Chapter 4
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That Night...
Night had fallen and Jack was now thoroughly intoxicated. He was a complete goofball more than usual. Elizabeth sat back and watched him and Sunset chatter away. Every now and then Jack would drunkenly steal a kiss from her, and Elizabeth was growing rather envious of Sunset.
"I feel like dancing! Who wants to dance with me?" Jack said as he jumped up and, with Rum bottle in hand, he began dancing around to whatever music was in his head. "Come my love," he said as he drunkenly emphasized the word MY. "Dance with me," he said as he took her hand in his. "dance with me. In the light of the firelight we shall dance, my beautiful Sunny Sunshine."
Sunset was on her way to being just as drunkenly delusional as Jack as she giggled and held on to his hand as he helped her up. She smiled as Jack led her around the bonfire. Jack was loudly humming a song until that song soon began to have words. "Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!" he sang. "Oh! I love this song!" Sunset said as she was now feeling the delusional drunk in her as she ran around the bonfire with Jack, skipping and jumping.
Elizabeth just watched the two. Happily dancing and singing like they had no care in the world, which they probably didn't. She already knew they didn't care about Will or herself.
"My beautiful Sunshine, you have an amazing voice!" Jack drunkenly complimented. The two only cared about each other. Elizabeth watched as Jack fell onto Sunset, pinning her to the ground. "When we get the Pearl back we will teach it to the crew and sing it all the time!" He said as he sat up. "Ahh, yes," she breathed. "I can see it now... You know, when we get the Pearl back, we'll be the most fearsome pirate captains in the entire seven seas." Sunset said as she rested between Jack's legs again, her head on his chest as she drank from her rum bottle. "Not just the Seven Seas, love...the entire world." Jack said as he looked out at the black waters. "The entire world will know our name."
"Captain Sunset Fauna and Captain Jack Sparrow. The Pirate Couple of the World. Fear one, fear all." Sunset said dreamily as she rested against Jack. Sunset took a final swig of her rum just as Jack completely passed out. Sunset smiled as she looked at Jack and giggled a little before she looked over at Elizabeth, who was staring at them with a look on her face Sunset couldn't recognize at the moment. "What?" she asked as she took another drink from an untouched bottle that was off to the side.
"How can you two simply have no cares in the world?" Elizabeth asked Sunset. "Become a pirate, you'll figure it out." she said. "And because I care deeply for Jack, and when you care that deeply for someone, all you care about is being with them." Sunset said softly. "If you love Will as much as you say you do, you would know the feeling." Sunset said as she stood up with her new rum bottle. Elizabeth watched as Sunset went to the water's edge and Jack soon began to wake up. Sunset sat right in the shore were small waves were coming in and out as she looked up at the starry sky and the moon, not realizing that Jack had woken up.
Jack opened his eyes and saw that his Sunset was gone. Only to find Elizabeth there instead. "Where's my Sunny dearest?" he mumbled as he sat up. Elizabeth looked at Sunset and then back to Jack. Sunset was still in the water, apparently Jack hadn't spoken loud enough for Sunset to hear, while Jack was drinking from his still half-full rum bottle.
"She...went for a walk." Elizabeth said. Jack looked at Elizabeth before she shrugged. "She'll come back." he muttered to himself, almost reassuring himself that Sunset would come back. Elizabeth scooted closer. "It must have been terrible for you, Jack. Stranded on this island all by yourself." she said. Jack began to feel uneasy. "Yeah...but with Sunset here the scenery and the company is much more bearable." Jack said, looking at the fire. Oh bugger, oh bugger, oh bugger. He thought. Sunset comes back and finds her like this, she'll tear her to shreds and I'll have to break her out of jail this time., he thought again.
"What's the Pearl like, Jack?" Elizabeth asked.
Just before he could answer though, Sunset was heard getting out of the water as she looked at the scene with a furious glare in her eyes that was directed directly at Elizabeth. "Off." she said, her tone was stinging. Elizabeth looked at her and moved slightly away from Jack, who then got up and moved to the other side of the bonfire.
Sunset sat down right in front of Elizabeth and got close to her as she whispered. "Don't. Touch. Him." she said, and those three words were all it took to make Elizabeth's blood run cold with fear as Sunset got up and snatched the rum bottle she dropped before she made her way over to Jack and laid next to him.
