Chapter 10

"Be on your guard men," Ana heard as she unfolded herself from Gibbs arms and stepped to the front of the crew, watching as Mercer climbed up and stepped forward, "company ship, company crew."

"You agreed. The Black Pearl was to be mine," Will growled, stepping forward with Elizabeth and confronting Sao Feng, who laughed in his face and had Huang and his group move forwards.

"And so it was," he motioned for Huang to take Will and he did so, punching Will in the stomach and dragging him backwards, Elizabeth stepping to the side and avoiding being noticed, "prepare the brig."

Will was held with a rather nasty looking metal object as they shackled his hands together next to Elizabeth. The look on his face said everything and Ana couldn't help feeling slightly mad at him.

"Beckett agreed, the Black Pearl was to be mine!" Sao Feng yelled menacingly at Mercer as he placed a dirty, rotten nailed hand on his shoulder, moving it back slightly as Mercer replied.

"Lord Beckett's not going to give up the only ship as can outrun the Dutchman, is he?" Mercer said harshly, letting Sao Feng recoil his hand even more and walked off, leaving Sao Feng to tremble in rage behind him.

"Shame they're not bound to honour the code of the Brethren, isn't it?" Barbossa asked, stepping forward from his position near the crew and advancing towards Sao Feng, "because honour's a hard thing to come by these days."

Sao Feng screwed up his nose and turned to glare up at Barbossa, "there's no honour to remaining with the losing side. Leaving it for the winning side, that's just good business."

"The losing side, you say?" Barbossa smiled down at Sao Feng, already forming a response to what he knew was coming.

"They have the Dutchman. Now the Pearl," Sao Feng yelled, moving his hand about to emphasize the point, "and what do the Brethren have?"

"We have Calypso," Barbossa stated, letting the awe seep into his voice and watching Sao Feng's reaction. Ana's heart stopped for the briefest of seconds, wondering if her plan would work now that she was on the line.

She watched Sao Feng's eyes flick to her and linger without even a glance at Elizabeth and she moved a little further to the side and away from Gibbs, so as not to let anything be given away.

"Calypso," Sao Feng laughed as Barbossa's eyes moved to Anamaria and lit with recognition to a plan, melting away from the chock of Sao Feng's foolishness, "an old legend."

"No," Barbossa smiled down at the Singaporean Captain and leant forwards towards him, "the goddess herself bound, in human form. Imagine all the power of the seas brought to bear against our enemy. I intend to release her. But for that I need the Brethren Court. All the court."

Barbossa smiled at Sao Feng and dropped the trinket from around his neck with his shackled hands before looking back at the rest of the crew. Ana hadn't missed the look and the smile Tia Dalma had given her, and pursed her lips a little as Sao Feng looked at her again.

"What are you proposing, Captain?" Sao Feng asked with a gleam in his eye as he turned towards Ana.

"What be you acceptin', Cap'n?" Barbossa smiled as he moved forwards to stand behind Sao Feng, causing the rest of the crew that was chained to him to shuffle forwards a little, everyone ending up right in front of Anamaria.

"This girl," Sao Feng spoke, reaching out and touching Ana's hair, causing her to pull back a little and Will to step closer, moving to her side and pulling Elizabeth with him.

"What?" Ana and Elizabeth chorused at the same time, Elizabeth's true astonishment not causing a waver of disbelief when put together with Ana's acting. Both tones stated that it wasn't going to happen and after a look at Gibbs, Will stepped forward to the mark.

"Ana is not part of any bargain," he shook his chained hands in front of him and moved closer still to Ana, Elizabeth moving with him and staring insolently up at Sao Feng.

"Out of the question," Barbossa said nodding and moving his hands about to work with the point, coming close to winking at Anamaria and then placing a hand on his coat.

"It was not a question," Sao Feng said, looking directly at Ana and then staring down Will as if daring him to oppose.

"Done," Ana and Elizabeth said at the same time, looking at each other and then turning their heads back towards Sao Feng and Barbossa who were watching in amusement.

"What? Not done," Will stated firmly, looking down at Lizzie with anger and then turning on Ana, softening only slightly to be a look of disbelief.

"You got us into this mess. If this is what frees us, then done!" Elizabeth said harshly glancing towards Ana with a knowing look and nodding her head with her lips pursed, signalling to Will.

"She's right Will, I say done," she looked up at him as she spoke and as he shook his hands again she took the opportunity to yank the chains so his head was near hers and hissed in his ear unseen by Sao Feng, "I told you to think about what you were doing. Now let me fix your mistakes!"

"Elizabeth, they're pirates, we can't let her go, she's seventeen," Will looked down at Lizzie and then turned to Ana, looking back to Elizabeth and pulling on the chain so she was somewhat in the middle.

"I was a seventeen year old Governor's daughter and I handled it. She came here herself Will, I think she has more than enough experience dealing with pirates!" Elizabeth said as she pushed Will's chest and stood close to Ana.

"It's true William, I said done and it's going to be done," Ana hissed audibly this time.

"Then we have an accord?" Barbossa asked, leaning forward for Ana's consent and then turning back to Sao Feng who was standing and surveying his 'prize' with a satisfied smile on his face.

"Done!" agreed Sao Feng as he ordered most of his men off the ship and had Ana unlocked from her irons, allowing her no time to say anything to anyone as she was bustled quickly off the Black Pearl as it opened fire on Becketts' vessel, "we'll be seeing you in Shipwreck Cove, Captain."

A/N: Sorry if it's confusing that I have switched from Jack and Georgia swinging away to Ana and the crew bargaining with Sao Feng, but since the events happened at the same time, I wanted them to run at much the same time in the story, so that when everyone is brought together it's less confusing. I also really wanted to show Ana and Elizabeth's lack of disagreement towards each other with this chapter. I also wanted to clarify that Will is more protective, affectionate, etc towards Georgia because he's spent more time with her, Ana mostly being with Jack which is why Jack is the same with her. Thank you as always, Ange.