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~Laurel POV~
So the Dauntless turned right back around and sailed for La Isla de Muerta. All the way there, Elizabeth and I were chewing on our nails, worrying about Will.
"Oh God... Sarah, what if he dies!?!" I shrieked. Sarah patted my back.
"Don't worry, Laurel. He won't. And if he does, then there's plenty of other good-looking men in Port Royale."
I blinked and stared at her. "You're kidding me, right?"
On we sailed for the rest of the day. By
nightfall we had reached the island, and Norrington was discussing his plan of
action with Gillette. Jack, Sarah and I
were there, too, while Elizabeth stood and stared longingly at the entrance to the cave.
"... So what ye need to do is go and ambush the pirates, ye savvy? Simply wait until they come out of their lil' cave and blow their guts to smithereens," Jack explained, his arm around Sarah's waist. I grinned. They were so cute together.
"Is that the only way?" Norrington said with a raised eyebrow.
"Listen to my Jackie poo. I think he'd know better than you," Sarah sneered. Woo, go cuz!
"Look 'ere. I've known these pirates for many years, and I think I would know what to do. Right? So it'd be wise if you take my advice," Jack said.
"Very well. Gillette, ready the troops," Norrington said, obviously not happy about these arrangements.
~Sarah POV~
"But what about us!?" I cried as Norrington and my Jack walked away.
"You'll stay here with the rest of the soldiers, love," Jack said, patting my cheek.
"You can't just leave us!" Laurel shrieked. "Will is in there! I want to go with!"
"And I also!" Elizabeth piped up. Hrm, maybe if she goes along she'd get killed...
"No, you must stay here, Miss Swann," that big jackoff Norrington said. "I wouldn't want you to get hurt."
I bit my lip as the soldiers got into the rowboats and started lowering them. "NO!" I squealed and lunged at the one Jack was in. But a soldier caught me just as my Jackie's hat disappeared over the railing. Another soldier grabbed Elizabeth, while Gillette grabbed Laurel, who tried to kick him in the shin.
"Sorry, but it's for your own safety!" he said, dodging Laurel's feet.
"We don't care what Norrington ordered! I must tell him! The pirates cannot be killed!" Elizabeth shrieked as they pushed us into the cabin.
"Listen to her! For once she's right! I think..." I exclaimed.
"Don't worry, misses, he's already informed of that. A little mermaid flopped up on deck and told him the whole story," Gillette said with a smirk, and this awesome, cute little eyebrow thing. Then he slammed the door.
"Bloody asshole!" Laurel snarled.
"This is Jack Sparrow's doing!" Elizabeth spat as Gillette locked the door.
"Don't blame my Jackie poo for whatever your stupid fiancé told the soldiers to do! Norrington's the idiot on this ship!" I shot back.
Laurel and I sat scowling at Elizabeth for a few minutes, trying to think of what to do. Suddenly we heard someone outside the door.
"Elizabeth?" Oh dear God. It was my stupid uncle. I looked at Laurel and we both rolled our eyes. "A moment, please. Elizabeth ? I just want you to know I…I believe you made a very good decision today. Couldn't be more proud of you." While he was talking, I spotted some bed sheets over in the corner. I tapped Laurel on the shoulder and pointed at them. She grinned, and we started tying the sheets together. Elizabeth got up and helped us. In less than two minutes we had a rope long enough to reach one of the rowboats below us. Woo!
~Laurel POV~
We shimmied down the makeshift rope and into the rowboat. Unfortunately, Elizabeth thought it was necessary for her to come with us. Which it wasn't. Anyway, we rowed over to where the Black Pearl was.
"Why are we going here?" I asked.
"Because this is where the other pirates are, you idiot," Elizabeth spat.
"Oh." We climbed up the side and onto the deck as quietly as possible, just in case Barbie had left some guards. Suddenly-
"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEECCCCH!!!!" A little monkey... thing swung down into our faces. I nearly screamed. It was a zombie monkey!!! Sarah clapped her hand over my mouth. "Aww, it's so cute!!" she gushed. The monkey cocked its head to the side and went "Ee-eck?" Elizabeth smirked and threw it over the side of the ship. We watched as it hit a cannon with a clunk.
