"The idiot should have known better," Jack muttered under his breath. He was about to go below deck to comfort Elizabeth, but then he heard someone shouting.
"HEY!" a voice yelled. "OVER HERE! HELP! I'VE BEEN MAROONED! COME!"
Jack looked toward a beach near by. A young woman was waving her hands. She was the one who was yelling. She seemed stranded.
"Great, another damsel and distress, waitng to be rescued..." Jack muttered. He didn't like making stops when his enemies were chasing him. None the less, he couldn't just leave the girl there, she looked like she was barely sixteen!
"Never fear, Jack is here," he muttered sarcasticly. Jack reluctantly turned the ship around, and headed toward the beach.
"It's turning around!" Brianna exclaimed, with joy. She kept flagging the ship down, and within minutes, the ship had stopped, and she was able to get on.
But before she did, and young man jumped off the boat. He had dark eyes, a red bandana over his long dredlocks. He was tanned, and looked about twenty.
"Who are you?" she asked.
Jack looked at the girl. She was tall, and leggy. She was dressed like a pirate, and she smelled like one too. Yuck! Jack thought. She had long dark hair, and green eyes.
She asked who he was. "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow," he said. "Now, listen, I'm in a hurry. I've got pretty much the whole British navy after me, I have a distressed woman below deck, probably crying her eyes out now, and a suitor lying on the deck with a bruised cheek, and a thrown engagment ring at his feet, so haul your sixteen year old self onto the boat, and let's get going!"
"First of all, I'm nineteen, and second of all I'm Brianna Cartwright, and I'm running away from enemies too."
"Good, good," Jack said, not paying attention. Brianna rolled her eyes. At least I wasn't rescued by a privateer, she thought. She shuddered. Brianna had sworn never to care for a privateer. They were the devil's servants. But they were not on the same page as pirates. They hunted down her own kind like dogs.
When Brianna hopped on board, she noticed a youth lying on the deck. As Jack Sparrow had said, he DID have a bruised cheek, and he DID have an engament ring lying infront of him. Brianna sat down beside him.
"Hi, I'm Brianna Cartwright," she said...
Jack ran down, below deck to see if Elizabeth was alright. She was sitting in a hammock, with tears in her eyes.
When she saw Jack, she got down, and ran to his arms. She suddenly started sobbing hystericly.
"What Will said was true," she said. "I can't believe my self. I attempted to murder you... At first I thought I'd get over this and would think nothing of it, but I just- I- c-can't..." she started crying again. Jack sat in the hammock with her.
"Elizabeth listen," he said. "If you really loved me, I see that attempted murder as a sign of love, believe it or not. If you really love me, you'll become a pirate... and that's what pirate's do."
Elizabeth smiled weakly. "I really do love you," she said.
Jack added teasingly, "and if Will gives you any trouble, I'll-"
Elizabeth giigled a little bit, and put her finger to his mouth, silencing him. "Thank you," she smiled.
Jack leaned in for a tender loving kiss from Elizabeth. She gladly excepted his invitation. While still kissing, Jack sleathily took out a ring from his pocket, and put it on Elizabeth's finger. They broke apart and she looked at it.
It was shining gold, as if polished recently. And in the middle of it was a shining diamond in the shape of a skull.