Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of "Pirates of the Caribbean", the only character I own is John Kevins.
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Chapter 6: A Deal Made in Hell
"So, Captain, what are we going to do now? Are we going to follow the ship and attack them again later?" Hammerhead asked.
"No. There's something more important. We can always kill Sparrow and Kevins another time, but first of all I want my heart back. They don't have it, so who does?" Jones wondered aloud. Then he concentrated. He could hear its beating, in a precise direction. Tortuga.
"Someone at Tortuga has it" he bellowed. "Come on, everyone at his place, we have a route"
Meanwhile, Beckett was growing nervous.
"Why hasn't he showed yet?" he asked. "Commodore, don't you think if he really could feel it he would have come by now?"
"No. I know he thinks Sparrow has the heart, so he's not been focusing on it right now. Once he finds out that Sparrow hasn't it, he will try to find it, and only then he will come"
Just at that moment, on the crow's nest, someone shouted.
"There's a ship on the horizon!"
Beckett and the Commodore went on the deck, and trough the telescope Norrington looked who was coming. Then he grinned.
"Lord Beckett, he's coming"
"Very well, then. Let's…" but the Lord couldn't finish the sentence, because he found himself pinned to the mast by Davy Jones himself.
"I know you've something that is mine" the captain of the Dutchman said, waving his tentacles, and taking his pipe.
"Ah, Mr. Jones, yes, I guess I know what you're talking about…" Beckett said, trying to not show his fear.
"My heart! Where is it?" Jones bellowed. He was losing his patience.
"Well, I fear it comes with a price, Mr. Jones" Norrington said.
"Price?"
"Yes. You want it, and we will give it back to you, but not before you have helped us killing all the pirates of these seas"
"It's a long job" Jones said, trying to keep his rage in check.
"Yes, but it is your only way to have the heart. Otherwise, we will kill you" Beckett, who had by now regained his composure, said. "So, do we have a deal?"
"Aye" Jones said, extending his tentacle to shake the Lord's hand. "We have a deal. But, I'm not so keen to trust the two of you with something so precious as my heart. So, we have a deal only if the two of you come on my ship. Oh, you won't have to work or do anything, you'll just be there, how can I say…as a warranty for me"
Beckett and Norrington looked at each other, but in the end accepted. So they commanded their ship to follow the Dutchman, then they were boarded on it and closed in the brig, with Bootstrap Bill.
"I didn't know Jones attacked the Royal Navy ships too" Bootstrap said to them.
"We are not here as prisoners, nor has our ship been attacked. We've a deal with Jones, Mr…"
"Turner. William Turner Sr. But they all call me Bootstrap Bill"
"Ah, I see Miss Swann is keeping you company…what a nasty fate to be prisoner on Davy Jones' ship" Beckett mocked her. Elizabeth glared at him.
"Better to be prisoner here than to be a stuck up smartass like you" she spat.
"So, Mr. Turner, by chance, do you have a son called William?" Norrington asked.
"Aye. Do you have news of him?" Bootstrap asked.
"Well, we can tell you he's going to be hung for helping Jack Sparrow to escape"
"That is if you capture him" Elizabeth defiantly replied, while Bootstrap Bill looked at the two officers scared for his son. But then, noticing her determination, he couldn't avoid thinking that till Will had her on his side, things would go for the best. "Plus, if he's with Jack and John, capturing him won't be easy for the soldiers" he mused.
Soon later, Jones came down to see the two officers. He brought them in his cabin, to discuss the plans.
"So, gentlemen, where do you suggest we start in our little chase?"
"I would start sinking the Silver Bullet. That ship ruined our operation against Tortuga and sank most of our fleet" Beckett snarled.
"The Bullet. An interesting target, it is, and I couldn't agree more, because on that ship there are two people who I so much desire to see dead or serving on my ship. Captains Sparrow and Kevins, I believe you know them"
"Yes, we know them all too well" Norrington confirmed. "Although I thought Captain Jack Sparrow had been already killed when his beloved Pearl had been sunk…"
"Yes, well, it seems that captain Jack Sparrow has found once again a way to trick death" Jones said, his temper rising. Then he called Hammerhead and the two officers were brought back to the brig, while the Dutchman started its voyage on the Bullet's tail.