I hold no claims to this awesome movie. Only the two sets of Rush Twins are mine. For now ;)
Chapter Two
What happened to you?
There was no one in the dining hall with Jack, Rena, and Lance when the guards left after chaining the three of them to their chairs. Rena watched Jack with amusement on her face as he moved the chair closer with jumps to the table before turning to her brother.
"What do you think they could possibly want?"
"Dear baby sister," Lance sighed. "You are engaged to the wonderful, 'Captain' Jack Sparrow." He mocked the man before them as he reached for something to eat. "You're going to be caught by the law multiple times as long as you're still on land."
Rena gave a sigh as she hung her head. That was true. It had been almost 2 years since they had been left on Tortuga by Barbossa and the others. Of course that little dinghy didn't get the three of them as far as they had liked it to. Rena found herself longing to see Jena gain. She missed her sister. They had been through everything together. She prayed to God that she was still safe and that they would run into each other again soon. Jack and Barbossa were just going to have to deal with not liking the other for a few days. As she found her mind on them she also wondered where Nissa and Norrington had gotten too. The two of them were all right still, weren't they?
"We have company," Lance announced in a sing-song voice. Rena lifted her head to watch as Jack kicked one of the pastries up to wear it got stuck on one of the chandeliers just before multiple men walking in. They lined the room with their guns at the ready as a large man in another powdered wig sat across from the three of them.
"You are Jack Sparrow?" The three of them jumped at one of the men's voice.
"There should be a 'Captain' in there somewhere."
"I've heard of you." The man sitting down spoke. "All three of you. And you know who I am."
"We do?" Rena looked at the men to her right.
"Beats me." Lance shrugged.
"Face is familiar." Jack replied. "Have I threatened you before?"
"You are in the presence of George Augusts, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Archtreasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire," The man to the right announced. "King of Great Britain and Ireland, and of you."
"Doesn't ring a bell." Jack shook his head. Rena giggled and Lance threw out an 'I second that'.
"I am informed," The King went on. "You have come to London to procure a crew for your ship."
"God, this again." Rena hung her head.
"Vicious rumor. Not true." Jack told him.
"Then you lied to me when you told me you were Jack Sparrow."
"I am Jack Sparrow, but I'm not here to procure a crew. That is…" Jack threw an annoyed look at the chains on his arms. "Someone else."
"Ah. Someone else named Jack Sparrow." The King pulled a face as Jack continued banging the chains against the char to make noise. "You've brought me the wrong wastrel. Find the proper one and dispose of this impostor."
"Look here now," Rena growled at the man in the chair. "jack's the one being impostored, all right? And believe me when I find out whoever the hell is doing it I'm gonna beat the tar out of them."
"It's sad that the King of Britain can be tricked by someone of such a low stature. I though you things were supposed to be…smart." Lance retrieved a hit to the back of the head with the butt of a gun. He gave a growl but then stayed silent.
"I'm Jack Sparrow, the one and only," Jack continued. "And I am in London."
"To procure a crew," The king said over the loud clanking Jack was creating. They couldn't hear the King was saying for the next few seconds until Jack stopped.
"What?" The man asked.
"Will someone please remove these infernal chains?" The King demanded.
Jack gave a sigh of relief. "Come. Come."
~Jack~ Rena hid a smirk as he own were removed as well. ~You are a genius.~
"We know you're in possession of a map." One of the men said.
"So confiscate the map, and to the gallows with them all!" The other said.
"Have you a map?" The king asked.
Jack reached into his jacket for it but when he found nothing, he sat back in his chair. "No." Rena raised an eyebrow.
"Where is it?" The man in the right asked.
"The truth? I lost it." Jack stood from his hair and began to pace the table, searching through the food. "Quite recently, in fact." Rena heard her brother curse Gibbs under his voice as he rubbed the back of his head, glaring at the man behind him.
"I have a report." The King leaned forward. "The Spanish have located the Fountain of Youth." He then began to bang on the table as Jack cutely tried to grab a strawberry. "I will not have some melancholy Spanish monarch, A Catholic, gain eternal life!" Jack finally grabbed the strawberry as Rena blushed while hearing her own stomach growl. Lance had already begun eating so she decided to join him.
"You do know the way to the Fountain?" the Right-man asked.
"Of course we do," Rena lied. "Look at us." She ate and watched as Jack grabbed a napkin off the table.
"You could guide an expedition." Left-man said.
Jack grabbed the chair at the end of the table and pulled it at an angle before tossing the napkin over his shoulder. "With your permission, your heinie, you will be providing, then, a ship…and a crew?"
"And a Captain." The king grinned as he wiped the smirk of Jack's face.
The doors across the table opened and the trio turned to watch as a man walked out. Every other step was a thump of a peg. The man exited an gave the king a deep bow before straightening up.
"Afternoon, sire." Hector Barbossa grinned.
The plate fell from Rena's hands as Lance had to slap his over his mouth to keep from laughing. Hector was now dressed much like Norrington used to be with his right leg now wooden and a long-as-hell curly wig. His beard was shorter now and he had a little mole painted on the right side of his face as he carried a cane in his left hand.
"Barbossa?" Rena tried to close her mouth but it still hung open. "What in the hell happened to you?"
"Oh nothing much besides a little age and stress." A woman giggled from the door. Rena grinned at the two that now stood there.
"Jena! Leon!"
Jena Rush, Rena's twin, also held medium auburn hair and brown eyes with the same scar on her right eye. She was dressed in a pair of black pants and boots with a golden top and black jacket as her bandana was another golden.
