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Will was the first to appear from below soon followed by Buffy. She looked toward the stem to see that Jack was once again in command. They heard Gibbs call out to the crew.
"Hands aloft to loose t'gallants! With this wind, she'll carry ervery sail we've got!"
Buffy and Will head towards the helm.
"What's happening?" Will asked.
"The Black Pearl. She's gaining on us." Jack told them. She and Will looked to see that the Black Pearl was indeed coming upon them fast.
"This is the fastest ship in the Caribbean." Will said.
"Tell that to them after they've caught us. There's no ship faster than the pearl." Jack told him.
"Then we'll have to outsmart them. We're shallower on the draft right?" Will asked Jack who eyes began twinkling.
"Aye. Lighten the ship, stem to stern!" Jack called out to the crew.
"What's our little plan for those of us who aren't on the same track?" Buffy asked.
"We're going to try and lose them amongst those shoals." Will explained.
Buffy nodded as she went to help the crew unload things. They began dropping everything from barrels to crates. Buffy saw one of the crew about to get rid of the cannons. The Pearl was a lot closer.
"We're going to need that." Buffy said going back toward the helm.
"It was a good plan," Anamaria said. "Up till now."
"Jack, we have to make a stand. We must fight, because I don't plan on going down without one." Buffy told him. "What about you Jack? You going down without a fight? And remember I could have left you to deal with them."
"Load the guns!" Jack called out.
"With what?" Anamaria asked.
"Anything. Everything." Jack said. "Anything we have left."
"You heard the Captain! Load the guns! Case shot and langrage! Nails and crushed glass! The Pearl's gonna luff up on our port quarter! She'll rake us without ever presenting a target." Gibbs called out.
"Lower the anchor on the right side," said Buffy to Jack. "On the starboard side!"
"Luv, you're starting to think like me." Jack said with a smile.
"Heaven forbid." Buffy said also smiling.
"Lower the starboard anchor!" Jack yelled loudly. "Do it you dogs, or it's you we'll load into the cannons!"
Will had gone to help lower the anchor. Buffy stood by the edge and watched as the anchor dropped and then dragged before snatching on a rock. The shipped turned as Buffy, Will and the other prepared to fight. The two crews glared at each other both waiting for the order to fire. Buffy, Will, Jack, and the rest of the crew were using guns to shoot at the crew on deck.
"Fire!" Jack cried.
Both sides fired their cannons. Some damage was done to the boat and crew. Jack cringed as he saw the holes that were being put into his ship. The ships kept going back and forth. Will ducked in time to miss being hit by several bullets. Buffy made everyone of her shots count.
"We could use a few more ideas," said Gibb.
"Your turn." Buffy told him. "I'm a fighter not a thinker."
"We need us a devil's dowry." Gibbs responded,
"We'll give them him." Anamaria said cocking her gun at Will.
"He's not what they're after." Jack told her. Will reached for the medallion to find it gone.
"The medallion."
"I'll get it."
Buffy realized that they had left the medallion in the cabin below and moved quickly to go get it. Going below she could see that the boat was taking on water. Seeing that the table the medallion had been on turned over, she quickly began moving things out of the way. Moving toward the right she thought she spotted it when cannon fire hit two inches from where she was standing. The explosion of wood threw her back. Buried under some wood, she threw it off her. She looked around to see that she a beam had fallen on top was blocking the door. There was also one wedge from below the door effectively preventing her escape. She tried to move the beam but it was wedge in pretty good and the water was rising fast. Taking several deep breaths to calm herself, Buffy knew she couldn't panic. Using her slayer strength, she kicked the beam for all she was worth but it was too thick. The water was already up to her chest when she heard the monkey screech. It had found the medallion. Buffy was sure that the monkey was laughing at her. She tried to grab at it but it had moved too fast. Now she was back where she started.
"Buffy!" She heard Will's voice call out.
"Will!" Buffy looked around, trying to find something that will help her. She looked up and could see Will was trying to move the beam when three pirates came up behind him.
"Come on." Buffy heard a voice say and then heard Will's struggle.
"Will!"
Over on the Pearl, Jack's crew had been tied to the mast including Will. Barbossa had been shocked to see that Jack had gotten off the island, and told the crew to watch him. Barbossa was waiting for the Interceptor to explode. Will slipped from the ropes just as the ship Interceptor blew.
