Melody Michelle Arrowin and Riana
TITLE: A Different Destiny
CULPRIT: Evanjaleene
SUMMARY: "On further adventures, the Pearl picks up a cook, Riana, and her she invites her friend Melody, and her friends Will and Elizabeth, to take a vacation to the sea with them, fun, until Anna Maria is kidnapped! Lil romance, but no Mary-Sues, really!"
BEST LINE: "Riana had the sense of reality altering in some small but vastly important way when [Will and Elizabeth] looked at each other like that." Yes, that's the feeling one gets when canon has been raped so that a Sue can be paired with Will.
THE VERDICT
Walk the plank, bitch.
Sue #1
NAME: Riana
EYES: not described
HAIR: not described
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: none
OH SO SPESHUL POSSESSIONS: A lot of cocaine.
OBNOXIOUS AND/OR IMPLAUSIBLE ORIGIN: Is the cook on the Black Pearl.
OBNOXIOUS AND/OR IMPLAUSIBLE CANON CONNECTIONS/AFFILIATIONS: Is going to be Will's new true love.
SOOPER SPESHUL ABILITIES: Being really, really annoying.
Sue #2
NAME: Melody Michelle Arrowin
EYES: not described
HAIR: "mahogany-brown"
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: none
OH SO SPESHUL POSSESSIONS: A dress that Suethor feels the need to continuously describe to us. I think this Sue is actually the main Sue.
OBNOXIOUS AND/OR IMPLAUSIBLE ORIGIN: Is a bookstore owner on Port Royal.
OBNOXIOUS AND/OR IMPLAUSIBLE CANON CONNECTIONS/AFFILIATIONS: Is going to be Jack's new true love.
SOOPER SPESHUL ABILITIES: none
Bonus Sues
Scarlet Marie O'Hairra- "a blonde who hated her fancy-smancy name and went by Marie instead" "a socialite princess" This is just shameful.
THE "PLOT": Our story opens with this author's note: "Anywho, sorry if Jack ever seems OOC, but at his age you'd be different too, maybe thinking of getting a more permanent girlfriend and so." I rolled my eyes and continued reading. Jack is running away from the mansion of some governor whose daughter he's been screwing. For some reason she has RianaSue with him. Perhaps they were having a threesome. And, honestly, that's the only explanation I can imagine for why she would be with him in that particular instance. Meanwhile, MelodySue is at the bookstore she runs being sad because none of the nobles who buy books read them. How exactly she knows their reading habits is a mystery. She's visited by the bonus!Sue and there's bad dialogue that seems to have no purpose whatsoever. Anyway, MelodySue gets a letter from RianaSue stating that she will be coming to visit. Just then there's a knock on the door and the chapter ends. It's supposed to be suspenseful. Will's the one at the door.
Will is looking for Elizabeth who's supposed to be going to the bookstore at some point, but really he's just there so that when RianaSue arrives she can literally fall into his arms. RianaSue asks Will to come take a vacation on the Black Pearl. Will thinks this is a wonderful idea.
Elizabeth doesn't. She points out that it's stupid and absurd to run off with pirates for no reason. Will accuses her of thinking that its fine to associate with pirates when they're saving her life but no other time, even though he's the one who had that attitude. Then he turns around and thinks that Elizabeth doesn't understand that he isn't in fact a pirate. He just... wants to run around with them... or something. It's really just stupid, makes no sense, and only happens so that Will can go off on the Pearl with RianaSue so let's just skip ahead to what everyone in the universe knows is coming. Will goes off on the Black Pearl without Elizabeth and a rift between he and Elizabeth so that he can fall in lurve with Sue.
They return to the Pearl. I suspect that RianaSue is smoking something. Anyway, MelodySue wonders if perhaps Jack is interested in her. Because it's the last chapter, I make myself feel better by imagining that Jack woos her, beds her, then leaves her on Port Royal when he's through with her. I also imagine that Will spends the rest of his short stay on the Pearl running away from the obviously insane (or at least high) RianaSue before he finally demands that she leave him alone. He then returns to Elizabeth, apologizes for being an idiot, and they have lots of hot sex.