"Hehe!" Elizabitch giggled. I swore and slapped her. "Owies!" Two heads stuck themselves out of the cannon hole, and my eyes got huge.
"OHMYGOD!" Sarah and I screamed. They were zombies, too! What the hell was going on!?!
"What was that?" one of them said. They both looked up at the three of us and roared.
"Hurry!!" Elizabeth grabbed our hands and tugged us towards some stairs leading to the hold.
"No! The evil dead yucky things are down there!!" Sarah squealed. I nodded, but Elizabitch tugged on our arms and forced us down the stairs. We hid in a little hallway and watched as two normal men came running past us. As soon as the moonlight hit them, they turned into the skeletons. I felt the hair raise up on the back of my neck. Yeeek!
"Come on!" Elizabeth hissed. We ran through the hold and found Jack's pirates locked in a cage. "It's the Swann girls!" Gibbs said happily. Oh, thank god! We unlocked the gate and the pirates came swarming out. Even the little midget was happy to see us. He ran over and threw his arms around Elizabeth's knees.
"Right..." Sarah murmured.
"I have a plan," Elizabitch whispered. We all huddled together as she told us the plan.
"Awesome," I said with a grin. Sarah nodded and cackled. We all crept up onto the deck and got hold of a rowboat and pulled it back. "When they go over by the railing, let go, okay?" Elizabeth said. We all nodded as the pirates came around a corner. Up close they were even more disgusting. Dead skin and ripped cloth hung all over their bones. I wrinkled my nose and let go of the boat. It swung down and hit the pirates. Their bones flew everywhere and splashed into the water.
"Yay!" Sarah cheered. I just stood there with a disgusted look on my face.
~Sarah POV~
I cheered as the pirates' bones flew all over the place. "All right, now let's go get Jack and Will!" I said excitedly. Laurel and Elizabeth squealed and ran over to one of the rowboats.
"All of you with me. Will is in that cave and we must save him. Ready? And heave!" The three of us pushed against the boat. It wouldn't budge. I turned around and saw all of the pirates standing there sheepishly.
"Come on you guys! We need your help!" Laurel pleaded.
"Any port in the storm," Cotton's parrot said.
"Mr. Cotton's right. We've got the Pearl," Gibbs said. The pirates nodded.
"What about Jack!? You can't just leave him!" I protested.
"Jack owes us a ship," one of the pirates said.
"There is the code to consider," Gibbs said.
"The code!?!" Laurel shrieked.
"You're pirates! Hang the code and hang the rules!" I screeched.
"They're more like guidelines anyway!" Elizabeth put her two cents in. The pirates looked at each other.
~*~
"Bloody pirates," Elizabeth murmured. We were back in our rowboat and going towards the cave. The pirates had sailed off on the Pearl, leaving us stuck with Norrington and all the other idiot sailors. Of course, Elizabeth was too good to row the boat, leaving me and Laurel (still just in our shifts) to row.
Finally we came to the entrance to the cave and leapt out of the boat. Laurel and I pulled ahead of Elizabeth and stopped as we saw that Will was free. "Will..." she breathed.
"I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain," a pirate with a weird hat said.
"You like pain!?!" Elizabeth and Laurel growled through gritted teeth. Elizabeth picked up a big rod and whacked the pirate with it. "Try wearing a corset!!" she spat. Laurel squealed and helped Will up. I started looking around for Jack, and my eyes became huge.
"Oh. My. God." He was a skeleton thing, too!!!! "JAAAAACK!!!"
"Who's side is he on!?" Elizabeth exclaimed.
"Why, hello there, love," Jack said as he was swordfighting with Barbie. "If you'll excuse me for a minute, Barbossa..." He jogged over out of the moonlight and kissed me, then ran back and started fighting again.
"Awww!" Laurel said as she whacked a skeleton in the face with a gold vase. "That's so cute... EWWW YOU PERV!!" A skeleton had come and grabbed her around the waist. "Gerroff me!! WIIIIIIIILL!!!!" she shrieked. Will ran over with the rod Elizabeth had used and stuck it through the pirate, as well as two others.
