Thanks: To Jackie, who has done fine job with translation :)

Hot winds of the Caribbean 2

Chapter 5

I lay on Jack's arms naked. From the holes of the cave's roof I concluded it had to be a day. More light came on them than earlier. I considered a moment if one could climb out through them, but they seemed to be too high and some of the holes were too small even for me.

I rose to sit and grabbed my clothes which were all over the place around us. For a moment I looked at my only bra which were lately felt a bit tight and finally threw them away. I put trousers and shirt on me. Last I slid my boots on.

Jack growled something undefined beside me, apparently he was still asleep. I slid my fingers through my messy hair and missed a comb. If this continued, I would end up with dreadlocks also. I laughed at my own thought. How would I look then? I doubted strongly that dreadlocks didn't suit to my face features.

I felt lonely and turned to Jack. I had to shook him a while before he agreed to open his eyes.

"What's it, luv? Need a second round, eh?" he laughed. I couldn't help smiling.

"Actually I thought we could try to find a way out from here. I suppose one can get here another way than by water?" I said.

"Likely possible", Jack answered and rose to sit.

While Jack was putting his clothes on I went to wander in the cave without purpose where to go. It was quite large and full of treasures. Suddenly I tripped and fell on something. That something cracked nastily and it smelled awful. I rose keeping myself up with my arms and took a closer look where I had fell on, and I screamed with horror. Here was a body of a man! I jumped farther from a frozen body.

"Luv, what's wrong?" I heard Jack's voice further.

"He... Here is a corpse", I managed to say. I got shivers, but I couldn't stop staring at the lifeless man. Obviously he had been a pirate. You could tell it by his clothes.

Jack walked behind me and stayed to look at the corpse. A strange expression rose on his face.

"Barbossa. Obviously no one had cared to drag his body away", he noted dryly.

"You know… knew him?" I wondered. How could Jack be so calm if he had known the dead man?

"Aye. Shot 'im meself", the answer was.

"You did what?" I cried out. Somehow I had imagined Jack wouldn't kill anyone, although he was a pirate. However, he had just said he had killed this man.

"Shot 'im. He was my first mate, but he betrayed me. For betrayers and mutineers have only one place", Jack said coldly.

Jack's voice made me shiver. I found it very shocking that he had killed a man. My Jack was a murderer and the thought didn't felt very comfortable. Definitely it would take time before I could melt the thought. On the other hand he was a pirate, and I shouldn't even expect him to be Snow White.

I walked slowly away from the man's corpse. Its smell made me sick and I was afraid I would vomit. Soon Jack came after me.

"Have you killed a lot of people?" I asked strictly. Now that skeletons had dropped from the closet, I might as well dig up the rest of them.

"No. Barbossa's the only one", Jack answered. A real hate was in his voice, when he said aloud the dead man's name.

I didn't have time to think about Jack's words more, because a low sound carried in to our ears. Like someone had talked. Jack grasped my arm and we started to walk slowly towards the voice. I saw a blazing light a bit further ahead, which definitely came from torch.

"Well then, let's go back", a low man's voice said.

A smile lit on Jack's face. He walked briskly towards the light and I followed after him.

"Langley! Creighton!" Jack shouted after stepping in the light. The men, who were standing in the light, jumped. They looked at us a disbelief expression on their face.

"That's… Cap?" Creighton cried out.

"Damn it! We thought ye and yer lass died on that island", Langley muttered. "Welcome back!"

Both men squeezed Jack's hand and slammed his back. Then Langley held out his hand to me also. I grabbed it unsure, although man's gesture made me feel home.

"Welcome back missy! We've missed ye also!" man said and smiled his half-tooth smile. I smiled back at him and then grasped Creighton's hand. I could honestly say I belonged to Black Pearl's crew.

Jack wanted to know immediately were John and Barcley still sailing on Pearl. Langley started to lead us towards narrow cave and at the same told both Barcley and John had got off from ship in Tortuga. Jack clenched his hands to fist and looked furious.

"We're gonna look for 'em immediately", he said with merciless voice.

"I'm afraid that's impossible, Cap", Creighton said. "Anamaria just left few days ago with Pearl to Tortuga to fill up rum and food supplies. We've been on this island for quite long now."

Jack looked even angrier because of the delay. We would have to wait Anamaria to come back at least few days on this godforsaken island. Jack's face had something really scary and I didn't dare to say anything.

A bright light blinded me when we stepped out from the cave. We had arrived to a mountainside. When my eyes got used to the sunlight, I saw a small shack village down on beach. I seemed like it barely stuck up together. We started to walk towards the village silently.

When we arrived on beach, I saw the buildings were really flimsy. I didn't believe they would hold the storm. However, I didn't have time to think about pirates' building skills, because the men on beach gathered around us. All were happy and amazed at the same time when they had their captain back. Soon after we were downright pushed to one of the buildings. Someone uncorked a rum bottle and put it around. Jack started to tell what had happened. Though he embellished his story quite a lot. However, I didn't care to point out about the matter.

When men heard the truth about John and Barcley, an angry look rose on their face also. Everyone cursed those two to the deepest circle of Hell. The conversation turned on that what would they do to those two betrayers after they were caught. I stayed to listen them for a moment, but then I wandered out of the building.

I walked to shallows, took my boots off and let the waves to wash my foot. The water of the Caribbean was warm. I started to walk forward along the beach. My pantlegs got wet, but I didn't care for such a small detail. After a while I sat on sand and stayed to stare at to sea sinking sun. It was hard to imagine more beautiful sight than that.

I enjoyed the show of nature as long as it lasted. When darkness started to set, I rose again on my feet and started to walk back to shack village. Now men had gathered outside by fire to drink rum and romp between them. Although the sight got me on good mood, I wanted to go to sleep. I asked one of the men was there any free bed and he guided me to one of the shack buildings. In the "house" was only one room and there wasn't other furniture beside the bed and a small table. However, that was enough for me quite well. When the man left the shack, I undressed myself and slid under a bit mildew smelling blanket.

After few hours I woke up that someone came into the building. I tugged the blanket better around me and tiredly rose to sit on bed. After recognizing it was Jack I sighed and went down back to lie. I watched Jack's movements, when he put his weapons on table and then took off his clothes. Although I was tired, the view was pretty interesting so I couldn't simply shut my eyes and go back to sleep. After a moment Jack crawled next to me and threw his arms around me in familiar way. Although Jack's gesture made me feel safe, I couldn't sleep anymore. I couldn't help thinking what would have happened to us if part of Jack's crew weren't on the island. I stared at the wall of the wooden building sunken in my thoughts.