Course of True love never runs smooth

Okay sorry for missing yesterday but I changed the way I was planning to write this chapter, so I re-wrote it from scratch. I think by next week I should have finished this story there are only 3 more chapters left to go now. Enjoy reading.

PS. I don't own POTC [I wish I did] however Scarlet is my own creation.

Elizabeth's father took her into his arms the second we were on deck, before noticing me over her shoulder, "If I maybe so kind as to ask your name Miss?"

I stood proud and tall, "My name is Cap'n Jones."

"As in the Bloody Scarlet?" A voice asked from behind me. I turned to see a man in a Navy uniform, which a large black hat, which reminded me slightly of Barbossa's.

"The one and only," I smirked, he didn't look very impressive.

I felt his eyes look me up and down, and an unimpressed expression entered his face, "I thought you would be taller."

"I thought you'd be given a better hat," I shot back, feeling smug as his face dropped.

Elizabeth interrupted the conversation before the Navy man could reply, "But we've got to save Will."

I resisted the urge to roll my eyes, how could she not see her love for him.

"No. You're safe now. We will return to Port Royal immediately, not go gallivanting after pirates!" Elizabeth's father said, trying to sound stern but not really succeeding.

"Then we condemn him to death," Elizabeth argued.

Elizabeth father began to walk away, "The boy's fate is regrettable, but, then, so was his decision to engage in piracy."

"To rescue me. To prevent anything from happening to me," Elizabeth pointed out. I had to admit she did have a point.

"If I may be so bold as to inject my professional opinion," Jack said interrupting the tense conversation, "The Pearl was listing near to scuppers after the battle. It's very unlikely she'll be able to make good time. Think about it. The Black Pearl. The last real pirate threat in the Caribbean, mate. How can you pass that up?" Jack questioned leaning into the Navy man face.

The Navy man pushed Jack away causing him to stagger backwards into me as I held him upright. Glaring daggers at the upper class twats on the ship, "By remembering that I serve others, Mr Sparrow, not only myself," Navy man snarled.

I bit my lip to stop me from screaming at him, knowing that although I was a woman. Being a pirate meant they wouldn't even threat me like a human.

"Commodore, I beg you, please do this. For me. As a wedding gift," Elizabeth begged, grasping and straws.

"Elizabeth. Are you accepting the Commodore's proposal?" her father asked her, shocked but pleased.

"I am," Elizabeth said looking in the Navy man's eyes.

"I have a sense this is gonna get confusing!" I muttered under my breath.

Jack nodded before speaking loudly, not wanting to be forgotten, "A wedding! I love weddings? Drinks all around!"

"Is that the only reason you like Weddings?" I muttered again.

"Of Course," Jack replied, before a long silence began, ending when Jack extended his arms out and said what we were all thinking, "I know. Clap him in irons, right?"

"Mr Sparrow, you will accompany these fine men to the helm and provide us with the bearing to Isla de Muerta. You will then spend the rest of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase 'silent as the grave.' Do I make myself clear?" The Navy Man said his voice hard.

"Inescapably clear," Jack said before walking over to the wheel. I waited a few minutes watching everyone disperse back to their duties before I followed him.

"Do you have a plan?" I asked standing next to him and watching out at the ocean.

"Nope I make it up as I go along," Jack said smiling, happily at me. He seemed just to be pleased that he had finally got to stir a ship again, I wasn't going to be the one to point out that he was being guarded by the Royal Navy.

The Navy man walked over to talk to Elizabeth. I had come to the decision that I didn't like him much, "Who is he?" I asked pointing down to next to Elizabeth.

"His name is James Norrington, his father was a pain," Jack said grimacing slightly at the memory.

"I thought I recognised that face," I said smirking at the memories that I had to escaping capture a few times when I was under arrest by the hand of Lawrence Norrington. To be fair to the man he was loyal to his law and I had respect for that, but a little less respect when he was after me.

