Chapter 8
Last Time:
*Caught* "Parlay." *Caught* Diana and Allie fake caught. Pintel glared at them and was about to reply, but in that moment, Elizabeth lifted the only rope tying her with the others. She rushed towards the railing, but when she reached it, the Interceptor blew up.
Present:
Everyone from the crew on the Interceptor froze all over. Then, Elizabeth attacked Barbossa.
"You've got to stop it! Stop it!" she screamed as she tried to beat him. Key word: tried. He quickly grabbed her arms and stared at her with an evil smile.
"Welcome back, Miss. You took advantage of our hospitality last time. It holds fair now that you return the favor." he said before pushing her into his crew, who started to touch her in places no woman want filthy pirates to touch. She started screaming and trashing around. The sisters, Gabriel and Andrew were struggling to help her, but the ropes holding them to the mast were too tight. Suddenly, a familiar voice called out.
"Barbossa!"
Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at the soaked man who had climbed onto the Pearl.
"Will." Both Elizabeth and Allie breathed out. Diana just sighed in relief. Sure, she knew he would survive, but when knowing your sisters crush is trapped and on a ship about to explode and you yourself is tied to a mast surrounded by hostile, smelly and dirty pirates, you kind of forget things.
"The girls goes free." Will said as he walked closer to the undead captain, pistol in his hand.
"What's in your head, boy?"
"They goes free!" Will said as he stopped, pistol loaded and ready to be used.
"You've only got one shot, and we can't die." Barbossa said with a smirk. Will froze for a moment, looking towards Jack.
"Don't do anything stupid." the man whispered as he looked at Will with praying eyes and his hands pressed together as if he really was praying. Will looked back at Barbossa before turning and jumping up on the railing, turning so he was facing the crews.
"You can't. I can." he said as he pointed the gun at himself. At this, Elizabeth did a failed attempt to stop him, but the pirates held her back. Diana glanced over at Allison. The young woman was breathing hard and had her eyes closed tightly.
"Easy Allie. You know he's gonna be just fine." Diana whispered gently a she manged to grab her sisters hand. Samantha, who stood on Dianas right side, whispered encouraging things while Rosie, who was standing on Allies left side, grabbed the girls free hand and gently squeezed it. Allison just nodded and took deep breaths.
Jack wasn't to happy either.
"Like that." he groaned as he shook his head with a pained expression.
"Who are you?" Barbossa asked. He was curious because, how in there right mind would threaten to kill themselves in a way to free there friends when they know that the "kidnapper" could care less?
"No one!" Jack quickly said as he rushed up to the other captain with a fake smile. "He's no one. A distant cousin of my aunt's nephew twice removed. Lovely singing voice, though, eunuch."
Diana had to bite her lip, hard. Usually, she would be laughing like mad by now and complain about what an idiot Will was, but she figured it probably wasn't a good thing to do so. Especially since her baby sister was crushing badly on said idiot and was having a little nervous breakdown at the moment.
"My name is Will Turner." Will said, completely ignoring Jack. "My father was Bootstrap Bill Turner. His blood runs in my veins." When he said this, Jack's fake smile faded as his plan now had been blow into tiny of little pieces and because he knew that now, his chance of surviving this trip and get the Pearl back, was close to none. Barbossa was staring wide eyed at Will. Now when he thought about it, the boy looked like a younger copy of old Bootstrap.
"He's the spitting image of ol' Bootstrap Bill come back to haunt us!" Ragetti said while pointing at Will. The rest of the cursed crew silently agreed.
"On my word do as I say, or I'll pull this trigger and be lost to Davy Jones' Locker." Will threatened.
"Name your terms, Mr. Turner." Barbossa said with a little sarcastic smile.
"Elizabeth and the other girls goes free."
"Yes, we know that one. Anything else?"
Will looked unsure for a moment and glanced at Jack who was smiling happily and currently pointing at himself. This was a way for him to live another day!
"And the crew! The crew are not to be harmed." Will said as he believed that it was what Jack had meant. Obviously it wasn't as Jack smile fell. Will didn't notice as his concentration was on Barbossa who chuckled and walked slowly towards Will. He stopped just a few steps from the railing, smiling evilly up at Will.
"Agreed." he said in a happy, yet cruel voice. The cursed crew began laughing as Will was yanked down and his hands was tied together behind his back. The Smith sisters was roughly released from the mast and pushed towards a plank that the crew had placed om deck. Said plank was facing an island far away from the ship.
