An Eye for an Eye, A Kiss for a Kiss

A/N: Hi everyone! Big thanks to those who read and reviewed!

@JackSparrowsWench- Thank you,mate!I think it's the biggest of compliments to hear that my Jack was in character^^ BTW,please reupload "The deception"!It was such a promising start!

@Nionio- Oh yes,he is^^Well,who DOESN'T envy her,eh? haha!Thanks for all the wonderful words!I'm not sure if I deserved them...^^

@LizzieSwan- Yes,I fully agree.No whelp is just the best!But actually he will make an appearance in this chappie!
And as for the swim - well,it WILL be interesting...In a way...?lol!
I'm so glad to hear from you again!

@great kisser- That's a good question!Who knows,maybe he will punish her eventually?After all he didn't specify WHEN^^ Pirate...
Thank you for reviewing!

@Fate- Yay!You reviewed again!
Very addicting? Wow,thank you! I guess I have to credit the irresistible Jack for that,haha! And the hot babe Lizzie,of course^^ I love the chemistry between them...
More is coming soon,I promise! Hugs!
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The new chapter is here and I hope you will enjoy it! Little warning though: implied slash inside! But only IMPLIED! LOL


And here's the credit:

The part about William was written by my very talented sister Alice.

Thank you sis!I absolutely love it!!

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CHAPTER 8 "Sea Monsters"


Elizabeth was wearing a frown as she was standing by the newly built, tipi-shaped hut where Jack had so unceremoniously left her.

"How could he simply ignore my ache for him and insolently choose to uselessly go swimming!?" She was unable to stand the disappointment, boiling inwardly with the explosive mixture of anger and desire. "That was damn cruel...How dared he? Grrr!" she huffed.

With her mouth agape, she stared at Jack's shapely figure as if she was under a spell.He was paddling lazily in the crystal clear waters of the shoreline and she couldn't tear her gaze off his gorgeous body, his strong tanned back fully covered by mysterious tattoos and dark red lines left by her merciless fingernails.

She has always dreamt of a fine man with smooth, hairless chest and back, but this pirate was far beyond that. He was stunningly elegant whether he was naked or wearing his torn, dirty clothes. Even his long, shapely legs drew attention, not to mention his backside so firm, that she couldn't resist pinching it several times already.

He turned briefly to face her once again, and beckoned her with that irresistible roguish smirk of his. Lizzie found herself drooling, and was almost ready to follow her inner voice ordering her to run after him. But she managed to overcome the urge, and took only a few steps ahead yelling as loud as she could, to make sure that he heard every word.

"Well it seems that the egregious heart breaker Captain Jack Sparrow does need oysters after all! Ha!!"

Jack pretended not to hear. He was tempted to turn back again just to take another look at her wonderfully flushed cheeks. He loved it when she was being mad at him and blushing with lust at the same time.

"Someone appears to be getting desperate..." he thought, and a wicked smile twisted his lips. "Patience, luv. Good things come to those who wait." he said in a low voice.

"Apparently, even those few you've had for breakfast were not enough!!" she added after a short moment hoping that this would be the last straw to break the camel's back, and make her Captain run ashore to punish her severely against the palm tree.

Jack tilted his head back and let his eyes flutter shut, feeling himself getting even harder than before. He winced, letting out a moan, for his breeches couldn't contain him anymore. "Oh Lizzie, bloody you...You have no idea what you're doing to your Captain..." he whispered.He hoped that his first but no more only love - the sea, would ease his pain. Diving into the wet coolness brought him some relief, and he disappeared in the midst of gentle waves.

Meanwhile, Lizzie sat down on the sandy beach totally resigned. Jack was out of sight now, but it didn't in the slightest change the fact that she was still furious. "Had it been that your rum was here,I would have burnt it to the last drop! I swear!" she exclaimed.

She smiled at the statement, her smirk turning into a giggle when she realized how ridiculous the whole situation was. She kept her eyes on the sea for any sign of her lover,and finally noticed him resurfacing. He was now laying on his back,allowing the gentle stream to carry his fully relaxed body.

Suddenly, she noticed a pointed black shape protruding from dark waters and quickly approaching the area where Jack was floating, motionless like a dead man.She stood up and moved forward,telling herself that the sight was just a hallucination caused by too much sun and by its tricky, dazzling reflections on sand and water. But when she started running towards the sea she realized with dismay that the threat was real. A huge shark was getting closer and closer to Jack.To her Jack!

