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A/N: so sorry about the long wait, computer problems have really been bogging me down lately. I actually have most of the story already written, I just haven't been able to update. But now I should be able to update about every day for a few days at least. So here you go! REVIEW!!!!

Chapter 6

Time seemed to speed up- or perhaps it was just Nora's pulse. But before she knew it, Blackheart's crew was upon them.

Jack was running this way and that, shouting out orders as gunfire went off all around them. Nora made for her cabin as quickly as she could. When she got there, she could hear the cries and shouts from the deck. Billy's men were boarding the Pearl. She shuddered at the sense of déjà vu this brought. She quickly grabbed her pistols from beside her bed.

Before she had a chance to react, there came a furious pounding at the door, bursting it from its hinges. Two of Blackheart's men approached her with leering smiles on their faces. She recognized them as the two from the alley in Tortuga. Obviously, they held a grudge. This time, though, she wasn't going to beat about the bush. The first man stepped forward, and she shot him in the head. As his body crumpled to the floor, she grabbed the other pistol, and aimed it at the same place on the other man, who promptly turned tail and fled.

Coward she thought to herself as she stepped over the body. She came out on deck, where there was fierce fighting going on. She stepped into the fray, and all thought left her as she pulled out her cutlass. She relied entirely on instinct, instinct that had kept her alive for nearly thirty years.

She once again lost herself completely in the fight. She moved quickly, with a grace that belied her lanky frame, spilling the blood of the enemy without so much as flinching. She finished off yet another opponent, and turned to find Jack, just feet away from her, locked in battle with a particularly ugly brute. Makes Jack look like a nobleman by comparison she thought wryly. Then she noticed one of Billy's men sneaking up behind Jack. She approached him from behind, cutlass drawn, and spoke in his ear.

"Don't you know it's bad manners to kill a man from behind?"

He whirled around, and they fought. She noticed Jack give her a slight smile; all the thanks she would get from him.

She was just about to finish the bastard off, when she felt cold hard steel on her throat and a gruff voice in her ear.

"Put down your weapon Miss Williams."

The cutlass clattered to the deck. Nora could see that Jack was frozen in place. So was everyone else, it seemed. Jack made to move towards Nora and her captor.

"Take one more step," Billy said, "and I slit her throat."

Jack froze once again, nodding to Gibbs and the others to do the same.

"Now," said Billy, "I'm taking the girl. If any of you makes a move to follow, she's dead. Savvy?"

Jack nodded curtly to show that he understood, rage blazing in his eyes. Billy steered Nora to the boarding plank, followed by two of his men. When they got to the other side, Billy nodded at one of the two men.

"Kill them."

"NO!" Nora screamed as she violently tried to free herself from Billy's grip. He struggled to hang onto her, but she broke free and ran for the plank. Just before she reached it, however, she felt something hard connect with the back of her skull, and she knew no more.