After a good long nap in my own dismal world I was back to watch my little saviours as they made their way to save me. What I saw when I faded was a Chinese ship that was in the process of carrying both the Chinese men from before and the pearl crew that was left after the fight in Singapore. I floated gently down onto the deck of the cold freezing place. I knew where they were but they didn't seem to. They were moving through icebergs under a white sky. Snow was falling softly and I smiled as some of it fell on my form. So they couldn't touch me but the snow flakes could.
Little Jack was sitting next to the freezing forms of Pintel and Ragetti.
"No one said anything about cold!" Pintel whined. I was glad I couldn't feel this cold weather that they were in because it didn't look fun at all. I saw one man break his own toe off, it was that frost bitten.
"I'm sure there must be a good reason for our suffering." Pintel argued, always having faith.
"Why don't that obeah woman bring Cass back the same way she brought back Barbossa?" Ragetti asked hatefully. (A/N; For the record I have no idea which one is Ragetti and which one is Pintel so just put which ever one you want were ever you want!)
"Because Barbossa was only dead!" Tia Dalma said sadly. She was standing next to Jack who didn't seem to be affected by the cold very much. He had frost all over him and a good bit of ice on his beard but that was it. Unlike Calypso he didn't have a blanket or anything more then his coat on his body. He was leaning up against the railing of the ship by his hip and had been talking to Tia before she'd caught wind of their conversation.
"Cassandra Myst is taken, body and….soul…to a place not of death…but punishment; almost the worst fate a person can bring upon themselves, stretching on forever. That's what waits at Davy Jones' Locker." Tia said. She sat down on a barrel near by.
"Oh….I knew there was a good reason." Ragetti said to a quite Pintel.
Jack rolled his eyes and headed to the helm where I could see William and Tia Hung. I turned to Tia and sat where Jack had just vacated. I could see, to my somewhat surprise that she was crying. I guess she was thinking about what was now happening to me. I giggled and she looked up. Her eyes widened but I just winked before moving up and following Jack. As I moved the few flakes that had landed on me fell off. I arrived at the helm just in time to see Jack lean over and see what they were looking at.
"Nothing is set." William was explaining, half-heartedly. "These can't be as accurate as modern charts." He said. I giggled but no one heard this time, like Tia had. In fact I could feel her eyes and I basked in the attention even as I listened.
"No…" Tia Hung said wisely but it came from my mouth and into his ear. "but they lead to more places." I watched as Jack seemed to see the dazed expression that resided on Tia Hung's face. Tia Hung shook himself out of the daze when William seemed to find something on the map.
"Over the edge…over again. Sunrise sets…flash of green." William said. I moved until I was literally flat on William's shoulder. My head looked over the map but my body floated in a straight line along the ships deck.
"Ever gazed upon the Breen Flash, Master Gibbs?" Jack asked, gruffly. Apparently he knew what was going on. I sure do hate this time skip thing; I never know what's going on anymore.
"I reckon I've seen my fair share. Happens on a rare occasion…" Gibbs began telling his story. I let myself float back down to 'stand' on the deck of the ship. I sat on the edge of the railing beside where Jack was doing the same as me. "…the last glimpse of sunset, a green flash shoots up into the sky. Some go their whole lives without seeing it, some claim to have seen it who ain't and some say…" He was interrupted by a wizened Jack.
"…it signals when a soul comes back to this world…from the dead…" Jack said and he was looking out on the waters. He turned back when he heard a sigh from Gibbs. Gibbs looked like he was trying not to be mad. It reminded me of how much he hates being interrupted by people when he's telling those stories of his. Jack grinned charmingly.
"Trust me, young Master Turner, it's not getting to the land of the dead that's the problem…it's getting back." I snorted and giggled again. That's to true! I wish I could just tell them not to worry about me but I couldn't, they needed my piece of eight to free Calypso. I fingered a necklace lying on my chest. It was a weird heart shape with three stones inside of it being held by bony hands. I snickered but turned away from them and faded out so that I could go see what was happening with our favourite EITC men.
To my surprise I ended up on the deck of the Dutchmen. I raised an eyebrow at all the navy men and fish men. I 'walked' until I found Beckett going up against Davy Jones himself.
"Go…all of you! And take that infernal thing with you. I will not have it on my ship!" Davy was saying. I kind of felt for him, I mean what can he really do?
