I followed Jack as he walked into the gathering, he had a tight grip on my hand as to not lose me.
"Excuse me, pardon me" I said, pushing past pirates.
"Begun by blood" Barbossa said, ready to cut Will's throat.
"Excuse me" Jack said, as we finally got to the front and Will spotted us.
"Becca. Jack!"
"Not possible" Barbossa said, I smirked. He should know by now that Jack and I are not easy to kill.
"Not probable" Jack corrected.
"Where's Elizabeth" Will asked.
"She's safe, just like we promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really except for Becca and Elizabeth who are, in fact, women"
"Shut up, your next" Barbossa leant in to cut Will again.
"You don't want to be doing that" I said. Barbossa looked like he wanted to ignore me, but knew anything Jack and I say is probably very useful. Well – when you can understand what we say.
"Why don't I want to be doing it?" He asked.
"Well, because" Jack pushed the bosun's hands off of both of our shoulders and pulled me forward with him "because the HMS Dauntless, pride of the Royal Navy, is floating just offshore. Waiting for you" Jack explained for me.
"Just hear us out, mate. You order your men to row out to the Dauntless" I said
"They do what they do best" Jack continued.
"Robert's your Uncle"
"Fannie's your Aunt"
"There you are with two ships. The makings of your very own fleet"
"Course you?ll take the grandest as your flagship, and who's to argue?"
"But what of the Pearl? Name Jack Captain, we'll sail under your colours, we'll give you ten percent of our plunder"
"And you get to introduce yourself as?Commodore Barbossa. Savvy?" Jack finished.
"I s'pose in exchange, you want me not to kill the whelp" Barbossa asked.
"No, no, not at all by all means, kill the whelp. Just not yet. Wait to lift the curse until the opportune moment" Jack said.
"For instance?" We both picked up some medallions and I continued "after you've killed Norrington's men" We threw them back as I spoke "Every. Last. One." We both kept one each but made sure Barbossa didn't see. I sneaked a wink in a Will to make sure he got it.
"You've been planning this from the beginning. Ever since you learned my name" Will said.
"Yeah" We said in unison.
"I want fifty percent of your plunder" Barbossa bargained.
"Fifteen" Jack said.
"Forty"
"Twenty-five. And I'll buy you a hat. A really big one. Commodore" I could see Barbossa thinking about it.
"We have an accord" We all shook hands, and when Jack and I realised we were shaking each other's hands we stopped.
"All hands to the boats" Jack ordered, I saw Barbossa give him a look. "Apologies. You give the orders"
"Gent's take a walk" I looked at Jack confused, this wasn't part of the plan.
"Not to the boats?" I asked. I got a glare, and I shut up and went to investigate some of the treasure with Jack.
"I must admit, Jack , I thought I had ye figured. But it turns out that you're a hard man to predict" Barbossa said, I was a bit annoyed that he missed me out of the conversation but I saw something shiny and was distracted.
"Me? I'm dishonest" He walks forward and throws away a gold statue he was holding "And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly …. stupid" He stole a pirate's sword and tossed it to Will who used it to untie himself.
Jack was fighting with Barbossa and Will was fighting some other pirates, I went up to the chest and took out my medallion, I cut my hand and dropped it back in.
I looked back at Jack to see he had been stabbed, I gasped but he staggered back into the moonlight to reveal a skeleton. Oh yeah, he had a coin as well, so he couldn't get hurt.
I fought off a pirate for a little while, but it was hard seeing as he wouldn't die, so I slammed a pot over his head. I was about to help Will but Elizabeth came out of nowhere with a staff.
Pot man came back but I just hit him over the head with my sword. I was jumping over the stones as Will ran up to the chest, and I stopped frozen when I saw Barbossa pointing his pistol at me.
I heard a shot, and looked down when I couldn't feel anything. I looked up confused to see Jack with his pistol out aimed at Barbossa and smoking at the end.
"Ten years you carry that pistol, and now you waste your shot" Barbossa said.
"He didn't waste it" Will said, as he dropped both coins into the chest.
Barbossa dropped his sword with a clang, and pulled open his coat, to see blood pouring from his chest.
