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pirate_jackFrom here.
"Steady on, lad," Jack mutters, supporting Wellard as the two of them cross first the shore and then the floating pier to the Black Pearl.
They stop there, as Jack looks up the sea-ladder with a frown.
"Can you climb?"
"Steady on, lad," Jack mutters, supporting Wellard as the two of them cross first the shore and then the floating pier to the Black Pearl.
They stop there, as Jack looks up the sea-ladder with a frown.
"Can you climb?"
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Date: 2006-10-24 05:32 am (UTC)"I certainly don't go looking for trouble. I do my best to careful. Alright? That's the best anyone can do. And I will certainly be seeing about what happened. I don't remember-" He bites his lip.
"But Jack was there, so he'll know something."
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Date: 2006-10-24 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-24 05:54 am (UTC)"... why?"
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Date: 2006-10-24 05:58 am (UTC)"I told you. And he brought you here to hide and he knew Norryton needed a doctor and he would not explain any of it, only said I was not to worry."
The scorn in Mary's voice at this last comment expresses clearly just how little Captain Jack knows Mary, if he expects this to put her off.
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:06 am (UTC)"He was hurt also- is he alright, now?" A deep breath, and he finally nods.
"Alright, he shouldn't have said that maybe, but he wasn't just trying to not upset you."
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:09 am (UTC)"And if he was trying not to upset me," Mary adds, sharply, "he ought not to have gotten you hurt."
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:14 am (UTC)"And if he was there why did he not stop you falling?"
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:19 am (UTC)("Last one off the yard arm gets a flogging!")
"Because sometimes you cannot stop someone from falling. Even if it isn't too bad. And I would quite well imagine it would be easy to tell if someone has or not, if they were hurt."
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:22 am (UTC)"I do not think even if you fell into Norrington," she mutters, "it would make him have a hole in his stomach."
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:24 am (UTC)"... What?"
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:26 am (UTC)"The Healer fixed it. I told you."
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:34 am (UTC)"Is that why he wasn't here, this morning?"
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:46 am (UTC)"He was hurt in his stomach," she repeats. Again. "I do not know how - only that he was bleeding. Jack told me to get a healer and you said to listen to him so I did."
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Date: 2006-10-25 03:31 am (UTC)Carefully.
"Where is Jack?"
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Date: 2006-10-25 03:37 am (UTC)The door to the cabin opens, and two figures -- one taller than the other -- can be seen silhouetted against the brightness of the daylight outside.
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Date: 2006-10-25 03:50 am (UTC)"Son, thought you were meant to be resting." He shoots a glance at Mary, adding under his breath, "Fine lot of help you are, little missy."
It's about at this point that he notices the chest standing open on his table, and clear alarm flashes in the black eyes. With studied casualness, Jack strolls across the room and then turns around to face them all once he reaches the table, spreading his hands wide for balance as he does so and grinning disarmingly.
It's probably a coincidence that one of his hands happens to knock the chest lid closed, and the chest itself is now hidden behind his back.
Really.
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Date: 2006-10-25 03:55 am (UTC)She's not good enough at reading people to note the alarm - but she does see him noticing the open chest, and as a result plants her feet a little more firmly on the floor.
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Date: 2006-10-25 04:02 am (UTC)But, seeing Jack and Merriman is a bit of a relief, given all that (may have possibly) has happened.
"Jack- Mary said that Norrington was hurt- did someone shoot him?"
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Date: 2006-10-25 04:16 am (UTC)'Not shooting, Mister Wellard,' he says, keeping his voice low as he moves further into the cabin. 'He was attacked with a knife, and left unconscious on the floor. You were found outside the room, also unconscious. And Captain Sparrow sent Miss Lennox to find a doctor for Mister Norrington, and proceeded to bring you out here.'
It isn't accusatory, not in the least. It is a simple statement of the facts as he knows them.
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Date: 2006-10-25 04:33 am (UTC)"I don't remember what happened, sir. Any of it. I left the Pearl to go and find him- Mr Norrington hadn't arrived, and the Captain had said as much. But after that, I- I cannot recall."
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Date: 2006-10-25 05:01 am (UTC)"It'll come back to you in time, savvy? In any case, there's no need for you to be concerned over it."
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Date: 2006-10-25 05:03 am (UTC)Mary's tone is dark. - well, as dark as can be managed, when the only octaves available to her are distinctly in the higher registers.
"You keep saying there is no need to worry - but he could be hurt or bespelled or anything. If you were not there you cannot know!"
Key word, of course, being if.
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Date: 2006-10-25 05:15 am (UTC)He crosses the cabin, treading carefully on the boards -- and reaches up to remove the lantern from its hook overheard.
'If you will permit me, Mister Wellard?' He shifts the lantern to his left hand, lowering it to keep the light out of Wellard's direct sight-line. 'I would like to see your head, and where it hurts worst.'
Hurt or bespelled, he will likely know soon enough.
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Date: 2006-10-25 10:51 am (UTC)"Jack gave me some willow bark, which has helped, sir. And things are somewhat clearer, thankfully. Just that anything off of the ship, before or after, sort of... is hazy, until its nothing." He sighs, and closes his eyes.
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