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Chapter five
A Wedding and a Funeral
Saihrena paced her room, back and forth, and back and forth until Juliana, who was quickly growing disoriented, had to forcibly stop her.
"My Lady, why are you pacing so?" She asked in exasperation.
"You wouldn't understand, and even if you would I could never tell you," Saihrena said as she pulled out of the girls arms and began pacing again. It had been five days since the ball and she still hadn't come up with a way to escape, if she didn't escape within the next day she knew she never would; hence the pacing.
"You can tell me anything Lady, I can keep a secret."
Saihrena smiled at the girl, "you're a sweet child but this information could get you killed, and I''ve never been one for needless death."
"Is it about your pirate days?" Juliana asked in a hushed whisper. Saihrena looked at the girl, nodded once, and went back to pacing. She knew the child couldn't help her, no matter how much she needed it. The girl would only be killed. A thought finally occurred to her that was so vile and horrid that she pushed it out of her mind, there must be another way. But she knew if an opportunity didn't present itself she would have to do it.
"I want you to be my Maiden of Honor," Saihrena said suddenly to Juliana.
"Me? But I'm hardly respectable enough to be in a Princess's wedding," Juliana said, sitting down in one of the plush chairs surrounding the room.
"I don't care about that, I'm not respectable enough to be the Princess in the wedding, and you're the only girl I know that I actually like. I won't be married without you."
"If you put it that way… Are you sure?" Juliana asked.
"Positive, the dressmaker should be here in an hour. I'll let someone know you need to be here."
Jack sped as fast as his ship was able toward Saihrena. He could only hope and pray that he wasn't too late to stop Raul from bringing his plans to fruition. He was still weeks away from even entering Spainish waters though, and then he had to figure out a way to get ashore and abduct her. No matter how hard he tried he couldn't figure out a plan. He had no way to gt to shore, and no way to hide himself to get into the castle and snag her. All he could do was wait for the opportune moment.
The wedding day dawned bright and early, and for Saihrena much too soon. Juliana woke her up, to cheerful to handle, Saihrena had a hard time not slapping her as they dressed. She knew the girl was only excited, she was after all wearing the most beautiful gown she had ever seen, besides Saihrena's wedding gown.
Saihrena had to admit the gown was magnificent. Layer upon layer of white guazy lace. No matter how she had argued Raul had insisted she wear white; she was giving the illusion of being pure, even if everyone knew she wasn't. The corsette was the hard part, everyone had insisted she wear it, she had told them all again she would kill herself rather than be shackled into one. So they had compromised. The dress would act as a corsette of sorts, holding her in but not too tightly. It was still too much and as she was laced up she apologized to her unborn child.
A group of young maids walked in as both Juliana and Saihrena finished the last strings of their dresses to do their hair. Saihrena didn't want much done with it, she wanted to let it cascade down her shoulders. As they finished up it finally hit Saihrena that she was going to be married soon, the blow was almost too difficult to bear, but she knew she must be strong. In a week or two she could announce her pregnancy and her child would be safe. Some might whisper, the child would after all be weeks early, but no one would say anything openly. All she could do was pray the child would be small.
"It's time," one of the maids said with a smile as she brought out the veil and secured it with a small silver tiara.
"I'm ready," Saihrena said standing and moving to the door, knowing she would never truly be ready.
She walked through the castle to the chapel that was situated in a courtyard just outside, walking as if to her death sentence instead of her wedding. They stopped as they reached the door and waited for the signal. She didn't even know the other women who were in her wedding, the only one she had picked was Juliana, Raul had chosen the other four. As she waited at the end of the line a man took the hand of her bridesmaids and began to walk down the aisle to the alter. Raul showed up moments before she was to move and took her arm.
"You look lovely sister," he said with a smile. She ignored him and waited for the music. It started too soon, she wasn't ready, and as Raul began to pull her along with him she tried to fight, to stay as far away from the alter where Morgead stood as possible. Raul was too strong though and before she knew it she was being dragged along. "I'll kill your Sparrow if you don't cooperate Saihrena," he hissed, and the fight left her.
A whisper of awe followed her as she was led into the chapel, the congregation stood, and no few whispered how lovely she looked. She was standing in front of Morgead before she knew it.
"Who gives this woman in holy matrimony?" A voice asked, and she looked to see a Catholic Priest.
"I, her brother King Raul the II do," Raul said. He then took her hand and gave it to Morgead. Morgead pulled her to stand next to him as the Priest began to speak holy rights in Latin. She ignored it all, trying to imaging it was Jack standing next to her, holding her hand, looking at her with all his love.
"Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife till death do you part?" Suddenly hit her ears and she looked at Morgead, waiting.
"I do," he said calmly.
"And do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband till death do you part?" The Priest had turned to her, and she knew everyone was waiting.
She tried to say never, to tell them all she hated him, but Raul's words came back to her, "I'll kill your Sparrow." The thought of another Sparrow came to her then, the one growing inside of her.
"I- I do," she said and as she spoke she let a single tear fall down her cheek. She prayed to God for forgivness, but most of all she prayed for Jack to know that she would always love him, even if she could never escape now. Even if she had just damned herself, at least their child would live, that was all she could give it.
"I now pronounce you man and wife, you may kiss your bride," the Priest said. Morgeads hands lifted her veil and his lips descended to hers. She made herself as cold as ice so she wouldn't feel, and she didn't. She could feel herself dying a little as the festivities wore on, but she didn't feel him touching her through the celebration, she didn't feel him kissing her, dancing with her all night, and she didn't feel him as he used her body. She detatched herself untiil she actually began to believe this was all a nightmare and she was still onboard the Black Pearl. She knew if she didn't let herself believe this she would go insane.
Thanks to cj for the correction of faint, btw about my spelling, my spell check is broken for some reason so very sorry if there are a lot. I know how to spell pretty well, but there are still a lot of words im not sure of.
Anyway thanks for all the reviews so far, and I hope you guys are enjoying this story. I'm having a good time writing it, although I'm sure you guys will be pissed at me for this chapter, hehehe. Umm, just remember the words were till death do you part, and besides Jacks married still anyway.
Umm also my chapters are pretty short, their only like 3-4 pages BUT I update about every day or so… so that makes up for it. If you want longer chapters then I can write for a week or two instead of updating so fast, your guy's choice and all:) Anyway I'm up to 16 reviews so far, lets get it over 20. If you do there might be an extra long chapter 6 in it for you tomorrow… What do you say? How about 22-25 reviews? If you get there I promise tomorrow I'll write like 6-8 pages, do we have an accord?
