Disclaimer: (Sigh) Do I have to do this it just makes me feel depressed... (Smacked on the head by muse) Oh very well. I don't Own the characters of Pirates of the Caribbean. (Mutters to self) Only wish I did...
Dedication: This chapter id dedicated to Reggie(AKA XRachX) who has helped inspire me to write it mainly by glowering at me when I'm not doing it fast enough. Thanks Gal, where would I be without ya.
Okay then, on with the story...
Chapter 2
Norrington stood alone in his office pouring over maps of the seas surrounding Port Royal. He was sointent in his focus on the task at hand, that of trying to figure out where that blasted Jack Sparrow might have gone that his missed the commotion happening right out side his door. That was, until the door burst open and the tornado otherwise know as Elizabeth Swan swept into the room.
Norrington looked up from his maps finally, as his door was flung open, and came face to face with an enraged future wife.
"Elizabeth, what is the matt..."
"He's gone!"
"He's gone?"
"Yes I can't find him"
"You can't find him?"
"No I can't!"
"You can't?"
"Yes that is what I said stop repeating me and do something!"
Norrington's brain finally caught up with his mouth, he paused to take a deep breath and asked for the section of the conversation he had apparently missed.
"Who's gone?"
"Will. Will's gone. I can't find him, he's not in his forge and no one else has seen him anytime today, I was going to see him as we were supposed to meet this morning to discuss last night and then he was going to escort me round the shops to pick out flowers for my bouquet at the Gala next week"
Norrington blinked, well that explained who was gone and in more detail than he had needed. Elizabeth had finally paused to take breath after her semi rant and flopped, elegantly of course, into a chair beside his desk.
"Erm... are you sure he's gone?" Norrington offered hesitantly, "He might have just gone down to the beach or the..."
Elizabeth cut him off sharply
"He wouldn't stand me up, I know him, we've know each other for 10 years, for gods sake, I know he wouldn't do this. Not to me. He has to have been kidnapped. And anyway I spoke to some people around to see if they'd seen him this morning. A Man, from nearby, said… that when Will returned home last night he didn't stay for long, he-he said that … he was… he was carried off towards the bay"
Elizabeth's tears finally got the best of her as she began to cry in earnest, she couldn't take this, her best friend disappearing a month before her wedding it seemed to much like a coincidence to actually be one, these situations always did. Will had rescued her when she had been snatched away from Port Royal all those months ago. She was not going to abandon him to the same fate she'd almost suffered she hadn't before and she wouldn't now.
"Who was … 'carrying' him, did they see a ship? Elizabeth I can't help if you don't tell me."
Norrington's voice was soft as he spoke, comforting Elizabeth he knew how close her and Mr Turner were, and could understand her worry. She was behaving in the same manner as the said Mr Turner had in the aftermath of Elizabeth's own kidnapping at the hands of the pirate, Barbossa. He was expecting the rescue demand any minute now; it was quite amusing how alike the pair were in attitude to each. Now that he thought about it they always had been more brother and sister than two people in love. With this realisation came acceptance and the knowledge that he would do anything he could to help find young William Turner, who would become his brother-in-law in everything but blood.
"-N-no he said he didn't see their faces or any i-identifying feature but…"
At this point she trailed off slowly and looked at John, who gazed back at her expectedly.
Elizabeth tore her gaze away from his questioning one and whispered softly.
"He thought that-that they might be…pirates…"
Norrington froze his eyes once again encountered Elizabeth's the same fear was evident in both pairs of eyes. Could it be them? Barbossa's men, the ones that had escaped three weeks ago from the island prison they'd been confined to, Who else in the pirating world would hold an interest in a simple blacksmith from Port Royal apart from…
"Sparrow?"
"Jack!"
"What?" Norrington still wasn't quite sure if he was on the same wavelength as Elizabeth yet and so didn't understand her delight at Sparrow's emergence into the conversation.
"Of course, he can help us find Will, if it is Barbossa's men, he will know about it, John we have to find him, he's the only one who knows enough about pirate society and still knows Will well enough to help us find out where they've taken him"
Norrington sighed reminded of Will's assertions that Jack Sparrow would help them find Elizabeth, and his determination to use that to their advantage. Now again he was being forced into a corner by his future wife, he knew he was going to lose any argument he started with her about this so felt it was probably better to give in now. But when had he ever been known to be rational when it concerned pirates especially 'Captain' Jack Sparrow.
"Elizabeth, I really don't think..."
Elizabeth spun around glaring at Norrington; she slammed her hands down flat on his desk.
"We are going to find him, and if that means asking jack for help that is what we will do."
Elizabeth's voice was low with determination as she made her declaration; she would not abandon Will just as he had not abandoned her.
"How can you be sure he will help find Mr Turner"
Elizabeth smile mysteriously, in a way that screamed 'I know something you don't know'.
"I just do, trust me John, he will help us."
Norrington sighed, he knew what she said was true, Turner had not only saved her life but Sparrows as well, so it was only fitting that both helped to save his. Unfortunately Sparrow it seemed was going to be unavoidable when ever it came to rescuing Turner, so it looked like he would have to put up with the pirate again. He could do that... Well as look as Sparrow didn't talk, move, sing, or... well to be honest breath too much. Oh who was he kidding this was not going to go well. But if Elizabeth wanted this he'd see what he could do. What they say is true he thought ruefully to himself as he gazed across at Elizabeth taking in the determined set of her jaw, people do, do crazy things when they're in love. Like consorting with pirates fro instance...
TBC...
Well hope you liked it, next Chapter we will definitely meet Jack.
See ya.
