"Ingenuity Is Your Friend"
My Big Fat Boldface Disclaimer: I don't own anything, I don't pretend to own anything, I'm using this stuff without permission but it's just for my own amusement and the amusement of anyone else that reads the story, we all obviously know this but I'm just being legal. Don't sue me ok? Ok then.
A/N: Hey guys... this is my first fic that I liked enough to post, it's basically written already but not completely and I keep changing things so constructive criticism and ideas are welcome, though I'm not promising I'll use any of it, I do promise to at least consider it. Reviews are cool, even in you don't have much to say I'd love to hear from you, I love feedback. Flame me if you must, get it out of your system or whatever, just don't expect me to care and/or respond. Oh yeah, and I just found out the name of the ship is in someone else's story, I just wanted to let you guys know its not the same and when I wrote this I had no clue someone else used the name too, I didn't copy it or anything so just ignore that it's the same there's no connection there and to the author of the other story, sorry about that, hope it doesn't piss you off... I tried changing the name but it just wrecked the whole effect and everything so I'm just gonna leave it I hope it's not a big deal to anyone. Also this is really the sequel to another story I wrote which was really just the movie with my character added in, and rather than waste time posting that whole thing I just summarized it so you get the gist of it and the character development and all that. If you want me to post the original story tell me in a review and I will if I can.
Here we go...
Captain Sam Mulligan is a pirate. She lost her ship, the Bloody Rose, almost three years ago off the coast of Africa when a stowaway (Rodney Anderson) that she'd allowed to stay on her ship turned the whole crew mutinous, tied her to a barrel, tossed her overboard and left her to starve, drown or be eaten by sharks. Captain Sam was picked up by a merchant ship on its way to England, whose captain and crew ended up having her tried for piracy before the King. However Sam escaped from the noose with the King's best frigate, and left to seek vengeance on her mutinous crew and get her ship back.
Two years later, in Port Royal, while she tries to commandeer suitable vessel to make another voyage in search of the Rose, she meets Commodore Norrington and his Lobster Brigade, who realize who she is and try to arrest her. She fights them, but she's hopelessly outnumbered and gets dumped into Port Royal's jail. Specifically, into Captain Jack Sparrow's cell. Like many other people, he'd assumed Captain Sam Mulligan was a man, so imagine his surprise when he finds out she's a woman... with an ego problem nearly as severe as his own, and plenty of sarcasm to go around.
When the Black Pearl attacks later that night and the pirates find them in jail, Sam tries to convince them to get her her belt, which has a pouch of lock picking provisions attached, and they see the tattoo on her arm in the process. They decide have a better idea and, after a fight, knock her unconscious and take her with them on the Pearl. She wakes up in a cabin aboard the Pearl, with a strange girl who's sitting on a window ledge sulking. After some strategic badgering, she gets the girl to admit that is Elizabeth Swann, though the rest of the ship thinks she's Elizabeth Turner, and Sam realized where they're going. Though she tells Elizabeth, having never heard of Isla de Muerta it only leaves her confused. Rather than explaining, Sam finds a liquor cabinet and samples the whiskey and rum (not enough to get drunk) until two pirates come in with dresses. Sam flatly refuses to wear a dress, and exchanges words with the pirates (one of which she dubs 'Baldy') until they tell her that she'll be dining naked with the crew if she doesn't. Annoyed, Sam takes the dress and knocks them both unconscious with a bottle of rum, then promptly dumps the dress out the window as soon as they're on the ground. Elizabeth chooses to wear hers, scolds Sam for being unladylike, and refuses the rum that she offers to help her calm down, delivering a speech about the vileness of alcohol instead. Sam responds by taking another swig of it and lecturing Elizabeth about the glory of piracy and what a wonderful pirate Elizabeth herself would make on the way to the main deck, then walks backwards into a wall in her distracted (slightly tipsy) state. Elizabeth is thoroughly convinced that Sam is a bumbling idiot.
At dinner with Captain Barbossa, Sam pauses in devouring her turkey leg long enough to listen to the reason that she's been kidnapped; the King still isn't over that frigate incident, and he's offering ten thousand pounds and a full pardon from piracy to anyone who will bring her to him alive. Barbossa's plan: bring Sam to England, get the money and the pardon, and go back to piracy- licensed. Sam strategizes though dinner, and after Barbossa's lecture to Elizabeth about Aztec gold and the curse, an encounter with a very pissed-off Baldy, and a chase from two incredibly clumsy, stupid pirates, locks herself in the brig with the keys and sleeps under a crate so she can't be found.
At Isla de Muerta, she takes as much gold as she can stuff into her pockets during Barbossa's speech. Noticing that there's someone else there when the coins fall by the entrance, she goes to investigate and finds Jack, unconscious on the ground. She dumps water on him to wake him up, they hide the oars to piss off the crew of the Pearl, and Jack heads into the cave of angry pirates to make a deal. Bored, Sam watches the proceedings from the entrance, until she's discovered by Barbossa, who yanks her up by her hair and nearly scalps her as he warns her to stay out of his way and not try anything funny. She lags behind the band of pirates on their way to the boats, and gets stabbed in the stomach by Baldy. She lets him think she's dead, then leaves the cave underwater, using the gold in her coat as a weight to keep her on the bottom until she can get to the Pearl. Before Elizabeth and Jack are cast off to the island, Sam is discovered by Baldy, who brings her to Barbossa. She was supposed to stay on Isla de Muerta, Barbossa explains, where she couldn't cause problems until the came back for her, and Baldy was supposed to wound her enough to keep her from fighting but not enough to bleed her to death. When she makes yet another smart-ass comment, Barbossa orders the crew to take her below decks and chain her arms to the ceiling so she can't stand up or sit down at all. Sam dives off the side of the ship before she can be stopped and follows Jack and Elizabeth to the island instead, where it's revealed that the reason she didn't die was because of the lightweight chain mail that she always wears. Later, while they chop firewood, she tells Jack about the mutiny and her search for the Rose. Her normal tough attitude is contradicted by her mad scramble up a palm tree to get the best view of the sunset.
The next morning, as the Dauntless floats offshore, she plots with Jack to escape the Lobster Brigade, and pisses off Commodore Norrington to no end as he tries to 'save' Elizabeth from them. Sam ends up alone in the brig on the Dauntless, with one lobster guarding her, and she does her best to annoy the hell out of him by singing "A Pirate's Life for Me" rather loudly and encouraging to join in. When he doesn't, she informs him that his life is always going to be stale and boring if he keeps being uptight like this, but he doesn't seem to care so she takes a nap. The anchor being lowered wakes her up, she threatens the guard, de-hinges the door with the end of a pistol, gets herself a boat and rows back into Isla de Muerta, where she hides behind Barbossa and his pile of treasure while he goes on and on in another speech about the misery of being cursed and the glory of ending it all. Jack interrupts, they all fight, and Sam's all set to go back to the Pearl with Jack- until they see that the Pearl's gone. Jack and Sam are locked back up in the brig on the Dauntless, where they try to think of escape plans but come up with nothing, until Will and Elizabeth visit them with one worked out already. When they arrive in Port Royal, Jack is taken to the gallows and Sam is thrown in jail. Will breaks her out, they save Jack, Jack and Sam both give speeches, jump off the battlement, and swim out to the Pearl, where Sam is introduced to the crew and they set sail.
The story picks up from there in the next chapter, which I should have up in a few days. Don't forget to review!