Chapter 15: Extort and Pilfer
Gibbs looked up at the next sailor in line as next to him, Jack was muttering something along the lines of 'I know what I want and where the thing I want is...' and continually opening the compass, and then shutting it in dismay. At one point, he turned the cursed thing upside-down, and began tapping it. Gibbs ignored him and said, "So what's yer story?"
The voice that came forth was not at all one he expected; it was not the throaty or raspy voice of a pirate, but a cultured, clipped tone that did not fit its words: "My story? It's the same as yours, only a chapter behind." Gibbs looked up at the voice and saw—
Commodore Norrington?
"Not anymore. Weren't you listening!" Gibbs knew what he meant; his story quite literally was the same as his.
FLASHBACK
"Captain, you can't honestly be thinking of going through that hurricane!"
Joshamee Gibbs of the Royal Navy, Captain of the HMS Sojourn, was determined to catch this pirate. "Henry Morgan is not getting away again. Even if I have to go through that," he glared at the hurricane, "to get him."
END FLASHBACK
Norrington knocked several tables over, and then rather drunkenly swaggered into the center of the room as Jack tried to stealthily depart the scene hiding behind a palm branch. Norrington bellowed, "Am I worthy to serve the Captain Jack Sparrow—" he drew his pistol and pointed it right at Jack. "Or should I just kill you now?"