Author's Note: WELL, here's where some things get interesting. It'll be switching from Gin's point of view, to third person point of view with Jack and Beckett later on in the chapter. I hope it won't confused you too much. Lemme know how you like it. :) And I'll be replying to reviews soon, please bear with me, I DO READ THEM ALL. (L)

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Everyone gathered around Will and the map, deciding what to do next.

"There's a fresh spring water on this island. We can resupply there and get back to shooting each other later."

Jack smirked and suggested, "You lead the shore party, I'll stay here with my ship."

Barbossa argued, "I'm not leaving my ship in your command."

Will, exasperated suggested, "Why don't you both go ashore and leave the ship in my command."

When both Captains shot looks to him, Will added, "Temporarily…"

The two rivals grudgingly accepted, seeing no other option fit. I sat down on the steps and waited for the group to return.

Elizabeth came up to me, and asked, "May I sit with you?"

I shrugged at her question, not caring.

She tentatively lowered down and said, "I'm sorry."

I looked out into the distance, sighing, before spotting a ship approaching. I shot up and to the railing, "Will!"

Sao Feng's crew overtook us, and had our crew chained up and the Orientals were cheering around us.

Barbossa climbed back up with Jack, who glanced at me quickly, before hiding behind Barbossa and Sao Feng approached him.

"Sao Feng, you showing up here, it is truly a remarkable coincidence."

Sao said nothing, but smirked suspiciously past Barbossa, "Jack Sparrow…" as Jack shot out from behind cautiously, "…You paid me great insult once."

"That doesn't sound like me," Jack contradicted, only to have Sao Feng strike him square in the face.

Clutching his nose, Jack mumbled out, "Shall we just call it square then?"

Will pushed past the crew, joining us, but ordering to Sao Feng, "Release them," pointing to me and Lizzie, "They're not part of the bargain."

Barbossa asked out to Will, "And what bargain be that?"

Sao Feng called out to his crew, "You heard Captain Turner; release the girls!"

Jack's eyes widened in astonishment and realization while muttering out, "'Captain Turner'?"

Gibbs informed everyone, "Aye, the perfidious rotter led a mutiny against us!"

Will stated, "I need the Pearl to free my father, that's the only reason I came on this voyage."

Elizabeth came up to Will, and asked, "Why didn't you tell me you were planning this?"

He simply replied to her, "It was my burden to bear."

Jack pointed and stated, "He needs the Pearl, Captain Turner needs the Pearl," and gesturing to Elizabeth, "And you felt guilty," then turning to Barbossa, "And you and your Brethern Court," he then turned to me, "Well, I don't know what you are, I think you came just for me, which leads to my next question, did no one come to save me just because they missed me?"

Across from us, Pintel and Ragetti raised their hands, along with Jack the monkey.

"I'm standing over there with them," Jack motioned, not before Sao Feng halted him, with a firm hand on his shoulder and dragged him over to the railing and mentioned, "I'm sorry Jack, but there's an old friend who wants to see you first."

"I'm not certain I can survive any more visits from old friends."

"Here is your chance to find out."

Then came the white sails.

Jack was led into Beckett's quarters with a barge through the doors.

Beckett had his back facing Jack, looking out the window to the Pearl, "Your friends are quite desperate, Jack. Perhaps they no longer believe that a gathering of squabbling pirates can defeat the Flying Dutchman. And so despair leads to betrayal. But you and I are no strangers to betrayal, are we?"

Jack quickly walked around the room, looking at trinkets and tin boxes quickly. Peering into a silver, ornate container, Jack paused as Beckett turned to face him, "It's not here, Jack."

Jack firmly closed the lid, turned back around and asked stupidly, "What? What isn't?"

"The heart of Davy Jones, it's safely aboard the Dutchman and so unavailable for use as leverage to satisfy your debt to the good captain."

Jack continued his venture around the room, pausing in front of a portrait of Beckett, "By my reckoning, that debt has been settled."

"By your death? And yet, here you are."

"Close your eyes and pretend it's all a bad dream, it's how I get by."

"And if Davy Jones were to learn about your survival?"

All of us were standing on the Pearl, watching helplessly as Beckett's crew came aboard.

Sao Feng came up to Beckett's loyal pet, and stated, "My men are crew enough."

"Company ship, company crew."

Will, Lizzie and I joined Sao and Barbossa in the circle. Will pointed out to Sao, "You agreed, the Black Pearl was to be mine."

"And so it was," Sao motioned for his crew to strike Will and tie him up.

Beckett poured out two shots of rum, and offered to Jack, "Perhaps you'll consider an alternative arrangement; one which requires absolutely nothing from you but information."

