Sorry I was off at camping all weekend. Totally sucked but at least I was in a camper this time and not in a tent. Nah it still sucked big time. But I got to taste a grape ape. It's a smoothie that I swear is heaven in a cup. It has grape and bananas, yes it sounds gross but it's was so good I can't explain it. Here's some ballerina dancing and needle stabbing feelings.
BIG POTC fan but not the owner. You can take that up with dear Disney himself.
It was morning in Port Royal when Will awoke to Alexia's worried face. Of course when she saw he was awake she smiled.
"Wake up Will" She gently shook his shoulders. That's when Will noticed his head was resting in her lap. He sat up suddenly and regretted it as his head spun.
"Thank goodness you're awake. My thighs fell asleep ages ago!" She said standing up, rubbing her thighs, and wincing at the needle stabbing feeling in her legs.
"Sorry. I don't know what happened." He said blushing; he then looked up at Alexia as she held out her hand.
"Come on, I'll explain on the way." She grabbed both of his hands and pulled him to his feet. He was obviously still feeling a little dizzy. He stumbled a few times.
"Hmm maybe we should wait. I don't want you going all Elizabeth on me." She held Will steady as he tittered on the spot again.
"No I'm fine. Just light headed is all." Will started to walk, Alexia followed beside him. Keeping an eye on him to make sure he didn't faint from the sun or some other bullshit.
"Yeah you seem to have a spot on the back of your skull that's as soft as a peach." Alexia pointed out, her eyes slid to the back of his head. He looked befuddled.
"What?" Will tilted his head to the side like a puppy. Alexia made the "awww" face.
"Nothing."
"So what happened?" He asked taking in the look of the new battered and bruised Port Royal.
"Well, I got knocked out and when I came about I saw a pirate coming at you, in the middle of the town, with a silver candle stick holder. And he banged you on the head and you went out like a light." She tapped her chin with her finger as she tried to remember anything else.
"Oh and Pirates took Chelsea and Elizabeth." She looked to Will for a reaction.
"Elizabeth." He whispered more to himself than to Alexia. She shrugged.
"Yep let's see if Commodore has any ideas to where she might be. Though I know for sure he won't, the bloody tosser!" She said as they entered the Fort. Will spotted the Governor and Commodore at a table map. He ran up to join them.
"They've taken her! They've taken Elizabeth!" Will shouted, Alexia fell in step behind him.
"Mr. Murtogg please remove this man." The Commodore said not even bothering to look up at Will. Alexia unsheathed her cutlass and held it to Murtogg throat.
"Back up there tubby" She said forcing him back.
"Oh it's you. Jack Sparrows friend, of sorts." Mullroy said pointing at her.
"Yes, yes I am. How's it going Mullroy?" She asked lowering her sword.
"Good. Got promoted. Most soldiers were injured yesterday so we're sort of back up." He said motioning towards both Murtogg and himself modestly.
"Aww. Good for you." Alexia smiled and put her cutlass away.
"We have to hunt them down, we must save her!" Will yelled.
"No need to yell Will. We're all right here." Alexia crossed her arms and sighed.
"And where do you propose we start? If you have any information concerning my daughter please share it with us." The Governor said wearily. He was tired and concerned for his daughter's well being.
"Jack Sparrow might know a thing or two about the Black Pearl." Alexia threw out on the table with a flick of her hand.
"Ask him where it is. Make a deal with him, he could lead us to it!" Will was on the verge of desperation.
"No," the Commodore sighed," The pirates that invaded this Fort left Sparrow locked in his cell. Ergo, he is not their ally and therefore of no value."
"Hey Will take it down a few notches, and put your hand down." Alexia whisper in his ear but Will still slammed his axe on the table in front of him.
"That's not good enough!" He shouted. Alexia patted his shoulder, trying to calm him down. Norrington looked at the axe in his table and removed it.
