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Later on the island of Tortuga, the three of them were looking for a certain friend of there's but they were having no such luck.
"William, what do you think?" Jack said excited to be back.
Will looks around unimpressed. "It's not what I thought it would be"
"I'll tell you mate, if every town in the world were like this one, no man would ever feel unwanted" Jack said noticing an old "friend"
"Scarlett!" She slaps him as he grew closer to her. "Not sure I deserved that. Giselle!" He said again.
"Who was she?!" Giselle asked.
Jack was playing his game as he always did. "What?" he was slapped again. "I may have deserved that" Jack replied looking back to see if Joanna was there still, of course she wasn't.
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Joanna walked into the Tavern, her feelings hurt, she wasn't sure why it bothered her so much but it did. She sat alone at the bar.
The bar maid came up to her. "What would you like dearie?"
"A bottle of rum please" She said remembering she wasn't in Port Royal anymore.
Shit. She thought. Joanna readied her knife in her hand for anyone who came remotely close to her.
Jack and Will enter a tavern, the same tavern Joanna was in. Jack leans into Will "Keep a sharp eye" He moves away from Will and sits at a table with Gibbs.
Joanna noticed Will standing by himself, but didn't wish to speak with him at the moment, as she scans the room she see's Gibbs sitting at a table, by himself? No he wasn't, She knew Jack was with him. Joanna crept closer to them to see what they were talking about.
"Let's just say it's a matter of leverage, eh?" Jack motions to Will.
"The kid?"
"That is the child of Bootstrap Bill Turner. His only child, savvy?" Jack smiles.
Joanna gets distracted by the dirty men approaching her.
"How you doing beautiful? You wanna have a good time?" The dirty creep of a man asked her.
Joanna rolled her eyes and pulled her knife from her belt, ready for him. "You want to know me?" She teases. "I don't think you do"
"Oh, not gonna spread your whorish legs for me are ye, how bout for all five of us!" The man shouted.
Joanna pulls her sword out and attacks the first man and swings around to the next, Jack, Will and Gibbs all saw this fight going on and ran into help, more men came into fight the four of them.
"You always have to pick a fight don't you love"
Joanna turned around to face Jack an scold him. "I had it! You don't need to rescue me every damn time!"
Jacks eyes grow wide and lungs behind Joanna, stabbing the man coming after her. "Your welcome!"
"Oi, you gonna start a fight take it outside" The tavern owner yelled.
The crew walk out of the inn and into the streets.
Joanna looks at Jack. "Thank you Captain, with out you I would have been dead"
"Your bloody damn welcome" Jack said wiping off his sword with his pant leg.
She came up beside him and kissed his check. "I'm serious Jack"
Jack couldn't help but blush at her kindness.
Damn woman, why couldn't I just forget you... Jack thought. I just want you to make it through this...
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The next morning, Gibbs has found them a crew, well if you could call them a crew.
Gibbs feeling rather proud of himself introduces Jack to the men. "Feast your eyes, Captain. All of them, faithful hands before the mast, every man worth his salt. And crazy to boot"
Will looking rather unimpressed again spoke up. "So this is your able-bodied crew?"
Jack glared at Will. "You, sailor!" He shouted.
"Cotton, sir. He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the parrot to talk for him. No one's yet figured how"
"Were gonna die" Joanna said walking away mad.
"O'course it does" Jack said, he looks over to Will. "Satisfied?"
"Well, you've proved they're mad" Will said leaving Jack's side, moving over to talk to Joanna. "How are you?"
Joanna watched Jack go through the line of men. "Just would rather be at home"
They both witness Jack get smacked again in the face.
"I suppose you didn't deserve that one either?" Will asked.
Jack shakes off the pain. "No, that one I deserved"
"I kinda had hoped Jack would have been the one but seeing how he is with all these girls, I'd don't think so"
"He's a pirate you shouldn't think nothing but the worse"
"You stole my boat!" Ana-maria shouted.
"Actually" Jack said, she slaps him again. "Borrowed. Borrowed without permission. But with every intention of bringing it back to you" Jack said dishonestly.
"But you didn't did you Jack?" Joanna asked.
"She'll get another one" Jack said angry.
Ana-maria gets ready to slap him again.
"You lay another finger on him you will be one less than what you started with" Joanna said finally defending him.
"I will" She teased her.
Will chimed in "A better one"
"Of course!" Jack said happily, hoping she'd forget about smacking him.
"That one" Will points to the Interceptor.
Jack looks around confused. "What one? That one?!" He asked referring to the Interceptor. Shit... "Aye, that one!"
Gibbs disapproving of this idea. "No, no, no, no, no, it's frightful bad luck to bring a woman aboard, sir"
"And what do you think of me Gibbs?" Joanna said making him remember she was first.
