New Beginnings: Chapter 15

Beckett was very unhappy. He had everything and then those idiots ruined it. He thought back to Danielle and smiled. He'd had fun with her. But he never got to torture Sparrow and make him watch. He was sure that Danielle had told him everything anyway. Sparrow was probably seething. He had heard, from the guards talking, that they had gone to see the king. He would never speak to pirates. He had better things to do. And King George would hang him.

The guards at the jail were pleased to have the Lord Cutler Beckett imprisoned, even though he had been stripped of his title. They mocked him openly and took his wig. He was just a regular man now. He smiled all day, pretending that none of this bothered him. Inside, he was boiling over with rage. But he smiled at his captors and listened to what they chose to say. Most of the time, though, they ignored him and talked about him as if he weren't there. The guards could hear him mumbling to himself when they were down the hall and just assumed that he'd snapped.

He had snapped. He hadn't quite gotten that he was going to be hanged.

He thought back to Christine. She was the king's illegitimate daughter by one of his maids. The king was always having affairs and no one paid any mind. She wasn't recognized as an official daughter, but she had high favor with the king. But she fell in love with Beckett, when he was just a captain. Beckett, on the other hand, fell in lust. She was beautiful: blond hair, blue eyes and porcelain skin.

She ran away with Beckett. She was disguised as a man and sailed with him to Jamestown in the Americas. They continued on from there and he was made Commodore. The king had no idea that she was with him. And no one knew that she was sick. She died of small pox on their was back to England. Beckett returned only to find out she held a ransom and was still being searched for. He returned her body to the king and told him that one of his men found her stowed away on his ship. He collected the reward and was made Lord. The only person who knew the truth was his first mate on the ship, the man who later became Commodore James Norrington.

Clearly Norrington is smarter than Beckett had thought. He must have gone to the king with the information recently. There was no other way that the king would know to arrest him. And the warrant stated that it was for stealing. 'What an interesting thought,' Beckett thought loudly in his head.

Beckett leaned against the back wall of his cell to watch the others. "Heathens," he hissed as he watched them beg for their freedom. No one paid any attention to him. No one cared.

He continued to smile his demonic smile and listened to the loud cries. He would get out, if it was the last thing he did.

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A/N: Okay, short chapter. I know. Its just a filler. I wrote it while I was sitting in class. I think it sucked, but I was bored...let me have it...

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