Jessica's P.O.V.
I laid painfully on a pile of straw holding my arm. My greasy hair clung to my translucent skin due to the hot and humid sea air. It had been about a month since Jack and I had gotten caught by the pirates and I haven't left the hold since. They had taken almost all of our stuff, including Jack's time vortex manipulator, which was how we got there and I didn't have enough energy to get us out of there. Jack had been put to work on the deck since we were kidnapped. They made him mop the deck, move crates around, help with the sails, and some other stuff, then they would bring him back to the hold with me when he was done with his 'chores'. While Jack was up on deck, Captain Joan comes down to "talk" to me, well that's what she would say every time she came down to greet me. I heard her footsteps before she spoke.
"Avast, thar, wee Jessie. be ye ready fer our wee speak this day?" She opened the little cage that we were being held in and knelt down in front of me. I was curled up in a fetal position trying to protect my stomach and chest.
"Oh, girlie, don't act that way. I be only tryin' to make ye stronger 'n tougher so ye can survive out in th' scurvy pirate seven seas. th' same thin' happen to me, 'n look whar I be now. I be just give a go' in'to help ye lass."
"Yes, I know, you've told me before as you were sticking your knife through my thigh,and my other leg, and my arms, and my torso. Really, is there any place you haven't hurt me?" I carefully sat up letting the blood slowly drip from the gash on my chest that she had left from the day before. "I want you to know that all of this is not going to work. I will die before I would be a dirty pirate like you. I have standards that you will never lower and I refuse to give into anything less then them." I used all strength to not pass out.
"Aye, keep tellin' yourself that." Joan got closer to me even though she was already was close enough for me. She pulled out the all too familiar dager. It had been polished since the day before.
"Well then, Miss. Dawkins-"
"CAPTAIN Dawkins, Lassie." She glared at me as she griped her dagger.
"Whatever, it's only a matter of time before we get back to land, I mean you can't survive very long on the sea with the size of your crew. I estimate that we'll have to dock within a few days, or your crew will starve, and we wouldn't want that now will we?" I was stalling for time, because the more she tortures me, the weaker I become. My energy gets absorbed trying to heal myself, and I all I can get if I want to get me and Jack out of here.
Captain Joan was looking angry and about to say something when a loud crash came from the deck. Then suddenly the hold was flooded with sunlight from above and Jack came running in.
"Come on Jessica!" He ran over to Joan and pulled her away from me and helped me up.
"Can you walk?" He asked looking over his shoulder where the shouts of the pirates were growing louder.
"Yeah, I think so." He nodded his head as he looped his left arm around my back and under my arms. "Jack, do you have a plan?"
"Of course, run." He smiled down at me before we started moving out of little cage we were in. My legs ached, this was the first time I had walked in a month.
"I'm not sure that's really a plan."
"Well, it works for your dad and you."
"Not really." And sure enough, before I was even done saying that there were pirates in front of us. Then a voice came from behind us.
"What were ye pair tryin' to do, we be in th' middle 'o th' sea? Ye be knowin', I was tryin' to help ye, wee Jessie, 'n 'tis be how ye repay me? Ye pair be nothin' but trouble, I reckon it be the hour to put a end to that." There was a chorus of 'ay's and 'yarr's from the surrounding crewmates. "To th' plank!" Four of the men came forward and grabbed us. Three of them took Jack as he tried to fight back up the stairs to the outside. Only one of them needed to bring me up there, I yelped in pain as he basically picked me up and dragged me up. The sun burned as it hit my skin. It was a lot brighter than I thought it would be, I had to shield my eyes. I could hear Jack yelling and kicking up ahead of me but I couldn't see him, I could barely stand upright at this point.
They were pulling us towards the edge of the boat. The closer I got to it, the more I could see over the edge and how far up we were. I was struck with a brilliant idea.
We had finally caught up to Jack he had ropes tied around his hands and feet and they did the same to pushed us up to the edge of the boat and onto a wobbly wooden plank.
"I'm so sorry, Jessica. This isn't how this was suppose to happen, we were suppose explore the place and return without and scratches. I promised to protect you." Jack said Our backs were touching each other, I was facing the pirates and he was facing the sea.
"Hey, it's okay, we'll survive. You said that we've been on tons of trips before, so I trust you. Besides, unlike you, I actually have a plan."
"Good, I trust you too."
"Thanks."
"Any last words, mates?" Captain Joan spoke and the crowd quickly grew quiet.
"Yeah, I do. Go to space and take your helmet off!" I knew that they had no idea what I meant, but it was funny to me and Jack. Before I could really laugh, however, I grabbed Jack's hand behind me and jumped off the ship. Jack screamed but I was concentrating too hard on my flat to scream. Moments before we were about to hit the water a golden light engulfed us and we hit the hardwood of my living room floor with a bang.
