Pirates of the Caribbean 2: The Return of the Aztec Gold
Disclaimer: Hmmmm....I only own Anna. She's MY character so get over yourself and make up your own!! Otherwise, every other character is NOT mine. I tried to take the wonderful advice in the review from the last chapter, but knowing me, the first part of this is going to be really fast paced.
Chapter Two: Never Was a Child
After the keys had run off, Anna and Jack sat alone in a prison cell waiting for something to happen. Norrington had planned for Jack to be hanged as he had been three years previously. It had not been said what would happen to Anna. But it didn't concern her at the time. She was only worried about having to see Jack hanged. She didn't want to watch. She looked at him and thought about how wonderfully mysterious he was. She bet anything his whole life was an adventure that a person would die to have experienced. She drew circles in the dirt on the floor. Jack began humming. "What are you singing to yourself, now?" Anna asked. "A song I learned on a deserted island with a beautiful young woman I couldn't touch." Jack replied. "I bet the company was rather nice." Anna said, a bit discusted. "No. She burned the rum." "Oh. I see. Will you teach it to me?" Anna asked. "No. Only she could teach you." said Jack. "What makes you think you can guarentee we'll ever see this woman again?" asked Anna, her fingers focused on the skirt of her dress now. "Did I say I could?" Jack said. Anna stared at him and her fingers froze. Jack began humming again.
Voices were heard from upstairs and shadows were seen on the walls. Elisabeth, in her night clothes, and Will came downstairs and went to Jack and Anna's cell. "I didn't think you'd ever show up." Jack said standing up. "I can't set you free the same as I did the last time, but I can do this." Will said. He held up a set of keys and grinned. "I thought those keys had run off again?" Jack said. Paying him no mind, Will opened the cell and Jack and Anna came out. "I have a question. What do we do now that we're free? Won't they just catch us all over again?" Anna asked. "You don't get out much do you?" Jack asked, a smile plastered on his face. Elisabeth grabbed Anna's arm and led her, Will, and Jack upstairs again. "Jack, do you have your..." Anna started. "Effects, yes. Plan, yes. Resources, no." Jack answered. "That doesn't sound very good." Elisabeth said. "I'll get it all worked out before we reach the fort, I'll tell you that much." Jack said. They crept in the night, approaching the fort. Jack still pondered an idea, but said nothing. "Well Jack? Have you thought of something?" Will asked. "Just follow my lead, savvy?" Jack said. "Your lead worries me, though." Elisabeth muttered. "You're not coming are you?" Jack asked Elisabeth and Will. "Of course we are." Elisabeth said. "Anything to get away from Norrington's glares."
Creeping along the dock, the four of them reached the point where Jack had started three years ago. Unfortunetly, there were new guards standing there to make sure civilians, and Jack Sparrow, didn't invade the dock. "Wait here." Jack whispered. He slipped behind a stack of crates with new items in them that were left by the merchants. Jack quickly knocked the stack of crates over and rushed back to the hiding place with the others. The guards came over to the crates and began to pick them up. Jack led the others down the dock and right onto a new ship that had been built to replace the Interceptor. Jack and Will drew out their swords and cut the ropes. Luckily the wind blew hard enough that night to blow the ship out of the dock. The guards stopped collecting the crates up and stared as the ship moved away fromt he dock. Finally, after it was much too late, they rushed down the dock and began yelling as the ship grew smaller and smaller in the distance.
