You can tell a lot about a man based on how cunty he raises his capuchin monkey to be. I mean look at this lil’ fucker. He got a whole outfit and everything. 💅🏽💅🏽💅🏽
Summary: At the beginning of your relationship with Captian Hector Barbossa, you didn't really get along with Jack. Until sneaking away to take a nap, what happens with Jack finds you asleep when you could be working?
Contain Warning: Fluff, Reader is explicitly female
Pairing: Hector Barbossa x reader
Word Count: 1.3k
A/N : Hello, my beautiful people, this is my first time posting something like this and I'm sorry if there are grammar errors. I tried to be as canon as possible. I recently rewateched the Pirates of the Caribbean series and I thought there wasn't enough fanfics about Barbossa and Jack's relationship with the reader.
Being the only lady on the Black Pearl wasn’t the easiest. When you first joined, just over two years ago, many crew mates were skeptical of you and your ability to fight. They thought that because you were Hector’s lover that you wouldn’t do anything and was just a pretty face on board. But over time, they grew to like you as you fought during fights and saved some of their lives. You had a strong will and were stubborn to prove that you belonged on the Black Pearl. That’s one of the reasons Hector fell for you in the first place. He needed a strong woman if they were to be by his side.
The only crew mate that took the longest to get comfortable around you was Jack. For some reason, Jack didn’t care for you and for a while, you thought it was because you were taking his owner’s attention away from him. Which at first was the case but unbeknownst to everyone, he just didn’t know what he wanted. He would get praise and food from stealing jewelry from people and thought that was all life had to offer.
Until one day, you snuck away and found a good hiding spot to take a nap. You had just finished cleaning the deck and Hector was busy navigating in the captain’s cabin. You didn’t want to bother him so you went on the deck and found a couple of barrels in a corner with some space between the walls to lay down. You found an old sheet that nobody seemed to be using and took it. Though it wasn’t the most comfortable napping spot, it was going to do.
You laid down and got as comfortable as you could before starting to dose off. The soft rocking of the ship and waves gently hitting up against the boat made it easier to fall asleep. Everything was peaceful and waited until you heard some wrestling near you. You opened your eyes to see Jack on top of the barrel, staring down at you.
“What do yer need, Jack?” You whispered, in hopes nobody was close enough to hear you. Jack just looked at you with curiosity before climbing down the barrels and standing next to you. He didn’t make any sounds, just started shaking your shoulder and moving the sheet.
“What’d yer want, uh?” You said with some annoyance but Jack persisted. You groaned as you started to move and lift the sheet off of you that Jack got in between the sheet and you. You frowned your eyebrows, “Yer want to sleep?” Jack just pulled the sheet over him and laid down next to you. You laid back down and allowed for this weird situation to happen. Jack never once showed any affection towards you in two years of you getting on the Black Pearl. Two years of trying to get him to like you and just like that, he decided to take a nap with you.
Over time, this became a routine to take a nap with Jack. No one knew of this routine nor that Jack started to like you, not even Hector. Jack still kept his distance from you outside of the naps.
As time went on, things got more busy on the ship and you had to stop taking naps much to Jack’s dismay. It had been a little of a month as you last took a nap and the day just dragged on. The ship was docked on the port of Tortuga. You were helping with inventory and organizing things as others went into town for drinks. Hector tried to convince you to come along but you wanted to finish things up first before drinking. That left just you and Mr. Gibbs.
Mr. Gibbs was checking boxes and loading them onto the ship and you checked off the list. “Alrigh’ miss Y/N, I think that’s the last of it,” he said as he brought the last box onto the ship.
You looked at your list one last time and nodded, “Yea, seems like it. Yer should go out with the rest of the crew and have some rum, Mr. Gibbs.” You put the list down on top of a crate as Mr. Gibbs set the last box down.
“Will yer be joinin’ us, miss?” He asked, turning towards you.
You shook your head, “No, I'm stay here and rest for a bit. Long day.” Mr. Gibbs then agreed with you and left to join the others. You had a few hours before people started to return so you decided that this was the best time for a nap. One that was well deserved. Walking into your shared cabin, you took off your trousers and shirt that became soiled from working. You picked up a cleaner shirt and pulled it over your head before laying down in the comfy bed.
You don’t know how long you fell asleep for but you were rudely awoken to Jack hopping on top of you. You groaned as he landed on your stomach and you pushed him gently off of you, “ugh, that hurt Jack!” Jack didn’t seem to care though and pulled up the blanket and cuddled up to you, wrapping his small arms around you and placing his head against your chest. You laid back down and pulled the blanket of y’all and got comfortable. You didn’t think about who else was on board or if Jack somehow came here by himself. Highly doubtful.
As you sleep with Jack, many of the crew mates were coming back from drinking the day away. Hector came back wondering where you and Jack were. Mr. Gibbs had told him that you stayed behind to get some rest so he didn’t worry too much but that was a few hours ago. Sometime after he received this information, Jack left him. Hector assumed that he was just going to steal something and then never came back but Jack has always been able to take care of himself.
Walking on board, he walked past his crew towards his cabin. The door was ajar and a small lamp was flickering from the inside. He quietly stepped into the cabin, seeing your sleeping form. The light is just barely lighting up your face. He walked closer to look at you. Before you, he didn’t know it was possible for someone to look so beautiful while sleeping. You looked so relaxed with your hair all over the place and messy. His eyes scanned over your body and almost missed something moving on top of your body.
Confused, he pulled the blanket up and was in shock. Jack was snuggled up to your chest. The monkey that expressed his dislike of you for two whole years was sleeping on top of you. He never really cared that Jack didn’t like you because it didn’t cause many problems despite all things considered. But this warmed his heart to see Jack taking a liking to you now.
The cold air hit your body as the blanket moved and you started to stir awake. Hector gently put the blanket over you again but it was too late and you were awake.
“Well, look what we ‘ave ‘ere,” Hector spoke softly and you looked up at him, “ ‘ow long this been goin’ on?”
You mumbled something that he couldn’t understand then turned on your side, holding Jack close to your chest. Hector couldn’t explain this new feeling he was experiencing. It felt like his heart was going to explode with emotion. He waited so long for Jack to warm up to you and finally gave up trying to convince Jack that you were a bad person and wasn’t going to do anything. Jack never showed any affection towards you so he wasn’t quite sure when this happened but didn’t matter now. All that mattered was his favorite companion and love of his love were finally getting along.
Without waking you up, he slowly placed a kiss on your forehead and left you to sleep. He went outside and barked orders at people to quiet down so that you slept peacefully.
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Note: Please let me know if this sucks or not! Also if I should continue writing. This is my original work so please don't steal my work.
I couldn't think of a title so might change it later.
