A/N- Just a quick note thanking Pirate-on-fleet-street, Freedom's Call and kiki148 for reviewing Chapter 6. Please review if you read this. I need all the advice I can get.
Disclaimer- I don't own PotC… I wish I owned Jack, but alas, Johnny Depp is already married… :)
It was mid morning, and Jack was out on deck, messing with the charts, trying to figure out a way back to the land of the living.
Almost everyone was on deck, boiling in the extreme heat and dieing of thirst. Everything but the rum was gone. Jack picked up his bottle and tried to drink, then turned the bottle upside down, not seeing any rum come out.
No wait… the rums gone too.
Jack had decided that it was better not to wake Elizabeth. She would come out when she wanted to. She did seem to sleep late though. It just bugged him how he could not concentrate without her there.
Will was just a bit away from Jack. He had woken up from being unconscious. Again. Unconscious twice in one day. That must be a new record.
He glanced over at Jack. Jack had been messing with the charts for sometime now with no anvil. It seemed like they were stuck there.
Will hadn't seen Elizabeth all morning and he really needed to talk with her. Was it possible she could still be asleep?
No. Will highly doubted that. Elizabeth had always been an early riser. There was no way she could still be sleeping at 10:00.
Will hated to have to be so near the man who had ruined his happiness. He had taken Elizabeth, the only thing he cared about now that he couldn't save his father, and turned her against him.
It was taking all of Will's self control not to shoot Jack right now on deck, in front of his crew.
Jack continued to turn the charts dials in every possible direction, trying to find a clue as to how to leave. If only he could concentrate.
How was he supposed to find a way home with these charts if he couldn't concentrate!
"I don't know Jacky." Said a miniature him on his left shoulder.
"What!" Jack exclaimed, startled and looked at the small pirate swinging from his dreadlock.
"Why don't you go find the girl if your so buggered up?" Another Jack appeared on his left shoulder this time.
"I can't. "Jack reasoned. "She's asleep. I don't want to wake her. The lass went through a lot last night."
"Ah, yes." The first Jack said. "Not sure if she'll stay long mate. May think you cause too much drama."
"No, don't listen to him. He's got it all wrong, mate, I swear!" The second piped in.
"No one can resist Captain Jack Sparrow."
Jack smirked at this. " You got a point little me." Jack said satisfied. All the ladies love Captain Jack.
"She has." The pirate that was swinging on the dreadlock almost fell off when Jack turned his head violently to look at him.
Jack wrinkled his brow, listening intently to his other little self.
"Many times before. Who's to say she won't change her mind and go back to the whelp any minute now? She did kill you for him." The little Jack stepped back onto his shoulder, letting go of his hair.
"And she came back to save you once she knew she had made a mistake!" The other mini pirate insisted.
Jack glanced back down at the chart. He really needed to find out what they were supposed to do. He couldn't just let everyone die of thirst while he battle with his inner selves.
"She did almost marry him, Jacky." The small Jacks continued to ramble on while the real Jack got more and more frustrated and confused.
"Yes! But she didn't! Fate stopped it from happening mate! You still have a chance!"
"Don't listen to the ninny over there. He's just trying to get your hopes up." One of the Jacks insulted the other.
"Oh will you two just shut it!!" Jack yelled, causing the some of crew to turn their heads and give their captain very strange looks. Jack smiled innocently at them.
He then looked right and left and after not seeing his selves anymore, he went back to looking at the map.
Spinning the inner dial, Jack found something new.
"Up is down. That's just maddeningly unhelpful!" Jack turned the ship in the middle until it was upside down.
"It's not sun rise. It's sun down. And rise...Up!" Jack said, realizing he had just figured it out. Jack quickly came up with a plan as how to turn the ship wrong way up.
"Look what's that?" Jack said as he dashed to one side of the ship pointing with his arm out to the endless ocean.
"What's what?" Will exclaimed confused, coming over to the side along with Gibbs.
"What is that?" Jack continued to ramble on going from one side to the next, have all the crew follow him.
Realizing what Jack was doing, Barbossa when below and let loose the cargo, so it would sway the ship even more.
After coming back on deck, he swiftly grabbed the railing along with the others as the ship flipped.
"Now up is down." Jack explained to everyone, though they were still exceedingly confused.
