Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Pirates of the Caribbean characters. Thorn and Livna belong to me.
Yup, here's the fourth chapter. Nothing much to say about this one, except that it's pretty short. Hope you like it.
"Come on Will, please?" Thorn's voice was insistent, hands clasped together in front of her. It appeared as though she had been badgering him like this for quite some time now. The two were standing out on deck near the door to Thorn's cabin. Thorn had conveniently positioned herself in front of Will so that he blocked the bright rays of sunlight streaming her way, preventing her from having to squint or go blind.
"Why can't you do it yourself?" Will inquired, knowing he was going to get the exact same answer he had gotten the first four times he asked.
"I could do it myself. Or, you could do it for me and save us both quite a bit of trouble." She counteracted, obviously not planning on backing down any time soon. "If you don't agree to do it for me, I'm going to continue trying to convince you for quite a while longer. If I don't succeed, I'm going to have to sneak into Jack's cabin tonight but you'll already be in there! He won't suspect anything if you're in there because you're always in there at night!" she persisted, sighing slightly. "Come on, Will, please?" She stared at him, unceasingly batting her dark eyelashes.
Will was silent for a moment longer, then sighed and shook his head. "The things I do for you, honestly." And he really had done a lot for her between the day she first joined the crew up to that very day. Since the day she had set foot on the Pearl, they had had what one might call a brother-sister relationship. He probably knew more about her than even her blood sister did.
Actually, she was positive that he did, because she told him things about her blood sister that she would never even dream of saying to Livna's face. She threw her arms around Will, smiling. "Thanks Will. I owe you!" she nearly squealed, letting go of him and stepping back. "Be careful though. I'll see you later tonight. Good luck!" Her words were rushed, but she couldn't help it. If it hadn't been made quite obvious already, Thorn loved proving people wrong. If Will succeeded in finding her the compass, she would be able to prove Livna wrong that very night. Something about this made her smile seem permanent once more.
Much later, Thorn had retreated to her cabin. She was alone in the room she shared with Livna, though she kind of hoped her sister would be joining her soon. She was lying on her back on her hammock, staring up at the ceiling and contemplating quite a few things in her mind. What was probably the most important of these things was if Will could actually find and take the compass, give it to her, she could get proof, return it to Will, and he could somehow manage to get it back exactly where it had been without Jack waking up and/or noticing anything. Now that she laid it out like that, it seemed a bit more complicated than it originally had…For a long moment she even thought about going and telling Will to just forget the whole thing. And then Livna walked in, and her mind was made up.
"Got that proof you were so lovingly discussing earlier?" she asked, easing herself into a laying position on the hammock across the room from Thorn, smirking slightly as she waited for an answer.
Thorn, not really wanting to tell her sister about the 'plan' she and Will had come up with, merely shrugged. "I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to discuss that right now." She replied, brow raised in subtle amusement. "But I can promise you that I'll have it by the end of the night."
This seemed to both satisfy Livna, as well as cause her anticipation. "But can you really prove me wrong?" she asked, rolling onto her other side so that her back was to Thorn. Now all there was left to do was wait.
Like I said, this chapter was pretty short xP I hope you liked it anyway! By the way, the next chapter is a bit long, so it makes up for this one!
