Pirates of the Caribbean 3
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-/-/-/- Elizabeth -/-/-/-
The small row boat made its way across open water. Elizabeth gazed out over the sea. Somewhere out there were the Kraken and Jack. Elizabeth had denied it all along, but she was sure now. She had growing emotions for the pirate she had tricked and betrayed. She was sure that Will must have seen her kiss that pirate, because ever since Jack went down with the ship he had looked at her differently. She thought she had figured out what that emotion in his eyes was. Jealousy. She wanted to explain everything to him, but it was impossible. How could she not love the brave pirate who had risked his life…her thoughts paused. He actually had used Will's life to save his own. But in some unexplainable way, she didn't blame him. He might have had the whole thing planned out from the start.
A wave made the boat tilt, throwing Elizabeth off-balance. She shifted her weight, along with a few other crew members who had been thrown. Subconsciously, she counted everyone in the boat. There was Barbossa, herself, Will, Gibbs, Pintel, Ragetti, Mr. Cotton, his parrot, and Marty. How could the small boat hold all eight of them? Her eyes wandered towards Will's, but when she realized he was starring at her with the jealousy flashing in his eyes, she averted her own, embarrassed.
"What's the plan, Barbossa?" Ragetti asked, breaking the silence. Pintel made an annoyed face and tapped his shoulder, "That's Captain Barbossa to you." Barbossa rolled his eyes, "This be the plan, mates. We shall sail to Tortuga, take a ship, and that's that."
Mr. Gibbs spoke up, "That's it?" "Simple as that." Barbossa replied. Will stood up, trying not to rock the boat, "Even after we have the ship, how will we know where to go?" "It's the end of the world…how hard is that?" Marty said, with an expression on his face implying that Will was just overlooking the obvious. Barbossa, "No. He's right, Mr.…what ever you name is." "Marty." Marty answered. Barbossa nodded, his eyes slightly squinted, "Yes well, we might go to the wrong end. It could be the left end, the right end, the south end…the north end."
As the crew continued to debate about how to find their way, Elizabeth reached into her pocket and pulled out an object. It was the "broken" compass. Her eyes widened and she took a breath. As she flipped the compass open, she whispered, just barely audible, "With all my heart…" She starred at the compass and it began spinning around. Barbossa stopped talking and looked at the compass. "Is that…Jack's compass?" When Elizabeth nodded realization flashed through his eyes. He looked back at the crew, at Will, then back at her. Elizabeth continued to look at the compass, almost mesmerized. Finally it stopped spinning and pointed towards the right of them. Barbossa looked off in that direction. "Jack is that way." He stated. Elizabeth looked up and realized he knew the compass's secret. So now he knew about her as well. Will looked confused and looked from Barbossa to Elizabeth. "That compass is broken. Besides, it would point towards the north is it weren't. We're going south…if it is pointing to the right; it's pointing to the left of us." After a minute Barbossa put his hand on Will's shoulder. "Jack was right…you make no sense at all." Gibbs looked up, "Actually that's what he said about me." Barbossa looked at Gibbs warningly then back at Will. "The compass points at-" Elizabeth stood up and cut him off, "At Jack! It always points at Jack. Because…he had it specially made so that its magnetism always looks for…his rings…on his fingers."
Barbossa let go of Will's shoulder and walked over to Elizabeth. "Really? I always thought…" Elizabeth put her hand over his mouth and smiled. "Yes…um…well…" she couldn't think of what to say. Will seemed preoccupied and instead of listening slumped over. Elizabeth sighed, took her hand off Barbossa's mouth, and sat back down. Barbossa also sat down and gave her a funny look. He glanced at Will, who was moving towards the end of the boat, then back at her. "You haven't told him." He said, in a low voice. Jack, the Monkey, screeched and leapt off his shoulder and reached out over the railing. Elizabeth looked at Barbossa straight in the eyes for a few minutes before finally letting her head hang down. "No. But I think he…found out…sorta." Barbossa patted her on the back and moved away.
Later
It was dark when the lights of Tortuga finally came into view. Elizabeth had been trying to sleep, but her conscious wouldn't let her. She had probably killed the pirate she loved.
"Stop here." Barbossa ordered. Mr. Cotton stopped rowing as well as Marty. Barbossa stood up and centered himself in the middle of the boat. "See that ship over there?" Everyone turned their heads to see a huge ship tied up to the dock of Tortuga's shore. It was beautiful, and by the look of it, fast. Along the side it read WAVE RACER. Barbossa continued as everyone turned back towards him, "We will swim out to that ship, climb up the decks, slit anyone's throat that is on-board, and sail away. Marty, you will stay in the water, and while we are taking over you will be cutting the ropes that anchor the ship to the dock." Marty nodded along with everyone else, then Barbossa looked out over the water. "Get movin'."
Elizabeth dove into the water, which was fairly cold, but tolerable. She rose to the surface to take a deep breath, then went under again. It felt like forever before she hit her head on the side of the ship. She surfaced and used her hands to search for a rope that would be thrown over the side of the boat. She found a loose one and started shimmying up. She held a dagger between her teeth, though she intended to let the crew take care of slitting everyone's throats. She climbed over the railings just as Gibbs and Mr. Cotton appeared on the opposite side of the ship. She looked around to see Barbossa standing where the wheel was, and Ragetti and Pintel were climbing onto the front of the ship. In the water she could hear a rope snap and assumed it was Marty, cutting all the ropes. When she looked back onto the ship all pf the crew had been creeping around, and a few lifeless bodies lay on the ground. Elizabeth wasn't surprised at the pirates' swiftness, she had grown accustomed to that. She herself moved along the shadows and towards the captain's cabin. Barbossa suddenly walked through the doorway, dragging a body behind him. All of the crew seemed to be gathering in the middle of the deck. Elizabeth followed Barbossa and stopped. "Where's Mr. Turner?" Barbossa asked quietly. Gibbs pointed to a door leading under deck and towards the rum cellar. "There was a noises coming from down there." Pintel explained. Barbossa nodded and flung the captain's body overboard, and the crew members copied with the people they had killed. Will showed up on-deck and flung a body overboard. Elizabeth turned and saw Marty climbing up from below, using a rope which he cut once on deck. He made a signal with his hands and The ship started swinging around. Elizabeth turned yet again and saw Barbossa steering them out towards sea. Elizabeth pulled out the compass and opened it. It spun around and when it stopped it was pointing in the direction they were headed. When she looked up she saw Barbossa looking down at her. She nodded to say that they were headed the right way and then looked back at the dock. There wasn't a single person who had noticed that WAVE RACER was sailing away. She smiled to herself then wandered down under the deck to find a bed for the night, or what was left of it.