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Warning, this is a LONG Chapter :D

Just so all of you know, I am not letting Jena fall for Jones. That wasn't in my plan(besides, Tia Dalma would kill her, lol) I was giving them a simple connection. Jones understands (though he wishes he didn't) that she wants to see Hector again and now she knows that she can't(yet), nothing more. Sorry if I made you think that Jena and Jones were going to have a 'thing'. :)

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Chapter Ten

Ideas

The Next morning, Rena woke with a large smile on her face. She had been reunited with Jack Sparrow! And the only problem with that was…her older brother. All last night Jack had been trying to talk to her about something really important but Lance always seemed to be there, blocking his words. But Rena could tell something else was going on with Jack than just her brother. But what was it? It had to be big for Jack to give up the Pearl's Captain Quarters without so much as a second though.

Hurriedly throwing her clothes on, she found that no one was on the deck but Jack. He was up at the wheel, glancing over the sea. Heart pounding on her ears, Rena made her way up the stairs. Jack instantly turned to look in the opposite direction making Rena giggle as she rolled up her sleeves and pants legs. Plopping down on what was once her usual spot on the Interceptor on her first adventure she stretched out her arms and closed her eyes.

"Sunbathing again?" Jack's voice commented after a few moments of silence.

She grinned. "Of course. Doesn't bother you, does it?"

"Of course not, Love. I like-" He fell silent, staring out over the sea.

Jack needed to tell her. He had to tell her everything. Why he didn't come back for her. Why he lied. All of it.

Dammit! This was all Angelica's fault! Not really, seeming as how Jack left her, but who cares? He needed someone to blame, right?

Unable to hold it back any longer, Jack faced to her. "Rena, the-"

"So, are you going to tell me what adventures you've been on since you got the ship back?" Rena cut him off.

Jack looked surprised. He had been expecting her to ask why he had taken so long. But, perhaps…

"That's it?" Jack asked. "That's all you want to know?"

Rena pushed herself up and looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Is there something else that you want to tell me?"

"Nope." He immediately answered. "All right, so after the whole escaping plot…"

Rena laid there for what seemed to be hours listening to Jack. About halfway through it all Cotton came up to take over steering and sat next to her.

"So let me get this right," Rena finally sat up and looked at the man beside her. "You let yourself get captured in a prison to get a drawing of a key? Are you stupid? You might not have gotten out!"

Jack smiled. "Yes, well I am out. And a little while after that…" He paused. Should he tell her about the Black Spot? About the Island? With a shrug he decided too. He watched as her face went from serious to horror and then to laughter.

"They were going to eat you?" She laughed. "It's a good thing that the three of them got there in time, is it not?"

Jack was laughing with her. Infact, he hadn't really remembered just how much he had missed talking to her until now. Perhaps, he could get her to brush his hair again. He enjoyed that. The feel of her fingers through his hair was the best part. But thee longing that he had on the Island for her that one night was torture. He might not be able to hold himself back this time. Perhaps it was a good idea to not let her get close to him like that again.

"Hey Bird-boy! Didn't I tell you to stay away from my sister?"

A Really good idea.

Jack jumped to his feet at the sound of Lance's voice as he stomped up the stairs to the pair of them. Rena sighed and laid back down with her eyes closed.

"Shut up, Lance. We were just talking." She told her brother as Gibbs and Elizabeth joined them as well.

Jack swallowed at the glare on the young man's face. He opened his mouth to talk but Elizabeth cut him off.

"Jack, we need to talk."

"Beckett?" Gibbs asked.

"Yep." Rena answered from her spot on the deck. She didn't even bother to move as her brother stood over her, but out of the way of the sun.

"They're signed, too." Elizabeth told them, sounding proud of herself. "Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company."

"Bluergh!" Jack pulled a face at the name.

"The three of them were working for Beckett and never said a word." Gibbs frowned. "Beckett wants the compass. Only one reason for that."

"Of course." Jack had lowered the papers and was staring at the ship, thinking. He glanced at Gibbs. "He wants the chest."

"You know, Jena and Leon told us that he had mentioned a chest," Rena now stood up, hands on her hips as she thought for a moment. "It seems you both want Jones' heart. But why does he want it?"

"If the company controls the chest, they controls the sea." Gibbs told Rena.

"But, Davy Jones isn't real," Lance rolled his eyes at the four of them. "He's a fairytale."

"Yes, your brother said that right before they met Davy Jones himself." Jack replied to Lance before looking back to his sister. "A truly discomfiting notion, Love."

