Sparrow's Love

Jack's Past - Chapter 4

Chapter 4

We have been sailing for a while now and I have the feeling that we are soon going to be catching up to the Black Pearl and the man I should call Father. Jack hasn’t spoken to me since the incident with me being a mermaid but I still catch him staring at me when I go for a walk on the ship. I have grown close to Anna-Maria the last few days, I am not meant to leave my room, orders of the captain. Anna-Maria comes to visit and tells me tales of her youth, she also tells me not to trust Jack and I don’t know why but I know that if it ever came down to it I would trust Jack with my life, I think i’m beginning to get feelings for him.

 I am going above deck for some fresh air and I look at the sea and see about ten sunken ships I get an eerie feeling about this place, yet I still manage to feel drawn to the water, weird right?

  

“Dead men tell no tales” Cotton’s parrot says while we pass through. I speak to Cotton a lot as he is an amazing listener.

 “Puts a chill in the bones how many honest sailors have been claimed by this passage” Gibbs says to Will as they sit looking at some map, I go and sit down next to Will. Whenever I feel myself getting worried or scared I always move closer to Will as I know that he will protect me. I know that he is in love with Elizabeth but Will and I aren’t like that we are just friends. Will puts his arm around me as he continues his conversation with Mr Gibbs.

“How is it that Jack came by that compass?” Will asks Mr Gibbs, I look up to see Jack looking down at the compass with a confused expression on his face, he looks up to me then back down to his compass and back to me and then shakes his head and closes it, he is a very strange man.

“Not a lot’s known about Jack Sparrow before he showed up in Tortuga with a mind to go after the treasure of the Isla de Muerta. That was before I met him, back when he was Captain of the Black Pearl”

“What?! Captain of the Black Pearl!” I said at the same time Will said;

“What? He failed to mention that” Gibbs laughed but continued with his story anyway.

“Well, he plays things closer to the vest now. And a hard-learned lesson it was. See three days out on the venture the first mate comes to him and says everything’s an equal share. That should mean the location of the treasure, too, so Jack gives up the bearings. That night there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die but not before he’d gone mad with the heat”

“That’s so awful how could they betray him like that?” I ask Mr Gibbs and he just shakes his head and looks down and sys “That’s the life of a pirate. See you can’t trust anybody” He tells us with a sad smile.

“Ah. So that's the reason for all the’” Will asks while doing some of the hand actions that Jack does I laugh but stop when Mr Gibbs gives me a harsh stare. Its obviously a touchy matter for him.