I do not own Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, or anything else from the movie.
The men held Ruby's arms on either side and pushed her onto the deck of the Gray Jewel. Porter's crew had already got her own crew tied up and taken care of. Jack, Will, Sephora, and Diana were all being held with special honors at the front of the mob. Jack was in animated conversation with Porter, until he looked up and saw Ruby. Porter followed his gaze, looking at Ruby too, before starting a lazy stroll down the line of his most important captors, the ones that meant the most to Ruby. Jack was farthest away from her, then Will, Sephora, and Diana was only a few feet away from Ruby. Porter stopped in front of Ruby, looking questioningly at his crew members' loose grip on her arms. One of the men cleared his throat.
"Parlay, cap'n." Porter nodded and looked back at Ruby. She glared back.
"What do you want, Porter?" He chuckled and lifted a hand to push her hair away from her face. Ruby pulled an arm free easily and smacked the hand away. He raised his eyebrows.
"I was going to ask you the same question, Ruby Hurst," She blinked at him angrily and felt her free arm grabbed again. "What are your terms?" Ruby stood up straighter.
"The crew goes free," Porter gave a small nod and called out.
"Katherine!" Ruby squinted. Katherine?
Sure enough, Katherine soon had appeared at Porter's side. She took one look at Ruby and drew in a sharp breath and turned her gaze completely on Porter, who, from what Ruby took from it, was her new lover.
"What is it?" Katherine gracefully placeda hand on her hip and Ruby squinted again. The Jewel must have picked her up, she thought, after she ran off after she and Will--
Porter stroked Katherine's face gently. "Katherine, darling, give the order's that Ruby's crew is to be set free," He looked at Ruby and Ruby glared back. Katherine nodded and turned to go, but Porter grabbed her arm, pulling her back. "But these four," he motioned to Jack, Will, Sephora, and Diana. "Those four are to stay here with us." Katherine nodded again and walked down the line of the four in front. She ignored a tearful Diana and seething Sephora, but stopped in fron tof Will. She didn't do anything, just waited until her would look up and catch her eye. Ruby saw Jack chuckle a bit and Katherine hurried back past him. Ruby whipped her focus back to Porter.
"What the hell do you want with them?" he raised an eyebrow. "It's obviously me you went to all the trouble to put this little party together for." All around her, her crew was bustling off the ship, back onto the Grande Lady, but Ruby kept a straight, focused gaze on Porter. The hands the held her arms back tightened their grip. Porter took a step closer, grabbing her chin roughly with a hand. Ruby tried to twist her face away from him, but the men held her tighter than ever. Porter smelled like stale rum.
"Because, Ms. Hurst, they're the one's who are most important to you. Hmm? Am I right?" She was seething, but didn't answer him. She knew he was right. He continued. "And when they're on the ship, I have something to bargain with. So I can see to it that you won't do anything stupid during your stay with us on the Jewel, Captain Ruby Hurst." He let go of her jawbone with a yank. Ruby turned her head back to him.
"Bastard," she glared at him. Porter shook his head, clucking his tongue and raising his hand. Ruby sucked in a breath, bracing for the impact. She closed her eyes. His hand never came across her face.
"Don't touch her, mate," Ruby opened her eyes. Jack was holding Porter's hand in midair, holding up a finger with his other hand. Porter pulled his hand away, violently. Someone grabbed Jack from behind, trying to tug him back to the line. Porter and Ruby's eyes were both fixed on him, but he only looked back at Porter, who drew his sword in one swift motion. Jack didn't flinch. Ruby glanced down at the hands holding her arms by her sides and without a thought kicked the sword right out of Porter's hand. The hands let go of her arms as Porter reached up and hit her across the face, sending Ruby rolling across the floor. She landed on her side and reached up to push the hair out of her face. Jack had pushed the man off his back and had pulled out his pistol, holding it out at arms legth. Porter laughed.
"I know for a fact you won't fire that pistol of yours, Sparrow," Jack cocked the gun without blinking.
"You shouldn't have touched her, mate," Ruby bit her cheek and closed her eyes. Jack's gun fire loudly. Ruby opened her eyes again. Porter looked down at his chest, then back at Jack, laughing. Jack's arm that held the pistol dropped and Ruby saw Will look at Sephora and then at Jack. Ruby let out a breath.
