Tricking the Devil: Chapter Six- Breaking in or is it?
By: Too Lazy
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Jack sat on his comfy black silk couch flipping the channels of his flat panel television not paying attention to what was on. He was in deep musing over the earlier events.
Jack Sparrow former Captain of Britain's Special Operations Unit was rarely if ever surprised.
Today as it were, Miss Elizabeth Swann had done what most thought was impossible and surprised him.
He had to admit the young woman was good and unlike most women that he knew (and he knew quite a few) they would have ran off the screaming for the hills in the situation that they had encountered earlier that day. Miss Swann had not; instead she had stayed with him and to his amazement, she had saved his life, patched him up, and did not slap him for his remarks or go to the cops.
Yes, she was indeed, quite a different woman and Captain Jack Sparrow was intrigued enough to want to learn more about her. Funny thing was Jack knew his sudden attraction to Miss Swann was not just out of curiosity or that he found her pretty, it most likely had to do with they were both living a life of hidden crime. People like him and her lived in a world that most of society frowned upon mostly because they were afraid while Jack and Elizabeth took chances and reaped the benefits.
He was a con artist and she was… well Jack was going to find that out soon enough. First things first, after taking a quick shower and changing into some warn jeans and a black button down shirt and a pair of black boots, Jack took some of the cleaner money out of his case and made sure to have Miss Swann's ID in his jacket pocket before he left his flat. He had some things to do first.
Elizabeth had been at work for thirty minutes before she considered her job (that she really did not need) the most mundane thing she had ever done.
Her little near death experience with Jack Sparrow left her with a myriad of conflicting emotions; some she had never experienced before and never wanted to again yet others emotions she hoped to.
"Hey waitress!" A patron shouted over to her, she had purposely been ignoring him since he first ordered as he was a very rude man and had made her send back his food three times because according to him, the stake was not well done.
"I'm ready to go!" He shouts to her even though she is only two feet from him.
"Sorry sir." Elizabeth says before putting down the bill on the table. He places his credit card down before Elizabeth can leave and Elizabeth takes his bill and card to the resister with the motions of robot. There she takes a quick look around then pulls out the scanner from her apron pocket and scans the card before ringing up the man's bill, when he has left and she goes to clean the table her tip his an American penny.
"Melody, can you cover for me the rest of the day?" Elizabeth asked her fellow worker, a short, blond, green eyed woman with a sunny smile and honest opinion about anything. Elizabeth liked her.
Melody looked up from the resister, "Sure I can, be grateful for the tips. You feel alright Elizabeth?" Melody asked casually enough but there was no disguising the concern in etched in her features.
"Yes, I'm just a bit tired; I think I'm getting the flu or something." Elizabeth answers softly as she takes off her apron and puts it in her bag, she grabs her coat. "Thanks for covering I'll see you later." Elizabeth says as she finishes packing up her stuff and Melody just nods in understanding, she hated her job to.
Elizabeth on her way home decides to spoil herself with numerous goodies of Chinese food and ice cream, health is dammed by this point.
Before Elizabeth has a chance to place her key in the lock Jack Sparrow opens her door theatrically.
"Finally." He said turning his head and exhaling a plume of smoke before taking the food Elizabeth held in her hands. "Chinese food good choice love did you know you have nothing in here that doesn't taste like tofu except for the coffee, which by the way I finished." Jack asked setting the food down on the table. Elizabeth said nothing and was standing at the doorway still; she did not know what to think.
Jack looked up and saw she hadn't moved and her mouth was slightly agape by Jack being inside her home. "Love, might I ask why you have a fascination at staring at me?" Jack said playfully and that snapped Elizabeth back to reality she slammed the door and approached him menacingly but Jack stood his ground.
"You basterd..." She began but Jack interrupted her.
"Actually love I knew my dad...or I think he was my dad." Jack said rubbing his chin in thought but that only made Elizabeth angrier. Jack then moved around her and put the ice cream away, Elizabeth counted to ten before she spoke again.
"Why did you break in?" She asked pleasantly enough and Jack swallows the chow main he was eating before answering.
"I didn't break in." Jack said before sitting down and kicking his feet on the table. Elizabeth slaps at his feet and he puts them on the ground. She then goes to the cabinets and pulls down two plates and places one in front of Jack.
"Then what do you call being in my home when I did not invite you?" She asked pulling the carton away from Jack and places a generous amount of food on her plate before putting the rest on his. She does the same with the rest of the cartons.
"I would call that making my self at home, in which case you may not have invited me but the manager did." Jack smiled then took a bite of some barbequed chicken. "She was very helpful."
Elizabeth snorted placing down her chop sticks; this is the second time this has happened she really needed to move.
"Okay, Mr. Sparrow what do you want?" Elizabeth asked irritably, she had a bad day and Jack was so far not making it seem any better.
