Eric quickly got out of the ropes that the crew of the Black Pearl had tied his crew in. Well what was left of his crew, anyhow. He'd have to go and get more and report back to Fredrick. He wasn't going to be happy that they had gotten away, but if Eric didn't tell the truth then he'd sure be killed in his sleep once Fredrick found out.
He was hoping that Captain Ana Maria would've at least slipped the name of the whore that Jack was with now. Married she said…Yea right. Jack Sparrow isn't married to anyone for very long. But once he thought about what Fredrick was planning, this was better. If the woman had been with Jack, then that wouldn't have worked. She needed to be alone. She needed to be without her precious husband.
"Marcus! Follow the Pearl!"
"Which way did she go, Cap'an?"
"Starboard! Right! And get to it! We might lose her trail if we're not careful! I have a feelin' she'll lead us straight to Jack and his 'wife'. But make sure we're not seen."
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Ana thought about what had happened for a while and thought about if she should turn the ship around and go back to Barbados. Finally she made the decision that she should just in case. Then after she told Jack, she would take the crew out again. But the fact that this man was looking for Dinah but had business with Jack made Ana a little worried. And who was Eric's so called 'boss'? And what did he want with Jack? Ana was hoping Eric might've slipped the name, but no such luck. She could've asked for it, but if she threatened him and he didn't do it, then she would've had to go through with the threats. True, she was a pirate, but she didn't particularly like killing people. But if she only knew what he was planning, then she was sure she would have just reasons to kill him.
But in the mean time she would wait 'til the Pearl took her to Barbados. As she waited, something that Eric had said came back into her mind. I've been looking for that bloat for years! The face didn't strike any memory within Ana, but she had been with Jack for a long time, and she had never heard of an Eric or of any Destroyer. I wonder if Jack would know. Eric Smith, right? Ana thought to herself.
Not like Dinah would necessarily let him do anything. According to her, he had a broken leg and he was going to stay at home. Ana sighed, so it's up to me. Unless Jack somehow convinces his wife to let him back on the ship and take off that blasted cast. Ana shook her head and smiled at the memory. She sighed and decided it was too complicated and there were too many unanswered questions to think about right now. She got up and went over to the bed and didn't wake up again until Gibbs yelled "Land".
"Jack, when was Ana supposed to be back?" Katherine asked the next afternoon. She, Dinah, Jack, James, Hannah and the twin and Milton were all outside playing. It was mostly Bethany and Benjamin playing with Milton who had gotten quite large.
"Not 'til later next week, why?"
"Because she's here, and she's not lookin' that happy." Jack and Dinah stood up and looked in the direction of the harbor. Sure enough, there was Ana, marching through the grass with a irate look on her face.
"Ana, what are you doing here?" Dinah asked, once she got close enough.
"Jack, Dinah, You might want to sit down," Ana started off. The three went back into the yard and sat in the many available benches and chairs. Ana told them all about Eric and what he had said.
"What'd you do with him?" Jack asked.
"I tied him and the rest of his crew to the mast…I didn't know what else to do. I also went lookin' around his cabin, but nothing about this 'boss' guy was anywhere to be seen.
"Did he say what he wanted with Dinah?" James asked.
Ana shook her head, "Not really. But he made it sound like he was going to use Dinah as some sort of a…ransom. I have a feelin' that's what its gunna be. The real trouble is with you," Ana said pointing to Jack. He was deep in thought trying to remember if he knew an 'Eric Smith'.
"Well they don't know where we are…do they?" Dinah asked, her voice quivering slightly. Jack looked up from thinking and looked at his wife. He put a hand on her two hands which were on her lap.
"They're not takin' you, luv. Believe me." She looked at him and nodded, even though she was scared out of her mind.
"So what now?" Ana asked Jack.
"Try to go lookin' for him again. See if you can get more out of him."
"Jack, he's not going to talk, and killing him won't solve anything."
Jack sighed, knowing she was right. "Well then I'll go out there. Then he won't have to take Dinah."
Dinah stared at Jack, "You're not going anywhere! First off- that cast! And second- if those pirates see you will that cast it'll make you a target and you'll be dead before you can meet this other guy! No. You're not going." Dinah said sternly.
"She's right Jack. You know that she's right," Katherine put in before Jack could argue.
"Well then what are we supposed to do? Wait around until he shows up? Granted, he knows where we are." Jack said his voice raising.
The ends of Katherine's mouth bent upward, "Jack, that's exactly what we're going to do…"
The crew was posted in several different locations all over the house for a week. Jack and Ana weren't sure if Eric knew where Barbados was, but if he did, they would be ready. Jack slept with his arms around Dinah every night for a week and finally at the end, Gibbs spoke to Jack.
"Cap'an, the crew is sayin' that they've only had one raid in a month…that's pretty bad. We need to go out and do SOMETHING."