"Ow, a little warning next time, please. But, hey, we're back!" Jack laughed as he wiggled out of the ropes around his wrists. He quickly got them off and proceeded to help me with mine.
"Yeah, thanks, and I'm sorry. I'll remember that next time, I just needed to build up enough energy to get here." I untied my feet and fell back onto the floor. Jack got up and walked into my kitchen.
"I'm eating some food, want some?"
"Oh, Rassilon yes, hey, our stuff should be here somewhere. Although it might not be,who knows." I had hardly eaten.
"Okay, I'll keep an eye out for it." I reached up onto my couch and pulled a pillow down from it and placed it beneath my head. I felt so comfy and relaxed. Then adrenalin had begun to wear off and I felt painful burning sensations all over my body and the cold blood that was dripping from my body to the floor. I couldn't move anymore, my body needed to rest and it needed to recover, so I did the only I could and slowly slipped into a healing coma. But not before I heard my door open and Sherlock's voice.
Jenny's P.O.V.
It had been a week since Jessica had went missing. No one knew where she went, Molly said that she turned around for only a few minutes while Jessica was talking to someone and that when she turned back Jessica was gone. She thought that she had just gone off with her friend and she thought nothing of until she heard that Jessica never came back from lunch. Molly had been feeling horrible the entire week.
The last week has gone by really slow for me. Jessica was the one who would always play with me or tell me a story. I still hadn't really gotten around to asking her about my dreams or her childhood. Whenever I tried to bring it up, something always seems to come up. Now I was worried that I would never get that chance because I'd never see her again.
Every night, when I'd get home or when dad got home, we'd go over to Jessica's to see if she had come home. I don't think that dad wanted to go, but John made him go. That night we had left after I had gotten home from dinner with Mycroft. We talked about my new school and how I would be starting it that week. I had gotten back really late, it was almost 11, way past my bedtime that John had set.
When the cab stopped in front of Jessica's building I got out and Dad paid the cabbie. He picked me up and started for the front door. He unlocked it with one of the keys Jessica had given him, the other one was for her door inside. He opened the door and swung us inside. We passed one of her neighbors, the old woman that lives above her, on the way up the stairs to her flat. We came to her door and dad let me knock. There was no answer, and I wasn't really expecting one.
"Is it alright if we go now, Jenny?" Dad asked me. I just nodded my head as he started to turn around.
"Can I walk, please?" He sighed when he put me down and grabbed my hand. We were only a step or two down the stairs when we heard a loud bang and talking coming from her flat.
"Dad!" I yelled while I turned around and ran back. "Unlock the door!"
"Ok hold on." He did as I said and opened the door. I was about to run in when he put a hand on my shoulder and crouched down to my level.
"Jenny, I want you to stay here and not to move, okay? I need you to call John and ask him to come down here. Tell him to hurry and to bring Lestrade." He was acting strange.
"But, dad-" He cut me off.
"Please, Jenny, just do as I say."
"Okay." He handed me his phone, and I called John and told him everything. After I hung up the phone I heard talking coming from inside. One voice I recognized as dad's, but I'd never heard before. Ignoring what dad said, I moved so I could see into Jessica's living room and I really wished I hadn't.
Dad and another man were kneeling next to Jessica. She was covered in dirt and blood, and she wasn't moving anymore, I don't think that she was even breathing.
I don't know how long I was sitting there, but it was long enough for John and Greg to get there. Their footsteps pounded on the stairs as they ran up. John ran past me into the flat because he could she her on the floor and Greg came behind me and pulled me away from the door. I turned around and buried my head into his shoulder while I hugged him.
"It's going to be okay." He said. Two more pairs of footsteps came pounding up the stairs. I didn't look up when they paused for moment before continuing into the flat. I could hear all of them talking but I couldn't make out any words.
"No, that's not going to work, Dr. Watson. River we need to get back to the Tardis."
"What are you talking abo- hey, where are you going?!" I heard John yell. Then there were a bunch of footsteps that passed us.
"Lestrade, take Jenny home, we'll be back later. will watch her. Thank you." Dad yelled as he ran down the didn't say anything, he just stood up with me in his arms and proceeded down the stairs.
"Will Jessica be okay?" I asked when we got to the bottom of the stairs.
"Yeah, of course she will. She has to be." He said the last part more to himself, but I believed him. She will be okay, she has to be.
Hey! I'm Back! So sorry it took so long, with school, then two weeks of summer camps, I finally got time to update, yay! -JP