NOTES: This story just makes me sick. I'm not sure why this one in particular bugs extra... but it does. Actually, it might be the fact that RianaSue keeps saying "Aiya" to express excitement/surprise. I hate anime!fangirls.
Also, Will now has "warm brown eyes like coffee sweetened with cream and turned a softer brown from the original black." Though, the author gained points for following it with: "Melody blinked. Hmm. Perhaps she was hungry."
EXCERPT:
Multiple Sues! Oh joy. *sporks*
A Different Destiny Chap. 1 Of a Lady's Return from the Sea
"Jack, I can ru-un f-for myself, you know," Riana said as Jack ran as fast as he could over the rocky path. He had his arm around her chest half carrying her. Her legs flew out behind her and she ran on her toes, bouncing with his every movement. "You're squashing my chest."
" 'Aven't got time for your short legs, luv," Jack panted. "Sorry," he added as an afterthought.
Shots rang out around their heads. "Sparrow! You'll be dead when I catch you!" Garrett Smith screamed from his house, holding his daughter back by the ruffles of her half undone dress.
"Bye, love!" the blonde wench cried after him.
"Why'd ya have to try and tumble her anyway?" Riana grumbled as Jack slowed, reaching the dock. The Black Pearl was off a distance behind some rocks.
"Why da ya think, luv? But no more governor's daughters for me, I shoulda learned me lesson the first time."
"Aye," Riana grumbled. Jack set her down.
They boarded the Pearl a while later and Riana went to Anna Maria.
"Ah, missy, we're behind," the taller black girl said. She wasn't much of a cook, but was trying to help get dinner ready for the crew in Riana's absence.
Riana had been a good learner and was a good cook out of necessity. She's lost her only family, her poor father, to illness years ago. Good thing she had no one else, for ever since her "short visit" to her friend Anna Maria she's been part of the crew, thanks to neither of them noticing they'd left dock the night she came up.
"Well, lets' see what we have to do," she said, rubbing her hands together and hearing Jack give orders to start off to Port Royale.
To visit her friend, she'd go back home.
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Melody sighed, dusting off a book cover with a great puff of breath. 'Twas a shame not many people read books-oh, they *bought* books, to be sure. The upper class was in competition to have the most of everything. But few could hold a real in depth conversation; she'd seen that when they'd come into her bookshop, A Place of Fancy.
"Why, Melody Michelle, working so early?" teased Scarlet Marie O'Hairra, who always called Melody by her first and middle name on the first sighting of the day.
Melody brushed a strand of mahogany-brown hair over her ear and offered a smile. "Early to work, early to leave," she said.
Scarlet, a blonde who hated her fancy-smancy name and went by Marie instead, said, "Well, *that's* true enough. But dear, I must bring sad new. Well, I *hope* it's sad news; I'd be devastated if you found it good, surely in good taste you simple couldn't-"
"Marie," Melody interrupted, "what is it you wish to say?"
Ordinarily easily offended, Marie smiled to her good friend. "Dearest, I'll be gone for a good two months-I *do* hope they are good-in paris, to mingle with good society.
"And we don't have that here?" Melody chuckled.
Marie wrinkled her nose most becomingly, as befitting a socialite princess. "Oh, no, dear. Not like they have in Paris. I *do* hope I'll land a rich husband who isn't *very* old."
Marie discussed her plans with Melody for a while, and then left for morning tea with other friends. Melody was just getting back to inventory when her shop door's bell rang, signaling another guest. It was Mr. Pritt, the mailman.
"Here you are, Miss Arrowin. Your mail."
"Thank you, Mr. Pritt."
Tearing open the first envelope, she read,
Mel, I'm coming to see ya soon! By this Monday I will, so look for me by morn! ~Riana
*knock knock knock*
~End chap.~
*sighs nostalgically* Remember canon? This Suethor doesn't.
Things are slow now, I know. But just be patient! It will pick up in chapter six, but the previous chapters are important to character/plot developement. And...why is it "hanged" and not "hung?" Somebody tell me that...
