Heart of Glass
A Pirate's Daughter's Adventure
Chapter 16
Sirius and I kept silently along the walls of the cave, as Elizabeth ran up to help William.
I watched with severely mixed emotions, as I watched Jack and my father fight, both changing back and forth between pirates and the living dead.
But Sirius kept quiet, leading me through the treasure, trying to keep us hidden, but available if Elizabeth and William should come into some trouble.
But when we spotted three pirates moving together to attack William and Elizabeth, Sirius motioned for me to stay in my hiding place, as he ran over and helped them, keeping the pirates busy as he could.
I worriedly watch, as I saw the battle getting mmore intense, but my eyes betrayed me at times, as I looked over at my father and Jack fighting.
I couldn't deicded who I wanted to win. But it was like three people were fighting inside of me.
One wanted to watch Sirius and keep a careful eye upon him, another wanted to watch my father kill Jack, while the last one wanted to see Jack win and my father parish for all of the awful things he has done.
Suddenly a explosion occurred, making me look back at Sirius in worry. But I saw him, William, and Elziabeth running over to my father and Jack, but William was running up to the cursed treasure, making me look up at him in worry.
Suddenly I saw my father stumble backwards and pull out his gun, while Jack through a shiny object in the air and William caught it-as my father looked away.
But I saw my father point his pistol at Elizabeth and Sirius, as they both stood there, with moriftified looks upon their faces, not knowing who was going to be shot by my father.
Without another thought, I stood up from my hiding spot, pulled out my pistol and pulled the trigger, looking directly at my target.
As the gun shot echoed, everyone worried looked around the cave.
Sirius and Elizabeth were fine, as was William, and they starred at me in shock, as I walked up from my shadowy spot into the moonlight a distance away from the fight.
My father followed their line of vison, only to look at Jack, who was holding up a gun of his own.
"Ten years you carry that pistol and now you waste your shot." My father laughed in scorn, thinking that Jack had shot him.
"He didn't waste it," William spoke up, dropping the coins into the treasure," Beaux wasted hers."
I saw my father looked around the cave wildly, before spotting me, where the smoke from the gun shot was still thick in the air.
He starred at me in shock, while I lowered the gun, now shaking with the realization that I had just killed my father.
I dropped the gun upon the ground with a loud clank, as my father ripped open his jacket and looked down at his chest.
Blood was now pouring out of a single bullet wound to his heart.
My father then looked up at me, and smiled," I feel…" But his face turned into a grimace, as he too began to realize he was dying," cold."
He then fell back into the treasure, with a single green apple falling out of his hand.
I couldn't but run over to my father, pushing past Jack, letting tears freely fall from my eyes.
I fell down onto my knees as I lifted up my father's body, and held him close to me.
"I'm sorry," I began to whimper in his ear, as I cried, hoping it wasn't too late for him to hear my plea.
"You have nothing to apologize for," My father breathed," You did what you thought was right. And I…I should be the one apologizing."
I felt his hand weakly stroke my hair one last time, before he whispered," You have my permission to marry, Sirius."
"Thank you," I whispered, as I watched his eyes starting to glaze over and his hand fell back onto the gold.
He was finally dead.
I broke down into a fight of tears, burring my face into his cold body, not willingly to let go of the man I once called "Father" and "Daddy".
The cave remained quiet, except for my loud crying and wailing, until Sirius came over and pulled me upon from my father's corpse, holding me as tight as he could.
"I'm so sorry," Sirius cooed in my ear, trying to comfort me, as I now sought solace from him, as Jack, Elizabeth, and William left us by the cold body of Hector Barbossa.
But after standing there for some time crying, I was evetunally able to talk myself into believe my father was no in a better place where he wasn't tempted by such things as greed. I told myself he would watch over me and Sirius, after all he did give his consent to our marriage.
But as soon as I had stopped crying, Jack went to work looting the cave of what treasures he wants.
"We should return to the Dauntless."
I looked over at Elizabeth and William, as William commented," Your fiancé will be wanting to know you're safe."
But with that comment Elizabeth sadly marched away from William, while Jack came up behind William, looking like the King of England. "If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it."
"Now, if you'll be so kind," Jack announced for everyone in the cave to hear," I'd be much obliged if you'd drop me off at my ship."
"Jack," Sirius began, causing Jack to stop and look back at us," you're crew sailed away with the ship. They were keeping to the code."
Jack starred at Sirius in shock for a second, before he began removing all of his jewels, piece by piece. "They done what's right by them. Can't expect any more than that."
"You know, Jack," I began as I sniffled wipping my wet face across the sleeve of the jacket," You are a much better man that you come across as being."
Jack smiled and me and nodded in thanks, as we began to walk back to the boat.
But as we sat in the small boat, cramped for space, I resting my head upon Sirius's shoulder and closed my eyes.
Maybe when I woke up we would be in Port Royal, and safe at last. And free of this priacy.