A/N: Here's another chapter for your reading pleasure!
obliviongates: glad you liked the chapter. I didn't want to put Anna's story in there because I was afraid it was sound too mary-sueish, but it made the chapter longer and gave background. Yay! More kudos!
Forensic Photographer711: yes adding deleted scenes are fun. This shows how obsessed with Pirates of the Caribbean I am. I know almost all the deleted scenes as well as the movie. lol. Thanks for reviewing!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Pirates of the Caribbean. I only own Anna Wilson and any other characters you don't recognize.
Chapter Five: Commandeering the Interceptor
Jack, Will, and Anna stood under a small stone bridge near the Interceptor's dock. They watched as sailors and soldiers loaded the boat with supplies, obviously preparing to leave that day or the next. They were most likely leaving to go save Elizabeth.
"Wait, so what are we doing?" Anna asked wondering why they were still standing under the bridge.
"We're going to steal the ship," Will said looking at the Interceptor. He saw Jack looking at the Dauntless, which was floating just off shore. "That ship?" he asked wondering what the hell Jack was thinking.
"Commandeer, we're going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term," Jack said pointing at the Interceptor.
"You're crazy," Anna said shaking her head.
"Thank you," Jack said turning around and smiling. He looked at Will. "One question about your business, boy, this girl…how far are you willing to go to save her?"
Anna looked at Jack questionably and then at Will wondering how he would answer.
"I'd die for her!" Will said almost immediately.
Anna felt a pang in her heart. 'Why does that bother you so much?' Anna said in her head, 'You've only just met him yesterday!'
"Oh good!" Jack said happily. "No worries then."
Jack turned around and looked forward, making a plan. He checked to see if the coast was clear and walked toward a small beach with several overturned rowboats. He looked down at one of them and lifted up the side of it.
"What's that for?" Anna said crossing her arms.
"Don't ask questions. You'll see. Just follow my lead," Jack said motioning for her to go under.
"I don't know, Jack," Anna said.
Jack rolled his eyes. "Is she always this difficult?" He asked Will.
"I wouldn't know. I haven't known her for very long," Will said making Anna turn around and slap his arm.
Jack looked off in another direction. "Someone's coming!" He said making Will and Anna quickly get under the boat and Jack following. They heard people run by and then silence.
"Let's go," Jack said lifting the boat up a little in the front and Will followed his lead by lifting the boat in the back. Anna lifted her hands and supported the boat in the center. She felt like an idiot walking into the water with a boat on top of her.
Anna felt her feet hit cold water and before she knew it, she was completely underwater and sharing the small amount of air that the boat trapped over her head. She no longer had to lift the boat up, she had to hold it down so it wouldn't float to the top, leaving herself, Jack, and Will at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea.
"This is either madness or brilliance," Will said.
"You could say that again," Anna said looking back at Will, smiling.
"It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide," Jack said.
Anna's foot hit something under the water. She looked down and saw a lobster trap. "Will, watch out for the…" Anna tried to warn but was too late. Will's foot was caught in the lobster trap. Anna shook her head as he attempted to get it off his foot with no avail. He ended up just dragging it with him.
When they finally reached the Dauntless, Jack let go of the boat and swam to the surface of the water. Anna and Will followed. When they reached the surface Jack was already climbing up the back of the Dauntless.
"Jack!" Will tried to call as quietly as he could. Jack looked down and saw Will still treading water.
"Get up here, boy!" Jack said.
"He has a lobster trap stuck on his foot!" Anna said holding on to the edge of the ship.
Jack rolled his eyes and then smiled with a new part of his plan in his head. He jumped down into the water and pulled the lobster trap off of Will's foot. He dragged it over to the giant rudder of the ship and attempted to tie the rope to it.
"Could you give me a hand?" Jack said looking at Anna and Will who were just sitting in the water watching him struggle with the trap. Will swam over and Anna pulled herself using the ship and made it to Jack.
"What are you doing?" Anna asked raising her eyebrow as Will and Jack tied the rope of the trap around the rudder.
"It's called disabling the rudder chain," Jack said, "if you want to use formal nautical terms."
"Um…and that means?" Anna said helping Will tie another knot.
"It means that when we get them all off the Dauntless and we get on the Interceptor, they can't turn around and chase us 'cause the rudder doesn't work," Jack stated matter-of-factly.
They moved up the rudder tying more knots and finally made it to the top without managing to fall back into the water. Jack made it over the railing first and Will followed quickly after that. Anna struggled, wearing a heavy wet dress and trying to climb up a giant ship. She clung to the railing and attempted to swing her feet up.
