Chapter 13:

Several crew members came back down into the brig not long later. They unlocked Will and Elizabeth's cells before doing the same to Jack and Blake's. Blake was still lying on the floor, but she sat up without difficulty when the gate was opened. The cut that had been on her cheek was long gone.

"You're coming with us." Bo'sun said to Jack. He looked at Blake and sneered at her, grinning, before Jack was grabbed and yanked from the cell. Will and Elizabeth were taken as well, all tied up and Jack had his hands bound.

Blake moved to the bars as the cell door was shut on her and Jack looked worried.

"Could really do with some help." he muttered

"Want me to sink your ship?" she responded and he looked irritated before he was yanked away and pulled toward the stairs after Elizabeth. Will glanced at Blake who gave him a sorrowful look before they left the room.

"Whats happening?" Marty asked from the other cell

"Something tells me it's nothing good." Blake responded. She could hear shouting from above, cheering and yelling before it calmed down and she heard words.

"Barbossa, you lying bastard!" Will shouted from above, the crew and Blake looking up at the ceiling. The holes in the Pearl allowed for good audio to what was happening. "You swore she'd go free!"

"Don't dare impugn me honour, boy." Barbossa shouted back "I agreed she'd go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where." the crew laughed and Gibbs looked at Blake.

"They're marooning her." Gibbs realised and Blake nodded, frowning.

"Though it does seem a shame to lose something so fine, don't it lads?" Barbossa thought

"Aye." his crew agreed

"So I'll be having that dress back before you go." the crew laughed.

Wolf whistling sounded along with cooing and laughter as there was otherwise silence for a moment. Blake assumed Elizabeth was removing the wine dress.

"Goes with your black heart." Elizabeth hissed after a few moments.

There was a suspending silence, broken only by a few choice words.

"Off you go! Come on!"

And then there was a twang. "Too long!"

Elizabeth cried out before there was a splash.

Blake closed her eyes momentarily.

"I'd really rather hoped we were past all this." Jack's voice sounded

"Jack… Jack. Did ya not notice?" Barbossa wondered "That be the same little island that we made you Governor of on our last little trip."

"I did notice." Jack responded

"They're marooning Jack too!" Marty muttered

"No surprise." Blake said before she moved to sit herself back on the floor and lean against the bars.

"Perhaps you'll be able to conjure up another miraculous escape… but I doubt it." there was the sound of a sword being unsheathed. "Off you go." Barbossa said.

There was a pause.

"Last time, you left me a pistol with one shot." Jack reminded him

"By the powers, you're right. Where be Jack's pistol? Bring it forward." movement sounded.

"Seeing as there's two of us, a gentleman… would give us a pair of pistols." Jack admitted

"It'll be one pistol as before, and you can be the gentleman and shoot the lady and starve to death yourself." Barbossa said before there was another splash followed by laughter of the crew. The plank twanged again and another splash signalled Jack having jumped off the boat.

"What happens now?" Marty questioned

"Who knows." Gibbs said

"Murdered or traded."

"If he has any honour Barbossa wont kill us, he made a deal. Pirates code remember." Blake said

"That enough?" AnaMaria asked "He doesn't seem like the honourable type."

"Guess we're all going to find out." Blake said before there was thumping. They all turned to see Will being brought back down to the brig, only having been taken aboard to see Barbossa's deception. He was put back in his cell beside Blake, now alone.

"Cap'n wanted to remind you that if you did anything, your boy here gets it." one sneered at Blake, looking at Will. She was still sitting on the floor and she glanced at the boy behind her fleetingly.

"Did you bother to ask what's gonna hold me back after you've killed him anyway?" she asked and the pirate's smile dropped as she wadded her hand in the water that covered the brig's deck. He looked her over slightly worried before turning to leave the brig after the others.

Will walked around the cell, frustrated, guilty and angry, before he sat down, his back to Blake's as they leaned against the same bars.

"They made them walk the plank." he said

"I heard." she responded "I'm not surprised."

They were silent for a moment.

"You sure you're alright?" he asked her. Blake responded by leaning forwards and raising her shirt. Will turned to see her back free of any cuts or wounds. The bullet holes were all gone.

