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Author's notes: The divider doesn't work for me so I will add a separating character when needed. I think I may have butchered Jack's language a little bit...ok a lot, but i'm not used to writing pirate. I've also probably over acted the characters personalities a bit, but it amused me to do so. This is my first fan fic of POTC there may be a spoiler or two from DMC. This story is a bit sappy but it does have its moments

I love heights...just not at this risk. R&R please

Chapter 11: Snap, Snap…Uh Oh

As predicted Jack nodded and made a gesture which Will obviously didn't like judging by the look I had seen on his face. Then as I figured Jack took off at an outright run with Will not far behind him. I heard even more snapping and saw the bridge visibly start to give under the sudden running and pressure of four others on its worn ropes and planks. Then I felt a jerk feeling a sudden stop and chanced opening my eyes seeing Will was still holding Elizabeth and breathing heavily turning to look behind us. The bridge had finally given and now there was nothing but air over the cliff. "We made it." Was my first thought before Jack placed me down on my not so sturdy feet holding me up as I glanced around and sighed. "More jungle…damn it I want a scenery change." I thought seeing Elizabeth was still shaking and visibly terrified at what had just happened on the bridge.

"She's going to kill you…if we get back to the Pearl." I whispered softly to Jack who nodded visibly wincing as I placed my hand on his arm and glanced down startled to see bleeding. "You're hurt." I said more audible as Will and Elizabeth turned at this staring at us curiously.

"Tis alrigh luv." Jack muttered softly wincing again as he shifted his arm. I noticed a branch was embedded in the skin and sighed staring hard at the stick making sure it wouldn't harm him more if I removed it. As soon as it was clear it wouldn't cause more damage to remove it I smiled faintly and carefully jerked it out without Jack even getting a chance to protest. He grunted painfully and stared at me his eyes wide in surprise as he realized I wasn't as lady like as he would have expected. "Tha hurt." He said as I shrugged ripping a piece of the shirt I was wearing and tying the wound as best I could until we could get back to the Pearl to properly take care of it.

"I could make it less painful if you would like me to take a look." Elizabeth said a little too sweetly for my liking as she smiled lightly seeing Jack eyeing her curiously.

"Ah…no thanks." Jack said wisely as he silently thanked me with a smile before marching on ahead of us leading the way through the jungle and hopefully somehow back to the Black Pearl.

I knew Elizabeth had pain in mind when offering to help Jack judging by the small frown she gave him when he turned toward the jungle, but I just ignored the part of me that was also annoyed with him following along behind making sure I didn't stumble and hurt myself anymore then I had this journey. Soon we came to a beach and paused glancing around and as luck would have it we were only about an hour away from Anna-Maria and Gibbs who had been waiting anxiously for our return. Soon we were on our way to the Pearl Jack carefully leaving our little reasoning for being on the other side of the island out of the conversation he was having with his two crew members.

Back on the Black Pearl Jack quickly almost frantically headed toward his cabin to avoid any lectures, or further accusations from Elizabeth whom hadn't stopped yelling at him since we got into the boat to head to the Pearl. As soon as I heard the cabin door shut and Elizabeth run of muttering "bloody pirate", I decided to grab some warm water and rum. Then I made my way to Jacks cabin not even bothering to knock as I entered seeing he was lying on the bed looking exasperated at hearing his door open.

"Bloody ell woman leave me alon." Muttered Jack as he looked up seeing it was me and not Elizabeth, then he showed me a small smile before closing his eyes and ignoring me as I sat down on the chair beside the bed eyeing his arm which was starting to bleed through my make shift bandage. "She done rantin yet luv?" he asked as I rolled my eyes and sighed.

"No she isn't Jack…I can guarantee she will be here at an unholy hour in the morning to rant at you again. Sadly I will still not be able to avoid it since I have apparently sided with you at the moment. Elizabeth informed me that she would return when we were asleep and rant to her hearts content. I think she needed a break to sort out what happened." I muttered pointedly giving Jack an annoyed sigh as he started to chuckle at this.

"Aye…well ye tell er tha I ave pointedly decided to ignore er alrigh?" Jack questioned as I gave him one of my warning looks that was obviously lost on him as he placed his hand gently against my cheek giving me a full view of his injured arm.

"You tell her…bloody pirate." I muttered quoting Elizabeth as he started to chuckle again apparently finding it funny. "I'm not amused Jack." I thought my face void of emotion as I gently pried off the bandage around his bloody arm and started to wipe at it with fresh warm water seeing him hide a flinch as I shrugged staring at the wound checking for splinters. "I hope this hurts like hell." I thought placing the water basin under Jacks arm and pouring an unnecessarily large amount of rum on the wound. He couldn't restrain that yelp which I had made sure of as he pointedly glared at the smile crossing my face. "I'm sorry did that hurt?" I asked acting innocent as I wrapped a clean bandage around the wound and placed the things aside seeing Jack was now sitting up glaring at me. I couldn't help but snicker faintly at the scowl on his face and shrugged it off as he stood walking toward me.

