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There is quite possibly only one word that could describe what being on the Pearl doing absolutely nothing can be; boring. And aside from being bored, I was scared, panicked, worried, and upset. Not to mention still a little sea sick.

I decided to help Annamaria wash up the deck in an effort to ease my mind. I kept glancing in the direction where Will and Jack had disappeared, I guess it was bugging Annamaria a little bit.

"Bloody 'ell girl, what is it?" She asked exasperated.

"Nothing really," I said looking down embarrassed, "I am just worried that something might happen to him."

"Jack?" She asked sounding confused.

I jerked my head up and gasped. "Oh! No, Will! I was talking about Will. Jack- well Jack is just a little too strange for me." I replied.

Annamaria smiled and continued working, "He grows on ye, once ye get to know 'im that is. Strange yes, but 'e's got anoth'r side to 'im." She looked back up at me and pointed, "Just make sure 'e doesn't steal yer ship."

"I will." I replied smiling.

Everything was quite for a few moments, as I started thinking about Will again. However seconds later, someone yelled and pointed over the side of the ship. I dropped the coil of rope I was winding around my arm and sprinted to the side facing the island. I squinted my eyes and saw a tiny boat rowing back towards us. I was shocked to see there were only two people in the boat.

It seems to take forever and a day as I watched them slowly row up to the ship close enough to see who is inside. I was thankful to see that one of its occupants was Will, the other was Elizabeth. For some reason I was slightly disappointed that Jack wasn't with them. This thought was quickly pushed out of my head though when Will rowed up to the ship and threw his oar in the water.

There was a mad rush to get everyone on the Interceptor. I quickly ran over to the commotion to help Elizabeth get out.

"Kathryn!" She squealed slightly surprised, "What are you doing here?"

It took me a moment to answer due to the fact I was slightly fazed that she even recognized me. I had only seen her once or twice the previous three years. "Long story," I finally replied, "Are you alright?"

Elizabeth squeezed some water out of her hair, and looked down at me with a smile, "Yes, thank you."

"Hey, Will!" Gibbs shouted from behind me, "Where be Jack?"

Will, who was smiling, immediately let his face fall, "He fell behind."

The silence on the ship was palpable. "Wait-Jack Sparrow?" Elizabeth asked breaking it.

"The only." I replied.

"Keep to the code mates!" Gibbs yelled looking forlorn and ignoring Elizabeth and I.

With a yell of "AYE!" everyone went off to their respective places to make ready to take off.

"Wait-" I said grabbing Will's arm, "What happened?"

Will turned and looked at me sternly. "It's a long story."

"So you are just leaving him there?" I asked looking up at him.

"It's the code." Annamaria said sadly from behind me.

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I descended the stairs into the lower deck to see a light on in Will's room. I slowly walked up to it and knocked saying, "Will, it's me."

"Come in." I heard him say from inside.

I pushed the door open to see Elizabeth and Will looking up at me from a table expectantly. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you two were talking." I said backing out of the room.

"No, it's all right Kathryn," Will started, standing up and setting something down on the table.

"What is that?" I asked taking a step back into the room. Will stepped aside and gave me a full view of a medallion.

Elizabeth reached across the table and picked it up. "This is a piece of Aztec gold. A cursed piece taken from a cursed chest. This is the whole reason we are here." She said holding it up.

"Really?" I asked reaching over and taking it from her. It was gold and smooth, when I saw it was branded with a skull on one side, I guessed it was a pirate medallion. "I don't believe in curses." I stated handing it back to her.

Elizabeth looked back over at Will who looked down at her. "They exist Kathryn. Trust me, I've seen the results of being under this curse. I can see why they want to lift it." Elizabeth said looking back at me.

"And to do that," Will cut in walking over to me, "They need that medallion, and something else."

"What?" I asked rather worried at the uncomfortable face he was making.

"The blood of a pi-" Will swallowed, "My father's blood, my blood."

I let the shocking information sink in for a second before I turned to Elizabeth and asked, "Why did they take you then?" I asked

"Because I had the medallion," She replied, then adding as an afterthought almost said, "Oh, I told them my name was Turner."

"I still don't understand why you told them that Elizabeth. You never answered my question." Will said turning around and looking down on her.

"Well-" Elizabeth started, looking uncomfortable, "You see I-" She was abruptly cut off by someone shouting above decks.

Will jumped up and raced to the stairs, "Stay here you two!" He said before disappearing up them.

Elizabeth and I shared a look as I shifted around uncomfortably. "I suppose it won't hurt if we just go up to have a look, I mean, Will couldn't possibly mind that."

"Right," Elizabeth says as she jumped up and raced up the stairs. I stand up to follow but remembering the medallion I turned around and tossed it on the table before hurtling up the stairs.

I ran to the back of the ship as Elizabeth started yelling at Annamaria. I could see, behind us, a large cloud of fog just sitting on the water. But as I squinted my eyes I saw a giant ship with ripped black sails emerge from it. Suddenly a mad rush of activity broke out on deck in efforts to try and speed the ship up.

I whipped back around and grabbed the first man that happened to run past me. "Sir! What is going on?!"

The man had a panicked look on his face as he glanced over at the ship behind me. "It's the Black Pearl miss, she's caching up to us."

The name sounded familiar to me. The memory of Jack saying the it shot into my head. I brushed a bit of hair out of my face and asked, "Why are we trying to go faster though? There is no ship that can match the Interceptor in speed!"

"Aye miss, no ship, perhaps, on earth. But a ship from Hell itself? There is nothing that can stop 'er." He said, "Now miss, I really need to go." With a nod, he ran back to whatever he was doing.

I turned back around to face the Pearl and jumped nearly out of my skin. The ship had gained on us by two leagues. I turned towards Elizabeth and just caught the end of her screaming, "LET GO THE ANCHOR!"

