Before I was even aware of it we were in battle with the EITC. I don't know, exactly how it happened. I only know that I was now on the Chinese ship with Elizabeth and Sao Feng. The cannon fire hadn't lasted long, just long enough to get away. I knew of course, as they led me down into the Captain's quarters, that they would follow us, but they wouldn't catch up until we were outside Shipwreck Cove. I shivered as the door was closed behind us, leaving me alone with Elizabeth. I walked around the Captain's Quarters.
It was obviously decorated, obviously, for Feng's pleasure. There were clothes hanging every where and a large bed (Not as large as mine was mind you) were around the room. There were so many things in the room it was overwhelming, which was probably why he decorated it so.
"Cass?" Elizabeth's voice sounded. I turned to her, where she stood uncomfortably at the door. She took steps so that she was closer to me and I raised an eyebrow. "I'm sorry." She finally said after I waited forever for her to speak.
"That's all you can say to me?" I asked her coolly. What else did I have to do? I wasn't even capable of angry. "I had been going to stay on the ship anyways, to save Jack. But you still chained me to the mast. That's such a deep betrayal, Elizabeth."
"I know," She rushed. "I'm so sorry. I've went over what I could do and say to make it up to you but it all pales in comparison to what I feel." She said. I ruined the mood by snorting.
"Wow…That was cheap." I said and she looked hurt but I kept going. "To tell you the truth I forgave you a long time ago for that. What I'm pissed about, is when you kissed Jack." I told her and stepped towards her and she took one back. "That's what I want an apology for. I can't believe that you'd be so cruel as to do that to me, especially after you decided to leave me to the Kraken. I feel so betrayed by you kissing my, at the time fiancé, then I do you leaving me to die." I told her and she started crying but I didn't care.
"I'm sorry, I was just so conflicted. Jack was the only one talking to me and I took it for granted. I know he doesn't feel for me and I don't feel for him either. I was just so tired and cold an-and I was missing you." She tried to explain. I sighed and scratched my head.
"You know what, I'm over it. The only thing you need to know is that I don't thing I'll ever truly trust you again." I told her. She suddenly tackled me and I caught her as well as I could. "Yeah, yeah." I muttered and rubbed her back as she cried. Our moment was halted though when the doors swung open and the twins from Sao Feng's bathhouse opened.
I gently pushed Elizabeth off of me and smiled at them. They spoke something in Chinese but I didn't understand. They, instead, held up traditional dresses. I laughed, like they weren't serious but they held them up again.
"No, absolutely not." I told them. They seemed to understand what I was saying but couldn't speak it, which confused me but I went with it. "I'm not wearing that. If I'm going to be wearing new clothes, they aren't going to be that." I told them. They looked at each other for a moment and then shrugged. They instead turned to Elizabeth and suddenly dragged her over to a hidden area. One of them pulled a cord and the curtains pulled back to reveal to us a large, filled, bath. I squealed and began stripping, not thinking much of being publicly nude. I hopped into the tub and sighed at the warmth.
It was so relaxing after so long with nothing but coarse dirt everywhere. I felt a shift in the water and assumed Elizabeth had joined me in the rose covered water. She leant back and we both began to enjoy the water as it flowed over our skins, for the first time in forever to me but Elizabeth seemed just as grateful for it as I was.
"Me, bathe you now." One of the Chinese women asked. I turned to see her holding a sponge and soap. I giggled but took it from her.
"I'll bathe myself, thank you though." I told her. Elizabeth though fully agreed. I'd been bathed when I was at the manor to and it was always uncomfortable for me. I smiled and began the relaxing process. I've got to admit Sao Feng had a little honor, to let us bathe before working on my last nerve. I sighed and dived under the water to get the soap out of my hair. (A/N: I don't think that they used shampoo. I think they just used the soap…) Then the Chinese twins ushered us out of the water and Elizabeth into our clothes. I didn't quite want to put the clothes on so I looked around for something to use. I looked for a few minutes before I found a corset and even a poofy shirt from the Caribbean. I decided I'd use the tight pants from my other outfit.
