Pirates of the Caribbean: Anna Chapter 8: Escape and Commadeering the Dauntless, a pirates of the caribbean fanfic

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Aradia-rising: Anna gave Elizabeth the medallion (doubloon) right when she agreed to go with her to see Jack. Check that chapter for reference. I'm so glad that you liked it!

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lateBloomer04: I sorta thought it would be boring to have them kidnap her home like in the movie—plus everyone wanted to see the part of the returning of the hat and some interaction between Elizabeth and Jack—so I decided to make this part up.

Exemery: Lol. Nope, things aren't looking good for Elizabeth, but hey, things could be worse…right?

Amanda: Yep. I noticed that too. No chemistry at all. If there had been any amount of it that was convincing I don't think that I would have written them with other people. I think that there was SO MUCH chemistry between Elizabeth and Jack in the few scenes that they were in together.

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She couldn't believe it. Elizabeth was gone, kidnapped by Captain BARBOSSA, and her father and Commodore Norrington were only looking at maps, discussing what should be done, and not doing anything about it! She narrowed her eyes. Bloody English gentlemen. The young woman kicked her bed and winced at the pain that shot up her leg, remembering why her father had hired a governess to try install patience into his daughters when they were younger—and why the governess had fled the place as if it were filled with all evil. It's his fault, we both get it from his side of the family. Then she scrunched her nose. Then again, I might just get it from my mother's family. That caused her to frown deeper. No matter how hard she tried forgetting her other family and tried becoming a full Swann, an exemplary Swann, Anna believed that her other blood was getting stronger as the years passed.

Hearing a knock on her door, Anna composed herself and looked up. "Come in."

It was a nervous Dolly. "Milady? Young mister Turner wishes to see you."

Eyes lighting up, Anna didn't even bother making herself presentable. She grabbed hold of her skirt, rushed out past Dolly, and down the stairs, skipping steps at a time. In seconds she had thrown her arms around Will's waist and was crying into his shirt. For a moment the young man was so surprised that he didn't even touch her, then, clearing his throat nervously, he awkwardly hugged her back.

"Oh Will, they've taken her and no one is doing anything about it!" She sobbed.

"Don't say that." He tried soothing.

"They might as well be sitting, having tea together, and commenting on the weather." The young woman spat out in a dark voice.

"They're holding counsel to see what to do."

Pushing away from him, she wiped at her tears. "All they ever do is talk! And while they talked Barbossa and his crew are getting further away with Elizabeth! Who knows what is happening to her at the hands of those demons1" She kicked at a wall. "We need men of action on this! We need—I need—." Her eyes suddenly lit up.

Will knew that look, he'd seen it enough times when they'd been growing up, and he frowned. Whenever either Elizabeth or Anna had gotten that look it only meant one thing…trouble…and lots of it. "What are you planning?"

"It's perfect!" Anna exclaimed, returning her attention on him once more, her epiphany lighting up her face like never before. "I need Jack Sparrow!"

Immediately Will's frown increased and he took a couple of steps backwards, eyeing her distrustfully. "What do you mean that you need Jack Sparrow?"

It didn't seem at all hard for Anna to understand her logic, and she didn't seem to mind the fact that Will didn't. A determined glint lit her eyes, reminding him of Elizabeth. She smiled, hope manifesting itself in the smile that appeared on her face. "Jack's a pirate! He should know something about the Black Pearl and about Captain Barbossa! I know that if father liberates him and promises him clemency and a reward he'll take us to where Elizabeth is! I know he will."

Shaking his head, Will narrowed his eyes. "Anna, your father will never free a scoundrel like Sparrow." Seeing that she was about to argue that point, the Blacksmith hurried with the rest of what he had to say. "The pirates that invaded the fort left Sparrow locked in his cell, so I don't consider them to be friends or allies and which would mean that there is a slim chance of him knowing anything about them or where they are taking your sister." He walked towards Anna and placed reassuring hands on her slumped shoulders. "Leave this in the hands of Commodore Norrington. He'll know what to do." Hearing the clock chiming, he sighed. "I have to go. Brown died last night in the fight—not heroically I might add. He was drunk as hell and fell on his own sword, and since he has no family the shop is mine. I'm seeing someone soon about his funeral."

"I understand. Go on." Anna sighed, realizing that Will would always be Will, and she would have to get used to that. He would never be her knight in shinning armor. No, he'd be the one who made the armor. "Thanks for listening to me."

