"Not All Treasure is Silver and Gold"
Chapter 15
The dawn light came far too early in Jack's opinion. He crawled out of bed and fell flat on his face. Jack didn't want to wake Dani, but he did anyway.
"Wh-what?" She yawned.
"Sorry, love," Jack said, patting her head after he had stood up again. "I'm going to make sure our stock was delivered to the docks."
"Okay," she mumbled and fell back asleep.
Jack made his way out into the sunlight and tried to blink it out of his eyes. No luck. It was still there and it was now stinging his eyes.
"I wondered when you'd get up," a voice called.
"Bugger," he swore under his breath. "Mother, what are you doing here?"
"Coming with you, of course."
"Absolutely not."
"Someone has to take care of Danielle and the baby," she argued.
"I take care of Dani!" Jack shouted back.
No one dare insult his ability to watch over and protect his wife. Not even his mother.
A small group started to form to watch the show. Jack was arguing with some woman.
"Little Marvin needs to have someone looking after him all the time. Not when you have nothing better to do."
"We are not naming it Marvin. And I intend to take care of my child and wife without your help." Jack looked around to the crewmembers faces that were contorted in laughter. "What are you all looking at!?" Jack shouted. "You bloody scallywags, get a move on. We leave in half an hour or less!" He turned to go back to his cabin, but quickly turned back to his mother. "And she is not coming. I will not hesitate to toss overboard whomever let her aboard my ship."
Jack stalked back to his cabin and watched Danielle sleep. His mother had some nerve. Of course he would help take care of the kid. Even though they can be boring. And completely helpless. And they are so short, he didn't remember being short. In fact, he distinctly remembered putting a hat on his head. A kid's sort arms couldn't reach. Bugger. Maybe he wasn't ready to be a father.
Dani woke to Jack making faces in his chair.
"What the hell are you doing?" she asked.
"Good morning to you, too," he answered back sarcastically.
"You were making faces, you looked like an idiot. Why were you doing it?"
"Just thinking I make faces when I think, I think?"
"What is it you think you are thinking about?"
"The kid."
"Oh. Why?"
"My mother came to the ship and wanted to come aboard and take care of Marvin."
"She really wants to have us name him Marvin, doesn't she?"
"Yes," he said quickly. "But it is never going to happen."
"Where is she?"
"Probably still on the dock, where I left her."
"Oh."
"What is 'oh'?"
"I just wondered why you left her on the dock."
"I absolutely don't want her on my ship. You can't want to have her here, can you?"
"No. I just don't want you to have second thoughts about leaving her behind."
"I don't."
"So when we get to Port Royal in a week or two, you won't have any regrets?"
"No. Pirates do not have regrets."
"Jack Sparrow, you are such a liar. But I love you anyway."
The crew was ready to go in fifteen minutes and they made sure Mrs. Sparrow stayed on the docks. They remembered what happened to the man who insulted the captain's wife and they knew they didn't want to be in his place.
Their next stop would be Port Royal. And unbeknownst to Dani but knowst to Jack and us, they would be staying there until the baby was born.
The two weeks passed slowly. Very slowly. So slow that Dani was counting waves from a porthole in the galley.
She was bored. There was nothing to do. And there was nothing she wanted to do.
Jack tried to entertain her, but she would moan that it wasn't what she wanted to do anymore.
Finally when she thought things couldn't get any worse, Port Royal was on the horizon.
Jack told Dani to stay on the ship; he had to do something before she could come on shore.
He was sneaking off to a home, recently built on the shore.
It was his present for Danielle and the baby. He told young William to do whatever it took to get that house built. That way, Jack knew whether they had found The Fountain of Youth or not, they'd have homes on land and at sea.
Jack loved it as much as he could love a stationary building. It was just as he had imagined it.
He just hoped Dani would like it.
A/N: Okay, too out-there? Let me know what you think. I LoVe reviews because reviews are LoVe.