Ch.35 Turn About

A/N: And this chapter is dedicated to my Driver's Ed teacher. (We just "learned" about turn abouts)

Josephine went over to her 'quarters' in the cave, and tried to lay down and put her mind at rest. "Still," she thought as she yawned, " there's something not quite right about this. I should be happy," she reflected. "But I'm not."

"I'll go talk to Barbosa to get this thing straightened out," she decided.

She got up and left her room and walked to the assembly cave area.

Barbosa looked up at Cambury. "Has she gone to sleep yet?"

Cambury looked up from the fire. "She went to her room half and hour ago."

Barbosa looked satisfied with that. "That's fine. Ok. I'm going to review the plan for tomorrow…"

Josephine walked slowly and arrived at the hall to the assembly cave. She heard the pirates talking and muttering. She was about to enter the hall, when the words 'kill'

'tomorrow' and 'medallion' drifted out of the blur of voices and reached her ears. She quickly stepped behind the wall and listened.

"Tomorrow," Barbosa began, "Jack will die."

Josephine's heart jumped.

"As will Will…"

Josephine stifled a gasp.

"And Ms. Cynical will just DIE watching them…."

Josphine froze.

"After I kill Jack and Will, and return the medallion to the chest, Josephine's as good as dead too, because we have no more use for her…"

Josephine's breath caught in her throat, and she crept slowly away from the hall. She burst into the treasure cave gasping.

"I should have known," she muttered, groaning. "What to do?" she whispered. "I could turn this about…but not by myself….Will." Without a moments hesitation she ventured down to the cell of her brother.

"Will! Will!" she called hurriedly.

"Josephine!" Will exclaimed. "Thank goodness you're all right!" he started. Then he exploded. "WHAT in the world are you DOING!? I mean, if you're going to betray me, well, fine…but…"

"SHHhhhh!" Josephine said. "Look I know, I just….nevermind. I don't have to justify myself to you."

"Well, actually…"

"Shut up, will. You always have to have the last word, don't you? Don't you realize that this is an emergency?"

"how so?"

"I just overheard Barbosa talking to his men. They're going to kill you, and after that, kill me. I need your help."

"Oh. So now that your life is in danger, THEN you'll help us. I see. I never thought that you were that selfish Josephine…"

"Will, I'm not doing it for me! I'm doing it for you. Now that I'm in all this, I've realized I don't really want to kill Jack, and I don't want to hurt you either."

"Then why did you continue this Josephine? Why did you play along?"

" I had to; if Barbosa suspected treason, he would have killed me."

"Actually I bet he would have kept you as bait, THEN killed you. So your really not in a worse spot. But you would've arrived there more honorably, and in a position that I might help you."

"Will, please. I don't want to hurt Jack…or get revenge… because I've realized that…"

"That what?" Will asked.

"I love him," Josephine whispered. And as soon as the words left her, she knew they were true.

Will sighed.

"Josephine, I'll help you," Will replied, "But, this can't be for your own means."

"Why would it? I could easily save my own skin just by getting out of here."

Will nodded. She had a point.

"Now, what should I do? I mean I could go and kill…"

"Josephine."

"…Barbosa now, and that would be the…."

"Josephine."

"…end of the problems, right? But, he could be expecting…"

"Josephine!"

Josephine looked up.

Will stared at her. " You can't kill him Josephine."

"What?! Why? How.."

"Josephine, look at me." He handed her his bottle of water that was in the cell.

"Drink this, and step out into the moonlight."

Josephine did as she was bid. She felt the water move inside of her, but then it just …fell through her…how…

Will watched in silence.

Josephine came back over. "How…"

Will stopped her with his hand. " The medallion."

Josephine stared at him. "What medalli….oh." She took a chain from around her neck and tugged it off.

"How does it do it?"

"Josephine, you know when I told you the story of the pirates of the caribbean?"
"yes. What does that have to do with this?"

"I didn't tell you the entire story."

"Oh."

"You see this medallion makes however holds it immortal. But the side effect is, starvation, and pain. You can't die, but you live with enough pain that you want to. The only way to get rid of the immortality, is to return the blood."

"By?"

"You slit your hand and smear the blood over the medallion and return it to the chest."

"So why can't I kill Barbosa?"

"The same reason right now, why you can't kill Jack."

"Oh. But jack doesn't have a medallion. Cambury stole it, under Barbosa's orders. And I saw him return it to the chest."

"interesting. But they can't kill Jack till they take his blood."

"So they can't kill me until they have my blood."

"Exactly." Will paused. " Do you know what you need to do?"

"Yes. I do. Leave everything to me."

"We're all going to die."

"Thanks for the vote of confidence, Will."

"Anytime, Josephine."

Josephine walked away. She turned around. "Will, pass the word onto Jack for me?"

Will nodded.

Josephine walked away and then crept into the treasure cave. She walked up the treasure mound to the chest in the center of the cave.

She slid open the lid and gazed at the medallions. She looked at the medallion in her hand. She slowly took out the knife out of the chest and slit her hand. She winced.

She closed her hand around the medallion and then dropped it into the chest. Then she grabbed a different medallion.

She laid the knife in the chest and slowly closed the lid. Then she quietly stole away to Jack's ship, The Pearl.