HI! sorry i didn't update last night i got sick but I'm back now. so i hope you enjoy this chapter there is only two chaps left, i think. no worries potc 2 will be right behind it. R&R peoples!

Later that night, while the men were asleep, Joanna was out on the decks staring off into the sea, when her father came over to her, but Joanna wasn't happy with the disturbance.

"Chris, I don't mean ye no harm"

Joanna turned to him, with tears in her eyes. "I'm not afraid of you, just afraid of what you have become" She was sobbing at this point.

"Lifting the curse will cure us"

"You think that? Jack wants to kill you"

"Aye, he does, I be aware of this"

"Your not worried?"

"Joanna I will die, you must come to terms with that"

"I WON'T!" Joanna dropped to the ground in tears.

"Get up!" Barbossa barks.

"You possibly have killed Jack! How could you be so heartless?"

"Jack, cocky bastard he is, deserved what was coming for him" Barbossa leaned down to his daughter. "Now... up Chris" He extended his hand out for her.

She grabbed his hand and he pulls her up, he leans into her ear. "Promise me you will kill your mother"

Joanna didn't say much else to him, she just turned in for the night, but how exactly was she going to find and kill her seemed impossible right now.

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[In the brig of the Black Pearl; Pintel and Ragetti are swabbing the floor, when Joanna comes down stairs to check on her mates.

"Awwk, shiver me timbers"

"Cotton 'ere says you missed a bit" Gibbs interprets.

Pintel smacks the cage with the mop.

"Oi! Leave 'im alone" Joann said.

"You got some nerve don't ya? Capt send ya down here?" Pintel asked her.

"No, but I will tell the captain how you are treating my friends"

"You're a piece of work ain't ya?" Pintel and Ragetti were on there way out.

"Wait, you knew William Turner?"

Pintel stopped at the edge of the stairs. "Ol' Bootstrap Bill? We knew him. Never sat well with Bootstrap what we did to Jack Sparrow, the mutiny and all. He said it wasn't right with the Code. That's why he sent off a piece of the treasure to you as it were. He said we deserved to be cursed… and remain cursed"

"The Code, My father has never ignored that"

"After you left, guess your father didn't give a shit"

"Good man Bootstrap was"

Pintel glared at Gibbs. "Well, as you can imagine that didn't sit too well with the Captain"

Ragetti was laughing to him self. "Tell him what Barbossa did"

Pintel looked behind him at his stupid friend. "I'm telling the story!" He yelled. "So…what the Captain did, he strapped a cannon to Bootstraps' bootstraps"

Ragetti was still laughing at him "Bootstraps' bootstraps"

Pintel looked straight at Will. "The last we saw of ol' Bill Turner, he was sinking to the crushing black oblivion of Davy Jones' Locker. 'Course it was only after that we learned we needed his blood to lift the curse"

Ragetti bursted out laughing along with Pintel. "That's what you call ironic"

"You all are bastards" Joanna said mad.

Barbossa comes down and throws the key to the cell downs to Ragetti. "Bring him! Joanna come with me as well, I won't be having you escape me again"

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Pintel was pulling Will to the treasure room, when he pulls his hair back. "No reason to fret. It's just a prick of the finger, a few drops of blood"

Twigg runs up to Pintel. "No mistakes this time. He's only half-Turner. We spill it all!"

Pintel laughs with Ragetti. "Guess there is reason to fret"

Jack was pushing through the crowd of pirates. "Beg your pardon"

Barbossa is ready to slit Will's throat, chanting as he goes. "Begun by blood…"

Jack pushes through the rest of the crew, he looks up to see his love standing next to Barbossa. "Excuse me" He says waving his hands in the air.

Barbossa stops his chanting. "by blood un.."

Joanna was over joyed to see Jack standing there before her. "Jack!"

Barbossa was shocked beyond belief. "S'not possible"

Jack was not happy seeing her standing up there with HIM. "Not probable, Joanna I am sorry"

"Jack... I'm glad to see you" Her eyes were tearing up.

Will shook free of the Bo'sun' grip. "Where's Elizabeth?"

Jack felt pained to see her crying, but there was nothing he could do at the moment. "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really except for Elizabeth who is, in fact, a woman"

"Shut up! You're next" Barbossa leans in to slit Will's throat again.

Jack was giving a strange look. "You don't want to be doing that, mate" Barbossa rolled his eyes at the sound of his voice.

"No, I really think I do"

Jack shrugs. "Your funeral"

"Jack enough!" Chris was getting worried her father was going to just kill Jack.

Barbossa leaned back up to face Jack. "Why don't I want to be doing it?"

