Andromeda Swann: POTC

Rescue and Proposal

Andromeda's POV

"Elizabeth, come here" I call her quietly as Jack drinks his rum. "We need to get Jack drunk enough to pass out" I tell her. Jack was to busy drinking and gathering wood to notice our conversation.

"Why? How?" she asks in a whisper.

"So that we can make a smoke signal by using the rum and we teach him the pirate song" I say.

"Let's do it" she states smiling. "Sparrow, I'll teach you the song" she calls and he looks up at us.

"But first we'd like a bottle of rum" I add. He gets us a bottle each then starts a fire. Elizabeth starts to teach him the song as I sat in front of the fire trying the rum.

(That night)

"We're devils and black sheep, we're really bad eggs. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. A pirates life for me" Elizabeth and Jack sing as they dance around the fire.

"I love this song, really bad eggs. Ooh" Jack says falling on his bum beside me and pulls Elizabeth on his other side. "When I get the Pearl back, I'm gonna teach it to the whole crew, and we'll sing it all the time" he tells us.

"And you'll be positively the most fearsome pirates in the Spanish Main" Elizabeth and I tell him.

"Not just the Spanish Main, loves. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs but what a ship is... what the Black Pearl really is... is freedom" he explains.

"Jack it must have been really terrible for you to be trapped on this island" Elizabeth says leaning on his shoulder.

"Oh yes, but the company is infinitely better then last time" he tells us wrapping his arm around Elizabeth. "Scenery has definitely improved" he adds.

"Jack Sparrow" Elizabeth says pulling away from him. "I'm not sure Andromeda and I have had enough rum to allow for that kind of talk" she states.

"I know exactly what you mean love" Jack says curling his moustache.

"To freedom" I declare holding up my bottle of rum.

"To the Black Pearl" Jack says clinging the bottles together before chugging his rum. He passes out after that. Elizabeth and I get to work with our smoke signal.

(Next morning)

I see Jack wake up from the corner of my eye. He stands up and sees Elizabeth  & Ithrowing his stash into a big fire. "No! Not good! STOP! Not good! What are you doing?! You've burned all the food, the shade...the rum!" Jack shouts.

"Yes the rum is gone" I tell him as Elizabeth chucks the last barrel on the fire.

" Why is the rum gone?!" he demands.

"One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high! The entire Royal Navy is out looking for Andromeda and I; do you really think there is even the slightest chance that they won't see it?!" Elizabeth shouts.

"But why is the rum gone?" he asks. Elizabeth and I huff a sigh sitting on the sand together.

"Just wait, Captain Sparrow. Give it an hour, maybe two, keep a weather eye open, and there will be white sails on that horizon!" I tell him. I see him storm off down the beach mumbling to himself. As predicted James arrives with the Dauntless and father.

"But we've got to save Will" Elizabeth tells Father.

"No! You're safe now. We will return to Port Royal immediately, not go gallivating after pirates!" he tells her sternly.

"Then we condemn him to death" she and I tell him.

"The boy's fate *is* regrettable... but then, so was his decision to engage in piracy" he states.

"To protect Elizabeth, to save her and prevent anything from happening to her" I tell him. Jack tries to convince James into going after the pearl, the last real pirate threat in the Caribbean. When that does not work I step forward "Commodore I begging you. Do this for me as a wedding gift" and everyone looks at me.

"Andromeda are you accepting the commodores proposal?" dad asks.

"I am" I say looking into James' green eyes.

" A wedding? I love weddings!! Drinks all round!! Oh. Right. Lock him in the brig?" Jack says holding his hands out.

"Mr. Sparrow, you will set in a course for the Isle De Murta, and then you will spend the remainder of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase, "Silent as the grave". Do I make myself clear?" James asks him.

"Inescapably" Jack says and was escorted to the helm.

"Commodore I must question the wisdom of this" dad says.

"With all due respect governor, Mr Turner is a subject under the British crown. Therefore under my protection" James tells him.

"Rightly so" dad says then looks at me. "Take care of her" he states before leading Elizabeth away to get new clothes.

"Andromeda" James says holding his arm out to me and I link my arm through it. "I'm concerned your answer was less, then sincere" he tells me.

"I would not give my word lightly" I tell him.

"Yes I understand" he states. "But is it wrong to what it be given unconditionally?" he asks.

"It is not a condition, but a request for my sister" I tell him. "Your answer would not change mine" I add. "You are a fine man James" I say smiling at him.

"Very well, excellent" James says smiling. "Why don't you go check on Elizabeth" he suggests. I nod my head and head in the direction father took Elizabeth.

A/N

Video above of 'why is the rum gone?' remix and picture above of Andromeda's outfit.