Disclaimer: Don't own POTC. Tsk tsk…too bad…

Gonna try and finish the story before I go to camp! Probably won't succeed! Whaa!

And I think this is the second to last chapter of I, Pirate. I've forgotten if there is an epilogue, but I think there is. Thank you all for sticking with me and I'll try and work on the sequel or something while I'm away. Thank you and g'nighty.

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Robin woke up the next evening, having slept through the worst of her hangover with her head barely hurting at all. She staggered out on deck, spotting Jack standing at the railing, staring out at the ocean. She strode up to him.

"Hey Jack, my head only hurts half as much as it did yesterday. So there," she said in a mocking voice. He turned to face her with a serious look on his face. Not too serious or it would be odd. Just a kind of sober-serious look.

"Robin, I've jus' been thinkin' 'bout what ye said to me on the islan'," said Jack soberly. Robin frowned.

"What did I say? I always forget what I say...why is that?" She went silent, thinking.

"Ye said tha' ye loved me," said Jack. Robin looked over.

"Oh, did I?" she asked musingly. "Must be true then." Jack glanced at her.

"Ye were drunk ou' of yer mind," he said. Robin nodded.

"Yeah. I never lie when I'm drunk," she said with a smirk, leaning over, grabbing his head, and pulling him into a kiss.

Jack was surprised for a minute, then moved his arms around her waist and tightened his grip on her. He moved his tongue to her lips, asking for entrance. Robin parted her teeth and entered her own tongue into his mouth.

They stood like that for a while before moving into Jack's temporary cabin. That would be a night to remember for Robin…

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Commodore Norrington went about waking the soldiers and informing them that Isla de Muerta would be reached within the day. He proceeded to Jack Sparrow's cabin.

The Commodore stopped in front of the door and knocked. There was no answer. He knocked again. A string of curses could be heard as footsteps moved to the door. It opened to reveal a disheveled Jack standing with pants loosely on and no shirt, as though he had dressed in a hurry.

"Wha' do ye want?" he asked in a slurr.

"We shall have arrived at the Isla de Muerta by the end of the day," said the Commodore in a pompous manner

"Oh, fascinating!" said Jack sarcastically, slamming the door in his face.

Norrington rolled his eyes, moving on to Robin's cabin. He knocked. There was no answer. He knocked again. No answer. He opened the door a little to see if she was asleep. The room was empty.

In a panic, Norrington rushed back to Jack's room, hammering on the door.

"WHAT DO YE BLOODY WANT?" yelled Jack, swinging the door open in a rage.

" Miss Turlo is not in her cabin!" said Norrington frantically. A smirk appeared on Jack's face.

"That's 'cause she be in mine," he said, raising his eyebrows suggestively.

He closed the door quickly, leaving Norrington with many disturbing images racing through his head. He began to walk away when Jack opened his door once more.

"Oh an' Norry, if ye can't find tha' officer…Welhilm or something, 'e's locked in the brig with no clothes," he said before closing the door again.

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Later that night, all of the soldiers and sailors were gathered on deck looking at the mouth of the cave on Isla de Muerta.

"Who is to go ashore?" asked Norrington. Half the soldiers, Elizabeth, Robin, and, of course, Jack all volunteered.

"Elizabeth, darling, I would rather you stay aboard ship. We'll be sure to retrieve Mr. Turner alive for you," said Governor Swann. Elizabeth protested strongly, but she was held back while everyone else climbed into the rowboats. The small fleet rowed up to the mouth of the cave and floated there, waiting.

"I don't care for the situation. Any attempt to storm the cave could turn into an ambush," said Norrington.

"Not if you're the one doing the ambushing," piped in Jack. "I go in. Miss Turlo comes too, or course. I convince Barbossa to send his men out with their little boats. You an' your mates return to the Dauntless and blast the bejesus ou' o' them with your little cannons, aye. What do ye have ta lose?" He smirked at the Commodore innocently.

"Nothing I'd lament being rid of," said Norrington stonily, glaring at the flamboyant pirate.

"Now, to be quite honest with ye, there's still a slight risk to those aboard the Dauntless, which includes the future Mrs. Commodore," said Jack slyly, silently bending the Commodore to his will. It worked.

Norrington quickly sent a rowboat back to tell the soldiers aboard the Dauntless to make sure Elizabeth was kept somewhere safe.

Jack and Robin switched rowboats with two soldiers, including the groper, whom Robin 'accidentally' pushed into the water. Jack took the oars and began rowing them towards the large cave as Robin steered, both with matching smug looks on their faces.

They exited the rowboat, hurrying to the hole in the cave wall that displayed the scene of the pirates doing the ritual once more, but with the right blood this time. Jack turned to Robin.

"I don't want you getting hurt, luv. So just…stay 'ere until I get out. If anything should happen, get the boat and leave." He glanced back at Will, who was standing next to Barbossa behind the large chest. "It's alright to leave them to die," he said, pointing at Will and the pirates.

Robin stifled a laugh, leaning in and kissing Jack. The pirate captain sighed, breaking off, looking into Robin's eyes for a moment, and jumping through the hole into the main cave. He began pushing his way through the crowd of chanting pirates to the hill of coins in the center of the cave.

"Excuse me. Pardon me. Excuse. Excuse me," he muttered, shoving the other pirates out of the way. All eyes turned to him as a silence overtook the crowd.

"Jack!" yelled Will, looking up.

