Pirates of the Caribbean:
Chapter 5: Back to the open seas
By: Vipera berus
Diclaimer: I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean. I'm only writing fanfictions plus I'm broke!!! So there's no way I could be the owner of the movie, right? Although, I wouldn't mind having a shirtless Captain Jack Sparrow all by myself… drools
Author's Note: This story is really going fast… but the real adventure hasn't even started yet!!! (I mean about the treasure! You don't even know about the treasure yet! Poor things… I promise it'll come up in later chapters!!! If you just keep reading!!!!)
Enjoy!
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Tony froze. The sword and the pistol she were holding almost fell to the floor. Of course she recognised the voice. How could she not? It had been annoying her practically the whole day…
He was s'posed to be unconscious, the bastard… Tony thought and slowly turned around, tightening the grip of the pistol and the sword.
And there he stood. Mr Jack – ahem, – Captain Jack Sparrow in his blue breeches and an angry, but a very sexy, expression on his handsome face in the dimly lit room. (Let's not forget about the tri-corner hat on his head.) Tony couldn't help but gulp at the sight of a sword tip pointing at her throat. Her weapons lay limply in her hands at her sides.
"In really big trouble, Evans." Jack hissed with narrowed eyes. Tony stared at the sword wondering where he got it and then her eyes wandered to his face and then a bit lower down his chest to his abdomen. He was looking even better when he was standing.
Screw his sword and how he got it, this is much more interesting to look at… Tony thought scanning his tanned, muscular body with her eyes…she had to hit her head with the pistol to snap out of those thoughts, which wasn't very clever of her as the pistol was made of hard, solid metal and hurt like hell as it collided with the side of her head. "Ouch…" she muttered and rubbed her head, now looking at Jack's face.
"What do you mean I'm in trouble, Sparrow?" Tony asked with a casual tone. "Have I done something wrong?" she asked innocently with a sweet smile.
"Aye. Ye're a sorry excuse of a pirate, Tony." Jack said and spotted William, who was standing behind Tony with his sword pointing at her back. "Ah, Will, m'boy. How's it goin'?"
"Not bad." Will replied and walked around Tony to Jack's side. They shook hands. "You?"
"Only having one problem." Jack said. Will raised his eyebrows in question. "The problem's standing right in front o' ye, lad." Jack said nodding his head at Tony. She grinned at Will as he glanced at her.
"I see. I guess I can only image what kind of problem she's causing you. Otherwise you wouldn't be walking around in such a state of clothing, am I right?" Will said with a sideways glance at Tony and then at Jack's breeches. Jack nodded slowly, the trinket in his hair jingling softly with his moves.
"Aye…"
"And why am I getting this feeling it's not all, Jack?" Will continued to ask Jack.
"I's not all…" Jack muttered. "Bu' I'll tell ye some other time, savvy?" Will nodded and they both looked back at Tony.
"So! Are you going to kill me or not?" Tony asked happily.
"I let you be the judge of that, love." Jack replied smoothly. The blade was near her throat but she did neither lift her head nor push it away. She didn't even have her weapons pointing at him. "Those look rather familiar…" he said looking at the shirt and the coat she was wearing. "I would be much obliged if ye'd hand them back. Or do I have to take 'em off of ye myself?"
Tony glared at him sourly. "I like them quite a lot so let me wear them a bit longer, alright?" she said swiftly. "So how're you feeling, huh? How's your head? Is it hurting much? I hope it is… Ye know, Sparrow, before your interruption, me an' Mr Turnip were just having a – "
"I'm not taking any bullshit from ye, lass! The fine hit ye performed only gave me a hell o' a headache an' a bump in me head. But I came to tell ye that I changed my mind about sparing your life. The wo'ld 's a much better place without yer presence contaminating it." Jack said dangerously as the blade came nearer her throat. She took a deep breath, stepping back and lifted the pistol, finally. And pointed it at him.
"I'm sorry to hear you think that way 'bout me." Tony replied. Now lifting the sword as well to point at him and will. "But you know, pirate is as a pirate does. So, I'm not dying without a fight, savvy?" she mocked with a smirk.
