hand, he knew she would be noticing it soon, and pulled him into an ally.

"Is that Irish guy coming again?" Amy pushed him back into the farthest corner of the ally and walked up back to look at the streets.

"No, it's worse."

"Who?"

"It's Harry. I don't want you two to see each other and start fighting. I swear, if we stayed in his shop ten minutes longer, I bet you would have." Jack took a step towards Amy but she stuck out her arm and signaled for Jack to stop as she placed the dress box on the ground."You stay right where you are. I don't want to have any chances of Harry seeing you." Jack reluctantly stepped back and waited for Harry to walk by. Amy quickly stepped behind the wall, and watched Harry walk by. Jack's hand tightened into a fist during the second he walked by, but then released it as soon as he was out of sight.

"That was close." Amy leaned against the wall and let out a deep breath.

"Are we actually goin' some place?"

"Well I was planning to go back to your ship, seeing as how I can't go back to my ship without being killed. Is that alright with you?"

"Yes, that's fine by me. Sure the crew will love it."

"Jack."

"Just kidding…mostly." Amy slightly narrowed his eyes at him, and looked at the ground.

"What are ye doin'?"

"I have no clue."

"Are we going to be leaving soon?" Amy took her eyes off the ground and partially smiled at Jack.

"Alright." Amy walked over to Jack and grabbed his hand and tried to pull him along, but he wouldn't move. She tugged harder but his feet still stayed still.

"Jack, are you going to move?"

"Not yet." Amy tried to pull her hand away from Jack but he was holding on to tight and wouldn't let her go.

"Jack, let go of my hand."

"No."

"Jack."

"Don't want to."

"And why not?" Jack twirled her around once and then pulled her into his arms."That's why."

"Oh." Jack wrapped his arms around Amy's waist and pulled her very close to him.

"You've been doing that a lot lately," she said."Do ye have any objections?"

"No." Jack smirked as Amy leaned her forehead against his.

"Well, I never got to finish what I was going to do this morning."

"You mean in the dress shop?"

"Yes, but then that bloody old hag interrupted."

"Oh yes, she did. Let me guess what you were going to do." Amy kissed Jack gingerly and wrapped her arms around his neck. She slowly pulled away and looked at Jack, who had a disappointed look on his face.

"Is that what you were going to do?"

"Maybe.""

Well if that's what you weren't going to do…" Amy started to walk away but Jack's arm pulled her back close to him."See, you were predictable just then."

"So what?"

"I'm just trying to make a point, that's all. If you were really the most unpredictable person in the world, I could not predict anythi-" but was cut off by Jack's mouth. She almost fell backwards from him coming so fast. Jack thought this might happen and luckily held her back to prevent her from falling down. Amy linked her arms tighter behind Jack's neck and tried to stand up straight. This time he came with a little more force than the first kiss they had. His tongue demanded entrance to her mouth and she quickly let him in. Amy kept one arm on Jack's back and moved the other up to his face so her hand was now on his cheek. Jack's hand were on her lower back and were trying to get lower, but every time he did Amy slightly stepped on his foot and made him go higher. She took Jack's hat off of his head and tossed it on the ground because she found it annoying. She still was surprised at how gentle Jack was, even though he was still forceful on her mouth. But of course she didn't mind one bit.

Something started rubbing up against Amy's leg and made her startle, but she ignored it. It happened again, and another time after that. She finally couldn't take it any more and gently pushed Jack away enough to see what was rubbing against her leg. She looked down and saw a dirty gray cat.

"Bloody cat. Had to ruin everything." She gently kicked the cat away and turned back to Jack. It looked like Jack was going to say something, but Amy cut him off this time as he did with her. Jack seemed somewhat surprised by this, but he didn't care. He pulled Amy as close to him as possible as she moved the hand that was on his face to his neck right below his ear. Amy started to feel something against her leg again and pushed away from Jack and looked down not to see a cat, but Jack's foot instead.

"Jack!"

"Can't help it." Amy smirked and grabbed the top of Jack's shirt and pulled him close to her. Amy gave him a small kiss, and pulled away.

"What has gotten into to you lately?"

"I think it's the dress. Maybe you should wear it more often."

"I think I might." Jack grinned and pulled Amy in for another kiss. Amy slightly pushed Jack away with the hand that was still clutching his shirt, and smiled.

"Jack. If we. Don't leave. Now. I think. We. Never. Will." Amy said in between kisses. Jack gave her a slightly longer kiss and put his forehead against hers.

"So, I don't have a problem with that."

"Well, my legs will be getting tired eventually."

"I'll hold ye up."

"And I will be needing sleep."

"Ye can sleep on me shoulder."

"And I will be getting hungry."

"We can kill that cat that was here a few minutes ago."

"Jack!"

"It was just an idea."

"What about your ship? And my ship?"

"Gibbs can handle it by himself a few hours more."

"Jack, we have to leave sometime." Jack sighed and took his forehead off of Amy's.

"Fine, we can go back to my ship. If it will make ye feel better."

"Yes. I don't want for Matt to start chasing us again."

"Matt? Who's Matt?"

"The Irish guy that was chasing us."

"Oh." Amy stepped back from Jack and took her hands off of his shirt and back."Let's go." Jack took his hands off of her back and sighed in disappointment. Amy noticed that he seemed sad about leaving and smiled. She picked the box up from the ground and gave him one final kiss and smiled at him.

