Chapter 10-Attempting at negotiations

I'm so sorry it has taken so long. Even after I promised to write more constantly, but it's been half term for the last week and my mum's doesn't have any internet so I couldn't write anything. I will try and be better from now onwards. Anyway please enjoy. By the way I don't own POTC, although Scarlet is my Pirate girl

Barbossa walked over to us, his face full of shock and disguised, "How the blazes did you get off that island?" he asked Jack.

Jack swung slightly back and forth on the oar in his hand that had been used to knock him out, "When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate," Jack said pausing for dramatic effect, Barbossa just looked confused, "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."

Next Barbossa turned to me, "And you're supposed to be dead! How did you survive?"

I winked at Barbossa and smiled innocently, "Wouldn't you like to know mate?"

"Ah, well, I won't be making that mistake again," Barbossa said turning to his crew, "Gents, you all remember Captain Jack Sparrow and the Bloody Scarlet?" the crew cheered, "Kill them."

All the crew's weapons were pointed at us, but Jack looked totally unbothered, as Barbossa turned away from us he spoke, "The girl's blood didn't work, did it?"

Barbossa turned back around sharply and walked towards us again, "Hold your fire!" The crew reluctantly lowered their weapons, "You know whose blood we need?"

"We know whose blood ye need," I said with a smirk.

After the crew finally found a few oars and nicked the one off Jack we had enough to transfer everyone back onto the Pearl. Jack and I went in the first boat along with Barbossa and one of his men to row. Once we were on the ship, we were moved into the captain's cabin to negotiate. I zoned out of it a bit, just looking around and remembering how the captain cabin used to look before Barbossa got his hands on it. The monkey even had its own area!

"So you expect to leave me standing on some beach with nothing but a name and your word it's the one I need and watch you sail away in my ship?" Barbossa said as I decided to pay attention to the talking again.

"Of course not!" I exclaimed smiling slightly, I knew what Jack would do.

"Scarlet's right. I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on my ship and then I'll shout the name back to you. Savvy?" Jack said, using hand movements to try and make it sound better.

"But that still leaves us with the problem of me standing on some beach with naught but a name and your word it's the one I need," Barbossa argued back.

"Of the three of us, me and Scarlet are the only two who hasn't committed mutiny, therefore our words are the one we'll be trusting," Jack said looking through the apples on the table to find the one he liked the look of the best, "Although I suppose I should be thanking you because, in fact, if you hadn't betrayed me and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that curse, same as you," he continued biting into the apple, "Funny ol' world, innit?" Jack finished with his mouth full of apple, and offered a bite of it to me. I took a bite quickly and then offered it to Barbossa.

"Captain, we're coming up on the Interceptor," the monkey jumped over Jack's feet on the table and out of the door, closely followed by Barbossa. I looked at Jack and shrugged, we both followed them outside.

Jack looked out over the rail and I followed him, the interceptor was not fast enough to out run the Black Pearl. We needed to come up with a plan. Jack ran up the stairs and stood in front of Barbossa blocking his view of the interceptor through the telescope. "I'm having a thought here, Barbossa. What say we run up a flag of truce? I scurry over to the Interceptor, and I negotiate the return of your medallion, eh? What say you to that?" I knew by the look on Barbossa's face we weren't gonna get the answer we were after.

"Now you see, Jack, that's exactly the attitude that lost you the Pearl. People are easy to search when they're dead," Barbossa said.

"But you won't find out what you need!" I interrupted.

Barbossa just looked at me, before calling one of his crew over, "Lock them in the brig," as we moved away I watch Jack's apple get thrown overboard.

Hope this makes up for the lack of writing. Please review.

Until next time

Artistic-Blue-Eyes

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