Author's note: Well, here it is guys! The next chapter! It's longer as hoped for. And, the "scene" at the end is third point perspective, just to keep clear of any confusion. I thought it was important to add it, even though Gin isn't in it. :')

Enjoy!

Tai Huang darted out of the cabin in shock. I stood paralyzed for a moment before chasing up after him.

As soon as I got out onto the deck, two British soldiers seized Tai Huang and I.

Tai Huang exclaimed, "You're not my captain!"

Norrington walked up and called out, shocked to see me, "Gin."

I tumbled out of the grasp of the soldier holding me and towards Norrington, "James!"

Embracing me in a hug, "Thank God you're alive. Your father will be overjoyed to know you are safe."

Narrowing my eyes, "My father's dead."

"No, that can't be true, he returned to England."

I cast my glare at him further, "Did Lord Beckett tell you that?"

Davy Jones demanded to the crew, my new crew now, "Who among you do you name as captain?"

Tai Huang immediately pointed to me and choked out, "Captain, her!" and the rest of the crew followed suit.

Davy Jones whipped his head to me, shocked, and then smiled wickedly, "Aren't you Sparrow's lass?"

Norrington looked shocked, and commanded, "Tow the ship. Put the prisoners in the brig, the captain shall have my quarters."

I continued glaring and refuted, "Thank you sir, but I prefer to remain with my crew."

I made my way to them, but Norrington halted me, "Gin, I swear, I didn't know."

Wringing my arm out of his grasp harshly and backing away from him and to join my new mates, "Know what? Which side you chose? Well, now you do."

We were locked in the grimy brig, and I called out to the fishmen, "Bootstrap? Bootstrap?"

I got grunts in return.

I hear a deep growl behind me from within the metal, molding bars, "Bootstrap. You know my name."

Walking over to the source of the voice, I realized it was him.

"Yes, I'm close with your son. Will Turner."

Recognizing his son, he burst in enthusiasm, "Aha! He made it! He's alive! And now he sends you to tell me that he's coming to get me! Ahaha! God's wounds, he's on his way!"

My heart sank at the desperation in his voice, for his son to not leave him behind, and stated, "Yes. Will is alive, and he wants to help you."

The happiness died off his face, "He can't help me. He won't come."

"But you're his father."

He pointed a finger at me, "I know you. He spoke of you. He can't save me. He can't come because of you."

I furrowed my brows in confusion, "Me?"

"You're Elizabeth."

I halted for a moment, "No, I'm not, I'm Gin, Elizabeth's sister."

"If Jones be slain, he who slays him must take his place. Captain… forever. The Dutchman must always have a captain. And if he saves me, he loses you."

I bit my lip at the position Will has himself in, "I see."

"He won't pick me, I wouldn't pick me. Tell him not to come."

He walked away, to rest and merge back into the ship's wall, "Tell him to stay away. Tell him it's too late. I'm already part of the ship, part of the crew."

I walked forward to him again, attempting to get him to talk more, "Bootstrap."

He flashed his eyes open once more, "You know my name. You know my name."

I repeated, trembling slightly, "Yes, I'm close with your son."

"William! He's coming for me. Wait and see, he's coming. He promised."

My heart sank and I left him to be.

Will was strapping a body to a barrel at the edge of the railing, cutting at ropes to help bind the body.

"You escaped the brig even quicker than I expected," Jack called out, from his position of lying, carelessly on a mast, but he stood up and pointed out, "William, do you notice anything? Rather, do you notice something, that's not there to be noticed?"

William peered about him before understanding, "You haven't raised an alarm."

"Odd isn't it? Not as odd as this. Come up with this all by your lonesome, did you?"

William retorted sarcastically, "I said to myself, 'Think like Jack.'"

"And this is what you've arrived at? Lead Beckett to Shipwreck Cove, so as to gain his trust, accomplish your own ends? It's like you don't know me at all."

Will sighed and lowered his dagger, realizing how stupid it was.

Jack smirked and questioned, "And how does your dearly beloved feel about this plan?"

Will said nothing and looked away.

"Ah, so you've not seen fit to trust her with it," Jack hopped down onto the deck, off the mast.

"I'm losing her Jack. Every step I make for my father is a step away from Elizabeth."

"Mate, if you choose to lock your heart away, you'll lose her for certain. If I might lend a machete to your intellectual thicket… avoid the choice all together; let someone else dispatch Jones."

Will pondered and asked, "Who?"

Upon gazing at the hinting look written on Jack's face, Will exclaimed, "You?"

Jack stated, "Death has a curious way of re-shuffling one's priorities. I slip aboard the Dutchman, find the heart, stab the beating thing, you father's free from his debt, and you're free to be with your charming murderess."

"And how does your dearly beloved feel about this plan?"

Jack smirked and twirled with his moustache.

"Ah, you've not seen fit to trust her with it. And you're willing to cut out your heart and bind yourself to the Dutchman… forever?"

"No, mate, I'm free forever. Free to sail the seas beyond the edges of the map, free from death itself."

"You have to do the job though Jack, and you won't be with Gin except for once every ten years. Or you'll end up like Jones," Will gestured toward his beard.

Jack had a disgusted look, "I don't have the face for tentacles. But immortal has to count for something, eh? Oh!" Jack remembered, and produced his compass from his pocket and handed it to Will.

Will took it in his grasp and questioned, "What's this for?"

"Think like me, it'll come to you," Jack suggested and then shoved Will, and the barrel off the side of the boat to land in a splash in the water below.

"Give me regards to Davy Jones!" Jack called out.

I know, I know. I haven't added the scene at Shipwreck Cove, but the chapter would be much to look, and I wanted the event of Shipwreck cove to be a separate chapter all together. o:

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