A Pirate's Love

Chapter 60

Chapter 60

JJ sat on the bunk in the brig. He sat up straighter as he saw Jacquette coming towards him. "Get up." JJ stood up and he was ushered to a cabin along with three other young boys. JJ noticed that they were all blonde. They didn't look as scared as he felt.

"Be nice to them JJ or they'll hurt you." Jacquette hissed at him as he slammed the door behind him and locked it. JJ wanted to grab his sword and run it right through Jacquette's heart.

"What makes ye so blood special that ye are here with us?" one of the blonde boys asked him.

"I don't know. What's it to you?" JJ sneered.

The other boys ribbed each other and began to laugh. "Ye don't know what's going to happen to ye do ye?"

"What do ye mean?" JJ asked.

The tallest blonde boy leaned forward, closer to JJ and he leaned back. "We are to have grand jobs."

"Jobs?"

"Aye. To rich Chinese families."

"To do what?" JJ asked with a questioningly look on his face.

The smallest blonde boy stood and smirked at JJ. "Who cares, as long as they pay us? Beats where we come from." JJ sat there as his mind began to churn. He looked back at the trio and they all smirk.

"The Chinese pay handsomely for blonde ones like us." The tallest one said. "But ye don't have nothing special about ye so ye probably won't even get bought."

"My da is coming to rescue me." JJ said shouting as he stood up.

"And who, pray tell is your da?" The small blonde boy next to him asked.

"Captain Jack Sparrow." He said proudly. He cringed when the boys began to laugh at him. "What are ye laughing at? He's coming for me."

The oldest one came closer to him. "Ye've got to stop believing in fairy tales whelp. Your da could be the king of England and it still wouldn't do ye any good." JJ clenched his fists, prepared to fight.

"Ye don't know anything. My da is the fiercest pirate in the seas. My mum too."

The oldest boy laughed at him. "Yer mum is probably some two bit whore who doesn't even remember ye exist."

JJ saw red. "Don't talk that way about me parents." The other boys just laughed at him. JJ sat down on his bunk and moved as far away from the boys as he possibly could. He watched as they pulled out a deck of cards and began to play. He would catch their eyes on him every once in a while. He wrapped his arms around his folded knees. Please Da, bring Mum and find me he thought to himself.

Jack let out a sigh of relief when the coast of Shanghai came into view. He had lied to Maddy about how close they had been to the place... he'd needed to buy himself some time. Between working her harder then she'd probably ever worked and slipping her the potion the witch doctor had given him for insomnia he was sure he would have plenty of time to get in and JJ out before she could get too pissed off... at least he hoped so. He looked up at the crow's nest, "Tobey," he called up. Tobey's "fall" had been a charade as well. Giving Jack the excuse he needed to make Maddy stay up there on watch all night. Gibbs had been in on it as well. He smiled with pride at how well he'd pulled it off. Now he hoped he could pull some of the same wool over ole Jacquette's eyes as well.