With my outfit chosen I slipped it on, along with all of my accessories. I paused in brushing my hair. (Those Twins really are helpful…) I caught a flash as the light had glistened against my wet ring for a moment. I smiled down at the ring in all its splendor. The ring was golden on one side and silver on the other and it melded together in the middle in a wave. It was beautiful and simple for a wedding ring. Though I've got to wonder about how Jack got a hold of it.
"It's beautiful." Elizabeth said from my side, also looking at the ring. I smiled at it before going back to brushing my hair.
"Thank you; I don't understand how Jack had all of the things ready for a marriage." I muttered. "I mean how is that possible?" I sat the brush down and started placing in the accessories, including the one Jack had given me, Elizabeth caught sit of it as I was tying it into my hair.
"That looks like one of Jack's…" Elizabeth let the statement linger.
"Yes," I said and I fondly stroked the beads. "It's one of his." I told her.
"Will you tell me how you got it?" She asked, hesitantly. "I've…I've missed you." She confessed. "We used to be close and then when we got men in our lives, Jack and William, we seemed to split from each other." She told me. I had to agree though it was more like our natures had been exposed to each other.
"All right…" I whispered and then I told her the story of how I got Jack's beads. She giggled through the whole story and then, when I finished, she begged me to tell her about some of my adventures. I told her as many as I could remember, some from when I was with Jack, some when I was younger, and even some in between.
"Your life is sounds so fun." Elizabeth finally said. We'd finished getting ready now, and the twins had sat on the pillows, because they don't use chairs in Japan and China, so that they could listen to me speak. They seemed to come alive again as they chattered to each other. "It's got to be wonderful…but I was wondering if maybe…you were up to telling me about your Destiny adventures." She asked. I blinked.
"Well, what do you want to know?" I asked her. I obviously couldn't tell her some of the things without it ruining this realm. It would be complete chaos if that happened.
"Um, I don't know. Have you ever been married before?" She asked. Elizabeth would choice one of the questions that would make it very awkward for me. What if she told Jack and he overreacted. I didn't get to answer her anyways because after that question she just kept going. "How old are you? Um and maybe here were you originally born and-" I giggled.
"Elizabeth, I can only answer one question at a time." I told her, gently.
"So," Elizabeth started over, undeterred. "Have you been married before Jack?" She pressed. I winced and smoothed down my hair. None of them had seen my scar yet but I think it's time to debut it. I swung a little of the hair out of the way and she seemed to not notice for a moment, intent on her answer but then she saw the ridges of the scars, and how they connected to my mouth.
"What is…?" She motioned to the side of my head and I grinned at her, before sweeping the rest of my hair back. She gasped and her hands flew to her mouth in horror. "Oh my God! What happened?" She asked. Okay, distracted!
"I believe back in the day…well not technically… It was during the 20th century." I told her and she gasped again but I ignored it. "I was in love with someone who was insane and-" She interrupted me.
"So you have been married before Jack!" She said and pointed. I winced but nodded. I'd told Jack before; back when we were still starting that I'd been married before. He'd been pissed but since, at the time, we were just getting to know each other, He'd confessed that, he made sure to add briefly mind you, he was also engaged before. I'd been just as pissed but had conceded that I knew. After all, I am Destiny, All-knowing came with the territory. And I told this to Elizabeth and she seemed amazed.
"So, you're saying that you know how this is going to end." She said. I giggled nervously.
"Well, that's not exactly so. See, when I'm in a realm, anyone, I only know as much as you do, sometimes more, but most of the time I let life play itself out. Because there is always a reason that I made the life like I did. However, that's off topic. See when I go into a realm, it's either because I'm lonely or there is a problem with a realm, like they are exactly the same." I told her but she seemed confused.
"What's a realm?" Elizabeth asked. It made me remember that this era wasn't exactly known for its smarts and they hadn't thought of that theory yet.
"Well, you know the decisions you make in life? It can be anything, like maybe you could've chosen not to go to the Commodore's promotion ceremony because of some reason, and then yours, and others, lives would have been different." I tried to explain. She seemed to somewhat grasp it.