On the ship, Will was trying to tie one of the ropes from the sails to a hook on deck. With no such luck, Jack was becoming frusterated. "Pull it tighter!" Jack said. Will pulled as hard as he could but once he got down to tie the rope, he let it slip out of his hand. Anna watched them as Jack's every attempt to teach him, Will would fail. She finally walked over to them and grabbed the rope from Will's hand. She pulled with every bit of strength in her body. "Tie it now." She told Will. He grabbed the end of the rope and tried to tie it to the hook. His knot was worthless, and he knew it. Jack grabbed the rope and pulled it at the same strength as Anna had. "You're making this harder than it is, boy. Anna, tie it." He said. Anna took the end of the rope from Will and tied and twisted it in difficult and interesting patterns. When she was done, Jack let go of the rope and it remained steady. "That wasen't so hard, now, was it?" Anna said to Will. "What kind of knot is that?" Will asked. "It's a pirate knot." Jack said, following Anna. Will stared at the knot for a moment and then followed behind too. "You failed to mention where exactly we were going." Elisabeth said. "Well, we have to make a stop in Tortuga, for good measure, and then...I don't know... rob a few cities, kill a few people, burn down a few towns..you know the usual." Jack said. "Tortuga? Why Tortuga?" Anna asked. "Because its alive." Jack said. "But Captain, I hate Tortuga. I was born there. And if were it alive I doubt there would be so much killing there." Anna said. " If there is so much death there then how is it the death is kept on and on?" Jack said. Anna opened her mouth to protest, but all that came out was, " What were you like as a child?" Jack hesitated in his own mind, but it wasen't obvious to the others. Will and Elisabeth leaned in to listen to his answer. "I never was a child." Jack replied. He turned and went the wheel of the ship. "What does that mean?" Elisabeth asked. "Its hard to say. There's not much that can be said about Jack Sparrow." Will answered. "What worries me is of he was serious or not. Is it possible to not ever be a child?" said Elisabeth. Will shrugged. The two of them walked towards the side of the ship to look out at the rising sun. Anna sat in her spot staring at nothing. She thought about it. She realized that it i was i possible to not be a child. She herself had never been a child. She watched Jack steer the ship and watch his compass for no good reason. She wondered what his reason was. She reached inside the bosom of her dress and pulled out a gold coin she had kept for two and a half years. She rubbed the coin with her thumb and looked back up at Jack. She stuffed the coin back in the place it had been and stood up to walk over to the side of the ship. She had been lucky there was no full moon that morning.
Daylight came and the sun shined bright over the ocean. There were no other ships on the water that morning and in the past three hours Jack had become more bearable. He was humming the same tune he had been humming when he and Anna were in jail. It was odd to hear him busily running around the ship and humming some pirate song he couldn't just sing the words to. But what confused Anna the most was that Elisabeth was humming along with him. "Elisabeth?" Anna said. "Yes?" "How do you know that song?" Anna asked. "I learned it when I was a little girl. Why?" said Elisabeth. "Were you the woman that taught it to Jack?" asked Anna, her fingers twisting the skirt of her dress. Elisabeth hesitated a little. "Yes. How did you know about that?" "Jack told me about when he was on a deserted island with a beautiful young woman he couldn't touch who taught him that song." Anna explained. "When? When did he tell you this?" Elisabeth asked smiling. "When we were in jail. He was humming the song and I asked him to teach it to me. He said only the woman could teach it to me." said Anna. "Well...trust me. By time this is all over, you'll know the song by heart." Elisabeth said. She began humming again with Jack and pacing the ship. "Anna! Swab the deck!" Jack said, cheerfully. "Alright." Anna said softly. She was caught up in her thoughts and didn't realize how sad she sounded. "What's got you in the lower parts of the deck?" Jack asked. "Nothing. How long is it until we get to Tortuga?" Anna asked. "Not long." Jack replied. "Just swab. I'll tell you when we're there." "Right." Anna said. Jack looked up at the sails and then back down at Anna. "Do you want to give Will a lesson on the sails?" he asked. Anna looked up at him and grinned. "Sure. Where is he?" she asked. "Probably with his bonny lass." Jack said. "Why did I even ask?" Anna said. "You never know. i could be with i." said Jack. He held out his hand to Anna and she took it. She stood up and went to look for Will.
A couple of hours had passed and Will was still struggling with tying the rope around the hook in a pirate knot. "Exactly how long did it take you to learn this?" Will asked Anna. "A couple of tries. But its alright. Some of us learn faster than others." replied Anna. She smirked and demonstrated the knot again. Before she finished, Jack came up behind her. "We're here. Can he still not do it?" he said. "No," Anna said, shaking her head. "But he's getting there. At least he can hold the rope."
