Delightful Contempt

Chapter 6:

A/N: Okay here’s the chapter you have all been waiting for! Thanks for the feedback…it’s greatly appreciated! Jack and Elizabeth share a romantic evening and all goes well…..almost! Read and review!

Noah soon brought up the dinner for two that Jack had requested of him along with the bottle of wine. He carried a tray that was loaded down with a chicken that had been roasted and stuffed with carrots and potatoes, a basket of rolls that had been generously buttered, and a bowl filled with red and green grapes. Elizabeth watched as the young man placed the tray on Jack’s desk and then quickly turned to leave them alone. Her tea colored eyes shifted to Jack as she watched him digging around in the chest that was at the foot of his bed. Finally he stood up holding two plates. He placed one in front of Elizabeth and then one in front of his chair. She looked down at it noticing it was very fine crafted china. Stolen no doubt. It was white with gold trim and then was black in the very center. Jack placed very expensive looking cutlery in front of them. Also stolen she assumed. Then he came back to the table holding two gold goblets. Elizabeth couldn’t hide the smile that had begun to stretch across her face as she watched Jack pour the wine into her goblet before reaching for his own to fill it up as well. So he was trying to romance her was he? He lit a few candles around the room and that only furthered her suspicion that he was trying to warm her up to whatever his intentions were.

Jack placed the chicken, basket of buttered rolls, and the bowl of grapes on the table in between them and then took his seat across from her. She smiled at him coyly as he reached for a large knife and began carving the chicken. He placed a generous helping on Elizabeth’s plate and then moved to fill his own plate. They both reached for a roll at the same time and their fingers touched slightly making them both pull back quickly. They looked up at each other, Jack flashing her a small crooked smile and she smiling quickly before looking down at her lap as her cheeks burned a bright crimson. The sound of his voice snapped her head back up from her lap.

“Ye look lovely t’ night Izzy.”

“Thank you Jack. The meal looks wonderful, and the china is very beautiful.”

“Thank ye love.”

“How did you come across it Jack?”

He paused before speaking. “I jus’ happened upon it on one of the ships I raided.”

“I see. So then you stole it?”

“No….I like t’ think of it as……liberated.”

“Liberated?”

“Precisely. I liberated it from it’s previous owner.”

Elizabeth laughed at his logic as she reached for her goblet and took a sip of wine. It was good. It tasted sweet and just a little hint of tart….like blackberries. Yes it reminded her of all the blackberry vines that had grown wild along the wall outside her bedroom at the mansion. Jack watched Elizabeth as she took another long drink from her goblet. Ah so she liked the wine then. Good…..then it would be easier for him to maneuver his way underneath that lovely dress of hers later. They ate and drank leisurely as they talked about various things. Jack picked up Elizabeth’s goblet and poured more of the wine into it before placing it back from where he had taken it. He smiled as he watched her immediately reach for it to take another generous drink from it. At this rate she would be drunk in no time at all.

“As I recall Izzy……there was something that ye wanted t’ talk t’ me bout?”

Her heart nearly leapt up into her throat. She swallowed thickly as she reached for her goblet again. Taking another drink to moisten her suddenly parched throat she looked across the table at him. The flickering candlelight seemed to make him more exotic looking. Oh why did he have to be so damn handsome? Clearing her throat she opened her mouth to speak.

“Yes I did want to talk.”

“Well then be my guest love.”

“Jack…….we’ve been through a lot of things together. Wouldn’t you agree?”

“I’d say ye be right on that darling.”

“I grew up idolizing you as a child…..as you already know. And then as a young lady I had the unexpected pleasure of meeting you.”

“Yes……I was there love I remember.”

“And then from that moment on my life was forever changed.”

“For better or for worse?”

“A little of both. Better being that I have been free as I had always longed to be.”

“An’ the worse?”

“Well I lost Will because of the path I chose to walk alone.”

“Path? Which path Izzy?”

“When I chose to embrace the pirate side of me and kill you with a kiss.”

“Ah yes…..that.”

She watched as the corners of his mouth turned up into a smile. This was proving to be a little more difficult than she had anticipated. But then again…it should have been expected. After all she was dealing with Captain Jack Sparrow….and where he was concerned everything was difficult. What was she thinking? This was a bad idea. Being alone having a romantic dinner with Jack.

