Author's Note:

Oh my god, I saw the trailer for Pirates Of The Caribbean 2! It was amazing! It was before Narnia which I thought was incredible anyway so everyone should go see it. Captain Jack is back!

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Chapter #11

I left Elizabeth and set out to do what I'd said I would. I still wasn't exactly sure why I'd agree to do this at all. I thought about it as I snuck off the ship.

It took me a surprisingly long time to sneak off the ship.

Not because it was particularly hard but because there was some food set out in a room I passed on my way out. It was really yummy!

I met Jack as I rowed up to the cave. I wasn't thrilled about being back at the cave. It was creepy and full of murderous pirates. Once again I had to wonder how I'd been roped into this.

"What are you doing out here missy?" Jack asked, surprised to see me.

"I don't know," I told him truthfully, "it made sense when Elizabeth explained it." Jack started laughing at me. "Stop it," I told him sulkily.

"You know I have gullible tattooed on my hand," he said seriously.

"Really?"

"Of course not," he said whacking me in the shoulder, "you can't just believe whatever anybody tells you."

"Okay," I said, "now let's get those pirates and save Will. By the way why do the pirates want Will?"

"Because they need to spill his blood in order to break the curse on them that makes then live a half-life." My mouth dropped open.

Then common sense caught up with me.

"Oh Jack," I laughed, "you almost had me."

"Umm-" Jack began. But at that moment we turned the corner we saw all of the pirates. They were chanting and Barbossa was in the middle of a speech.

Bold as can be Jack began pushing his way though the pirates.

"Beg your pardon." Jack said. "Excuse me." As he went through the pirates who had seen us stopped chanting and stared in horror.

Then Barbossa saw us. He stopped speaking and stared as almost all of the chanting stopped at once.

"Jack!" Will cried. I noticed that he hadn't called my name out. I felt a little miffed. Of course Will and I hadn't actually met once during this little adventure but it didn't stop me from feeling ignored.

"It's not possible," Barbossa whispered.

"Not probable," Jack countered.

"And yet," I said, "here we are."

"Where's Elizabeth?" Will asked.

"She's safe," Jack told him, "just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, jus like she promised. And you get to die for it just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really. Except for Elizabeth who is in fact a woman."

"What about me?" I asked offended.

"What did you promise?" Jack asked me.

"I promised that I'd make sure Will here was okay. Which he is."

"He is not!" Jack exclaimed.

"Well he's obviously not dead. Are you Will?"

"Who are you?" Will asked me.

"I'm Maggie," I snapped at him, "we've met before. At least once I think."

"Shut up!" Barbossa yelled. "You two are next!" Barbossa took his knife and got ready to slice Will's throat open.

"Uh Jack," I whispered, "do we have a plan to keep Will alive so Elizabeth won't kill me? And a plan to keep us alive would probably be helpful as well."

"Don't worry," he whispered, "I have a plan."

"Wait a second," I started having a horrible feeling as if I'd done this before.

"You don't want to be doing that mate," Jack said loudly to Barbossa.

"No I really think I do," he answered.

"I'm still not sure why you want to do that," I grumbled.

"You funeral," Jack told Barbossa with a shrug. Barbossa rolled his eyes and turned to look at Jack.

"Why," he asked, "don't I want to be doing it?"

"Well because," Jack slapped a pirate's hand off of his shoulder, "because the HMS Dauntless, pride of the royal navy, is floating just off shore, waiting for you." The pirates muttered, worried.

"Just for you," I added, "don't you feel special? And guess who led them here?" Jack kicked the back of my leg. Hard. "Not us. Someone you've never met."

"Just hear me out mate," Jack said to Barbossa trying to keep Barbossa from thinking of what I'd said. He had hopped up right next to Barbossa. I followed afraid to be alone surrounded by pirates. "You order your men to row out to the Dauntless. They do what they do best." The pirates laughed. I joined them, just so I wouldn't be left out. "Robert's your uncle, Fannie's your aunt-"

"What?" I said to Will. He ignored me. I got the impression he didn't like me.

"-the makings of your very own fleet." Jack was saying. "Of course you'll take the grandest as your flagship, and who's to argue? But what of the Pearl?"

"Yeah," I added, "what of the Pearl?"

"Name me captain," he continued, "I'll sail under your colors. I'll give you 10 of me plunders."

"A win-win situation," I concluded clapping my hands together.

"And you get to introduce yourself as Commodore Barbossa. Savy?"

"It has a nice ring to it," I told Barbossa.

"I suppose in exchange you want me not to kill the whelp?" Barbossa asked. I nodded but Jack spoke before I could.

"No, no, no." Jack said making me nearly fall over from shock, "Not at all. By all means, kill the whelp. Just not yet."

"Umm Jack," I started.

"Wait to lift the curse," Jack said ignoring me and my concern for Will, "until the opportune moment." He and Will exchange significant glances that made me fell a little left out. "For instance," Jack continued picking up several gold coins from a chest, "after you've killed Norrington's men. Every-" Jack dropped one of the coins back into the chest.

Plunk.

"-last-"

Plunk.

"one."

Plunk.

The pirates laughed. I on the other hand was feeling a little uneasy. I mean I knew that Jack was a pirate and thus not a model citizen and also not the most trustworthy person ever, but he had always seemed somewhat concerned for the safety of others. He was acting a little creepy now. Almost like a bad guy.

And since Jack was the only person shielding me from death by angry pirates I was inclined to hope that he was a good guy.

But what if he wasn't?

My brain was starting to hurt. That happened sometimes if I used it too much. The question of whether Jack was good or bad however was more then my poor brain had ever handled before.

"You've been planning this from the beginning," Will snarled angrily. I didn't blame him. Jack was, after all, effectively trading his life for a ship. "Ever since you learned my name."

"Yeah," Jack said simply.

"What does Will's name have anything to do with anything?" I asked.

All around me people started to laugh. It wasn't just the pirates, even Will was laughing and he was about to die. If I were about to die I wouldn't find anything funny at all.

I decided that I should probably stop thinking. Most of all however I should stop opening my big mouth.