"He is here."
"What?"
"He is here, I can feel it."
"Where?" Norrington looked around, obviously nervous.
"I don't know, but he is very close."
Angela and Norrington were walking along the docks, Norrington held his arm around her waist, he wasn't very comfortable with that but it made them look like the pirate and prostitute they pretended to be. He looks so different without that wig, so young.
He really did, without the wig he looked at least 10 years younger and much more relaxed than usual. Angela thought he looked rather handsome with his brown hair and blue eyes.
She smiled; Norrington had hardly taken the wig off his head before Jack took it and ran around on deck with it trying to put it on everybody's head. He is so immature.
But it had been funny, especially when Norrington tried to get it back and almost fell overboard. Angela tried, she really did, but she couldn't help herself from laughing.
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing James, I'm sorry." She bit herself in the lip, trying not to laugh again.
"I doubt that this is the right time to be laughing, miss."
"I said I was sorry, and please don't call me miss."
When Norrington didn't see her she put her tongue out at him.
They kept walking and for every step Angela felt "its" present stronger and stronger.
Norrington noticed that Angela wasn't feeling alright, she was breathing heavily, walking much slower and her grip on Norringtons arm got harder by the minute. He could see that she was very pale and suddenly she fell to the ground.
"Oh god! Angela, are you alright?"
Angela didn't answer her hands where shaking and she was gasping for air; Norrington didn't know what to do. After a couple of minutes Angela turned around, lying on her back in the sand with her eyes shut, she was breathing normally and wasn't shaking anymore.
"Angela…?"
Angela opened her eyes and with help from Norrington she got up to her feet.
"What happened?"
"He is too close, I can't push him away, he was inside my head."
"We'd better find Mr Sparrow."
Angela nodded, not able to say anything.
Norrington held the young woman around her waist again and noticed how cold she was. They walked for a few minutes before Angela suddenly stopped.
"What is it?"
"That ship!" She pointed at a large ship in the harbour.
"He is in there that is his ship!"
"Are you sure?" Angela nodded.
"That's impossible." Norrington stared at the ship. "I know what ship that is. That's The HMS Undaunted, a ship of the British Navy that was attacked by pirates a few mounts
ago…but…they sank her…" Norrington was obviously confused.
"Apparently they didn't, since she is here."
"No, I guess you're right. And that is her, I know it is! Come on, I think I know where Mr Sparrow is." Norrington helped Angela since she still was very weak. After a few minutes they where surrounded by drunk pirates and prostitutes. Norrington looked around, searching for something, and suddenly he stopped.
"In here." They were standing outside a tavern,The Faithful Bride.
"He said that we should meet in here if we found anything."
"Why am I not surprised?" Norrington just laughed.
It was hard to see anything inside the tavern; it was dark even though there were candles everywhere. It was almost impossible to hear anything, the place was filled with drunken pirates fighting, drinking, playing cards or making out with prostitutes but there was no sign of Jack. Angela was so fascinated by the atmosphere in the tavern that she almost forgot to look for him, Norrington on the other hand didn't like it at all, he nearly forgot the agreement he had with Jack, that he was not allowed ever to return to Tortuga to arrest pirates.
Angela and Norrington went further into the tavern; in the back it wasn't as crowded.
"Can you see him?"
Angela didn't get a chance to answer, two drunken pirates started to fight right next to them and Angela had to throw herself into Norringtons arms to avoid getting stabbed with a knife.
"Are you alright?"
"Yes I'm fine."
"'s this a part of your act or are the two of you jus' having a good time?" Mr Gibbs was sitting at the table next to them. Angela who suddenly realized in wich position they were standing quickly moved away. She didn't need to see Norringtons face to know that he was just as embarrassed as she was.
"We were just looking for Mr Sparrow, have you seen him?
"Jack? He should be here somewhere; he'll show up sooner or later. Sit Commodore and 'ave a drink with me."
"Don't call me that, no one in here is supposed to know who I am.
"Aye, if ye say so mate. But sit down 'ave a drink. No fun drinking alone, right miss?"
"I don't drink. And I really don't think that you should either, we are here on a quest, remember? You know what, the two of you can sit here and drink and I'll go look for Jack." Norrington turned back to Angela again.
"You don't have to look for him, he is over there."
"What? Where?" Angela turned around and froze.
She saw Jack sitting by a table surrounded by other pirates, and with a young woman sitting on his lap, laughing, flirting, having her hands where they really shouldn't be…
She had her long brown hair tied up in a knob with a blue silk-ribbon, Angela could see that she was very pretty. The young woman pulled down the sleeve on her beige-white dress a bit reviling a bare shoulder, then she put her arms around Jacks neck and kissed him, a very long kiss, too long. And the whole time Angela just stood there.
"Maybe we should talk to him later?" Norrington stared at Jack and the girl as well.
"No, we should talk to him, now!" Angela was furious. She turned to Gibbs.
"Can I borrow this?" Without waiting for his answer she took his cup with rum and walked over to Jacks table.
"Hi." The girl turned away from Jacks lips and looked up at Angela, so did Jack. Then Angela poured out the rum in Jacks lap, he got up to his feet so fast that the young woman fell to the floor. "Thought you'd 'wanna cool down a bit." Angela smiled in triumph for a second before slapping Jack hard across the face.
"You're on your own, mate." Then she dropped the cup and quickly walked away.
Norrington grabbed her arm as she passed him and Gibbs.
"What…?"
"You can tell Captain Jack Sparrow that I don't want to have anything to do with him, ever again!" And with that, she pulled away and left the tavern.