She possessivly wrapped her arms around Jack and pulled him against her. Jack didn't complain as he now found himself lying in her lap. Sunset ran her hand through Jack's hair gently as she sent a glare at Elizabeth every few minutes before she drank the rest of her rum and she fell backwards, unconscious for the night.
Next Morning...
Jack's nose twitched as the smell of something burning reached him. The explosion made him jump up and Sunset woke up as she looked around before she found Jack running to Elizabeth yelling. "NO!"
"No! No! Not good! Not good! What are you doing? You've burnt all the food! The shade! THE RUM!" He shouted at her. "Yes! The rum is gone!" Elizabeth yelled as she sat down in the sand and Sunset looked at her like she was insane as she and Jack yelled. "WHY'S THE RUM GONE!"
"One! It is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels! and two!" She shouted. "That signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire royal navy is out looking for me, you don't think they would see it?"
Sunset got in front of Jack as she shook Elizabeth by the shoulders. "But why's the rum gone!" she yelled before letting her go.
"Just you two wait." she said as she plopped down in the sand. "Just keep a weather eye open and you will see white sails on the horizon." Elizabeth said and Jack pulled out his gun, glaring at the woman. "Jack, one shot only remember!" Sunset whispered to him. He quickly put it away. "Do something." he whispered back to her before stomping off.
Sunset just glared at Elizabeth before she ran off after Jack. "JACK! IF I WERE TO DO SOMETHING SHE WOULDN'T LEAVE THIS ISLAND ALIVE AND I'D BE LANDING RIGHT BACK IN JAIL!" Sunset yelled as she ran after Jack.
"Must have been terrible for you, Jack, must have been terrible-WELL IT BLOODY IS NOW!" he shouted back at Elizabeth. Sunset caught up to him before she sighed dramatically and fell in the sand on purpose before she looked up and groaned when she saw those white sails. "I hate her." she said. Jack pulled her up and held her close to him as they both watched men in a rowboat getting closer. "I'm not getting on that damn ship." Sunset said stubbornly. "I don't think we will have a choice, love." Jack said.
About an Hour Later...
Jack and Sunset and Elizabeth were all on the ship. "Why couldn't they just leave us there?" she mumbled to Jack. "I have a date with the gallows, remember?" he mumbled darkly. Sunset nodded. "Right. Forgot. Another reason why it would be good for us to stay deserted on that island..." she trailed off before she heard Elizabeth arguing with her father. "To rescue me, to prevent anything from happening to me." she said and Sunset looked at her as she spoke up. "It's always about you, isn't it, Swann? To rescue me, to keep me safe, me, me, me, me, me, me, me." Sunset said sarcastically.
Elizabeth just glared at her before turning back to her father. Sunset smirked when she turned back to Jack, who merely smiled at her.
Soon, Norrington had turned his attention to them. "Mr. Sparrow, Miss Fauna, you two will go to the helm with these fine gentlemen and give us a heading to the Isla de Muerta. And once that is complete, you both will be contemplating on the term 'silent as the grave'. Do I make myself clear?" he asked. "Inescapably." Jack said. As he and Sunset were being walked off by the two guards, Sunset muttered, hoping Norrington would hear her. "Ass." Jack held her hand before he walked up to the helm with Sunset by his side.
Night fell and Sunset found herself standing alone on the deck. Jack had wandered off about an hour ago and she didn't know where he was. He better not have jumped off the ship without me., she thought.
She jumped slightly when she felt a hand caress her shoulder. She turned around and smiled. "Where did you go?" she asked Jack. "Had a small word with Miss Swann." Jack answered and Sunset rolled her eyes a little. "About what?" she asked. "That you need not worry about." he said as he kissed her. "What's our next move, Jack? I don't want to see you in the gallows, we have to do something." she said after they pulled away. "Shhhh," he said softly. "later."
She sighed as she turned around and pulled Jack's arms to wrap around her waist as she leaned her head back on his shoulder.
They now sat in the rowboat with Norrington and the other soldiers. They had finally led him towards the Isla de Muerta and finally Norrington spoke up. "I don't care for the situation. I will not have this turn into an ambush." he said and Jack and Sunset both sat up, Sunset putting her elbow on Norrington's shoulder and Jack doing the same. "Not if you're the one doing the ambushing. We go in and I convince Barbossa to send out his men in their little boats. Then you and your mates go back to the Dauntless and blast the bejesus out of them with your little cannons, eh?" Jack said and Sunset smirked. "What do you have to lose?"
