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Chapter 4: New Crew, Old Ship, Same Captain

The new crew was awaiting their inspection when the easily mistaken couple arrived at the docks, Angelica following Jack from behind as they walked over the gangplanks.

"Where be the ship?!" one crew member shouted, Jack stopping in front of the line of men.

Jack eyed them all, nodding his head approvingly. They weren't too bad. Well... He'd seen worse, and none of them appeared to be drunk to extent that they couldn't actually stand up.

"Good see that one's not blind," he said quietly to Gibbs, who was frowning at the row of pirates. Angelica rolled her eyes when no one noticed her presence, and soon, because they were so into deep conversations with one another, they hadn't realized the absence of the Spanish flame.

That was, of course, until Jack turned around and saw her briskly walking away, down a slanted ramp that connected to the main gangplanks. Clearly it led to the beach as there was quite a bit of sand he could see at the bottom.

As Gibbs resumed telling the new crew the ship's rules (of which being offensive and crude towards the woman of the ship was the main issue), the pirate captain subtly shifted away, quietly and quickly doing his signature walk as he followed the runaway damsel.

Angelica was sat cross legged over the sand, eyes narrowing as she gazed at the bobbing Black Pearl inside the bottle that laid before her on the opal mound sand. When she heard hurried footsteps and shouts from a certain pirate, she couldn't help rolling her eyes. That was the only time Jack was predictable... Whenever there was something he truly wanted, she always calculated what he was going to do.

"What are you doing?"he asked quickly, eyes glaring at her as if she had transformed into an alien creature.

"You really think the Pearl wouldn't crush us all, if I took the whole ship out over there?" she asked, laughing amusedly when he dropped his eyebrows and regarded her comment in confusion.

"Just get it out of the bloody bottle," he whined, almost like he was an impatient child - which he was.

Her smile dropped and her usual annoyed look was back, which was never missed by Jack. She slipped her boots off, bare bronze feet laying over a bed of pillow-like sand. "Take off your boots," she instructed, smirking to herself as he reluctantly did as she said. Now feeling too hot because the open beach had no form of shade, he shrugged off navy blue jacket, hat falling off as he turned towards her.

She stood up, the bottle in her palms. He still looked deeply bewildered and Angelica couldn't help but smile. She shoved the ship into his hands and the darted away from him, racing over the sand as fast as she could without slipping, heading towards the cyan blue shallows of the sea.

"Oi! Where you goin'?" he shouted, oblivious to the giggling crew members watching the scene from the gangplanks above. Jack, still unaware of their 'audience', shot after the female pirate (who was at the shoreline now), sand scattering as he slipped every now and again.

The crew were roaring and laughter... and Gibbs couldn't help an amused grin. It was pretty funny...

Angelica turned around, rolling her pants up to her knees as she delved further into the water. Her eyes widened with surprise when she found a running Captain Jack Sparrow charging towards her, his feet skidding to a halt before he actually bumped into her...

If he had, he would have been dead meat.

She didn't say anything, although she wanted to. She just reached up to the back of her neck, pushing her flowing dark locks out of the way so she could find the link that connected the necklace together.

"What are you -"

"Don't. Say. Anything!" she hissed, the iron cross necklace falling into her smooth golden hands as the link clicked undone. If she got any more annoyed, she would no longer be able to hold her tongue, and it would create more of an interesting soap opera for the crew... Which was not something she wanted to deal with.

"Looks like you needed me after all," she said under her breath, yet she knew he'd heard from the clumsy, amused grin he'd plastered on his face. She couldn't pretend that she didn't like it...

Jack brought himself closer, the stormy bottle tightly clasped in his protective hands. She looked down at the item and held a stem of the iron cross in her hands, eyes landing on the wider, solid end of the bottle.

"Once I have it in my hands, you swim out and I'll throw it to you."

"What? You're going to throw the Pearl?!"

She smashed a hole into the rounded end of the bottle, twisting the metal necklace around to take out the whole of the thick glass pane. Shards of glass scraped against her skin, drawing blood but Angelica ignored it, forcefully pulling out the ship with black sails.

Once the pirate ship was completely out of the bottle, Jack dropped said object out of his hands, tossing it behind him, not caring to look where it landed.

He looked at the toy-like Pearl curiously, forgetting about the fact he'd been told to swim further away from the shore.

"Jack," she addressed firmly, snapping him out of the fascination for the small version of his ship.

"Sorry," he said, already running through the knee deep water, soon wading through sea that was waist high.

'She'd better be a bloody good throw...' he thought as he turned back to face the shore, now treading water as the sea bed was now further below him.

He watched as she raised her arms above her head, squinting her eyes from the sunlight as she aimed for the bobbing pirate. His breath caught and eyes widened in shock as she sent the ship flying into the air, seen as only a mere blur to Jack. He raised his arms and opened his hands as the ship began to drop down in front of him. Luckily, Jack launched forward to catch it inside his palms before it hit the surface of the water a good two metres in front of him.

It turned out her throw wasn't that bad.

Jack grinned and waved his arms up in the air, showing Angelica that he'd caught the Pearl.

"Got it!" he shouted, and she nodded, hearing the crew rolling on the floor laughing behind her. God, once they were on the ship she would give them hell.

"Don't drop it!" a young one shouted, louder than the others. Angelica frowned and turned away from Jack, spotting the boy stealing stuff from Jack's coat. She gasped and began to run out of the water, furious with rudeness of the lad.

"¿Qué estás haciendo? ¡Hijo de puta! ¡Fuera!"*she snarled, racing out of the shallows.

Jack frowned at her, "Where are ye goin'? Oi! What do I do now?!"

When he didn't get an answer he lowered his arms, hands almost dropping the ship into the water - fortunately Angelica turned back to face him at that moment.

"Sparrow! No! Do not let that ship fall into the water!"

"What- Why? - Whoa!"

He lost balance (even though he was in the water) and fell back, fingers still gripped onto his ship, taking it under the water as he sunk under the surface. The crew were howling in laughter, pointing at the white splashes that blurred into the blue water where Jack had been.

Angelica looked upon the waves, hoping for any sign of the dreadlocked pirates anywhere... And there was none.

"Jack?!" she called, her mood becoming more and more worried.

The crew stopped their amused snorts behind her when there was no answer, turning into scared, concerned murmurs. Gibbs blinked a few times, trying to work out what had just happened

"Jack?!" Angelica cried again, running closer to the water.

She jumped, alerted as the famous, fully sized Black Pearl popped up out of the sea, water flooded out from the decks, masts and sails. She let out a relieved breath, knowing that Jack would be alright. As for the others behind her... they couldn't take their eyes of the ship in front of them... that had come literally from nowhere...

Jack was stood waving at Angelica with a cheesy grin on his face, hid form soaked to the bone with salty water. She shook her head, biting her lips to stop herself from smiling - The happiness in his eyes was clear, even from where she was standing.

"Well come on! What ye all doin' down there? Raise anchor master Gibbs!" he ordered, turning away from the shocked, amazed men that were still blinking in disbelief.

"A-Aye!" Gibbs shouted, smiling as the men said the same thing, in a hearty unison. He turned his head towards Angelica, nodding in respect. She smiled at him, then turned away.

Something told her that the adventure they were about to embark on, would be like no other she had ever been a part of in her whole life.

She should've guessed how magnificent it would be...

She was with Captain Sparrow after all...

But this time, she had her own plans... this time, he'd be the one begging her not to leave...

And she'd have him in the palm of her hands.

* "What are you doing? You bastard! Go away!"

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