Chapter 8: Doubts

It wasn't long till Will Turner had the maps out, once they had all seemed to try and get Jack to the agreed to go to Brethren court meeting.

She and him were obviously the only ones against it but they both had quite different reasons for not wanting to go. He wanted to run away, she wanted her kids.

"We can restock there." Will told them as they came up an island.

"Why don't you lead the shore party and I stay with my ship." said Jack.

"I won't be leaving yer in charge of my ship." Hector defended himself.

For Helen, it wasn't only the sea which was new to here. It was this side of her lover. Up till now she had only ever seen him when he had been visiting her, she thought him very different when he was on the Pearl.

"Why don't you both go ashore and leave the ship in my command temporally." Said Will.

Neither captains seemed too thrilled by the idea but agreed to it none the less. Certainly it was more agreeable than one of them going and the other staying behind.

"Are you going to come ashore?" asked Hector.

"I don't really think I should. I might get so happy to be back on land that I refuse to return to the ship," Helen joked.

"Very well, then I shall see you in a while." He said as they lowered the long boat long boat.

"Helen, Elizabeth can you both go below deck and sort the cargo out. You know how to store it?" asked William to the women he loved. "Then you can show Helen?" he asked.

To both questions she had nodded.

"Seems all this captain stuff had gone to Will's heads." Said Elizabeth bitterly as they arrived in the level below the top one.

Helen, feeling it was not her place to pass judgement or agree stayed silent.

Elizabeth realised at that moment she knew little about the woman they had saved the night before. Asides from that, they were the only two women aboard the Pearl. They'd be on the same wave length. They should talk. Also it helped keep her mind off her father, and the Brethren Court, there was so much going on.

"So you come from Tortuga?" she asked.

"Yes. Though originally I crossed from England." She told her.

"How long ago?"

"A while now. It must be getting on for fourteen years," she worked out in her head. If she had and the twins ten years ago and had met Hector twelve years back, she had been there for about two years before. "Yes fourteen years."

"I don't mean to put it down but I have been to Tortuga, it can't be a very nice place to live, all the fighting." She commented.

"No, it isn't not always. But it is home to me now. It isn't all like the port is. There are some quiet areas of that island. I live in one of them, and just go to the port to work."

"Are you going to go back when all this is over?"
"Can you ever go back from some thing like this? Truth be told I don't know Elizabeth. I don't know any thing right now except Hector's word."

"And you trust it?"

"I have to, if not who can turn too?" she asked and Elizabeth nodded guessing that was a fair comment. She had never been to sea before, and yet here she was what felt millions of miles from home.

She could only trust the one thing she knew.

To restore the cargo that had survived the journey was no easy to job. It was rather heavy and the other members of the crew who had been sleeping in the deck below helped the two girls before the task was done.

Going back on to top death though both Helen and Elizabeth were shocked see they had why you might call guests

"There from Singapore." Elizabeth realised having seen them before. "Captain Sao Feng what are you doing here?" she asked and was shocked to have one of there pirates man handle her.

Helen was the next to be taken. One on each arm they held her.

"Get off me!" she roared, not understanding any thing that was going on.

She struggled against them angrily. They had no right to do this to her.

"Its ok Helen." she heard Will say to her.

"There is nothing bloody ok about this, get off of me." she yelled at them.

"What be going on here then." Said Hector as he got back to the ship, him Jack and the shore party, having returned and the first thing he heard was his love screaming like a banshee. "Sag Feng is an odd coincidence you turning up here." He said to his fellow pirate lord.

"Get them to let go of me Hector!" Helen yelled at him, feeling clearly distressed by the whole thing.

"Neither Elizabeth nor Helen were part of any deal." said will to Sao Feng and he nodded.

"You heard Captain Turner," he said to his men.

"What?" asked Barbossa. Who the hell was Captain Turner he thought to himself as he saw Helen rush to his side.

"I need the pearl to free my father it is the only way," said Will to every one else. He had committed the mutiny.

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"How long is it going to tare to get to Shipwreck cove?" asked Helen late that night.

Hector had observed a change in her that day. For the first time she had heard the roar of the Pearls guns, and she had seen men die. She had been unable to defend herself. And she had been afraid. But with Will on another ship those swordsmen classes were not going to materialize now.

"Tomorrow evening the pirates be gathering." He said to her.

The two of them had retreated to the Captains cabin. Hopefully the journey should be easier now he thought to himself.

She nodded blankly.

"I know yer were panicked by terday." He said as he went to where she was sitting and brushed the hair away from her face, so it run down her face. "And I hate ter say it but yer are just going to have ter get used to it, at least for the time being. This is our life right now." He told her.

