DVD Malfunctions.

Chapter 7: Finding A Crew.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Pirates of the Caribbean or its script.

The Interceptor makes for the horizon. Janine fooled around with the rigging making knots in places where needed and Hayley was at the wheel. Jack then shooed her off of it and she went to the railing leaning on it. Janine finished and went to the other side of the ship and leaned on the rigging as well watching the waves beat against the Interceptor and the rolling waves against the sky deep in thought. Hayley looked back and walked across deck.

"Hey."

"Hey." There was a bit of uncomfortable silence.

"What are you thininkg about?" Hayley inquired. Janine shrugged.

"Life."

"Ah, I see." More silence. "so…why did you run off again?" Hayley said smiling; Janine wasn't getting of the hook that easily.

"Because I felt like it." Janine said with a little bit more spite then intended. Hayley's eyes widened a bit.
"hey are you ok?" 'oh yes I'm fine, my heart just skipped a beat when you flirted with me that's all, I'm perfectly fine with the fact that I may have a crush on you!' is what she would've liked to say, but thought it best not to.

"No. Yes. Some what. Maybe. Don't worry about it, Hales I'll be fine."

"You sure?"

"Yep."

"Positive?"

"For god sakes, yes!" Janine moved to the other side of the deck again. Hayley appeared at her side almost miraculously.

"100?"

"100 and 10"

"alright then, I'll just leave you to your thoughts then."

"alright." She started walking away "Once I leave I'll never come back"

"mmm hmm you do that then." Janine said even though her feet were on the verge of running back. Hayley popped up on her other side again.

"you're positive nothing's wrong?"

"Nothing I'm just…on my period."

"Oh! That would explain why you're so bitchy today." Janine whirled around and swung a punch at her, which Hayley blocked.

"tsk tsk love, no violence is needed from a lady." She teased; Janine began to sprint after her.

"when I was a lad, living in England my mother raised me by herself, after she died I came out here, looking for my father." Will said to Jack as he sharpened the blade, throwing a glance at jack at the wheel.

"Is that so?"

"My father, Bill turner," Will got up and walked over to Jack. "at the jail it was only after you learnt my name, that you agreed to help, since that's what I wanted I didn't press the matter." Will paused. "I'm not a simpleton Jack-" he breaks off as Hayley and Janine whiz between them both.

"Get back here!"

"haha! try to cath me."

"you're such a bitch you know that?"

"i love you too doll!-ouch watch where you'r waving that sword!"

…

"-you knew my father." Jack looked up to the sky and sighed.

"I knew him, probably one of the few who knew him as William turner, everyone else just called him Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill."

Will looked confused. "Bootstrap?" jack took the rope off the wheel.

"Good man, good pirate." Will's head turns sharply towards Jack as he says that, Jack looks at him.

"I swear you look just like him."

"That not true! He was a merchant sailor, a good respectable man who obeyed the law!" Jack rolled his eyes, annoyed.

"He was a bloody pirate, a scallywag." Jack turns back to the sea. Will; furious, pulled out his sword.

"My father was NOT a pirate!"

"Put it away son, it's not worth you getting beat again."

"You didn't beat me! You ignored the rules of engagement in a fair fight, I'd kill you."

"Well that's not much incentive for me to fight fair not is it?" jack says looking at him, then quickly turns the wheel the mast quickly zooming over Jacks head, Will drops the word and clings to the mast, as it hangs over the edge of the ship. Jack picks up Will's sword as Will struggles to hang on.

"Now as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention. The only rules that really matter are these. What a man can do, and what a man can't do." He uses the sword as a cane. "For instance, you can accept the fact that father was a pirate and a good man, or you can't. Pirate is in your blood boy so you'll have to swear with that some day. Now me for example, I can let ya drown, but I can't bring the ship into Tortuga all by me own see, savvy? So." Jack turns the wheel again and the beam swings back around, Will lets go falling onto his back, but before he can make a move his own blade it at his throat, with Jack looming over him.

"Can you sail under the command of a pirate," jack flipped the blade around in his hand. "Or can you not?" Will quirks and eyebrow.

"Tortuga?"

"Tortuga."

The evening comes quickly and a dimly lit port can been seen through the black silk of night, mountainous arms cup the port of Tortuga. Jack turns to Hayley and Janine.

"You two stay 'ere and keep the ship at bay."

"What how come I don't get to go for adventures!" Hayley wines. "That's so unfair."

"Life's unfair" Jack murmurs. Then went to the railing, Hayley took the wheel.

"Sailing between islands is one thing, but I'll not risk the open sea without an able crew."

