Jack began to stroll towards the sandy beach with two bottles of rum. Maddie and Beth skipped along, a bottle each, behind him. He eventually plopped down on the sand. Maddie and Beth sat on either side of him. Elizabeth came up briskly behind them and then stood a few feet in front of Jack. She bit her lip and looked hopelessly down at him.

"What about Will…" She said. "We've got to do something to save him."

"Totally!" Maddie begged.

"She's right, Jack," Beth admitted. Jack nodded.

"You're all absolutely right," He said. Then he rolled on of the bottles of rum to her feet. Uncorking his, he made a toast.

"Here's luck to you, Will Turner," He said, taking a deep first sip of his rum. Maddie threw herself back laughing.

"That's your idea of assisting a drop-dead gorgeous blacksmith in his time of mortal peril!" She exclaimed, her laugh ringing out across the beach. Beth's giggle soon turned into a laugh much like Maddie's. She uncorked her own bottle and looked over at Maddie, whose face now read, "Get real. We're twelve and fourteen!"

"Oh, come on!" Beth rolled her eyes. Maddie smiled.

"One sip. For the toast. I mean it," Maddie said.

"Fine," Beth consented. Maddie opened hers, in turn, and they followed Jack's example by taking a sip. It was extremely sweet, almost like the might've expected Butterbeer to taste, and they both almost immediately felt a little lightheaded.

"Believe in the magic of a young girl's soul," Beth sang slowly to herself in her sweet alto.

"Believe in the magic of a rock and roll," Maddie's pure soprano sang.

"Believe in the magic that can set you free…" They finished together.

Much to her displeasure, Elizabeth sighed and sat down in between Beth and Jack.

"Drink up, me hearties, yo ho," Elizabeth said to herself, looking out to sea. Taking a small sip. Jack looked up curiously.

"What was that, Elizabeth?" He asked.

"Miss Swann," She immediately corrected. Then she sighed again. "Oh, nothing…. Just a song I learned as a child. When I actually thought it would be exciting to meet a pirate."

"Let's hear it," Jack suggested.

"No," She said scornfully.

"Come on, we've got the time!" Jack pointed out. Elizabeth rolled her eyes.

"I'd have to have a lot more to drink," She said finally.

"How much more?" Jack said, taking another swig. Maddie and Beth both stood up.

"I'll get wood!" Maddie said excitedly.

"And I'll make a fire like I learned to at camp!" Beth declared, and the two began scurrying around the island, knowing what came next.

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"WE'RE DEVILS AND BLACKSHEEP AND REALLY BAD EGGS, DRINK UP ME HEARTIES, YO HO!" Jack and Elizabeth sang loudly and rather badly, dancing completely drunk around the campfire.

"THEN YOUR FEET START TAPPIN' AND YOU CAN'T SEEM TO FIND HOW YOU GOT THERE…SO JUST…BLOW YOUR MIND…" Maddie and Beth sang loudly, dancing as well, although in a slightly more modern fashion. They weren't drunk, although they had both had two swigs of the rum, so they were kind of light headed. Maddie had tried to convince Beth not to drink more by using the whole "think how you'll feel in the morning bit". When that didn't work, Maddie argued that she had been the one who had dragged Beth to see the movie in the first place three years ago, so they wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for her.

Jack suddenly fell to the ground, dragging Elizabeth down with him.

"When I get the Pearl back, I'll teach it to the whole crew, and we'll sing it all the time," Jack said.

"COME ON, COME ON, TURN A LITTLE FASTER! COME ON, COME ON, THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW AFTER, BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S AFTER LOOOOOOOVE!"

"And you will be positively the most fearsome pirates in the Spanish main!" Elizabeth assured him, clearly extremely drunk.

"I KNOW WHAT YOU LIKE, I KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, NOT AFRAID TO STARE YOU DOWN UNTIL YOU BLINK!"

"Not just the Spanish Main, love!" Jack corrected her. "The entire ocean, the entire world!"

"WHEN WE LIVE SUCH FRAGILE LIVES…IT'S THE BEST WAY WE SURVIVE…I GO AROUND A TIME OR TWO…JUST TO WASTE MY TIME WITH YOU!"

"Will you two bloody shut up?" Jack yelled over at them.

"Not gonna happen!" Beth called back over as they broke into the chorus of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Jack rolled his eyes and continued.

"Because that's what a ship is, you know? I mean, it's a keel and a hull and a deck and sails…that's what a ship needs," Jack said. "But what a ship is…what the Black Pearl really is…is freedom."

" 'CAUSE I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE!" Maddie started singing loudly. Beth fell down on her back, laughing loudly. Maddie sat down as well.

"Come on, we've got to do the toast," She said seriously. Beth nodded.

"Jack, it must've been really terrible for you to have been trapped on this island," Elizabeth said quietly.

"Oh yes," Jack lied quickly. He began to put his arm around her seductively. "But the company is far better than last time…and the scenery has definitely improved…" Elizabeth sat up straight.

"Mr. Sparrow!" She said in mock indignation. "I'm not sure that I've had enough rum to allow that kind of talk!" Jack nodded. Maddie and Beth giggled from about ten feet behind the two.

"I know exactly what you mean, love," he said, curling his mustache upwards. Elizabeth gave a small laugh. Then she stopped abruptly.

"To freedom!" She said, holding out her bottle of rum.

"To the Black Pearl," Jack added. They clinked their bottles and Maddie and Beth clinked theirs, but there was a much smaller sound because they'd each only taken a few sips. Elizabeth took a small swig, but Jack continued to drain his until he fell down, asleep in the sand. Elizabeth rolled her eyes and stood up. She poured the remainder of her bottle in the bonfire, and a small red flame shot out from where the alcohol had gone in. She walked over to where Maddie and Beth were sitting and she sat down.

"I wonder what Will's thinking right now," She said wistfully. The two girls were silent.

"It's funny," Elizabeth remarked. "When I was young, I was always hoping for a chance to become a pirate and have an adventure. But it's not all fun and games. It's been quite frightening."

"Oh, toughen up," Beth muttered. Maddie smiled in spite of herself.

"Well, I'm going to try to sleep so that as soon as the sun comes up I can keep an eye out for any passing ships," Elizabeth said.

"That's great for you," Beth told her.

"If only there was some way that I could get a signal going," Elizabeth thought aloud to herself.

"Oh, you'll think of something," the two girls grinned.

"Let's go in the water a little bit. I haven't swum in the Caribbean for fun since our families went on that cruise two years ago," Maddie said.

"Race ya!" Beth said, and the two dashed into the water, splashing and swimming with the fish in the moonlight.

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So what did y'all think? I know, we haven't updated in two weeks, and we're really sorry, but we've been really, really busy. Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! Oh my gosh, 101 reviews! YAY! We love you guys so much! Some more reviews would be absolutely lovely. You give us a review, then we'll give you a gold star! We'll give you two if you can name from which four songs the lyrics Beth and Maddie sang came. Thank you for reading!