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The British troops currently seated in the boat seemed to have noticed you and Jack, seeing as how they start to wave their arms in a kind of signal back toward the Dauntless.
"Well, c'mon Jack! It's too bloody hot on this island to stay here another minute." You playfully nudge Jack and start to jog down the sand dune towards shore where the small boat is currently docking. Before you can reach them, they accusingly point their long rifles at you and shout,
"State your name!" Not knowing if you should answer them, you turn your head back around to Jack questioningly. As you notice Jack, you see that he is already prancing sown the dune beside you with his arms raised in surrender.
"Gentlemen! We are but two regular people who are in fact good friends with your beloved Governor's Daughter, who is also in fact, just down the beach a ways." He lets one arm down from its surrender position to point back to where Elizabeth had been sitting on the beach. Turning around once again, you can see Elizabeth trotting up beside you. She walks importantly up to the sailors and quickly lowers their rifles with her arm.
"NO need to be hostile gentlemen. If you'll take us back to the ship, we'll be much obliged!" She then maneuvers past them and sits herself in the boat, as if this situation is completely normal. The navy- men look at one another and eventually shrug, and climb into the boat with Elizabeth. Elizabeth notices that you and Jack are still standing stupidly on the beach staring, at shouts at you,
"Are you tow coming?" Jerking back to life, you and Jack quickly scurry into the boat beside the troops and Elizabeth.
As they begin to row out towards the Dauntless, you can't help but notice that quite a few of the officers are staring at you and Elizabeth's low necked wardrobes. Poor fools. This is probably the closest they've ever been to women. Sorry, that was kind of mean. Jack boredly rubs his calloused hands together as the heat bears down on all of you in the stifling heat.
After a good 10 minutes, you look up to see that you are nearly beside that Dauntless. Upon docking beside it, the troops offer both you and Elizabeth their hands for you to climb up the small rope ladder that has been lowered. Shaking your hair out of your eyes you climb the scratchy rope ladder behind Elizabeth. Once you reach the deck, you meet the eyes of many anxious troops.
"Elizabeth!" you hear someone call. You then see Governor Swann emerge from behind a few naval officers and walk briskly up to where Elizabeth stands not far off. HE stops short, however, upon noticing Elizabeth's wardrobe. Or shall we say, lack of wardrobe. In this time period, wearing that is like walking around in your underwear!
"What the devil are you wearing?" he questions. Elizabeth starts to speak, but is cut off by a voice coming from the left of you.
"Governor sir! These was the two that 'ad escaped prison sir!" Glancing toward the voice, you see that the voice was coming from that terrible navy-man Brenning who was the one who arrested you back in Port Royale.
"If I might cut in...." you turn back to the right to see Jack beside you, and holding up his finger knowingly, "We didn't escape really, t'was more like we were set free actually." Jack nods and gives a slight smile, as if that should settle the matter. Before another word is said, two troops come up behind Jack and restrain his arms behind his back, so as to not let him escape. Jack gets a rather confused and offended look and glances back at them warily. You suddenly feel your own arms being restrained and turn your head around to see Brenning holding them tightly behind you. What an ass. Turning back to face Elizabeth, you can see a kind of confusion looming across her face. It quickly fades and she turns back to her father.
"Father Will gave himself to the pirates in exchange for my freedom, and now they've taken him! We've got to go after them!" Governor Swann looks unconcerned for he look at both you and Jack with severe distaste. Sighing, he turns around and speaks to Norrington,
"Let's get home by God!"
"Yes, Governor," Norrington murmurs as he starts to head towards the wheel.
"But we've got to save Will!" Elizabeth argues as she storms after her father.
"No!" interjects Gov. Swann, "You're safe now. We will return to Port Royale immediately, not go gallivanting after pirates!"
"Then we condemn him to death!" Liz retorts. Gov. Swann look as if he is rather tired of the argument, but continues,
"The boy's fate is regrettable...but then, so is his decision to engage in piracy." As he says this, his eyes shift towards you and Jack, who are still held by the officers.