"Um…a little help here please," Anna pleaded. Will turned around and walked back to the railing. He grabbed her arms firmly and pulled her onto the ship. It wasn't graceful but she made it without falling back into the water.
They tip-toed forward. Jack pulled out his gun and Will pulled out his sword. Anna stood there weaponless, or so she thought.
"Anna, get out your sword," Will whispered.
"What sword?" Anna replied. Will nodded his head down to her waist and Anna looked down to see a sword hanging at her side. It was probably still there from the night before.
"Oh," She said stupidly and pulled it out and walked forward, following Jack.
Jack peered over the side of the railing that looked down to the lower deck. He saw a small group of sailors and an officer standing there and talking. He stood up and walked down the stairs.
"Everyone, stay calm! We're taking over the ship!" Jack announced. Will jumped over the side of the railing and down next to Jack.
"Aye! Avast!" Will said pointing his sword at the men.
Anna followed behind Will and pointed her sword at the men and tried to look like she knew what she was doing. The sailors started laughing at them.
"This ship cannot be crewed by two men," the officer said and then looked over Anna like she was worth nothing, "and a woman."
The men snickered at them. Anna glared even more at all of them.
"You'll never make it out of the bay," the officer said smartly.
Jack just smiled and pointed his gun right between the officer's eyes. "Son, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, savvy?"
The officer gulped and backed up. "Men, to the boat. Do what Mr. Sparrow…"
"Captain Sparrow," Jack corrected the officer.
"Yes, Captain Sparrow, do whatever he says."
Jack ordered the men to the boat hanging off the back of the ship and dropped the boat down into the water. The men rowed away quickly and Jack turned and smiled at Will and Anna.
"Satisfied?" he asked.
Anna smiled back. "Yes, very."
"Now we have to act like we're preparing to sail this ship out of here until we lure the commodore and his little friends here," Jack said.
The three ran around acting like they knew exactly what they were doing. They heard someone shouting from a boat in the middle of the bay.
"Sir, they've taken the Dauntless! They've taken the ship! Sparrow and Turner they've taken the Dauntless!" the officer that Jack had threatened before shouted at the top of his lungs.
Anna watched as the commodore pulled out a spyglass and looked at them. He saw him order his crew on board the Interceptor and they began sailing towards them.
Anna and Will ran up to Jack who was standing on the upper deck.
"Here they come," Will said worriedly. Jack turned his head and smiled at the ship coming towards them.
"Come on," Jack said. He led them to a small area between stacks of supplies on the deck. "We'll hide in here and wait until they are all off the Interceptor, then we'll swing on to the ship and quickly leave before they even notice it's gone," Jack said as they hid in the stack of supplies.
"You are certainly one of the crazier pirates in this world," Anna said smirking. If his other plans worked, this one should work also.
The Interceptor approached them quickly. Jack, Will, and Anna barely breathed as the sailors and officers boarded the ship.
"Search every cabin, every hold, down to the bilges," Norrington shouted to the crew.
"Let's go," Jack said and snuck out of his hiding spot with Anna and Will following. They walked to a corner and grabbed ropes they could swing over to the Interceptor on. Jack swung over first.
"Go on, Anna," Will said nudging her forward with his hand on her back.
"I don't know if I can do this," Anna said looking over the ship at the water.
"Of course you can," Will said. Anna held on to the rope tightly and kicked off of the deck and swung over to the Interceptor. Will followed quickly behind her.
"Good, ye made it in one piece," Jack said to Anna who rolled her eyes. "Will, go cut those ropes so they can't come back over."
Will nodded and took out his hatchet. He chopped off the end of all the ropes until there was nothing connecting the Interceptor and the Dauntless.
The ship started moving forward since nothing was holding it in place. They watched as Norrington looked back and realized that his ship was being sailed away.
"Sailors back to the Interceptor, now!" Norrington barked. One unfortunate sailor tried to swing to the Interceptor but was too late. He landed in the water.
Jack took off his hat and waved it at the commodore. "Thank you, Commodore, for getting us ready to make way! We'd have had a hard time of it by ourselves!" Jack shouted at the commodore, smiling victoriously.
The soldiers began shooting at them. They ducked and were soon out of range of the guns. The ship, bay, and port grew smaller and smaller as they sailed away. Anna leaned on the railing at the stern of the ship watching her home disappear on the horizon.