"Eh, Barbossa, you wouldn't mind to let Andrew and Gabriel over there come with us?" Diana asked. Barbossa just stared at her before smiling an evil smile.
"They're not a part of the barging, so no." he said before starting to laugh. Diana just stared. He stopped laughing when he saw her starring at him.
"What?" he hissed at her.
"Oh nothing. I just don't understand why you're so happy about them not coming with us. I mean, it's no bid deal, ya know?" Barbossa looked at her very confused until he decided to glare at her instead. Diana just smiled before skipping over to two very angry boyfriends.
"Calm down will ya. We'll see each other soon enough." she said with a sweet smile. Andrew glared at her while Gabriel shook his head.
"And just when will that be?" he asked, his voice dripped in sarcasm and fake happiness.
"Oh in about two or three days I think. Keep up the good spirit!"
Before any of the men could answer, she was yanked back towards the plank where Elizabeth was about to jump from. The crew was cheering and pointing their swords at her.
"Go on, Poppet, go! Walk the plank!" Pintel yelled with a big grin on his face. Suddenly, Wills angry voice was heard as he pushed his way threw the crew, which by the way was very hard since everyone tried to hold him back.
"Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore they'd go free!" he yelled as three cursed pirates held him back.
"Don't dare impugn me honor, boy!" Barbossa roared as a smirk spread over his face.
"I agreed they'd go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where." Will didn't get the chance to answer as he was gagged and pushed back. Barbossa then turned his attention back towards Elizabeth. "Though it does seem a shame to lose something so fine, don't it lads?" he asked as he eyed the woman in front of him. The crew agreed while Elizabeth just stared at him.
"So I'll be having that dress back before you go." the captain said with a twisted smile as the crew erupted in laughter and cat-whistles. Will started to struggle again as Elizabeth just gaped. She then started to unbutton the dress with an angry face. Luckily for her, she wore a white shift under it.
"I always liked you." Jack suddenly said to Koehler, who in return just grunted. Elizabeth gathered the dress in her arms before throwing it at Barbossa with a angry look.
"Goes with your black heart." she hissed. Barbossa just smiled and pressed the dress to his face.
"Ooh, it's still warm." he said before trowing it to another crew mate.
"How do you know it's warm if you can't feel anything?" Diana couldn't help it, she just had to ask. It was something she always thought weird for the undead Captain to say. She only got an sour look as answer. "We'll isn't someone being cranky today."
"Off you go! Come on!" The pirates cheered as Elizabeth now stood at the edge of the plank, looking between the ocean and Will. Soon though, the pirates grew impatient.
"Too long!" Bo'sun yelled before stomping hard on the plank, making it shake violently. With a scream Elizabeth fell in the water and as she re surfed she could hear the laughter from the pirates. She then started to slowly swim towards the island.
On the ship the pirates was laughing madly before Barbossa to look at the sister who where standing together not to far away.
"So, which one will be the lucky lady and go next?" he asked with a smirk. Sammy, Rosie and Allie just looked at him in fright, that is, until Diana spoke.
"Well, I wouldn't mind it." she said with a smile. "Though, I know a certain little sister of mine who loves to go first." And with this, Diana turned to look at Allison. She gave the younger girl a gentle smile before whispering calmly to her.
"It's gonna be okay. You've jumped into water from higher heights and I'd love to see the face of these bad boys when you jump from that plank laughing." at this Allie calmed down and a huge smile spread over her face as she understood what the older sister meant.
"Alright then!" she said before starting to walk out on the plank. Everyone just stared at her and wondered why she suddenly was smiling and happy. Well, everyone except from her sisters. When she reached the edge she turned around so that she was facing the crews. Then she smirked before doing a back flip and landing gracefully in the water. The men and Ana-Maria was staring at the spot Allison had been standing at and several of the men had rushed to the railing to see what happened to her.
With a loud gasp, she re-surfed and started to laugh.
"Are you guys coming or not?" she yelled before swimming after Elizabeth. The crew was still chocked as Samantha decided that it was her turn.
"HEY WAIT FOR ME!" she yelled as she ran out on the plank and did a swan dive into the water and then started to swim. Once again, the crew was chocked into silence while Diana and Rose-Marie was laughing hard. When the people then started to look at the twins, Rosie smiled brightly at them.