"Mr. Turner. You are not a military man, you are not a sailor, you are a Black Smith," Norrington walked up to Will and grabbed his arm pushing him towards the edge of their head quarters. Alexia watched his every move.
"This is not the time for rash action, both of you." He looked over at Alexia then turned back to Will.
"Do not make the mistake thinking you are the only man here that cares for Elizabeth." He slapped the axe back into Will's hand. Alexia stepped forward and leaned into Norrington so her lips were close to his ear.
"Then why does Elizabeth return his feelings and not yours?" She whispered then joined Will again. The Commodore stood watching her go, thinking over what she had just said.
Jack fiddled with the lock on the cell door again. Xio finally got up and smacked the bone out of his hand. He turned on her but said nothing to the look on her face.
"Do you know how annoying that jingling is?" She hissed quietly.
"I'm tryin to get us outta here!" Jack shouted back. Xio cocked her head and raised her eyebrows.
"Don't worry about it Jack, just Relax." She walked over to him and stood close, looking him in the eye. Jack stood still not knowing what to expect. Xio traced a finger around his jaw line and rested her hand there.
"As I said Jack relax." She gripped the side of his face and pushed him hard to the ground.
Just then she heard the sound she had been waiting to hear for hours. The sounds of boots coming down the stairs. Jack lounged on the floor faking a relaxed, at ease pose.
"Thank you baby Jesus! With your white diapers and your little Baby Einstein's play set." Xio pressed herself against the bars as Will and Alexia came into view.
"Oh my god! Xio I've missed you like you wouldn't believe." Alexia ran forward and hugged Xio through the bars. Will nodded towards Xio who glared at him, making him flinch.
"Why do you hate me?" He asked facing Xio looking confused. She snorted.
"Cause you suck." She looked him up and down. Alexia crossed her arms and gave Xio her double death stare.
"Fine. I guess your okay." Xio helped Jack up from the floor as she said this, never looking Will in the eye.
"It's okay Will, she'll warm up to ya." Alexia patted his shoulder.
"Really?" He looked surprised.
"Well, no probably not." She tapped her finger on her chin as Jack stared at her.
"I see yer brave enough ta show yer pretty face again luv." Jack said sarcastically as he leaned against the bar, Alexia gave him a deadly smile.
"I'm here helping Will spring you." Her tone dripped with sweetness. Will suddenly remembered why they were there.
"You Sparrow! Where does the Black Pearl make berth?" Will pointed a finger at Jack while Xio and Alexia exchanged looks.
"Have you not heard the stories?" Xio questioned in an up beat voice as she mocked a surprised look.
"The Black Pearl, crew and all, only sail to Isle de Muerta. An island that can only be found by those who already know where it is." Alexia recited clasping her hands together and holding them to her face. Jack's mouth fell open.
"How did you know that?" He tried to grab her arms but she spun away from him like a ballerina.
"I'm magic Jack. Pure Magic with a hint of craziness." She continued to dance around as Will and Jack stared. Xio however laughed at Alexia's antics and slapped Jack on the back.
"The ships real enough so the anchorage must be a real place. Where is it?" Will asked still watching Alexia prance around.
"Why do you ask?" Jack smirked but Xio was coming to the end of her last line.
"Because your a pirate." Will said through clench teeth. Jack smiled.
"And you want to become pirate yourself?" He raised an eyebrow at Will
"Jack he wants to save Elizabeth. Now agree to help him so he can get us out of here!" Xio shouted smacking him up side his head.
Jack rubbed his head and pouted. Will sighed again as Alexia ran forward and tackled him. He didn't fall, however, and held her up in a piggyback ride style. Jack stared open mouthed at Alexia and turned to Xio.
"How can he get us out of here? Remember, the keys ran of when you were laughing at me!" He whined. Xio sighed and looked to Will for an answer. He was trying to get Alexia to get off his back.
"I helped build these cells. Their made with half pin barrel hinges. With the proper amount of leverage and the right amount of strength the door will lift free." Will now struggled to get Alexia off his back but she just slipped off.
