Jack drew his sword as Norrington's was coming down on his face. He blocked it and pushed it away from him.

"Norrington! Wha' are you doing 'ere?"

"Did you actually believe I was going to let you escape again?"

Norrington slashed at Jack and the battle began.

"Anamaria! Get us out of here!" Jack yelled between blows.

"Will!" Elizabeth yelled, "Will get over here! Norrington followed us and now he's fighting with Jack!"

Will dashed over to where the two enemies fought, sword already drawn.

Norrington was an amazing sword fighter. Even as Will joined the fight, he fought off both men with ease.

They fought from the helm down the stairs, around the masts, until finally they cornered Norrington at the bow.

The undeserving Governor tried to spin out of the mess but Jack and Will were on either side of him. He smiled menacingly at the two friends and flipped over the edge of The Pearl.

"Stupid bloiter! I wanted to kill him right here!" Jack yelled furiously at the ocean.

"Well, I don't know how he'd get out of that. He jumped into the water but The Pearl's just going to run him over," Will pointed out.

"At any rate," Elizabeth had just walked up, "we need to get as far away as we possibly can."

"Ay!" Jack shoved his finger in her face. "Where were you in our little battle, Miss 'I want to get branded'?"

Elizabeth just stared him down and walked away.

---

Norrington landed in the sparkling water as The Pearl's bow smashed into him. He slipped beneath the surface and The Pearl hit him again. He bounced into her repeatedly, each time knocking more air from his lungs and pushing him deeper.

Finally, Norrington found the stregnth to kick himself away from The Pearl and pull himself out of danger.

His head broke the surface of the water and he gulped for air. His head was swimming from lack of air and he was drinking it down. He was swallowing too much too quickly. The colors in his vision rocked and swayed with the ocean. He was so dizy. He threw up.

Once he composed himself, he looked around for The Pearl. She was already rounding the bend in the cove, heading toward the open sea.

He cursed.

His eyes then searched for his own ship, and he found her. The Dauntless was headed after The Pearl.

Norrington yelled for Gillette or anyone in his fleet; but the grandess was too far away for anyone to hear.

Defeated, he swam back to the drunken shores of Tortuga as the sun slowly sank into the emerald sea.

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Jack followed Elizabeth and kept questioning her lack of help.

"I was scared!" she screamed at last. "Are you satisfied, now?"

"Well, luv. Why didn't ye say so?" Jack calmed down a bit. "Everyone gets scared, but ye've jest got to look past that. Erhm, it's not exactly somethin' I can teach. Ye jest have to learn on yer own."

She nodded, but only because she didn't want to talk about it anymore. She knew that she would never be able to be a pirate. Elizabeth Swann, the Governor's daughter: a pirate. People would just laugh. Even she laughed at herself.

It was a joke.