It wasn't long after I fell to sleep before I was woken up again. I had apparently sprawled myself across the bed. It didn't seem to bother my bed partner. He was tangled in the sheets and was just as sprawled out as I was. I giggled at the comical sight. I carefully untangled myself and as I was doing so I realized that my now black spotted hand was out for the world to see. I climbed out of my large bed and dragged myself to my closet so that I could grab something to cover the black spot from view.
I looked around the closet until I found two pieces of cloth, a dark crimson/black. It would look weird if I had on only one clothed, wouldn't it? I wrapped them around tightly so that they wouldn't get in the way. I moved out of the closet and sighed. Trying to be quiet I pulled on my accessories that suddenly seemed a lot louder then usual. I'd never really noticed but my trinkets do make more noise then I thought possible. It is probably the same with Jack. Of course when Jack's around I never really pay attention.
I was brought out of my mental ramblings by the rustling of the covers against Jack's skin as he turned over; hiking his shirt sleeves just a little higher up. I stared at the muscled appendage for a moment before walking to the door. I'd let Jack have his sleeping time, no doubt the worry of the black spot on his skin had caused a deep insomnia as it was for me now. I pushed the door open and closed it as softly as I could behind me. I turned around to glance around the fading sky. I don't know how long we'd slept but I could tell my crew was lazing around.
"Oi! What's with all the laze-about pirates that seem to have replaced my crew?" I called out and they all seemed to snap up nervously. I rolled my eyes as one of my littler crew members nearly tripped over herself trying to explain it to me. I couldn't understand a word of what she was saying so I looked down, from the banister that looked over the deck outside of my ship and to Maxall. He smirked up at me and saluted me mockingly.
"Well, Captain, while you and your old gentlemen," I giggled and disregarded the old man comment because Maxall knew I would get him back later, "were making up, we arrived at the river. At least that was what the first mate on the pearl says as your Captain is in your cabin…" Maxall said snorting. He laughed and ducked as I threw a sextant at him scowling.
"Then shouldn't somebody be pulling a longboat down for Jack and I?" The crew was mysteriously silent. "Do I have to order you to do everything, you thoughtless cads! Also inform Jack's crew that all that wishes to ride to Tia Dalma's should come at once." I called. It wasn't near affective because I laughed when they started scrambling around deck. I turned back to the cabin and walked back in, this time to wake up the poor sleeping pirate. I grinned evilly and as silently as I could I snuck up the bed and over the pirate who had turned over again and was now on his back, conveniently. I grinned and ran my hand slowly down Jack's visible chest. He twitched and I slowly pulled the strings keeping Jack's flimsy shirt together, apart to show me his tanned chest. I ran my hand over his abs and his muscles clenched. I lowered my head and slowly licked Jack's neck, still rubbing Jack's chest.
I rolled my head farther down Jack's chest and traced a tattoo on the side of his chest with my wet tongue. I smiled when I heard Jack's voice moan in his sleep. I chuckled and sat carefully down on Jack's pelvis. He groaned loudly and his eyelids fluttered but didn't open. I rolled my hips and Jack's pelvis shot up into mine at the same time that his eyes flew open. I grinned sensually and Jack's eyes were still dazed from sleep, but not for long as they fell on me. I continued to grin as his hands went to my hips and he deliberately bucked up against me this time.
"Good morning, Jack." I said sweetly and rolled my hips forward. Jack's head lent back and his hips moved again while his mouth fell open. I stopped and his head snapped forward.
"Good morning, love." Jack said gruffly, I let my hips rub on Jack again and grinned devilishly when his head fell back again. One of Jack's hands climbed up my body and grasped my head, pulling me down for a rough kiss. I laughed heartily when my shirt came loose, showing only my boobs because my corset kept the rest covered, though what was the point of the rest being covered? I pushed them against Jack's also mostly uncovered chest. I moaned this time with the feeling of Jack against my bare chest.
But the fantasy ended when Jack's hand moved to mine and felt the clothe there, pushing the black magic deeper into my hand. I winced and Jack pulled back, completely taken by surprise. I smiled at him softly.
