AN: Apologies for the long wait, but my computer had died so I wasn't be able to come online for a little while.

As far as it looks now this story is going to be at least 2 parts. The second part is going to have lots about Jack's past and where he met this torturer of him.

Question: does Norrington has got a first name in the movie? I can't remember it and I have got no money to go to the cinema to check it out Please let me know 'cause when not I've got already a little idea for a name *evil smirk*

Thank you VERY much my dear reviewers! I've never had so many reviews for only one prologue before! Responses follow after the chapter.


Chapter 1 - The Trick

With a small smile Will Turner was listening to the happy voice of David, a small young boy, who lived next to the blacksmith and really enjoyed coming over to Will: just to look around or chat.

Little David loved the work of the blacksmith and the magic, which made the blades look so beautiful in the end. He was already sure that that was what he wanted to become when he was an older lad: blacksmith. There couldn't be a better job in the world!

The young boy was sitting on a large table in the blacksmith, surrounded by all sorts of small objects that Will created just to see the joy on the young lad's face when he saw him working on it and the end results. There was a small ship made of steel that looked like the Pearl, or at least like Will remembered the Pearl. Another object looked like a larger ship, the Interceptor, and there were also small canons and even a little sword for David to play with.

"Will… Mister Grutch told me a new story about that pirate that you knew, Jack Sparrow. Wanna hear it?" David says, with an enthusiastic twinkle in his eyes.

Will smiles at the young lad. "Always, Davey!" However inwardly he grimaced. 'Mister' Grutch. Mrs. Lockney, David's mum, was the most fragile looking woman Will had ever seen. Every time he saw her he wondered if she just wouldn't blow a way in the wind when there would come a storm or if she wouldn't break into pieces when somebody should touch her. She had been married to mister Lockney, but he had died on sea when David was only one year old. Since then the two had been living together alone and poor, but Mrs. Lockney had somehow managed to get a small house next to the blacksmith. However since a couple of weeks she had a new lover, 'mister Grutch'. Grutch was simply the opposite of Mrs. Lockney: he was a very rough and large man and he wouldn't have looked bad between Barbossa's old crew of cursed man. Grutch loved to spend his time in various bars, drinking as much as he could manage, but he wasn't actually one of the nicest men when drunk. Will even suspected him to hit Mrs. Lockney once in a while and he was going to make sure as hell that this brute wouldn't lay one hand on dear David! He turned his attention back to the story that the young boy was telling with such an enthusiasm.

"Jack had already plundered some ships, but this time he had made a mistake and his ship had been surrounded by two ships of the Royal Navy…. but he escaped! Want to know why?"

Two large, hopeful eyes turned to Will.

"Tell me!"

"Well… Jack ordered his crew to put butter on the entire…" a moment David thinks, trying to remember that difficult word, "spar deck and to take off their shoes. On their socks to could walk perfectly well without falling down on their face, but the Royal Navy who tried to take over the ship couldn't stay on their feet and all fell down flat on their faces!"

David lets out a giggle and also Will is having a hard time not to laugh.

"So, Jack could easily take over the entire crew of the Royal Navy. He plundered their ship and than gave it back to the original crew, giving them enough supplies to go to the nearest port! Can you believe it?"

Now David and Will both laugh out loud. Will can just imagine the look on the red coats faces when they had discovered that they were once again tricked by the infamous captain Jack Sparrow! He was also delighted to hear a real sign of live from Jack again.

Of course the pirate was mentioned very often in all sorts of strange rumours and stories, but most of the time the stories where obviously not true. In one of them Jack had killed, on his 'onesies', 14 men of a crew and Will just couldn't believe that the same man who had carried a pistol with one shot with him for 10 years without shooting once, would kill 14 men that easily. More believable he found the stories where Jack escaped or took over a ship in his own unique and often insane way without hurting his 'enemy' when he needed not too.

On that moment they heard the voice of a woman, Mrs. Lockney, calling out David's name. David jumped off the table and looked and his only friend around.

"Mum's calling! Have to go! Bye Will!"

"Bye Davey! Sent my regards to your mother!"

"I shall! Bye, bye!"

