Where we will, we'll roam

Chapter 7

There was a sharp bang as I forced the door open. At last. After checking that Irina was still asleep, I leapt up the cabin steps onto the deck.

"SPARROW!" I roared.

There he was. At the helm. Holding his stupid compass in his stupid hand. He grinned and hailed me.

"I see you got free of your bonds then?!"

"What is your problem?!!" I yelled. "Any other normal person would talk to someone and try to persuade them to sail with them but no! You just go and kidnap them!"

His grin widened and I felt a mad rush of annoyance. I grabbed my sword from my belt and threw it at him. He dodged it and it splintered the wood behind where ,a split second ago, he had been.

"Geez watch it!" He said, now starting to look slightly worried.

"Don't tell me what to do!"I shouted at him.

"Okay, okay. Sorry, my apologies," he raised his hands to surrender. I breathed heavily, trying to steady myself.

"Why me anyway?" I spat at him. He smirked and raised an eyebrow.

"What?" I glared.

"Well," He said, still with that really irritating look on his smug face. "You are my daughter after all and I tho-"

"Just because I am your daughter doesn't mean I want to sail with you."

"I never said it did mean that."

I sighed heavily. My dad was so aggravating.

"But surely you can see that-"

He interrupted me with, "Stop whinging and start calming your brother's future wife, savvy? She is due any day and -calypso help us- we are no nearer to making this ship baby proof. Not that that will ever be likely," He added on as a second thought.

"Okay..." I said slowly. "So if I look after Irina and her baby when it comes then will you in turn drop me off at the nearest port as soon as possible?"

Jack looked thoughtful for a moment. "No can do ,love."

"Uh why not?"

He folded his arms. "Sorry but there's no benefit in it for me."

"Unbelievable," I muttered. Louder I said, "Well if you would rather me just ignore Irina and let you struggle with being an old generation of the family... I'm sure that the baby would be screaming and annoying the crew and what would a bunch of pirates really do about it? I'm sure that one of them would love to play the role of babysitter while Irina recovers?"

Jack grin faded as I carried on. "If I helped, the baby would be out of your way and the whole crew would probably never hear it, or let it disturb them. Also Sao Feng is probably looking for me and if I stayed for a bit then you would be able to have a good fight with him, prove that your better at him so to speak."

"And you can accomplish this?"

"You may hurt me, but you may never insult me."

"After all," Jack added. "You are the daughter of Captain Jack Sparrow."

"So do we have an accord?"

"Aye."

I grinned at him as he leaned on the wheel, looking out to the sea. Jack grasped the wheel in one hand and took out his compass.

"Now, bring me that horizon."