"What're ye gonna do?" Jack asked in a rough low voice, challenging the girl in front of him. Tony placed Jack's pistol in the cloth that was tied around her waist, before she looked back up at Jack and grinned.
"What am I gonna do? I'm going to – " Tony narrowed her eyes and then launched herself and her sword at Jack. " – do this!" she swung her blade towards him. Jack blocked the blow with his own sword gracefully.
"Weak, Evans. Very weak." Jack stated as he started his attack. He raised his sword and it came with a swish down at her. Tony swung her cutlass to meet his swiftly, making them spark. She took a graceful step to the side and Jack's blade missed her side with few inches.
"What's this? Isn't your lovely friend joining us, Jackie?" Tony mocked, casting Will a dark look as she made a narrow parry. Will was looking at them both in surprise and confusion. He was still not over the shock when the two childish pirates started to fight around his blacksmith's shop, one wearing only breeches, the other a coat and a dress-like shirt. "Well, I guess he's too afraid, eh?"
"If I were you, I wouldn't insult the poor guy. You'll have his fiancée to answer to, love! An' she's quite a – " Jack begun but was cut off by Tony as they parried.
"What?! The man's engaged? Bet the girl's not in a right state of mind if she marries a friend to Jack Sparrow!!! Whoa! And now I'm outnumbered by eunuchs!!!" She laughed as Will joined the fight in fury and the next thing she knew, she was lying on the ground on her back, looking up into two tips of sharp swords. She had accidentally tripped over some blacksmith's tools that were lying on the ground when she had backed. Her cutlass had flown a bit away from her and she couldn't reach it. She smiled nervously as she looked up into Jack and Will's angry faces.
"Are you saying that Elizabeth is stupid because she's marrying me?" Will hissed, hating Tony.
"Hey, I was just joking! And I had no idea her name was Elizabeth! Swann, right?" Tony said and made an attempt to rise but the swords were still near her throat and made it impossible.
Jack and Will looked at each other in confusion. "You know Elizabeth?" they asked at the same time. Tony smirked.
"Yeah, you could say that…" she trailed off and let her gaze wander on the ground around her. "It's rather complicated so let's not go in on that…" she added in a low voice.
Suddenly the door to the dusty place opened on Tony's left. The sun that shone inside, blinded their eyes and all of them had to raise their hands to obscure their visions to see who arrived.
"Will?" came a sweet female voice from the door and it was shut behind her. Their hands came down and they could see a young, very pretty girl walk down the few stairs in a dress, which looked very uncomfortable in Tony's eyes.
She had long, light brown hair, cascading down to her mid-back in soft curls. She was very pretty with hazel brown eyes and pale skin as every fine lady. She was wearing a tight corset and a dress, which looked a bit similar to the one that Tony had worn earlier but it was light pinkish and it didn't lay at the bottom of the bay in Port Royal's harbour like Tony's. Elizabeth Swann seemed used to walking in a dress.
"Jack Sparrow, it's so good to see you. Decided to come and visit Port Royal once again, I see. How are you doing by the way? How is your ship? And the crew?" Elizabeth asked in her sing-song voice.
"Aye they're fine… I'm fine… So nice to meet yeh – " Jack begun.
"Tony Evans!" Elizabeth informed firmly as she spotted Tony lying on the floor with two swords pointing at her. "You thieving pirate!!!" she yelled with her hands on her hips.
"Hello, Liz…" Tony said with a grin from the ground. The three were looking down at her with two swords pointing at her. "I didn't think you'd remember me!"
"Well, you are one difficult devil to forget." Elizabeth snorted uncharacteristically. "I wonder why you're back?" she asked Tony with a frown.
"Thank your famous Captain for that." Tony said sourly, nodding at Jack. Elizabeth glanced curiously at Jack with raised eyebrows. Jack ignored her glance by looking away, probably not wanting to tell her about his little 'mistake'.
