The Curse
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Chapter 13: Negotiations
The crew had waited patiently for a day, Janine had tipped them that she had a plan up their sleeve; little did they know what was really going on…
"Well considering that if it weren't for my help in the first place you would have the bloody whelp and you'd be cursed the remainder of your miserable life, savvy?" Janine said walking around Barbossa's table and sitting down, her arms non-chalantly crossed over her chest and the right corner of her mouth turned upwards in a smirk.
"Aye, but you see lass," Barbossa said, "I never asked for your help"
"Funny, the fact still remains though that I saved what you needed, it matters not to me whether or not you asked me. It matter so far as compensation goes, mate."
"I'm gussin' that, that compensation shines in-?"
"People and parchment." Janine said, picking the dirt from underneath her nails with her teeth, "you see, I want rare treasure, namely the Scepter of Cortes. Problem is mate that I don't have the bearings, nor the crew for voyage to La Isla De Muerta. Savvy?" Barbossa stroked his beard thoughtfully.
"And what be in it for me, Lass?"
"A caged Sparrow, of course"
"And what be the use of that?'
"Didn't you feel good and mighty when you marooned him on that god-for-saken spit of land?"
"Aye…"Barbossa said smiling, then his eyes narrowed to Janine. "There's something that runs afoul in those eyes that hide the sea." Janine smiled.
"Wow, I do believe that that was almost a complement." Her face then turned serious. "Barbossa I propose that in your giving of a crew and an isle, you will find yourself in the rewarding of my giving of a full pardon. If yer in a giving mood? Savvy?" Janine outstretched her hand, Barbossa thought about it a moment longer, then shook her hand, but then pulled her close.
"But the whelp stays with me."
"Aye." Janine let go and smirked. "We 'ave an accord."
Out in the middle of the Ocean, near Rum Runners' Isle.
Sam and Jack wobble up onto the deck of The Dauntless. Swann quickly goes up to Samantha.
"Samantha, thank goodness you're alright, but do you have any news about my daughter."
"…good news, or bad." James stood beside Governor Swann listening intently.
"Well, she's in the brig with a bunch of pirates-"
"That have no relation to myself, for the matter of fact, I'm just a victim in all this." Jack said striating up his posture, James looked at him sternly.
"Mr. Sparrow you are not in the position to talk so I suggest you, Keep. Quiet" he turned back to Sam. "Continue."
"Right well, she's not here" she's headed for the dreaded Isla de Muerta." As Sam was about to explain further a sparrow flew overhead and landed on the tip of Jack's hat. Jack looked up and smirked. James noticed that on the leg of the Sparrow was a note.
Don't move. I've got the girl and more. If you want Miss Swann I suggest you heed this. –--B.E.J
James looked at the note and his brow furrowed,
"It says that they've got Elizabeth and that they're going to bring her too us. We have to stay in one place." Swann looked at James flabbergasted.
"You must be joking." James gave the slip of paper to Swann who read it three or four times.
"Elizabeth…"
"Your orders, Commodore?" Lieutenant Marks asked, Commodore looked out to the sea then gave a very, very, small sigh.
"Lower the anchor, and drop canvas. I guess we wait."
Janine stood at the wheel of The Illusionist. With a frustrated crew beneath the boards, then Janine's first mate came up to her.
"Captain?"
"Aye, Fitzy."
"A prisoner requests to see you miss, a Hayley."
"Hmm, I shall attend; take the wheel, we head to Rum Runner's Isle." Janine gave the wheel up and walked towards the brig. Janine walked into the bring and saw a lot of angry faces staring through the bars. Janine made a little bit of a face and went all he way back to Elizabeth's cell.
"Oh Miss Swann?" Janine says non-chalantly, Elizabeth looks up hatefully and walks over to the bars and gives Janine one of the most dirtiest looks. "I'm happy to inform you that we are headed to Rum Runner's Isle which is where you will be…err…given back to your father and James-"
"You have no right to call him by his proper name." Elizabeth spat. "It's Commodore Norrington to you."
Janine blinked, "right. So anyway you will be exchanged and the crew will be set free," she turned to the crew "in all good time. Just not now!" she clapped her hands together and her body almost swayed to one side. Janine then turned away from the crew over to Hayley.
"Ah! Hayley my love! A little bird told me that you wanted to speak to me."
