"We'll discuse this later." Barbossa tells his daughter as the two make their way out of his room.
"You didn't want to leave me. You had to. Didn't you?"
"Not now Maria." Barbossa says before going up the steps.
"Mar-
"Jack, just don't talk to me."
"Don't you want to know why I didn't tell you?" Maria turns and looks at Jack as he asks this. "Your father and I have never gotten along, not since he took my ship and crew. I was selfish upon meeting you. Wanted to use you as leverage." Maria shakes her head, her heart aching at his words. She turns to go, but he grabs her hand. "Maria once I got to know you... Plans change." She looks at him unsure how to feel at the moment. "You're like no woman I ever met." He took a step towards her. "You have a fire in you that burns a desire within me." Maria's heart begins to beat faster as Jack stands right before her. "Your eyes drown me every time I look into them." He caresses her face, causing her eyes to fall close. "You make me forget everything that is me." Jack whispers. "I do not blame you if you hate me, but I just... It started off as leverage and now... it turned into not wanting to share you." She looks up at Jack as he says this.
"Jack, I-
"You don't need to say anything back. I just... wanted you to know this." Jack let her go and follows after her father. He goes and stands in front of Barbossa as Barbossa tries to get a look at the ship. "I'm having a thought here, Barbossa." He lowers his spyglass and looks at Jack. "What say we run up a flag of truce, I scurry over to the interceptor, and I negotiate the return of your medallion, ay? What do you say to that?"
"Now you see, Jack, I say that's the attitude that lost you the pearl." Maria frowns as she looks at her father. She can clearly see a bit of hurt in Jack's eyes. The pearl was everything to him and Maria's father had to go and rub it in his face. "People are easier to search when they're dead." Maria's eyes widen at her father's cold words. "Lock him in brig."
"Father-" Maria starts, but Barbossa stops her.
"I said-
"And I was yet to finish talking. Those people are only defending themselves. One of them being one of my best friends. Are you really going to go and kill them all?" Barbossa doesn't say anything, but motions for them to take Jack. "I had spent my entire dreaming of the moment I'd meet my parents." Barbossa looks at Maria as she said this. "I dreamed from happy hugs and happy reunions to a cold glance, but never did I imagine my father could ever be so heartless and cruel especially to his daughter."
"I did what-
"Yes and I accept that, but you're planning on killing all my friends without even a second thought. You say Jack is too weak to have the Pearl, but maybe he was just too noble to be in the presence of someone so cruel." She gasps as suddenly she falls to the ground, holding her red cheek. Barbossa looks at her with his own shock and remorse.
"Maria-" He goes to help her up, but she flinches away.
"Don't touch me." Jack crouches down and helps Maria stand, which she gladly excepts. "I'm staying with Jack. He's the only pirate on this ship that I trust." She can see the hurt in Barbossa's eyes, but she doesn't care. He abandoned her and now after so many years he treats her as if she is just second minded and a thought for later.
"Come on, love." Jack whispers as he takes her hand in his. The two are brought down to the brig moments later, Jack keeping Maria's hand tightly in his. The man pushes Jack in, which causes Maria to follow suit. "Apparently there's a leak." Jack says as he gets locked in with Maria, they're feet wet from the water that is on the floor.
"Something tells me they don't care." Jack looks at Maria and frowns. Jack crouches down and looks through the hole before looking up at Maria.
"Are you okay, love?" She shakes her head, staring at the wall with a face void of emotions. Jack walks up to her and wraps her up in his arms. She closes her eyes, wrapping her arms around him and burying her face in his chest.
"Did you mean what you said, Jack?"
"Yes."
"Am I not like any of the others?"
"There is not a single woman like you, Maria, it's what calls me. Like the sea calls my soul." A small smile comes over as she looks up at him.
"So then am I not going to be used like those others."
"Love, using you is impossible. It's either all or nothing with you." She smiles and the two stare at each other for a long moment. Jack lifts his hand, cupping her cheek and pushing her hair out of her face with his thumb. The two stare deeply into each other's eyes before Jack lowers his head very slowly. They continue to stare at each other as Jack's lips are just inches from hers. "Tell me if you want me to stop." He breaths against her lips.
"Don't." He pulls her towards him and kisses her, causing her to gasp. She wraps her arms around his neck, trying to keep their bodies close together. Jack pushes her roughly against the wall, his hands running over as much bare skin as his hands can touch. "Jack." His name falls from her lips in a breath whisper as her nails dig into the back of his neck. "Don't stop." He moves his lips to her neck, kissing and suck the area, causing her to moan as hands slide down his chest, slipping under his shirt, and running her nails through his chest hair.
