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Post by Rose Glassman/Hawk Aureye on May 14, 2004 7:29:55 GMT -5
Hawk watched solemnly as Tobbs cried out to the gods. "I don' know if that'll do any good..." he said slowly, then watched, shocked, as Barbossa...could it be?...died. The deathless man was finally gone...could it be?
Hawk stared at the body, his mind whirling. "I don' believe it," he said hoarsely. "'E's...dead?"
Rose, meanwhile, had crept outside...and now stood in front of the Pearl, watching as its "ghost" left with Jack...tears silently coursed down her face. "Rest in peace with yer Pearl, Dad," she whispered.
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Post by Evelyn on May 14, 2004 9:19:55 GMT -5
Evelyn looked to Barbossa angrily and as he began to split in tow Evelyn tore her eyes away. It was a gruesome sight. The tears seeming as if they were running out now. Wiping at the tears she bit her lip slightly, her bruised eye was still there, as were the bruises left on her neck. Barbossa had left her quite battered, and seeing him destroyed this way satisfied her.
"Good bloody riddance." She spat at the pool of blood that remained. The remains of the once Captain Barbossa.
She headed over to Hawk. " 'E's dead, mate." she told him, not sure if she should make contact with him yet. Her eyes looked around the cave. "Jack's gone..." Evelyn said with a croak. Her voice then ceased and she couldn't speak. Jack was dead and so was Barbossa. Now all that was left was to go back to the Pearl.
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Post by Maria Maharet/Turner on May 14, 2004 21:54:50 GMT -5
* Maria watched as Bossa died as well, rather gruesome, but felt he deserved such a death. * "Good riddance..." * She said with a muffled voice..*
* Maria turned back and trudged to the entrance. She leaned against the rock wall and looked out to the sea. Maria trembled as she tried to fight back the tears. She turned to Will who's face could only express the sorrow and pain he felt..* " What are we teh do now?" * She buried her face in the sleeve of her shirt as the tears rolled down her cheeks*
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Post by Evelyn on May 15, 2004 11:38:12 GMT -5
Evelyn looked around at the still grieving crew and headed out of the caves. She found Rose standing in front of the Pearl gazing at the horizon and she walked past her placing a hand on Rose's shoulder. "He's free now, Rose." She told her softly before mounting one of the small boats, getting it ready to take off, away from the caverns and back to the Pearl.
Her face appeared as if it were grieving, but deep down she was at peace. This was the way Jack deserved to die. His legend would live on, that's for sure. Evelyn might never be spoken of again, but only when named as part of the famous crew that sailed with Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Post by Will Turner on May 15, 2004 15:27:42 GMT -5
*Will and James rushed back into the cave as they heard the loud, heated curses to the Gods escape the lips of Tobbs. Then his eyes shot to Barbossa and they widened as the man put the pistol to his head. Not a moment later the Gods it seemed were going to destroy him as well. Will watched with horror stricken eyes as the body of the cursed Captain split in two. James trembled at the sight and grabbed a hold of his fathers arm to keep from falling over. Will grabbed the boy and burried his face in his chest, not wanting James to see anymore than he already had. When Barbossa finally died Will looked back over at Jack as Maria placed the coins upon his eyes so his soul could pay its way across the river. For a moment he almost pondered doing the same for Barbossa but it was evident he was cursed for eternity. Will lowered his head and his thoughts about the entire event had escaped him and his mind was blank as he and James returned back out to the sea. As Maria came over to him he pulled her to him and wrapped his arms about her, placing his chin atop her head and he sighed heavily.* I dont know what we should do now...I dont know anything. *He said, drawing his eyes back to the Pearl. He figured it would be best left up to Tobbs what they should do. He knew that when he returned home again life would never be the same. He would, of course, have a feeling of peace but until the day he crossed that river himself there would always be something missing. There would be no more adventures for him, at least not of this sort. But that almost didn't matter to him anymore. He had been apart of some of the greatest adventures of all and that, he felt, was enough. He threw an arm about Maria and another around James and he glanced between them.