Once, Forever and Always

Chapter 8 – The New Captain of the Empress

I board Sao Feng's ship the Empress and was automatically thrown in a room with two girls. They each held out part of a dress for me and threw me around the screen so I could dress. I held it up and shook my head wondering how this was going to look on me. I slipped it on and it fit perfectly. I came out behind the screen and the two girls threw me down in a chair and did my hair in chop sticks than threw a hat on my head. I was than thrown into another room where a table and chairs sat. If you looked out the windows you could see the ocean was just barley eye level with you.

Sao Feng came in and clapped his hands, the two girls bowed and left. I wish they hadn't though. Who knew what he was going to do. He's been eyeing me up since we first met in Singapore.

"By this time tomorrow we will arrive at Shipwreck Cove and you will be free... Calypso."

"Excuse me?" Did this man honestly think it was me?

"Not the name you fancy I imagine, out of the many that you have, but it is what we call you." Sao Feng said smirking at me.

"We being who?" I asked hoping to get answers out of the guy. From what I've read through the letters I found in that chest that day Davy Jones was the lover of Calypso.

Sao Feng picks up a leaf and inspects it "You confirm it." He asks eating the leaf.

"Confirm what? You've told me nothing."

"The Brethren Court- not I, the first Brethren Court, whose decision I would have opposed. They bound you to human form so the rule of the seas would belong to man and not…"

"To me." It was all starting to make sense to me.

"The one such as you should never be anything less than what you are." Sao Feng told me.

"Pretty speech from a captor, but words whispered through prison bars lose their charm." I spat.

"Can I be blamed for my efforts? All men are drawn to the sea, perilous though it may be."

"And some men offer desire as justification for their crimes." I told him.

"I will give you my desire." Sao Feng said. He obviously wanted something in return. All men do, pirates or not.

"And in return?"

"I would have your gifts, should you choose to give them." Sao Feng smirked at me.

"And if I should choose not?" I asked wondering what he would. I didn't have these powers that he spoke of.

"Then I will take, your fury." Sao Feng suddenly grabbed me. His lips were on mine and I wasn't enjoying for a second. It was a forceful kiss as I was trying to fight him off. I finally did but he started back for me. An explosion happens and he's thrown against the wall. I stumble a bit but finally get up and notice hi lying on the floor with a piece of wood stuck in his chest.

"Sao Feng?" I ask wondering if he's still alive.

"Here, please." I walk over to him and he pulls a necklace around from his neck. "With all nine pieces of eight, you will be free. Take it! You are captain now."

"Me?" I ask bewildered at what was happening. I was captain of the ship and crew and now had a place in the Brethren Court.

"Go in my place to Shipwreck Cove." I nod.

"Captain, the ship is taken, we cannot-" The first mate stops seeing his captain on the floor dying.

"Forgive me, Calypso." Sao Feng whispers his last words.

"What did he tell you?" He asked.

"He made me captain." I stand up and head on to deck to see my men taken in chains, two East India trading company men held their swords to mine and the man's throat.

"You are not my captain." He tells me and frankly I don't blame him.

"Abigail!" I saw Norrington it was Norrington.

"James" I said nodding to him.

"Thank God you're alive. Your father will be overjoyed to know you're safe." James said smiling at me. I shook my head.

"Elizabeth's father's dead." I told him, he looked to me with confusion.

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

"Did Lord Beckett tell you that?" I spat.

"Who among you do you name as captain?" Jones asked walking down the stairs.

"Captain, her." A crewmember points to me.

"Captain?" Jones asked clearly shocked.

"Tow the ship, put the prisoners in the brig. The Captain shall have my quarters." Norrington says, but I shake my head. A good captain goes down with his ship and well in this case crew.

"Thank you sir, but I prefer to remain with my crew." I walk away and towards my crew but Norrington grabs my arm.

"Elizabeth! I swear, I did not know." I scoff, he just called me Elizabeth, how dare he.

"Oh, so now I'm Elizabeth. Which side you chose James." I pull my arm away from him and stand with my crew "Well now you do."

The Empress is towed and the crew is locked in the brig of the Flying Dutchman. Which I was not happy about but then I remember Will and his father.

"Bootstrap?" I ask the passing crew member hoping it's him. He just laughs. "Bootstrap? Bill Turner?" I ask again.

"Bootstrap..."I walk over to him. He's a part of the ship now. "You know my name."

"Yes, I know your son." I tell him and he looks confused "Will Turner."

"William! Ha! ha ha!" He pulls himself out of the wall "He made it! He's alive, and now he sends you to tell me that he's coming to get me. Ha ha! God's boons, he's on his way!"

"Yes Will is alive, and he wants to help you." I tell him.

"He can't help me, he won't come." He looks down sad.

"You're his father." I tell him.