"Yeah lets use this bench!" Alexia moved towards the bench and helped Will place it against the bars. Jack looked at Will with curiosity.
"What's your name, son?" Jack asked leaning against the bars again.
"Will Turner." Will looked confused as something flashed across Jack's face.
"That'd be short for William, Jack. Good strong name huh? Maybe a good name for your father right?" Xio said looking off into space.
"Yes." Will said suspiciously, she turned to Alexia who just smiled.
"Well I've changed me mind…" but Jack didn't get to finish before Alexia lifted the bench and pulled the door free.
"Come on someone would have heard that." She dusted her hands off as everyone stared at her.
"What? I'm strong for my size." Alexia put her hands on her hips as Jack pushed past her.
"Not without my effects!" Xio and Alexia hive fived each and exchanged a few words.
"OH NO!" They both screamed as they ran past Will and Jack up the stairs, laughing like a gaggle of geese. Jack and Will stared after them shaking their heads. They shared a look and made their way to the docks.
They were all now hiding out under a bridge. Jack looked around wildly trying to think up a plan.
"We're going to steal a ship?" Will looked at the ship Jack was gazing at.
"That ship?" Will pointed to the ship. Alexia sighed and went back to whispering to Xio.
"So what's the name of an ape that has the same sounding name as his title?" Alexia asked Xio. She knew she wouldn't get it. Xio shrugged and gave up.
"It's Magilla Gorilla! Duh Xio." She slapped Xio's arm for her stupidity and turned back to Jack.
"No, we're going to commandeer that ship." he motioned towards the Dauntless.
"Nautical term."
"One question about your business, boy, or there's no use in going." Jack took a breath.
"This girl. How far are you willing to go to save her?"
"I'd die for her." Will said lovingly. Xio and Alexia sighed deeply.
"Beautiful." Alexia leaned on Xio.
"Just Beautiful!" Xio said with a dreamy look in her eye.
"Good and you two?" Jack turned to Alexia and Xio and looked at each other.
"Well duh! Do ya think we'd stay here and not go on the biggest adventure of our lives?" Alexia shouted. She tried to be quiet but she was loud by natural. Her inside voice was way louder than anyone's by far.
"What about your family?" Will asked Xio while they made their way across the beach and toward an over turned long boat.
"Just think of that nursery rhyme. Hump de dumpty sat on a wall. Hump de dumpty had a great fall." Xio sang softly to herself.
Will gave her an odd look before following Alexia and Jack up the long boat. Soon they were underwater holding onto the boat. Jack was leading, with Xio behind him, then Alexia and Will bringing up the rear. Alexia noticed her feet and Xio's feet didn't really touch the bottom of the sand. They were just floating as Jack and Will did all the work.
"This is either madness or brilliantness!" Will exclaimed making Alexia start giggling. Xio looked back at her and shushed her.
"It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide." Jack said as he looked down at his feet for some reason. Just then Will stepped into a lobster cage. Alexia's giggling started up again.
"I always wondered why he stepped in that thing."
"Maybe it was a blooper and they just kept it in." Xio said trying to stifle her laughing.
Will looked confused but didn't have time to ask about it. They had reached the Dauntless and started climbing over the side. Alexia and Xio hung back as Jack and Will jumped on deck. A group of soldiers sat in the middle of the deck playing dice. Mullroy and Murtogg were among them.
"Everyone stay calm." Jack's voice carried over the railing, "We are taking over this ship!"
Alexia and Xio popped their heads over the side just as Will made himself look so stupid it wasn't even funny.
"Aye! Avast!" Will held up his sword as Jack lowered his and glared at him. The rest of the crew laughed at him.
"This ship can not be crewed by two men! You'll never make it out of the bay." Gillette said, still laughing a little.
Xio and Alexia laughed too as the walked up and pulled their swords out. Jack got out his gun and cocked it. He aimed right at Gillette's face and smiled.