"And bad, I take it?" Rena asked as she felt a tingling sensation at Jack calling her 'Love' again.

"Very bad." The Captain replied.

"Bad for every mother's son what calls himself a pirate." Gibbs glanced up. "I think there's a bit more speed to be coaxed from these sails." He walked off shouting something about bracing the 'foreyard'.

"Might I enquire as to how you came by these?" Jack asked the three still there with him.

"Don't ask us," Rena held her hands up in defense. "Me and Lance were getting changes of clothes when Elizabeth arrived with them."

Jack turned to Elizabeth and the woman began to back up. "Persuasion," She answered as Jack followed her.

"Friendly?"

"Decidedly not."

"Will strikes up a deal and upholds it with honor, yet you are the one with the prize – Full pardon." As they talked, Lance took notice of Norrington looking up to listen. An idea began to form in his head. "'Commission as a privateer on behalf of England and the East India Trading Company.'" Jack turned, placing thee papers into his jacket and walking back towards Rena and her brother. "As if I could be bought for such a low price."

"Jack, the letters, give them back." Elizabeth told him.

"No." An idea came up into his mind when he locked eyes with Rena for a moment. "Persuade me."

Rena slapped a hand over her mouth. She remembered that night in the Captain's Quarters when she had told Jack to do that. But hearing him say that to Elizabeth was rather…infuriating.

"You do know Will taught me how to handle a sword?" Elizabeth told him.

Jack turned with a smile. "As I said, persuade me. Using a sword holds no bounds; Will could not defeat me and neither could you. But, if you're afraid that you won't be able to persuade me as much as you like, then send the real woman to me." He whispered in her ear before he paced up the stairs again and stood by Cotton and the wheel.

Rena raised an eyebrow at the look on Elizabeth's face after Jack walked away. She looked enraged and lost for words for a moment before it turned to determined. Elizabeth caught Rena's eye though and looked away hurriedly.

What the hell was that woman thinking?

Lance had been watching her as well, another idea popping up into his head. With the help of Norrington AND Elizabeth, he would not doubt get Jack Sparrow out of his sister's life for good!

"Strange thing to come upon a longboat so far out in open water." Will, Leon, and Jena had been found by another ship and were now sitting below deck. Jena had been shivering from the cold but the blankets they were given took that away, as well as the water in the glasses.

"Just put as many leagues behind us as you can. As fast as you can." Will told the Captain.

"And what are we running from?" The Captain demanded.

Leon went to answer him when Will stood up and headed for the dress in the chair behind the men. Jena recognized it as Elizabeth's wedding dress immediately.

"That dress." Will spoke. "Where did you get it?"

"It was found aboard the ship." The Captain replied. "The crew thought it was a spirit bringing some omen of ill-fate." Knowing that their brother was aboard the ship, Jena and Leon knew that to be true.

"That's foolish." Will commented ass he dropped his blanket and picked up the gown.

"Oh, yes. Exceedingly foolish." The bald crew member replied.

"It brought good fortune." The other said. "The spirit told us, 'Pull in at Tortuga,' and we made a nice bit of profit there."

"Off the books, of course." The Captain smiled.

"And I suppose that some of your crew stayed there." Jena spoke as she stood, still holding the blanket tightly around her.

"Why do you ask?"

Before any of the trio could respond a man came down the stairs hurriedly. "Captain! A ship's been spotted!"

"Colors?"

"She isn't flying any." He looked scared at the men looked back at the trio.

"Pirates."

"Or worse." Leon returned as he rushed up the stairs himself. The others all followed.

"It's the Flying Dutchman!" Will called from the Mast.

Jena felt the ship quiver and almost fell over like some of the men did. Leon stabled her and his eyes widened. He knew what it was. "Jena," He looked at his sister. "Go into the Captain's room and bust out a window and wait. When you hear the screams, jump out of it and swim as far away as you can, understand?"

"W-What is it?" Jena didn't like the thought of leaving her brother or Will here but the look in Leon's eyes were one of those looks that told her that now was not one of those times to argue with him.

"The Kraken." Leon had read the stories before. The Giant Sea Monster that worked under the command of Davy Jones. A sort of pet, Leon would say. Many, if not all, were going to die. But for the sake of himself, Leon was going to get his sister away from here alive.

"What about you though?" Jena asked. She fought the urge to scream as she watched the large tentacle grab the Captain and pull him off the ship.

"I'll be all right. Just go and do as I say!" Leon pushed his sister towards the door of the Captain's Quarters and turned to follow Will up the mast.

