With Katrina

(Sequel to Including Katrina)

Disclaimer: No, I do not own Pirates of the Caribbean (characters, plot, dialogue, etc.). Any other tid-bits of creativity, however, are mine… in which I hope you will enjoy. Please be sure to read and review!

Chapter 21

The Fight Begins

After much digging, Norrington and Jack hit a solid object. With great interest in what they had found, the two men quickly dug around the object. In minutes they pulled a large wooden trunk.

Jack immediately bashed the trunk's lock open with his shovel. He then threw open the lid as Katrina, Elizabeth, and Norrington gathered around. The trunk was full of letters, jewelry, and dried up flowers. However, Jack wasn't interested in any of those things. He simply dug threw all those items until he found what he had been looking for.

Carefully Jack pulled out a small chest and set it before himself on the sand. To everyone's surprise, save for Jack, a quiet pulse could be heard beating steadily from within the chest.

"It's real!" Elizabeth cried out, astonished.

Katrina fell onto the sand beside Jack and threw her arms around him as she whispered into his ear, "Now all you need is the key!"

"You actually were telling the truth," Norrington remarked, his eyes wide in amazement.

Jack looked up at the former commodore. "I do that quite a lot. Yet people are still surprised."

"With good reason," a familiar voice called out from behind the group.

Everyone turned around to find Will making his way toward them across the small sand dunes.

"Will!" Elizabeth cheered as she ran to him. "You're all right! Thank God! I came to find you!"

Will swiftly took Elizabeth into his arms and kissed her passionately.

As the three by the chest looked on, Jack looked over at Norrington from the corner of his eye. Just as he thought, James was not a very happy man at the moment. And so, with a wicked smirk on his face, Jack turned to give Katrina a kiss of the same, if not greater, passion. James looked away hurt and disgusted.

"I can see you're taking after Katrina's wardrobe now," Will teased Elizabeth, gesturing at Katrina in her seafaring clothes, once they had broken their kiss.

Elizabeth smiled happily back. "What and you don't like how I look in these clothes?"

"I said nothing of the sort," Will replied playfully.

Elizabeth laughed lightly and gave Will another kiss.

As Will put his arm around her waist he came in contact with the sword she had strapped on. Looking down at it and then over at Katrina who also was armed with a sword, he couldn't help but break into a wider smile.

"I think Katrina is a bad influence on you," Will taunted, "for you've never armed yourself with a sword before."

Elizabeth smirked at her fiancée. "When it comes to a sword, you're the only one that has been the bad influence on me."

Will simply laughed as he pulled her into a tighter embrace.

Katrina swiftly broke her long kiss with Jack as the familiar pain in her abdomen came about.

"Not again," Jack whined when he realized what was wrong, allowing Katrina to lean heavily into him. "Are ye sure you're all right?"

Katrina didn't reply as she took several deep breaths. A moment later the pain was gone and she pulled slightly away from Jack so that she stood on her own.

"Yes," Katrina smiled up at Jack weakly. "I'm fine now."

Jack simply gave a small nod, for this was not the first time that day that this had occurred. However, as much as he wanted so badly to deal with the situation of Katrina's sickness he knew it would have to wait. He needed to get Jones' heart first. That meant he needed the key. And that meant he needed Will.

Standing with Katrina, Jack turned to his good friend the blacksmith. "How did ye get 'ere?"

"Sea turtles, mate," Will grinned. "A pair of them, strapped to my feet."

Jack broke into wide smile at hearing this from Will. "Not so easy, is it?"

"No," Will laughed. "But I do owe you thanks, Jack."

"You do?" Jack asked, a bit perplexed.

"After you tricked me onto that ship to square your debt with Jones--"

"What?" Elizabeth interrupted looking to Jack with great anger.

"What?" Jack echoed Elizabeth in a squeaky voice.

"…I was reunited with my father."

Jack didn't like the look Elizabeth was giving him, but nonetheless replied timidly, "Oh! Well… you're welcome, then."

"Everything you said to me," Elizabeth began as she glared over at Jack, "Every word was a lie!"

"Pretty much," Jack said matter-of-factly. "Time and tide, love."

Before Elizabeth could have another say, Jack turned to Will who was now kneeling before the small chest with Davy Jones' key in his hand.

"Oi! What're you doing?" Jack asked from above.

"I'm going to kill Jones," Will replied plainly.

Within the second Will answered, Jack brought his blade to Will's neck.

"Can't let you do that, William," Jack said calmly. "'Cause if Jones is dead, who's to call his beastie off the hunt, eh? Now, if you please – the key."

Just as fast as Jack had pulled out his sword, Will stood up and pulled out the sword that Elizabeth still wore at her waist. He then held it up in defense against Jack.

