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Chapter 7
Reunited
"So ye want te destroy me ship?" Jack asked, pacing back and forth his brother's cabin.
"No no, I want to give it the semblance of being destroyed, maybe pull some wood from the rails and let it drift in the water; the rest could have sank," Joel said. Jack nodded to himself. It might just work, if his brother was telling the truth about everything. They hadn't exactly parted on great terms with each other fifteen years ago.
When their father died Joel was only left with their family house, which was worth quite a bit in and of itself, he was a prominent tavern owner that ended up owning all the Taverns in their city, Jack was left the taverns. Within a few weeks he had sold his shares and bought the Black Pearl from Cat.
"You don't think I'm still sore about what father did, do you Jack?" Joel asked suddenly, reading his mind.
"Well if ye were it'd be a good way te get back at me," Jack responded, watching his brother closely.
Joel stood and began to pace around the room treading the same track Jack had. "I admit I was furious when father left you the bussiness, and even more furious when you sold them all. I didn't understand at the time why you didn't just run them yourself, or better yet sell them to me. I lived in the house for a year or so, but eventually sold it and it was then that I realized the good in what you had done." His brother stopped and turned to look Jack in the eyes.
"What was that?" Jack asked.
"If you had stayed there or even sold me the taverns then I would have been stuck there, along with you.What we have both accomplished since then has been much more profitable and made us both much happier. The reason I help you to retrieve your Princess brother is because without you I would never have found my own."
"Yer married?"
"Aye, and with a little boy and a new baby girl," Joel said with a smile.
"Children? I'm an Uncle," Jack whispered in awe.
"Aye, you're an Uncle, and I've been telling young Drake about your adventures as I heard of them, and about your lovely Princess there too. We thought you were dead for a while, but then news turned up of your wedding and suddenly I was being hired by King Raul to take him and kidnap his sister. I knew if I refused my ship would be taken and someone else would have been hired instead. So I bided my time and now, here we are."
"It could bloody well work, I'm in."
It had taken almost a week and a half for her to get permission to go out, and she had been grilled continuously, but finally Saihrena was going to be allowed to leave. She was to leave in an hours time to go shopping. She would be escorted by an armed guard of four that surrounded her at all times, and her maid Juliana. She was ecstatic to finally be leaving the castle and seeing Spain for the first time in almost five years.
"You must dress warmly My Lady, it's coming on autumn outside and the air can be cold," Juliana said as she produced a fur lined cloak from her wardrobe. Saihrena nodded slightly and allowed the maid to cosset and fuss over her, it was her job after all.
Saihrena smiled and stood, then quickly left her chambers as the time approached. She walked down the hall and towards her brother's study so she could let him and Morgead know she was leaving. As she came closer however she heard a voice that sounded familiar and silently slipped to the door that was cracked open, motioning for Juliana to keep quiet.
"You're sure he's dead?" Raul asked.
"As sure as I can be, the Black Pearl is destroyed Highness, all that's left is some debris," the familiar voice said.
"And Sparrow?" Morgead asked.
"My men combed the water until the sharks began to circle, but I stabbed him through the chest before he fell into the water. I do not think he survived."
"Wonderful news," Morgead burst out, Saihrena stiffled a sob as this was said and without a word she fled to the stables.To her immense relief the stableboy knew she was expected and had her horse ready and saddled. Without waiting for Juliana to catch up to her she jumped on the back of the horse and fled.
Men came running after her as she did this, mostly the guards that were supposed to protect her, but none had a horse yet and as such were not ready to pursue her, none except Juliana who had jumped on the back of another saddled horse and chased after her.
She quickly left everything behind as she raced through the open fields beyond the castle. She knew where she was headed, had come this way many times as a child. Her parents had always warned her to stay clear of the ravine, she headed there now.
"Jack," she screamed to the wind as she flew on her horse. He had come, he had come to rescue her only to be killed by his brother. "If I can't show you our child in this life I'll bring it to you in heaven," she whispered.
Jack was doing as he was told, waiting for the opportune moment. He didn't know how his brother had found this place, but he did know it was incredibly convenient. He was hiding in a copse of trees when he heard his name called. He looked around quickly only to see her racing past him on a horse and bound for their meeting spot with tears running down her cheeks.