"I hope you've met James?" Elizabeth asked Tony harshly and then spotted the swords pointing at her. "Will!" he looked at Elizabeth innocently. "Stop pointing that sharp sword at her, for God's sake! You too Jack!" they looked at Elizabeth in confusion as she extended a hand to Tony.
Tony grabbed her hand and she was dragged up from the ground. She rubbed her bum as it ached.
"So, have you met James yet?" Elizabeth asked once again quite harshly, as if hoping she had met him. Tony smirked as she brushed her clothes off dust and dirt.
"Yeah… I've met 'im." Tony replied. The two men were still looking at them in disbelief. "Not a pleasant meeting, Liz… nor is this!"
"Elizabeth! Do you know Tony Evans?" Will asked amazed, looking from Elizabeth to Tony. Jack glared at Tony and she glared back. Their eyes met for a brief second.
"Yes, I do, unfortunately." Elizabeth said then she looked around her and saw the sprawled tools on the ground as the dust was slowly sinking back down, making the room clearer. "What have happened here? I hope you're not bringing more trouble into town, Tony?" she asked sternly.
"Why would I? I'm a nice, sweet, innocent little lass that's never in trouble. Nor the one causing it!" Tony answered, picking up the cutlass from a way away from them. She took a grip of the cloth that hanged around her waist and polished her new sword. When she did that, she missed when Jack, Will and Elizabeth rolled their eyes in annoyance.
There was a silence, then –
"Can I 'ave the attention please!" Jack said loudly, waving a hand in the air. "Jus' wonderin', how the hell miss Elizabeth knows slimy idiots like Evans?" Jack asked with raised eyebrows and he placed his sword back in its hold.
Tony snorted and muttered "I'm not an idiot…unlike you, Sparrow!"
"That's a very long story, Jack. I guess you would be delighted to hear it by a cup of tea?" Elizabeth asked politely with a icy glare at Tony, who thought it better not to tell them a long story about their first meeting by a cup of tea…
"Aye, bu' it seems to me tha' – " Jack was cut off by a loud shout from outside the blacksmith shop.
"…in there, Commodore, with William Turner!!!…last time as well!!!" they heard bits of yells. Four heads turned to the shut door. Will and Elizabeth looked at each other. Jack and Tony looked at each other.
"Bloody James 's ruining the party again!" Tony replied wide-eyed and lifted a hat from the ground. She noticed that it was Jack's so she put it on her head, receiving a angry glare from Jack who opened his mouth to argue. She grinned at him and winked, mouthing: 'It's mine now'. Jack's hands clenched to fists.
They all looked nervously at the door.
"Elizabeth – " Will started, turning to his fiancée quickly. She nodded fiercely even before Will managed to finish his sentence. Tony wondered what they were talking about.
"Yes, Will. I think we ought to. We haven't been on an adventure for a long time and Port Royal is getting a bit…old-fashioned, don't you think?" Elizabeth said, smiling stunningly. Will smiled at her and then turned to Jack who was still eyeing Tony angrily.
"Hey, Jack. Elizabeth and I were – " Will begun.
"Aye, aye… Ye love-birds are welcome aboard." Jack answered hastely.
"Why are we just standing here when bloody James Norrington is scurrying over here with his pretty boys? A way out o' here, Turner, other than the front door?" Tony said and they all turned to look at her and remembered that the Navy was coming…
There was a silence when no one moved.
Then Will nodded and hurried to the back of the room with the rest after him. He took a hatchet from a table near by and walked back. He started cutting a rope that had nothing to do with it their escape way.
"Ah, excuse me, mister." Tony begun as she glanced at the door nervously. The navy soldiers were coming. They could hear footsteps outside and then someone started pounding on the door. "But would you please hurry up whatever you're doing?! What are you doing by the way?" she asked with one raised eyebrow.
He stopped cutting the rope as it soundlessly snapped in two and looked back at her. "Watch out." He said calmly. Tony watched him confused, just when she was about to ask; 'Watch out for what?', she heard a heavy crack behind her. She turned around and stared wide-eyed at a big sack with something hard in it, swing dangerously at her, aiming for her head. She couldn't move.
