I have good news and bad news- this is the Last Chapter! How ya like it. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own POTC or any of the characters.

The dawn sunlight slowly creeped through the small prison window and eventually shone brightly on a sleeping Jack's face. Jack opened his eyes. "Dangit!" he said as he stood up, rubbing his eyes. "I get a little bit of sleep and the sun blinds me!"

Arabella stood over in the far corner of the jail cell. "It's morning. Finally," She said grimly.

"Why?" asked Jack.

Just then two Royal Navy soldiers walked in holding two pairs of handcuffs. Without a word, they put a key into the lock of Jack and Arabella's cell door.

"What's going on?" Jack asked again, bewildered.

"Jack," Arabella tried to keep her voice steady, "Don't you remember yesterday? Those hangman's nooses outside are for us."

Jack's eyes widened as he recounted the day before.

By now, the soldiers were putting the handcuffs on Jack and Arabella. They led the two captives out into the small hallway.

Jack and Arabella looked at eachother. "Well," Jack spoke first, "This is it."

"It feels like a bad dream, not reality," Arabella repiled.

Jack gave her a sad look and turned his head back in front on him. The two men led them out of the prison. To nobody's surprise, the gallows was right next to them, and if Jack craned his head he could see their cell window. The area around the them was filled with people; Not only Royal Navy soldiers in their red uniforms, but also rich women and townspeople filled the fort. It made Jack nervous. All these people, waiting to watch two kids die? It was sick and weird.

As Jack walked past a crowd of people, he recongized Admiral Lawrence Norrington and his son and stopped to talk to them. "You're not seriously going to let your son see this, are you? You'll scare him to death," Jack told him, glancing at Norrington's 5-year-old son.

Norrington gave Jack a cold glare. "I intend to show my son what every pirate deserves- a short drop and a sudden stop." Norrington's son, whose name Jack had learned was James, looked up at Jack, cowering behind his dad. "Is this the guy who killed cousin Fitz?"

"Yes," Norrington answered, his eyes never leaving Jack's, "Yes it is."

The soldier who led Jack to the gallows kicked him in the leg to force him to walk. Jack yelped in pain, limping away.

Jack and Arabella stepped up on the platform where the nooses were waiting for them. This was it. It was the end. All the things Jack wanted to say to his father, his ex-crew, Arabella… he would never have the chance to tell them what he wanted to say.

A quite ugly prison guard put the nooses around Arabella's and Jack's necks. Arabella looked obviously scared, but Jack held his head up high.

A man nearby took out a paper and proceeded to read it. "Jack Sparrow," His voice was loud and sounded professional, "You have been tried and convicted for your willful commision of crimes being infinite in quantity and sinister in nature, the most egreious of those to be cited herewith: piracy, threatening members of the Royal Navy with their own weapons, threatening members of the Royal Navy with your own weapons, theft of a gaggle of geese from a pond outside of Boston, threatening members of the Royal Navy with said gaggle of geese, looting, arson, theft of two Royal Navy vessels, possesing an unlawful quantity of barley and hops, pillaging, covorting with soothsayers, extortion, smuggling, murder of a member of the Royal Navy; Arabella Jones, you have been tried and convicted of piracy; for these crimes you have been sentenced to hang by the neck until dead. May God have mercy on your souls."

A silence fell around the fort. Jack looked at Arabella, worried about her. She didn't deserve this fate. Maybe he did, but Arabella was innocent. It made his heart break.

The drums that Jack hadn't noticed earlier suddenly stopped. Arabella clenched her teeth, shut her eyes tight and waited for the worst. A single tear streamed down her face.

The prison guard reached for the lever that would send to two teens to their deaths...

...and an escape idea finally popped into Jack's head.

"Stop," he demanded to the guard. Though Jack thought it wouldn't work, the ring Teague gave him (that can force people to do what the owner tells them to- but only occasionally) was working- the guard drew his hand back. Jack took the rope off from around his neck. Below the platform, soldiers started running towards Jack. He yelled, "Stop!" and once again, the magic ring worked. Jack walked over to Arabella and she opened her eyes.

"We have to get out of here," Jack told her.

Arabella furrowed her brow. "Are ye mad?"

Jack sighed. "If I am, this'll work." Without warning, he kissed her. Passionately. Kind of like one would in a movie- but not exactly. It wasn't as sappy.

Then, Jack took the noose off from around Arabella's neck. "Okay, we need to run. Now," he urged. Arabella ran down the platform stairs as fast as possible. Jack just jumped off the side. They both ran away from the crowds towards the sea.

"Aaah!" Jack yelled as he skidded to a halt, peering down a cliff he almost fell off while running. Apparently the fort was all too close to the cliff.

Arabella glanced behind her and saw the soldiers were after them. She screamed, "Jack, jump!"

"What, are you crazy?" Jack screamed back.

"Now!" Arabella pushed him off the cliff and jumped after him. They fell in the water with a loud splash.

Jack swam to the surface, panting. "I can't believe you pushed me off a cliff!" He splashed water in Arabella's face.

Arabella replied by spitting water at Jack.

"Where's the boat?" Arabella asked.

Jack sighed. "How many times do I have to tell you it's a ship?!"

THE END

Ok- I think the kiss was a little too random. Eeeeh. But still, yay! Last chapter, I might do a sequel, but i'm still thinking!