Cordelia, Daughter of the Sea
’E Loves Ye
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Anamaria had Cordelia placed in Jack’s bed.
Jack’s cabin; she was sitting at Jack’s desk nervously waiting for Cordelia to
stir. Within an hour of being at sea,
Cordelia moaned softly, her body shifting.
With an overwhelming feeling of guilt coursing though her, Anamaria
walked over to the bed.
“Welcome back, Cordy,” she said sweetly.
“What happened?” Cordelia asked, her voice hoarse.
Anamaria’s voice shook as she spoke.
safe now, lass, back on The Pearl, an’ we’re takin’ ye home.”
“Home?” Cordelia asked, trying to sit up.
around the room. “Jack…Ana, where’s
Jack? He can’t stand to look at me
anymore, can he? I swear, I had no idea
that my father…” Tears came to her eyes
and she fought with herself to try and keep from sobbing.
Anamaria’s heart wrenched, but she kept to Jack’s
plan. “Cordy, ‘e realized wha’ an arse
‘e’d been an’ knew tha’ none o’ tha’ mattered.
‘E took some ‘o us an’ went t’ find ye, but ‘e was convinced tha’ ye’d
be mad at ‘im fer not trustin’ ye.”
“Mad? I’m
not mad at him at all…if the situation were reversed, I’d probably react the
same way. Barbossa was his en…”
eyes. “What?” Anamaria was silent. “Ana,
what’s wrong?”
“I can’ go get Jack, Cordy.”
“Wh-why not?”
“’E didn’ make it back wis.” Cordelia’s voice
sounded small, like a child’s, as she responded, “Why?”
after we found ye. ‘E saw wha’ Ahriman
did t’ ye an’…Cordy ye need t’ know that when ‘e saw ye, ‘e told ye tha’ he
loved ye an’…”
“What happened to
him?” Cordelia asked, her voice now emotionless.
Anamaria lowered
her eyes. “Jack an’ Ahriman
fought. They killed each other.”
“No,” Cordelia
said softly. “No, he’s…he can’t
be…”
Anamaria nodded,
biting her lower lip. “I wish I could
tell ye different, Cordy.” She watched
as Cordelia’s body began to tremble and she moved onto the bed.
shaking with her sobs. I could kill
ye, Jack Sparrow.
Cordelia’s body
seemed to shut down after an hour or so.
She didn’t speak and she hardly moved at all. Anamaria tried to help by tucking her into the bed.
– however, she didn’t realize that Cordelia would be focused on how the bed
smelled. Jack invaded her senses – his
scent coated the sheets and blankets, a few stray hairs rested on the pillow –
he was everywhere.
Anamaria spoke to
her once again. “Cordy, I…I don’ know
‘ow t’ go about givin’ this t’ ye.” She
placed Jack’s bandana on the pillow next to Cordelia’s face.
now tha’ he’s…I’m not helpin’, I’m sorry.”
The only words
that Cordelia said were, “I know he does, it’s all right.”
would think she fell asleep. It worked
and the female pirate left the cabin.
Cordelia looked around the cabin and felt like she was dying
herself. Jack was the last thing she
had expected to come into her life, but he did, and with such a force that she
wasn’t sure if she could ever go back to being who she was before meeting
him. Being raised the way she was, she
knew that her own death was not a possibility.
If she committed suicide, there was no way that she would be reunited
with her lover, she she refused to believe that Jack would be sent into any
fiery depths…however, if a shark were to decide to jump aboard the ship and eat
her, she wouldn’t run in the opposite direction.