Chapter 36:

A/N: Yay! Yet another chapter! Thank you guys so much! Twix's for all! I ran out of kisses again, sorry! Well onto the story because I know that's what you really want to read! Disclaimer: Oh please, I don't own anyone except my original characters and the plot (is there a plot?).

Salina ran to her door and cracked it opened to see if anyone was there. The cost was clear so she grabbed a pistol out of the desk drawer. "Norrington put it back in here, how stupid!"
Salina put the pistol in a purse that she had hidden under her dress. She then crept out of the room and further down the stairwell until she reached the brig. When she was there she quickly entered and shut the door behind her.
"It's Salina!" Gibbs announced.
"Shhh! I don't want them to know I'm here." Salina held her dress as she walked down the steps.
"Salina?"
"Ello' Will." She said merrily as she walked passed his and Twig's cell. She continued down the aisle until she reached Jack's cell. "Jack!"
"Eh? Oh it's you, love." He sprung up from the spot he had been laying in. "Ye have a chat with your dear fiancé?"
"Yeah, no thanks to you!" She said while inching closer to the door. "Now Jack, I'm going to ask a favor of you."
"Yeah, what's that?" He licked his lips as he leaned against the cell.
Salina pulled the pistol out and placed it to his left shoulder. "Hold still!"
"Salina!" Will shouted as the gun went off. Jack fell to the ground.
Salina's legs dropped to ground and she put her hands on the iron cell. "Jack? Jack?"
"You shot him! You shot Jack!" Gibbs protested.
"Yes I know I shot him, it was my intention." Gibbs raised his eyebrows.
"Bloody Hell woman!" Jack rolled on the ground holding his shoulder.
"Jack listen to me. Someone probably heard that. Now this is the favor. You listening?"
Jack grunted and rolled around a little more. "Good! Now when the guards come in here I want you to act dead, and all the rest of you act like you hate me for shooting him, got it?"
"Aye!" They all shouted in unison except Jack, who was to busy muttering words of profanity.
"Now Jack when they find you 'dead' they'll throw you overboard. We've barely left port so you can swim back to the Pearl and in a day or so come for us."
"How the hell do you expect me to rescue ye with a wounded arm?"
"Get that doctor to look at it, and then come get us! Now Will and Eric, you two I will release from the cell, and you two will follow Jack to the Pearl and help him. Savvy?"
"Aye!" Salina nodded and then shot to the door where she heard footsteps.
"They're here." She whispered before standing back up and aiming the pistol at Jack, who merely laid on the floor breathing as little as possible.
The sailors barged in and saw salina with the gun pointed at Jack, they saw the blood and the wound right around the heart. James came running in. "Salina!"
He ran to her side and handed them the keys to the door so that they could open it. The officers made sure Jack was dead and then picked him up to leave. Salina starred down at him the whole time watching the men remove his body from the cell. One sailor handed the keys back to James and he put it in his pocket.
"Salina! Salina? Are you okay." Salina snapped back to reality.
"I'm fine, I'm fine James." She dropped the pistol and held onto James. "I couldn't stand it, not anymore. He forced me to do things, that weren't me. You were right, he was evil, and I'm sorry for not seeing it before." She pretended to cry as she watched them take Jack's body out of the brig.
"Shh. Everything is all right now, you'll be fine."
Salina backed up from James's body. "Go ahead, go up on deck without me, I'll be there in a minute."
"You sure?"
"Yes, don't worry. Tell father his pain is all over." James nodded and walked out. She waited until he was gone and then revealed the keys. Salina smiled at her handy work, then proceeded to the cell where Eric and Will were.
"Come on, I'll sneak you guys up there." She shut the cell door behind them. "I'm sorry Twig, I promise you'll be out soon."
"Yeah sure, sure." Salina cracked a smile and then walked out into the stairwell. She motioned for them to follow her, Will grabbed Salina's arm, and she looked at him questioning his actions.
"Why don't we let everyone out, we can over throw the ship and go to the Pearl."
"You couldn't even defend yourselves last time, and they out number us three to one. I don't think it wise to do that, we can wait until we reach Port Royale and then escape on the Black Pearl."
"Why then?" Eric added.
"Because when we get there, James is planning to marry me. It will most likely take place at the fort, where the crew will be kept, there will be less guards then we have here at the moment because of the wedding, so that would be the 'opportune' moment to strike. Don't you agree?"
"Aye, milady." Salina smiled and walked up the stairs and onto the deck. She stood next to James and watched as they prepared to throw Jack over. But, they suddenly stopped.
Salina approached the sailors. "What's wrong?"
"He's still alive." One man told her, she felt her stomach turn. Salina squeezed in between the men.
"He's dead I swear! I shot him, I bloody shot him!" She walked up to his body and put her finger to his neck. "There see, he's dead!"
"Let me see!" A big burly sailor came walking up to Salina, who stood in front of Jack. Salina tilted back and pushed Jack off of the railing, there was a splash as he hit the water. Out of the corner of her eye she could see Eric and Will getting ready to join Jack.
"Oops." Salina said hesitantly. Her uncle shoved through the sailors.
"Salina, what is the meaning of this."
"Meaning?" She gulped, not knowing what to do next. "I just wanted to see for myself that he was dead and well, when this man approached me I got scared. I hit the railing and the body flew off into the water. It was an accident."
While Salina was busy pleading with her uncle a sailor watched as Jack swam around in the water. "He's still alive!"
Salina flew around and slammed her hands on the railing. "Jack, you asshole." She stated through gritted teeth.
"Get him!" Governor Swann shouted. Without warning the sailors threw the fishing net over the side and hoisted Jack up. The rain began to pour and Salina stood on deck with her arms crossed and her eyebrow raised.
Jack gave that idiotic smile and shrugged his shoulders, then winced in pain. "You didn't get very far, did you Sparrow?" Norrington signaled for the sailors let go of the net, Jack dropped onto the floor.
"No, I guess I didn't. Let me guess. Put him in irons?" Jack placed his wrists together and held them out in front of him.
Norrington smirked and did just that. "Put him in the brig, and make sure he can't escape."
James walked to Salina and insisted that she come in from the rain, but she reluctantly stood there. She didn't care for the rain drenching her and her cloths; she'd rather stay out here than in there.
James went inside and left her alone, or so he thought. "It was a wonderful trick that you pulled back there." Salina turned and looked at Norrington.
"I don't know what you're talking about." He snickered and leaned against the railing next to Salina.
The rain started to lighten up and Salina just starred at the captain. "Of course you know I mean. Shooting him in the shoulder to make it look like you killed him. You tried to save him."
Salina got real close to his face and spoke clearly. "I don't know what you're talking about." She then left the railing and walked to her cabin.
"I'll see to it that it doesn't happen again!" He shouted as she walked away.
"Go ahead!" Salina yelled back and then spoke softly to herself. "I still have hope as long as Eric and Will made it to the Black Pearl safely." She smiled and entered her cabin.

A/N: Woo Hoo! I know you loved that, okay maybe not. But Salina was a little conniving, right? Well I'll try to get the next 2 chapters up tomorrow, okee? Well I've got to go, thanks!