The Lost Ingots of Tagus
by Aldesina
Chapter 4: We give chase
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Disclaimer.....As you are probably all very well aware, I do not own anything, if I did I would be rolling in it, since I am not, and I do NOT own the story I am poor, and can only write fanfiction about it. Ah sigh, oh well, on with the story
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Author's Note;
Many, many apologizes for the delay, AOL has been acting up all month, it hasn't let me log on, not even for a cookie on Christmas, hrmph.
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Back at Port Royal
"Lieutenant Gillette, ready the Dauntless and the Interceptor and make ready to give chase." Commodore Norrington barked over the commotion of panicking wedding guests and busy body on lookers "And will somebody please get all of these people out of the courtyard?"
"Already on that sir!" Two uniformed men saluted him as he rushed pass them over to a very distressed Governor Swann who was shaking his head and wringing his hands at something that Jack was saying next to him
"Now don't you worry about a thing gov, me and my crew will get that bonnie lass of yours back, savvy?"
"Not savvy Sparrow, your crew had until the wedding to get out, the agreement was if you were still here afterwards you would be arrested.
"Hang him" Governor Swann said. Jack looked deeply offended.
"Now you just wait yourself a minute, have you not heard a word of what I said?" Jack shook his head, "the man has worse hearing then I do."
"State your point Sparrow." Commodore Norrington said.
"Eh, oh.., right, right, my point is that I can guarantee you that those particular pirates will not harm a hair on your bonnie lass's head, or Will's for that matter. Savvy, you see both bride and groom will come back, happy healthy and…."
"Horseshit,"
"No, no, that stinks that stuff rightly does"
"Commodore, we've rounded up the pirates!"
"Excellent" Jack looked around at the pirates they apprehended
"Funny, those riffraff look awfully familiar…."
"We're your crew you refried bean head!" Anamaria shouted
"Wha?"
"Refried bean, your brain's been fried so many times over its mush."
"Now Anamaria luv that isn't rightly a nice thing to say to your beloved captain"
"You're not going to be the captain of anything in about five seconds" Norrington interjected. "Cuff him in irons."
"Now, hold on a sec, what if I told you that I knew exactly who the captain of that ship was, and that I knew exactly where he was headed."
Norrington looked at him
"You're bluffing"
"No mate, I'm really not" Jack said looping an arm around Norrington's shoulders, Norrington cringed. "Like I said, I'm always rooting for you, and I know you would just luuuve to come out the hero in all of this, so, I'm just gonna give it to you straight, that pirate's name is Bootstrap Bill, AKA William Turner Sr."
The entire militia burst out laughing
"Everyone in town knows that Will's father is dead"
"You're gonna have to do better then that" Jack looked at them, grinned then said;
"Sure, dead like those pirates on The Black Pearl those 5 years past."
They stopped laughing
"But that's preposterous!" Governor Swann said "Why would a man interrupt his own son's wedding, and at that, why would he then take them as captives"
"Because maybe said man didn't know at the time the groom was his son and the bride was about to be his new daughter in law" Jack unwound himself from Norrington, who silently vowed the next time Jack did that he would cut off his hands, and made his way over to the Governor. "Now as you know The Black Pearl is the fastest ship in the Caribbean, well, that is until the Dragoness sailed here, but that's not gonna matter, they usually sail somewhere along the Atlantic anyways, the point is, the Dragoness, Bootstrap's boat, is f, fa, a, a, fa, faster" Jack stumbled at the word, he hated the idea of not having the fasted ship in the Caribbean, "faster then the Black Pearl and the Black Pearl is faster then the Interceptor, don't you think it would make sense for the Black Pearl to give chase?" Jack looked around nodding pleased at his own logic
"Savvy?"
"Then why don't we sail the Black Pearl and lock you up?" Norrington suggested airily
"Eh, well that brings me to the second part of what I was about to say." Jack nodded at him knowingly
"Uh hum, hum, hum, the second part" Governor Swann looked at him expectantly
"And that is?"
"What is?" Jack said blinking at them innocently.
"YOU WERE BLOODY GOING TO TELL THEM WHY THEY SHOULD LET US GO AND WHERE THE FUCK THEY BROUGHT WILL AND HIS STRUMPET!" Anamaria was gonna hang Jack with his own balls if he didn't get on with it soon, Jack looked like he just got kicked in the face by a fat horse.
"Now just wait a minute…"
"I'll have you know my daughter is no…"
"I will not have that kind of language directed at…"
Commotion and chaos erupted all over again until Jack shouted
"She's sorry, she's sorry, I'm bloody sorry ok, hold your anchors, savvy?"
"Now, luv, you're no fun at all," Jack said to Anamaria, he turned back to Commodore Norrington and was about to drape himself on said commodore's shoulders again when,
"If you value your hands then you will not be so informal with me" Norrington leveled a pistol at him. Jack looked at him and then at the pistol quickly back at Norrington again.
"If you're threatening my hands then why is that being aimed at my family jewels?"
"Get on with the location"
"Tortuga" Jack said with a flourish
"Oh is that all," Norrington said, "Cuff him"
"Now, now wait a minute; you don't understand the complexities of that situation." Jack said waving his hands about.
"And you do."
"I've been there haven't I, and who else here can claim the same?"
His whole crew raised their hands. Jack blinked
"Who here, not a part of my crew has been there?"
"If you don't come up with a better excuse soon they won't be your crew anymore."
Jack's whole crew raised their hands again.
"Bloody hell Norrington, I'm trying to be your bloody friend here,"
"Don't"
"If you go in there with that fancy ship of yours shooting and killing Bootstrap Bill will leave faster then all out heck, and you'll never catch up to them, if I go in there sneaky and such, I can go negotiate something of a trade off, like them leaving and us leaving without cuffs and in return you get your bonnie lass and lad back, how's that? Savvy?"
"No"
"Bloody hell why not?"
"There will be no negotiations with pirates." Norrington simply said
"Then why did you waste your time talking to me, why didn't you cuff in the first place?" Jack was extremely exasperated.
"Information"
"Bloody Hell Norrington, I'm trying to help you here."
"As much as I'd hate to take his side" Both men turned toward Governor Swann
"He seems to have a point, besides we're wasting time arguing, we have to catch up with that ship." Norrington seemed to consider this for a second
"Un cuff them" He turned to Gillette "Are the ships ready to sail?"
"Ready, and waiting for you sir."
"Good, Governor, I'm sorry you can't come with us on this, men, to the ships" he turned back to Jack
"Sparrow you…."
"Already ahead of you mate!" Norrington turned to see Jack vault onto the Black Pearl his crew had somehow already boarded the vessel and were launching off.
"We'll meet you at Gongolan that little island right off of Tortuga! And there you will have your bonnie lass back, although she's not really your lass anymore now is she?"
"Damn him." Norrington cursed his luck and made his way quickly to the Interceptor as it's anchor was pulled up and its white sails billowed open letting the ship gain full speed as the wind picked up.
"Damn that infernal man and his crew."
"What do we do now Commodore?"
"We give chase."
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Author's Note; Short chapter, yes yes I know, but the next will come quickly, Thank you all soo very much for reading and reviewing, I just loves reviews! I just eat them all up, "sigh" and now off to write chapter 5!