A Different Destiny Ch. 3 Of Elizabeth's Disapproval
"Will!" said Elizabeth, shocked. "What do you mean? We can't just go away--and to a pirate ship! My father would never forgive me."
An incomprehensible look crossed Wil's face. "Elizabeth. A visit to an old freind. Is it no different than before?"
Elizabeth gaped at him, and shook her head. "Will, it is. We did what we had to do that time, but we an't test our luck when the punishment is so great--greater--now. If I were to be hanged as a traitor--If I was caught in Jack's company--my father would die of heartbreak. And if *you* were hanged...oh, Will, I don't know what I'd do."
Will's brows drew together. "You are saying it was fine to associate with pirates when your life was in danger, but not now? Elizabeth, he *saved* your life, surely as much as I did."
Elizabeth gazed at him, face unreadable, her steady breath loud in the otherwise silent room. "Will, I cannot go. *We* cannot."
Will raised his head. "I am going, Elizabeth, for a few days at least. He is a good man. As was my father."
Elizabeth smiled sadly. "You do have pirate's blood in your veins."
Will turned away, and Riana saw a look of rage, then confusion on his face. She knew his history from Jack, and could guess the problem; he knew pirates could be good men--knew it personally. But he himself was *not* a pirate--soemthing Elizabeth could not seem to grasp after the adventure. Taking a few chances to what he knew was right in his heart did not make him a pirate, whatever his late father's lifestyle had been.
Will took a deep breath, and blew it out as his eyes searched the corners of the bookshop ceiling, for what Riana didn't know. He turned back to Elizabeth. His nod was painfully polite. "Tell them I've gone to see an old friend."
She nodded back. "I will."
Will hesitated, the went to her and took her hands in his own. He searched her face and something passed between them--something sad--and they pulled away.
Riana had the sense of reality altering in some small but vastly important way when they looked at each other like that. But she shook off the feeling and brought a sunny smiled out. "Well, then, we'llsee ya in some time, Elizabeth. Don't be worryin' we'll look after Will, we will. We will, Will, hehe," she added to herself, laughing a little.
Elizabeth smiled wanly. "I'm sure...you'll be fine. Yes. Well. See you soon...? then, my dear Will." Her voice was slightly questioning.
Will smiled gently. He glanced back at Melody--who's been silently staying out of the conversation--and at Riana. "I will have to grab a bag. Where will we meet?"
"The old dock, on the other side of the island," Riana said instantly.
Will nodded, and left.
The old dock, where settlers had first landed on the island, was now in disuse and decay, except for a few boarded walks used for inconspicuous comings and goings. It suited their purpose fine.
Lake Island, who's inland lake had dried up many years ago, was chiefly known for Port Royale, and the fine crew of the British Navy it housed. But its soil was fertile, and pearls could now and then be found in the clams of its waters. It was quite nice for being such a small place. Nice meaning respectable; Tortuga was still much *nicer* for some men.
Riana bid Elizabeth farewell and waited as Melody packed a bag and closed the shop, taking all her earning with her.
"I don't want to be robbed, and I won't be in debt to a pirate," she said.
Riana smiled. "Ready? Aye? Well, let's go!"
~End chap.~
Sorry not a lot has happened yet, but I had to add that scene in. If they left with Will and Elizabeth presumably all fine and dandy, later chapters wouldn't make sense. Contriving an absurd and OOC argument between Will and Elizabeth doesn't make your dumb ass story make sense either.
I tempted fate and this is what I get... RianaSue is definitely a Spaklypoo.
Huy guys, sorry if Jack seems a little ooc. But at his age, wouldn't you be a lil different too? Maybe thinking if getting a more permanent girlfriend...?
A Different Destiny Chap. 5 Of Blushing Maidens
"Oh, how nice ta have ye here! Immean you. Oh, Mel, it'll be more fun than anything!" Riana was practically galloping around the deck in excitement. She got that way sometimes.
'Not changed a bit,' Melody thought with a smile.
"Now, luv, you'll have the British Navy on us ere we leave dock if ya don't quite down," Jack said in gentle reprimand. He was always unusually kind to Riana, and Melody had suspected at first that he was in love with her. Then she decided he thought of her as an excitable child, and so was never cruel with his words to her as he could be with the crew.