"To rescue me, to prevent anything from happening to me!" she argues back with a desperate tone to her voice.
Jack at once glides out of the navy-men's grasp and walk up toward Liz, her father, and Norrington. Brenning grips you tighter as if daring you to try the same thing.
"If I might be so bold as to interject my professional opinion.." Jack starts amidst the annoyed glares of the Commodore and the Governor, "The Pearl was listing near to scuppers after the battle, it's very unlikely she'll be able to make good time." Jack then sidles up closer to Norrington and talks to him in a lower voice. "Think about it....the Black Pearl. The last real pirate threat in the Caribbean, mate. How can you pass that up?" In a stern and annoyed tone, Norrington replies,
"By remembering that I server others, Mr. Sparrow. Not only myself." At that, he turns himself back around and heads toward the stern. Cutting back into the conversation Elizabeth desperately calls after him,
"Commodore, I beg you! Please do this! For me.....as a wedding gift!" Norrington immediately stops in his tracks and slowly turns around. You notice that the Governor has a smug, pleased smile on his face and he questions happily,
"Elizabeth! Are you accepting the Commodore's proposal?"
"I am." She states gravely, not breaking eye contact with Norrington.
"A wedding, I love weddings!" Jack calls happily.
"Drinks all around!" you call. But your slight outbursts causes your arms to be tugged back rather painfully by Brenning. "Would you quit it?!" you growl back towards Brenning, who sneers in reply. Looking back at Jack, you see that he now has a sheepish grin on his face, and he raises both of his hands together, and asks meekly,
"I know. Clap 'im in irons right?" Norrington is silent for a moment, before he continues,
"Mr. Sparrow, you will accompany these fine men to the helm, and provide us with a bearing to Isla de Muerta. You will then spend the rest of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase, 'silent as the grave'. Do I make myself clear?"
"Inescapably clear," Jack replies, cocking his head slightly. Murtogg and Mullroy then come up and escort Jack below levels. Before anything else is done, you feel Brenning spin you around hastily to face him, and he immediately pulls out a pair of metal handcuff things and starts to slap them painfully around your wrists. You hiss in pain as he does this. Suddenly, you hear Elizabeth's voice behind you.
"But you can't chain her like some common criminal!" You turn back around and see Elizabeth angrily facing Brenning.
"Elizabeth, she IS a common criminal!" Governor Swann butts in. Elizabeth pivots around to him and shoots back,
"Oh, so assisting in my rescue is a criminal act, is that what you're saying?!" Governor Swann, who now looks rather flustered, starts sputtering,
"But Elizabeth, she's, she's.....she's a pirate!" Elizabeth doesn't' respond. She simply continues to stare at her father angrily. Sighing in defeat, the Gov. resignedly turns to Brenning and murmurs, "Release her then. But I'm warning you," he glares at you now, in what he thinks must be a threatening way, "if you so much as attempt to escape, and I'll have you locked below deck so fast, you won't even know what hit you! Do I make myself clear?"
"Inescapably clear!" you retort smugly. The Gov. jerks his head up, and walk away, hands clasped behind his back.
You hear Brenning sigh angrily as you feel him spin you around once again, and he begins to unclasp the irons around your wrists. As he does this, he murmurs to you so as not to let anyone else hear,
"Don't think that just because the Governors daughter 'as taken a fancy to ye, that you'll be able to escape your fate once we return to Port Royale!" He then demonstrates a gesture of someone being hanged. Very similar to what Gibbs did at the beginning of the film. Rubbing your sore wrists, you hiss back,
"Get a life, freak,"
You casually walk up towards the front of the ship, where Elizabeth in now standing gazing somewhat remorsefully over the side. She's probably really depressed because she thinks that she has to marry Norrington now. You decide to try to cheer her up.
