(A/N – Oh my god! The Winkies are the best part of the whole show! LoL. AKA the Witch's guards that sing the 'Yo-Hee-Ho!' song. At least in our show they are, haha. Musical's been so great lately! We've recently added a Toto to the mix, and the tickets are on sale. But I'm dead tired, LoL. But I have updated! HUZZAH!)

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: "Night, Norry!"

"One."

"Two."

"Buzz!"

"Four."

"Zap!"

"Six-"

"Guys, stop with the Buzz Zap!" I moaned. "It's twelve-thirty. I'm wiped," I said, sitting up in bed. Lindsay, Paige, and Stewie were sitting on the other queen bed next to me playing that game for the eighth time while I lay there trying my darndest to fall asleep for the past hour.

"But it's catchy!" Lindsay laughed.

"And I'm tired!" I said. "Jess, I thought you were so tired you started sleepwalking to the limo earlier?"

"Not after I ate those two bags of M&M's from the vending machine down the hall. And the shower. Don't forget the invigorating shower!"

I sighed. Jack brings us to this nice hotel (that we had to pay for…) in Uniontown to enjoy his night and let us sleep, and I don't even get to sleep! I get to listen to Buzz Zap! How retarded is that?

"Look guys," I said, sitting up more now, "I-"

KNOCK KNOCK

We all looked at the door, and I sighed.

"Who is it?" Lindsay asked.

"It's Thomas and Kourey," Kourey's voice called from behind the door. "Can we come in?"

"Come in you may!" Stewie said excitedly as she jumped up to go open the door for them. The came inside, both with just their white shirts and pants on. Josh and Roberto went home earlier as I've probably failed to mention, and I have. Sorry! Anyways, Kourey and Thomas came in and sat on the edge of the bed Lindsay and Paige were on.

"God, just what I need…" I muttered, throwing the covers over my head and sinking back into my pillow in exhaustion. This is nuts. Then I sat up quickly and threw the blankets off of my looking over at the five of them. "Anyone else want to come?" I asked sarcastically.

"We can go get Will and Elizabeth if you want," Kourey said, starting to get up. He made it about halfway until I shoot him a glare, and then he sat back down laughing. "It was just a joke. Calm down, Erica!"

"I'm calm," I said, "just tired."

"Well then, wake up!" Stewie yelled, jumping over to my bed. I bounced up about half a foot off of the mattress as she sat at the end laughing at me. It was hopeless to get any sleep with this bunch (no offense)…

"Guys, honestly, there's nothing to do but sleep," I said. "There's no DVD player with the TV, there's nothing good on this late, and we don't have a kitchen to make food! What are we supposed to do?"

There were looks of thoughtfulness around the room and suddenly Kourey jumped up.

"Toothpaste fight!" he screamed.

"No, no toothpaste fight!" I yelled, hiding under the covers again. Of course everyone got up and followed Kourey to the bathroom, so I was pretty much gonna be the target. I laid there praying for about a minute until the blankets were torn away from me, then I jumped in surprised and squealed. The man standing over me was not Lindsay, Stewie, Paige, Kourey, Thomas, Will, Jack, Ana, or Elizabeth! It was Norrington!

"Holy crap!" I screamed, throwing the covers back over me and hiding. Bad dream… bad dream…

"Miss Sparrow, are you going to allow me to speak or not?" Norrington's voice asked with thin patience. I considered only half a second before removing the covers from my head and sitting up, looking at him. I sighed inwardly, too; was I ever gonna be called by my real name again?

"Hey, Commodore," I said a bit nervously. "Long time, no see."

"It's only been a day," he replied.

"Wow. Well, it feels like a lot longer, trust me."

Suddenly, the others came out of the bathroom screaming and having a good old time with the toothpaste until it was too late. They finally notice Norrington's presence after they got a long ribbon of toothpaste on his nice blue jacket. Stewie turned around pretty scared as Norrington tried to remain calm.

"Eh heh… hi, Norry," she said quietly.

"Evening," he said shortly as he looked at his coat before addressing me again. "Miss Sparrow, we have found the Governor."

Faces lit up around the room.

"Really?" I asked excitedly. "That's great!"

"Where was he?" Lindsay asked.

"We found him in Port Hastings some thirty miles west of Port Royal along the coast. Apparently our pirate friends from the other night are to blame. They confessed after the Governor's retrieval some three hours ago."

Man. I felt really important being talked to like that.

"Well, super," I said. "How is he?"

"He's fine. Nothing but a few bruises and a cut hand," Norrington said. "He immediately questioned Elizabeth's whereabouts, and so as instructed to do by him and you, I have come for her and Mr. Turner."

I swallowed hard and looked at the others. Lindsay held a slanted mouth on her face and Stewie was thinking of some way to stop it all. Paige was just ready to accept the inevitable like we all should have been.