He smiled sadly and nodded leaving the house in silence.

Anna went to look out of the window and watched him until he disappeared. When he rounded the corner she turned her back on the window and clutched at her heart, closing her eyes before a tear could fall down her cheek. The young woman knew that Will was right, neither father nor Norrington would listen to her plan. They'd take their good time to plan things out, and that just wouldn't work for her. She had to be strong. She had to be brave. She had to be everything Elizabeth was and Will didn't seem to be. "I'm going to miss you, Will." She whispered, before grabbing her cloak and hurrying out of the house.

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The good thing about the whole attack was that every guard or soldier was with Norrington and her father, listening to their battle plans. This allowed Anna to be able to slip into where they had Jack unnoticed. She stopped at the top of the stairs and breathed heavily. Once she did this there was no turning back. She would have disgraced her Swann family and she would forever be spoken of as the daughter who ran away with a pirate. But I don't care as long as Elizabeth is safe. With that determined glint in her eyes, Anna stiffened her shoulders and walked down the spiral steps.

When she reached the last step she halted and noticed that Jack was leaning against the wall, hat tilted on his head at an angle that it covered his face.

"Jack?"

Suddenly jolting, Jack pulled away his hat and looked at her in surprise. Then, he smirked, raising a suggestive eyebrow. "I'm irresistible to the Swann ladies, it would seem."

"They took Elizabeth."

His smirk was replaced by a frown as he stood. "Yes I was privy to that information."

"I want you to help me."

"And how would I be able to do so, my fair lady?" Jack wanted to know, motioning to the bars that held him prisoner. For a man who had spent the night in a cell and whose execution day was just postponed for later in the evening, he seemed rather well kept and in amused spirits. Yet there were bags under his eyes that told otherwise.

"If I could get you out of here—and help you borrow a ship, would you help me get Elizabeth back?" Seeing him eyeing her oddly, Anna began to fear that he considered her just as delusional as Will apparently did. "Please?"

He sighed and lowered his head. "Considering that ye have ask so nicely, I shall accept your noble quest." Raising his eyes he smirked that trademark smirk when he saw the way her eyes lit up and how she was nearly jumping up and down. "Now lass, on to more pressing matters. How do you plan on letting that infernal mutt allow you close to the keys and help me to steal a boat all in one day?"

"Commandeering."

"Come again?" Jack placed a hand to his ear and leaned towards her.

"Commandeer—nautical term." Anna blushed slightly at the look he was giving her, looking down at her skirt. "The word stealing is just so criminal."

Chuckling at that, the handsome pirate shook his head. "Alrightee then milady. How pray will ye help me outta this nice abode and commandeer a boat? I don't mean to be insulting but you don't look strong enough to break these bars and that mutt doesn't like anyone. I don't think you can get me out."

A voice from the stairs broke into whatever Anna was about to say. "She can't, but I can."

Anna twirled around in astonishment and watched as Will hurried down the rest of the steps and walked towards her, an annoyed expression on his handsome face. She bit her lip, realizing that she was in trouble. "Will I can ex---."

"I knew you would do this." He sighed and shook his head. "I knew you would come here even though this is sheer lunacy." Will then turned to Jack, anger and distrust obvious in his eyes. "Are you familiar with the Black Pearl?"

The pirate nodded vaguely. "I've hear of it."

A smile lit Anna's face and she closed her fists around the bars, staring at Jack in evident hope. "Do you really know about the Black Pearl?" Seeing him nod slightly, the smile grew brighter. "Where does it make berth?"

"Where does it make berth?" Jack echoed incredulously, coming towards her and ignoring the other male in the room because he was still sore at him since it had been because of him that he was locked up here in the first place. "Have you not heard the stories?" Seeing her shaking her head, Jack stepped back rather dramatically. "Captain Barbossa and his crew of miscreants sail from the dreaded island" he lowered his voice to a mysterious whisper "Isla de Muerta."

The female in their presence tightened her grip on the bars. "Isla de Muerta?"

"Aye, milady" Jack nodded important-like. "It's an island that cannot be found be found except by those who already know where it is."

Anna's grip on the bars tightened. "Do you know where it is?"

Jack was silent before he nodded. "Yes, I do."

Will snorted with incredibility. "Midwives tales." He then took a step towards Jack. "The ship in itself is real enough though. Therefore its anchorage must be a real place. Where is it?"

Anna stared at Will in awe, since she'd never seen him like this before.

