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Post by Cap'n Jack on Jun 17, 2007 20:31:53 GMT
(ooc: btw this is set after potc3 so DONT READ IF U HAVENT SEEN NO.3 COS ITS SPOILERS!!!)
Jack sat back and sighed, his hands behind his head in his little boat sailing majestically into the sunset, out towards open sea and the horizon. He watched the sky line and saw a sudden burst of green light and with that, the sun slipped behind the horizon, plunging the ocean into a beautiful indigo hue and he saw the moon shining weakly, just waking up. Jack sat up leisurely and pulled out a rolled-up piece of bamboo scroll and opened it. He smiled in satisfaction at the thought of Barbossa's face when he realised that he, Jack, had the charts which could lead him to the Fountain of Youth. He put it away again and lay back down, then pulled his hat over his eyes and slept.
When Jack woke up, he was in the middle of the sea which was deadly calm and the moon was shining brightly upon the sea, covering the world in silver. He looked around him and saw the distant shape of a ship in the distance - he squinted and waited until it came a bit nearer. It was only until it was almost upon him did he realise it was the Pearl! His beloved Pearl. But his momentary joy was quenched by unease. Barbossa was on there, and probably ready to murder. There was nothing he could do though, and he waited until he was spotted by one of the crew....
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Post by Barbossa (inactive) on Jun 17, 2007 20:46:14 GMT
Barbossa had been in his cabin all day. With the door locked, the sheer rage that he had felt when he had opened the charts was almost too much for him to show. He was literally too furious to do anything. He couldn't talk without shouting, walk without kicking or think without loathing. Too long Jack had outwitted him. Too long Jack had been without Barbossa's ship, but still had a plan to get it back, Barbossa's anger let rip on one of the chairs as he literally stamped it to bits yelling as he did so. He stopped, only has he heard a noise on deck, he walked to the doors of the cabin, hoping to let out his rage and distract himself from thoughts of brutaly murdering Jack.
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Post by Cap'n Jack on Jun 17, 2007 20:51:39 GMT
Jack had shouted to cotton who had hauled him up on deck. Jack was welcomed back very warmly by HIS crew. Then he thought fiendishly of Barbossa and instinctively knew that he would be in his, JACK'S the captains cabin and he walked right up to the door and opened it up like it was home. He glanced at Barbossa with evil satisfaction as he saw the look of total anger on his face and he waited for a response. Behind the pair of rival captains stood the crew at a ood distance but close enough to hear their conversation.....
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Post by Barbossa (inactive) on Jun 17, 2007 20:58:12 GMT
Barbossa's head was full of emotions, confusion, which was normal around Jack, annoyance, that the crew were still siding with Jack, a slight ounce of dissappointment that his ship hadn't been Sparrow-free for long, but anger and loathing were dominating, and pushed all the rest of his thoughts into the back of his head.
He stood there for a moment, truthfully unsure of what he would do next, the anger inside him had thrown out all rational thinking, and all he could do to stop himself from completley loosing it, was stand on the spot, completley still and rigid. His hands were made into fists, the long filthy fingernails where leaving imprints on his hand, his toes where curled in his boots, his teeth grinding, eyes full of hatred.
"You-" was all he managed to stammer, finding it nearly impossible to put his anger into words.
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Post by Cap'n Jack on Jun 17, 2007 21:03:09 GMT
Jack smiled infuriatinmgly and said "Yep, me! Is that all I get, 'you'? Aren't you even gonna welcome your captain back? Speaking of captains, would you kindly remove yourself from my cabin?" he gestured towards the door smiling
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Post by Barbossa (inactive) on Jun 17, 2007 21:12:42 GMT
Barbossa's glare changed from hatred to completley evil with no remorse in a split second, fixating his eyes on Jacks, he walked over to him, in his own pace, not breaking the eye contact for a second, not even to blink, the anger building up inside of him with each step, he reached Jack, and swallowed before speaking slowly.
"What-ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-ye doing" his fists shoock with rage at his sides as he elongated the vowells in each word, in an attempt to calm himself which proved no help at all. If anything he was even more angry than before he had spoken.
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Post by Cap'n Jack on Jun 18, 2007 16:55:54 GMT
Jack's face changed from a mocking smile to fake puzzlement as he looked around at the crew who were still watching, mouths agape, hiding behind the mast etc. Jack looked back at barbossa and said "Well, I thought that was obvious - ordering you out of MY cabin. Last time I looked, you were first mate, matey" he smiled again and walked up toi Barbossa face to face. He was smaller than him, but it was obvious who had control of the situation, and jack was rather enjoying mocking Barbossa. He knew that the worst thing Barbossa could do was.... was mutiny. As Jack thought this his head swirled and he was afraid for a second that it had shown in his eyes, but then he put on an expression that covered it up and looked at Barbossa expectantly, waiting for his reaction. Jack could handle whatever Barbossa threw at him, and he had at least some faith in his crew that they wouldnt side with Barbossa - again.
