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Author's Note: Hello, readers! This is the last chapter to Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Sexy Beast. It's a bit sad to think that this story is finally at an end, but I won't dwell on that because I will be doing a sequel. It should be up soon so keep a look out for that. I want to thank all the people who have kept up with this story, all who have reviewed, and all the people that have listed this as one of their favorite stories or alerted! You guys are, like, the best people ever to grace the planet. I also want to thank my best friend who is my real life Maria. You rock, Lizzy! Anyways, I want to dedicate this chapter to everyone out there that has a deep sense of comedy and laughter.

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Maria's Point of View

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Two hours was barely enough time to get ready for what we were now referring to as 'The Curse of the Sexy Beast.' The gift of the curse was placed upon Jack by the highest gods, making him unbearably sexy and irresistible. This in turn made all other men jealous and so Norrington decided that Jack should 'die.' At least, that's what we were telling ourselves. We finished at the Blacksmiths with Will before making our way up to the Governor's palace. Taylor walked along in a contemplating silence and I was starting to get worried for her until she spoke. "Nice digs." She said approvingly, the winked at me as she opened the door of the palace without knocking and strolled on in. I rolled my eyes at her antics, but was happy that she wasn't still brooding. A servant hustled us up to Elizabitch's room where, when they opened the doors, many people were inside waiting for us. They rushed us into the bathroom, then into robes to get us ready for the ceremony.

"My hair will never dry this fast!" I bemoaned as a couple of the maids began to towel dry Taylor's wet and wavy blonde locks. She laughed at me as they began to find a dress that would relatively fit my frame. It was my turn to laugh then, as a maid gathered up Tay's pirate clothes and took them from the room. "Looks like a dress for you, Tay!" I giggled at her as she stood from her spot and went to pick out the simplest dress she could find. Nice try, but that was easier said than done. All the dresses in this room looked to be decked out to be the belle of the ball.

We were standing around the closet when Elizabeth burst into the room, sweating slightly and shedding clothes as she went. Modest that girl. "Father won't let him off. I tried Taylor, but it seems my father is suddenly a man of the law." She sighed and walked into the bathroom, still speaking when the water splashed. "You're a pirate, how should we save him?" I looked over to Taylor, whose face was straight, but her eyes were smiling. We know he's going to live, but I guess we shouldn't reveal that just yet.

"What's so great, Taylor? The fact that we know that Jack is going to be okay or that we're surrounded by all these great clothes?" I whispered as I held up a dress similar to the one I'd been wearing in the beginning. I felt the smile on my face fall a little. How were we going to get home? I hadn't felt that strange pull at my feet yet, so I figured we still had time. But I wasn't sure I wanted to go home. I had barely gotten to know Will yet, and I still didn't want Elizabeth to get him, then break his heart. When I came out of my thoughts, Taylor was snapping hr fingers in front of my face and someone was pulling my hair.

"Hi! Hello, Maria? Anyone up there?" Taylor asked as she flicked my forehead. I scowled at her and she held her hands up in surrender. "Just wanted to know if you plan on wearing your dress or just holding it in your hand." I rolled my eyes and gave the dress to the woman drying my hair, who smiled, complimented me, and then helped me put it on. She was also going to help me lace it up, though I didn't know it was going to be in such a stranglehold.

"Do you hate me, or is this just part of the job?" I gasped as she pulled one last time, my stern voice not as menacing since I was out of breath. Taylor and Elizabeth laughed as I fell to a chair and tried to breath properly. "You just wait, Taylor, you're going to die." I threatened shakily. She flipped me the bird before being rapped sharply on the hand by the mother hen woman standing near us. Taylor frowned and put her hand cradled in her non-injured hand.

"Just pick me a dress." She resigned as she sat dejectedly in a chair and was attacked by a force of maids intent to do her hair. While I was being laced into a torture device, Elizabeth had come out of the bathroom. I saw Taylor roll her eyes along with the maid that was doing Taylor's hair as Elizabeth admired her dress and smirked at me as I fell sideways on the bed. "Please don't pass out, Maria. I would like to go to this thing." Taylor said as she stood to get her dress on. I glared at her but stopped as she gave the woman who laced her up a heart-stopping glare. "I'm not opposed to murder." She said in a low voice. I rolled my eyes and decided to let the lady do the rest of my hair and makeup.

After much debating and only one fight between Elizabeth and Taylor, we were making our way out of the mansion and into a carriage. As Norrington and Governor Swann climbed into the carriage, Taylor went silent and gave Norrington the evilest look of death and immense sadness at the same time. I was just a little disgusted as I watched out the windows at all the people making their way to watch the hanging of the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean. Evidently, so was Taylor as she mouthed under her breath. When we reached the fort, we made our way to the balcony-like platform in the back of the yard.