Jena didn't stand to watch was going to happen and pushed her way past the running crew and into the Quarters. Catching eye of the large window in the back she tried to grab the chair at the desk and throw it through but it was nailed to the ground. Looking around hurriedly for something else, she froze as the screams began.

Not going to even wait any longer, Jena ran at the window and jumped through it, shattering it as she covered her face with her arms.

The water was freezing and the salt burned her eyes as she opened them, but it was the sight that made her wish she hadn't. She laid eyes on the large octopus that was eating what was left of the crew and destroying the ship. She looked away from it, searching…fearing the worst when her eyes landed on two men swimming towards her. Will and Leon. Joy cleared away her horrid thoughts and then fueled her will to swim to the surface to breath. She was joined by the two men quickly and all three clung to something that floated as the Flying Dutchman pulled up beside them. Will a piece of the ship, Leon a door, and Jena a barrel.

Quickly, Will led the way to the ship where Leon and Jena took refuge in the mouth of the carved creature on the ship as Will crawled up to listen to Jones and his Crew.

Jena was freezing again, her lips turning blue. Leon instantly took off his wet coat and wrapped it around his sister and held her closer. Will crawled back down to them and exchanged looks. Jones thought they were dead. Good. They could get away somehow. But how?

Leon raked his brain for ideas as he held his sister tightly.

Elizabeth had already talked to Lance. Infact, she was going to do this even before the man came to her with his idea. After all, Jack was…

As a matter of fact, why was it that she felt jealous of Rena? She could see the looks that Jack had given her along the course of the journey so far. She would spy on them as they talked late into the night at the wheel of the ship. They'd always have to wait until Lance was asleep of course, unless they wanted to have Rena's older brother monitoring them. Why was he jealous that Rena had Jack? She had Will after all, so why did she want Jack as well?

Rena was up in the Crow's Nest with her brother. She had been talking about wanting to look out of one and see how far she could see. Jack had wanted to accompany her but Lance refused to and went with her.

Elizabeth was now sitting on the steps under the wheel, laid back, posing herself as Jack came over with a bottle of rum and sat down beside her.

"My tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature informs me that you are troubled."

Elizabeth fought a smirk as she spoke. "I just thought I'd be married by now." Jack pulled a face. That was not the conversation that he wanted to have. Not with Elizabeth, anyway. "I'm so ready to be married."

Pulling the top off the rum bottle he took a large chug of it before continuing. "You know, when we find Will and save him, I can marry the two of you on this ship. I'm a Captain. Captains can do that."

"Could you…perhaps…perform one right here? Right now." She leaned forward and he jumped up to his feet.

"By God, I can! Where is Rena?" He looked around. "I'm sure she wouldn't mind, right? If she's waited for me this long as the sisters have told me, why not make her my own right now? Rena? Oh Rena!" He called.

The woman in the Crow's Nest heard her name being called and began, slowly due to the fear of dropping, began her way down, her brother following with a scowl on his face.

~Hurry, Elizabeth~

Elizabeth held a scowl of her own. She was not going to lose. "Why not?" She asked him as she followed Jack. "We are very much alike, after all."

"Hardly," Jack replied, taking another drink. By the time this talk was over he was going to need a lot of rum to wash it from his mind. The only woman that he wanted to imagine himself curled up with was gripping to the mast over thirty feet above him, crying and screaming in fear and joy at the adrenaline she felt from the height. "Besides, what of poor William? Enslaved on the Flying Dutchman and now he's nothing to you?" Jack took another drink. God, he needed more of it. Now!

"Why doesn't your compass work?" Elizabeth then asked, drawing the subject away from Will.

Jack pulled a face and glanced over the water. "My compass works fine."

She could tell that he was lying. She was getting to him and decided to continue. "Because you and I are alike," Elizabeth reasoned with him. "And you will have a chance to do the right thing in…what, or should I say who, to do." She raised her eyebrows at him.

He smirked. "I love those moments." He paced down the ship some more, trying to lose her but she still followed. "I like to wave at them as they pass by."

"And do you know why that is, Jack?" Elizabeth asked.

"Do tell, dearie." He took another drink.

"Curiosity," She told him as he leaned closer to his face with a smile. "You're going to want it. You won't be able to resist. You're going to want to know what it tastes like."

Jack pulled a longing face. "I do want to know what it tastes like."

She pulled back. "But…seeing as you're a good man, you won't tell Rena or Will anything about this…" He leaned forward again but Jack grabbed her shoulders and held her back.

"You didn't let me finish," Jack growled at her. "I do want to know what it tastes like, but not from you!"

