My first Pirates fan fiction. Please enjoy the story 'Accepting the Truth'
Summary: What would happen if Will accepted that his father was a pirate? Or if the Dauntless caught the Interceptor as it left Tortuga in Curse of the Black Pearl? Begins while Will is talking to Jack aboard the Dauntless about his father.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean. If I did there would be twenty of them at least.
1:Tortuga
"When I was a lad living in England, my mother raised me by herself. After she died, I came out here, looking for my father." Will had said.
"Is that so?" Jack had replied uninterested.
"My father, Will Turner. At the jail, it was only after you learned my name that you agreed to help. Since that's what I wanted, I didn't press the matter. I'm not a simpleton, Jack. You knew my father."
"I knew 'im. Probably one the few who knew him as William Turner. Everyone else just called him Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill."
"Bootstrap?"
"Good man. Good pirate. I swear you look just like him."
"It's not true. He was a merchant sailor. A good, respectable man who obeyed the law."
"He was a bloody pirate, a scallywag."
"My father was not a pirate." Will said as he pulled his sword from its sheath.
"Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again."
"You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd killed you."
"Then that's not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it?" Jack spun the wheel and hit Will with the sail of the ship. Jack walked over to him and said, "Now, as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention. The only rules that really matter are these? What a man can do and what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that someday. Now, me, for example, I can let you drown but I can't bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesy, savvy? So?" Jack swung him back and he dropped to the ground. Jack offered him his sword. "Can you sail under the command of a pirate? Or can you not?"
Will took the sword and said, "Tortuga?"
"Tortuga," Jack said back with a smile on his face.
"Whelp!" a voice yelled.
Will shook his head and looked in front of him. Jack stood there looking at him like he was going to kill him painfully. "What is it, Jack?"
"I told you to keep a sharp eye and you're blanking out on us." Jack said. "Come on it's time for us to return to the Interceptor for a good nights sleep and tomorrow we set out for the Isle De Muerta."
"Aye Captain." Will said. They walked out of the bar to return to the Interceptor to go to sleep. When they arrived they found something they had not hoped for. Quite the opposite actually. On the Interceptor was the Royal Navy led running around by Lieutenant Gillette.
"Bugger. They've found us. William, we will return to the bar and think of a new plan. If we are found there split up and meet me at the port and commandeer the Dauntless to make our escape."
"Right. Let's go to the bar and prepare." Will said. They began running to the bar that they spoke to Gibbs in. They sat at the same table as before and began discussing what to do about the Royal Navy on the Interceptor. "We could try what we did before. Commandeer the Dauntless and then take the Interceptor." Will suggested.
"Won't work this time. Too many of us when we get the crew." Jack said.
Will thought about it a little more then he got the answer. "Don't switch." He said to Jack.
"What was that?" Jack asked.
"We commandeer the Dauntless and don't take the Interceptor." he said clearing up his plan to Jack.
"We take the less guarded ship. We can't take the more guarded with so few. So we probably take the Dauntless and be on our way." Jack said finalizing the plan.
They grabbed their mugs, hit them together, and drank as much as their mouths would allow. They slammed their mugs down on the table and laughed. "Will, do you trust me to help you?" Jack asked. Will nodded to him. "Then I should inform you that Barbossa's crew and him are all cursed and you are the only one that can cure them." Jack stopped to let Will soak in what he said. And of course take another drink of rum. Will looked up ready to hear what else he had to say. "William, I was once Captain Jack Sparrow, East India Trading Company transporter, Captain of the Wicked Wench, underling of Cutler Becket. The Wicked Wench eventually was sunk and I had it risen from the depths and renamed it. It became the Black Pearl." Jack explained.
"You were the captain of the Black Pearl?" Will asked surprised.
"Yes. I was in me cabin one day and me first mate came and said that I should share with him the location of the treasure. I gave him the bearings and he left me cabin. I was resting when the Pearl suddenly stopped. I ran out of the cabin and saw the crew surrounding me. They grabbed me and dragged me to the plank. I walked over the edge and swam to the island that we were in front of. I was marooned. I waded out into the shallows and waited for three days and three nights , On the fourth a variety of sea creatures gathered around me and I roped me a couple of sea turtles bound them together and made a raft." Jack said.
"You roped a couple of sea turtles?" Will asked. Jack nodded with a smirk on his face. "What did you use for rope?"
Jack opened his mouth to answer when he suddenly said, "Get down." Will stayed seated and looked at him confused. Jack grabbed his arm and pulled down. He covered Will's mouth and pointed to the bar.
Will looked at the bar and would have cursed if Jack hadn't covered his mouth. At the bar stood a man in a blue coat, with a black tricorne, a white wig, a white vest with gold trim on it, white naval pants, and black shoes. They crawled in the direction of the door until a high heel shoe got in Jack's face. He looked up and saw an angry woman's face. When he stood up he got a better look at her face and said, "Jade, what a pleasure it is to-" SLAP! Jack had been turned to the point where he was looking Will in the eye. "That one I deserved for sure." He turned back to see her standing with her hand in a fist. All Jack had time to say was, "Bugger" before he fell to the ground from the woman's punch and had his stomach stomped on as she walked away.