"What? You should see your faces, it's priceless!" she said before starting to laugh again.
"Yeah it is." Diana agreed. "But I think it's our turn now. What say you 'bout doing the canon-ball?"
"I say, that sounds like a great idea!"'
"Good! But then we're gonna need a bit more space." and with that,Diana started to shove the men around. "Move it you idiots! We're gonna run and jump together and we need a clear path!" she ordered out when she noticed that everybody just stared at her. In seconds, the pirates had made a big, clear path between the remaining sisters and the plank.
"Excellent! Okay, I'm gonna count till three and then we run, savvy?" Diana told her sister.
"I'm ready when you are."
"Right. One, two.."
"THREE!" Rosie yelled and started running.
"HEY! That's cheating!" Diana yelled as she ran after the laughing Rosie.
"YEEHAAA!"
"GERONEMOOO!"
And with that, all of the sisters where happily swimming towards the island, leaving a chocked and surprised crew behind. On the Pearl, everything was quiet as the people tried to understand what the hell just happened.
"Well...I didn't expect that, but I'm not that surprised. Those four are a bit crazy after all." Gabriel said, breaking the akward silence. Barbossa shook his head before ordering for his crew to push Jack to the plank. Jack, who still was a bit in chock, suddenly looking straight towards the island he despised.
"I'd really rather hoped we were past all this." he said as he turned to look at Barbossa with pleading eyes.
"Jack, Jack . Did ya not notice?" Barbossa said as he walked up to Jack and put his arms around the poor pirates shoulders. "That be the same little island that we made you Governor of on our last little trip." he said while nodding in the direction of the island. Jack turned to look as well before facing Barbossa again.
"I did notice."
"Perhaps you'll be able to conjure up another miraculous escape,but I doubt it." and with that, Barbossa unsheathed his sword and brandishes it at Jack's throat, followed by the rest of the crew pointing their own swords at him as well. "Off you go."
Jack took one look behind him at the water before remembering something.
"Last time, you left me a pistol with one shot." he said while narrowing his eyes at his enemy.
"By the powers, you're right. Were be Jack's pistol? Bring it forward." Barbossa ordered as a man with only one working eye gave his captain Jacks pistol and sword. Jack glanced back towards the island and the five women swimming towards it.
"Seeing as there's six of us, a gentleman, would give us six pistols." he said as he looked back at Barbossa.
"It'll be one pistol as before, and you can be the gentleman and shoot one of the ladies, kill the others in some way and starve to death yourself." was his answer before he throwed the pistol into the sea. Jack quickly turned around and dove after it. Even with his hands tied together, he was a good swimmer and soon he had recovered his weapon and was heading toward the island.
After a while, he was swimming side by side with Diana who had slowed the pace.
"Let me help you out from that rope." she said before grabbing a hold of his tied hands. Jack didn't say anything as they where treading the water while Diana quickly untied him. When she was done, Jack started to swim again as she tied the rope around her left arm.
"This might come in handy someday." she thought before she too started to swim again.
When she reached the shore, everyone was already there. Lizzie was just standing there, looking toward the ship just like Jack while her sisters were laying underneath the palm-trees. All where panting hard both from the long swim and the heat.
"That's the second time I've had to watch that man sail away with my ship." Jack said both with sorrow and anger. There was an akward silence before Elizabeth decided to walk along the beach to see how big the island was.
"Anyone who wants to come with me?" she asked politely.
"I'll come with you." Sammy said as she stood up.
"I'll come too." said Rosie and soon, all three of them where walking away. Diana and Allison watched them leave while Jack sat down and started to dry his pistol.
"What are we gonna do now?"Allie asked no one in particular.
"I don't know bout you, but I'm getting rid of these boost and corset. It's so fucking hot that I think I'm gonna melt!" Diana said as she sat down next to her little sister and pulled of her boots. The pants she was wearing stopped a few inches under her knee and her shirt hung loosely around her as she took off the corset. Allie soon followed her lead and within a minute, her boots, belt, sword and vest hand joined Dianas.
"Ahh this feels great!" Diana said as a lazy grin spread over her face. She was sitting with her back against one of the palm-trees facing the sea with her eyes closed.
"It really is." Allie said as she laid down next to Diana. Then, she frowned. "But I don't like the fact that Will is on the Pearl and on his way to Isla de Muerta...without us and no way to help him."