"It's nothing, Jack, just a small cut." I told him, grinning. Jack pulled the hand to him and went to untie it, strangely forgetting about the tense atmosphere that had been surrounding us. It surprised me because Jack usually jumps at the chance to get me naked. I pulled back and pulled my shirt back up. Jack seemed to come back to himself because his face fell in to horror at the realization that his probing had taken me out of the mood. He whined and put a large pout on his face. His eyes watered, like a little puppy and his lip quivered. I smiled and pecked him sweetly on the lips, leaving my lips there and trailing my hands down Jack's chest until they hit the top of his trousers.
Jack went to pull the strings of my top off again but sadly, as I had suspected ever since William first interrupted us when we had returned, we were interrupted. "Captain, the longboat has been let down and the Pearl's crew and I are ready to go!" Maxall called through the door. He knew better then to come in to my room from a past experience. I sighed but Jack whined.
"Leave us alone, mate!" Jack called and tried to pull the ties. I snorted and climbed off the bed. Jack looked sorrowfully at his empty hands, while I took this time to stare appreciatively at Jack's chest. He realized that his shirt was open and pulled it back closed, hastily.
"I know I'm not the best to look at, love." Jack said nervously and got out of the bed. I looked at him confused. I'd just been staring appreciatively but it seemed Jack hadn't gotten that.
"What are you talking about, Jack?" I asked but Jack was hastily putting his clothes back on. I raised my eyebrows up when Jack turned around with his shirt done up and it looked weird because usually Jack had it at least open enough to show his chest. I intervened when Jack tried to open the door.
"Jack?" I asked delicately. His hands fluttered around himself uncertainly and I blinked. It was rare when Jack showed me his insecure self. Mostly because Jack was rarely insecure about himself.
"Well, the scars are not the best love, and they hurt my attraction, I know. I've tried to cover them up-" Jack said not looking me in the eye. It dawned on me that he was insecure about something that made no sense to be insecure about.
"Jack," I said and softly I pulled the ties down until the shirt was undone like usual. I smiled and laid a kiss on the small half moon scar on his right breast. Jack made to push me away but I stopped him. "I love your scars. They don't take anything away from you at all." I said, letting Jack's arms wrap around me and crush me to him. "They are lovely; they paint a picture of your adventures and every single one of them means that you can tell me another story." I breathed out next to Jack's cheek as I wrapped my arms around his neck. But then I had a thought.
"Plus, let me let you in on a little secret…" I said, wrapping one of my legs around Jack's hips and drew him closer. "I find the scars…sexy." I breathed into his ear and Jack shuttered.
"Captain!" I heard from just on the other side door. "Mr. Turner is getting rather impatient…" Maxall said bitterly. I rolled my eyes and let my leg fall off Jack's waist. I tried to get out of his arms but he refused to let me go.
"Jack?" I asked but Jack was staring at my arm. I raised my eyebrows and looked down to see that Jack was staring at the same arm as my tattoos. His hand came up and he fingered the long scar that twisted around on my arm. Jack and I looked up at each other at the same time.
"What happened, love?" Jack asked, curiously.
"Like I said Jack, they're adventures to tell." I said mysteriously and ducked under Jack's weakened grasp. I flung the door open with a squeal and dived out of the door at the same time that Jack dove for me. I giggled and ran along the deck with Jack trying to catch me. It was a nice playful mood that I was sure would end soon, like it always did.
Sure enough as we finally made our way to the longboats and the impatient William the mood fell in to nervous depression. I sat next to Jack and he held my hand tightly, thankfully no longer trying to take the clothe off, and he looked like Davy Jones was just going to come running out of the forest and attack us. I of course knew he wouldn't but even I was getting cautious. Despite my lack of ability to completely parish, once I am killed in one realm, it was extremely hard to come back to that realm.
"It's going to be all right, Jack." I said, caressing his arm and he met my eyes. "I know it will Jack, this Tia Dalma will know what to do." At least I hope she did. I mean who's named Tia Dalma anyways? It's like you can't just say her first name or it sounds wrong and it gives me a sense of foreboding. I wonder why? I didn't really care that much right now, because ignorance is bliss, so I instead listened in to what William and Gibbs were saying now.