Upon resurfacing, they spotted an island just a little ways away, where they could re supply with fresh water.
"You go ashore, Hector, I'll stay with my ship." Jack looked around a bit. Where was Elizabeth? Was she still really asleep even after they had gone under water? How does that work?
"I'm not leaving my ship with you!" Barbossa yelled.
"Bloody Hell, Hector! For the billionth time, you are the chart man!
"Why don't you both go ashore, and I'll watch the pearl. Temporarily of course!" Will added after getting shady looks.
Jack didn't trust Will, but with no other choice, he agreed.
"Keep an eye on him." Jack whispered to Gibbs before he entered the longboat.
It all must have been a dream then. Elizabeth reasoned with herself. Me a pirate? Will. Jack Sparrow. The Black Pearl. Everything. I've never even met a pirate before let alone Captain Jack Sparrow! And Davy Jones doesn't exist and neither does his locker. It's impossible. There's no way I have go to the edge of the world and back. And if I were a pirate, why would I be back in Port Royal?
Elizabeth sat up from her bed and stretched her limbs. They ached for some reason. That's unusual. It's not like I did anything strenuous.
Or did I?
No that's a silly question. Of course not!
Elizabeth moved to look at herself in the mirror. She looked like the ideal proper young lady.
Of course I couldn't have been a pirate. Or love a pirate either. It's bad enough to love a blacksmith! How improper that dream was!
Elizabeth searched through her drawers, looking for something. And there it was. The pirate Medallion she stole from Will eight years earlier.
If that had really happened this wouldn't be here. Elizabeth thought.
She then remembered her dream and how Pirates had come after her because she had it.
Maybe just to be safe. She thought as she replaced the medallion back in her drawer.
She then glanced at herself in the mirror again and noticed something strange. She was wearing a shell necklace that looked like the sea and inside it was a black pearl. The pendent had some sort of mystic charm and something inside her made her feel like it couldn't possibly be something made by human hands.
Where did I get this? Elizabeth questioned herself.
She didn't remember buying it or anything like that.
She tried to remember it but she couldn't. It was just there. The necklace was a mystery.
"Elizabeth" She heard her father call from outside her door. "Are you descent?"
"Yes!" She called as she hastily threw on a robe and shoved the necklace down her shirt, hiding it. She had no clue where she had gotten it from, but she knew it wasn't anything her father would approve of.
"Ah." Governor Swann exclaimed as he entered her room, followed by two maids.
"Still in bed at this hour?"
"Yes." Elizabeth responded before the maids opened the window and it's light blinded her.
"It's a beautiful day!" Elizabeth smiled at her father when he said that. Something about this conversation seemed strangely familiar, but she didn't know why.
"I have a gift for you." Her father opened a box and handed it to her.
"It's beautiful!" She said, looking over the dress with her eyes. She had seen it somewhere before. " May I inquire as to the occasion?"
"Does a father need a occasion to dote upon his daughter?" Elizabeth giggled, and her maids followed her behind the screen to help her with her dress.
"No, I was rather hoping you would wear it to the ceremony today."
"Ceremony?" Everything seemed so familiar to Elizabeth. The conversation, the dress, the ceremony… In Elizabeth's dream there had been a ceremony.. for Norrington.
"Admiral Norrington's promotion ceremony." The governor clarified.
"I knew it." Elizabeth said, thinking out loud. This had happened in her dream. What was going on?
"Commodore Norrington he is about to become. He's taken quite a fancy to you, you know?" Elizabeth gasped, and it wasn't because of the corset that her servants were putting on her.
"Elizabeth? Are you all right? How is it coming?" Her father questioned.
"It's difficult to say." Elizabeth was not speaking about the dress.
"It's the latest fashion with the women in London." The governor went on.
"Well women in London must have learned not to breathe." She added with a grimace. Did they really have to pull it so tight? I could faint.
Elizabeth sensed something odd about that statement. Something in her mind didn't seem right. She kept on remembering things from that stupid dream she had had earlier.
Bloody brain. She thought
Elizabeth Swann! She scolded herself. Where ever did you learn to talk like that!!!
"Governor Swann you have a visitor." The butler said as he came in.
"Very well," her father said before her retired from the room.
Elizabeth's maid continued to help her dress, pulling at her hair and putting it in a tight bun.