"The curse..." she muttered under her breath. Jack stuffed the gun back into his belt and drew his sword, holding it beside his leg. Porter raised his sword, laughing. Jack made a face.
"No wonder you lost the Pearl, Sparrow," Jack swung his sword up to meet Porter's. Ruby climbed to her feet, running across the deck.
"Jack!" She reached out to grab him, but was pulled into the crowd by three members of Porter's crew. Ruby tried to pull free. Jack looked at her, questioningly. "Jack, they're cursed. Don't fight him." The crew members held her tight. "He'll kill you Jack." Jack kept his gaze on Ruby and she saw him slowly lower his sword. Immediantly, a crew member grabbed him. Ruby looked to Porter, who smiled.
"Well, now that we got that out of the way, Ruby, why don't you join me for dinner?" She clenched her jaw, not answering. He smirked. "Good. I'll have Katherine give you something nice to wear," He turned to the crew members holding Will, Sephora, Diana, and Jack. "Throw them in the brig!" The crew laughing menacingly and began to drag the four of them down to the cells. Porter called for Katherine, who appeared like magic beside him. "Katherine, love, get Ruby fixed up in something nice. She'll be joining us for dinner tonight." Katherine nodded slightly and motioned for Ruby to follow her. Ruby just stood there, even as the crew members slowly eased up on their grip. Porter motioned for her to follow Katherine. Ruby glared and started to follow her with heavy steps.
Katherine took Ruby down to Porter's cabin, which Ruby could have found on her own. She didn't tell Katherine that, though. Katherine was silent as she searched through the crates, before pulling out a dark dress that might've once been a deep crimson but had faded with age to a lighter version of its former glory. She shoved it into Ruby's hands. "Here." Katherine shut the crate. Ruby looked at her as she turned to leave.
"Katherine?" The young girl stopped, a hand on the frame of the doorway.
"What do you want?" Ruby blinked.
"Why are you doing this? Porter is not a nice man. You deserve..." She didn't finish that sentence. Her voice faded off. Katherine glared at her.
"You don't know what I deserve. You know nothing about me." And with that she turned and closed the door behind her. Ruby exhaled and sighed. She held the dress out in front of her and checked the door before taking off her shirt. She would leave her skirt and her belt on, under the dress. Just in case. She pulled the giant, extravagent dress over her head and pushed her arms through the sleeves. She reached behind her and started to lace up the back. The midriff of the dress grew tighter and tigher and she laced it. She closed her eyes. Her stomach was even more swolen. Porter didn't know she was pregnant. She didn't want him to find out, she wouldn't give him one more thing to bargin with. She sucked her stomach in and managed to lace the very top. She exhaled, but not a whole lot. The dress fit fairly tight.
She jumped as someone banged on her door. "Ms. Hurst! The cap'n requests you for dinner!" There was muffled chuckling. Ruby cleared her throat.
"Well tell the captain that I will be down in just a few minutes." There was some laughing and a few men muttered, Shut up!, but they walked away from the door. Ruby turned back to the mirror in front of her. She fixed the bandana on her head and twisted her ring a few times. After smoothing the dress out one last time, she walked out into the hallway. She remember quite well where the larger dinning hall had been and made her way down to it. She walked through the large door. Katherine was already sitting at the table and Porter was standing behind the chair at the end of the table farthest away from her. When he saw her, he walked smoothly down the length of the table to the chair at the other end, pulling it out for her. She didn't look at him, just walked forward and sat down and slid the chair under the table a little more. Porter nodded and returned to his place at the other end. Katherine only looked at Porter, who nodded to someone just outside another door. A few men walked in a placed huge platters of food on the table. There was bread, chicken, fruit, and some kind of soup. Another man placed some of each of the food on Ruby's plate, and yet another man poured her a glass of rum. This continued down the table until all three of them had been served. Porter motioned to Katherine and Ruby's plates.
"Eat." He said simply. Katherine picked up a fork and began to pick at her food. Ruby looked at the rum, but didn't touch it. She picked up her fork, too, and looked at Porter. He was stuffing his face greedily, tearing into the one of the chicken legs. Sephora ate some of the chicken too, Katherine lifted her glass and took a drink. Porter did the same, but gulping down the whole cup and pouring himself another. Katherine took another sip and ate some soup.