"I'm fine."

"You were bleeding." he said. Blake glanced downwards at her hands and then turned to Will. He was eyeing her confused as he looked at her cheek, there had been a cut there earlier only now it was gone? He glanced around the cell and his eyes landed on the bullets that were lying within the water, which Jack had removed.

Will turned back to her as she was watching him, his eyebrows were furrowed. He looked her over before shock seemed to fill him.

"You…" he cut off. She rolled her eyes and sighed, leaning her head back against the bars as he realised. "Jack was right." he said

She sighed. "Yes, he was right." she muttered "Which means bullets and blades don't do the same amount of harm to me. And I heal rather fast, so I can assure you, I'm perfectly fine." she said, watching him. Will looked her over as if seeing her with new eyes.

"You're the daughter of a god?"

"Goddess." she corrected. "I never lied."

"You never admitted it either." Will muttered. She sighed and lowered her gaze.

"Tell me Will, what do you think immortality is like?" she asked softly. He looked at her as she watched her fingers.

"You're immortal?" he asked surprised and she sighed, smirking slightly.

"I am." she nodded "One of the tales told about me; 'Stories are told throughout time as the daughter of a god wonders, unable to leave this world due to her immortality. Blades and bullets have no affect on her and her life span is much longer than anyone known to have lived. People have tried to do away with her, but to no avail.'." she repeated Jack's words and Will watched her. "Unfortunately they're true."

He rose his eyebrows for a moment, thinking.

"Must be easy, not having to worry about dying. Weight off your shoulders."

"Not quite." she said earning his gaze back. "Immortality adds more weight." she said "Can you imagine wondering through years and years, watching people die over and over. You can never be with someone, or hold on to someone because they leave you, their life comes to an end, while you're left to mourn them for eternity." there was a sadness in her face, her eyes seeming to see something else, far away.

Will looked at the opposite side of his cell frowning. "I guess I hadn't thought of it like that." he muttered

"Immortality comes with a high price." she shrugged

"You lost someone?" he asked softly

"Several someones." she nodded "Family." he glanced at her and the broken lock on her face caused him to not ask any further. Instead he asked another question.

"So this is why Barbossa wanted you? Because of who you are?" Will asked

"He thought he could use me as leverage to gain what ever he wanted from the seas." she said

"Why?"

"It's a long story." she whispered "But when we hold power, people always want to use it. That's why I didn't admit who I was to Jack."

They were silent for a moment before Will turned to Blake. "You can't get us out of here?" he asked

"I could… but where would we go?" she offered "The pirates above us will be after you regardless, do you want to run forever?"

Will glanced away from her. "So I let them kill me instead?"

She turned to look at him through the bars. "No." she said and he met her gaze. "They don't need more than a few drops of your blood… now being pirates they might happily slit your throat." she shrugged and he gave her a look that said he didn't want to know such a fact. She smirked slightly. "If we can turn them mortal again, they pose a much smaller threat, don't you think?" she smirked

"You want to kill them all?"

"You don't?" she asked with a raised eyebrow. He pursed his lips.

"I didn't see you as the type." he muttered

"As a person who can be wounded, feel pain, yet not die, torture can be a lot of fun to some sadistic people." she said looking mutinous. "Yes, I'm the type and I want them all dead." she glanced around the cell. "This cell makes my blood boil." she muttered

Will glanced around it before dropping his gaze as Blake took a breath as if to steady herself.

"That coin simply needs some of your blood on it and then returned to the chest, as soon as that happens, the undead pirates become mortal humans again. Shoot them and they die. Get rid of most of them and you then get the Pearl. From there you can save Elizabeth from her marooning." Blake listed and Will was filled with slight understanding. "And Jack." Blake added.

"Jack just wanted to turn me over." Will said, a harsh tone to his voice.

"No," she said earning a surprised look. "I think he just wanted to bargain. Barbossa wanted you which gave Jack an advantage. Barbossa rose a mutiny against Jack, you think Jack will trust him again? Remember Jack has the single shot in that pistol to kill Barbossa."

