SaveroftheSun: Good, cause I love it too! Sounds, erm, interesting. It put a pretty hilarious Scarlett-kidnapping-Lizzie scene in my head. She'd need a good disguise!

nineteennitytwo: Thanks. It's hard to be original in these bits. It'll be more my own stuff in the next one (well... obviously!)

keiraliz: Poor Will (how many times have I said that?!?) Well... as my friend pointed out, when his shirt's wet you can see his nipples through it! Hehe! The Scarlett thing made me laugh!

Pirate-on-fleet-street: It's quite hard not to quote and have it still making sense. I'll try to put less in though.

callieandjack: Eat up then! lol!

klutzygal12: Yeah! He's a bit scary too!

Nelle07: Ah, that's always a good feeling!

Oops.

I had done it. I had spoken his name. I had thought about him. My stomach twisted as I said it and I regretted it almost immediately. I felt like I'd been stabbed. I'd never actually been stabbed before, but the huge painful hole in my insides and the pain erupting from just about everywhere was roughly how I imagined it might feel to have the blade of sword cut open your heart. It was all I could do to stop myself shaking. Sao Feng's face was as twisted as my stomach felt. Only his was twisted in anger, not pain.

"The only reason I would want Jack Sparrow back from the Land of the Dead," he lost the fight to keep his voice level, "is so I could SEND HIM BACK MYSELF!!"

He banged his fist down hard on a table. I jumped. My teeth ground together in a vain effort to keep my mouth closed. My moment of pain was blinded by anger. Barbossa crossed over to Sao Feng and attempted to undo the mess I had just created. He tried to talk sense into Sao Feng, explaining why we needed Jack back, but Sao Feng still looked really angry. What was his problem? I understood now why we had been so thoroughly searched upon arrival. Anyone with half a brain would have shot Sao Feng dead after two minuets in his company. Even after Barbossa had explained that Jack was needed for the Brethren Court, Sao Feng did not seem to relax. His eyes were ablaze with fury.

"So, you have deceived me," he said. Was he still sore about the thief thing? We'd passed by that topic ages ago. I got the feeling we were going backwards. I jumped as Sao Feng suddenly broke the silence by shouting, "WEAPONS!"

In a matter of seconds we were surrounded by his men. They were armed and formed a tight circle around us. Just as Barbossa started to assure Sao Feng of our honorable intentions something sprang up from the floorboards. I grabbed them and looked at them in surprise. Normally, I'm not very good at catching things. But there I was, holding a sword in each hand. Elizabeth and Barbossa were also clutching swords and our intentions didn't look quite so honorable now. I realized, probably a fairly long time after Elizabeth and Barbossa, that the swords has come from the crew beneath us who had realized things weren't exactly going well. Sao Feng grabbed one of his own men. The man looked terrified.

"Drop you're weapons," Sao Feng threatened. "Or I kill your man!"

There was a long silence. I studied said man. He didn't look familiar in any way and he certainly hadn't been with us last time I checked. Barbossa gave a shrug. "Alright, kill him. He's not our man."

Sao Feng frowned. For once everyone in that room was thinking the same thing. Only Will chose to voice that universal thought, "If he's not with you… and he's not with us… who's he with?"

There was a silence that lasted only a few short seconds and then the East India Trading Company came bursting in. Everything around us was plunged into confusion and chaos. The air was full of gun powder and the ring of swords clashing against swords. Everyone was fighting someone, but nobody really knew who or why. I'd like to say that against the East India Trading Company every pirate in the building fought united against them, but that would be a lie. It was every pirate for them self.

In a battle with three sides it's hard to know where to start. I lost track of everyone else as I engaged in a fight with a Redcoat. Cannons and explosives were being used by the Company and the bathhouse was beginning to collapse. The gunshots and cannon blasts were deafening as I fought my way out. A sword came dangerously close to my neck, but the man it belonged to dropped his guard for a second on realizing I was a woman. I kicked him and he went flying backwards.

The fight had now spilled out onto the street and quite a lot of the wooden buildings in Singapore had caught fire. I winced as someone nearby was hit on the side of their head by a bullet and I was splattered with blood. I caught a brief glance of Tia in the shadows before I had to defend myself again. I saw the sword fly at me from the corner of my eye. I blocked it and turned to face whoever was attacking me. Our eyes met. I froze.

It was George.

His green eyes widened in surprise and shock when he saw who I was. His lips moved silently. Barbossa's gruff voice shouted to me over the rabble. George's eyes flickered to him then back to me. I could see pain written over his face. This was the first time he had seen any of us fighting as pirates and you could see the enormity of it hit him. We were no longer on the same side. I lowered my sword and stepped back feeling inexplicably guilty. I turned away from him and ran to Barossa and Elizabeth. The three of us disappeared into the gloom.

"What was that about?" Elizabeth asked as we swiftly made our way to the docks.

"That was George," I sighed. She blinked at me in surprise, but our conversation was cut short as we met Will. He was holding the Charts and, it transpired he had also got a ship, a crew and convinced Sao Feng to cover our escape. If anyone was suspicious by Sao Feng's change of heart nobody asked. There wasn't the time for questions.

The Hai Peng was the ship Sao Feng had given us. His crew set about preparing her to sail immediately. I looked around for my friends and did a quick head count. Elizabeth was talking to Tia at the rail, Barossa was at the helm with Will and the rest were trying as beast they could to help aboard the Hai Peng. It seemed that we had all survived.

My heart felt lighter that it had in a very long time because now we were close. Now we had the Charts and a ship. Now we were on our way to World's End. And Jack.