End of the Earth
Yep…Madison is adorable. She's like a mix of a cocky teenager and a dependant child. I had a LOT of inspiration for her. Say good bye to Davy Jones. I also want to say that I lied. I said I wasn't going to have anyone stab Jones' heart but then I decided that it would be a much better affect then my idea. Also he deserves it…acting the way he did.
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Two days.
The Dutchman sat in the shallows for two days. Waiting for the others to catch up. Madison didn't sleep. She didn't go near Jack. She wouldn't let him touch her. She didn't respond to him whenever he talked to her. Because Madison didn't sleep, Jack didn't sleep. Both of them sat on cots, Jack watching Madison and Madison staring at the floor or her hands.
For two whole days, Madison barely did anything. Somehow she reminded Jack of a woman who was getting married but didn't want to get married. Part of his mind wondered if that was what was happening, in a weird way.
By dusk on the second day, the other ship had caught up and Jack and Madison were dragged ashore. Will, Elizabeth, Bill, Barbossa and Gibbs all came off the other ship. A plank was up against the Flying Dutchman serving as a way to get off the ship. Madison's head was down. Her dark hair covering her face from sight. Jack stood next to her, his hands tied together, as were his feet, although he had space enough to walk, there was no way he could interfere.
"Jack!" Will said. He and the four others started approaching the captain but were stopped by Jones' crew.
"Our audience has finally arrived." Davy Jones called. Everyone, even Madison, looked up at him, still on the ship. He slowly walked down the plank. Every other step made Madison flinch. One of the crew grabbed Jack and dragged him over to the others, leaving Madison alone. Bill looked at his daughter sadly. Not for what might happen, but because of the way she looked. She was emotionless. He couldn't believe it was his daughter. Always…there was some sort of emotion showing on her face. Not now.
"What's going on?" Elizabeth asked, looking at Jack.
"Ten years is up." Jack said. Everyone looked confused. Bill stared at Jack before looking at his more recent captain who now stood at the end of the plank.
"I've waited quite a long time for this." Davy Jones said. He raised his foot and dropped it on the sand. All eyes were on him as he walked slowly over to Madison. She blinked a few times. Finally, anger covered her face.
"I loathe you." Madison muttered. Davy Jones actually smiled. "No matter what you do…she won't come back." His smile vanished.
"If you're all knowing…why don't you stop this?" Davy Jones said, leaning closer to Madison. Madison tilted her head back slightly.
"I may loathe and despise you…" She said. "But I will forever pity you. Nothing you say or do will change that."
"You know nothing of what I can do to you." Davy Jones said.
"I don't." Madison said. "You may have loved someone and she may have left you, but that doesn't make any of this right. Forcing her AND your great-great granddaughter into something like this." Something about her changed. When she spook, it was the same voice Jack had heard days before. "This is how you treat us? The ones you love? If you knew anything about love…"
"If you hadn't left…" Davy Jones said.
"I had no choice." Madison said. "Would you rather a daughter raised around men who would rape a four year old? Would you rather have some accident and her die? I did it for her." She pointed at herself. Gibbs, Barbossa, Elizabeth and Will, as well as the majority of Jones's crew were watching this in confusion. "A ship is no place for a child. Madison may have managed but things were different with me and our daughter."
"You know nothing…" Davy Jones said.
"AND YOU KNOW LESS THEN I!" Madison yelled. She flung her arms out to indicate the whole island. "This is no way to get anything back! I loved you Davy. I loved what you were…not what you have become. You despise me now. You think to get me back through this child? She does not need this. He…" She flung her hand towards, and pointed at, Jack. "He…is what she needs. You've spent years, taking innocent lives and dooming them to your crew and now you wish to doom our grandchild." It could have just been the dying sunlight, casting an odd light over Madison, or it could have been that she was actually glowing. "No one deserves what you are doing. No one!"
"You wretched whore!" Davy Jones said, grabbing Madison. His claw pinched her arm but nothing more and the tentacles wrapped around her upper arm. Madison glared at him.
"You have doomed yourself Davy." She said. This time it was her voice mixed in with Calypso's. The water behind the ships moved. "With that single move." Large tentacles rose out of the water. Davy Jones released Madison and she ran over to the others, pushing the crew out of her way. Jack, who was now free from the rope, wrapped her in a hug. She was still glowing but he knew that she was Madison, not Calypso. Madison wrapped her arms around Jack and pressed the side of her face against his chest, watching the tentacles come down on the water, creating giant waves. While the Flying Dutchman and its captain and crew were submerged in the water, the other ship and everyone who had been aboard it only got soaked from the water.
