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[scourgeofpiracy]

He's up early, as he always is, getting ready for another day's work on the Pearl. And he's trying not to think about how close the repairs are to complete, and what happens when it's all done.

He's about ten seconds from leaving when the knock comes at the door.

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[mistressmaryquitecontrary]

Mary's glower is darkening by the second. He is not well - he is not well at all. And if Mary can see it than the captain must know it.

"I will get the doctor," she snaps - more because of the 'please' than anything else - "but you had better not take him on the ship to hide him. Because I shall know where you are. And after I get the doctor I am going to find you, and if you have hurt him -"


Meaningfully: "I know how to hit."

And with that, she whirls on her heel and runs for the stairs.

[pirate_jack]

"Not sure I deserved that," Jack half-growls, but there's a touch of satisfaction clear as Mary races for the stairs.

"Now, lad, step to, come on--"

Muttering quietly, Jack supports Wellard to the stairs and down them, pausing in the shadows at the bottom.

As Mary gets the attention of a young woman, he seizes the moment of their distraction and leads Wellard around a small knot of people, looking for all the world as if one or the other of them is helping someone a bit too inebriated to walk on his own.

Seconds later, they're out the lake door and off to the Black Pearl.