A/N thanks to my reviewers, sorry this chapter is shorter than the last few but I just wanted to update so here it is, enjoy and review!
My eyes wandered across the deck, I nodded to Lucas and he went off to weigh anchor and set sail. The crew all moved back and went to find something to do which then left James and I together. I motioned for him to follow me as I went off to my cabin hoping to sort out my thoughts in there. Inside I sat down at my desk in the corner, like other captain's quarters mine was a fairly good size and held the desk and a queen size bed along with items I acquired on raids. James looked around my room and stood near window, looking quite uncomfortable. I laughed softly and then brought my attention back to him. "I'll drop ye off at the next port" He gave me a puzzled look.
"I came all the way out here looking for you for weeks and you drop me off at the next port?"
"Ye came all this way to give me a letter?"
"No I came all this way to fulfill a death wish, and I also came to find my sister who I thought was dead for 4 years." I nodded knowing my father was most likely dead.
"That's very touchin'," I said while pulling out a map from my drawer and studied it for a minute while ignoring my brother's question about my life.
Before James could question me again I secured the map in my drawer and headed for the helm. I could feel James following me as I approached the wheel but I chose to overlook it. My crew gave me the wheel without me asking and left to find something else to do, but as I focused on steering my ship I felt someone on my other side. Lucas came up on my right while James stood to my left, I sighed wanting to be alone but it didn't look as if that would happen.
"Cap't where to?" I heard Lucas ask me
"Would anyone else like to question me?" I yelled to the crew as I let go of the wheel, emphasizing my frustration. The crew looked up and quickly scattered off to their positions around the ship.
Lucas however stayed along with my brother, who probably didn't know where to go anyways.
"Same route?" Lucas asked keeping a calm voice
I nodded to him and he turned to leave. I pulled out a flask filled with rum and started drinking it.
"You shouldn't drink that," my brother said finally letting his presence known. I raised my eyebrows but continued to drink.
"There's a lot of things I shouldn't be doing but I do them anyways." I said when I took a break from drinking.
"Why did you run away." I took another long swig and turned towards my brother, "How did ye find me?" I asked hoping to keep the subject off of me for I didn't want to share my life with him or anyone.
"Why don't you answer my questions first?"
"Well ye be on my ship so ye will answer mine first." James gave me a defeated look and nodded, he told me the story of how he got here in what seemed to be a shorter version but I didn't mind, I was just surprised my brother, a Commodore would sail with rumrunners and pirates.
We stood in silence when he finished neither knowing what to say but soon he asked another question. "One man told me that he hadn't seen you since Mad Wiggins, who is he? And why couldn't he keep himself out of trouble." I laughed as my brother asked me, he probably wanted to clear up any thoughts he had on why Mad Wiggins had died and I disappeared.
"I killed him, he used to be a rumrunner but well I grew tired of him" I said shrugging it off as if it was nothing. James' face turned from astonishment to anger quite quickly and I couldn't help but smile and shake my head.
"Well I
answered your question," he said waiting for me to tell him my
story,
"Later" was the only answer he got from me.
"Lucas" I yelled waiting for him to appear next to me, and he did so with ease, "Take James here to his quarters," Lucas nodded and led James away to his own quarters. I figured he wouldn't want to be staying with the crew and I didn't want them staying with him.
By the next day I grew tired of James asking me about my life and how I ended up here, I told him I would tell him at night, and now that the moon was rising I had hoped he forgot. But my luck wasn't on my side because I soon heard my name being called when I tried to sneak into my cabin.
"Just getting some rum." I said as I disappeared into my cabin, I sighed and grabbed a bottle, and made my way out of the cabin, grabbing another bottle just in case before I left.
I entered my brothers cabin without knocking since it was my ship, I found him sitting on his bed waiting for me. I frowned and offered him a bottle of rum, he shock his head.
"Your loss" I said while I leaned against the wall near the bed. I found my rum very interesting as I waited for him to ask away and it didn't take long.
"Sam... um Jade, why did you leave Port Reyes?" I raised a brow at his question; men can be so daft."Wasn't it obvious? I wasn't suited for that life, and land held me back I felt the sea callin' ta me. But I couldn't very well just be in the navy, not like I would want to, so I turned ta the sea, with anyone who would take me. It just happened to be rumrunners that I stowed away with, although if ye must know they are much more "civilized" than pirates, and they don't drink away their profits." I smiled and chuckled softly as I thought about a time I did drink away their profits, that was the first time I got hooked on rum, and got drunk.
"Couldn't you just become like a sailor or something legal?" I thought for a moment then shook my head.
"Well what does it matter now, does it?"
"I wish you would have told me or father"
"Cause that would have gone over well, father hated me and ye couldn't have stopped me since ye were off bein' navy and all. I wasn't happy with father and anywhere I went in our house reminded me of mother and how I killed her, I always think of what she would be doin' if she was alive. I just had to leave, its that simple."
"Jade you didn't kill mother, its not your fault, she would have wanted you to live and be happy not to think about her like this." I shrugged and finished off the rum before trying to open the next one. But my brother soon stopped me as he took the bottle away. "I think you have had enough rum" I looked at him as if he was crazy, "I had one bottle!"
"Yes and that's too much" I yelled and walked out of his cabin.
On deck I took the helm again and tried to figure out what to do with my brother and Rackham. I sighed as I thought of both of them, hopefully I would find Rackham soon and then I could deal with my brother and get back to my life at sea.