"Where is he…" Taylor mumbled as she stood on her tiptoes and looked around for where they were holding Jack. I put my arm on her shoulder and pointed over to a corner where Jack was standing leisurely talking to some of the guards holding him. I recognized Murtogg and Mulroy over in the corner watching Jack and Taylor skeptically. As Taylor made to go down the stairs, Norrington stepped in front of her and held out his hand so she would stop. "Ms. Downs, I'm afraid that you are not allowed to see the prisoner." Lowering her eyes into a half glare, which seems to be happening a lot, I might add, Taylor turned around and stomped down the platform back to her original place.

I turned to talk to her as inconspicuously as I could, and I was reminded of when we were trying to devise our great escape off the Dauntless. "You're going to get to see him before we leave." To my surprise Taylor actually looked a little scared. "Everything's going to work out okay, I promise Taylor." She wiped at her eyes a little and turned away from the crowd that was beginning to form. I looked past her shoulder and saw the feather I had been waiting to see. Will.

"It's not going to be enough time, Maria." Taylor spoke carefully as if she were weighing each word, then her face brightened a little. "Oh, look, Will." Taylor waved wildly, obviously forgetting that she was in a rather revealing dress, and she blushed deeply as she clutched at her chest. I laughed slightly and avoided my gaze from where Elizabeth and Will made 'eyes' at each other from across the courtyard. When Taylor had herself situated she turned back to face me and her face went slack. My heart beat wildly in my chest as the first drum beat started, signaling that the hanging was about to begin. "I think I'm going to be sick." Taylor gasped as she watched Jack being pushed up the stairs and onto the gallows.

As the remaining people began to file around the platform, Will began to move and so did the drums. I heard Taylor's breath catch and we gripped each others hands. "Jack Sparrow, be it known that you…." The pompous looking short man stated and Taylor and I both said, "Captain." at the same time, causing slight smiles to light up our otherwise somber faces. "….The most egregious of these is being cited here with: piracy, smuggling…." I turned to see Elizabeth looking about as pale as her fathers wig.

"This is wrong." She stated and Taylor turned her eyes away from Jack, who was listening to his many tales of debauchery. Governor Swann seemed to roll his eyes as he answered his daughter. "Commodore Norrington is bound by the law, as are we all." He sent a particularly nasty glance our way and Taylor stuck her tongue out at him. We turned back to Jack catching him smile.

"…Impersonating a cleric of the English church." Jack and Taylor met each others eyes as Taylor smiled at the laughing Jack. "Sailing under false colors, arson, kidnapping…." The list seemed to last forever until at last, the man concluded. "And general lawlessness. For this you are sentenced, on this day, to be hung from the neck until dead. May God have mercy on your soul." I was thinking about the report Taylor and I had to do about how hangings worked in our history class, and I couldn't imagine which 'method' would be worse.

I was saved having to think because Will stopped in front of us, just in time. This time, I was the only one of us to turn to look at Will, seeing as Taylor was clutching my arm so tight I thought I would lose feeling soon. "Governor Swann. Commodore. Taylor." Will turned to look at Taylor and me. "Elizabeth." He turned to look at Elizabitch finally, not even acknowledging my presence. I was hurt, but I was hoping he would say something to me soon. "I should have told you everyday from the moment I met you. I love you." As I felt my eyes widen, and saw Elizabeth's do the same, I watched Will walk away from us. I also heard Taylor whimper as the drums began to beat faster. She whispered something faintly as the noose was pulled around Jack's neck and then it tightened.

We both saw the parrot float away, and just as Will was pushing towards the crowd, the Commodore called for the marines. I watched as Elizabeth did a fine acting job fainting, and the Governor and Commodore fell to help her. I heard screams, and awful wrenching noise, and Taylor scream.

And then Captain Jack Sparrow dropped out of sight.

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Taylor's Point of View

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I couldn't help it. As soon as Jack dropped, I knew what was going on and I grabbed Maria away from the fight that was sure to be a lovely one and ran to where I knew they would all end up. Come on, I mean, I have seen this movie so much I can quote it without even needing the movie. As I picked up the hem to this stupid dress and did a little skip/run thing, I dodged a few of the oncoming soldiers. By luck I seemed to trip one of them and I could hear Maria's laughter echoing behind me. "Stop laughing and hurry up, there going to pass us if we don't come on."

The steps were amazingly hard to get up and by the time I was actually up them and Maria was beside me, Jack and Will were running towards us with an extremely large rope. "Duck, loves." Jack yelled out as Maria and I fell to the ground to avoid being taken out rather painfully. When the coast was clear, we ran behind our boys and stood next to them in their semi-circle. We were quickly surrounded and at the cost of losing my head, I backed into the wall while Jack and Will did there little dance around town thing. Feeling better now that I knew Jack wasn't going to be hanged in some untimely way, I sent Jack a wink as he was blowing the feather out of his face and back onto Will's hat.

