Regrets I May Have Had A Few

Chapter 6

"What are you doing here?" Jones spat out.

Calypso slowly walked over to him, a coquettish smile on her face. She reached up to caress his cheek with one hand as she flipped her other hand casually in the air and replied, "Dis place be just as good as any Davey Jones, 'sides you know Calypso go where Calypso want."

Davey pulled back slightly from her touch. He pointed his claw at Jack and blustered, "Sparrow is mine, you may do what you wish with the other."

Calypso's smile widened as she leaned toward Jones, "Calypso be doin what she want wid de both ob dem Davey Jones."

Jack, knowing it would be much more better to be leaving this overly sandy spit of land in the company of Calypso rather than Davey Jones took a couple of steps toward the two hoping to improve the chances of exactly that happening. Gingerly skirting around the pointing claw of Jones he swayed over to Calypso, rocked toward her, his hands palms together in front of him as he did, and asked, "Just what then might it be that Calypso wants?"

Calypso smiled at him as one would smile at a favored pet, waved her hand dismissively, and before turning her attention back to Davey Jones said, "Calypso be dealin wid you real soon Jack Sparrow."

A moue crossed Jack's face as he shook his head and swayed back over toward James mumbling, "For some reason when you put it that way I don't find it particularly comforting."

James snorted as Jack approached, and with more than a bit of sarcasm in his tone said, "Evidently some of your more unfavorable past interactions with Miss Calypso may be coming back to bite you in the arse, figuratively speaking of course."

Jack tipped his head to the side and gave James a sour look, "Of course." He instantly brightened his expression as his hands gestured abstractly in front of him, "Trifles mate, after all I am Captain Jack Sparrow."

James snorted again, "And that fact and a farthing will get you?"

"If worked the right way mate it may just get us off this contemptible quadrilateral of rock."

"I do not think anything that occurred in your former encounters with this particular person would inspire you to feel such confidence so you will excuse me if I do not hold my breath waiting for anything of merit to occur during this encounter." James snarked back.

Jack's tone didn't sound nearly as confident as he would have liked as he retorted, "Hold or don't hold anything you want Commodore, old Jack knows a thing or two when it comes to dealing with Calypso."

"Indeed. Well Captain Jack Sparrow, past dealings being as they were, I suppose we shall see." James replied.

Their attention was diverted back to Calypso and Jones as they heard Davey's voice rise in anger, "I have him and you will not take him from me until his debt is settled!"

Calypso kept her tone firm but low as she replied, "Jack Sparrow be in my protection now Davey Jones. Him debt to you be served when Calypso be done wid him."

Jones huffed and swelled up, "He will not escape his fate."

Calypso looked up into Jones face as she quietly replied, "Him fate not be de only one which Calypso be able to change Davey Jones, be thinkin careful bout your next words 'n actions."

Jones stood there for several minutes, puffed up, sputtering, and cursing before turning abruptly, shouting at his crew, and storming back to his ship.

She watched as the Flying Dutchman prepared to sail, "Him not be happy wid Calypso at dis moment but she be makin it up wit him later." She turned toward James and Jack with a smile, "Him be sorely stubborn at times 'n need some gentle redirectin."

"Well luv, now that old squid face and the crocodile machine seem to be making their departure mayhaps you'd care to let old Jack and the stodgy Commodore here in on just what it is you have in mind."

"I am not stodgy!" James snapped.

Jack opened his mouth to reply but Calypso responded first. She glided over to James and put both hands on his chest as she smiled up at him and said, "You be bout the most stodgy person Calypso ever come across in all her years James Norrington." Running her hands up and down his chest she gave him a flirty look and added seductively, "But Calypso don't think necessarily dat be a bad thing, Calypso like dat in a man from time to time."

Jack swayed rapidly over to the two of them, his fingers fluttering about in front of him as he said with a pout, "I thought you liked unpredictable, and spontaneous, and random and…and…me…as it were."

She cocked an eyebrow as she looked at Jack, "Not so as much as I'd thought."

James cleared his throat, "Yes, well, Miss Calypso, perhaps we should get down to business."

She gave him a sly grin as she began to unbutton his shirt, "Calypso like dat in a man too."

James cleared his throat once again as he removed her hands from his shirt front, "Perhaps I should rephrase. Just why are we here and what purpose do you have in mind for us."

Happy to see things were no longer going in the direction they were about to go in Jack cheerfully said, "Well spoke Commodore."

Calypso looked a bit disappointedly at James then shrugged her shoulders. A moment later she smiled up at him and said, "Calypso make sure der be plenty ob time for the pleasurables later James Norrington, but you be right, business before de pleasures. Calypso be havin a little quest for de two ob you."

"What manner of quest?" James and Jack asked in unison.

For the moment Calypso only smiled in return.

To Be Continued

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