Beauty and the Pirate

Disclaimer:I do not own any of the characters mentioned in this story from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl". Nor do I own any dialogue that matches up to the dialogue from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" nor any storyline plots from said movie. I solely own the characters of Isabelle and Marcel Cheney and Gaspard and all additional creative story lines. Hope you enjoy the story and feel free to send a review!

Chapter 12

Runaway

"Elizabeth! Bring me my sword immediately, please!" Jack heard Will's voice echo into the hallway below deck.

Wondering what was going on, Jack ran up the stairs to the top deck. There he found Will gathering a pistol and dagger.

"What's the meaning of this, Will?" Jack called out, "What's going on?"

"I don't know, Jack, you tell me," Will said not looking at the pirate captain as he loaded his pistol, "why is it that the lady you brought on board took off into Coral Point so quickly and at such a late hour?"

"She did what!" Jack asked in total surprise.

"You heard me!" snapped Will as he finally glared at Sparrow.

"Here is your sword, Will," Elizabeth said as she approached the two men.

"Thank you, I'll be back as soon as possible," Will said as he kissed his wife on the cheek.

"Oh, no ye don't! You're not goin' anywhere!" Jack began shouting again.

"What?" Will and Elizabeth asked in unison.

"I'm the reason she took off, and therefore I shall be the one to retrieve her," Jack said determinedly as he stormed off to the dock, already armed with his effects.

…..

"This was such a big mistake," Jack mumbled to himself as he began looking hurriedly through the different streets of the pirate town, "I should 'ave never taken her on the Pearl. What was I thinkin'?"

Suddenly a familiar voice brought Jack out of his thoughts, "Stay away from me!"

Turning to his right and walking down a small alley, Jack found Isabelle at last – that is she and five other pirates trying to gain up on her. As worried as he was suddenly feeling for her from the scene being played out, he couldn't help crack a tiny smile at how she tried to be strong by holding up a large wooden panel from a fence.

"Stay away from ye?" one of the five men trying to gain up on her laughed, "But doll, how are we suppose to help ye find a ship to take ye home if ye don't let us have a bit o' fun?"

With that said another pirate got closer to Isabelle and took the wooden panel out of her hands. Isabelle's eyes grew wide as she was now without any weapon, and just as the men encircling her were about to make their move, Jack jumped out in front of her.

"Now what's this?" one of the pirates asked in confusion.

"Don't ye mean 'who'?" Jack corrected, "I'd be the one and only Captain Jack Sparrow, savvy?"

"Well then, Captain Sparrow," a different pirate growled, "off ye go, for this here lass is ours, we saw her first."

"Actually, in truth, I be the one who saw her first before any of you men, but I know that none of ye will believe, and so," Jack smirked as he pulled out his sword, "my question for you gents would be 'who's first?' for the lass is comin' back with me whether any of the likes of ye want it that way or not."

Anger began to burn in each of the five men's eyes. And just as Sparrow had presented his sword for battle, each man in turn did the same.

With every man having their weapon ready, Jack began to attack. Unfortunately for him these pirates weren't willing to let him battle each one of them one at a time, and so Jack had to constantly be on end making sure to block each blow that came his way from every man.

…..

After much swordplay, in the end Jack had severely injured each of the five pirates that had cornered Isabelle earlier. And although he had won the battle as the five men scurried away, he had received a severe cut himself on his upper right arm near his shoulder. As he sheathed his sword and began walking towards Isabelle, he slowly started to feel dizzy.

Isabelle immediately went to him as he seemed to lose a great deal of balance, at least more than what he seems to lack of when walking around normally. Then noticing his cut for the first time, she tore off a piece of her blue dress and tied it around his arm. Once that was done, she helped him walk back to the Black Pearl, letting him lean on her as much as he needed.

…..

"Bring 'im down to the galley immediately, Will," Gibbs motioned to the blacksmith as he hurried below deck ahead of him.

Will slowly brought Jack down the stairs and into the galley.

"Why not his room?" Will questioned the first mate as he gently sat Jack at the table.

"Yeah, why not me room?" groaned Jack as he put a hand to his head.

"We need to heal ye cut right now, and the necessary supplies are already in 'ere," Gibbs said quickly as took out a medical box, a rag, and a bottle of alcohol.

By that time Isabelle, with Elizabeth just behind, cautiously made her way into the galley.

"Oh good," Gibbs smiled at Isabelle, "we could use your help."

Isabelle simply nodded and made her way over to Gibbs.

"See if you can clean that wound as best you can with the rag, water first, and then the alcohol, while I get the needle and thread ready."

Isabelle gulped at what Gibbs had to do to Jack's cut, but didn't hesitate one bit as she took up the rag and soaked it with water. She then went to Jack's side, removed the makeshift bandage, and began cleaning the wound. Once she was done with that she soaked the rag with some alcohol.

Taking a seat next to Jack with the alcohol soaked rag ready, she gently warned him, "This may sting a little."

Isabelle then put the rag to the cut on his upper arm.

"Owe!" Jack flinched and quickly moved away from her next attempt, "That hurts!"

"If you'd hold still it wouldn't hurt as much!" Isabelle tried to explain.

"Actually this wouldn't hurt at all if ye hadn't run away, missy!" Jack snapped back.

"I wouldn't have run away if you hadn't frightened me!" Isabelle pointed out.

Jack thought for a moment then said all-knowingly as if he had won the argument, "Well you shouldn't have been in me cabin!"

"Well you should learn to control your temper!" Isabelle answered sharply.

Jack held up a finger wanting to say something back, but knowing, especially as he received looks from Will, Elizabeth, and Gibbs, that what Isabelle had said was true, he dropped the argument.

Before Isabelle was about to try cleaning Jack's wound again, she softly said to Jack, "By the way, thank you, for saving my life."

Not expecting to hear something like that from her Jack didn't know what to say but replied a small "your welcome" anyway.

"And now," Isabelle tried moving on, taking the rag into position to clean Jack's cut, "this may sting."

Jack gritted his teeth and barely flinched this time around.

"I'm surprised that this stinging from cleaning your wound seems so new to you," Isabelle said gently as she quickly finished up and moved to the other side of the table across from Jack to let Gibbs do his work, "for I thought pirates had to endure many hardships that ended up with injuries such as this one. Surely this isn't your first time to be cut."

"Of course not," Jack said defensively, "I've had plenty of injuries worse than this from greater battles and adventures than that small one I saved ye from."

"Have you?" Isabelle asked as her eyes widened in excitement, "What sort of greater battles and adventures, Captain Sparrow?"

Seeing how he had a captive audience that was eager to know about his pirate life, Jack pushed away the pain that was coming from Gibbs closing the cut and began telling Isabelle one of his many stories.