"...one word, love. Curiousity...you're going to want it...and one day, you won't be able to resist..."
"Will..." She whispered against his neck, sending a smell of rum strongly into his nose...
He knew this was wrong. He knew it. But the rum wasn't letting him think like that.
He pushed her up against the wall, and kissed her hard.
When he felt her hands go underneath his shirt, he said, "Lila, you're drunk. We both are...we need to-"
But when he saw her face...her pretty perfect face...all the sense was knocked out of him...
Neptune's War
Day Two
He glanced up when she walked in the room. She pulled her long brown, sun-kissed ringlets back with a bright red cloth and bounced off of the stairs. He lowered his eyes back down to the compass that was in front of him, watching him spin madly as if it couldn't find what it was looking for. He pushed a strand of his dark hair out of his eyes, as he raised his eyes back up to the Princess that was walking into the room. She stopped when she was in front of him and smiled at him as she asked, "What's wrong?"
"Not a thing." He replied, closing the compass and pushing it across the bar. He stared at her for a minute. She lowered her jade eyes as if she was trying to read him. As if she had some idea as to what he was thinking. After a minute, she just shook her head and smiled back up at him. That caused him to smile as she sat on the barstool in front of him. Fancy having a bar in the inn. It was a dream for a certain pirate captain that was forced to stay there. Where, of course, he spent most of his time.
She took the glass that he had just given her and asked, "What's wrong, Jackie? You haven't been yourself lately." She took a finger and traced the outline of the frosty glass. He watched her do that, but quickly dropped his gaze back to his own rum glass. He could feel her gaze linger on him, expecting an answer. Sighing, before he raised his glass to his lips, he said, "The war, I guess, love."
"Liar." Was her reply. That made him bring his gaze up, and say, "Sticks and stones, love." She smiled at that, then looked back down at her glass, watching the bubbles float up to the top of it. She still hadn't taken a drink of it for some reason, and the face that she had on her pretty, tanned face was enough to let Jack know something was wrong. "What's wrong with you, darlin'?"
"Nothing." She whispered, finally bringing her glass to her lips and taking a rather big sip, much to Jack's relief. He smirked as she set it back down and said in a teasing voice, "I see that there is, judgin' by that huge drink you just took." He leaned on the bar as if he was the bartender trying to pick up some Tortuga wench as he flashed a golden-tooth grin and said, "Care to enlighten ol' Jack?"
"Not really." Lila said, flicking rum on him. He pouted as he took a finger and wiped it off of his nose as Lila said with a smile, "What? Your sense of the female creature informing you that something's wrong with me, eh?"
"No. Not really, love." Jack said, leaning back on the bar again. "I was just wonderin' is all. I know you better than you think." Lila snorted at the irony of that statement. He smiled to as he took another drink, and she said, "You ever been in love, Jackie?"
"Shouldn't you know?" He asked with a snort. She rolled her green eyes, but only smiled up at him as she asked, "I'm being serious."
"So was I." He replied, cooly. He smiled at her and said, "Yes, I do believe that I have, dearie." That made Lila look up at him. She stared at him for a long, long time before she finally managed to ask him, "Was it her?"
Jack's smile was wiped off of his handsome face. He sighed as he pulled a stool around for himself, and sat there for a moment before answering her. He didn't look at her, he only stared at the glass as Lila did only moments earlier, "Wouldn't say it was love, darlin'."
"What would you say it was, then?"
"Lust." Jack said with a slight sigh, knowing that it wasn't the truth. "Actually...I was going to talk to you about something..." Lila glanced up and looked at him with a shocked look on her pretty face. "..if Bella makes it out-"
"AHHH! I knew it! You fancy Bel-ah!" He covered her mouth quickly, as if someone was outside the door and brought her face close to his in and whispered harshly, "Shhhh!"
"Jack, I think it's sweet." Lila said, when she managed to push his hand away. Their gazes locked for a moment. Something passed between then, neither of them knew what it was, but something passed between them...regardless of what it was, and what it had been because of, they broke their glances for a minute, before Jack said with a smile, "There wasn't any rum in that, you know."
"What are you talking about?" Lila asked, looking up at Jack with a scared look on her face. He smiled as he pushed one of the glasses back to her and said, leaning against the bar. A weird look spread across her face as she stared up at him in shock and whispered, "Jack...how...what are you-"
"Will told me about what happened a few weeks ago in Tortuga between the two of you-"
"HE DID WHAT?"
"-now, now. I know that Master Turner is a respectable young man, and having courted you in years past, I should say the same of you...just you are in fact a woman." Jack smile sort of faded, "Felt awful, he did. Sayin' that ye both had way too much rum...looked bloody awful, and felt it too. Have you told him-"
"How did you know, Jack?" Lila asked in a whisper, causing Jack to smile.
"I don't know a lot about everythin', but the part I know a lot about somethin' is about that." When Lila raised an eyebrow, he said in a different voice, "I was with Elizabeth when she found out. I was with her thru the whole time, right until the end. Do you know for certain?" His dark eyes met hers in a gaze before she shook her head and said, "No. But, I think so-"
"-why do you think so-"
"Bloody hell, Jack!" Lila said, putting her non-rum drink down on the bar and staring up at him with an angry. "I'm not telling you how I know! I've talked to you about crazy stuff before, but not that..." Lila paused and looked down at the drink as she said in a sad and confused voice, "It wasn't suppossed to happen like this, Jack." He hinted the sadness in her voice.
