Three days later Eric knocked on Dinah's door. He hadn't seen her face since they talked and figured she was missing Jack. He understood since he had been in somewhat the same position, so he took pity on her and didn't bother her. He knocked again when no one answered.
"Yes?" She asked once she opened the door. Eric was about to ask what was wrong since she was pale as a ghost and had swollen and bloodshot eyes.
"Uh…I was just wondering if you might want a bath…"
Dinah almost jumped at the opportunity but then asked, "Why?"
He shrugged, "I thought you might want to look nice for your guest…"
"What? So he can kill me?"
"Fredrick won't kill you…" Eric said but thought, Fredrick might kill Jack…but not you.
"Eric I'd love the bath, but no. I don't need to pristine up for Fredrick, so I'm not going to."
He sighed and nodded, understanding completely. She seemed a little bitter on the matter but that too was very understandable. He nodded again and shut the door. They were arriving late tonight. If all worked out well, Eric would be able to leave and never see Fredrick again.
Evan took another swig of rum and sighed, he knew this was going to happen. That bloody woman left me alone in that blasted tavern, waiting for nearly six hours for her to come. Yes, I was mad for her leaving me and that's why I didn't stay to see her leave, but I didn't think she would do this to me…well thought she might, but didn't think she would.
"You think you know person after living with them for two years…" Evan muttered to himself. The words seemed to stand still in his cabin. After his ship had left Tortuga he told his crew to look for the Pearl, and to alert him if they found it.
Ana was everything Evan had hoped to find but hadn't in his last two lovers. The first one he had found on Tortuga, but she had a brain the size of a peanut, and all that seemed to be forced into her brain were facts about her job on Tortuga. The second one he kidnapped from a ship he raided found her attractive, slept with her but then once he got to know her, found out that she hated ships and the ocean. She was returned soon enough.
Then there was Ana. Beautiful, spirited, and could easily beat any man at clashing swords. The woman could also hold liquor like no other. But the thing that Evan appreciated from Ana was that she loved the ocean. She loved being on board a ship, loved steering a ship and wasn't afraid of the death that might come to her each time she stepped on a British island.
He gulped down another amount of rum and sighed again. He gone attached to Ana, and on some level so had his heart. So that's why it had hurt so when she didn't show. He now had in his mind that Jack and the Pearl were more important than him. Jack, that bloody pirate who had captured Ana's attentions with his ship, had somehow made her not show up. Either that or she forgot-which made Evan even more enraged. He frowned, and thought of how many ways he could yell at Ana.
Jack had retired early to his cabin, like he had every night, got out his last bottle of rum, popped the cork and took a drink. He burped and sat on the edge of his bed. He now wished that he had brought Milton along, thinking that the pig would bring some sort of comfort to him, knowing that it was Dinah's.
His leg had been giving him more discomfort each day and he blamed it all on Eric. If he hadn't kidnapped Dinah then Jack wouldn't have had to take the cast off and follow him, which then his leg wouldn't be hurting right now. He had told Roberts about the pain and he gave Jack some sort of pill, and it was oddly enough working. Jack had asked where Roberts got the pills, but he wouldn't tell him. Jack laughed heartily and went to his cabin.
In some ways Jack had blamed himself for the kidnap. The speech that Dinah had given before going to bed, mixed with the little rum that Jack had drank gave him comfort in thinking Dinah was right, nothing was going to happen. Unfortunately, when Jack drinks even a little, he sleeps hard. He sighed, and rubbed his forehead, thinking of how they took her. He now knew how Will had felt with Barbossa's crew took Elizabeth.
He now realized that in some ways, their situations were the same. The person who had meant the most to them had been taken away. Then, they both asked for help. Will asked Jack, knowing he was a pirate and thinking he might know where to go to find Elizabeth. Jack asked Ana, knowing that Dinah meant a lot to her and also knowing that he would need Ana on his ship while looking for Dinah.
He also tried to think about how Douglas must've felt when he kidnapped Dinah from his ship. Dinah had meant a lot to Douglas then, but not a whole lot to Jack. Yes, he was a bit pleased to see Dinah again, but taking her on board wasn't really a kidnapping to him, it was more like a reunion. He wanted to be with Dinah; he wanted to talk to her and smell her familiar scent and touch her soft skin. He had missed her.
He missed her more than ever now though. Now, they had a strong bond. They weren't just a past couple, now they were married, and had shared a bed, and shared two years of their life with each other. Jack sometime heard that if you shared a bed with a woman then you would always have a bond with them, he had never found that true until he married Dinah. He wished now more than ever that he could take her in his arms and just hold her and love her.
He sighed, taking another drink, intending on sleeping soundly tonight and hoping he would find Dinah soon.
"Captain!" came a yell from the deck the Destroyer. Eric came quickly.
"What is it?"
The man pointed and Eric frowned. "It can't be," He whispered harshly. The island was in sight yet a ship was behind them, and if Eric thought who it was, then it was the Pearl. Eric got a eyeglass and looked, sure enough it was the Pearl. He told the crew to man their stations under deck and start rowing toward the island; it would get them their faster.
Dinah came out of her cabin once she heard al the men going down stairs. She leaned over the side of the ship and saw the thing that she had been dreaming about for more than a week. It was the Pearl, and if it was the Pearl, then that meant that it was Jack. Dinah heard the oars come out and felt the ship jolt as the men started rowing. She was sure that they would get to the island first, but at least Jack knew where she was.
