Chapter 6:
A/N: Again very sorry for confusing you, the crow! Now that that is out of the way, yeah people love my story it is always good to have someone love your story *smiles idiotically* Alright then.
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Salina lay sprawled out in the middle of the cell. Her hair was damp and in a mess around her. Her eyes flickered under her eyelids and she moved her hand to her side where she felt a great deal of pain. "Blood hell." She grumbles as she tried to sit up.
Salina's eyes opened gradually still blurred from the ocean water that had gotten in her eyes. It was extremely dark and she could barely make out the outline of the two men in the cell who were sitting across from her.
"What happened?" Her voice was course and scratchy. The men looked up at her amazed that she was awake; apparently they were really into their conversation before to where they did not see her wake up.
The darker of the two spoke up, "You were shot and then hauled off to jail."
Salina grabbed her side once more and looked at were the wound would've been if she could see.
"A doctor came about an hour ago, he stitched you back up." The second one spoke, his voice soft and gentle compared to the first one's.
"Oh, how long have we been here?" Salina asked, her voice becoming healthier and fuller.
"I'd say about and hour and a half now." The darker one stood and sat next to Salina. He moved his hand to see her wound and she quickly pushed it away. "Let me see." He insisted so she let him.
She didn't understand how he could see anything when it was that dark out. He caressed her side, which helped to dull the pain. She looked the man straight in the face and could now tell that it was Jack, and that the man across from them was Will.
"Salina?"
"Yes Jack?"
"I'll be having my necklace back now."
"Your necklace? If I remember right it was a gift."
"I want it back." He gave a stern look to her as well as stopping his massage and leaning over her sitting face to face in front of her.
"Oh, that's too bad Jack, ye see I don't have it. My measly uncle took it from me, yanked it from my neck he did." She smiled as she could see his non-amusement in the situation.
The clanking of boots could be heard coming down the stone stairs. A man like figure appeared in front of the cell door, and all three inhabitants' looked at it suspiciously.
"What is it ye are looking for, mate?" Jack backed his body from Salina's and leaned against the wall.
"I was looking for Ms. Rose." The man replied, he looked down at the woman. "Are you her?"
"Depends on who's askin'." She answered in her dry voice.
"James." Salina's eyes widened as she tried to get up and move to the door just to see his face.
"James is it really you?"
Jack sat in the back of the cell gleaming at the man wanting to kill him right then and there. Will noticed his look and walked over to Jack. "So who's this James guy?"
Jack looked at him. "Do you not know?" Will's questionable expression allowed Jack to continue. "James Norrington, the Commodore's older brother."
"Oh.' Will's eyes widened a bit, "What does he want with Salina?"
"I swear boy, you don't hear any of the stories that go around." Jack scuffed before answering his question. "James is well, how do you say? Salina's ex- fiancé."
Salina looked James in the eye and couldn't believe it was him. "James what are you doing here?"
"They're going to hang you tomorrow if I don't get you out of here, no come on." He fiddled with the keys a little before she yanked his hand through the cell door.
"James, please. I will not have you save me, I won't let you risk your family just to help me."
"My family is safe and at home, the only one to be punished is me."
"James, the last time I left Port Royal I was leaving everything behind, I had not planned to come back ever. I left it behind because I didn't want it in my life any more. James you can't do this for that reason, I won't have you in my life again!" With that she released his hand and walked to the back of the cell and peered out the window to the stars.
"And James?" He turned and looked back at her before he left. "If that means I have to die to leave it all behind, then I will die tomorrow." James turned and walked out of the jail.
Will looked up at her and Jack just stared at the dirt in the cell. "What? I treasure my freedom too much and if I must be punished for loving and living my life the way I want to, then so be it!" Salina dropped to the ground and sat with her back against the stonewall.
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"Father listen to me! She is your niece, she has blood relation to you. Surely you can stop this!" Elizabeth cried to her father.
"The sins she committed in her life are too many, she brought this on herself."
"To kill her would be a sin! To kill any of them would be a sin and you will have to live with that some day!" Elizabeth turned and stormed out of the commodore's office back to the front gate where Gibbs had waited for her.
"Any luck?"
"None!"
"Didn't think so. We can try to spring them from their cell."
"No, there are too many guards and my father and the Commodore are expecting an escape plan."
"So what do we do?"
"We wait. We wait until dawn when she and Jack are scheduled to be hung."