*I guess its time to head back to the Pearl. *He said softly and he helped them into the boats and returned into the cave where Tobbs was with Jack once more. He smiled at her softly and gave her a nod and with her help they lifted him carefuly and gently placed him in one of the boats, bringing him back to his ship. They placed him in his cabin upon the cot and Will crossed Jacks hands across his chest and placed the mans pistol in between them then he took a step back and smiled softly. And even though the legends would live on forever, it was time for the part of its characters to end.*
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Post by Jack Sparrow on May 15, 2004 18:49:23 GMT -5
:Jack's mind....or...well whatever it was that he was made up of now laughed. Free. He was really free!....so blissfully careless........and yet:
:A man who lives his life for the moment..to experience everything.....enjoyed, with a passion, singing drunkenly in a tavern some place off key.and walking outside to have a good sword fight or two before retiring for the evening......feels a certain amount of lonlieness.....even in a world of joy...:
:Jack was...well.he was human...not a legend.....and he wanted to be...to feel....to live......:
:There was a feeling of release....then...he wanted to go back....and there he was...on the Black Pearl. He could see and hear his crew...every one of them...looking desperatly sad....he frowned:
"hey! " He shouted: "I'm here!"
:Nobody moved...responded....or cared. Jack felt his heart crumble...or..whatever it was souls had that made them feel:
"They can't hear you..." A familar voice said. Jack turned and grinned at Bootstrap:
"ah. you're here too?"
"Always have been. Watchin' my son. Was hopin' you wouldn't have to much of a influence on him...but..."
"He's your blood mate. Not mine. Can't help that he's so ....eunuch like." The man that was Will's father smiled. The two really did look alike. except Bootstrap's face had a scar from his temple to his chin...and a whiskey beard....but otherwise..alike...and Bootstrap had a bit of a rum belly:
"you know why you're here?"
"I'm not drunk enough to answer that yet mate." Jack replied. Bootstrap gesutred to his cabin and Jack followed him. He saw his own body lying there......Jack's turned away:
"You're not ready to leave are you?"
"doesn't feel right.....I mean. This people have been my only family. My children...Tobbs....your son......it's...I was so free....then.it didn't seem right mate...didn't seem right to leave them behind."
:Bootstrap eyed him a while:
"Ye can't move on if yer still holdin' onto the livin' Jack."
"Then looks like I won't be."
:Bootstrap nodded: "Aye...and that' what He thought too...."
"He?"
"The gods that did this to you mate....they don't control what happens to you afterwards.there's other things at work...and the aztex gods don't control it......you see mate..you're not a saint..." :Jack gave a snort of amusement: "And you're not evil......so...we're tryin' to figure out what to do with you...."
"Nice to know I'm still a problem...even when I'm dead..."
"Well...see Heaven figured you wouldn't be happy unless paradise was turned into a small, violent Tortuga......or ye had a lot of rum and were capable of getting drunk.."
"I can't get drunk now!?" Jack demanded. Bootstrap laughed and continued:
"So...they'r letting you stay here....watch life a while..and when...well...when you're ready to come back...they'll let you into wherever you belong...."
"I won't leave the crew..alone..." Jack stated firmly. Bootstrap nodded:
"Aye...so...you'll stay here...as long as you want.until they each meet there time....and when they do...you'll be th one waiting for them.just like I was waiting for you....."
"You decided to be the messenger huh?"
"Aye. Most people whov'e got friends waiting to join us...we wait for them..."
"Katrina?"
"She's here...she knows about Tobbs. She'll come when you're ready to see her. She's been watching her children......always will...."
"and you watch Will? his children?"
"Aye..and when they die...I'll be waiting for them....."
:There was silence and Jack stared at his body a while. Walking over to it he looked at it a while.....thinking. Bootstrap waited:
"Will they know I'm here...with them?"