Norrington didn't know what to think, he turned to Gibbs, the other man looked just as shocked as he felt.
Jack helped the woman off the floor; she immediately took her handkerchief and started to wipe his pants dry.
"Not now love." He pushed her away, the woman looked insulted but then started to look for her other black shoe that she lost when she fell from Jacks lap. Jack hurried after Angela but he was stopped by Norrington.
"What do you think that you're doing? Angela just left."
"Yes, I noticed that."
"I hope that you have a very good explanation why she got so upset over…over this."
"I'll tell you abou' it later but now, we really must go after her."
The three men left the tavern, outside they met Will and Elizabeth, Elizabeth didn't look too comfortable in her grey dress that showed her bare shoulders. Will looked rather amused when he saw Jacks pants.
"What have you…?"
"It's rum." Jack grunted.
"Have the two of you seen Angela?"
"Yes, James, we just saw her." Elizabeth said without taking her eyes of Jacks pants.
"Oh good, where did she go? And could the two of you stop staring at my pants!
"Sorry
Jack. She was walking in that direction." Will pointed. "She
looked rather upset, so, you mind telling us why?"
"In fact, I
do mind, but I guess I don' 'ave a choice. She saw me, um…talking
to a girl…Melissa…I think. And then she got angry for some
reason, slapped me and poured out rum in my lap. There, now you 'ave
it!"
"Talking?" Norrington rolled his eyes. "How could you
say a single word with your tongue in that girl's mouth?" Jack
didn't answer.
"Can we just go; it's not safe for 'er to run around in Tortuga all alone."
"You're right Sparrow, Elizabeth, I think it would be best if you stayed here with Mr Gibbs."
Elizabeth opened her mouth to protest but closed it again when she saw how worried Norrington looked, something was obviously wrong.
"Just hurry, and be careful."
"We will, I promise." Will gave her a quick kiss and then he, Jack and Norrington left Elizabeth and Gibbs to go look for Angela.
How could he do this to me? And how could I have been so stupid?
Angela nearly walked into an old man.
"I'm sorry." The drunk, dirty old man just smiled at her, Angela hurried away.
Oh this is great, very good, you're lost, you're lost in a town like Tortuga.
Angela sighed. "I'd better get back to the Pearl"
She turned around to go back but in the next second someone grabbed her arm and started to pull her inside a building. She couldn't scream since he held a hand over her mouth. It was dark inside. Angela was forced to sit down on a chair, someone was holding her arms.
Then she saw a light from a torch in the other end of the room. She looked around, the room was filled with barrels, Angela didn't need to guess what was in them.
Jack would love this room…
Two men were holding her arms, but Angela couldn't' see their faces, but she could see the man holding the torch. The tall black man couldn't be any other man but the Bo'Sun from Barbossas crew. One of the men took away his hand from her mouth, Angela turned her head.
"Pintel? Ragetti?" The two men seemed shocked by the fact that she knew who they were.
"Ah, you know each other, but what about me? Do you know me as well?"
A man stepped out of the shadows, accompanied by a man who more looked like a rat than a man, Twigg. She had never seen the other man before, he had hardly any hair on his head, but instead he had a long blond beard. His eyes were small with a strange grey colour. And when he smiled, Angela could see that he had lost several of his teeth.
"No, I don't recognise you, how could I ever forget a face like yours? A face that ugly and disgusting." The smile disappeared from his face; he stepped over to her and slapped her.
"Whores should not speak." His breath was awful.
"I don't understand what a pretty girl like yourself is doing with that no-good Jack Sparrow. I have an offer for you, and I'll pay you of course, more than he ever could."
"No thank you."
"You haven't heard my offer yet."
"Don't need to." Then the man picked up his knife and held it close to her cheek.
"I think you do. You know Jack Sparrow, he trusts you, and we want to…talk to him. So, if you just go over to him and make him come to us, here, and you will be rewarded.
"Never." Then Angela did something that can be called both stupid and brave, she spit him right in the face, which resulted in him slapping her again.
"You should be very careful." He held the knife right in front of her eye. "Or we can have it your way, go on, scream, scream until he comes." Angela didn't move or made a sound.
"Fine, we can make you scream if you prefer that." He let the knife slide down her cheek, her throat, and let it stop by her breasts. He grinned started to cut threw the laces on her dress, Angela could hardly breathe, she felt the cold knife on her skin as he kept cutting of the laces.
"Um, sir? We can't stay here much longer, what if someone comes? And he told us to hurry…" It was the Bo'Sun who spoke.
"I know! But I think we have time to have a little fun with this one." He started to laugh.
So did the others, Angela felt how Pintel and Ragetti were holding her a lot looser than before. So she took her chance and kicked the man with the knife right between the legs, then got out of the chair so fast that neither Pintel nor Ragetti could hold her and quickly ran out of the building. Outside Angela slipped and fell to the ground. She tried to get up but her left leg was hurting to much. She looked up and saw, Jack, Will and Norrington. All three started to walk towards her, Angela heard the pirates behind her and knew that they would see them so she shook her head and mimed: No! Norrington and Will just stared at her, but Jack understood, he pulled the other two with him, behind a house. The next second the other pirates showed up behind her, she turned around so that she was lying on her back.
"Very funny miss, but we don't have time for this." The man with the knife pulled her up so that she was standing.
"Take her." He nodded to the Bo'Sun and he hit Angela in the back of her head with the hilt of his sword, then took her on his shoulder.
"I love women, especially when they are quiet." The man with knife started laughing.
"Come on!"
The pirates left with Angela, leaving Jack, Will and Norrington shocked behind them.
