A Pirate's Love

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

               Jack flew down the stairs that led below the decks.  He caught up with JJ in no time at all.  He grabbed him on his arm and turned him around to face him.

               "What do ye mean whelp that I'm your father?"

               "You are my father."

               "But I can't be, yer mum married someone else."

               "No she didn't."  Jack stood there.  Stunned.  He pulled JJ towards his cabin.  When they got there, he plunked him down on the bed and he paced.

               "Explain to me why she didn't marry."

               "Are ye that daft Captain?  She pretended to be married when she went to Aunt Elizabeth.  She was already with child.  Me.  Your child."

               Jack ran his hands through his hair.  Not really believing JJ's story. 

               "Then why did she leave me ship in the middle of the night? Do ye know the answer to that?"

               "She left ye because ye loved the sea and yer ship more than anything else."

               Jack sat down on the bed next to his son.  He looked JJ up and down.  The closer he looked, the less he could deny the fact that JJ was his son.

               "What does JJ stand for?"

               "Jack Sparrow Junior."

               "Why did she name ye after me?"

               "Because she loves ye."  JJ looked at his father.  "And because she's a pirate."  Jack looked down at his son once more.

               "Aye whelp.  That she is."

               Madeline strode through her house.  Stearing clear of her mother.  Who was probably passed out somewhere.  A million and one thoughts running through her mind.  She loved Jack more than anything.  The evening earlier in the week had proved that.

               She went to the study and poured herself a glass of rum.  She looked up at the fireplace and saw the portrait of her parents.  Back when her mother was in love with her pirate.  The much hated Barbossa.  She was glad he was dead.  Glad that Jack was the one that killed him.  She knew about what had happened from Will and Elizabeth.  But in all the years she had known Jack, she never told him.  Never told him who her father was.  Just that he had been some pirate that had seduced her mother.  She hurled her glass at the portrait.

               "I hate ye for who ye were.  For making me what I am.  A bloody pirate."  She quickly wiped away the tears that were forming in her eyes.  "But ye brought me to Jack."  She hurried out of the study and out onto the beach into the hills of the island. 

               She headed to her pool.  A secluded area of the island that everyone that lived there, knew was her domain.  This was where she went when she wanted to be alone.  She quickly stripped off her clothes and jumped in the water.  Her thoughts were on Jack.  Always Jack.  The way he touched her.  The way he kissed her.  The way he made love to her.

               "Oh Jack." She sighed out loud.  "Why did ye have to take me heart?"