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Ghosts Of The Abyss: Chapter 22

ZeldaQueen: Hello everyone, back to the Sporking Chamber! Link demanded a break, so it's just me today. So yeah, stuff actually happens here, sort of. Oh, and Calypso's an evil bitch. If you forgot, Gethesemane is more than happy to remind you

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Chapter 22

Katherine

ZeldaQueen: \~/

Evening had fallen once more.

ZeldaQueen: Yes, that does tend to happen at least once a day, I've noticed

I stood with Jack at the helm of the Pearl again, this time content, yet feeling quite exhausted.

ZeldaQueen: Right, I did not need to know that

He had his arm around me, just as he always had, and together we stood in silence for several moments.

ZeldaQueen: And yet they don't act overly affectionate in front of the crew, oh no \~/

Beyond the black deck loomed a vast expanse of deep, midnight blue, with tiny diamond-like stars piercing the otherwise thick shroud that was night. The water was calm, with the breeze impelling the ship ever so gently forward. It was peaceful this night.

But my contentment and peace was not to last.

ZeldaQueen: DUN DUN DUUUUUN!

I gently broke away from Jack's arms, eliciting from him a questioning expression. My stomach was aching, which I attributed to hunger pains.

ZeldaQueen: (Gethesemane) DEAD HERRING, BITCHES!

"I'm going to go get something to eat," I said softly. "Do you want anything?"

ZeldaQueen: (Kate) "An anachronistic cliche, perhaps?"

He smiled and shook his head. "No."

I returned his smile and gently kissed him, then made my way down the flight of stairs and below deck.

ZeldaQueen: Yeah, yeah, let's just get this over with, shall we? \~/

I had barely gone a few steps down the dimly lit corridor before I felt a sharp, sudden burst of pain in my abdomen. I gasped, placing my hand to my stomach, just as another wave of pain rolled through it.

ZeldaQueen: *waves a cutlass* Yo ho, bitch

No. Not my stomach.

My womb.

ZeldaQueen: Is it just me, or do Gethesemane's Sues go on about their wombs a lot, when "stomach" would be more appropriate?

Oh, no! God, no! Please, no!

I collapsed to the floor with the pain's increasing intensity, clutching at my middle. My heart was roaring in my ears as I registered what was indeed happening, and I clutched at the wall with my free hand, tears flooding my eyes. I felt liquid warmth between my thighs, and, in the dim light of the few lanterns, saw the deep, blackened crimson that was now in a small puddle on the floor.

ZeldaQueen: So...apparently the fetus was melted? I mean, I'm no expert on this sort of thing, but she was apparently starting to show. I'd imagine that there'd be more than the Hollywood puddle of blood

I screamed, yet, through my screams, I heard a soft, low laugh of satisfaction emanating from further down the corridor, possibly from the brig.

ZeldaQueen: Or possibly from the Sporking Chamber

"Kate? Kate!"

I looked up to find Jack hurrying towards me, his eyes filled with concern. Once he saw my condition, however, the concern was replaced with fear and hurt.

ZeldaQueen: (Sparrow) "So she really is a Sue! How did I miss that?"

I looked up at him through my own veil of tears.

ZeldaQueen: Apparently Gethesemane read A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears and decided to use part of it in this fic

"No..." His voice trailed.

ZeldaQueen: My voice tends to track, personally

"Jack..."

My voice was hoarse, barely above a whisper, and my body trembled as he knelt before me and took me into his arms. His own was trembling slightly, and, in the soft light, I could see his eyes glimmering. He held me tightly against his chest, and I felt drops of warm moisture atop my head as he lay his cheek upon it.

ZeldaQueen: Dear lord, we finally get action and it's just wangst! \~/

"Kate, what's...?"

Jack and I looked up to find my uncle standing at the head of the corridor, while behind him stood the rest of the crew, all of whom looked puzzled. Uncle Hector's eyes widened as he looked at Jack and me.

"I've...I've lost it," I sobbed. "It's gone..."

ZeldaQueen: Oh yes, the entire crew has walked in at this point! How convenient! She's ready for her close-up, Mr. Demile!

"Shh," Jack murmured, gently caressing my hair.

I could feel his tears as they came to rest upon the crown of my head. Uncle Hector looked on, looking angry and concerned.

ZeldaQueen: At the risk of sounding nasty, going by how Damien, Lily, and Arabella turned out, I'm just thinking we dodged a bullet

Jack had carried me to our quarters, to which he immediately shut the door and assisted me to bed after I had cleaned myself.

