Chapter 13- The night everyone finds out
They arrived at Tortuga a few days later. Barbossa and Rachel walk off towards the beach. Jack and Gibbs head straight to the tavern. Alexis and Rath sneak off together to the beach as well. Anamaria stays on the ship with the baby.
Rachel and Barbossa finally after walking on the beach for a while they sit down where they are hidden from view. They start talking and laughing about old times. They start reminiscing about the time they first met. Barbossa says, "I seem to recall the first time we met you hated me." "I did not hate you, I just did not approve of you." "Oh really, that's not how I remember it. This is how it happened. 'We had just arrived in Tallavesta. I was still first mate back then. Jack and I had headed into the tavern you worked at for some rum. You were the woman who had served us rum. You had given us a look that said 'I hate filthy pirates'. My eyes still manage to glance over at you and start to stare at your beautiful figure. I loved your long silky raven-black hair, your sharp/fierce green eyes, and your lovely tan skin. Jack caught me staring at you and whispered to me, 'Talk to her.' 'Jack, I do not know what I would say to her.' 'Talk to her like you would any girl. You have been with girls before. Charm her and get her to like you as well as trust you. Then she's yours.' 'That is what you do Jack, not me. I respect woman, not hurt them like a certain pirate I know.' 'How ever did you become so respectable all of a sudden Barbossa?' 'I try to be a gentleman when necessary unlike some people.' Jack starts to bug me on the same matter but I ignore him. I continue to stare at you. At that moment, Jack calls you over and I look away from him and you and pretend to be staring into my bottle of rum to avoid conversation. Jack asks you suddenly if you would keep me from being lonely that night. I go bright red at that, look straight at Jack, and give him a deathly look. You get angry, shake your fist and before I can explain that, I had not been in on that, you slap me in the face and walk off. I look straight at Jack and make to go towards him. I draw my sword, point it at him, and say, "I could kill you Jack for that. I have come close to killing you many times over the years ever since we had met when I was seventeen and you were sixteen. At times, I regret not killing you all those times. Now is one of those times. Now that you said that to her, I could not get to know her now and have her think of me as something other than a perverted, filthy minded, sex crazy pirate. I would love to kill you right now for humiliating me in front of the whole tavern, (by now the whole tavern was watching us, including you Rachel) but I will not. I am not a killing obsessed freak like some pirates are so I will swallow my pride just this once.' I quickly gulp down the rest of my rum and walk out, slamming the door behind me. Little did I know you snuck out after me?'" "Oh, alright I agree you were right. I did hate you at first. After you had said those things about only wanting to talk to me, I realized you were not so bad." "Thank you and I told you so." Rachel rolls her eyes and asks, "What did happen after you had caught me following you?" "Let me see about that. Oh, I remember now... 'I had caught you following me and I asked you, 'Why are you following me? Do you plan to slap me again? Thank you, but humiliation is already there thanks to Jack and you.' 'I am sorry about that. After I heard what you said to your captain about only wanting to talk to me, I realized the mistake I had made. I only wish to make amends and get to know you. My pirate father raised me to be a woman and that I should not choose a pirate for my lover. He said it would only bring heartbreak. After my father was killed, I started to hate all pirates. I wanted revenge. In time my feelings for revenge ended but, not my hatred for pirates.' 'I see what you mean by that. My father also had been a pirate. He died when I was three.' 'Mine died when I was sixteen. What happened to your mother?' 'She died of illness when I was eleven years old.' 'My mother died shortly after she gave birth to me.' 'Now I am the one who is sorry.' You had started to cry. I held you close to me and comforted you. I then did something that was very random. I kissed you. I do not know what made me do it. I just did it. Amazingly, you kissed me back. I had never felt this way about any woman I had ever known.'" "You were more romantic back then you are now." Barbossa chuckles and says, "How about we test that theory." They start to kiss each other when they hear familiar voices not far away. They break apart and start to listen to the voices. They recognize their daughter Alexis and Gibbs' son, Rath talking. Rath asks, "How are we going to tell them Alexis? We have to let them know somehow. They will figure it out soon enough." "I know they will but, I think we should tell them I am pregnant before we are married. I do not like lying to my parents and your dad about anything." At hearing Alexis is pregnant, Barbossa starts to get up to kill Rath presumably but Rachel whispers to her husband, "Get down! We have to confront them later and I will not have you causing Rath bodily harm when you are guilty of the same crime. He must love her very much too still accept her after learning the fact she's pregnant with his child." Barbossa sits back down and they continue to listen. Rath says, "We have to get married first or our child will probably end up fatherless because of your father and my father. I would love to live to see my child born and help you raise him or her." "We are going to ask them to let us be married and if we have to tell them what happened we will." At that moment, they walk off out of view. Both Barbossa and Rachel look at each other both surprised and confused at the same time. Rachel asks Barbossa, "What are we going to do now that we know?" "When they ask to be married we will tell them we know and that we are not mad even though it is not entirely true."