"You're damn right I do. Why are we in here?"
"That's an odd question, you're my prisoners. Where else would I keep you, duh?"
"What are you going to do with us?"
"Trade you for full pardon." Janine paused, "actually I'm going to trade Elizabeth for full pardon-"
"That's MISS SWANN!" Elizabeth cried from her cell. Janine nodded,
"Right, Miss Swan."
"Why are you betraying your friends?"
"Because if I do, I get more than just friends..."
"Who are you?"
"Captain Blue-Eyed Jane of the Illusionist"
"What the hell happened to your brain?"
"It got bigger!" Janine laughed, maybe if I do that I won't cry, "well it got big enough so I wouldn't be in your situation, which means it must've exceeded yours by now." Janine smiled. "Anything else?"
"Yeah, go fuck yourself." Janine's throat tightened, but she remembered her plan, she had to be strong. She gave another smile.
"I don't have to, I've got people who do it for me."
"What the fuck happened to you? "
Janine blinked mockingly, "you mean besides the fact that I've become a better pirate than you? or that I'm just better in general?" Hayley spat at her. Janine wiped Hayley's spit from her face to her sleeve and looked at it. As she walked away she heard Hayley say softly: "I don't know you anymore."
Janine stopped and her head turned slightly to look at her former friend.
"You never really knew me at all." Janine walked briskly out of the Brig so that she could be out before she cried. I'm so sorry Hayley please forgive me. She begged God quickly walking across the deck.
"Captain!"
"Leave me alone!"
"But Captain-"
"In ten minutes god damn it!" Janine quickly zoomed into the Captain's Quarters and slammed the door shut behind her, she stumbled towards her bed and laid down and cried so hard that she thought blood would soon come out. She wiped her tears on the pillow and breathed in short breaths. I didn't mean any of it Hales, she thought somehow hoping that her thoughts could somehow get into Hayley's head. I didn't want to but…you have to be mad at me. Otherwise this plan will never work. Please forgive me Hayley, Please, Please forgive me…
There was a soft knock on the door. Janine looked up.
"What?"
"We're a couple fathoms from The Dauntless"
"Thank you Fitzy." Janine wiped the rest of her tears and quickly picked up a beige hat with a blue feather and secured it onto her head as she walked out of the cabin and back down into the brig, bringing Elizabeth kicking and screaming up onto the deck by her hair. She nodded to Arabella.
"Drop canvas."
Norrington turned to the starboard side again to look out onto the sea, but was faced with a vessel, aboard said vessel was a woman, who looked oddly familiar and Elizabeth was in her grasp.
"Release my daughter at once!" The governor shouted across the gap, Janine turned to him.
"Sorry, Govy sir, no can do this is between me and James." Lieutenant Marks watched The Commodore face very carefully, and though he seems so calm every part of his face was etched in concern.
"Very well" Norrington said, he turned to Lieutenant Marks, "Get the plank." On the other ship Janine smirked and said quietly to herself, "Parlay!" Janine pulled Elizabeth to the side, who gave a scream of pain, but landed into the arms of Arabella. Janine looked at her.
"DON'T let her go." The plank Clanked down and Janine walked across eyeing the guards around them all. Janine stopped in the middle of the plank and placed her hands on her hips. Jack came up on deck with Murtog and Mullroy, he looked at the ship, and then looked at the Captain standing at the middle of the plank, and scooted over to the rail for a better seat.
"How do I know that I won't get nabbed when I set foot on the other side of this thing?" Commodore Norrington stood shocked, he hadn't even thought of that.
"Tell your men to put down their arms." Janine said resting her hand on the pommel of her pistol; Norrington shook his head 'no.'
"I'm afraid that isn't possible." Janine smiled, "then I'm afraid I have no use for her" Janine took the pistol from her belt and cocked it pointing at Elizabeth, the all the guards sprung into action and raised the guns .
"you see Commodore," Janine said slowly walking back to her ship and putting the trigger right under Elizabeth's chin, "I have both something you want, the co-ordinates to Isle de muerta; which may I remind you is the anchorage to the Black Pearl and its crew.I also have your dear Miss Swan, also the Crew of the Black Pearl who are pirates, and those said pirates have been on your list from, well ever. So what's it goinna be Commodore? My compensation or her life?" the Governor looked at his daughter and ordered the guards to put their weapons down. Janine smirked.