Right on cue, Commodore Pompous Idiot rounded the corner with Governor Idiot Face and Ms. Whiney Harlot. Maria sent me a look of disdain as Commodore P. I. made himself known by pushing himself into my personal space and pulling out his rather large sword (get your head out of the gutters people, I meant his fighting sword!). "I thought we'd have to endure some manner of ill-conceived escape attempt. But not from you." He looked pointedly at Will, and while the attention was away from where I was, I slipped behind Jack and grabbed his hand. He squeezed my hand and I tried to forget the fact that I was going to have to go home soon. I hadn't told Maria yet, but I had been feeling that weird tug on my feet ever since the fight in the cave.

Anyways, back to Commodore P.I. and Captain Sexy Beast (a.k.a. Captain Sparrow). "On our return to Port Royal, I granted you clemency. And this is how you repay me? By throwing in your lot with him?" By this time, Elizabitch was just waltzing up to the fighting. Where the hell was she and why did it take her so long to get up here? Can't she walk a little faster if her 'lover boy' was in danger? Just shows how much she cares. But, I digress. "He's a pirate!" Governor Swann looked pissed by now, but William Turner does NOT back down.

"And a good man! If all I have achieved here is that the hangman will earn two pairs of boots instead of one, so be it." Jack pointed to himself and mouthed good man to a soldier next to us, who only rolled his eyes while I laughed silently. I looked around and saw Maria standing amongst the soldiers with a smirk on her face. I wonder what that's about. Commodore P.I. gave Will the evil eye and then smirked angrily.

"You forget your place, Turner." He basically spat. No really, I could see the spit flying out of his mouth. It was rather gross if you ask me.

Will smiled smugly as if he'd just one some type of Port Royal lottery. "It's right here, between you and Jack." I was about to add a little commentary of my own, involving the importance of what it means to be burned, when Ms. Whiney Harlot, or Elizabeth, decided to interrupt. "As is mine." I rolled my eyes dramatically as Governor Idiot Face had a hissy fit over his daughter being in some kind of immediate danger. As if one of these dumb soldiers even knows how to fire a gun. I looked over to Maria who was making her way towards us all. When she got to us, I couldn't help but laugh.

"My fellow Americans, or Englishmen, if you like, I would just love to join in your little game of who's the best and why our lovely Captain Sexy Beast is a good man, but let's just get on with it please. We don't need you dragging it out because Little Ms Whiney over here gets everything she wants." I snickered silently as Maria dropped the George Bush accent and rolled her eyes. "Here's what I want." She said loudly and she planted one right on Commodore Pompous Idiot. We all stood stunned as she smiled widely, showing off all her pearly whites and motioned with her hand. "Go ahead."

We stood there for another minute or so before Commodore Norrington came to his senses. I have to give it to the man though , he did look truly devastated. Poor guy. "So this is where your heart truly lies then." Elizabeth looked a little remorseful, but true to her selfish nature, she agreed. "It is." We stood at a sort of impasse and then I felt a tug at my hand and panicked momentarily. Then I saw that Jack was making to move so he could make his exit, but then he stopped a whispered to me. "Why don' you come with me, Taylor? We could sail the seas together on the Pearl. I'd even allow Ms. Maria on if she promises not to torture me anymore." I smiled widely at Jack, all the while the tugging at my feet getting stronger.

"Alright, I'll stay with you as long as I can." It wasn't really a lie, but it wasn't really the whole truth either. I knew that we weren't going to have much time together, because by the looks of things I knew this movie was almost at an end. Only a few more minutes left and the credits would be rolling, these characters going on to whatever happened between the first and second movie. But now I didn't want to think about that so I just let Jack do what he does best. And that would be talk.

"Well! I'm actually feeling rather good about this." Jack said while moving around poor William and his silly hat. Maria grabbed my hand and together we slowly backed up to the top of the fort, preparing to make our final go around as soon as Captain Sexy Beast was done harassing the locals. "I think we've arrived at a very special place. Spiritually. Ecumenically. Grammatically." He threw in for good measure while he moseyed over to Commodore. "I want you to know that I was rooting for you mate. Know that." He poked Commodore Norrington a few times and then walked away, pausing only to add something to Elizabitch.

"Elizabeth. It would have never worked between us, darling." He looked over to me, winked, and then looked back at Elizabeth. "I'm sorry." He walked forwards once again, only to pause and look back at his partner in crime. "Will. Nice hat." He said for a lack of a better saying and then turned and bounded up the stairs after us. I felt Maria grip my hand and knew she was now feeling what I was finally feeling. The pull was stronger and everything was going hazy around the edges. Before Jack could speak, I grabbed his face and turned him towards me.

