Seven Sins of a Dying Sparrow
By Too Lazy
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way
The beauty in life, where's it gone?
And somebody told me, you were doing okay
Somehow I guess they were wrong
Flogging Molly-Whispers in the Wind
Elizabeth had a strange feeling when all of the Sparrow clan had boarded the Pearl, it was a feeling of knowing that something is going to happen but not knowing what. Had she known what was going to happen in the first five hours on the Pearl she might have considered asking Jack to leave her at Tortuga.
Right now she was sitting at the edge of the bed trying to get Jack to take the offered rum, he was in what could only be described as pouting mood, and he was reclining in the bunk with a bruised eye that would not need any kohl for a while and a split lip.
"Jack...come on I know you want it." Elizabeth waved the cup under his nose but he just tuned his head and crossed his arms over his chest. Elizabeth sighed and held the cup in her lap. "Jack, how long are you going to sulk?"
He tuned to his lover abruptly and for a moment the jangling of his trinket filled hair filled the room. "I do not sulk for one and if I go back out there and see any of their faces I will throw them all over board."
"Well Jack it would not have happened if you kept out of the conversation." Elizabeth pointed out and had to repress her smile at Jack's pouting face, he look so adorable for a pirate.
"Excuse me for defending your honor as well as my sister from Ikitomo's beatings!" Jack snapped but did not move from his spot on the bed.
"Jack I became a pirate my honor is long gone as you should know, second I thought your sister Isabelle was handling things quite well."
"Elizabeth this family is all bonkers and you are not inclined to handle it!" A knock on the great cabin doors broke up the argument before it had even really started which for Jack is lucky for he would have slept outside if the argument had gone any further.
"Come in." Elizabeth called, and the door opened a few inches with Isabelle peeking inside.
"Hello Jack and Elizabeth." Isabelle came in shutting the door behind her softly and approached the bunk with slow steps almost afraid, but it was not that she was afraid of Jack it was that she was ashamed of her actions. "Jack what Ikitomo does is really for my own good," Jack got out of the bed in a flash and towered over Isabelle, Elizabeth had an inkling to hold him back but she knew this was not her fight so she resigned herself to check on the wounded Alex and Ikitomo. When she left the cabin she could still hear Jack yelling.
Alex is not hard to find mostly because he is the only one not doing any work and has resigned himself to now writing in a ledger which could either be a journal or a financial book. When Elizabeth approaches he looks up, closes the book with a snap and stands up.
"I would like to apologies for my outburst earlier Miss Swann, my intention was to offend Jack," He raised his rather clean hand to his right eye which was swollen and a deep bluish purple, "it seems it worked."
"I realized that when you were throwing insults at each other. You need not worry I was not offended." She leans against the railing and looks out to the ocean and the shoals, it is lovely and Alex joins her. "Can I ask you a question though?"
Alex turns to Elizabeth, "I can never refuse a request of a wonderful woman such as your self, what's that you would have me answer." Alex returns his gaze to the sea; it had been a long time since he enjoyed the view.
"What made Jack and you hate one another so much?" She turned to Alex waiting for his answer; it takes a moment before he answers her.
"He was jealous I am the better looking one." Elizabeth smiles at him and Alex gave a tired sigh before looking at her. "I quite being a pirate, I wanted to start a normal life a respectable one with a wife, children, Jack thought I was mad and I just took off one day no words of farewell, and then one day, many years later, I run into him in open waters and instead of running up a flag of truce we both open fire on each other. End of story." Alex gives a non-committal shrug.
"You think maybe if you talk things out now you could learn to get along again?" Elizabeth asked now knowing at least one side of the story. Alex laughed and Elizabeth finds herself frowning at him.
"No Miss Swann, I think not, I am too proud to apologize and Jack is too bloody stubborn. Besides brothers in general don't say sorry, we just beat the hell out of one another till we both can't stand, but as you know, Jack prefers negations to fighting." Alex then in gesture not befitting an acquaintance moves a stray lock of hair behind Elizabeth's ear. Elizabeth blushes as his fingers brush against her cheek.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Ikitomo asked mockingly as she watches Alex and Elizabeth with a lazy gaze. She has no black eyes from the earlier fight to speak of but gashes on her arm which have already soaked through the wrapping she seems not to care.