Once docked Jack and Will strode into the dank, dirty port, where the tides have swept together the scum of the Caribbean. Pirates dunk a merchant for sport. Painted ladies display their wares. A Donkey bellows. Will studies the environment with a dubious expression.

"port to port, no one should go their life without breathing deep the bouquet that is Tortuga!" Jack takes a huge breath. "What do you think?" A woman dumps a thunderpot from a second story window; Will sidesteps the, er, thunder.

"It'll linger." As a man walks by Jack swiped the cane and walks further into the little town.

"Aye, unforgettable. I tell you, Will, if every town in the world was like this one, no man would ever feel unwanted." A redhead in a scarlet dress chatting up two sailors spots Jack. She strides up to him, Jack recognizes her and walks up happily.

"Scarlett!!" She walks up and slaps him hard, and stalks off.

"I didn't deserve that." He turns back, just as a smiling blonde wench plants herself in front of him. Jack smiles back.

"Giselle!"

"Who was she?"

"wot?" Jack looks after the redhead, then back in time to receive another slap! Giselle stalks off. Jack looks at Will and smiles weakly.

"I may have deserved that."

"how many women are there in this town?" Will asks, Jack looks thoughtful.

"Point taken. The quicker we get our crew and away, the better. Fortunately for us, the finest sailors in the world be found in Tortuga."

As they walk past the unconscious drunks and whatnot they come upon a tavern called The Faithful Bride. A drunken man lays in the mud, having a friendly conversation with two pigs. He wears an old tattered Navy jacket. Water splashes across his face, revealing: this is old Joshamee Gibbs. He sputters and roars:

"Curse you for breathing, you slack­ hawed idiot!" he takes a second and recognizes that it's Jack

"Mother's love, Jack, you know better than to wake a man when he's sleeping. It's bad luck!"

"Well, fortunately, I know how to counter it. The man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink, and the man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition from the man who did the waking." Gibbs looks thoughtful for a moment running through what he just said.

"Aye, that'll about do it." Jack helps Gibbs to his feet and then Gibbs is hit with a second wave of water. Will stands there with the bucket.

"Blast it, I'm already awake!"

"That was for the smell." Gibbs starts to retort angrily, re considers, shrugs: 'Fair enough.'

Back on the Deck of the Interceptor…

"Got any eights?"

"Go fish."

"This is retarded, how come we can't go on shore?" Hayley asked picking up another card.

"We can it's just that Jack doesn't want us too." Janine said, then slowly looked up a evil smirk plastered on Hayley's lips. Janine's eyes widened.

"No way Hayley, what about the Interceptor?"

"We'll sail it a ways bit out, and the people here are so drunk they're no threat if the Interceptor is a bit of the ways out."

"but-but-!"

"and besides we can get drinks here for once, when will we EVER be able to do that I'll have to wait three years."

"no way. There's absolutely no way I'm going to Tortuga with you." Janine said crossing her arms. Hayley took her hand and kissed the top of it, in an urgent way of persuasion.

"Please, love?" Janine yanked her hand away a weird feeling growing in her stomach.

"No way."

"Common! Rum and coke on me." Janine looked at her.

"They don't have coca-cola in this time."

"Alright normal rum then!"

"Hayley…"

"Common."

"No."

"Fine then, I'll go off and get drunk by myself."

"Hayley you can't get drunk you have no idea what you'll do-"

"Ah hah! So you say that you care about me enough that you'll come with me to keep me safe?"

"Yes. No…gah!"

"Fine then, I guess you don't care about me then."

"You know I do." Janine said sternly.

"Then come with me." Janine stayed silent for a moment.

"Well are you going to get this boat untied or not, how are we supposed to get it in the bay when it's tied to the docks."

Jack and Gibbs sit in the shadows, lit by a single candle. Will stands away from them; hand on sword, keeping a lookout. Two tankards are set down. Gibbs lifts it to take a swig-

"Just the one." Gibbs pauses. He takes a dainty sip.

"Make it last, then. Now, what's the nature of this venture of yours?" Jack leans forward. Gibbs leans forward.

"I'm going after the Black Pearl." Gibbs straightens up like he's been hit choaking on the drink in the progress. Picks up his drink -thinks better of it, puts it down. Jack has not moved.

"I know where its going to be, and I'm going to take it."

"Jack, it's a fool's errand. You know better than me the tales of the Black Pearl."

"Aye, that's why I know what Barbossa is up to, all I need is a crew."

"From all I've heard of Captain Barbossa he's not a man to suffer fools, nor strike a bargain with one."

"Then it's a good thing I'm not a fool then eh?"

"Prove me wrong. What makes you think Barbossa will give up his ship to you?"

