Right.. since FF is being ever so annoying by not letting my upload my chapters, I just decided to write another one.. This chapter might seem a bit different.. this is because I've been reading a lot of MST stories the last few days.. and that humor somehow influences my writing..sorry 'bout that..

BTW: Jasper and I are together for one year plus 2 days today! Yay!

Chapter 18: Jump down the dark, spiderinfested hole.

At the docks

"Jack.. what are we doing here?" Chloe asks, a bit irritated by the fact that we've been wandering around the docks for 2 hours now without any result.
Jack simply ignores her, continuing his search for.. yeah.. well.. we don't know that yet.
Will glances at Jack, slipping his arm around Chloe's waist.
"Bear with him. You know how he can be sometimes.. a bit.. strange.." he whispers in her ear and giving a quick kiss on her cheek.
Smiling Chloe looks up at his face and returns the kiss.

"Aha! Found it.. William, dear boy.. Barbossa.. evil fiend.. Jasper.. erhm.. yes.. please assist me with this" Jack is tugging and pulling on a very heavy looking wooden log.
Chloe and I sit down on a nearby crate, which is just laying there, very conveniently.
"So.. told Will already?" I ask her casually.
"Nope"
"Will you be telling him shortly?"
"Yup"
"Good"
"Yup"
" So.. what did Norrington do actually?"
Chloe shrugs and frowns
"You left and suddenly that Mary Sue thing aimed her pistol at me! So, I tried to ask Norrington for help, but as I turned around I saw him pointing that pointy sword of his at my throat! He's a deserter.. he needs to be tortured.. rip out his nails.. break his teeth.. mess up his wig!"
I snort and nod my agreement. Never trust a white wigged man! They're surely up to no good! Especially when Sue's are involved.

"An' here it is Ladies and Gents" Jack pants, slightly out of breath.
"Where is what?" Barbossa scoffs.
"Looks like a secret passageway to me" Jasper murmurs. A secret passageway? Oh my gosh.. everything is turning more and more Sueish..
"Aye lad.. and not only a passageway.. it's also.. yes.. well.. it's a passageway.. but it's also a ..a.. thing.. to go to your world!" Jack grins at us.
"Wow Jack.. you really made that sound dramatic and professional" Chloe mocks.
Jack ignores her..again.
"We all jump down the hole, retrieve the map, locate the lost treasure..."
"Except that it isn't lost, since there's a whole map about the damned thing" Jasper interrupts.
Jack glares at Jasper
"Thank you.. so.. again.. we locate the lost treasure," shots Jasper a warning look "get you two back to your world.."

"Wait wait wait.. how come we can't stay at our world when YOU retrieve the map?" This time it's me doing the interrupting, my brow creased with confusion.
Will smirks, folds his arms and looks at Jack expectantly. Barbossa merely sighs and looks the other way, he's probably still thinking about a way out of this.. preferably without him getting shot and/or killed.
Jack throws his hands in the air in frustration "Cause without you we won't be able to get back! We went through all of that before! Now.. again.. In the hole, get the map, locate and retrieve the treasure, get you home, close the passage, live happily ever after... everybody agrees?"
Chloe thinks.. and answers "No.. why do you need this treasure so desperately?"
"What.. luv! It's treasure.. why wouldn't I go after it? William! Help me out here lad!"
Still smiling Will shakes his head "Sorry Jack, you're on your own with this one. I'll help you.. but don't ask me to explain your motives."
"Some help you are," Jack mutters.

Barbossa is paying a bit more attention this time, chewing his lip in thought.
"I think I must offer you my apologies, mister Sparrow," he muses.
"CAPTAIN..Captain Sparrow if you'd please sir."
"Captain.. I would like to join you in your perilous adventure" with a slight nod of his head, Barbossa offers his services to Jack. Come again? The evil son of Barbossa is agreeing to help Jack? This smells fishy, and I don't mean the waters of Port Royal.
"I think we should go too.. if it's only to kick Mary and Norrington's pantsy behinds" Jasper tells us.
"Ah well.. I suppose I'll have to go too then.. protecting Jasper and all," Jasper slaps my shoulder for this "Ow.. thank you dear." I say to him, rubbing my shoulder.
"Hey! I'm not staying behind all alone!" Chloe steps up to stand beside me.
"All alone? And what am I? Baked air?" Will pranks, trying to sound offended
"Yeah..something like that," Jack mumbles under his breath before beaming with joy "Wonderful! Let's go then!" After that, he simply jumps in the hole, without hesitating for a second. A dull Thud sound can be heard.

We all stand close to the hole and look down.After a little while we hear Jack's voice coming up.
"I'm fine..no.. really.. don't worry about me.. must've done something wrong there. Give me a hand up Will!" With a little bit of effort Will hauls Jack out of the hole. Jack regards it, scratching his beard while contemplating his next move.
Chloe stands next to him, squinting at Jack "I don't get it.. if we can only get tó Lona.. then why did you try to jump in first?"
Slowly Jack starts grinning again. Uhoh.. I guess this means I should make a quick get away, before he decides to chuck me into that..that..gaping hole.
"Lona! Get over 'ere!"
Quickly I cower behind Jasper.
"No! Get away!"
"Aw, c'mon lass.. you said you'd join us!"
"Yes.. but I didn't say anything about leading the way!"
"Lass.." Jack is coming closer, looking threatening. Jasper simply chuckles, not making any attempt to help me.. pfuh.. some boyfriend he is.
"No! There are spiders down there!"
"Are not! I squashed them all when I fell down!"

Hm.. well.. that kind of made sense.. not! Jack snatches me by the arm and drags me forward.
Struggling I call out for Jasper to help me, but he suffers from laughing-so hard-that-he-can't-stand-upright-anymore again. Grr..
Jack pushes me into the hole and I fall into a pitch black void.

After a few minutes of staring in the darkness I grow bored
"Hello? Jasper? Jack? This isn't funny anymore.. I can feel the bottom.. I'm standing on the friggin bottom! Hello?" I start feeling around me and suddenly an idea hits me.. could it be? Yeah.. well. it would make sense now wouldn't it?
I push forward against something I first thought to be the passageway wall, and what a surprised.. the closet door swings open and I can step out into the daylight. The bright daylight.. ack! Damnit..where are my sunglasses?

It doesn't take long for my eyes to grow used to the harsh light.

Uh oh.. I think there might be a little problem.
A lot of cursing and shuffling sounds foretell the arrival of the other members of the party.. and some party it is. Jack comes bursting out of the closet, swatting at something black that's crawling its way up his jacket.
"Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!" the black thing falls off his chest and Jack stomps on it. Panting he turns around again."Spiders..are..evil!" He tells me, before letting himself drop backwards on my bed.
The others quickly follow him..

"We have a problem" Jasper and I tell them..
Jack, still sprawled on my bed, opens one eye and glares at us.
"And what might that be?" he growls.
"This isn't my room" Jasper explains.
"So.. then let's go to your room, which door is it?" Will asks, as he opens my door and looks down the corridor.
"Well.. none of them.." I tell him, shuffling my feet "this is my house.. Jasper's house..and the map for that matter.. are 100 kilometer to the north.."

There.. another chapter done.. hope this kind of makes up for the delays in updating I've been experiencing lately..
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Love, Lona