Heart of Glass
A Pirate's Daughter's Adventure
Chapter 2
"Where is my father?" I asked, stomping my feet, before Jack gave me a push onto a chair in the back of my mother's tavern.
"Please, shut up," Jack growled, while Sirius took the seat next to me.
The young man was about to take a seat, when Jack walked up to him, and whispered something in his ear, making him stay out of hearing distance from us.
Jack then came back with two mugs of ale, and gave one to Gibbs, before he sat down, across from Gibbs, making Sirius and I sit there impatiently.
"Now, what's the nature of this venture of yourn'?"
"I'm going after the Black Pearl." Jack answered, making Gibbs choke.
"What?" I questioned stupidly. "You're the captain, why do you need to go after your own ship?"
"I see your father hasn't explained what he did to me, in those letters he writes to you." Jack sighed.
He then took a deep breath, and quickly explained," Your father led a mutiny on my ship, and took over, throwing Bootstrap over the side of the ship, and leaving me on an island to die. Got it?"
I just sat there starring, while I overheard Sirius laugh in scorn of his own father.
Jack rolled his eyes at Sirius, before snipping," I wouldn't laugh, if I were you, boy. It is hard to keep a ship, especially a pirate ship, when you are a captain."
"He's a mercenary, Jack," Gibbs whispered loudly.
Jack looked back Gibbs in interest, before elaborating," He's got connections, and money."
Jack sighed, giving up on winning this argument, and continued," Anyways…"
But I still couldn't understand how my father led a mutiny against Jack. But the more I thought about it, the more relieved I was. Jack was reckless, and my father wasn't.
"I know where it's going to be, and I'm gonna take it."
Gibbs shook his head," Jack, it's a fool's errand. You know better than me the tales of the Black Pearl."
"That's why I know what Barbossa is up to." Jack reassured," All I need is a crew."
Gibbs sighed," From what I hear of Barbossa, he's not a man to suffer fools, nor strike a bargain with one."
"That's because he isn't an insufferable fool, like Jack," I sneered.
Jack rolled his eyes at me, before he reassured Gibbs again," I'd say it's a good thing I'm not a fool."
"Prove me wrong. What makes you think Barbossa will give up his ship to you?"
Jack smiled, glancing once at me, before answering," Let's just say it's a matter of leverage. I have two things that he dearly wants."
Gibbs looked curiously at me for a second, before Jack motioned behind him with several heads of his nod, towards the young man.
"Beaux? The kid?" Gibbs inquired stupidly.
"Me!" I shrieked, while I Sirius interjected," No! You are not offering her up to Barbossa, like a piece of bait."
"That child," Jack announced to the three of us," Is the son of Bootstrap Bill Turner. His only child, savvy?"
I couldn't help but feel I was missing something very important, while Gibbs mused," Is he now?"
Gibbs looked back over at Bootstrap's son, then over at me, and smiled widely," Leverage, says you. I think I feel a change in the wind, says I."
I gawked at Gibbs and Jack, while Gibbs agreed," I'll find us a crew. There's bound to be some sailors, on this rock, crazy as you."
"One can only hope." Jack grinned.
Jack then help up his mug, before chanting," Take what you can!"
"Give nothing back!" Gibbs finished, as they both slammed their mugs into one another, before taking a sip.
"Now," Gibbs grinned," Sirius-"
"I'm not going, neither is Beaux." Sirius scowled, as he began to stand up, and pull me up with him.
"What are you doing to my daughter?" I overheard my mother bellow, as she stood there with Bootstraps son next to her.
Jack sent a displeased scowl towards my mother, before I pulled my arm out of Sirius's hand, and reassured," Nothing, mother. Sirius and I were just about to leave."
My mother only scowled at Sirius, before Jack quickly asked," Do you want to hear my plan to put Barbossa out of business, permanently?"
My mother's eyes lit up for a second, as she quickly took a seat next to Jack. Soon she, Gibbs, and Jack were whispering to one another, leaving me, Sirius, and Bootstrap's son standing next to one another.
Suddenly the boy turned to me, and smiled," I'm William Turner."
"I know," I rudely snorted, while Sirius sighed, and shook hands with Will. "I'm Jack's son, Sirius. And she is Beaux, Barbossa's daughter."
Will's eyes narrowed at me, before he announced," Elizabeth was kidnapped by Barbossa."
"Elizabeth?" I snorted again.
Will crossed his arms, and elaborated," The Governor's Daughter of Port Royal. Elizabeth Swann."
I rolled my eyes again, while Sirius whispered to Will," She's just a little angry. Barbossa lied to her for many years, before Jack came by and told her the truth."
"Am not!" I stomped my foot on the ground looking up at Sirius and Will.
I crossed my arms and in a dignified manor, and continued," I'm actually quiet happy to know that my father took the Black Pearl away from Jack. He was possibly the worst pirates I have ever seen."
"You're going!" I felt my mother grab my arm and begin to drag me through the crowds and up the stairs to our home.
"Going where?" I shouted back at her, letting her pull me.
"You're going with Jack," my mother smiled. "And stopping that cold hearted murderous father of yours."
I stopped and gawked at my mother. I was being drafted into being a pirate, and expected to help my father's downfall.