"I knew you'd warm up to me." She put the pistol back in her belt and turned to arabella.
"keep a pistol on her, should anything happen to me you shoot'er" Arabella nodded meekly, killing was really the last thing she wanted. Janie tunred back to the Commodore.
"my orders were clear Commodore, anything should happen to me and your dear miss swan with have diyed her hair red in a matter of seconds." Janck watched this girl and something made the right hand corner of his mouth turn upwards in a attempt smile.
"she's got wit this lass" he said to himself, Janine landed gracefully on the deck of The Dauntless and smiled at everyone.
"right, well since we haven't formally met, hello. My name is Captain Blue-Eyed Jane of The Galleon The Illusionist" she turned to Norrington. "shall we get on with proposals?"
"yes, if you were to come into my cabin we could-"
"I don't think so." Janine said taking a step towards Jack, "you see if I were to go into your cabin then you could easily bonk me on the head and capture me. I don't think so, we do thins infront of your crew. Why keep them in the dark James? Unless there's something you don't want them to know…savvy?" Janine turned to Jack and winked at him, he gave a smug grin and wedged his way through the men to stand beside Janine give her a slight bow, in which she returned and he looked at the Commodre.
"I believe sir that the lass here has of something to offer, The Pearl was listing near to scuppers after the battle. Unlikely she'll make good time. Think about it, Norrington ... Barbossa, The Black Pearl ... the last real pirate threat in the Caribbean. How can you pass that up?" Jack looked to Jack and said coldly:
"By remembering I serve others, Mister Sparrow, not only myself."
"But what if in serving yourself services the whole of the Caribbean ocean?" Janine asked, Norrington sighed.
"Enough of this, you have something to offer so hand it over." Janine wagged a finger at him. "tsk tsk James. We deal with what I want first. For the bearings of Isla De Muerta I want a full pardon on all pirate activity-"
"That doesn't do anything without my stamp!" the governor imputed quickly, Janine smirked.
"Exactly the reason I'm here. I give you back your sweet daughter for the stamp on the pardon, Also for the crew, I want Sparrow, Sam and the Ring of Calico Jack Rackham." Janine looked down at the Commodore's hand, where a ring of what looked like a gold rope band and atop sat a dark blue sapphire, with light streaks of opal streaking down the centre, the Commodore looked shock that she would want such a deal. The Ring of Calico Jack Rackham was worthless, but he had heard something from Elizabeth once, on the crossing from England-'did you know that with the Ring of Calico Jack and the Ring of Anne Bonnie are put together on The Scepter of Cortes, that the scepter itself is just the hiding place for the sword. A sword that can control the winds and waters on the sea. But no one's ever found the ring of Anne Bonnie. So I wouldn't really matter…anyway I must attend to Will so if you'll excuse me-' . The Commodore slipped it off his finger and held it out to Janine, but before he let it drop in her hand he asked, "Where's the other one?" Janine eyes sparkled with amusement.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" The ring was dropped in her hand and Lieutenant Marks was back with the papers to which Norrington sighed quickly, then he gave to the governor-while he was doing that Janine took the chain from around her neck and took the ring off it and slipped it onto the same finger as the other, which them merged from sapphire to ruby. Janine smiled.
"Good everything's in order." Sam quickly bounded from the hold and glomped Janine, Jack was already halfway across the plank.
"Janine! Imissedyousomuch! butHayleytoldmeyouweredeadbutyournotandnowwe'llhaveSOmuchfun!!"
"…just get across the plank will you?" Sam smiled nad walked across the plank, but halfway she and Jack wanted to go in opposite directions holding onto eachothe rthey tunered on the spot and went their sepperate ways. Jack pulled Janine to hher feet then brought her close.
"Why is my good friend driving your ship?"
"Because your good friend Fitzy has the power I need." Jack looked back at Fitzwilliam.
"Do I have to steer with him there?"
"No I'll send him elsewhere."
"Good"
"Good" jack then jumped up and scooted across the plank nad relieved Fitzy of his Navigation duties. Janine looked at the commodore, gave him the coordinates, told Arabella to give them over Elizabeth and brought the reluctant crew (except for Hayley) over to the Dauntless.