“Jack I need to tell you how sorry I am for chaining you to the mast of the Pearl and leaving you for the kraken.”

“Jus’ did what ye had t’ darling….can’t fault ye for that.” He paused to smirk at her before continuing. “Pirate.”

She smiled at the nickname. It had been what he had called her right before she had turned and ran to abandon the Pearl into the longboat that the rest of the crew was waiting in. Sighing deeply she took another long drink from her goblet.

“I never meant to betray you Jack…..well not completely anyway.”

“Do tell dearie…..how does one go bout only partially betraying someone?”

“I suppose it does sound a bit ridiculous. But I only did what I did to save us Jack.”

“I know why ye did it Elizabeth. It jus’ hurt t’ know that ye didn’t have enough faith in me t’ see what I had planned.”

“What you had planned? Jack you were rowing away from the Pearl when I saw you.”

“I know that. But I came back love.”

“Yes you did. Tell me Jack….why did you come back?”

“Ye don’t know?”

“Would I be asking if I did?”

“Ye really don’t know do ye darling?”

“No Jack, I have no idea what possessed you to come back to the Pearl that day.”

“I came back for ye Elizabeth.”

“For me? I’m the reason you came back?”

“Aye, yer the reason I came back.”

“Oh Jack……I had no idea.”

“Course ye didn’t. I didn’t bother t’ tell ye bout that when ye rescued me from the Locker.”

“No. Instead you chose to shut me out of your life.”

“Guilty as charged on that one love.”

“If I’m the reason you came back that day…..then why were you so awful to me when we rescued you?”

His dark eyes looked everywhere around the cabin trying desperately to avoid looking at her. This wasn’t how things were supposed to be going at all. She was supposed to be the one pouring her heart out…..not him. He had to turn the tables and he had to do it quickly.

“M’ only a man darling….I had me pride t’ protect.”

“Pride? That was about pride?”

“What was?”

“What you did to me. You took something from me because I took something from you?”

“Yeah….pretty much. Ye took me freedom, me life Izzy. So I took yer……innocence in return.”

“Now who’s the pirate?”

“Us. We both are Izzy, it’s why we understand one another so well. We are very much alike….as I’ve said before darling. So much in fact….wouldn’t ye say that we belong together?”

They did belong together. Not that she was quite ready to divulge that information just yet. She took another long drink of wine before speaking again.

“I suppose we are very much alike Jack. We both yearn for freedom and to be able to what we want to do because we want it.”

He smiled at her use of his own words before replying. “Right. An’ what I want right now is t’ kiss ye.”

He wanted to kiss her. Should she refuse or should she let him? As if Jack Sparrow could ever be deterred from doing what he wanted. Her tea colored eyes were fixed on him as he slowly pushed himself out of his chair and swaggered over to where she was sitting. He knelt down on the floor beside her chair. Oh this was not good. He was far too close! Elizabeth found herself leaning down to meet him as he leaned up towards her. She could smell the rum and sweat and salt from the sea on him the closer they got to each other. His calloused hand slid up the back of her neck until his fingers were tangled in the knotted bun that she had fashioned her hair in. She gave a small whimper as he crushed his mouth to hers in a hard kiss. His tongue pushed it’s way inside her mouth and began teasing her own tongue. She opened her mouth wider for him to give him better access. Jack swirled his tongue deeper into her mouth tangling it with her tongue playfully. Elizabeth could feel her nipples hardening beneath the fabric of her dress and the familiar ache begin pulsing between her thighs as the kiss deepened.

Jack eased his left hand up underneath the skirt of Elizabeth’s dress and began slowly inching up her right thigh. Elizabeth gasped into his mouth as she felt his calloused fingers sliding up her creamy inner thigh until they stopped just before they reached her center. Then Jack pushed a finger between the silky folds of her womanhood making her cry out into his mouth. He began pumping his finger inside her feeling her quickly dampening as he manipulated her body. Elizabeth found herself rocking her hips against Jack’s questing finger encouraging his actions. When he placed a second finger inside her she arched off the chair. Suddenly the reason she was in his cabin popped into her head screaming at her to stop him. She pulled away from the kiss making Jack’s movements inside her stop.

“What’s the matter Izzy?”

“Jack we can’t.”

“What do ye mean we can’t? Course we can love. It’s easy…ye take yer clothes off an’ I take mine off an’ then we go at it.”

“No Jack…..we need to talk.”

