A/N: I am really really sorry for missing my deadline-again! FanFiction wouldn't let me in, so I missed it. And again, apologies-this chapter is pretty short-just bear in mind it's a part 2 of 2. Enjoy!
Chapter 10: Return Part II
Tortuga was hardly the same town they'd left it as almost a year previously. It had returned almost perfectly to its original However, many of Jack's captains had never set foot in Tortuga before, so he decided it was high time to remedy the fact.
"More importantly, it is indeed a sad life that has never breathed deep this sweet proliferous bouquet that is Tortuga, savvy?" He directed his Captains Fowl and Starr through the wild town as Amy and Mera followed. A shot ricocheted off the wall not three feet from jack's head. He moved on as if it had never occurred. Then a man, chasing after a wench, handed Jack his cane, which he stared at for a moment, as if confused as to its purpose. Then he remembered, and started strolling with it as a gentleman might. "What d'you think, eh?"
Starr seemed to take it all in at once, and said neutrally, "It'll linger."
"It always smell like this?" Was the query from Fowl.
"Well the smell of burning and gunpowder wasn't always here, but otherwise, yes." Fowl groaned.
"I tell you, mates, if every town in the world were like this one, no man would ever feel unwanted." Then Scarlett marched up to him. "Oh dear." WHACK. Staring at his subordinates, he said, "I never did find out why I deserved that."
Then Giselle appeared before him. "Oh, no." Her hand rose to smack him, and Jack braced himself, scrunching his face to be ready for the resounding WHACK that was sure to come.
Then Mera said, "Giselle? Why are you smacking Jack?"
There was a long pause. Then Jack opened one eye, maintaining his squinted face. Then the other, and then he dropped the face.
Then Giselle grabbed him by the wrist and hauled him away. Behind them, Starr said, "Huh. Apparently no man goes unwanted; not even Sparrow."
WHACK. Two hands struck the back of his head "Admiral," he added belatedly.
"Better," Amy and Mera said simultaneously.
Once they were far enough away, Giselle wheeled to face Sparrow. "What are you doing with them?"
"What, luv, the girls? I have merely taken them under my wing and adopted them."
"Adopted them?" Giselle laughed mirthlessly. "Sparrow, they're your children!"
"Well, yes, luv; that is what they technically become once I've adopted..." Then it sunk in. "Oh."
She nodded. "Yes indeed, 'oh'."
A/N: Hmm, the plot thickens, Mera! REVIEW!