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that." Beckett said, coming out from the mass of Navy men. "Because I will. Because it seems to be the only way to ensure this ship do as directed but the Company." Awe, did little Beckett not get what he wants? Suck it up. I waited for Davy to put him in his place but he didn't move. Beckett sent a pair of soldiers and Norrington to the Captain's quarters with the chest. I watched it go. "We need prisoners to interrogate, which tends to work best when they're alive." Beckett sneered.
"The Dutchman sails as its Captain commands." Davy sneered right back.
"And its Captain is to sail it as commanded! I would have thought you'd learnt that when I ordered you to kill your pet." Pet? Oh Thank the Lord, he killed the Kraken! Haha! In your face beastie! I did a jig right in the middle of the tense scene. "This is no longer your world, Jones." Beckett said, interrupting my dance. "The immaterial has become…immaterial." I didn't get that but I let it slide. Then the scene became boring again, as it was just the men getting off the Dutchman. I shrugged and faded back to the Chinese ship. I hummed loudly and as I passed sailors began to humm it as well.
Then I saw something interesting. I stopped humming and headed to where William was approaching Elizabeth.
"How long do we continue not talking?" He asked her. I watched curiously. Jack, who'd been speaking with Elizabeth made a face and inched away. I thought about following him but because I'd be unable to talk to him I decided to watch the drama unfold here.
"Once we rescue Cassandra, everything will be fine." Elizabeth whispered to the clear waters below them. I floated out to where I was floating over the waters but I had a great view of them. William looked hurt but I had no idea why. Oh, wait, I'd be mad if Jack didn't talk to me until a set time. Elizabeth just walked back to where Jack was trying to move away. I raised an eyebrow at her dependency on a reluctant Jack. Tia Dalma appeared behind William, stopping me from going to watch Jack and Elizabeth in jealousy.
"For what we want most, there is a cost must be paid in the end." She said, wisely deflecting him from going after Elizabeth. William just caught sight of the necklace that she was clutching before he seemed to see something much worse. He ran to the helm and I was going to follow him before something caught my eye. I saw Elizabeth wrapped around Jack, tightly. My eyes narrowed in fury as He hugged her to him.
"They each need some form of comfort." Tia said softly from beside me. I turned my eyes to her and she looked from the pair to me. "And Jack's only way for that is through women." She said. I turned back to see them getting closer and closer. I floated further towards them hoping what my daughter was implying wasn't true.
"-I miss her." Jack said. Elizabeth rubbed his shoulder.
"You'll get her back, Jack. It's all right." Elizabeth said and I stared at the shrinking distance between them
"What are you worried about, Lizzie?" Jack asked. "You've been shrinking away from poor William, ever since we got off the Pearl.-" I saw Elizabeth panic and I practically read her mind. I could only stand and watch as she suddenly kissed him, unable to move to stop her. I watched as she tried to eat his fucking face off. It barely registered in my mind that Jack was trying, desperately to get away but Elizabeth just followed, seeming to enjoy herself.
My heart broke and I screeched, which they heard through the roaring waves ahead, which suddenly got much more dangerous. I couldn't believe this. I'd taken Jack in to my heart, and I'd even tried not to blame Elizabeth but then they pull this shit.
They both seemed to split and their eyes widened. Jack was standing there shocked, like the earth had just swallowed him whole. Elizabeth was holding her hands to her mouth, and her thoughts were screaming at me that she was questioning herself. It was all a sign that it wasn't supposed to happen but it was to late, I was furious. I don't know if I could even stay in a solid form any longer, I was so hurt.
Somewhere in my mind it did register that Jack hadn't initiated it or wanted it at all but I was to over come with the betrayal. Suddenly the necklace I'd given Jack let out a loud cracking sound and they both looked at it, dazed. I took giant floating steps and I ripped it from Jack's chest. He felt a lurch around his neck where the necklace chain gave way but as soon as the necklace touched my hand it became invisible. I held the necklace close as I cried. I felt the bruising whispers of the tears. I hated it, and everything, suddenly.
I looked at Tia and she was also crying.
"I'm sorry Momma…" Tia said and tried to embrace me. When she couldn't she turned to the staring pair. "You've broken a sacred bond. May she have mercy on both of your souls." Calypso said. "Because I will not." She turned away and Jack winced.
"No, wait! What do you mean? It wasn't supposed to happen, she started it!" Jack shouted after Tia but there was something bigger on their horizon, waiting. I let out one more screech and then faded from their ship.