"But at the end of it are we going to still have our lives." She said to him fearfully. For all her passion, she could only do what she knew. And yet she knew nothing of this pirate life. She had just been thrown in to this adventure so unaware. It was jointly the greatest and the worst thing she felt that had ever happened to her.

"We will. When I met Elizabeth she was as inexperienced as you be now, and she survived her captive." He said to her, failing to mention that capture had been him. "And the battle she was thrown in to. Listen to me Helen. If we go in to any sort of battle yer have a sword. Hopefully instinct will kick in."

"And if not?"

"I be there to protect you."

"You are going to be fighting for your own life," she shook her head.

"In that case my sweet you must find your own courage." He said to her.

"Hector will you make me a promise?" She asked. Slowly, he nodded.

"If I cant, go back to the kids – "

"None of that we be having tonight. We are going to be both going for them." he said to her gently.

"There may be no need to fight." She said and he nodded, but he doubted it.

There eyes met quite suddenly. He remembered what a plain little thing she was at times. But at that moment, if she were set next to the most beautiful women in the world, still he would have her.

Bringing her hand up, she lay in it on his chest gently, and it was not long till her fingers had wound themselves round the fabric of his shirt, and she was eagerly pulling him towards him, desiring his love once again.

"I need you tonight." She muttered to him gently.

"Then stop yer talking," he said. Suddenly, it was as if they were the people they had been ten years before once again.

Nothing had changed.

-

The next days sail was cooler. Probably because Turner was no longer aboard she thought to herself. His actions seemed – self-centred.

She knew he had done it for his father. But what about the rest of them? But didn't those sort of thought make her self centred as he was. She knew if it was Hector who was trapped she would want the twins to try and save him if they could.

But wasn't every ones actions self centred? Mutiny was a common thing here she reminded her self.

She didn't understand a lot of it. It made it harder for her.

That day she had been taught some of the basics, or some of them, of what needed to be done on a ship by some of the crew. If she was going to be on the crew then she had to pull her weight, they had been clear on that and she had been happy to help.

As she worked she was very aware of Hector's eyes in her. No doubt working out his next ploy to get her to stray on board when all this was over. And maybe she would. The only way to cure her fear was by facing it maybe...

"You know what you must do today." He heard a voice in his ear.

"Yes I know."

"Just makes sure you do because if not, what I gave back to you can be taken back again just as easy."

The words Tia was saying he knew to be true. And they chilled him to his bones. He remembered the years they had been apart. He was inclined to believe they had been the worse of his life. He did not intend to go back to being with out her again. In fact he knew he wasn't going to because he was never going to let her go. His obsession for her was as big as hers for him. It was rare he showed it as openly as she did though.

He turned angrily, his hand raised but she caught in and for a moment it turned too skeleton, reminding him of her power.

"Don't you forget why you had to being me back Calypso, it'll take nine pirates lords to free you, just as it took nine to bind you. Master Raghetti, Pintel," he called over to two of the crew. "Take this fish wife to the brig."

His wyes turned to see Helens on him. She looked shocked by the rashness which he had spoke to her.

He gave her a kind smile, or as kind as any smile from him could be but it was clear she had seen a side of him she had not before now.

Going over to her he sighed.

"Don't think any think of that Helen." He told her. He knew her. And he knew that if she had seen him in a confrontation with dome one she was going to worry. Especially when it was Calypso. She wasn't stupid. She had figured out some members of the crew had more power than others. She knew Calypso had some sort of magic about her.

"What did she do so bad that you had to send her to the brig." She asked.

"There are things in this world I don't think you understand or ever will. Don't worry about it."

"Then don't patronize me Hector." She said and continued with her work.

"I am not trying too."

"So don't fob me off." She said frustrated by him. She was well aware of the fact there was an age gap between the two of them. But it was far easier to handle when he was not acting as a father would towards his daughter.

"You're really beautiful when you're angry." He told her to make her forget the fight.

The most annoying thing for her was it worked.

It had been a truly beautiful day over the Caribbean and as Shipwreck Cove at long last came in to view, Helen thought it a very beautiful place. It was lit up with fire, and the ships that must have been destroyed there had been used to make a fortress.

It struck her that she had ore judged it as an ugly place when she had heard the name. How wrong she had been.

Maybe how she had been wrong about Hector. These last few days had been very thoughtful ones for her. She had never had an issue trusting what he had been saying to her before. Bur what Elizabeth had said anything about it to her, and then suddenly she had all these doubts creeping in.

How did she know she could trust him?

The previous night has been good. But had it been love? She had ever questioned it before.

He was the father of her children but was that all he was or should be to her?

The real Hector Barbossa was a pirate. Not the family man she longed for him to be. She was going to have to square with that one day.

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An: sorry it has been a week but I have had exams to deal with. It might not be till next Friday I get the next chapter up.