Not All Treasure's Silver And Gold; Chapter Ten-A Jack Sparrow Story

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I glared at him and kept my hand on my sword, not trusting him at all.

"Look, I know that your sisters won't let you leave," he said quietly, glancing at Rosie and then looking back at me. "But you have to come aboard the Pearl, you don't have a choice, either you come by force or you come with at least some dignity."

"The Black Pearl?" I scoffed. "That ship's only a myth."

Jack smirked. "No, Sammi, not a myth."

I dropped the smile at once. "Don't you ever call me Sammi."

"What are you going to do about it, Sammi?" he asked, stepping closer to me.

I pulled my sword out and swung it at the pirate advancing toward me.

Jack quickly disarmed me because of my rage and he had his sword to my throat. "Never threaten Captain Jack Sparrow, luv."

Standing in that room with Jack pressing a sword against my throat brought back the memories that had threatened to break through earlier in the day. As a small child I had been in a very simialar postion to this one. A young boy pressing a kinfe to my neck; the man telling the boy, Jack, to kill my mother; the little boy looked a lot like Jack, too, he had brown eyes and brown hair that already was in dreadlocks.

I gasped and pulled away from the blade, pointing at him. "Y-You!" I shouted.

"Me!" Jack shouted back, his hands going into the air.

I put my hand to my neck, remembering the feeling of my mother's warm blood dripping down my throat and the cold blade pressing into my skin. I stuttered, "You k-killed my mother!"

This stopped Jack short.

"Back when I was ten! You couldn't have been much older and you killed my mother and then made me give you my father's treasure," I said, recalling the night I had lost everything.

His eyes narrowed as he thought about that. "Are you sure it was me, Sammi?"

"Are you not the child with dreadlocks that went to a house in the middle of the night to kill a woman, grab her daughter, watch her husband get shot, and then follow the girl into a secret chamber in a closet? Are you not the same child, Jack?"

He looked at me for a moment more. "I'm not the man you're looking for," he said. "But luv, the name's Captain Jack."

I stared at him. "He said your name!" I cried. "The man who killed my father said to take what you can, Jack!"

He was glaring by the time that I finished. "Will you be coming aboard the Pearl or not?"

I sighed and sunk back into my chair. If I chose to stay and was forced to leave then the girls would be even more afraid of pirates. But if I left with them then they would think I was abbandoning them. Besides who would take care of them if I left?

"Of course Silas would take them in," Jack said.

Crap, had I said that out loud?

I held my finger up to silence him for a moment. So Silas would take care of my sisters if I had to leave them and surely it would be better for them if I left of my own free will. I had to make a decision, now was the time to decide.

"I want to go with you," I stated.

Jack's grin was not one I wanted to see agian. It was a smile that showed how greedy he was and what was in store in the future. This was not going to be a good idea.

"Let's go," he said. With that he turned and headed out of the room.

"W-What are you talking about?" I asked him.

He looked back at me. "You don't expect to stay here for any longer do you? You'll change your mind and we can't have that. Besides, my crew is ready to leave."

I gulped and stared at him wide-eyed. But then I nodded and turned back toward the sitting room.

A hand came down on my arm and gripped it. "Where do you think you're going?"

I looked back at Jack. "Even if they can't hear me, I have to say good-bye to my sisters," I said.

Jack's eyes were clouded with doubt, but he let me go and followed me into the sitting room.

I bent over Rosie and carefully brushed the hair out of her face. "Behave," I told her.

Then I turned and walked into the tiny kitchen. Slowly, I went through each of my surviving sisters and told them each a personal good-bye. And then I was ready to go.

I looked at Jack. "Let's go."

He nodded once and started out the door without a glance back in my direction. Our feet didn't make a sound on the dirt floor, no noise came from either of us and the only thing we heard was the sound of owls in the night.
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