Obviously not liking the tone of voice the youngling was using while talking to him, Jack assumed an indifferent pose. He leaned against the wall and began examining his nails. "Why ask me?"

Will seemed to be growing even more annoyed. "Because you are a pirate!"

"Many more of me where I come from. As a matter of fact, you have a few very good ones hanging right outside, might I add. Why don't you ask one of them to help you? Oh, yes. Because you all bloody hung the lot!" The tension was thick in the air as both men glared at each other.

Anna, seeing that Will was ruining her chances, reached out and grabbed Jack's sleeve, surprising both males in the room into complete silence. Focusing her attention on Jack, the young woman's eyes pleaded with him. "Please Jack, don't back out on me now."

He sighed and glare in Will's direction. "What be your name?"

Will narrowed his eyes. "Will Turner."

Jack looked slightly annoyed at something or the other. "I'd expect that to be short for William." He narrowed his eyes. "No doubt named for your father, eh?" Seeing Will nod, the pirate groaned and shook his head before turning an eye on Anna. "And yours?"

Her eyes widened. "But you know it already! It's Swann!"

"Your mother's maiden-name then?" He pressed, his curiosity getting the better of him.

Anna took a couple of steps backwards, feeling slightly trapped at the mention of her mother. Why was it that whenever anyone asked her about her mother she behaved this way? She should be proud of her mother, yet she couldn't do so.

Will noticed Anna's discomfort and scowled at the pirate. "I don't see what relevance her mother's maiden name has with any of this."

Anna gulped, and then she saw something moving in the shadows. A little frightened, she nearly smiled when she saw the shaggy mutt appearing with keys in mouth. It looked up at the men, growled, and then hurried towards her and when she knelt down it jumped into her lap, dropping the keys to lick her face.

Jack glared at the mutt for having surrendered the keys so easily to the girl when he had had to wave that infernal bone at him for hours on end without result. But then, realizing that the keys to his freedom—literally—were in the hands of the young lady, he realized that it was in his best interest not to pick a fight with the jealous and infuriating youngling in his midst. Just like his father. "Anna my dear lass, if you would so kind as to open this cage I am prisoner in I swear on pain of death that I shall take you to the Black Pearl and help you save your bonny sister."

Picking up the keys, Anna held the dog and hurried towards the cell, a smile on her face.

Will stepped in front of her before she could put the key into the lock. "You're not going alone with him, Anna. It's too dangerous." He sighed as if the burden of the world was placed on his shoulders. "I'm coming with you." The young man then turned to glare at Jack as if daring him to say something about it.

Jack ignored Will and frowned. "Do we have to?" Seeing Will nod, Jack mumbled some choicely words under his breath before finally relenting. Lowering her head for a second he took in a deep breath and when he looked at them again he was his cocky self once more. "Rightee then, get me out! And don't forget my effects!"

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Nervous as hell, Anna boarded the Interceptor and was glad when no one paid much attention to her. She had tried getting rid of the dog as Jack had commanded, yet it was following her everywhere and she didn't have the heart to throw a stone at it, so she allowed it to come onboard with her and she waved silently in the direction of those few sailors who saw her as they worked. Being the Governor's daughter gave her many privileges… privileges that I will lose when I do this. Keeping the fear out of her eyes in case someone noticed it and grew suspicious, Anna walked down into the cargo room and waited with the dog, which she was referring to as Benji.

All of a sudden she heard what Jack had warned her to be listening for.

"THEY'RE STEALING THE DAUNTLESS! SPARROW AND TURNER HAVE TAKEN THE DAUNTLESS!"

The rest was blurring. She heard people shouting and she heard Norrington, something that surprised her because she hadn't seen him when she'd come onboard the ship. They were traveling towards the Dauntless, the sea tossing her back and forth, and Benji was whimpering slightly, obviously not used to being on the sea. There were footsteps and the cry of battle as the ship cast off anchor, and for a second she was frightened that their plan wouldn't work and she would have caused both Jack and Will to get into dire trouble.

Minutes later she heard two thumps on the deck and then felt the ship beginning to move once more. Yet she stayed still because she didn't know what was happening, and she was frightened. Benji whimpered once more before jumping into her lap and resting his chin on her arms, shivering slightly.

It was only when she heard Jack's cockily confident voice yelling out: "Thank you, Commodore, for getting us ready to make way. We'd have had a hard time of it by ourselves." that she knew that Jack's crazy plan had actually worked. They had tricked the best of Her Majesties navy and they had stolen Her fastest ship, and they were heading off into danger unknown.

