-Chapter Three-
Jack, Diana, and James sailed in a tiny rowboat towards a ship that had hit a rock and was half way sunk. It wasn't sinking anymore.
"Why we going out there?" James asked as the lights on the Black Pearl slowly went out.
"You of all people should know why!" Jack yelled. Diana was rowing and Jack and James were sitting there. Watching her row.
"No." James lied. He knew they were trying to find his father. Being the one who leads all who die at sea to his locker, they were sure somebody had died.
"Just waite." Diana said and rowed still towards the boat.
They walked onto the boat and found seven bodies.
"Woe. That was some rock!" Diana said, examining the bodies.
"Well. Where is he?" Jack roared, strutting around.
James knew very well that his father and his father's crew were somewhere near the ship. If only...
"DI! CAPTIAN JACK! I THINK I SEE SOMETHING!" James yelled from the port side of the ship. Diana and Jack rushed over and peered over the railing of the ship. James, being pretty strong, tipped them into the water.
They made a huge splash and sank a bit but reappeared a few seconds later.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" Diana yelled and started swimming towards the ship to kill James when Jack held her back and pointed to the water a few feet in front of them.
Bubbles were making there way up to the surface of the water. Thousands of bubbles.
"What the?" Diana said but was dragged under the water as quick as lightning. But Jack stayed up.
"WHERE'D SHE GO!?" Jack yelled.
James dived into the water and swam down. Being it nighttime, he couldn't see very well but caught a glimps of an eery green ship under the water.
"JACK!" he yelled.
"Captain Jack."
"WHATEVER! THE DUTCHMAN'S DOWN THERE!" James yelled, shaking Jack.
"How do we get down there?"
P-P-P
Diana hit the deck of the ghost ship hard and fell to her knees but was forced back up by the Pirates. They started dragging her to the inside of the ship but she got loose of their grip and tried getting away but was hit across the face with the handle of an ax and fell to the deck, unconscious.
Will Turner sat in his quarters, holding a necklace that Elizabeth had given him.
"Captain. We caught someone." the man said and in came two pirates dragging the unconscious form of Diana.
"Who is she?" Will asked, getting up and walking over to see Diana's face clearly.
"We don't know. She was in the water with another next to the shipwreck."
"Leave her." Will said and they dropped her to the floor and left.
Will crouched down and shook Diana to wake her up.
"Wha? Huh? Oh, dammit, do I have to serve 100 years now?" Diana asked, getting up.
"No. Who are you?" Will asked, helping her up.
"I'm... Di. Short for Diana. You can call me Di." Diana said, refusing Will's help and getting up on her own.
"I'm Will Turner. Well, Captain Will Turner, I guess."
"God, you've been here for 17 years and you still find it weird to call yourself Captain?" Diana said, snorting with laughter.
"No... how'd you know I've been here for 17 years?"
"That's how old your son is." she said but realized what she said and mouthed the word 'Damn!'.
"You know my son... James?"
"No." Diana snapped.
"How do you know I have one, then?"
"What are you talking about? I didn't know you had a son?" Diana said quickly.
"You just said so?"
"No I didn't!"
"Yes, you did!"
"No."
"Yes!"
Then Diana was silent. She wouldn't say a word.
"Captain!" Bootstrap yelled, coming into the room.
"Yes?" Will said.
"There's another ship wreck nearby!" he said.
"Oh. Head for it. I need to talk to her." Will said.
"Who's she?"
"All she said was her name was Diana."
Bootstrap walked up to her and stared her in the face. "You know. She kind of looks like Jack." he said and left.
Will then walked up and stared at her.
"He's right? You do? Why is that?"
"Jack who?" Diana said quickly.
"Jack Sparrow." Will said slyly.
"Captain- DAMN!" she yelled when she, again, spoke before thinking.
"So you do know him. Don't try and lie! You know him."
"No I don't!"
P-P-P
James and Jack made their way back to the Black Pearl.
"ALL HANDS ON DECK! NOW!" Jack yelled and his crew started to assemble.
"MEN! The Flying Dutchman has taken Di. What do we do!"
"We throw him in and see if the ship'll spit her out!" one Pirate yelled, pointing at James.
"No! We lure the ship up here and attack it to get her back!"
"Can't we just shoot them?"
Apparently, Jack had made the crew think of Diana as if she was Captain like he was. Or maybe it was because she was a Pirate Lord? James didn't know. But they seemed to care about her.
"Can't you just go down there and ask for her back?"
"No." Jack said. "I know! We'll get the Pirate Lords together! They'll help get her out!"
"I don't think so." a Pirate said.
"I could get her back." James said.
Everybody turned their heads in unison and stared at James.
"You? You're father would keep you. Then..." Jack said but stopped himself.
"Then what?"
"Nothing." Jack said quickly.
"I heard your conversation last night. With Di. I... I was only leverage? You wern't protecting me from anything. I was just a pawn to get my father to help you."
"Ya. Pretty much." Jack said.
James shook his head. "I'm going down there and getting Di back."
"Oh! So it is that you've found a girl!" Jack said as James was about to dive off the ship.
"What?"
"I was right! You do like her!"
James was silent. He averted his gaze and shifted around. Did he like Diana?
"I was right! How far are you willing to go for this girl?" Jack asked.
"I'd die for her." James said quietly.
"Oh buggah." Jack said and walked into his quarters.
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