Jack sighed, knowing he was right, but he wanted Dinah to be safe. "Stay two more nights and then you can go, savvy?" Jack asked, knowing that the crew would surely take it. Yes, he wanted Dinah to be safe, but he also wanted to make his crew happy so they wouldn't mutiny.
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Eric and his crew had docked on the other side of the island of Barbados after they had followed Ana there. The next day that had went into town and asked anyone and everyone if they knew where the Sparrows lived.
"You mean Katherine?" A man asked.
"Does she have a son?"
He nodded, "Jack or something."
"Where do they live?" Eric asked, his hopes rising.
"The other side of the island. Her house is right by the harbor over there. It took almost half a day to walk over to the other side of the Island to find the house. Eric had his hat and put it low on his head so the sun would shade his eyes. If he happened to bump into the crew of the Pearl then he didn't want to be recognized.
Sure enough when he reached the harbor he found the ship, and when he turned around there was a huge house with what looked like Ana walking with another woman. His best guess would be that it was Jack's whore.
"Is that her, Captain?"
"I'm not sure, but we'll go looking for Jack's room tonight. Those windows are big enough to easily climb through. Let's just pray it's not on the second floor because otherwise we'll have a hard time gettin' in."
That night they found Jack's room on the second floor and saw Dinah. Eric mentally memorized what she looked like and what the room looked like. He also noticed Jack's arms wrapped tightly around his wife. Eric smirked. He's expecting something. He thought to himself. Let's hope she's a heavy sleeper.
The same day Jack had told his crew "two more days", Eric was telling his crew "tonight". The plan was to have three men go into the room and tie Dinah's feet, hands and mouth at the same moment and then drop her to six or seven men on the ground to catch her and then leave. Yes, the dropping might not be the best experience for Dinah, but it was probably the worst of her troubles.
"Jack, are you okay?" Dinah asked that night. He was sitting on the bed, looking at nothing but his eyes were glazed over.
He blinked and looked at her, "Nothing's going to happen to you."
"Jack, you've been saying that every night for a week now, and you're right, nothing has happened to me. But I'm sure this Eric captain would've taken me by now. You shouldn't worry."
"Dinah, pirates strike at the most opportune moments, but for other people it isn't the most opportune moment, savvy?"
"Jack, if I'm not worried, then you shouldn't be either." She said crawling into bed next to him and kissing him. He kissed back, putting his emotion from the past week into the kiss. Dinah felt this and broke it.
"You know something, don't you?"
"Why ask that?"
"Because that kiss…just wasn't right." Jack's face softened and he opened his arms to Dinah. She slid into them and he wrapped them tightly around her.
"I just don't want to loose you, luv. I don't want to loose you." Those were the last words Jack spoke to his wife that night.
Eric and two of his men snuck into Jack's room around one in the morning. Eric having a long bandanna in his hand and the other two had ropes. There were about a dozen men down waiting for Dinah to be dropped into their arms. Eric decided to increase the number; after all, he didn't want the ransom dying.
Slowly the walked towards the bed, Eric saw something near the wall move. He looked closer and thought, a pig? They have a pig for a pet? Eric shook his head in disbelief and focused on the task on hand. He slowly uncovered Dinah and saw that Jack was not grabbing on to her, which would make this whole process a lot easier.
Quickly and quietly they three did their task without a noise or movement out of Dinah. Eric smiled at how easy that was. Now he had to focus on getting her out the window. The three picked her up and walked over to the window. Eric looked out and saw the twelve men waiting. He sighed and prayed they wouldn't drop her, carefully, the three maneuvered her out the window and dropped their hands from holding her.
Dinah woke up the minute the twenty four hands touched her and started moving her in a certain direction. She then realized that her ankles and hands were tied. This is impossible. She thought to herself as she was quite groggy still from being asleep and not really knowing what was happening.
She heard a man talking and soon heard water lapping against what sounded like a ship. This isn't happening…But it feels like I'm being…kidnapped. She then started trying to get out of the ropes or at least out of these men's hands to see where she was. All she could see when she opened her eyes was the night sky. But as she tried hard to get out of their grip, their grip tightened, soon enough it was too tight and she stopped and started crying.
The amount of sleep she had gotten added to this crying. Each night she would lay wide awake, thinking about Jack and how nice it was being in his arms and how he never wanted to leave. And now, that she had gotten kidnapped and barely any sleep…it just made the whole thing worse.
Soon she was put into a room on a cot and a man with blond hair in a pony tail and eyes almost as dark and big as Elizabeth's. He knelt down beside her and said, "Don't worry luv, you'll be in good hands," But before he could get up, Dinah knocked his legs out from under him and he was down on the floor. He looked and her and smiled, "You got some spunk eh? Well we'll just see how spunky you feel tomorrow," and left the cabin and Dinah in complete darkness.