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Jack had kept the lass close at his side for most of the voyage back, tugging her along by her hand if he had to chase after Barbossa to shout orders.

"Trim that sail!" Barbossa was shouting. Jack repeated all of his orders until Barbossa got agitated enough to spin around and glare at him, "What are ya doin'?"
"No, what are you doing?" Jack asked.
"No, what are ya doin'?"
"No, what are you doing?"
"No what are ya doin'?"
"What are you doing? Captain gives orders on the ship!" Jack finally said something else other than the repeated phrase that was giving Kate a headache.

"The captain of this ship is giving orders," Barbossa glared down at him. His eyes flickered to where Jack was holding the young girl's hand before looking back at him.

"My ship, makes me Captain," Jack smirked.
"They be my charts."
"That makes you…chart man!"

"Stow it!" Pintel cried, "The both of you! That's an order, understand?" The two Captains glared at him until he looked down sheepishly, "Sorry, I just thought with the Captain issue being in doubt, I'd throw my name in for consideration. Sorry."

Jack dropped Kate's hand to run off after Barbossa again and she sat up on a crate in between Pintel and Ragetti. "I'd vote for ya," Ragetti spoke up.

"Me too," Kate smiled, patting him on the back.

Pintel looked up, "Yeah?"

"We're goin' fish," Ragetti, told her, "If ya want to join us."

Pintel nodded quickly, "We can see if we can find ya an extra pole, poppet."

She grinned; she hadn't fished since she'd seen Anamaria. As she opened her mouth to say yes, Jack's voice called her name from the upper deck. She sighed, "I guess I can't."

"I'm sure he missed you," Ragetti told her. "I know I'd be missin' you, if I were him."

Kate smiled at him and made her way up to Jack, "Yes, Captain?"

"I need to see you in my quarters almost immediately, Miss Swann," he spoke very seriously. "There has been a serious lack of discipline on my vessel."

"Oh and you're to see to it yourself that this discipline is reinstalled?" she raised an eyebrow as she smirked.

He grinned, "Oh, something like that…" He led her into the cabin and shut the door. Almost immediately she embraced him in a hug. He was confused for a moment, but he hugged her back.

"I'm so sorry, Jack," she whispered. "I had thought that you and Elizabeth…" she trailed off for a moment before continuing, "I was just so mad at the two of you. And I've hated both of you since it happened. I thought you wanted her instead of me. And to find out that she did it to kill you makes it all so much worse, Jack."

"Love," he pulled away from her enough that he could look at her in the eye, "At one point in time I would have loved to kiss your sister, that I will not lie about," Kate nodded as he continued, "But after everything I've been through with ye, I wouldn't and I dare not dream of other women."

She smiled and he wiped away the few tears she had let fall before hugging her back to him, "I love you, Jack," she whispered into his chest.

He stiffened for a moment before she felt him relax and he smiled a bit, "I love you too, Kate."

"Now," she stepped away from him, slipping off her coat, "I believe you had
been talking about a lack of discipline upon this vessel, Captain."

He glanced up to see her undoing her shirt. He grinned, taking off his own

Coat, "Oh yes," he nodded, removing his effects. The lass was already only in her pants as she made her way backwards to the bed. "Terrible lack of discipline indeed.

Look, we've got bloody wenches on board running around half naked."

"That's truly awful, Cap'n," she grinned, laying back on the bed once she was completely undressed. He was grinning still as he made his way on top of her, "I know, love, it's horrible," he chuckled, leaning down to kiss her.

She kissed him back eagerly, excited to be with him once again.

About an hour or so later, they finally pulled themselves from bed, got dressed, and left the cabin. Kate kissed him before leaving to go sit with Tia Dalma and Barbossa looked over at Jack slyly, "How do you always get all of these women, Sparrow?"

"With me good looks, I suppose," Jack grinned.

"I was going to say, she can't be datin' ya for your brain." Jack scowled at this comment before he noticed the commotion on the side of the ship. Will, Tia Dalma, Kate, Pintel and Ragetti were all glancing over the edge, talking in hushed voices.