"Why is it doing that?" Will yelled in order to be heard over the noise of the Kraken smacking the water.
"It can't come into the shallows!" Madison yelled. "That's the only way it could get to them." The Dutchman lost its anchor and began floating out to the sea. Madison moved so that she was still in Jack's arms but both her own were on one side. As if she knew what the younger girl was thinking, Elizabeth took out the heart and put it in Madison's hands. One of the Kraken's tentacles seemed to be growing in length as it stretched towards the beach. Davy Jones was stuck. His peg leg trapped in the sand.
"Maddie…" Jack said.
"Wait." Madison said. The tentacle stretched and almost reached where the water met the sand.
"Madison!" Will said.
"Wait!" Madison said. There was a sound, as if the Kraken was angry and growling.
No one harms my mistress!
Jack, along with everyone else around him (except Madison) wasn't sure if he actually heard that but it did, surprisingly, calm him. In one fluid motion, Madison took her knife from its sheath and stabbed it into the heart at the same time that the Kraken's tentacle wrapped around Davy Jones. It was almost as if a sand storm had picked up in that second. Everyone had to close their eyes to keep them safe from the flying sand. The only sound was the sand whipping around and a horrible screaming sound. Jack's arms started to tighten around Madison, only to find that she wasn't in them anymore. His calm feeling was gone but he couldn't do anything at the moment.
There was a bright light shining through everyone's eyelids and Elizabeth grabbed Will's hand. He blindly pulled her closer to him and held her tightly. The light faded and the sounds of a thunder storm, mixed with the sand storm and the screaming were filling everyone's ears. The screaming was fading. Everyone felt rain falling on them now instead of sand but still no one opened their eyes.
The sand storm and the screaming stopped when the sound of something dropping into water reached everyone's ears. There were just the sounds of gentle waves and soft thunder now. Slowly, everyone opened their eyes. Lying on the ground ten feet in front of them was a scratched up and soaking wet Madison. Her brown hair spread out around her and covered with sand, as was the rest of her body. Standing behind her and glowing more then Madison had been, was a woman that looked to be the older version of Madison.
"Calypso." Jack, Bill, Barbossa and Gibbs all muttered. Will and Elizabeth, being the only ones who never saw any picture or anything about Calypso, just stared at the woman. No one paid attention to the rain falling on them. They all just stared at the woman.
"Be careful." Calypso said, her eyes on Jack. She turned them to Barbossa and her face hardened but before she could say anything, she disappeared. There were a few seconds where no one did anything before Jack ran to Madison and fell to his knees next to her. Bill, Will and Elizabeth soon joined him. They all stood standing though. Jack brushed the sand and a few strands of hair off Madison's face. Everyone watched as there was no reaction from Madison.
(((A/N: SAPPY PART! Jack's gonna get basically out of character for the next little big and be all mushy and stuff. I'm not good at these things so I'm just warning you now. I'll either over do it or under do it!)))
"Maddie?" Jack said. "Come on, Maddie. This isn't funny." Still no reaction. Elizabeth was on the verge of crying. "Madison. Come on, baby. Don't do this to Uncle Jack." He laughed slightly although it sounded forced. "You know I can't stand this stuff." Bill had a hand on his son's shoulder. He squeezed slightly and Will reached up and put his own hand on top of his father's. His other arm was around Elizabeth.
"Please…" Elizabeth whispered. "Be alright."
"Maddie, wake up." Jack muttered. "Just tell me you're alive, baby." He put a hand on her cheek. He felt his own tears started to run down his cheeks. A few of them landed on Madison's face and still she didn't reaction. "You can do this to me, luv. Not before I tell you." Elizabeth started crying and buried her face in Will's shoulder. "You can't die on me, Maddie. I love you." Jack put his forehead on Madison's chest.
Tears streaked down Bill's face as he stared at his daughter. His little girl. It wasn't right. This shouldn't happen to her. Tears also ran down Will's face as he stared at his sister. The person he was only starting to know. He heard Elizabeth's sobs and it took a lot of control not to do the same. He could see Jack shaking slightly and knew the man was crying like the rest of them.
He felt it. A soft rise and fall but it was enough to make Jack lift his head and stare at Madison's face. He put his hand on her chest and felt it. A beat. He looked down and saw her chest rise and fall a few times.
