"So what do you say Will? Come away with me on the Pearl and be my bitch forever?" Jack put his arms round the young blacksmith's shoulders and stroked his brown tresses. Will swooned like the nancy-boy he is.

"Oh yes jack, you are so manly and yet so seductive, let us go away and you can teach me the evil and lustful ways of pirates."

And with that they swung onto the Black Pearl using a rope that appeared out of no where.

(Look, it wouldn't be a pirate story if there weren't swathy men swinging on ropes.)

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Elizabeth stood in her constricting dress, watching the ship with black sails move into the glowing sunset. She fluttered he fan and let out a wimpering gasp as the corset pinched her waist and pressed the weight of her heaving chest onto her lungs. She lost her footing on the fort and just as she was about to fall headlong to the rocks below a strong arm gripped her waist.

"Oh, I am so glad you're here, who would have guessed I'd end up with you after everything that's happened." She pulled off her lover's hat and kissed the face she loved so dearly.

"Who could have guessed indeed." Anamaria smiled as she brushed a stray lock of hair out of Elizabeth's face.