DISCLAIMER: Pirates of the Caribbean isn't mine. Adrian is, so you keep your hands off.
Adrian watched in horror as Elizabeth was pushed farther out onto the plank. In the distance, a little palm - covered slip of island was visible.
" Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore she would go free!" Will yelled as he strained against the men holding him.
" Don't you dare impugn me honor, boy! I said she'd go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where," Barbossa grinned evilly. Adrian watched as the pirates gagged Will. Barbossa turned to her.
" Now, what am I going to do with you, eh? You've caused enough trouble already," he growled. Adrian looked fearlessly up at him.
" Seeing as how I can't feel a bloody thing, there isn't much you can do, is there?" she asked saucily. Barbossa glared down at her.
" Don't you cheek me, girl! You can't feel anything yet," he said with a frightening look in his eyes, with emphasis on the 'yet'. He turned back to Elizabeth.'
" It seems a shame to be loosing something so fine, eh boys?" Barbossa asked his crew. A chorus of " Aye!"s answered him.
" So, I'll be having that dress back," Barbossa said, his hand outstretched. Elizabeth tore the dress of, completely disgusted with it.
" It goes with your black heart!" she said in disdain.
" Oh, its still warm!" Barbossa said pleasurably. The crew shouted obscenities at Elizabeth. Barbossa threw the dress and some men began fighting over it.
" How would you know if it was warm enough? You can't feel it!" Adrian shouted in outrage. Barbossa turned and struck her across the face.
" Now, father, with all we have been talking about with not feeling things, you should have known that that would accomplish nothing in the way of pain," Adrian said as if lecturing a child. Barbossa's vein in his forehead began throbbing and the blood rose behind his eyes. He was a man who was used to being feared and respected. This sassy daughter of his was obviously unafraid of him and was successfully making him look like a fool in front of his men. He turned in silent rage.
" Get off with her!" he yelled at Elizabeth.
" Off you go, come on!" a pirate yelled.
" Too long!" the Bo'sun yelled as he slammed his foot down on the edge of the plank. Elizabeth yelled as she fell into the water. Adrian looked at Will, who was watching helplessly. She then looked at the crew, who were also watching in silence. David caught her eye and she looked away.
" Jack Sparrow!" Barbossa yelled. Jack was brought forward, his arms tied in front of him.
" I had really hoped we were past all this," Jack said.
" JackJack. Didn't ye notice? That's the same island we made ye Governor on our last little voyage," Barbossa hissed.
" I did notice," Jack said matter - of - fact - ly.
" Perhaps you'll be able to conjure up another miraculous escapebut I doubt it," Barbossa said as he put his sword to Jack's throat.
" Off ye go," he said.
" Last time, you left me a pistol with one shot," Jack reminded him.
" By the powers, you're right! Where be Jack's pistol? Bring it forward!" Barbossa demanded. The pistol was brought.
" Seeing how there's two of us, a gentleman would give us two pistols," Jack said hopefully.
" It will be one pistol as before, and you being the gentleman will shoot the lady and starve to death yourself," Barbossa said bluntly as he threw the pistol into the water. Without any further hesitation, Jack jumped in after it. Adrian seethed with rage. In a last attempt to help her friends, she slammed her foot down onto her foot down on her captor's boots. Although it didn't hurt, it startled him enough so he let go. Adrian began to run to the railing, but was jerked backwards. Barbossa had caught a hold on her chain and yanked her backwards.
" You irritating wench!" Barbossa yelled as he jerked her up off the deck. Adrian didn't say a word. Barbossa exploded in a rage.
" Throw her in the brig with the rest of the miserable lot!" he yelled. A large pirate grabbed Adrian and headed her down below.
" Keep her locked separate from the crew and Mr. Turner!" Barbossa yelled as an afterthought. Adrian was drug to the brig and thrown roughly into a cell. She watched as Will was locked across from her. The crew shuffled in and was locked in the cell next to her. Adrian sighed. Her situation was beginning to feel quite hopeless. She flung herself on the bench that was nailed across on side of her enclosure and stared at the water swirling on the floor, wishing she could sleep.
Soon that day, Pintel and Ragetti came below to mop out the brig. Adrian watched them in disgust.
" Awk, shiver me timbers!" the parrot perched on one man's shoulder squawked.
" Cotton says you missed a spot," Gibbs said sarcastically. Pintel thrust the wet mop at him.
" If you're gong to mop the bloody brig, then you might as well be efficient," Adrian muttered. The two pirates turned and stared at her.
" Why don't you mop it yourself, missy?" Pintel said menacingly.
" Can you not see that I am hopelessly detained in this bloody entrapment?" Adrian asked, one eyebrow arched as she looked lazily up at the two.
" What's she sayin'?" Ragetti asked Pintel, who had an equally blank look on his face.
" I am locked in the brig with no way out," Adrian said slowly to better ensure their comprehension.
" Oh!" Ragetti said in dawning realization. Pintel glared at Adrian and moved down the aisle.