"Why is Jack afraid of the open ocean?" William's voice traveled to my ears. Jack must have been able to hear him to because he squeezed my hand and I leant up against Jack's shoulder. Jack may not know that we were no longer fighting for his life but it was still a tense moment. I glanced down to our joined hands and saw the glitter of my engagement ring against the light. I couldn't wait to tell Elizabeth. She'd be so happy for me even though she wouldn't approve of my choice in men.
"Well, if you believe such things," Gibbs answered. They were on the rowboat behind us because Jack had insisted. "There's a beast what does the bidding of Davy Jones. It's said that Destiny herself fears it." At this I looked back at them with raised eyebrows but they didn't notice. Me afraid of a squid? I may dread its appearance but the kraken was not going to be able to frighten me away from this realm.
"A giant beast, it is, with giant tentacles that can suck a sailor's face clean off!" Gibbs said. I was always left in wonder when Gibbs told a story. "And drag a ship past the crushing darkness! The Kraken." Gibbs said. I almost flinched when I felt Jack's thumb run over my engagement ring. I smiled and kissed his shoulder, ignoring the taste of the worn leather.
"They say that the stench of its breath is like- ugh!" Gibbs said just thinking about it made him disgusted. "Imagine: The last thing you know on God's green earth is the roar of the Kraken, and the reeking odor of a thousand rotting corpses." Jack and I shuttered together. "That is if you believe such things.
"It's going to turn out alright for you, Jack." I said rubbing his hand that was in mine. He looked to me and seemed to catch my phrasing which I hadn't known until then. It was true of course. There was no way that I was going to let Jack die before me. No, I wouldn't have that. I won't let that happen to Captain Jack Sparrow, bond or no bond.
"And, I'll keep you safe love, I swear it." Jack said with a deep rooted conviction. I winced and laid a soft kiss on Jack's forehead, even though I had to stretch to reach it.
"I love you, my fiancée." I said, calling Jack my fiancé for the first time. He grinned at me, and for a minute that smile seemed to make everything worth it. All the heartache I knew was going to come would fade when Jack smiled. No not a smirk or even a devilish grin, but a smile that made me fall in love with his handsome face all over again.
"And I you, my fiancé." Jack returned and kissed me again.
"And the key will spare him that?" William asked. I laid my forehead on Jack's shoulder and I could see that William was looking at us with sorrow. I hesitated for a minute before smiling at him just as sad. He returned it. He was feeling bad for us, I knew that, but I appreciated that he cared.
"Now that's the very question Jack wants answered. Bad enough, even, to go visit….her." Gibbs said and I saw him shudder. It brought me back to this mysterious Tia Dalma. I wonder what kind of person she was. If she was so magical that they all wantet to have her advice she had to be someone special but if they were scared to see her that meant bad things.
"Her?" Will asked, voicing both my curiosity and his own.
"Aye, her." Gibbs said, not elaborating on his words. I rolled my eyes but I knew why he didn't a second later because our long boat pulled up smoothly, like it should being of my own creation, beside a small dock. I looked up to see a large cabin. I could feel the magic radiating off of it and it made me freeze. I'd felt that magic so many times, being it was so similar to my own. I breathed in deeply and my mind swirled with questions.
Was this who I thought it was? Would she want to see me? Would she still love me? Oh God, I can't do this. I felt Jack tug my hand and I broke from what must have been me staring wide eyed at the strange hut to see Jack beside me. I nervously got out of the longboat. Okay Destiny, you've birthed this girl you can do it! Jack must have realized that I was panicking though he probably didn't know why, and so he pulled me to him and onto the dock. I followed close behind Jack, still in a swirl of desperate confuzzlement.
"No worries, love. Tia Dalma and I go way back. Thick as thieves. Nigh inseparable we are." Jack said and I raised my eyebrows and Jack backtracked. "Were. Have been. Before. You know friends." Jack said and I was thankful even through my extreme panic. How would you like to find out your daughter had been with your fiancé?
"I'll watch your back." Gibbs said trying to suck up to his Captain friend.
