A/N:
Hi! The 3rd chap is up! Hope ya like and all that.
Oh, my muscles are killing me! Even typing hurts now... Hah hah... And its all because one guy came the day before take away our old couch and I had to help him to carry it all the way to the other stairway and to the fourth floor because the (note) "big" elevator was still TOO SMALL to the couch! God, it was heavy! And on top of that my mom had to torture me by massaging my stiff shoulders yesterday! I can't take massaging, probably not even then when a professional would do it to me...
But okay, here's the chap and feel free to note out some of my mistakes or comment for fun! :D This chap is lately re-edited.
Thanks to Nevergonnafitin for starting to follow me!
~lindam2254
The next a few days Will and Eve searched Jack every place possible. Asked around and tried to get any information that could be found about this certain pirate captain. But already after one day, they noticed that the information they got didn't actually add up with all those different versions they were told. And so eventually they were always left empty handed. And it quite pissed Eve off after a couple of false tips, leading them always to the wrong place.
The first place they went was an island a bit farther away from Tortuga, where they questioned a man they met at the harbor.
"Captain Jack Sparrow? Owes me four doubloons. Heard he was dead", he had said. And Will and Eve had only lifted their eyebrows. Not very helpful and most probably false. But very probable for Jack.
The next man they asked didn't give them much hope either. "Singapore", he had said. "That's what I heard. Drunk, with a smile on his face. Sure as the tide, Jack Sparrow turn up in Singapore."
For that Eve had again lifted her eyebrows at this fisherman. Was there ever a moment that Jack truly was sober? Most probably not. But again that would be very possible for Jack too, if only the information would've been again something else than a hearsay.
"How hard can it be to find someone with such outstanding attributes as Jack's?" Will once questioned irritated, sighing deeply as they were striding along the street. Eve gave him a glance then shrugging.
"Well, almost every man here and anywhere we go is either drunk, smells awful or has no aware of moral standards", she answered, now also shrugging her brows at Will. "It is not that we cannot find anyone fitting into Jack's description, but that we cannot find the said man in middle of all kinds of men familiar with him."
Will sighed again as Eve then turned thoughtful. Will looked frustrated.
"But where could he be? We have asked around for days and haven't heard anything of him!" he then questioned again.
"We still haven't visited Tortuga", Eve stated, Will glancing at her. "Isn't that where you thought of heading first?"
"I did. But now I'm not so sure will we find him there", Will answered.
"Will, everything we have heard so far is absolute poppycock, because all stories are different and do not add up. And it makes me question their truthfulness coming from the mouths of drunkards, and other same kind of scoundrels as Jack is. So he most probably is there, despite all these pieces of information we are given."
"Even so then where and how can we find him Eve? Asking around clearly doesn't give us any results…"
Eve then stopped looking the most thoughtful so far. But next she tilted her head, lifting a brow.
"From a brothel most likely", she answered. Will froze and gave her a bit wary look. But Eve only nodded approvingly.
"Yes, that must be it. And that is also the reason why we haven't found him yet! We haven't checked the brothels!"
"Eve, I wouldn't be so sure about that", Will cut in, his tone telling that he wondered was Eve joking or not.
But Eve hadn't listened. And instead Will saw her now turn her eyes to gaze at the building right next to them. Both of their brows rose as they read the sign above the door. Eve smiled and nodded toward it, as Will only answered her gaze again a bit warily.
"Shall we find out then?" Eve asked, taking a step toward the said brothel's door right in front of them. But Will grabbed her arm.
"No. We are not going there, Eve", he stated. Eve gave him questionable look.
"What's with you? Are you afraid of women all of a sudden?" Eve asked slightly amused by Will's expression. But he only wrinkled his brows.
"No. It is just that…I do not think Jack will be in there", Will answered simply.
Eve sighed and rolled her eyes, now grabbing Will's arm.
"What are you afraid of? Don't you men go this kind of places all the time?" she asked again sarcastically, but Will only gave her serious look.
"I don't, he stated back. Eve only examined him and shook her head.
"Come on Will, I'll be right there with you! Besides, because of you we might actually get some more information about Jack, even if he wouldn't be in there right now. I am sure the women will speak to you more eagerly than to me…"
"Eve…" Will said, but Eve instead sighed again, once more grabbing his arm.
"Good god! Be a man! Where your courage has suddenly vanished?" she stated. Will frowned.
"That is exactly what worries me…" he answered. Eve lifted a brow.
"What is?"
"Me being a man."
"Will, that is the exact agenda here. You are male, and males get more out of these women than us other women they see as a competition!"
