A/N: Hey everyone!!! I just wanted to let you know that I've been sick lately so I've been able to write a lot. I'm going back to school tomorrow so there might be fewer updates. Enjoy!!!
Chapter 20
'Ello Popit
It had been four weeks since Tommy had seen the doctor. His ankle was starting to heal and Izzy hoped it was healing correctly. She obviously couldn't trust Doctor Tanner, and wasn't about to bring him to another doctor, so she hoped.
Tommy could now move with his crutches and was allowed on the deck.
Izzy watched him while on duty in the crow's nest. He seemed so happy now that he could move. She watched him talk to crew members, laughing and grinning from ear to ear. His eyes twinkled as he listened to a story from told by Gibbs.
Tommy caught Izzy watching him and waved to her. Izzy waved back and smiled. She was so pleased that Tommy was healing.
She sat down leaning her back against the mast and started to hum the melody she'd sung to Tommy. Izzy shaded her eyes from the sun and looked out to sea. What in the bloody name of pirate was that?
Izzy stood up to try and get a better look at what was coming at them. She brought her telescope up to her eyes and saw that two ships were coming their way.
"Captain!" she yelled.
Izzy stood on the edge of the crow's nest and was about to jump off when Jack yelled back.
"Stay up there love, I'm comin' up."
Jack started climbing the rigging and hopped nimbly onto the floor of the crow's nest.
"What's for all the commotion?" he asked.
Izzy pointed.
"Look."
Jack took the telescope from her and looked out to sea.
"It's about bloody time," Jack said handing the telescope back to her.
"What d'you mean?" she asked.
"We have some new pirates comin' our way. Barbosa told me 'bout them. They think they're tough and want to show the rest of us pirates how tough they are by burnin' and pillagin' our ships. They want to control the seas themselves and have the rest of us under their command. Well they won't be takin' down the Pearl and the Immortal. We've been waitin' for them. Now it's time for fun."
"Captain?" Izzy looked at Jack curiously.
Jack shook his head to bring him back to reality.
"Love, there's gonna be a hell of a fight. I want you to take Tommy and go to your room. Lock the door and barricade it so no one can get in. Savvy?"
Izzy looked at him aghast.
"There is no way I'm going to let you fight without me!" she insisted.
"I'm Captain I'll give the orders," Jack said fiercely.
"I don't care!"
"You don't even know how to use a sword."
"I'll figure it out."
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"Izzy," Jack's demeanor changed suddenly. "Take Tommy and go, please."
Izzy's mouth dropped open. She'd never heard Jack say please to anyone.
She searched his eyes. He was serious.
Izzy nodded.
"Okay, but after you will teach me how to fight, do we have an accord?" she held out her hand.
"Ah, love, you're becomin' more like us every day you're aboard."
Jack laughed and shook her hand.
"Now go."
Izzy grabbed a rope and dove off the crow's nest. She hit the deck with a thump and took off running towards Tommy.
"Let's go," she said.
He nodded and started to follow.
They were about to start down the stairs when they head Jack say, "Hoist the colors, mates. We've got some pirates to demote a few levels."
Izzy looked back and saw Jack standing there with a silly smile on his face. He looked like he enjoyed this. But why?
It was not something to consider now. She had a boy to take care of. They reached the bottom of the stairs and started down the hallway. A door opened to their right.
"What's going on?" Elizabeth demanded.
"Two pirate ships are attacking. Jack mentioned something about "new" pirates," Izzy told her.
"Damn!" Elizabeth swore. "I was almost done with my book too."
She ran back into her room and came back out with a sword attached at either side of her waist, a pistol in her belt. Elizabeth started up the stairs stuffing a knife into each boot.
Izzy watched her amazed. Jack was going to let Elizabeth fight but not her?
Izzy shook her head and nudged Tommy forward. She flung the door open and pushed Tommy inside.
"Sit as far away from the door as you can," she told him.
"Okay."
Tommy hobbled to the window seat and watched Izzy lock the door.
"What are you doin'?" he asked.
"I'm barricading the door," she told him. "Just in case they get past Jack."
Izzy moved everything she could in front of the door. She pushed and shoved at her bed until it stood against it and pulled Tommy's cot over and managed to get it on top of her bed. When she was finished piling everything in the room, she went to Tommy.
"Tommy I need you to get up for a moment."
He obliged her and she opened the window seat. Izzy took out a small box and opened that. Inside were two knives that Izzy had stolen from one of the lower decks where all of the cannons were stored.
"Take this," Izzy said handing him a knife. "Just in case."
He took it from her and Izzy slide hers in her boot. She closed the window seat back up and they both sat on it.
"Izzy?"
"Yeah?"
"How did your mother die?"
Izzy looked at Tommy. His face had paled. He looked exactly as Izzy felt.
"My mother?"
"Yeah."
"She was killed by pirates," Izzy said.
"Do you know what happened?"
"Yes."
"Can you tell me?"
"Sure, I was six. My mother decided that she wanted to go and visit some family that was now living in Spain. My father decided to go with her. On their way back from Spain, their ship was attacked by pirates. Only two people lived, my father and the captain of the ship he was on. My father went crazy, so the captain told me what happened.
"It was early in the morning, probably about three, the captain said."
"Did the captain say what pirates?" Tommy asked.
"He mentioned something about "new" pirates," Izzy said.
"Oh."
Tommy looked at her face. Her eyes seemed far away.
"He said that the pirates boarded the ship and no one knew. By the time anyone on board figured out what was going on, half the crew was dead. The captain said the rest fought bravely, even my father. He'd left my mother in the cabin and had told her to barricade the door so she'd be safe. When my father came back to get her off the ship, he found the door open. Things were strewn everywhere. He found my mother dead on the floor by the window. They found a knife in her hand, which my father sold immediately. He didn't want any memories left of her. Except for the ones he had in his mind.
"Before they left, my mother gave me this."
Izzy pulled her necklace out from under her shirt and showed Tommy the ring.
"It was almost like she knew that she wasn't going to come back. She told me that this was very important and to never lose it. What intrigues me the most is the family crest on it," Izzy said. "I've never seen this crest before."
"Hey, I've got…"
Bam!
Something hit hard against the door.
"Quiet!" Izzy said. She said and put an arm in front of Tommy. She readied her knife and waited.
Bam! Crash!
A lamp fell of the beds and crashed to the floor.
"They've barricaded the door!" a man yelled.
Another laughed.
"It won't last long mate!"
Izzy heard a snap.
"The lock broke!" the first man shouted with glee.
"Keep pushing!"
So they pushed and the door started to open. Izzy watched the beds move and gulped. She was going to have to fight them.
Finally the door opened wide and the two men entered through the opening.
They were huge. Both men were well over six feet tall and muscular. They smiled dangerously at her.
"Hello popit!" one said.
They both laughed.
Izzy aimed her knife and threw it. The man she'd aimed for dodged it easily and chuckled.
"Oh, popit, now you don't have no weapon."
"Not that it would've 'elped her in the first place," the other said.
The second man picked up a candle stick and threw it at Izzy. It missed her. He picked up two more and chucked them. She dodged them. She didn't realize that the other one had thrown something too. It hit Izzy's head and she fell to the floor. Everything went black…
Coming up…
What will happen to Izzy?
Will Tommy be okay?
Will these "new" pirates take over the Black Pearl and the Immortal?