Disclaimer: My precious Jack was stolen from me and is now owned by
Disney.
AN: I am seriously wondering if people will read my Will/OC story if I write it. I'll be very unhappy if I write it and no one reads or reviews it. Of course, I could try and write another Jack/OC romance, but I'd really like to try a Will story. If people do/don't want a Will/OC romance, please tell me in your review!
Chapter 11: Rescue Plots and Actions:
Two days after their encounter with Jay at the marketplace, Julia and Kat were sitting in Julia's room, reading with the balcony doors open to allow some fresh air into the room. They hadn't heard from their parents, their brother, or any of the Pearl's crewmembers since that encounter, and their hopes of being rescued were beginning to fade. To make things even worse, the girls had just received word that their grandfather would be joining them in Port Stephens in a few days, and both girls felt that they would have to do something drastic before it was too late for them to be rescued.
As night settled upon Port Stephens, Julia set down her book and walked onto her balcony, watching the darkness settle on the sea and the docks, ignoring the presence of the guards who protected the house. From her view on the second floor balcony, she saw two drunken men stagger along the street across from where she stood, heading towards a workman on his way home from the docks. The three men collided, and a fight soon broke out. The guards on that side of the house broke away from their posts to break up the fight and move things along. Julia watched the fight in amusement, neither her nor the guards noticing a human-shaped shadow race for the trellis under Julia's balcony.
Before she knew what was happening, a figure leapt over the side of the balcony and grabbed her, pushing her into her room. Kat abruptly dropped her book and stood up, fully prepared to fight the intruder, but a hand movement from the figure stilled her movements. Both girls recognized the movement as the sign for the words "be silent" in the silent hand-language of the Black Pearl. The figure immediately headed for the main door, listening for any footsteps in the hallway and, hearing none, locked the door to prevent any intrusion. It then went to the adjoining door and locked it so that no one could enter that way either. After securing the room, the figure threw back its hood.
"Dad!" both girls gasped, racing for their father, who then wrapped an arm around each of his daughters.
Jack stood there for several moments, holding his girls. "Ah, my little lasses, how are ye?" he asked in a whisper. He looked down at them, inspecting them for any physical harm that might have come to them.
Julia smiled up at him. "We're fine, Dad," she whispered in response. "They didn't harm us in any way."
"How's Mum?" Kat whispered, looking up at her father with tears in her eyes.
"Yer Mum's fine, lass," Jack replied, kissing each girl on the forehead. "She just misses the two of ye. Jay's been beating himself up about not being able to protect the two of ye, and Bill's been pacing up and down the ship so much I'm surprised he hasn't worn a hole in the floor yet!"
"Bill's here?" Julia asked, surprised. "Are Uncle Will and Aunt Elizabeth here, too?"
Jack shook his head. "They stayed in Port Royal," he replied. "Bill was dead set on coming with us, so they let him." He smiled. "He's taken to pirate life just like his granddad did, and a fine pirate he'll be after a bit of training."
Julia also grinned. "Well, you always said Bootstrap was one of the best," she commented. Her father raised an eyebrow. "After you, of course, Dad," she quickly added, grinning even wider. Kat giggled as their father smirked.
"Well, thank ye for that, treasure, that makes me feel better," he said. "Now why don't ye sit down so that we can discuss some things?" The three of them headed for the bed, where the girls took their seats and Jack took a chair before he began talking in the Pearl's sign language.
'Well, my dears, we've managed to come up with a plan to rescue ye,' he signed. Hope lit the girls' faces.
'Really?' asked Kat.
'Yes, really,' her father replied. 'Now, the house is well guarded, so we'll have to time this perfectly. In two days time, during the late afternoon and early evening, several workmen are going to be making a market delivery to this house. Apparently the servants here always have deliveries the same time every week, so there's no problem there. While all of the servants are busy unloading and storing the food, the two of ye are going to be out for a walk in the gardens, enjoying the flowers and such. I need the two of ye to be at the back of the house as the sun sets, or else the plan won't work.'
'Why, Dad, what happens when the sun sets?' Julia asked, tilting her head in puzzlement.
'Because a few of the crewmen are going to be lighting a few Smokes across the street to create a diversion,' Jack said, smiling evilly. The two girls also smiled; Smokes were a new sort of trick of the Pearl, where small containers were filled with a special mixture that, when lit, created smoke, but no fire. The crew had often used them on town raids, tricking people into thinking their homes were on fire to get them outside so the crew could plunder the houses, and it had always worked. If they used the Smokes here, the outcome would surely be a good one.
