When they arrived aboard the Dauntless Jack and Lara were immediately sent to the brig. They were locked in a cell across the one who held Barbossa's crew, at least the part of it that survived. Lara was happy that they weren't thrown together, being locked just with Jack meant that she could, at least, catch some sleep until they arrived in Port Royal. She started thinking about ways to escape but the truth was that she was tired and being hit in the head twice did lead her to a constant dizziness, so all the ideas that she was having were no good.

Jack didn't say a word, he just sat on the cell's floor and pulled his hat over his eyes, the same way he had it when Lara first saw him in jail. His old crew wasn't paying them much attention, they were probably trying to find a way out of the situation also, plus not being immortal anymore made them less boisterous.

Lara kept walking from one side of the cell to the other, she wanted to have at least half of a plan in her head for what to do next, she was agitated, like a wild animal in a cage.

"Can you stop doing that?" Jack said to her, annoyance seeping in to his voice.

"Sorry" Lara responded stopping and taking a sit next to him on the floor. But she just couldn't stay still so she started tapping on the cell bars. She kept taping absentmindedly until Jack caught her wrist.

"You're driving me crazy. Why can't you sit still? I'm trying to think and you keep banging my head."

"I'm sorry but I can't calm down, I feel like running and I can't and I've got all this energy and I feel that if I don't do something I'm going to explode. I've got to do something. And I wasn't banging your head. What's wrong with you? since when are you so sensitive?"

"I'm not sensitive, but someone has to think about how we're going to get out of this."

"Well I'm thinking to, I just have another way of doing it than you. So what's gona be, I keep pacing or I keep tapping?"

"Can you stop both?"

"No, we've just discussed this. I …"

"Lara!" there was a voice interrupting Lara's sentence.

Lara turned around facing the door of the cell, there with something in a rag was the medic.

"Hey, lovely seeing you again. What brings you in this part of the ship? Are you lost or are you looking for me?" Lara responded heading for the door and smiling seductively.

"I thought you might be hungry, so I brought you some cheese, some bread and some pork. Here." He said giving her the rag that contained the food.

"Thank you, you're a really wonderful guy." Lara exclaimed. "I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I would be extremely happy if you could get me some rum. Even a drop would be appreciated." She added in a much lower tone, realizing that the others could hear her and she didn't want them to make noise about this considering that the medic was probably stealing all this to bring to her. She didn't want him to get in to trouble, especially that she just got an idea and she would need his help when they get back to Port Royal. "Sure, I'll be right back." "Well I'm not changing my address any time soon." Lara answered and winked at him wanting to make sure that she'll keep him interested long enough so she could use him in her plan. In a few minutes he came back and, hidden in another rag he smuggled her a full bottle of rum. Lara got closer to the bars and she lightly kissed his lips and then she took a step back. "Thank you! You should go, I don't think it would be good if they find you here." "I'll come to see you tomorrow, all right?" "Only if you can do it safely if not it's better not to come or you'll get both of us in trouble." The man nodded and went back to the outside world, where there was fresh air and the smell of salted water.

Lara went to Jack, she sat in front of him with her legs curled under her, the way that the geishas used to seat at the table. She opened the first cloth and she arranged between them, uncovering the cheese and the pork. She took the piece of bread and she broke it in two giving the bigger piece to Jack.

"Bon appétit!" Lara said to Jack who was still with his hat over his eyes.

Jack pushed his hat higher and he looked at the food in front of him. "You really left your mark on this bloke, haven't you?"

"I wouldn't say that we've got that far, but he's interested and this means that I've got some advantages that I'm going to use when the right time will come. Now shut up and eat. Here you can have this pork I like cheese more."

They ate in silence. Lara was taking small bites, looking like a bird and it made Jack curious considering that last time he'd seen her eat she was more like a hungry wolf.

"If you're trying to impress me by eating like a little lady, don't, I've seen you eat before, actually you even slapped my hand …" Jack said to her, smirking.

"If I wanted to impress you I wouldn't have done it by the way I eat. I'm actually taking smaller bites so it would seem that I'm taking more bites and so trying to trick my stomach that I ate a lot when in fact I didn't."

"Aha, does it work?"

"Sometimes it does, sometimes not that much. We'll see tomorrow." Lara said finishing the last piece of cheese. She started folding the cloth around the piece of bread that she decided to leave for later. She looked at Jack and seeing that he was done eating too she reached her hand behind her back pulled the bottle of rum in front of her and said to him: "What say you about dessert?"