Suddenly she was knocked down to the ground by a warm form that had thrown himself onto her, out of the sack's way. Tony opened her eyes and the second time that day, she stared into Jack Sparrow's deep dark brown eyes. Once again, she was hypnotised by their beauty. And once again, she lay under him. They stared at each other for a moment before someone coughed loudly behind them.
They jumped back up, both brushing their clothes. Jack placing his own hat on his own head and holding his own pistol in his own hand, while Tony picked up her cutlass and then looked at Jack.
"Hey! I stole those from you! You can't steal them back!" she accused him angrily. Jack smirked seductively.
"It's called borrowing what ye did, love. And I took only 'em back, savvy?" Jack answered. "And I'll be wanting me clothes back soon as well!" he called to her over his shoulder while he walked out of the newly formed hole in the wooden wall, which was created by the heavy sack that had swung against it forcefully. Elizabeth and Will were already waiting outside in the sunny weather.
Tony shook her head and tightened the grip of her cutlass before she hurried after them. Before she managed to go out entirely, she heard the door creak open and a dozen Navy soldiers spill inside and she had no doubt that the Commodore would be one of them…
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"Hey, Sparrow!" Tony yelled at Jack as she caught up with the three persons walking in front of her down a narrow alleyway of Port Royal. "You going back to the Black Pearl, are you?" she asked him as she walked beside him with long strides. She looked at him all the time. "Turner and Liz coming with you?" she added with raised eyebrows.
"Aye." Jack answered shortly, not looking at her. "If you're thinking about following us, Evans, I daresay ye'll be very wrong 'bout tha', honey." He said giving her a small smirk.
"I'm not going to follow you, I'm just coming with you." Tony said with a grin that exposed her teeth. "It's not the same thing as following, Sparrow." She added as she saw Jack open his mouth to answer. They were walking in the harbour.
Tony saw that the Black Pearl was now floating by the docks, apparently waiting for Jack and the fraud Miss Mayfield… The black sails were fluttering in the wind as the sun shone down on the deck. There was barely a cloud on the sky that evening.
"What a pity to be killing you on this fine weather." She heard Jack say amused. Tony stared at him as they walked.
"I doubt that you'll be killing me today, because you're getting your wish, mate; I'm coming back aboard and perhaps, if you behave nicely, I'll tell your crew something about this mistake, alright? Just keep yourself and your crew from shooting me until we get to Tortuga." Tony said happily with a smirk. Jack's turn to stare at her.
"Who the bloody hell said we're goin' to Tortuga?" Jack asked, shocked with lowered eyebrows.
"I did!" Tony said and patted his shoulder lightly before she scurried briskly to Elizabeth and Will who were walking a bit in front of Jack.
Jack glared at her back and shook his head. They were almost by the ship when –
"Stop those criminals!!!" came a all-too familiar voice from the end of the road. Elizabeth, Will, Tony and Jack stopped abruptly, turning around.
They could see James Norrington running down the road with a dozen of his soldiers after him.
"Stop them!!! That's an order!!!" he yelled, red from anger.
The four of them, didn't waste another minute before hurrying towards the ship, which was docked. They pushed people out of the way as they ran. Elizabeth was the only one who yelled her apologies over her shoulder.
Jack stopped right in front of his ship, blocking the way for Tony. Elizabeth and Will were helped aboard by Jack's crew. Anamaria, Gibbs and the rest of the pirates, looked curiously at Jack and Tony, who were wearing very odd clothes indeed.
"What's it with you?" Tony asked angrily as she watched nervously the Navy soldiers closing up on them. Jack turned around, with his pistol in his hand, pointing it at her. "I thought we were clear that no one's going to die, Sparrow." she said biting her lip.
"Aye we were, bu' I'm no' taking women aboard." Jack said swiftly.
Tony raised her eyebrows and said; "What about Liz and that Anniemary girl? They're women as far as I can see!" Tony said quickly, looked at the nearing Navy soldiers once again.
"They are. But you're the only one who's bad luck." Jack said, smirking. Tony frowned.