Jack paused, looking at the desk, then took the first glass, "Regarding the Brethern Court no doubt," and took Beckett's intended glass, "In exchange for fair compensation."

He drank from the first glass, "Square my debt with Jones," and onto the second glass, "Guarantee my freedom?"

Beckett poured more, "Of course, it's just good business."

"Were I in a divulgatory mood, what then might I divulge?" Jack asked as he picked up to inspect a miniature mimic of Beckett.

"Everything. Where are they meeting? Who are the pirate Lords? What is the purpose of the nine pieces of eight?"

Being chained up, me, Lizzie and Will, had been placed in iron cuffs as orders of Sao Feng. Bloody hell, what a mess.

Sao Feng halted Beckett's puppet and disappointedly mentioned, "Beckett agreed, the Black Pearl was to be mine!"

"Lord Beckett isn't going to give up the only ship that can outrun the Dutchman now, will he?"

As the puppet stalked off, Barbossa piped up, "Shame they're not bound to honour the code of the Brethern, isn't it? Because honour's a hard thing to come by nowadays."

"There is no honour in remaning with the losing side. Leaving it for the winning side, that's just good business."

"The losing side, you say?"

"They have the Dutchman, now the Pearl! And what do the Brethern have?"

"We have… Calypso."

Sao Feng motioned his head towards me slightly, gazing momentarily. I stood up more straight, defensively.

Sao Feng scoffed at the idea, "Calypso," while Barbossa looked back at me as well, warning me with his eyes, before turning back to Sao who then stated, "An old legend."

Sao Feng's eyes flickered back to me once more.

"No… the goddess herself, bound in human form. Imagine, all the power of the seas brought to bear against our enemies," Barbossa elaborated, "I intend to release her. But for that, I need the Brethern Court," and fingered Sao Feng's necklace, "…All the court."

Jack was fanning himself with a lavish, feminine handpiece, he turned to Beckett, "You can keep Barbossa. The belligerent homunculus and his friend with the wooden eye, both. And Turner, especially Turner," Jack continued fanning himself while walking over to Beckett sitting at his desk, "The rest go with me aboard the Pearl, I'll lead you to Shipwreck Cove. Where I'll hand you the pirates and you will not hand me to Jones. Bloody fair deal, don't you think?"

Beckett contemplated intently, while turning over a silver piece, "And what becomes of Miss Swann?"

Jack narrowed his eyes, stopped fanning, and pointed out, "Which one?"

"You know which one."

Narrowing his eyes further suspiciously, "What interest is she to you?"

Sao Feng asked, "What're you proposing Captain?"

Barbossa shot back, "What be accepting Captain?"

Looking straight at me, Sao Feng stated, "The girl."

Elizabeth stood in front of me defensively and shocked, repeated, "What?"

Beckett avoided the question and suddenly remembered, "Jack, I've just recalled," standing up and crossing the room, "I've got this wonderful compass, which points to whatever I want. So for what do I need you?"

Will and Elizabeth ordered, "Gin is not part of any bargain."

Barbossa calmed them down by saying, "Out of the question."

I narrowed my eyes and thought about it, while Sao Feng stated, "It was not a question."

Jack turned around and thought quickly on his feet, "Point to the thing you want most. And that is not the Brethern Court, now is it?"

"Then what is, Jack?"

"Me. Dead."

I then called out, "Done."

Elizabeth turned to be and said, "What? Not done!"

"If this is what gets us out of this mess, then done!"

"Damn," Beckett stated as he tossed the compass to Jack and Jack tossed the fan to Beckett.

Beckett opened the hand piece and fanned himself, "Although, if I kill you, then I can use the compass to find Shipwreck Cove, is it, on my own," dropping the fan and raising a pistol to Jack, "Cut out the middle man, as it were."

"Gin, please, I beg you not to do this. You're just doing this out of anger towards me, and you've proven your point, now, unagree to this."

My eyes widened in anger, "Oh, please Elizabeth, I'm not doing this to 'prove a point'. I'm doing this for us. You really don't understand, do you?"

Barbossa stepped forward, "Then we have an accord?"

Sao Feng beamed with his win.

"With me killed, you'd arrive at the Cove, find it a stronghold, nigh impregnable, able to withstand blockade for years, and then you'd be wishing, 'Oh, if only there was someone I had not killed inside to ensure that the pirates then come outside."

"And you can accomplish all this, can you?"

"You may kill me, but you may never insult me, who am I?"

Beckett shook his head slightly at a loss for words.

"…I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."

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