ZeldaQueen: After he fed her a bottle and burped her, of course.

No, I don't care if I sound unfeeling. This bitch gets babied more than Bella Swan!

The tears had not left my eyes, and I doubted that they ever would.

ZeldaQueen: *starts sawing away at the World's Tiniest Violin*

Jack sat down next to me on the bed, gently caressing my cheek.

"What have I done?" I asked hoarsely.

"You've done nothing wrong," he answered, his voice straining to keep from breaking.

"I've killed our child," I sobbed. "Jack...I've killed our own child!"

I began to sob anew, feeling overcome with such a coldness that it chilled my very soul and heart.

"No, Kate," he murmured, his voice broken. "None of this is your fault."

He brought me into his arms, and together we mourned the loss of the child we would never know.

ZeldaQueen: I'm really sorry if this comes out sounding horrible, but I honestly don't care. Really.

For starters, the baby served no purpose at all. Plotwise, Kate was only knocked up as a cheap way for Gethesemane to show us what an evil bitch Calypso is. We're apparently supposed to feel bad that an unborn child was killed, but said unborn child was pretty much written in for the sole purpose of dying. Gethesemane essentially stuffed an unborn baby in the refrigerator, and expects us to think Calypso's the monster.

Also, I'm sorry but yet again, this conflict only came about because Kate was a total dumbass. She knew Calypso knew she was pregnant, she knew Calypso was gunning for her, and she knew she'd be safer on the Flying Dutchman. She outright said that Jack would be fine with her going over there if it was in the name of protecting the baby. She knew all of those things for four chapters, and yet she made no effort to leave the ship, to explain this to Jack, or to in any way strike against Calypso first.

Finally, I know what Kate will do to Calypso. It's blindly obvious that this is all a transparent excuse for Gethesemane to have her self insert hurt Calypso without being called out on being petty and horrible.

So to recap, Gethesemane stuffed an unborn child into the fridge, had this happen through her avatar's blinding idiocy, and did it all in the name of excusing revenge on a character that she hates for being the canon love interest of Davy Jones.

Right. Say I'm a bitch if you want, but I'm sorry. I just am pissed off by this all

Barbossa

ZeldaQueen: \~/

After Jack had taken Kate to their cabin, I stormed into the brig, angrier than I had ever been.

ZeldaQueen: Because the selfish pirate Barbossa has never had anything in his life that he cares about more than the Sue, oh no

And my quarry sat in her cell, yet she was not looking so lost and angry as she had when I had last seen her. No. She looked triumphant.

ZeldaQueen: I say go her. I'm firmly convinced that Calypso's the only one who realizes that Kate's a Sue and is determined to get rid of her \~/

"Did you enjoy that?" I hissed.

ZeldaQueen: (Calypso) "I sure did, lover-boy!" *puffs cigarette

She smiled, yet said nothing. I grasped the bars, rattling them violently.

"Did you?" I yelled. "Have you gotten your revenge now? Haven't you had enough?! You murdered an innocent child and put the parents through more hell than either deserve!"

ZeldaQueen: Seriously, why do these people put such emphasis on the innocence of children? They're pirates! Pirates didn't particularly CARE about children. PIRATES KILLED CHILDREN! No it wasn't nice, but PIRATES WEREN'T NICE!

God

"Now you know how cruel I can be!" Calypso said through gritted teeth.

ZeldaQueen: That must have been difficult for enunciation \~/

I glared at her. "Once we get to the Conclave, you will see how cruel I can be."

ZeldaQueen: Actually no, because you don't let off of your "Let's free Calypso" plan. If you were really so cruel, you'd just stab or shoot her right now, seeing as she's mortal and thus can die!

(Author's Note: I feel bad now for making this happen to Kate. Good Lord, she's taken quite a beating...)

ZeldaQueen: *swells with fury* OH YES, THE WAY SHE'S MARRIED TO THE MAN OF ~~GETHESEMANE'S~~ HER DREAMS AND GETS (ALLEGEDLY) FANTASTIC SEX WHENEVER SHE WANTS AND EVERY CHARACTER ON THE SHIP AND DAVY JONES DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT CATER TO HER EVERY WHIM, YEAH SHE JUST HAS HAD A SHIT EXISTENCE, HASN'T SHE?

I'm dreadfully sorry. I promise I'll have calmed down by the next chapter

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You know I can't remember the second movie very well, but I always like Pirates of the Caribean for having relatively strong, complex, and eccentric female characters. This chick completely takes it away for her sue.