"I keep the promises I make, Jack" Will said as he kept a steady aim at Jack, preparing for a duel. "I intend to free my father. I hope you're here to see it."

Before Jack could make a comment, Norrington suddenly pulled out his rapier against Will. "I can't let you do that, either. So sorry."

Jack turned to Norrington with a happy smile. "I knew you'd warm up to me eventually."

Norrington, however, immediately moved his sword threateningly at Jack as well. "Lord Beckett desires the contents of that chest."

"No," Katrina cried out. "We need to destroy the heart so Jack can be seat free."

Norrinton, eyes still fixed on Jack, shook his head. "If I deliver it, I get my life back."

"Ah," Jack said in a sad manner realizing that Norrington had overheard his conversation with Elizabeth about the documents. "The dark side of ambition."

"Oh, I prefer to see it as the promise of redemption," Norrington clarified.

With that said, Norrington began attacking. The other two quickly followed suit. However, every man seemed to be for himself.

"You look awful," Will said bluntly looking over Norrington's current state.

"Granted," Norrington said curtly. "But you're still naïve. You should know that Jack just wants Elizabeth for himself."

"What? No, I don't!" Jack let out, "If anybody wanted someone's somebody it was you wantin' my Katrina!"

"That's not true!" Norrington argued back.

"Is that so?" Jack snapped back.

Furious, Norrington charged forward toward Will and Jack. In the nick of time the two men jumped out of the way in opposite directions. The moment they landed, Will took off to Elizabeth and Jack took off to Katrina.

"Guard the chest!" Will and Jack said in unison to their ladies standing beside the chest of Davy Jones.

Realizing what the other had done, Will and Jack broke out in clashing their swords against each other.

"No!" Elizabeth and Katrina yelled back at Will and Jack.

However, the men didn't hear what they had to say as Norrington joined in their fight across the sand dunes.

"This is barbaric!" Elizabeth shouted on as she and Katrina tried running a bit after them.

"This is not how grown men settle their affairs!" Katrina added nearly at the top of her lungs.

"Oh! Fine!" Elizabeth went on. "Let's just pull out our swords and start banging away at each other! This will solve everything! I've had it! I've had enough! Wobbly-legged, rum-soaked… pirates!"

The fighting men did not pay attention to a word the women yelled out to them. They seemed to be too absorbed in their own competitive world.

"Will!" Elizabeth tried calling out.

"Jack!" Katrina called out as well, as she and Elizabeth watched the fight progress further and further away from them.

"William Turner!"

"Jack Sparrow, stop this at once!"

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"Do you hear that, Norrington?" Jack jeered as he continued to fight off him and Will.

"No. What?" Norrington replied tightly as he tried lounging at the pirate captain.

Jack didn't say anything for a moment until the three men could here the continuous yelling from the women.

"There isn't a lass callin' out for ye."

Will couldn't help but to chuckle at what Jack said.

"Elizabeth is callin' out for Mister Turner," Jack gestured with his head at Will, "and my Katrina is callin' out for me. But I don't believe I hear anyone callin' out for you."

Norrington's face grew hot with anger and he swiftly began attacking with greater effort.

Elizabeth and Katrina, now far from the chest and busy with their continuous yelling, didn't realize that Pintel and Ragetti were sneaking to the chest.

"Oh, I give up on them! They're absolutely hopeless!" Elizabeth declared to Katrina exasperated.

"Men!" Katrina concluded as she too crossed her arms before a thought came to her mind.

"What if you pretended to have a fainting spell?" Katrina suggested to Elizabeth. "Doesn't that usually work for you?"

Elizabeth smiled at the idea. "I'd say it's worth a try."

"Oh!" Elizabeth suddenly cried out as she brought a hand to her forehead. "The heat! I can't breath!"

In a second Elizabeth collapsed onto the sand.

"Oh, Elizabeth!" Katrina exclaimed as she rushed over to her friend. "Are you alright?"

Elizabeth gave no answer.

Katrina turned to yell at the dueling trio, "Will! I think Elizabeth has fainted! She's not breathing!"

Both women waited to see if any of the men would come to them, but instead the three continued they're fighting far out among the dunes.

Katrina let out an annoyed sigh as she too collapsed to sit in the sand beside Elizabeth, who gave up her act and was now sitting up staring at Will.

"Don't they even care?" Elizabeth asked, irritated.

Katrina rolled her eyes. However, as she turned to respond back to Elizabeth she caught sight of Pintel and Ragetti running off with the chest.

"Hey!" Katrina yelled out as she took off after the pirates as they headed into the foliage. A moment later Elizabeth ran after her.