The air becomes hot and thin, the two refusing to part or stop. His hands slip under her shirt, ready to lift it over her head when suddenly cannon fire sounded, causing the two to break apart, both breathing heavily. "Woah." Maria gasps as suddenly the ship turns and she is thrown into Jack's arms again.
"Easy love, I think our ride is about to get a bit rocky." She crouches down and looks in the hole.
"They're turning into you, Jack." Jack frown as Maria says that. "They're taking the fight to Barbossa and his crew." Jack raises a curious eyebrow at Maria's words.
"Barbossa?"
"That all he ever was, a last name to mine."
"Love," Jack frown, twirling a piece of her hair. "No man can live up to your standards, not even me."
"Would you do, Jack?" He looks down at her confused. "Would you kill Will and Elizabeth even if there was another way? If they were just strangers to you?"
"I only kill when I need to."
"And shouldn't that be everyone's intentions?"
"We're pirates, love."
"Yes, but some are better than others. You are better than Barbossa." Jack doesn't say anything as he stares at Maria.
"Fire!" They hear Barbossa yell from above.
"Get down." Jack pushes Maria to the floor, covering her with his body,
"Fire all!" just as the cannons roar to life. Maria gasps as a hole is made in the part of the ship where she had recently been crouched.
"Stop blowing holes in my ship!" Jack yells with anger.
"Jack?"
"Just stay down, love." Jack frown before piking up flask only to find it empty. "Hey, love." She turns and sees the door blown open. "What you say we carry ourselves to the other ship?"
"That's the side I'm fighting for." She gets up and the two make their way out on the deck.
"Just follow my league, love." He jumps up, grabbing a robe with one hand and Maria's waist with his other arm. "Thanks very much." He says to the pirate who swung over with the rope for Jack. "Hold on tight, love." Jack says before swinging. Maria holds tightly to them as they swing to the other side, knocking a bad pirate over at the same time.
"Jack!" Gibbs says. "Maria!"
"Bloody empty." Jack says, handing the flask over to Gibbs. "We need to find the medallion before your father gets it." Maria nods in agreement before grabbing a sword. "You know how to fight with that?"
"Pretty basic, Jack, I think I can handle it." She says before a pirates comes at her, but she fights him off.
"There's Elizabeth." The two watch as a pirate goes to kill her, but Jack steps in, grabbing the man's arm. "That's not very nice." Jack says before Elizabeth hits the man back into the water.
"Maria." Maria hugs her friend shortly. "I was so worried when Will said-
"Don't worry about it." Maria smiles but apart of her really wants to kill Will at the moment.
"Where's the medallion." Jack asks.
"Wretch!" She goes to hit him, but Jack catches her wrist.
"Ah, where's the William." He says upon seeing the wrapped hand.
"Will." Elizabeth gasps as she looks down at brig. She runs over and Maria goes to follow, but Jack stops her.
"Look." Maria turns and sees the monkey running with the medallion. "Monkey." Jack runs after the monkey and Maria is torn in following Jack or helping Elizabeth. She glances at Jack before running to Elizabeth's side.
"Hold on." Maria says as she and Elizabeth tries pushing the useless log off the brig's door. "Erg! I can't! Move! It!" She grunts as she tries hard to move it.
"Keep trying!" Elizabeth says before arms wrap around Maria.
"Get off me! Get off!" She yells as she is dragged back. She can hear Elizabeth screaming for Will, surely she too got grabbed. "Get your bloody hands off me!" She yells just as she is thrown onto the deck of the Pearl.
"Easy, lads." Barbossa says, going to help her, but she slaps his hand away from her.
"Don't you touch me!" She growls as she gets up on her own. "Don't ever touch me." She backs up until her back is against Jack's chest, his arm slinks around her as soon as she is against him. She can see the anger, the hurt, and more importantly the jealousy in Barbossa's eyes. He wants to be comforting his daughter not have Jack doing it. He wants his daughter to come to him with love and happiness, not to Jack. Especially not to Jack.
"Any of you even thinks the word 'parley', I'll have your guts for garters." The short bald pirate says once the crew is tied up. Jack is being held by the pirates and Maria, she refuses to leave his side. Maria's eyes widen when she sees the ship blow up.
"Oh my..." She has tears in her eyes, which she is fighting back, as she looks at Jack. She can see sadness in his eyes too, he too has grown to like the stupid blacksmith.
