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Nigh on an hour later, Jack staggered back to the beach with a coil of vines on his arm. Will unloaded Jack before he collapsed to the sand and Tori began to wrap the raft.

"We're going to need oars." Will said suddenly. Tori sat back on her heels and looked up at him.

"Is there anything we can use, or carve?" she asked, eyeing the extra driftwood. Simultaneously, Will and Tori turned to look at the napping Captain Sparrow. He pushed his hat back off his eyes and assessed their calculating appearances.

"Oh no. I brought the vines remember? The rope!"

Thirty seconds later, Captain Jack Sparrow was hacking at the spare driftwood with his knife, muttering again about there 'being a bloody reason women were considered bad luck.'

"I think that's the last one." Will announced as the last vine was secured. "Too bad we don't have a mast and sails."

"You can use her skirt." Jack suggested, carrying the pair of oars over.

"Well, it-"

"No." Tori cut him off shortly.

"-would help." Will finished lamely under Tori's glare. "Let's see if she floats."

Will and Jack pushed the raft out into the sea where it bobbed neatly.

"Looks solid." Jack commented, and climbed aboard. He stood and jumped a few times before proclaiming it "perfectly suitable."

Will and Tori waded out, and Will helped Tori aboard.

"You navigate, Jack and I can man the oars."

"We can?" Jack asked dubiously. Will handed him an oar meaningfully.

"We can trade off if you'd like." Tori offered, but Will shook his head. She shrugged, and the unlikely trio set out for Port Roi.

"A little more east, ease off starboard side," The girl instructed them, "Then hard a-port after these rocks."

They passed a peak with a dead tree dangling a skeleton, and Jack and Tori bowed their heads in respect until they turned the corner.

"Here, land over there. See that little house?" A small house lay back in a narrow cove of rocks half-hidden by beach-shrubs and trees. They beached the raft and followed Tori to the cliffs.

"Where exactly are we going?" Will asked Jack, who shrugged

"Unless that wench has got a ship up her sleeve, we had better be heading for a port so we can commandeer one."

Will looked over at Jack, amused. "You just like stealing ships don't you?"

"Commandeering, Will." Jack corrected him. "A new ship's a new set of wings, and I'd love to fly back to my own."

They stopped abruptly behind Tori just outside the entrance to a hidden grotto.

"Why'r we stopped?" Jack moved to walk past Tori, but halted in mid-stride at the sound of a splash. "There's someone in there." He noted obviously.

Tori nodded worriedly.

"They're not supposed to be in there."

Tori shook her head vehemently.

"They're humming rather out of tune."

Tori started to nod, then checked herself with a bit of a start as an off-key pirate warble floated out of the cavern.

"Right, there's likely only one or two of them." Jack began to formulate the plan animatedly with his hands. "Will take the left, I'll take the right and Tori'll- Tori?"

Their guide was already creeping into the cavern and quietly wading towards the sounds.

"Tori, Tori!" Jack hissed, but she didn't hear.

"I suppose we'll have to go in after her." Will observed.

"Right, we'll go in-" once again Jack's words were wasted as Will dashed off into the cave.

"Why do'I bother?" Jack asked no one in particular, and raced in after his mates, balancing carefully along the narrow natural walkways along the walls during low tide. They were apparently headed for a big, bulky shadow that appeared to be a small vessel maybe 30 feet in length. When Jack looked up again, Tori was already scaling the sides. The humming ceased, and after a brief moment was replaced by a piercing shriek that echoed off the walls of the cavern.

Jack and Will exchanged a panicked glance and threw caution to the wind as they raced through the water towards the ship to save her.

Sorry so short! begs forgiveness