"Now what?" I asked, looking at the three pirates on the stick.
"It's a shish-ka-bob!" Laurel said happily. Will grinned. "You mean a pirate-ka-bob," he said as lit a bomb, then stuck it, too, inside the pirate. "We had better run." We sprinted over to a pile of treasure and hid.
"Not fair," the pirate squeaked, then blew up. Body parts flew all over the place. Elizabeth, Will and I cheered while Laurel sat there looking sick. Will ran over to the chest and slit his palm. Jack also cut himself, then tossed the medallion to Will. My Jackie poo took out his pistol and shot Barbossa in the chest.
"Ten years you carry that pistol and now you waste your shot," Barbossa said with a smirk.
"He didn't waste it," Will said as he dropped the medallions into the chest. I watched in awe as blood began to pour from Barbossa's chest. He looked at it, then at us. "I feel... cold." Then he died. Laurel burst out laughing as I started crying. We all glared at her.
"What!?"
~Laurel POV~
Oh, come on! Who says "I feel... cold" as their last words!? Honestly...
"Well... we should return to the Dauntless," Elizabeth said, looking at Will. I growled at her.
"Yes. Your fiancé will be wanting to know that you're safe," he said quietly. Elizabeth turned away and walked out of the cave. Jack swaggered drunkenly up to us with a crown on his head, and a bunch of jewelry on. "If you were waiting for the opportune moment... that was it," he told Will. My jaw dropped. Sarah dragged me away, my mouth still hanging open stupidly.
"Now if you'll be so kind, I'd be much obliged if you'd drop me off my ship," Jack said as he followed us. We all got back into the rowboat and Will rowed us out of the cave.
But when we got outside, there was only one ship waiting for us.
"Ooh, Jackie!" Sarah wailed and threw her arms around Jack's neck.
"I'm sorry, Jack," Elizabeth said quietly. I nodded. Poor guy.
"They done what's right by them. Can't expect more than that," Jack replied. Sarah frowned and kissed his cheek.
~*~
A few weeks later was the scheduled hanging for Jack. All the way to the fort Sarah was sobbing. I felt so sorry for her.
"Sarah, don't worry. I'm willing to bet our uncle's mansion that Jack will pull off some daring escape," I said, patting her arm.
She sniffled and grinned. "R-remember how he escaped on the day we met him? How he swung on all those ropes, then winked at me?" I smiled and nodded.
"Exactly. I'm sure it will all turn out okay."
"Honestly, Laurel, do you want such an awful criminal to escape?" my uncle scoffed.
"HE IS NOT A CRIMINAL!!!" Sarah wailed. Uncle was so startled that his wig fell off, making the mood in the carriage quite a bit lighter.
We arrived at the fort just as Jack was being led to the gallows. Sarah gasped and dragged me along up to him. "Jack!!" she screeched.
Jack looked down at us and smiled. "Well, hello love. Came to watch my farewell party, eh?"
"Jack, how can you joke around like that?" Sarah asked.
"Well, there isn't much else I can do, is there?" he said dryly.
"But-"
"Ladies, step away, please," the guy with the black pillowcase on his head said. Sarah looked up at Jack, who mouthed "I love you." She burst into tears as I led her back to where the Commodore, Elizabeth, and my uncle were standing.
"This is wrong," Elizabeth said under her breath.
"Commodore Norrington is bound by the law. As are we all," my uncle said. Dream on, oh mad one.
"Jack Sparrow, be it known that you have-"
"Captain, Captain Jack Sparrow..." I heard Jack mutter. How very like him, I thought with a smile.
"…for your willful commission of crimes against the crown. Said crimes being numerous in quantity and sinister in nature. The most grievous of these to be cited herewith: piracy, smuggling…"
"I can't believe this," Sarah said with tears running down her face. I gave her a hug.
"…impersonating an officer of the Spanish Royal Navy, impersonating a cleric of the Church of England..." Jack smiled and said, "Oh yes..."
