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Chapter 8
The next few days went too quickly for me. The crew had taken it to heart to get Clara off the ship, literally in Anamaria's case, they had been talking at the rail of the ship and Anamaria had taken the chance to push her overboard. To everyone's dismay Dad immediately took off his effects and dove in after her. Being our captain, we had to let him back up with Clara.
This particular day I was feeling rather mischievous. I was in a good mood after a passionate night with Oliver and I was currently thinking up plans to do something to Clara. My ideas were going as far as locking her in the brig when no one was watching and cutting up the clothes Dad had given her, so she could wear nothing, Elizabeth and Anamaria wouldn't give her any clothes so it was a possibility, but I think she might expect it.
After I tore Clara's clothes up and shoved the other clothes she had off the ship, I had locked mine up, I also locked the door to my cabin whenever I was not in it as well, so she had no chance of getting t my things. I laughed when images of Clara in her torn dress came racing through my head.
"What you laughing at?" came Elizabeth's voice from behind me. She was holding both twins so I motioned for her to give me one. She gave me Lily, who looked up and me, smiling, I gave her my finger to hold and she squeezed it.
"Clara" I answered Elizabeth's question.
"Oh" replied Elizabeth. "Lily really likes you doesn't she?" said Elizabeth.
"Well we're both Lily's aren't we, just like Jack gets on really well with Dad" I explained. "I think they know who we are" I added. Elizabeth laughed.
"Listen Lily I've thought of another plan, why don't we lock Clara in the brig, it's a long way down from the deck so Jack won't hear her shouting" Elizabeth said.
"Lizzy, you and I must share the same brain" I said, "let's get to it" I said. We came up with a plan and set about putting it into action. Lily and Jack were also involved in this plan.
Dad and Clara were at the helm, Elizabeth and I went over, each holding a twin.
"Hello luv" said Dad as he spotted us.
"Hi Dad" I replied. Dad turned his attention to Jack who was now in my arms.
"Hello little Jack, I can't wait for you to get walking and talking, because you know what? I'm going to teach you how to be a proper pirate my lad, and your sister too, she might even be a match for my Lily" he cooed.
"Jack" Elizabeth said, before she and I forgot what we were about to do. Just like we had planned, Clara immediately turned her attention to baby Lily.
"Oh Elizabeth she gets more adorable everyday" she said.
"I know" Elizabeth replied.
"And Jack's getting handsomer by the day"
"Thank you" Dad said, I couldn't help but laugh.
"Thank you Clara, would you like to put the twins down for a nap?" Elizabeth asked. Clara nervously glanced at me, I presume it was because every time she held one of the babies, I came and took them off her. I nodded my approval so that she might think she could trust me. Clara smiled and took Lily off Elizabeth. I was surprised at Lily, I had told her to cry when Clara held her but she wasn't, I'd have to talk to her later. It was a good job I was holding Jack because my arms were twitching to take Lily off Clara.
"I'd love to Elizabeth" replied Clara. We set off walking across the deck.
"We'll just go to the brig first, I need to tell Will we're putting the children down for a nap" Elizabeth said as she set off walking. We followed her, leaving Dad stood at the helm.
We went down the steps to the brig and pretended to look round for Will.
"Why would Will be down here?" asked Clara as we walked to the cells.
"Jack wanted him to fix one of the hinges on a cell door" Elizabeth replied. But I knew full well that Oliver and Will were up in the rigging seeing to the mast.
"Oh" Clara said. Elizabeth walked towards Clara.
"Could I just have Lily for a moment?" she said.
"Of course" replied Clara, handing Lily to Elizabeth.
"Oh look at that!" I cried unexpectedly, I pointed to a random piece of the cell next to me, like I could see something.
"What is it?" asked Clara, coming to stand by my side. I gave Jack to Elizabeth quickly before continuing.
"Look" I said, I motioned for her to follow me into the brig, and she did! I walked her to the back of the cell, leaving her bending over to see what I was pointing at; I ran back out of the cell before she stood up again, grabbed the keys from a hook on the wall and locked her in.
"Lily?" asked Clara when she saw me lock the door. "What are you doing? Let me out!" she cried. Elizabeth laughed as she passed Jack back to me.
"Elizabeth!" gasped Clara, "unlock the door, please" brilliant. She was pleading with us!
"Oh now Clara, I promise we'll come down later to give you some food and water" I said.
"Please, don't leave me down here!" she shouted
"Oh I will Clara, I will and I am, so get used to it, your not coming out of here unless Dad comes and gets you" I said.
"But…but why?" Clara wailed.
"I'm Lily Sparrow!" I said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Elizabeth and I made our way up to deck, laughing.
"What have you done now?" asked Oliver as he came up to us, Will was following him.
"Go and look for yourselves" Elizabeth said, by now the rest of the crew had come up to us, curious to know what was going on.
"Go and look where?" asked Will.
"The brig" I replied, everyone rushed down, pushing each other out of the way. If we could hear her, I bet Clara would be crying and screaming.
"One…two…three" counted Elizabeth. As she got to three, all of the crew came up laughing; Oliver was nearly in tears with laughter.
"You two did that…alone?" asked Anamaria.
"Yeah" said Elizabeth proudly.
"Well done!" said Bill
"Brilliant" muttered Will "absolutely brilliant!"
"Oh what about Jack?" asked Ben
"What about him?" I asked.
"Well wont he want to know where Clara is?" asked Richard.
"He might do, but we're not going to tell him are we?" I asked mischievously. The crew all laughed.
"No we're not" said Marty.
"Aye! If the captain asks, we haven't seen Clara all day" said Anamaria. The crew nodded and went back to work.
"And if Jack asks us…we haven't seen Clara since she put the twins down for a nap" mocked Elizabeth. We nodded in agreement and went to sit in the galley, each laughing at the thought of Clara sitting along in the brig, wailing to be let out. I knew it was only a matter of time before she got me back.
For some reason, as I was talking with Elizabeth, flashbacks of the woman from Tortuga getting beating up by her husband came flooding back to me.
"Where's Clara?" asked Dad's voice from behind us, bringing me out of my thoughts.
"I don't know" I said, keeping a straight face.
"we haven't seen her since she put Jack and Lily down for a sleep, and that was ages ago" said Elizabeth, she motioned towards the twins, so that Dad knew it had been a long time since the twins had awoken from said sleep.
"I'll go and ask Bill" said Dad as he made his way out of the galley.
Elizabeth and I burst out laughing. Dad would never think to check in the brig, and no one would dare tell him where she really was.
