Author's Note: I've had a complaint. No, not from one of my readers, but from losy ungrateful Will Turner.
Will: Aoife...
Aoife: Don't even say it.
Will: What?
Aoife: That you haven't been in the story in a while because you're going to have a huge part in this scene, so don't get sassy with me.
Will: Oh...well, thanks for answering my question.
Aoife: Can I get back to writing?
Will: Sure...
Will: Will there be anything else, Madame?
Anamaria: I've asked you to call me Anamaria, remember?
Will: Yes, Madame.
Anamaria: Will...
Allyssa: (Heard from inside closet) Well, it seems the beautiful only get more beautiful, while the scarred just get more plain... I'm sorry. Did I scare ye? I seem to 'ave that effect on people. It's good to see ye.
Anamaria: What are you doing here?
Allyssa: Well, there be no place like home. I never thought I'd 'ear meself say this but I need Father's help. I need 'im to stand with me.
Anamaria: That's impossible.
Allyssa: No, no it's not. Not if ye ask 'im. Ye know he'll listen to ye.
Anamaria: Father's dead.
Allyssa: What?
Anamaria: He's dead. I'm the Lady now...Well, what did you expect? After he learned what you'd done, how you'd disgraced us, he died...of shame. Embarrassed to death.
Allyssa: Good, I'm glad. It's better that way.
Anamaria: That's a wicked thing to say.
Allyssa: No, it's true. Because now it's just us. Ye can 'elp me and together we can...
Anamaria: Allyssa, shut up! First of all, I can't harbor a fugitive, I'm an un-elected official, now. And why should I help you? You fly over the sea, trying to rescue sailors you've never even met, and not once have you ever thought to use your powers to rescue me!
(Sung) All of my life, I've depended on you
How do you think that feels?
All of my life I've depended on you
And this hideous peg leg to have to kneel!
Scrounging for scraps of pity to pick up
And longing to kick up
My heels...
Allyssa; (Spoken) Ana, there isn't a spell for everythin'! The power is mysterious. It's not like coddlin' up a pair of...Wait.
Anamaria: What are you doing? (Allyssa chants) What is that? Ah! My shoes! It feels like...like they're on fire! What have you done to my shoes? (Lifts dress revealing ruby slippers and no peg leg, she stands but doesn't fall) ...No, don't help me.
Allyssa: Oh, Ana, at last...
(Sung) I've done what long ago I should
And finally from these powers something good
Finally something good...
Anamaria: (Spoken) Will! Will! Come quickly!
Allyssa: Will?
Anamaria: Will, come at once!
Allyssa; No! Ana, listen to me, nobody can know I'm 'ere! (Anamaria hides behind the closet)
Will: Yes, what is it, m'lady?
Allyssa: Will...
Will: What are you doing here? You stay back!
Allyssa: Will, it's just me, I'm not going to hurt ye!
Will: No! You're lying! That's all you ever do! You and your sister! She's as wicked as you are!
Allyssa: What are ye talkin' about?
Will: I'm talking about my life. The little that's left of it. I'm not free to leave here, none of us are. Ever since she took power, she's been stripping the people of our rights and we didn't have many to begin with! And do you know why? (Anamaria appears from behind the closet, limping)
Anamaria: To keep you here, with me. But none of that matters anymore. Look. (Stops limping and lifts up skirt)
Will: You did this for her?
Anamaria: For both of us!
Will: Ana, this changes everything!
Anamaria: I know.
Will: (sung)
Listen Ana...
Anamaria: What?
Will: Uh, Ana, surely now I'll matter less to you
And you won't mind my leaving here tonight...
Anamaria: Leaving?
Will: Yes...
That ball that's being staged
Announcing Elizabeth is engaged
Anamaria: Elizabeth?
Will: Yes, Ana, that's right!
I've got to go appeal to her
Express the way I feel to her
(Spoken)
Oh, Ana, I lost my heart to Lizzie from the moment I first saw her. You know that.
Anamaria: Lost your heart? Well, we'll see about that...
Allyssa: Ana, let 'im go...
Anamaria: (Sung) Did you think I'd let you leave me here flat?
Will: (Spoken) Don't come any closer!
Anamaria: (Sung) You're going to lose your heart to me, I tell you!
If I have to...I have to...Magic spell you...
(Chanted) Ah...Tum...Tah...Tae
Allyssa: Ana, stop!
Will: What is she doing?
Allyssa: Ana, no, you're pronouncin' the words all wrong!
Will: Ana!
Anamaria: Will! What is it?
Will: My heart feels like it's...shrinking!
Anamaria: Allyssa, do something!
Allyssa: I can't! Ye can't reverse a spell once it be cast!
Anamaria: So what do we do? (Will falls down in a chair next to closet. Allyssa brings him behind it) Allyssa, do something! This is all your fault! If you hadn't shown me that horrendible book.
Allyssa: I 'ave to find another spell...it's the only thing that might work. (goes behind closet)
Anamaria: Save him please!
(Sung) Just save him, my poor Will, my sweet, my brave
Don't leave me till my sorry life has ceased...
All alone and loveless here
Just the girl in the mirror
Just her and me! The Wicked Pirate of the East!
We deserve each other...
(Spoken) Well...what about his heart?
Allyssa: It be alright. 'e won't need one now. I 'ave to go. I 'ave business to attent to on the Isla de Muerta. Ana, I 'ave done everythin' I could for ye but it 'as been enough and it never will be...
Anamaria: Allyssa, wait! Allyssa!
(Will Wakes)
Will: Where am I? What happened?
Anamaria: Nothing, Will, you just fell asleep...and...
(Will sits up squeaking---made of tin, Ana screams)
Will: What is it? What's wrong?
Anamaria: No, it wasn't me! It was her! I tried to stop her! (Will screams as he looks in mirror) Will, please listen! It was Allyssa! Will! It was Allyssa!