Author's notes – Chapter four! After this chapter, I won't be updating much. See, I was a bit stupid at school, and got the Internet banned at home during the week, so I won't be updating during the week. Only at weekends will I be able to update.
On the plus side, the updates will be a bit more regular. Every weekend is what I'm hoping.
Disclaimer – I think we all know that I own nothing. Aside from a half share in Rebecca Sparrow, I actually fully own Captain Giles! And I own the five or six other girls that you don't recognise. Disney owns every thing else. Lucky buggers.
OK, just another note, this chapter will push the rating up a notch. Sorry if I lose any reviewers. For swearing, mostly.
Chapter Four – Discoveries.
When Becca woke up, it was to the gentle, rhythmic rocking of a ship out at sea. She sat up straight, and looked about her. She was in a relatively large wooden room with six or seven other girls seemingly asleep in the beds.
She thought she recognised one of the girls. 'Oh no. Is this the ship that Will and Jack were talking about? The one that is going around kidnapping the young girls?
'Damn . . . why me?'
"You are awake. I am Giles, your captain on this ship." A man sitting across from her said. "This-"
"What the hell am I doing here?" she asked, her eyes ablaze.
"One, you speak when spoken to, and two-" he said, not looking very happy about her interruptions.
"Speak when spoken to? What the fuck? Are you aware that I don't give a shit about that? You don't know what the fuck you messed with when you fucking kidnapped me." She replied, waking the other girls up with her furious tirade.
"What is going on?" Said a girl dressed in a dirty nightgown. She gave off an air of a no-nonsense, do-what-the-fuck-I-tell-you, prim proper rich girl. "Oh. New girl who hasn't learnt the rules yet."
The other girls started talking as one, all over-riding the others.
"BE QUIET, FOR JUST ONE MINUTE, PLEASE?!" Giles shouted.
"Sorry Giles." The other young ladies trilled.
"Hell no. I ain't listenin' to a word that you're gonna say unless you're gonna tell me what the fuck I'm doing here." Three guesses who said that. The other girls gasped. "Such language!" Another said.
"Daniel, shut her up." Giles motioned to a man standing in the shadows.
He came forward and put a gun to her head. "Be quiet, or else you'll get one in your brain."
"Yeah, right." She scoffed. "I don't know what you kidnapped me for, but I do know that unless you really needed me, you wouldn't have done it. So get that fucking pistol away from my head, and tell me what the fuck I'm doing here. You need me, you ain't shootin' me."
Daniel shrugged, and took the pistol away. "Well. Finally, a girl who isn't afraid of a little gun action."
"Yeah. Now, speak, Captain."
"Do not interrupt me. Now, we've taken you all from your homes to be sold in Mainland Europe. The life you shall be going into will be, most probably, a life of prostitution."
"You're gonna make me a prostitute!?" Becca screeched. "No way, I'm not even supposed to be here, much less a bloody prostitute!"
The other ladies all started whispering. "I cannot be a prostitute, I am married to the Commodore Norrington!" Elizabeth Swann said.
Becca looked round at her. "Really? What happened to Will?" she asked.
"How do you know Will?" Giles intervened, sounding a bit scared.
"He and Jack helped me when I got lost, and gave me a place to sleep for the night. They were going to look after me. Why?" She was still angry with him, it showed in every line of her body and her harsh clipped words.
"Because they, after the business with the Black Pearl, are known among pirates as a force to be reckoned with.
"We've kidnapped Miss Norrington, which in itself is enough to bring them down on us. Now we've kidnapped their charge. They're going to find us before you can say 'We're dead'." Giles replied.
"Well, you should have thought about that before you kidnapped me from Will's shop, shouldn't you?
"Anyway, that's not the only reason. Jack's got another reason for searching for you, but I don't know what it is. You should be a bit more careful where you kidnap young girls from in the future."
Giles walked over to her, and stopped. She had a fleeting thought of going too far before his hand came down upon her face and she lost consciousness.
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"Jack!" Will shouted in the morning when he woke up.
He'd woken up to an empty room. It wasn't so unusual recently, but that morning, it had felt wrong. He racked his brain to try to think of the reason for that, and found nothing.
It was only when he looked around and found a woman's pair of shoes that he remembered about Rebecca Sparrow.
"Jack, Rebecca's gone!" He shouted again, racing down the stairs to the little kitchen.
He found Jack sitting at the little table, holding his head in his hands. "I know. Will, I should have been there. I should have been there to stop them, and protect her. I should have caught them three years ago when they first started kidnapping girls. I should have-"
Will, well used to Jack's 'I should have' times, handed him a bottle of rum.
Jack, uncharacteristically, pushed it away.
"Jack, are you all right? You don't normally refuse rum." Will asked, concern etched across his features.
"No, I'm not all right. I should have been there." Jack said, more to himself.
"Why do you care so much, anyway?" Will asked.
Jack looked up dolefully. He seemed to be having a major battle with himself. When he turned away, Will asked, "Jack?"
He looked back. "She's my daughter, Will."
Will started. Whatever he had been expecting, it wasn't that. "What- what do you propose we do?"
"Go find her. Will, I'm going to need your help. Can you help me, one more time?"
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A/N - I am evil. Leaving you in the lurch like that.
Sorry about all Rebecca's swearing. Next chapter, she should be a bit more restrained.
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