Unfortunately, this did not eliminate the dizziness.Everything around her seemed to be spinning and she felt insanely sick. In addition, she froze like a tailor who sits naked ice fishing at night in the dead of winter and feeds frozen raspberries.
But her impulses did not go unnoticed.
"Look, our Sleeping Beauty is returning from the realm of dreams. There were probably too many peas under her mattress ...", one of those present giggled.
"That pea wasn't at Sleeping Beauty, you fool!" Someone else snapped at him.
When Bunny decided to open her eyes one more time, she looked directly into the face of a man whose beard was braided into two small pigtails under his chin. He even fixed the ends with two pearls.
"Hello Missy.", He whispered to her and his dirty grin revealed a good portion of precious metal that had spread between his teeth.
"How nice that you join us. The boys and I were a bit lonely ...", he continued in a slightly slurred tone and from such close proximity Bunny got his strong rum-smelling breath into his nose."Hello ..." Bunny replied hesitantly.
Her voice croaked at this one word and only now made her really aware of how much her throat hurt. She had probably caught pneumonia while swimming in the sea. But she was much more surprised that she was still alive. Again the images of the last events came to mind. What about the others? After falling into the water, she couldn't remember anything. At the moment, however, she had no time to think about it, because the rum drinker demanded her attention again. He came a bit closer to her with his face and his eyes looked as if he had reached a little too deep into the box with the black kohl pencils.
"You're shaking, dear. No wonder with your wet clothes. Shall I help you change?" He asked, still grinning, and tried to pull up her t-shirt, which was stuck to the body.
As if by reflex, Bunny pushed his hand back and gave him a slap on the face.The bystanders, who had just been yelling cheerfully, suddenly fell silent. As if frozen in a pillar of salt, the guy stared at her in surprise with his black make-up eyes. Then he turned slowly.
"Do I really deserve it?" He asked, holding his flushed cheek.
For a moment there was silence and you saw many confused faces.
"Absolutely, you lusty pig!" Suddenly burst out a dark-skinned woman in the front row, earning general laughter and encouraging applause.
"Yes, I'm a boo. But I just can't hold back with such pretty, young things ..." he replied, playfully embarrassed, and then turned back to his guest.
"And I don't have any manners either. I haven't even introduced myself. Well, you can forgive a pirate for that. I'm known as the dreaded Captain Jack Sparrow. The ruler of the legendary Black Pearl and its cursed crew.And who are you, my beautiful child with the hammer fist? "he asked, waving his arms a little uncoordinated.
Bunny thought for a moment and looked at her counterpart searchingly. Her gaze seemed to irritate the pirate slightly and his grin slowly diminished.
"Jack Sparrow? Never heard of it," she admitted and the notorious buccaneer of the seas dropped his jaw.
"CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow! So much time has to be! And why have you never heard from me? Have you lived behind the moon for the last ten years?", He asked with a slightly offended undertone when he had recovered.
"I'm sorry. Actually, I know a lot about pirates. Are you really that famous?", Bunny replied and the giggles from the background slowly grew louder.
Face Slapping was one thing, but he wasn't going to let himself be fooled by such a young thing here in front of the whole crew. That had to be stopped as quickly as possible."Who asked you for your opinion? Shut up your cheeky mouth or I'll send you straight over the plank! And now the cheap seats will be quiet immediately, or I'll reintroduce flogging on this boat, of course?" Captain Sparrow hissed angrily and glared at his crew.
"But you never got rid of them, boss!" Interjected a short guy with an eye patch.
"Oh yeah? Well then I'll tighten it up. And now shut up or I'll start with you right away!" His boss cried and you could literally see how it was seething inside him.
The dwarf didn't seem to have noticed, however, because he kept chattering cheerfully.
"Ui, my knees are already shaking. How good that I don't protrude so far above the floor. It doesn't hurt so much when I pass out ..." he joked and the rest of the crew had a lot of fun too .
"Okay, that's the end of the fun!", Sparrow yelled and quickly pulled a pistol from his jacket, which he now held menacingly close to the prankster's head."You don't know when it is better to keep your mouth shut ..." he hissed and with relish put his index finger on the launch.
He watched with satisfaction as the guy broke out in a sweat and the others fell silent in awe.
