Norrington's Loyalties and Destiny

Preface

A/N: 'Norrington's Loyalties and Destiny' (ND) is a sequel to my other fic 'Different Styles of Persuasion.' (DS) It took me longer than I thought it was going to complete it. DS was mostly written before AWE came out in theaters. However, I did not get it finished before AWE did come out. So I had to change my ending a bit for DS to fit what was coming in AWE. The first part of DS was in fact a crazy dream I had. I tried to fit together all the ramblings of my mind in that dream. Then add to it to make it coherent and fit into a story. I had trouble in the first couple of chapters. It is kind of confusing, and I had problems with some wording. I may yet go back and re-word some of DS, but maybe not since it was finished in 2006. Lots happening in the real world and a move from one state to another, I am sure everyone has real world slow downs sometimes...

At the time I started DS, it was going to be that one of my OC's, Niece was going to become involved with Barbossa in the end, and the other OC, Lydia was going to become involved with Will. However, after AWE came out and Norrington was killed off, I changed my mind. Niece, was changed to becoming involved with Norrington. This was because Norrington is one of my favorite characters of the POTC Trilogy, and I was more than a little upset that the writers killed him off. Bad T & T...

So ND is going to be about how Norrington does come back from death, and how Niece and one of the main characters help him do that. DS takes place right after Jack is brought back from Davy Jones' Locker. ND will start from where DS leaves off during the first part of AWE, and will go through and a bit after AWE. ND will deal more with just Norrington, and what he is doing, while the others in AWE do what they do in that movie. Norrington will also do what he does in AWE up to where he dies.

To avoid confusion on which Jack, (Davenport or Sparrow) I was talking about in DS, I used only their character names, even when they were in the 21st century. I will also do that in ND. I also used only the other character names to keep it all uniform. So here is the background of DS. The rest of DS you will find out what you need to know about it in the first chapter:

Niece and Lydia are from the 21st century. They are re-enactors for jousting and knights at Medieval and Renaissance Faires. They also have friends who are re-enactors for pirates. One OC re-enactor named Travis looks a lot like Norrington does, but he dresses as Captain Jack. Niece, the main OC's is attracted to Travis in the 21st century. In fact Travis is a real cousin to Norrington in the real world. But she doesn't find that out until later, to make DS more interesting.

In DS some of the actors from the end of DMC inadvertently went back in time to the 17th century, where the movies and other characters are real. This happened while Jack and Norrington were charging towards one another on horses, next to The Pearl during the shooting of a scene for an imaginary POTC movie, between DMC and AWE. There was a blinding flash as the swords clash and then they were back in the 17th century. Things that happen while they are back in the 17th century should not be changed as it can change the future. It is like what happens in the movie 'Timeline.' Sort of a POTC/Timeline crossover. Although only with POTC characters that are within a certain distance of the clashing swords.

And this is the part that is confusing in DS. So I am going to try and explain it here. They find it is a time parallel, they are there, and they are here at the same time. There are doubles of themselves in the other timeline. So that they don't cease to exist in the timeline they are not in at the moment. So a parallel.

The actors did figure out how to get back to the 21st century, but not to the exact time and place they left it. That exact time and place was during the shooting of a fight scene for that other imaginary POTC movie that takes place right after Jack is rescued from Davy Jones' Locker, but before the Shipwreck Island part of the AWE adventure begins.

What happens is, they always come forward in time, but are a couple of months off in where they left the 21st century. They tried to just go to the place during the shooting, but the doubles of themselves are there, and they are past where they had been shooting that movie. No one recognizes them for who they are. So they are trying to go back and forth, using different items, which they think are the key to getting back, to the exact time and place, they left the 21st century in. They don't find out until the end that the key is Norrington's sword, and not so much anything else they tried.

DS starts in one instance of their back and forth travels. They come back to a point in the 21st century at a medieval faire in Hood River, Oregon. There is no knowing why they came to that place, they just did. The OC's are doing re-enactments for knights at the faire. Niece is a knight called Dame Pegasus, because of a tattoo she has of Pegasus on her right wrist. Lydia is a knight called Dame Einkorn, for a tattoo she has of a unicorn on her shoulder. At this point when the actors came to the 21st century, they think the key may be the speed of the horses they are using. They think the horses in the 17th century aren't fast enough. However they think Niece and Lydia's horses are fast enough because they are used for the jousting part of the knight's exhibition. So they go back to the 17th century and this time take the two OC's with them. They think they need to finish some things back then for the movie before they can come back. They have to follow a script already set, and need a couple of new characters for new parts in that script.

After a lot of persuading, Jack persuades Niece to let him use her horse to try this strategy. Niece and Lydia are talked into going to be the new characters, but mostly because they don't want their horses to go without them. Barbossa persuades Niece to be under his protection while in the 17th century. Then Norrington tries to persuade her to be under his protection. Yes, he is still after Jack, but also the bigger prize of capturing all the pirates for Beckett. So he is doing some spying as a naval officer turned pirate. Just as in DMC the pirates don't entirely trust him, and he doesn't trust them either. He is at a crossroads in his loyalties. Norrington is still undecided where his loyalties lie in ND.

Niece finds out that she is also known as Captain Pegasus, because of the small tattoo of Pegasus on her wrist. She finds she is the captain of her own pirate ship, The Thunder of Zeus, or more commonly called The Zeus. Jack sees her tattoo first and tells her to keep the information from Barbossa because of his animosity toward Pegasus. Jack knows they need her and her ship to go to Shipwreck Island, which will be explained in ND. She will be on her own ship in ND, the reason for this, is so that I don't have to borrow too much from AWE for my own fic.

Back to DS. The other characters think Norrington and Niece are dead after being swept overboard in a storm. They do search for weeks for the two, but never find them. So the other actors do end the imaginary movie they are in, and do return to their place in time in the 21st century, after discovering the key to coming back to the right place in the 21st century they left is Norrington's sword. This leaves Norrington and Niece stuck in the 17th century. As well as Will, who gets pushed outside the area that they need to be in, to be transported to the 21st century.

Niece does end up married to Norrington when they think that they are stuck back in the 17th century. Niece discovers that Will is in fact the Will from the 21st century. The actors of the 21st century also discover that the Will that is in the 21st century isn't the one they have been going through all the time travel with.

The script that all the actors are to follow while back in the 17th century can be deviated from a little. I did this to keep their private lives in the 21st century, still in their minds, when they are back in the 17th century. Things they need to consider, like being responsible for their actions. And what consequences those actions may have on the 21st century. Also the consequences it may have on their own lives, and the ones they love, when they get back to the 21st century. The script that they talk about in DS does end at the end of that fic. And neither Norrington nor Will have seen very much of the AWE script yet.

That about does it for a background of DS.

I hope you enjoy ND. Happy reading!