"Now there's boats coming," Ragetti pointed out to where small boats, lit by a single lantern were floating towards them. Gibbs began to load a gun as he walked over and Will stopped him, "They're not a threat to us," he glanced to Tia Dalma, "Am I right?"

"We are nothing but ghosts to them," Tia nodded.

"Is best just let them be," Barbossa agreed.

Elizabeth had made her way over and she grinned broadly, having missed the rest of the conversation, "It's my father, we've made it back. Father here, look here!" she was crying out to him. Kate followed her sister's glance and nearly threw up.

"Elizabeth," Jack frowned, "We're not back." He glanced around for Kate and when he found her his frown grew at the look on her face.

"Father!" Elizabeth cried.

"Father!" Kate tried now, moving to her sister's side, "Father, please!"

The former governor looked up at his two daughters, smiling sadly, "Elizabeth, Katherine…are you dead?"

"No," the two sobbed out.

"I think I am," he looked away.

"No, you can't be!" Elizabeth cried out.

"There was this chest you see, and a heart. At the time it seemed so important."

"Father please," Kate, begged, leaning over the railing, "Come aboard!"

"I learned that if you stab the heart," he continued, "Yours must take its place. Sail the seas for eternity. The Dutchman must always have a captain. Silly thing to die for."

"Someone cast a line!" Elizabeth cried out. Marty gave her one and she and Kate threw it to their father, "Father please!"

"Take the line!" Kate cried out, "Come back with us!"

"Girls, I am so proud of you," he spoke more softly. Kate let out a sob, already feeling the tears on her face. Elizabeth was crying as well. "Father take the line!" she cried, running towards the stern of the ship. Kate was right along side her, screaming as well.

"They must not leave the ship!" Tia cried out.

Will grabbed Elizabeth and Jack made a move for Kate, but she stuck half of her body over the side of the ship, screaming, "Father, come back with us! We will not leave you!"

"Kate," Jack grabbed her.

"I'll give your love to your mother, shall I?" their father stared straight ahead as he continued on. Kate was sobbing into Jack's chest as Elizabeth did the same to Will. Will looked up at Tia, "Is there a way?"

Tia Dalma shook her head sadly, "Him at peace."

Kate freed herself from Jack's grip and made her way over to Will and Elizabeth. She touched Will's arm and he looked up at her, concerned. He knew that Kate wanted to murder Elizabeth and he knew that now wasn't the best time for her to start anything with her sister. However, as he looked into her eyes he saw that they were only filled with sadness and compassion. He nodded and let go of Elizabeth. Kate then touched her arm, turning her sister towards her, before wrapping her arms around her tightly.

The two cried quietly on one another, falling to their knees and then leaning on the side of the ship. Jack frowned as the two held one another, turning to William, "They can sleep in my cabin tonight," he told the boy, "I'll stay somewhere else."

Will nodded and the two of them helped the girls into Jack's cabin, helping them lay down on the bed before leaving them. The two sisters cuddled into one another, crying. As their crying slowed down, so did their breathing and eventually, they fell asleep.

"Why is all but the rum gone?" Pintel asked as he tried to drink some water out of his canteen.

Gibbs, sitting back to back with the other pirate, sighed. "Rum's gone, too."

"If we cannot escape these doldrums by nightfall," Tia spoke up from nearby, "I fear we will sail trackless seas, doomed to roam the reach between worlds… forever."

"With no water," Gibbs replied, "Forever seems to be arriving a mite too soon."

Will sighed, looking at Barbossa, "Why doesn't he do something?"

At this time, Jack the monkey had somehow gotten a hold of Ragetti's eye once again and he was chasing him, trying to get it back.

"There's no sense to it," Gibbs groaned. He looked up as Kate made her way out of the cabin, finally waking up. Her eyes were red and her face looked tearstained still, but he didn't want to approach her just yet. He didn't know how the lass would cope with the loss of her father.

"And the green flash happens at sunset," Will glanced to see Kate sitting on the steps, "Not sunrise."

"Over the edge," Gibbs snorted, "It's drivin' me over the bloomin' edge. Sunrises don't set."

Kate had eventually found her way over to Gibbs and Will in time to see Jack run over to the edge of the ship, "Oh! What's that?" He glanced at his shoulder, "I don't know what is that? What do you think?"

