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Stede Bonnet’s father had once told him “only peasants marry for love”, so he became a peasant in order to find the man he loves.
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In the middle of the ocean, there was a small dinghy containing the abandoned crew of The Revenge and their Captain Stede Bonnet. This dinghy was currently tailing behind The Revenge in hopes of getting to Stede’s beloved Ed and explaining to the poor man why Stede left that night.
On board The Revenge Edward Teach sits sobbing in the barren captains quarters looking at a newspaper
‘Stede Bonnet dead in tragic accident involving a wild cat and a piano ‘
“ I should have made him come with me, he wouldn't have left and gotten himself killed!”
Ed said to himself, hugging his knees to his chest and smearing the charcoal on his face with his tears. He believed that no one could hear him or his pain, but he was wrong, in the walls of the ship Lucius Spriggs was alive but not well and listening to every word Ed said.
Lucius had survived Ed's murder attempt by gripping onto the the barnacles on the side of the ship and crawling his way through a porthole and into the secret passages of the ship. Surviving on scraps provided to him by Jim through a crack in the wall. And right now he is listening intently to Edward's depressed rambling thinking 'That headline seems a little odd, almost sounds like one of Ed's fuckerys......... ' then a realization hit him like a ton of bricks 'Mr. Fancy-man Stede Bonnet faked his own death and Edward has no clue that it was a fuckery'.
Elsewhere on The Revenge; Frenchie is quietly practicing his music skills in front of an audience consisting of one of Wee John's dolls, every once in a while he'll ask the doll something like,
"do ya think this sounds alright? should I change my rhyming of the words ship and hip to something else?" , for him it was a distraction from the current situation on the boat but he couldn't get too distracted or Izzy would come looking for him and then yell,
"does this ship look like a fuckin' concert hall to ya? get back to fuckin' work you lazy fucker!". Izzy had become a lot more irritable after getting one of his tosie-wosies cut off and fed to him, if any of the crew dared to even stare at him the wrong way Israel Hands would lose his shit and become one of the most terrifying little men in the seven seas. At the same time, Izzy also seemed kind of happy that the 'old Blackbeard' was back and that Stede 'fuckin' Bonnet was also gone.......... for now at least
What none of the crew members on The Revenge knew was that, Stede Bonnet would be back with a new understanding for his love for Edward Teach.
He was on his way