'After the Smokes are lit, then what happens, Dad?' Kat asked, looking excited.
'Then you two make a run for the back of the garden, where there's a small gate out of the back. Head through that and into an alley on the left side of the house,' Jack said. 'Jay, Annamaria, and Gibbs will be there waiting for ye.'
Both girls nodded. After making sure that they knew what to do, Jack stood, kissed them once again on their foreheads, and checked outside, Julia and Kat coming up beside him. The three men were still fighting in the street and the guards were still occupied.
'Ye know, I'll have to pay Scar, Prickly, and Danny a good deal after this,' Jack signed to his girls, grinning. 'Especially after they made the fight look so convincing.' The two girls stared at him as he flipped up his hood and disappeared over the side of the balcony.
Julia stared after him for a moment and looked over at the fight. Sure enough, after their father had left the house, the fight suddenly broke up, which clearly meant that it had been set up by their father and carried out by three crewmembers of the Pearl. The two girls grinned as they reentered the room and unlocked the doors, happiness filling them for the first time in months.
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Two days later, on the night of their rescue-to-be, Julia and Kat were in the gardens as planned when a serving maid came up to them and curtsied.
"If you please, Miss Sparrow, Miss Katherine," she said. "Your grandfather has arrived and wishes to see you in the drawing room." Both girls exchanged a glance.
"Of course," Julia replied smoothly. "We'll be there in a few moments; we wish to enjoy the flower gardens before dark."
"Yes, milady," the maid said, curtseying before turning to leave. After she had vanished inside, both Julia and Kat exchanged another glance, this one filled with panic.
"Jewel, what are we going to do?" Kat whispered, clutching Julia's hand.
"Just wait, Kat, it's almost dark," Julia replied, looking at the sky. Sure enough, night had begun to set in. "Soon the Smokes will go off and we'll be free!" The two girls continued their walk towards the very back of the garden
After waiting several more moments, both girls heard the cry of "Fire!" coming from the front of the house. People rushed towards a rising column of smoke that rose from an unknown place across the street; they could even see it from the rear of the house!
"Alright, let's go!" Julia said, grabbing her sister by the hand and racing for the back gate. As they both ran, they heard someone call for them. Kat turned her head and saw an extremely unwanted sight.
Thomas Pierce had seen them and was following close behind them!
"Jewel, we have to hurry!" Kat exclaimed. "Thomas is right behind us!"
Both girls instantly picked up the pace in racing for the back gate. As Julia opened the gate, Thomas arrived and grabbed them by the arms, pulling them away from their only means of escape.
"Where do you think you're going!" he yelled at them.
"We're getting the hell away from you!" Julia screamed as she kicked him where the leg met the crotch area; it wasn't as bad as kicking someone directly in the crotch, but it was still painful. Thomas went down, clutching himself in pain as the two raced through the gate and veered towards the left, towards the alley. The two girls quickly turned the corner of the building leading towards the alley and found a most wonderful sight: Jay, Annamaria, and Mr. Gibbs were all there waiting for them!
"We have to get away quickly," Julia gasped between breaths. "Thomas is after us! He saw us escape!"
Annamaria's eyes narrowed. "He won't be chasing us for long," she said, grasping her cutlass. Jay stopped her hand.
"Remember, no one is to be hurt," Jay said sternly. "Let's just get out of here!" He grabbed his twin by the hand as Mr. Gibbs grabbed Kat, closely followed by Annamaria. As they neared the place where the girls had come in, the five found Thomas standing in the way.
"You're not going anywhere," he growled, brandishing his pistol.
"I wouldn't make threats if I were you," Jay said, raising his own pistol as Annamaria and Mr. Gibbs came up next to him, keeping Kat and Julia behind them. "There are three of us here with pistols to your one, and don't think anyone will come to your aid. They're all helping with the fire across the street."
"That means ye have a choice of getting killed, or getting out of our way," Annamaria said, pointing her pistol at Thomas's head and holding out her hand for his pistol.