"Oh.. I... sorry Chris" Gibbs stutters out.
"Joanna would you like to join me for some dinner?" Jack asked being as nice as he could.
"If you insist"
"Aye, I do"
Joanna walks with Jack into the cabin and there was food being placed on the table.
"Are you alright Jack?"
"Hmm? Aye I am"
"You know what I mean, what happened the other night?"
Jack asked ignoring the other night "Regarding?"
"What has got you so bothered that I can't even touch you?"
"Err, I don't think now is the best time" Jack said really trying to ignore her.
Joanna stands up and comes straight a crossed the table at him pulling his shirt apart reviling two bullet holes in his chest along with a "J.C." tattooed above his heart, she stops, falling on her butt, dumbfounded at what she has just discovered.
"You wanted to know what I was hiding, now you know"
"Jack, you bound yourself to me? Why?" Joanna didn't know what to say, she was happy and mad at the same time.
"You were the first person I met where I felt like I wasn't being judged, I almost died finding out you were taken away from us, Joanna do you have any idea how much I've missed you? The first chance I got I made it so no woman could have me"
"But... Bu... Those women at Tortuga, why were they so mad at you?"
"I told them no"
Joanna couldn't speak, she just didn't know what to say. "I'm sorry Jack, I didn't want to leave you, I swear"
"Your here now love, that's all that matters"
Joanna jumps on him, knocking him back in his chair to the ground, kissing him deeply.
"I don't think now's the best time for this" Jack said when the kiss ended.
"Why now?"
"Listen"
The room got silent and not a moment later thunder rolled in.
"How did you know?" Joanna asked.
"I've been sailing the seas for how long love?"
"Capt! Chris! We need you at the helm" Gibbs shouts from outside.
A storm rages outside, the sea becomes wild, rain poured so heavily no one could see a few inches from there faces.
Will struggles to find Gibbs. "How can we sail to an island that nobody can find with a compass that doesn't work"
"Aye, the compass doesn't point north but we're not trying to find north, are we?" Gibbs turns to Jack. "We should drop canvas, sir"
Jack was at the wheel ready to take on what ever was thrown his way. "She can hold a bit longer"
"What's in your head that's put you in such a fine mood, Captain?"
Jack couldn't tell him the real reason why he was so happy so he had to play it safe. "Were catching up"
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Will watches as Jack closes the compass when Cotton stares at him too much. "How is it that Jack came by that compass?"
"Not sure I know a whole lot of Jack's past, That was before I met him, back when he was Captain of the Black Pearl"
Will gave Gibbs a strange look. "What? He failed to mention that"
"Well, he plays things closer to the vest now. And a hard-learned lesson it was" Gibbs started. "See three days out on the venture the first mate comes to him and says everything's an equal share. That should mean the location of the treasure, too, so Jack gives up the bearings. That night there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die"
"Ah. So that's the reason for all the…" Will tries to acts like Jack.
"I'm sure Jack would be highly disappointed with your attempts to mimic him" Joanna said listening into there conversation.
"Reason's got nothing to do with it. Now Will, when a man is marooned he is a given a pistol with a single shot, one shot. Well it won't do much good hunting or to be rescued. But after three weeks of a starvin' belly and thirst, that pistol will start to look real friendly" Gibbs said directing his fingers towards his head. "But Jack, he escaped the island, and he still has that one shot. Oh, but he won't use it, though, save for one man. His mutinous first mate"
Will finally starts to understand what is going through Jack's head. "Barbossa"
Joanna had hear enough, he wanted to kill her father not save him, so barging in the captains room, she comes in blazing hot, eyes icy blue.
"Chris what is going on?" Jack asked.
"You want to kill him don't you?" She yelled.
"What?" He ducked away from her sword.
"My father, you want to kill him don't you?"
"I figured it was the only way it would stop him from killing you!"
She stopped swinging. "There must be another way"
"I haven't found one yet, but I promise you I will try and save him, mark my words" Jack said trying to calm her.
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"How did Jack get off the island?" Will asked.
"Well, I'll tell ye. He waded out into the shallows and there he waited three days and three nights till all manner of sea creature 'came and acclimated to his presence. And on the fourth morning, he roped himself a couple of sea turtles, lashed 'em together and made a raft"
Will was not convinced. "He roped a couple of sea turtles?"
Gibbs smiles at his story. "Aye, sea turtles."
"What did he use for rope?"
Jack comes up to the boys. "Human hair…from my back. Let go of the anchor!" He yells, directing his attention else where. "The three of us are to go ashore"
"Why not have me stay out here where it's safe?" Joanna asked.
"Your far to valuable, you stay with me"
"Captain! What if the worst should happen?" Gibbs asked.
Jack looked at his crew sad. "Keep to the code"
Gibbs wasn't to happy about that either. "Aye, the code"