"So he wasn't going to hand me over?" Will asked

"I don't think so." Blake said thinking "Maybe cut your hand to turn Barbossa mortal so he could shoot him and take the Pearl back but I don't think he'd have traded you."

"You have that much trust in him?" Will questioned "He's a pirate."

"So am I." she shrugged.

Will looked her over, it was hard to think of her as a pirate when she seemed to care more for others around her than expected. But when she spoke about murder and gave orders on a ship, he remembered she really was one. She had just as much wildness in her as all pirates seemed to possess.

He was silent for a few more minutes before turning to her again. "You knew about the curse." it was more a statement than a question

"I knew about it." she nodded "I was on this ship for quite a while, I saw the skeleton pirates. And Barbossa just couldn't help yapping on about it." she rolled her eyes "Of course I knew of the rumour of the cursed aztec gold as well, hidden on an island of dead that cannot be found except by those who already know where it is."

"You never went looking for it?"

"Cursed treasure never interested me." she added as a thought

"You didn't think it was a tale?" Will asked. She turned to him and simply rose an eyebrow.

"I have the right to doubt things like curses? Me? The daughter of a goddess?" she said and he smiled slightly.

"Right." he nodded. "And you knew they needed me for the ritual?"

"I did. Once I knew how the curse was lifted, which Barbossa also blabbed to me." she nodded "It wasn't until I heard your name that I knew they'd need you, I knew your father wasn't on this ship any more."

"How come?"

"Well like I said, I never met him, despite being on this ship. But I did know he'd been here, I'd listening to the crew members enough while on board. He'd been a part of the Black Pearl's crew. Much more honest a man than any of these here." she added, glancing at the door of her cell. "If they needed blood, and Bootstrap had taken a coin, they'd need his blood. Where better than from his son to get it?"

"What happened to him?" Will asked

"Don't know exactly, just know that the pirates said he got what he deserved." she sneered angrily at this and Will diverted his gaze downwards. "Sorry about that." she answered and he turned to see the sorrow in her eyes, as blue as the ocean in her calmness.

He nodded to her as thanks.

They were silent for another moment before Will remembered something else.

"Is that why you were in the middle of the ocean? Because you escaped this ship?" he asked. Blake smirked slightly

"No, this ship I escaped years ago." she said glancing around the brig again. "Almost sunk it, had it been a normal ship that is."

"Another ship then?" Will offered

"Yes… and no." she said "The ship sunk." she repeated with a slight smirk.

"You said it was attacked." he said looking at her.

"Which is still correct." she muttered and Will looked her over. "It was a navy vessel which I'd been taken prisoner upon. Like I said, being a pirate captain makes the Navy your enemy. I was escaping, but I was also attacking."

"You sunk the ship?" he asked in realisation

"I said it was divine provenance that let me live." she shrugged. Will couldn't help but chuckle at her and she grinned. "Honestly I might have gone a little overboard but,"

"You sunk a ship, by yourself?" he clarified

"Didn't you listen to the rumours Jack spoke about me?" she asked smirking. "Can take down a ship by myself? Not much of a rumour." she admitted and he stared at her. "The ship was sunk because I attacked it. And I stole a longboat while I was at it." she shrugged "They picked me up while I was minding my own business and was transporting me to England. No thanks." she said "Wouldn't have had to do as much damage if they'd have just left me be."

"Until I hear you say things like that, I can't really imagine you being the type." he muttered

"What? Dangerous?"

"A pirate."

"Why not?"

"You seem kinder."

"Well thank you." she said grinning proudly. She chuckled before sighing. "Well, my father shows absolutely no mercy to anyone, where as my mother has a nasty temper." she confessed sighing "So I suppose I grew to be more mercifully… though my temper's not great. Hence the sinking of the ship." she added and Will rolled his eyes but with a smile on his face. "They do say you either live to be like your parents or the exact opposite." she said more thoughtfully.

"Which are you more like?" Will wondered

"My mother."

"The goddess?" Will smirked and Blake rolled her eyes.

"Don't spread that around alright, it's best a secret." she said and Will nodded.

"Pirates like their secrets." he muttered, remembering and she grinned.

"It's how they survive." she nodded.