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Chapter 19

Of a Nasty Snap and Alarm Bells

Izzy followed the two men and Tommy to Doctor Tanner's office. She was scared. Not just for Tommy, but for herself too. She'd never done this before. She'd wanted her first time to be special.

Oh, it's special all right, Izzy thought. Just not in the way I wanted.

Finally they reached the doctor's office and Izzy's stomach lurched. As they entered, she heard the church on the other end of town chime the hour.

"I thought I wasn't going to see you."

Doctor Tanner appeared from the same door he'd appeared from earlier. He gave Izzy a seductive smile.

"Bring him back and we'll see what we can do for him."

They followed Doctor Tanner and the two men place Tommy on the table. Doctor Tanner slipped into his white coat and washed his hands. Only then did he walk over to Tommy to start unwrapping his ankle.

"Goodness, Tommy boy, you've had quite a break," Doctor Tanner said aloud. "I'm going to press on it now to see how it's healing."

Doctor Tanner pressed his fingers on Tommy's ankle for a full ten minutes before he spoke again.

"Izzy, you were right," Doctor Tanner said turning to her. "It is healing incorrectly. We are going to have to re-break it and put on a plaster cast. It won't take very long, maybe an hour or so. I'm going to give him some pain medicine so the pain won't be as bad. Izzy, you should probably wait in the waiting area. You're not going to want to see this."

Izzy nodded. Tommy looked as though he was going to cry.

"Don't leave me," he said.

"I'm not going to," Izzy said. "I think I'm going to stay here with Tommy."

"No," Doctor Tanner said. "I don't want you to be squeamish. Tommy, it'll be better if Izzy waits outside."

Tommy looked back and forth between Izzy and Doctor Tanner five times before he nodded in agreement.

Izzy kissed his forehead.

"You'll be okay," she promised.

As she left she heard Doctor Tanner say, "Okay, I want one of you men to stand on either side of him while I do this. The pain medicine will help, but it won't take away all of the pain."

Izzy sat in the chair and waited. She gripped the handles until the design imprinted in the wood was molded into her hands. What was taking so long?

And then she heard it. The snap was awful, but the screaming was unbearable. She'd never heard someone scream like that before. Izzy lowered her head into her hands and started to bawl. After what seemed like forever, the screaming stopped.

Someone came out into the waiting room. It was one of the crewmen.

"The doc says ya can c'mon in," he said. He looked very green.

Izzy nodded. She followed him in wiping her eyes.

Tommy was asleep on the operating table and Doctor Tanner was forming a cast around it.

When he finished he looked up.

"This should dry in a few minutes," he said. "Then you men can take him back. Izzy will need to stay so I can talk to her about payment."

Izzy felt her stomach lurch.

"While we're waiting for this to dry, let's talk about recovery. You told me he'll be on a ship. You can take the cast off after three months with it on. When he feels up to it, let him use these."

Doctor Tanner handed one of the men a pair of crutches.

"These will make him mobile. He can use them while still in the cast. After the cast comes off, he'll need to slowly start learning how to walk on it again. Only a few minutes a day for a week, and so on. I'd say after a full six months he should have some use back in his leg. It could be longer. Oh look, the cast is dry."

The crewmembers took the crutches and Tommy and left without a word. Izzy heard the front door ping and she felt her insides sink to her toes. Her last hopes were gone.

"Now Izzy," Doctor Tanner said. "We can talk about payment."

He covered the ground between them quickly and trapped her against a wall.

"Relax, dear," he said coldly. "This isn't gonna hurt. Much."

He took her mouth in a savage kiss and used his tongue to open her mouth. He took what he wanted giving nothing in return. His teeth scraped her lips and eventually his teeth closed around her tongue in a bite. Izzy cried out in pain. He laughed and started to unbutton her shirt while keeping his teeth around her tongue. He let the shirt slide to the floor and did the same with her pants.

Pinning her against the wall with his body, he quickly undressed himself until he was naked. Then he ripped at her under clothes until bare skin touched bare skin. He put one hand at her waist and lowered his head to take her mouth again. While doing this he kneed her legs apart and moved his other hand to touch her. Izzy gasped and looked down. He was so huge. She tried to close her legs, but he just laughed and shoved his manliness between her thighs. He brought her head back up and was just about to plunge into her when…

Bang!

Izzy froze. She felt something lukewarm rolling down her neck. Doctor Tanner went limp and fell against her. She let him slide to the floor dead.