Terrified, she repeatedly screamed his name running frantically through shallow waters that were barely reaching her hips. Unfortunately he couldn't hear her.He dived again, evidently unaware of the danger. Even though she knew he couldn't hear her under water,Lizzie kept on screaming her lungs out paralyzed by the fear of losing Jack, yet still able to swim faster than ever before in her life.

"Jack! Watch out! A shark!" Gasping for air and coughing out the salty water that was invading her lungs,she was moving unexpectedly fast.She got to the place where she believed she had seen him last, but he must have gone to somewhere near the bottom of the shallows by then.

"Jack!Where are you?"she yelled frightfully, looking around and begging God for help.

Lizzie felt utterly helpless,and hot tears rolled down her cheeks.The shark was swimming around in circles,though still keeping the distance.She assumed it was probably its deadly strategy. Their chances to get ashore before the beast would attack either of them were very thin. Land was not that far, but the shark able to swim with dreadful speed was all too close...

The very moment she was about to give their chances up, Jack emerged a couple of yards behind her, causing a loud splash. After inhaling deeply,he shook water off his drenched dreadlocks,spraying it all around like a dog after a stroll in the rain.

"Jack!"she turned around calling him in a hoarse voice. "Thank God I found you!We have to get out of here!A shark!"

"My lady! Do you think you can possibly trick me so viciously,because of a certain ache between your thighs,eh ?" he asked with a cheeky,lopsided smirk.

"If it was not for the circumstances, he would have ended up with a stinging cheek for that!"she thought,biting her lower lip.

"Are you crazy?! This is not a hoax! Look over there!" she pointed to the shark's fin about ten yards away on their right, making Jack frown.


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Meanwhile aboard the Black Pearl:

All of a sudden a strong wave attacked the ship ,making it rock violently like during a storm.Young blacksmith's head hit the ebony black wall of the Pearl and he groaned in pain, brutally roused from his blissful sleep. Opening his eyes he noticed with delight that the manacles which imprisoned his wrists a day ago were now gone. He tried to move towards the hinges and that's when he felt an intense ache pulsating in his head,making him feel as if it was about to burst.

"What the hell is THAT?" he wondered until memories of the previous day came over him and he already knew what was the reason behind his painful revival.The last thing he remembered was Elizabeth standing on the plank.He recalled her tears,her pleading gaze and finally that dirty bastard Jack- reaching for an oar. At that moment his world had gone black... Painful memories made his blood boil and he jumped at the bars with fury.He intended to make some noise shaking them, but a sudden wave of pain made him fall onto his knees,hardly suppressing a cry.This time, however, it wasn't the headache but something else - decidedly more persistent.

After a while he managed to slowly stand up,trying to find out where the pain was coming from. It seemed to be radiating up his spine, and he assumed that it must have been caused by the hard brig floor . "Actually it could have been far worse if someone hadn't come at night to unchain me." he thought. "Luckily there are still some good men on the Black Pearl..."

At an instant he felt guilty,realizing that pitying himself at the moment was unfair towards Elizabeth. How could he be so selfish, thinking about himself when he was supposed to help her? If there was still something one could do,of course...But what could he do being locked in the brig?? He started to scream and shout, hoping to draw the attention of the crew,but nobody seemed to hear him. Finally he gave up and with a helpless sigh sat in the corner of his cell.The very moment his body touched cold planks, he found out the epicentre of the pain. There was no doubt anymore as to where it was coming from...He rapidly stood up and tried to rub the hurting area. After a while of reflection he came to realization that the sensations weren't that bad. In fact he found the feeling quite pleasurable...and his face blushed at the thought.

Blurry images flashed across his mind and he recognized them as random pieces of his bizarre dream. He saw himself drinking something that mercilessly burned his throat.But the more he drank,the easier it was to swallow the liquor.Eventually it gave him a unique feeling of a total relief.It made him feel careless and so endlessly happy that he wanted to yell it out,wished to announce it to the whole wide world.Such a strange dream it was... After all, he had never drunk alcohol in his entire life...

He adjusted his thick,brown tights and another picture of himself popped into his head.He was half naked, dizzy and giggling like a lass. It seemed like he was having lots of fun. He could hear coarse laughter of two men behind him and it sounded very familiar, actually. It was so odd though...What the hell was he doing there naked on all fours?

"Well..." he shrugged his shoulders blushing intensely. "One doesn't choose ones dreams after all."

There was nothing in the cell that could serve as a leverage and William was deeply bothered by the fact that without help from outside he had no chance to escape. He reached for the rusty bars again yelling as loud as he could "Open up! Let me out!! "
Finally his screams were heard.Soon, two crew mates appeared greeting him cheerfully."Hi there!" said Pintel who seemed to be in a good mood.

