Scene 8: Return to Port Royal

The next morning, Port Royal was visible on the horizon. Everyone was up and cleaning the ship before they pulled into harbor at Port Royal. Elizabeth was busy polishing her boots as well as Will's while Jack oversaw the swabbing of the decks. Over on the Phantom, Isabella was in her cabin, dressing in her best shirt and pants, putting on freshly polished boots and brushing her hair. She then set to work out on the quarter deck polishing and sharpening her sword.

"Will! Your boots are done!" Elizabeth called over to Will.

"Excellent. I'll get 'em in a minute!" Will replied. Elizabeth turned to face Jack.

"Jack! Do ya want me to clean yours?" Elizabeth offered.

"Naw, they're fine." Jack replied as he studied his dusty black boots on his feet. "I'm a pirate, not the Head of State." Elizabeth laughed at Jack's never-changing stubbornness.

"Alright, have it your way." Isabella swung over to the Pearl, freshly sharpened and polished sword at her waist, just as Jack lit up a cigarette.

"Must you smoke that, Jack?" Jack exhaled a cloud of smoke over her head.

"Yes, it's a habit." he replied stubbornly. Isabella rolled her eyes at him.

"I give up." About four hours later, the two pirate ships pulled into Port Royal. The Pearl and the Phantom looked incredible. Elizabeth could see and hear the BRN drilling on the battlements high above, and spotted her almost fiancé James Norrington.

"Well Will, we're home." Elizabeth sighed.

"Yea. . .It's been so long, I've nearly forgotten what it looks like." Will replied as he rested a hand on Elizabeth's shoulder.

"Same here. . .Jack? Do you mind if I went and visited my father?" Elizabeth asked, turning to the pirate captain who had brought her home.

"That's why we're here, aint it? I wasn't plannin' on stayin' on this ship the whole time, and I doubt you were either." Jack replied.

"You're right about that." Elizabeth smiled. The crew lowered the long boats and the crews of both ships pulled the monstrous ships into harbor where they tied off. Elizabeth and Will waked down the gangplank arm in arm, he was in a nice shirt and pants with a pirate sword at his belt while she was in a long dress and hat and carried a parasol. Jack and Isabella came down from their own ships and met up on the docks and followed behind Will and Elizabeth, both wearing pirate garb (author: what else is new?). Once at the battlements, Elizabeth called out to Norrington.

"James!" Upon hearing Elizabeth's voice, Norrington turned from drilling and faced the approaching party.

"Elizabeth?! Oh my god! It's you!"

"Yes, it's me." Elizabeth replied smiling. She extended her hand to him and he bent over and kissed her fingertips. He greeted Will with a handshake and they began talking.

"There's the scaffold they near hung me on." Jack told Isabella.

"Is that the man whom ye were referrin' to?" Isabella asked, nodding towards Norrington.

"Yea, that's Norrin'ton." Jack said. That's when Norrington noticed Jack and Isabella over Will's shoulder.

"Well well well, Jack Sparrow. What on earth are you doing here?" Norrington asked none to happy to see two pirates.

"We've been over this, Commodore, it's Captain Jack Sparrow. And I 'ave escorted the young Miss Swann here t' Port Royal." Jack informed Norrington stiffly.

"Once again, I don't see a ship." Norrington smirked.

"Look down there." Jack replied smartly and with a grin. He pointed to the Pearl that sat tied in the harbor.

"Ahh. I see you got your ship back." Norrington noticed.

"Indeed." was Jack's only response. Norrington's eyes traveled from Jack to Isabella.

"And who is this intriguing woman?"

"Captain Isabella von Tassel, notorious female pirate and captain of the Midnight Phantom." Isabella snapped the introduction. She didn't like how Norrington treated Jack, so she decided not to treat him kindly either.

"She also happens to be my girlfriend." Jack put in.
"I see." Norrington turned back to Will and Elizabeth. Seeing this as his opportunity, Jack flipped "the finger" at Norrington's back. Isabella playfully swatted his arm down.

"So, Elizabeth, Will, what brings you back here?" Norrington asked, completely oblivious to what Jack had just done behind his back.

"I wanted to visit my father and you, so Captain Sparrow sailed us here and Captain von Tassel escorted our ship." Elizabeth informed him.

"I see. And have you visited your father yet?" Norrington inquired.

"Actually we just got here." Will replied.

"Well, I must return to drilling, but I hope to see you again, Elizabeth, Will." Norrington said, bidding the two farewell.

"Same to you, James." Elizabeth replied. They left the battlements and walked through the center of town on their way to the Governor's Mansion.

"Wow, my house looks a lot bigger than I remember." Elizabeth said once they reached the top of her enormous sloping driveway.

"This is yer house?" Jack asked as he looked at the massive house that now stood in front of him.

"Yea. Like it?" Elizabeth replied.

"It's. . .big." was Jack's only response. Elizabeth removed a necklace with a gold key on it from her neck and unlocked the front door. She lead the little party through the expansive hallways of the enormous mansion back to her father's study.

"Daddy?" Elizabeth called through the open door. Governor Swann turned to see his daughter and Will standing in the doorway.

"Elizabeth! Will!" He rose and crossed the room swiftly. He wrapped one arm around his daughter and shook Will's hand with the other. "What. . .how'd you get here?"

"Thanks to Jack." Will replied.

"Jack who?" Governor Swann asked in confusion.

"Jack Sparrow." Jack replied as he stepped into the room with Isabella. Governor Swann was shocked to see the pirate captain.

"Captain Sparrow. . . you brought my daughter home. Unharmed." Swann managed to say.

"Yes, and I was hoping to bring peace between us by bringing your daughter home for a visit, unharmed. And I brought you this, as a payment for my faults when I was here last." Jack presented the sword of Barbossa to the governor. "This is the sword of the man who instructed the raid on your town, Captain Barbossa."

"Lovely sword. The man is dead though, yes?" Swann asked as he examined.

"Yes, he is. I hope ye accept this as me full apology." Jack replied.

"Well, I must admit, when you came back for Will and took Elizabeth as well, I planned to have Norrington after you to get her back. But something came over me and I concluded that maybe she wouldn't be harmed, and perhaps one day she would return home." Swann responded, a small smile on his face.

"So, you accept Jack's proposal of peace between all pirates under Jack and Isabella, and Port Royal?" Elizabeth asked her father.

"Who's Isabella?" Swann asked.

"That would be me. Captain Isabella von Tassel, sir." Isabella replied as she stepped from Jack's arm and bowed her head briefly.

"Seeing as you clearly put forth a great effort to get my daughter home, captains, I think there's room in our list of peace treaties for one more." Swann replied.

"Well in that case, drinks all around!" Jack exclaimed, relieved that he wasn't about to be arrested for some stupid crime he didn't commit or something.

"Jack, hon, I think the sun's gotten t' yer 'ead again." Isabella said, rolling her eyes.

"Actually, I propose a feast in honor of my daughter's return and Will's return as well." Swann replied.

"Like I said, drinks all around!" Jack said once again. Everyone laughed, Elizabeth and Isabella rolled their eyes, but laughed as well.

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