The Terrible Demise of Tortuga

Chapter thirteen.

While they waited for their parents the twins played a game of chess while Emma watched and reflected to herself about her dream and the people in the photo. Should she tell her father about the dream and the man in it? And how he looked like the man from those pictures. Who were they? Finally after a lot of pondering Emma decided she would tell Aragorn when he came home. “Checkmate….again.” Jay told Jack. Jack banged his head on the table in frustration. *Thud!* “Ow!” Jack exclaimed at the top of his lungs. “Are you okay?” Emma asked. Jack grimaced then sighed. “Yeah, I’m fine. Although my king is not, he’s been captured and his queen murdered.” Jack said. Emma smiled. “Y’all get to worked up about a game.” Jay shrugged. “So Jack,”Jay began “wanna play again?” Jack scowled. “Yeah! And this time, it’s payback time!” Jay smiled calmly. “Bring it on.” And so they played again and again and most times Jay(who was better at strategy) won. Finally Jack raised his hands in surrender. “Fine! I give up! I don’t see how you’re doing that!” Jack said angrily. “Calm yourself brother and I might show you.” Jay said. Suddenly the door bell rang. Emma ran to the door and opened it to see her parents and their younger siblings. “Hi.” Emma said. They came in and Arianna started their dinner. “You wanna help me?” Arianna asked Emma as she (Arianna that is) fastened a apron on. “I’ll help in a sec, I need to tell dad something.” Emma said. “Ok, be back quickly.” Arianna said smiling gently. Emma walked off to find her father, as she walked off she heard her mother talking to Josephina who was trying to help. “Now now darling, I have a perfect job for you.” Emma walked down the hall where her father was. “What is it?” He inquired. Emma told him about her dream and how when she went into his room she’d seen those photos with that guy in them. She told him everything. “What do you think it means? Or do you think it was just a dream?” Emma asked him. Aragorn shrugged. “It was probably just a dream and nothing more.” He said. Emma sighed with relief. “Thanks dad, I knew you would understand.” She stood up on her tippy toes and kissed him gently on his cheek. Then she walked off happily. But did he believe what he himself had said? Emma had not noticed whenever she had been describing the man in her dream and in the photo to Aragorn, Aragorn’s face had turned VERY VERY white. Aragorn walked into his room and closed the door behind him. He gazed regretfully at the photo of the guy in Emma’s dream and the blonde woman. “I’m so sorry Tom.” He thought as if he were talking to the man in the photo. “You know I didn’t mean to. It was my fault and still is.” He sighed. “I won’t deny it, she’s gone because of ME.” Aragorn thought. He sighed once more, cast one last look at the photo and then headed back into the living room/dining room where dinner should be ready soon.

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-SunnyFox57.