Chapter 4 - Commandeer a ship

"AYE!" yelled the entire crew of the Black Pearl, while heading in all sorts of directions preparing for attack.

Captain Jack Sparrow stood at the head of the Black Pearl starring through his spyglass gazing at a large and beautiful ship in front of him. The name of that ship was the Unicorn and Jack didn't see any extra ordinary weaponry on it. His golden teeth glitter in the sunlight, while he screams his commands.

"Make ready the guns! Were going to commandeer that ship!"

Jack hadn't seen his crew so happy in days. It had been a couple of weeks ago since a ship had been seen near the Black Pearl and this automatically meant that it was also a couple of weeks ago since they had last 'pillage and plundered'. Everyone, including the Captain, had started to feel rather restless and bored. But now their lives were good again.

"Remember, you scabrous dogs! Don't shoot, unless they attack us, aye?"

"Aye, Capt'n," sounded it from different directions. Jack's grin grew wider. He loved this! Again he looks through his spyglass if he could notice anything about the Unicorn. He saw several men running around on deck as if in great panic by the sight of the Pirate ship. He also noted the beautiful decoration of a Unicorn at the side of the ship. This really looked as if it was going to be a good catch: a large, beautiful and, most important, rich ship.

The Black Pearl got nearer and nearer the Unicorn, until they even could hear the yells of the crew of the Unicorn. And then a sound got them all by surprise: the sound of a cannon that filled the air with a blast.

Jack stared in complete shock at the Unicorn while the Pearl shivers, obviously hit. He brought the spyglass back to his eyes and he cursed. The crew of the Unicorn weren't running around in panic at all, they had just been preparing their attack! A large amount of cannons has suddenly showed up from behind all sorts of things, all pointing at the Pearl and the English flag that had been hanging in the main-mast had been taken down… to be replaced several seconds later by a large black skull and crossbones.

"Bloody hell!" curses Jack and a new canon fires.

"ANA-MARIA!" roars Jack over the sound of the firing canons.

"Jack," answers the female pirate, suddenly appearing out of nowhere next to the pirate Captain.

"Do we know a pirate ship under the name of the Unicorn?"

According to the Code, every pirate had a known ship and when a new pirate entered the waters they had to take care of the fact that everyone knew the name of their ship before the plundering could start.

"No," Ana-Maria shakes her head, "I don't think I've ever 'eard of 'er."

"They tricked me!" mutters Jack, "Bloody pirates!!… Go make yerself useful somewhere and Ana-Maria?"

She turns.

"It's still captain Jack for ye," Ana-Maria gives him a dark look, but then runs of.

Another canon blows and without a blink of an eye Jack takes a step aside, so saving his live. Panic starts to rise among his crewmembers and that's probably the main reason why it takes them so long before the Pearl's canons start to blow for the first time.

Jack started to walk to the main deck in a way that only he could, only the expression on his face was one you didn't see often on him: he had a complete sober expression and looked more awake than any crewmember of the Pearl had ever seen.

"Gibbs!" he yelled as soon as he noticed the man, "strike the bloody flag!"

"Wha'?"

"I said strike the bloody flag! We are going to surrender."

"WHA'!?!" sound the amazed voices of mr. Gibbs and Ana-Maria.

"Jack! Ye bloody piece of wreckage! Wha' are ye think your doin'?" Ana-Maria stands with flaming eyes in front of her captain, completely ignoring the mess around her. She moves her arm to slap her captain, but Jack grasps her arm just before she's able to do that.

"Listen!" the look in Jack's eyes is one that Ana-Maria never thought she would see in them, one of complete sanity. Once again she wonders if Jack isn't just the best actor in the Caribbean and not half as daft as everyone expects him to be. "They are stronger then us, aye? They have got more weapons that us, aye? And they are using those weapons against us at this very moment!" Jack lets go of her arm.

"If we fight them probably most of me crew is going to Davey Jones locker, if not me entire crew, aye? And me ship is going to lie in ruins… and that's not worth it!"

Ana-Maria is even more amazed. Did she just hear her captain say that his crew was more important than his Pearl?

"But Jack…"

"Captain Jack, luv! When will ye finally remember tha' first part of me name?" With that he turns his attention back to mr. Gibbs and the rest of his crew.

"Gibbs! I told ye… strike the flag! We are going to surrender…"

Jack turns his back to the Unicorn and stubbornly looks to the other horizon, the one that still shows him his freedom, while he hears his men behind him. Gibbs has strike the flag and the crew is all standing on the main deck, not saying a word, as a small group of shabby people.

Jack flinches when he hears to first board hooks hit his Pearl, but he still doesn't turn around or speaks a word. Behind him he hears how the crew of the Unicorn slowly takes his crew prisoner, but non of them is bothering with him. Then he hears muffles whispers of 'the capt'n is comin'" and he waits, curious about who that 'bloody pirate' can be.

"Jack Sparrow! Wha' a pleasure to meet ye again."

As soon as Jack hears the voice of the 'unknown' pirate captain he closes his eyes. Maybe Ana-Maria had been right. Maybe he should have fought to dead, at least that was a honourable pirates dead.