"Where did you get that? From the barber-surgeon?" Jack asked, his eyes lighting up and reaching for the bottle.

"Of course." Lara said taking the bottle out of his reach. "Not so fast, you can only have half. The other half is mine." She said looking deadly serious.

"Sure, love, I wasn't thinking otherwise." Jack said with the most innocent face that Lara saw on him.

"Yes you were, your eyes lit up like the sky in a cloudless night. I don't usually share things that I like so consider the fact that I'm sharing my rum with you as a favor."

"All right, all right can we drink now or do you intend to make me promise you something incredible?" Jack answered impatiently.

Lara opened the bottle took a swig and then she handed it to Jack who was waiting almost with his hand stretched out, he took the bottle and took a swig too, a larger one and with more thirst. Lara got up she paced a little defining her plan in her mind, after a while she sit back, next to Jack this time taking the bottle from him.

"Oy" Jack exclaimed but he didn't continue when he saw Lara's face who wasn't very pleased.

"You almost drank it all, there is hardly any left. I'm never going to share anything with you again. It's my fault, really, I shouldn't have trusted you." Lara said to him bringing the bottle to her lips and finishing the little rum that was left.

"I'll buy you three bottles. I didn't do it on purpose, I just haven't realized how much I've drank. I'll make it up to you, darling. Don't fret."

"Of course you didn't realize how much you drank, you're so selfish that the moment that you got that bottle on your hand you forgot that I existed."

"Oh come on now you're going to pout all the way to Port Royal?"

"I'm not pouting I'm annoyed with you. I'll get another bottle and you're not getting any of it not one single drop." Lara took her vest of off her and made a pillow out of it, turning her back to Jack.

"Fine" Jack said sounding like a child.

"Fine" Lara added and got curled up in a ball because that was the only thing that she could do that resembled symbolically with closing the door on his face.

The rest of the voyage was smooth, the medic, who's name was Eugene, kept bringing food and rum to Lara, they were talking a little every day, Jack was usually in his corner getting very annoyed and sulky every time Gene, how Lara called him, came around. He didn't like the attention the medic was giving Lara and he hated even more the attention Lara was giving to the barber. Will came down a few times talking with Lara and Jack but after a while he didn't come anymore. Lara assumed that Norrington got something to do with that. Elizabeth came to see them once but she didn't stay long because her fiancée came after her.

When they arrived in Port Royal half of Lara's plan was done. She convinced Gene to help her escape from jail the day of Jack's execution. The rest of the plan didn't really exist so she decided that she will improvise. At first she wanted to convince Gene to get her and Jack out of prison but when she subtly raised the question Gene wasn't willing to do that.

"I'm only doing this for you, you promised that you'll be with me if I get you out, right?" Gene asked her the night before the big day.

"Yes, of course, well not right away cause I have to get somewhere safe first, like Tortuga, but after the waters calm down I'm totally yours." Lara answered gently caressing his face through the metal bars that were between them.

"I don't like Sparrow. And I don't like knowing him close to you." Gene said to Lara balling his fists.

"You have nothing to worry about him. He's just a friend. You should get back it's getting late. I'll see you tomorrow. Don't forget to bring what I asked you."

"All right pretty flower." Gene answered and gave Lara a short kiss.

After he left Lara sighed. She looked to her left trying to see Jack who was locked on a cell at the other end of the hallway. Norrington didn't want them to escape again so he considered that it would be better to keep them apart. She wished to be able to tell him about her plan, but she couldn't scream it and on the way here they didn't talk much. Jack seemed upset with her especially because she was getting friendly with Gene, she tried to tell him once what she was planning but he interrupted her, telling her that who she chooses to date is not his concern and she got so angry with him that she just stopped talking with him. Now she regretted her decision and for Jack it looked like Lara and Gene were together, he only saw him coming to talk to her and staying with her long periods of time so he assumed that she ended up falling for the doctor. After all he was a handsome man with a good job. Only if Jack knew Lara better, he would have known that her smiles towards Gene weren't sincere and that she looked for more in a man then good features and a good job. Gene was smart but he wasn't witty, he didn't have much sense of humor and he was rather boring.

The next day, Lara, dressed up as a man, and wearing a hat that was covering her face and all her hair hidden underneath, was heading through the crowd that gathered to see the hanging of the infamous Jack Sparrow. She got as close as she could to the gallows waiting for the opportune moment to act. When she was getting ready to throw a shaken to the rope that was going to hang Jack someone pushed her and she missed her target almost hitting Jack.