"It's me front I'm worried about." Jack said nervously which just made me raise my eyebrows again. He glanced around nervously but before I could ask he turned to Gibbs and said, "Mind the boat." Jack pulled me in as the order seemed to go down the line. Jack opened the huts door and I breathed in. The hut I could see looked just like my daughter. It was messy, that was obvious, and had multiple potions ingredients around the room. Some of them were even hanging from the rafters in jars. I looked uneasily at a snake that was curling comfortably around the ceiling rafter close to a table. I looked at the table and realized someone was sitting there.
Calypso, or Tia Dalma, did not look the same as I'd last seen her. That was a given. She had brown dreadlocks on top of her head that replaced her straight black hair of before. Her once pale skin was now tan. The only thing that seemed the same were her greenish brown eyes, which she got from her father, H. M. Murdock.
At the sight of her I couldn't help but to freak out a little. I dove behind Jack, letting his hand fall from mine. He turned to glance at me but I shook my head violently and he turned around with a shrug.
"Jack Sparrow!" I heard my lovely Tia call. She'd changed her voice obviously and I wrinkled my nose at it. She'd always had the strange love of disguising herself.
"Tia Dalma!" Jack called out somewhat nervously. I took this as the moment to switch people to hide behind and so I moved behind William who was standing a bit farther away from Jack who was being approached by Calypso.
"I always knew de wind was goin' to blow you back to me one day." She said and suddenly froze. She looked at him weird and took a deep breath at the last minute I realized what she was doing. As I'd been able to feel my magic that was all over Jack and she grinned and looked around the room. I didn't know if the grin was good or not so I hid as small as I could behind William.
"You. You have a touch of…Destiny about you, William Turner." Calypso said playfully and I knew that she knew I was behind him. I pouted and refused to move from my spot anyways. I was unwilling to face my daughter, which I hadn't seen in so long.
"You know me?" William asked curiously.
"Yes," She said and I could hear her giggling. "And I know the woman hiding behind you as well." I cursed and slowly straightened. I nervously walked out from behind William just to realize that everyone's eyes were on me and I became more and more nervous, much to the delight of Calypso. I looked her in the eye and smiled hesitantly. After a moment of tense silence I held up my arms for her to hug me and squealed before running across the room and into my arms. All the time she was repeatedly yelling, "Mum!" I shreaked as she collided with me and I almost fell backwards.
"Tia!" I screamed. I refused to give away to all of the Pearl's crew that I was Destiny. Do you know how many people would come looking for me if they all knew I was Destiny? "Control yourself!" I said still slightly laughing. I got to admit it was a relief that she wasn't trying to banish me to the ends of the earth.
"I knew you'd come for me! I'm sorry I didn't listen to you about men, Momma." She blathered, much unlike herself. I shushed her and pulled her loose from me.
"It's fine Tia. We all fall for they're tricks. You just need to learn how to chose them." I said pushing out my chest in a proud manner. She grinned like the child I knew. (Of course to you she'd be really old)
"Yeah, just like you shoes Dad and the Joker." Tia mocked. I winced.
"Oi! I said we all make lapses in judgement!" I said and sat on the table she'd previously been sitting at. We were broken out of our conversation by, who would have guessed, William.
"Wait, so she's your daughter?" He asked. Tia seemed to come back to herself and I snickered behind her back. That was until I saw Jack's face. He was looking at me intensely and I couldn't tell what he was thinking. I can honestly say that it hurt me because I wanted to be able to tell what he was thinking.
"That is not important." Tia said, seeming to come back to herself. I sighed and rubbed a hand over my face. One moment I was being proposed to now I'd found my daughter and Jack probably hated me. I mean who wouldn't? I'd for all intents and purposes lied to him. Not that it was something I could handle. I'd all ready made a vow that I would never tell another man about my personality. It only has ever ended in them wanting more and more from me until I'd been broken.
I moved my eyes from Jack's unreadable ones and to Tia who was now getting back on to topic to why we even came to her house.
