Heart of Glass

A Pirate's Daughter's Adventure

Chapter 14

"Sorry, but it's for your own safety," a solider roughly pushed me into Norrington's cabin, making me scream in pain, as I fell onto the wooden floor roughly.

"Don't touch her like that!" I heard Sirius hiss, followed by a rough smack, before he was thrown in with me.

"Sorry, but's for your own safety," a solider repeated.

Elizabeth then shouted, as she fought the soldiers, while Sirius ran up to me, and picked me up in his arms, holding me close, as we both sat against the window.

"The commodore ordered…I have to tell him! The pirates…They're cursed! They cannot be killed!"

"Don't worry, Miss. He's already informed of that. A little mermaid flopped up on deck and told him the whole story."

Elizabeth was then was thrown into the room, and the door was locked.

Elizabeth slammed her fists against the door, shouting," This is Jack Sparrow's doing!"

Sirius held me closer, as he looked down out the window, towards the floating boats, that surrounded the cave opening.

"What's going to happen to all of them?" I whispered to Sirius, ignoring Elizabeth's pouts and shouts.

"I don't know," Sirius whispered, caressing my hair," but there will be a lot of death. Many men will be joining Davy Jones' locker tonight."

I gripped Sirius's jacket as hard as I could, trying to seek comfort, knowing he was going to stay with me. Either way, we would die or live together. And I wouldn't have it either way.

But the longer we waited to see something happen, the more anxious and nervous I became, and the quieter Elizabeth became.

Suddenly the moonlight eerily reflected off of the water, making me press my face against the glass, knowing something was about to happen.

I saw a small boat float out of the cave, with what looked like two women in it.

"Sirius," I whispered pointing to the boat. I knew who really was on that boat. Pintell and Ragetti. "those aren't women. It is Pintel and Raggetti."

Sirius began pulling me away from the window whispering," Something is going to happen, soon."

"A moment, please." I heard Governor Swann's voice echo, followed by footsteps of the guarding officer.

"Elizabeth?" he knocked upon the door," I just want you to know, I believe you made a very good decision today. Couldn't be more proud of you. But, you know, even a good decision, if made for the wrong reasons, can be a wrong decision."

Elizabeth then silently showed Sirius and I the rope she had been braiding during our time locked in here.

Sirius quickly nodded, telling her that Sirius and I were joining her, in her escape.

Sirius opened a window, as quietly as he could, before taking the rope form Elizabeth, and hanging it from a nail on the wall, so we could climb down, to a near by floating boat.

"Ladies first," Sirius whispered, motioning for Elizabeth and I to go first, as he held onto the rope.

Elizabeth all too willingly began climbing down the homemade rope of sheets and curtains, while Sirius looked over at me.

I stepped up to him, and gave him a quiet kiss upon his lips, hoping this wouldn't be our last moments.

Sirius kissed me back, gently, before smiling at me, with that unique boyish grin, giving me a slight push towards the window's rope.

I took a deep breath, filling myself with a familiar confidence I had, when I snuck out of my home, when my mother slept. I gripped the line, as I silently nudged down the rope, as Elizabeth held onto the end of the rope and the boat, she sat in.

Once, I reached the boat, I already spotted the crawling pirates, climbing up the sides of the ship.

Sirius raced down the homemade rope, and taking the ores away from Elizabeth, as he paddled us back to the cave, trying to stay unseen, as Elizabeth and I, remained quiet, with our eyes darting about in worry.

Suddenly a sound of a gun going off, battle cries, and the sound of battle upon the ship echoed all around us, making Sirius paddle faster and faster.

I must admit though, I felt oddly happier, knowing I was away from that ship, and that Sirius and I were finally going to be free.

But I noticed that Sirius wasn't paddling towards the cave, but rather towards the Black Pearl.