Will then gave Eve quite sharp look, as she started to push him toward the doors.
"I do not want to get anything out of these…" he protested bewildered, taken the situation too seriously. Eve only rolled her eyes once more, ignoring him.
"Yes you do, Will. For finding Jack", Eve remarked, making Will swallow his objections. "Elizabeth will never know. I am not going to tell her."
Now Will stopped in even greater shock and he stared at Eve. She only looked now a bit irritated, crossing her arms.
"It's your call, Will", she said, then lifting a brow. "Either we go there together and continue our search of Jack, or I go there alone, and as a woman might gain the same kind of attention of the men as the other women in there. And it is not like you're doing anything to be ashamed of in there!"
Eve saw realization flicker in Will's eyes, as he hard pondered her words. He couldn't let Eve go alone. In that she was right. And it could be true that inside they could hear something of Jack. Will sighed. Was this some form of blackmail? He really thought so, amused in his mind.
And so reluctantly Will agreed, them then searching a couple of other kinds of places like that in hopes of coming across Jack, or some valid information about him. But with no results, mostly for Will's frustration.
Thirdly, and what Will had planned all along, they went to Tortuga in search of Jack. The city was as disgusting and drunk populated as always. And as they circled around the streets, they remembered the last time they had been there together. And they didn't find it to have changed into anything else from worse.
"Well this place keeps on getting better and better with time", Eve stated, clearly not meaning what she said, as Will watched in amusement her once again giving death glares to all the men who tried to grab her or just happened to examine her curves.
Eventually they happened to find Giselle and Scarlett. The women they had briefly met during their last visit. They gave Eve as sour looks as ever, when Will made his question.
"Jack Sparrow?" Giselle repeated and exchanged a look with Scarlett.
"Haven't seen him in a month", Scarlett specified and Giselle then continued as walked to Will.
"When you find him will you give him a message?"
Eve flinched as Giselle then slapped Will, his head flying to the side. He he met Eve's surprised gaze, until she looked after the women who were now stomping away. Eve made a face.
"I suppose you didn't deserve that?" she teased, then smirking. "Or is it the karma? Maybe you shouldn't have entered that brothel after all…"
Will gave her a gentle glare, rubbing his cheek. "Shut up Eve", he just answered as well gently. Not meaning it as harsh. Eve let out small amused breath as turned to follow him.
On the fourth day they finally got something useful. They had gone to the shallows, and while going to the pier they found a dark skinned shrimper working with a net.
"Excuse me sir, but would you happen to know where we could find Captain Jack Sparrow?" Eve asked him, using intentionally over polite tone as she was starting to get tired of the incomplete answers she and Will were given time after time.
So she just smiled at the man sunnily, Will giving her one odd look.
"Can't say about Jack Sparrow", he answered as worked. "But there's an island, just south of the straits where I trade spices for delicious long pork. Cannot say about Jack. But you'll find a ship there, a ship with black sails", the man continued, his suddenly longing looking face turning serious again as he met Will and Eve's gazes.
Eve had shivers. Human flesh? Oh great…
But then she exchanged a knowing glance with Will and she smiled. The ship had to be the Black Pearl! Or at least she decided it to be, as she didn't feel like running around the whole world or prospect any more of the brothels of Tortuga in chase of Jack Sparrow, with no clues of his true location.
Eve and Will we taken to the man's ship. And it brought them near the said island, where there truly was a big ship with black sails dragged on shore. It was the Black Pearl. There was no doubt about it.
The shrimper spied the ship with a telescope, Eve and Will gazing at the ship in thoughts too. Why had Jack gone through so much trouble to drag the Pearl on land? It didn't make any sense, no matter how either Eve or Will thought about it.
"My brother will take you ashore", the shrimper said to Will. But as he passed Eve he gave her a grin, a hint hidden in it. Eve sighed and rolled her eyes, straightening.
"Are we going?" she asked then a bit too loudly, walking toward the man's brother, who was about to lower the longboat in the water. Will gave her a questionable look.
"What's with you?" he asked, lifting his left eyebrow at Eve, who then only pointed at him with her finger.
"Don't do that! Only I do that!" Eve answered, looking away at first until sighed. "What is with me is you men. That is what's with me."
Will again lifted an eyebrow and Eve then rolled her eyes, pointing at the shrimper who Will now saw truly measuring Eve from behind smiling. But Will then let out a laugh, getting a glare from Eve.
"Exactly my point!" she said, meeting Will's eyes. "I can feel his eyes on my back… it's creepy y'know?"