And with a small run David left the blacksmith, leaving Will behind. Will had to admit that he couldn't wait until he and Liz would have kids, although he still was not sure if he wanted to be around Jack if his firstborn would happen to be a boy. He wasn't convinced if he wanted to see the look on Jack's face when he heard that his firstborn was named after the pirate captain. Although Will had to add that he hoped as well that when his first born was a boy, he would look more like little Davey than like his godfather!

Slowly Will started to clean his blacksmith. Now that he was officially the lover and fiancée of the governor's daughter, Elizabeth had given him money to buy the blacksmith from Mr. Brown, who was probably spending his time in some bar drinking away to money he earned with selling his shop. Elizabeth had known that she was about to marry a man who wasn't only a pirate at heart, but also a blacksmith and she had been right. Will loved to spent some time once in a while in his own shop, working on orders who weren't there and chatting with his little friend David.

He even had finished a gift for Jack, for when they would meet again. A sword perfectly balanced and the handle had the form of a ship; he was convinced that Jack would like it. Although it might be a bit odd to have a gift for someone he wasn't even sure if he would meet again, but once in a while he and Elizabeth would receive a letter from their new-found friend. And Will kept hoping that he would be able to see the pirate again.

When he closed the door behind him he started to think about some other rumours about Jack he had heard the past weeks. Of course there were always the rumours that Jack was dead, but he somehow didn't believe that, but this new rumour… this time Jack, the Pearl and the entire crew had disappeared. Nobody seemed to know where they had gone, but it looked like he had vanished from earth, which was, in Will's humble opinion, not possible, even not when your name was Captain Jack Sparrow.

Deep in thoughts he entered the small, but beautiful, house he shared with Elizabeth. It was standing not far away from the governor's house, but still far enough to have the feeling that they were living totally on their own. From the living room they had a beautiful view on the sea and on their own little boat, the Freedom. It was a lot smaller than the Pearl had been and therefore didn't deserve the name of 'ship', but it was big enough for Will and Elizabeth and once in a while they went away on it for a couple of days. Just to enjoy each other and to enjoy the freedom of the sea. After their little adventure with the cursed crew of Barbossa they both had a strange affection for the sea and once in a while they just had to get away from dry-land.

"Will? Will!"

Will looked up and looked in the smiling face of 'his' Liz.

"You silly blacksmith! You were so deep in thoughts that you just walked past me! Were are you worrying about?"

"Nothing special actually… I was just thinking about Jack."

Then he bends towards his lover and gives her a loveable kiss on her lips. "About that rumour that he disappeared."

"You don't believe that do you? I bet he's just lying somewhere on a beach, drinking rum or something like that."

Will shakes his head. "I don't know why, but I'm having a strange feeling about this."

That is the moment that Elizabeth decides that her blacksmith worries too much and she pulls him into a kiss which makes him forget about the world around him for a little while until they both are disturbed by a soft knock on the door.

"Timing is perfect as always," mutters Will while with regret in his eyes he pulls away from Elizabeth's kiss. He opens the door of their house, but he sees nobody. He takes a good look around and then a few steps forward and almost trips over something. A hat. No wait! Not just 'a hat', Jack's hat.

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End Note: the story of the butter on the spar deck isn't made up by me. A Dutch sailor, Michiel de Ruyter, actually used that trick to save his ship and crew once. Isn't it amazing?

I promise that the next chapter will go back to Jack with: Jack torture! YAY!

Elf-Vulcan - My first reviewer! YAY! Thanx for your sweet comment

Ihni - LOL so you like violence? Be prepared ;)

AbieNormal182 - Jack is such a lovely character to play with! I'm sorry he isn't in this one, but he next chapter will be dedicated to him again ^^

Sa - Thank you very much! I should show my English teacher your comments :)

Jem Skywalker - I'm so filled with ideas for this story that I don't think I even CAN stop in the middle of this story… if I wanted that in the first place. The world of pirates and Jack Sparrow is too much fun to write about

RoseTucker - I'm afraid this chapter will not explain to you to what this is going to lead, but it's going to be a long and exciting road

ShimmerGloom - YAY! You know your songs! I know I forgot that line in the Prologue, but I had it added in the original version of it. I cut it out because I didn't want to make the Prologue too long or boring…

Anonymous - I'm sorry I didn't update earlier! Blame my computer! Else I would have had it up a lot earlier already… I hope you liked this new update

Thanx again for all the reviews! Please review this chapter as well: it makes me a happy pirate and a quicker updater ;)