"You godless pirate!" Elizabeth yells as she hits Barbossa.
"Welcome back, miss." Maria's father says. "You took advantage of our hospitality last time. it holds fair you return the favor." Maria's eyes widen as she watches Elizabeth be thrown to the male pirates. When Barbossa turns and looks at her he can see the anger, the hurt, and the betrayal on her face. He watches as she moves closer to Jack, looking both for comfort and safety.
"He won't do the same to you and if he tries... I won't let him." Jack whispers to her as Maria watches helplessly as Elizabeth is struggling against the pirates.
"Stop!" Elizabeth yells as Maria buries her face into Jack's chest.
"Barbossa!" Maria freezes as she hears Will's voice.
"Will." She hears Elizabeth say, causing Maria to slowly look up and see none other than William Turner standing right there, alive. Will jumps down, grabs a pistol and aims it at the pirates.
"She goes free!"
"What's in your head, boy?" Barbossa asks.
"I got to keep him from doing something stupid." Jack whispers, moving to go before Will.
"She goes free."
"You only got one shot and we can't die." Barbossa says,.
"Don't do anything stupid." Jack whispers, but it goes ignored as Will jumps up on the ship's wall and hold the gun to him.
"You can't, I can."
"Forget not doing anything stupid." Maria mumbles.
"Like that." Jack whispers.
"Who are you?" Jack moves forward, trying to stop Will from being more stupid.
"No one. He's no one." Jack says, standing before Barbossa with Maria beside him. "A distant cousin of my aunt's nephew, twice removed. Lovely singing voice, though. Eunuch."
"My name is Will Turner! My father was Bootstrap Bill Turner. His blood runs in my viens."
"Idiot." Maria whispers as her and Jack moves back to where they had been standing.
"He's the spitting image of ol' Bootstrap Bill, come back to haunt us!"
"On my word, do as I say," Will says. "Or I'll pull the trigger and be lost to Davy Jones' locker!"
"Name your terms Mr. Turner."
"Elizabeth goes free."
"Yes, we know that one. Anything else?"
"Maria goes free as well." Barbossa goes to argue, but Maria cuts in.
"Where Elizabeth goes I go." Barbossa turns and looks at his daughter as she says that. "She's my family." She goes and stands beside Elizabeth, stepping on the foot of one of the pirates who are holding her. "Let go of her or I'll gut you." They did as she said and Maria takes Elizabeth's hand in hers.
"And the crew! The crew are not to be harmed!" Barbossa stepped forward.
"Agreed."
Minutes later Maria and Elizabeth are on the plank together. "Last chance, Maria." Barbossa says, but Maria raises her chin up stubbornly.
"My family is the Swans. Elizabeth is my sister, Weatherby is my father." Barbossa's face hardens as Maria says this. "If Beth is to walk the plank then I'll gladly follow." The two walk to the edge, Elizabeth standing in front of Maria.
"Barbossa, you lying bastard." Will yells. "You swore she'd go free!"
"Don't dare impugn my honor, boy! I agreed she'd go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where. And Maria goes with as she promised." Barbossa says. The crew laughs as Barbossa gives a hard look at Maria and Elizabeth. "Although it does seem a shame to lose something so fine, don't it, lads?" Elizabeth and Maria look at each other in confusion. "So I'll be having that dress back before you go." Elizabeth glares as Maria shakes her head.
"Bastard." Maria says, causing Barbossa to look at her sharply. Elizabeth undresses, causing the pirates to whistle as she does so. She throws it roughly at the pirate.
"Goes with your black heart." Elizabeth says.
"Ooh, it's still warm." Maria shakes her head in disgust at her father's words.
"Off you go!" A pirate yells as Elizabeth and Maria begin walking to the edge.
"Come on!"
"Too long!" The mean pirate hits the board, causing Maria and Elizabeth both to fall into the water. Maria and Elizabeth swim to the surface, gasping for air.
"We got to swim to shore." Maria says as she hears people moving up ahead. Maria starts swimming for the shore as she hears someone jump in after them.
"What was that?"
"I don't know, but keep swimming." Maria says as she continues swimming for shore. Her black hair like a banner behind her, her clothes sticking tightly to her skin. As they reach shore they turn and see Jack following after them. Apart of Maria is happy that Jack is with them because at least he'll be here to make Maria feel better and help her get off the island with Elizabeth.
"That's the second time I've watched that man sail away with my ship."