I stared at her for a moment before being tossed sideways as the ship turned abruptly to the right. "Oorg." I grunted as the wind was knocked out of me. I picked myself up gasping for breath and watched as the Pearl ran sideways up along next to us.

I stared at the throng of jeering pirates on the other ship for a moment. Then Elizabeth screamed "FIRE ALL!" and the ship shook slightly as a round of cannons were fired.

I dove out of the way just in time as the Pearl started to return fire. I crawled around on deck for a few minutes trying to find my way as cannons were fired and bullets whizzed past my head.

Then as I looked up, I saw, to my ultimate horror, ropes from the Pearl started sailing over to our ship, and it's crew started boarding.

I jumped up immediately and ran past several pirates, luckily unnoticed. I was stopped though, when a particular pirate with a black hat on stepped in front of me.

I gasped as he grabbed my arm. "Ahh m'lass, we meet again," He said flashing me all of his rotten teeth.

"AHHH!" I yelled as I hauled back and punched him squarely in the nose. Incredibly my blow seemed to have done nothing to him because he reacted by just laughing. I thought I had hit him pretty hard. However before I could dwell on it any more (or before the pirate had time to react thankfully) another round of cannons went off, causing the ship to shake again.

Luckily the man was distracted and I took that instant I had to run off. I happened to race past Elizabeth just as two pirates were about to lunge for her. I sidestepped over to her and pushed her out of the way just in time.

"What do we do?!" I asked frantically as she hit a pirate with a board she had grabbed.

"I don't know! Where is Will?! Find Will!!" She screeched as more pirates swung themselves onto the ship.

Before I could answer though, Will ran up to us and grabbed my arm, "Kathryn! Where's the medallion?!"

"It's below! I left it on the table!" I yelled over the roar of another cannon blast.

"WILL!" Elizabeth screeched.

Before she could utter another word, Will took off for the stairs to below leaving me and Elizabeth defenseless once again.

Suddenly, another pirate jumped right in front of us and before you could yell 'Ahoy!' I pulled back and socked him one in the face hoping that I could at least distract him enough to get away.

Oddly enough though, the pirate flew back and crashed to the deck clutching his nose. I wasn't about to concern myself with that though. I turned around and pushed Elizabeth away and just as I had started to run after her I heard a familiar voice yell, "LOVE! THAT REALLY HURT!" and I realized I had just punched a pirate we weren't fighting.

"JACK!" I screamed turning around and crashing down beside him. "I am so sorry! Are you alright?!"

I swung my arm around near his head and he flinched, "Love, put that away." He said pushing my arm away.

Jack sat up and shook his head, "Alright, time to get back to fighting." He said standing up and starting to run off leaving me just sitting on the deck.

"Wait! Jack!" I yelled getting up to follow him. "What is wrong with these pirates? Why can't I harm them?"

"Because they can't be harmed, they can't die! They are cursed!" He replied turning around and stabbing a pirate in the stomach. To my horror, the pirate just pulled the sword back out and lunged after Jack.

"WILL!" Elizabeth screamed from behind me. I looked over my shoulder to see her being overtaken by three pirates.

"Elizabeth!" I yelled starting to run to her. However, before I could go three steps I was tripped by a pirate and grabbed by several others. "Let me go! Let me go!" I yelled. All they did was laugh though. I kicked and screamed as they dragged me onto the Pearl alongside Elizabeth.

The Pearl started to pull away from the sinking Interceptor as several pirates tied the crew, Elizabeth, Jack, and I to the mast.

I soon realized something and started looking frantically around. "Elizabeth! Where's Will?!"

She struggled against the ropes and several pirates as she replied, "He's trapped! Trapped below decks on the Interceptor!"

I looked back over to the Interceptor just as it blew into a million tiny pieces to be spread about the ocean.

My heart seemed to stand still for a moment and all was quiet. Looking around I saw Elizabeth screaming Will's name, and oddly I couldn't hear her. Slowly I turned back to face the flaming wreckage that was once the great Interceptor. It's funny because I remember the only thought on my mind at that moment was that Annamaria wasn't going to get her ship.

Then, everything came back to me full blown. Elizabeth's screams were pounding in my ears and the smell of burning wood stung the inside of my nose.

It was then I finally realized Will was on the ship that had just been blown up.

"NO!" I screamed fighting to shake myself loose from the pirates that were holding me back. Elizabeth broke free of the ropes and ran right into an especially grungy pirate with a feathered hat on.

I was too busy screaming and fighting to pay any attention to what they were saying to each other though. Finally one of the pirates whacked me over the head, which made me shut my mouth.

Then, like a miracle, Will jumped up onto the railing of the Pearl and stood there. I was so full of joy and elation that all I could hear was my heart pounding in my ears.

But then Will pulled out his pistol and aimed it at himself and like it was amplified one thousand times I heard him say, "You can't die. But I can."

Jack jumped forward and stepped between the behatted pirate and Will. But after a moment, he slumped his shoulders and moped back over to join the crew.

Then Will and the behatted man, whom I had by then figured to be Captain Barbossa, began to talk. I couldn't quite catch what they were saying, but when they were finished I knew a deal had been made.

"That's all. You free the girls and the crew." Will said nodding his head.

"Will!" Elizabeth gasped. "No-!"

I realized Will was giving himself up in exchange for our lives. "NO! Will! You can't do this! Don't do this!" I screamed.

Will looked over to me with sadness in his eyes. "I have to." He whispered.

And with that, the deal was sealed.

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Well! That was fun! Though it seemed to take forever to revise. Bleh. Well, the next chapter will be fun! You all know what's next right?

DRUNKENNESS! HURRAY!

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