“Now?”

“Yes now!”

“Bloody hell Izzy!”

He pulled his fingers from between her thighs and remained on his knees beside her chair looking up at her. His dark eyes glittered with a mixture of lust and anger.

“Jack…..I want to….no I need to know what you were going to say to me in my cabin earlier.”

“Back t’ that again are we?”

“Yes that.”

“Love is it really that important t’ ye?”

“It is.”

“Cause it seems t’ me that ye were going t’ say something as well. But then ye stopped. It’s a curious thing Izzy, what were ye planning on saying before ye stopped yerself?’

“I……I…..it was nothing.”

“Really? Didn’t seem like nothing.”

“It’s not important. Besides I already forgot what it was.”

“Have ye now? I don’t believe that for one second love.”

She sighed in frustration. He always managed to make her confess far more than she intended to. Jack wasn’t going to give in until she told him what she had almost said to him in her cabin. Feeling defeated she opened her mouth to speak again.

“You’re right, I haven’t forgotten what I was going to tell you.”

“Go on Izzy.”

“Jack I…..I was going to say…….what I meant to tell you…..”

“Yes? Go on love.”

“I…..I……I fell in love with you.”

His heart skipped a few beats at her sudden declaration of love for him. Oh how he had been waiting to hear those words fall from those pretty plump lips of hers. And now they had. Jack suddenly pushed himself to his feet and grabbed Elizabeth by the hands pulling her out of her chair. She gasped in shock as he pulled her quickly over to the bed. Before she could blink Jack had her pinned on the mattress his weight pressing down over her. She could feel his mouth leaving a scorching trail of kisses down her neck towards her breasts. His hands worked the buttons on the bodice of her sage green dress quickly. Unfastening the last button he opened the front of her dress to reveal her small perky alabaster breasts. His dark eyes glittered with lust as he watched her dusky pink nipples harden from being exposed. She whimpered as she felt his mouth close over her right breast sucking the nipple in between his teeth to tug on it gently. His calloused hand came up to roll and pinch her left nipple between his fingers as he suckled her right breast.

Elizabeth felt her legs spreading on their own to allow Jack to rest in between them. His hips pressed firmly against hers sending his throbbing erection pressing flush against her heat. It sent a surge of desire through her at the contact. Needing to feel more than just the sensation of his hardness pressed against her through their clothing she reached down and began hiking up her skirt. When she had yanked her skirt up around her hips she reached down and began hastily unfastening Jack’s breeches. His erection spilled out of his breeches and Elizabeth raised her hips to feel him pressed against her more intimately this time. She hissed as she felt the head of his erection slide along the length of her sex. Her desire was leaking from her body steadily. Jack groaned against her breast as he felt her eagerness coating his erection. Abandoning her breast he slid down until his face was nestled between her thighs. Elizabeth leaned up on her elbows to watch as Jack began devouring her sex with his tongue. He flicked the tip of his tongue against her clit a few times making her whimper and buck against him. It wouldn’t be long now before she was begging for him to enter her. But they were still dressed and he wanted to have her completely naked beneath him. Jack spoke his lips brushing against her sex as he talked.

“Izzy….need ye t’ get out of that dress love.”

She shivered at his words but began hastily pulling the dress over her head. Once free of it she tossed it onto the floor to lay forgotten. Now she lay completely naked underneath Jack. Elizabeth watched as Jack stripped off his clothes to become just as naked as she was. He crawled back onto the bed and resumed his placed between her thighs. She tilted her head back as she felt his mouth on her heat once again. He added a couple of fingers inside her quivering sex as he manipulated her clit with his teeth and tongue. Soon Elizabeth was bucking her hips wildly against his mouth and fingers. Her wanton cry reached his ears easily.

“Oh Jack……Jack!”

“Hmmm?”

“Fuck me! Fuck me now!”