Izzy looked up and saw Captain Jack Sparrow standing at the door with a pistol in his hand. He was staring at her eyes wide. She started back.

Izzy suddenly realized that she was naked. She quickly gathered her clothes and dressed in seconds.

"We need to get out of here," Izzy told him. "Someone would have heard that shot and will come to see what's gone on."

But Jack still stood there staring at her, eyes goggling.

"C'mon!" she urged. "We need to go."

Izzy grabbed his arm and left the body of Doctor Tanner lying in a pool of blood on the floor of his own operating room.

Izzy ran faster than she had in her entire life. Jack had finally realized that Izzy was dragging him and was now running beside her. When they reached the docks and could see the Black Pearl, Izzy breathed a sigh of relief.

"We can't stop now, love," Jack said grabbing her arm to pull her back into a run. "We need to get out of here before they send out a search party."

As soon as they made it up the ramp and onto the deck of the Black Pearl, Jack started giving orders.

"Weigh anchor! Let's go you scallywags! I'll give you a direction once we're out of sight. Let's go!"

Izzy grabbed Jack's arm before he moved away.

"What about Barbosa?" she asked.

"He'll follow. He knows what happened."

Jack wouldn't meet her eyes. Izzy turned his face towards hers with a hand.

"Why did you…"

"Not now," he said pulling away. "As soon as we're out of sight."

The Black Pearl moved quickly with the Immortal close behind it. Izzy climbed to her post in the crow's nest and watched the town. Sure enough, they were almost out of sight when Izzy heard an alarm bell being set off.

The two ships moved behind a huge rock perturbing from the water. About three hours later, the alarm bells were shut off and the lights of the island city were doused.

Izzy felt the Black Pearl start to move underneath her. She swung down from the crow's nest and went immediately to her room. During all of the trouble, she'd forgotten about Tommy. But the door was already open when she got there.

"What he do to ya mate?" Jack asked Tommy.

"He re-broke my ankle," Tommy said. "He said it wasn't healin' correctly."

"Ouch," Jack said.

"Yeah, he never gave me any medicine for the pain like he said he was gonna."

Izzy's face blanched and felt her insides sink to her toes. That piece of pirate scum! Izzy thought outraged.

Izzy entered the room.

"Tommy."

Both Jack and Tommy looked up, but Izzy only had eyes for Tommy at the moment.

"Tommy, he didn't give you anything?" she asked horrified. "You felt everything?"

"Ya I felt everything," he said.

Izzy went to him and hugged him.

"Oh, Tommy," she said. "I'm so sorry!"

Izzy felt the tears pour down her cheeks.

"Izzy," he said bravely. "I'm okay, really."

"Okay."

But she still didn't let go.

Izzy felt a hand on hers and looked up. Her eyes met Jack's.

"C'mon," he said. "Let's give Tommy some time to sleep. I'm sure the lad needs it."

"Right," she said. She brushed her fingertips against his cheek.

"I'll never let anything ever happen to you again," she promised.

"Sleep well, mate," Jack said. Then he led Izzy from the room.

Izzy blindly followed Jack up the stairs and onto the deck. He pulled her away from the crew before he started to speak.

"Love," he started. "There was nothin' you could do."

Izzy let the tears roll down her cheeks again.

"I know!" she said. "I was just trying to help him, not cause him more pain."

"And he knows that," Jack said. "He told me so."

"He did?"

Jack looked into her hopeful eyes and replied seriously, "Yes, love, he did."

Izzy took in a deep breath and let her shoulders sag.

"I was so stupid," she said tearfully. "I should've just let his leg heal and then none of this would have ever happened."

She turned away from Jack and looked out to sea.

Izzy heard Jack move behind her and felt his arms close around her. Izzy turned into him and let her head rest against his chest.

Jack suddenly wanted to kiss Izzy very badly. The urge was almost unbearable. He remembered her velvety soft lips, the way they opened underneath his…

Stop! His mind shouted. She needs comfort, not ravaging.

Instead, Jack pulled Izzy closer and started to rub her back with one hand. He felt her sigh, rather than heard it.

"Thank you," Izzy whispered.

"For what?"

"Everything."

Jack smiled. He rested his chin gently on top of her head and let his eyes drift out to sea.

Coming up…

Why did Jack save Izzy?

What will happen to Tommy?

Will something happen now that Doctor Tanner is dead?