Norrington rolled his eyes as he removed both Jack and Sunset from him. "Nothing I'd regret being rid of."
"Now, to be quite honest with you, there is a danger to some of the crew." Jack started and Sunset smirked as she finished. "Including the future Mrs. Commodore." she said before she and Jack were on their way to the caves.
Once they were in the caves, after getting out of their rowboat, they started making their way through the crowd of pirates, right as the pirates were in the middle of the ceremony, Jack sauntered in, pulling Sunset along with him.
"It's not possible." Barbossa said. They were all in shock at the two. "Not probable, actually." Jack said. "Where's Elizabeth?" Will asked. "She's safe." Sunset said, resisting another roll of her eyes. "She's safe just like I promised, she's all set to marry Norrington like she promised, and you're ready to die for her just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really." Jack said and then Sunset spoke up. "Except for Elizabeth who is, of course, a woman, like me, kind of." she muttered the last part. "What is it you want?" Barbossa asked. "You don't want to be doing that, mate." Jack said as Barbossa had his knife to Will's neck. "No, I really think I do." Barbossa said and Jack shrugged. "Your funeral." he said. "Hold it." he said as he walked down slightly. "Why should I not be doing this?"
"Well because," Jack tried to walk off but the dark-skinned muscle for the pirates was gripping on to his and Sunset's shoulders, so Jack smacked his hand away and he instantly let go. "That works?" Sunset asked as she smacked away the man's hand and smiled as she followed Jack a little bit away from the man as Jack continued. "Because the H.M.S. Dauntless, pride of the Royal Navy, is floating just off shore, waiting for you." Jack walked up to Barbossa. "the moment you step outside they will attack... Just hear me out, mate," Jack said. "You have your men row out to the Dauntless and they do what they do best." he said as the pirates laughed and Jack continued. "Robert's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt, and you are with two ships to start off your fleet. You take the mightiest one as your flagship, then you give me the Pearl, name me Captain, I'll give you ten percent of me plunder and you can introduce yourself as... Commodore Barbossa, savvy?" he asked and Barbossa spoke up. "So, I suppose in exchange you want me not to kill the whelp?" he said, looking over at Will and Jack shook his head. "No, no, by all means kill the whelp. Just...not yet." he looked over at Will. "Wait for the opportune moment." he said, putting emphasis on the last two words, which Will looked up at Jack.
"Just wait until after you've killed Norrington's men," Jack said as he picked up a few coins from the chest. "Every." he dropped one coin. "Last." another coin dropped. "One." one more coin dropped. "I'll buy you a hat." he said as Barbossa pondered. "a really big one... Commadore." Barbossa's smirk grew. "Gents...take a walk." the pirates laughed as they walked out. "Not to the boats?" Jack and Sunset asked and Barbossa only smiled at the two.
The cave had become quiet as the few remaining lounged about.
Sunset was off looking through the piles of golden treasure that was around the caves, picking up a few things here and there before throwing them back down. Jack was rummaging through when something caught his eye. He picked up the piece of jewlery and eyed it before looking at Sunset, who was looking through a pile of strange statues and other knicknacks.
Jack watched her and smiled. He held the glittering item in his hand before slipping it onto his own finger for the moment. He noticed that she didn't have any rings on her fingers like pirates usually would. Sunset found a golden-handled sword as she looked around and put it in her empty sheath.
Jack then walked up to her with another item in his hand. She gasped slightly as she felt cold metal around her neck. "Geeze, Jack." she said as she looked back at him before she looked down and smiled in surprise at the necklace that was now around her. It was a beautiful cameo that lay on a simple chain. The necklace itself nestled perfectly in her clevage line. She turned around and faced him with a smile. He smiled at her.
"Jack..." she trailed off, running a hand through his hair before she wrapped her arm around his neck. "Sun..." he said softly. "I must admit Jack, I thought I had you figured, but I guess you're a hard man to predict," Barbossa said, eyeing the two. Sunset looked over at Barbossa with an annoyed expression. "And never did I expect to see you permanantely with one woman." he said as well, but Sunset surprisingly took it as a compliment.
"Me, I'm dishonest, to a point, and you can always count on me to be dishonest, like I said to a point, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for," he said as he and Sunset walked around the semi-dark cave as Jack made his way to one pirate and Sun made her way to another. "You never know when they're going to do something incredibly stupid." he said before stealing the pirate's sword and kicking him into the water below as he started to fight with Barbossa and Sunset and Will teamed up against the dark-skinned pirate.