"Ya know, Will really likes you." You raise your eyebrows suggestively as she looks at you and begins to blush.
"Well, he's a sweet young man." She replies quietly. Who the hell is she kidding?
"Oh come on Elizabeth!" you exclaim, "don't tell me that you're not head over heels in love with him!" She snaps her head up quickly, harboring a stunned and shocked expression on her face. She seems at a loss for words. You probably were kinda rude saying that, but at least SOMEBODY put it out into the open. As she starts to stutter a reply, Gov Swann comes up beside her.
"Elizabeth, Commodore Norrington has offered an alternative means of wardrobe for you." His eyes shift nervously along her bodice. Still gazing at you shocked, Elizabeth allows herself to be guided away by her father.
For a long time, you stand at the front of the ship, until you get the feeling that you're not a lone. Thinking that Elizabeth has come back, you turn around but find Jack beside you instead. He stares nervously down at the water, almost as if he were afraid of heights. He pushes himself from the side and folds his arms across his chest, trying to seem calm and collected. You can't help but smirk. Catching his eye, you ask,
"So, you're gonna try to get your ship back, huh?"
"That is my intention, yes." Jack points to himself stupidly. His eyes furrow in confusion when he continues, "I suppose I should also contemplate the return of our young Mr. Turner, and that will make things more complicated." He starts to thoughtfully twist one of the braids in his beard around his finger. You wink at him encouragingly and return,
"I wouldn't worry too much about it. Everything will work out."
"O course it will!" Jack retorts, no longer any unsure ness in his voice.
Both of you stand by the side of the ship for a long time. Every once in a while making small snippets of conversation. Jack is silent most of the time. You figure that he is obviously thinking up a plan.
A couple of hours pass by and Norrington comes up beside you with a spyglass. He looks into it, and says to Gillette,
"Lower the sails. We don't want our presence made known."
Looking to where he is looking, you can see Isla de Muerta, looming closer along the horizon. So it begins, the final stage.....
The British troops currently seated in the boat seemed to have noticed you and Jack, seeing as how they start to wave their arms in a kind of signal back toward the Dauntless.
"Well, c'mon Jack! It's too bloody hot on this island to stay here another minute." You playfully nudge Jack and start to jog down the sand dune towards shore where the small boat is currently docking. Before you can reach them, they accusingly point their long rifles at you and shout,
"State your name!" Not knowing if you should answer them, you turn your head back around to Jack questioningly. As you notice Jack, you see that he is already prancing sown the dune beside you with his arms raised in surrender.
"Gentlemen! We are but two regular people who are in fact good friends with your beloved Governor's Daughter, who is also in fact, just down the beach a ways." He lets one arm down from its surrender position to point back to where Elizabeth had been sitting on the beach. Turning around once again, you can see Elizabeth trotting up beside you. She walks importantly up to the sailors and quickly lowers their rifles with her arm.
"NO need to be hostile gentlemen. If you'll take us back to the ship, we'll be much obliged!" She then maneuvers past them and sits herself in the boat, as if this situation is completely normal. The navy- men look at one another and eventually shrug, and climb into the boat with Elizabeth. Elizabeth notices that you and Jack are still standing stupidly on the beach staring, at shouts at you,
"Are you tow coming?" Jerking back to life, you and Jack quickly scurry into the boat beside the troops and Elizabeth.
As they begin to row out towards the Dauntless, you can't help but notice that quite a few of the officers are staring at you and Elizabeth's low necked wardrobes. Poor fools. This is probably the closest they've ever been to women. Sorry, that was kind of mean. Jack boredly rubs his calloused hands together as the heat bears down on all of you in the stifling heat.
After a good 10 minutes, you look up to see that you are nearly beside that Dauntless. Upon docking beside it, the troops offer both you and Elizabeth their hands for you to climb up the small rope ladder that has been lowered. Shaking your hair out of your eyes you climb the scratchy rope ladder behind Elizabeth. Once you reach the deck, you meet the eyes of many anxious troops.
