Marie awoke the next morning groggily. She pulled on her boots and tied back her hair. She went up the stairs to go on deck and was abruptly pulled into strong arms. She looked up surprised at Jack as he suddenly kissed her on the lips.
The kiss was gentle and teasing, making her want to respond. Her wide eyes slowly closed and she kissed him back. His hands settled around her waist while her hands slid into his hair. He pulled her closer and the kiss became more passionate. Almost too much for Marie. Her hands slid to his chest and she pushed him back a little, Jack pulled back slowly and said softly,
"You've no idea how long I've wanted to do that."
She grinned and stepped back,
"I think I might have a good idea…"
She looked over to see Gibbs grinning at them. She wasn't surprised; he had always loved Jack's antics. She saw they were drawing close as Gibbs said,
"Look alive, and keep a weather eye! Not for naught it's called Shipwreck Island, where lies Shipwreck Cove and the town of Shipwreck."
Marie walked with Jack and Gibbs and Jack said to Gibbs,
"For all that pirates are clever cobs, we are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things."
"Aye." Gibbs replied.
"I once sailed with a geezer lost both of his arms and part of his eye." Jack said,
"Ow..." Marie put in.
"And what'd you call him?" Gibbs asked.
"Larry." Jack answered.
"No shock." Marie said.
Marie walked with Jack as Gibbs went to work. Marie and Jack both looked up as Barbossa was arguing with Tia Dalma,
"Don't forget why you had to bring me back, and why I could not leave Jack to his well deserved fate. It took nine pirate lords to bind you, Calypso." Marie's eyes widened, she had hoped Barbossa hadn't been able to figure it out, she looked at Jack it seemed as if he shared her thoughts. "And it'll take no less than nine to set ye free. Masters Pintel and Ragetti, take this fishwife to the brig."
"Right this way, Mrs. Fish." Pintel said leading her to the brig.
Marie looked at Jack,
"Should we do something?"
"Not yet." He said simply.
They reached shipwreck cove that night and it was all a glimmer with lights and ships. The crew looked out at it in awe.
"Look at them all!" Pintel exclaimed,
"There's not been a gatherin' like this in our lifetime." Barbossa said.
"And I owe them all money." Jack said solemnly.
Marie laughed at this. They entered the cove and saw many pirates inside. Marie followed Jack and stood next to him, Barbossa took a cannonball and banged it on the table and said,
"As he who issued summons, I convene this, the fourth Brethren Court. To confirm your lordship and right to be heard, present now your pieces of eight, my fellow cap'ns."
Ragettie walked around the room with a bowl. They watched as each peron put a miscellaneous item inside. Pintel said astonished,
"Those aren't pieces of eight, they're just pieces of junk."
"Aye, the original plan was to use nine pieces of eight to bind Calypso, but when the first court met, the brethren were to a one, skint broke." Gibbs informed them.
"So change the name." Pintel said.
"To what? 'Nine Pieces of Whatever We Happened to Have in Our Pockets at the Time'? Oh yes, that sounds very piratey." Gibbs said sarcastically.
"Mr. Ragetti, if you will." Barbossa said motioning at Ragetti.
"I kept it safe for you, just like you said when you gave it to me."
"Aye, ya have, but now I need it back." Barbossa said whacking his head, knocking the wooden eye out and putting it in the bowl.
"Sparrow!" Someone said.
Jack touched a coin from his bandana but didn't take it off, instead he said,
"Might I point out that we are still short one pirate lord, and I'm content as a cucumber to wait until Sao Feng joins us."
"Sao Feng is dead. He fell to the Flying Dutchman." Elizabeth said entering,
"And made you captain?" Jack exclaimed, "They're just giving the bloody title away now."
Marie gave him a look,
"Listen." Elizabeth said, "Our location has been betrayed. Jones is under the command of Lord Beckett, they're on their way here."
"Who is this betrayer?" Someone asked,
"Not likely anyone among us." Barbossa said.
"Where's Will?" Elizabeth asked.
" Not among us." Jack said.
"And it matters not how they found us. The question is, what will we do now that they have?" Barbossa asked the group.
"We fight!" Elizabeth said.
At this all the pirates laughed outright. A Chinese woman said to Elizabeth,
"Shipwreck Cove is a fortress, a well supplied fortress. There is no need to fight if they cannot get to us."
"Sounds like you…" Marie muttered to Jack.
He then gave her a look. Barbossa said,
"There is a third course. In another age, at this very spot, the first court captured the sea goddess, and bound her in her bones." They all nodded recognizing the lyrics to the song, "That was a mistake. Oh, we tamed the seas for ourselves, aye, but opened the door to Beckett and his ilk. Better were the days when mastery of seas came not from bargains struck with eldritch creatures, but from the sweat of a man's brow and the strength of his back alone. Y'all know this to be true. Gentlemen, ladies. We must free Calypso."
"Shoot him!" Someone shouted in outrage,
"Cut out his tongue!" Another cried,
"Shoot him and cut out his tongue, then shoot his tongue. And trim that scraggly beard." Jack said,
"Jack!" Marie said.
"Sao Feng would have agreed with Barbossa."
"Calypso was our enemy then, she will be our enemy now.
The bickering continued and suddenly all the pirates were fighting each other. All hell had broken loose. Elizabeth looked at it and exclaimed,
"This is madness!"
"This is politics." Jack corrected.
"Meanwhile our enemies are bearing down upon us." Elizabeth said exasperated.
"If they not be here already." Barbossa agreed. Barbossa jumped up on the table and fired a shot, "It was the first court what imprisoned Calypso, and we will be the ones to set her free, and in her gratitude she will see fit to grant us boons."
"Whose boons?" Jack asked, "Your boons? Utterly deceptive twaddlespeak, says I."
"Twaddlespeak?" Marie asked,
"If you have a better alternative, please, share." Barbossa asked,
"Cuttlefish. Aye? Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends the cuttlefish. Flippant glorious little sausages. Pen 'em up together and they'll devour each other without a second thought. Human nature, isn't it?...or... or...fish nature. So yes, we could hole up here well provisioned and well armed and half of us would be dead within the month, which seems grim to me any way you slice it. Or, as my learned colleague so naively suggests, we could release Calypso, and we can pray that she will be merciful. I rather doubt it. Can we in fact pretend that she is anything other than a woman scorned, like which fury hell hath no? We cannot. Res ipso loquitur tabula in naufragio, we are left with but one option. I agree with, and I cannot believe the words are comin' out of me mouth, Captain Swann. We must fight."
Marie looked at him, and realized he was fulfilling his promise to Beckett. He was indeed luring the pirates outside and he was using Elizabeth to do it.