" You knew William Turner?" Will asked Pintel.
" Speak slowly and try to refrain from using too many big words, Will," Adrian suggested sarcastically. Ragetti and Pintel ignored her.
" Aye, we knew old Bootstrap. It didn't sit well with him, what we did to Jack Sparrow, with the mutiny and all. Said it wasn't right with the Code. That's why he sent a piece of the treasure off to you, as it were. He said we were cursed and deserved to remain cursed," Ragetti sneered.
" Stupid blighter!" Pintel sniggered.
" Good man!" Gibbs said in retaliation. Adrian watched, fully knowing what happened to William Turner and wishing she could shut the pirates up. No one wanted to hear the way their father had died, especially from pitiless pirates. Except maybe her, but that's not the point.
" Well, you can imagine that didn't sit too well with the captain," Pintel continued after glaring at Gibbs.
" That didn't sit too well with the captain at all. Tell him what Barbossa did!" Ragetti said impatiently.
" I'm tellin' the story!" Pintel yelled at Ragetti, who grew silent.
" So, what the captain did, he strapped a cannon to Bootstrap's bootstraps," Pintel said with a wicked smile.
" Bootstrap's bootstraps," Ragetti echoed.
" The last we saw of old Bill Turner, he was sinking into the crushing black oblivion of Davy Jone's locker!" Pintel said with a laugh, which Ragetti echoed.
" Of course, it was only after that we learned that we needed his blood to lift the curse," Pintel said after he relayed the cruel account of the death of Will's father.
" That's what you call ironic," Ragetti said. The two left soon after, and night fell. Adrian sat in her cell, contemplating what she was going to do when they reached the island. The crew snored uproariously, so she could not have been able to sleep if she had the ability.
" Adrian, are you awake?" came a whisper from Will's cell.
" What do you think?" she asked.
" That's what I thought," he said quietly.
" You'll have to speak up, Will, I can't hear you over the drum section," Adrian said sarcastically, referring to the snoring. He laughed and talked louder.
" I know, they are keeping me awake," he said. Adrian could tell by the way he said it that he was smiling.
" If I wouldn't be able to sleep if I could," Adrian commented as an especially loud snort issued from the cell. Will laughed and was silent for a moment.
" What are you thinking about?" she asked after a moment.
" I hope Elizabeth is alright," he said.
" I am sure she will be! Elizabeth is smart, Will. She'll think of something. It may not be as outlandish as Jack's so - called escapes, but she will think of something," Adrian said with a laugh.
" You're probably right," he said with an uneasy sigh. Adrian stood and moved to the door of her cell so she could see him.
" That's not all you're thinking about, is it?" she asked softly. Will shook his head.
" I can't stop thinking about my father," he said sadly.
" Those two rats are not the ones you should have heard it all from, and I am sorry you had to," Adrian whispered. Will merely nodded. Adrian could tell that he was upset.
" Your father!" she said suddenly with a laugh. Will looked at her sharply as she continued.
" I knew your father well, Will. When I was on this ship as a small child, he was nice to me. I remember one time he held me out over the railing and let me look at the dolphins. My mother nearly had him keel hauled, she was so afraid I would slip! But I wasn't," Adrian exclaimed as she looked at Will. His face was a bit softer.
" Gibbs was right, Will. Your father was a good man. He died because of it. I was below deck when they did it. I was young, so I just thought they were testing the cannons, or something of the like. But I never saw him again, and it made me sad," she continued on a more serious note.
" How old were you?" Will asked curiously.
" About five," Adrian answered.
" Five years old on a pirate ship?" Will asked in amazement.
" Yes, and believe me, Will, when I think back on all that I saw, even I thinks it's crazy," she laughed.
" Where is your mother?" Will asked.
" She died right after they marooned Jack," Adrian answered quietly.
" I'm sorry," Will said in a comforting tone.
" It's all right," Adrian said. A moment of silence went by.
" You know, my father didn't used to be like this! Before my mother died, he cared about me and always made time to play with me. He was kind, at least to me. After she died, he hated me, and still obviously does," she said angrily.
" That is sad," Will whispered.
" Yes, it is!" Adrian said with a sigh.
" You had better sleep, Will, because you will need your rest for tomorrow, because I am sure that Elizabeth will show up some how. If she doesn't, I have nothing better to do at the moment than think up a plan, and you had better be ready!" she said brightly. Will laughed.
" You are quite irrepressible!" he said. Adrian smiled.
" The cursed daughters of pirates always are!"
That's my chapter! Hope you all like it. I would have updates sooner, but we decided short notice to go to Glamis with our friends for the last time this season, so I was busy packing, then riding! It was very hot! And we are going again next week with other friends! Now that you have read about my weekend, go review!
Alas, I don't have enough time right now to respond individually to all my beautiful reviewers! Mom is going to Target, and I shall accompany her. Just know that you are all loved and I will respond in the next chapter.