"Well, could it wait til morning?" Lindsay asked. "It's sort of late and everyone's sleeping. 'Cept us, of course. We never sleep at night."

"I can see that," the Commodore said in monotone. "As for waiting until morning, I don't see the need to. The Governor wishes to be reunited with his daughter immediately."

"But they're sleeping!" Stewie whined in a whisper. "Shh!"

"Miss Turner, I am only acting on orders."

"Well act on a stage instead!" Stewie said. "Acting is for stages!"

"She has a point," Kourey laughed. Norrington gave him a hard look, and Kourey coughed nervously and smiled until he just died into the background again.

"Just til morning, Commodore, please?" I asked. "Just so they can sleep and we can have a goodbye breakfast. Please?"

Commodore didn't reply. He's considering! Yes!

"Fine," he agreed. "I would invite you all back for breakfast in the Governor's household on his behalf, but this jewel is growing very small." He tossed the ruby to me and I caught it in the cup of my hand. It was so small – just like the amount of time we had left with the others. I sighed, clutching the half-inch sized ruby in my fist and holding it close to me.

"Okay," I said. "One breakfast and they're yours," I agreed with my voice starting to thicken a bit with emotion. I stood up and shook the Commodore's hand reluctantly so he knew he could trust our word. When our hands separated, I sighed deeply. "You uh… you want something to eat or drink?" I asked, trying to change the subject.

- Jessica's PoV – 4:30 AM -

We got Norry to loosen his tie a bit over the next few hours. We got toothpaste all over his jacket, so he had to take that off so we could 'wash' it in the shower (we pretty much destroyed it).

After that, we had a big pillow fight in which he brandished his sword and everything to get us to stop, but I just took that and his hat and declared him the pirate and myself the commodore! He didn't like being a pirate at all, so I gave him a name to make him even madder! Crooked Quincy! Haha! He eventually grabbed a pillow to fight back, and we were having a grand old time.

Then we got into some little fun games like Questions Only and that around three. Lindsay kicked our butts as usual, though Kourey is surprisingly good at it, too.

Then there was another huge pillow fight! At the end of this one, we were in piles dead asleep. Lindsay and Kourey were lying on the floor next to the dresser, Erica had a bed to herself, Paige and Thomas were sound asleep next to the window, Norry was sitting on the other bed, and I was lying down next to him trying to catch my breath.

"Some party, huh?" I laughed as I sat up. He was just staring out into space.

"Riveting," he responded blankly. "And absolutely barbaric."

"But fun!" I added. He just gave me this glare before looking at nothing in particular. I bit my lip thinking of something to say. "So, " I said, "how's life?"

"What sort of a question is that?"

"What's up? Whatcha doin'? How – are – you? Duh."

"Please don't say that word," he said. "It's likely to catch on."

"Too late," I laughed. "So, again, how are ya, Norry?"

"I'm fine I suppose. And you?"

"I'm good," I said, nodding. "But I'm gonna miss Jack and the others. We all are." He didn't look too thrilled about me saying that, but that's okay. At least him and Jack will talk on occasion now. "Maybe I could come with you!" I said excitedly.

"I highly doubt it," Norrington said. "We are two worlds that met by chance and chance only, not destiny or fate or whatever you'd like to call it. We are not to be even having this conversation."

"Boy, what a spirit crusher you are," I said.

"At least you understand what I'm saying."

"No, I don't," I said right back. "I think I just might come with you."

"No. Not at all."

"But my life sucks here!"

I got another glance from my speech.

"Well it does…" I mumbled.

"Trust me, Miss Turner; your life is what you make it. You have to work for what you want and want to be."

"Well you're a prime example, huh?" I asked. "Nice hat and jacket and everything."

"Yes."

I sat silent a moment. "Well I'm still coming," I said. "Lindsay and Erica may try and talk me out of it, but I'm coming. And not you or them is gonna stop me! I'm a pirate! Yo ho!"

I stood up on the bed holding a pose before flopping back down to go to sleep. Norry sat there sort of dumbfounded and mouthed wordlessly as I turned off the light and rolled under the covers.

"Night, Norry!"

He replied with a frustrated grunt and stood up, moving towards the window. My smile faded as I briefly relived the last few minutes.

Leave? Could I really leave? My mom wouldn't miss me, but my friends would… maybe they could come? No, I couldn't ask them to give up their lives. That's just the difference between me and them – they have lives here. Maybe I'm better off in the Caribbean. I could scare the bejesus out of people with my futuristic knowledge! Bwaha!

Should I?