"I admit it", Will said, glancing back at the guy. "He's really staring at you like that long pork he seems to love..."
Eve gave him a light hit on the chest. But then the shrimper's brother motioned them to go into the boat.
He rowed closer to the island, Eve staring at the ship all the time to see was there any familiar faces or even movement in sight. But there wasn't, and she wrinkled her forehead. Something was really wrong with this picture…
Suddenly the shrimper's brother stopped rowing and Will directed a questionable look on his face. Eve noticed it, and after she wrinkled her own eyebrows, also she directed a look over her shoulder. Will stared at the man.
"What's wrong, the beach's right there", he said, nodding to the shore. But then he and Eve were surprised as the man started to talk in quick French.
"Ne bougeais pas, c'est trop dangereux", he said, Will sending now Eve a questionable look, who was examining the man in front of her in thoughts.
"What?" Will asked.
"Je ne peux, c'est trop dangereux, je vous l'avais dit", the man continued, repeating the first sentence. Will stared at him his brows wrinkled.
"Can you understand him Eve?" he then asked, leaning to the side to look at Eve. She lifted an eyebrow.
"Of course not. I don't speak French, as you know very well. But what I figured he is telling us to swim from here…" Eve nodded toward the water, glancing at the man until stood up.
"¿Qué le dice señor?" Eve then tried to ask in Spanish, or so Will figured. And was surprised as their rower then turned to Eve and said something in French back. Eve then listened and nodded slowly, tilting her head to Will remarkably.
Will gave the man another look. But as he just sat there silent as a confirmation to Eve's words, Will then also stood up.
"Bon voyage, monsieur et señorita", the man said, also then greeting Eve in Spanish, as both of them jumped in the water.
When Will came to the surface, he saw that Eve was already a long before him. He dove to reach her. But still Eve was first to come on shore, and she stood up in the shallow water, walking slowly in the waves as glanced at the Black Pearl next to her in curiosity.
"If you don't speak French…" Will started then questionably, taking in a breath. "…how did he understand you? You said you didn't understand him", he finished, now stopping next to Eve. She gave him a quick look.
"I don't speak French, but it reminds of Spanish", Eve answered, squeezing water out of her long hair. "They have same basic structures in words so are related to each other, which in some cases can make the understanding easier. Just as now. Though I cannot make out the whole phrases."
"Oh…"
They walked to the sand, gazing up at the Pearl.
"Jack! Jack Sparrow!" Will then shouted, making a horn from his hands. But there was no answer. Eve glanced at him, until returned her gaze to examine the ship and their surroundings in suspicion, Will keeping on calling out names.
"Marty! Cotton! …Anybody?" he then added to himself, looking as confused as Eve. Eve was now staring into the jungle, her hand resting on the hilt of her sword.
"Something's off here Will", Eve said, not turning around. "Jack would never leave his ship here like this. Or at least without nobody guarding it."
"You're right", Will agreed, walking next to her. "Something is wrong here. After all that trouble Jack went through to get the Pearl, he wouldn't indeed just leave it…"
As they then turned to continue in the jungle, suddenly Cotton's parrot flew on a snapped palm tree. Both Eve and Will smiled.
"Ah, a familiar face!" Will said jokingly. Eve let out amused breath, as the parrot then flew on her arm, flapping its wings.
"Don't eat me!" it then croaked, Eve wrinkling her brows in confusion as she then looked at Will. Will looked as confused.
"I'm not going to eat you", he said, wrinkling his brows too. But the parrot only repeated with another croak.
"Don't eat me!"
"Whatever are you saying, mí amor?" Eve then asked, smoothing its side. But then the parrot only flew away, Will and Eve exchanging a look. Until Eve squinted.
"Fine then, I wasn't expecting you to tell me anyway…" she said to herself and turned to leave, Will smiling a bit as they now entered in the jungle between the palm trees.
They strode randomly deeper into the jungle, Eve noting Will pulling out his sword, and she lifted now a questionable eyebrow at him. Will only tilted his head at her. And with a sigh Eve did the same, drawing her blade, examining the jungle floor if there were any tracks. And there were. Many old footsteps going to the same direction they were now heading.
Will was walking before her. And as he then swung a long leaf away from his face, he noticed Gibbs' canteen hanging from a small branch just a bit ahead.
"Eve look!" he said, walking to it and took it in his hands. Eve ripped her eyes from the ground and she then hurried next to him, also looking at the canteen. Lifting up her brows for surprise.
"Gibbs…" Will then stated quietly, suddenly noticing a cord that started from the canteen and led forward in the jungle path.
