Title: The Old, the New and the Unexpected

Author: Legolas-gurl88

Summary: Same as it's always been (from now on, I'm not gonna write the summary).

Disclaimer: I still don't own anything you recognize from the movie and if you haven't already guessed, Disney still owns it all.

Now, on with the story! (This is one of my favorite chapters!)

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5. A Surprise in Tortuga

The last day of sailing on The Black Pearl was not fun. The Commodore and his men said very little and even if Jack offered them a feast fit for thirty people, the seven of them only had water. The Commodore and Will had to share a cabin and Will gave up his bed for Norrington and slept on the floor.

In the morning, when he woke up, his injured arm was stiff and sore. When he walked into the galley, pulling on a new shirt, Anamaria caught sight of the pink injury. She quickly took a cloth and (to Jack's dislike) some rum and rubbed Will's shoulder with it. It stung Will so badly that when Jack complained that it was a bottle of rum wasted, Will lost all patience and yelled, "It's no day at the beach for me, either!" After that, Jack stayed silent.

On a brighter note, Diann was well enough to get out of bed and wander around the ship. Even when she claimed that she was well enough to go into Tortuga, Will disagreed. She argued with him for an hour before she told him that Jack would say otherwise. When the captain walked into the room that they were talking in, she bombarded him with the question and he was on Will's side.

After Will left Diann feeling very angry, she locked the door to her room and no one could get back in until her bad mood had ebbed. That moment only came when Anamaria had talked with her and said that she, Diann and Natalie would stay up later than the boys and tell ghost stories.

Finally, around mid-afternoon, Mr. Cotton's parrot yelled, "Land Ho!" Will and Diann ran to the bow of the ship and saw ahead of them, a town where constant gunshots were fired in the air and people were drinking two bottles of rum at once on the docks. Jack shouted out instructions and jumped down to Will.

"Get ready, Will. When you, me, Gibbs and the rest of the crew go to Tortuga, we'll split up and search for that bloody monkey, savvy?"

"And what should we do if we happen to find the monkey?" Will asked.

"Knock it out, take it to the ship and Anamaria and the girls will fire one of the cannons. We'll all be able to hear it, wherever we are."

"Aye, Cap'n." Will said.

"Good. Now, I'll check the bar-"

"Hold up there, Captain." Gibbs said, jumping down by Jack, "You'll only get held up by ordering rum. As the rest of us."

"Well, who do you suppose is going to search there, then? The monkey might be in there." Jack said, frowning.

"We'll send Will." Gibbs said without hesitation.

"Me?"

"Aye. You're the only one of the men here that won't be tempted to buy a drink." Gibbs said.

"You've had a lot of time to think about this, haven't you?" Jack said, turning to Gibbs.

"Aye, Cap'n." Gibbs said, walking off and helping drop to sail to the docks.

"Note to self: Make sure Gibbs doesn't think too much." Jack said, walking back to the wheel.

"Will, I suggest you bring your sword. In a place like Tortuga, you never know where trouble is brewing."

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Ten minutes later, Will had said his goodbyes to Diann and had gotten off the ship. It felt strange to be walking on solid ground, without waves constantly tipping the boat under his feet. Once Jack, Gibbs, Will and the rest of the crew had split up, Will was happy he had gotten the job of searching the pub. It was the only place he knew of in Tortuga, so he knew his way there without getting lost and he didn't get the job of searching in the dump, which was Gibbs' job. Apparently, Jack was punishing Gibbs for depriving him of searching the pub.

When Will entered the pub, a cloud of smoke from the pipes of the noisy men and the dully lit torches and candles in the room, swarmed in on Will. To breathe, he had to sit down at the nearest table he could find. He looked around, trying to find the monkey in which had the medallion. At one point, he thought he had spotted it, but it wasn't the same one. This one was black.

When his gaze circled the room once more, his eyes stopped on a party of three. There were two men and woman. Surprisingly, he became interested in what they were saying. Over the babble of the other men in the room, he heard snatches of their conversations. From what he heard, they were telling stories of the sea and their own adventures.

The two men were both bald and one had an earring in his left ear. They both were broad shouldered and had huge muscles. But what really caught Will's attention, was the young woman, who looked no older than he.

She had dark, blonde hair and brown eyes. Her chin was pointed, yet rough, but her neck was slim. Her elbow-length hair was pulled back into a ponytail. She wore gray pants and a shirt that looked just like Jack's but it was pinned up a little more ways. Even her ears looked familiar. She laughed and the ringing sound it had, brought back memories to Will… but which ones? That laugh comforted him, like Elizabeth's, but he was sure that this woman didn't remind him of his wife. No, this memory was long, long ago. Will almost pinned it down, when something startled him.

While her mess-mates talked amongst themselves, she let her eyes wander, finally resting on Will and then past him. She did a double take. It was so strange: They were both looking at each other, as though they had seen the other somewhere before, but couldn't remember. Then, a glint in the woman's eye told Will that she had remembered, making him feel stupid as he couldn't figure it out.

Wondering why the woman wasn't listening to their story, the men turned to see what she was looking at. At the same time, they jumped out of their seats and yelled in unison, "BOOTSTRAP!"

"Don't be stupid. That's his son." The woman said calmly, standing up and walking over to Will. The entire pub was silent. "Now you two, sit down." She ordered.

"But Sparrow-" They protested.

"I SAID SIT!" She yelled and the two men, who were two sizes bigger than her, sat. She walked up to Will and reached out a hand for his face. He backed away, cautiously.

"Don't be afraid. I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to get a good look at you." She said. Her fingers touched his cheek. They were so cold and fragile, and familiar, yet they had a trace of roughness to them. To him, the woman called Sparrow's fingers felt as if they had seen many years of hard labor on a ship, pulling ropes and handling the wheel. She moved her hands to his shoulders and looked into his face.

Her eyes met his. They showed Will, every care and devotion of this woman. He could see a familiar glimmer of excitement deep within the brown orbs. He could see clearly, the waves in her eyes, breaking against the side of the ship-- could almost see the seagulls flying over… black sails.

"Is it really you?" She whispered. The pub was deadly silent now. The only sound was the burning of the torches. "Will Turner, Son of Bootstrap Bill?" Will nodded slowly and some people in the room gasped. Suddenly, Sparrow let out a shriek that sounded like the girl she had covered up in her desperation to be one of the men. She hugged him close to her, crying.

"Oh, Will! I knew you were alive! But the last time I saw Jack-- He said you were dead! Oh, Will! I have so much to tell you! So much to share about your life and mine! You must tell me of what became of mother! And I shall tell you about father! I can't believe you're here! In Tortuga! I missed you so much, my big brother!"

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How'd'ja like it? Was it good? The next chapter is even better if you liked this one! This one's a cliffie, but not the biggest one in the world. Sorry this chapter is short, though. Oh well, you win some you lose some! Now, onto review (s)!

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