"way anchor! Hoist the sails make quick you ninnies!!" Janien shouted, James watched as the ship's sails unfurled at it was gone! Poof!
Unbeknownst to the Commodore, however, an argument was going on behind him, Swann looks at a determined Elizabeth sternly
"No. ... You're safe now, and we will return to Port Royal immediately – not go gallivanting after pirates."
"Then we condemn Will to death!"
"The boy's fate is regrettable ... But so was his decision to engage in piracy. Did you see hat one nearly did you, gun under your chin Elizabeth, do you want to back into it all
"of course not but will set out to rescue me! To prevent anything from happening to me!" Norrington reacts, re considering Will's motive. Elizabeth turned to the Commodore.
"Commodore, I beg you-no, James I ask of you - please do this for me as a wedding gift." Elizabeth's heart started to beat wildly as James turned to face her, his eyes scanning hers in an action to detect deceit. He couldn't find any. Swann turned to Elizabeth in shock.
"My dear ... are you accepting the Commodore's proposal?" Elizabeth smiled up at the Commodore, now she knew why she didn't feel sad or hurt when she dismissed Will from it all. She was in love with Norrington.
"I am." James turns to Lieutenant Marks, "use the bearings that Jane gave up and head towards the dreaded Isla de Muerta"
"Aye, sir." Swann looked at Norrington,
"Commodore, I must question the wisdom of this."
"With all due respect, Governor ..." he checks himself then continues, "Mr. Turner is a subject of the British crown, and therefore under our protection." Swann doesn't like it, but he knows it's right.
"Rightly so. " he looks at his daughter. "Keep her safe." Norrington nods and Swann moves away. Norrington walks to the gunwhales and stands beside Elizabeth.
"Miss Swann-"
"Elizabeth," she says, "call me Elizabeth"
"very well. Elizabeth. I find myself ... worried that your answer is perhaps ... less than sincere."
"I would not give my word lightly."
"I know. But is it wrong for me to wish it given unconditionally?"
"It is not a condition. It is a request. Your answer would not change mine. You are a fine man ... James. The request is for…Will as a friend, I was less than that to the girl he fell for. That is why I ask of this." For a brief moment, Norrington breaks into a wide, boyish smile. Then he remembers his rank and his military bearing reasserts itself, but only just.
"Well. Very well. Excellent."
"Now, I wonder if I could trouble you for something to wear." Norrington gives her a strange look but she smiles moving a little closer, "Or I suppose it could be heaving bosoms and bare ankles the rest of the voyage."
Pintel and Ragetti mop tar onto the interior of the hull. A few inches of water still stand in the brig. Will is alone in the cell, watching the pirates.
"You knew William Turner?" Any excuse not to work, Pintel leans on his mop.
"Ol' Bootstrap Bill. We knew him." Ragetti keeps working getting more and more tired, but keeps sloppingthe tar on the same spot.
"Stupid blighter." Will frowns at Ragetti; Pintel explains:
"It never sat well with Bootstrap, what we did to Jack Sparrow. The mutiny and all. He said it wasn't right with the Code, and Bootstrap was always a man of the Code. That's why he sent off a piece of the treasure to you, as it were. He said we deserved to be cursed, and remain cursed." Will never suspected this. He furrows his, brow, only half listening now, as he considers his father in a new light.
"Stupid blighter." Ragetti says again. Pintel looked back at Will,
"Well, as you can imagine, that didn't sit too well with the captain."
"Not too well at all! Tell 'im what Barbossa did!"
"I'm tellin' the story! So what the Captain did, he strapped a cannon to Bootstrap's bootstraps, and last we saw of Bill Turner, he was sinking to the crushing black oblivion of Davy Jones' locker." Then a thoughtfull look came over his face. "'Course, it was only after that we learned we needed his blood to lift the curse."
"That's what you call 'ironic.'" The pair glance at each other and laugh, but Barbossa appears behind Pintel, flanked by several other pirates. He regards Will for a moment, then: "Bring him."
Passing through the graveyard of ships, Fitzwilliam looks disdainfully at Janine who brought Jack on board, but she was on the bridge looking at the walls of devil's passage. Jack then appears beside her.
"I noticed that your ferociousness died with the sun." Jack commented, Janine smiled a bit.
"So did my personality." Janine lifted the bottle of rum to her lips and gave a small swig, then handed it to jack who took a swig…and didn't give it back.