They exchanged another quick glance, until Will started to follow the cord, Eve about to walk after him. But she noticed new footprints on the ground. She crouched, touching it with her fingers as she felt wonder fill her mind. Those tracks weren't made by pairs of boots or other shoes Jack's crew wore. Because Eve was looking many mixed up prints of bare feet, circling around in every direction.
Eve sighed as measured the tracks, her brows furrowed. What were these tracks and to whom they belonged? But what she did know, was that they had been left by many instead of a single man…
As Eve stayed behind to examine the footprints she didn't see where Will went, who still was following the cord. Not either noticing that Eve wasn't behind him as he presumed.
Then as he passed a tree he reached the end of the cord, standing now in middle of a small clearing. But then all of a sudden on his right a man jumped out of the tree, having disguised himself to blend into its surface.
Spooked Will took a step away, but instantly something tightened around his ankle. And for his utmost confusion and surprise he then swung up, ending up hanging upside down. He was trapped. And now saw many natives come in sight holding spears, also their bodies painted and disguised to make them blend into their surroundings. Will glanced around in confusion.
"Eve!" he called, fearing that she had gotten caught like him, but didn't see her anywhere.
And so as not seeing her there Will then had irritated look on his face and pulled out his sword, starting to swing it around randomly at their spears.
"Come on! Let's go!" he exclaimed challenging, facing the men as the rope made him circle a bit. "Come on! Who wants it!? I can do this all day!" he threatened.
But suddenly Will felt a sting on his neck. And without a thought more he instantly went limb, the sword dropping from his hand as he lost consciousness. The natives then cut Will down. And after tying him into a pole like a prey into a carrying stick, they then lifted him up and started to walk.
"Will you idiot!" Eve whispered to herself as she spied at them from a bush.
She then noticed the one of those natives, who had surprised her by jumping out of the jungle while she had been examining the tracks and attacked her, to lift his head while regaining his consciousness. Eve lifted up her sword and hit him on the face with its hilt, making him faint again.
Eve had sat on him to keep him quiet if he woke up, so that her whereabouts would've stayed hidden to the other men. But it had been hard for her not to step out to yank the sword away from Will as she had followed him swing it around mindlessly, her sneaking closer to follow what would happen.
She had rolled her eyes. What the hell had he been doing? He was hanging from a tree, and swinging a sword all around him blindly wouldn't have saved him. And so it had happened that those men hadn't even taken one step closer to take him out with a tranquilizer dart. Well, it already happened…
As the natives had went, Eve slowly came out of her hiding. She lifted up Will's sword as then quietly started to follow them, soon realizing that Will was taken to their village. It took all the skill she had for not to get caught, as she followed the men who carried Will through the village, eventually reaching a long bridge hanging over a deep ravine.
Eve sneaked behind one hut. And after following Will with her gaze, glancing around so that she wasn't seen, she peeked down into the ravine.
Eve got shivers as she saw how long drop it was down. She hesitated a bit, but after one more look after Will she then rolled her eyes sighing. Goddess was always a Goddess, even half-blooded one. She wouldn't die if she fell down. And she had promised to have Will's back in every situation. Even now.
"Damn me and my promises!" Eve murmured to herself in frustration.
By the looks of it Will had got caught by cannibals, as Eve had noticed piles of human skulls and bones gathered out of these people's huts. So when the shrimper had been talking of long pork… Marvelous. Eve wasn't at all happy to go in middle of these human eaters' camp after Will. But there was no harm in trying, was there?
Eve sighed one more time. And after glanced around the second time, she then leaned forward behind the tree she had hid, placing her hand on the cliff's edge calling out her powers. Eve felt the medallion turn warm under her shirt as she called the power of the nature. And soon after a quick moment, there grew a long, stern root hanging in the ravine. Sticking out of the cliff.
Eve nodded contended. And with another glance to the left she then slipped over the edge, taking a hold of the root and called out her power again, making the wind carry her to the other side after a hard kick against the cliff. And only after a second or two Eve was on the other side, grabbing other wines on the cliff just before Will's captors had crossed the bridge. No one had seen her yet.
Eve climbed up, slipping behind a couple of cannibals in order to hide. But was then stopped on her tracks for shock. As she looked forward to the front of that small clearing, she saw with her own eyes Jack Sparrow, sitting there on a throne carved out of wood and bones. Wearing some weird crown like headgear, his face painted full of pairs of eyes.
Eve was dumbfounded as she then saw those men bring Will in front of Jack, presenting him. Eve cocked a confused eyebrow. Was Jack… their leader?