"Aye," Riana hugged him around the waist. "Sorry." Jack hugged her back with one arm while snapping at the crew with the hand not on her waist.
"Get to it, ya scurvy dogs. We'll never be at sea at this rate."
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Melody set up her bag in the small room she was to cal lhome for the next fourteen days. The ship would make a short trip to open seas and stop on what the crew called Pearl Island--had Jack ever held a real, official title? They called him the Govenor of Pearl Island to his back--where they said they'd visited ever since "the Grand Adventure'd brought the lovely place to our attention."
Unpacking, she had just slipped into her nightgown--the only bit of silk she owned--when there came a knock on the door. She hastily grabbed ger black wool robe. "Yes?"
Anna Maria opened the door and pooped her head in. "Melody? To bed so soon? We're having a late dinner."
A very late dinner. And she'd been up a long time. But her stomach rumbled. "Ah, well, I *am* hungry. I'll be done in a minute--uh, to where?"
"The large room ya passed on yer way down here. We call it the dining room, but I sp'ect it was used as a captain's quarters by Barbossa. Not much in it but a big bed Jack had burned, as he didn't need much?"
"Oh?"
Anna Maria shrugged. "He took another room as his quarters and we put some long tables in there so's the crew has a place to eat and gather."
"All right. Just let me change back into my clothes."
Melody put her dress and belt back on and took out the braid she always wore to bed to keep her hair from getting overly tangled. It fell in soft tousled waves and she set down the brush. No need to look overly neat. She was dining with pirates, after all. So she went out of her room and followed the maze of halls.
She was passing Jack's quarters right as he stapped out.
"Ah! Miss--uh, what did ya say yer name was, luv? Never mind it, let me escort yer lovely self to the dining hall, ya look lost."
Knwoing she looked no such thing, as she was not, she nonetheless accepted the captain's offer. "It's Melody Arrowin, captain. My name, that is."
"Arrowin...fanciful name. Makes ya think of battle, don' know why. But maybe that's Riana's talk of faeries and mermaids and all manner of creatures affecting me. Puts things in me head."
Melody laughed. "She *is* silly sometimes, but she says it's you who's affecting her, captain. She's adopting yout way of speaking."
"That she is."Jack glanced down at her. "You look lovely, luv."
Melody flushed and faltered in her step before regaining her composure. "And from the great captain himself, such a compliment! My thanks, sir."
Jack smiled, his eyes serious on her. Another flush rose up her neck, but then they came into the dining room. "I'll be seeing you, Miss Arrowin," he ran a finger over the brim of his hat and tipped it slightly, half-mocking the gesture.
Melody turned to see Riana handing Will a cup to pour his ale in. Their fingers brushed. Startled, Riana cropped hte cup, which, being only a few inches from the table, did not make much of a clatter. But Will's eyes flew up to hers, surprised, and she gave a, to Melody, falsely bright smile.
"I *am* clumsy," she said. Turning, she bumped the side of the table and tipped forward. Will caught her, and she thanked him, then promptly tripped backward on a loose plank of wood onto her bottom, not at all cushined by the thin silk of her dress,
Melody rolled her eyes, already forgetting the awkward moment with Jack. SHe walked over to her friend.
"Ri, if we aren't hung by the Navy on our return, they'll be cheated out of the pleasure of it forever. Your manner will surely be the death of us, you graceless goose." But she helped Will help her friend up. She could only thank God Riana wasn't drunk.
Riana's face was red, but she laughed. "Oh, surely. But it would be death on *my* terms then, not theirs. I would *so* hate to die by another's demands."
Will shook his head and Melody laughed. Turning away for her own glass, she sipped sweet berry wine, feeling someone's eyes on her. She looked up.
Jack was raising a cup--of rum, no doubt--to his lips, his eyes steady on her over the rim. He smiled at her as he put the cup back down, and Melody flushed, suddenly concious that this was one of ehr best dresses and it was *very* becoming on her.
Confusion washed over her, like sea water over a ship. Was Jack interested in her?