"You didn't switch the crew I noticed."
"Course I wouldn't, for the same reason you won't if you could." Jack smiled smugly.
"It wasn't the opportune moment, eh?"
"Nope. Not at all." Janine looked at Jack as he watched the waves.
"Captain?"
"Aye, lass?" Jack replied smugly, her calling him captain on her ship was quite an ego boost.
"what is love?"
"what you make of it," Jack replied immediately, Janine nodded. "and friendship?" her eyes started to water, so she turned back out to the sea.
"look luv you did what was right by you," Jack said, "considering your plan I would've done the same meself."
"you know my plan?"
"most witty people would." Jack winked and she laughed, but she was drawn in by his eyes, the way the brown swirled mysteriously, intrigued her and she couldn't look away. Their lips got closer and closer until- The Illusionist swerved to the right and scraped a ship from beneath, Janine looked at Fitzwilliam.
"you oaf! Steer with a steady hand, or I'll cut'em off and you'll never steer again!" Janine turned to Jack.
"I need that sword. Or we can't go home." Jack thought for a moment.
"I've got an idea lass…."
The Dauntless pulled up beside The illusionist, and Norrington looked at Janine.
"Parlay?!" Janine nodded and a plank was lowered between the two ships and Commodore Norrington came aboard through a spyglass he noted that the Black Pearl looked abandoned. Norrington lowers the spyglass and turns to Jack and Janine.
"I don't care for the situation. Any attempt to storm the island could turn to an ambush."
"Not if you do the ambushing. I'll go in, and convince Barbossa to send his men out leaving you to do nothing but stand on the deck of Dauntless and holler "Fire cannons!" What do you have to lose?"
"Nothing I'd lament being rid of."
"I'll be honest with you, though ... there's still a risk for those aboard the Dauntless." He and Janine watch Norrington as he considers that.
Back on the Dauntless, Elizabeth struggles as she is hustled inside by Gillette and two marines.
"Sorry, but it's for your own safety!"
"don't care what the Commodore ordered! I have to tell him -- the pirates -- they're cursed! They can't be killed!"
"Don't worry miss, he is fully informed of that. A mermaid flopped up on deck and told him the whole story." Snickering with the marines, he shuts the door. Elizabeth turns away, angry and stomps on the floor throwing a bit of a tantrum, "This was Sparrow's doing."
Jack smiles as he rows a small boat away from the Dauntless.
Norrington watches from the rail, weighing the situation. Janine sees this and turns to her crew,
"Norrington and his men will wait at the mouth of the cave, we on the other hand must protect the Pearl, and the Dauntless." The crew cheered and she turned to Norrington, "ready your longboat…but wait I have a couple people to send with you on your little journey" Janine went to the brig and pulled keys out from her pocket. She looked at Hayley who just glared and turned away. Hayley stood up, but as she was about to say something cnappy Janine placed her hand infront of her face in a hypnotic sort of way, hayley looked a little dazed.
"You will forget all your anger towards me until you have set foot on cavern grounds," Janine turned to Sam as well and used the other hand, "you as well. I want you both to accompany the Commodore to the cavern and help Jack." She looked at them both again. "When I release my hold you the spell will start." She put her hands down back at her side and Hayley smiled at her and walked up deck, as well as Sam. Janine smiled behind them looking at the ring.
"I love you."
"Lieutenant Marks, prepare the long boats." The Commodore said, not taking his eyes of the entrance for a moment.
Lit by torches and shafts of moonlight, pirates move through the caves; climbing over rocks and through water, toward the center. An air of grim anticipation gripped the night in its clutch of dark. Will, with his hands bound behind his back, is shoved along and Pintel tries to be cheery.
"No reason to fret. It's just a prick of the finger and a few drops of blood." But Twigg pushes past and grabbed Will as he moves forward.
"No mistakes this time. He's only half Turner. We spill it all." And they shove on, Pintel looks at Ragetti and smiles, he finds a good amount of delight in this.
"I guess there is a reason to fret."
Governor Swann approaches the door, nods to the guard. "A moment, if you please," the guards depart from their posts and Swann knocks lightly on the door. Elizabeth looks up from her book.
"Elizabeth?" She looks up at the door.