"I believe you've come here for a reason, yes?" Tia said holding Williams arm and pulling him down to the seat beside the table. I rolled my eyes and pushed off from the table. I was going to walk to Jack, more out of instinct then any real thought. However when I was halfway there I paused, having realized what I was doing. I turned and almost left but Jack's hand pulled me back, and up against his chest to my utter surprise and delight.
I looked up into his eyes and they were still unreadable but I got to see a flash of emotion, love. Maybe I did still have a chance with Jack. I cuddled myself in to his chest and he put his arm around my shoulders so he'd still be holding me but I could still pay attention to the conversation.
"What…service…may I do you?" Tia asked while charming William with just a few touches. I had to praise William because not many could with stand the charms of a divinity, especially one with my direct genes in the line. Not that I want to brag or anything… "You know I demand payment!" Tia suddenly spat, scathingly at Jack who walked us a little closer to the table. I smiled as he seemed to want me near him now.
"I brought payment!" Jack said and whistled to the crew. I watched incredulously as they brought something to the table with just a sheet over it. The sheet was soon taken off to show the little Jack monkey that had at one point been Barbossa's. I giggled as it saw me and reached for me with its little arms. I stretched my hand out to let it play with my finger. However I pulled my hand back when Jack took out his gun and shot it.
"Jack!" I scowled but he ignored me.
"Look! An undead monkey! Top that!" Jack said shoving his pistol into the sash around his waist. I rolled my eyes and caressed little Jack's head with my finger. He calmed down a little bit then. I smiled because when Tia opened the door the monkey bowed cutely to me and ran off in to a back room. I watched it go humorously and saw it run to a bed which had a pair of boots waiting.
"The payment is fair." Tia spoke, grabbing my attention back. Everyone ignored the crew's grumbling over how long it took to catch little Jack. Jack took his arm out from around me so that he could reach in to his jacket and pull out the drawing of the key from before. I stared at the key and wondered how in the world that the little bugger could cause so much trouble for me.
"We're looking for this." Jack said not stepping back to put his arm around me. It worried me. I mean what if Jack didn't love me anymore? Wait, since when was I so dependent on Jack? Oh God, I've become one of those women who always think the man hates her! No must focus.
Tia's face seemed to scrunch up in surprise. She obviously had not suspected that Jack would be looking for this. She looked at me first and then to Jack. "The compass you bartered from me. It cannot lead you to this?" Tia asked desperately.
I frowned. I should have known she would have been the one to give away my compass. After I went through the trouble of making the blasted thing and she just gave it away. Or did she know that I'd run by it if she gave it to Jack. Ugh, my brain hurts.
"Maybe. Why?" Jack asked mysteriously and I wished I could see his face. Sadly he still hadn't moved from in front of me and all I could see was his back. I watched though as Tia's eyes looked to me before she looked back to Jack, grinning.
"Aye…Jack Sparrow already has what he wants most…" I smiled hesitantly when Jack looked back to me with a thoughtful expression. He finally moved back to my side and suddenly kissed me on the cheek. I stared between the two confused. What in the world was Tia talking about. I felt like I was just missing something obvious.
"Your key go to a chest, and it is what lay inside the chest you seek, don't it?" Tia asked looking slightly sorry to break up our little moment. Why had I even worried about seeing her again? It was so stupid of me, she always supported me.
"What is inside of it?" Gibbs suddenly asked. This started a guessing game but I watced Tia's expression. She seemed to be dreading the conversation coming next. I guessed that she wasn't entirely over Davy Jones.
"Gold! Jewelry? Unclaimed properties of a valuable nature?" One of the weird duo said, Pintel, I think. I snorted and the other one spoke.
"Nothing bad…I hope." He said meekily. I think I like that fellow. He obviously wants to stay out of danger. I saw him staring at the jar of eyeballs swinging from the ceiling. I took a moment to stare at the jar and wonder why Calypso even needed them before I turned back to Tia. Jack grasped my hand tightly when I turned around. I glanced up at him in surprise but he was looking at the now speaking Tia.
"You know of… Davy Jones yes?" I could tell it pained Tia to talk about it. " A man of the sea…A great sailor, until he ran afoul of that which vexes all men." She said tiredly as she sank in to the memory. She was interrupted from her memory when William spoke.
