"And then they made me their chief,"

Beth gave a shout of laughter when they heard a splash in the distance. Jack, Mullroy and Murtogg instinctively looked over to the sound. Unsurprised, Beth didn't look. She did, however, when she heard a second splash.

"What the-" she began.

"Will you be saving her then?" Jack asked one of the guards.

"I can't swim!" He looked over at the other, who shook his head frantically. Rolling his eyes, he said, "Pride of the king's navy, you are. Do not loose these!" Jack told them as he handed his effects, hat, and coat to the sailors and performed a beautiful dive into the blue waters of the Caribbean.

"Me too! Me too!" Beth called after him, doing a cannon ball. Soon, two figures became clear. Jack swam directly at the shape that was steadily drifting towards the bottom, but Beth was looking curiously at the other shape, which was attempting to swim up to the surface. The two girls both broke the surface at the same time and immediately began to swim towards each other.

"Beth!"

"Madeleine!" As soon as they reached each other, they hugged tightly.

"I found you! I knew you must be here somewhere, I mean, we were watching the movie at the same time and everything…" Beth started.

"Yeah," Madeleine agreed, looking around, when she saw Jack some to the top for the second time, she nodded her head in Jack and Liz's direction.

"Come on, we should follow them," she suggested, and the two began to swim for the dock. They arrived just as Jack had thrown Elizabeth up on the deck the first time.

"Remember when Johnny's wig came off in the blooper reel?" Beth murmured, grinning.

"Not breathing!" Murtogg said frantically. Jack roughly shoved him to the side and ripped off her corset. She chocked out a fair bit of water and breathed heavily.

"Never would've thought of that!"

"Clearly you've never been to Singapore," Jack told him. Suddenly, a piece of gold around Elizabeth's neck caught his eye.

"Where did you get that?" he asked her curiously.

"Well, she didn't inherit if, if that's what you're wondering," Beth told Jack, just as the British navy arrived, right on cue.

"On your feet," Norrington commanded Jack with his sword drawn.

"Oh cool! The former commodore has arrived! Oh, no, wait… Sorry that won't happen for a while yet." Beth said. Norrington looked he was going to shoot her for even suggesting that he might loose his position. The other members of the navy pointed their guns at Jack, and Elizabeth's father pulled her closer to him and put his coat over her to keep her warm. Madeleine and Beth followed her, the older girl shivering slightly from her saturated dress and its layers.

With one look at Jack, Governor Swann immediately demanded, "Shoot him", but before they were able to, Elizabeth stopped them.

"Father! Commodore, do you really intend to kill my rescuer?" She asked. Norrington frowned.

"I believe thanks are in order," He said to Jack, holding out his arm. Jack hesitated, then held out his own arm. Norrington quickly grabbed it and examined it. There was a large burn mark in the shape of a "P" and an interesting tattoo with a bird on it, although the tattoo was at first hidden by his sleeve.

"Had a brush with the East India Trading Company did we? Pirate?" Norrington inquired, his eyes narrowed. Pushing up Jack's sleeve, he accused, "Well, well, Jack Sparrow, isn't it?"

"Captain Jack Sparrow, if you please, sir," Jack corrected him. Norrington looked amused.

"Well, I don't see your ship, Captain," Norrington said in a slightly mocking way.

"I'm in the market, as it were," Jack explained.

"He said he'd come to commandeer one," Mullroy said, selling Jack out. "These are his, sir," he added, holding out Jack's effects. Norrington took them one by one, looking mildly interested in what he might find.

"Hm…no additional shots, nor powder," the Commodore commented, examining the gun. "A compass that doesn't point north," then after pulling out the cutlass, he smiled. "And I half expected it to be made of wood. You are without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of." Loophole alert!

"But you have heard of me," Jack pointed out cunningly, in a very much Jack-like voice. Ignoring the last statement, Norrington began issuing orders.

"Keep your guns on him men! Gillette, fetch some irons!" As the men began to follow Norrington's orders, Elizabeth threw off her father's coat and briskly walked after the commodore angrily. Madeleine and Beth followed her. While Madeleine was focusing on the lady she was "serving", Beth surreptitiously picked up a coil of about five feet of spare rope and began working with it, glancing up occasionally.

"Commodore, I really must protest! Pirate or not, this man saved my life," Elizabeth (Swann) argued.

"One good deed is not enough to redeem a man from a life time of wickedness," Norrington told her. While Lizzie rolled her eyes, Beth, now finished with her task, caught Jack's eye and looked meaningfully from her rope, to Jack's handcuffs, to Lizzie, to him. He suddenly got the message.

"Although it seems enough to condemn him," Jack commented.

"Indeed," Norrington said, now looking really annoyed.

"Finally!" Suddenly, Jack's hands were free, and he threw the chains over Lizzie's head in split-second action. Simultaneously, Beth threw her loop of rope with a slip-knot over Madeleine's head and tightened it to her neck so that within five seconds she could tighten it and choke Madeleine if she wanted to. The message had gotten across. Lizzie gasped and Madeleine was frantic in a state of shock.

"What-what the hell are you doing! Beth!" she demanded.

"No! Don't shoot!" Governor Swann ordered.

"I knew you'd warm up to me," Jack grinned.

"And I'm guessing you don't want this young maid to die as well?" Beth said, grinning devilishly. Madeleine looked as if she couldn't have been more bewildered at this sudden change of events.

"Elizabeth? It is Elizabeth, isn't it?"

"It's Miss Swann!"

"Commodore, my effects please! And my hat," Jack added. When nothing happened, he made it clear that he was serious.

"Commodore!" Unwillingly, Norrington handed Jack's "tools of the trade" to Lizzie.

"Now then, Miss Swann, if you'd be so kind," the pirate said, making it clear what he wanted her to do.

"Come, come, dear, we haven't got all day," Jack told her. Scowling, Lizzie began to fasten his belt and put on his hat. He smiled at their closeness.

"Come on Jack, she's bloody eighteen!" Madeleine rolled her eyes at him, seemingly cross from her current situation, but this bit of the movie was the only one in which she had a slight issue with Jack. Besides that, he was always awesome.

"Easy on the goods, darling," Jack said as she fastened it a bit too tight.

"You're despicable," Lizzie said through her teeth.
"Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you saved mine, we're square," Jack told her. He slowly began to back up. Beth took it as her cue to loosen the rope in preparation for her escape.

"Gentlemen…M'lady…" he said. "You shall always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain…Jack…Sparrow!" With that, he released Lizzie and quickly made his escape. Even though she knew the shock would only last for a few seconds in which she needed to dodge the members of the navy, Beth couldn't help feel a tingle of excitement at this line. Madeleine couldn't either, smiling a bit as Beth thrust her over to the Commodore as the Governor caught his daughter.

"He's so cool!" they both thought to themselves, grinning, as Beth charged down the dock and Madeleine watched Jack swinging around.

Okay, so what do you think? Bit of a surprise, no? We LOVE reviews and every single one WILL get a reply! That is our promise! We'll also update ASAP, and the sword fight comes next! Yay! Emma would like to note that on Saturday, she spent the night at Bizzy's house and we ate an entire quart of ice cream in like five seconds while watching Elizabethtown. Yay! Well, come on, at least it was low-fat! We almost got two…YAY ICE CREAM! Also, we're both REALLY busy with school and everything, so we don't know when the next update will be. The chapter after the next one has been started, but Bizzy hasn't started the sword fight yet...ANYWAY! We love pirates! YAY PIRATES! But y'all knew that already. It's taking over our lives! Talk to y'all later!