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Salina rolled over in her sleep and shortly woke as she could feel the sun's warmth shine through the window onto her. She stretched and slowly opened her eyes, but when she did she came face to face with Jack, whom she was laying on.
A scream echoed through the jail and Salina thrust herself backwards on the ground.
"Couldn't resist me, eh?" Jack grinned showing a few gold teeth.
"Jack if ye weren't-."
"Come on you two, time to go to the Gallows!" An officer at the cell door shouted.
Will woke up and looked at the scene. "What's going on?"
The door was opened and two men picked Salina up by her arms and pulled her out of the cell. "Ye don't need to be so forceful I'm going! Let go of me arm! I can walk ye know!" The men dropped her arms and she walked out of the jail.
After Jack was taken from the cell the door was shut and locked, leaving Will alone.
Salina and Jack were pulled to the side and had their hands bond with ropes. "Say Salina?" She looked up at him.
"What is it now Jack?"
"If we are going to die and all, how about a last moment goodbye?"
Salina's eyes narrowed, "I am not kissing you again." She scuffed as a brown sack was placed over her head.
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Elizabeth sat in a booth with her father and Norrington watching the events take place. She was nervously twiddling her thumbs not for Will's sake; she knew he was fine, but for Jack and Salina's sake.
She remembered a question that Salina had asked her just the day before; 'do you mind if I call you Beth? I used to have a cousin named Beth but her father wouldn't let me see her. He said I was not right because I was a pirate, because I chose how to live my own life.' A single tear slid down her face.
"Is there something wrong Elizabeth?" Governor Swann posed.
"No, nothing." She wiped the tear from her cheek and watched as Jack was brought up to the noose. "How many times is this father?"
"How many times is what?"
"Is it that you and my dead uncle have condemned this man to be hanged?"
The Governor looked awkwardly at his daughter then disregarded her comment. The next pirate was brought out; he had a sack over his head. But something was off about him; he was not a man at all but a woman.
The sack was pulled from Salina's head and the noose placed around her neck. Governor Swann stood and began his speech. "Gentlemen and Ladies, today is a special day. A day when we rid ourselves of two of the most infamous and vicious pirates in the Caribbean."
"Pipe down uncle! No one wants to hear your god damned speech anyway! Might as well just get on with the hangings!" Salina shouted from the gallows. Whispers spread through the audience as she called the Governor her uncle.
"Well Salina it seems you finally are getting what you want! To die next to the man you once saved!" Salina's eyes widened and her breath became short as the lever was pulled.
Hers and Jack's body flew through the holes in the gallows as their bodies struggled to get free. Salina couldn't feel her legs any more and her body movement was becoming limp. Out of nowhere an arrow shot through the rope and her body dropped to the ground.
The crowd turned every which way trying to find out where the arrows were coming from as another one shot through Jack's rope, he also fell to the ground. Salina pulled the noose from her neck and looked up to the top of the fort where she saw a man standing with a bow and arrow.
"James." She flipped on to her back and hopped up from that spot. She saw Jack on the ground and helped him up. "See we didn't die today. Could you reach into my boot and get out my dagger and do it kind of fast because there are soldiers heading our way."
"It's kind of hard to do this when your hands are bound together, love."
"I understand, but it's kind of hard to live when you're being butchered by the navy, savvy?"
Jack finally was able to grab the dagger out and he cut his hands free first. Stepping in the way of Salina and the guards he thrust the dagger into one of the soldier's chest and then cut Salina's ropes.
Elizabeth ran from the booth down into the crowd where she found Gibbs. "Gibbs come on to the jail!"
"What about Salina and Jack?"
"They can handle themselves, come on!" The two of them ran down the stairs to the Jail.
"Will!" Elizabeth starred at her husband and then ran to the cell. He was leaning on the door as he reached out and touched her face.
"Elizabeth."
"Okay you two, how about we just get the lad out, there's a fight going on out there and I want to get a piece of the action!" Gibbs interrupted.
"Right then, Elizabeth you see that bench? I want you and Gibbs to place the bottom legs of it through two of the holed in the door then I want you to push down on it as hard as you can. Got it?"
"Uh huh." Elizabeth nodded and her and Gibbs grabbed the bench. Within a minute Will was free and he quickly embraced his wife before running with Gibbs up the steps.
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Salina punched a soldier in the nose the removed his cutlass from his belt. "It's so much better fighting with a weapon." She commented.