"It's not just big decisions though that changes things. When you place yourself even a centimeter or half a centimeter or anywhere there's going to be a realm that you chose to put it different. Everything else could be the same as the original realm." I told her. She nodded to show that she understood so far.
"So, every realm starts out with an original, which I made specifically to turn out that way. I take humans from other realms and change their identity, sometimes I use only their bodies and not there personality, it really depends on what I feel like on the time." I told her. She seemed fascinated, and motioned for me to continue.
"Can you give me an example?" She asked.
"Well," I thought about it. I couldn't really use Keira Knightley. (A/N: Since I don't normally like her, I don't know how to spell her name. I'm only being nice to her here because I made her the adopted sister. I thought about continuing to make her a mean sister but decided against it-for now. Oh and I don't know any other movies she's been in so don't be mad if you like her.) I don't know who I could use but then it hit me, my first husband.
"Oh, my first husband!" I said. Why hadn't I thought of this before? "My first husband was named Johnny Depp." I told her. She nodded. "See there is these things called actors, who act out plays or something called movies, I usually take their souls and put them in there own bodies or vaguely similar bodies that they've played." I tried to tell her I think she understood because she seemed delighted. "So Johnny was my first husband and he actually played Jack in a movie, or play as they are here (kind of), and so I placed his soul in Jack." I told her.
"Oh, so technically you've been married to Jack before?" She asked. I grinned tightly.
"No, not really because they are always different, well when I don't go into the similar realms. Every time I've married some one, if they've had the same soul or not they've lived a different life and so are different." I told her. She nodded warily and then she simply agreed.
"I guess I get it. So Jack-Johnny was there when you got your scars?" She asked, wearily.
"Oh no, I guess I got sidetracked when we started talking about my husband." We giggled. "Um, no this is complicated. Okay see, two different husbands of mine were in the same realm and only one of them was my husband in that realm." I tried explaining. "I was in a….tough situation that got me wrongly imprisoned in an insane asylum and well…people aren't treated right there so you can guess, I wasn't treated perfectly. I had fits because I may have at the time been slightly, briefly mind you," I used Jack's way of it. "Been inclined to become irrationally insane." I said. It took her a moment to get through the soft words I'd put through it but she didn't seem surprised. When I mentioned that she grinned at me.
"You're married to Captain Jack Sparrow, a wanted criminal, so you've got to be a little insane at the least." She told me. I thought, for a brief moment about acting offended but I let it slide.
"True, true. Though most of my men or considered insane. I don't find the use in having someone who wants to be normal, it's boring really." I confessed. She smiled patiently at me. "Anyways, I was in the insane asylum on false charges, not insane charges but it was a criminal asylum, and that's where I met Jack, not our Jack but another one, Jack Napier. He realized I was going really insane, more so then usual. I'd been having fits and one time I just exploded and I couldn't calm down so Jack took a knife to my cheek to distract me." I told her. She seemed incredulous.
"Why would you, in another realm, decide to marry him then?" One of the twins asked, in perfect English. I'd forgotten they were there until they'd spoken. I did wonder how long we'd been in this room.
"Well, that's very hard to explain because his realm is in a different era then this one…" I said and scratched my head. I decided that I'd ignore that they hadn't spoken English until now. "Um, I think though that we've talked long enough…" I said. I really didn't want to tell them any more. I'd never told any human, besides Jack, about my Destiny experiences and it wasn't wonderful. I'd told Jack just as much as them when we'd had time after…certain activities…while in the locker.
They seemed ashamed and quickly apologized. "It's alright I've just never told someone about it before and the memories are still very special to me." I told them and put a hand over my heart, where a large cut was. Jack hadn't asked about it but I knew he was curious.
"It is just as well." One of the twins said, I really should have paid more attention to them. "The Captain wanted you ready before noon." She said. I smiled and sat up. We'd sat down unconsciously while I'd been talking and I guess now would be the best time to let him in. The twins had set up perfume water. I'd never used any before because I'd found no reason. Both Jack and I were sailors, Captain' s even, we were bound to smell like the sea's salt.
I gladly allowed them to rub some on me, since I didn't know where to put it.