"If you behave, we'll continue this later." The disappointment on his face went away and was replaced by a toothy grin. He picked up his hat off the ground and snuck his arm around Amy halfway between her waist and hip and kissed the top of her head.

"I'll be looking forward to it."

"Finally." Amy was standing right in front of the Black Pearl with Jack holding on to her tightly near her waist.

"It's probably lunch time. You hungry?"

"YES!"

"I see. But before we go on…" Amy knew what was going to do. She smirked and wrapped one arm around his neck while the other was holding the box. Jack hands instinctually wrapped both of his arms around her waist. Jack kissed her a little more eagerly this time as his tongue shot into her mouth before she had anytime to think and Amy giggled at how determined he was. Amy broke away for a second to ask a question that she was wondering about.

"What was that for?"

"Well once we get on the ship, I won't have much opportunity to kiss you."

"Then we better make up for lost time." Jack took this as a hint to go on and kissed Amy with even more eagerness than before. Amy moaned in surprise by the sudden shock of his actions and let the dress box slip through her hands and onto the ground. She wrapped that arm Jack's neck and moved the other one up to his face. She could faintly hear someone laughing and yelling in the background, but just ignored it. Slowly, the noise grew louder in intensity and made Amy wonder what was going on. It seemed like Jack had also heard the noise to and pulled away from Amy.

"What's that noise?" she asked.

"I don't know." Both of them looked over to the Black Pearl and saw many of the crewmembers standing on the deck laughing and hollering at them. Thankfully, Gibbs was not one of them. Both Amy and Jack started to laugh at how they were caught.

"Guess we were being watched."

"It appears that we were. WHAT ARE YE LOOKING AT? GET BACK TO WORK!" Jack yelled at them. The crew still laughed and hollered at them but one by one went back to work. Amy continued giggling and picked the box up from the ground. She could now hear the familiar voice of Gibbs coming from the deck. He was yelling at them about what was all the hollering about and what was so funny.

"I guess he wants to know what the crew was laughing about," Jack said. Amy wiped the smile off of her face as she suddenly just realized something.

"Do you think they're going to tell him?" Jack's smile was gone from his face and realized what she meant. Amy picked up the front of her dress and the box and started running towards the deck as Jack ran head of her. She ran onto the deck, following Jack, and looked for Gibbs. Not watching where she was going, she ran right into Jack who had already found Gibbs.

"Are you alright Amy?" Gibbs asked. She looked up at Gibbs and tried not to blush.

"Yes I'm fine."

"Why were ye runnin'?"

"Matt found us and was chasing after us."

"Hmm. Where did ye get that dress?"

"Well this is the second time he chased after us today. I went to a dress shop to get a disguise and that's what I'm wearing. I guess it didn't work very well."

"Apparently not. Well I was just askin' the crew about why they were laughin' so much. Did ye see anything?"

"No I didn't see anything. Did you Jack?"

"Nope didn't see anything. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?" he yelled at the crew.

"Yeah…yes…didn't see anything," the crew mumbled. They didn't want to know what Jack would do to them if they admitted what they saw.

"Well ok…if ye say so. It's time for lunch. You two hungry?"

"YES!" Amy blurted out.

"Well ok then. We'll have plenty of food you. Come down anytime you like. COME GET YOUR FOOD YOU SCALLYWAGS!" The crew dropped what they were doing and all ran down to the galley. Amy quickly stepped out of the way, trying not to get trampled, and watched the stamped of men run towards their food. Gibbs headed down after the last of them leaving Jack and Amy alone together.

"He knows we're lying."

"I know."

"He knows me too well. That's what I get for spending a good part of my life with him."

"Same."

"But I have known him longer than you. I've known him all my life."

"True."

"We cannot let him find out what the crew was laughing about."

"I'll do everything in my power to keep him from finding out."

"Thank you. You know if he founds out, he'll probably kill you."

"I know. That's why I'm going to do everything in my power.""

Figures." Amy took a deep breath and could smell the food coming from the galley. She was so hungry and the food was calling to her.

"That smells so good. It that chicken?" Amy took another deep breath in. "That's chicken! I love chicken! I'm so hungry!" Amy started to follow the sent of the chicken but was stopped, not to her surprise, by Jack's hand.

"You have a really good sense of smell."

"That's because I'm hungry."

"You're not getting away that fast." Amy smiled and ran up to Jack and kissed him. She really wanted food but she could wait a few more minutes for Jack. She could tell that she nearly knocked Jack over; he stumbled backwards few steps, but brought him back up to his feet by pulling on his shirt. She was glad for once that she took him by surprise, instead of vise versa. She slowly pulled away from Jack and smiled.

"Alright, go get yer food."

"THANK YOU!" Amy spun around and ran down to the galley as fast as she could.

"She's just as bad as me."

Wow. Like how fast I am updating? Y'all better be happy that I get bored very easily. Many have been asking if there really such thing as chocolate flavored rum. Yes, there is such a thing. My aunts got drunk from drinking it too much, which is where I got the idea to put it in my story. So I just wanted to make that clear. Thanks for all the wonderful reviews! I saw that I got 11 for the last chapter. Thanks for sending so many! Keep on sending them and enjoy the story. Ta!