DVD Malfuntions
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Chapter Three: Elizabeth's Rescue
Jack swam toward the docks, struggling, making slow progress. He stops stroking, and they submerge. Jack realized that Elizabeth's dress is weighing them down. He tore it open at the back, skins her out of it, kicks away. The dress falls like a cloud into darkness below. Jack swims with Elizabeth, quicker than before. Just then Murtogg and Mullroy help haul Elizabeth out of the water. Janine took her place at Elizabeth's side (no not as lovers but just or the fact tat Janine fell with Elizabeth). Jack climbs up, exhausted. Elizabeth is on her back; Murtogg holds her arms above her head, pumping them. Mullroy puts his cheek to her nose and mouth.
"Not breathing." Mullroy comments, Jack was about to help, but Hayley stopped him.
"You already swam let me do this at least." Hayley slips Murtogg's knife from its sheath
"Move!" she pushes past Mullroy, kneels over Elizabeth, raises the knife disregarding the shocked look on Murtogg's face. Hayley slits the corset down the middle and yanks it away. Elizabeth remains still. And then ... she coughs up water, choking on her first full breath. Jack leaned over her beside Hayley. Mullroy looked at her.
"I never would have thought of that"
Jack smirked, "clearly you've never been to Singapore." Jack flips the knife and hands it hilt-first to Murtogg, and then a shimmer of gold catches his eye, drawing him to the medallion. Hayley lifts it up out of her corset, and shows it to Jack.
"Where did you get that?" But before Elizabeth could say anything, they were answered by footsteps and multiple shing!s as blade are drawn from their sheiths. The blade of a sword is both at Jack and at Hayley's throats. Norrington and Marks' swords in fact, Norrington looked at Jack
"On your feet" It looks bad Jack standing over Elizabeth, most of her clothes gone. The rest of Elizabeth's erstwhile rescuers reach the scene, including Swann and Mrs. And Mrs. Callaway.
"Elizabeth are you alright?"
Eleanor came up to Janine. "You're okay aren't you?" Janine nodded and both she and Elizabeth spoke:
"Yes, yes I'm fine." Both Governor Swan and Mrs. Callaway look at Jack and Hayley.
"Shoot them"
"No!" Janine said, she placed her hand on Lieutenant Mark's sleeve. "She saved me and she's one of my best friends."
"Father! Commodore do you really intend to kill my rescuer?" Norrington looks at Jack. Jack nods as best he can with a blade beneath his chin. Norrington sheathes his sword, and extends his hand.
"I believe a thanks is in order" he looks at the hand, cautiously he goes to take it . Jack takes Norrington's hand gingerly. They shake, and then Norrington tightens his grip, yanks Jack's arm toward him, and then tears back the sleeve of Jack's shirt. Exposed was a brand on Jack's inner wrist: a large 'P.' Lieutenant Marks walks past Janine ignoring her pleading look and pulls up Hayley's sleeve as well, she had Aztec Medallion tattoo which she had gotten from the binder she bought at Wal-Mart.
"Shit" Hayley swore. The Lieutenant showed the Commodore.
"I told you getting the fake tat was a no no, but NO! Don't listen to me!!" Janine sneered, Hayley stuck her tongue out at her and she did the same.
"Had a brush up with the East India Trading Company, did you pirate?" Shocked reactions, from everyone but the sailors and the timtravelers. The officers, well trained, had in an instant; half a dozen pistols are aimed at Jack. The Callaway's stiffened their backs.
"Hang them" Norrington looked back at his men. "Keep your guns at ready, men. Marks, fetch some irons." Daniel looked apologetically at Janine and walked off to get some irons as another guard held Hayley in place. Norrington notices something else below the 'P' brand is a tattoo: a small bird in flight across water. Norrington smirked throwing Jack's hand away.
"Well, well…Jack Sparrow isn't it?"
"Captain Jack Sparrow if you please, Sir" Norrington glances around.
"I don't see your ship-Captain."
"I'm in the market, as it were," Murtogg looked at the Commodore.
"He said he had come to commandeer one."
Mullroy looked smug, "I told you he was telling to the truth." He turned to the Commodore "these are his sir." He gives over Jack's Affects. He shows the pistol and belt. Norrington checks the pistol.