Our euphoria was broken, by Sao Feng's entrance. It didn't surprise me really that we were going to be interrupted. I was always interrupted some how or another whether I liked it or not. This time was no real difference except now I realized Elizabeth was wearing a funk looking dress and I was the closest to naked and Sao Feng was a man. Shit.
I was standing in front of the mirror and Elizabeth in front of the bathing water when Sao Feng spoke.
"By this time tomorrow we will arrive at Shipwreck Cove, and you both shall be free again. Calypso. Destiny." He said.
"Excuse me?" Elizabeth answered, confused as to why he had called her Calypso. I knew that I was Destiny, so really I couldn't disagree but Elizabeth doesn't look anything like Calypso is even rumored to look like!
"That's not right…" I spoke up for her but Sao Feng turned to me. "Yes, Destiny…." Sao Feng swaggered to me. I tried to control my disgust but it was extremely hard when he was so disgusting. "I'm sorry for our past….tiffs." He told me. Since I was on his ship I suppose I'd best go along with what ever he said, although I will not be forgiving him for what he did.
"It's understandable, as you were soaked in rum at the time…" I told him, and nodded. He smiled back and lifted a piece of my hair.
"You are very lovely…and married I hear?" Sao Feng asked. How the hell did he know that? Damn Barbossa must have said something that scallywag! "Aye, I'm Cassandra Sparrow know, as it were…" I muttered and took a step back, so he'd understand that I was a very loyal wife… He smirked and started walking around me.
"Yes…you don't look like you've had a daughter…" He complimented me but I was still very wary of him.
"Yes, well, looks can be deceiving." Elizabeth suddenly interjected. She took a step so that she was holding my hand and slightly in front of me, so as to protect me from harm.
"You confirm it." Sao Feng jumped at the chance. I didn't want to ruin his picture, because it was probably the only reason Elizabeth was still even on the ship. I sighed and put an arm on her shoulder.
"Confirm what? You've told us nothing." I said.
"You must want to know who imprisoned your daughter?" Sao Feng asked. I already knew who'd imprisoned my daughter but Elizabeth did not. So she nodded eagerly, as if wanting to know who imprisoned her in a mortal body. Oh if only Elizabeth knew what it felt like…
"The Brethren Court, not I, the first Brethren Court, whose position I would have opposed, bound you to human form, so the rule of the seas would belong to men and not…" Sao Feng said, all the while he was walking around the cabin, or more importantly us.
"…me." Elizabeth caught on. Now it was my turn to step in front of her.
"But ones such as yourselves should never be anything less then that which you are…" Sao Feng continued to try getting on our good side.
"Pretty speech from a captor. But words whispered through prison bars lose their charm…" I told him firmly.
"Can I be blamed for my efforts? All men are drawn to the lure of Destiny, the call to do what was set before them, to woo it into their path…" He said and messed with one of my loose hairs.
"And some men offer desire as justification for their crimes." I knew what he wanted. He wanted what I'd already given to Jack, but I'd never allow him that pleasure.
"I offer simply…my desire." He stopped in front of Elizabeth and I.
"And if I don't want it?" I asked him.
"Then I shall give it to your daughter." He looked from me to Elizabeth with an equal amount of lust in his eyes. His lecherous ways disgusted me. Their was just no saving some men from sin.
"And in return?" Elizabeth asked playing along with being Calypso. She must have grasped, as I have, that she was on here for one purpose only.
"I would have your mother's gifts, should she choose to give them." He nodded to me in respect.
"And if I should choose not?" I asked, curious. At the same moment I wish I hadn't. He slammed Elizabeth up against the pole in the middle of the cabin, and me being behind Elizabeth, I was trapped as well.
"Then I will take both of your fury!" He snarled into our face and kissed Elizabeth, the one closest to him. I squeaked and threw my leg between Elizabeth's legs and hit Sao Feng in his manly bits. He jerked back and held himself. As he rose, furious, he was thrown off balance as debris from a cannon blast hit him. I jerked away at the surprise. A cannon ball had been shot threw the hull of the ship and had hit straight through, barely missing us.
