A/N: I will always write Dani in first person, everyone else in third person. I just like it better that way. Thanks for the reviews! It is really encouraging to have people want to read more!
thomthom
At World's End: Chapter 5
When I came to, I slowly opened my eyes. I had hoped that Barbossa was just a figment of my imagination. But I was wrong. There he was sitting across from me in my very own flat.
"Get out!" I yelled.
"Now, now, darlin'. Is that the way to talk to your captain?" Barbossa smirked. Oh, how I hated that smirk. I've seen it too many times before. Especially when I have just woken up.
"Why are you here?" I asked, standing up and seeing the others.
"Miss Elizabeth? William? What are you doing here?"
"You're Jack's future wife? You're Danielle Reese?" Will asked me.
"I don't know what you are talking about." I lied. I had known these two for years. I made dresses for Elizabeth for Pete's sake!
"We need your help to find Jack." Elizabeth explained.
"That is going to be slightly difficult being that he is dead. He died thirteen years ago when this devil of a man marooned him on an island," I spat.
"Jack isn't dead. Well, he might be now. He got off that island. But Davy Jones set the Kraken out after him."
I wanted to scream. I wanted to cry. I wanted to be anywhere but here. I didn't want to think that Jack was out there because I had spent more than a decade trying to forget him.
"Tia Dalma said that you were the only one who could help us. That you have a compass just like Jack's."
"I won't be any help. I am no longer a pirate. I have given it up."
"You have to help us!" Elizabeth sounded exasperated.
"Please, Miss Danielle, you are the only way we can find Jack. We need to get him home safely. Don't you miss him?"
"What do you mean 'don't I miss him'? Of course I miss him! The last time I saw him was thirteen years ago and I was shackled to the mast watching him get smaller and smaller on an empty island. So, I am not going anywhere with that man!" I yelled, pointing at Barbossa. He seemed to be looking for something. "And by the way, don't bother looking for the compass, Barbossa. I've hidden it too well for the likes of you."
He looked at me and I swear he growled. A grown man just growled at me.
"You're getting on the boat, poppet. I don't care whether or not you want to go. You are getting on the ship and you will use the compass to help us find Jack. If you don't comply with me telling you nicely, you will be killed. After all, the dead are easier to search." Barbossa told me as he drew his gun.
"Do you really think I'm afraid to die, Barbossa? You ruined my life already. If the Kraken already got Jack, what makes you think he's still alive? If you killed me right now, it will be the one nice thing you've ever done in your miserable pirating life."