~End chap.~
Battle starts next chapter! Hehe.
CULPRIT: Evanjaleene
SUMMARY: "On further adventures, the Pearl picks up a cook, Riana, and her she invites her friend Melody, and her friends Will and Elizabeth, to take a vacation to the sea with them, fun, until Anna Maria is kidnapped! Lil romance, but no Mary-Sues, really!"
BEST LINE: "Riana had the sense of reality altering in some small but vastly important way when [Will and Elizabeth] looked at each other like that." Yes, that's the feeling one gets when canon has been raped so that a Sue can be paired with Will.
THE VERDICT
Walk the plank, bitch.
Sue #1
NAME: Riana
EYES: not described
HAIR: not described
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: none
OH SO SPESHUL POSSESSIONS: A lot of cocaine.
OBNOXIOUS AND/OR IMPLAUSIBLE ORIGIN: Is the cook on the Black Pearl.
OBNOXIOUS AND/OR IMPLAUSIBLE CANON CONNECTIONS/AFFILIATIONS: Is going to be Will's new true love.
SOOPER SPESHUL ABILITIES: Being really, really annoying.
Sue #2
NAME: Melody Michelle Arrowin
EYES: not described
HAIR: "mahogany-brown"
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: none
OH SO SPESHUL POSSESSIONS: A dress that Suethor feels the need to continuously describe to us. I think this Sue is actually the main Sue.
OBNOXIOUS AND/OR IMPLAUSIBLE ORIGIN: Is a bookstore owner on Port Royal.
OBNOXIOUS AND/OR IMPLAUSIBLE CANON CONNECTIONS/AFFILIATIONS: Is going to be Jack's new true love.
SOOPER SPESHUL ABILITIES: none
Bonus Sues
Scarlet Marie O'Hairra- "a blonde who hated her fancy-smancy name and went by Marie instead" "a socialite princess" This is just shameful.
THE "PLOT": Our story opens with this author's note: "Anywho, sorry if Jack ever seems OOC, but at his age you'd be different too, maybe thinking of getting a more permanent girlfriend and so." I rolled my eyes and continued reading. Jack is running away from the mansion of some governor whose daughter he's been screwing. For some reason she has RianaSue with him. Perhaps they were having a threesome. And, honestly, that's the only explanation I can imagine for why she would be with him in that particular instance. Meanwhile, MelodySue is at the bookstore she runs being sad because none of the nobles who buy books read them. How exactly she knows their reading habits is a mystery. She's visited by the bonus!Sue and there's bad dialogue that seems to have no purpose whatsoever. Anyway, MelodySue gets a letter from RianaSue stating that she will be coming to visit. Just then there's a knock on the door and the chapter ends. It's supposed to be suspenseful. Will's the one at the door.
Will is looking for Elizabeth who's supposed to be going to the bookstore at some point, but really he's just there so that when RianaSue arrives she can literally fall into his arms. RianaSue asks Will to come take a vacation on the Black Pearl. Will thinks this is a wonderful idea.
Elizabeth doesn't. She points out that it's stupid and absurd to run off with pirates for no reason. Will accuses her of thinking that its fine to associate with pirates when they're saving her life but no other time, even though he's the one who had that attitude. Then he turns around and thinks that Elizabeth doesn't understand that he isn't in fact a pirate. He just... wants to run around with them... or something. It's really just stupid, makes no sense, and only happens so that Will can go off on the Pearl with RianaSue so let's just skip ahead to what everyone in the universe knows is coming. Will goes off on the Black Pearl without Elizabeth and a rift between he and Elizabeth so that he can fall in lurve with Sue.
They return to the Pearl. I suspect that RianaSue is smoking something. Anyway, MelodySue wonders if perhaps Jack is interested in her. Because it's the last chapter, I make myself feel better by imagining that Jack woos her, beds her, then leaves her on Port Royal when he's through with her. I also imagine that Will spends the rest of his short stay on the Pearl running away from the obviously insane (or at least high) RianaSue before he finally demands that she leave him alone. He then returns to Elizabeth, apologizes for being an idiot, and they have lots of hot sex.
