Chapter 3
Unexpected Beatings
Jack sat in his cabin drowning in rum.
"Jack?" A voice asked, breaking into his misery.
"What?" He growled. The door opened to reveal the one person who could talk to him in this state, his daughter.
"Daddy?" She asked.
"What are ye doin here darlin?" He asked, standing from his chair and stumbling over to her. When Rena had left him he had left Jessie with the only two people he trusted, Will and Liz. How she had gotten aboard his ship without his notice was beyond comprhension.
"Don't be upset, Will and Elizabeth set me up on a ship not long after you left and I snuck onboard," she said, answering his unasked question.
"I'm not upset with you love." Jack gave her a hug to prove it, then pulled out a chair and motioned for her to sit. "Why'd ye come though?" Jack sat in his previous chair and picked up his bottle.
"To remind you that you have responsibilities that need to be taken care of, and that killing yourself with rum won't bring Saihrena back," she said succinctly.
"I see," he murmured, taking a gulp. "What if I don wanna be reminded lass?"
"Then I'll go home to mother and leave you to die unhappily, or…" she broke off as he looked away. Before he knew it he was lying on the floor with Jessie's dainty little foot on top of his chest. He looked at her in disbelief as she picked up his rum and threw it on the floor, splintering into hundreds of little pieces and spewing the presious liquid onto the splinters.
"What the hell was that," he yelled, trying to dislodge her foot without success.
"Or you could wake up and realize that Rena needs your help you fool," Jessie yelled and stormed out of his cabin.
He layed there in shock for a while, trying to digest her words only to come back to the same thoughts. She had left him, why would she want his help. That's when it struck him as odd. After everything she had gone through to get him back, why would she leave him? As the answer reached the part of his brain that could make sense of this in his drunken condition he stood up and raced from the cabin.
A chorus of "Jack," and "Cap'n," assulted him as he rushed to Bandit at the helm.
"Bandit make fer Port Charles at once," he slurred, then went back to his cabin to sleep off his drink, he wanted to be somewhat sober to see Cat again.
"I'll never marry you," Saihrena growled. After the startling revelation from the maid she had burst from her rooms and screamed through the caslte her demands to speak with her brother, somehow Morgead had been involved in the discussion. "You can never make me."
"There you are indeed wrong sister dear, I am King and as such can do anything I wish, and I wish for you to marry Morgead."
"So you see dear you will marry me," Morgead said, grabbing her arm and pulling her close. He kissed her then, a rough kiss that had nothing of the passion Jack and her shared, and only the feeling of possession. She couldn't stand it anymore, she kicked him in the groin.
"Like it or not you little brat you will be married to him," Raul said, slapping her hard across the face. He then pulled Morgead behind him and left.
She was ice cold inside, not for herself but for the child she was carrying inside of her. She had realized she was pregnant on the ship when she hadn't been able to keep any food down. She was almost two months now, and though Jack would have been thrilled to hear it, Morgead and Raul would not. She couldn't keep it a secret for more than a month, two at the very most. And then her child would be in grave danger, she had to escape before then.
"What do you mean nothing fits?" Raul yelled at the maid.
"W-w-well s-sir, she has grown taller and a l-little th-thicker through the middle," the maid stuttered.
"Fine, call a dressmaker now, she must have something to wear," he ordered and stalked out of the room. Within ten minutes a small, crochety old woman appeared in Saihrena's rooms with a glum look on her face as she ordered Saihrena to undress and mesured her. She left giving instructions to be ready for the fitting tomorrow afternoon, the whole thing took only a few minutes and left Rena drained. She laid down and soon fell asleep, dreaming of Jack, their child, and life aboard the Pearl.
"Ye sure ye didna kidnap her?" Jack asked, holding Cat up by her neck. They had reached Port Charles in record time and Jack had wasted no time in finding Cat.
"Yes," she croaked through his chocking. Her released her with a sigh. He had asked her over fifteen times now, and each time he had gotten the same response, even with the varrying degrees of torture he put her through.he believed her, finally.
"But if not you, then who?" He mumbled to himself, being horrified by the only answer that presented itself. "No, it's just not possible," he said, leaving the house he had shared with Cat when she was Paula and he was Thomas.
He ran to his ship that was waiting right on shore, ready to lift anchor and raise the sails to be out of here. It was the middle of the night and they had glided into a covered cove so they wouldn't be noticed.
"Anchors raised, sails afloat, and pull out the sweeps," he yelled, making his way to the helm. "Gabby."
"Yes Captain?" Gabby asked as she made her way to him.
"Her brother, her wouldn't… Would he? I mean why now instead of years ago?" He asked, hoping he was wrong. The horror that came to her eyes at that thought was all he needed.
"Captain I asked around after Rena left and there was a Spanish ship in Port, I didn't think much about it at the time, but…"
"Damn it," Jack cursed. "We're goin te Spain again," he whispered, wishing it wasn't so.
Okay, I haven't done this yet so I'll do it now. Jack Sparrow, the Black Pearl, Elizabeth and Will, Norrington, and anything else POTC related doesn't belong to me, and this disclaimer is for the first 3 chapters through all the rest in case I forget again. The only things that I own are Rena, Gabby, Kasha, Bandit, my plot, Jon. Raul, Morgead, and everything else, so you can't steal it either.
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