"You knew him," Jack questioned, looking slightly confused.

"We ran into each other a couple of times. I didn't stop living Jack Sparrow while I waited," I said, reaching my hair up and running it through his dreadlocks. Jack leant into my touch smiling softly at me.

"Miss Jones, I suggest you stay away from Mr Sparrow before we crash," A cold hard voice came from behind me.

I turned to come face to face with a very angry looking Norrington, "Of course sir," I replied sarcastically, before turning and walking toward the rail of the ship.

I stared out at the ocean for a time before I felt someone present next to me. I turned to see Elizabeth staring at me as if she wanted something, "Yes Miss Swann?" I said after watching her for a minute.

She jumped out of whatever dream world she was in and walked towards me. She joined me at the rail before speaking, "How do you know you love him?" she asked me staring fascinatedly at the deck.

"Jack you mean?" I questioned making sure I knew what she was talking about. She gave me a small nod and then we fell silent as I thought of how to explain it, "I knew I loved him when we were on his father's ship and I found out he was leaving. I got so angry at him, but not cause he didn't tell me, it was because I didn't want him to ever leave my side and I knew then I loved him. I had to love him to wait as long as I did to find him again."

"What does it feel like? Love I mean?" Elizabeth asked, her voice sounding like a curious child, when they didn't understand the world. It was then I realised how although me and Elizabeth were around the same age I had lived a lot more than she had.

"Love is like the sea, it soft and caring at times, other times it make you want to scream and yell and get so angry, but no matter what you will always be loyal to the person," I said trying to explain but struggling. So I tried again, "Love is when you close your eyes and you can see their smile, then you can hear their voice. When they are near you can't help but be happy. They haunt your mind and you would do anything for them, even marry another man to save them," I hinted the last bit slightly.

"I don't love Will," Elizabeth defended almost immediately.

"You are talking to a girl who has waited for her love for many years. I can see it, you love each other," I said softly to her knowing how she could react.

Elizabeth let out a gently sob before her shoulders began shaking, I wanted to hug her, something unordinary for me, but I knew I couldn't they would have me captured for that. Elizabeth calmed down after a few minutes, her breathing levelled out.

"Scarlet," I heard my name being called from the other side of the ship. I turned to see Jack doing a signal for me to join him. I walked over there.

"What is it?" I asked him looking at Norrington who was standing next to him.

"We are going to head to the cave, do you want to come?" Jack asked me.

"She can't," Norrington interrupted before I could say anything, "she is a woman."

"She has a name," I snapped staring daggers at him, "And she is a pirate, and a better sailor than you will ever be."

"She is staying here," Norrington said firmly, leaving me no room to argue.

Jack looked at me apologetically at me before getting into the small wooden boat and rowed away from us to see the entrance of the cove.

I watched as Jack talked his way into some sort of deal with Norrington. Moving his arms around in a dramatic fashion, I was trying to work out how the boat was still upright with the amount she was moving.

I looked out at the sea keeping a close eye on Jack. He got my full attention when both Norrington and Jack turned to face me. I knew nothing good could come from that.

I walked quickly over to the other side of the ship and moved quietly down into the cargo hold. I grabbed a new pistol and put my one away it had been hidden under my clothes while I was on the ship so they wouldn't take it off me. I knew they wouldn't search me, the Navy were nothing if gentlemen.

The second I walked back up onto deck I was surrounding by soldiers obviously who had been given orders to lock me up, which wasn't gonna happen.

I turned and kicked one of soldiers in the stomach, jumping over his body as he crippled. I ran for my life feeling the soldiers closing in on me before I dived into the warm waters below the ship. I took off in a strong swim arriving at the shore slightly exhausted but ready for a fight.

Jack was waiting for me by the side of the cove entrance, "Took your time," he said sarcastically to me.

"Sorry, had to take care of some guards," I shot back before turning towards the cove, "Let's go fight some un-dead pirates."

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