This made Elizabeth's head ache. I don't see why? I've had this done every day for how long?
Never the less, Elizabeth's head got sore from being messed with and her body ached in side her dress.
It was not just the corset that bugged her, it was everything; the shoes made he feet hurt, her hat was plastered to her head with pins and her dress was uncomfortably airy.
"Why am I having so many issues today?" Elizabeth muttered to herself as she made her way down the stairs.
"Elizabeth you look Beautiful!" Her father sighed as she walked down the stairs.
"Will!" She exclaimed rushing down the stairs as fast as she could in her dress.
"Miss Swann." He acknowledged.
"I had a dream about you last night." She blurted out, wishing he would act more like the Will in her dream. Bugger she thought. Bugger! What kind of word is that!
Elizabeth quickly tried to come up with something she could have dreamt about.
"We were at a tea party and you refused to call me Elizabeth. How many times do I have to tell you to?" Elizabeth was annoyed by Will standoffish behavior.
"At least once more Miss Swann. As always." Will bowed, remembering his place.
"Good day Mr. Turner." Elizabeth said before she left, sick of the way Will was behaving.
"Good Day, Elizabeth" Will whispered as she disappeared in her carriage, really distressed about the sense of deja vu she kept having.
Elizabeth was dieing in her corset. I don't think this blazing heat helps much though! She yelled in her head.
"Miss Swann." Someone spoke from behind her softly. It was Norrington.
"May I have a moment?" He asked politely.
Elizabeth forced a smile. She already knew what was coming. Even without that strange dream she had had, she had suspected he would propose for some time now.
"You look lovely Elizabeth." James tried to flatter her.
They had moved up to the edge of the fort, and Elizabeth was fading even more now.
She was breathing heavy, trying to catch enough breathe in her corset.
"I apologize if I seem forward, but I must speck my mind." Norrington continued on. Elizabeth couldn't bear it. She couldn't breathe, and yet she was force to stand here and listen to a proposal of marriage by this tight laced git!
Elizabeth! She scolded again. Watch your language!
"This promotion froze in that sharp relief that I have not achieved. I marriage to a fine woman."
Elizabeth tried to steady her breath, not wanting to give Norrington the wrong ideas.
"You have become a fine woman Elizabeth." James said, turning to look at her
Elizabeth's breath was gone. All the air that she had had left in one swift moment.
"I can't breathe…" Elizabeth said almost inaudibly.
"Yes, I'm quite nervous my self." Norrington continued, looking out at the sea.
Suddenly, Elizabeth felted the stone under her feet disappear, and she began to fall, slipping out of consciousness.
"Will you be saving her then?" Jack asked the soldier next to him.
"Can't swim." The soldier admitted
"Pride of the royal navy you are," he said as he stripped himself of his jacket, and effects and handed to the soldiers saying, "Don't loose these."
He then proceeded to jump off the Interceptor and into the water after the fallen girl.
Jack pushed his body down into the water towards the shape of a girl resting on the ocean's floor. Pulling her with him, Jack tried to make it to the surface, but her dress was weighing them down. He then ripped off the dress and swam towards the harbor.
Reaching the dock, the two soldiers helped Jack hoist the girl out of the water.
"Not breathing," One said freaking out.
"Move!" Jack ordered and crouched down over her, cutting the laces on her corset, and throwing it at one of the officers, enabling her to breathe.
"Never would have thought of that," The other soldier exclaimed, stunned.
Elizabeth coughed and choked out some water. Had she really just almost drowned?
"Clearly you've never been to Singapore." She heard a voice just above her say.
Elizabeth locked eyes with the stranger and her eyes immediately widened.
It was him. Captain Jack Sparrow. He had rescued her just like in her dream. He had saved her life. He actually did exist.
Elizabeth brought her left hand up to clutch her heaving chest. Jack's eyes darted to what was on her finger. His ring. He looked down at his own hand and sure enough, his emerald ring was missing.
"How did you get that?" Jack was very confused. Had she not been unconscious the whole time? How could she have nicked my ring?
"I don't know Jack." Elizabeth responded gazing into his eyes. He really was a very handsome man.
Jack had never seen this girl in his life, but already it seemed like he knew her. Somewhere in his gut, she seemed familiar.