"Yes, you may come in father." Swann opens the door slowly and walks in, his hands folded behind his back, he looks around the room and pulls a chair from the desk and sits a couple feet away from his daughter.
"Dear. I just want you to know... I believe you made a very good decision today ... And I couldn't be more proud." Elizabeth smiles but doesn't say anything, he misinterprets the silence.
"But even a good decision made for the wrong reasons could be a wrong decision. Not that you've made a wrong decision. But you're setting the course for your entire life, and you must please yourself, not others, not even me. This is not to say that I'm not pleased." Elizabeth still looks at him saying nothing. Swann continues:
"Elizabeth, one has dreams, ambitions. It was long before I met your mother in the summer of my nineteenth year..."
In the center of the cavern, Will is pushed close to the stone chest by Koehler and Twigg, and then shoved to his knees. Koehler pushes Will's head forward directly over the chest, the medallion hanging below his throat. Barbossa takes the stone knife from atop the chest of gold. He thumbs the blade: sharp enough.
"Excuse me. Pardon me. Beg pardon." Come from the middle of the pirates, Sam and Hayley were both trailing behind Jack. Barbossa stares wide-eyed and flabbergasted.
"Not possible."
"Not probable." They all chorused, Will heard her voice!
"Jack! Sam you're-"He raises his head, but it is immediately shoved back down: "safe! Where's Elizabeth?!"
"She's safe, just like I promised. She's set to marry Norrington and live happily ever after, just like she promised. You're ready to die for Sam here just like you promised. So we're both men of our word really, except for Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman" Pirates surround Jack; Barbossa points a knife at him, Sam and Hayley put their hand on theirs.
"You're next!" He again puts the knife to Will's throat –
"You don't want to be doing that, mate" Hayley says quickly and quietly, Barbossa glances back at them angrily, they can't seem to leave him alone!
"No, I really think I do."
"All right, you're funeral." Hayley and Jack say rocking on the pads of their feet. Barbossa presses the blade to Will's throat he wants to do it goddammit! He whirls back on Jack.
"Why don't I want to do this?" Jack shrugs away from the pirates and steps forward-
"Because the H.M.S. Dauntless, pride of the Royal Navy, is floating right off shore, waiting for you."
"Not to mention Blue-Eyed Jane's Illusionist." Sam said bitterly, Barbossa switched gazes between the three.
"That wench sold us out!" one pirate shouted, "She betrayed us!" shouted another, Hayley shrugged.
"She betrays everyone what make you people so special?" she said disdainfully, she then looks at Barbossa. Barbossa hesitates.
"I don't trust them! They're up to something!"
"Of course they are." Barbossa said looking between Hayley and Jack, and finally locks eyes with Jack. "They want the Pearl." They smiled at eachother then at Barbossa.
"We want the Pearl."
Seven long boats full of marines are positioned on either side of the cave mouth. Murtogg and Mullroy are in Norrington's boat, directly behind him.
"What are we doing here?" Murtog asked, Mullroy turns to him and whispers:
"The pirates come out, unprepared and unawares we catch 'em in a crossfire and send 'em to Sea Ol' Hob."
"I know that's why we're here ... I meant, why aren't we doing what it was what Mr. Sparrow said we should do? With the cannons and all?"
"Firstly, because Miss Jane is covering that part. With her … expertise in the mind set of a pirate she's better suited."
"Do you think Jack will do what he said he was going to do?" Murtog asked Mullroy looked back at him almost puzzled.
"You think he wasn't telling the truth?"
"He doesn't tell the truth even when he's telling the truth." Norrington replied.
Barbossa listens as Jack, Hayley and Sam argues Jack's case:
"Norrington believes he's facing normal pirates" Sam said, Hayley then built off her,
"Cruel, demented and vicious pirates to be certain, but cruel, demented, vicious pirates who can't be killed?" Jack then shakes his head. Ragetti, offended, mouths the word Demented? To Pintel. Pintel thinks it suits him.
"No way, I have a lass to which I believe her name is of familiarity, Blue-eyed Jane-?"
"Curse the lass." Barbossa said.
"Aye, but she sails under me you see, and is guarding the both dauntless and Pearl right now, all I have to do is give the order and she can seize the Dauntless."
