Authors Note:

So sorry about the heaps of spelling errors in the last chapter, I didn't read over as I was late for class, and then I read over it just now, and it sucked and was full of errorsl. So Sorry. Any way I hope you read the last chapter, and that you all haven't abandoned me! I'm sorry it took me so long! Cries Forgive me please starts to grovel at your feet. I am your humble servant I shant be bad again I promise!

P.S did you all hear the horrible news! Johnny Depp is….GETTING MARRIED! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !

DISCLAIMER: In a drugged trance I don't own these characters. Jack Sparrow is only a character. I love flowers. I love the nice men in white coats. They are here to help.

Chapter 21: Stupid, Flamin' idiots!

Well the Artemis wasn't going to go peacefully. Once the Pearl was close enough and the Artemis crew got a good look at Jack and his crew, they suddenly had a change of heart. The sails went up again and the captain was cursing and yelling as if these were going to be the last words he uttered. Jack was certain the man had soiled his pants, he had never seen any one quite so scared in his life. Usually this sort of reaction would bring a warm glow to Jack. Now it was just fustrating.

"Curse the flamin' idiots." Jack muttered under his breath as the Artemis hastily drew away from the Pearl in it's desperate attempt to flee the ravishing pirates. Jack leant his head in his hands. He'd give them one more chance before he started to blow holes into their precious ship.

"Mr. Gibbs" Jack called out through his hands. This was possibly the most fustrating situation that he had ever been in.

"Aye Sir?"

"Put up a flag of truce would you" he mumbled through his hands. "And get someone to start wavin' the whitest piece of cloth we have at the bastards."

"Aye Sire!" and then he was off bellowin orders at the crew. Jack kept the Pearl after and when the flag went up and the crew were waving a white shirt, Jack honestly believed that the Artemis would stop. But maybe that was just blind faith and hope.

But she didn't.

She kept on powering away, not that that bothered Jack, because they could easily catch her again.

But it annoyed him greatly.

He yelled a couple of choice swears at the captain, in a vain hope that the stupid man would hear and then bellowed out to Gibbs again.

"Cap'an?"

"Yell at the daft pricks that we just need to…I don't know ask for directions of something!" Jack took a deep breath, his mind racing with the words he was about to utter. "And if they don't slow down, ready the guns" He said gravely.

Gibb's looked ready to protest, but the grave, serious and determined look on Jacks face told him not to bother. They would fire on the ship if the stupid bastards didn't slow down. He knew how much this must pain Jack. Jack wasn't into petty pirating, and preying on innocent merchant ships, firing on them would be going against everything that Jack had believed in and acted on.

Women. Thought Gibbs as he went down and arranged a few of the youngest men, with the loudest voices around him and set them on their task with a grave warning of battle to come if they didn't yell loud enough.

Ilovejack,ilovejack,ilovejack,ilovejack!

Elizabeth tried to fight the men off with her bare hands. Suddenly she felt very vunerable and useless in the night gown, wishing reverently that she had not discarded her old clothes for dresses and that she hadn't locked her weapons in the cargo hold. Luckily Jack had given her lessons in hand to hand battle, and to begin with she was winning this battle. A few of them were on the deck doubled over in pain. However even with his teachings in her head she was not good enough against sailors who were hardened by years on the sea.

At least she got more than one of them in the balls. That would teach them right for attacking a pregnant woman.

Bastards.

It didn't take long though before they had her under control and tied up. Struggling she sprouted some words that would make Jack blush as she was dragged down to the hold.

They threw her into the hold still screaming and cursing. On the way down there she had even pleaded clemency for her pregnant state, but they wouldn't believe her so she went back to abusing them and their shins and any other boy part which got in the way of her flailing legs.

Finally the metal cage door was closed on her.

Once again.

Although the two jail cells that she had been on could not be compared although their purposes were similar.

To keep her from her love, from reconciliation.

This jail cell, unlike the obviously far more civilized one in Port Royal, was filled up to her ankles with salty water, and who knew what else floating past her. She spotted a few suspicious looking objects float near her as the ship lurched and jolted with the waves as it tried to flee the pirate menance which followed them. They really are no cleaner than the dirtest pirates. Elizabeth thought to her self. Even criminals deserved better than to be stuck in the bottom of a ship, with the excrement of their dirty sailors floating around their ankles.

Elizabeth understood now why the Americans looked down on the British. It was no wonder with situations such as hers. She was starting to wish she had never heard of England.

Even though she despaired she still had one hope as she had when she was locked in jail on Port Royal. If Jack really was here to retrieve her than he would find her and free her from this hell.

Only problem being that this ship wasn't going to stop or slow down for the pirates coming after them. Especially now that they thought that she was one of them. And rightly so she had to admit to herself. She really hadn't used the best tactic in trying to get the captain to stop. But then she didn't have the skills in manipulation and deception that Jack had. He could talk his way out of almost any situation. And luck his way out as well.

Realisation dawned on her. If the ship wasn't going to slow down than Jack was left with only on option. He would have to attack it.

Elizabeth felt a pang of pity for her lover, it would be a hard act for him to perform. He hated preying on innocent merchant ships, and more so he was going to be putting her and their un-born baby at risk by doing so. But to not attack would be more disasterous.