She looked at the scene in front of her, the person that pushed her threw a sword on the wood pillar that was under the hatch from the gallows floor. Jack landed on it but the noose was still around his neck so if he lost his footing he would've died. Lara didn't lose her focus. She got another shaken and she threw it, this time not missing her target. Jack got on the floor and started cutting the ropes around his wrists on the sword stuck on the pillar. Lara headed towards him and Will got to them too. So he was the idiot who pushed her. She didn't thought that there will be someone else trying to save Jack. The three of them fought their way through the Navy Soldiers but after a while they were surrounded on the fort's tower.

"I thought we might have to endure some manner of ill-conceived escape attempt but not from you." Norrington, who got at them, said to Will who was still holding his sword up.

"On our return to Port Royal, I granted you clemency. And this is how you thank me? By throwing in your lot with them? They're pirates!" the Governor said, looking disgusted and disappointed.

"And good men. 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." Will answered.

"You forget your place, Turner." Norrington said to Will.

"It's right here…between you and Jack and Lara." He answered.

"Lara? I didn't recognize you, what are you doing here?" Jack asked looking surprised at the 'man' who was standing right next to him.

"As is mine." Elizabeth said moving next to Will.

"I decided it's such a nice day for a stroll. What the bloody hell do you thing I'm doing, I'm saving your ass." Lara answered to Jack.

"Elizabeth! Lower your weapons. For goodness' sake put them down!" the governor exclaimed neither of the man around them paying attention to Jack and Lara's conversation nor at the looks that they were giving each other.

"So this is where your heart truly lies, then?" Norrington asked Elizabeth, hurt.

"It is."

"Well! I'm actually feeling rather good about this." Jack said noticing Cotton's parrot.

"I think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh? Spiritually… Ecumenically…Grammatically?" he said getting right in the governor's face.

"I want you to know that I was rooting for you, mate. Know that." Jack started to head for the edge of the tower giving Lara one look that she read as 'Follow me' so she did hoping that he had a plan. "Elizabeth …it would never have worked between us, darling. I'm sorry. Will …nice hat." Now they were both right at the edge. Lara was looking at Jack trying to figure what was the next step but he just grabbed her by her waist, pulled her as close to him as it was physically possible and added: "Friends! This is the day that you will always remember as the day that – " and they both fell from the battlement. Lara screamed and grabbed the front of Jacks coat. After they got out at the surface of the water she wanted to kick him and hug him in the same time but until she decided what action was better he looked at her and told her.

"I think I might be deaf now. I've never heard someone scream like that."

"Well you should have let me know that we were going to jump, I wasn't ready."

"Why did you think I got you so close to me?" Jack answered smiling at her like he found out a dirty secret about her.

"Well I have no idea, but considering that you're not all in your head I just went with it hoping that you've got a plan because I certainly didn't have a single idea back then."

They both saw the Pearl so they started to swim to it. When they got next to the ship the crew threw them both some ropes to bring them up on the deck. Jack landed on his ass, but Lara landed on her feet and she gave him a look that was clearly mocking his ability to land.

Anamaria put his coat around his shoulders and 'handed' him his ship. Jack went at the helm and caressed it until he realized that everyone was watching him.

"On deck, you scabrous dogs! Man the braces! Let down and haul to run free." Jack started barking orders. "Now...bring me that horizon." He said more to himself and then he started humming. "And really bad eggs…drink up, me 'earties, yo ho."

Lara was still next to him waiting for him to make eye contact with her. When he finally did she told him. "I told you you'll get her back." And then she turned her back to him heading down on deck but she didn't reach the stairs when Jack's voice made her stop.

"What about your lover back in Port Royal. What does he think about you leaving with a motley crew?"

Lara turned back to face Jack. She looked at him, mischief in her eyes. "I'm very good at faking apparently, if even you thought that I've got feelings for the bloke. He was part of the plan. I needed him to get me out from prison, unfortunately he didn't want to help me get you out so I had to improvise. You know, he's not really my type. So are we going to Tortuga?"

Jack looked at her, there were so many things that he didn't know about her, but there will be enough time to discover them. "Aye. Tortuga."

"I know a man there that could help us with the repairs for the ship. He owes me considering I saved his life twice. He's gona give you a better price." Lara said heading for the stairs. It's time for a new adventure. I wish my father was here. He would like to know that Jack got his ship back in the end.