Saihrena lay in her bed thinking, a luxury she hadn't even realized she missed. She had been so worked up in herself that she hadn't even realized there was a world outside her pain, outside her misery, until Alan had spoken. That was when she realized she was no longer in Demetrius' castle.
She was now on her way to Bursa to rescue her son, the place that had started her on the journey towards Jack. She really did owe her brother a lot, because if he hadn't sold her into slavery in that retched place then she never would have been on the ship that Jack raided, never would have met him and had her children. She would not trade her life now for the pampered princess she was, not in a million years.
Their plan was simple. Pull into the harbor, break into the palace, kill the sultan and take anyone with them that wanted to leave, including her son. They were only an hour away, and the ship had already had its sails changed and the men put in decent clothes. They would enter as respectable tradesmen, and leave as the pirates they really were. She smiled and stood from the bed to don the dress she needed to wear to pull off the disguise.
In the two weeks she had been aware she had begun to get her strength back, she had stated very clearly that this was one venture she would not be left out of. Jack had smirked and said if she left his side for any reason he would hunt her down and beat some sense into her. She had agreed, knowing what he had gone through to try and get her back.
"Love?" Jack murmured before walking into their room. "Are ye ready?"
"Almost, button me up please?" She asked as she turned and adjusted the dress.
"Aye love, but I meant are ye ready to get our son back," he smirked as his fingers caressed her bare back.
"Aye Jack, I'm ready to have my boy back."
"Just don't get out of my sight no matter what, you're not up to your old strength yet."
"I've got enough strength to deal with those rotten pieces of filth," she growled as she thought of the treatment her son would have received.
"Aye love, but save some for the rest of us." Rena smiled slyly and kissed him before he could say more.
"I will," she murmured, her lips still pressed to his, then she turned and walked out of the cabin, the charade would begin soon.
Things were going to smoothly. Alan knew something wasn't quite right, her senses were screaming at her to attack instead of standing prim and proper on the deck of the paradise. They knew, they must know, even without the black sails the Pearl looked positively piratey, and she was sure the Paradise didn't look much better.
"They don't know anything love, stop worrying so much," Davin murmured as he passed her. A smile curved her lips, he knew her too well already.
They were docking in Bursa, one of the largest ports in Turkey.She had been expecting them to open fire as soon as they came within cannon distance, but they were being excepted as trade vessels and everything was going as planned.
Alan twitched in the dress she wore, she had wanted to stay in her boys garb, but both her father and Davin had insisted that she wear a dress. "You look stunning darlin," Davin had murmured after she had donned the offending garment. It had taken everything she had not to bash him on the side of the head, but after complimenting her he had moved just out of her reach anyway and stood there with a damned smirk on his face, she couldn't help but laugh and walk away with promises of retribution later.
The Pearl was docked before them, and she saw a little man rush over to speak with someone, she was happy to see her mother move to receive him. Jack could speak Turkish, most on the Pearl could in fact, but the plan was Saihrena and Alan were interpreters for the ships and everyone was sticking to it. The little man walked up the gangplank and everyone pointed to Saihrena when he spoke to them, pretending ignorance.
The Paradise crew had no idea how to speak Turkish however, so Alan truly would be the interpreter for them, Davin had been astounded to learn Alan knew Turkish, as did most of the Pearl, she hadn't told him, yet, how many other languages she spoke.
She felt the ship pull to a stop and watched as the crew pulled in the sails, then let down their gangplank in anticipation of the little man who was finishing up with the Pearl and moving off the ship. He headed towards them and Alan went over her story silently, they were traders on a voyage with their sister ship the Lady, their name was the Hawk. They were trading her to buy silks and spices to take back to England and her name was Elizabeth, in reference to their dear friend Mrs. Turner.
The little man hurried up and she walked to meet him. She saw the scorn in his eyes as he spoke to one of the men, who just shrugged and pointed to Alan.
"You are the translater for this vessel?" He asked skeptically.
"Yes I am, my name is Elizabeth Swan, you spoke with my mother on the Lady," Alan said with a smile, pretending she didn't notice the look of loathing he gave her. Women were looked at as possessions, not capable of doing anything for themselves, it annoyed him to have to speak to her. "And you are?"
"I am the Dockmaster Jurulu, what is your business here?"
"We have come to buy spices and silks for sale in England master Jurulu, we will be staying a weeks time and then we will be on our way."
"Stay out of trouble and make sure if you stay longer that you pay me more, otherwise your ship will be taken as property of the Sultan."
Alan bowed as she motioned Davin over to pay the man. "We will good sir, how much for the week?" He gave a price that sounded more than fair and she slipped back into English to tell Davin. Davin paid him Jurulu turned and left.
"Now what?" Davin murmured.
"Now I get out of this cursed dress and we go to the palace," Alan murmured under her breath.
"Need some help love?" Davin smirked.
"No, if you help me we'll never get off this ship," she laughed and walked away. They had made it past the hard part, now all that was left was to break into the Palace, get to the concubines quarters and take back her brother, simple.
Thought I was dead did you? Well you were wrong! Here's another chapter for those of you still interested in this story. I have decided to finish it, there will be about 2-4 chapters left I think, might take more I shall see how it goes. Anyway I hope you guys will forgive me for not finishing it last time I came back, but… well… things got pretty hectic there for a while. You guys know how it is I'm sure. So my ultimate plan is to finish this story and then go on to finishing A New World, after that is done I will probably disappear never to return again.
Some people have asked me if I have stories on Fiction Press, I don't anymore, but if you guys would like me to I can put something up on it.
As always please review if you read this, my other story, The Slave Girl, has over 400 reviews, this one is seriously lacking. I would like to hit at least 200, so if you guys haven't reviewed some chapters feel free to go back and review them, and then come review this chapter hehe. Anyway I hope you all enjoyed this, I'll try and have another chapter up tomorrow or maybe even by the end of the day today, depends how much free time I end up having.
Love for all the people that have stuck with me!