"It's not possible," said Barbossa, staring at the swaying pirate in complete disbelief.

"Not probable," corrected Jack, walking forward.

"Where's Elizabeth?" asked Will.

Bo'sun had put a steel hand on Jack's shoulder, hindering him from walking any further.

"She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised, and you get to die for her just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really. Except for Elizabeth who is in fact a woman."

"Shut up! Ye're next!" yelled Barbossa angrily. He went back to the matter of cutting Will's throat.

"Ye don' want to be doing tha' mate," said Jack, holding up his hand, a pained expression on his face. Barbossa looked up.

"No, I really think I do," he said, turning back to Will.

"Your funeral," said Jack, clasping his hands together behind his back, looking around innocently. Barbossa rolled his eyes, turning back to Jack.

"WHY don't I want to be doin' it?" he asked in annoyance.

"Well beca--" started Jack, stepping forward. He stopped, noticing he was being held back by Bo'sun's hand, and promptly slapped it before continuing. " Because the HMS Dauntless, pride of the Royal Navy, is floating just offshore waiting for you."

A murmur ran throughout the crowd of pirates. Jack climbed up the pile of gold to where Barbossa stood.

Robin had remained with the boat, looking through the gap in the rock that they had used earlier. She smiled at Jack's antics, trying hard not to laugh out loud. Seeing that all of the pirates were completely distracted, she climbed away from the hole, deciding to explore the cave. After all, it's not like you're in a pirate's cave filled with treasure everyday.

She turned and walked down a long dark passageway that seemed to curve around the cave with the pirates. Robin hoped she'd find gold of some kind at the end of it. Then, if, in Jack's words, "anything should happen", it wouldn't be a complete loss.

She stumbled over an uneven spot in the rock floor, turning a corner. Before her was a large pile of gold coins and gems, sparkling in the faint light of a torch on the wall. Robin approached the pile, not hesitating one second to begin shoving rubies and emeralds into her boots. She reached out for some coins when something caught her eye. A golden handle welded into the rock. She backed up, looking around the entire wall. It seemed to be a door in the stone.

Robin grabbed a few last diamonds and sapphires before reaching out and turning the handle, opening the stone door. As she had suspected, it opened into the main chamber on the opposite side of the golden pile with the chest. She climbed out, looking around.

Something was going on on the other side of the center of the cave. She climbed up the pile of gold quickly, slipping a little on the many coins. When she reached the top, she spotted Will and Elizabeth both fighting a group of pirates while Jack and Barbossa were dueling along the wall.

"What did I miss?" she asked herself in slight surprise. She watched as Jack drove Barbossa further up a pile of treasure into a patch of moonlight. As the curse intended, Barbossa turned skeletal, rips of clothing hanging off of his ribcage. Jack drove him further back.

Robin gasped.

Jack had entered the moonlight and, instead of remaining as he was, he too turned skeletal. Robin looked away, back to Will, who had stuffed a bomb into the center of a skeletal pirate connected to two others by a large gold bar, pushed them out of the moonlight. The pirate groped along his stomach hurriedly, searching for the bomb. He looked up as he realized he couldn't reach it.

"No fair," he said before being blown to smithereens along with the two pirates beside him.

Will slit his hand with the sacrificial knife and tossed his bloodstained coin to Robin. She caught it and threw it into the chest, looking back at the last fighting duo. Jack and Barbossa both moved steadily closer to the pile. Jack caught the knife from Will, slit his hand, and tossed the coin to Robin, who caught it. Barbossa cocked his gun and pointed it at Robin. Jack pulled out his pistol and pointed it at Barbossa.

A shot rang out.

Robin looked down at herself. She wasn't the one bleeding.

Barbossa blinked, looking away from her and down at himself, pulling back his coat to reveal a spreading bloodstain on his shirt right over his heart. He looked at Jack's smoking pistol, then at it's holder.

"I feel…cold…" he said. His eyes went cross-eyed as the no-longer cursed pirate fell back onto the pile of coins. A green apple fell from his lifeless hand, rolling into the water. Robin rushed over to Jack.

"Well, I think he's dead now," she said observantly. Jack grinned and kissed her.

"Come on, luv. This stuff isn't going to steal itself," he said, smirking. They both set about rummaging through the piles of treasure, grabbing odds and ends and stuffing them into their clothing. Jack got a crown and placed it lopsidedly on his head. Robin looked at him and laughed.

"If this stuff costs a lot now, just think of what it'll cost in my time!" she exclaimed excitedly. Jack's face fell slightly.

"So…so ye're goin back to 2035 if ye get the opportunity?" he asked. Robin frowned.

"Oh, I forgot all about going back. I…I don't know if I want to or not now…" she said in confusion. Robin knew only two things at the moment. She wanted Jack, and she wanted home. She knew he would never leave his own century, not even for all the gold in the world. While she thought, Jack walked over to Will, who was watching Elizabeth walk away.

"If you were waiting for the opportune moment…that was it," he said to Will. "Now if you would be so kind as to drop me off at my ship."

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The foursome left the cave in a small rowboat, Jack staring bleakly off at the empty space of sea where his beloved Black Pearl had floated mere hours earlier.

"I'm sorry, Jack," said Elizabeth pityingly.

"They done what's right by them, can' expect more'n that," replied Jack in a solemn voice. This left the figures in the small rowboat with the same thought. Captain Jack Sparrow would indeed be hung, Robin Turlo by his side.

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