AN::This whole chapter is Alex's POV. Reveiw please . kay thanksss:).
I woke to the sound of the ocean lapping gently at the Pearl. I didn't know how long I had been asleep, but it was early enough that Jack was awake. He was staring at me when I turned my head, which hadn't left his chest, to face him. A grin crept over his handsome face. "Good morning love. Sleep well?"
My eyes were still heavy and I was trying to wake up. I nodded and forced a smile, feeling the blood rush to my face. "You?"
"What do you think? I had you with me." A kiss ensured his word. "I think we're here Alex. C'mon. Let's go to the long boat."
When we were standing, he wrapped his right arm around me and walked with me side by side to the long boat. Mana and Atem were already seated and I smiled at them. Jack got in first then held out his hand. I gladly took it and I fell into his arms. A laugh escaped him as he kissed my hair and sat across from Mana and Atem. I took my place next to him and burried my face into his shoulder and neck, feeling his arm pull me closer. I smiled at my sister and boyfriend. They really were cute together. If only I could place my finger on what was different about him. Mana refused to tell me whenever I would ask. My eyes closed and I breathed in Jack's unique scent of rum and the sea as I drifted back off. It wasn't but a few moments untill Jack was waking me again. "C'mon Alley." His voice whispered into my ear. "Don't go back to sleep yet." I just nodded and sat up a little bit more, still leaning on him. "There we go..."
I grunted at him. "Fine..." It didn't take me long to smile again once he started to give me sweet kisses and holding me closer.
Atem and I made eye contact and I smiled, which he returned. Mana interupted the silence. "Jack, who is this Tia Dalma?"
I noticed that Will had perked up behind them, listening. "She's... An old friend. She helped with the kraken before. Now I'm hoping she could tell us how to KILL it." I felt Jack tighten his grip on me at the mentioning of the kraken. "She requires payment. But I'm sure she'll tell us what it is." I couldn't help but notice that Atem was restless. Mana held onto his arm.
"Mmkay..." She turned back to him, talking to him quietly.
Will had turned back to Elizabeth, looking slightly bothered. Jack interupted my thoughts. "Alley."
"Hm?" I faced him and smiled.
"I want you to stay close, savvy? We're almost here. And being with the captain means we have to go in first."
"Savvy." I whispered. He brushed my hair behind my ears and held out his hand to help me stand.
I stood and followed him up the ladder that we had arrived at. Mana, Atem, Will, Elizabeth and the others followed suit. "Tia Dalma." Jack swaggered over to her, grinning. A filthy lady had emerged from a back room and grinned.
"Jack Sparrow." She noticed me and the rest of the crew. Her brown eyes settled on me and she came over. "And who is this?" Her accent was so thick, I was surprised Jack could understand her.
"Alexis Haliwell." Jack put his arm back around me.
"Ahh. Jack Sparrow 'as himself a girl."
Jack led me further into the cluttered hut, pulling me from her. Tia found Atem. "Ahh. The ancient pharoh of Egypt. You were once pharoh, then attacked and your evil half, Ashok, is roaming now." A switch flipped in me. That was what was bugging me!!!
Atem was the ancient pharoh. It explained alot. Jack made a weird face, causing me to stop a laugh, and continued. "Actually, we come looking for how to kill the kraken."
Her dirty face brightened. "The kraken... I need payment." Jack glared at her.
"You got to find information on Atem so there you go."
"Fair enough. Well as you know, Davy Jones carved out 'im heart for a woman..."
"Who?" I interupted, getting dirty looks. Will answered.
"Her!" Looks directed at Tia and Will, shock written over them.
A smile answered our questioning thoughts. "Yes. He is right. The kraken also has a heart. In the center. Stab it and you'll kill it." A blade was held out to Jack, who took it.
"Thank you. Now, we'll just be going." He pushed me lovingly towards the door, escaping.
The crew gathered in the long boat, waiting on Atem to come down. Once he did, Mana embraced him. He sat and pulled her close. She really did deserve him. Jack, however, sat next to me and seemed to be in a daze. "Jack?"
"Mmm?" Was all I got.
"You alright?"
His arm pulled me close. "Don't worry about me."
"But I am."
"Don't." Jack smiled, trying to reassure me.
Before I could respond, he moved his head closer and whispered so that only I could hear him. "Not now, love. On the ship. Savvy?"
I nodded. "Savvy..." He distracted me with a sweet kiss. I knew he wasn't telling me something. And I was going to find out what. Even Jack Sparrow was human enough to burst when he needed to.
"Mmm... Jack..." I said between kisses. I knew what he was doing.
"Yes darling?" He stared into my eyes smiling.
"Promise me. Promise me that you'll tell me." My eyes booked no argument.
Silence followed me. Jack absentmindly stroked my cheek. "Yes... Just be prepared." He pulled me close and whispered so only I could hear. "I don't want to see you get hurt. Physically or emotionally."
All I could do was nod into his embrace. I felt my eyes close and I drifted off in his arms. Before long, I awoke to Jack carrying me onto the Pearl. Apparently he had carried me onto the deck while I was asleep. Jack's deep brown eyes greeted me as I opened my eyes. He just grinned. "Sleep good?" A nod was all he got while I was waking up. "C'mon darling." I groaned as he put me down.
"I'm awake I'm awake..." He just laughed. I was about to kiss him when I remembered that he was supposed to tell me. "What's bothering you? You promised..."
His face hardened. "Whoever stabs the kraken's heart will die more than likely. Think about it. And someone has to do it..." He was interupted by me flinging myself back into his arms, crying.