"Somethings wrong," he whispered. Jack looked back to see another horse headed after her. He wasted no time and jumped on his horse chasing after Saihrena.
She couldn't see anything past the haze of tears in her eyes, but she didn't care anymore. All she knew was that she wanted death. The pain that had gripped her heart as she heard the words, "I do not think he survived," had only gotten worse as she rode. She couldn't go back to Morgead, would die before doing so. She blocked everything out except the thought of reaching the ravine.
So she didn't hear the voices yelling behind her, and she didn't realize that one of the voices she should know. There it was suddenly, looming before her, the ravine. As it came into sight everything seemed to clear and right before the horse ran off the edge, she pulled in the reigns. She didn't want to kill an innocent beast. She jumped off the horse quickly and ran to the edge.
"God lift me up in your embrace," she whispered and stepped off the edge.
"What the hell are you doing woman?" Jack shouted behind her, trying to gain her attention. She rode on, not listening. Jack spurred his horse faster, being only a moment or two behind her. He saw the cliffs as they came into view and knew he had lost though, she was too fast. Suddenly she pulled her horse to a halt and Jack sent a prayer up to heaven as she jumped off. He had reached her.
Without consious though he lunged forward over the cliff as he saw her fall, and caught her.
"Let me go," she shrieked. Jack grabbed her hand and began pulling the screeching woman up.
"Stop bitin me Rena," he growled, and she stopped and looked up into his eyes.
"Jack?" he heard her whisper. He nodded and lifted her onto solid ground as a horse pulled up beside them. "Jack," Saihrena cried and grabbed him, pulling him to her and grasping him as if she would never let go.
"What the hell did you think you were doing?" A woman screamed, grabbing Saihrena from behind and pulling her into a bear hug.
"Juliana?" Saihrena asked, turning to the girl.
"Yes you dolt, I should kill you for that," the girl cried as she held Saihrena, tears were rolling down her cheeks.
"I-I thought he was dead, I didn't want to live without him," Rena whispered.
"Enough, Rena love, we need teleave before anyone else comes. Girl, ye saw Rena get off her horse and jump after hearing I was dead, got that?" Jack said as he pulled them apart.
"They'll never believe that, theres no body down there," Juliana said.
"Yea there is, this was prearranged, only problem was she wasn't spose te think it was real," Jack said.
"Why would I say that?" Juliana asked challengingly.
"Because if you don't I will really jump down there," Rena said as she jumped on Jacks horse. Jack jumped up behind her and looked for some place to hide quickly. He spotted it and without so much as a goodbye to Juliana spurred his horse as fast as he could away from the ravine.
Juliana watched them run off into the distance until they disappeared from view, then turned to the ravine and looked down into it, looking for a body. She saw it after a while, and realized she had better move down a little ways if her story was to be believed, the body was about fifteen feet away from where she stood. She quickly grabbed her's and Saihrena's horses reigns and walked them to where the body lay, she then closed her eyes and let the tears fall from her eyes. If she was going to be believed than she had to make herself think her friend was dead.
When four guards rode up a few minutes later, they believed everything the crying, screaming girl said.
"You're alive," Saihrena said for the fiftieth time as Jack rode quietly through the sleeping city.
"Aye, I'm alive," Jack smirked. "Did ye really think me own brother'd kill me?"
"Well, on second thought no, but all I could hear was Jack Sparrow is dead, I didn't really think much," she answered honestly as she held him tight. It had been over six hours since their flight, they had made it out of the city and were heading quickly out of the small town they were currently passing through.
Saihrena smiled and remembered the last time they had fled from Morgead, it was right after she found out her brother had sold her into slaverly and her younger brother John was dead. It was also the first time Morgead had tried to marry her. She stopped thinking about that though as soon as it led to thoughts of Jack's torture at Morgeads hands. She knew Jack was thinking the same thing as he brought a hand to his arm and began rubbing the burn he had gotten then.
"It's okay Jack, I'm not driving this time," she said with a laugh as she held on to him tighter.
"I know love, ye think I'd let ye steer after that? Hell no." They both began laughing as they left the town behind.
"Where are we headed?" She asked suddenly.
"Got a rowboat waitin te take us te the Pearl just down the road, bout two hours away."
"Good, then speed this horse up, the sooner we're outa Spain the better," she said. Jack agreed whole heartedly and sped the horse up. They reached the boat a scant hour later after a thankfully adventureless road behind them.