Kate frowned, turning to Gibbs, "He's talking to thin air, that's a new one." He chuckled as Elizabeth made her way over, curious.

"Where?"

"There!" Jack cried out.

"What is it?" she asked.

Jack began to run back and forth from side to side of the Pearl. The crew followed him, curious as to what he was doing. "He's rockin' the ship!" Pintel cried out.

"We're rockin' the ship!" Gibbs laughed, repeating it. Barbossa had paused to look at the charts and he noticed that the ship was upside down on it. "Aye," he grinned, "He's onto it!"

Barbossa then went downstairs to yell at the crew to loosen the cannons and unstow the cargo, using an axe to cut some of the ropes himself.

Kate grabbed a hold of the railing in one hand and Jack's hand in the other. He smiled at her as the ship began to turn upside down, "Now up," he frowned for a moment, "Is down."

The boat went upside down completely in the water and they all waited, holding onto the ship. Just as Kate's lungs began to burn, the sun set and the green flash burned her eyes. The boat popped back up into the living world. Kate took a deep breath as she noticed Pintel and Ragetti tied upside down to the mast. She snorted, hearing Pintel yell at the skinny pirate that it had been his idea.

"Blessed sweet westerlies," Gibbs cried, "We're back." Kate laughed again, loving Gibbs' phrases.

"It's the sunrise," Elizabeth smiled.

At that moment, Jack, Will, Elizabeth, and Barbossa all pulled guns on one another. Jack the monkey pulled a gun on Cotton's parrot that cried out a parley.

Gibbs stood outside of the little circle holding up a gun in each hand as well, between Will and Barbossa who were threatening Jack. Kate stood outside the circle as well, pointing one gun at her sister and the other at Barbossa.

They all began to laugh and they put their pistols down before Barbossa growled, "All right then," and they all put them back up again.

"The Brethren Court's a gatherin' at Shipwreck Cove. And Jack, you and I are a-goin' and there'll be no arguin' that point."

"I is arguin' the point. If there's pirates a-gatherin', I'm pointing my ship the other way."

Elizabeth turned both guns on Jack, causing Gibbs to put a pistol on her and Kate to point both of her's on her sister. Jack also pointed both guns at her.

"The pirates are gathering to fight Beckett and you're a pirate," Elizabeth pleaded.

"Fight or not, you're not running Jack," Will agreed.

"If we don't stand together, they'll hunt us down one by one, till there be none left, but you," Barbossa told him.

"I quite like the sound of that. Captain Jack Sparrow, the last pirate. Sailin' the seas with 'is bonny lass," he gave Kate a quick wink.

"Aye, and you'll be fightin' Jones alone. How does that figure into your plan?" Barbossa grinned.

"I'm still working on that, but I'll not be going back to the locker, mate, count on that," he fired his pistol at Barbossa, but it just clicks.

Elizabeth fires at Jack and has the same thing happen, so Kate tries to fire at her sister. She may have comforted her last night, but Elizabeth had still tried to kill Jack twice now, succeeding once. Elizabeth gasped when she realized Kate had tried to shoot her and Kate shrugged.

"Wet powder," Gibbs frowned.

"Wait! We can still use them as clubs!" Pintel cried out as they all walked away.

"There's a freshwater spring on this island. We can resupply there, and get back to shooting each other later," Will suggested, pointing at the chart.

"You can lead the shore party, and I'll stay with the ship," Jack told Hector.

Barbossa frowned, "I'll not be leaving my ship in your command."

"Why don't you both go ashore and leave the ship in my command," Will suggested. When they glanced at him, he grinned, "Temporarily."

"I don't like that idea," Kate locked eyes with Will. She saw something in there she'd never seen before. "Maybe all three of you should go and I'll watch the bloody ship. You know I'm not going to leave with it if Jack's out there with you."

"I rather like that idea," Jack grinned, "Kate'll watch the ship, let's go, Hector."

"I'm still staying," Will spoke up, "She can watch me, watch the ship."

Jack waved it off, getting off of the boat and into a long boat with Pintel, Ragetti, Barbossa, Cotton, and Marty.