"I feel... cold" He said, before he fell down. Finally dead.
"You did it!" I shouted as I ran to hug Jack, he spun me round a couple of times, before we just stood there looking at each other.
We both then turned away spluttering awkwardly. But I placed a crown on Jack's head, while he grinned at me. I collected a few pieces of treasure while Jack draped himself in whatever he could.
A few minutes later we were looking at where the Black Pearl should have been but wasn't.
"I'm sorry Becca. Jack" I looked down while Jack said.
"They've done what right by them. Can't expect more then that"
We spent the night in separate jail cells, they didn't want a repeat of us escaping and thought we were more dangerous with each other. Which was right but I couldn't help but want to spend my last night in Jack's arms.
When the morning had come, we were standing on the gallows. The official was reading out a list of our crimes, it was a really long list and with every new thing he said. I grinned at Jack remembering all the fun we've had with each other.
"Impersonating an officer of the Spanish Royal Navy, impersonating a cleric of the Church of England?"
Jack grinned at me.
"Ah yeah, I remember that" I said, smiling wistfully. I've still got that necklace I had to wear.
"Sailing under false colours, arson, kidnapping, looting, poaching, brigandage, pilfering, depravity, depredation, and general lawlessness. And for these crimes you have been sentenced to be, on this day, hung by the neck until dead. May God have mercy on your souls" The noose was then put around my throat.
"See you in hell" I said to Jack, as the lever was about to be pulled. My feet went through the floor but I felt a sword under my feet and I tried to stand on it.
The rope that was holding me was then cut and I cut the rope that was binding my hands together, seeing Jack had fallen down as well. Grinning we turned and fought our way up the tower.
Jack and Will used the rope to trip some of the soldiers who I then bolted over.
"Hey" I shouted.
"Sorry love" We were then surrounded, with the feather from Will's hat tickling my face.
"I thought we might have to endure some manner of ill-conceived escape attempt but not from you" Norrington said to Will.
"On our return to Port Royal , I granted you clemency. And this is how you thank me? By throwing in your lot with them? There pirates!" The governor said, Oh go choke on your wig.
"And good people" Jack and I pointed to ourselves proudly "If all I have achieved here is that the hangman will earn three pairs of boots instead of two, so be it. At least my conscience will be clear" I disliked Will in the beginning but now I quite like him.
"You forget your place, Turner" Norrington said.
"It's right here, between you and them"
"As is mine" Elizabeth stood next to Will. I still don't like her though, burning the rum can never be forgiven.
"Elizabeth ! Lower your weapons. For goodness? sake put them down!" The soldiers lowered their guns.
"So this is where your heart truly lies, then?" I might have felt sorry for him if he hadn't tried to kill us.
"It is" She said, I then noticed Cotton's parrot and nudged Jack.
But Jack cannot be Jack if he doesn't draw attention to himself.
"Well! I'm actually feeling rather good about this" He turned to the governor dragging me along with him "I think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh? Spiritually?Ecumenically?Grammatically?" He then turned to Norrington "I want you to know that I was rooting for you, mate. Know that. Elizabeth try not to be kidnapped any more. Will, nice hat" We then ran up to the edge of the battlement "Friends! This is the day that you will always remember as the day that" Jack lost his balance and fell, I was unceremoniously dragged over with him.
"Sail ho" Jack and I grinned at each other before racing off to the Black Pearl, which had never looked more beautiful.
Jack grabbed onto a rope that was tossed down to us, and I climbed onto his back. We were then hauled aboard, and landed near the helm.
"I thought you were supposed to keep to the Code" I said to Gibbs.
"We figured they were more actual guidelines" He said, as he helped us both up. Cotton handed Jack his hat and Anamaria handed me his coat. Which I put around his shoulders.
"Captain Jack Sparrow, the Black Pearl is yours" I said.
Jack walked over to the wheel and ran his hands over it, but noticed everyone was watching him.
"On deck, you scabrous dogs! Man the braces! Let down and haul to run free. Now...bring me that horizon" He took out his compass and handed it to me.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"Wherever your heart desires" He said before singing "And really bad eggs, drink up me hearties, yo ho"