"No additional shoot, nor powder." He pulls out Jack's compass.
"A compass that doesn't point north" Hayley supplied.
"yes." Murmured Norrington. Jack looks away, a bit embarrassed. Norrington half draws the sword from the scabbard.
"And I half expected it to be made of wood." Jack smiled weakly.
"You are without a doubt the worst pirate I have ever heard of." Hayley stepped in and up her finger up.
"But you have heard of him!" Daniel returns with shackles, approaches Jack and Hayley. Before Hayely could move the shackles are cuffed onto her wrists.
"damn it."
Janine held Daniel's wrist, but he wasn't smiling. If anything he looked reproachful.
"I don't think-" but her sentence was cut by Jack being lead away from them and Elizabeth walking towards Commodore, the Jacket slipping off her shoulders, she is unconcerned, but Govenor Swan insists that it be on.
"Commodore I really must protest." She stepped between Jack and Norrington. "Pirate or not; this man saved my life."
"one good deed is not enough to redeem a man from a lifetime of wickedness," one of the officers but the name of Gillette snaps the irons shut, and grabs Hayley by the arm leading her away from the scene towards the jail, Hayley nudged him and he fell off the docks and into the water, she laughed as she kept her foot on his head preventing him from coming up. "haha! Sucker!" Hayley watched the scene from afar replaying exactly as it was said … only Janine was there. Sneaking up behind the guards beside the one holding the drenched corset Janine got an idea. Winking to Jack she steps sideways so as to be diagonal from him. Being very careful she slipped the pistol from the soldiers belt and hid it behind her back.
Jack sees the winks and smirks as he replies, "Though there seems enough to condemn him." Norrington smiles, "Indeed"
Now that Hayley and Jack were safely chained Norrington nods to all him men, all of them stow their weapons and two step forward—Janine rolled her eyes.
"Finally" Janine and Jack chorused. Lighting quick, Janine snaps the corset around the hand and wrist of the lieutenant and yanks. The pistol sails into the water. Before anyone can react to that, Jack has the shackle around Elizabeth's neck. Pistols are drawn again, but this time Elizabeth serves as a shield. Swan reacted immediately.
"Don't' shoot!" Jack smirked.
"I knew you'd warms up to me." His gaze switched to Norrington. "Commodore Norrington my affects please-and my hat!" The Commodore hesitates, his hands balled into fists in frustration. He does nothing. Janine steps in. She takes out the pistol from behind her back and cocks it, pointing it at the Lieutenant's temple.
"Commodore!" Reminding him that there's more at stake here then just loosing a pirate, Murtogg hands the stuff to Norrington who hands it to Jack. Jack turns to Elizabeth.
"Elizabeth-it is Elizabeth isn't it?" Elizabeth's angrier than anything else.
"That's Miss Swan."
"That's MISS Swan." Janine and Hayley mimicked in a high pitched bitchy voice. They looked at each other and smiled. Jack looked seriously at her. Norrington handed the stuff to Elizabeth, Jack is quicker and before she can get the pistol he grabs it and turns her around belly to belly and points the gun to her temple.
"Now, miss Swan if you'll be so kind." She figures out what he wants: the belt to be put on. Jack grows impatient.
"Come, come, now, we don't 'ave all day." Elizabeth wraps her arms around Jack and works on the belt, Jack smirks at the Commodore who turns away frustrated.
"Easy on the goods, darling." Elizabeth tightens the belt sharply.
"You're despicable."
"Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life you saved mine, we're square." Done. He turned her around, backed up, and bumps against a pylon.
"Gentleman ... m'lady ... you will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow." He shoves Elizabeth away, grabs a rope and pulls free a belaying pin a counterweight drops and Jack is lifted up to the loading level of the docks. Swann catches Elizabeth in his arms.
The governor looks at the Commodore then back up to Jack. "Now will you shoot him?"
"Open fire!" the pistols fire and nimbly miss Jack, who looks down at them terrified. One zooms past his face. The Commodore yells to him men, as Jack stands up on a beam..