NOTES: This story just makes me sick. I'm not sure why this one in particular bugs extra... but it does. Actually, it might be the fact that RianaSue keeps saying "Aiya" to express excitement/surprise. I hate anime!fangirls.
Also, Will now has "warm brown eyes like coffee sweetened with cream and turned a softer brown from the original black." Though, the author gained points for following it with: "Melody blinked. Hmm. Perhaps she was hungry."
EXCERPT:
Multiple Sues! Oh joy. *sporks*
A Different Destiny Chap. 1 Of a Lady's Return from the Sea
"Jack, I can ru-un f-for myself, you know," Riana said as Jack ran as fast as he could over the rocky path. He had his arm around her chest half carrying her. Her legs flew out behind her and she ran on her toes, bouncing with his every movement. "You're squashing my chest."
" 'Aven't got time for your short legs, luv," Jack panted. "Sorry," he added as an afterthought.
Shots rang out around their heads. "Sparrow! You'll be dead when I catch you!" Garrett Smith screamed from his house, holding his daughter back by the ruffles of her half undone dress.
"Bye, love!" the blonde wench cried after him.
"Why'd ya have to try and tumble her anyway?" Riana grumbled as Jack slowed, reaching the dock. The Black Pearl was off a distance behind some rocks.
"Why da ya think, luv? But no more governor's daughters for me, I shoulda learned me lesson the first time."
"Aye," Riana grumbled. Jack set her down.
They boarded the Pearl a while later and Riana went to Anna Maria.
"Ah, missy, we're behind," the taller black girl said. She wasn't much of a cook, but was trying to help get dinner ready for the crew in Riana's absence.
Riana had been a good learner and was a good cook out of necessity. She's lost her only family, her poor father, to illness years ago. Good thing she had no one else, for ever since her "short visit" to her friend Anna Maria she's been part of the crew, thanks to neither of them noticing they'd left dock the night she came up.
"Well, lets' see what we have to do," she said, rubbing her hands together and hearing Jack give orders to start off to Port Royale.
To visit her friend, she'd go back home.
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Melody sighed, dusting off a book cover with a great puff of breath. 'Twas a shame not many people read books-oh, they *bought* books, to be sure. The upper class was in competition to have the most of everything. But few could hold a real in depth conversation; she'd seen that when they'd come into her bookshop, A Place of Fancy.
"Why, Melody Michelle, working so early?" teased Scarlet Marie O'Hairra, who always called Melody by her first and middle name on the first sighting of the day.
Melody brushed a strand of mahogany-brown hair over her ear and offered a smile. "Early to work, early to leave," she said.
Scarlet, a blonde who hated her fancy-smancy name and went by Marie instead, said, "Well, *that's* true enough. But dear, I must bring sad new. Well, I *hope* it's sad news; I'd be devastated if you found it good, surely in good taste you simple couldn't-"
"Marie," Melody interrupted, "what is it you wish to say?"
Ordinarily easily offended, Marie smiled to her good friend. "Dearest, I'll be gone for a good two months-I *do* hope they are good-in paris, to mingle with good society.
"And we don't have that here?" Melody chuckled.
Marie wrinkled her nose most becomingly, as befitting a socialite princess. "Oh, no, dear. Not like they have in Paris. I *do* hope I'll land a rich husband who isn't *very* old."
Marie discussed her plans with Melody for a while, and then left for morning tea with other friends. Melody was just getting back to inventory when her shop door's bell rang, signaling another guest. It was Mr. Pritt, the mailman.
"Here you are, Miss Arrowin. Your mail."
"Thank you, Mr. Pritt."
Tearing open the first envelope, she read,
Mel, I'm coming to see ya soon! By this Monday I will, so look for me by morn! ~Riana
*knock knock knock*
~End chap.~
*sighs nostalgically* Remember canon? This Suethor doesn't.
Things are slow now, I know. But just be patient! It will pick up in chapter six, but the previous chapters are important to character/plot developement. And...why is it "hanged" and not "hung?" Somebody tell me that...
A Different Destiny Ch. 3 Of Elizabeth's Disapproval
"Will!" said Elizabeth, shocked. "What do you mean? We can't just go away--and to a pirate ship! My father would never forgive me."