Everyone in POTC had to be strong and most were eccentric. But yes, the female characters, from the pirates to the hookers, were all very strong. In fact, during the big fight in the third movie, Davy Jones outright tells Elizabeth that he won't go easy on her because she's a girl (and uses the pirate slang for "bitch" in the process) and Elizabeth draws two swords and says that she's prepared for that.

In this though, Kate is completely reduced to the most basic traditional female role. Overly emotional, dependent on her husband and lover, wanting nothing more than a baby and to play happy home? Yeah.

What's "bitch" in Piratese again? It's been a while since I watched the movie.

He calls her a "haridan", which I guess doesn't *quite* mean bitch. Webster's Dictionary has it as:

"HARRIDAN. A hagged old woman; a miserable, scraggy,
worn-out harlot, fit to take her bawd's degree: derived
from the French word HARIDELLE, a worn-out jade of a horse or mare."

She closer to say he called her a whore, I guess. Or a hag. Either way, nothing pleasant.

...I wonder if Gethesemane and Jackie Diaz are BFFs or something.
(If you don't know what I mean, google Jackie Diaz and "How I Became Yours.")
Also, forgive me but...dude, Sue, you're supposed to be a pirate! Did you really think you could carry on with your pirate-y life and not lose the baby, one way or another? Oh sure, you'd be spared a hanging if you were still pregnant at the time, but there are other pirates, fights at sea, sea-monsters, scurvy...aaaall sorts of things that could have messed with your pregnancy.

O_o I just looked it up. Dear lord, that's disturbing!

You're right. It's the same with Sirena "Let Your Child On Deck During A Storm" Monroe. Either have a nice, safe life, your recognize that your kid will constantly be in danger!

AND it has a sequel, which killed off Stu!Zuko and Sue!Katara in the opening pages...which honestly makes me wonder wtf was the point of the previous story.

I know! Okay, girl pirates becoming pregnant did happen. If someone wants a pirate OC to get pregnant, fine. But don't think they can just walk around on deck, doing pirate stuff and get through the whole thing! Either have them live somewhere else under a fake identity until the baby's born, then hand the child off to someone and go back to pirating, or make them quit the pirate life altogether. Or, if it's IC for them...yeah, termination.
A friend of mine once wrote some PotC Suefic, pairing her OC with jack. Her Sue ended up getting pregnant, but I don't know how it all turned out. Probably raised them all to be pirates too. 9_9

Lord. -_-

I've tried to see if there were any real-life examples of pirates raising children on their ships, but have found none. Pretty much all of the examples go that the children are raised in towns by whatever parent was not a pirate. You know, like Will's canon backstory.

Gethsemane...did you really expect us to feel pity for Kate? This scene could have been sad if it wasn't for the fact that you (a are a bad writer and b) the reason why the baby died was that Kate was too stupid to take steps to take care of it. Even if Calypso hadn't attacked, it wouldn't have survived long anyway, considering that she's the reincarnation of Miss 'I'll let my child on a ship when I know there's a sea goddess after me'.

Also, considering how female pirates acted in real life, it's safe to say that Kate's fainting flower act wouldn't get her very far. Look at Mary Read and Anne Bonny - they certainly didn't sit around waiting for their Man to sort things out for them. Even in the movies, Elizabeth is just as tough as the boys, so I don't see how Gethsemane could see Kate as the perfect pirate lady when she's got Elizabeth as competition.

Look at Mary Read and Anne Bonny - they certainly didn't sit around waiting for their Man to sort things out for them.

Definitely not. There are some records containing testimonies of their victims - merchants ambushed by the pirates. One of them said that it was only possible to tell the two women from the men, because she could see a faint outline of breasts underneath their shirts. Thomans Dillow added that both women behaved "improperly": they talked loud, they swore profusely and were happy to do all kind of work around the ship.

"Also, considering how female pirates acted in real life, it's safe to say that Kate's fainting flower act wouldn't get her very far."

It most certainly would not! Pirates were a bunch of freaking cutthroats! Chances are if Kate was like that around real pirates, they'd mutiny, tie her up, have their way with her, and toss her on the nearest desert island.

"Even in the movies, Elizabeth is just as tough as the boys, so I don't see how Gethsemane could see Kate as the perfect pirate lady when she's got Elizabeth as competition."

Gethesemane sees Kate as competition because Elizabeth's supposedly annoying and because Keira Knightly's a "poser" pirate. I'm dead serious, she's said those things.