"What vexes all men?" William asked interestedly. I grinned and had to stop myself from laughing. If William didn't know what vexed all men then he was the most oblivious person I would ever know.
"What, indeed." Tia said just as amused as I was with the situation.
"The sea?" Gibbs asked.
"Sums!" The desperate Pintel eagerly asked.
"The Dichotomy of good and evil." Ragetti asked hopefully and we all turned to stare at him for a moment but I stared longer then others. How in the world would you fit it in a chest? I should look in to that.
"A woman." Jack said, dragging my attention to where he was staring at me. I blinked for a moment completely oblivious until that moment. Jack must have done his homework because that was exactly the answer. I was somewhat distracted though by the soft look that had fallen on Jack's features. His hand squeezed mine.
"A woman." Tia confirmed. "He fell in love." She said and adopted a distant face.
"No, no, no, no, I heard it was the sea he fell in love with." Gibbs interrupted Tia's moment of reminiscence. She scowled darkly at him and he jumped back.
"Same story, different versions, and all are true." Tia snapped out at him and I felt my lip twitch up. This is what happened when you got two people who loved story telling in the same room. "See, it was a woman, as changing, and harsh, and untamable as the sea. Him never stop loving her." Tia said and she got all tearful. I winced and decided to help her out. I knew how it was to regret a decision like she had made.
"But the pain it caused him was too much to live with." I said and the attention shifted to me. "But not enough to cause him to die."
"What…exactly did he put into the chest?" Will asked cautiously and I looked at Tia. She had rid herself of her tears while I'd spoken the last of her tale to the other pirates in the room.
"Him heart." Tia supplied simply. I nodded even as their attention went back to her. They all stayed silent for a minute and I took that minute of their shock to stare at Jack. I know he'd been giving me small signs that he wasn't thinking to hard about what I now thought of as 'the incident' but I don't think Jack had forgotten. No, Jack never forgot, he just waited for the opportune moment. Unfortunately he was good at waiting and I was not.
"Literally, or figuratively?" Ragetti suddenly asked. I sighed and following Jack's example I turned my rather horrible focus on to the problem at hand.
"He couldn't literally put his heart in a chest!" Pintel said hitting Ragetti's arm. Then he became nervous, like he hadn't thought about his answer. He looked cautiously at Tia to see if he'd offended her. "Could he?" He asked. She stayed silent and I realized that she was looking at me. I sighed as I saw the begging in her eyes. I shook my head softly, knowing she had to be able to talk about it or she'd never get over it.
"It was not worth feeling what…" She struggled for a moment before a look of determination took over her face. "small fleeting joy life brings, and so…he carved out him heart, lock it away in a chest, and hide the chest from the world." She pointed to the almost forgotten cloth on the table and then to Jack's chest. I finally noted that Jack's hand had dropped from mine. My focus must have been shot because usually I knew where Jack was at all times and how we were touching. I sighed and couldn't help but rub my cheek in worry.
"The key, he keeps with him at all times." Tia Dalma said. She'd confirmed my worst fears. I cursed violently as William shot out of his chair and looked at Jack accusingly.
"You knew this!" Will almost shouted. Jack winced and acted like he in fact had not but like William I thought he did actually know.
"I did not. I didn't know where the key was, but bow we do. So all that's left is to climb aboard the Flying Dutchman, grab the key, you go back to Port Royal and save your bonnie lass." Jack said swiveling around and ignoring me, moved towards the door. I saw Tia looking suspiciously at Jack.
"Let me see your hand." She called to Jack and he stopped. Slowly he turned around. Looking pensive he gave over the wrong hand. I tried to think of something hurriedly. It would not be good if Jack knew that I'd taken the curse from him. He'd either get really angry or sad. Both looked like a bad option. I finally started whispering a chant to bring up an illusion of the Black Spot on Jack's hand and just in time.
Tia made him give her the right hand. She unraveled the cloth and saw the spot.
"The Black Spot!" Gibbs shouted and did some kind of dance that looked like it was supposed to be used to pure himself of the black magic around the black spot. Tia how ever did not look convinced. She turned to me and looked me up and down. I shook my head hoping she'd understand that she need not give away that the spot that Jack was currently re-covering was a fake. She turned and headed into the back room from before. I brought my eyes upwords as we heard her fishing around for something. It seemed like it was going to take awhile so I turned to Jack.
