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At World's End: Chapter 9
I knocked hard on the door.
"Go away, Elizabeth, I don't want to talk anymore," he said without looking through the glass.
"I am in no way Elizabeth, young William."
"Why does everyone call me 'young William'?" He asked as I entered the small cabin. Almost exactly the same as my quarters: dark wood, sparse furniture, tiny flutters of light from the grimy windows.
"My best guess is that you are younger than the rest of us and when pirates tire or drink too much rum, their ability to give people nicknames escapes them," I smiled at him. "Rather conveniently, might I add?" Good. I got him to smile. If I could be smiling at a time like this, then I know he could, too. "But that's just what I think and my opinion doesn't matter much."
"Miss Danielle, I…"
"Dani."
"Dani, I don't want you to get involved with this," he waved his hands around. As if "this" meant the ship, the cabin, everyone on board.
"I was involved long before even your father knew you were around," I corrected him.
"My father knew he had a son?"
"Aye," I nodded. "He spoke of you when they strapped the canons to him and sent him over the side of the ship. I fought all I could to save him, but I was too weak from being chained for days and my threats and promises no longer meant anything to Barbossa's crew."
"How could she do this?" He quickly changed the subject. This bothered me for a second, but I answered him.
"You have a lot to learn about pirates."
"Elizabeth is not a pirate."
"How do you know? Did she tell you that she wasn't? Because you can always trust a pirate to be dishonest. And that's the truth."
"She isn't a pirate," he answered quickly, but added, "yet."
"William…I am in no way telling you to forgive her, clearly your heart doesn't want to, nor am I telling you to ignore the act. She kissed Jack. But we are going to be stuck on this bloody ship all together for a while…so I suggest you learn to be civil to one another. Or I'll have to toss her overboard and you'll follow her. And I don't like to threaten nice boys like you anymore." I said with a flourish, I had a little bit of that Jack swagger in me, too.
Just when he thought I was taking her side, my anger towards her came out to make him feel slightly better for the emotions he was feeling.
"Are we going the right way now?"
"How can you tell if you're going the right way when you get to the end of the world?"
"Touché."
"And if it would make you feel better, we can use her for target practice instead of that blasted monkey."
"How did you know that we use Jack the monkey as a target?"
"I'm one of those bloody pirates and I know what a bloody good target is. Top an undead monkey!"
I held the door open for him and he exited the small cabin. 'I'm on this ship at their request and here I am, comforting them!'
A/N: I was going for a bit of comic relief because I had a really boring day.