Tortuga was quite calm during the daytime. Jack led them through the surroundings that Will was familiar with from the last time he had been there with Jack. "Jack, might I ask what our purpose is of being here?" Will asked. "We're to find my crew, collect them back onto the ship and set sail again." "You left your crew here? Why?" Will asked. Anna elbowed him in the ribs and gave him a threatening stare. "I had to find i and the crew wouldn't allow it." Jack explained. "We had stopped here in the first place and oddly enough my old crew took her. But she got away from them." said Jack. "Your old crew? From when Barbossa..." Elisabeth began. "Will someone please tell me who this Barbossa is?" Anna asked. "How did the survivors get away?" Will asked. "Who knows?" Jack said. They reached a tavern before anyone else could ask questions and they immediently saw the crew in the corner playing cards. "Jack! You're here!" "Mr. Gibbs? How did you get here so quickly?" Anna asked. "I borrowed a boat and sailed my way over here to tell the crew you two'd been arrested." Mr. Gibbs said. "Bread?" He held out a basket of bread to Anna. "No. I'm fine." Anna replied, pushing the basket away from her. Elisabeth stared at her in wonder, then looked back at the crew. "Jack, I think we have just a tiny problem." Mr. Gibbs said. Jack gave him an odd stare. "What?" he asked. "Well, we lost the Pearl." Mr. Gibbs said. "Come again?" Jack asked. "We lost the Black Pearl." Mr. Gibbs repeated. Jack paused, thinking with his lips puckered out and staring forward at nothing in particular. Finally, he looked Mr. Gibbs in the eye. "Then we'll we'll retrieve it again." he said. He began leading the crew out of the tavern and to the docks. Mr. Gibbs kept Anna back. "That Jack Sparrow'd never give up on the Pearl. You'd think he was meant for that ship as a child." he said. Anna looked up at him and replied," But he never was child."
Disclaimer: Hmmmm....I only own Anna. She's MY character so get over yourself and make up your own!! Otherwise, every other character is NOT mine. I tried to take the wonderful advice in the review from the last chapter, but knowing me, the first part of this is going to be really fast paced.
Chapter Two: Never Was a Child
After the keys had run off, Anna and Jack sat alone in a prison cell waiting for something to happen. Norrington had planned for Jack to be hanged as he had been three years previously. It had not been said what would happen to Anna. But it didn't concern her at the time. She was only worried about having to see Jack hanged. She didn't want to watch. She looked at him and thought about how wonderfully mysterious he was. She bet anything his whole life was an adventure that a person would die to have experienced. She drew circles in the dirt on the floor. Jack began humming. "What are you singing to yourself, now?" Anna asked. "A song I learned on a deserted island with a beautiful young woman I couldn't touch." Jack replied. "I bet the company was rather nice." Anna said, a bit discusted. "No. She burned the rum." "Oh. I see. Will you teach it to me?" Anna asked. "No. Only she could teach you." said Jack. "What makes you think you can guarentee we'll ever see this woman again?" asked Anna, her fingers focused on the skirt of her dress now. "Did I say I could?" Jack said. Anna stared at him and her fingers froze. Jack began humming again.
Voices were heard from upstairs and shadows were seen on the walls. Elisabeth, in her night clothes, and Will came downstairs and went to Jack and Anna's cell. "I didn't think you'd ever show up." Jack said standing up. "I can't set you free the same as I did the last time, but I can do this." Will said. He held up a set of keys and grinned. "I thought those keys had run off again?" Jack said. Paying him no mind, Will opened the cell and Jack and Anna came out. "I have a question. What do we do now that we're free? Won't they just catch us all over again?" Anna asked. "You don't get out much do you?" Jack asked, a smile plastered on his face. Elisabeth grabbed Anna's arm and led her, Will, and Jack upstairs again. "Jack, do you have your..." Anna started. "Effects, yes. Plan, yes. Resources, no." Jack answered. "That doesn't sound very good." Elisabeth said. "I'll get it all worked out before we reach the fort, I'll tell you that much." Jack said. They crept in the night, approaching the fort. Jack still pondered an idea, but said nothing. "Well Jack? Have you thought of something?" Will asked. "Just follow my lead, savvy?" Jack said. "Your lead worries me, though." Elisabeth muttered. "You're not coming are you?" Jack asked Elisabeth and Will. "Of course we are." Elisabeth said. "Anything to get away from Norrington's glares."
