Angela told Jack everything, well, almost. She didn't tell him about what they did to her, she didn't feel that was important enough and she was embarrassed, she was ashamed of her brand and didn't want Jack or anyone else to know about it.

Jack walked around in the cabin, muttering to himself.

"He can't be back…he can't…not possible…"

He suddenly stopped, grabbed Angela's shoulders but let go when he heard her gasp, her shoulders where hurting as well.

"I'm sorry…but are you sure it was him?"

"Of course I'm sure! It is Barbossa, he is back, that's the truth, so is everything else I've told you." She took a deep breath. "You believe me don't you?"

"Aye…But it can't be! Dammit!" What are we going to do now?" Jack turned from her.

"I don't know." Angela sighed and stood up, still dizzy but she didn't fall this time.

"Jack I'm so sorry." She placed her hand on his arm, he turned around again.

"Sorry, abou' what?"

"This is all my fault." Angela sat down on the bed again, Jack sat down beside her.

"How can any of this be your fault?"

"If it wasn't for me, Barbossa wouldn't be as strong as he is. If I hadn't left the ship, I could have stopped him. But now I put you into more danger! I…"

Jack pressed his finger over her lip

"Don' blame yerself. Ye 'ave already done enough. If it hadn't been for you, we wouldn't even know about his planes right now. We wouldn't know that he's going to attack Port Royal."

"Maybe not, but there isn't anything we can do to stop them." Angela sighed. "But we have to. I know what will happen if we fail, I've seen it. The whole town will burn, no survivors, only ruins will remain." Suddenly, Angela came to think of something she had read a long time ago. "Wait a minute; I just remembered something. A few years ago I bought this book about pirates, in that book I read about the town of Port Royal. The Governor of Port Royal let pirates go in and out of the town 'cause he thought they would protect him from the Spanish." Jack raised an eyebrow. "But in the year of 1692 the town was destroyed in an earthquake and people said it was Gods punishment to the Governor for his alliance with the pirates. But what if it wasn't an earthquake? What if what really happened was Barbossa, I mean…do I make any sense?"

Jack nodded and Angela continued. "If we stop him we'll change history. Maybe that's why I was sent here, maybe Port Royal wasn't meant to burn."

"Wait, ye jus' said it was destroyed in an earthquake, but Barbossa is planning to burn it down." Angela stood up again and started to walk around the cabin.

"Yes, but Barbossa has his god friends, or something, on his side, maybe they covered up his tracks? I don't know."

"Ye sure know a lot more than me."

"Unfortunately…" Angela suddenly started swaying; Jack stood up and put his arm around her waist. Angela pulled away; she still hadn't forgotten about Jacks little adventure at the Faithful Bride.

"Jus' get some rest now."

"I can't."

"Ye must. Just stay here trough the battle…"

"Wait a minute! You're not seriously thinking about fighting them are you?"

"O' course I am, there's no other thing to do."

"You can't fight them, haven't you listen to a word I just said? If you fight them…We can't win!" Jack sighed.

"We don' 'ave a choice. We can't let 'em get away."

"But you'll have us all killed!" Angela sighed. "But, you're right; we can't let them get away. They'll attack Port Royal anyways, and I doubt Barbossa will let either one of us get away."

"Come on, get some rest now."

"I can't, have things to do."

"What things?" Jack smiled and looked suspicious.

"I'm going to ask Will if he can train me a little more, I'm not as good with a sword as with my fists. That training I got on our way to Tortuga wasn't nearly enough."

She smiled and walked towards the door, but as she passed him, Jack grabbed her arm.

"Don' tell the men. They don't need to know about Barbossa before 's necessary."

"Isn't that really stupid, and unfair."
"It's better that they walk in to a battle believing they can win, then crawl in to it terrified." He sighed. "We'll probably not stand a bloody chance anyway, it doesn't matter, we have to fight back! We have to…"

The Pearl caught up with the Undaunted shortly after, but to Angela's surprise didn't Barbossa and his men fire the cannons, neither did Jack. Complete silence fell over the ocean as the two ships slowly slid next to each other.

Then it all happened so fast, like an explosion. Men from both ships started shooting, pirates from both sides started to board the ships and the sounds of pistols being fired, blades crossing and men screaming echoed across the sea.

Angela's fists came in handy though when she lost her sword during the battle. The poor pirate didn't see it coming when she broke his nose with one punch.