"Elizabeth!" you hear someone call. You then see Governor Swann emerge from behind a few naval officers and walk briskly up to where Elizabeth stands not far off. HE stops short, however, upon noticing Elizabeth's wardrobe. Or shall we say, lack of wardrobe. In this time period, wearing that is like walking around in your underwear!
"What the devil are you wearing?" he questions. Elizabeth starts to speak, but is cut off by a voice coming from the left of you.
"Governor sir! These was the two that 'ad escaped prison sir!" Glancing toward the voice, you see that the voice was coming from that terrible navy-man Brenning who was the one who arrested you back in Port Royale.
"If I might cut in...." you turn back to the right to see Jack beside you, and holding up his finger knowingly, "We didn't escape really, t'was more like we were set free actually." Jack nods and gives a slight smile, as if that should settle the matter. Before another word is said, two troops come up behind Jack and restrain his arms behind his back, so as to not let him escape. Jack gets a rather confused and offended look and glances back at them warily. You suddenly feel your own arms being restrained and turn your head around to see Brenning holding them tightly behind you. What an ass. Turning back to face Elizabeth, you can see a kind of confusion looming across her face. It quickly fades and she turns back to her father.
"Father Will gave himself to the pirates in exchange for my freedom, and now they've taken him! We've got to go after them!" Governor Swann looks unconcerned for he look at both you and Jack with severe distaste. Sighing, he turns around and speaks to Norrington,
"Let's get home by God!"
"Yes, Governor," Norrington murmurs as he starts to head towards the wheel.
"But we've got to save Will!" Elizabeth argues as she storms after her father.
"No!" interjects Gov. Swann, "You're safe now. We will return to Port Royale immediately, not go gallivanting after pirates!"
"Then we condemn him to death!" Liz retorts. Gov. Swann look as if he is rather tired of the argument, but continues,
"The boy's fate is regrettable...but then, so is his decision to engage in piracy." As he says this, his eyes shift towards you and Jack, who are still held by the officers.
"To rescue me, to prevent anything from happening to me!" she argues back with a desperate tone to her voice.
Jack at once glides out of the navy-men's grasp and walk up toward Liz, her father, and Norrington. Brenning grips you tighter as if daring you to try the same thing.
"If I might be so bold as to interject my professional opinion.." Jack starts amidst the annoyed glares of the Commodore and the Governor, "The Pearl was listing near to scuppers after the battle, it's very unlikely she'll be able to make good time." Jack then sidles up closer to Norrington and talks to him in a lower voice. "Think about it....the Black Pearl. The last real pirate threat in the Caribbean, mate. How can you pass that up?" In a stern and annoyed tone, Norrington replies,
"By remembering that I server others, Mr. Sparrow. Not only myself." At that, he turns himself back around and heads toward the stern. Cutting back into the conversation Elizabeth desperately calls after him,
"Commodore, I beg you! Please do this! For me.....as a wedding gift!" Norrington immediately stops in his tracks and slowly turns around. You notice that the Governor has a smug, pleased smile on his face and he questions happily,
"Elizabeth! Are you accepting the Commodore's proposal?"
"I am." She states gravely, not breaking eye contact with Norrington.
"A wedding, I love weddings!" Jack calls happily.
"Drinks all around!" you call. But your slight outbursts causes your arms to be tugged back rather painfully by Brenning. "Would you quit it?!" you growl back towards Brenning, who sneers in reply. Looking back at Jack, you see that he now has a sheepish grin on his face, and he raises both of his hands together, and asks meekly,
"I know. Clap 'im in irons right?" Norrington is silent for a moment, before he continues,
"Mr. Sparrow, you will accompany these fine men to the helm, and provide us with a bearing to Isla de Muerta. You will then spend the rest of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase, 'silent as the grave'. Do I make myself clear?"
