Chapter 11

Grieving

"What are we gonna do dad?" Jessie asked. Jack was standing at the helm steering the Black Pearl away from his wife and children. He hadn't said a word since they were taken two hours ago.

"Can't do anythin, if the Pearl is seen in Spanish waters he'll kill Alan," Jack whispered.

"Snap out of it Jack, we have to do something."

Jack looked at his daughter. She was coming on eighteen, she was almost a woman. He wondered suddenly when it had happened. She had never been a child of his loins, but he loved her as much as he loved Alan or Dem, to him there was no difference.

"Yer right Jessie, yer always right. Problem is I dunno what te do, the Pearl can't be," Jack broke off as an idea hit him. He turned the wheel around quickly, almost making men fall overboard. He turned not towards his wife and children though, that would be foolish.

"Where are we going dad?"

"I have some friends that owe me and Rena a favor," he said with a smirk.

"Some friends? Where?" Jessie asked intrigued.

"India."


"How did you know I was alive?" Rena asked Raul as they stood at the rails watching the ocean.

"Oh come now dear, give me some credit I am your brother. I could tell the difference between you and the body of that girl, not to mention a girl with dark brown hair had been raped and had her neck broken only a town away, her father spoke to me about cleaning up their town in her memory. Then as time progressed rumors of the Black Pearl and her Captain, wife and children found their way to me." Saihrena nodded sullenly.

Her children were asleep in the Captains cabin, having finally exhausted themselves, and their vocabulary on their Uncle. Saihrena had been mildly surprised to hear the words coming out of their mouths, but reminded herself they lived among pirates.

Her brother had certainly been surprised and had shown it by backhanding Dem, Saihrena had very calmly and seriously told him if he touched her children again she'd kill him and take her chances with the crew. He had simply nodded and left the room.

"Why Raul?" She whispered.

"Because you are mine, since the day you were born you were nothing more than an object. Mother and father treated you as if you were a person and it sickened me, you need to be taught that you are not a person you are only a thing."

"Is that why you sold me to the Sultan and then to Morgead?"

"Exactly, now if you will excuse me I need my sleep. We have a long way ahead of us."


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