- Lindsay's PoV – 15 min later -

I came to feeling really alert for some reason. A plan had been formulating in both Paige and mine's minds since we saw Erica reluctantly shake hands with Norrington. Let Jack and Ana and Will and Liz and all of them leave in the morning? FAT CHANCE.

So anyways, now was the time to put the plan into motion!

I got up from beside Kourey and started stumbling across the room until I lost all my balance and just rolled into Paige and Thomas. Oops.

"Ah, Jane," Thomas whined as we unjumbled ourselves. "What's the big idea?"

"Yeah…" Paige said, rubbing her eyes.

"Not time," I said, jumping up and grabbing her wrist. "We have to get the others and get out of here now!"

"Now?" Paige asked in surprise.

"Yes now!" I said. "Not time better. Everyone's asleep, and we can just leave Norrington here and make our getaway. It's perfect."

"But isn't Elizabeth going to want to see her father?" Paige said. "It's a bit rude of us to-"

"Come on," I said, grabbing her wrist and pulling her to her feet. "We have to hurry. Get Erica and Stewie awake, and I'll get Kourey on my way out to the hall to wake the others. Do NOT forget to grab the ruby off of Norrington. He has it, and without it, you're stuck here because if he finds out we left him here with the ruby, he will take actions in making our lives totally stink."

"Okay," I'll get that first then," Paige, said.

"No!" I said. "Get Erica and Jessica up and make sure they're on their way out before you go anywhere near him. Hurry, okay? I'll meet you guys down at the end of the hallway."

I started to head for the door, but Paige stopped me again.

"Wait," she said. "Jane… don't you smell that?"

I bent my eyebrows and started sniffing. "Smells like smoke," I said.

"That's what I mean," Paige said, going for the door. She leaned against it and was silent as she used all of five of her senses in three seconds. "The door's warm," she said as Thomas and I came up beside her. "I think there's a fire out there."

My mind raced and blanked out at the same time. "Fire?" I gasped weakly. "There can't be a fire!"

"There is," Paige said quietly, leaning away from the door. "Get the others up. We need to get out of here." She was so serious it scared me. "Thomas, go wake up anyone in the hallway that you can," Paige instructed. "Everyone! Get up!"

Before I started my shouting, I ran over to Norrington and relieved him of the ruby. He jolted awake, so I pretended like I was waking him up instead of robbing him.

"Come on!" I said. "Fire! Get up!"

Norrington jumped up and grabbed his coat as the others began to stir and smell the smoke. I could not believe this. My plan is always ruined! Or maybe it wasn't… this mass chaos could prove perfect for our getaway from Norrington! But Paige did have a point… we sort of couldn't leave him here in the twenty-first century-

"Lindsay! Come on!" I heard Stewie yell from across the room as the air began to thicken with wisps of smoke. I ran towards them, and we headed for the door. Norrington was right behind me. Kourey was handing us pieces of material to cover our mouths with as the fire alarms started to sound.

"On three, I'm going to open the door," Erica said. We could already hear voices out in the hallway panicking and running, and I hoped that Jack and the others were safe. I really did.

"One, two, three."

Erica opened the door, and we filed out with our mouths covered into the mess of people, shouting, and thick smoke. I started coughing as Stewie grabbed my wrist and led me towards the stairs everyone else was running down. It was really scary seeing all of this play so fast around us.

Once we were out of the building, we looked up the hotel to find it up in flames on the opposite side of where our room was. I covered my mouth with my hand in shock.

"JACK!" Erica screamed, "WILL!"

"ELIZABOTH!" I shouted (short o, lol. Well, if you listen to Will scream her name, that's what it sounds like.). "JACK!"

"ANA!"

We kept shouting until it made more sense to head for the car. When we were inside and freaking out, I large thing suddenly flew onto the car hood, making us all scream and Erica slam her hand on the car. The person rolled off in surprise and onto the road moaning. We got out of the car to see who in the world that was.

"Will!" half of us said, rushing to help him up.

"Where's Jack and Ana and Elizabeth?" Erica asked from his right.

"Ow, my head," he moaned.

"Oh, sorry," Erica said.

"Will, where are they?" I asked anxiously.

"Jack and Elizabeth were right behind me. "I haven't seen Ana."

I walked away and looked back at the doors on the hotel. People were pouring out of them like a flood. I opened my mouth to scream out fro Ana, but then a hand covered my mouth and pulled me into a shadowed part of the parking lot. Then the hand lifted. Norrington was looking at me intensely, and I was nothing but scared at that moment.

"Stealing is not nice, Miss Swann."

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Yay! The negligent fanfiction author/ student director has finally updated!

Party at my house for my birthday on March 1st! The day before opening night!

Jack: Why invite 'em? They'd just drink all me rum.

And…?

Jack: I don't think I need to say anything else.

Then don't.

Jack: muffled grunts of frustration

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