Looking down at the shivering mutt, Anna sighed. "Now are you sorry you wouldn't go back when I told you to?" It just looked up at her with big eyes and licked her nose, before resting its chin on her arm once more, causing a genuine smile to appear on her face.

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When she felt that they were a safe distance from Port Royal, Anna and Benji went on the deck to see how things were doing. She had been slightly miffed that neither man had come down to make sure that she was on board to begin with, and that had her in a slightly ill-tempered mood. The dog was probably the only male she didn't want to trash at the moment.

Will was sharpening his sword, his eyes on the blade. "When I was a lad living in England, my mother raised me by herself. After she died I came out here looking for my father."

"Is that so?" Jack asked, not sounding very interested in the conversation.

Taking his eyes off of his sword, Will nodded, eyes resting on the pirate in their midst. "My father, Will Turner. At the jail you reacted when I told you my name, and you wouldn't have done so if you hadn't known my father or at least heard of him." He placed his sword in its sheath and waited for Jack to speak.

"I knew your father. I'm probably one of the only people who knew him as William Turner. Everyone else just called him Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill."

The curiosity was burning in Will's deep brown eyes as he narrowed them. "Bootstrap?"

Jack nodded. "Aye. Bootstrap. Good man and a good pirate. One of the only pirates I knew who was trustworthy. I swear you look just like him. The only thing I have to say against him is that he was always wishing to have something he could never have." His eyes raised and connected with Anna's, surprising her because she had thought that they hadn't noticed she was there listening to their conversation. "I thought I told you that the mutt had to go."

Anna, who was still wheeling from the fact that law-abiding Will had pirate blood in him, smiled sheepishly. That made him even more attractive in her eyes, and she scolded herself for that, reminding herself that he only cared for her like a little sister.

Will got up, anger visible in his stiffening body. "My father was not a pirate! He was a merchant sailor! A good, respectable man who obeyed the law!"

Jack snorted at that comment, shaking his head. "He was a bloody pirate, a scallywag."

"My father was not a pirate!" Will announced as he took out his sword.

Anna's eyes widened in shock. "Will!"

Jack didn't seem at all concerned though. "Put it away son. It's not worth you getting beat in front of fair lady again."

A blush covered Will's cheekbones as his eyes narrowed. "You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight I would have killed you."

Jack gave his back to Will, seemingly daring him to do something while he wasn't looking, knowing that Will would look like a coward if he did. "Now that not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it?" In the blink of an eye Jack moved one of the sails so that the yard caught Will, caused him to drop his sword on deck, and swung him out over the sea.

"WILL!" Anna cried, grabbing the hems of her skirt and rushing towards the side of the ship, watching him as he hung onto the yard, trying not to fall into the vast sea below. The young girl turned to Jack as Benji began barking. "Bring him back now!"

Motioning for her to be still, Jack turned to look at Will. "While you're hanging there just pay attention to what I'm going to say. The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do." Seeing that he had Will's reluctant undivided attention, Jack continued. "For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that one day." He turned to Anna. "It isn't such a bad thing, having pirate blood in you, is it?" Seeing her shake her head no, he turned confidently back to Will. "Now me for example, I can let you drown, but I wouldn't do that because for some reason that I just cannot comprehend this lass here with me seems to find both you and the infernal mutt tolerable, and because I cannot bring this ship into Tortuga all by my onesy. Savvy? Also, a lassie shouldn't do sailors work and the bonny lass wont be helping me so I find that there is a use for you. So?" Swinging Will back on deck he watched as the younger man tumbled onto the deck before offering him his sword. "Can you sail under the command of a pirate? Or can you not?"

Will looked from Anna to Jack, something odd in his eyes as he reached for the sword offered him. "Tortuga?"

A smile broke onto Anna's face as she realized that things would somehow be alright. Benji sat next to where she stood and looked up at her with a confused expression on his face, causing her to giggle and pick him up. Holding him close to her, Anna turned to look at the men, who were both eyeing her with faraway looks in their eyes. A blush appeared on her cheeks as she cleared her throat. "Jack, I guess I get to see your famed Tortuga then."

The pirate nodded, a smile on his face. "It's going to be an experience, it is."

Seeing the odd expression in his eyes, Anna blushed deeper and turned to look in the direction of Port Royal as Benji licked her chin rather lovingly. Maybe she wasn't as alone as she'd thought.

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