As the man was naming off all the things Jack had done "wrong" in his life, someone came walking through the crowd towards our platform. "Will!" I yelped. He was wearing a very nice outfit, complete with a cape and the neatest hat I've ever seen.
"Good day, Commodore. Governor Swann. Laurel. Sarah. Elizabeth." HA! He said her name last! HA HA HA!!!
"What is it, Mr. Turner?" the "Commodore" asked irritably.
"I just wanted to let you know, Elizabeth, that I'm sorry you're going to marry such an ass." Everyone gasped, except for me. I was too busy laughing.
"And Laurel..." I stopped and looked at him. He said my name. MY name. He could have said any of their names, but he said mine!! "I hope you will make a wiser decision of whom you choose to marry." With that he turned around and started walking towards the gallows.
I watched him walk away with my mouth hanging open. "What the bloody hell!? 'I hope you'll make a wiser decision of whom you choose to marry'?! WHAT IN THE-"
"Laurel! You do realize that your voice has reached a shouting point, don't you?" Sarah hissed. I looked up, blinking. Sure enough, everyone had stopped and stared at me. Damnation.
"Uh... may God have mercy on your soul," the man said. Black pillowcase man put the noose on Jack's neck, and Sarah buried her face in my shoulder. I felt my eyes fill with tears.
~Sarah POV~
I started sobbing and buried my face in Laurel's shoulder. I heard the hangman pull the lever and I shrieked.
I heard Elizabitch go, "I can't breathe!" Oh, not again...
"OHMYGOSH!! Sarah, Look!" I heard Laurel yell. I looked up. There was Jack, balanced on a sword stuck into the wood. Will was there, too, fighting with the hangman. Then he flipped off and cut the noose so that Jack could go free.
Laurel and I leapt off of the platform we were standing on and began sprinting through the crowd. By now Jack and Will were running out of the fort (in the direction of the cliff Elizabitch fell over), knocking out guards the whole way. We picked up our skirts and ran after them.
But by the time we reached them, they were surrounded by guards, and somehow the Commodore, my uncle, and Elizabeth had beaten us there.
"Nooo!" Laurel and I shrieked and lunged in front of the guns the guards had pointed at our loves. "You can't shoot!"
"I thought we might have to endure some manner of ill conceived escape attempt but not from you," Norrington said to Will. Laurel growled at him.
"On our return to Port Royale, I granted you clemency and this is how you thank me? By throwing in your lot with him? He's a pirate!" my uncle added.
"And a good man," Will said defensively.
"Hell yeah!" I chirped.
"You forget your place, Turner," Norrington said evilly.
"It's right here, between you and Jack," he answered.
"As is mine," Laurel said.
"And mine," I added, clutching Jack's arm protectively.
"Girls! Lower your weapons!" the Governor barked. "For God's sake, lower them!" The soldiers slowly lowered their guns. Elizabeth looked at us incredulously.
"Well!" Jack said, "I'm actually feeling rather good about this." He turned to my uncle. "I think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh? Spiritually, ecumenically, dramatically?" He looked at Norrington. "I want you to know that I was rooting for you, mate. Know that. Elizabeth …it would never have worked between us, darling. I'm sorry." I laughed and Jack winked at me. "Will... nice hat." He backed towards the edge of the cliff, still holding my shoulders. "Men! This is the day that you will always remember as the day that you-" But before he could finish, I tripped over my skirt, causing us both to tumble backwards over the battlement.
~Laurel POV~
We all ran to the edge of the battlement. I looked over and saw the figures of Jack and Sarah getting smaller.
"Idiot. He has nowhere to go but back to the noose," Gillette said.
Norrington turned to Will. "Mr. Turner."
Will looked at Elizabeth and me. "I am willing to accept the consequences of my actions," he said quietly. I bit my lip as Norrington unsheathed his sword.
"This is a beautiful sword. I would expect the man who made it to show the same care and devotion in every aspect of his life," the Commodore said.
"Thank you, sir," Will said with a nod.
"Commodore! What about Sparrow?" Gillette asked.
"Well, I think we can afford to give him one day's head start," he answered confidently.
"Yay!" I squealed, bouncing up and down slightly. Will smiled as the Commodore, Gillette and my uncle walked away.