"Madison." Jack said. Everyone looked at him then at Madison. Her eyelids were moving as if they weren't sure if they wanted to open or not. Jack put a hand on her cheek again. Madison said something that no one heard but Jack smiled. "Come on, luv." Her eyes finally opened and she looked at Jack. Slowly, she smiled and reached up, putting one of her own hands on Jack's cheek. Everyone watched her.
"Love ya too…Uncle Jack." Madison said. Jack laughed softly. Elizabeth laughed a bit. Will and Bill smiled.
"So…" Jack said. "Ya love old Cap'n Jack, do ya?" Madison laughed slightly, her eyes shining. She sat up just a bit.
"Of course I do you fool." Madison said before kissing him. It had stopped raining. The only light was from the moon and the slight glow still surrounding Madison. She pulled back and looked at Jack. "Would you save me before the Pearl?"
"Every time, luv. Every time." Jack said, resting his forehead on hers.
"We get to test that theory." Madison said. Jack looked over his shoulder at the ship. The other three looked as well. There, floating next to the island, was the Black Pearl. Not the ship that Madison and Barbossa had commandeered at the beginning of the crazy adventure but the Pearl, in all her glory. Jack looked back at Madison while the others continued to stare at the ship. Madison smiled at Jack. "Say it again."
"Say what? Oh." Jack said, smiling. "I love you." Madison giggled. "Let's get on our ship then, shall we?"
"Umm…Jack." Madison said. Everyone looked at her. "You're gonna have to carry me. I sorta…can't feel my legs." That made everyone laugh. Jack got up and lifted Madison into his arms, cradling her close to him. Madison cuddled up to him.
"Gonna have to get wrapped up in blankets or else we're gonna get sick." Jack said. Madison looked at him to see a mischievous smirk on his face.
"Wait till I heal up a bit." She said, smacking him playfully. She looked at her arm. "Might have to clean these up a bit first." They reached Gibbs and Barbossa, both standing and staring at Madison, who was still glowing and basically acting like a light for them at the moment.
"All hands on deck!" Jack said. That brought Gibbs to his senses and he nodded before going over to the ship and helping to get the plank down so as to make things easier on Jack. Madison looked at Barbossa. The man was going to be trouble soon. She could tell. At that moment, she didn't feel like she could talk loud enough, if at all, at that moment so she couldn't tell Jack anything. She just rested her head on Jack's shoulder and made a mental note to keep an eye on Barbossa.
Madison lie on Jack's bed in warm, dry clothes with three blankets wrapped around her. Jack had to do some captain stuff before they started sailing. She wouldn't have been surprised if he was standing at the helm running his hands along the wheel with a goofy smile on his face. At the moment she was happy. Lying on a familiar bed, in a familiar room. The one place she ever felt safe. Jack and Bill outside as usual. Although now it was different. Now…her brother was here and soon to be sister-in-law as well as few people that she knew were much better then Jack's old crew.
"I wonder what Barbossa is going to do." Madison muttered. She threw off the blankets and sat up. She stood up as the door opened and Jack walked in.
He stopped when he saw her. Her hair still had sand in it and was still tangled up but she looked beautiful no matter what. Part of his mind saw Calypso even though, by now, Madison was no longer glowing. The majority of his mind only saw Madison. The little girl he watched over and liked immensely turned into the young woman that stood in front of him now that he loved more then the ship she stood on.
"What?" Madison asked, smiling slightly.
"You're beautiful, luv." Jack said. Madison's smile grew and she walked over to Jack. She stood on her tip toes to kiss him. Now that she started thinking about it…that was really the only time they had kissed standing up. She dropped down and looked up at Jack to see his crazy smile in place. "Ok…now you say it." Madison laughed and put her hands on Jack's shoulder before standing on her tip toes again. She kissed his cheek.
"I love you." Madison said. She kissed the other cheek. "Love you." She kissed his nose. "Love you lots." She kissed the corner of his mouth. "And you're a goof." She stepped back from him, smiling as Jack looked at her, slightly surprised.
"Knew that was coming." He muttered. "I just knew it."
"What are you gonna do about it?" Madison asked.
"Wait till we dock, luv." Jack said, wrapping his arm around her waist and smirking. "Just you wait and see."
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Well there you go. No more Davy Jones but I've set it up so that, once again, Barbossa is the bad guy. Besides…if I ended the story here, then I wouldn't be able to do Will and Elizabeth's wedding or Madison's birthday or Jack asking Madison a question…Heehee.