"No. There has to be a way..." I was silenced by his lips on mine. We both pulled back, gasping for air. I was about to meet his lips again when I suddenly had the feeling that Mana needed me. He looked at me strangely when I didn't meet his lips. "Mana needs me..." His lips interupted me. I tried to speak inbetween kisses. "I. Have. To. Go." He just nodded.
"Go." With a quick kiss, I orbed into the home that Mana and her pharoh shared. I remembered when I also used to live there. 'Before Jack' I thought with a smile. It was wiped off my face when I heard a dark voice. I was behind who I guessed was Ashok from the way Mana was sheltering Atem. She nodded slightly to me, signaling to attack. I flung my hand casually, flinging Ashok across the main room and into the base of the staircase. "Nice attack." He shimmered behind Atem. Three or so demons came in and started attacking me my sister. She blasted two of them apart. The third attacked me and slashed my arm deeply before Mana exploded him. "Come with me Mana or Atem will die." He shimmered with Atem in his arms as he spoke. Before either of us could exchange words, she too evaporated.
I had the sudden urge to follow them. It led me to a gothic castle. I didn't want to admit it, but it was beautiful. Mana's voice echoed through the hallways, Ashok's following. "Never."
"Stop refusing me, my love."
"Am not your love!" I heard a bang follow. It sounded like Mana was giving in.
"You will be if you want Atem to live."
"Yes darling." Before I could orb back out, I was attacked once more.
When I finally orbed onto the Pearl, Jack and the crew was face to face with the kraken. A thought entered my mind as I watched the tenticles. I made up my mind and orbed when a tenticle flew towards me, before Jack could see. I landed in a pungent place. Broken shards of bone and glass floated around me as I spotted my goal; The heart of the kraken. I made my choice and stabbed the cutlass that Jack had given me into the beating flesh. A peircing scream sounded as the broken shards hit me and I orbed out and onto the deck. The crew was watching with Jack as the beast disolved into the water when I arrived. But before I could say anything, I fell onto the deck, weakened by the blood loss. Jack turned and quickly walked over to where I lay and helped me stand. I winced as he pulled me close and into his arms. "What happened to ye Alex?"
Words didn't seem to want to leave as I tried to speak. Finally, I forced myself to talk. "Got attacked then I stabbed the heart... Of the kraken..." His lips sealed his thanks but quickly withdrew when he felt the cuts on my back and waist.
"Come 'ere..." He lifted me into his arms, not caring that I was soiling his shirt with blood. He carried me once more into his room, where he laid me on his bed and kissed my forehead gently. As he tended my wounds, I felt myself drift off.
When I awakened, Jack's scent filled my lungs. I looked around for him, but I didn't see him. I quickly realized that he must've put one of his clean shirts on me once my wounds had been cleaned. A laugh sounded from the doorway as I grunted in pain as I moved. "Shh. Lay still dearie." Jack's arms found their way around my waist as he helped me sit up on his bed. Once I was fully sitting, he positioned himself behind me so that I was somewhat on his lap and leaning on him. His arms entertwined around me. "How are you?" Jack's smile was evident in his voice.
"How do you think I am?" I snapped at him, not meaning to. My whole body was aching. A soothing rythem came from his hands as he stroked my sides calmly.
"Sorry darling..." His lips decended upon my forhead.
"Mmm...Don't be..." Right before I drifted off again, a knock sounded at the door.
"Cap'n! The Flying Dutchman is ahead!" The sound of Gibb's footsteps disappeared.
Jack carefully laid me back down on my own and kissed me quickly before exiting. I followed him onto the deck. "Alley, love..."
"Ah so who's this?" Davy Jones appeared, his nasty tenticles sliming around his face. Before Jack could respond, Jones' claw was around me. "Such a pretty little thing."
I was pulled back into Jack's embrace. "Yep. Which is why you're not getting her."
The claw found my arm and scratched it. "No. But death will if you don't get me my heart in three days." With that, his large tenticle found the cut from his claw and I felt a glass vile against my skin. Jones' left shortly after, laughing his harsh, cruel laugh.
"Jack?"
"Mmm?" His eyes were staring into mine as he held me close.
"What's going to happen?"
"I suppose whatever he poured into you is some sort of poison that'll slow your system down and hopefully you'll get the antidote once his bloody heart is given to him..." Before I knew it, I had my head pressed up against his chest, crying my eyes out. This was NOT how things were supposed to go. Then again, Captain Jack Sparrow was involved. "Shh Alley." His hands ran up and down my back, trying to cease my crying. Eventually it did. "This is what I was afraid of. That you'd get hurt. I'm sorry my love." I felt his face burry into my hair.
"Not... Your... Fault..." I have difficulty talking.
Jack looked at me, pulling back to arms length. "You alright?"
I can't respond. Large gasps of air come from me as I tried to regain my breath. Apparently the poison was already working. Jack pulled me back to him and pressed my head to his chest, breathing in and out deeply to help me regain my breath. After a few moments, I started to breathe on my own and I leaned on him, just listening to him breathe. My eyes grew heavy as I stood there. I pulled back and smiled sadly at him. "I think I'm going to go to bed."
His fingers entertwined with my hair. "Alright. You can stay in my cabin again if you'd like." A nod was my reply as I gave him a breif kiss and started to walk towards the cabins.
His arms came up under me when I lost control of my legs. Jack smile sadly as he carried me. I burried my head into the crook of his neck. "You don't always have to carry me."
"Yes I do, love." He helped me get under the covers of his bed and smiled again. "It's the least I can do."
"Jack..." I started as he played with my hair again.
"Shh. Not now darling." His eyes lingered on me before he left. "I'll be back shortly."
Once he had left, I heard voices above deck. They weren't loud, but I could hear who it was. Beckett.
AN: Wow that's long lol. Please R&R:). I'll reveiw back