In the next hour, the oompa loompas, Edward, Willy and Jack silently made their way back to Delores.
"well that was a blast!" Willy said.
Jack and Edward sat silent in the boat. They missed Sam already.
"oh come on guys! We've still got to take you home, you'll see Sam again someday.
"You're right, no time to sulk now. Let's go!" Jack said, standing up in the boat and pointing out to sea.
Edward smiled at his pose and Willy came aboard.
"okay, who's next? Edward, how about you? Where do you live?" Willy asked.
Edward looked down at his feet and quietly said, "I don't know where I live, I've got no place to go,".
Jack raised his eyebrows and shrugged saying, "well I'd be much obliged of you'd drop me off at Tortuga, savvy?"
"Tor-tu-ga?" Willy asked, "where's that?"
"in the Caribbean mate" Jack said grinning.
"wow! Well, we're gonna need a bigger boat! That'll take us days to get there!" Willy said, whipping his gloved hand out towards the ocean.
"I know exactly what you mean! That's why I have decided to commandeer one of these here local vessels, savvy?" Jack said pointing to a bay where at least a dozen yachts boobed in the water.
"alright mates listen up. Willy, you and your little friends stay here and wait. Edward, you come with me, I may need you to pick a lock or two," Jack said with his captain voice.
Edward and Jack calmly walked to the dock, surveying their surroundings. No one was around.
"alright, we don't want to make that big of a scene, so we need to get a small boat. There's only …….15.…16.…17...18, 18 of us and we don't take up that much space, so if we could just find a boat small enough…..there!" Jack finally said, pointing to a small boat. It had three sails, looked a little old, but it would do just fine.
Jack crept up the dock to the boat and with a quick glance around, climbed gracefully inside. He checked the deck and no one was there.
"Edward, come 'ere" Jack said, softly calling to Edward, who was staring at a seagull perched atop a wooden stump.
Edward walked up the deck to the boat.
"Jack, are we stealing?" Edward asked, quickly recalling the time he broke into Jim's house with Kim.
"no Edward, we're just, uh, BORROWING, yes, it's not stealing," Jack said.
Edward lifted one leg over the side of the boat but lost his balance and he tripped and tumbled inside the boat, landing on his bottom. He stood up with an expression of pain and apology on his face. Jack couldn't help but grin and he beckoned Edward to him. Edward and Jack approached the door leading below deck. It was unlocked.
Slowly, Jack crept down the stairs with Edward following close behind. The wooden stair squeaked at the weight of Jacks foot, and he leapt backwards, bumping into Edward. Jack made a face of embarrassment and Edward smiled, quite amused.
They reached the landing and no one appeared to be around. There was a small kitchen in one corner and a few bunk beds on the opposite wall. A small table sat in the middle of the room with a stack of books sitting on it.
"nice, very nice," Jack said, nodding with satisfaction as his eyes searched the room.
Jack snuck around through the room, opening every door and checking every corner.
"well, no one's here," he finally said, plopping down on the bottom bunk.
Edward approached the stack of books and scanned over the titles. There was nothing he'd heard of before, they looked like foreign books from France or Italy.
"what about Willy?" Edward asked.
Jack was n the refrigerator, apparently "taking inventory" as it were. He found some wine on the side door and with wide eyes, lifted it up from its place, uncorked it and took a long swig. He put it back and answering Edward said, "what about him?".
"well, we have to go get him. And the oompa loompas too," Edward said.
"nah, nah, they can stay here. What do we need to bring them for?" Jack said.
"But Jack! They're my friends!" Edward said, coming a little closer to Edward.
"I know I know, we'll go get him. But you know that Willy guy, he wouldn't know where to find Tortuga if it hit him in the back of the head," Jack said.
Edward made a face of fear and alarm and rose his scissors. Jack felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck and all went black.