We board the Black Pearl and Barbossa escorts us to his cabin. I fiddle with my sword hilt as Jack and his former first mate jabber over the ship.
"So you expect to leave me standing on some beach with nothing but a name and your word it's the one I need and watch you sail away in my ship?" Hector asks.
"No. I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on my ship and then I'll shout the name back to you. Savvy?" Jack explains.
"But that still leaves us with the problem of me standing on some beach with naught but a name and your word it's the one I need." Barbossa says.
"Of the two of us, I am the only one who hasn't committed mutiny, therefore, my word is the one we'll be trusting. Although, I suppose I should be thanking you because, in fact, if you hadn't betrayed me and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that curse, same as you." Jack comments, taking a bite out of an apple, then offering some to me. I shake my head in disgust. "Funny ol' world, innit?" Jack says, offering Barbossa the apple.
"Captain, we're coming up on the Interceptor." A crew member says, opening the door to the captain's cabin. Hector walks out onto the deck, Jack following close behind.
"I'm having a thought here, Barbossa. What say we run up a flag of truce? I scurry over to the Interceptor, and I negotiate the return of your medallion, eh? What say you to that?" Jack questions.
"Now you see, Jack, that's exactly the attitude that lost you the Pearl. People are easy to search when they're dead." Barbossa comments. He speaks to the crew member beside him, "Lock them in the brig."
"Let go of me you halfwit!" I scream as I'm dragged to the brig. They lock Jack and I up.
"It'll do you no good screamin' like that," Jack tells me.
"Well thank you for the advice Captain," I sneer.
"Oi! Why so cross at me?" He questions.
"Well, if you must know Captain, I was to one who chose to stay behind and not leave you after Will betrayed you." I tell him.
"Loyalty to your captain is an admirable thing love. Not many pirates are loyal," Jack says.
"Well obviously. Your scurvy crew left without us!" I tell him. Water starts sloshing around at my feet.
"Apparently there's a leak," Jack comments. We pull up on the port side of the Interceptor. I step back. I hear yelling and the boom of a cannon. A hole is blown in the hull, knocking both me and Jack backwards.
"Stop blowing holes in my ship!" Jack yells. I notice a hole in the lock of our cell.
"C'mon Jack." I say. We emerge from the brig and see people swinging onto the Interceptor. Jack grabs a rope from a pirate and says,
"Thanks very much." We land on the deck of the Interceptor.
"Jack!" Gibbs exclaims. Jack hands Gibbs his canteen and tells him,
"Bloody empty." He sees a pirate trying to attack Elizabeth and says, "That's not very nice." The pirate is thrown overboard. "Where's the medallion?" He questions Elizabeth.
"Wretch!" She screeches, going to slap him. He stops her.
"Ahh. Where is dear William?" Jack questions.
"Will?" She mutters, before running towards the grate. "Will!" She yells.
"Elizabeth!" He yells. I try to move the mast, and Elizabeth helps me.
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Hoist the Colors
FanfictionSixteen-year-old Rose Mirilla Black wakes up one morning to her best friend, Will Turner, shaking her awake, screaming at her that they took Elizabeth Swann, the governor's daughter. The story picks up when they're on their way to the fort to help f...
