Elizabeth awoke feeling hardly rested. She and Jess had talked long into the night then after Jess left for her cabin, Elizabeth cried herself to sleep. She walked up on deck and found the crew readying the Pearl to sail. Jess was talking to Mr. Gibbs, as she walked over she could hear that they were discussing Jack and Will. Mr. Gibbs had been telling Jess that he had expected Jack to be back to the Pearl by now. They both had decided that once Elizabeth was awake the three of them would go see Jack and Will at the doctor's home.
Elizabeth hurried the two along the road almost running to the doctor's home. She knocked on the door and waited; there was no answer. She knocked harder – still nothing. Finally Mr. Gibbs broke the lock on the door and let them inside. Elizabeth ran to the room where Will had been kept. He was gone! Jess began calling for Jack and there was no response. All three of them began to search every room and then they all met back in the room in which Will had originally been in. It was there that Elizabeth and Jess began to really look around. The table was there but all of the medicines and herbs were gone. The doctor was no where to be found and everything that he had used was also missing. It would seem as if Will, Jack and the doctor had vanished.
Mr. Gibbs saw the panic in Elizabeth and Jess's faces. He quickly suggested that they return to the Pearl. Perhaps they had missed the two men and that they were back at the Pearl. He knew it was a far reach at best but IF something had happened to Jack and Will something could easily happen to these two women as well. Gibbs knew that Jack would want him to protect them and he couldn't do that here in Tortuga, they needed to go back to the Pearl and get back quickly. He finally convinced Jess and Elizabeth to go to the Pearl and they had barely shut the door to the doctor's home when Gibbs saw a drunk sitting in the alley next to the home.
"'e's gone ye know," the drunk said.
"Who's gone," replied Jess.
"Dat man who said 'e was a doctor," the drunk continued as he tried to stand up.
"Do you know what happened to the men who were with the doctor last night," Elizabeth quickly asked.
"Aye, dat younger one was being dragged by some men then that older one," the drunk said laughing, "well 'e be waking up some where wit a lump on 'is head."
"So ye be saying that someone took the two somewhere un-willingly," Mr. Gibbs asked for clarification.
"Aye, 'ey be long gone," the drunk finished saying.
Mr. Gibbs looked at the two women. He had a plan – first get the women to safety on the Pearl then ask questions around to see if anyone else had any information. It had been a battle to get Jess and Elizabeth to agree to stay on the Pearl. They both knew how to handle a sword and with both Jack and Will missing they were highly motivated to find them; however, Gibbs explained to them that the men around Tortuga were more likely to give him information than two strange women. They reluctantly agreed that it would be best and that is what Will and Jack would have wanted as well.
Mr. Gibbs made his rounds around the town. It would appear that no one saw anything else besides the drunk that had originally told them his story. He started to return to the Pearl and made one stop near the dock. It was to talk to an old man who kept track of all the comings and goings of ships in Tortuga. The old man told Gibbs that there in fact was a ship that had left in the middle of the night. They had taken on some people wearing cloaks – so he was unable to see their faces. But he went on to tell Gibbs that the crew must have really enjoyed Tortuga's hospitality because at least two of them must have been too drunk to walk on their own. Gibbs gave him a description of Jack and Will and while the old man knew Jack what he looked at but because they were not walking on their own it was impossible to tell if it were the two men. He did however say that it could have very well been the two because the size seemed to be the same.
Gibbs returned to the Pearl with the news that Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Sparrow were dreading to hear. It would appear that their husbands were now prisoners and taken for parts unknown.
