Hidden Past

Chapter 9: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Chapter also found in Hidden Seduction along with additional mature content. 

Jack led Victoria to a nook of the Pearls deck. "Jack, what are you doing?" She whispered softly.

"Catching a fly and sending a message." He murmured, pressed against her. Victoria ended up smooshed between Jack and the wall. "But I don't thing he'll be coming out for a little bit so in the mean time." He trailed off as his hands roamed her body.

Victoria smirked and leaned in. "Are you suggesting that I allow you to roughly push me against this wall," Jack's lips explored her neck, "and allow your mouth to wander while I try to keep quiet," his hands landed on her hips, "all while William throw's bodies off the deck of the Pearl?"

Jack cursed and pulled away. "Gad damn William, why is he such an annoyance?" He muttered softly. "We are definitely finishing this later."

Will chucked another body off the deck, the barrel making a splashing noise as it hit the water. "Bravo, you escaped the brig even quicker than I expected." Victoria snorted, that became obvious when the quickie he was hoping for was interrupted. "William, do you notice something? Or rather do you notice something that is not there to be noted?"

The two pirates waited for William to catch up, for a man who claimed to be smart he was far from it. "You haven't raised an alarm."

"Odd, isn't it?" Victoria asked as she grabbed a bottle of rum and took a swig, leaning against the deck.

"But not as odd as this. Come up with this all by your lonesome, did you?" Jack asked as he looked at the rotting corpses tied to barrels.

With a sarcastic smile, William looked at Jack. "I said to myself, think like Jack."

"And this is what you've arrived at? Lead Beckett to Shipwreck Cove so as to gain his trust, accomplish your own ends? It's like you don't know me at all, mate. And how does your dearly beloved feel about this?"

When Will didn't answer, Victoria and Jack came to the conclusion that Will hadn't told Elizabeth. "Ah, you've not seen fit to trust her with it."

"Have we learned nothing from the last time every lover on this ship decided to keep secrets?" Victoria muttered with a shake of her head, taking another swig.

"I'm losing her Jack. Every step I take for my father is a step away from Elizabeth." William admitted.

The Fiery daughter of the sea looked at Will with zero sympathy. "Well, I feel like you keeping it from her is causing more harm than you trying to save your father but hey, what could I know? I just used to be her best friend."

"Mate, if you choose to lock your heart away, you'll lose it for certain. If I may lend a machete to your intellectual thicket—avoid the choice altogether. Change the facts. Let someone else dispatch Jones." Victoria looked over at Jack in confusion. "Who?" Will asked, "You?"Jack shrugged, taking Victoria's rum from her shocked hand. "Death has a curious way or reshuffling one's priorities. I'll slip aboard the Dutchman, find the heart, stab the beating thing. Your father goes free, and you're free to be with your charming murderess." "And you're willing to carve out your heart and bind yourself to the Dutchman, forever." William asked, obviously unconvinced. "You're willing to leave her?" "No mate, I'm free forever. Free to sail the seas beyond the edges of the map, free from death itself."

"I can survive the trip to the other side, she couldn't go with you." Victoria added.

"You've got to do the job though, Jack. You have to ferry souls to the next world. Or end up just like Jones." Jack considered it, rubbing his chin and grimacing. "I don't have the face for tentacles. But immortal has to count for something, eh? Oh!" Jack's compass flew threw the air and landed in Will's hand.