Kissing him with as much vigor and energy as I had, I let go of him. He looked stunned for a minute and then went back to his mini-speech. "Friends. This is the day that you will always…." He dragged off, going to finish his favorite catch line, but I may have accidentally pushed him backwards off the cliff. We turned as he fell, then looked back over our shoulders at our friends and colleagues. "Don't you forget about me!" We yelled. I looked to Maria, not voicing the fear I had and knowing that she could already sense it. We didn't want to jump, but heck, you only live once, right? So grabbing hands ,we leapt over the side of the fort, free-falling towards the blue, blue water below.

"Geronimo!"

"Tim-buck-too!"

I'll let you guess which one was me.

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The Local Movie Theater

Our Time.

"Maria? Maria?" I called out dazedly, my voice holding a tremor of fear in it as I looked around the dark room. Please don't tell me that I just drowned, I don't think I could take the excitement. Please note the sarcasm here. I felt around me, my cheek pressing up against the hard, concrete floor and my beads hitting the ground and clinking around. I straightened my glasses and……Wait a minute. I had my beads, my glasses, and all my pirate garb on.

We were gone already.

Almost immediately I went into panic mode, searching around for Maria and fumbling on the movie theater seats as I fought to stand up. When I was finally seated, I saw Maria sitting in a seat, watching the blank screen in a daze. There were faint marks on her cheeks, splotchy and red, showing me the tell-tale signs of her crying. "I didn't get to tell him that I loved him." She said while still staring at the screen. I walked over to her and sat down in the chair next to her, pulling her into a hug but not letting my own tears fall. We sat in silence for a few minutes, or it could have been hours, until Maria felt that she could get up on her own.

As we gathered up our scarce belongings that we had brought with us, I found the keys to the van and we made our way out of the theater. It was already dark outside, and people didn't pay us much mind as we made our way to the car. The sound of the car alarm unlocking scared me enough that I was able to come to my senses so I would be okay to drive home. So we didn't have to talk or do anything about what just happened to us, Maria turned on the radio, pumping up the volume until random songs from the c.d. player spouted out. It was a long drive back to myself as we switched the songs whenever something remotely romantic or sappy came on.

When we finally reached my house, all was dark, my parents obviously not home yet as I pulled into the garage and we went inside the house. As we made our way up to my room, I slowly remembered all the memorabilia that was hanging on my walls. I could have sworn that I saw one of my posters wink at me when we changed our clothes, but I figured I was just being crazy. We were about to go downstairs when Maria stopped me.

"Do you think that we could watch the second movie? We didn't get to see it again at the theater." She sounded as helpless as I looked and I nodded slightly as I got the movie from the movie rack in my room. My heart sped up slightly as we walked carefully down the stairs. When we finally made it down to the TV. room, I turned off the lights and popped the disc into the player.

"There's no guarantee that anything's going to happen, you know that right?" I told Maria, while all the while trying to convince myself.

"I know, but the movies great all the same." She said as the menu screen came up. I dimmed the lights more as I pressed play and……………………………

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Hey everyone! I'm so happy that you all have taken the time to read this story! Can you believe that it's already over? I sure can't. Anyways, I'm sorry for the long, long, long wait, but it's been so hectic for me right now. I should be studying for this intense Spanish test I have tomorrow, but hey, my priorities are a little out of whack. Ha-ha. So, that was the last chapter, but I want everyone to know that I am doing a sequel, just like I said above. And I want to put a scene from the sequel up so everyone can have a little taste of what's next! Enjoy!

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Rough Draft for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's….Breast?!

And that's when I knew it. That's when I knew that everyone in the whole bloody world had gone mad. "I will most definitely not be stuck here with midget man." There was a general outcry by Lord Midget Becket, but I just didn't really care right now. "I won't do it, Elizabitch. You couldn't pay me enough money in the world for me to find another way to freedom like this." I pointed in the general direction of where Becket was standing, trying to make himself taller.

"Aw, come on now Maria, it won't be too bad. Just think of all the Willy Wonka songs you can sing!" Taylor looked positively joyful about the fact that Elizabeth wanted me to stay behind. The little bint is just jealous that I'll get Will.

"Then here's the idea, you stay!" I acted all happy and surprised as if my idea was great. Taylor scoffed at me like I was some kind of child.

"As if I would stay with that guy. He's a total midget." Taylor rendered, throwing Elizabeth a glance like I was crazy. There was a shout in the corner of the room.

"Would you kindly stop referring to me as a midget?"

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Hope you enjoyed your sneak peek! I'll be back with more sometime soon. Love you all!