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Chapter 1
The Empty Wedding
Black hair fell to the floor in clumps, I grabbed them in bundles and tossed them into the fire before running a hand through my short and uneven hair, staring into the cracked mirror and ignoring the weight lifted off me. Now they won't recognise me as easily. I thought before changing into the guard's outfit I had stolen from the barracks. "We're black sheep. We're really bad eggs," I hummed as I fixed myself up and finally looked at myself in the Navy uniform. I made my way up the streets towards the richer part of town and eventually to the fort before it started to rain and a bunch of soldiers rushed into the blacksmith's. Will! I thought walking quickly beside the building then looking in through a window, watching as they arrest William. I have to get to Elizabeth! I realise before running down the back alley of the streets then through the fort's gates to where Elizabeth sits in the white seat, rain pouring down onto the tea cups in a sad song. "Elizabeth!" I call jogging over.
"You're to address me as Miss Swann." She sighs before realising who it is and hugging me tightly. Not entirely the reaction I thought it would be.
"What are you doing here?! You sailed off with Jack!"
"Not the best time to catch-up, love. William was just arrested, and I think they're coming after you." Elizabeth's eyes widened in fear as we heard soldiers run up the steps behind us, their boots splashing loudly in the wet steps. Elizabeth released my arms and ran past me to the soldiers, holding William as she arrived, her eyes swelling with tears but none leaking. I walked slowly over, trying to keep myself noted as a solider, sneaking behind a brick pillar to the side but was grabbed and shackled anyway.
"Make way. Let me through!" Governor Swann yells as he pushed his way through the soldiers then was stopped by two soldiers crossing their spears. "How dare you! Stand your men down at once! Do you hear me?!" I glanced beside me as a man took the leader's coat, and the leader turned looking polished and new like a doll.
"Governor Weatherby Swann, it's been too long." The man says simply.
"Cutler Beckett?" The Governor questioned, scrunching up his face in realisation.
"It's Lord now. Actually." Beckett replied, puffing his chest slightly and raising his chin, then he gestured to the soldiers and Governor Swann was let passed the crossed spears.
"Lord or not, you have no reason and no authority to arrest this man."
"In fact, I do. Mr. Mercer?" The same man who took the coat and being handed a leather folder. "The warrant for the arrest of one William Turner and Jacklin Sparrow." He says someone ripping off my hat. I smile at him then the Governor and shake out my hair. "Mr. Mercer would you have someone brand her later?" The man beside him nodded before the Governor gave his stuttered response.
"This warrant is for Elizabeth Swann!"
"Oh, is it? That's annoying, my mistake…" He says then tosses a gesture. "Arrest her." He adds as Elizabeth is grabbed and shackled.
"On what charges?!" She demands, shaking herself away from the guards only to be grabbed again and held still.
"Aha, here's the one for William Turner." He sighs before handing it to the Governor. "And I have another one for a Mr. James Norrington. Is he present?" Norrington? There's a name I haven't heard in a while.
"What are the charges?" Elizabeth asks again.
"Commodore Norrington resigned his commission some months ago." The Governor answered, looking at the warrant in disbelief.
"I don't believe that was the answer to the question I asked." Beckett retorted all high and mighty.
"That's the answer you get." He twisted back to her in disgust then touched her hair, staring at the blackness of it.
"I do not think you-"
"Lord Beckett, in the category of questions not answered-"
"We are under the jurisdiction of the King's governor of Port Royal and you will tell us what we are charged with." Elizabeth concluded, cutting off William who cut off Beckett.
"The charge... is conspiring to set free a man convicted of crimes against the Crown and Empire and condemned to death for which the…" Governor Swann breaks off staring in shock.
"For which the punishment, regrettably, is also death." Beckett finishes, glancing at me then stepping closer to Will. "Perhaps you remember a certain pirate named Jack Sparrow-"
"Captain!" Elizabeth, Will and I all say in unison.
"CaptainJack Sparrow." Elizabeth clarifies.
"Captain Jack Sparrow. Yes, I thought you might." He finished before giving a final gesture that sent Elizabeth and William away. "And now you, Mr. Mercer her sleeve." I pulled away from the serious-faced man before being held tighter and grabbed by two more soldiers. Someone stripped me off my weapons and threw them aside. Mercer took out a knife and sliced away the sleeve, tossing it onto the wet stone, blood seeping from the shallow cut he made into my skin. He stepped aside and took a red-hot iron shaped in a 'P' then had someone hold my arm.
"Try not to scream too loud." He said politely then pressed the burning metal against my tingling skin. I clenched my jaw and tightened my body as my skin seared with pain and water welled in my eyes. I stared boldly at Mercer and Beckett, running every sinister thing I wanted him to go through for the torture of this action.
A/N: Yay! A Sequel - finally! Okay, I've actually finished the story on my laptop and I'll be uploading it over the next couples of weeks, maybe one chapter every few days. Warning though, it only lasts for 8 chapters.