An incomprehensible look crossed Wil's face. "Elizabeth. A visit to an old freind. Is it no different than before?"
Elizabeth gaped at him, and shook her head. "Will, it is. We did what we had to do that time, but we an't test our luck when the punishment is so great--greater--now. If I were to be hanged as a traitor--If I was caught in Jack's company--my father would die of heartbreak. And if *you* were hanged...oh, Will, I don't know what I'd do."
Will's brows drew together. "You are saying it was fine to associate with pirates when your life was in danger, but not now? Elizabeth, he *saved* your life, surely as much as I did."
Elizabeth gazed at him, face unreadable, her steady breath loud in the otherwise silent room. "Will, I cannot go. *We* cannot."
Will raised his head. "I am going, Elizabeth, for a few days at least. He is a good man. As was my father."
Elizabeth smiled sadly. "You do have pirate's blood in your veins."
Will turned away, and Riana saw a look of rage, then confusion on his face. She knew his history from Jack, and could guess the problem; he knew pirates could be good men--knew it personally. But he himself was *not* a pirate--soemthing Elizabeth could not seem to grasp after the adventure. Taking a few chances to what he knew was right in his heart did not make him a pirate, whatever his late father's lifestyle had been.
Will took a deep breath, and blew it out as his eyes searched the corners of the bookshop ceiling, for what Riana didn't know. He turned back to Elizabeth. His nod was painfully polite. "Tell them I've gone to see an old friend."
She nodded back. "I will."
Will hesitated, the went to her and took her hands in his own. He searched her face and something passed between them--something sad--and they pulled away.
Riana had the sense of reality altering in some small but vastly important way when they looked at each other like that. But she shook off the feeling and brought a sunny smiled out. "Well, then, we'llsee ya in some time, Elizabeth. Don't be worryin' we'll look after Will, we will. We will, Will, hehe," she added to herself, laughing a little.
Elizabeth smiled wanly. "I'm sure...you'll be fine. Yes. Well. See you soon...? then, my dear Will." Her voice was slightly questioning.
Will smiled gently. He glanced back at Melody--who's been silently staying out of the conversation--and at Riana. "I will have to grab a bag. Where will we meet?"
"The old dock, on the other side of the island," Riana said instantly.
Will nodded, and left.
The old dock, where settlers had first landed on the island, was now in disuse and decay, except for a few boarded walks used for inconspicuous comings and goings. It suited their purpose fine.
Lake Island, who's inland lake had dried up many years ago, was chiefly known for Port Royale, and the fine crew of the British Navy it housed. But its soil was fertile, and pearls could now and then be found in the clams of its waters. It was quite nice for being such a small place. Nice meaning respectable; Tortuga was still much *nicer* for some men.
Riana bid Elizabeth farewell and waited as Melody packed a bag and closed the shop, taking all her earning with her.
"I don't want to be robbed, and I won't be in debt to a pirate," she said.
Riana smiled. "Ready? Aye? Well, let's go!"
~End chap.~
Sorry not a lot has happened yet, but I had to add that scene in. If they left with Will and Elizabeth presumably all fine and dandy, later chapters wouldn't make sense. Contriving an absurd and OOC argument between Will and Elizabeth doesn't make your dumb ass story make sense either.
I tempted fate and this is what I get... RianaSue is definitely a Spaklypoo.
Huy guys, sorry if Jack seems a little ooc. But at his age, wouldn't you be a lil different too? Maybe thinking if getting a more permanent girlfriend...?
A Different Destiny Chap. 5 Of Blushing Maidens
"Oh, how nice ta have ye here! Immean you. Oh, Mel, it'll be more fun than anything!" Riana was practically galloping around the deck in excitement. She got that way sometimes.
'Not changed a bit,' Melody thought with a smile.
"Now, luv, you'll have the British Navy on us ere we leave dock if ya don't quite down," Jack said in gentle reprimand. He was always unusually kind to Riana, and Melody had suspected at first that he was in love with her. Then she decided he thought of her as an excitable child, and so was never cruel with his words to her as he could be with the crew.