"Are you sure you saw her jump?" Morgead asked for what seemed the millonth time to the sobbing girl.
"Yes your Highness, I'm sorry, I tried to stop her but I wasn't f-f-fast enough," the girl cried.
"And it was after she heard us speaking about a man's death?"
"Before she ran off she said that if he was dead she would join him," the distraught maid said. Morgead nodded and dismissed the girl with a hand gesture. She stood and, after bowing, left quickly. Morgead was quite visibly shaken by the days events, as was Raul.
"She was carrying my child," he murmured. Raul walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"And my niece or nephew. Has the coroner reporter?"
(A/N I don't know if they had coroners back then or what they called them, if anyone does then let me know.)
"He said she died of a broken neck from the fall, but it was too early to even see the child growing so we learned nothing there," Morgead said.
"It's been a long night my friend, why don't you get some sleep," Raul said suddenly. Morgead nodded and left. "He may be fooled but I'm not," he murmured. "It's all too clean." Morgead stalked from his study and into his secretary's room, waking the man up.
"Yes majesty?" The man asked, sitting up in bed as the King strode into hi bedroom with a torch.
"I want to see Joel Crane in my office tomorrow morning, and that maid that saw my sister jump, I want to see her too, set it up," he ordered, then left to his own bed. He had plans to make, lives to destroy and a sister to find, but first he needed his rest.
Jack and Saihrena rowed for the rest of the night to reach the Black Pearl, but once they were within sight a new strength surrounded them and they found themselves rowing even faster than before.
"Send down a ladder ye scurvy dogs," Jack shouted as they touched the hull, within moments a torch was thrust over the side and the sound of Gabby's laughter filled the air.
"She's here, their back," she screeched as a ladder was thrown down and Jack and Rena began to climb up. When she reached the top Saihrena was grabbed by all manner of men and women aboard the Pearl and hugged until she was black and blue, she didn't mind though, she had missed them all so much.
"Let her breath," Jack finally yelled. "Get us outa here, I wanna see the blue of the Caribbean within a week," he yelled and pulled Rena to his cabin. As he said this the crew began to laugh, knowing what he truly meant, but taking it as the joke it was. He wanted out of Spanish waters and he didn't want to be spotted. The crew, that had been getting plenty of rest, sorted themselves out and unfurled the sails and manned the sweeps. They wanted out of there as much as Jack.
Jack sat Rena down on their bed and just looked at her, not even daring to touch her lest she disappear.
Without warning she grabbed him and began to kiss him passionately, their tongues fencing as she held him tighter, she would never let him go again. They pulled apart after the need for oxygen became to great and stayed like that for a while. Jack broke the silence first.
"I thought ye left of yer own accord, I didn't know, can you fergive me Rena? I'm so sorry my love, I love you so much," he began to babble. Rena reached up and stopped him by putting a finger to his lips.
"It's not your fault Jack, I forgive you," she said as he kissed her fingers. It was only then she remembered she had news for him. "I have to tell you something Jack."
"What?" He asked, watching her.
"Well I'm going to have a baby in about seven months, I'm pregnant with your child," she said.
"Yer pregnant?" He asked, his mouth dropping open. She nodded.
"I found out on the way to Spain, we're gonna have a baby Jack."
"A baby?" He asked again. She laughed and poked him in the chest, then closed his jaw.
"Yes, you're going to be a father," she tried again, wanting to get some kind of reaction from him other then stunned awe.
"Me? A father? Well that's- that's amazing love," he shouted and grabbed her, hugging her tight, he quickly let go and looked at her stomache. "I didn't hurt him did I?"
"Jack," she laughed suddenly, "no you didn't hurt him silly."
"I gotta, I-I gotta tell the crew their gonna have a nephew," he said running for the door.
"Or a neice, it could be a girl," she said. He stopped and looked at her as if he had never thought of the idea.
"A girl? I could have a daughter." Jack ran from the room and she followed him, a huge smile on her face. "I'm gonna have a baby," he shouted, and everything stopped. It was quiet on deck for a full minute before the entire crew burst into cheers.
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Oh and just so you guys know if it hadn't been for all your reviews and you meeting your quota if you will then I would have stopped writing at, "God lift me up in your embrace," she whispered and stepped off the edge.
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