"Oh hush! You know that nothing will happen until tomorrow night, so just relax. Think of this as our vacation. I admit though, I really miss my bikini and swim trunks...and a bit of rum with coke wouldn't be too bad either."
"...are you serious?"
"Of course I am! And don't give me that look! Have you learned nothing from me? When things seems bad and all you can do is wait, you either try to do something about it or you relax and enjoy what little time you have. After all, you don't know how long it's going to last or when you'll have another chance." the last part, Diana said so seriously that it chocked Allison. As she let her older sisters words sink in, the other girls came back.
"We're back!" Sammy yelled as she ran up to them. "Missed us?" she asked teasingly.
"You were gone for about five minutes. Maybe seven." Diana said as she kept her eyes closed. Samantha rolled her eyes at her.
"Yeah, but it felt like an hour. It was so akward! Lizzie sure ain't the talking one." she muttered as she sat down by Allison.
"Um Diana, Allie...why have you taken off your clothes?" Rose- Marie asked as she approached them. That got Jacks attention as he looked over at the girls for the first time since they came to the island. Elizabeth was also looking at them with curiosity and something like astonishment.
"If you haven't noticed, it's hot and the cloths are wet." Diana said in a lazy voice.
"And yet, you are wearing them." Jack said in somewhat disappointment. When she heard the tone in his voice, Diana opened her eyes to look at him.
"Only the shirt, the underwear and pants. The rest is over there. And what the hell did ya think? That we would run around naked or something?" she asked, sarcasm dripping from every word.
"I wouldn't mind." he said with a cheeky grin. The girls just rolled their eyes. Suddenly, Diana came to think of something.
"Jack, you've been on this island before, aye?" she asked.
"Aye."
"How did ye get of it? And don't say sea-turtles!"
"That my dear is a secret." He said while looking away.
"Okaay, another question then. How did you survive without rum?"
For a few seconds, there was an akward silence before he suddenly stood up.
"I wouldn't have." was all he said before walking towards the palm-trees. The women exchanged confused looks before following him.
"But you were marooned on this island before, weren't you? So we can escape in the same way you did then." Lizzie said, wanting to get an answer to Dianas first (or well, technically second) question. With that said, everything that had happened to Jack that day came crushing down on him. And he lost the little patience he had left.
"To what point and purpose, young missy!" he yelled, strait in her face. The Black Pearl is gone and unless you have a rudder and a lot of sails hidden in that bodice...unlikely... young Mr. Turner will be dead long before you can reach him." the last part, he said in a calmer tone before brushing her aside and started walking again. For a moment Elizabeth just stood there before she rushed after him.
But you're Captain Jack Sparrow." she said as Jack knocked om a tree trunk a few times. "You vanished from under the eyes of seven agents of the East India Company. You sacked Nassau Port without even firing a shot!" she kept talking as he took four steps before jumping up and down, making the ground shake where he stood. Angered for being ignored, Elizabeth faced him and looked him in the eye.
" Are you the pirate I've read about or not?" she asked, making him pause to look at her. By now, Diana was standing by them and decided to ask the question she knew Elizabeth was going to ask; "How did you escape last time?"
Hearing her voice, Jack turned his attention on Diana before taking one step closer to her, making their faces come extremely close to each other. With sad yet angry eyes, he looked at her. He lifted his arms and opened his mouth but no sound came. Then he tried again.
"Last time, I was here a grand total of three days, all right?" he said, frustration clear in his voice. "Last time ," he said as he turned around and opened a cellar door that was laying under the sand, showing a staircase that had seen better days. Quickly, he went down the ladder and as he spoke, one could hear the clinging sound of glass against glass. "The rum-runners used this island as a cache. Came by, and I was able to barter a passage off. From the looks of things, they've long been out of business. Probably, have your bloody friend Norrington to thank for that." with that said, he climbed up with several bottles with a golden brownish liquid in them. Dianas eyes lit up as she remembered just what liquid it was.
"Oh please, say that one of those are for me?" she begged Jack while looking at him with big puppy eyes. Jack couldn't help the grin on his face as he looked at her.
"And what would you do if I say that their not?" he asked with a sly grin.
"I could always persuade you." she said with a little smirk adoring her lips. Jack raised one eyebrow as he looked her up and down.
