Once, Forever and Always
Chapter 6 – The Green Light
I awoke in a chamber. What looked to be the captain's quarters to be exact. I tried sitting up but instantly fell back down with crushing pain in my head.
"Easy there love. I'd lie down a bit you hit ye head pretty hard on my deck if I do say so myself." I turned my head to the door to find Jack leaning against the doorframe in all his damn glory. I let inappropriate thoughts slip into mind about what I would to him if only I could stand but I quickly pushed them out concentrating on only what needed be.
"You know love," Jack pushed himself off the doorframe and walked closer to the bed. "You look very lovely laying in me bed, but I do think ye would look even better without all the clothes. Don't ye say?" Jack smirked obviously undressing me with his eyes.
"Sparrow, don't even think about it my head hurts too much." I told him pointing an accusing finger in his direction.
"Oh come on love. This maybe the only time when we could." I sat up shocked by what he was saying.
"Are you drunk Sparrow because you better listen and listen well. I will not have sex with you on this boat let alone any boat do you understand?" I was beyond furious with this man and I was letting him know it.
Jack mumbled something that I didn't quite catch. "Beg your pardon?" I asked hoping I could hear him better.
"It's a ship love. Not a boat. Ship." I groaned in frustration. "Jack listen to me," I crossed my leg in a pretzel way on the bed.
"I know you love the Pearl but sooner or later a choice is going to be made weather it's yours or mine is to be decided on you."
"So well you have sex with me on land?" He asked and I got up furious with him and slammed the door shut leaving him sitting in the quarters all by himself. I headed out on deck and sat against the pole that held the mast. Although I wasn't very good with ships and what things were I at least knew what starboard side was and the mast and that's all that mattered to me and it was then I sat there in the sun lost in my thoughts. A voice dragged me out of my thoughts about an hour later or that's what it felt like.
"No water." Pintel stated and then asked "Why is all but the rum gone?"
That was a damn good question considering Jack drinks only the rum. I would have expected that to be gone not everything else. So why is all but the rum gone?
"Rum's gone too." Gibbs told us, shaking out his upside down canteen as proof. I instantly felt stupid when Gibbs told us that. I actually thought… Never mind.
"If we cannot escape these doldrums before night I fear we will sail on trackless seas, doomed to roam the reach between worlds, forever." With that's reassuring
"With no water forever looks to be arriving a mite too soon." Geez, thanks Gibbs
Will looks over to Barbossa and questions "Why doesn't he do something?"
"What's there to do Will?" I ask and just than Jack the monkey runs off with Ragetti's eye.
"There's no sense to it" Gibbs Will back me up.
"And the green flash happens at sunset, not sunrise" Will quotes from the map.
"Over the edge... Oh, that's driving me over the bloomin' edge. Sunrises don't set." Gibbs sighs frustrated that he can't figure it out but he shouldn't be 'cause none of us can.
I look over to Jack and see him mumbling to himself. I shake my head and look out at sea wondering if where ever going to leave this hell.
Jack gets up and instantly runs to one side "What's that? What is that?" He asks questioning himself "I don't know, what you think?" I sit there for a second wondering if he's gone mad.
"Where?" Gibbs questions always being the loyal first mate that he is.
"There!" Jack points in a random direction and runs to the other side. After about three or four of these I finally realize what he's doing and decide to join him. A few more times and everyone has joined in. Barbossa decided to throw out orders now.
"Time it with the swell! Loose the cannons, ya lazy bilge rats! Un-stow the cargo, let it shift!"
Once everything is down were almost to the point of actually flipping it. I run back and forth a few more times and then we finally got. I hang onto the rail right next Jack, where I belong.
"Now up... is down." Jack says as the ship is flipping completely.
As we were in the water I lost grip of my one hand and almost lost the grip of the other but a hand grabbed me and hosted me up some more to grab more tightly onto the railing. I looked to my left and found Jack hanging there looking worried as ever and it was then that I started questioning everything about me and Jack and what exactly we were.
I held tightly onto the rail as felt that we were moving, I wasn't quite sure how it was possible but I didn't question it seeing it was going to get me air. I quickly closed my eyes and held on tightly. The next thing I knew I was on the ship's floor coughing up water along with the rest of the crewmen.
"Blessed sweet Westerlies. We're back!" Gibbs shouted.
"It's a sunrise." Elizabeth said stating the obvious. Ever since I found out that she isn't my sister and that's she's been keeping lies from me, she has been getting on my nerves more and more and my hatred for her just seems to be growing.
I leaned against the railing and watched as Barbossa decided to pull out his pistol and points it at Jack who in return points his at Will. Then in return Will and Elizabeth each pull out another one to point at Jack. Jack decides than to pull out another one to point at Elizabeth. What I found hysterical out of this situation was Jack the monkey decided to point his own mini pistol at Cotton's parrot.
The four of them are still standing with pistols pointed at each other and apparently found the situation hysterical and they start to laugh and put down their guns, and then suddenly put their guns back on each other. Barbossa decided to speak first.
"Alright then! The Brethren Court is a-gathering at shipwreck cove, and Jack, you and I are a-going and there'll be no arguing that point."
"I is arguing the point. If there's pirates a-gathering, I'm pointing my ship the other way." Jack was trying to hold his ground in this argument but even I knew there wasn't a way out of it.
Elizabeth pointed both her pistols to Jack forgetting about pointing the other one to Barbossa "The pirates are gathering to fight Beckett and you're a pirate."
Jack points both at Elizabeth in return forgetting about the one he also had on Barbossa. Will in return points his at Jack and Jack turn one over to Will.
"Fight or not, you're not running Jack."
"If we don't stand together they'll hunt us down, one by one, until there be none left, but you." Barbossa spat to Jack. Poor Jack was surrounded with no way out of this but to agree.
Jack smirked at that assumption. "I quite like the sound of that. Captain Jack Sparrow, last pirate."
"Aye, and you'll be fighting Jones alone, how does that figure into your plan?" Barbossa asked.
"I'm still working on that. But I will not be going back to the Locker, mate, count on that." Jack tries to shot his pistol but nothing happens. Everyone else tries to fire their guns but nothing happens as well.
"Wet powder!" Gibbs shouts, announcing the obvious.
Will sat looking over the charts while Barbossa, Jack and I stood around.
"There's a freshwater spring on this island. We can resupply there, get back to shooting each other later." Will said pointing to the little island on the chart.
Jack turned to Barbossa "You lead the shore party, I'll stay with my ship."
"I'll not be leaving my ship in your command." Barbossa said crossing his arms.
"Why don't you both go ashore, and leave the ship in my command. Temporarily." Will asked. Barbossa and Jack agreed and left to go find water leaving the ship in Will's command.
Will started barking at orders at the crew. I sat on the rail watching the ocean and spotted a ship.
"Will," I shouted he came rushing over to my side "A ship" He shrugged it off and that's when I grew suspicious.
Will didn't usually ignore things and that's when Will and Sao Feng's conversation came back to me. Will was going to take the ship and I knew Sao Feng was going to want something in return and he was going to take me.
I hopped down from the railing and stormed off to find Will. I found him below deck making sure everything he needed was there.
"I can't believe you." I shouted at him, he shushed me.
"I had to, to free my father Abigail." Sadness was written across his face.
"I know Will but this isn't going to end well for anyone, just to warn you." I walked away and made my way back to my railing and waited for the trouble and the ship to come.
So this is quite longer than alot of my other chapters. Well, i think so (:
Anyway, trouble to come aboard the black pearl!
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