"That's a lot of brass you're hauling, Jack. It's liable to drag you under." Hayley and Sam look wide-eyed at eachother. So she had this planned with Jack a long time ago?! They said mentally to eachother, of course they couldn't hear it but they could tell. Jack continued.
"It seems that Norrington's men are still on the outside of the cave, to the effect of Jane. What if it were she kept the marines at bay with 'er little cannons while your men to row out to the Dauntless, they do what they do best, and there you are! With two ships. The makings of your very own fleet. Of course, you'll take the grandest as your flagship, and who's to argue? But what of the Pearl?" Jack smiles and spreads his hands: me. As he talks, he strolls toward Will and the chest.
"Name me Captain, I sail under your colors, I give you ten percent of my plunder, and you get to introduce yourself at tea parties and brothels as 'Commodore Barbossa.'"
"And in exchange, I suppose you want me not to kill the whelp?" Jack scoops up a handful of coins, examines them nonchalantly.
"Not at all by all means kill the whelp... just not yet. Wait to lift the curse until the opportune moment." Will looks up at him, scowling: he recognizes the familiar phrase. Jack gives him a shrug, and then continues:
"For instance: after you've killed Norrington's men ..." Jack drops the coins into the chest, punctuating his words.
"Every ... Last ... One." With a curl of a fingered gesture a coin slips beneath the fabric covering his hand, Barbossa gives the proposal some thought. Will couldn't take it anymore he pushed against his restraints to look up at them all, mainly Jack and Hayley.
"You've been planning this from the beginning. Since you learned my name, the both of you"
"Please. Does he really seem that clever?" Sam snorted; Will looked up at her loathingly.
"And you betrayed me," that hit a nerve, Sam turned to him.
"Will I did what I could to get here to SAVE you! I would never betray you, never!"
"shut'er up!" Barbossa said rolling his eyes, three pistols were drawn from the crowd and thee load BANGS! Cut through the silence of the evening. Sam put her hands over one of the wounds and waited…waited, Hayley looked at her amazed.
"Sam…y-you're not-"
"No I'm….fine…" Barbossa ignored the girls and turned to Jack.
"I want fifty per cent of your plunder."
"Fifteen."
"Forty."
"Twenty five, and I'll buy you the hat." Barbossa looks at his hat, Jack continues: "a really big one … Commodore."
"We have an accord." He and Jack approach ... and shake hands. Jack turns toward the pirates, says in grand fashion:
"All hands to the boats!" Barbossa shoots him a glare. Jack winces,
"Apologies, faux pas, mea culpa. You give the orders." He indicates 'Please, go ahead.' Barbossa steps forward as Jack grins, knowing that Barbossa is going to repeat what he said...not!
"Gents … take a walk!" Jack's grin vanishes, and replaced with puzzlement.
"Not to the boats?" Barbossa's turn to grin as the pirates leave the cavern. Sam pulls Hayley aside and as they pass through the moonlight Hayley jumps back, "whoa!"
"What?"
"Go through the light again!" Sam meekly walks into the light, her once clean neat outfit was torn in shreads, and the skin on her face was falling off: she was skeletal. Sam pulled two Aztec coins out of her pocket and looked at Hayley.
"I knew she put something in my pocket."
"Who?" Sam gave her an are-you-really-that-stupid look "Janine?"
"Yeah, she pulled me close to her as we passed through her crew and I knew that once she put me in your cell my pockets felt heavier, but I thought it was just a trick of the brain." They looked at the coins again.
"I think one's for you." Rolling her eyes Hayley took the coin and put it in a safe place on her person. Hayley then looked at the pirates heading toward the boats, and then past them. Pintel and Ragetti are among them suddenly, Bo'sun snaps across their chests, stopping them with: A parasol. Bo'sun smiles.
Hayleyraised an eyebrow at Sam who shook her head then looked out onto the ocean and saw The Illusionist floating beside The dauntless and smiled. Who knows if the spell was the one that caused the same thoughts but they looked from Jack to The illusionist and mused: Janine...as smart as you are...just wait 'till i get my hands on you!
That was really long, but so much fun to do. Just as a bit of a info session, if you were wondering why Janine's Character changed so drastically it's because she knew that in order to get what she wanted, get her friends and get home she would have to betray a lot of people. Therefore she learned under other pirates of that time. It gets explained later but just so you know.
That's it. Ciao ciao
Capt. Blue-Eyed Jane