I sat up sharply from the bed I'd laid down in before I'd faded into existence. This was horrible. I couldn't believe it. But yet I guess I could. Jack must have been afraid and lonely but we'd been so in love last time we'd seen each other. How could I forgive him for this? If I even wanted to forgive him…What if he didn't want to be forgiven? What if he and Elizabeth went off together and left Turner and I to die alone? I shuttered and clutched something in my hand closer.
I glance down at it only to see the necklace from before. It had a large crack in it and it was actually crying, little tears falling out of the crack. I cupped it in my hands and prayed for it. Slowly, many hours, I tried to heal myself. I'd never been cheated on before. It hurt badly and I hoped I never was again.
I don't know if I want to kill Jack, or kiss and make-up. It wasn't technically cheating because Jack hadn't seen it coming and so didn't have a chance to stop Elizabeth. And I did love Jack, as I'd said before. I looked down at the ring he'd given me. We'd been going to get married but who am I kidding? Why did I think I could tame Jack Sparrow? I'm probably just another one of his 'wenches in ever port'. What if he had been laughing behind my back with Gibbs?
I felt like I'd aged more in this minute then I ever would. I got up sadly and looked in the mirror.
"I'm ugly…" I muttered. Maybe if I was different Jack would love me. I screwed up my face in concentration and with only a moment to spare I looked like an older Elizabeth. I stared at myself but I couldn't bring myself to keep it up. I changed back quickly. I stared at the scar pulling my lip up and disfiguring me. If Jack couldn't love me without the scar there isn't anyway he'd love me with it. Without any thought I broke the mirror with my hand, not even scratching my hand.
"Well, then! If he can't love me, then I don't need him!" I said strongly. I sat there for a moment before deciding to head out to the deck of the ship. When my foot made contact with the wood it seemed to clean itself at every place my foot touched. I skipped out on to the deck but that mood changed like the tide. I missed Jack. This loneliness is like a curse, it just keeps hurting and hurting.
"I hate it!" I screamed and threw my arms up at the blue sky.
"Why don't you just chill out?" A voice said. I already knew who it was. I turned and there was me from when I'd been with Murdock. I sneered crossly at her/myself and looked out at the sudden mass of me's. They were all staring at me.
"Don't be like that with yourself!" Another one said, the one I'd been when I'd been with Willy. "She should forgive him!" The Willy me argued. I inched away as the me's began to fight. Almost at the same time all the other me's started fighting with each other. I took a piece of rope and climbed up to the crow's nest to try and get a firm grasp on myself. When I could no longer hear them I sighed and pulled Jack's hat down farther, to block out the sun and I clutched the necklace that I had pulled around my neck, to my chest. A song found its way into my ear so I started singing it.
"Past the point of no return-
No backward glances
Our games of make believe
Are at an end…
Past all thought
Of 'if' or 'when'-
No use resisting
Abandon thought
And let the dream descend!"
I smirked for a moment but then something caused the ship to give a mighty lurch. I looked down over the crow's nest and all of the other me's were waving at me, hysterically. One of them climbed up the rigging. I raised my eyebrow as she sweated all over herself.
"Tia….crabs….moving…shore…?" She gasped. I rolled my eyes but I grasped what she was saying. Tia had sent her crabs to get me, because she knew I wasn't going to want to see them. I stood and watched as the Pearl started moving. I glanced up at the brim of the hat and grimaced. I can't believe how pathetic I am being. It hadn't been Jack's fault, I'd seen that. But I just wanted to get the fury out. Elizabeth had been the one to kiss Jack and so it was her that deserved my wrath. And if I had anything to say about it, she'd get that wrath ten-fold!
I heard my clones start cheering, no doubt feeling the decision I'd come to. I sneered at them from my place above and then they disappeared. I sat back down and waited until the right moment.
And it didn't take long before the Pearl and I burst over a sand dune and into the ocean. I smiled happily but then I couldn't help but to notice all the little pieces of wreckage. I looked out back towards the sand and sighed when I saw a mass of people waiting there.
I softly touched the side of my cheek where the scar was and traced it while looking at the people. My hand ran up to the usual scarf wrapping my hair back. With a tug I let the scarf fall away from my springy hair. I pulled back just enough of my hair that the side of my face would still be covered but I pulled up the rest of it. I tied it there with the scarf. I sighed once more before saying an incantation that would keep the scar hidden from wondering eyes.