He pushed Elizabeth away and turned to move but something forming in the palm of his hand made him stop. The Black Spot that Jones had given him was starting to form again. That could only mean one thing. Jones was back on the hunt for him.

He began to back up in fear and ended up tripping over one of the cannons and falling backwards. Elizabeth thought quickly as she watched Rena fall down onto the deck from the mast, Lance close behind her. Elizabeth dropped down onto to Jack and began to yell -

"Jack! I said no! Let go of me!"

"What?" Jack's attention was still caught on the Black Spot in his hand and he hadn't even noticed Elizabeth falling on him. He glanced up to see Rena standing there, watching him with wide eyes as Elizabeth pushed herself off of him. "Rena, this-"

He was cut off as the auburn-haired woman turned and began to walk away.

Jack cursed under his breath as he stood and gave Elizabeth a glare as he hurried off after Rena.

Elizabeth and Lance shared a smirk.

Part one, complete. Now…for Norrington's part…

"Rena, wait! Please!" Jack grabbed the woman's arm as the Captain's Chambers doors closed behind them. "That was not what it looked like, I promise you!"

"Oh, it wasn't, was it?" Rena did her best to control her anger but it was struggling for control. Something else was trying to break its way free as well.

"No, it wasn't! I swear to you! Elizabeth was-"

"She was doing it on purpose, hmm? Wanted you for herself?" Rena asked.

"Well, yes."

"And why would Elizabeth do that to me?" Rena yelled at him. "She's known me for years! She knows everything! Why would she do that to me? Especially when she has Will?" She crossed her arms, biting her lip as she turned her back to Jack. "Just…just leave me alone, Jack."

The Pirate opened his mouth to speak again, to argue with her, but he closed it and turned, leaving the room. That was when the tears broke through and she felt into a clump on the floor, face in her hands. She had waited over a year for this man and when he finally got her back, he decides to take Elizabeth?

"Oh God; Jena?" She cried out. "Why aren't you here?" She fell silent for a moment as the door to the Captain's Quarters opened. "I said leave me alone, Jack! Got to Elizabeth, not me!"

"Well, you see, I'm not Jack." Rena turned.

"'Borrington'?" She asked in surprise. "What do you want?"

Norrington gave a small smile. "I sort of missed you calling me that. Believe it or not, despite the fights we always had I always liked you." He knelt down on the floor next to her. "Like a little sister that would never get along with an older brother or a distant cousin that hated taking orders." He laughed, getting her started in laughter too. "Look, I…I normally don't do this and I doubt that you'll see me does this ever again, all right?"

"Do what?"

"Though I hate Sparrow to death for ruining my life, I can't sit out there and watch what happened between him and Elizabeth and let you believe a lie." Norrington shook his head. "Nor can I take part in it."

"Take part in it?" Rena's tears dried up. "What are you talking about?" Anger was in her voice again.

"Your brother came to me and Elizabeth earlier this morning with an idea. He seems to hate Jack for everything that's happened, (though, who can blame him) and gave us a plan. Elizabeth was to flirt with Jack and you were supposed to catch them in the act while I was to comfort you afterwards. I don't know why Elizabeth agreed to partake in it, but I wanted to see Jack in misery; if that was possible in ripping him from you." Norrington watched as flames erupted into her eyes. "I thought that since Jack was a Pirate, he wouldn't care about…'keeping to himself' around Elizabeth, but as I sat there and watched the two of them, I was surprised." Norrington scratched the side of his face. "Surprised, because not once did he touch Elizabeth. In fact, he called for you and tried to tell Elizabeth no and walk away from her. But she kept following. She had gone to kiss him and he held her back. He only ended under Elizabeth when he fell and she jumped on him when she saw you on the deck." Norrington looked at the woman sitting before him. "Jack didn't try to do anything, I assure."

Rena felt a fire in her skin as more tears burst out. But of happiness, this time. "'Borrington'" She sighed. "You're not so much as a pain after all," She shook her head and pulled the man into a hug. "I guess I can't call you that anymore, can I?"

Norrington hugged her back with a smile of his own. "You can call me whatever you like." He pulled her to his feet. "So, what do you have in plans of, shall I say 'revenge' against your brother and Elizabeth?"

Rena's mischievous smile broke out across her face as they heard Gibbs cry – "Land, ho!"

"Oh, don't worry," she turned and led the way to the doors. "I have a wondrous idea."

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God, that took forever! Poor Jackie was set up! Oh no, makes you wonder what else will happen, yes? Please Review and keep in tune for the next chapter!