A/N: SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG!!! GOD DAMN SCHOOL…..

I had the time, so I figured…HEY! WHAT THE HECK! I might as well…

Disclaimer: Disney owns PotC…for now…They haven't returned any of my calls yet…damn lawyers…

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They had been out at sea for two days now. Will sat on the deck, sharpening his sword. Jack was walking around tightening ropes and checking sails and such. Jess stood at the side of the ship, watching the bobbing horizon.

Jack walked up behind her. "You ok luv? You're seeming a bit….." he looked like he was searching for the right word. "Distant. We should be in Tortuga in a couple days…" Jack looked awfully happy about that.

"I'm ok…" she muttered, not taking her gaze off the horizon. "Just thinking."

Jack stood next to her for a second, looking off into the distance. Jess coughed uncomfortably, and he turned away.

She heard Will speak up from the deck of the Interceptor.

"When I was a lad living in England, my mother raised me by herself. After she died, I came out here, looking for my father." he ran the rock down his sword once more, sharpening the blade to a fine, sharp tip.

Jack continued walking around the ship, tightening various ropes. "Is that so…"

Will stood up and followed Jack up to the stern of the deck. "My father? Will Turner? And in the jail it was only AFTER you learned my name that you agreed to help. Since that's what I wanted, I didn't press the matter. I'm not a simpleton Jack. You knew my father."

Jack stopped what he was doing. He sighed, apparently giving up. He stood up and turned around to face Will.

"I knew 'im. Probably one of the few who knew him as William Turner. Everybody else just called him Bootstrap, or Bootstrap Bill."

Jess walked up the stairs and stood, leaning on the railing.

"Bootstrap?" she called out questioningly. Jack turned to face her.

"He was a good man. Good pirate." He turned back to Will. "I swear you look just like him.

Will looked awfully annoyed again. 'Seems like a permanent state for him…' Jess thought.

"It's not true. He was a merchant sailor; a good, respectable man, who obeyed the law."

Jack turned around and looked at Will. "He was a bloody pirate-"

"A scallywag." Jess piped in, standing next to Jack.

Will stood behind Jack and pulled out his sword. "My father…was NOT…a pirate."

Jack didn't turn away from the wheel this time. "Put it away son…It's not worth you getting beat again."

Jess looked up at Will. "You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you."

Jack turned around and looked at him again. "And that's no incentive for me to fight fair, now is it?"

Jess ducked, and Jack spun the wheel quickly. The yard of the main sail flew toward Will and caught him in the gut, sending him out over the water. Jess stood up and walked over so she was next to Jack, looking out at Will, who was currently struggling to keep his grip on the thick wooden yard.

Jack picked up Will's dropped sword. "Now as long as you're just 'hanging' out there, pay attention. The only rules that really matter are these-"

Jess finished his sentence. "What a PERSON can do, and what they can't do."

"Right you are, lass." Jack stated, not taking his eyes off Will.

"For instance- you can except that your father was a pirate, AND a good man, or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy-"

"So you'll have to square with that someday." Jess finished triumphantly.

Jack looked at her proudly. "Couldn't have said it better meself. And me, for example, I can let ya drown."

Jess spoke up again, strongly. " But we can't bring this ship into Tortuga all by our onesies, savvy?"

Jack nodded. "So.." He spun the wheel again, causing the yard to even back out, dumping Will onto the deck. "Can you sail under the command of a pirate? Or can you not?" Jack held out the sword to Will. Will took it, grinning slightly.

"Tortuga?" Will questioned, looking between Jack and Jess.

"Tortuga." they both said in unison. Jack grinned madly.

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Jess had a feeling in her gut that this wouldn't be all that fun for her. She, Will, and Jack were walking along an allyway in Tortuga. She and Will were both looking around, trying to take it all in at once.

Jack had been talking for quite some time now, but this was the first time she could actually hear him over the many gunshots and screaming and loud music.

"…More importantly, it is indeed a sad life that has never breathed deep the sweet, poliforous bouquet that is Tortuga, savvy? What do you think?" he asked, turning to Jess and Will.

Jess spoke up first. "It'll linger…"

Jack started talking again before she could finish. "I'll tell ya mate, if every town in the world were like this, NO man would ever feel unwanted."

Jess rolled her eyes.

All of a sudden, a tall, red haired woman in a reddish dress stalked up to them.

"Scarlet!" Jack exclaimed, sashaying toward her.

Scarlet walked up, slapped Jack across the face, and stalked over again.

Jess snickered. "Did you deserve that?"

"No…" he muttered. He perked up again as a blond woman strode up. "Giselle!" he exclaimed again, holding out both arms.

"Who was she?!" Giselle asked angrily, speaking in a thick Cockney accent.

"Wha-" Jack started, but was cut off by another hard slap to the face.

"What about that one?" Jess managed to get out through her laughing.

"I may have deserved that one…" he muttered.

Jack shook it off and began walking toward a small shed behind a tavern. "We should escape from this wretched pit as soon as possible-"

"With a crew." Will and Jess finished at the same time.

"Ah yes. Well, it so happens that you know a man, who knows the man who knows the finest sailors in all of Tortuga."

Jack picked up a small barrel of water, and handed a second one to Will. He walked into the shed, with Jess and Will in tow. The first thing Jess noticed was a round man, covered in dirt, holding a bottle, and using three pigs as a pillow. "Alright then…" she muttered. (A/N: MY COPYRIGHTED SAYING!)

Jack threw his bucket of water onto the man.

"CURSE YOU FOR BREATHING, YOU SLACK-JAWED IDIOT!" The man awoke with a start, waving around a gun that Jess hadn't noticed at first.

Suddenly, he noticed Jack , staring at him calmly.

"Mother's love…Jack! You should know better than to wake a man when he's sleeping…'Tis bad luck."

Jack kneeled down in front of the man. "Ah, fortunately I know how to counter it. The man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition from the man who did the waking." He offered a hand to the man.

The man sat there, looking confused. Then he grabbed Jack's offered hand and let him pull him up. "Aye…that'll about do it!"

All of a sudden, Will threw the second bucket onto the man.

He shook himself. "BLAST! I'M ALREADY AWAKE!"

"That was for the smell." Jess burst out laughing. The way he said it….

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A/N: Ahhh yes. Finally. Got the fourth chapter up. School has been sucking it up as usual, and I had this big huge idea for an original Fanfic that is now in the works. It's going to be a PotC sequel type of thing.

Reviews and Constructive Critism are still welcomed…

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