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A/N: How am I doing so far guys? I know not many people are gonna read this, but a girl can wish right?
Chapter three:
Jack Sparrow – sorry, Captain Jack Sparrow – stood at the top of his dingy boat, approaching the dock of Port Royal. He looked forward, his head held high as he neared the port, not caring at all about the curious eyes around him. His small boat was sinking, and fortunately, it had completely sunk under the water just as he got to the dock, where he easily just stepped off the boat's mast and onto the wooden deck. He unknowingly walked past a harbourmaster, but ignored him.
'What? Hey, hold up there, you!' he called to the coal-eyed pirate. Jack reluctantly stopped and spun around cautiously. 'It's a shilling to tie up your boat to the dock,' the harbourmaster informed him. They both looked to the sunken boat doubtfully. 'And I shall need to know your name,' the old man added.
Thinking quickly, Jack pulled out three shillings, placing them on the book the older man was holding open. 'What do you say to three shillings, and we forget the name?' he suggested.
The man smiled easily, closing his big book with the coins. 'Welcome to Port Royal, Mr Smith,' he greeted.
As Jack walked off, he spotted a money pouch, and being the pirate that he was, of course he had to take the said money.
Meanwhile, at the Commodore's promotion ceremony, poor Elizabeth was stuck sitting in the Caribbean heat. She was almost literally roasting.
Being sneaky, Mr Jack Sparrow made his way to a ship called owned by the royal navy. About to climb aboard said ship, he was approached by an odd looking pair of guards. A tall skinny one with a monkey face, and a tall fat one with a round face. Odd, indeed.
'This dock is off-limits to civilains,' the tall, skinny one warned the pirate. Jack just smirked to himself.
'I'm terribly sorry. I didn't know. If I see one, I shall inform you immediately,' he muttered, whilst trying to board once again, but was stopped by the guards once again. Frowning, he said, 'Apparently there's some sort of high toned and fancy to do up at the fort, eh? How could it be, that two upstanding gentlemen such as yourselves, did not merit an invitation?'
'Someone has to stay and make sure this dock stays off limits to civilians,' the skinny one replied, annoyed.
The three of the men got into an almost heated conversation, one that Jack was clearly not interested it as much as the two guards, and he eventually just slipped away onto the boat silently after having enough of the guards arguing about the Black Pearl. His Black Pearl. After a few moments of playing at the wheel and admiring this navy ship, the guards had noticed his absence, confronting him with their guns. Pfft, they won't shoot me! He thought to himself, laughing inwardly at the two shaking guards, clearly crapping themselves. So much for the royal navy…
Back at the fort, the ceremony had ended and flowed into a reception. People stood around talking, and laughing and drinking small cups of tea and tiny English muffins. This was not how Elizabeth Swann wanted to spend the rest of her life, but she knew she had no choice. The Governor and his wife had adopted her after she was found adrift at sea, when she was just ten, because they were unable to have their own children, but sadly, the Governor's wife had passed away only a year after young Elizabeth had arrived. Yes, she barely knew the woman, but she was still devastated at the fact. All she had was two mother-figures and a father that had died, and one grieving adoptive father as all that she had left. And people that didn't know her said she had the perfect life! They were dead wrong. The only happy thing in her life was Will, being her best friend and childhood crush but even he was distant and shy with her after all these years since they had first met.
Suddenly, she was pulled away from her reveries when a deep, rich voice cut into her mind. 'May I have a moment?' the Commodore Norrington asked almost shyly. She nodded and he took her arm in his, leading her to the edge of the fort that looked out at the open sea. 'Uh, you look lovely Elizabeth,' he complimented her nervously as she tried to catch her breath and the tightness of her corset started to have it's effects on the poor girl. She couldn't even breathe! 'I, uh, apologise if I seem forward, but I must speak my mind. This promotion throws into sharp relief that which I have not yet achieved. A marriage to a fine woman...' he drooled on, but Elizabeth wasn't concentrating. She couldn't focus on anything except her poor attempts at breathing. All she wanted to do was rip off the bloody corset and wear loose white shirts and breeches for the rest of her miserable life.
'I can't breathe!' she gasped out, panicking.
'Yes, I am quite nervous myself…' was the last thing she heard before everything turned black.
Will watched from the dock as a woman fell from the battlement at the fort. He had been retrieving some newly supplied tools from a ship when he had seen the incident. The next thing he heard was someone calling, 'ELIZABETH!' His heart sunk and adrenaline kicked into his veins. Dropping all his new tools, and ripping off his coat, he ran for the shore-line and jumped into the deep-blue water.
... 'Then they made me their chief..' Jack finished off telling a "very interesting" story to the two odd guards. He was cut off by a splash and a yell of someone's name. Thinking quickly, the guards ran to the other guards to the docks nearby. Jack decided to follow quietly and curiously. When they got to said destination, a woman was laying on the deck with a man hovering over her frantically. Rolling his eyes, Sparrow sprung forward. 'Move!' he ordered the young man, pushing him out of the way. The pirate got his dagger out, cutting open the woman's corset and flinging it at the tall, skinny guard he had been talking to before.
Everyone watched as the rich woman coughed up all the water from her lungs. 'I'd best be going…' Will muttered, and left unnoticed. For some strange reason, he was ashamed and embarrassed for what he did.
'On your feet!' someone demanded Jack, pointing a sword in his face. He looked up to see the Commodore Norrington glaring down at him leaning over Elizabeth.
'Elizabeth! Are you alright?' another voice called. As jack got to his wobbly feet, the Governor of Port Royal helped Elizabeth to her feet and wrapped his coat around her shivering body.
'Yes, I'm fine,' she murmured.
Her father followed her gaze over to the pirate and frowned. 'Shoot him!' he growled.
After Elizabeth's ongoing protests, and Norrington's mocking at Jack, the pirate was pulled through the crowd by the Commodore and proceeded to be hand-cuffed.
'Pirate or not, this man saved my life!' the Governor's daughter defended the pirate, even though technically it was William Brown who had saved her from drowning. Jack Sparrow had just cut her corset off, exposing her bodice to others. She lightly bickered with the Commodore whilst the man behind her was put in irons, when he muttered something under his breath, flinging the chains over her head and around her neck. Just one fatal tug of the chains and she would be dead.
'No! Don't shoot!' Governor Swann cried.
'I knew you'd warm up to me,' Jack sneered. 'Commodore Norrington, my effects please. And my hat. Commodore!'
Norrington stepped forward, handing the pirate's effects to Elizabeth, who was spun around to face the coal-eyed, rum-drinking, money-stealing pirate. 'Now, Elizabeth, if you'd be so kind…' he said to her with a grin.
'It's Miss Swann to you,' she spat back, glaring at him with no fear in her eyes or on her face. Brave young girl, he thought to himself, most women cower away from me when I threaten them, but this one was standing her ground. She'd make a good pirate…
Elizabeth finished attaching his effects to him and putting his tri-corn hat on his head, so he spun her around with his pistol to her head. 'Gentlemen! M'lady. This is the day that you'll always remember as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!' he announced, pushing the girl into the Commodore and Governor, who caught her in their arms, and made his escape with the Royal Navy guards hot on his heels.
I am thinking that this chapter was a smidgin longer than the others so far, so I hope it is a little better. Thanks for reading my darlings, I shall update the next chapter ASAP, and it will consist of the famous battle between the one and only William and Sparrow, and the attack of the Black Pearl in Port Royal where Will is then taken aboard under the name of William Turner with the pirates under the impression that he is the son of Bill Turner with the medallion. Just like the movie really, except Will and Elizabeth swap over.
Okay, I will shut up now and make a start on the next chapter.