"And ah, just how would ya do that?" a smile bloomed on her face and with one big step, she was almost pressed up against him. With a slight pout on her lips and even bigger puppy eyes than before, she looked up at him.
"Pretty pretty please, can I have some of the rum Jackie?" she asked in a baby voice. Jack gulped as he looked at her. She looked just so adorable! And did he dare say...irresistible?
"No no no, bad Jack, BAD JACK!" he thought as he quickly tried to erase the pictures his mind had created. Without saying a word to her, he gave her one of the bottles before walking away from her in a quick pace. Sadly, he didn't get far.
"So that's it then?" Elizabeth asked him as she stood before him. Anger and disappointment was showing clearly on her face. "That's the secret grand adventure of the infamous Jack Sparrow? You spent three days lying on a beach, drinking rum?" the last part she said with disgust as she looked at him. Jack looked around before stretching out his arms.
"Welcome to the Caribbean, love." he said mockingly before handing her a bottle and then walked towards the beach. Elizabeth looked at the bottle in anger, thoughts of throwing it away entering her mind. But before she did anything, Allison stopped her.
"This is great! Now there will be no problem with fooling him." she said brightly as she looked at Elizabeth.
"What do you mean?" she asked confused.
"Don't you get it? If Jack drinks enough rum, he will be able to sleep through anything." Samantha said as she stood by Dianas side.
"And when he's sleeping, we can lit up the rum and the other stuff that's down there. It will create a huge smoke signal that will be very hard to miss." Rose-Marie said as she lined up on Dianas other side. Realization struck Elizabeth as she smiled brightly.
"That is brilliant! But how are we going to get Jack drunk enough?" she asked. As on cue, they all turned to stare on Diana.
"What the hell are ye all staring at!" said woman asked angrily, even though she saw were this was going. Normally, she wouldn't be so angry, but her nose was starting to hurt, making her quite irritated.
"Oh come on Diana, you'll do it perfectly! You like him and rum, so why not take the opportunity and have some fun and work at the same time?" Allison asked as she gave her older sister a meaning look, referring to what Diana had told her earlier. Diana just pouted and crossed her arms over her chest. The, she looked over to where Jack was sitting and simply stared at him for a while.
"Well...it couldn't hurt to play with him a little...would it?" she though before sighing in defeat. "Alright, I'll do it...but only if you save a bottle for me!"
"DEAL!" the girls all said in union before pushing her towards their "victim". With a deep breath, Diana walked towards Jack before sitting down next to him.
"So, what do we do now?" she asked as she took a big zip from the bottle. The rum burned her throat in a nice way and she let out a continent sigh. Jack looked at her before taking a swing from his own bottle.
"There ain't not much we can do, luv. Relax an' hope a ship comes by soon." was all he said as he removed his eyes from her to stare at the sea. Suddenly, pain erupted on his right arm and he yelped.
"I thought I told ya not to call me luv!" a pissed off Diana said while rubbing her fist. She had a good right hook and didn't hesitate to use it. "Ye call me that one more time and I won't hesitate to hurt ya!"Jack stared at her for a few seconds before he started to laugh. Diana gave him a confused look as he now laid on the sand, rolling around and laughing like a mad man.
"What the hell are ya laughing at?" she asked with a raised brow. Chuckling, Jack sat up and brushed a strand from her face.
"Do ya have any idea how cute ye look when you're mad? And hilarious since you have a sunburn on your nose." he said still chuckling. She stared at him before her face lit up in realization.
"So that's why my nose hurts! Fucking sun, where is the sun-lotion when ya need it?" she groaned and covered her nose with her hand. Jack was still chuckling at her as he pulled her towards him, making her almost fall face first into the sand. Jack caught her though, and laid his right arm around her.
"Ye are, without doubt, the strangest woman I've ever met." he said, smiling brightly. Then he looked at her confused. "What's sun-lotion?" Diana rolled her eyes and laughed a little.
"Something that helps when you've gotten a sunburn." she said as she removed his arm. "Now, do you remember the song I taught ya?"
Several hours and rum bottles later
The sun had set long ago and the air had become cooler. Samantha, Rose-Marie, Allison and Elizabeth had made a huge fire and was talking about the society. Elizabeth was amazed at how independent the other women were and Allison was getting more and more annoyed by how stupid she thought Elizabeth was.
