It was very early in the morning, but Elinor felt so bad for ignoring Jessie the other night that she couldn't get back to sleep. So she decided to check on Jessie, see if she was doing all right. Poor dear, even if she was acting like a wild woman, she didn't deserve to be ignored for a night, Elinor thought while hastily getting dressed. She didn't even put her usual attire on, which was a fancy dress that Elinor knew made Jessie sick to her stomach. She just slipped a robe on and walked down the hall swiftly towards Jessie's room. She knocked lightly on Jessie's door, but nobody answered so Elinor assumed Jessie was still asleep. She opened the door quietly and peeked in, but she saw no Jessie! "Jessica? Jessica Ann?" Elinor called out loudly, but she heard no answer. She walked inside the bedroom and looked in every nook and cranny. Elinor surely would be upset if she was left to fend for herself for a whole night! So why not Jessica? Elinor asked herself. She might be downstairs, or even hiding somewhere. That's all. Elinor thought, trying to comfort herself.
Elinor then darted down the stairs; fear of what had happened to Jessie led her to forget that a lady never darts down the stairs. Elinor found Mary and Harmony in the library dusting the books that hadn't been opened since who knows when. "Mary, Harmony, have you seen Jessica anywhere?" she asked franticly. "No" both the maids replied. "Not since last night, when we prepared her for the ball." Mary explained. Elinor didn't even say thank-you; she just darted back up the stairs and started to get dressed in her bedroom. She probably was kidnapped, that isn't such a big deal. I'll offer a reward for her safe return and everything will be back to normal. Unless…unless… she ran away. Elinor thought and gasped, but why would Jessie run away? She had everything she could ever want here in Port Royal.
Elinor finished getting dressed, and in record time. She walked down the stairs, trying to calm herself down. Jessica did not run away. That's a preposterous thought. Elinor kept saying to herself. She opened the door and the shut it, and it made that same thump as it had the other night when Jessie had escaped from her dreaded life. I thought that noise last night was just a bird, flying into one of those windows again…was it Jessica? No, no, no! Elinor, don't you dare think like that. It had to be just one of those stupid birds, Elinor told herself.
First, Elinor went to the governor's household, out of all the nice young lady's Elinor tried to get Jessie to make friends with, Elizabeth was the most of an actual friend to Jessie. Although Elinor still knew that Jessie would pick Liberty, that street rat, over Elizabeth any day. But Elinor would never talk to that, that, street girl. Never. Elinor waited and waited for Elizabeth to come down those stairs, it seemed forever to Elinor. But in actuality, it was about five minutes. "Dear, have you seen Jessica lately?" Elinor asked Elizabeth, it was a simple and direct question, so Elinor thought it should work if Elizabeth knew anything. "No, I haven't" Elizabeth replied simply. Elinor wanted to strangle the girl, not because she thought she was lying, but because she was almost positive Elizabeth would know something.
Elinor's next stops were to many of the guests at the ball last night, if Jessica had gotten along with one of the guests, and was planning to run away, she would of told him, Elinor thought to herself. And then I'll just get the gentleman to confess whatever Jessica said, Elinor thought to herself. Elinor had gone to all of the guest's houses except one, and nobody knew anything. She was talking to the last guest that attended the ball last night about how Jessie had disappeared when she heard a voice in the background say something to her. "Has she ever had her long black hair in a braid, and a red bandanna on?" the voice said. "Excuse me," she told the gentleman she was talking to and turned to see who the voice belonged to. It was that boy who had been rumored of being found in the ocean. What's his name? Walt? No. Dill? No. Will? Yes, yes, I think that's it. "Yes, she has done her hair like that occasionally." Elinor said, but wished she hadn't. The only time she had done that was when she was playing 'pirate'. "I saw her last night. I woke up around midnight and couldn't get to sleep again, I took a walk outside and a girl like I just described walked into Mr. Brown's blacksmith shop. She was wearing pirate cloths and when she left, I went back into the shop and a sword, belt, pistol and some additional shots and powder were gone. I guess she stole them. Last I saw her she was running towards the docks. By time I saw she stole some things, she was long gone." Will said all at once, trying to give as much detail as he could, it was a full moon that night, but he still didn't see that much. Elinor shrieked in fright and just left Will and the man she had been talking to and swiftly walked away. "What'd I say wrong?" Will asked himself.
She had pirate cloths on, she stole a sword, belt, pistol and some additional shots and powder AND she was running toward the docks. Who knows where she is now! That girl. She just couldn't become a nice proper lady. No, oh no. She had to follow the footsteps of her parents and brother, Elinor said to herself. She was furious. How dare Jessica just run away like that! I'll get back that girl back if it's over my dead body, Elinor told herself. Elinor started running through the main street of Port Royal screaming at the top of her lungs, "Commodore Rheese, Commodore Rhesse! Jessica has been kidnapped, kidnapped by pirates!"
Soon a hefty, broad-shouldered man came out of a house and made his way towards Elinor. "Elinor, what's wrong?" he asked. Elinor was quite surprised he called her Elinor, but didn't make a fuss out of it like she usually would. "Jessica, Jessica has been kidnapped by pirates!" she said out of breath. Elinor was a surprisingly good liar. Commodore Matthew Rhesse tried to calm down Elinor, but Elinor continued to blabber on about non-sense. "Calm down Elinor, calm down. Lieutenant Norrington, some trustworthy sailors and myself will search for Jessica. And we'll punish the pirates who kidnapped her to the fullest extent of the law. There's nothing to worry about." Matthew said in a calming voice. Elinor, even though not really upset about anything, was calmed down. How can a man that large have such a calming voice, Elinor thought to herself.
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