"I know you, he spoke of you. Jack's girl you are, good for him. You're sister that's why."

"Elizabeth?" I ask. "Why?"

"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 her."

"I see." I told him.

"He won't pick me, I wouldn't pick me." He puts himself back into the wall "Tell him not to come, tell him to stay away, tell him it's too late. I'm already a part of the ship. And the crew." He closes his eyes.

"Bootstrap." I ask hoping I can talk to him more.

"You know my name. You know my name." He says.

"Yes, I know your son." I sadly wondering if this is what becoming part of the ship means.

"William! He's coming for me, wait and see, you'll see. He promised." I smiled slightly. Will has a decision to make between his father and my sister. It's a tough decision especially with not coming to shore every ten years. Jack could take on the job but then again the selfish bastard would only think of rum and women so I don't see a point in him doing it.

"You escaped the brig even quicker than I expected." Jack says. Will points hi pistol at Jack. "William, do you notice anything? Rather, do you notice something that is not there to be noticed?"

"You haven't raised an alarm." Will says looking around at his surroundings.

"Odd isn't it? Not as odd as this. Come up with this all by your lonesome did you?" Jack questions sitting on the rail.

"I said to myself, think like Jack"

"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, mate." Will lowers his pistol "How does your dearly beloved feel about this plan?" Will looks towards the ground "Ah, you've not seen fit to trust her with it."

"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 altogether, change the facts. Let someone else dispatch Jones." Jack says.

"Who? You?" Will looks shocked.

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

"And how does your dearly beloved feel about this plan Jack? Are you're willing to cut out your heart and bind yourself to the Dutchman? Forever?" Will asks using Jack's own line against him.

"No, mate. I'm free forever. Free to sail the seas beyond the edges of the map, free from death itself." Jack tells him ignoring his earlier question.

"You have to do the job though, Jack. You have to ferry souls to the next world, or end up just like Jones. And what about Abigail? You won't see her for ten years." Will tells him.

"I don't have the face for tentacles. But immortal has to count for something, eh? Oh," Jack tosses Will the compass "And as for Abigail she has yet to know about this."

"What's this for?" Will asks inspecting it.

"Think like me, it'll come to you." Jack breathes on Will and he falls over the edge of the shop. Jack tosses the current body that's attached to barrel to Will, who instantly latches on to it. "My regards to Davy Jones!"

Will pulls himself out of the water and on to the barrel that hold the dead man and mutters "I hate him."

Norrington comes down to the brig and unlocks our cell. "Come with me." Nobody moves "Quickly!"

I nod my approval and they escape I stay leaning against the wood that's holding this place up till it's everyone but me and then come up to Norrington "What are you doing?"

"Choosing a side." He tells me and we quickly walk away to follow my crew.

My crew is currently crawling across a rope to the ship. I will forever be in debt to James.

"Do not go to Shipwreck Cove, Beckett knows of the meeting of the Brethren, I fear there may be a traitor among them." James informs me.

"I'll be forever in your debt James. Although I am sorry about Elizabeth."

"Tell Elizabeth that I had nothing to do with her father's death, and it was you who I always wanted Abigail never her. Your father never approved so I choose Elizabeth. Not the one my heart desired but close enough to the one." James smiled which made me smile. Jack never once crossed my mind once.

"Come with us. James, come with me." I told him.

"Who goes there?" It was Bootstrap. Part of the crew, part of the ship.

"Go, I will follow." He said hurriedly, his sword out and ready for battle. I knew that stance he was lying.

"You're lying."

"Our destinies have been entwined Abigail, but never joined." He kissed me and I kissed back, my hand going up to his neck. It was a kiss I would remember. "Go now!" He pushed me towards the rope and I got up and started crawling. "Back to your station, sailor." I heard him say to Bootstrap. After that I couldn't hear anymore as I was too far away.

"James!" I shouted, he turned around the cuts the rope having it fall to the sea with everyone on it. "James! No! No!" I shout as I see Bootstrap stab him. I will never forget that man and what he did for me today. I swam all the way back to the ship in a hurry to get to Ship Wreck Cove. I was sure the Brethren Court would be adjourning soon.

A/N:

Ahhh! So how did i do? I did this all in one night! I think i did pretty damn good if i do say so myself!(:

So what did you think of the Abigail/Norrington pairing for like the last 2 minutes of the man's life? Haha. Has anyone seen him on that new show SMASH? Like i must admit he does look pretty good! But i will never forget him from POTC as the man who went after my Jackie!(:

Anyway Review timee!

Reviews:

esinger: Right me too! Not that i don't like Elizabeth but after a while she does get pretty annoying but i think that her best movie in the POTC series was the At World's End.

Devil Nightmare: Well here you go! I hope this is soon enough! If not let me know and i will get on it!(:

Thanks for reviewing, both of you!(:

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