Ruby didn't know how long this went on for, but by the time she had finished, Porter was increasingly drunk. Ruby hadn't touched her cup. Porter didn't notice until and stood about and walked down the length of the table, holding the edge for support.
"Ruby! You haven't taken a sup of your rum," His words slurred together. "What's wrong with it! It's perfectly good! Right, Katherine!" Katherine nodded, not saying anything. Porter motioned to her. "See! Now, Ruby Hurst, you have been drinking your whole damn life!" He leaned forward and pointed and wobbly finger in her face. "Now.. tell me what's wrong!" Ruby's eyes flickered to his belt. She saw the ring of keys. Ruby looked back at him and gently pushed his hand away from her face.
"Of course nothing's wrong! I just..."She glanced down at the keys again. "I just don't feel like being that drunk this particular night..." She stood up, her face only inches away from his. She raised an eyebrow seductively. Without breaking his gaze, she reached out for the cup and held it up to him. "Have mine, if you like..." She smiled. Porter chuckled and waved a hand at Katherine.
"Katherine, start to clean up will you? Me and Ruby will be back in my quarters..." Ruby turned and walked out of the room. Porter raced to follow. Ruby still held the cup in her hands. She turned into Porter's room and sat down on the bed, crossing her legs, holding the cup in front of her. Porter shut the door and laughed drunkenly and stumbled to her. He reached out and grabbed the cup, slurping it down, spilling some on his shirt. He looked down at it and reached and pulled his shirt off. Porter climbed on top of Ruby, pulling at the laces at the front of the dress. He leaned forward and sloppily kissed Ruby. She tried not to gag, reaching forward and gently grabbing the key ring off his belt. He didn't notice, but he did begin to sway before finally flopping down beside Ruby, passed out. Just as Ruby thought he would. She sat up slowly, holding the keys so they wouldn't clang together, and gently slid off the bed. She opened the door slowly and crept down the hallway and down a flight of stairs to the cells. She spotted them at the very back. Will, Sephora, and Diana in one cell, Jack had a cell to himself. She walked down the rows slowly, making sure no one was in sight. Diana was the first to see her. She was the only one who was not sleeping. Sephora had crawled up against Will, who had his arm around her and was resting his head on hers. Jack was asleep in the other cell, his hat over his face, his legs crossed out in front of his and his hands on his stomach.
Ruby put a finger to her mouth, so Diana wouldn't call out, and slid the key into the lock and turned it. It opened with a soft clang, waking Will, who gently shook Sephora. Sephora looked around for a moment then saw Ruby and jumped up to hug her.
"Ruby, we were so worried about you, I mean Porter he's-" She stopped looking down at Ruby's dress. "What are you wearing?" Ruby laughed quietly.
"It doesn't matter. Get out of here! We need to see if the Lady is still nearby. Everyone on the ship is asleep, except for a few watchmen, but I know you can take care of them." The three of them nodded and quickly got out of the cell and began to run up the rows. Ruby turned around to Jack's cell. He hadn't woken up yet, so Ruby opened to door quieter than the other and crept in. She kneeled beside Jack, shaking his shoulder. "Jack!" He woke with a start, his hat falling off and his hand reaching for his sword. His eyes focused on Ruby.
"Aye, love. It's you." He gave her a once over and reached up to pull the front laces of the dress tighter again. "You're dress is a bit loose... Any chance that was an accident?" He squinted at her and she stood up.
"Nothing happened Jack Sparrow." She offered him a hand, which he took and stood up. "I needed to get the keys back." Jack nodded.
"Yes, of course..." He took her hand and they quickly ran up the rows and up two flights of stairs to the main deck. Sephora, Will, and Diana had tied three skeletons to the mast of the ship. Ruby looked up at the bright moonlight. Yes, skeletons. Of course. Sephora waved Ruby and Jack over to the side of the boat, pointing out at a dark ship.
"The Grande Lady is still out there. We've already signaled her. They'll be by the ship in a matter of minutes." Sephora finished and put her telescope away. Jack's hand went to Ruby's waist and Ruby's hand went to her stomach, for the first time. She turned to Jack.
"After this, no more adventures. At least until the baby is born." Jack laughed and pulled her closer.
"What ever you say, love." And he kissed her.