Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, except Serenity/Silver.
Summary: Commodore Norrington falls in love with Lady Serenity. But Lady Serenity is actually Silver, Captain Jack Sparrow's partner. In other words, Lady Serenity is no lady, she's a pirate. What will happen when Norrington finds that out?
Chapter 2
"There you are! Ready to except your prize?" the commodore asked as Serenity approached the dock.
"Of course!" she responded, a little too ecstaticly and quickly.
Commodore Norrington, who was admirably looking at the Unlimited, turned swiftly towards Serenity with a puzzled face.
"Oh, well, you see, um, I just got a...a...a shipment, and we need to leave as soon as possible..."
"I understand. Um, Lady Serenity, do you have any family in Port Royal?"
"No, my family died during the epidemic. But I have a very close friend, Elizabeth Swann. Actually, Elizabeth Turner, now she's about to be. Have you heard of her?"
Norrington's face filled with pain. "Yes, I've heard of her...well, shall we go to the governor's house for dinner?"
"Delighted," she said, and once Norrington turned around, she made a face, gagging and rolling her eyes in disgust.
Dinner was quite lovely, but Serenity missed the company of Elizabeth. She had already finished eating, and was dragging her food around her plate with her fork, while the commodore and the governor spoke.
Suddenly, the two of them began to furiously and urgently whisper. As if they actually had anything important to discuss, Serenity thought.
She continued to doodle on her plate when she realized the leftovers resembled a picture of a sword. She hurriedly put another serving of potatoes upon it, and swiveled it around until the sword was gone. Serenity breathed a sigh of relief.
Then Norrington cleared his throat and addressed her, for the first time since they arrived at the governor's house.
"Lady Serenity?"
"Hmm?" she mumbled, looking up from her plate.
"If I may be so bold to say, that even though we've known each other for only a mere day, this day was spectacular. I love you, Lady Serenity, and I wish to be wedded. Considering you have no living relatives, your closest family was associated with Elizabeth and Governor Swann. Therefore, he has granted me permission, and we are to be wedded tomorrow."
Serenity tried not to stare in disgust. Married? To Commodore Norrington? Have these people gone mad? I'm going to be known as Serenity Snorington in this dead town!
Her train of thought was interrupted by the commodore, who asked, "Serenity? Do you agree? Do you take my token of love?"
She smiled grimly. "Of course I do."
Lying in Elizabeth's bed, Serenity was wide-awake, trying to devise a plan to escape. After resting on the bed for 10 minutes, she got up and changed out of the frilly dress Norrington wanted her to wear and into her pirate clothes. There, I'm out of the living nightmare. She quietly crept out of her window and ran towards the only place she knew in Port Royal. The pub.
As she was running, she unconsciously reached for her side, where a sword usually was. Not finding one, she reached for her back, where two other swords were supposedly criss-crossed there. Damn it all! I've gone and left them on the bloody ship! Mumbling to herself, she broke out into an all-energy sprint.
When she finally got the pub, she was out of breath. Looking around tiredly, Serenity suddenly gasped at the sight of the entire crew sitting around, chatting and drinking.
Elizabeth heard the gasp, and turned around. "Serenity! Over here!"
Serenity walked over to the bar seats, which were all occupied by the crew.
"I...have...something important," she took a swallow of air, "to tell...you."
"Here, rest, have a drink, and sit down already!"
She turned around and ordered a whole bottle of rum for Serenity, while Serenity muttered, "Where am I supposed to sit, you smart ass?"
Will laughed, and nodded his head towards Jack, who, to Serenity's disgust, smiled and slapped his hands on his lap. She then groaned and sat down, but not before slapping Jack playfully.
"Ow luv! What was that for?"
"Well, it was for..." she started, but it was Jack who finished the sentence in a monotone expression.
"I know, I know, 'for being a disrespectful perverted man whore,' ye told me already!"
Serenity looked confused. "I have? Well then good. Keep that in mind Jack, keep it in ye mind."
"And what if I don't?"
"Well I'll be nice and give you two options. One, you can experience a slap-fest courtesy of me, or two, a stick-fest, courtesy of Anamaria."
They both looked at Anamaria, who evilly smiled and took out her stick, slapping it on her hand.
Jack jumped up from his chair and covered his head, while Serenity, who had been sitting on Jack's lap, fell on the floor.
"You little..." she started, standing up, and stepping on his foot.
"Ow luv! It was an accident!"
"Accident Smaccident, you did it on purpose!" she retorted, then smiling to herself. "Accident Smaccident. So if I do this," she declared, and smacked Jack in the face again, "I can call it a Smaccident."
"What the hell is a Smaccident?" Elizabeth said, coming back from the bathroom.
"A smack that I'm going to give Jack, but claim that it was an accident. A mix of the two words."
"Luv, that's not funny," he said, making a pouting face, while Serenity laughed.
"I have never seen you do that! Do it again!"
"What? So now I'm your entertainment too?"
She glared at him, and then turned towards Elizabeth. "E, the most terrible thing has happened..."
"You broke a nail?" Jack sarcastically said.
"NO! For your information I'm getting married!"
There was a hush of silence.
"To?" Elizabeth asked.
Serenity closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Commodore Norrington."
"But, luv, we was supposed to get married..." Jack trailed off.
"I never agreed to that. But it'd be better than this," she whispered and sighed.
"When?" Will asked.
"Tomorrow..."
"Are you kidding me? He's only known you for a day!" Elizabeth cried.
"He says he loves me, and since I told a lie about me being in the trading business and I got a shipment, he'd figure we get married before I left."