"Inescapably clear," Jack replies, cocking his head slightly. Murtogg and Mullroy then come up and escort Jack below levels. Before anything else is done, you feel Brenning spin you around hastily to face him, and he immediately pulls out a pair of metal handcuff things and starts to slap them painfully around your wrists. You hiss in pain as he does this. Suddenly, you hear Elizabeth's voice behind you.
"But you can't chain her like some common criminal!" You turn back around and see Elizabeth angrily facing Brenning.
"Elizabeth, she IS a common criminal!" Governor Swann butts in. Elizabeth pivots around to him and shoots back,
"Oh, so assisting in my rescue is a criminal act, is that what you're saying?!" Governor Swann, who now looks rather flustered, starts sputtering,
"But Elizabeth, she's, she's.....she's a pirate!" Elizabeth doesn't' respond. She simply continues to stare at her father angrily. Sighing in defeat, the Gov. resignedly turns to Brenning and murmurs, "Release her then. But I'm warning you," he glares at you now, in what he thinks must be a threatening way, "if you so much as attempt to escape, and I'll have you locked below deck so fast, you won't even know what hit you! Do I make myself clear?"
"Inescapably clear!" you retort smugly. The Gov. jerks his head up, and walk away, hands clasped behind his back.
You hear Brenning sigh angrily as you feel him spin you around once again, and he begins to unclasp the irons around your wrists. As he does this, he murmurs to you so as not to let anyone else hear,
"Don't think that just because the Governors daughter 'as taken a fancy to ye, that you'll be able to escape your fate once we return to Port Royale!" He then demonstrates a gesture of someone being hanged. Very similar to what Gibbs did at the beginning of the film. Rubbing your sore wrists, you hiss back,
"Get a life, freak,"
You casually walk up towards the front of the ship, where Elizabeth in now standing gazing somewhat remorsefully over the side. She's probably really depressed because she thinks that she has to marry Norrington now. You decide to try to cheer her up.
"Ya know, Will really likes you." You raise your eyebrows suggestively as she looks at you and begins to blush.
"Well, he's a sweet young man." She replies quietly. Who the hell is she kidding?
"Oh come on Elizabeth!" you exclaim, "don't tell me that you're not head over heels in love with him!" She snaps her head up quickly, harboring a stunned and shocked expression on her face. She seems at a loss for words. You probably were kinda rude saying that, but at least SOMEBODY put it out into the open. As she starts to stutter a reply, Gov Swann comes up beside her.
"Elizabeth, Commodore Norrington has offered an alternative means of wardrobe for you." His eyes shift nervously along her bodice. Still gazing at you shocked, Elizabeth allows herself to be guided away by her father.
For a long time, you stand at the front of the ship, until you get the feeling that you're not a lone. Thinking that Elizabeth has come back, you turn around but find Jack beside you instead. He stares nervously down at the water, almost as if he were afraid of heights. He pushes himself from the side and folds his arms across his chest, trying to seem calm and collected. You can't help but smirk. Catching his eye, you ask,
"So, you're gonna try to get your ship back, huh?"
"That is my intention, yes." Jack points to himself stupidly. His eyes furrow in confusion when he continues, "I suppose I should also contemplate the return of our young Mr. Turner, and that will make things more complicated." He starts to thoughtfully twist one of the braids in his beard around his finger. You wink at him encouragingly and return,
"I wouldn't worry too much about it. Everything will work out."
"O course it will!" Jack retorts, no longer any unsure ness in his voice.
Both of you stand by the side of the ship for a long time. Every once in a while making small snippets of conversation. Jack is silent most of the time. You figure that he is obviously thinking up a plan.
A couple of hours pass by and Norrington comes up beside you with a spyglass. He looks into it, and says to Gillette,
"Lower the sails. We don't want our presence made known."
Looking to where he is looking, you can see Isla de Muerta, looming closer along the horizon. So it begins, the final stage.....