"Aye....They'll feel you...know you're near....hear you even...maybe see you if you try hard enough....try hard to make them see you...."
"Leave." Jack said suddenly. "There's something I have to finish....Things I have to say...let them know..."
:Bootstrap nodded. And he was gone. Jack paced the room and the first person he went to seek out....was Tobbs:
:He found her....he could just..practically feel sadness radiating off of her. He sighed and went over to her. Not exactly sure how this would go over..but....he reached out.....touched her hair....her cheek....then whispered: "Victoria....if anyone can hear me you can.....I'm here...."
;He waited.....hoping she's respond....she had to...he hoped she would...and he waited...willing her to see him....:
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Post by Victoria Brighton on May 15, 2004 19:23:43 GMT -5
*Tobbs heart felt like it was shattering, like all her world was being destroyed, and all she wanted to do was stay by Jack's side and find her own way out, to get to him, to die by him, to be with him...she didn't want to go on...*
*She felt Will come up beside her, and she looked up at him. He nodded, and she, with some strength she knew naught of, stood up and helped bring Jack aboard the Pearl. She knew Barbossa was dead, she could feel he was gone as well...*
*Aboard the Pearl, she had let the others take over with Jack's body. She sighed and went over to the side of the ship, looking over out to the beautiful blue sea, and she watched the horizon. She felt a gust of wind almost rustle through the sails and take her hair up, and she could barely control herself. Her eyes became watery, and she managed to not crumble to thr ground again by holding onto the side of the ship. Why had this happened to her? Why to the crew? Why had Jack been taken away from her? Why...?*
*She sighed sadly and let her thoughts roam about. A breeze ran by again, and she almost decided to turn back in, when she felt something...something near her. The breeze was gone, but something ran through her hair. All of a sudden, the most familiar touch in the world was on her cheek, and she, her tearful eyes widening slightly, turned herself, feeling she was no longer alone, and the comforting presence of the ne she loved was near. She ran her hand on the cheekshe felt his touch on, and she said hopefully* "...Jack...?"
*In her heart, she could hear something, hear his voice talking to her. She could almost hear him now as if he was talking to her one on one.
'Victoria....if anyone can hear me you can.....I'm here....'
*She heard it, she felt his presence, she knew he was there, she knew he was with her. She smiled happily, a tear running down her cheek. She wanted to see him so badly, so much, she tried hard to do so, as hard as she could, remembering hearing about something of this sort happened rarely.*
*She closed her eyes, and opened them, believing in his presence, trusting in his words, acknowledging when he told her he was there. And when she opened her eyes...in the most undescribable way almost, yet the most simplest...she saw him.*
"..Jack!" She said softly, the unmistakeable happiness in her voice. "Yer...yer here..! But...but how?"
*A gentle smile formed upon her face, and if she coud've, she would've hugged him as he had once done to her, never to let go. But she was scared he'd go away, scared that now that she saw him he'd have to leave her. She saw him before her eyes, heard his voice, and didn't want him to ever go away again*
"Jack...I love you....I don' know 'ow I'm gonna live withou' ye...I doubt....I doubt I can..."
*She wondered if she'd have to watch him go now, watch him leave her once again. She remembered the goddesses promises, that if she found the right man, theyd let him be there with the crew and her, even if he had died. She hoped they had kept promise. She hoped Jack could stay with all her might. She didn't take her eyes off him. She sighed sadly again, desperately sad.*
"Oh Jack..."
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Post by Jack Sparrow on May 15, 2004 19:39:26 GMT -5
:Jack gave a half smile:
"Don't be so sad, luv, I'm still here....well...part of me is...I'm still trying to figure it out...I'm....free...."
:He waited, seeming to think it over: "I can't go...not for a while. It seems...I'm a problem...even when..well....when I'm not in my flesh.....and...I want to stay here...Whoever...decides what happens to people when they die....never realized I wouldn' t be happy....not without all of you.....and sense you can't go yet....I'll wait here....with all of you...."