"I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, savvy?" He smiled wider, showing a few gold teeth.
"Hey look it's the Commodore!" Xio yelled waving over the side at the Interceptor that was sailing towards them.
"HI COMMODORE!" Alexia yelled at the top of her lungs. Will grabbed both of them from the side.
"Here they come." He said holding Alexia and Xio back, which was proving difficult to do.
Jack turned and looked back at the Interceptor, which had picked up speed, and smiled. Soon the Interceptor came up along side the Dauntless and the soldiers started to board. Jack and Will grabbed the ropes to swing across to the other ship.
"Which one of ya is comin' with good old Jack?" Jack held out his arm and Xio stepped forward.
He grabbed her and swung across as Alexia walked up to Will. He wrapped an arm tightly around her waist. As they swung across Alexia resisted yelling for joy but they couldn't let the Commodore know they had made the switch.
Jack was already at the helm and started sailing away from the Dauntless while Will went around cutting off all the ropes connecting to the other boat. Jack looked back at a surprised Commodore.
"Thank you, Commodore, for helping us make way!" He swiped his hat off in a bow.
"We couldn't have done it without you!" Xio yelled and waved an arm at him.
"Nice one Xio." Alexia came up and gave her a high five.
"Race to the bottom?" Xio asked eyeing the stairs banisters.
Alexia nodded walking to the edge of the stairs. She ran a hand over the railing, jumped up and slid very quickly on it. She practically flew off the banister into a pile of rope. She laughed the entire way down and even after the crash. She even laughed when Xio came crashing down the banister and landed on top of her in a heap of clothing. They watched from the pile of ropes, now arranged into conformable chairs, as Will sharpen his cutlass.
"For a man whose made an industry of avoiding boats, you're a quick study." Alexia commented. Will looked up from his work.
"How did you know I was afraid of boats?" Will asked inspecting the blade of his cutlass and testing it's sharpness by cutting a loose string from his shirt. Alexia shrugged.
"I've already told you Will. I know a lot of things. Like you worked passage from England as a cabin boy after your mother passed. You were looking for your father." Alexia patted Will's back. Xio nodded.
"Sorry about your mum." She said quietly. Will nodded.
"Is that so?" Jack asked casually. Alexia cocked her pistol at Jack.
"Enough out of you, back to captaining Captain." She swung her gun with quick fingers before placing it back in its holster.
"My father. William turner, you knew him right?" Will questioned trying to get an answer from Jack but he remained silent. Xio raised her eyebrow at Will and went back to cleaning her nails.
"I'm not a simpleton Jack." Will said losing his patience.
"Here, Here!" Alexia cheered. Will gave her a look but Alexia gave it right back, ten fold.
"At the jail- it was only after you learned my name that you agreed to help." Will smiled.
"Since that's what I wanted, I didn't press the matter But now-"
He pointed his sword at Jack in accusation.
"You knew my father."
Alexia clapped her hands together and got to her feet so she could stand between Jack and Will.
"What if he did Will?" Alexia said angrily holding up her hands, palms out.
"You've got a ship and a truth to the blue Captain willing to help you find your stole lady. Your life is pretty good right now if you don't mind me saying." Alexia laughed slightly.
"I knew him." Jack piped up. Alexia hung her head and walked over to the wheel Jack was steering. When she sat on the railing and Jack was sure she would not throw him overboard he continued.
"Probably one of the few who knew him as William Turner. Most everyone just called him Bill, or Bootstrap Bill." Jack said truthfully. Alexia sighed her spot on the railing; leaning back and watching the clouds chug by. Xio still sat at her rope throne mimicking Jack and Will with her hands like sock puppets, only without the socks.
"Bootstrap?" Will asked baffled at his father's name. Jack looked up from the wheel and shook his head. He then strolled around the deck tightening ropes here and there to do something. Will followed him.
"Good man. Good Pirate." Jack looked to Will for a reaction. He pointed at Will with a certain swagger.