"Buffy! You've got to stop it!" Will was only thinking of Buffy as he attacked Barbossa.
"Welcome back lad." Barbossa said as three men grabbed Will. "You took advantage of our hospitality last time. It holds fair that you return the favor. Pummel him a little boys!"
Before the first blow could be delivered, the three men plus Will had been knocked down from above. Buffy had snuck on board why everyone was distracted. Having found the hole the water was coming in from, she worked her way out. A very wet Buffy had jumped down from the rafters. She picked up one and quickly threw him toward the approaching men. Buffy soon went into fight mode as several more tried to grab her. She did a spin kick sending them to the ground. She kept her body between the men and Will. Finally she grabbed a gun a pointed to her head. She had backed up and was standing on the rail. Will was beside her.
"Call off your men Barbossa or so help me I'll pull the trigger and you will forever be damned to the curse."
"Buffy no!" Will said from beside her.
"You are the child Bootstrap Ben?"
"I will not repeat myself again." Buffy pulled the trigger back. "My blood is the only thing you need and you will not have it splattered all over the sea."
"Stand down!"
"She's the splitting image of old Bootstrap Ben come back to haunt us," said Ragetti.
"That's right," Buffy said keeping her eye on the crew.
"Name your terms, Miss Summers." Barbossa told her
"William goes free."
"Anything else?" Barbossa asked.
"And the crew. The crew are not to be harmed, and that includes Jack."
"Agreed." Barbossa said with a smile.
As soon as the agreement had been made Buffy surrendered the gun and was immediately held by five pirates. Three pirates of his own were holding Will. Buffy saw that Jack was talking to Barbossa.
"How the blazes did you get off that island?"
"When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate. I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."
"A mistake that won't be made again." Barbosa said as he motioned toward the plank.
"I'd really rather hoped we were past all this." Jack told Barbossa.
"Jackā¦Jack. Did you not notice? That be the same island we made you governor of on our last trip."
"I did notice."
"Bring the young lad over here."
Three men brought the struggling Will toward the plank. They pushed him on it. Buffy broke free from her captors enough to get closer to Barbossa.
"Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore no harm and that he'd go free!"
"Don't dare impugn me honor, lass. I have harmed neither one of them in anyway. I agreed he'd go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where. As a bonus Jack gets to go free with him."
The crew laughed as one of the ones holding her placed a gag in her mouth and then pulled her back. Now his crew surrounded her and she felt she would throw up from the stench they all gave. Will walked back until he reached the end of the plank. His eyes' never leaving Buffy's worried ones. He took the final step off. Buffy's eyes watched as Will went under water and held her breath until he came back up. Now it was Jack's turn as they forced him out with their swords.
"Off you go." Barbossa said.
"Last time, you left me a pistol with one shot," said Jack.
"By the powers, you're right. Where be Jack's pistol? Bring it forward." One of the pirates brought the pistol.
"Seeing as there's two of us, a gentleman would give us a pair of pistols."
"It'll be one pistol as before," said Barbossa.
He then tossed the pistol into the water and Jack dove in after it. Buffy soon felt herself being moved. She watched as her hands and legs were being bound with chains.
Norrington had rescued Will and Jack from the island after Will had used the rum to start a fire. Instantly Jack was placed under arrest.
"But we've got to save Buffy." William pleaded with his father.
"No. You're safe now. We will return to Portal Royal immediately, not gallivanting after pirates!"
"Then we condemn her to her death."
"The girl's fate is regrettable, but so was her decision to engage in piracy."
"To rescue me. To prevent anything from happening to me. How did you know?"
"Commodore Norrington recognized her once she and the pirate took off in the Interceptor."
"Please father! I have never asked much from you. Don't let her die. I love her." He paused waiting for his father to speak. "You spoke to Buffy before all this began about how Mr. Giles was doing. It will kill him if he loses the only family he has left."
His father looked him in the eyes. Will resisted the urge to squirm and look away. He knew he had gotten his father with that last bit. Finally his father spoke.
"You really love her that much?"
"I do father."
"Then by all means let's go rescue my future daughter-in-law." His father said clapping him on the back.
"Thank you father."
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