The Bend to Rue (Jack Sparrow fanfic)

chapter 9

A few days later, I was being helped ino a rowboat. Apperantly, we were going to someone named Tia Dalma- who of which everyone was AFRAID OF- this did wonders for my nerves let me tell you. It was three to a boat and Jack sat right next to me. I wouldn't have minded because we were in a swamp like place and there were snakes everywhere and an alligator swam right next to us before going under the water, but Jack decided to put his arm around me saying it was to keep me still so I didn't tip the boat over.

The jungle was so deep a green it was like the leaves and vines were made of emeralds as the sun's golden beams shone down on them- though a few were snakes. I couldn't help but scoot closer to Jack when I looked into the water and saw a small shark.

the darkness fell as the sun sank below the treeline and the lanterns were lit, limiting my visibility thankfully. However, as Darkness fell, so did the cold. Jack wrapped his captain's coat around me, everyone stared.

The fireflies came out, blinking like stars, until we finally go to a village in the trees, one lone house in the middle. "Whoa..." I whispered as the boat lurched to a stop. I would have fallen to the floor if not for Jack's arms wrapped around my middle. "So... This Tia Dalma is supposed to know everything?" I asked as He helped me out of the boat.

"Yes." Was all he said before he went over to Will, "Watch the boats." I watched as Will passed it to Gibbs, who passed it to another guy, who passed it to cotton.

"Poor Cotton," I turned to Jack, who stopped by a ladder leading up to the house. I looked up then looked at the people behind me. "I think I'll stay with the boats."

Jack smiled, presented the ladder in a gentlemanly fashion, and said "After you Luv."

"Uh... No." I stepped back only to be pushed by somebody until I was next to the ladder.

"Angel, Ladies first."

"I thought it was Captain's first?"

"Somebody go already!" Gibbs burst out, causing me to jump and take hold of the ladder.

"Pirates." I rolled my eyes, "Keep your eyes down." I said to Jack, which resulted in him being nearly ontop of me as he tried to look down my shirt. "Jack!"

He stopped, hovering over me with that stupid smirk that made me want to shove him off the ladder, "Am I distracting you Luv?"

"Oh no, not at all." I leaned back into him and smiled flirtatiously, "I just thought I might be distracting you."

"Not at all Luv." He said smirking... And then I really did push him off the ladder.

When I finally got to the top I looked back at him scowling as he reclimbed, not hearing the door open. "May I help you Chile?" I turned slowly to find a what would be a very pretty woman, but as it were, her hair was matted, her teeth were blacker than tar, and her red dress had definately seen better days. Her cajun accent made me very curious as to what she was up to as she smiled at me.

"Uh. I was hoping so." I squeaked. She leaned past me to look down the ladder as the men climbed up. "Jack Sparrow!" She called, making Jack almost loose his footing. "Was wonderin' when the winds would blow yeh my way again!" She cackled as she linked her arm with mine and led me into her home. "Come an' visit wit' me dearie." She sat me in a chair and shoved a mug at me. "Drink and tell me 'bout yerself."  She sat across from me as the men filed in.

"I- I-" I stuttered, afraid and unknowing about what I could tell her. 

"I know very well you are not in the time that was permitted to you." She looked sharply behind me before smiling at me again.

"No... I guess I'm not. I- I was ho- hoping that you could tell me... why?"

She reached across the table, "May I see yer hands?"I put the untouched mug down and gave her my hands, gently placing them in her own. "This is the reason you are here." She took hold of my right hand and pointed to a tatoo on my palm. The tattoo was of an eye. "Do you remember how you got dis?" She asked though something told me she already knew the answer.

"I-I don't remember. I was drunk."

"You drink?!" Jack was astonished as he came up to sit in the chair beside me.

"It was my twenty first birthday." I turned to him, "And I haven't drunk since."

"That explains it." He muttered, only to have Tia glare at him for inturrupting. "Sorry." I liked her.

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"Ask Jack?" I looked at him, only to find him glaring at her this time. She was smiling. "What would Jack..." He turned towards me as I rubbed the scars on my wrist. "He wasn't even there-"  "Easy! Easy now! We need 'er alive!" "It was you?!" I jumped up, making my chair crash to the floor, betrayal evident in my eyes as I looked at them all in turn, shame on their faces.

"Now Angel, Luv, just calm down." He took a step towards me.

" Don't touch me!" I backed away, keeping them all in view. "Tell me why!" Tia came over to me as I slid down the wall, tears blurring my vision at the thought of the people I thought were my friends and saviors turned out to be the reason I was put in this mess in the first place. She pulled me up and led me over to a window, wiping away my tears.

"It's time chile." She said, looking to the window. I looked as well, captured by it's beauty. "The full moon of her twenty third year shall give way to her true nature, as key to the pirate's treasure of past, preasent and future."

My heart was thundering in my ears, my breathing was shallow, and light was shining in my eyes. I brought up my hands to block them, but it was futile. It was to bright. 

Suddenly, I knew. I knew everything. I knew of the treasure they were talking about. I didn't know why or how, but I knew of what they were talking about... And I knew the way. 

"I know what treasure it is you seek." I said in a voice that wasn't mine.

"Only the brave can keep..."I turned to Jack, glowing as I changed, it felt like my body was under water as my hair flared out and my body tuned rather ghostly.

"You may try, brave and true. 

Only to find the Bend to Rue." Shackles appeared on my wrists and ankles.

"The contract will be binding,

only for you art finding," They were chained now as well and gasps escaped their lips.

"The task will soon be trying.

The mermaid weeps her tears of blue.

She cries from sorrow and from you.

A maelstrom of fears will soon amaze.

Will you find your way through her maze?

The tiger's teeth are meant to frighten,

Do not go the way of truthly titan.

The treasure you seek is at the end.

Do not forget to mend the Bend."