Fearless
"So what's it going to be?" I asked for the second time as Thomas squirmed in the Kraken's grasp. He muttered something I couldn't hear and I asked.
"What did you say?" I asked loudly as he cursed and I smiled.
"I said you win." And with that he dropped the last clue, it hit the deck gently. I bent over and picked it up briefly looking it over to make sure it was a phony, seeing the writing I could tell it was real. I held it and said.
"Jack." I heard footsteps and someone took the paper, I then felt Jacks hand go around my waist and he whispered into my ear.
"You really are wicked love." My smirk got bigger as I laughed. Jack let go of me and walked back to the railing. I mock bowed to Thomas and said.
"Pleasure doing business with you." I turned back to everyone else and said.
"Let's go." They nodded and started heading back to our ships.
"Wait!" Thomas screamed. I turned around and raised an eyebrow.
"What?" I asked annoyed, we won give up already.
"Aren't you going to let me down?" I pretended to think about it before shrugging. I whistled very loudly and a second later Thomas flopped onto the deck, hard. The Kraken's tentacle went below the sea.
"Happy now?" I asked sarcastically, and without waiting for an answer I swung my way onto the Dutchman's deck. We set sailed and I was happy when Thomas's ship was a blob in the distant. I turned to Jack, Elizabeth, and Will who were talking. I walked over and said.
"So have you guys got the map together yet?" They all shook their heads no. I sighed and held out my hands. They all looked at me confused.
"Give me the clues so I can figure it out." They handed the clues over to me and I sat down on the deck and Jack laughed.
"Darling what are you doing?"
"Figuring out how to get this map together, it's just like a puzzle so it shouldn't be too hard." I remarked as I flipped the pieces up so all their writings were facing the sky.
"I couldn't even figure it out and I'm Captain Jack Sparrow." Will snorted and Jack shot him a glare. I looked at the tears on each paper and tried to match it up, when I finally got them together, I looked up to see the three of them all fighting over something or another.
"Shut up!" They all looked down at me, and then at the map. Elizabeth's mouth formed an O.
"What?" I asked as I looked down, the map pieces started to glow and come together, and then a blinding light came. I brought my hands to my eyes to protect my vision and when it was finally gone there lay the map all together. Ink started coming up forming sea's and islands and towns all around the map, and once it was done I looked up at Jack and said.
"Well looks like I topped the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow." He only nodded as he picked up the map cautiously; I was a little disappointed that he didn't respond to my jest. What's the point of a jest when they don't even try to fight back? Will offered me his hand and he pulled me up, and he kept an arm around me as we looked at the map.
"Where are we suppose to go?" Elizabeth asked after several moments of silence. Jack pointed to a spot where an island was with an X on it.
"It doesn't seem to far away from here does it?" I asked looking over the map. I was scanning the page when I saw the writing on the sea, it read Dutchman and Black Pearl, the writings were moving and going in the same direction as us.
"Do you guys see that?" I asked pointing at the writings. Jack looked at me weird and said.
"See what darling?" I rolled my eyes at his stupid mistake.
"There it says Dutchman and Black Pearl and it is going in the direction of which we are going, Will you see it right?" I asked turning to my husband knowing he would back me up. But he looked just as confused as Jack.
"Emily there is nothing there." I turned back to the map and replied quietly.
"But I…I see it." I said looking over the map.
"Whoever can put the map together will be the only one to find there way to the island for it is invisible except to the holder itself." We all looked at Ragetti who was standing in front of us.
"How did you know that?" Elizabeth asked skeptical, Ragetti laughed like the answer was obvious.
"Because it says so on the back of the map." We turned the map around to indeed find those same words.
"Well love, looks like you are the one leading us to the stone, good luck." Jack said giving the map to me as he walked back to the Pearl, Elizabeth behind him. I sighed and leaned against the railing. Why did I have to lead everyone to the island to get the stone?
"Are you ok Emily?" Will asked standing next to me, he put an arm around my shoulders and I leaned into him.
"No, I don't want to lead everyone to the stone. " I said and he chuckled.
"Well I'm sorry love but it looks like you have to." I groaned and snuggled more into Will.
"But what if I am wrong and I lead us on a wild goose chase?' I asked turning towards Will.
"Well I doubt it can be worse then what we've been through before know, I mean a psycho kangaroo, nothing can be worse then that." I laughed at Will's joke; I knew he was just trying to make me feel better. I hugged him and whispered.
"Thank you."
"Anytime." He whispered into my ear, I could have stayed like that forever but a cough behind us made me get out of his arms. I glared at Jack who just smirked.