That was exactly what he had been waiting to hear. He slid back up until his mouth was level with hers and then he forced a bruising kiss on her. She could taste herself on his mouth. Jack guided his cock to her soaked entrance and easily slid into her. Elizabeth gasped when she felt Jack slide into her to the hilt. Then he began pumping roughly against her. He was doing just what she had begged him to do….he was fucking her. Jack pounded deeply into her tight sheath making her moan and whimper against his neck. He gritted his teeth as he felt the beginnings of his release starting to manifest in his loins. It wouldn’t be much longer before he was exploding inside her. He swiveled his hips to push into her at a deeper angle making her cry out. The inner walls of her sex began tugging at his cock violently as her release crested. She wrapped her legs around his waist digging her heels into his ass as he pounded into her. Jack groaned against the side of her neck as he felt her muscles spasm around his cock. Then her release flooded out of her coating his cock and balls in her nectar. She could feel her climax leaking from her body. It coated the insides of her thighs and was running down in between the cheeks of her ass. Jack thrust hard against her a few more times before he moaned her name against her breasts. She could feel his cock throb deep inside her as his seed exploded into her womb.

A couple more frantic thrusts from Jack and then a shiver from him let her know that he was finished. She could feel some of his seed starting to leak from her sex to run down between the cheeks of her ass to mix with her own release. Jack felt his arms tremble before they finally gave out. He fell down on her still buried inside her, his cheek pressed firmly against her breast. Elizabeth reached up and began gently running her fingertips along his spine. She whispered to him softly.

“Tell me you love me Jack?”

His dark eyes snapped open quickly. He did love her….he just wasn’t quite ready to let her know it yet. She couldn’t know….not yet….perhaps not ever. It would make him far too vulnerable to her and he couldn’t have that. Jack pushed himself up so that he was leaning on his elbows, his cock still inside her though it was starting to go soft now.

“Jack?”

“Hmmm?”

“You do love me don’t you?”

“Izzy I…..I think it’s getting late.”

She frowned at his attempt to change the subject. “That’s not what I asked you Jack. Were you going to tell me you loved me earlier today?”

He had to get out of this now! This was dangerous territory as far as he was concerned. It was his feelings for her that had gotten him killed in the first place.

“I…..I was simply going t’ suggest that ye move into me cabin with me.”

“You want me to share your cabin with you? Why?”

“Well it only makes sense. Being that yer warming my bed so t’ speak…..it’s jus’ natural t’ have ye in it.”

Her tea colored eyes narrowed at what he said. He was acting as if she was a whore simply around for his pleasure! This outraged her. Elizabeth reached up and slapped him hard across the face.

“You bastard!”

“What? What was that for?”

“I’m not a whore Jack!”

“Never said ye were Izzy.”

“Don’t call me that! And get off me!”

She pushed his chest making him sit back so that she could get up. Jack watched as she climbed out of his bed and bent down to grab her dress. She was furious with him. Well more hurt than angry but hell would freeze before she let him know that. She was so angry and hurt that she knew she couldn’t keep her tears in check much longer. Not wanting to cry in front of him she simply wrapped her dress around her naked body and made a hasty retreat for the door. Jack watched her as she opened the door and then turned around to look at him. Tears glistened in her tea colored eyes as she spoke in a shaky voice that cracked as she tried not to cry.

“I wish I hadn’t told you that I love you!”

And then she slammed the door and was gone. He flopped back on the mattress on his back not bothering to cover his nakedness. Damn, that had not gone at all the way he had wanted. Of course they had made love like he had wanted. No they hadn’t made love….they had fucked. Everything had been perfect. She had told him she loved him and then they had fucked. Why didn’t he just tell her that he loved her too? Because he was an idiot. Sighing heavily he reached for the bottle of rum that was beside his bed. It would do no good to try and speak to her tonight.

Elizabeth ran down the steps into the lower deck through the galley until she came to her small cabin. Opening the door she hurried inside quickly and latched it behind her. Letting her dress fall to the floor she flung herself face down on the mattress not caring that she was completely naked. She pushed her face into the pillow and began to sob. Her shoulders shook as she sobbed into the pillow. Why had she told him that she loved him? Had she honestly expected him to say it back? He was a pirate for God’s sake! He would never tell her that he loved her and she was foolish to ever entertain the idea that he would. So in a way she deserved the tears that were streaming down her face to dissolve into her pillow right now. How would she ever face him now that he knew she loved him? Perhaps he would send her away? As angry as she was at him she couldn’t bear the thought of Jack dropping her off back in Port Royal or in some other port just to be rid of her. He just couldn’t send her away. She cried into her pillow until she fell asleep still naked from her tryst with Jack.

A/N: Okay disappointing I know…but Jack is far too stubborn to just admit that he loves Elizabeth right away. It’s going to happen but it’s not going to happen easily. Please let me know what you think!