Gethesemane sees Kate as competition because Elizabeth's supposedly annoying and because Keira Knightly's a "poser" pirate.
I'm almost willing to forgive the first half of that comment because, hey, YMMV on what characters annoy you and what don't. But considering this is Gethesemane we're taking about...
As for the second, WTF?! How is KEIRA KNIGHTLY, AN ACTRESS, A "POSER PIRATE?" Is it because she plays a pirate in the movies? If so, then why the hell doesn't she call Depp one?!

I'd see that too, except that (A) Kate is even more annoying than what Elizabeth was doing at the time (it was the scene where Elizabeth was calling out James, Jack, and Will for being idiots over the heart of Jones) and (B) Kate used the opportunity to shame Elizabeth for trying to talk sense into the men instead of nicely sitting on the ground the way Will told her to.

And for the second, I have no idea. Direct quote though:

"Johnny should be getting Orlando and Keira's money too, because they're a) not real pirates (IE: they're poseurs)"

She was in an unbalanced state of mind over how "little" Depp was getting paid. -_-

Oh my god. Oh, god.
Gethesemane, darling, if you wanted your self insert to have a kid, go onto the Flying Dutchman. Seriously.
Oh, and like other posters mentioned above, pirates were cutthroats. Most pirates in real life would've used the kid/pregnancy in order to avoid getting hung, and then if they escaped the hanging, would've given the kid to some other person.

No, it's pretty clear the kid was just a plot device to demonize Calypso and justify Kate torturing her. -_- Gethesemane even outright admitted that she'd be replacing the kid in a sequel series to this (which thankfully was never made).

And you're right about how pirates treated pregnancies. Shame Gethesemane is stuck in Victorian London in all of her fics. >_<

If Gethesemane made a sequel series, I might've have hunted her down. Maybe. And why Victorian London? Gethesemane, if by some rare chance you read this, there are other settings, like the...Students Rebellion of...no, I take that back! She will not defile Les Mis!

Trust me, you don't want her to read this. She has sent her fanbrats to flame people who have criticized her work.

Well, it's more "Victorian London", in the sense that she has a lot of cliches, yet continues to get things wrong. For example, in her one Sweeney Todd fic, she has a lot of people in the 1800s call for Sweeney to publicly kiss the Sue, as well as fills the Sue's Angsty Backstory Quota by having her mommy be a prostitute...who the upper-class Judge Turpin marries.

And don't tempt her. I think Les Miserable is one of the stories she likes. The last thing we need is one of her parasitic Sues infecting that fandom. -_-

She likes Les Mis? :(

Oh, and the Sweeney Todd thing? Let's see...the Victorians were gigantic prudes (or at least, that was what I was taught) and they would not stand for that. Mother was a prostitute? Would work if she wasn't a Sue/if she actually stayed lower class. But Judge Turpin I'm pretty the Judge wouldn't stand for that. If anything, he'd try to get her arrested. Or at least, that's what I think he would do, because I haven't seen Sweeney Todd in a while. And lastly: Gethesemane has FANS? O_o

Wait, I was mistaken. Judgey would want to have sex with the Sue!Whore (maybe) but if he actually married her...he'd be run out of town! He should've gone to Birmingham after he married Lucy. That way the Suethor wouldn't have got him.

Yeah, no reason for him to want to marry her mother in particular. And in the sequel (yes, Gethesemane wrote a sequel to it), we find out that Judge Turpin's Convenient Identical Twin Brother was more or less the Sue Mother's sugar daddy. No, REALLY.

I believe so, yes. :(

Yeah, it's blindingly obvious that Gethesemane has nary a clue what the beliefs on sex and public displays of affection were, for the periods she wrote in. Her 1800s Sues were insanely promiscuous for the time period and her pirate Sues were embarrassingly conservative (seriously, what sort of respectable pirate whines about not being "pure" for her husband???)

And yes, she does. They are just as batshit as she is, and buy her bullshit and think her stories are the bestest things ever. -_- Although to be fair, her fan-to-sane-reader ratio is probably skewed, because she's notorious for deleting "flames" (in other words, any reviews she doesn't like).

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Well...in her Sweeney Todd fanfiction, the Judge "romances" Lucy and adopts Joanna like in canon, but then decides that her mother is a fine, respectable lady, in spite of the fact that she's a flipping *prostitute* and that he needs a wife to give him an heir and thus he shall marry her. She points out that high society would hardly smile on that (and oh how sad it is when the Mary Sues are pointing out how implausible the plot is), and he basically says "Meh, they'll get over it". And they DO.

Oh, I can start counting the drinks again. And that is a REALLY good thing because this chapter...hurts. You have my sympathy for having had to go through it without the hilarious commentary.

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