"You are a foul, loathsome, despicable, evil little mutinous cockroach, William Turner," Kate was screaming. She was red in the face from yelling and screaming at him at the top of her lungs. Sao Feng's boat had pulled up from nowhere next to the Black Pearl and he and his men were boarding it now.

Soon enough Jack and Barbossa climbed aboard, the others behind them. Jack hid behind Barbossa as he spoke, "Sao Feng, you showing up here, 'tis truly a remarkable coincidence."

"Jack Sparrow," Sao spoke up, ignoring Barbossa. Jack peaked out from behind his human shield, "You paid me great insult once."

"That doesn't sound like me," Jack came out entirely and Sao Feng punched him in the nose. Kate heard it crack and she freed herself from the pirate holding her, rushing over to Jack. "Shall we just call it square, then?" He put his nose back into place as Kate was grabbed by another pirate.

"Release her," Will nodded to Kate, "And Elizabeth. They were not a part of the bargain."

"And what bargain be that?" Barbossa asked.

"You heard Captain Turner," Sao Feng ordered, "Release the girls." As soon as Kate was free she made her way to Jack's side again, grabbing onto his hand.

"Captain Turner?" he asked in disbelief.

"Aye, the perfidious rotter led a mutiny against us," Gibbs told him.

"I need the Pearl to free my father," Will told them, "That's the only reason I came on this voyage."

"Why didn't you tell me you were planning this?" Elizabeth asked, hurt.

"It was my burden to bear."

"He needs the Pearl!" Jack cried out, still unbelieving. "Captain Turner needs the Pearl! And you felt guilty," he glanced at Elizabeth before turning to Barbossa, "And you and your Brethren Court! Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?"

Gibbs rolled his eyes before Marty, Pintel, Ragetti, Cotton, and Jack the monkey raised their hands. Kate grinned, raising her own. He kissed her cheek, pulling her along, "We're standin' over there with them," he grinned. He was stopped however, by Sao Feng, "I'm sorry Jack, but there's an old friend who wants to see you first."

"I'm not certain I can survive any more visits from old friends," Jack frowned. Kate squeezed his hand to reassure him that it would be fine before he was led away from her and onto the ship that Beckett was on.

"Beckett agreed that the Black Pearl was to be mine," Sao Feng was speaking angrily to Mr. Mercer.
"Lord Beckett's not going to give up the only ship that can outrun the Dutchman, now is he?" He left with a smirk on his face.

"It's a shame their not bound to honor the Code of the Brethren ain't it? Because honor's a hard thing to come by nowadays," Barbossa spoke up.

"There's no honor in remaining with the losing side. Leaving it for the winning side, that's just good business," Feng shrugged.

"The losing side, you say?"

"They have the Dutchman," Feng pointed out. "And now, the Pearl. And what do the Brethren have?"
"We have Calypso," Barbossa told him.

Sao Feng's eyes trailed over to Kate, who was standing just behind Barbossa, with Gibbs. Barbossa's eyes locked with hers', begging her to go along with it. As soon as Sao Feng looked back at Barbossa, she winked to him, and he turned his attention back to Feng.

"Hmph!" Feng cried, "Calypso! An old legend."

"No, the goddess herself, bound in human form. I intend to release her, but for that I need the Court," he tugged on Sao Feng's necklace, "All the Court."

"What are you proposing, Captain?" Sao Feng asked.

"What be accepted, Captain?"

"The girl," Feng glanced to Kate. She didn't look too shocked, she had guessed whatever promise she'd silently made with Barbossa would lead her to this.

"What?" Elizabeth asked, following their gazes to her sister.

"Kate is not part of any bargain!" Will cried.

"Of course," Barbossa rolled his eyes, "Out of the question."

"It was not a question," Feng growled.

"Done," Kate nodded.

"What?" Elizabeth cried.

"Not done!" Will added on. Kate turned to him, fury in her eyes, "You got us into this mess! If this is what frees us, then done!"

"Kate, they're pirates!"

"I've had more than enough experience dealing with pirates," Kate cried out, shoving Will.

"So we have an accord?" Barbossa smiled, hopeful.

Feng grinned, "We have an accord."