"Let's just say it's a matter of leverage." Will hears this and steals a glance towards the table, then looks away. Jack jerks his head toward s Will.

"The kid?"

"That is the child of Bootstrap Bill Turner. His only child." Gibbs' eyes widen over the edge of the tankard.

"Is he, now? Leverage, says you. I think I feel a change in the wind, say I. I'll find us a crew. There's bound to be a few sailors on this rock crazy as you." Jack lifts his tankard in a toast.

"One can only hope. Take what you can."

"Give nothing back!" They drink, and slam down their tankards. Once their drinks are finished, Jack and Will split up form Gibbs and back into the town.

Unbeknownst to Jack and will Janine and Hayley slipped into the Faithful Bride.

"Two tankards please!" Hayley yelled to the bartender. Janine sat in her seat nervously, and then quickly jumped off as two burly men crashed into the place where she once sat.

"Holy crap I thought I was a goner." Hayley presented the cup in front of Janine's face.

"Rum?"

"Did you not just see that I was nearly killed?"

"meh, I knew you'd get out of it." Janine glared at her friend.

"Thanks."

"Welcome, love." Janine gulped the rum down in 30 seconds flat. Hayley quirked an eyebrow at her.

"Thirsty?"

"You have no idea." Janine murmured. Hayley gave a little smirk.

"I think I can drink more than you can." Hayley said non chalantly bringing the tankard up to her lips once more, Janine laughed.

"Ha! Sure you can."

"Oh is that a challenge?"

"No, drinking against you is not a challenge." Janine shot back.

"I bet its all talk."

"I bet you it isn't."

"Prove it. I bet I can out drink you."

"If you win you…must be my lackey for the remainder of the voyage." Janine wagered. Hayley smirked.

"Fine then and if I win, you have to do whatever I tell you for the rest of the movie? Deal?"

"Are you prepared to carry my things?" They shook hands. Hayley smiled.

"As much as you're taking my orders."

12 Janine, 13 Hayley. And by one drink Hayley was the victor, the sad part about everything was the fact that Hayley was still thinking strait, Hayley's vision wasn't blurred and her speech wasn't slurred. Which meant we now know who can hold her liquor better. Hayley smirked as Janine continued to dance on top of the table. A few more dances and they'd wind up with 200 doubloons in their back pocket…Hayley's back pocket. Hoots and catcalls now filled the tavern as well as gold coins that lay across the table. Hayley scooped up a couple dozen more coins. Laughing to herself, she'd have to get Janine drunk more often. Hayley looked up to see a pirate with his arm around Janine's waist and Janine-not knowing the difference between shit and applesauce at the moment- was flirting. Hayley knocked the chair out from under him taking Janine by the hand and getting her off the table.

"Alright love; you've had your fun now it's time to go." Three men blocked her exit.

"Where do you think you're taking our doll?" one asked. Hayley glared.

"Sorry mate, the lady's mine and I don't feel like sharin'" the men smirked thinking that Hayley was a guy.

"Prove it to us then, kiss the wench and we'll let you free. If not well, I've got a lonesome bed at me own place. Hayley looked at Janine.

"You want me to what?"

"kiss'er, unless there's another way you'd like to prove that the lady's yers."

"Hales what are they talking about?" Janine slurred trying to focus on what was going on. Hayley gave her a quick kiss on the lips, Janine tilted her head to the side trying to process it, and the third man shook his head.

"Would you like me to demonstrate on the girl what a REAL kiss is?" he leaned forward, but surprisingly Janine slapped him.

"I may be drunk." She said getting a little of what was going on. "but I'm still sober enough to know who I want to kiss." She lied. It was a complete lie. Janine couldn't tell the shape of Hayley from the shape of some pirate, she was going to have such a hangover later. Hayley turned Janine's face to wards her and kissed her hard. It took Janine almost a second to kiss back, but Hayley pulled away. Then turned to the pirates.

"There you happy now let us through." They laughed as Hayley dragged Janine's half conscious body back to the docks. Rowing was a bit tough with just her, but Hayley managed, and she took the sleeping Janine and threw her over her shoulder and started to climb the side of the Interceptor. Once aboard Hayley brought Janine into Jack's Cabin and laid her down on the bed and threw the blankets over her. Janine groaned a bit. "Ow…my…head…"

"You'll get over it." Hayley said, then turned off the lamp and walked out of the cabin.

Ha ha! Am I not a lady of her promise, I said two chapters today and you got it. hope you all enjoyed the chapter. From here on in it's going to get twisted with Janine's emotions so hold on.

I hope you all liked it and until I have another snow day, or a free day during X-mas Break I wish you all farewell.

Ciao ciao

Pirate With Sea Blue Eyes