"If we should get separated," Jack hollered as he hit into another man, "then meet me at the Pearl it will be in the bay."
"Got it!" She turned and found Will behind her. "Hello there Mr. Turner."
"Salina I want you to take Elizabeth and watch after her." Salina raised an eyebrow and looked over his shoulder watching the lass punch a few guards.
"Looks like she's doing fine to me!"
"Well just keep an eye out for her."
"All right I will, don't worry your lass is safe with me."
"You're so reassuring."
"If I wasn't you wouldn't have asked me." She smiled and began to fight again.
Jack and Will made their way over to the other side of the fort and Salina quickly trailed behind Elizabeth, whom was running in a dress. "Oh for heavens sake!" Salina stopped and looked to her right at a horse then back to Elizabeth who was being chased by guards. "Well that's much better."
She mounted the horse and rode passed the guards to Elizabeth. "Beth take my hand!"
"Are you bloody crazy?" She shouted.
"Just do it!" Beth's hand latched onto her and she flung her up onto the horse. "Now hold on!" Elizabeth tightened her grip around Salina's waist and clung tightly to her. A memory flashed through Salina's mind of the time that Beth was begging her not to leave and how she clung to her side and would not let go. That was the same day she vowed never to return to Port Royal.
Salina steered the horse around the fort, down steps and through passage ways until she came to a closed gate. "Beth don't let go!"
"What are you thinking Salina?" Her voice became worried.
"Just don't let go of me!" The horse rammed through the gate causing it to fly off it's hinges. It was only after that did Salina realized why the gate had been closed, it lead out to the side of a cliff straight down into the bay.
There were echoes of screams coming from the side of the fort. The governor and Commodore rushed to the side and looked over. What they saw traumatized them, It was Salina, Elizabeth and a horse falling down the cliff into the water.
Salina's and Elizabeth's bodies were now separated from the horse and each other, each falling into a different place in the water. There were three gigantic splashes as Jack and Will watched the bodies hit the water; they stood on the deck of the Black Pearl wondering what had happened.
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A/N: I think I'll leave it there for now. Hope you guys enjoyed that little adventure. The next chapter will be posted later today, thanks!
A/N: Again very sorry for confusing you, the crow! Now that that is out of the way, yeah people love my story it is always good to have someone love your story *smiles idiotically* Alright then.
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Salina lay sprawled out in the middle of the cell. Her hair was damp and in a mess around her. Her eyes flickered under her eyelids and she moved her hand to her side where she felt a great deal of pain. "Blood hell." She grumbles as she tried to sit up.
Salina's eyes opened gradually still blurred from the ocean water that had gotten in her eyes. It was extremely dark and she could barely make out the outline of the two men in the cell who were sitting across from her.
"What happened?" Her voice was course and scratchy. The men looked up at her amazed that she was awake; apparently they were really into their conversation before to where they did not see her wake up.
The darker of the two spoke up, "You were shot and then hauled off to jail."
Salina grabbed her side once more and looked at were the wound would've been if she could see.
"A doctor came about an hour ago, he stitched you back up." The second one spoke, his voice soft and gentle compared to the first one's.
"Oh, how long have we been here?" Salina asked, her voice becoming healthier and fuller.
"I'd say about and hour and a half now." The darker one stood and sat next to Salina. He moved his hand to see her wound and she quickly pushed it away. "Let me see." He insisted so she let him.
She didn't understand how he could see anything when it was that dark out. He caressed her side, which helped to dull the pain. She looked the man straight in the face and could now tell that it was Jack, and that the man across from them was Will.
"Salina?"
"Yes Jack?"
"I'll be having my necklace back now."
"Your necklace? If I remember right it was a gift."
"I want it back." He gave a stern look to her as well as stopping his massage and leaning over her sitting face to face in front of her.
"Oh, that's too bad Jack, ye see I don't have it. My measly uncle took it from me, yanked it from my neck he did." She smiled as she could see his non-amusement in the situation.
The clanking of boots could be heard coming down the stone stairs. A man like figure appeared in front of the cell door, and all three inhabitants' looked at it suspiciously.
"What is it ye are looking for, mate?" Jack backed his body from Salina's and leaned against the wall.
"I was looking for Ms. Rose." The man replied, he looked down at the woman. "Are you her?"
"Depends on who's askin'." She answered in her dry voice.
