1 – Try not to do anything stupid
Jack expected it. How could he not? Barbossa had his knife ready to strike so the lad had to do something stupid. Like trying to hit him with an oar.
Jack stopped Will before the wood could contact his skull and smirked at him.
"I seemed to remember 'bout asking you not to do anything stupid." He pushed the oar down, knowing that he will be able to defend himself if William tried to strike him again.
"I'm not gonna be your leverage." He hissed back at him.
"But see, you will be, lad, one way or another. You can risk being me leverage and maybe getting out of all this alive or you can try it on your own. Barbossa will do the ritual with 'Lizabeth, finding out the truth. He will forever follow you around and you still won't get the lass." He put his hands on his shoulder and looked him in the eyes. "I want my ship back, you want the lass back and Barbossa want to be alive again. Everyone gain something from this, but you have to trust me, savvy?"
"They are going to kill her!" He hissed looking at the scene behind Jack back.
"No, they are not." He pushed Will in front of the rock, blocking him between it and his body, letting him watch while Barbossa cut Miss Swann hand and let the medallion drop into the chest. "See that? Barbossa had let his rage and blood lust condemn him one too many time. He wouldn't kill his only hope." Jack smirked and let him go. "Now, can you really try to do what I'm saying and not do anything stupid?" He asked again taking the lad hand in his. He didn't wait for an answer, he took out his knife and cut him, collecting the spilled blood in a little empty flask. "Stay here and only come out when I call you, savvy?"
Will nodded.
"... was your father William Turner?" Was asking Barbossa to Elizabeth, the medallion in his hand, when Jack came out from his hiding place.
"No, it wasn't." He said making all the pirates turn toward him. He loved a good entrance.
"Jack..." All his old crew murmured around him, surprised to see him alive.
"How the blaze did you get off that Island?" Barbossa asked, coming down toward him, sword ready to strike. Jack saw the medallion fall from his clutch and roll on the floor of the cave behind him.
"When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing." He smirked looking at his enemy. "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow." He said it as if didn't need any other explanation, then Jack looked at Elizabeth, to see if she was okay. He was unable to understand the emotions on her face, but saw that she recognized him from his stay in Port Royal.
"Ah, well," He walked toward him until he was mere inches from his face. "I won't be making that mistake again." He turned toward the crew. "Gents, you all remember Captain Jack Sparrow?" There were aye and yes all around. "Kill him." Every single pirate pointed his gun toward him.
"The Girl, Miss Swann's blood didn't work, did it?" He said with his smirk still in place, he had to wait only some moments.
"Hold your fire!" Barbossa spitted out, turning around with an angered expression on his face. "You know whose blood we need?"
"I know whose blood you need." Jack whispered like it was his best kept secret. "And I'm willing to give it to you, if you give me something in exchange."
"And, why should I?" Barbossa and the crew laughed. "We could always torture the name out of you." All around everyone seemed okay with the option, but Jack knew that it was only a last pitiful try from Barbossa to get what he wanted without giving back to him what was rightly his. The Pearl.
"Yes, you could, but you know that I know that you won't kill me, because you want to know what I know. So, torture will be unsuccessful because I'll know that death won't follow until you know what I know, and I know that if I tell you what I know you will kill me anyway after knowing it, so you know that I won't tell you anyway. Savvy?" Everyone, even Elizabeth, looked at him confused and he tried to not let them see that he was amused by their reaction to his confusing speech. Let them underestimate his brain capacity.
"I see you didn't change much in your time on the Island, Jack." Barbossa rolled his eyes. "But I understood what you just blabbed and even if it could gut me to admit it, you are right. What is your price?" He sighed.
"The Black Pear for starter," He smirked happily about getting what he wanted.
"What else?" Barbossa asked knowing that it wasn't over.
"Safety, for me, 'Lizbeth and whoever is in me crew. Do this and I will tell you the name."
"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?" Barbossa asked doubtful.
"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?" He knew that Barbossa would never accept the bargain. Point of fact he started to unsheathe his sword again. "Kidding, Hector, you have no humor at all. And don't worry, I won't maroon you here with your crew. I let you have the ship that brought me here to go wherever your black, sad, heart will desire." Jack added with a look of fake compassion. "How if we proceed like this. You let me men on board of the Pearl, but keep me here, then you let your men go back on the Interceptor, me ship, and when you are at safe distance I will scream to you the name."