Leon, Lance's twin, still had his auburn hair short and green eyes with an earring matching his brothers still. Leon had grown very muscular over the two years they had been separated. He was in black pants and boots as well but was not wearing a shirt beneath the vest he was wearing open. It showed off the scars he had gotten. No doubt from fights that he and Barbossa had gotten into during their journeys.
Rena ran to her sister and immediately gave her a hug. "How have you been? Are you all right? Are you having fun? Barbossa's been treating you well, right?"
"Of course, of course," Jena replied as Lance and Leon exchanged their own greetings to their sisters and then to each other. "And I hope Jack as done the same to you."
"More or less," Lance nodded. The four of them gave a laugh.
"If I may be so bold," Barbossa moved towards the king. "Why is this man not in chains?" He pointed at Jack as he gave him a nasty glare. "He must be manacled at once."
"At the center of my palace? Hardly." The king chuckled.
Hector." Jack greeted harshly as he moved down the table. "How nice to see a fellow pirate make good of himself."
"Pirate? Nay. Privateer. On a sanctioned mission under the authority and protection of the Crown." He patted the wig he wore. Rena glanced at her sister and brother for answers but both of them were glancing in opposite directions as they let out whistles.
"As may be, but first," Jack leaned on the table. "What has become of my beloved Pearl?"
"Oh God, not this again." Rena slapped a hand to her forehead.
"I lost the Pearl as I lost my leg," He brought up the wooden peg and slammed it on the table.
"Lost the Pearl?" Jack sounded furious!
"Aye," Barbossa hid the sadness and anger as well as he could as he dropped his leg back to the floor but Rena could still hear it. "I defended her mightily enough, but she be sunk nonetheless."
It took Jack just a moment before he tried to lunge across the table but Lance grabbed the back of his jacket and help him back. "If that ship be sunk properly, you should be sunk with it."
Jena moved quickly, backhanding Jack across the face before she turned and left the room. Rena went to move after her but Leon beat her too it. Barbossa watched after her for a moment before the king caught his attention again.
~What in the hell happened?~ Rena wondered to herself as Jack rubbed his jaw.
"Captain Barbossa, each second we tarry, the Spanish outdistance us. I have every confidence you will prevail and be rewarded with the high station you do desire."
"To serve doth suffice, sire." Barbossa gave another bow.
"You, sir, have stooped." Jack told his old friend.
"Jack, our sands be all but run." The other Captain replied. "Where's the harm in joining the winning side?" He stole Sao Feng's words. "And you do meet a nicer class of person."
"I understand everything," Jack answered him as Lance set him back down. "Except that wig."
As Jack made his daring escape, Rena and Lance continued to eat what Jack hadn't stepped in as they ignored everything around them and were ignored back. Rena lifted her head only once to watch Jack throw the chair out the window before she finished eating the cake on her plate.
"He escaped?" The King demanded.
"Leave it to me, sire." Barbossa told him before turning to the Rushes. "Rena, Lance, come with me."
"Of course." Rena grinned, setting her plate down.
Lance didn't want to leave the food behind but he sighed and followed anyway. "So, wanna tell us who beat the hell outta ya?" The man asked.
Barbossa didn't even glance at him. "Edward Teach."
"Who?" Rena asked.
"Blackbeard."
"Again who?" She asked.
Barbossa rolled his eyes. "Shouldn't the two of you be going after Jack?"
"Aww, he's helping us." Lance gave a laugh in a girly-voice. "Thank you kind sir. Be sure to take care of my sister and brother some more now." He caught the pained look on the other man's face. "What happened?" He demanded, all joking aside.
"Nothing you need be worried about. It has nothing to do with you." The Captain growled.
Lance went to grab him but Rena caught his hand, shaking her head. "If you go talk to Gibbs in the prison," She told the man in front of her. "He can help you. He's got your charts to the Fountain of Youth, after all."
Barbossa gave a nod. "Thank you."
Rena looked at him strangely for a moment before she dragged her brother away from him and out the side door the man had led them too.
"And we're just going to leave Jena and Leon like that?" he demanded as they hurried down the streets. They knew that were going to meet Jack at the Captain's Daughter. That's where the impostor was and they both were sure that Jack would like to confront him.
"If you didn't notice, there's something strange going on here. I would gladly like to figure it out what, but something tells me that we'll be running into the three of them again REAL soon. Besides, running after them in the King's Castle is not a good idea when you're being searched for."
"I suppose not, but still."
"Look, I understand how you feel. I don't want to either, but I don't wanna get caught again and then thrown in jail or murdered, all right."
Lance sighed. "Fine. But we're going to find them soon, understand?"
"Deal. And I'll drag Jack behind us unconscious if I have to."
"Can I knock him out?" Lance asked excitedly as they came to a stop just outside the bar they were looking for.
"If it comes down to that…yes." Rena nodded and her brother looked extremely pleased.
The two of them didn't have to wait too long before Jack joined them. He jumped off of his cart as it turned to corner and then watched as all the redcoats chased after the burning cart. Rena and Lance burst out laughing as Jack now hung in the air, his face smashed against the bar's sign. He dropped to the ground and gave a smirk as he turned to the woman and man. "And they never saw it coming." He said.
"Filthy pirates." The voice greeted them as well as the clicking of a gun.
Rena whipped around as a gun went off and then sighed and smiled in relief as the redcoat fell down. "Mr. Teague!" She smiled at the man that had saved them.
"Rena, it's good to see you again, my dear. Lance." Teague nodded at the other man before looking at his son. "Hello, Jackie." He gave a weird salute.
"Hello, Dad." Jack smiled, returning it.
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