"Aye," Riana hugged him around the waist. "Sorry." Jack hugged her back with one arm while snapping at the crew with the hand not on her waist.
"Get to it, ya scurvy dogs. We'll never be at sea at this rate."
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Melody set up her bag in the small room she was to cal lhome for the next fourteen days. The ship would make a short trip to open seas and stop on what the crew called Pearl Island--had Jack ever held a real, official title? They called him the Govenor of Pearl Island to his back--where they said they'd visited ever since "the Grand Adventure'd brought the lovely place to our attention."
Unpacking, she had just slipped into her nightgown--the only bit of silk she owned--when there came a knock on the door. She hastily grabbed ger black wool robe. "Yes?"
Anna Maria opened the door and pooped her head in. "Melody? To bed so soon? We're having a late dinner."
A very late dinner. And she'd been up a long time. But her stomach rumbled. "Ah, well, I *am* hungry. I'll be done in a minute--uh, to where?"
"The large room ya passed on yer way down here. We call it the dining room, but I sp'ect it was used as a captain's quarters by Barbossa. Not much in it but a big bed Jack had burned, as he didn't need much?"
"Oh?"
Anna Maria shrugged. "He took another room as his quarters and we put some long tables in there so's the crew has a place to eat and gather."
"All right. Just let me change back into my clothes."
Melody put her dress and belt back on and took out the braid she always wore to bed to keep her hair from getting overly tangled. It fell in soft tousled waves and she set down the brush. No need to look overly neat. She was dining with pirates, after all. So she went out of her room and followed the maze of halls.
She was passing Jack's quarters right as he stapped out.
"Ah! Miss--uh, what did ya say yer name was, luv? Never mind it, let me escort yer lovely self to the dining hall, ya look lost."
Knwoing she looked no such thing, as she was not, she nonetheless accepted the captain's offer. "It's Melody Arrowin, captain. My name, that is."
"Arrowin...fanciful name. Makes ya think of battle, don' know why. But maybe that's Riana's talk of faeries and mermaids and all manner of creatures affecting me. Puts things in me head."
Melody laughed. "She *is* silly sometimes, but she says it's you who's affecting her, captain. She's adopting yout way of speaking."
"That she is."Jack glanced down at her. "You look lovely, luv."
Melody flushed and faltered in her step before regaining her composure. "And from the great captain himself, such a compliment! My thanks, sir."
Jack smiled, his eyes serious on her. Another flush rose up her neck, but then they came into the dining room. "I'll be seeing you, Miss Arrowin," he ran a finger over the brim of his hat and tipped it slightly, half-mocking the gesture.
Melody turned to see Riana handing Will a cup to pour his ale in. Their fingers brushed. Startled, Riana cropped hte cup, which, being only a few inches from the table, did not make much of a clatter. But Will's eyes flew up to hers, surprised, and she gave a, to Melody, falsely bright smile.
"I *am* clumsy," she said. Turning, she bumped the side of the table and tipped forward. Will caught her, and she thanked him, then promptly tripped backward on a loose plank of wood onto her bottom, not at all cushined by the thin silk of her dress,
Melody rolled her eyes, already forgetting the awkward moment with Jack. SHe walked over to her friend.
"Ri, if we aren't hung by the Navy on our return, they'll be cheated out of the pleasure of it forever. Your manner will surely be the death of us, you graceless goose." But she helped Will help her friend up. She could only thank God Riana wasn't drunk.
Riana's face was red, but she laughed. "Oh, surely. But it would be death on *my* terms then, not theirs. I would *so* hate to die by another's demands."
Will shook his head and Melody laughed. Turning away for her own glass, she sipped sweet berry wine, feeling someone's eyes on her. She looked up.
Jack was raising a cup--of rum, no doubt--to his lips, his eyes steady on her over the rim. He smiled at her as he put the cup back down, and Melody flushed, suddenly concious that this was one of ehr best dresses and it was *very* becoming on her.
Confusion washed over her, like sea water over a ship. Was Jack interested in her?
~End chap.~
Battle starts next chapter! Hehe.