The Dawn
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Pirates of the Caribbean (All) › Het - Male/Female › Jack/Elizabeth
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Pirates of the Caribbean (All) › Het - Male/Female › Jack/Elizabeth
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
6
Views:
2,228
Reviews:
1
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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I do not own the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Six
Six
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Elizabeth felt the change in warmth at her back and a shift of the mattress filling. Not being accustomed to sleeping with anyone, she stiffened and waited for the movement to cease, hoping the person wouldn’t realize she was awake. Then she opened one eye, and recognized the captain’s cabin of the Black Pearl, and realization gradually came to her, making her smile. Just then a door was closed, and she rolled over to see the empty room, and the empty bed beside her. The dent in the pillow showed where Jack’s head had been, and she buried her nose there to breathe in his scent. Giggling at the memory of the night before, her wedding night, she lay in the bed for a few minutes, then stretched and rose. Feeling aches and pains in parts she’d never known she had before, she moved slowly to the bucket kept in the room for the purpose, emptied it out the window and after dragging it along at the end of its rope to rinse it, pulled it back in. At the pitcher and wash basin, she used the rag to do a minimal morning ablution, and combed through her hair with her fingers before braiding it into a long plait, tying the ends with a leather cord. Then looking around, she found some shirts and breeches on a hook that was newly installed. The clothing was also new, and Elizabeth vaguely remembered seeing these things yesterday as she tied them into a bundle in the bathhouse in Tortuga. They fit her well enough, and she smiled thinking of Jack’s thoughtfulness.
She stepped from the cabin into the gray light of dawn, and saw her new husband for’ard in the bow. Elizabeth knew from her weeks aboard the ship as an unwilling passenger, then as new partner in their voyages that Jack enjoyed his morning time in communion with the ocean.
She climbed the aft stairs, and perched on the quarterdeck, at the very highest part she could comfortably reach, and had her own morning symphony, enjoying the sun’s first appearance on her own. By the time the sun had risen completely above the ocean surface, Elizabeth focused back on the area right around her, and there was Jack. She smiled at him, and he came toward her, lifting her down from the perch she’d commandeered, and wrapping her in a tight hug. The kiss that followed would have scorched the eyeballs of any observer, but the helmsman remained oblivious. “Good mornin’, luv. Did I wake ye?”
“No Jack, I just felt the cold when you weren’t there anymore, and wanted to see this new morning too. It’s lovely isn’t it, this time of day, fresh and new, with a whole world before you to explore? And I didn’t come fore to join you, because I know how you cherish that moment all to yourself.“
“Lizzie, darlin’, I’ve had too many years all to meself. That has changed now—I have a wife who completes me. Do ye not know how much I love ye and have wanted ye fer meself since I first saw ye? I, ah, last night, I could..ah.. I could have died from the.. joy of having ye fer me own. Please, I want ye beside me always. Never think you’re bothering or interfering—if ye do, I’ll tell ye! And will ye promise me the same? That you’ll always tell me when you’ve had enough of me silly ways? I can’t speak like this to many, but ye be me Lizzie, and I need ye to know this. I love you.”
Elizabeth was stunned by this deep revelation, and looked into the eyes of her husband, those deep brown velvet eyes, and saw he was speaking from his heart and baring his soul to her. She kissed his lips, and tilted her forehead against his, saying, “This is the dawn of our new life together. I will join you each morning with the sunrise, then go with you to find some breakfast, as I plan to do very soon. And I love you, Jack. I never knew I could feel the things you made me feel last night, and this new chapter in my life is just beginning. I am happy and I love you and will be by your side as long as I live, loving you each new day more than the one before.”
And they turned together to watch the early morning sun, fresh from its dawn, beaming down on their new world.
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Elizabeth felt the change in warmth at her back and a shift of the mattress filling. Not being accustomed to sleeping with anyone, she stiffened and waited for the movement to cease, hoping the person wouldn’t realize she was awake. Then she opened one eye, and recognized the captain’s cabin of the Black Pearl, and realization gradually came to her, making her smile. Just then a door was closed, and she rolled over to see the empty room, and the empty bed beside her. The dent in the pillow showed where Jack’s head had been, and she buried her nose there to breathe in his scent. Giggling at the memory of the night before, her wedding night, she lay in the bed for a few minutes, then stretched and rose. Feeling aches and pains in parts she’d never known she had before, she moved slowly to the bucket kept in the room for the purpose, emptied it out the window and after dragging it along at the end of its rope to rinse it, pulled it back in. At the pitcher and wash basin, she used the rag to do a minimal morning ablution, and combed through her hair with her fingers before braiding it into a long plait, tying the ends with a leather cord. Then looking around, she found some shirts and breeches on a hook that was newly installed. The clothing was also new, and Elizabeth vaguely remembered seeing these things yesterday as she tied them into a bundle in the bathhouse in Tortuga. They fit her well enough, and she smiled thinking of Jack’s thoughtfulness.
She stepped from the cabin into the gray light of dawn, and saw her new husband for’ard in the bow. Elizabeth knew from her weeks aboard the ship as an unwilling passenger, then as new partner in their voyages that Jack enjoyed his morning time in communion with the ocean.
She climbed the aft stairs, and perched on the quarterdeck, at the very highest part she could comfortably reach, and had her own morning symphony, enjoying the sun’s first appearance on her own. By the time the sun had risen completely above the ocean surface, Elizabeth focused back on the area right around her, and there was Jack. She smiled at him, and he came toward her, lifting her down from the perch she’d commandeered, and wrapping her in a tight hug. The kiss that followed would have scorched the eyeballs of any observer, but the helmsman remained oblivious. “Good mornin’, luv. Did I wake ye?”
“No Jack, I just felt the cold when you weren’t there anymore, and wanted to see this new morning too. It’s lovely isn’t it, this time of day, fresh and new, with a whole world before you to explore? And I didn’t come fore to join you, because I know how you cherish that moment all to yourself.“
“Lizzie, darlin’, I’ve had too many years all to meself. That has changed now—I have a wife who completes me. Do ye not know how much I love ye and have wanted ye fer meself since I first saw ye? I, ah, last night, I could..ah.. I could have died from the.. joy of having ye fer me own. Please, I want ye beside me always. Never think you’re bothering or interfering—if ye do, I’ll tell ye! And will ye promise me the same? That you’ll always tell me when you’ve had enough of me silly ways? I can’t speak like this to many, but ye be me Lizzie, and I need ye to know this. I love you.”
Elizabeth was stunned by this deep revelation, and looked into the eyes of her husband, those deep brown velvet eyes, and saw he was speaking from his heart and baring his soul to her. She kissed his lips, and tilted her forehead against his, saying, “This is the dawn of our new life together. I will join you each morning with the sunrise, then go with you to find some breakfast, as I plan to do very soon. And I love you, Jack. I never knew I could feel the things you made me feel last night, and this new chapter in my life is just beginning. I am happy and I love you and will be by your side as long as I live, loving you each new day more than the one before.”
And they turned together to watch the early morning sun, fresh from its dawn, beaming down on their new world.
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