Pirates of the Caribbean: More from Beyond the World

Disclaimer: If I owned Pirates of the Caribbean, would I really be writing this? No, I think I would be hiding from shame about not explaining the breaking of the curse at the end of AWE

Where the Hell is it Pointing

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"So, what did happen to you, Jack?" Ana Maria asked, as she bandaged Jack's back.

"I don't rightly know," Jack told her. "See, there are two ways to go beyond the world. One is that waterfall that Elizabeth talked about. The other is some place called the "Ghost Land". That's what we went through, I guess. But you didn't even hear anything?" He asked again, anxiously.

"No," Ana Maria said. "Well, you were the only one on deck at the time. What happened?"

Jack shuddered slightly. "Never mind," he muttered.

"Sorry to bring it up," she said awkwardly.

"How's Elizabeth?" Jack asked, changing the subject.

"She's as well as can be reasonably expected. And perfectly happy,"

"Anyways, thank," Jack said, and went out on deck.

Jack looked at his compass. It spun out of control, then pointed resolutely to the northwest. The rum must be distracting it again, Jack decided. He followed the arrow resolutely, head down over the compass. Then he ran into someone. He was instantly greeted by a tirade of curses, finishing with,

"Next time, watch where you're going, Sparrow!"

He had bumped into Ana Maria.

"Sorry," Jack said, "I was just looking at the compass, and – "

"I don't care!" she snapped.

"Someone is feeling irritable today," Jack commented, and walked right past her, looking back down at the compass. As he passed her, the arrow spun right around to point in the opposite direction, behind him. Rolling his eyes expressively, Jack followed the arrow again… and yet again, found himself on the floor, opposite a furiously cursing Ana Maria.

"What the bloody hell?" they both screamed at the same time.

"Here," Jack said, tossing the compass to her, "try to make some sense of that. It doesn't work for me,"

She opened the compass, got up, and Jack leaned on the side of the ship, glad to be rid of the bloody thing for a while. The next second, Ana Maria ran into him.

"What's going on?!" Jack cried in despair.

"You must be in the way!" Ana Maria said, and getting up, went off again. She stopped before she ran into Jack, walked diligently around him, then stopped again. Jack came over to see that the compass was pointing behind her, to…

"Love, I think it's pointing at me," Jack told her. She spun around.

"You conceited, dirty bastard!" Ana Maria shouted, slapping Jack. "Here, take you bloody, stupid compass!" she screamed, and threw it at Jack, slapping him a second time, and storming across the deck to Elizabeth's cabin.

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