"No, you will tell me while we'll be alone here, only you, me and the Miss." Barbossa proposed to him, not falling for his trick. "I'll let you leave untouched. I swear it on the code." Jack thought about it and it seemed good enough. Not a fool proof plan was his, but it was the best he could come up with in so little time.
"Accepted." He put forward his hand and waited for Barbossa to shake it. "Lad, come out and go to the Interceptor, tell the crew to take the Pearl and wait for me and Lizzie."
"It's Miss Swann for you!" She protested from near the chest. She must still be angered by his little threats during their brief encounter in Port Royal. Women were ungrateful creatures, he was saving her for the second time in less than a week and she didn't have a kind word for him. Jack looked at her saw that she recognized William, but she was smart enough to not let the thing show on her face.
"But Jack..."
"Captain if you please, lad." Jack corrected him annoyed, trying to stop whatever no sense that William would say, probably getting them into big trouble. "Do what I said, we will be after you."
William seemed to want to protest again but then he looked at Elizabeth that shook her head a little, letting him understand that he needed to do as he was said.
Jack, Barbossa and Elizabeth, moved to the entrance of the cave and looked while Will went first to the Interceptor then, with the whole crew, went to the Black Pearl, that was anchored empty inside the natural port of the Isla de Muerta.
"You know what to do scumbag, go to the Interceptor and prepare it to sail!" Barbossa said to his men. The whole crew piled in three of the five longboats and reached the ship.
"Here we are Jack, now give me the name." Barbossa looked at him.
"I can't give you a name, my friend." Jack smirked putting himself in front of Elizabeth.
"You lied to me!" Barbossa took out his sword, ready to fight and probably kill him.
"No, I never lied, I know the name and I would tell you it if it would help, but why should I when it's a lot easier to give you this." He took out the little flask with William's blood inside. "It's Bootstrap Bill son's blood." Barbossa took a step toward him, but Jack stopped him. "Ah, ah. I wouldn't come nearer." He opened the flask. "It will be so easy to drop it in the water if something had to happen to us."
Barbossa stopped and looked angrily at him.
"You have what you want, Jack. Give me the flask."
"I will throw it to you when I'm sure that I'm far enough away." He half turned to Elizabeth, keeping one eye still on Barbossa. "Please, on the boat, Lizzie." Jack saw Barbossa smirking and didn't understand way he was happy. He was about to lose anything why should he smile?
"Thank you, Jack." He said. Jack turned confused and almost didn't see the little monkey steal the flask from him.
"Bugger!" He turned and pushed Elizabeth in front of him but when they reached one of the longboat they found out that there were no oars. Barbossa had tricked him.
"You promised to let us go untouched!" Elizabeth protested to him, and it was only in that moment that Jack understood how buggered they were.
"He did. But I forgot to tell him where and when." He gave her a sad smile before turning toward Barbossa that was smirking, manacles in his hands. "Well played."
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"Jack was tricked!" Gibbs told the crew when he saw his Captain being chained by Barbossa.
"We should go back! Save Elizabeth and Jack!" Will said, getting ready to put the longboat down again. "At the count of three." No one moved to help him.
"We have the Pearl, and there is the code to follow." Gibbs said looking around to the crew. He liked Jack, but he won't risk his life for him and Jack knew that. He was the one that told him to keep to the code.
"We can't leave them with that... that..."
"We will, Mr. Turner, if you want to live to see another day." Will could see that no one would help him. "We can't do much for Jack, those men are immortal, they would kill us. We can only hope that he will find a way to save himself, but for now we should disappear, Barbossa won't let us go with his ship if he can stop us. We must not give him the possibility."
"Aye!" Come from the whole crew.
"Very well scumbags! Man the braces!" Gibbs started to scream orders. "Let down and haul to run free!"
Will could only watch while the Island and the Interceptor became little dot on the horizon, in his hand his old medallion that Barbossa had let fall at Jack feet and he took back. With that in his hand he was sure that Barbossa will not hurt Elizabeth at least, because if he did the medallion will fall to the bottom of the Caribbean ocean.