Chapter 12-Sins of the father

Hey people, I hope life is treating you well. I've not got long left on this story I know it sucks. I do have another few story about Scarlet I wanna publish, but at the moment I'm focusing on a Charmed story which I would like to get done. I don't own POTC, but I do own Scarlet enjoy.

I knew that now I had to play the part of a loving daughter and a strong goddess. It wasn't what I wanted to do, but if it set me free I was willing to do almost anything, so I walked out of my hiding place in the corner and coughed lightly. Jack turned around and faced me, he's face looking slightly betrayed. I placed my sword into the top of the globe, "You called Barbossa?" I said simply.

"Yes Miss Jones. What is your view on releasing Calypso?" Barbossa asked, suddenly he became very polite to me, that was now that I had something he needed.

"I agree with the idea of course," I said waving my hand at him.

"What gives you the right to place your sword in the globe? Or speak your opinion," Mistress Chin asked me, her tone insulting.

I lost my temper a bit, no one had the right to ever talk to my family like that, not after I had done my job so well for all these years, "My name is Scarlet Jones, also known as the Bloody Scarlet. I am cap'n of the White Rose and I own the sea!" I yelled at them, hitting my hands against the table.

"What?" Jack asked sounding shocked at my administration. I hope he could forgive me for this later, but my mother had to be free, or else I could never be fully released from my curse.

"I am the daughter of Davy Jones and Calypso, their only child," I said, trying to sound proud of that fact, instead of the disguised I felt for what both my parents had caused for everyone who sailed the seas.

"That is impossible!" Ammand yelled, standing up from his seat.

"An outrage!" Jocard joined in.

The whole room went back up in arguments again. I didn't want to be bothered by this, I didn't like the idea of being close to where the end was coming and spending my moments arguing against a load of over hormonal pirates who are in the end cowards, or they won't still be alive.

"Oh shut up!" I yelled standing on the table. Miraculously they all fell silent again, allow me to continue to explain, "As you took the job away from my mother. I have taken over the job of looking after the seas. I am the one who keeps your ships safe, who helped you get all you money."

Chevalle was the first one to speak, "You are your mothers Daughter."

"I'll take that as a compliment Chevalle," I said lying through my teeth being compared to my mother was anything but a compliment, but if they knew I hated her that much then I would probably be killed for my heritage and not even Jack would be able to stop them, "My family are made for this job. Not Pirates who argue over the smallest things."

"Not likely," Jack said muttering under his breath

Before I could answer him back Barbossa beat me to it, "If you have a better alternative, please, share."

Jack began to move around the room, "Cuttlefish. Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends the cuttlefish. Flippant glorious little sausages. Pen 'em up together and they'll devour each other without a second thought. Human nature, isn't it?...or... or...fish nature," He rested his hand on Mistress Cheng's shoulder, before taking it off quickly when one of her people went to grab her sword, "So yes, we could hole up here well provisioned and well armed and half of us would be dead within the month, which seems grim to me any way you slice it," Jack tried to move behind Jocard chair, but before he could the very large bodyguard got in the way, Jack quickly stepped around him, "Or, as my learned colleague so naively suggests, we could release Calypso, and we can pray that she will be merciful. I rather doubt it. Can we in fact pretend that she is anything other than a woman scorned, like which fury hell hath no? We cannot. Res ipso loquitur tabula in naufragio*, we are left with but one option. I agree with, and I cannot believe the words are comin' out of me mouth, Captain Swann. We must fight," Despite all the hand jesters, all the odd movements and all the rubbish that had just existed his mouth, that was probably one of the most correct sounding things that he had ever said. Which was a tiny bit strange.

There was silence in the air as everyone tried to understand what the hell he had just said. I think the end point was that we were gonna end up fighting even if we didn't want to, or something along those lines.

"You've only ever run from a fight," Barbossa said, obviously annoyed that he wasn't getting to be the centre of attention, and that everything wasn't going his way.

"I have not!" Jack argued, I rolled my eyes realising that this was probably gonna be like the Captain argument.

"You have too!"

"Have not!"

"You have too!"

"Have not!"

"You have too, and you know it!"

"Have not, slander and calumny!" Jack said bored with the continuing argument, "I have only ever embraced that oldest and noblest of pirate traditions. I submit here and now, that is what we all must do, we must fight...to run away."

"Aye!" Gibbs exclaimed, agreeing with Jack whatever he said. Although he probably didn't understand him.

"As per the code, an act of war, and this be exactly that, can only be declared by the pirate king," Barbossa said in a know-it-all voice.

"You made that up," Jack shot back, but with a slightly less confident voice.

"Did I now? I call on Captain Teague, keeper of the code," Barbossa stated. Both me and Jack froze at the same time.

"SeSumbhajee proclaims this all to be folly!" SeSumbhajee's assissent said loudly, "Hang the code! Who cares..." he got shot straight through the head at the perfect angle from him to be killed but in a painless way.

"Oh my god!" I whispered unable to stop myself as I turned to face Captain Teague, my old Captain, and Jack's father.

"Code is the law," He said, blowing the smoke away from the end of his gun and walking towards the table. It was almost scary how similar they still looked after all these years, the same hairstyle, the same eye colour, the same walk, with that little swagger added to it. He moved up behind Jack, "You're in my way, boy."

Behind him two old men carried forward the code, it looked like it was gonna fall apart and set it gently on the table. Pintel stared at the book in amazement, "The code," he whispered softly

"As set forth by Morgan and Bartholomew," Ragetti finished, his voice just as quiet.