"I swear you look just like him."
"Stop Jack. You're making it worst." Alexia called from the railing. A sarcastic smile gracing her lips.
"It's not true," Will said angrily shifting his focus to Alexia then back to Jack, "my father was not a pirate."
"Figured you wouldn't want to hear it." Xio shook her head and leaned back on her rope throne so she could sleep.
"No! My father was a good respectable man who obeyed the law, followed the rules-" Will began but Alexia cut him short.
"You think your father is the only man who ever lived the Glasgow life? Telling folk one thing, and going off to do another?" She propped herself up on her elbow to look Will straight in the eye.
"There's quite a few who would leave home for the sea, hoping to amass enough swag to ease the burdens of their respectable life. And they're all "Good Respectable Men"." Alexia said with air quotes.
"He was not a pirate!" Will huffed pulling out his sword and leveling it at Jack. Alexia sat up and pinned him down with a disbelieving glare. Jack turned slightly from the wheel and sighed.
"Put it away boy. It's not worth getting beat again." Jack bobbled his head while Alexia got up quick as a flash and threw the wheel to the right. The sail boom whipped around hitting Will hard in the chest, sweeping him off the ship. As his sword clattered to the deck Will managed to hang on to the boom, dangling above the open ocean. Jack moved forward to pick up Will's fallen sword and poke him with it. Will hand-over-hands his way to the end of the boom, just out of reach from the sword. Alexia took the wheel again still watching the show with a jaded expression. Xio snored gently in her chair.
"As long as you're just hanging there, pay attention. Must, Should, do, don't, shall, shall not -- those are just suggestions. There are only two absolute rules," Jack ticked them off on his fingers.
"What a man can do. And what a man can't do." Will looked to a pod of dolphins swimming a few feet away, uninterested in what Jack was saying.
"For instance," Alexia stood next to Jack and leaned forward on the railing.
"You can accept that your father was a pirate and still a good man…" Will noticed a glint in her eye, "or you can't."
Alexia turned on a heel and rubbed her chin.
"Now, we could let you drown." This caught Will's attention quick. Alexia flipped her hair and looked at Will from over her shoulder.
"But I sure as hell won't be helping Jack sail this thing to Tortuga, so..." She gave Jack a knowingly look and he swung the wheel back in so Will was not hanging over the deck. Will, exhausted at this point, let go of the boom and landed in the rope pile next to Xio. She gave a start and jumped to her feet yawning.
"I'm up!" Xio shouted raising both her hands in the air, her eyes were still half closed. Alexia clapped.
"I give you a ten for the jump and an about an eight for the landing." She giggled but Xio was already trudging toward the stairs the sit for a moment. Jack walked over to Will and offered the hilt of his very own sword to him. Will took it under the cool glare Jack was giving him. Alexia nodded.
"Alrightly then boys. Pick up your toys and play nice now. Oh and Will!" Alexia held a hand out to him. He looked up at her.
"Sorry for doing that but denial is not a good look for you." Alexia said in a genuine tone, shaking her head.
"It's okay." Will smiled at Alexia, she slung an arm around his shoulders.
"Plus for someone who claims he would have never become a pirate you're on a rip roaring good start." Alexia bit her lip to keep her smile hidden.
"Any advice Jack?" She asked smirking slightly.
"Yeah, smile and enjoy." His lips twisted into a crude smile.
"Good show then. Well, where to now Capitán?" Alexia saluted. Xio was now stretched across the bottom step, snoozing.
"Tortuga." Xio announced from here slumber. Will gave her sleeping form a fleeting look.
"Tortuga?" Will asked as he snaked an arm around Alexia's waist. Jack raised his eyebrow.
"Aye, Tortuga." Jack turned the wheel a little to the right and looked out at the horizon.
The OH NO! And Take it down a few notches and put your hand down are inside jokes from stupid TV shows and my step-dad getting mad at my sister and I for waving at him like stupid fan girls when he was only two feet away.