"James." Salina's eyes widened as she tried to get up and move to the door just to see his face.
"James is it really you?"
Jack sat in the back of the cell gleaming at the man wanting to kill him right then and there. Will noticed his look and walked over to Jack. "So who's this James guy?"
Jack looked at him. "Do you not know?" Will's questionable expression allowed Jack to continue. "James Norrington, the Commodore's older brother."
"Oh.' Will's eyes widened a bit, "What does he want with Salina?"
"I swear boy, you don't hear any of the stories that go around." Jack scuffed before answering his question. "James is well, how do you say? Salina's ex- fiancé."
Salina looked James in the eye and couldn't believe it was him. "James what are you doing here?"
"They're going to hang you tomorrow if I don't get you out of here, no come on." He fiddled with the keys a little before she yanked his hand through the cell door.
"James, please. I will not have you save me, I won't let you risk your family just to help me."
"My family is safe and at home, the only one to be punished is me."
"James, the last time I left Port Royal I was leaving everything behind, I had not planned to come back ever. I left it behind because I didn't want it in my life any more. James you can't do this for that reason, I won't have you in my life again!" With that she released his hand and walked to the back of the cell and peered out the window to the stars.
"And James?" He turned and looked back at her before he left. "If that means I have to die to leave it all behind, then I will die tomorrow." James turned and walked out of the jail.
Will looked up at her and Jack just stared at the dirt in the cell. "What? I treasure my freedom too much and if I must be punished for loving and living my life the way I want to, then so be it!" Salina dropped to the ground and sat with her back against the stonewall.
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"Father listen to me! She is your niece, she has blood relation to you. Surely you can stop this!" Elizabeth cried to her father.
"The sins she committed in her life are too many, she brought this on herself."
"To kill her would be a sin! To kill any of them would be a sin and you will have to live with that some day!" Elizabeth turned and stormed out of the commodore's office back to the front gate where Gibbs had waited for her.
"Any luck?"
"None!"
"Didn't think so. We can try to spring them from their cell."
"No, there are too many guards and my father and the Commodore are expecting an escape plan."
"So what do we do?"
"We wait. We wait until dawn when she and Jack are scheduled to be hung."
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Salina rolled over in her sleep and shortly woke as she could feel the sun's warmth shine through the window onto her. She stretched and slowly opened her eyes, but when she did she came face to face with Jack, whom she was laying on.
A scream echoed through the jail and Salina thrust herself backwards on the ground.
"Couldn't resist me, eh?" Jack grinned showing a few gold teeth.
"Jack if ye weren't-."
"Come on you two, time to go to the Gallows!" An officer at the cell door shouted.
Will woke up and looked at the scene. "What's going on?"
The door was opened and two men picked Salina up by her arms and pulled her out of the cell. "Ye don't need to be so forceful I'm going! Let go of me arm! I can walk ye know!" The men dropped her arms and she walked out of the jail.
After Jack was taken from the cell the door was shut and locked, leaving Will alone.
Salina and Jack were pulled to the side and had their hands bond with ropes. "Say Salina?" She looked up at him.
"What is it now Jack?"
"If we are going to die and all, how about a last moment goodbye?"
Salina's eyes narrowed, "I am not kissing you again." She scuffed as a brown sack was placed over her head.
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Elizabeth sat in a booth with her father and Norrington watching the events take place. She was nervously twiddling her thumbs not for Will's sake; she knew he was fine, but for Jack and Salina's sake.
She remembered a question that Salina had asked her just the day before; 'do you mind if I call you Beth? I used to have a cousin named Beth but her father wouldn't let me see her. He said I was not right because I was a pirate, because I chose how to live my own life.' A single tear slid down her face.
"Is there something wrong Elizabeth?" Governor Swann posed.
"No, nothing." She wiped the tear from her cheek and watched as Jack was brought up to the noose. "How many times is this father?"
"How many times is what?"
"Is it that you and my dead uncle have condemned this man to be hanged?"
The Governor looked awkwardly at his daughter then disregarded her comment. The next pirate was brought out; he had a sack over his head. But something was off about him; he was not a man at all but a woman.
The sack was pulled from Salina's head and the noose placed around her neck. Governor Swann stood and began his speech. "Gentlemen and Ladies, today is a special day. A day when we rid ourselves of two of the most infamous and vicious pirates in the Caribbean."
