Yes! Another chappie! I'd like to thank alatariel10 (Lauren) and mrspatrickdempsey for the reviews::passes out rum and brownies:: Just to let you all know, there's a little AWE spoiler in my end comments, so if you haven't seen AWE yet, DON'T READ THEM! But yes, so I'll say this up here: R&R Please!!!
Oh yes, Beth said this after I showed her a little bit of this chappie: "You know me too well, Meg, it really creeps me out." So I believe that I did a pretty good job at capturing Beth in this chappie.
Disclaimer: I own Meg, anything of Meg's...and I suppose I own the Dolphin as well...hmm...Beth owns Beth, Disney owns the rest!
Beth stepped off the Dolphin, a tiny ship that they had somehow bartered from a sailor.
"I swear, once we get to Singapore and a bigger ship, you will all stay five feet away from me!" she announced. It was not a dingy, but nor was it a schooner; it was a swift sloop. Tight living quarters as some people would say but enough of a ship to get them all to Singapore in once piece where they could barter for a bigger ship and more crewmen.
"Where are you going?" Will called after her.
"To find a post office!"
"Really, do you think that Meg would have written?" Elizabeth asked looking bored. Beth shot her a glare.
"Of course!"
And was she right. When Beth reached the small shack, there was a middle aged man sitting at a desk.
"You wouldn't have anything for an Elizabeth Norrington, would you?" she asked as politely as she could after a word with Elizabeth. The man nodded and got up, walking across the room to where Meg's package and letter sat on a shelf.
"Here ye go," he said.
"Thank you," Beth looked at the return address. " Port Royal…" she murmured. "Yes, this would be Meg…" Walking out, she was met by Will.
"Anything?"
"Yes, actually…here, hold this a moment," she passed the package to him and opened the letter. Reading it she made a frustrated noise. "Curse Beckett…and curse Norry!" she cried. "But curse Beckett more because he's a selfish brat! …as is Norry!" Beth continued her little conversation with herself for only a moment longer. "What's in the package?" Will opened it.
"Clothes…?"
"Meg's clothes!" Beth snatched them away from Will and snuggled them.
"Come on," Will said, noticing they were getting a few strange looks.
On the way there, Beth reread Meg's letter and stopped walking.
"What is it now?" Will asked.
"She…she doesn't know that Jack's dead…" Beth replied in a sullen voice.
"That's true, Beth, but we're going to get him back,"
Beth sighed.
"I supposed that's just what I'll have to tell her…"
They went into the Faithful Bride and found Barbossa and Gibbs sitting at one of the tables enjoying tankards of rum. Elizabeth was sitting there as well. Beth assumed that the other crew members were off somewhere else. She slammed Meg's package on the table (it made a dissatisfying 'thud') and looked at Barbossa.
"Before we go to Singapore, we HAVE to stop at Port Royal," she demanded. Barbossa smirked.
"And why, miss, might you want to go there?"
"To save a friend. Perhaps you remember a Miss Megan Owen?"
"Ah, yes, I believe I do, Miss Norrington,"
"She is being held captive by Lord Cutler Beckett and is in need of assistance of escape,"
Hector Barbossa stared at Beth long and hard, pondering her proposal. "What importance is she to us?"
"She's my best friend!"
"She may be of help getting Jack out of Davy Jones' locker," Will added. Beth looked at him surprised but then nodded.
"Well, when you put it that way…"
"So we're going to Port Royal?!" Beth said excitedly.
"I'll be able to see my father, perhaps," Elizabeth mentioned quietly.
"We be sailin' at dawn, then, after we've gotten the supplies," Barbossa decided.
"Yes!" Beth shouted before running off to get some rum.
First thing the next morning, they were sailing to Port Royal. With a good wind on their side, the small crew would be there in two days or less.
Elizabeth and Will continued to be very distant with each other after what had happened the day the Kraken took Jack down with the Black Pearl. Noticing this made Beth think of what Meg had wrote in her letter: 'stay AWAY from Norry (who has turned to the dark side).' She knew that she would have to choose in the end…but Will would have to also choose.
Another morning, and sight of land greeted Beth's eye. Meg was just a little ways away.
Sorry it's short again!!! I'm still trying to figure out how this one should be connected to the AWE story...because really, this one shouldn't have happened or didn't happen. This was just a "what if" because I like the ending where Meg knows that Jack has died was was there to see the Pearl go down...but then I also like the idea...um...if you haven't seen AWE yet LOOK AWAY!!!!!!!!! ...anywhosit...I was going to have an alternate chappie in the AWE story when Jack is speaking to Beckett on the Endeavour...and Beckett still had Meg...and then Jack saves her or something...I don't know. "That's just maddeningly unhelpful." Yes...well...or I could have Jack take Meg with him onto the Endeavour or something...Because if this story never really happened, then Meg wouldn't have the necklace, right? I just like the idea of Meg having a black pearl...but what if someone gave it to her from Beckett or Beckett gave it to her himself in the AWE story? It would be a bit interesting...because then Meg would have a slight connection to Beckett at the end when he dies...I like the connection idea as well..."That is even more than less than unhelpful." Yes...I'm just confusing myself now and you're probably wondering what the heck I'm talking about as well. XD Okay, I'm done.