He was looking around, and very obviously trying to avoid my eyes. All the other crew members where talking togther about what happened. I took a step up to Jack so I'd be right in front of him and the coming conversation would be as private as it possibly could be.
"Jack…" I whispered and tried to touch his arm but he shrugged it off and his dark eyes looked directly in to mine.
"Please tell me what I heard wasn't true. It doesn't add up…You are almost the same age as her and she's…" Jack said furrowing his eyebrows. I looked away for a moment, trying to hide my hurt at having been brushed off.
"I am her mother, Jack." I said and he flinched. I tried to salvage the situation. "But it's not like you think Jack. Oh, It's so frustrating. You know your compass, it's name?" I asked him trying to find a way around the vow I took.
"Aye," Jack said not understanding the importance of it.
"Well, I made that compass, and since the compasses name is…then that means I am?" I said motioning with my hands. His face stayed blank for a moment before it cleared to show the realization.
"Oh, you're Destiny…" Jack said and his eyes seemed to bug out of his head. I winced but still nodded. He got that unreadable expression again. "But why didn't you just tell me."
"It isn't because I didn't want to Jack, it's because I took a vow. I cannot on pain of imprisonment tell any living mortal that I am Destiny." I muttered but Jack's unreadable expression didn't change.
"What does this mean, love?" Jack asked.
"Well, I…" I didn't know what to tell him. There were so few and yet so many answers to that question.
"Why are you letting me deal with Davy Jones, if you love me, and are truly who you say you are?" Jack suddenly asked and his mask slipped to show confusion, hurt, and anger.
"Oh Jack, I can't. The whole reason I'm even here is because I'm bond to this one form. Much like Calypso herself." I tried to explain. This wasn't going well at all and my heart was beginning to ache painfully.
"So what, you couldn't help even if you wanted to?" Jack asked, less angry and was trying to understand, that I could see.
"I want to, so badly, but in this form I can only do so much and I've done all I can…" I told him and hesitantly I put my hand on his arm. This time he didn't brush me away. "I love you, Jack. As much as that scares me, I do and I've made it a goal to keep you alive no matter what I have to do. Even if you don't love me anymore." I said gloomily. Every word was true.
"Why does it scare you?" Jack asked avoiding my last statement. I cringed but answered his question anyways.
"Because, every time I fall for a mortal it breaks my heart to watch them die. I can only save them after they've past and I've past as well. You see while I'm in mortal form I can't use all of my powers so I have to watch them die. I don't want to have to watch you die." I said and removed my hand from his arm. I noticed something on Jack's chest. There laid my little necklace that I'd given Jack and it was glowing.
"But Jack, I do want us to love each other, if you can please forgive me I'll tell you everything, anything you want to know." I begged. That was it, Lady Destiny, reduced to begging. I must really love Jack if I was begging. I almost cried when Tia seemed to burst through the doorway and back in to the room. Instead I settled for letting one tear escape.
I didn't know if I wanted to strangle her for interrupting this talk or to weep in her arms as Jack moved back from me. I had to take that as a sign that he did not indeed love me. I turned from him, from everyone, so that I could hide the agony. I felt it in my heart. My Jack didn't love me anymore! I felt my heart break like I'd always heard explained. It was horrible white hot agony. As I turned I saw the little necklace on Jack's chest had cracked and split down the middle. I winced. It was true I was most defiantly scarred.
Tia looked at me in a knowing fashion. I guessed that she'd stayed back there so that Jack and I could get the conversation over with. I sighed and felt all the life deplete from me. What was I going to do with out Jack? I'd practically given up everything else for him. So what was I left with? A ship and crew?
That's it I'd stay on this adventure until Jack told me to leave and then I'd sail so far away that I could leave my ship and wallow in self-pity. Yes, that just sounded horrible. Maybe, if I was lucky, I could work myself to death. Aye, that sounds better, more respectful. I turned my focus to Tia now that that was decided.
