Thank you." Will said, handing over a shilling to the barmaid. He then wove his through the drunken crowd, spotting a few of his own crew. On his way out, he grabbed onto Jack's collar and yanked the man out of his seat.

"Round up the men." he yelled over the noise of the tavern. "We're leaving."

The captain of the Black Pearl nodded, showing uncharacteristic seriousness. Jack had been more and more like that since they had taken on this mission.

Will was grateful for it. Ever since learning about Willow, and her and her mother's capture, he desperately just wanted to take both of them into his arms and make a permanent stop on land.

Stepping out of the tavern, he breathed a sigh of relief. The place, The Mermaid's Tail, had been giving him a headache. True enough, a pirate shouldn't be glad to step out of a tavern, but when had Will Turner been a 'normal' pirate?

Trusting Jack to bring the men back, Will made his way towards the docks and the Black Pearl. Commodore Norrington, Governor Swann and a handful of redcoats had joined them aboard the Black Pearl. Even their brand new ship, the Reliant, was nowhere near as fast as the Pearl.

Coming upon the docks, a normal person would see nothing there, save for a dark spot of water about five hundred metres out. But Will knew better. He found the rowboat, occupied by two pirates named Riley and Morgan, and commanded them to row him back to the Pearl. They complied willingly, knowing that Will was the one who made the stop in Tortuga.

The barmaid had told him scarcely nothing. She said that the only boat to be in Tortuga in the past few days was the Triumph, a rum runner out of Kingston. Things had been slow around here because of the increased British Naval presence.

Sighing, Will turned and directed his attention out to the sea. Somewhere, out there, his wife and daughter were locked up in a brig, or even....

Will stopped that thought before it could go any further. He wouldn't let that possibility into his mind. He WOULD find Willow and Elizabeth, and he wouldn't sleep until he did.

His eyes concentrated on the sea once more, and the familiar topography of Tortuga. The hills, the trees, those small coves...

"What the hell...?" Will exclaimed, noticing something curious near the lip of the peninsula. A dark spot, almost like the Black Pearl...

Grabbing Riley's handheld telescope, he concentrated on the object, adjusting his sight so he could see it clearly.

It was a ship! Will struggled to read the name on it, putting the telescope out as far as it would go. Squinting, the letters became readable. The ship's name was the White Tiger. As he watched, though, the ship began move, sails lifting as it heading out into the night.

Panic started to bubble up in Will as the ship pulled away. This could be the ship. Turning his sight back towards the shore, he saw Jack and a group of stumbling pirates piling into the boat. Hoping that the captain of the Black Pearl would hear him, Will shouted over:

"Hurry, Jack!"

The distance between them was two great, and Jack seemed to take no notice. Sighing, Will looked ahead once more. They were at the Black Pearl. Letting Riley and Morgan go first, the former blacksmith tied the rowboat to the ropes so that his crew could hoist it up, then grabbed onto a nearby pull line. Shimmying himself up, he soon stood on the deck of the Pearl.

Off in the distance, the White Tiger was fast escaping. Commanding the crew to prepare to make way, he patiently waited for Jack to return.

Finally, Jack's rowboat pulled alongside the Pearl. Throwing down the lines, the crew began to immediately pull up the boat, the five men still inside. Jack stepped aboard and immediately headed to the helm.

"What's going on?" asked the captain, looking at Will.

"A ship called the White Tiger just left the peninsula. Its out on the horizon, portside, about five kilometres out. We have to follow it."

Nodding at his friend's words, Captain Jack Sparrow got his crew moving. Soon the Black Pearl was headed out to sea, in hot pursuit of the White Tiger and whatever it held...

*A/N: Short chapter, I know, but I don't really like splitting up a chapter into two POVs. Next one will be from Elizabeth.

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