With little choice but to surrender, Thomas surrendered his weapon and backed away. Jay jerked his head and the five edged around him, each keeping an eye on him in case he tried anything. Suddenly, Thomas made a sudden leap for Julia, who was standing right behind her brother. Jay grabbed a dagger from his belt and slammed Thomas in the head with its handle, knocking him unconscious; he fell like a heavy rock. Jay then grabbed his twin by the hand and raced for the docks with Mr. Gibbs, Annamaria, and Kat following close behind him.
After several minutes of running, the five of them managed to arrive at the Black Pearl, where everyone was gathered on deck. Bill Turner looked at Julia with undisguised joy in his eyes as Lara raced forward to embrace all three of her children at once and Jack yelled at the crew to get the ship out of here. As Bill and the crew raced around the deck lifting the anchor, raising the sails, and pulling in the gangplank, Lara escorted her three children down below as Jack sailed the ship away from the docks of Port Stephens, aiming the ship towards their home of the Caribbean.
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Later that evening, when the Pearl was safely at sea, Lord Holloway was in the drawing room of his home, beginning to get worried. His granddaughters were nowhere to be found, and Thomas Pierce had vanished as well. He had thought that Mr. Pierce had taken his granddaughters on a walk, or taken them to safety away from the fire across the way, but the fire had been a false alarm. Now he began to wonder where they were.
A second later, Thomas stumbled into the room with a large gash on his head that was beginning to clot with blood. Alarmed, Lord Holloway pulled the serving cord and ordered the answering servant to bring the doctor.
An hour later, Lord Holloway and a somewhat recovered Thomas Pierce were seated in Lord Holloway's office.
"Now, what happened to you out there?" the lord asked.
Thomas frowned. "Your granddaughters have been taken by the crew of the Black Pearl," he said, glaring at the floor.
Lord Holloway jerked straight up in his chair. "What?" he asked, not sure he heard correctly.
"They're gone," Thomas stated again. "Jack Sparrow had reclaimed his children."
"Not for long," Lord Holloway growled. He pulled the serving cord. "Ready my fastest ship," he ordered the servant. "I want it ready to leave as soon as possible." The servant bowed and left. "I will get my grandchildren back if it is the last thing I do."
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AN: The girls have escaped! Everybody dance in celebration! (Dances around for a minute.) But wait! Grandpa and Thomas are coming after them! What will happen? Find out by tuning in for the next chapter! Don't forget to review!
AN: I am seriously wondering if people will read my Will/OC story if I write it. I'll be very unhappy if I write it and no one reads or reviews it. Of course, I could try and write another Jack/OC romance, but I'd really like to try a Will story. If people do/don't want a Will/OC romance, please tell me in your review!
Chapter 11: Rescue Plots and Actions:
Two days after their encounter with Jay at the marketplace, Julia and Kat were sitting in Julia's room, reading with the balcony doors open to allow some fresh air into the room. They hadn't heard from their parents, their brother, or any of the Pearl's crewmembers since that encounter, and their hopes of being rescued were beginning to fade. To make things even worse, the girls had just received word that their grandfather would be joining them in Port Stephens in a few days, and both girls felt that they would have to do something drastic before it was too late for them to be rescued.
As night settled upon Port Stephens, Julia set down her book and walked onto her balcony, watching the darkness settle on the sea and the docks, ignoring the presence of the guards who protected the house. From her view on the second floor balcony, she saw two drunken men stagger along the street across from where she stood, heading towards a workman on his way home from the docks. The three men collided, and a fight soon broke out. The guards on that side of the house broke away from their posts to break up the fight and move things along. Julia watched the fight in amusement, neither her nor the guards noticing a human-shaped shadow race for the trellis under Julia's balcony.
Before she knew what was happening, a figure leapt over the side of the balcony and grabbed her, pushing her into her room. Kat abruptly dropped her book and stood up, fully prepared to fight the intruder, but a hand movement from the figure stilled her movements. Both girls recognized the movement as the sign for the words "be silent" in the silent hand-language of the Black Pearl. The figure immediately headed for the main door, listening for any footsteps in the hallway and, hearing none, locked the door to prevent any intrusion. It then went to the adjoining door and locked it so that no one could enter that way either. After securing the room, the figure threw back its hood.
"Dad!" both girls gasped, racing for their father, who then wrapped an arm around each of his daughters.
Jack stood there for several moments, holding his girls. "Ah, my little lasses, how are ye?" he asked in a whisper. He looked down at them, inspecting them for any physical harm that might have come to them.