"Remember me, Jack?"

Jack slowly turns around as if he has to convince himself, what his brains are already screaming at him.

"Of course I remember ye, Walter Toomey. I remember leavin' ye somewhere in a god forgotten Port somewhere in the Caribbean…"

Toomey slowly nods his head, while a smile starts to appear on his face. "Time to pay the bills, Jack."

Jack turns his gaze to the ground while two men grab his arms and his crew is taken to the brigs of his own ship.

"You'll be my guest on the Unicorn, Jack." And with that he's taken away.

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Slowly Jack opens his eyes not knowing where he is before the reality hits him. He's still in a god forbidden cell, somewhere in a god forgotten place in the Caribbean and there's still no hope for escape. He feels how his cheeks are wet with tears and he clenches his fists, waking up the pain in his left arm again. He had been dreaming about how he got captured every since he ended in this cell, and this was now the second day that he woke up crying. Captain Jack Sparrow didn't cry!!!

"I rather spent my life in the darkest spot in hell and let him break me!" he mutters.

"Well… then yer not really doin' a good job here mate."

Jack feels how his body flinches by the sound of that voice and a moment he really hates himself.

"Where… Who are you?" he asks with a hoarse voice.

The voice softly sniggers. "I'm right here mate, in the corner nearest to the door."

Jack stares into the darkness and slowly he starts to discover a dark silhouette sitting in the corner. It moves and it takes some seconds before Jack realises what the voice is doing: he waves to him.

"W-What are ye doin' here?"

Again the voice sniggers. "Waitin' matey. Waitin' until something's happening in this god forbidden cell, somewhere in this god forgotten part of the Caribbean… and waitin' until you break."

Jack can't believe his ears.

"I break? What do ye mean with tha'?" Jack feels how he starts to get angry with this new introdurer. "You are forgettin' something mate… I'm Captain Jack Sparrow… and Captain Jack Sparrow is not going to break this easily!"

The voice laughs and GOD is Jack already hating the sound of that! "Don't laugh at me, mate!"

"No?" says the voice sounding friendlier than ever, "and what are ye going to do about it… Captain? Ye can barely move yer left arm… so I don't think I fight would save ye…"

Jack closes his eyes in anger. The thing he's probably most angry about is that the voice is right 'what is he going to do about it?' He can barely stand on his feet, due to lack of food and due to several wounds all over his body. He can't move his left arm very much without having it screaming of pain… was he really planning on hurting that voice in the corner? He probably would be dead tired by the time he reached him in the first place!

"Well… ye could come to me, mate," Jack says suddenly showing some of his old self again.

The voice only giggles in reply.

Jack has already almost forgotten that there is a person sitting in the corner when the voice speaks again.

"Ye left yer crew, captain. Why did ye do that?"

Jack's closed eyes snap open again. It's true, he has been thinking about that a lot in these past weeks. Did he leave his crew? If they would have fought than the most certainly had died, all of them. But what has happened to them now? Are they dead? Escaped? Have they betrayed him to work for Toomey? Or are they somewhere in this god forbidden hole as well? A couple of days ago he still had hope they were alive, but now he doubted all his senses.

"I d-didn't leave them," Jack really hates everything around him at the moment and most of all the voice and himself. First crying and what now? Stuttering as well?

"Ye did."

"I DID NOT!" Jack voice has raised and he doesn't even care. "I JUST TRIED TO PROTECT THEM!… like a good captain," the last words are whispered again.

"Aye… I would almost forget you were a captain, captain."

Jack closes his eyes and the voice doesn't seem to be in the mood to talk anymore either. Slowly, with his eyes closed, he starts to doze off and just before he falls asleep he realises something: the voice hasn't answered the first real question he asked him. He didn't know his name.

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End note: This chapter was hard to write! I started about 10 times over again and I'm still not really impressed…

Next Chapter: Will & Liz find out something more…

AbbieNormal182 - More Jack for you! I must say I like the Jack chapters more as well… I just hope that I once get Will, Liz and Jack together ;)

Miss Becky - Well… a lil bit more about Toomey in this chapter, although I'm afraid that if you want to know a lot more about him you have to have some patient :) Now to answer your question: why does Will calls Elizabeth Liz. Well… probably because I'm a lazy person I shorten my friends names when I call them. So for me Elizabeth would probably turn out in Liz or Beth. I just thought that Will would probably call her Liz as well, now they are official a couple and he finally is able to express his love to her.

Kandice - You are the first one who gives me a dead thread if I don't update ;) Well I hope I'm still alive after this one

Panther7x - yeah it would indeed look like we are all a bunch of sadists… maybe it's just that fanfiction brings out the worst in us ;)

Anaticulapraecantrix - lol! Well… I'm not completely sure if this counts as Jack torture, but they are not actually nice to him either ;)

GiveMeTheWind - sorry I didn't update sooner… had a small writing problem with the boat fight scene…

Captin Red Black - My second dead thread ;) But on the other hand… if I walk the plank I might end up on an island together with Jack… now THAT'S not something to complain about ^^