"Davy Jones cannot make port. Cannot step on land but once every ten years. Land is where you are safe, Jack Sparrow. And so you will carry land with you…" Tia said handing over what was a large jar full of dirt. I stared at it, a little more detached then the others were.
"Dirt." Jack said blankly. I relished the sound of his voice and wondered if I would soon be unable to hear that rough voice. "This is a jar of dirt…" Jack said looking at Tia strangely. She raised an eyebrow not comprehending why he said it.
"Yes?" She asked.
"Is the…jar of dirt going to help?" Jack asked hopefully.
"If you don't want it, give it back." Tia said and made to grab the jar but Jack held it closer to him.
"No." He said possessively.
"Then it helps." Tia said smiling widely.
"It seems…we have a need to find the Flying Dutchman." Will finally spoke. I sighed when Tia turned to me. I let her pull me eagerly to the table and sit me down in the vacated seat. She handed me a bunch of claws but I pushed them away. Instead I searched in my jacket pocket until I found a bag of what looked like marbles. I muttered and shook them out of my hand. Tia squealed and turned to them.
"As much as I told you that you don't need to know. Cassandra is the best at such magic." Tia said firmly. She seemed to move to Jack. "Sadly she doesn't have a lot of power left to do it with." She said almost absently. It seemed to only confuse the crew members, including Will. Jack and Tia though were staring at each other. I rolled my eyes and then leant over the little map Tia had spread out. I threw the marbles across the map and they turned and turned until I whispered.
"fammi vedere l'olandese" I said. (A/N: No joke it means 'show me the Dutchman' in Italian.) The marbles, which looked almost like Jack's necklace, turned around and around before almost zooming to one location on the map. I marked it then scooped up the marbles, which were in all truth the same crystal used to make both Jack's necklace and the crystal me on my ship. Not that anyone else needed to know that. Because they were all apart of my soul.
"Wow," Wiliam breathed but I just strolled out the door, though I flashed him what I could of a smile. How could I show off when I'd just lost something so dear to me? I don't think anything has ever effected me this bad. Not sense I'd fallen over the catwalk in the factory. (A/N: You'd have to have read my WillyOc to know what I'm talking about. XD)
I paused right beside the boat, where Cotton sat and looked to the sky or the canapy of trees to see the sun setting. God, my life had made a sharp turn from being perfect to being...disastourous.
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*Jolts up from coffin that was waiting to be thrown in the water* Don't burn the rum! Oh hey guys! Lol It's been awhile hasn't it? You've no idea how conflicted I am... I got my computer back this weekend and I sat down with it eager to write...but found my want to write had dissappeared. That's how horrible the crashing of my baby *strokes laptop lovingly* had made me. But alas, for the fans that read this I refused to give up and i sat down and wrote this chapter.
I wouldn't say it was as good as the one I lost but it's okay. There is a lot more tradgedy in this one then there was. In the old one they didn't really have an arguement, Jack just kind of shut up...in this one he's being a prat about it, don't you think? Tell me if you think it's any good, please. And maybe congradulate me on my willpower? Love you guys for reading both this chapter and this author's note!
I'm thinking of things I want to write next because although I've forced myself to rewrite my JackOC story, I am not going to be re-writing my TonyOc anytime soon, if at all. I've been suggested The Dark Knight, Alice in Wonderland, and Sherlock Holmes.
The Dark Knight, I'm afraid it'll come out like crap, because let's face it how many people can capture the Joker. I might try that one since the one I started before it crashed was crap.
Alice in Wonderland, is an I'm not sure one. I've actually been fiddling with that idea for a while but wouldn't it be kind of awkward because the movie is really deep set with Alice in it. If I did that one though I could insert Destiny in at...oh can't tell you that in case I do intend to do it...XD
Sherlock Holmes...I love that movie so much. However, do you think I'd be able to get his little...talk down. He talks very, for lack of better word, formal. I might...
All these ideas have been given to me by the lovely, LittleMissDreamer7 who has supported me through the tragidy of my computer crashing and has convinced me to continue. So go read her things and tell her I sent you. Lol Got to give myself credit!