Meanwhile, Diana was succeeding in getting our dear Captain, and herself for that matter, very drunk. They where currently running around the fire and the girls, trying to dance, and singing on top of their lungs.
"We're devils and black sheep and really bad eggs. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me!" they sang happily, rum bottles flying around.
"I love this song!" Jack cried out happily as he grabbed Dianas arm and swung them around. Diana laughed and tried not to fall after he let her go. "Really bad eggs!" Jack said before falling to the ground. Diana giggled as he manged to grab her hand and pulled her down so that she was sitting by his side.
"When I get the Pearl back, I'm gonna teach it to the whole crew, and we'll sing it all the time!" he said to her with a huge drunken smile. Diana nodded as she took a big gulp from her bottle.
"And you'll be positively the most fearsome pirate in the Spanish Main." she said and winked at him. This made Jack turn serious...well as serious as you can get when you're drunk as hell.
"Not just the Spanish Main, luv. The entire ocean. The entire world." he said with passion. He looked out at the ocean, but then, Diana hit him hard on the chest.
"What did I say 'bout calling me luv!" she growled before starting to laugh. Jack looked at her and laughed along with her. As they manged to calm down, she smiled up at him.
"You were saying?" Jack grinned at her as he continued his speech.
"Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails that's what a ship needs...but what a ship is, what the Black Pearl really is, is freedom." he made big hand gestures as he talked, almost hitting Dianas face several times. When he said the last part, he looked out at the sea again, thinking about his precious ship. Diana looked at him for a while before sighing and cuddling up to him.
"Jack," she said as she sighed. "It must be really terrible for you to be trapped on this island. Especially since ya love freedom so much." Jack looked down at her in surprise before smiling slightly.
"Oh, yes." he agreed as he tried to put his arm around her shoulder in a discrete manner. "But the company is infinitely better than last time, I think. The scenery has definitely improved." Diana stared at him before laughing. "Talk about being a Casanova. To bad he's not gonna get me that easy." she thought with a grin.
"Mr. Sparrow, are you flirting with me? Cause I'm not entirely sure that I've had enough rum to allow you to do so." she said with a glint in her eyes. Jack smiled at her and raised his hands in defeat.
"I admit, I may have tried to...flirt with ya, as ye put it. But don't tell me ye're surprised." he said with a seductive smirk. Diana just shook her head, laughing.
"Nope, I'm not." she said with a bright smile. She then raised her bottle and held it up before him. "To freedom." she said in a toast. Jack looked at the bottle before hitting it lightly with his own.
"To the Black Pearl ." he said and started to drink up the rest of his rum. Apparently, that was enough for him as he then fell down, unconscious. Diana laughed before sighing and taking a swing from her bottle. Then, she shaking stood up and walked up to the others.
"Mission accomplished." she slurred out as she sat down by Samantha. The girls just laughed as Samantha tried to push her older sister from her.
"Good job Siren, now, get of me! You stink of rum." she said with sarcasm and humor clear in her voice. Diana looked at her in an offended way.
"I do not! An' if ye ain't gonna except me, I'll just go back to Jack." she said as she tried to stand up, only to fall down. Allison giggled wile the others rolled their eyes. Diana huffed and started to crawl over to Jacks snoring body. The women laughed at her as she put her head on his chest and grumbled out rather loudly; "Stop snoring." and within seconds, she was sleeping peacefully on top of him. Allison smiled before turning her attention on her other sisters and Elizabeth.
"When do we start burning stuff?" she asked competently serious. They looked at her before Rose-Marie spoke up.
"A few hours after dawn will probably be good. We can sleep in shifts so that there always is someone guarding the fire and can wake the others up when it's time." she said while looking into the fire. The others nodded and they agreed that Allison would take the first shift and wake up Samantha two hours later. After that, it was Rose-Marie's turn and lastly Elizabeth.
When morning came, it wasn't Elizabeth, who was supposed to be awake, that woke them up. It was Diana.
"Wakie wakie my darlings! Time to burn things up." she said cheerfully as she shook them all awake. They groaned and looked at her annoyed.
"Why are you awake? Shouldn't you be sleeping on Jack and have a huge hangover? And why didn't Lizzie wake us up?" Rose-Marie grumbled out. She was glaring at her twin-sister the whole time, remembering Diana that she was not a morning person. With a smile she sat down in front of her still glaring sister.