"Keep up!" she shouted to Will as she fought off another pirate who came. She stuck her knife through the pirate's heart, but it did nothing and then she remembered the curse that made them immortal as she cursed silently as she kept fighting off the pirate, while Will did the same. Elizabeth soon joined the fight. Jack and Barbossa's fighting caught Sunset's attention when Jack ran Barbossa through, he then sighed and pulled out the sword and stabbed Jack through the chest. "JACK!" Sunset screamed before another pirate came at her and she quickly dodged him as he went facefirst into the water and Sunset ran to join Jack, but she stopped when Jack stumbled back and the instant he hit the moonlight...he became a skeleton.
She couldn't help but let out a smile and a breath of relief before she heard an explosion and she looked over to see Will and Elizabeth, who had just used a dynamite to blow up the three remaining pirates. When she turned back to Jack and Barbossa, she moved out of the way as they continued their fight and Jack soon had Barbossa down against the stone near the chest of aztec gold. "So what now, Jack Sparrow? We be two immortals fighting it out until Judgment Day cometh?" Barbossa asked and Jack shrugged. "Or you could surrender." he said before the battle commenced, and while in the heat of battle Jack slit his hand covering the medallion in his blood before tossing it to Will.
Once Will had coated his own blood on to the coin, Jack shot Barbossa straight in the chest, bringing Sunset and Elizabeth, who were making their way towards the battle, stop in their tracks as they looked on as Barbossa let out his final words. "I feel...cold." he said before dropping to the floor, his apple falling out of his grasp.
Sunset ran into Jack's arms. It was over.
Elizabeth looked on at Jack and Sunset tightly embracing before she turned away, without a look to Will.
Sunset pulled away and kissed Jack softly. "Shall we have a look at our plunder?" she asked with a smirk. "Indeed." he said, allowing her to pull him along. Sunset smiled as she looked at a pile of treasures that she hadn't seen yet, finding jewels and jewelery of all sorts.
If Jack could, he would dote upon her all this treasure and more. Sunset just smiled at him before she laughed a little and picked up a few golden chains and a few more golden-handled and silver-handled swords. "Never know when you'll need an extra." she said more to herself as she kept looking around. "Indeed, love." he said as he wrapped an arm around her. Sunset smiled as she cuddled into Jack's arms. He showered her with kisses and jewels, never had he wanted or needed anyone as much as she.
Sunset smiled up at Jack, finally feeling for the first time as if she really belonged somewhere. That somewhere was with him and the Black Pearl. She laughed when she found a certain piece of jewelery before she looked at Jack and held up a crown. "King Sparrow?" she asked with a laugh. "I like the sound of that." he said with a smirk. "My lady." She smiled as she placed the crown on his head. "Perfect fit."
Jack wrapped his arm around her and walked over to where Will now stood...alone. "If you were looking for the opportune moment..." Jack started and Sunset finished. "That was it."
"Now, if you would be so kind as to drop me off at my ship." Jack said and Sunset looked at him and her empty golden goblet that was almost similar to Jack's. "Jack, I need rum in this." she said as they walked past Will and made their way to the exit of the caves.
Jack, Sunset, Elizabeth, and Will got into the rowboat and...the Pearl was gone.
"Where's the Pearl?" Jack and Sunset said together. Jack then came to the realization. "I'm sorry, Jack." Elizabeth said in a truly sincere voice. Sunset turned to her. "What did you do?"
"They did what was right by them." Only then did Sunset know what she meant. Sunset just looked at Elizabeth for a minute, trying to find words to prove her wrong, but she turned when she couldn't think of anything as she turned to Jack.
They arrived at the Dauntless and Jack was immediately thrown into the brig. Sunset was spared because they didn't know she was a pirate, but she was allowed by Norrington to visit with Jack in the brig until they arrived. She went down into the darkest part of the ship until she found Jack as she looked at him and held on to the bars of the cell he was in. "Jack...I need to get you out of here, you didn't-"
"Shhhh, it's alright, love," he said softly as he cupped her face through the bars. "it will be alright." She had tears streaming down her face. "How will it be alright, Jack? You'll be dead. What am I supposed to do?" she asked. "Don't you cry, love. Ol' Jack will think of something." he carefully and tenderly caressed her cheeks with his thumbs, wiping away the tears in the process. "I'll be thinking too." she said. She had never shown anyone tears before, but when it came to Jack... everything was open to him. "I'll find our crew."