"On his heels!" Navy men race after him. Pistols fire and miss. Jack swings out on the rope Norrington has held his shot. With careful aim, he tracks Jack's trajectory and Fires. His shot tears the rope, just as Jack lets go, and snaps the link of manacle chain over another line, grabs hold of the far loop. He slides down to a further dock, drops down. Norrington watches as Jack disappears into the streets.
Norrington turns to Daniel.
"Marks, Mr. Sparrow has a dawn appointment with the gallows, and I would hate for him to miss it." Daniel nods, gathers a search party by eye, heads off –nodding to Janine on the way out. Norrinton turns to Elizabeth.
"Elizabeth, are you -?" Elizabeth shakes her head.
"Yes, I'm all right, I'm fine! Go capture him!" Norrington notes her tone, heads off. Swarm drapes his coat around Elizabeth.
"Here, dear ... you should wear this."
"Thank you, Father ... and let that be the last of your fashion advice, please." She looks out at the bay, where a thick fog moves across the water. She shivers, huddles in the jacket, suddenly cold. Elizabeth walks over to Janine who was trying to get Hayley out of the shackles to no avail.
"Well there's gotta be a way, why don't you sneak over to Mr. Browns; you know that's where the captain is gonna be heading."
"Yeah might as well. Hey you think I'll get a chance to battle the whelp?"
Janine shrugged. "You think I would know? I'm just as stuck in here as you are."
"Okay I'm going to head over then, can't leave Jack in the cellar alone now can we?" Hayley asked, wiggling her eyebrows, Janine laughed. She nudged Hayley,
"Hey same some of the captain for me!"
"nuh-uh, he's mine!" Hayley looks over hse shoulder and notices Elizabeth coming towards them.
"Uh oh, gotta go love, till the next time we meet!"
"Ah yes, which shant be for a while?" Hayley moved quickly across the dock s and off before Elizabeth could call for someone. Elizabeth smiled at Janine.
"I know this may seem a bit childish but-"
"Sleepover? I'd love to. Popcorn and a movie?" Elizabeth blinked.
"A movie?"
"An expression…"the film thing I told you about."Janine supplied quickly. "It's like saying a sleepover…with the works!"
"Oh. Yes. Well I don't know when."
"I'll come over now!" Janine said cutting her off again. "The sooner the better no?" Elizabeth smiled. As they walked back to the Swan's manor, on the other side of town, Will and Sam were walking back from the path about to join in on the action.
~*~
Hayley rushes through the crowds of officers and townsfolk and tried to be as inconspicuous as possible she walks into the smith's house. Seconds later she heard the doors slip open and she dived behind the donkey. When she saw it was Jack she sighed.
"Good it's just you." Jack looked at her.
"Just?" Hayley laughed. "Just get the chains off you scallywag." It was then where Hayley actually noticed her surroundings. The forge is dark, lit by lanterns. A mule is yoked to a bellows. Every tool was in its place, and the workbench tidy and neat.
A snort stifles the air and Jack jumps. Mister Brown, in a blacksmith's apron, sleeping in the corner, cradling a bottle. Jack does a quick turn around then flashes back.
"whoa!!"
Nothing. Hayley laughs.
Jack reaches over him, takes a short handled sledge from its place on the wall and starts beating at the chains with the hammer. Hayley holds her right hand over the furnace, the chain down in the embers. The chain begins to glow a bright neon red. Hayley sweats, grimacing at the pain. Quickly she wraps the chain around the nose of an anvil, brings the sledge down on the glowing links. One shatters, then plunges her manacled hand in a bucket of water. Jack, however was on a different path. He smirked as the donkey started moving around the track and he looped the chain over the gears' teeth and as it passed under the other, applying pressure, the chain was broken. The sound of the latch on the door brings their attention to the front, Jack and Hayley dive for cover. Will and Sam enter. Spoting the drunken Mister Brown in the corner, Sam looks at him with a quirked eyebrow.
"Right where you left him.?"
Will smirks. "Right where I left you." Sam looks around and notes an empty peg on the wall, the sledge on the floor:
"I don't think those are the proper place for them?" then something gold glinted in the dim light drawing Sam's eye to it.
"ooooooo shiny!" Sam ran towards it. It was the glint off of Hayley's ring. Sam looked down at her.