"Darling we need a heading and since you're the only one who could give it, so where are we going?" I looked down at the map and saw that the island was west of us.
"We have to go west." Jack nodded and yelled out orders to his crew as Will yelled our orders to ours. The rest of the today went slowly, because I had to watch the map to make sure we were going in the right direction at all times. And Jack wasn't helping anything by coming over to me every five minutes asking the same question.
"Are we there yet?" I was really regretting giving him immortality, because now I couldn't strangle him to death. Right now the sun was close to setting and I saw Elizabeth by the railing on the Pearl. I still hadn't apologized yet and I was really feeling guilty about the things I had said to her. So I quietly made my way onto the Pearl's deck and over to her.
"Room for one sorry friend?" I asked as she turned around and raised an eyebrow. I gave her my puppy dog eyes and with the lip quiver which is the perfect guilt combo and she nodded. I walked over to the railing and leaned against it as the sun went down.
"I'm sorry for the other night." I said after several moments of silence.
"Don't be I deserved it." I was about to talk but she held up her hand and I shut up.
"I know what I did was wrong and I should have told Will instead of keeping it from him and making him think it was his fault. It's just I was going to tell him when he visited me but he then told me what had happened between you two and I got mad. I know that sounds bad coming from me. But I mean it was Will. Sweet, loving, gentle Will."
"He isn't always gentle, especially in the bedroom." I said interrupting and she laughed.
"Too much information Emily." She said while blushing.
"Back to what I was saying, I had never thought Will would ever cheat on me. I knew if there was a cheater in our marriage it would have been me, so I was just so mad that I ran off and he left thinking he had killed our marriage when I had done it ten years before. But know that I know you, I can see why Will did cheat on me with you." I blushed and looked down.
"What do you see?" I asked hesitantly.
"You and Will are great with each other, when I see you two together you're both glowing and happy and there is so much love in your eyes. I am glad Will found someone he could love." I smiled at her comments and looked out at the sea.
"Are we friends again?" I asked and Elizabeth asked.
"Yes we are friends again."
"Good." I said as I hugged her. When we pulled apart I said.
"I better head back to the Dutchman it's going to be a long night." I said as I started walking.
"How so?" I grabbed the map out of my pocket and held it up.
"I have to stay up all night to make sure we get there properly." Elizabeth nodded in sympathy for me. As I made my way to the Dutchman I ran into Anamaria and Jack who were standing very close together and looking very happy. I smiled at them as I got back on the Dutchman. I headed to my cabin to find it empty. I walked over to the map table and grabbed a stool and sat down and set the map out. Looking at it more carefully I saw other images moving, the sea's had small waves, rocking towards the Dutchman and Pearl. And other ships were around; I saw Thomas's ship sailing off towards the Americas. Heck even the Kraken was on the map, swimming beneath us. This was a very strange map. I lit a candle as I looked down at it, if we kept going at this speed we should reach it sometime tomorrow. I sighed as I watched the map, I grabbed a book that had been lying on the couch and sat back down at the table and started reading, looking occasionally at the map.
"You should go to bed." Will said behind me as he massaged my shoulders, I moaned in pleasure but said.
"I would love to, but I have to watch the map." Will looked over my shoulder and said.
"What do you see?" I pointed to where our ships where.
"We are right there, and there is the island." I said pointing to the island. Will nodded even though I knew he didn't get what was going on.
"There's Thomas's ship all the way over that, and there's the Kraken and here are the waves." I looked up at Will to find him looking very confused.
"I guess you can't see those things either." I said and he nodded.
"I wish I did though love, so I could help you." I only nodded and yawned.
"Why don't you go to bed, I doubt we will go far off course." Will said and I was very tempted, believe me I was. But I shook my head and no and gave him a soft kiss.
"I want to but I can't, why don't you go to sleep, sleep for the both of us." Will looked skeptical.
"But what about you?"
"Believe me I will be watching the map, and you will fall asleep anyway so just go now."
"I can't help but feel bad that I will sleep and you will sit here." He said holding my hands and kissing them. I gave a small smile.
"You are too sweet love, but I want you to go to sleep for me, please?" He finally nodded and kissed my softly and went to get ready for bed.
"Goodnight love." He called out gently to me and I smiled and replied.
"Goodnight my captain." Soon enough I heard soft snored coming from our bed, lucky him.
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Hours later I looked out the window to see the sun rising. I was tired; I had been up all night looking at a stupid map. But luckily we were close to the island, very close in fact. I stood up and took the map and walked quietly out of the cabin and up to the deck, I walked to the front of the ship and saw off in the distance the island.
(Please R and R! I do not own Pirates.)