"We need a plan to get you out of this marriage and into the Pearl so we can sail off," Elizabeth announced.
The four of them thought for a while.
"Here's our plan..." Will suddenly said, and the four heads knocked together.
Minutes later, Serenity's head popped out of the circle.
"Great idea Will. But I'm not quite sure about the part where we trust Jack to bring the boat out after we've all jumped in the water."
"He'll do it," Will said, looking at Jack.
"I won't do it. It's crazy. Besides, she wants to get married..."
"No I don't! 'Member my motto? 'Marriage only ties a man down, except that I'll get tied down too!'"
"I'm not doing it!" Jack said stubbornly, taking a swig of rum.
"Do it Jack, or I'll call you a mean name!"
"What kind of mean name call you call me?" he sneered.
"Jackie Bird!"
Serenity started to laugh, while Jack widened his eyes and clamped his hand over her mouth.
"Excuse me, I have some business to attend to with Silver," he said, as he started to drag her outside.
Serenity rolled her eyes, and stepped on Jack's foot again. As he screamed in pain, she called out, "Buh-bye everyone!" Jack stopped screaming and huffed, taking Serenity out of the pub.
Once outside, he turned around towards Serenity and stared at her. "Start explaining."
"Explain what?"
"Explain how you, of all people, know what me mum calls me?"
"Oh, that...well you see..." she responded, looking at the ground.
Jack lifted her chin up so that their eyes met.
"No, I don't see."
"It was in a letter!" she blurted out. When she saw Jack's puzzled face, she added, "A letter from your mum. I found it in your desk. She put in it, 'Dear my Jackie Bird,' but I completely forgot about it until tonight, I swear!"
He laughed, and while he did so, she slipped out of his grip and started to run for the governor's house.
"Silver, wait!"
Serenity spun around and stomped back to Jack. "Don't call me that! In case that round thing that sits under that wannabe pirate hat of yours doesn't know, Snorington already knows that we're partners!"
"You obviously haven't told him that, now have you? It might be an easier plan than all of this!" Jack said smirking. Suddenly he frowned again and said, "Hey, me hat is not a wannabe pirate hat!"
"Oh yeah, I'm going to tell the man who's out to murder you and me that I'm Silver the pirate, and you really expect that he's going to let me go and not marry me? Of course he won't marry me, but he won't let me go. I'll end up in jail...or I'll be dead if I don't tell him where you are."
Jack panicked and said, "But you're not going to tell him, are ye?"
She sighed. "Jack, I don't know. I just don't know."
"But I love ye..."
"But you also love thousands of other women too Jack."
"But I love ye a lot!"
"G'night Jack!" she said, turning around once more to leave.
"Sil...I mean Serenity!"
Suddenly, a flock of chickens ran through the street. One connected its head to Serenity's ankle.
"Ouch! Come back here you stupid chicken!" she cried, trying to kick it, but missing. She fell down.
She struggled to get up, but failed. Jack chuckled, walked towards her, and picked her up bride-style.
"Jack, put me down this instant!" she yelled, trying to wiggle out of his arms. But he was too strong, and she was too tired.
"What, you wanted me to leave you laying in the middle of the street luv?"
"I would've gotten up sometime sooner or later!" she said pouting.
"That's what you think. Your ankle's broken luv.
"Well, now it's better."
"Okay then."
A long period of quiet occurred, and then Serenity put her arms around Jack's neck and put her lips next to his ear. "If it's okay, put me down."
Jack blushed, and gently lowered Serenity to the ground.
She looked across the street at the water, then up at the moon. Serenity started to shiver.
"What's wrong luv?"
"I'm cold. Doesn't the shivering make things obvious? Or must I paint you a sign?"
Jack chose to ignore this comment and wrapped his arms around her. "Better?"
"Mmm..." she mumured, closing her eyes. They stood like that for a while, when suddenly Serenity broke away from Jack's grasp.
"I have...have to..."
"Go. See you in the morning luv," he responded.
"You're going to bring the ship out tomorrow?" she questioned.
"I'll do it. Savvy?"
Serenity nodded her head and gave Jack a departing kiss on his lips. "G'night Jack."
The next morning, Serenity and Commodore Norrington were taking a morning stroll in the park, when Serenity turned towards Norrington and asked, "Can we have a small, private wedding? Just a couple of friends?"
"B-but, Lady Serenity, I sent out invitations to over a thousand people. We can't just tell them 'no' at the last minute!" he stammered.
Yes we can, she thought. "Where is the wedding supposedly taking place?"
"Port Royal Catholic Church..."
"Then we'll just be the runaway couple. We'll get married elsewhere..."
"Where?" the commodore cried increduously.
"There!" Serenity said, pointing towards a cliff. "Sun Peak. I want to get married at sunset at Sun Peak. Isn't that romantic, honey?" Serenity forcefully squeaked the last word out.
"It looks quite dangerous...I don't want you falling in..."
"My love, we aren't getting married with our eyes closed! We'll be able to see perfectly, and besides, two coordinated people about to get married will certainly not fall off a measley cliff. So please?" she whined.
"Of course my darling," Norrington responded, smiling down upon his future bride.
"Oh, and commodore?"
"Yes?"
"My dear friend Elizabeth is conviently in town. I ask your permission for her to be my one and only bridesmaid, and for her fiance to be your best man."
Norrington's smile vanished. "Of course, if it is what my beautiful wants. And if it makes you happy."
"Oh, I'm happy." Very happy indeed...
Wahoo! The plan is starting to take shape. My fave part of this chapter was all the dialogue between Serenity and Jack. I hoped you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing and rereading it! Please review! Me loves your input!