"One: because I never need much sleep, two: I was and no, I haven't got a hangover since that time I drank until I passed out on the middle on the dance-floor when we had turned 18, remember? And third: she was sleeping, why?" she explained happily. Allison glared at Elizabeth who were rubbing her eyes tiredly.
"Why where you sleeping? You where supposed to guard the fire!" she hissed. Elizabeth blushed and looked away.
"I was tired and the fire is still alive, isn't it?" she said while looking away, feeling a bit ashamed of herself.
"No thanks to you." Allison muttered before standing up. "Ugh, what a lazy bitch! She keeps doing stuff like this and I will hurt her." she thought angrily before looking over at Jack, who was still sleeping deeply. "Alright, lets start before Mr. Drunk wakes up."
The rum, trees and food easily caught fire and within half an hour, half of the island was on fire. Diana had manged to grab one rum bottle before Samantha happily threw the rest into the fire. Diana and Allison got dressed in their now dry clothes and soon, all of the women were throwing things into the fire to keep it burning, except for Diana who was looking out for ships. And soon, it was Jack's turn to wake up.
"Is that smell...smoke?" he though as he opened his eyes. Standing up, he blinked several times as he looked at the scene before him. Then, horror and panic spread thru his whole being as he understood what was going on.
"No! Not good! Stop! Not good! What are you doing!" he yelled as he ran towards the women, waving his hands all over the place. "You burned all the food, the shade! The rum!"
"Yes, the rum is gone." Elizabeth stated with a grim smile. Jack looked at her in horror.
"Why is the rum gone?" he asked with sadness, panic and anger. Elizabeth turned to face him, fury and anger taking a hold of her.
"One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire Royal Navy is out looking for me, do you really think that there is even the slightest chance that they won't see it?" she all but yelled in his face. Jack still looked at her in horror and panic.
"But why is the rum gone?" he asked in a pleading voice. "No no no, this ain't happening! They didn't burn everything up, it's just a bad joke!" he desperately tried to convince himself. Elizabeth just sat down to look at the horizon.
"Just wait, Captain Sparrow." she said, sarcasm dripping on the Captain. "You give it one hour, maybe two, keep a weather eye out and then you will see white sails on that horizon."
As the sadness and horror started to fade away, anger and frustration took their place. In his anger he took out his pistol and pointed it at her."I'll shoot her for this! No one burns up my rum!" he thought furiously. Thankfully, he though better of it and stormed of in the other direction instead.
"Must 've been terrible for you to be trapped here, Jack. Must 've been terrible for you." he muttered angrily as he recalled the night before. "She tricked me that little.." he though angrily as he turned towards where the girls where.
"Well it bloody is now!" he roared out...straight into Dianas face. For a few seconds, they just stared at each other while Jack panted heavily. Diana looked at him in shook before looking down onto the ground.
"Sorry." she said quietly. Then she help up the rum bottle. "I knew you'd be pretty pissed off, so I saved this for ya." she said, still not looking at him. Jack looked at her in shock and gently took the bottle from her. This made her look up and straight into his eyes. "You got to understand though, this is the best way to get help. Even if it's from Norrington." she said seriously. Jack looked at her confused and as she looked over his shoulder, he turned around.
There, not to far away from them, was the Dauntless and a row-boat was on their way towards them. At the sight of the ship, Jack felt all hope of becoming free disappear and bitterness overtook him.
"There 'll be no living with her after this." Jack muttered as he thought of Elizabeth and looked at the ship with a bit of sadness and frustration. Diana gently took his hand.
"Maybe not, but I would be more concerned about facing ol' Norry." she said before turning to tell the others that help had finally come.
Authors Note: Finally done! It felt like I never was gonna finish this chapter...
Diana: Maybe that's cus you're so fucking lazy?
AN: I'd say school and the fact that I've been out sailing...and are currently sailing again!
Allison: You could have written during your free time.
AN: I was/am with the other crew members! And training! And after three days of constant rolling, you get kinda tired.
Gabriel: Mm-hmm, darklittleangel93 doesn't own own anything here except characters that you don't recognize from the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean'.
Diana: Oh and one more thing...
All Characters + Author: HAPPY MIDSUMMER! :D
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Next Chapter: What's going to happen now? Will the women be able to convince Norrington that Will, Gabriel and Andrew are worth saving? We'll also pay a visit to the boys and see how they're doing in the brig of the Black Pearl.