"Wha'? Didn't wait for marriage...darlin', I know that's what you wanted. Believe me, I do." Jack smiled at that, and said, "But you made a mistake." Jack pushed a curl out of her face to see that she was crying silently. It was really bothering her. "You both made a mistake. At least it was with someone you loved." Lila met Jack's eyes again. She was about to ask him what he meant, but at that moment, Will opened the door and said, "Jack, I-"
He paused when he saw Lila and Jack, and said, "-thought I'd find you here...what's going on?" Lila closed her eyes as Jack patted the bar and beamed up at the younger captain as he said, "Nothin', mate. Just talkin' is all...Reginald and I have decided to leave at noon, which is in a few short moments...so-" He got up from the bar and gave Lila a wink, "I'll be going then. You two need to talk."
Jack gave Will's shoulder a pat, before he exited. Will looked over at Lila. The two of them just stared at each other for a long time, before Will finally said, "I'm sorry about last night." Will carefully walked over to Lila as if he was scared that she was going to chop his head off or something. When he realized that she wasn't, he came to stand beside where she sat.
"Will, are you upset with me?"
"Darling, why would I be upset with you?" Will said in a loving voice as he put a hand on her back. "Love, you have never given me any reason to be mad at you. No reason-" He gently turned her around so that he could look into her tear filled eyes. When he saw the gleam in her piercing eyes, he instantly knew. "This is about Elizabeth, isn't it?"
"I'm not her-" Lila started before she let more tears fall down her cheek. Will closed his brown eyes, and pulled Lila close to him as he whispered, "Darling, I don't want you to be her. I don't wnat you to be her. You're you. And I don't want you to ever think that I want you to be Elizabet, Li..." He kissed the top of her head and whispered, "You were my first love, Lila. You. You're not Elizabeth, and maybe that's what I love about you. You're the total opposite..." She looked up into his eyes to see if he was telling the truth. She smiled when she realized that he was and said, "Will, I need to talk to you about something-"
"We're leaving-" Came Rupert's voice from the bar's door. Will turned around and gave him a look as if to say 'give us a minute'. Rupert took that look, and nodded leaving Will alone with Lila once more. Will turned around to look at the girl he loved and said, "Darling, what did you need to tell me?"
"Oh..." Lila had lost her nerve as she said, "Nothing. Just, I love you." Will knew that's not what she was going to say, but he also knew that she wasn't lying either. Half disappointed, he smiled and said, "I love you too." She smiled as he leaned over and kissed her briefly before Jack's angry voice called out, "Oi! Let's get a move on!"
When Will and Lila emerged hand in hand, Jack's eyes flashed briefly, taking Lila back a little. He shook his head and whispered so that only Lila could here, "I take it you didn't tell him?"
"I take it that I don't have to tell you not to tell him until I do." Lila shot back at him, as Will continued to pull her in the direction of the cave. Jack rolled his chocolate eyes, and pulled out his compass. When it landed on..that...he shook it once and let it land again. "Bloody hell..." He spat at it before shoving it back into his belt.
"Where are we going exactly?" Lila asked, still holding Will's hand. Will turned back to look at Jack who was mumbling something under his breath. Will wrinkled his nose and said to his friend, "Jack, mate. You alright?"
"Wha'?" Jack asked, clearly taken back just because he was so deep in thought about something. Jack nodded when he saw Will's confused face turn to one of concern. Jack tried to flash a reassuring smile at his former first mate, and said, " 'Course I am, William." Will just stared at him a minute longer, before turning back down to Lila. Lila wasn't looking at either one of them...she just had a rather distant look on her face. "Would someone please tell me what's going on?" Will asked looking from Lila to Jack.
"Nothing." They both said at the same time, causing Rupert to laugh as he limped up to meet them. Using a long piece of wood to lean his weight on, he came to stand beside the trio, who had since then, stopped was just staring at each other. Rupert limped between them and said, "There's going to be much more time for tension after this bloody war is over with. Come on."
Jack and Will stared at each other, Will feeling like they were about to go thru another fight over a girl and Jack feeling...well, something he wasn't very sure of. Poor Lila was just confused and really wishing that she could shoot someone and get it over with. Jack nodded and said, "We're headin' in the direction that Beckett took Miss Bella-"
"-she's not dead?" Lila asked, hopefully.
"I don't know. But we won't know 'till we look, aye?" He gave the two of them a slight nod, before following Rupert down the path. Will sighed as he took Lila's hand again, wondering what was bothering her...and knowing that he probably wasn't going to get it our of her anytime soon...
"TELL ME WHERE SHE IS, YOU DAMNED WENCH!" Andrew slapped Bella hard across the face. So hard, in fact, had she not been tied up, she would have probably fallen backwards. For that, she was grateful. But only for a moment. Tears were running down her pale, yet pretty face as she cried, "I told you! I don't know where they're at!"
"LIES!" Andrew spat, pulling her close. "Tell me, or I swear to you, her death will be yours. Where is she?" Bella didn't speak, she only stared up at her soon-to-possibly-be-killer. She didn't speak, she didn't breath, she didn't move. Only stared in horror as Andrew raised his sword. She closed her eyes tightly as she prepared for the sword to pierce her, but it never did.
"That will be quite enough, Andrew." Came a chilling voice from behind them. Bella didn't have to, even if she could, turn around because she knew who that was. The man who swore to be Lila's protector years ago, only to get the crown himself by killing Lila and Neptune. The man who's ship was blown up by Jack and Will years ago... The man who's skull Jack had kept...the man who's voice would send chills down anyone spines. Even the spine of his...
"Daughter."
Neptune's War
Night 2
Coming soon.