Troubled Water

Pirates of the Caribbean

This chapter is for those who have not seen the movies Pirates of the Caribbean, however, please read the first part even if you saw the movies! :)

Why did I make a time jump of 10 years?

I ses some of you noticed that I wrote that Emma had not seen her parents in ten years, but I never mentionned it before. The thing is that, in the first part of the story, I imagined Emma and Killian both being around 20 years old, loving for the first time and starting to just kinda live on their own. So, by making a 10 year jump, we now get to the characters we know now (well at least Emma, cause Killian's a little older than 30 in the show, huh? xd). It is also because in that time, Killian became more known as a pirate, he fell in love with Milah, got his heart broken when Rumplestiltskin killed her and lost his hand, which gave him the reputation of Captain Hook. All of this cannot happen in a few weeks. I hope this all makes sense and that you understand :)

Pirates of the Caribbean

If you read this story but have never seen the movies, you still probably heard of Captain Jack Sparrow at some point, or maybe Barbossa or Davy Jones. In this section, I'll explain who they are and what they did in the first movie and at the beginning of the second. Feel free to ask any questions! :)

The first movie : The Curse of the Black Pearl
(I was going to do a resume myself, but I think Wikipedia will do just fine. Sorry if it's long, haha)

In the early 18th Century while sailing to Port Royal, Governor Weatherby Swann, his daughter Elizabeth, and Lieutenant James Norrington encounter a burning shipwreck and recover a young boy, William Turner. Elizabeth hides a golden pirate medallion owned by Will so as to protect him, and keps it due to her interest in pirates, and sees a ghost ship vanishing into the fog. Eight years later, Norrington is promoted to the rank of Commodore and proposes to Elizabeth, but her tight corset causes her to faint and fall into the sea, still wearing Will's necklace, which casts a summoning spell. She is rescued by Captain Jack Sparrow, whom Norrington identifies as a pirate due to his branded mark; Sparrow came to Port Royal intending to commandeer a ship. Jack attempts to escape but runs into Will, now a blacksmith and talented swordsman. They engage in a duel, but Jack is knocked unconscious and captured by Norrington's men, and imprisoned.

Later, the Black Pearl, the ship Elizabeth saw as a child, attacks Port Royal in search of the medallion, whom it summoned. Two pirates, Pintel and Ragetti (I don't know which is which, but the small one is Leroy/Grumpy😂) , escort Elizabeth to meet Captain Barbossa to negotiate parley. Elizabeth says her last name is Turner, to conceal her identity as the governor's daughter, but is held as Barbossa's prisoner. When Elizabeth tries unsuccessfully to kill him, Barbossa reveals to her that his crew are cursed as immortals, after taking the Aztec treasure of Cortez from Isla de Muerta, and they appear as skeletons in moonlight. In order to free themselves, the crew have been gathering all 882 gold pieces and giving blood sacrifices, but they still need the last piece and Elizabeth's blood to lift the curse.

Will frees Jack from prison to rescue Elizabeth, as he agrees when learning Will's maiden name. They commandeer the HMS Interceptor by pretending to steal the HMS Dauntless. They head for Tortuga to recruit new crewmates, including Jack's friend Joshamee Gibbs. Jack reveals that Will's father, Bootstrap Bill Turner, was a pirate himself, and learns that Jack was captain of the Black Pearl until Barbossa mutinied and marooned him on an island, leaving him with a pistol loaded with a single shot that Jack never used, intending to shoot Barbossa. Arriving at Isla de Muerta, Will and Jack observe Barbossa commencing the blood ritual, fails because of Elizabeth not being the child of Bootstrap Bill. Will rescues Elizabeth and brings her to the Interceptor, while Jack reunites with his former crew, but is locked in the Pearl's brig.

The Pearl pursues the Interceptor, taking the crew hostage and destroying the ship. Will makes a deal with Barbossa to release Elizabeth in exchange for lifting the curse, but Barbossa maroons Jack and Elizabeth on the same island Jack was left on before. Elizabeth makes a smoke signal using Jack's hidden supply of rum, alerting the Dauntless and reuniting with her father and Norrington, who agrees to rescue Will when Elizabeth accepts his proposal. Jack and Norrington plot an assault on the pirates with Jack going in to lure them out, but the plan goes awry when Barbossa sends his crew underwater to assassinate the Dauntless' crew. Elizabeth escapes the Dauntless alone, freeing Jack's crew from the Pearl, and ventures to the island to rescue Will.

Jack eventually mutinees by freeing Will and dueling Barbossa, while Elizabeth fights off the crew. Barbossa eventually tries to fatally stab Jack, but reveals that he is cursed after stepping into a ray of moonlight, having taken and kept a piece of gold from Cortez's chest, and revealing his mutinee as a planned strategy. Jack then shoots Barbossa, with Will lifting the curse by revealing the blood-stained gold and dropping it in the chest; Barbossa bleeds out and dies, the rest of the crew is captured by the militia, and Jack, Elizabeth, and Will escape.

A short time later, Jack is captured and faced with multiple charges, and is condemned to a public hanging at the same time. Will soon rescues him while in the process of being hanged, as Elizabeth fakes fainting again to draw attention. As Will tries to escape, the two are soon then captured, and about to be put to death. Elizabeth defends them both by stating her role, and demands they be spared. While in the argument, Jack escapes aboard the Black Pearl. Governor Swann pardons Will and gives his blessing for Elizabeth to marry him. Jack Sparrow is greeted aboard by the new crew of the Black Pearl, as they set sail and leave.

In a post-credits scene, Barbossa's pet monkey Jack regains immortality by stealing a piece of gold from the chest.

Davy Jones
There are elements of his story that I am changing, so I won't tell you everything, because I'll probably make a backstory chapter on him, but just so you know what's the Dead Man's Chest and everything...

He fell in love with someone else, the sea Godess Calypso. She gave her the duty of carrying the souls of the man who died at sea from this world to the next, also giving him the Flying Dutchman. However, for every ten years spent at sea, he would get one day to walk on land and be with her. It also meant he was immortal, like her. After the first 10 years, he was to see his love again but she never showed up. Filled with sadness and anger, he - with the help of a sorceress - ripped his heart out and locked it in a chest that he burried in Isla Cruces. Jones then ruled the seas as a tyrant with a damned crew and since they broke their oath to the Flying Dutchman, they were cursed to be transformed in sea creatures that matched the darkness inside of them.

Will and Elizabeth : Dead Man's Chest

In the beginning of the second movie, Will and Elizabeth are imprisoned for helping a pirate, just as they were to get married, and Norrington does not work for the royal navy anymore. Lord Beckett, who controls the East India Trading Company, asks Will to retrieve an object of Jack in exchange of his and his fiancés release. Beckett wants Jack's magical compass, that does not point north, but points to the thing you want most.

Will finds Jack, who won't give him the compass unless he helps him to find a certain key, the key that open the Dead Man's Chest. So Will finds his way aboard the Flying Dutchman, captured. However, he meets his father, Bootstrap and he helps him to escape, with the key that he just stole from Davy Jones. In this story, Will escaped and is rescued by the Jolly Roger.

Elizabeth, still imprisonned, finds a way with his father to run away, but his father gets caught by Lord Beckett. Elizabeth, dresses as a man and convinces sailors to bring her to Tortuga, where she hopes to find Will. Instead, she finds Jack, who tells her what happened to Will. In this story, she finds Jack at the same time Emma made the deal with him, so not in Tortuga.

I hope that was helpful! If you still have questions, just ask! :)