"Pipe down uncle! No one wants to hear your god damned speech anyway! Might as well just get on with the hangings!" Salina shouted from the gallows. Whispers spread through the audience as she called the Governor her uncle.
"Well Salina it seems you finally are getting what you want! To die next to the man you once saved!" Salina's eyes widened and her breath became short as the lever was pulled.
Hers and Jack's body flew through the holes in the gallows as their bodies struggled to get free. Salina couldn't feel her legs any more and her body movement was becoming limp. Out of nowhere an arrow shot through the rope and her body dropped to the ground.
The crowd turned every which way trying to find out where the arrows were coming from as another one shot through Jack's rope, he also fell to the ground. Salina pulled the noose from her neck and looked up to the top of the fort where she saw a man standing with a bow and arrow.
"James." She flipped on to her back and hopped up from that spot. She saw Jack on the ground and helped him up. "See we didn't die today. Could you reach into my boot and get out my dagger and do it kind of fast because there are soldiers heading our way."
"It's kind of hard to do this when your hands are bound together, love."
"I understand, but it's kind of hard to live when you're being butchered by the navy, savvy?"
Jack finally was able to grab the dagger out and he cut his hands free first. Stepping in the way of Salina and the guards he thrust the dagger into one of the soldier's chest and then cut Salina's ropes.
Elizabeth ran from the booth down into the crowd where she found Gibbs. "Gibbs come on to the jail!"
"What about Salina and Jack?"
"They can handle themselves, come on!" The two of them ran down the stairs to the Jail.
"Will!" Elizabeth starred at her husband and then ran to the cell. He was leaning on the door as he reached out and touched her face.
"Elizabeth."
"Okay you two, how about we just get the lad out, there's a fight going on out there and I want to get a piece of the action!" Gibbs interrupted.
"Right then, Elizabeth you see that bench? I want you and Gibbs to place the bottom legs of it through two of the holed in the door then I want you to push down on it as hard as you can. Got it?"
"Uh huh." Elizabeth nodded and her and Gibbs grabbed the bench. Within a minute Will was free and he quickly embraced his wife before running with Gibbs up the steps.
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Salina punched a soldier in the nose the removed his cutlass from his belt. "It's so much better fighting with a weapon." She commented.
"If we should get separated," Jack hollered as he hit into another man, "then meet me at the Pearl it will be in the bay."
"Got it!" She turned and found Will behind her. "Hello there Mr. Turner."
"Salina I want you to take Elizabeth and watch after her." Salina raised an eyebrow and looked over his shoulder watching the lass punch a few guards.
"Looks like she's doing fine to me!"
"Well just keep an eye out for her."
"All right I will, don't worry your lass is safe with me."
"You're so reassuring."
"If I wasn't you wouldn't have asked me." She smiled and began to fight again.
Jack and Will made their way over to the other side of the fort and Salina quickly trailed behind Elizabeth, whom was running in a dress. "Oh for heavens sake!" Salina stopped and looked to her right at a horse then back to Elizabeth who was being chased by guards. "Well that's much better."
She mounted the horse and rode passed the guards to Elizabeth. "Beth take my hand!"
"Are you bloody crazy?" She shouted.
"Just do it!" Beth's hand latched onto her and she flung her up onto the horse. "Now hold on!" Elizabeth tightened her grip around Salina's waist and clung tightly to her. A memory flashed through Salina's mind of the time that Beth was begging her not to leave and how she clung to her side and would not let go. That was the same day she vowed never to return to Port Royal.
Salina steered the horse around the fort, down steps and through passage ways until she came to a closed gate. "Beth don't let go!"
"What are you thinking Salina?" Her voice became worried.
"Just don't let go of me!" The horse rammed through the gate causing it to fly off it's hinges. It was only after that did Salina realized why the gate had been closed, it lead out to the side of a cliff straight down into the bay.
There were echoes of screams coming from the side of the fort. The governor and Commodore rushed to the side and looked over. What they saw traumatized them, It was Salina, Elizabeth and a horse falling down the cliff into the water.
Salina's and Elizabeth's bodies were now separated from the horse and each other, each falling into a different place in the water. There were three gigantic splashes as Jack and Will watched the bodies hit the water; they stood on the deck of the Black Pearl wondering what had happened.
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A/N: I think I'll leave it there for now. Hope you guys enjoyed that little adventure. The next chapter will be posted later today, thanks!