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Chapter 8
"Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore she'd go free!" The crew jeered and cat called at Elizabeth. She was standing on the plank, looking over the end. Will was being held by pirates. Barbossa turned to Will and glared at him.
"Don't dare impugn me honor, boy. I agreed she'd go free, it was you who failed to specify when or where." Barbossa gave a cackling evil laugh. The crew laughed with him. The two pirates the held him gagged him and pulled him away from Elizabeth, leaving her on the plank. "Though it does seem such a shame to lose something fine, don't it lads?"
"Aye." The crew said at different times. Barbossa walked closer to the plank.
"So I'll be having that dress back before you go." Elizabeth made a face and pulled at the strings. She quickly lifted the dress off and threw it at Barbossa. Catcalls and whistles surrounded her. Sam frowned, watching them.
"It goes with your black heart." Elizabeth hissed nastily. Barbossa rubbed his cheek with the dress.
"Ooh, it's still warm." Barbossa threw the dress to one of his pirates and turned around. Elizabeth walked slowly to the end of the plank and looked over, biting her lip. She looked back at Will who looked a bit worried.
"Too long!" The Bosun frowned and stepped forward, onto the plank making Elizabeth fall into the water with a loud splash. Will's eyes widened.
"Next!" Pintel yelled. Sam bit her lip as the pirates that help her pushed her closer to the plank. Barbossa stepped in front of Sam. Barbossa is going to save me?
"Wait! Not so fast, gents!" Barbossa smiled a wicked smile at Sam. Sam bit her lip looking up at him. "Now Bryne…seeing as the gents do like you…I offer to take you aboard with the crew, if and only if you agree to be me strumpet, no, me wife. Aye, me wife."
"Never." She didn't even need to think. "I'd rather die." Sam quickly jumped off the plank and into the water. She grabbed Liz's hand and treaded water with her beside the Black Pearl. Sam looked up. Jack was now standing on the plank. She sighed. Jack's effects fell into the water and almost hit Sam in the head. Jack quickly jumped in after. Sam glared at Jack. "Another fine mess you've gotten us into."
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Sam, Elizabeth and Jack waded into the shallows of the island. Sam twisted her shirt, the water pouring out of it. Sam sighed. Jack stopped just as he got to the shore. He turned around and looked longingly at the Black Pearl. "That is the second time I have watched that man sail away on my ship."
Sam gave him a sad smile and sat down in the sand. Elizabeth sat down next to Sam and watched Jack as he yelled at the ship. Sam sighed. "You want to get off this spit of land? You're going to have to follow my plan, Liz. I already got an idea."
"What do you have planned?" Elizabeth bit her lip and looked nervously at Jack.
"Get Jack to show you the rum cache. I'll do a bit of drinking with my old pal Jack…You know what to do, right?" Elizabeth nodded and walked over to Jack, following him onto another part of the beach. Sam sighed. It was finishing school all over again.
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"We're devils and black sheep and really bad eggs! Drink up me hearties, yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life for me!" Sam and Jack sang together, prancing around the fire. It was dark, but the fire lit the whole island. Sam and Jack fell into the sand, chuckling loudly. Sam smirked as she felt the rum finally sinking in. She and Jack both had two bottles each and were already near finishing the third rum. Elizabeth had disappeared completely.
"You are a very amusing drunk, luv." Sam smirked and took another small sip of rum. Jack smirked.
"Why thank ye, Jack. Yer no so bad yourself..." Sam trailed off, tracing the top of the rum bottle. Sam glanced up at Jack. "It's so strange to be back here again, Jack. I remember when you first showed this place to me…"
"Well…all I can say luv is the company is much better this time." Sam smiled again and giggled drunkenly.
"Amazing as it seems…you are a bit attractive when I'm not sober." Sam giggled drunkenly again. Jack smirked at her.
"Really?" Jack tilted his head sideways, looking at Sam.
"Aye. Really. You have this…handsome, devious look to you…Something a girl could go for…" Sam smiled and laid her head on Jack's shoulder, walking her fingers up Jack's chest.
"And ye want to know something, luv? I always had a little soft spot just for ye…Always though you were the most amazing thing...I always loved you. I just never though I'd tell you." Sam smiled.
"That is so sweet, Jack." Sam smiled and moved her head to his chest. Jack slowly laid his arm around her waist. Sam patted the hand slowly.
"Jack…you think maybe we should…?" Jack nodded and placed a small kiss on her lips. Sam smiled and then suddenly fell backwards, falling unconscious. Jack watched her for a moment, and then he too fell backwards, laying unconscious in the sand next to Sam.
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Sam opened her eyes and smiled at the scent of burned spices and rum. Elizabeth had succeeded in making the signal. Smoke surrounded the island. Another boom erupted a few feet away. Sam quickly got up and headed over to Elizabeth. Elizabeth smirked and threw another carton into the fire. Sam smiled in approval. "I don't remember a thing I did last night….but I am glad I remembered this. Wait until you see the look on Jack's face."
Then, as if on cue, Jack came staggering over to Sam and Elizabeth. "No! Not good! Stop! Not good! What are you two doing? You burned all the food! The shade! The rum!" Elizabeth and Sam smirked at each other. Elizabeth walked toward the tide.
"Yes Jack, the rum is gone." Sam followed Elizabeth with Jack trailing behind her.
"Why is the rum gone?" Elizabeth turned to Jack. Jack gave a look as if he expected to be hit the fifth time in this story by a woman.
"One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels and moronic drooling idiots and two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire Royal Navy is out looking for me. Do you really think there is the slightest chance they won't see it?" Elizabeth sat down after finishing her little speech, dipping her toes in the tide. Sam flopped down next to her.