I, however, was hit with a spare piece of the carved wood and it cuffed my arm. I yelled in pain, grasping at the wounded arm. It was luckily my left, I was right-handed, so I'd still be able to battle the attackers. I ripped off what was left of the sleeve of my shirt and I inspected the arm. Where was once pale white skin, I now had a long scrape the length of my wrist to my elbow. I carefully poked the bleeding wound and it gave me a shock of pain before, the pain began to intensify. I watched, fascinated as the skin, tendons and blood vessels began knitting themselves together.
The pain was almost forgotten in my fascination. Just as the last skin cells finished healing I realized that Elizabeth was no longer beside me, and so had missed the display. When the cannon had hit I was propelled backwards, and into the wall the cannon exited through. I sat up fully, stumbling to a standing position, just as Elizabeth did. She was standing over Sao Feng's ruined body. I stumbled to her, and tripped just in time for her to catch me. I grinned, sheepishly.
"H-He's dead." Elizabeth whispered. I hesitated before patting her cheek.
"Its okay, Elizabeth. It's better for him to have gone this way." I muttered. "If the pirate's world disappears, like it's heading, he's better dead now." She sniffed and then buried her head in my neck, capturing me in a tight grip. I winced and floundered but for a mere moment before giving in so that I could comfort her, as best as I could.
"Captain the ship is taken, we cannot…" Tia Hung had come plowing down the unaffected stairs and stopped at the bend in them. I was released from the iron grip of Elizabeth so she could turn her head to see Tia Hung. Tia Hung was staring in horror at the dead Sao Feng. His horrified gaze wondered from the body to Elizabeth and I.
"What happened? What did he tell you?" Tia Hung insisted, taking a threatening step forward. I rubbed my forehead in frustration. I was so tired now, why did I have to put up with this again? Oh yeah for Jack.
"H-He made me Captain." Elizabeth stuttered and held up a necklace with a green ball strapped into it. I groaned and threw my hands up.
"He would, he would. Just to spite me one more time before he dies." I said, and walked up the almost wrecked stairs. I didn't pause until I was up on deck- and surrounded by soldiers from the EITC.
"Get the irons, I believe we've captured the notorious pirate captain, Myst." I heard from the left of the soldiers. My arms, one sleeved, one not, were grasped tightly and yanked behind my back. I snarled at the man behind me but they'd already attached the irons to my weak wrists. I caught sight of the speaker to see one former Commodore Norrington.
"Traitor!" I spat at him. He sneered at me, almost none of him was James now, he'd fallen to the dark side. "You have no right to talk to me after what you did." I barked. He just kept a straight, tight, face. Just to spite him, and because it was true, and I might as well spread the word. "It's Captain Sparrow now."
"You bastard!" Elizabeth's voice came from behind me, cutting off any reaction that Norrington might have had. She pushed threw all of the soldiers, only to be pulled back by two soldiers as she tried to attack the one holding me down. I have to say, she tried. Not that it really mattered that much, the way I see it we were going down either way this swings. Norrington snarls at us.
"At least your father can rest in peace, for the time it takes to get your sentence." He said and took a step forward. As he did I noticed that there were fishmen in the group of soldiers. I muttered darkly, trying to think of different ways to leave. I even contemplated jumping over the side and fading, but I'd yet to find out if that could work now that I was out of the locker.
"You…" Was my only warning before Davy Jones was standing before me, beside Norrington, who was speaking with Elizabeth. I glared Davy Jones down, determined to get the upper hand.
"You're a slimy cur, and if I have anything to say about it, you will not be alive when I'm finished." I spat at him. He took a threatening step forward but then Norrington interrupted our conversation.
"Who among you do you name as Captain?" He asked around, glaring at me, as if just daring me to speak up for more trouble.
"Captain?" Tia Hung spoke up, trying to play like he didn't understand English when I knew he did. "Her!" He said and pointed at Elizabeth Swann. I groaned as Elizabeth was shackled as well.
"Captain?" Davy was just as incredulous as I'd been.
"Yeah, they just give that to everyone now." I snarled, just because I understood. I sighed and pulled on the irons but they were not the rusted ones of Port Royal.