"I thought men were thinking all women as bad luck?" Tony said, also smirking. She glanced at the Navy party who was almost there. "Oh for bloody Mary's sake!" she cursed and pushed Jack aside as she boarded the ship. Jack turned around, aimed the pistol at Tony's back as she walked across the deck, he cocked the it but didn't pull the trigger.
Bad luck, my arse… She's the worst luck there can be! Jack thought angrily and shook his head, lowering his pistol.
"Cap'n! You staying or coming?" He heard Tony's spirited voice yell at him from the helm. The Black Pearl was untied from the dock and the sails were blowing up to their normal size. "If you're not joining us, I'll be delighted to take your place as the Captain of this ship!" Tony continued and he could hear her laugh heartily.
"Catch them!!! Catch them immediately!!! If they escape, I see to it that you'll be put in the prison instead of them!!!" Commodore Norrington's angry voice shouted.
Jack snapped out of his thoughts and jumped aboard his ship just in time it took off the dock and the Navy soldiers started shooting wildly at the pirates and the ship. Jack walked across the deck towards the helm where Tony, Elizabeth and Will were standing. They could still hear the Commodore yell angrily from the dock and the shooting continue as the Black Pearl sailed out of the bay, back to the open seas.
"So nice of you to join us, Captain." Tony stated and nodded at the helm. She had not touched it in case Sparrow would flip of anger. Jack walked to the helm, then turned around, facing Tony once again with his pistol pointing at her.
"Welcome back, Captain!" Gibbs greeted Jack happily. "Where's the – "
Jack made a swish with his hand, silencing Gibbs as he stared at Tony who only grinned.
"Well that's familiar sight." She said casually, staring at the pistol. "If that's s'posed to be a threatening thing, I can say with full confidence that it has become quite lame, mate. So please take it off my face." Tony said but gulped as Jack cocked it once again.
"I just want to inform yeh, tha' this time there's nothing that keeps ye alive aboard my ship. If I give the order for me crew to kill ye, they'll do so without a second thought and without being gentlemen, savvy? Ye're not safe any longer." Jack said dangerously, Tony nodded.
"Hmmm…Let me prove ye wrong, Sparrow. I thought the reason why you let me aboard was the 80 000 shillings I had to get you?" she replied with a finger in her chin.
"Aye, bu' I warn ye only once, Evans. Promise you'll behave like a good little lass, an' ye'll survive this voyage to Tortuga." Jack finished and noticed he agreed to take her to Tortuga.
"I promise, darling. But only if you'll behave nicely as well, and your crew. I wish not to be harassed in the night by any of them or you, alright?!" Tony said glaring at his abdomen. Jack lowered his pistol.
Why does he have to have such a good body? Tony thought sourly and shifted her gaze to the deck. Couldn't it be someone else with that adorable thing? "Oh, go put on something already!" that was meant as a thought but it came out of her mouth as a rather loud shout, directed at the floor. Tony blushed as she looked up at Jack who smirked with raised eyebrows.
"Did I just hear ye – " Jack began with a smirk but was cut off by Tony.
"Save it, Sparrow…" she muttered and stalked off to the other end of the deck. Jack turned to Will and Elizabeth who looked at him in curiosity.
"She's attracted to me, did ye see tha'?" He said with a grin to them before turning to the helm once again, glancing at Tony.
"What a couple…" Elizabeth muttered under her breath…
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Author's Note: Woooohooooo!!!! Chapter five was that, ppl!!!! Not so much about the money or treasures, but next chapter is more about that, I guess. I hope Elizabeth wasn't too OOC? Or Will or Jack…
HEY! Did you notice that they were actually fighting there? Crossing a bit of blades, matey! Hahaaa…
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OK, thanks if you've read this far! More to come, more to come! I'm trying to update as soon as possible because this chapter was pretty boring. I wrote it really quickly so, hopefully I get the next one ready soon! And if you didn't understand much of it, just tell me an' I'll explain!!!! But if you don't understand when I explain, then try to explain what you understand and then I can explain what I understand so we can both be very understanding!!! Not to mention I have to explain this!!!
What was that? Noooo idea….
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