Captain Teague whistled loudly, and that dog that had been on the island, the one who should be dead appeared, "How did...?" Ragetti began, but was interrupted by Captain Teague

"Sea turtles, mate," he said with a shrug as way of explanation. I had to stop myself from laughing, it must be a family excuse! Teague looked down at the code turning to the right page before speaking again, "Barbossa is right."

"Hang on a minute," Jack said moving back to stand beside his father, and checking the code, then muttering under his breath something about duty of the king, and parley.

"There's not been a king since the first court, and that's not likely to change," Chevalle said looking deflated.

"Not likely," Teague agreed, moving over to the chair in the far corner and plucking at his guitar with an old sea tune.

"Why not?" Elizabeth asked, not really knowing anything that was going on.

"Because the king is elected by popular vote," Gibbs said as if it was the most easiest thing to understand in the world.

"And each pirate only ever votes for his self," Barbossa finished.

"Bloody stupid if you ask me," I said quietly under my breath, Teague looked up at me in interested but otherwise didn't stop playing the beautiful melody.

"I call for a vote," Jack said, everyone else groaned however went along with it.

"I vote for Ammand, the corsair," Ammand said quieting the protests.

"Capitan Chevalle, the penniless French man."

"SeSumbhajee votes for SeSumbhajee," Said SeSumbhajee's new assissent, that had replaced the dead one.

"Mistress Cheng."

"Gentleman Jocard."

"Elizabeth Swann."

"Barbossa."

"Villanueva."

Jack looked at me, a mysterious glint in his eyes told me that he had a plan, "Elizabeth Swann."

"You didn't," I said loudly at him, annoyed that he would do this to all of us, but at the same time understanding completely. He had to get that chest or he would be dead.

"What?" Elizabeth said, not expecting it either.

"I know, curious isn't it?" Jack said smiling at me.

The chorus of noise began again people yelling at Jack, for not voting for them.

"Am I to understand that you lot will not be keeping to the code, then?" Jack said his voice relaxed, sounding completely at ease. The string of the guitar Teague was playing broke, and the whole room feel silent.

"Very well, what say you Captain Swann, king of the Brethren Court?" Mistress Cheng said bowing her head slightly in respect.

"Prepare every vessel that floats. At dawn, we're at war," Elizabeth said, finally embracing her pirating nature fully.

"And so, we shall go to war," a high pitched voice said, I looked around in confusion, SeSumbhajee was the person. No wonder he got other's to speak for him.

I noticed that Barbossa signalled to Ragetti, who put the pieces of eight into his top. I smiled slightly at least my hope wasn't lost yet, as everyone walked off leaving the room to go back to their ship's to tell them of the war. I made my way over to Jack, who was talking to his father.

Hearing the end of Jack sentence, "That's the trick, isn't it? To survive."

"It's not just about living forever, Jackie. The trick is, living with yourself, forever," Teague said, I prayed that maybe this time Jack would actually listen to someone else for the change.

"How's mum?" Jack asked, choosing not to answer Teague. He held up a shrunken head and I had to stop myself from throwing up, "She looks great," Jack said also trying not to gag.

"Cap'n. Long time no see," I said deciding that Jack had probably had enough of seeing his dead mother.

"Miss Jones, I thought you were dead," Teague said. By the beginning of our conversation I got the sense that he didn't talk to many people.

"Nope, stuck with me forever sadly," I said smiling. Jack walked off, heading for the doorway.

Teague nodded towards him, "How is he?"

I smiled slightly, even through they were the first to denies it, everyone could see they cared a great deal for one another, I shrugged before answering his question, "I wouldn't know. We don't talk any more."

"He loves you, you know," Teague said as if discussing the weather.

I froze up a bit but tried to act as normal as possible, "I have noticed everyone saying that at the moment. I will see you when this is over," I said smiling as I walked away from Teague and back towards the Black Pearl.

I walked down one of the long corridors, when I suddenly felt a hand grab around my wrist pulling me against the wall. I immediately went to scream, but stopped when I realised that I knew the hand that was around me. Jack was staring at me with something similar to frustration, I was guessing that he had been waiting for me while I talked to Teague, "Why did you say that?" He asked before I got a chance to talk.

"What Jack?" I asked in honest confusion, I had no idea what he was on about.

"You know," he said being completely not useful.

"No Jack I'm no physic am I?" I said sarcastically.

"I won't know. I don't know anything really 'bout ya, love," Jack said to me, his voice edging onto emotional.

"Yes you do Jack. You know me better than anyone," I said truthfully.

"Why go against me?" Jack asked me in an innocent voice that I had not heard since we were young.

"I didn't. I have to stick up for my mother. I can't watch her be separated from her love. When she is free, so will I be," I said simple. I just wanted to be free, then everything would work out.

"So you're being selfish?" Jack questioned.

"No Jack. I'm doing what I do for love. I won't be stuck any more. I'll be able to be myself again, like when we were younger on the Pearl. Like when we were first in love," I said softly, if he didn't understand that was doing this so we could be together, then he really didn't know me as well as I thought he did. I turned ready to leave, but before I went Jack grabbed my arm and pulled me into his arms.

"Before we leave," he said, learning forwards and kisses me. I didn't move to shocked from him kissing me. His lips were soft, the same feeling I always got came back to me when he kissed me. The floating on air. In my opinion it stopped too soon he turns and left. Leaving me standing there wonder what the hell was going on in his head!

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