"Laurel, may I speak to you?" he asked.
"Of course." He led me over to a little balcony a few yards away. I noticed that Elizabeth was watching us.
"So, what are you going to do now that you have been pardoned by the governor?" I asked.
"I am not sure. But if all it means is that I can afford two pairs of shoes instead of one, then it isn't much," he answered with a smile.
"But you get this really awesome hat!" I said, plucking it off his head and putting it on mine. Will just stared at me as I stood up and started chasing the feather. "Ooh, pretty feather," I giggled.
"Laurel..." He stood up and put a hand on my shoulder. "Please stop."
"Ooh, sorry."
"Like I was saying... Not everything valuable is silver and gold... or neat hats." He smiled and tucked a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "Laurel, I-"
Suddenly a green and yellow parrot dive-bombed my head. I clutched my- I mean, Will's hat, ducking just in time. The parrot flew over the barracks and down towards the water. I turned back to Will.
"I just don't seem to be able to make my little speech," he said thoughtfully.
"Try again," I begged.
He laughed. "When I first met you, you seemed a little... odd."
"My mother dropped me on my head when I was a baby," I told him while I fiddled with the feather.
"But now that I know you, I realize that you have a big heart, and you're one of the bravest people I've ever known. You're... intellectual, most of the time, and when you aren't, you're hilariously funny." I grinned like the idjit that I am.
"Will."
"Yes?"
"Just say it."
He grinned. "I love you."
"Yay!" I squeaked and threw my arms around his neck. I was about to kiss him when I heard someone yell. "Laurel!!"
I scowled as Elizabeth and my uncle ran up. "Laurel, what are you doing?" my uncle demanded.
"Yes. You hardly know Will!" Elizabeth said, gesturing frantically.
I glared daggers at both of them. "Actually, I've known him now for several weeks, and in just that short amount of time he has saved my life about fifty million times. So if you'll excuse my language, stop being whiny bitches and shut the hell up." With that I turned back around and gave Will the longest, sweetest kiss ever. When I pulled away, I smiled.
"I lurve you too, Will."
"Augh! This is utter nonsense!!" Elizabitch screeched. Then, with a stomp of her foot she said, "FINE! If that's the way it has to be then…." And she jumped off the barracked.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Norrington yelled from somewhere in the distance, and immediately all his men ran to save her. When she was saved, she screamed at the top of her lungs, "DAMMIT! I CAN'T EVEN COMMIT SUICIDE PROPERLY!!! AUUUGGH!!"
Will and I laughed.
I then noticed the black pearl in the distance, and the forms of Sarah and Jack swimming towards it. I turned to Will and said, "Shall we join them?"
"Ah hell, why not? At least I won't have to put up with that little piggle head's screaming,"(he was talking about Elizabitch) Will said with a shrug.
And with that, we leapt off the barracks and into the water, and started swimming towards the Black pearl.
~Sarah POV~
Jack's crew helped us on board and gave Jack his jacket and a spare (and very greasy one, I might add) one to me.
"Ah, love, welcome to your new home," Jack said to me. I grinned a BIG grin, then a HUGE grin, then a MONSTEROUS grin. Jack grinned too. All of a sudden, I noticed that someone, or rather, two someone's were swimming towards the ship
"Oh Gawd, Jack! IT'S LAUREL AND WILL!! EEEE!!" I clapped my hands together in all my blissbliss. I was so glad that I wouldn't have to spend the rest of my life Laurel-less. We helped Laurel and Will on board and then had a big group hug.
"Well now, I say we head off to Tortuga to have us some weddings, aye?" Jack said, smiling.
"Oh God, YES! WOOT WOOT WOOT!!" Laurel and I yelled.
We headed off in the direction of Tortuga. Jack stood gazing contently off into the distance, steering the ship, with me by his side. Laurel and Will were busy doing *stuff* below deck. (I had no desire to know…)
"Now…bring me that horizon," Jack said, "dad a dad a da…"
"…and really bad eggs, drink up me 'earties yo-ho!" we finished together.
"And here's to the start of a new life!" I added.
~THE BEGINNING~
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