Creeping along the dock, the four of them reached the point where Jack had started three years ago. Unfortunetly, there were new guards standing there to make sure civilians, and Jack Sparrow, didn't invade the dock. "Wait here." Jack whispered. He slipped behind a stack of crates with new items in them that were left by the merchants. Jack quickly knocked the stack of crates over and rushed back to the hiding place with the others. The guards came over to the crates and began to pick them up. Jack led the others down the dock and right onto a new ship that had been built to replace the Interceptor. Jack and Will drew out their swords and cut the ropes. Luckily the wind blew hard enough that night to blow the ship out of the dock. The guards stopped collecting the crates up and stared as the ship moved away fromt he dock. Finally, after it was much too late, they rushed down the dock and began yelling as the ship grew smaller and smaller in the distance.
On the ship, Will was trying to tie one of the ropes from the sails to a hook on deck. With no such luck, Jack was becoming frusterated. "Pull it tighter!" Jack said. Will pulled as hard as he could but once he got down to tie the rope, he let it slip out of his hand. Anna watched them as Jack's every attempt to teach him, Will would fail. She finally walked over to them and grabbed the rope from Will's hand. She pulled with every bit of strength in her body. "Tie it now." She told Will. He grabbed the end of the rope and tried to tie it to the hook. His knot was worthless, and he knew it. Jack grabbed the rope and pulled it at the same strength as Anna had. "You're making this harder than it is, boy. Anna, tie it." He said. Anna took the end of the rope from Will and tied and twisted it in difficult and interesting patterns. When she was done, Jack let go of the rope and it remained steady. "That wasen't so hard, now, was it?" Anna said to Will. "What kind of knot is that?" Will asked. "It's a pirate knot." Jack said, following Anna. Will stared at the knot for a moment and then followed behind too. "You failed to mention where exactly we were going." Elisabeth said. "Well, we have to make a stop in Tortuga, for good measure, and then...I don't know... rob a few cities, kill a few people, burn down a few towns..you know the usual." Jack said. "Tortuga? Why Tortuga?" Anna asked. "Because its alive." Jack said. "But Captain, I hate Tortuga. I was born there. And if were it alive I doubt there would be so much killing there." Anna said. " If there is so much death there then how is it the death is kept on and on?" Jack said. Anna opened her mouth to protest, but all that came out was, " What were you like as a child?" Jack hesitated in his own mind, but it wasen't obvious to the others. Will and Elisabeth leaned in to listen to his answer. "I never was a child." Jack replied. He turned and went the wheel of the ship. "What does that mean?" Elisabeth asked. "Its hard to say. There's not much that can be said about Jack Sparrow." Will answered. "What worries me is of he was serious or not. Is it possible to not ever be a child?" said Elisabeth. Will shrugged. The two of them walked towards the side of the ship to look out at the rising sun. Anna sat in her spot staring at nothing. She thought about it. She realized that it i was i possible to not be a child. She herself had never been a child. She watched Jack steer the ship and watch his compass for no good reason. She wondered what his reason was. She reached inside the bosom of her dress and pulled out a gold coin she had kept for two and a half years. She rubbed the coin with her thumb and looked back up at Jack. She stuffed the coin back in the place it had been and stood up to walk over to the side of the ship. She had been lucky there was no full moon that morning.