With a wicked grin I popped myself from the Pearl to the sand behind the group. They all looked just like they did when I'd faded to see them except a little more tossled. I cleared my throat and they all turned around and gasped, all except for Tia. She came forward and nearly tackled me. This time when she made contact, I didn't as much as wobble.
"Love," I breathed into her ear and she shuttered. "I've missed you." I muttered in her ear. Then I switched my voice back to the one of this universe.
"Mr. Gibbs!" I suddenly yelled letting Tia stand by herself.
"Aye, Captain?" Gibbs asked, they were all dumbfounded. I didn't let my eyes wonder to Jack, though. I didn't know what would happen when I finally got to talk to him.
"I thought so." I said. "I expect you can account for you actions, then?" Gibbs looked around to see if he wasn't the only one hearing this.
"Ma'am?" He incredulously asked.
"There has been a perpetual and virulent lack of discipline aboard that vessel!" I pointed to the Black Pearl where all my little clones were partying. "Why is that?" I seriously asked him though I was still watching the clone of myself that was currently swinging her bra around while riding a rope through the air. He met eyes with someone else before meeting my eyes.
"Y-You're in Davy Jones' locker, Cass." He said. I felt insulted.
"I know that. I know where I am, and don't think I don't!" I said, really insulted. Actually I was just playing with them. I knew that I was in the locker and that they were really here. What can I say? My humour has been changed in the last few whenever's.
"Cassandra Myst." Someone said. My head turned around and I met the eyes of Hector Barbossa. I'd seen him since the cave but he had not seen me since then and I think that he was just a little pissed still.
"Hector!" I said, and decided that I was going to play with him. "It's been to long! Say, you are looking fabulous!" I smartly said.
"Aye," He said, though a little creeped out by the comment on his looks. "Isla de Muerta, remember? Your lover shot me." He sarcastically added the last line. I smiled disarmingly.
"No." I said and shook my head a little. "Though I must say you lend an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium." I smiled slyly at him. I heard a choking sound that sound suspiciously like Jack but I refused to look at him. He could feel what I did when he kissed…but he didn't really kiss Elizabeth did he? All right, I'm officially confused now.
"She thinks we're a hallucination." William said. I looked to him, skirting over the eager looking Jack.
"Ah, William, It's so good to see you!" I said and it was, because I felt his pain of being away from Elizabeth. I may dislike her now but that didn't mean I hated William. "It's wonderful to see you mate, but tell me something. Have you come because you need my help to rescue a certain distressing damsel? Or rather a damsel in distress? Either one." William hesitantly shook his head. "Oh, then you wouldn't be here! SO you can't be here! Q.E.D. you're not really here." I said and turned around to go back to the Pearl.
"Love, We are here." Jack said and I stopped, but refused to look at him. "This is real." He muttered. I glanced back; briefly catching Jack's lovely, captivating eyes. I winced and half ran to Gibbs.
"The locker, you say?" I asked him quietly.
"Aye." He said. I flinched and moved back so I could stare out at the beach. I scratched the back of my head in thought. I wonder what would be worse. The locker, or having to look at Jack's face and see him kissing Elizabeth? I guess we're going to see, aren't we?
"We've come to rescue you!" ELizbeth's voice suddenly came out. I swivelled around and glared at her. She'd moved forward, to hopefully convince me. Instead I sneered darkly at her.
"O' re'ly." I said, in a burr not unlike the Mad Hatter's. "'ave you, now? That's very k'nd 'f ye. But see'ing as I poss'ss a ship and ye don't, it s'ems you're the ones in 'eed of rescu'ing and I'm not sure as I'm in 'he mood." I said. (A/N: If you didn't get that I'm sorry. It's Have you, now? That's very kind of you. But seeing as I possess a ship and you don't, it seems as though you're the ones in need of rescuing and I'm not sure as I'm in the mood. There!)
"I see my ship," Barbossa suddenly said. It made me realize that I'd said I owned the Pearl. "Right there." He pointed to the Pearl. I glanced at it before slyly smiling. I opened my mouth to answer but Jack did it for me.
"Oi! My ship!" He called. Barbossa glanced at him. I rolled my eyes.
"Cass." William said over the two Captain's bickering. "Cutler Beckett has the heart of Davy Jones. He controls the Flying Dutchman." William said desperately.
"He's taking over the seas." Jack said, hopefully, trying to get my attention. I let my eyes roll but I didn't look at him.
