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I looked around and noticed I was back on The Ship. The one from my dream. I looked out across the ocean as the wind blew hair into my face. I saw, off in the distance, another ship very far; almost to the horizon. I turned back around and there he was, right where he was supposed to be. I smiled as he came closer to me and rubbed his finger along my cheek. He then wraps his arms around my waist and looks down at me, right in the eyes.

Once again I could feel his heart beating and his breath against my cheek. Everything seemed so real. I closed my eyes and waited for the moment when he was to kiss me.

Something different happened though, I felt his hands slip away from my waist and the comfort of him was gone. Before I could open my eyes, he was gone. Everything had gone dark with angry looking clouds. Lightning flashes as the ship starts to buck back and forth. I call out for him but the rain drowns out my voice and no one answers.

Then, just as quickly as it had started, the storm stopped. I looked around and saw something unexpected. Jack was leaning against the mast casually with his arms crossed and a smug look on his face.

He looks up and spots me, causing him to start in my direction. By the time I had think about it, he was there, putting his hands around my waist, doing all the things that only one person in that dream was supposed to do. And then, just as he leans down…

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…I wake with a start.

"Meeeh!" I groaned. Something under me stirred a bit and shifted. I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and turned my head to see what I was laying on.

To my surprise, it was Jack's stomach.

"AH!" I yelp trying to sit up but failing miserably.

"Oi," Jack said waking up and looking down at me, "How did you get down there." There was a devilish grin on his face that I would have loved to have smacked off.

I finally managed to pull myself off the ground and put my hands on my hips as I answered defiantly, "I do not know Captain."

"Please," He said raising himself on his elbows, "Call me Jack." He smiled, flashing me all of his gold teeth.

"Well then Jack-" I started, however I was interrupted by something catching my attention. "Do you smell that?" I turned my head around but immediately regretted it. I had a monstrous headache from drinking all the rum the night before.

As I stood there holding my head, Jack jumped up and looked off behind me with eyes as wide as dinner plates. "Oh no." He whimpered as he pushed past me and ran down the dune.

I slowly turned around to face the biggest fire I had seen in my life. "Woah." I mumbled wondering what had happened. I looked down and saw Elizabeth running around the edge of the fire throwing in more boxes. When she threw in a crate of rum I started to laugh. That was why Jack had been upset.

Jack ran up to Elizabeth and started waving his arms around. I could tell he was yelling, but I was too far away to catch what he said. As I started to walk down to them I heard him yell, "BUT WHY IS THE RUM GONE?!" I smirked to myself and sat down to watch them a little bit.

Elizabeth turned from Jack and threw herself on the ground facing the ocean. As soon as her back was to him, Jack pulled out his gun and aimed it at her head.

"HEY!" I screamed standing up. "JACK! STOP IT!" Jack looked up at me and made a face, just as Elizabeth turned around and smacked his leg. Jack glared down at her as he shoved his gun back into his sash, then he stomped over to me.

I sat down and shielded my eyes as I looked up at him. "Hello."

Jack ignored me and continued past grumbling something about, "Bloody woman."

I watched Elizabeth for a moment, then heard Jack say from behind me, "There'll be no living with her after this."

Turning around to see what he was talking about, I gasped as I saw a ship! The governor's ship! "Elizabeth!" I yelled waving my arms and jumping up. "Look!" I swung my arm around to point to the ship, but ended up hitting Jack in the face.

"GERK!" he gasped falling to the ground.

"Jack, I'm sorry." I said looking back towards Elizabeth. She finally looked over to me with her hand over her eyes to shield the sun. I pointed again to the ship and she stood up and dusted herself off. 

I turned back around to face Jack who had his head in his hands. "I am sorry for hitting you Jack." I said again as I walked past him and flipped his beads over his head. He jerked his head up and grabbed me from behind. As he pulled me down to the ground the dream I had the previous night came right to mind.

"Let me GO!" I screeched, fighting to get out of his arms. "JACK! Let me GOOO!" I tried scratching at his arms, but the man was relentless.

Then Elizabeth came up behind him and smacked the back of his head. "JACK! Let her go! The ship will be here any minute and we don't need you fooling around." She scolded in a motherly tone.

Jack grunted and released me from his grasp. I scampered away from him and jumped up. "Walk with me Kathryn." Elizabeth said grabbing my arm.

"Grr!" I growled as soon as we were out of Jack's earshot. "I hate him so much! I really wish he would quit doing things so unexpectedly."

"Yes, I know. Jack is a very hard man to predict." She replied sighing.

'Yes, he is. Hey, I wonder when the last time he had a decent bath was." I asked her.

Elizabeth started giggling and replied, "Probably not for a year at the least!"

"No way, I would say more of two years at the least!" I said laughing out loud. "I can smell Mr. Stinky all the way over here."

Elizabeth started laughing then gasped as we were tapped on the shoulders. "Ladies, that would be Captain Stinky." Jack said looking like he was going to explode.

 "Well if you are the Captain of all stink, I would imagine that's why I could smell you." I said daring a smart response.

Jack huffed and tried to change the subject. "Your ship is here." He sat down and looked at the ship as a boat was being lowered from it.

