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Jack, who was looking at the ship while cradling his jar of dirt, smiled widely. He mentally prepared himself for the negotiation with Jones.
Lacey watched from the barrel she was sitting on.
"I'll handle this." Jack said pushing some crew aside with his free hand as one held the jar of dirt. He grinned at Jones "Oi! Fishface! Loose something?" He held up the jar of dirt and continued trying to get Jones' attention. "Scungilli!" He took a few steps to far to the side and Jack came falling down the steps. Lacey hopped off her barrel and looked down at him from the helm along with Gibbs.
Jack landed on deck and held up the jar "Got it!" He stood, still smiling. "Come to negotiate, Eh? You slimy git?" Jones scowled "Look what I got!" Jack's smiled widened and his face brightened and he began to chant like a child as he lifted the jar over his head "I got a jar of dirt, I got a jar of dirt and guess what's inside it!"
Lacey saw Jones turned to his crew, most likely giving them orders. Soon the cannons were being placed, ready for fire.
Jack's face fell and the crew backed up. "Hard to starboard." He said just loud enough for the people around him to hear.
"Hard to starboard!" Elizabeth yelled.
"Brace the foreyard!" Will shouted.
Lacey beat Gibbs to the wheel and she spinning it as fast as humanly possible, turning the ship as the crew scrambled around on deck. She stopped and heard someone shout "She's on us!". Then she ducked when a lantern broke behind her, trying to move away from broken glass that might be coming towards her.
Her heart raced as she began to panic. "Jack!" She looked around for him as she turned the wheel again. Water shot out of the water and into the air indicating Jones' cannon's had just missed their target.
Jack walked to the helm but didn't take the wheel as she had hoped. Instead he looked to see the ship behind them. She continued to steer the ship away.
"She's falling behind!" Elizabeth said causing Lacey to look back.
"Aye, we've got her!" Gibbs replied happily.
"We're the faster?" Will asked sounding surprised.
"It's the Black Pearl, Will." Lacey told him, stepping away from the wheel, letting cotton take over as she continued to look at the Dutchman.
"They're giving up!" The crew cheered.
"The day Davy Jones gives up is the day Edward Teach hands me his sword." Lacey frowned, not believing it.
"Love, when you're with Captain Jack Sparrow anything is possible." Jack smiled at her, placing the glass jar on the rail.
She turned to look at him, getting an unsettling feeling in her stomach "I don't think this is one of those times."
Suddenly the ship stopped, throwing everyone and everything forward, including the Jar of dirt.
They all looked around, dazed, except for Lacey and Jack flew down the steps to the deck where the broken jar and pile of sand was. They hurried to their knees and began searching the sand.
"Where is it?" Jack asked, pushing the sand aside furiously. "Where is the thump-thump?"
Lacey froze. "James…" They both looked at each other.
"We must of hit a reef!" Someone said.
"That's not a reef!" Will shouted. "Get away from the rails!" He pulled Elizabeth back, away from the rails.
Lacey caught on quickly "It's the Kraken.
Fear crept into Jack's eyes. "Time to go, love." He stood and grabbed her arm, pulling her.
"To arms! Load the guns! Defend the mast!" Will gave orders.
Lacey frowned as she was pulled into a boat. "So you're just going to cower away and let other people defend your ship?"
Jack didn't answer as he lowered them into the water. Once they were a few feet away from the ship, large tentacles began so slide up the sides of it. Jack began to row faster. Lacey just crossed her arms and leaned back to watch. It was silent until they heard the sound of cannons going off. They both looked and saw the kraken's tentacles retreating.
"Jack… you need to think about this." She put her hands on his to stop him from rowing anymore. Her blue eyes looked into his brown ones as she spoke. "You have worked so hard for your ship, and now you're just going to let it go? I thought you were Captain Jack Sparrow and could do anything."
He sighed, and looked back at her while grabbing his compass and opening it. He frowned. "You're in the way. Move."
The sound of more cannons firing and men screaming filled their ears "We both know it's the ship you want!"
He paused before rowing again, this in the opposite direction than before. "Women." He muttered.
"You would have done it yourself if I wasn't here."
He frowned as he rowed the longboat to the Pearl. "Just… wait here." He told her as he took out his sword and cut a tentacle that had begun to come up the ship in front of him.
Once he started to climb up the ship Lacey stood, ready to follow. The long boat swayed and splashed against the waves being made from the Black Pearl. Jack looked down at her and glared. "Sit down and wait!"
She quickly sat down while Jack climbed to the helm. Once he was out of view, she climbed up the ship just as he had done.
Lacey saw Jack standing with a rifle in his hand as Elizabeth clung to his leg. She rolled her eyes.
One of the larger tentacles moved on the ground, coming towards them as Jack aimed the rifle at barrels of rum and gun powder hanging in a net over the deck of the ship.
