"Ana, my dear, you are to watch the ship along with Hanks, Ross, Peters, and Clemens. I'm terribly sorry, love, but if I have to spend any more time with you I might just have to shoot myself." Ana just glared at him, and he thought that if looks actually could kill he'd be a dead man. "The rest of ye are now free to leave and go ashore."said Jack. As Jack climbed over the side of the ship to where a long boat was waiting for him, he stopped and caught Ana's eye, gave her a smirk and a little wave. Ana looked even more angry after he did that, and he almost regretted it. 'Oh well,' he thought, 'She'll have cooled off by the time I get back, hopefully...'
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Johnny was really excited about being back in Tortuga. The last time they stopped here he didn't get to go on land. His father made him watch the ship instead. When the rest of the crew got back, he had to listen to all of the amazing stories that the rest of the crew came back with. He was really mad that he didn't have any stories of his own to share. But somehow he knew this time would be different, he was going to have a story or two of his own.
As they rowed the long boats nearer and nearer to the dock the more excited he became. Once he was on the dock he was bursting with excitement. He wanted to shout! It was just the way he had remembered it. Pirates walking and wandering every which way. Whores in their colorful dresses, wearing lots of rouge and powder, seducing perfectly honest men as well as the immoral drunk bastards. The smells of sea water, sweat, rum, and the whores' awful perfume assaulted him all at once. It was almost overwhelming, but not for him, he had been there lots of times before and also lived there for the beginning years of his life. It gave him a calm feeling being there again. Although it wasn't the safest or most beautiful place in the world, it was like his second home apart from The Pearl. Johnny, his father, Gibbs, and a few others from the crew were walking toward their favorite tavern, The Pig's Skin, when Jack saw something that caught his eye and he stopped.
"What's wrong Jack?" asked Gibbs.
"You fellows go ahead, I'll be along in a few." said Jack not taking his eyes off of whatever he was looking at.
Gibbs shrugged and said "If ye insist!" He and the rest of the men went on to the tavern.
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Johnny, Gibbs, and the others walk into The Pig's Skin tavern. Almost immediately a couple of the whores attach themselves to Johnny's arms, laughing at everything he said (whether it was funny or not), and whispering suggestive things in his ears. They all went up to the bar and ordered their rum, then they found a table near the back of the room where it was the quietest (not like anywhere in Tortuga was really quiet).
"Is anyone up for a few hands of poker?" asked Gibbs after everyone was seated. 'There's nothing like a bunch of drunk pirates playing poker' thought Johnny. Johnny wasn't stupid, he knew if he was to win, he couldn't get drunk or be distracted by the girls on his sides.
"Excuse me ladies, but Delilah, you smell funny. And Scarlet, yes, that dress makes you look fat.", Johnny said. Both girls stood up and slapped him across the face on both sides of his face. They huffed and walked away quickly. The table full of men stared at him, astonished he would say something like that to purposely get rid of the beautiful whores. "I was sick of them hanging on me." he explained quickly. The men just nodded and went back to the conversations they were having before. And soon after Gibbs was dealing out the cards.
An hour or two later, most of the men were completely wasted and weren't really thinking logically. Most besides Johnny, he had only one glass of rum, and was feeling quite sober. He had won almost every hand during those couple hours, and the drunks were beginning to think he was cheating. To prove he wasn't he had someone who wasn't playing watch him very carefully. And to everyone's surprise they realized that he was actually just a really good player. After a while he felt sorry for taking all of the other men's money so he sat out. Just as he realized his father still hadn't made an appearance, Jack burst in through the door and walked over to the table Johnny was at.
"I've got a surprise on the ship for you, Boy" said Jack, "Come with me."