"Tow the ship. Put the prisoners in the brig, and the captain's shall have my quarters." Norrington ordered. The soldiers all scrambled to do his bidding.
"Yeah, no, I'll have to say I'm staying in the brig." I said and crossed my arms. Obviously, Norrington's resolution to be nice to me for what he had done had now been shriveled into nothing but a memory.
"We will stay with my crew." Elizabeth agreed. Admiral Norrington seemed to loose hope and sent us all to the brig. I was shoved with them, until suddenly Admiral Norrington grabbed my arm and pulled me back. The large guard that had been guiding me looked puzzled but Norrington ignored him. I sighed and let myself be drug across the deck, until we were in Norrington's cabin. It was much smaller then what the Captain's quarters were but large enough to hold a desk, a bed and a hammock full of stuff. I was released from Norrington's strong grip only after he'd closed and locked the door.
"What were you thinking?" Norrington asked, almost yelled in anger. It was a sharp turn from the disgusted indifference he'd shown earlier.
"Uh, I was thinking that I really 'ought to run you through but I'm guessing that's not an option." I muttered. Norrington took his wig, and hat off and sat them on the desk, before sitting down in the chair. I could see little graying hairs sprouting from his temple. It made me realize that Norrington was probably under a lot of pressure.
"Is it true? Did you marry the pirate?" Norrington asked, looking at the desk in a tense, stiff position. I glanced at him before sitting down on the bed.
"Yes, Jack and I married while he was retrieving me from the locker. Thanks for that by the way." I spotted a bottle of rum under the bed and I took it, helping myself. "I spent a long time in there because you stole the heart." He was staring at me now.
"What? But Sparrow-sorry Jack had the black spot." Norrington said, glaring for a moment when I took a drink of the rum.
"Yeah, funny thing about that, I'm Destiny, and in love with Jack. I have this neat ability that I could steal the curse on his hand and transfer it to mine." I half-explained, half-mocked. Norrington sat back in his chair, not a bit of the Admiral I'd seen outside.
"I had no idea, Cassandra." Norrington muttered.
"What? Had no idea what side you were choosing?" I asked, being mean again. "Well, now you know how rotten the system of justice is now. It's cruel, degrading and penalizing." I took another swig of the rum and smiled at him. He was staring down now and I could see just enough of his face to know he was chewing himself out for his decision. "Ah, don't worry about it, James. I've been through much worse." I told him.
"Maybe but I put you threw something like that…I've regretted every decision I've made since your husband stepped foot in Port Royal. Maybe even before that." Norrington stood up, and I followed his example only to regret my decision when he took my shoulders into his hands. "I will make up what I did to you, I gave you my word."
I was pushed out of the door now and out into the open. Every sailor turned to stare as we past and I held my head high, no matter what they had to say. Norrington shoved me down below, into the brig. I caught sight of Elizabeth and her crew. Elizabeth was waiting for me at the front of the brig while the other pirates looked as if they were used to it already. I waited as Norrington pushed the cell door open then I walked in. He closed it behind me and gave me a meaningful glance before walking out the door. Elizabeth grabbed me into her arms and nearly squeezed me to death.
"Elizabeth! I'm fine!" I said and she released me sheepishly. I smiled at her. "So what did I miss?" I asked her.
"Oh, Cass, it's horrible." Elizabeth began telling me about her encounter with Bootstrap. I sighed and patted her arm.
"Well, it was bound to happen. He's almost served his time, he bet most of it on liar's dice so it makes since." I told her, taking a seat, careful to sit away from the smelly Chinese men. Elizabeth sat in front of me, so that we could still see each other.
"Yes, but he says that if you stab the heart you must take the place of Davy Jones." Elizabeth worried.
"Oh yes, it's true. You've got to have someone to ferry souls because I'm not going to do it all the time." I scratched under my chin, determined not to make this a big conversation, like last time. "It doesn't really matter I suppose, because we won't be trying to stab the heart, Will and Jack will be." I said and sighed, letting my head fall back onto the bar of the cell.
"That doesn't really help the worry levels though does it?" I smiled at her.