Lacey looked around and spotted an axe on the floor. Quickly she grabbed it and threw it at the tentacle as Jack pulled the trigger on the rifle.
Blood squirt onto the back of Jack leg and Elizabeth's face as the barrels and gun powder caught fire and exploded onto the Kraken.
Jack looked at the back of his pant leg, Elizabeth's face, and the bloody axe with part of a tentacle. He raised a brow.
Elizabeth stood and tried to wipe her face with her shirt, but it didn't do very good.
At least she's not crying. Lacey thought to herself as she walked over to Elizabeth and tried to wipe her face off better with her soaked sleeve. She had gotten wet from the longboat splashing against the waves.
"You did that on purpose." Elizabeth glared "Just because I was by Jack."
Lacey rolled her eyes and finished wiping off the blood from Elizabeth's face. "No, I didn't think that would happen. I was just trying to make sure nothing pulled Jack while he had that rifle. I don't care that much about what goes on between you and him." She took a step back "But I do care about Will… don't do something stupid and make him pay for it." She left it at that and joined the crew.
"Abandon ship. We get into the longboat and head for shore." Jack told them all in a less than thrilled voice.
"What about the Pearl?" Lacey asked him.
"It's only a ship, love. There is always another one out there." He frowned lightly "I thought I told you to stay in the longboat."
"Because of me you didn't get grab-" She stopped "Forget it. Sorry."
"Next time just do what I say." He said sternly.
"Fine, I'll go stay in the longboat." She glared before loading some things into the boat and sitting next to Marty. Will and Gibbs grabbed a few more things and now only Elizabeth and Jack were left. Finally she came.
"Where's Jack?" Lacey asked, pulling Will to sit next to her, not wanting to deal with Jack's grumpiness when he got in.
"He elected to stay behind." She said softly.
"What?"
"Just go!" Elizabeth told Gibbs. He hesitated a moment before he began to row away from the Black Pearl.
"Gibbs-" Lacey started a few moments of thinking, but stopped when she saw in the distance the Pearl being brought down by the kraken… "Go to Tia Dalma's." She said, looking down. Will wrapped an arm around his cousin, trying to comfort her. She frowned, knowing Jack wouldn't just stay behind. Now he was dead because of whatever happened with him and Elizabeth.
"Jack…" Elizabeth said from behind him once they were the only ones left. "Thank you for coming back."
He turned to look at her with a sad expression on his face. "We're not out of this yet, love."
"You know it's only you it wants." She said frowning lightly.
He sighed "What's yer point?"
"You're dragging us into this. Me, Will, Gibbs… Lacey too. She could of died today and it would have been because you were too selfish to make her leave without you. Jones is just going to keep coming after her. Because of you." She frowned.
He frowned back "She can leave whenever she bloody pleases. I'm not making her stay!"
"But you know she stays because you ask her too. Why don't you just give us all a fighting chance, maybe save her life?" She said, stepping closer to him.
He took a few steps back, bumping into the post. He glared at her "I'll just ask her to leave."
"You think she will? She wouldn't even let you come onto your own ship without her." She pushed further him, knowing if she continued like this he would give in.
That seemed to be all he could take. "So would you like me to stay aboard?" He said still glaring.
Click
In the heat of the argument, he didn't notice that she was cuffing him to the mast. "Pirate." He said in a low voice. He would have stayed anyway, but at least unchained he stood a better chance.
"I… I'm not sorry." Elizabeth said before going into the longboat.
Lacey sat outside the door of Tia Dalma's hut feeling angry with herself and Elizabeth. She was sure she had something to do with Jack staying behind.
Tia came and offered her a mug of rum which she happily accepted.
"If there was anything I could do…" Will said to Lacey from inside the hut.
"Would you do it?"
Everyone looked at Tia. Lacey stood and entered the hut.
"What would any of you be willing to?" The woman asked "would you sail to the ends of the earth and beyond to fetch back witty Jack and his precious Pearl?"
The crew looks at her for a moment, think she had lost it. Lacey and Gibbs knew better. "Aye." They said together. Soon the rest of the crew joined them, including Elizabeth.
"Well then, if you are to brave the weird and haunted shoals at World's End, then you much be needin' a captain that knows those waters."
Lacey sighed as soon as she heard the first footstep coming down the stairs. Soon Barbossa came into view.
"Now tell me, what's become of my ship?" He asked them, biting into an apple as his monkey jumped on his shoulder.
The Jack and ELizabeth conversation was unplanned... i don;t know if it's any good or not but I put it in anyways. Any suggestions on the name or the next story? :) I'm trying to think of some. It is a lot easier to think of names for Harry Potter fan fics but harder to write them. Go figure. Tell me what you think and I will post on here when the story is up. Maybe next week, i'm going on vacation tomorrow morning for a few days so we will see what happens.
-Layla Luv