"Tha wasn nice." Jack said very close to my ear as I turned to glare at him seeing he was up to something.

"Jack!" Elizabeth snapped as I turned feeling a hand start to trail up the back of my shirt seeing Elizabeth was now in the cabin apparently ready to yell at him some more and throttle him as well judging by the deep scowl on her face. I stepped back from Jack walking over and sitting down on the bed to observe what would happen.

Crack

I flinched at the familiar sound as I saw Jacks head whip back sharply before he turned a very irritated scowl on his face as I noticed her hand aim for him a second time. This time Jack caught her wrist and before I could point out she had two hands another crack rang in the cabin sending his head whipping to the other side. "Ouch…that had to hurt." I thought seeing two red marks form on Jacks cheeks and seeing him gingerly touch them with the hand not holding her wrist. I could see Jack was angry, but had enough sense to keep his temper under control with a woman, which was one thing I had admired about him in the movies as I felt a small smile on my face shaking it off before he noticed.

"I didn deserve tha." Jack said his voice visibly shaking on the rise of yelling at Elizabeth whose chest was heaving in anger. "I was hurt too Elizabeth." He said pointedly showing her his now bandaged arm and glancing over at me a moment before he released her wrist and sighed.

"That was the dumbest and most irresponsible trip yet Jack Sparrow. I did not appreciate this one anymore then Carpathian Island…this better have been the last stop before we return to Port Royal and sort out this mess you've gotten us into." Elizabeth seethed as Jack thoughtfully eyed her and shook his head very hesitantly. "No?" she asked her temper starting to flair again but Jack held up his hand as if to explain.

"I cannot return to Port Royal jus yet. Tha pirate be Gaston Barlow an is not one to loose so easily. I ave to find wha I came after ter stop him Elizabeth." Jack said leaving it at that with no further explanation. I waited as Elizabeth sighed eyeing Jack before nodding and resigning to the fact we were not done.

"I swear Jack Sparrow…I could kill you for this mess you've gotten us into, but I will try not to do so. You're lucky Brandi cares for you so much…she's the only thing stopping me from throttling you." Elizabeth growled angrily as she turned on her heel starting toward the door.

"Tha tis Captain Jack Sparrow…if you please." Jack said arrogantly as usual and smiled slightly at me. I knew that was a bad idea as I saw Elizabeth stop dead in her tracks. "Please do throttle him…I'm not stopping you." I thought glaring at Jack as his smile visibly disappeared realizing that Elizabeth wasn't gone yet. "I think I'm going up on deck." I thought.

As soon as I left the cabin I heard a series of shrieks and yells followed by loud yells and curses from Jack. "Oh well…he asked for that one." I thought making my way up on deck and walking over to the helm seeing Anna-Maria was on duty at the helm at that moment and was curiously glancing in the direction I had just come from. I knew half the Black Pearl could hear Jack and Elizabeth fighting, but it had apparently become common since no one made a move to react to this except for Will who sighed loudly coming up behind me and sitting down against the railing seeing I was starting to talk to Anna-Maria about the warm night for something to talk about.

"She's at it again isn't she?" asked Will as Anna-Maria glanced down at him and smiled faintly nodding and flinching as the voices in Jack's cabin rose an octave higher.

"It's nothing new with those two." I answered as Will, Anna-Maria and I laughed at this. It seemed oddly funny and relaxing at the same time. It had been one hell of a long day and I think all of us needed some rest. "Will can you help me drag your charming wife from Jacks cabin so I can go to sleep?" I muttered softly as Will eyed me thoughtfully.

Admittedly I had stayed with Jack every night since landing in the pirate world, and was content with that fact. I had been very happy to be with Jack and didn't really care what anyone thought about this. I saw an odd look pass between Will and Anna-Maria at my comment before they both shrugged and I saw Will smile faintly.

"You're in love." Will muttered as I felt my face get visibly hot and seen Anna-Maria smile at this. "I just hope I can convince her to leave him alone for you." He muttered softly clearly not noticing my embarrassment at his comment.

"Let me put it this way…it's a warm night and if Mrs. Turner doesn't comply willingly……she will go for a swim." I stated simply deciding I was too tired to deal with all of this and I was starting to get cranky because my arm was extremely stiff and sore after our adventures for the day. "Don't look at me like that Will…I love Elizabeth like a sister, but even I've had enough for one day." I said seeing the shock leave Will's face briefly as he headed toward the cabin with me following close behind.