"Finally," she sighed and rested her head on her hand.
"What was that?" Jack asked, turning around from the wheel.
"What?" Anna asked, snapping out of her zone of happiness.
"What's so great about leaving, I mean for a woman like you. I hate it there so I'm saying the same thing," Jack rambled and mumbled more about "bloody Norrington" and "gallows."
"I hate it there too. I've hated living there since I was very young. It's very boring there," Anna said scratching her head.
Jack left it at that and started running around the ship, trying to keep it in order by himself. Will was sharpening one of his swords and Anna was sitting on a barrel looking out to the open sea.
"When I was a lad living in England, my mother raised me by herself. After she died I came out here, looking for my father," Will suddenly spoke, breaking the silence.
"Is that so?" Jack said, not caring very much. Anna on the other hand, listened. Her heart sunk after hearing that Will's mother died. She regretted saying all that she said about how much she hated her mother. 'I should be grateful I have a mother,' she said in her head.
"My father, Will Turner," Will continued, "At the jail it was only after you learned my name you agreed to help. Since that's what I wanted, I didn't press the matter. I'm not a simpleton, Jack. You knew my father."
Will had followed Jack practically across the whole deck. Jack looked annoyed that the kid caught on to why he was helping him. He sighed slightly and stood up to face Will.
"I knew 'im. Probably one of the few who knew 'im as William Turner," Jack said walking back to the wheel of the ship. "Everyone else just called 'im Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill."
Will raised one eyebrow in question, as did Anna. "Bootstrap?" Will said just above a whisper wondering what Jack was talking about.
"Good man, good pirate. I swear ye look just like 'im," Jack said turning around to face Will again for a second.
Will looked outraged. "It's not true! He was a merchant sailor! A good respectable man who obeyed the law!"
Jack turned around and nearly yelled at Will. "He was a bloody pirate, a scallywag!"
Will glared more at Jack. "My father was not a pirate!" He took his sword out and pointed it at Jack who was facing the other way.
Jack sighed and without looking back he said, "Put it away, son. It's not worth ye getting beat again."
Will kept his sword out. "You didn't beat me! You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight I would have killed you!" he said glaring at Jack.
Jack finally turned around. "Well that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then, eh?" Jack asked. He turned the wheel quickly causing a giant yard holding one of the sails, swing towards Will. Will's eyes widened. He dropped his sword and held on tight to the yard as it swung him out over the water.
Anna ran up to Jack and fought to get to the wheel to turn it so it would swing back over the ship.
"Now, now, missy, ol' Jack has a lesson to teach young Mr. Turner," Jack said pushing Anna away from the wheel.
Anna watched furiously as Jack picked up Will's sword and pointed it at him.
"Now since you're just hanging there, pay attention. The only rules that matter are these: what a man can do, and what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man, or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that someday," Jack said as Will struggled to hold on. "Now, me, for example, I can let you drown, but I can't bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesy, savvy? So…" Jack swung Will back on to the ship. Will fell hard onto the deck and Jack pointed Will's sword in his face.
"Can you sail under the command of a pirate?" Jack flipped the sword so the handle was facing Will, "Or can you not?"
Will took the sword and looked up at Jack as though questioning him. "Tortuga?"
"Tortuga," Jack said smiling.
Will stood up as Jack left him alone and went back to the wheel. Anna ran up to Will.
"Will!" he turned around to face Anna.
"Yes?" he said looking down at her.
"I-I didn't know about your mother. I just wanted to apologize for saying all the awful stuff about my mother. I'm lucky I still have mine," she said looking down at her feet.
Will sighed and halfway smiled. "Anna, it happened a long time ago. I got over it."
"But it was still rude of me," Anna said quietly.
"I forgive you," Will said smiling, "For a mother like yours, I don't really blame you. Oh, and could you ask Jack how long until we reach Tortuga?"
Anna smiled back and nodded. She walked over to Jack who was standing proudly at the wheel of the ship once again.
"How long until we reach Tortuga?" Anna asked.
Jack raised his eyebrow and peered over the wheel at her. "We'll probably get there tomorrow evening. If Will told ye to ask me that, go tell 'im not to worry 'bout 'is bonnie lass. She'll be fine."
Anna snorted. "Okay," she said shaking her head and leaving Jack at the wheel, looking out to the horizon as though he owned the entire ocean.
A/N: Hope you liked it. I wrote it as quickly as I could while my mom was yelling at me to get off the computer so I could help her make Easter baskets for all my little cousins. Please review!