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Post by Tia Dalma ~Calypso~ on Jun 20, 2007 21:41:55 GMT
Just then, Gibbs stepped forward hesitantly. He knew this was just going to end rather badly...Most likely, mutiny. He cleared his throat rather awkwardly, catching both Jack's & Barbossa's attention. He learned forward and quietly asked "Errr, Jack... A word?" then gave an awkward smile to Barbossa.
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Post by Cap'n Jack on Jun 21, 2007 15:19:43 GMT
Jack turned back to Barbossa and smiled. "Please excuse me. I will be back soon to order youy out again!" he smiled and walked jauntily out of the cabin with Gibbs behind him. Jack looked around at the crew and shouted "Back to yer stations th elot of you!" they all scrambled away like mice and went back to work. Jack turned back to Gibbs and looked expectantly at him. He rather wanted to order Barbossa out of HIS cabin..........
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Post by Tia Dalma ~Calypso~ on Jun 21, 2007 22:23:39 GMT
Gibbs was slightly unsure how to handle this situation. He knew, techniqually, the ship had been Jacks when it was the Wicked Wench, but since becoming the Black Pearl it was Barbossa who captained during "The Curse"....Always a victim of superstition, Gibbs was sure this was going to end messy. "Errr, Jack, what are ye doing?"....Then thinking he should perhaps rephrase, "What I mean is, what do plan to do?... To regain your place as Captian?" ....Trying to hint him in the direction of making a deal with Barbossa.... "I take it you have the map?.....Parlay.....Perhaps?"
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Post by Cap'n Jack on Jun 22, 2007 14:50:00 GMT
Jack rolled his eyes. He had no time for Gibbs' interventions! He just wanted HIS cabin and barbossa out and back to 1st mate's cabin. How dare Gibbs think that Jack, the RIGHTFUL captain, should compromise with Bar-bloody-bossa, when Barbossa's only purpose to come back to life was to get Jack back to captain the pearl! Barbossa was meant to be dead... Jack answered with a sigh "Look, mate. I am the rightful captain correct? Wasnt Barbossa's only purpose to come back from the dead to rescue me? What am I meant to do when im back if i cant captain me own ship??" he turned on his heel about to stride back into the cabin.....
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Post by Tia Dalma ~Calypso~ on Jun 22, 2007 21:50:25 GMT
Getting an inkling that Jack had misunderstood his intentions he needed to explain further before Jack went back to argue some more with Barbossa.... "No, no! Wait! Errr, what I meant merely was a suggestion, so to speak...." Thinking quickly how to reword... "Yes it is, technically your ship...." He still felt guilty for falling asleep on the peer & loosing the ship on Jack..."Bloody Rum!" "But....You have the map & the compass .....How can Barbossa captain the ship without a heading? You have to remind him of this slight detail. You want to find the Fountain of Youth…He wants to find the Fountain of Youth….but only you know how to get there as you have the map” Gibbs was starting to get the impression that Jack was starting to understand. He had that “thinking” look on his face. “So, if you parlay over there with Barbossa, he will have to let you Captain to get a heading….or else we’ll just be aimlessly floating out to sea…We’ll be sitting ducks for all manners of beasties” Gibbs was starting to get a headache from all that thinking…He was also now starting to worry about Beasties. He hastily did his little spit & spin ritual to ward them off....
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Post by Cap'n Jack on Jun 23, 2007 8:26:50 GMT
Jack was indeed thinking, and he had turned around to look at Gibbs. Well, he did have the map, compass and he ship was technically his, so he nodded to Gibbs and strode off a little more calmly towards his cabin. As he re-entered his cabin, the crew turned around again and began to move towards the cabin to listen. Meanwhile, Jack had walked up to Barbossa and said. "Well, Barbossa, I have some PROOF that I should be the captain. As i technically own this ship, and I have the charts which will guide us to the fountain of youth and I also happen to own the compass which will lead us there. I dont think you will be much of a captain if you dont have any of these." he smiled triumphantly and waited for Barbossa to do something.....
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Post by Barbossa (inactive) on Jun 26, 2007 20:57:06 GMT
Barbossa tried his best to keep his cool as he looked down at Jack (not in a nasty way, he was just taller!) although it pained him to admit it he could not go on without Jack, they both had things they needed, and neither were willing to compramise, true enough he knew he could not trust him, but he could not do anything else in the current situation.
"Well I have the ship" he said slyly "Seems like we are in need of some sort of bargain, aye Jack?"
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Post by Cap'n Jack on Jun 26, 2007 21:03:06 GMT
Jack glared up at Barbossa and said as he shooed Barbossa out the door, "Well we'll just see about that."
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