2 Days Later…
"But I don't want to be stuck in the cabin while everyone fights!" Tiffany smacked on the door.
"It's for your own good, Tiffany." Maria said as she swung her legs back and forth from the bed. Elizabeth snorted.
"Funny how you care now." She snapped at Maria. Tiffany turned to Elizabeth and Maria. Maria looked nervous yet Elizabeth was furious.
"What do you mean, Elizabeth? Am I missing something?" Tiffany asked. Maria held her breath.
"Maria has been…seeing your fiancé. Will saw them." Tiffany spun around to Maria.
"Is this true?" Maria nodded her head, her eyes fixed to the floor. Tiffany gasped.
"I trusted you, Maria. I thought you were my friend." Maria looked up.
"I am!" Maria cried, tears welling.
"If you were I wouldn't be hearing this from Elizabeth. It doesn't bother me that you and James have something. I don't love him. I love… You should have told me." Tiffany snapped. Maria nodded.
"I'm sorry, Tiffany. I thought you would hate me…"
"I do. Because you lied…"
"I'm sorry." Tiffany banged the door again.
"Well it's too late now." Tiffany jumped from the door as there was a gunshot from outside. The lock smoked and the door swung open. The three women were seized and pulled on deck.
"Unhand me now!" Tiffany shouted but shut up as she was back handed. She fell to the deck with a thud.
"Will!" Elizabeth screamed as she saw the crew of the HMS Fearless tied to the mast. Maria glanced around for James. He was in the middle, unconscious, blood pouring from a gash by his temple.
"We just want her!" Said a man. He seemed incredibly familiar to Elizabeth but she couldn't place him. He was tall with blond hair and brown eyes. Stood by him was a man with straggly, grey hair. The blonde man pulled Tiffany from the deck. She looked at him and something clicked.
"Edward?" He nodded.
"Sorry about this Tiff. It's nothing personal." Tiffany snorted. The grey haired man looked at Tiffany with grey, lustful eyes. He took her face in his hands. She eyed him, suspiciously as he reached for his pistol. He raised it and Tiffany closed her eyes and waited for the shot. It never came. She opened one eye. Then the second. Then all went black.
"Don't you dare hurt her! I'll have you hanged for this." The grey man sneered at Sir Thomas Devrell. Thomas looked, sorrowfully, at his limp daughter.
"The same way ye had Sparrow hung? And he got a lot closer to yer precious daughter than I am."
"You…!" He was cut short by a gun shot and blood seeped through his left trouser leg. The shot, fired by Edward, ricocheted off Thomas' bone and bounced back out. He cried in pain but was ignored. The grey haired man handed Tiffany to Edward.
"Take her to the brig." Edward nodded and walked back to his ship, the Red Buccaneer. The grey haired man turned back to the crew of the HMS Fearless.
"Tell Sparrow, if he wants the little beauty back, he will come find us, the Red Buccaneer, within the month.. Or it's…" He dragged his finger across his throat,
"…for the bonnie lass. It seems a shame to lose something so fine, don't it, lads?" Elizabeth frowned. The man, his words. They all seemed so familiar. He spat at the Commodore's feet and then swung across to his own ship.
"Let's go, ye salty, old seadogs! Get movin' or it'll be the cat for ye!"
Elizabeth and Maria rushed to free the crew.
"Where do you think Jack would have gone?" Elizabeth asked Will. Will grinned.
"Tortuga."
"Tortuga is at least two days away! What if we don't have long enough?" Elizabeth said, panicking.
"He said within the month. We just need to hope Jack has not disappeared off the face of the earth."
"Knowing Jack, he will have. He disappeared under the noses of seven agents of the East India Trading Company. That does not make our chances of finding him any higher!" Elizabeth said, the urgency rising in her voice.
"Ah, but we know him."
"Hardly. I mean, who knows the mind of Captain Jack Sparrow?"
"His friends." Will replied, holding Elizabeth's hand. She smiled a nervous smile and got u to help the other crew members.
"You better be around here somewhere, Jack." Will muttered.
"Edward? What is the meaning of this?" Tiffany glared at Edward through the bars.
"Well, Sparrow and him up there, our Captain, have some unfinished business."
"And that concerns me how?" Tiffany snapped before Edward could side step the issue.
"Well, Sparrow has never really cared about anyone…but you…he cared about you. I saw him buying those ribbons and flowers. Seems there was only one other female aboard, her being married, we knew they were for you. Then when you were in that tavern it was just a matter of making sure it was you, so we knew what you looked like in case of a mix up between you, your servant and the married one, your friend I presume."
"You are very much mistaken, Jack doesn't care for me. If he did I wouldn't be going to Port Royal for my own marriage now, would I?" Tiffany said, still glaring at Edward. He merely smiled back at her.
"Edward, Cap'n wants the girl!" A man shouted down the steps. Edward stepped towards the cell and unlocked it. He pulled Tiffany from the cell and began up the stairs, dragging her behind him.
"Let me go! I can walk myself thank you, Edward." She said. Strangely he let her go. Thinking quickly she elbowed him in the face and grabbed his gun, running on deck. She was instantly surrounded by dirty, leering pirates.
"Don't come any closer! I will shoot!" She shouted at them. They snickered and laughed.
"There are more of us than there is you. You shoot one and another'll be on ye!" A pirate yelled from the crowd in front of her. She suddenly felt a hand clamp around her wrist. She was spun around and smacked into the grey- haired Captain.
"Ye really didn't think this through, did you, lass?" He sneered, his breath making her retch almost. She shook her head and felt herself being dragged by her hair to the captain's cabin. He flung her into a chair.
"Now, lass. Let's have a little talk."
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