Cordelia, Daughter of the Sea

style='font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Chapter 2

style='font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>“Ye Fancy ‘Er?”

“Anamaria, wake up!” Jack called
through the wooden door to her cabin.

“Do I suddenly ‘ave me own ship,
Sparrow?” she called back.

“Um…no, but wake up anyway.”style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Jack heard Anamaria grunt, then heard footsteps
come toward the door. When it opened,
Jack smiled his gold-filled smile.
“Thank you, love.”

“I tol’ ye t’ quit callin’ me
tha’,” she said coldly.

“Sorry, Ana.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> I ‘ave a bit of a problem.”

“An’?”

“An’ I need ye t’ help me with it,
savvy?”

“Wha’ is it?”

“A lass.”

Anamaria looked puzzled and
offended all at once. “Wha’ did ye do?”

“I din’ do anythin’ but get ‘er out
o’ the street. She’s filthy an’…”

“So are ye,” Anamaria laughed.

“Can ye help me or not?”

“Fine.” Anamaria followed Jack to the whe where the young woman was
still unconscious. “She is a
mess.”

“I tol’ ye tha’ already.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Can ye, ye know, clean ‘er up a bit?”

Anamaria smiled.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> “Why, Jack?
Ye fancy ‘er?”

“I don’ even know ‘er, but I
jus’…I think it’s wha’ should be done, tha’s all.”

“Ye fancy ‘er,” Anamaria said
surely.

“Do not!” Jack regained the li com composure he had and continued, “Jus’…do
somethin’.”

Anamaria laughed.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> “Aye, Cap’n.” Jack left and Anamaria spent the next hour or so cleaning up the
woman on the deck. She removed her
muddied dress and doused her with a few buckets of water until she was finally
clean. She dressed the woman in some of
her own spare clothing, then went to get Jack.

Anamaria entered Jack’s cabin
without knocking – she found him asleep on the chair by his desk.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Smiling, she kicked his chair out from under
him and he landed with a thud and an “Ow!”

“All cleaned up, Cap’n,” she said,
laughing. “Now, I’m goin’ back t’ me
bed.”

 
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“Well, take ‘er
with ye,” Jack said, rubbing his behind.

Anamaria turned
and said. “I cleaned ‘er up, she’s yer
responsibility now.” Without another
word, she went back to her cabin.

Jack went back
out onto the deck and looked at the woman.
He found her to be quite attractive with the mud gone, however, her body
was now freezing thanks to the water used to clean her up.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He tried poking her again, but with no
luck. “Guess yer comin’ with me, lass.”style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He picked the woman up once again and took
her to his cabin. He had already
started a fire there and he felt she would benefit from it.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He got a blanket from his bed and spread it
out on the floor. He placed the woman
in the center of the blanket, then proceeded to wrap it around her.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Ye’ve got a strange hold on me,
lass. Good thing I don’ do this often.