"Hayley!!"
"You idiot you gave me away!" Sam gave an over exaggerated look of apology.
"I'm sorry." They didn't notice however that Jack and Will were having a lovely conversation, ignoring them completely. Shrugging they sat on the edge of the steps and watched intently Jack frowned a bit.
"You seem somewhat familiar ... have I threatened you before?"
"I make it a point to avoid familiarity with pirates."
"Ah. Then it would be a shame to put a black mark on your record. So if you'll excuse me ..." Beside the door is a grindstone, a sword resting in the honing guide. Before Jack can react, Will has it in hand. Hayley laughed and pulled out her own blade. Two against one.
"Do you think this is wise, boy? Crossing blades with a couple pirates?" Sam decided to make herself known she tried to pull out a sword but it didn't work. He looked at Jack.
"One moment." Jack let his sword drop.
"yeah, no problem, I've got a while." Hayley dropped her sword as well.
"we got time." Will walked over to Sam and showed her that you pullout not up to get the sword out of the gear. Will took his position infront of Jack again, Sam infront of Hayley who couldn't stop snickering.
"Shut up Hayley."
"You tried to pull up?" Hayley laughed, and Sam pouted. Will rolled his eyes and continued, Jack gave a small smile.
"You threatened Miss Swann." Will stated, Jack draged his blade against Will's.
"Only a little."
In response, Will assumed an en garde position. Jack appraises him, unhappy to see Will has training. Jack attacks. The two men stand in one place, trading feints, thrusts and parries with lightning speed, almost impossible to follow. Will has no trouble matching Jack.
Hayley matched Sam's skills. Hayley looked at her bewildered.
"You know all this from books."
Sam smiled. "Yup."
"Wow you're good."
"Thanks."
"You know what you're doing, I'll give you that ... Excellent form ... But how's your footwork? If I step here-" Jack takes a step around an imaginary circle. Will steps the other way, maintaining his relationship to Jack.
"Very good! And if I step again, you step again ..." (continuing in a circle)
Hayley and Sam continued with Jack and Will, both matching each other.
Hayley laughed as she remembered something Janine told her.
"And so we circle, circle, like dogs we circle …"
"What?!" Sam dropped her sword laughed. "What about squirrels? Squirrels go around in circles."
"This has nothing to do with animals" Hayley said nonplused, Sam attacked again, Hayley parried her blow and swung the blade around and over her head, which Sam blocked.
"yes it does, you just said dogs!"
"but it's an expression!"
"…oh"
They are now exactly opposite their initial positions.
"Ta!" Jack turns and heads for the door, now directly behind him. Will registers angry surprise and then with a vicious overhand motion, and throws his sword it buries itself into the door, just above the latch, barely missing Jack.
"Damn!" Hayley swore. She mimicked it to Sam. "It's just like twang! what the hell was that?!"
Jack rattles the latch, the sword blocks it. Tugs on the sword a few times it's really stuck in there. Jack mouths a curse, but when he turns back to Will, he's smiling.
Hayley went to go to the back door but Sam was in front of her.
"common Sam."
"No"
"You suck."
"No vacuum cleaners suck."
"Yeah well you're a shop vac then! Oh burn!"
"That is a wonderful trick. Except, once again, you are between me and the way out." Jack raised his sword. Hayley did the Sam, Sam slapped t back down, Hayley threw the sword down on the ground.
"oh you wanna go?!" Sam threw down her sword dramatically.
"yeah, I could so kick your ass." Ignring the fact that the girls were in their own little world, Jack turned his attention back to Will.
"And now you have no weapon." Eyes on Jack, Will simply picks up a new sword from the furnace this one has a glowing, red hot tip. Jack slumps in dismay but then leaps forward. Will and Jack duel. Their blades flash and ring. Suddenly, Jack swings the chain still manacled to his left hand at Will's head. Will ducks it, comes up wide eyed.
Hayley and Sam sat in the far corner of the room, a litle spent from actually fighting eachother and Sam sits down beside Hayley a little upset.
"did you find it?"
"no where the hell did you see kernels Hayley, do they even KNOW that popcorn is in this time?"
"I dunno" Sam threw down a hammer.