Will looked to where Norrington was to see that he was speaking to the bartender. He helped Jack stand and they ran to the door as fast as they could. Will looked back once again to see that Norrington saw them and began the chase. They ran to where they found Gibbs before and hid behind the pigs that made him stink.
"Will," Jack said as he turned to look him in the eye. "Take this map, my compass, and this pistol. I will get his attention and run in the direction we came from. You go the other way and go to this house. There you will find Gibbs and probably our crew. If I don't meet you there by dawn go to the dock and take a ship. When you get to the island I circled on the other side of the island to find Elizabeth. Cut your hand over the chest then shoot Barbossa with this pistol. There is one shot and no additional powder. Do not shoot him first for he won't die. Then take the Pearl and lead her to freedom. Savvy?" Jack looked at Will when Will nodded Jack stood up and ran to the street. "Oi! Norry! Over here!" he yelled.
Norrington turned to see Jack standing there. He began running in his direction. Jack turned around to run when he saw a large mob of women standing behind him. "Bugger," Jack said. "William, get up and run boy!" Jack began to run toward Norrington. He charged and hit Norrington square in the chest knocking him to the ground. Jack ran by say behind him, "Sorry mate! Needed a distraction!" Will was right behind him running in the direction of the house Jack told him about.
They saw a fork coming up in front of them. "Jack," Will yelled pulling the map, compass, and pistol from his belt. He threw them to him and he ran to the left while Jack ran right. "Meet up at the dock at dawn!" Will said as loud as he could without being heard by those behind them. Jack nodded just before they left each other's sight.
Jack kept running as far as he could before looking back. He saw Norrington chasing him still. Jack saw an intersection and was about to go right when he saw Will running toward him. Jack ran left instead and ended up next to will. "It seems that we have met up again, Mr. Turner." Jack said with a smirk.
"It would seem so, Captain Sparrow." Will replied. They looked back to see that now Norrington was not chasing them anymore but was actually running from the women.
Norrington caught up to them and stopped speeding up next to Jack. He looked right to see him and said, "Why is it that you are running, Sparrow?"
"First, it's Captain Sparrow. Second, you are trying to make me face the noose. Third and most important, if you don't kill me the women behind us would." Jack said while still running.
"I say that we call a temporary truce." Will suggested. Jack and Norrington looked at each other then at the women behind them and then at Will and nodded in agreement. Will looked back to see that they were gaining distance from the women. He turned back to the direction he was running and ran into someone without seeing them. They fell to the ground with Will landing on top. He rose to his feet and wiped himself off. "I am so sorry," he said reaching with his hand to the person he hit. When his hand was grabbed he pulled up and the person came with him. When the person was standing, Will looked at them to see that it was a woman. She had long, dark brown hair, beautiful blue eyes, and a face that could be said to be a goddess'.
Will was stunned until a voice yelled, "William, stop staring at the girl and run!" Will looked back to se the women closing in and then looked forward to see Jack looking back at them signaling them to follow. Will began to run but the woman stayed staring at where Will had been. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her after him. "Those women are out for blood and they may kill you if you stand in their way." Will explained. He let go of her wrist and she followed behind him closely.
They ran around the corner and saw Jack in front of a house and Norrington gone. Will ran to the house and Jack said, "You two go inside. I will run around some more and throw them off." He turned to leave when he stopped suddenly, "Take theses." he said handing the compass, map, and pistol to Will. "If I am not back by dawn go to Isle de Muerta and save Miss Swann." He turned again and ran. Will and the girl ran into the house and closed the door just as the women turned the corner.
Will and the women entered into the house to see Norrington sitting in a chair trying to catch his breath. "I never want to run like that again. Those women were too fast and persistent." Norrington said between breaths.
"Aye, I cannot believe that Jack angered all of them. There were at least a hundred of them." Will replied.
"Aye, the captain can do that. From what I know Captain Jack Sparrow has slept with one hundred forty-nine women in Tortuga alone." Gibbs said coming out of the kitchen with four mugs of rum. He put them on the table and looked at Will who was still standing next to the woman. Gibbs looked from him to the woman. His eyes widened in surprise. He walked over to the woman and asked, "Karin?"
She had been looking at the ground and looked up when she heard her name. "Father?" Karin asked looking at Gibbs. She smiled at him and he smiled back. She started laughing and ran into Gibbs' arms in a hug. They just held each other for a couple of minutes.
"I thought that I would never see you again. When you and your mother moved to Spain I thought that you would never come back." Gibbs said. He pulled her away to look at her carefully. "You are very lucky that you inherited your mother's looks." he said. "What are you doing here anyway?" he asked.
She looked down sadly. "Mother passed away last year father. So when she died, I became a pirate and came to Tortuga to find you." Karin said. Will listened to her story and had a slight flashback, 'When I was a lad living in England, my mother raised me by herself. After she died, I came out here, looking for my father.' The stories sounded so similar.
