A/N- Yeah...you love it...you want it...read it!
Gabriella just stood there, pistol still pointed, staring at the opposing ship as an uproar started. The crew of the ship began running around, from were she stood they looked like frantic little red bugs, but they wouldn't look that way for long, as men with long rifles were beginning to come up to the top of the ship.
Jack came up behind her once again, a pistol held in his own hand, Gabriella still not having moved from her position. "When I gave you that, I did not say to fire" He said, his voice dangerously low, and so calm in was unnerving. "Right…" said Gabriella lowering the gun slowly.
"All right mates prefer for a fight!" He said, and he sent Gabriella an annoyed glare. "You can thank Gabriella for that!" He added.
The men began collection together there guns and pushing out the canons as quickly as they could. The navy ship was already close enough, and was now in firing range. Sadly it was the navy ship to fire the first…real, blow.
It would have hit Gibbs square in the face, but he managed to make a quick duck and it went down below deck instead. The crew quickly stuffed their own canons and sent one back, which successfully hit their ship, but didn't do much damage.
The navy ship was now upon them. Gabriella scrambled away from the side of the ship as the redcoats swung from long ropes and jumped onto the ship.
"Fire at will!" Jack screeched from up on the platform by the ship's wheel. He jumped down, and drew his sword out from in his belt. "All right men, have at me!" He said, a mischievous grin spreading across his face.
Gabriella couldn't help but grin at Jack's actions but was quickly drawn from her thoughts as one of the redcoats approached her. "What are you doing on this ship?" He asked, taking long strides towards her. "Have they captured you?" He asked a worried expression coming over his face. Gabriella could not remember ever seeing any man so worried about her before, but right now she didn't really care.
"I'm one of'em!" She said running strait at him and giving him a hard push over the railing. Another red coat that had seen her do that, quickly approached her. "This is no place for a lady" he said trying to rezone with her.
"Actually," She said holding up her pistol and holding it to his head. "It is!" She said. This man obviously wasn't as courageous as he seemed because he quickly turned and ran off in the opposite direction.
Gabriella stuffed the gun in her belt and grabbed a sword from a fallen red coat. She began using the fighting skills she had learned from jack only this morning and taking swipe's at every man that came in her path as she made her way to Jack, who unlike most of the pirates who only had one or two men upon them, was fighting of seven at once.
Gabriella stabbed a man in front of Jack in the back, and he instantly fell to the ground, most likely dead though she didn't truly know. She slipped into the semi circle in the small space that had been formed and stood next to Jack.
"Need a little help?" she asked. "Not if you've got the bloody gun out," he said quickly wile taking a wide swipe and knocking down the sixth men leaving five left.
"Don't worry I don't," she said dodging one of the men who stabbed at her shoulder "Though I think at this point it might work better," She looked around for a moment at what was in front of Jack and her eye's widened. While he was distracted by his immediate front, somewhere farther back there was a man holding a rifle up to Jack.
She grabbed his shoulder and forced him down just as the shot was fired and it missed, and actually hit another one of the red coats behind her. "Thanks love" he said quickly, standing back up.
As Gabriella stood up she let out a loud cry of pain as one of the redcoats managed to cut her side. She put a hand to her side, but still managed to fight with one hand and hit the man who had stabbed her square in the chest.
Jack looked back at her for only a moment with a worried look on his face, "You all right love?" He asked successfully knocking down the last to men with one blow.
There it was again, a man worried…about her no less. "I should manage till the fights over" she said through gritted teeth leaving Jack were he was and knocking through another group of men near the railing, pushing two of them over board in the process.
Once the fight was done, Gabriella collapsed to her knees, letting out the cry of pain she had been holding in for so long. The crew of the pearl who had all been celebrating the victory looked over at her.
Jack immediately ran to her side and dropped to his knee's next to her. "What is it?" he asked quickly examining her over, but not seeing any obvious injuries. Gabriella lifted her hand from her said. There, her once white tunic had a huge patch that had turned completely red were her blood had oozed out, and her palm was completely cover in her blood.
Jack grabbed her under the arm and lifted her to her feet, before putting his arm under her knees and lifting her up into his arms, bridal style. He carried her down to the crew, followed by the worried crew. "Honestly Jack," She said through gritted teeth, "I cane-huh-walk" She said letting out a small gasp of pain in-between her words.
Here she was, on a pirate ship no less, and almost the entire crew, was worried about her. That wasn't normal!
"Right, of coarse you can" Said Jack sarcastically. They entered her cabin and he laid her down on her bed very slowly not wanting to hurt her. He pulled up her shirt but not far enough to see anything other then her stomach, (Which was actually quite a lot seeing as it was probably in the 1700's) The crew turned away slightly at this, some of their cheeks turning a slight tinge pinker then before.
The gash on her side was as long as the pistol Gabriella had shot earlier, and as wide as her pinky finger. Jack reached down and touched it only a little, but it hurt enough to make Gabriella grunt in pain and squint her eye's shut.
"All right love looks like this is going to need some patching up." He said looking down at the gash, trying very hard not to let his eyes wander else were, but failing remarkably. "I need water, rum, and some rags." He said. When nobody moved he turned to face them. "I want movement!" he yelled, instantly making them scramble to fulfill his demand.
Ten minutes later Jack was dabbing a wet cloth other the fresh scar on Gabriella's side. "Jack," She said wincing slightly as he dabbed her cut "you honestly don't have to do this" She said softly.
Jack just shook his head; "Yes love, in fact I do" he pulled off the cap of the rum and pored some out onto the, now turning red rag, in his hand. "This'll twinge a bit," he said before softly pressing it against the scar.
Gabriella let out a loud cry that sounded like a mix of a groan, and a yell. When he pulled away to dip the rag in the bowl of water again Gabriella gasped his hand firmly. "Thank you" she said softly, a small smile on her face.
Jack just stared down at their interlocked hands for a moment. He slowly nodded but did not make any movement to pull his hand away from hers. It felt…nice, somehow. He hadn't realized it, but his head had slowly begun to sink lower, and lower until he was only inches away from Gabriella.
Gibbs suddenly through the door open, more rags in his arms as he walked in. Jack instantly pulled away from Gabriella and took the rag's from a, now grinning Gibbs. "Did'n mean to interrupt…"
A/N- AH! I am trying my best to beet the curse of the busy schedule people! Wowy, am I doing a lot of stuff this year. I enjoy it all though...okay not all of it, I hate the school part with a deep intensified loathing, but other then that its all good.