"How do you know me?" Jack pouted a little bit, confused
Elizabeth didn't know what to say. How do I know you? A silly little dream I had? Or maybe it wasn't a dream. Maybe it was some kind of vision of what my life is suppose to be like. Maybe it's insight into the future. But what do I tell him?
"Run!" Elizabeth whispered to Jack urgently.
But he didn't have time to, because the two were interrupted when a sword was brought to Jacks neck and he was order to stand up.
"Elizabeth! Are you alright?" Her father said as he rushed over to her and put his coat around her. He then spotted the soldier holding the corset and glared at him. The soldier quickly dropped it and pointed to Jack. "Shoot him!" He ordered
"Commodore!" Elizabeth interrupted, trying to save Jack. " Do you really intend to kill my rescuer?" Elizabeth looked over at Jack, again locking eyes. His eyes had a way of staring into her soul.
"I think thanks are in order." Norrington held out his hand to shake.
"No, Jack. Don't." Elizabeth tried to warn him, remembering what happened next in the dream.
"Elizabeth…" Her father scowled at her
But it was too late. Norrington grabbed Jack's hand and saw a P burned in to the skin on his forearm. "Pirate."
"Hang him!" The governor interjected, causing Jack to go a little pale.
"Well, well, well. Jack Sparrow isn't it." The commodore stated releasing his hand.
"Captain Jack Sparrow Actually." Jack insisted his title.
"Oh I'm sorry Captain. I don't see you ship!" Norrington added cockily
"I'm in the Market." Jack looked around for an escape route but found none.
"Fetch some irons." An officer came up and cuffed Jack, pulling him down the dock a ways.
"Commodore I really must protest. Pirate or not this man saved my life!" Elizabeth moved to stand in front of Jack, realizing that she could help him escape the way she had in her dream.
"One good deed is not enough to save a man from a life time of wickedness."
"But it seems enough to condemn him." Jack chimed in as the officer who cuffed him moved away.
"Finally." He exclaimed, pulling Elizabeth toward him, with the chains around her neck.
"I knew you'd warm up to me. I'm effects and my hat." Jack glared at Norrington not seeing him move. "Commodore!" Jack threatened
He then turned his attention to the lady in his hands and turned her around to face him. "Elizabeth. It is Elizabeth isn't it?" He asked, trying to sound dangerous, but not to her.
"Yes." She murmured. He was holding her tightly, but was by no means trying to hurt her. She loved the way his body felt pressed against her's. For some reason it made her feel safe, even though she shouldn't. Elizabeth Control yourself
"Lizzie, if you 'd be so kind." She grabbed Jack's stuff from James and turned back to face Jack. " Come, come deary. We don't have all day." Jack added to annoy the Commodore. " Now if you will be very kind."
Elizabeth then began to put on his effects, starting with his hat, and then the belt across his chest. While wrapping the belt around him, she whispered in his ear.
"Take me with you.." She pleaded, wanting to get away from this place and have an adventure just like she had had in her dream.
Jack looked at her surprised. He wanted to, he really did, but there was no way he could make it out of the bay with the governor's daughter.
Elizabeth then finished attaching the belts at his waist. " Easy on the goods love." Jack said this again, just for Norrington's sake.
"Please…"Elizabeth mouthed so only Jack could hear.
"What did she say?" The governor asked concerned, causing Jack to remember once again that if he wanted to escape and not be followed, she could not come with him.
"Time and Tide love. I'm so sorry" He said before he turned her to face the others.
"Gentlemen, Me lady. You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow." Jack said before he pushed Elizabeth towards them and made off, swinging on a rope.
"Damn you Jack Sparrow!" Elizabeth yelled after him, causing a smirk to appear on his face.
"Elizabeth!! This is where I drawl the line! Defending Pirates, and now you are swearing!" Her father said exasperated
"Come on men!!" The commodore yelled as he and his men ran off after the pirate.
"Come. Let us go home. I think you need a rest after your fall." The sight of Elizabeth and that pirate disturbed the governor. He wanted to get her home and away from him as soon as possible.
"Of course father. I shall fall asleep right after my head hits the pillow."
Elizabeth was drawing up a plan to escape and help Jack once her father thought she was asleep. Elizabeth did remember something Jack told her once about a fight and a certain blacksmith….
Please Review!!!