"Those women were hard to lose, but I did it." a voice said from the door way followed by the door slamming. Everyone looked to see Jack standing in the doorway. "I would have been back sooner but half way around the town I dropped me hat and had to go back to grab it." Jack said walking to the table. He grabbed a mug and took a drink. "Gibbs, I need more rum." he said sitting down. Jack looked around the room at all of the people. "We have Commodore Norry, William Turner, Gibbs, and…. You, I don't know who you are. Who are you?" Jack asked looking at Karin.
"Karin Gibbs, Captain." she said to Jack. Gibbs walked in and put five bottles of rum on the table in front of Jack. Jack looked at Gibbs then at Karin confused. "He is my father, Captain." she said.
"Oh, that is much less disturbing than what I originally thought." Jack said uncorking a bottle of rum. "Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum," Jack sang as he took a swig. "Now on to the negotiations. Commodore, we would like to assist you in rescuing Miss Swann. However, your soldiers have seemed to have taken over the Interceptor and I require a ship to lead you to the Isla de Muerta. Can you provide me with one?" Jack asked Norrington.
"Yes, I shall provide you with the Interceptor as it is faster and weaker. If you so much as attempt to escape it will go down faster than you can say, 'hands to braces'. Understood?" he asked.
"Aye, you are understood." Jack said. He looked at Will, who was staring across the table at something. Jack looked to se that he has staring at Karin and she was staring back. "Karin," Jack said. She broke out of her trance to look at Jack. "Do you want children?" he asked her.
"I haven't really thought about it but someday maybe. Why do you ask?" she asked confused.
"If you want children you should stare at someone else, luv." Jack said. He covered his mouth so that Will couldn't see and whispered one word pointing with his other hand at Will, "Eunuch". Norrington and Gibbs burst out laughing and Karin looked at Will in shock.
Will started thinking about the conversation that led to the whispered word. He then realized what the word was. He looked at Jack angrily and Jack looked back acting innocent. "Jack! I am not a eunuch!" he yelled at him.
"Aye and I'm not Captain Jack Sparrow." Jack replied laughing.
"Technically Sparrow, you are not a captain. I have yet to truly relinquish the Interceptor to you. Thus, you are not CaptainJack Sparrow, you are merely Jack Sparrow." Norrington pointed out.
"Bugger," Jack said angrily taking another bottle of rum. Gibbs was smiling because his daughter was back. He looked at the table and saw that the last bottle of rum was in Jack's hand. He ran to get more and heard Jack ask, "So, Karin, what are you doing here anyway?"
"I came to visit my father, Jack," she pointed out.
"Well, too bad it has to be so short considering that he won't be here after dawn tomorrow." Jack said finishing his rum. Gibbs returned with at least twenty more bottles of rum and put them on the table. Jack took one and looked at Karin who looked at him confused. "We set out at dawn tomorrow to find the Black Pearl and save Miss Elizabeth Swann. The beauty that was saved by Jack Sparrow." He uncorked the bottle of rum and drank. "Here is to Elizabeth Swann, hoping that Barbossa ain't done anything yet." he said holding the bottle in the air everyone grabbed a bottle and drank. After drinking most of the bottle Karin fell over drunk, then Will, then Norrington, and finally Gibbs. Jack removed his empty bottle from his mouth and looked around. "Can't hold their rum." Jack said taking another bottle. He sat drinking and started singing:
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
The mate was fixed
by the bosun's pike
The bosun brained with a marlinspike
And
cookey's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers
ten;
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o'day in
a boozing ken
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen
men of 'em stiff and stark
Yo ho ho and a bottle of
rum!
Dead and be damned
and the rest gone whist!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
The skipper lay with
his nob in gore Fifteen
men of 'em stiff and stark
Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore
And
the scullion he was stabbed times four
And there they lay, and the
soggy skies
Dripped down in up-staring eyes
In murk sunset and
foul sunrise
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Ten of the crew had
the murder mark!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
'Twas a cutlass
swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And
the scuppers' glut with a rotting red
And there they lay, aye,
damn my eyes
Looking up at paradise
All souls bound just
contrawise
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen
men of 'em good and true
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Ev'ry man jack could
ha' sailed with Old Pew,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
There was chest on
chest of Spanish gold
With a ton of plate in the middle hold
And
the cabins riot of stuff untold,
And they lay there that took the
plum
With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb
While we
shared all by the rule of thumb,
Yo ho ho and a bottle
of rum!
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo
ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil
had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
We wrapped 'em all
in a mains'l tight A flimsy girl on a bunker cot
With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And
we heaved 'em over and out of sight,
With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a
fare-you-well
And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell
Ten
fathoms deep on the road to hell,
Yo ho ho and a bottle
of rum!
With a
dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot
And the lace stiff dry in a
purplish rot
Oh was she wench or was she jade
Or was she just a
shuddering maid?
She dared the knife and she took the blade
Having sang a song and finishing the last bottle of rum in the house he fell asleep in a rum induced coma.
end chapter one
poor Karin. Came to see her father and he's leaving in the morning. Now I think that I may have Jack end up with Elizabeth and Will with Karin. If you are absolutely against it send me a good reason not to. However all reviews are welcome. Please review.