"'Tsch ...' Sorry B ... Boss ...", the little one stammered and looked fearfully at the floor.
"So, now you're sorry ... We touching.", The captain whispered contemptuously and was about to continue intimidating the culprit when he was interrupted by a loud sneeze behind him. He turned around in a flash and aimed his weapon directly at Bunny, who rubbed her runny nose and let out a sharp scream at the sight of the pistol.
"I told you to be quiet, you stupid brat!" He yelled now completely beside himself and covered his ears.
"Enough!" He hissed and his whisper sounded even more threatening in Bunny's ears than his roar. Then he roughly grabbed her arm and dragged her past the others and out of the cabin.The completely perplexed Bunny stumbled after him without a word.
When they stepped on deck, Bunny could see that the storm had subsided in the meantime, although an icy wind was still blowing, making her teeth chatter. She didn't even know how long she had been here. But since she wouldn't have survived long alone in the sea and her clothes were still wet, it couldn't have been very long since she went overboard. But this pistol-wielding pirate just didn't give her time to think about her situation, because he was already pushing her into a small cabin on the other side of the ship and pressing her into an armchair by the window. Again he glared at her with his dark eyes, which to Bunny looked as unpredictable as those of a wild animal. He would probably attack them right away ...
"So you want to make fun of me.", Sparrow whispered and again Bunny waved his rum flag towards him."But I only sneezed!", She tried to justify herself, but it was clear to her even before he answered that that would not appease him. And again he raised his pistol and let Bunny take a look at the pitch black barrel. Slowly but surely the whole thing became too uncomfortable for her. She could still incapacitate him with an electric shock, but she already doubted that such an action would really improve her situation. So she looked Sparrow straight in the eye and tried to talk to him in as calm a voice as possible.
"I'm really sorry if I insulted you in any way. That was definitely not my intention. And the fact that I've never heard of you doesn't mean anything bad. I'm sure you are a very capable pirate . But right now you're really upset for no reason. I just want to get back to my ship and then take a long, hot bath.", she said slowly and met the pirate's gaze, who looked at her thoughtfully for a while.
"Anyway, you're not a coward," replied Jack Sparrow, lowering his pistol slowly.
Bunny let out a sigh of relief followed by another sneeze.
"And you should take off your wet clothes.", He repeated his suggestion.
"Paws off !!", Bunny shouted and crossed her arms defensively in front of her chest.
"Yeah yeah, I'm sorry about earlier.", Jack grinned and raised his hands soothingly.
"I tell the boys to heat up the water for the washtub and Maria should borrow some of her clothes for you, otherwise you will get your death here. And until then ... take these," he added and pulled his jacket off to put it over Bunny's shoulders. Then he disappeared from the cabin and Bunny stared after him in disbelief. This guy was really unpredictable. At first he would have made almost Swiss cheese out of her and now it was friendliness in person.You just couldn't figure out pirates. Only then did she remember that she belonged to this guild herself by now and she inevitably had to grin. Then she made herself comfortable in the armchair and snuggled into the warm jacket.
A few hours later, Bunny's body was somewhat warmed up again and her clothes were hanging to dry over the fireplace in the galley. The dark-skinned woman from earlier, who turned out to be Maria, had lent her a pair of worn out leather pants and a white shirt and she now wore them together with Jack's jacket, the owner of which sat across from her at the kitchen table and listened attentively as she told him the story of her previous one Pirate career through to her unwanted bath in the sea.
"So far we haven't sighted any other ship in the area, but of course we'll keep our eyes open. Your friends can't have got too far yet.", Jack said after she had finished and gave her a confident smile."Although of course I really hope that you will stay with us for a while longer. We rarely have ladies visiting.", He added and Bunny joined in his laughter. Of course, she couldn't wait to see her friends again to find out how they had fared, but she had to admit that she was really lucky to land here and not end up as a corpse in water somewhere at the bottom of the ocean.
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Backstage: What ?? Already over?? Scandal!!!
Well, this chapter is a bit shorter than the others, but actually it's not over yet. I only found this point quite appropriate to stop.
Also, you have to give me an enormous bonus because I was so quick. Yes, the dear commies of my loyal fans have honestly encouraged me. ^^
So where do i start? This chapter is somehow divided into two parts. The first