"Well I was curious to what you did as I could not figure how you could afford a snazzy place as this and its Captain love if we're going to be using titles." Jack reminded her as he pulled her ID from his pocket she took it with a role of her eyes. "Regarding that fact I noticed that you have room locked up tightly, which only increased my curiosity about what you did to manage your life style, so after having made my way into that secure little room I notice various degree of technology about, so the led me to the conclusion that you do you misdeeds with the aid of technology it self."
"I am what the Government calls an identity thief which is an unfair name." Elizabeth said matter a fact, she realizes she had just told him her biggest secret in one day compared to Will which took years. She tries to play it off but Jack takes notice of her unease.
"No worries darlin' I have no need to send you prison to become the pet of another woman, which would be a nice daydream for men in general but, you're much to pretty to be locked up at any rate." Jack said before digging in to the fried rice.
"Thank you...I think." Elizabeth flustered at his compliment. They ate in peace after that, it was not until Jack was refilling their drinks that a sudden thought of why he had come by in the first place besides to see what she did illegally for a living popped in his head.
"Oh," Jack snapped his fingers in recognition, causing Elizabeth to give him her full attention, "almost forgot Elizabeth got something for you." With that Jack grabbed her hand and pulled her to her feet leading her to the living room, she followed willingly.
Jack picked up from behind the couch box wrapped in blue paper and a white bow. The package was expertly done and Elizabeth was reluctant to open it.
"Thank you Mr. Spar, I mean Captain." Jack raised an eyebrow at least they took a step forward.
Elizabeth sat on the couch and Jack took a seat beside her. She carefully took off the ribbon and then taking a deep breath tore off the paper. The box was plane white and when she opened that and removed the white tissue paper there rested a tan leather jacket, an expensive tan leather jacket by the look of it. Resting on the coat was the money she had spent saving his life.
"I felt bad, with you ruining your jacket and all this morning it is quite cold in the mornings." Jack said with false bashfulness Elizabeth laughed slightly. "Well go on try it on love."
Elizabeth smiled with child-like glee and tried it on. It fit perfectly.
"Thank you Captain." She then gave Jack a kiss on the cheek and went to place her coat away for use in the morning.
"Well I best be off pet." Jack said as she was returning to the living room he was looking for his own jacket.
"Are you sure you don't want to stay for desert?" Elizabeth asked from the kitchen as she grabbed the carton of ice cream from the freezer and returning to the couch. She got comfortable and held out a spare spoon to him while flipping through the channels on TV.
"Can't have a nice meal with out dessert although, we should have eaten dessert first." Jack plucked the spoon from Elizabeth's out stretched hand and sat back down next to her. They ate from the carton watching The Crow as it was the only thing good on.
When the movie was over Elizabeth walked Jack to the door.
"Thanks for the dinner love." Jack said appreciatively as he stood in the hall lighting up a cigarette.
"Your welcome, have to do it again sometime." Elizabeth smiled and Jack turned to her.
"Are you asking me on a date Elizabeth?" Jack inquired with a devilish grin.
"Hardly Jack." She replied nonchalant but she could not suppress the smile on her face.
"Ah, now I'm Jack, good to know Elizabeth, in any case if you won't ask me I'll have to ask you then."
"You can ask me Jack, doesn't mean I'll say yes." Elizabeth quipped leaning her head on the door.
"So what would you say then?"
"Maybe." Elizabeth replied airily.
"Maybe." Jack repeated thoughtfully rubbing his chin. "I can work with that, good night Elizabeth." He gave a small salute.
"Goodnight Jack." She shut the door after he had left the hallway and leaned against it smiling and blushing like a fifteen year-old school girl.
The next day at work Elizabeth was surprised by Jack showing up. Although she would not admit it out loud she was happy to see him.
"Jack what are you doing here?" She asked moving away from the register, so far she had three cards to make when she got home plus the others she had failed to do last night.
"I thought maybe you'd like to come and have something to eat, possibly drink." Jack asked waving at the eavesdropping Melody. Melody blushed and walked off to go serve some customers.
"It's only noon Jack." Elizabeth said looking at her watch and back to him.
"Somewhere it's a drinking hour. Come on not like you can't afford to miss a day's work." Jack indicated with the double meaning of her illegal activities.
"Go on Elizabeth I can cover for you, I could use the extra hours." Melody said as she moved around them to the register to ring up the customers.
Even through Elizabeth knew she should not leave work, or that she should be seeing another man while still (technically) seeing Will, she agreed.
'What's one harmless little date anyway, most likely nothing will come of It.' she counseled her self as they left the pub so Elizabeth could change into more suitable clothes.
If only she knew better.
Three months later
"Lizzie love, have you seen my shirt?" Jack asked rummaging around the living room where he swore he removed it while there were on the couch...or was it in the kitchen he couldn't remember.
"You mean this one?" Elizabeth asked coming out of the bed room wearing in fact the shirt in question.
"Yes that's the one but I think you look far better in it then I do." He grinned thinking maybe he could meet Gibbs later to talk about the Barbossa plan that seemed to have been inactive so far.
"Well since I'm wearing this one you can ware the other one you left behind." She said walking back to the bed room. "Or you can try and take this one from me."
Yes Jack could meet Gibbs later.