Julia smiled up at him. "We're fine, Dad," she whispered in response. "They didn't harm us in any way."
"How's Mum?" Kat whispered, looking up at her father with tears in her eyes.
"Yer Mum's fine, lass," Jack replied, kissing each girl on the forehead. "She just misses the two of ye. Jay's been beating himself up about not being able to protect the two of ye, and Bill's been pacing up and down the ship so much I'm surprised he hasn't worn a hole in the floor yet!"
"Bill's here?" Julia asked, surprised. "Are Uncle Will and Aunt Elizabeth here, too?"
Jack shook his head. "They stayed in Port Royal," he replied. "Bill was dead set on coming with us, so they let him." He smiled. "He's taken to pirate life just like his granddad did, and a fine pirate he'll be after a bit of training."
Julia also grinned. "Well, you always said Bootstrap was one of the best," she commented. Her father raised an eyebrow. "After you, of course, Dad," she quickly added, grinning even wider. Kat giggled as their father smirked.
"Well, thank ye for that, treasure, that makes me feel better," he said. "Now why don't ye sit down so that we can discuss some things?" The three of them headed for the bed, where the girls took their seats and Jack took a chair before he began talking in the Pearl's sign language.
'Well, my dears, we've managed to come up with a plan to rescue ye,' he signed. Hope lit the girls' faces.
'Really?' asked Kat.
'Yes, really,' her father replied. 'Now, the house is well guarded, so we'll have to time this perfectly. In two days time, during the late afternoon and early evening, several workmen are going to be making a market delivery to this house. Apparently the servants here always have deliveries the same time every week, so there's no problem there. While all of the servants are busy unloading and storing the food, the two of ye are going to be out for a walk in the gardens, enjoying the flowers and such. I need the two of ye to be at the back of the house as the sun sets, or else the plan won't work.'
'Why, Dad, what happens when the sun sets?' Julia asked, tilting her head in puzzlement.
'Because a few of the crewmen are going to be lighting a few Smokes across the street to create a diversion,' Jack said, smiling evilly. The two girls also smiled; Smokes were a new sort of trick of the Pearl, where small containers were filled with a special mixture that, when lit, created smoke, but no fire. The crew had often used them on town raids, tricking people into thinking their homes were on fire to get them outside so the crew could plunder the houses, and it had always worked. If they used the Smokes here, the outcome would surely be a good one.
'After the Smokes are lit, then what happens, Dad?' Kat asked, looking excited.
'Then you two make a run for the back of the garden, where there's a small gate out of the back. Head through that and into an alley on the left side of the house,' Jack said. 'Jay, Annamaria, and Gibbs will be there waiting for ye.'
Both girls nodded. After making sure that they knew what to do, Jack stood, kissed them once again on their foreheads, and checked outside, Julia and Kat coming up beside him. The three men were still fighting in the street and the guards were still occupied.
'Ye know, I'll have to pay Scar, Prickly, and Danny a good deal after this,' Jack signed to his girls, grinning. 'Especially after they made the fight look so convincing.' The two girls stared at him as he flipped up his hood and disappeared over the side of the balcony.
Julia stared after him for a moment and looked over at the fight. Sure enough, after their father had left the house, the fight suddenly broke up, which clearly meant that it had been set up by their father and carried out by three crewmembers of the Pearl. The two girls grinned as they reentered the room and unlocked the doors, happiness filling them for the first time in months.
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Two days later, on the night of their rescue-to-be, Julia and Kat were in the gardens as planned when a serving maid came up to them and curtsied.
"If you please, Miss Sparrow, Miss Katherine," she said. "Your grandfather has arrived and wishes to see you in the drawing room." Both girls exchanged a glance.
"Of course," Julia replied smoothly. "We'll be there in a few moments; we wish to enjoy the flower gardens before dark."
"Yes, milady," the maid said, curtseying before turning to leave. After she had vanished inside, both Julia and Kat exchanged another glance, this one filled with panic.
"Jewel, what are we going to do?" Kat whispered, clutching Julia's hand.
"Just wait, Kat, it's almost dark," Julia replied, looking at the sky. Sure enough, night had begun to set in. "Soon the Smokes will go off and we'll be free!" The two girls continued their walk towards the very back of the garden
After waiting several more moments, both girls heard the cry of "Fire!" coming from the front of the house. People rushed towards a rising column of smoke that rose from an unknown place across the street; they could even see it from the rear of the house!
