↳ plotted starter : @tiderider & @gothealed
𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐄, casting the sky in a sinister orange glow. A Bog Boy leaps at her—crazed and wielding a knife--and Jacqueline dodges effortlessly, driving her sword into his heart with little remorse. Blood splatters across the scorched earth. It wets her cheeks. Smoke fills her lungs, but still she fights with a feral sort of desperation as more Bog Boys surround her. She’s outnumbered and quickly overpowered, pinned to the ground while a boot drives itself into her ribs again and again. Something cracks and she screams, squeezing her eyes shut against the onslaught of pain. Look at me, someone says. The voice sounds familiar. Accented. Her eyes shoot open just in time to see the Bog Boy hovering over her—his face morphing before her eyes from unfamiliar stranger to too-familiar Harry Hook. His smile is predatory, mouth full of blood, sword raised. Jacqueline panics, reaches for her sword but someone else kicks it away with a mean sort of cackle. It sounds too much like Nina. The sword descends upon her with intent to kill, slicing through the air with precision—
❛ NO! ❜
Jacqueline wakes with such force it makes her nauseous. Her stomach roils in protest as she lurches forward in her cot, forehead dotted with beads of sweat. The panic hasn’t yet gone away as she takes stock of herself and her surroundings. It’s The Lost Revenge. She’s been in this same room far too many times to be deemed responsible—Noelani is noticeably absent. As for Jacqueline herself, she does a quick onceover. Limbs are accounted for and while it feels like her chest might constrict until she can’t breathe again—she notes that the only other noticeable injury is an ugly series of bruises smattered up her left side, matching the bruise which had formed near her temple. Not even a broken rib.
It take a minute for the rest to come back to her, but slowly she recalls what happened. Jacqueline recalls the riots, remembers spotting Harry and Nina together in the chaos and feeling like she’d throw up at the sight alone—sick with remorse—and then she remembers being attacked by a band of Bog Boys not unlike in her nightmare. More vaguely she recalls being carried at some point, but that has become fuzzy and disoriented. It doesn’t matter, really. She’s back on the ship now and alive if a little worse for wear. It hits her then.
She’s back on The Lost Revenge.
❛ Fuck. ❜ Jacqueline scrambles out of the cot, ignoring the strain of her muscles. She needs to get out of here and back to the Pearl. Preferably before Harry sees her. Or Gonzo. Poor Gonzo—she’d promised she’d come back soon, but—God—she’s not ready yet. Not after seeing Nina and Harry like that, in a world of their own.
She’s just reaching for the door when it suddenly opens and she has to stumble back a few steps to keep from faceplanting with the door, expecting it to be Noelani. But it isn’t. Jacqueline takes in who stands in the doorway and feels her stomach drop right to the floor, heavy as a cinderblock.
❛ -----------------------Double fuck. ❜