"But why is the rum gone?" Jack gave a confused face. Elizabeth groaned. Sam giggled insanely at them both.
"Just wait Captain Sparrow. You give it one hour, maybe two and you will see white sails on that horizon." Jack pulled his pistol out, and glanced at it, then Elizabeth and then Sam. He quickly put his pistol back in his belt and hurried off, fuming and frustrated. Sam smirked at Elizabeth.
"You really know what you're doing, don't you?" Elizabeth nodded at Sam.
"It happens when your father gets some of the most interesting people as guests in his home. Scientists, magicians…amazing people. I learned this trick from a magician, a traveling gypsy if you would. I saw him at the market, and when I bought one of his items, he showed me the trick." Sam nodded and looked out into the horizon. Elizabeth looked over at Jack watching him stamp away. Sam looked where Elizabeth had her eyes set on.
"You really know what you are doing. Liz, my friend, the Royal Navy has arrived."
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"But we've got to save Will!" Elizabeth turned to her father. She was angry and no one was listening to her.
"No!" Governor Swann walked closer to Elizabeth, looking at her face to face. "You're safe now. We will return to Port Royal, not gallivanting after pirates." Governor Swann then walked past Elizabeth, heading towards the helm. Elizabeth followed him.
"Then we condemn him to death!" Elizabeth was now furious. This was not good. Governor Swann took his place next to Commodore Norrington. Sam bit her lip softly. James wasn't going to be too happy to see her, and this time she was unprepared.
"The boy's fate is regrettable, but so was his decision to engage in piracy." Elizabeth was not going to quit. She had that look in her eyes. She had the little greedy rich girl look in her eyes, and wasn't going to give up until she had what she wanted. Sam could tell.
"To rescue me! To prevent anything from happening to me!" She moved her look to sorrowful caring eyes, and looked like she was about to cry. Sam knew this look too. Her father almost always gave in to this look.
"If I may be so bold to inject my professional opinion!" Jack interrupted. Sam groaned.
"Jack, not now!" She hissed at him, but Jack went anyway. Sam sighed.
"The Pearl was listing near to scuppers after the battle. It's very unlikely she'll be able make good time. Think about it." Jack looked at James. "The Black Pearl. The last real pirate threat in the Caribbean, mate. How can you pass that up, right?" Jack smirked, and looked around, lowering his smirk, and then he smirked again. Sam sighed. Looks like they were going to Isla de Muerta. And Jack just got them there faster.
"By remembering I serve others, Mr. Sparrow. Not just myself." James frowned and started to walk away. Elizabeth rushed after him.
"Commodore, I beg of you, please do this. For me. As a wedding a wedding gift." James stopped and turned around. Sam's eyes widened. James was getting married? They why had he acted the way he did before back in the office? Was she just game to him?
"Elizabeth? Are you accepting the Commodore's proposal?" Governor Swann came to Elizabeth's side and looked at her. Elizabeth kept her eye contact with James. James turned completely around.
"I am." She replied, still staring at Commodore Norrington. Sam bit her lip. How could Will and Elizabeth be together if Elizabeth was marrying James? This was going to be complicated.
"A wedding! I live wedding! Drinks all around!" Sam groaned and kicked Jack in the shin.
"Shut up." She hissed, glancing back at what was going on. Jack looked up, seeing James give him a stare.
"I know. "Clamp him in irons", right?" Jack held his hands out for him, waiting to be clamped in irons. Sam sighed. When was he going to learn to just…
"Mr. Sparrow, you will accompany these fine men to the helm and provide us with a bearing for to Isla de Muerta. You will then spend the rest of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase "silent as the grave." Do I make myself clear?" Sam sighed. He hadn't mentioned her. She could only wonder what was in store for her.
"Inescapably clear." With that, the two guards that held him 'escorted' him to the helm. Sam sighed and watched as Elizabeth and her father they went into Commodore Norrington's office to find Elizabeth some suitable clothes. Sam turned and looked at James who was watching her.
"Ms. Bryne…A word…If you please." James walked over to her, taking her arm in his as he led her over to the side on the ship. Sam bit her lip and leaned over, just looking out at the ocean. She hoped he wouldn't say anything, but he did. "That was a very good trick, Ms. Bryne…You are a wanted criminal of the Royal Navy…"
"I noticed." Sam just stared out at the ocean, not really seeming to care.
"And you act like you have not a care in the world. It amazes me." Sam bit her lip. Why did he have to have such horrible timing. James slowly put his hand on hers and held it. Sam turned her head and looked at him. "Sam…my offer still stands on taking you in as a maid in my household…You won't have to hang and you are free to do as you please after working…except sailing-"
"I'm sorry. No. You'll just have to hang me." Sam pulled her hand away and turned away from him. James watched her, wondering what he could do. "James…I'm a pirate…and to deprive a pirate of being a pirate…it's like…depriving a human being of food and drink. You can't do it."
James sighed and still looked at her. "Sam…I care for you deeply…You are like no other woman I have met…You're the woman that haunts my dreams every night…You're the woman I can't take my eyes off for even a second…You're the woman who makes my heart skip a beat and beat faster and faster every second I see you." Sam bit her lip. He did have feeling for her. It was true…But she could never give up the sea.
"James…I feel the same way…but I could never give up being a pirate. Not for anyone. Not even you. I'm sorry." Sam held her arms together and turned around. "Clamp me in irons, aye?"
James nodded solemnly. "So be it."
"So be it."
Yes, I had to do it. Its part of irony the whole Sam and Jack kiss, but they don't remember it. Just appreciate it and wait to see what happens! REVIEW!