"Alright, let's go!" Julia said, grabbing her sister by the hand and racing for the back gate. As they both ran, they heard someone call for them. Kat turned her head and saw an extremely unwanted sight.
Thomas Pierce had seen them and was following close behind them!
"Jewel, we have to hurry!" Kat exclaimed. "Thomas is right behind us!"
Both girls instantly picked up the pace in racing for the back gate. As Julia opened the gate, Thomas arrived and grabbed them by the arms, pulling them away from their only means of escape.
"Where do you think you're going!" he yelled at them.
"We're getting the hell away from you!" Julia screamed as she kicked him where the leg met the crotch area; it wasn't as bad as kicking someone directly in the crotch, but it was still painful. Thomas went down, clutching himself in pain as the two raced through the gate and veered towards the left, towards the alley. The two girls quickly turned the corner of the building leading towards the alley and found a most wonderful sight: Jay, Annamaria, and Mr. Gibbs were all there waiting for them!
"We have to get away quickly," Julia gasped between breaths. "Thomas is after us! He saw us escape!"
Annamaria's eyes narrowed. "He won't be chasing us for long," she said, grasping her cutlass. Jay stopped her hand.
"Remember, no one is to be hurt," Jay said sternly. "Let's just get out of here!" He grabbed his twin by the hand as Mr. Gibbs grabbed Kat, closely followed by Annamaria. As they neared the place where the girls had come in, the five found Thomas standing in the way.
"You're not going anywhere," he growled, brandishing his pistol.
"I wouldn't make threats if I were you," Jay said, raising his own pistol as Annamaria and Mr. Gibbs came up next to him, keeping Kat and Julia behind them. "There are three of us here with pistols to your one, and don't think anyone will come to your aid. They're all helping with the fire across the street."
"That means ye have a choice of getting killed, or getting out of our way," Annamaria said, pointing her pistol at Thomas's head and holding out her hand for his pistol.
With little choice but to surrender, Thomas surrendered his weapon and backed away. Jay jerked his head and the five edged around him, each keeping an eye on him in case he tried anything. Suddenly, Thomas made a sudden leap for Julia, who was standing right behind her brother. Jay grabbed a dagger from his belt and slammed Thomas in the head with its handle, knocking him unconscious; he fell like a heavy rock. Jay then grabbed his twin by the hand and raced for the docks with Mr. Gibbs, Annamaria, and Kat following close behind him.
After several minutes of running, the five of them managed to arrive at the Black Pearl, where everyone was gathered on deck. Bill Turner looked at Julia with undisguised joy in his eyes as Lara raced forward to embrace all three of her children at once and Jack yelled at the crew to get the ship out of here. As Bill and the crew raced around the deck lifting the anchor, raising the sails, and pulling in the gangplank, Lara escorted her three children down below as Jack sailed the ship away from the docks of Port Stephens, aiming the ship towards their home of the Caribbean.
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Later that evening, when the Pearl was safely at sea, Lord Holloway was in the drawing room of his home, beginning to get worried. His granddaughters were nowhere to be found, and Thomas Pierce had vanished as well. He had thought that Mr. Pierce had taken his granddaughters on a walk, or taken them to safety away from the fire across the way, but the fire had been a false alarm. Now he began to wonder where they were.
A second later, Thomas stumbled into the room with a large gash on his head that was beginning to clot with blood. Alarmed, Lord Holloway pulled the serving cord and ordered the answering servant to bring the doctor.
An hour later, Lord Holloway and a somewhat recovered Thomas Pierce were seated in Lord Holloway's office.
"Now, what happened to you out there?" the lord asked.
Thomas frowned. "Your granddaughters have been taken by the crew of the Black Pearl," he said, glaring at the floor.
Lord Holloway jerked straight up in his chair. "What?" he asked, not sure he heard correctly.
"They're gone," Thomas stated again. "Jack Sparrow had reclaimed his children."
"Not for long," Lord Holloway growled. He pulled the serving cord. "Ready my fastest ship," he ordered the servant. "I want it ready to leave as soon as possible." The servant bowed and left. "I will get my grandchildren back if it is the last thing I do."
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AN: The girls have escaped! Everybody dance in celebration! (Dances around for a minute.) But wait! Grandpa and Thomas are coming after them! What will happen? Find out by tuning in for the next chapter! Don't forget to review!