Daylight came and the sun shined bright over the ocean. There were no other ships on the water that morning and in the past three hours Jack had become more bearable. He was humming the same tune he had been humming when he and Anna were in jail. It was odd to hear him busily running around the ship and humming some pirate song he couldn't just sing the words to. But what confused Anna the most was that Elisabeth was humming along with him. "Elisabeth?" Anna said. "Yes?" "How do you know that song?" Anna asked. "I learned it when I was a little girl. Why?" said Elisabeth. "Were you the woman that taught it to Jack?" asked Anna, her fingers twisting the skirt of her dress. Elisabeth hesitated a little. "Yes. How did you know about that?" "Jack told me about when he was on a deserted island with a beautiful young woman he couldn't touch who taught him that song." Anna explained. "When? When did he tell you this?" Elisabeth asked smiling. "When we were in jail. He was humming the song and I asked him to teach it to me. He said only the woman could teach it to me." said Anna. "Well...trust me. By time this is all over, you'll know the song by heart." Elisabeth said. She began humming again with Jack and pacing the ship. "Anna! Swab the deck!" Jack said, cheerfully. "Alright." Anna said softly. She was caught up in her thoughts and didn't realize how sad she sounded. "What's got you in the lower parts of the deck?" Jack asked. "Nothing. How long is it until we get to Tortuga?" Anna asked. "Not long." Jack replied. "Just swab. I'll tell you when we're there." "Right." Anna said. Jack looked up at the sails and then back down at Anna. "Do you want to give Will a lesson on the sails?" he asked. Anna looked up at him and grinned. "Sure. Where is he?" she asked. "Probably with his bonny lass." Jack said. "Why did I even ask?" Anna said. "You never know. i could be with i." said Jack. He held out his hand to Anna and she took it. She stood up and went to look for Will.
A couple of hours had passed and Will was still struggling with tying the rope around the hook in a pirate knot. "Exactly how long did it take you to learn this?" Will asked Anna. "A couple of tries. But its alright. Some of us learn faster than others." replied Anna. She smirked and demonstrated the knot again. Before she finished, Jack came up behind her. "We're here. Can he still not do it?" he said. "No," Anna said, shaking her head. "But he's getting there. At least he can hold the rope."
Tortuga was quite calm during the daytime. Jack led them through the surroundings that Will was familiar with from the last time he had been there with Jack. "Jack, might I ask what our purpose is of being here?" Will asked. "We're to find my crew, collect them back onto the ship and set sail again." "You left your crew here? Why?" Will asked. Anna elbowed him in the ribs and gave him a threatening stare. "I had to find i and the crew wouldn't allow it." Jack explained. "We had stopped here in the first place and oddly enough my old crew took her. But she got away from them." said Jack. "Your old crew? From when Barbossa..." Elisabeth began. "Will someone please tell me who this Barbossa is?" Anna asked. "How did the survivors get away?" Will asked. "Who knows?" Jack said. They reached a tavern before anyone else could ask questions and they immediently saw the crew in the corner playing cards. "Jack! You're here!" "Mr. Gibbs? How did you get here so quickly?" Anna asked. "I borrowed a boat and sailed my way over here to tell the crew you two'd been arrested." Mr. Gibbs said. "Bread?" He held out a basket of bread to Anna. "No. I'm fine." Anna replied, pushing the basket away from her. Elisabeth stared at her in wonder, then looked back at the crew. "Jack, I think we have just a tiny problem." Mr. Gibbs said. Jack gave him an odd stare. "What?" he asked. "Well, we lost the Pearl." Mr. Gibbs said. "Come again?" Jack asked. "We lost the Black Pearl." Mr. Gibbs repeated. Jack paused, thinking with his lips puckered out and staring forward at nothing in particular. Finally, he looked Mr. Gibbs in the eye. "Then we'll we'll retrieve it again." he said. He began leading the crew out of the tavern and to the docks. Mr. Gibbs kept Anna back. "That Jack Sparrow'd never give up on the Pearl. You'd think he was meant for that ship as a child." he said. Anna looked up at him and replied," But he never was child."