"No it's not," Elizabeth replied looking at it, "Jack why don't you tell us when the last time you had a bath was?" She sat down next to him and nudged him in the stomach.

"I don't have to tell you." Jack taunted.

"Yes you do." I replied sitting on his other side. "You see, Elizabeth and I have a little wager going, she said one year, I say two, you now have to tell us so we can decide who wins."

"Does swimming count?" He asked looking over at me.

"No." I said, "It has to have involved fresh water, and soap."

"Real soap? Well then, two months. Maybe three. I don't quite remember." He replied

"Oh, that is barbaric!" I gasped inching away from him.

"I can't sit next to a person who hasn't bathed in three months!" Elizabeth cried jumping up.

"Well I am sorry Elizabeth, but I am not exactly the daughter of a governor am I?" Jack shot at her.

"Jack-JACK!" I yelled poking his shoulder. "Look, the boats are here now." I pointed to the boat that had just come to shore.

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"What do you mean we aren't going back to find him?!" I heard Elizabeth scream, "You have to!"

I looked over the railing from the top of the ship and saw Elizabeth chasing the commodore around the deck. I ran down to them to see what the matter was. "Please? You have to go back." Elizabeth pleaded as I walked over to Jack and stood at his side.

"What's going on?" I asked nudging him. "Are they talking about Will?"

"Yes," He replied not taking his eyes off Elizabeth, "And I think something really big is about to happen because she is gettin' pretty desperate."

"Consider it a wedding gift then."

"Oh! There it is!" Jack said looking happy. The commodore slowly turned around with a look of surprise on his face. The govoner looked absolutely ecstatic.  

"You're accepting the commodore's proposal then Elizabeth?" He asked smiling from ear to ear.

"Yes, I am." She said downcast.

"Wedding?! There's going to be a wedding?" Jack said delighted, "I love weddings! Drinks all around!" He threw his arm on the nearest officer and started to laugh. The officer did not look very happy about it and shrugged him off. "Fine then," He said looking disappointed, "Clap me in the irons then."

"Wait-I don't understand. What's going on?" I asked looking around. Everyone turned and looked at me like I was something that just popped up on deck. "Are we going to go find Will?" I continued tentatively since every eye was on me.

"We are indeed Miss Anderson." The commodore answered.

"Well then, what is all this about a proposal?" I asked looking over to Elizabeth.

She looked down and mumbled into her chest. "I have accepted the Commodore's proposal for marriage."

"Oh," I replied.  It was basically my dream come true. Elizabeth would marry and move far away and then Will and I would live happily ever after with each other. For some reason though, I wasn't feeling very happy about it. I felt horrible in fact because I knew that when Will heard about it he would be heartbroken.

"Congratulations." I mumbled.

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A few hours later we were anchored right off shore of the island that only yesterday I thought I would never see again. After walking around the ship a little, I wandered over to Jack who was talking with Norrington.

"Keep the girls here. I promise you if you don't they will be in a lot of danger. Especially Miss Elizabeth, and I know mate that you don't want your brand new fiancée in any sort of danger do ye?" Jack said in his ear. "Lock them up too, just to be sure."

"Right." Norrington replied nodding his head at a group of officers. They looked over at me and started in. I took one look at them and made for Elizabeth whom I knew was at the bow of the ship.

"Elizabeth!" I cried as one of them grabbed the back of my dress. "Let me go!" I yelped turning around and whacking his arm. "Elizabeth! Jack got Norrington to lock us up!"

However my warning to her was in vain as several more went after her and then threw us both into the captain's room. "Let us OUT!" Elizabeth cried in the lieutenant's face.

"I am sorry ladies, but this is for your own good." He replied with a smug look on his face.

"Do they know that the pirates are cursed?" I asked. "And that they CAN'T BE KILLED?!"

"Oh of course they do. The green sea dragon swum up by the ship and told us before eating half of the crew." The lieutenant said laughing to himself. "Good night ladies." He then slammed the door in our faces and locked it.

"If I ever get a hold of him again, I am going to kill Jack." I grumbled putting my back against the door.

"And I will be there with you to hold him down while you do so." Elizabeth replied looking around the room. She sprang from the door and started pulling sheets from out of the cabinets. Her usual calm looking disposition was ruined and her hair hung limp around her shoulders. The clothes the commodore had given her looked like they were his own. I look down at my own under dress realizing that no one had given me anything to cover up with. This made me angry, not that I wasn't already, but that just fueled the fire.

"Let me help." I said running up to her.

"Tie the sheets together. We will use them as a rope and then climb down." Elizabeth said throwing a pile of sheets at me.

We tied them together until we had a long chain that when thrown out the window, reached the water. Just as we were about to climb on the desk under the window, we heard the governor's voice and froze.

"It's all right, just go." Elizabeth whispered motioning for me to go first out the window. I looked down and noticed a very conveniently placed boat right next to where the sheet rope ended.

"Are you sure no one will see us?" I asked as I backed out the window.

"Just go before Father comes in." She answered practically pushing me out.

Seconds later we were both in the boat, rowing off towards the island to save Will.

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