"Let me OUT!!"shouted Will.

"We can't. The orders were clear. Sorry, mate."

"You have to help me! Elizabeth's life depends on this! I must save her!!"

"Oh come on. Last night ye didn't seem that worried 'bout the lass." Ragetti giggled, passing him a bottle of rum through the bars.

"We brought ye some more rum. Have some." The two pirates looked at each other chuckling.

"No!" Will pushed Ragetti's hand away "I need to get out of here!"

"We can't free ye,I told ye. Bloody orders.We untied ye already! Jack wouldn't be pleased with that anyway."

"Then it was you? Thank you..."

"The pleasure is mine," said Pintel.

"And mine..." giggled his lanky friend.

William didn't seem to be listening anymore.He started walking in circles, thinking intensely of how to persuade them.

"Ye're walking funny mate!" he heard Ragetti's voice.

"Listen,you HAVE TO free me! It's about Elizabeth's life!"

"Easy mate, old Jack will take good care of the lass." responded Ragetti.

"And we'll take care of ye!"added Pintel. "We brought ye some breakfast." he grinned.

"LET ME OUT!! How can I be eating now? What's the matter with you?! How can you stand like this when an innocent woman needs rescue?!"

"Innocent?" Pintel laughed. "I wouldn't be so sure."

"What are you insinuating?!"

"Me?Nothing at all." he answered defensively. "She's just..."

"Just WHAT??"

"Just... with Jack." he smiled widely,showing his rotten teeth.

Will howled shaking the iron bars in frenzy. "Open up! Damn it! I'll do anything if only you let me out!"

"...Anything ,ye say?" Ragetti looked at Pintel with sparkles in his only eye.


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Jack's eyes were still glued to the monster's fin as if it hypnotized him. "Bloody hell,so it's true.Strange though...These shallows be well familiar to me,and I never happened to meet any shark around here.That's interesting..."

"God!Does that matter?One is here now,so let's go!" she grabbed his hand forcing him to take his eyes off the shark's fin for a second or two.

"Come on Jack,we need to get to safety!" she shook his arm after he had failed to react to her screams and remained where he was instead of swimming for his life.

"No need to fret, luv.The fishy's leaving, see?" he stated calmly.

It actually did look as if the shark was swimming away,but still it was dangerously close. Lizzie shouted again,this time straight into his ear and it worked. Jack finally obeyed her and they headed towards the shore.It wasn't a long swim before they reached the beach.Standing in a knee deep water,they looked out for the shark,which to Lizzie's surprise was nowhere to be seen.

"See? The li'l fishy's gone." Jack smiled contentedly ,wrapping his hands around her waist.

She surprised him by pushing his arms away with a furious glare. "How could you be so careless,so...Oh!You're insufferable,Jack!This beast could have eaten you alive and yet you didn't care to swim back to the shore!"

"Well, that wouldn't have been the first time being eaten by a sea beastie,would it now?" he asked with a smirk.

She dropped her gaze, both guilt and sadness filling her heart once again as she recalled the Kraken taking the Pearl along with Jack into the depths.It made Jack regret immediately what he had just said.

"I'm sorry, luv...Didn't mean to harp on it again," he stroked her cheek with his long fingers. "I was only trying to say that I'm here all but dead, even though I'd had an encounter with a giant ,ravenous scunghilli - much more dreadful than this li'l sharky,eh? Most probably,this seemingly dangerous fishy was too afraid of Captain Sparrow,and chose to get out of his way."

"Could you at least once be so kind and look at things with seriousness?If you think you impress me,claiming to scare off the shark simply by being Captain Jack Sparrow,then you can't be more wrong!What a silly,childish behaviour is this?!Since when is taking the unnecessary risk fun for you?It's like I didn't know you at all!" Jack was listening attentively with an unusually serious expression.She was absolutely mad at him...

"What if that monster got you? I would have lost you again, Jack! I would have died of grief..."

Elizabeth broke into tears,unable to control all the conflicting emotions crowded in her heart. He wanted to embrace her once again,but she did not allow him.

"Leave me alone! Come back when you grow up!"she yelled straight into his dumbfounded face.


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A/N: Well, Jack indeed behaved like a silly kid,didn't he? Why did he act like an ass?! Haha,I know why!The (simple) answer is coming in the next chapter!

So...What do you think of this update?Please let me know your opinion!