He couldn't follow them to England, because the merchant ship will raise the alarm of pirates and the navy will be on the look out for them. And he couldn't let Elizabeth go there, because we she was going to be hung as a pirate. Not that he knew that, Lizzie just hoped that he wouldn't let them go to come and find her later. Because she wouldn't be there.

Ilovejack,ilovejack,ilovejack!

Jack paced back and forwards. One of the crew had reported to him that they had seen Lizzie fight the captain and then get dragged away by a bunch of the sailors.

His first reaction to this news was to be filled with overwhelming joy and happiness, for it meant that Lizzie wanted to come back to him. That she was trying to stop the ship so that they could retrieve her. It was wonderful news.

And then it hit him. The happiness was soon drowned by concern and fear. Was she still ok? What had they done to her? How dare they touch his woman! But more importantly if they had put her in the holds than he would be putting her in more danger.

He would have to act quickly if he started to fire on the ship.

It was his only choice though.

But being the infamous Jack Sparrow he had a plan to counter this.

He would fire on the Artemis. Hopefully they would stop to fight and that's when he would board, find her, take her and then sail away with little damage done, hopefully, to either ship and either crew.

Well it was a plan and it was the best one that he could think of. There was no opportunity here for manipulation and deception, the two traits on which he so frequently relied on for his success. It would be all action. No talking..

Finally he stopped pacing and yelled out the command.

"Fire!" there was a hesitation from the men, did Jack really want to attack the ship on which Elizabeth was? When he yelled the command out again they simply obeyed, but closed their eyes and prayed to the patron of pirates and lit the stick.

Some couldn't bare to watch as the cannon balls flew straight and try and impacted on to the Artemis with wood splinters and chips flying like fireworks on the site. Others were hungry for battle and watched delighted as the cannon balls wrecked chaos, mayhem and destruction on the lightly armed merchant ship.

Jack watched, his face blank of emotions but his mind was filled with conflicting emotions, he had told the men to aim above the holds to the deck. They didn't want to sink the ship, nor did they want to harm Elizabeth who was surely down there. And he waited for the ship to slow down and face the pirates.

But it didn't.

Jack cursed loudly. Slow down you bastards. Stop! Stop!

It seemed to take an eternity but finally the Artemis stopped and loaded it's own guns and started to fire back at the Pearl.

Jack wasn't paying attention to the damage that the Pearl was taking. He was only concentrating on dropping the anchor and stopping next to the Artemis. Grabbing a rope and swinging expertly and gracefully from his own ship, to the merchant ship. And hoping like all hell that they didn't kill him.

No one else was to board, but they were to provide Jack with cover fire if he needed it while he himself went on board. The guns were still firing madly at eachother, and occationally Jack flinched as he heard the enemies cannons impacting on his precious Pearl. There was no time to think of that. Any damage they sustained could be fixed. But he could never replace Elizabeth. And that was the most important thing.

Hopefully he could convince them to stop. He may have to act like a mad, crazed evil pirate, which he was sure that he could do.

Landing on the Artemis deck he ran quickly for the Captain who was firing madly at the Pearls deck. Some how, Jack knew not how, no one stopped him nor saw him. He crept up behind the Captain and put his gun to his head.

Leaning forward he talked directly to the captain, who was frozen with fear.

"Where is Elizabeth Swann?" He asked trying to put on his baddnest meanest voice, but still didn't quite manage to conceal his own fears.

"She, She is in the holds." He stammered fearful. Jack thought that this man may have wet his pants in fear. Jack rolled his eyes at himself.

"Hand her over, un-harmed and we shall leave your ship and never return, savvy?"

The man seemed to be rendered speech less from fear and all he did was nod his head.

"Do I have your word on that?" Jack asked. The man nodded his head yet again.

"Stand down!" he yelled to his men, who instantly stopped firing. When the captain didn't do the same Jack tapped him lightly with his gun.

"S-s-stand down men." He stammered out. His own men hesitantly put down their weapons and looked at their Captain. Who, they were horrified to discover, had a gun to his head by the Pirate captain. The infamous Jack Sparrow. Some of them looked at Jack with awe, and most with fearful respect.

"The girl?" He asked the captain.

"Jones, Smith, go and fetch miss Swann. She's to come to no harm" The captain said meekly. At first it seemed like the sailors didn't hear because they didn't move, but the captain repeated the order and they slowly, hesitantly went about their task.

Jack relaxed a litte, but was cautious not to relax his hold on the captain before he could see Elizabeth safely on the Pearl again.

It seemed like another eternity before he heard Elizabeth curse at the sailors who held her. And then, in a breathtaking, instant moment she came back into Jacks view. He was so excited, all anxiety, all worry everything just melted away and all he could feel was an all encompassing love for the woman who stood ruffled in front of him.

It took her awhile to spot Jack but when she did Jack could tell the same things were running through her. He almost forgot about the ship, and the gun in his hand and the scared shitless captain that he was holding captive.

Reality came back to him in a snap.

"Get a boarding plank and help her across" he ordered the sailors directly. They did as he said. When he was sure that Elizabeth was safe he yelled for the men to bring up the anchor, made sure that they could make a quick get away, took his own rope, kicked the captain in the back so that the man went sprawling and leapt back onto the safety of the Pearl as she started to glide gracefully away.

P.S Sex scene next chapter, sex scene next chapter. And that is all it's going to be! Mwhahahahahaha! Yay can't wait!