"Captain!" came a yell from the deck the Challenger. Evan came quickly.
"What is it?"
A man pointed and Evan followed his finger. Up ahead was the Pearl. Evan smiled, Finally. Evan, not seeing that the Pearl was following someone else, told his crew to speed up to the Pearl and load canons. They were going to disable the ship as soon as possible.
"Captain!" Ana yelled, pounding on Jack's door. He opened it and she pulled him out on deck, the sun was just about to reach the water to set. "We have problems."
"Why's that?"
"Because Eric's noticed that we've caught up and there's someone following us…and the ship that's following us has the same…well let's just say it resembles Evan's ship in a huge way."
Jack gaped at what Ana just said, and looked at both ships, both seeming to be going in opposite directions of where Jack wanted them to go. "Why didn't you tell me Eric's ship was so close?" Jack yelled.
Ana shrugged, "It didn't seem important."
"Well it is now, their gettin' away! Now tell James to hurry up and catch the Destroyer and you and Gibbs go load the canons, were going to try to disable Eric's ship and hopefully all Evan wants to do is talk to you…" Jack said. But as she rushed down stairs, both of them were thinking that it was slim chance that he only wanted to talk to Ana.
Jack ran to the bow of the ship took over the helm. He tried to maneuver away from Evan's ship and somehow hoped that if he did this right, he would be right on top of Eric's ship. But when a canon just skimmed the Pearl's hull, Jack was a little more than angry. Here his wife was being taken to an island that was rapidly approaching and Jack had never been to and Ana's psycho lover was trying to blow holes in his ship, like he needed anymore stress right now.
"Why didn't we hit them?" Evan asked his first mate.
He shook his head, "Sparrow seems to be maneuvering out of the way. The men down below hadn't noticed, I s'pose."
"Well get down there and tell them to pay more attention!" Evan boomed.
Eric and Dinah's head snapped when they heard a canon shot. Eric wasn't really paying attention to the Pearl, but to getting to the island in the right place. But when he turned to see Jack's ship in a rather odd position he started to feel the heat of this situation. But he also caught a glimpse of the ship that was firing at the Pearl. Eric hoped that it was only after the Pearl and not both of them.
Who is that? Dinah thought to herself and she took Eric's eyeglass out of his hands. But the ship was too far away. The only reasonable explanation she could think of was Evan's ship, though she didn't know why he would be firing at the Pearl. But if it wasn't Evan's ship then it was another pirate. Which neither of the ships needed right now, there was enough problems as it was without throwing in another pirate just to out to get some loot.
Jack was now close enough to see the silhouette of Dinah's figure. And Jack's thought's almost drifted to her, but then a canon hit his ship. He snapped his head, his beads clanking against his forehead, "Why did he hit us?" Jack yelled to anyone that would answer. "GIBBS! FIRE BACK!" He yelled, hoping he heard the command. A few seconds later a canon fired from below deck and hit the Challenger. But not a second later Ana was in front of Jack, blocking his view, yelling in his face.
"What in the bloody 'ell do you think yer doin'?"
"I'm firin' at Evan's ship! That's what!"
"Why?"
"Because he fired at us!" Jack yelled back. The answer seemed so obvious, yet Ana was talking to him, like he was a lunatic, "What do you expect me to do? Just let 'em fire at us? I thought you were smarter than that!"
"But Jack it's-"
"I don't care who the blast it is! They're a threat lass, and just because you have feelin's for him doesn't mean I'm going to bass m'judgement on it. You can't let feelin's cloud yer judgment."
"How 'bout Dinah?!"
"THEY WANT ME TO FOLLOW HER!" Jack yelled, "What am I supposed to do? Let them kill her? She's m'wife! Evan ain't nothin' more than a lover!" Jack noticed Ana's somewhat hurt facial expression when that exited Jack's mouth and he quickly added, "That yer gunna get to see and kiss and love after we're done, but that doesn't erase the fact that he's blowin' bloody holes in my ship!"
"FINE!" Ana yelled. She was somewhat glad that Jack didn't forget this promise, and was still intending on going through with it. But this whole thing was making her mad. It was a bad position being in between your love and your captain.
She and Jack turned to look at Eric's ship and realized that they had already dropped anchor and manned the sea boats to the island. And then they noticed that they better be quick to do the same. They were almost close enough to see each detail of each cabin door on the Destroyer.
Ana left without words and went to get the crew ready. Although half were staying on board, they still needed to defend the ship against Evan's.
"What are they doin' now?" Evan asked, more to himself than anyone else.
Yet, his first mate answered, "It looks like their goin' to the island."
"That's what it looks like. Well we'll let's drop anchor and set a plank between the Pearl and us, so when Ana is there, we'll be ready for her."
"Aye, Captain." And the man scurried off. Evan wasn't quite sure where they were going, but he now noticed the other ship. The Destroyer…hmm…never heard of it. And why was the Pearl followin' it? And where the blast are we? I don't think this island is even charted. It doesn't look familiar at all and neither do the waters. What business does Ana have here? I would get off and follow her, but there's no point of getting lost in the jungle with her when I'm mad. I'll just wait.