"Nothing that could interest you." Alex said lazily turning to his sister. She looks like the cat that just ate the canary and Elizabeth face burns with a slight shame and she moves away going to find something to do to occupy herself.
"You always did want what Jack has." With that she walks away to the cabin going to find Isabelle.
A few hours later they are docked in another nearby sea port town that is less known in the waters of the Caribbean.
Jack and Isabelle decided to go ashore and invite the woman of their father's affections back to the ship but when they get to the tavern they find it has been burned down ten years ago. When they inform Alex and Ikitomo they have no idea where another tavern of where the Sirens den is.
"So what do you think we should do?" Isabelle asked the three family members who were all in the cabin a good space between each of them going over maps.
"Maybe we should have asked father what he was talking about in the first place." Alex suggested irritably.
"You should have." Ikitomo answered crossly.
"Please don't start again." Isabelle pleaded standing between them. "Jack can't you use the Compass to find this den?"
"Wish that I could, but you see I would want to want to find this Sirens den but in fact what I want is all three of you of my ship and since that is what I want the Compass will not point to the thing I do not want savvy?" Jack said looking over an older version of a map and trying to ignoring the rising tones of Ikitomo and Alex.
"Well then how about if I use the Compass again it worked for Alex." Isabelle offered giving her brother her best puppy eye look and Jack's tone softens but his answer remains the same.
"Sorry kitten but what you want at this moment is to keep Alex and Ikitomo from killing each other which right now is what I want because blood is very hard to get off the floor, so with you and I wanting what we want which is very far off from the thing we should be wanting we have no use for the Compass."
"What about Elizabeth!" Isabelle said a little louder this time as now she is trying desperately to hold back Alex form Ikitomo the other siblings are now arguing over something that has nothing to do with the current conversation.
"Elizabeth?" Jack parroted questioningly; then the idea that Isabelle is thinking of springs to Jack's mind as well. "Smart kitten, be right back." Jack then swaggers out of his cabin it is here that Alex pushes Isabelle aside and a fight starts up between older brother and sister.
Jack finds his lady love sitting on the helm steps a book in hand; although the book is opened she is looking at the sea in front of her, a seemingly lost look upon her face. She was beautiful, if it had been any other time he would have asked her to marry him right then and there in front of crew and all, but he lacked a ring and he lacked the timing.
"My tremendous sensitive intuition of the female creature informs me you are baffled by something." Jack said shaking Elizabeth from her daze and taking a seat beside her.
"No, just thinking." Noticing the way Jack was smiling at her she immediately went on the defensive. "What do you want Jack?"
"Actually love it is what you be wanting." Jack smiled as he produced the Compass in his hands. "Love, do you fancy me enough to help me locate a certain place that could in fact help my dear old dad?"
"I fancy you very much Jack; I would want nothing more then to help you." She answered a bit wearily. Jack placed the Compass in her hands and flipped the lid before moving away from Elizabeth and waiting for an answer.
Isabelle burst from the cabin throwing open both doors in a dramatic fashion her right hand tying to stop the blood flow from her nose. "I hope you both ...both...err...forget it just go fall over board."
"Please let it point to the right place." Jack cringed as he approached Elizabeth and looked to the Compass. The compass was now pointed in one spot.
"Mr. Gibbs we have a new heading!" Jack shouted to his first mate.
"Aye Captain!" Gibbs called back and Jack went up the helm steps and proceeds to give the new coordinates.
In the cabin many of Jack's things were now being broken Elizabeth was tending to Isabelle and Jack just wants to end it all.
A few days later Jack is furious at the Compass not for misleading them but leading them to an actual cave that is surrounded by bones of sailors past and present in the middle of the ocean. He is also furious at the fact there are actual sea creatures holding them hostage and at this point and believe it or not mermaids (which do not exist or so Jack had thought) holding the ship in place.
One creature of scaly blue skin and black eyes, with a human form approaches Jack he smiles reliving a rows of sharp teeth, "She's been expecting you Captain Sparrow, she knew your father was going to send you."