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The madness continues…

Part Two: The Green Fairy

"I know what you want," sang the green fairy in a high, melodic voice. "I know what you need."

Captain Jack Sparrow had heard the tales of too much absinthe bringing the 'Green Fairy' to visit the drinker. He noticed that his own bottle of the stuff was almost empty. The barely conscious rational part of his mind cried, "Hallucination!" However, all he saw was a fairy.

A tiny finger tinged with green tapped Jack on the tip of his nose. "You want her. You need her." The fairy pirouetted, her skirts flying out around her. "Jacky needs his Anamaria!"

"M'name's Jack," he slurred, slightly irritable.

The fairy ignored him. "He loves her! He loves her! Everybody knows it!"

Jack scowled at her, pain glistening in his eyes.

The green fairy flew down to stand with her tiny bare feet on his outward-turned left knee. Her wings stilled and she regarded him, her hands on her hips. A sigh rose and fell in her little chest.

"You should go find her," she scolded, wagging a finger at him.

"No," he replied, definite. "She won't want t'come back."

"You'll have to convince her to then," the fairy stated, as if it were obvious. Fine lashes fluttered over bright green eyes.

"I can't." Jack's voice broke with sorrow and he looked away.

"She loves you."

His haunted gaze returned to the little creature. "No. No, she doesn't."

"Yes, yes, yes, she does!" The fairy's silvery lips grinned and she giggled.

"Get away from me!" Jack rolled his head against the wall, swiping a drunken arm at his knee.

The fairy easily dodged him, rising back up into the air.

Jack's right hand tightened around his bottle of absinthe and lifted it to his lips. Green liquid filled his mouth and he half-heartedly swallowed.

"She loves him, she loves him, she loves him…" at least six voices sang in harmony.

Jack looked up to find that the fairy had been joined by several identical sisters. They all hovered in front of him, wings beating with a soft fluttering sound, long fair hair resting on slender shoulders and forefingers drawing heart shapes in the air.

He stared at them, a mildly mystified expression on his face.

Suddenly, a dark-haired fairy appeared behind the others. She elbowed her way through them to get to the front, which did not go down too well.

Compared to the other fairies, this newcomer was extraordinarily tall. She was surrounded by a green haze and her two wings fluttered, yet she was brown-skinned, wore pirate garb and looked somewhat familiar.

"Jack?" Her voice was soft, sounding concerned, but didn't have the musical tones of the green fairies. It was also very familiar…

A sharp stinging across his right cheek made the absinthe fairies vanish.

A second slap to his left cheek knocked away the green haze and all traces of wings disappeared.

"Jack?"

Two worried, dark-brown eyes searched his face for lucidity, as she crouched in front of him, gently supporting his head with her hands.

"Ana…"

Her relief was evident.

"Oh, Jack, what have you done to yourself?"

He raised the absinthe as high as his weary arm could manage, a lopsided grin on his face.

Anamaria snatched the bottle from him, setting it down behind her.

"You came back…" Jack murmured, looking up at Anamaria with disbelief.

He reached an unsteady hand up to touch her cheek.

"Of course I came back, you fool of a pirate." There were tears in her eyes, as she pulled his hand away and kissed it, softly. "C'mon let's get you to the Pearl."

~ Fin ~

Author's Ending Note: And all is right with the world. No more fairies.

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