fandomhigh | Sing Like a Pirate! [Thursday, Period 2]

“Good day, cherubs!” Jack said, waving at his students with one hand as the other held onto the mainsail of his new ship. “This is the Red Lobster,” he continued grandly, waving at the brig with no small amount of pride. “I won it in a game of chance.” If by “game of chance” one meant “stole like a pirate did if you didn’t watch your ship carefully.” Jack was a big fan of the concept of finders keepers.

“Today is our first class on singing like genuine pirates,” he said, leaping down to land on the deck, “so haul yourselves up here using yonder ropes and grab hold of these even better ropes and repeat after me:

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We extort, we pilfer, we filch, and sack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Maraud and embezzle, and even high-jack,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We kindle and char, inflame and ignite,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We burn up the city, we're really a fright,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We're rascals, scoundrels, villans, and knaves,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We're beggars and blighters, ne'er-do-well cads,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.
Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads,
Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho.”

As he sang, Jack pulled rhymatically on the rope, beginning to hoist the mainsail into place. Once the class went through the song the first time, Jack waved his hand at Puck and said, “Carry on! I have important captaining to do,” then wove off down the deck.

Puck stared after him, and promptly said, "Sweet. I'm in charge. Okay, I'm not a big fan of that first-day introduction crap -- I already know you if I want to. But I bet he wants us to do something like that, so, um...your name, your grade, and your favorite type of music. And what you think this boat should be renamed to. I'll go first. I'm Puck, I'm a junior, and I like classic rock." He winked at that, because apparently he thought he was cool for that detail. "And I say we name the boat after me, which is what I'm gonna do if I don't like anyone else's suggestion.

Never mind that they'd be keeping the original name because Puck had no authority here. He pointed at random, saying, "You go next."

[Cowritten with the fabuloous Fry, who's AFK and made the mistake of leaving me in charge, mwahahaha. I'm in and out throughout the day tomorrow!]

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"Detention for calling me delusional, now!" Puck declared loftily.

"Hey, I was being nice," Kate argued with a snicker. "I could've just said you were full of shit."

"Detention for bad language," Puck said, tsking. "Kate -- no, no, Katherine," he had no idea if that was her full name, but he felt like full-naming her, "I'm so disappointed in you."

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Kate made a distinctly unimpressed face at him. "You just totally ended up calling me someone else's name," she said. "Also? I've been in detention at this school once. And I still don't know what for. So I'm not too worried."

"I'll make sure it's with a really crappy teacher," he vowed. "Like, the boringest one."

"Excellent English there." Said the girl who kept saying 'awesomest' over and over. "Do we even have any boring teachers?"

"I'll find one," he vowed, nodding. "Even if I have to bring 'em in from Lima. Maybe I'll call my old coach. He made people do laps for detention."

"Nuh uh," Kate said, shaking her head. "You can't tap into Midwest boring, that's against the rules."

The rules she'd just made up right now, yes.

"'Sides, I'm immune to it."

"Um, not against the rules. I'm in charge," he reminded her helpfully.

That does not make you, like, king, Puck.

"For like an hour on this fabulous Thursday morning," she pointed out, just as helpfully. "I don't think your power extends beyond this class."

"Unless I'm like, officially the teacher now," Puck replied with a grin.

Kate didn't miss a beat. "Then I'm dropping this class."

"Even if I promise to teach shirtless every week?" he tried, sad.

"Half the time I barely remember what you look like with your shirt on," she remarked. "So, something I'm probably going to see a lot of anyway isn't really incentive enough."

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