The Devil's Bride

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The Devil’s Bride

Chapter 3: Proper Pirates


“Land Ho! Land Ho!” squawked the parrot. Apparently Cotton had spied Port Royal from the crows nest.

“Drop anchor!” shouted Jack from the helm.

“What’s yer course of action, Captain?” asked Jack’s first mate, Gibbs.

“We keep anchor here two hours past sunset, then we bring er ‘round left of port. No moon tonight, so we shouldn’t be spotted. I’ll be need’n two of me men to row me to shore. They are to stay there until I get back with the prisoner.”

“Yer going at it alone?”

“Ye wanna come with me to the prison?”

Gibbs jaw dropped slightly and tried to not look nervous. He didn’t like jails one bit, even when he was standing on the good side of the bars. “Errr, well…thought you would be need’n me on the ship….being first mate an all…”

Jack rolled his eyes. “That’s what I figured mate. Any way, I’m not actually going at it alone. I do need some ones help, that some one just doesn’t happen to know he’s helping yet.”

Gibbs gave a confused look

“Let’s just say I’ll be visiting an old friof oof ours.” Said Jack with a wink.


…two hours later...

Will and Elizabeth sat on the edge of Will’s tiny mattress, both feeling extremely uncomfortable and unsatisfied. They had been denying their desires for far to long. Will always stopped just shy of the point of no return. That was when the rumors and gossip came screaming back into his head. They hurt, and he didn’t want to give truth to what the people of Port Royal were saying about Elizabeth’s visits to his shop. He knew that it was not a sin to make love out of wedlock, but he would never risk giving THEM the satisfaction of seeing Elizabeth pregnant with out a ring on her finger.

“We can’t keep doing this Will”

“I know Elizabeth. Maybe we should stop coming back into my bedroom, the temptation is too great.”

“What? No! Will, I mean we can’t go on denying our desires forever. I know you wantwaitwait to marrmarried until you can afford a place for us to live in, but that is years away. I don’t think I can wait that long…I don’t think you can wait that long.”

“I will not make the rumors true Elizabeth!”

“Why does that bother you so much? If everyone already thinks we are sleeping together out of wedlock then we might as well be. It’s not fair to be punished for doing something that you never even had the pleasure of doing!”

“I know, I know! I just, I , I don’t know…”

There was a long silence that was broken by the sound of something metal hitting the floor in the shop and a barely audible “shit!”

Elizabeth’s eyes grew wide. “What was that?” she whispered.

Will brought a finger to his lips and reached for his sword from underneath the mattress. Just as he was about to unsheath it from it’s hilt, the door to his bedroom swung open.

“My god! Jack!” Will gasped.

“Ah! Whelp, I’ve been looking fer ye. See you’ve branched out on yer own. Got yer own business now, aye? It’s really….” Jack voice trailed off upon taking in the sad state of Will’s shop and home. It was hardly a shack fit for livestock to live in. “Well, it’s really.. um…really.” He said flatly.

“What are you doing here Jack?” Elizabeth asked

“I thought I’d just drop by and see how my two favorite people in Port Royal were doing…hmm, speaking of which, I wasn’t interrupting anything…was I luv?” said Jack with a smirk.

Elizabethned ned beat red and immediately jumped off Will’s bed. “No! No nooo, not at!” S!” Smoothing the folds out of her skirts.

“Cause if I am, I can just wait outside while ye finish up. Or if ye want me ter stay and help, I wouldn’t mind lending a.….hand.” Jack said with eyebrows waggling.

There was a long uncomfortable silence. Elizabeth knitted her brows together, bit her lip and stared at the floor, and Will gave a small slightly annoyed sigh. Something was wrong.

“Wait a minute, whats going on ‘er? Why ‘aven’t I been slapped yet?” Jack nervously chuckled.

Jack’s only response was more silence.

Confusion and panic started to slowly rise in Jack’s voice. “Okay mates, I’m getting a little scared here….Elizabeth, why haven’t ye slapped me? Will, why aren’t ye defending yer lass? I just made a rude and suggestive comment, and t not no response what so ever. What is going on?! Why is no one slapping me?!”

“Calm down Jack” said Will.

“Calm down? I should be the one telling ye to calm down! What’s going on here, why didn’t I get a rise outta ye, mates?”

“I, uh…I suppose I’m used to people making rude comments to me.” said Elizabeth.

“What are you talking about luv? Not the Elizabeth Swan I know.”

Elizabeth felt her throat tighten, and a hot tear rolled its way down her cheek. “Used to know, Jack. A lot has changed since we last saw you. Ever since you left, we have become complete outcasts. Will can barely bring in enough business to keep the shop open, much less marry me. Our friends won’t speak to us, my father treats me like I’m a stranger living in his house. And then there’s the gossip and stares.”

“Jesus….. Luv, I had no idea. I’m so sorry.”

There were a few more moments of silence and then Will spoke up. “Why are you here Jack? What do you want?”

“I’m…um…actually in the middle of helping a friend, as it were. I came ‘cause I needed some help.”

“The last time we helped each other is what got us into this mess.” Said Will. “Th “Then help me to help you to help yerself, mate. Come with me and join me crew, sail away from all this and start a new life.”

“I can not just leave Elizabeth behind!”

“I’m not asking you to whelp, I’ve seen Elizabeth fight, I want her to join too.”

Elizabeth’s eyes quickly lit up. “You mean it Jack?”

“Aye”

Will snapped his head around to look at Elizabeth. “Are you seriously considering this?”

“Aren’t you? What do we have keeping us here? Let’ave,ave, and be free again. It’s all we talk about, think about, isn’t it?”

“But what will people say?”

“Nothing they haven’t said before. Besides, we won’t be here to listen to it anyway.”

Will sat and thought for a long while as Jack and Elizabeth nervously stared at him. Slowly the uncertainty drained from his face, and was soon replaced by a twinkling in his eye. A twinkling ope. pe.

“Let’s do it.”

Elizabeth squealed in delight and threw her self into Will’s arms, and then she grabbed Jack by the waist and kissed his scruffy cheek. Will rose from his seat on the bed and clasped Jacks hand to shake, but not before Jack pulled him into a hug and patted him on the back.

“Now you two, we need to be getting on our way. Take only what ye need, leave the rest behind.”

“Well I know just what I’ll be leaving behind, this bloody corset! Will I’ll be needing to borrow a pair of your britches, a shirt, and your extra jacket. Oh, and help me get out of this damn thing!” Forgetting all propriety, Elizabeth’s fancy Parisian dress was already half off and she was fumbling with her corsets laces.

“Allow me luv.” Said Jack, producing a dagger. Before Elizabeth could say a word, he sliced it through her stays.

“Jack! How dare you!” giving Jack a slap on the cheek.

Jack rubbed his stinging cheek and smiled. “Ah! Good to see the ‘ol girl is back. But its not as if it ain’t nothing I’ve done…or seen before.” He ogled her unteathered bosom that was now only covered by the thin material of her shift.

Elizabeth rolled her eyes, but couldn’t help but shrug and give a small smile in agreement

“What was that?” thought Will. “Does Elizabeth find Jack attractive? Well of course he’s attractive, I even find him attractive. I find Jack attractive? Hmm what could that mean. Must talk about this with Elizabeth later.” Clearing his mind, Will remembered something Jack had said. “Jack, you mentioned that you needed some help, what needs to be done?”

“Remember the time you busted me outta the prison?”

“Yes. What about it?…oh…OH! Oh no!”

“Oh yes. Come on you two, time to start acting like proper pirates.”