"The Brethren Court has been called." Tia said knowingly. I smiled harmlessly at her.
"Good Golly Miss Dolly!" I said, sarcastically, like it was the most horrible thing. "Leave you people alone for but a moment and look what's happened, everything's been screwed!" I said injecting some 21st Century humour. They didn't get most of it but they seemed to get the jest of it.
"Aye, love. The world needs you back something fierce." Jack said. I smiled charmingly though I still didn't look at him.
"And you need a crew." William said. I walked to him and threw an arm around him.
"Tell me, dear William. Why should I sail with any of these miscreants? Most of you have tried to kill me in the past, and one of you succeeded." I said. Everyone looked shocked and during the one glance I spared him, Jack looked furious. Though when I looked back to William he was staring at Elizabeth. I turned to her as well she looked at me, guiltily. Her shoulders slumped and she tried to cave in on herself when Jack, who'd been standing beside her (At a distance, I admit.), jerked away from her.
"Oh, she's not told you?" I asked, them as I smirked. "Then you'll all have loads to talk about while you're here." I said and I hummed. I turned and began to walk away, humming a tune. It was a lovely tune.
"There might be a little dust on the bottle!
But don't let it fool you about what's inside!" I sang happily but then I past Calypso. She gave me a puppy dog face.
"You wouldn't leave me here would you, Momma?" She pouted, barely moving her twitching lip. I grinned and ruffled her head.
"All right, fair enough, you're in." I said. I turned to the next in the line of hopefuls. There stood Ragetti and Pintel. I pursed my lips. Well they did save me at one point, and they were fun.
"I guess I need you, you saved me." I said and they grinned at each other, like they were actually happy. I saw Gibbs next, and he looked like his puppy was going to be ninja kicked by a kitten if I didn't say yes. "Gibbs, you can come." I turned through the next. "Marty, Cotton. Cotton's parrot, I'm a little iffy, but at least I'll have someone to talk to…" I turned and there was Jack. He caught my eyes but I made myself skip over him as if I hadn't seen him. But instead my eyes landed on Tai Hung and his men.
"Who the bloody beJesus are you?" I asked and tilted my head curiously.
"I am Tia Hung." He stated factually. I already knew who he was of course but it's nice to act as if I didn't know who he was. "These are me men." He gestured to the Chinese people. "We've heard legends about you my Lady." He said tensely. I let my fingers flutter in the air then I grinned.
"And, where do these legends, leave your allegiances lying?" I asked. They were confused for a minute before Tia Hung smirked and answered.
"With the highest bidder." He said. I grinned at him and tilted my head at the ship.
"I've got a ship, at the moment." I said, thinking that as much as I wanted to get back at him I wasn't going to keep Jack's ship. I don't care what he does, I don't think I'd ever have the courage to take his ship from him. I mean look at what happened to Barbossa!
"That makes you the highest bidder." Tia Hung answered.
"Good man, er, men." I said glancing at the gross looking men behind him. I turned from him and saw Barbossa. He held the charts and I raised one eyebrow like asking him 'really.' He saw that using the charts weren't going to work. Instead he reached out and touched my unmarked cheek with his hand.
"I've got some mighty useful charts, here Cass." He said and smirked. I chuckled.
"Aye, I'm just messing around. I wouldn't forsake any one to the lands of Davy Jones' locker. It's awfully maddening here." I said and I turned to the water. I stepped into the water to pop back to the Pearl but then I realized they couldn't get back to the Pearl without a boat. I gestured between the Pearl and the water before me.
"Portami una barca dalla Perla!" I called calmly. A boat materialized bit by bit right in front of me. I turned back to the others once it was there to see varying looks of shock. I grinned cockily at them. It felt nice to still be able to get a reaction out of somebody with my power. I stepped into the boat and sat at the very front. I gestured for them all to get in and they one by one did. The little boat kept expanding every time someone else got into it so that there would be room for others to get in. Soon we were off. I didn't say much, but I just grinned out at the rest of them. I wonder why when they met my eyes they all looked away….huh maybe it's the eyes.
Sorry it's taken so long guys. I just got a new computer and this keyboard is horrible. I hope you guys like this chapter. My other excuse for not having this up is because I've been obsessed with writing the Destiny in Wonderland story. I think I've done pretty good with it but I hope you guys approve. I'm going to post a trial chapter after this is uploaded so please go see it and tell me if I should continue or not!