"I know you will...my love." He said the last part so softly, almost in a dream like whisper. "I-" she started to say until Norrington came down and said that they had arrived. Sunset took one last look at Jack before she, reluctantly, left him. The bars weren't wide enough to where they could even share a final kiss. So Sunset was dropped off on Port Royal as she watched Jack be put back into the prison before she stormed off to find the Black Pearl.
Later That Day...
She found them, in Tortuga.
She walked straight into the tavern where they all were as she pulled up Anna Maria. "Get the crew, we're getting the Pearl's rightful Captain back." she said. "Aye!" she shouted and soon they were on their way back to Port Royal.
Once back in Port Royal, Sunset had found Will before the hanging and the two devised a plan to get back Jack. "Ok, I'll go too." Sunset said, but Will held her back. "Sun, I think it would be best if one of us goes. And I think it should be me, it would be much safer that way." Will said and Sunset argued. "No, Will, I want to get Jack back myself-"
"They will recognize you!" he shouted and sighed heavily. "Wait...not if you go in disguise."
"Exactly...does your girl have any dresses to borrow? Don't worry I won't get them too dirty...maybe." she said and Will nodded. "We have to make you look like...a lady."
"That sounds so unappealing... but I'll do it. Now, remember, once I run off, that's when you run in. Remember that." she said. "I will. Sun..." he looked at her. "I'm sorry."
"You were honest and stupid, Will. Just don't do it again and I won't force my gun at your head or my sword at your throat." she said in her true pirate fashion. He nodded and hugged her. She hugged him and the two were off...
At the Hanging Ceremony...
Sunset glared at everything as she was disguised as a lady...and it was painful as she tried getting out of her corset she had been forced, literally, into. As she stood with everyone else when Jack was brought out of the jail and up to the hanging platform. Sunset looked at him and lifted her hat a good degree, so he could see her face. She couldn't stand to see him like this. As the executioner read off his crimes, Jack's eyes locked with hers. His eyes were wide with shock and happiness. She smirked and gave him a seductive wink before she turned and walked off through the crowd and away from the ceremony as she nodded to Will on her way out as she made her way back to the Pearl.
She broke out into a quickened pace she reached the long boat where Gibbs was awaiting her. "Go Gibbs." She said as she got into the boat.
Gibbs started getting the ship ready once they were back on board before it finally took off a few minutes later and she could hear Will's plan going into action as she smiled. "Anna Maria, help me." she said as she went to the cabin. "I have to get this disgusting stuff off of me." she said, motioning to her dress. Anna Maria stopped her. "Let Jack see you." she said. "Once he gets here let him help you out of it." She said with a wink.
"Oh, very good, mate." she said as she and the rest of the crew waited behind a stone wall until Sunset smiled when she heard Jack's famous words 'This is the day you will always remember as-' but his words were cut short and Sunset rolled her eyes and smiled when she heard Jack hit the water with a splash.
"Steer." she ordered as the Pearl came into Jack's view. "JACK!" Sunset yelled for him once he was above water. He looked over and saw the ship...and his Sunset. He smiled and began swimming towards them both. The two most important things he knew.
Sunset smiled and as the crew got Jack back on board, Sunset grabbed his coat with his weapons and his pirate hat. She looked over when she heard Jack. "I thought you were supposed to keep to the code." he said and Sunset stepped through the crew. "I wouldn't let them." she said as she got behind Jack and slipped his coat on him and then got in front of him as she looked into his eyes when she put his pirate hat on his head for him. "Captain Sparrow, the Black Pearl is yours once again." she said sincerely.
He walked over and lovingly stroked the helm, but when he realized all eyes were on him he cleared his throat. "All hands on deck you scaberous dogs!" They ran about to find their posts as Jack pulled Sunset against him. "Now...bring me that horizon."
Sunset smiled as she laid her head against Jack as she started humming their favorite song. "And really bad eggs." he said as he looked at his compass. Then his smirk appeared. "Drink up me hearties yo ho." Sunset smiled as Jack closed his compass and the two were off to more smooth sailing.
"You look beautiful in the dress, love." he said finally after a few moments of comfortable silence as they sailed towards the horizon...