"Well, because" He pushed a pirate's arm off his shoulder. "…because the HMS Dauntless, pride of the Royal Navy, is floating just offshore. Waiting for you, just hear me out, mate" Jack moved up the pile of treasure. "You order your men to row out to the Dauntless. They do what they do best. Robert 's your Uncle, Fannie's your Aunt, there you are with two ships. The makings of your very own fleet. 'Course you'll take the grandest as your flagship, and who's to argue? But what of the Pearl?" Jack asked, looking at Joanna, smiling at the thought of Joanna back on her ship. "Name me Captain, I'll sail under your colors, I'll give you ten percent of me plunder, oh! And Joanna she will be mine. Savvy?"

Barbossa was not giving in. "I s'pose in exchange, you want me not to kill the whelp, but the girl is mine"

Jack wasn't caring about the fact Will's life was on line, all he wanted was Chris. "No, no, not at all by all means, kill the whelp" Jack was up by the chest now. "Just not yet. Wait to lift the curse until the opportune moment. For instance…" He picks up a few medallions. "After you've killed Norrington's men…" Jack throws them back as he speaks one by one. "Every… last… one" He pockets one of them.

Will and Joanna see Jack take a piece of the gold. "You've been planning this from the beginning. Ever since you learned my name" Will shouted.

Jack smiled at Will and looks back at Chris. "Pretty much"

Barbossa was done with Jack's games. "I want fifty percent of your plunder"

Jack wasn't as stupid as everyone thought he was. "Fifteen"

"Forty" Barbossa negotiates.

Jack had a better idea. "Twenty-five. And I'll buy you the hat. A really big one"

"We have an accord" They shake hands. "You still can not have Joanna"

Jack didn't care what he said, he would be dead and Joanna would be his. "You give the orders sir"

"Gents…take a walk" The pirates walk away leaving only a few pirates left in the cave.

"Father please end all this" Joanna pleaded. "You know you are going to die"

"I am not worried about the small minded man in front of you"

"He's a lot better than you give him credit for!"

Jack wasn't leaving Joanna's side and Barbossa had noticed. "I must admit, Jack, I thought I had ye figured. But it turns out that you're a hard man to predict" Hoping Jack wouldn't notice what he was actually meant.

Jack was strangely confused why Barbossa was even talking to him "Me? I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly… stupid" Jack nodes his head at Joanna and unsheathes a pirate's sword near him and throws it to Will; Jack starts fighting with Barbossa.

Barbossa runs up the hill. "You're off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters"

Joanna pulls her sword out and joins Will in fighting the pirates.

"You can't beat me, Jack"

Jack impales him, but Barbossa just sighs, taking out the sword, impales Jack instead, Joanna hears a gurgling coming from Jack.

"Jack!" Joanna shouts.

Jack staggers into the moonlight to reveal a skeleton, looking at his now skeletal hand. "That's interesting" Jack reveals the medallion, playing with it on his fingers. "I couldn't resist, mate"

Joanna sighed happily, going back to fighting with Will. Jack fights Barbossa and finally gets him cornered.

Barbossa lays against the cold treasure. "So what now, Jack Sparrow? Will it be it two immortals locked in an epic battle until Judgment Day and trumpets sound? Hmm?"

"Or you could surrender your daughter"

Barbossa laughs and runs after Jack again. "Never!"

The pirate that Will was fighting against. "I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain"

Joanna comes around swinging a giant gold staff. "Do you like pain?" She knocks the pirate out with the staff. Joanna helps Will up and sees Jack as a skeleton.

"What do we do?" Will asked.

"At the moment, no one" the two of them string 3 pirates together, stick a grenade into the middle one and push them out of the moonlight.

The pirates explode.

Jack cuts his hand and bleeds on medallion, tossing it to Will; Barbossa aims the pistol at Joanna not even looking at her, Jack without a second thought shoots Barbossa.

"NOO! I can't believe you shot him!" Joanna said running up to Jack pounding her fists on his chest.

Barbossa was laughing at Jack. "Ten years you carry that pistol, and now you waste your shot"

Will was smiling. "He didn't waste it" He drops both medallions into the chest, holding a bloody knife.

Barbossa drops his sword and pulls his shirt apart, looking at the blood spreading from his wound. "I feel…cold"

"NOO!" Joanna runs at her father. "Father please don't go" She said crying her eyes out.

"Joanna... I'm sorry my child, give Jack me blessin'" Barbossa falls dead, and a piece of parchment falls from his hand, Joanna picks up the paper and puts in her pocket.

Jack walks up beside her. "Joanna I am sorry, but he was going to kill you"

"Then you should of let him!" She yelled.

"I did not want to kill him, Chris I love you, I will do anything to protect you" He said wrapping his arms around her waist.

"I love you Jack" She responded, kissing him square on the lips.

Elizabeth runs into the cave, seeing all the pirates dead. "We should return to the Dauntless"

Will wasn't very happy to see Elizabeth's face. "Your fiancé will be wanting to know you're safe"

Jack swaggers over to Will, with Joanna on his side. "If you were waiting for the opportune moment…that was it. Now, if you'll be so kind, I'd be much obliged if you'd drop us off her ship" Jack said walking away with a pile of treasure around his neck.