"Then why are we looking for popcorn?!!!"
"Because popcorn is good for scenes like this."
"Well there isn't any!"
Then Jack's chain smashes across Will's sword, disarming him. Will picks up another. Jack becomes distressingly aware that the entire room is filled with bladed weapons.
"Who makes all these?" Jack asked, Will went to the other side of the pillar.
"I do." Other side. "And I practice with them." Dodges a hammer thrown by Jack. "At least three hours a day."
"You need to find yourself a girl, mate." Will sets his jaw, then Jack pauses getting almost right up in his face.
"Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is you've found one – but are otherwise incapable of wooing sensations? You're not a eunuch are you?" Jack looks down. A direct hit and Will coils even more tightly with anger.
"I practice three hours a day so that when I meet a pirate ... I can kill him." He explodes and kicks a rack, causing a sword to fall into his other hand, and attacks Jack, both blades flashing. Fearless, Will drives Jack backwards, and up, onto a movable ramp, wheels in the center. When Jack passes the mid point, the ramp balances, and rolls wildly as the two men fight. Jack slams down on one of the boards, it flies up, hitting Will in the chin. Jack's chain wraps around Will's sword but Will twists the handle of his guard through a link, and stabs the sword up So Jack's manacled left arm is now suspended from the ceiling. Not good.
He parries using one hand, twisting and dodging around the furnace Jack compresses the bellows, blowing a shower of sparks into Will's face. Jack grabs the chain, hoists himself up, kicks with his feet, knocking Will back. Jack frees his manacled arm, drops onto the ramp, the other end rises and slams Will's chin. Hayley decides to get in on the action and hurls a wooden mallet, hits Will on the wrist; he drops his sword, falls, and gets up. Jack's pistol is aimed between Will's eyes. Will steps back blocking the back exit. Glares, rubs his wrist gingerly. Hayley's laughing until Sam comes up to her with a blade at her throat.
"Damn it!"
"Ha-ha loser!"
"You cheated."
Jack takes no time to answer "Pirate." Jack steps forward. Will steps back, fully blocking the door. From outside come the sounds of pursuit. Hayley steps besides Jack, Sam beside Will.
"Move away."
"No way!" Sam replies. Hayley winces.
"Please move?!"
"No. I can not just step aside and let you escape." Will says boldly, Sam sticks her nose up at them.
"Yeah that's right!!" Jack cocks the pistol. Will stares back; a long moment passes with silence. Hayley glares back at Sam and points her pistol in-between Sam's eyes, she goes cross-eyed.
"You're lucky you're my friend" Hayley said. Then she turns to Will.
"You're lucky, boy" Will ponders what he means before Jack cuts in.
"This shot, is not meant for you." Will quirks an eyebrow but before Mr. Brown can get the best of Jack, Hayley spots him and slams the hilt of her pistol into his temple.
"Ha!" then she falls unconscious, Sam standing behind her with the hilt of her sword raised, Jack turned to face Sam when Will takes his moment and presses the pressure point on jack temple who then also, falls to the ground unconscious. The front and back doors smash open, and sailors fill the room. Norrington pushes forward, sees Jack on the ground
"Excellent work, Miss…what did you say your name was?" Sam blinked.
"Silverthorne, I live with Janine DelRoma." Norrington nods
"You've aided in the capture of a dangerous fugitive."
"So….do I get a reward?" Sam said smiling. Norrington blinked.
"…you get my thanks and the pride of helping the royal navy…" Sam sighed.
"But that's boring! What about a medal."
"…I don't think so."
"Ok, ok, I'll be rational." Sam paused, "how bout cash?" Hayley groans. Norrington stands over her, smiling.
"I believe you will always remember this as the day Captain Jack Sparrow almost escaped. Take them away." Norrington's men haul Jack and Hayley away. Will and Sam watch them leave and Sam raises her hand.
"Yeah all right!" Will stairs at it.
"What?"
"It's a high-five you dorkus, jeeze!"
"A what?"
"Just hit the hand and move on."
Well that's it for this chapter. I'm sorry that like none of it is funny but, yeah I tried.
I hope you will return for the next chapter, thanks to all that reveiwd…again.
Ciao ciao
Janine.