:Suddenly he looked so desperatly sad. Like...he just realized what was happening....it hurt to much for someone to describe: "I didn't want to let you go....didn't want to leave...I was ready to fight hell for you.....for all of you..but I couldn't let them hurt any of you...and I wouldn't be able to live....knowing one of you....or more of you had died..for me....."
'Ye wont have to go on without me...I'll stay here. With you...with the ship. I won't leave it. This is my heaven. All the madness.....everything. This is my home and the only happiness I ever had.....with you....I'll always be happy...."
:He looked around, wondering if he could make himself known to everyone else. He tried. but....he wasn't sure if it was working...but it was. A watery..sort of not really solid looking figure of Jack came into few. Glowing softly..but not enough for one to really notice. But it was Jack...hairbeads, gold teeth, jacket and hat....it was Jack...unmistakeably Jack:
:Then very gently he reached out to touch her cheek again. He could feel it's warmth. A smile lit across his face: "I can feel you...." He looked like he might cry, but he didn't. Simply smiled: "I'll always be here. I promise..."
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Post by Emma Hawkins/Rick MacKinnon on May 15, 2004 21:18:35 GMT -5
Emma heard a scream,and she looked up.Over Rick's arm,she saw Barbossa...and then,he was gone...nothing more than a bloodstain on the gilded ground.Taking a deep breath to calm herself down,she suddenly got a strange feeling in the back of her mind.She listened very hard for a few moments,then looked up at Rick,wiping her eyes."Th' baby's cryin'.I think th' cannon shot scared 'er..."
He blinked,looking down into her bright,bluegreen eyes,still shining with tears,though she struggled to put up her tough persona again."'Ow th' hell c'n y'tell tha'?"
She merely shrugged at him."C'mon,let's go...I don' wanna be in this accursed place anymore..."Brushing her long,auburn hair behind her shoulders,she walked briskly out to the boats.Rick came into the boat with her,carrying Jack...at least,carrying his empty shell...Shuddering slightly,and fighting back renewed tears,she helped row back to the ship,immediately scrambling back on deck,seeking out Smettels,and taking the baby with a quick word of thanks.She rocked the child in her arms,shushing at her until she stopped screaming."There....there's a good lass..."
Rick helped Will pull Jack on deck,carried him to a bed.He seemed so light now,as if death had taken more than just the breath from him.He looked at the Captain for a few moments,then bowed his head reverently and went to find Emma.He found her on the deck,bouncing their newborn daughter slightly to keep her from crying.Kissing Emma softly on the forehead,he took the child from her,holding her as if she was porcelain.She was so tiny,and her hair was soft and black like his own...she opened her eyes,disproportionate to her face,and he smiled softly.They were the same bright bluegreen color as Emma's...
"What should we name 'er,Em?"
Emma shrugged again,drawing nearer to him."I don'....what the bloody Hell?"She stared at the shape next to Tobbs,and her initial reaction was to stop drinking immediately....but of course,she hadn't been drinking."Rick....can you see him?"
"What're y'..."he looked up and stared."J-Jack?!"
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Post by Victoria Brighton on May 15, 2004 21:24:20 GMT -5
*A radiant glow lit into Tobbs's eyes when he said he'd stay with them, with the ship, and not have to leave her again. She grinned when he said this was his heaven, and she wished she could embrace him then and there when he said it was with her.*
*When he touched her cheek again, another small tear slipped down it, and she saw the smile that lit across his face when he said he could feel her....she could feel him as well, and she saw his eyes look as if they were watering...like he was almost going to cry..*
'I'll always be here. I promise.'
*Joy swept in her eyes and face, and she sighed, this time in blissfulness, and she looked down at her own stomach, then back to his eyes.*
"For the both of us then....we'll always know yer here with us...and...and you shall see the little one, and be able to be with 'im, or 'er..in all the world, that is what I'd ask for, that would be my wish..that you would be here with us... and with the crew, and now, now it's granted! I'll always watch for ye Jack, always feel you by me...you have my heart, and I won't go on when yer not near me, tis not possible...now you shall be beside me and the crew, and I shall be able to live as best I can...always hoping that there shall be a day when I'm back at yer side forever.."
