Return of the sparrows : POTC

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Elizabeth giggled as she swung her marionette back and forth, testing it. She had found her dress down in the cargo area and some string, thus making her a dress marrionete. It seemed silly but if it would get her to Tortuga, she'd do it.

She swung it in front of the captains cabin window and smiled when the captain and two crew mates ran out. They looked around for the dress so she made it point at the captain.

"She's trying to give a sign." She heard the captain say. Holding in her giggles she flew the dress above them, knocking over the lanturn she placed, and made the dress disappear. The crew ran over to the side of the ship to look for a sign and Elizabeth rolled her eyes.

She climbed down, sat on a barrel and yelled, "What's that over there?"

The crew ran over and saw the word Tortuga spelled out on deck, in flames. The captain twitched then starting yelling out orders to set sail for Tortuga. Elizabeth grinned and climbed back up the mast to sit in the crows nest.

She wished she could see the ocean but it was dark, and rather foggy. Sighing she leaned against the mast and thought of the night the curse got lifted off Barbossa's crew. It had been foggy when she got captured by them and night most of the time she was there. Ever since then she had been a bit afraid of the moonlight but when she thought of how brave Will and Jack had been it calmed her down.

"What would father say if he saw me." She laughed quietly. Dressed in baggy trousers, a light creamy brown blouse and hat worthy of Jack Sparrow she didn't look much like a lady.

"Sailor!" The captain shouted to her.

"Aye captain?"

"You're on night watch! Look for Tortuga!"

"Aye aye!"

Elizabeth sighed again and made herself comfertable. Obviously she was going to be there a while. Nights like this reminded her of when she was a little girl in England, when they lived by the sea. She used to sneak out to sit on the beach and watch the moonlight color the water. One night her mother followed her and surprised Elizabeth when she started singing a pirate song.

'Elizabeth you have the ocean in you, as I have it in me. It's only natural that I would know a sea song.' She had said when Elizabeth asked her about it. She called it a sea song, but it was a pirate song and Elizabeth knew it. She had often wondered where her mother learned such a song.

Before her mother died she told Elizabeth everything she knew about pirates, the ocean and of course sea myths. Elizabeth would sit on the floor in front of her mothers rocking chair and consume every bit of what her mother was saying. The stories were fasinating to her.

'You must never tell your father about what i've just told you. He would not like it at all.' Her mother told her. 'It will be our little secret, my lovely Lizzie.'

Then all of a sudden her mother had gotten ill. The english doctors didn't know what it was but they kept her alive for little over a year. In that time Elizabeth hardly ever left her mothers side, she nursed her mother and told her the stories that her mother had told her.

'Oh Lizzie you tell those stories better then I do. You're going to make a wonderful pirate someday.' Laughing quietly her mother slipped into death, with Elizabeth standing beside her bed. Elizabeth always wondered why her mother said that, that she would make a good pirate. She thought pirates were dispicable scoundrals, and she certainly didn't want to become one of them.

That changed when she met Will. She had been singing a pirate song that day, because the foggy day reminded her of the nights she spent with her mother by the ocean. She was told off by her father and James for singing such a song but later that day Gibbs commended her for it.