Elizabeth had become really good at handling a sword and Norrington wasn't the easiest man to attack. Angela noticed something during the battle, Will, Norrington and Jack were all three very good fighters, but so different. Will could handle a sword better than anyone she'd ever seen, Jack on the other hand moved fast and, with luck, avoided his opponents sword, Norrington stood almost still using his sword both as weapon and shield, fighting pirate after pirate. Everyone off Jacks crew fought well, but the Barbossa's crew outnumbered them, without killing either of them. Angela figured that Barbossa had told them that he needed all of them alive to his sacrifice. But, where was Barbossa anyway, he wasn't fighting like the rest.

"Come on!"

Angela was forced back onboard the Pearl by Squalor, who was holding a knife to her throat.

The rest of Jack's crew, including Norrington, was already tied up, lying or sitting on the ship deck, except for Jack, he had just been given a hard punch in the face by Twigg and nearly fell, but was forced to stand up by Tearlach and Kursar. Squalor suddenly turned Angela around so she faced him.

"Already back, miss? I knew ye couldn't stay away from me too long." He and the other pirates started laughing and Twigg gave Jack another hard punch. Angela got furious and tried to pull away, and to her big surprise he just let her go, and she stepped away from him as fast as she could.

"Barbossa you big son of a bitch, where the hell are you! Get your ass out here!" Angela had never been so angry in her whole life. She didn't notice the confused looks on her friends' faces, the only thing she looked for was Barbossa...

"Where are you?"

"Well, I didn' know ye missed me that much." Angela turned around, there he was, she could hear several people gasp. (Elizabeth shouted: Oh no!) But Angela was to angry to react to their shock, she stepped forward, ready to punch Barbossa, but he caught her hand pushed her back into Squalors arms. She realized struggling would be useless since he held the knife to her throat again. Barbossa walked to Jack with a big, ugly grin on his face.

"So we meet again Jack, and you'll regret it." He pulled up his pistol.

"I'm sure is glad ye brought Angela here with ye, we sure has missed 'er company." He started laughing.

"If ye you touched her…"

"You'll do what? Kill me, again? No, Jack, ye see, it's different this time." He put his arm around Jacks shoulder, more as if he were his friend than his enemy, and made Jack follow him over to the rail. "This time I'm going to watch you die, and I'll enjoy it, a lot."

He left Jack at the rail and walked back, standing three feet away from Angela.

"But how? Which way would be the best one to finish ye off? I suppose I could bring ye along, make you watch me kill each and every one of yer friends, but, ye'd probably escape and destroy everything for me, again. So, turn around Jack, and look." Jack turned around. "Recognise where we are yet? You if anyone should, how many times have you visited that Island I gave you?" Jack didn't answer him.

"I guess I jus' could leave you there to die, like before. But, you'd probably conjure up another miraculous escape, so" he pulled up his pistol, "I think it's best that we finish it right here." He aimed, but in the same second as he fired Angela pushed away Squalors hand, leaped forward and before Squalor or anyone else had a chance to react she pushed Barbossa, but too late, he had already fired. Angela could hear Jack being hit, he gasped and fell over the rail.

"No!" Jack…!

Barbossa pushed Angela away from him and the same second she hit the deck Jacks body hit the water. Quickly Angela got back up on her feet and without thinking she jumped over the rail and down into the deep Caribbean ocean…

Pain…pain fading away...and darkness…floating, not breathing…is what it's like to be dead?

Then it wasn't so bad…He couldn't move, didn't seem to remember how…

Then suddenly, a shadow above him, what was that?

A mermaid…of course it was…he had heard about mermaids many times…so beautiful she was…she reached for him, if he knew how he would have reached out his hand as well, but he didn't...He felt her put her arms around him, taking him with her…

He was so heavy, but Angela kept swimming. I will not loose him!

Then, Angela reached the surface and took a deep breath, air filled her lounges and she started coughing. The next second she heard someone coughing right next to her.

"Jack? Are you all right?" He took a few deep breaths before answering.

"I think so…"

"Thank God, I thought you where…I mean, he shot you. And.."

"I said I'm all right!" He turned around and noticed how far away from the Pearl they were. "I don' think they can see us. Come on."

"Can you swim?"

"Aye…"

And so the two of them started to swim towards the island…

He looked out over the ocean, the sun burning, watching his ship disappearing in the horizon. A great feeling of sorrow was growing inside of him, like black hole expanding in his chest.

He had lost, it was all over now.

He had lost…