*She smiled softly, and after a moment or so of staring into his eyes, she all of a sudden was startled when she heard Rick from behind her. So they'd seen him too eh? She was indeed happy now, Jack had returned to be with them!*
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Post by Jack Sparrow on May 15, 2004 21:29:21 GMT -5
:Jack grinned at Tobbs...and touched her stomach. There was no sign of a bulge now...maybe a faint...very faint sign of one..to him..butt hen again.....now he knew or felt things other people didn't...guess.....ghosts were like that. He turned a pair of stormy eyes to Rick and Emma:
:A smile raced across his face. Glad they could see him as well. Made things so much easier:
"ye miss me then?" :his voice echoed...sounding as if it were coming from farther away then where he stood now.: "Good...because I was beginning to feel a bit bored all by me oneies....."
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Post by Will Turner on May 15, 2004 21:54:15 GMT -5
*Will gazed at Jacks body for another moment then he lowered his head and walked solemly from the cabin. When he looked up again he stopped dead in his tracks and his eyes gazed ahead, towards the helm. He saw Tobbs, Rick, Emma, and....Jack. He shooks his head for a moment and quickly rubbed his eyes then looked ahead again but the scene before him didn't change.* Bloody hell I've gone crazy! *He cried but the more he watched the more he began to realize that he wasn't the only one seeing their slain Captain. His heart seemed to lift and a smile formed on his face and he rushed towards the helm, stopping behind Rick and he stared at Jack for a long time before he could say anything. He reached out slowly then quickly pulled his hand back as if he was afraid touching the man, if that was even possible, would make him go away.* Jack? I--I *Will stuttered, not having a clue what to say.*
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Post by Jack Sparrow on May 15, 2004 21:59:09 GMT -5
:Jack smiled at Will, then watched him try to talk. He seemed amused:
"when those gods spilled my blood mate.they forgot one very important thing mate....I'm Captain Jack Sparrow......"
:He gave them a small grin: "Well..at least this part of me...is...that.." He waved his hand at his cabin: "I'm here....not back there.....so don't be so sad about it......I'm staying near by....I can see all of you..and i'll be around a while....."
:He watched Will a bit....with a sort of half grin: "Yer dad said hello....."
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Post by Will Turner on May 15, 2004 22:13:48 GMT -5
*When Jack mentioned that Wills father had said hello Wills eyes went misty again and he smiled brightly, glancing around almost as if he expected to see him on the deck somewhere. Will hadn't seen his dad in almost 20 years but Jacks words comforted him, making him feel like his dad had been with him all along. Will finally looked back to Jack and he nodded.* Well if you see him again let him know I'm thinkin about him. *He said softly then his eyes went back out to the horizon and suddenly things didn't seem so bad anymore. In fact, Will felt more at peace than he ever had before. Now he just wanted to get back home and hold his wife and watch his children grow.*
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Post by Emma Hawkins/Rick MacKinnon on May 15, 2004 22:35:22 GMT -5
Emma paused,staring in shock,then a laugh escaped her."I should have known they wouldn't be able to get rid of you so easily,"she said with a wink."Oh,Jack....mate...we're gonna miss ye,y'know that?"She wanted to embrace him,but figured she wouldn't be able to if she tried....not to mention it would be awkward...She glanced back at Rick,who was still speechless with wonder,and at the bundle in his arms.A small smile formed on her lips as she turned back to the captain."I...don' think we got a chance t'tell y'mate...b'fore y'left...th' baby....'s a girl...an'...oh,God,mate,d'you know 'ow 'ard it's gonna be?Goin' on with all this...without ye?"Her smile flickered,and she wiped her eyes,still puffy from crying before."Damn you,Jack Sparrow,"she said softly,grinning again,"Makin' me get all emotional..."
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