Then suddenly Eve realized she was right out in the open to be seen. And in a flash she dashed into hiding, rounding behind one hut at the right side of the clearing. She then stopped right next to Jack's throne where she could see and hear everything which was about to happen.
Eve directed examining look at Jack. Why hadn't he noticed her standing there right in front of him, even his eyes were open?
One of those cannibals who had captured Will had started to speak, while Eve had lurked into her hiding place. And now after a moment of him talking suddenly Jack's eyes shot open, him at first looking at the man and then he directed his eyes at Will. Hardly noticeable surprised look in his eyes. But Eve saw it, and she now understood why he hadn't seen her. There were eyes painted on Jack's eyelids too.
Then Will's head also started to rise stiffly and he was squinting his eyes, peering forward. "Jack?" he asked doubting, his voice a bit hoarse. Eve saw Jack glance to his sides, pouting a little.
"Jack Sparrow! I can honestly say I am glad to see you!" Will stated, now somewhat relieved and smiled at the pirate, letting out small laugh.
Jack then stood up, holding that weird feathery scepter as walked slowly toward Will, glancing at the cannibals in suspicion until poked at Will on the shoulder. Jack was measuring Will as if he really was going to eat him, not making any kind of gesture or expression of recognizing Will. Both Eve from her hiding and Will directed a questionable look at him as Jack then looked at the captor who had spoken and started to walk again.
"Jack? It's me, Will Turner!" Will said. But was ignored.
"Ba se co?" Jack asked from the cannibal, looking questionable in turn.
Eve wrinkled her forehead in awe. Was he kidding? Didn't Jack really remember Will?
"Ji'in daga, izipi", the cannibal answered, lowering his head. And the others behind him repeated it, also lowering their heads. Eve narrowed her eyes for wonder. What were they saying?
"Tell them to let me down!" Will exclaimed. But was once again ignored as Jack started to wave toward him, twisting his face remarkably while spoke.
"Ke'le lam. Lam peeky-peeky, lam eensy-weensy..." Jack said, then lowering down close to Will's legs and making a scissor like movement. "…Lam se'se eunuchy. Snip snip."
There was a sound of realization coming from the cannibals and they nodded their heads, repeating the word in comprehension. Eve directed a tired glare to the sky.
Really? He just had to call Will eunuch in front of these people? Well, of course Eve didn't get anything Jack was saying, but that one word had hit her as sounding familiar. But still, did eunuchs somehow taste better in this culture as he just had to make out such a point what wasn't even true? Or at least Eve thought it wasn't… According to Will…
Eve shook her head. What was she thinking? As if that had to do with anything! Eve saw Jack then walk away with those same, maybe trying to be royal but slow steps, as then Will noticed the compass which was hanging from Jack's belt.
"Jack the compass!" Will then exclaimed. "That's all I need! Elizabeth's in danger. We were arrested for trying to help you. She faces the gallows!"
Eve followed as Jack froze, and she saw him wrinkle his brows thoughtful as then glanced to his side. Until after thinking a moment he turned around, walking back. But he didn't go to Will, but he and Eve watched in confusion as Jack stopped again in front of the same cannibal.
"Se'se lam shup shup sha, shmani lami shuku, savvy?" Jack said, glancing at the cannibals, who now looked also questionable as they didn't seem to get it at first. "Ba liki liki!"
Eve wrinkled her forehead as shook her head in total confusion. What was Jack doing? And Eve didn't get a good feeling about him pointing toward Will again, as the cannibals' eyes then also turned to Will. Then the same cannibal lifted his spear.
"Ba liki liki!" he shouted in excitement, others repeating it as eagerly. Eve glanced around as then saw Jack bend down to Will. And she got even more confused after she managed to hear the words he whispered to Will.
"Save me!" Jack said quickly, before turned away looking completely normal, walking to his throne when the cannibals started to carry Will away. Eve twitched.
"Jack what did you tell them?" Will demanded. But didn't get an answer either this time as Jack just walked away, not turning.
"No! What about Elizabeth? Jack!"
Eve followed as Will was carried away, her eyebrows completely wrinkled for confusion and astonishment. What did Jack mean by saving? Weren't these cannibals his… people? Or at least it looked like it… But then again, how could he have ended up as the chief of this human eating tribe?
But then Eve just sighed. He was captain Jack Sparrow. It was the most stupid question to ask how or why in his case.
All of a sudden Eve started to hear drums being played not so far away. It gave her shivers.
A/N:
Here it was! Will was bit woman phobic, but aren't all fateful men? I just came up with this as thought this chap to be too dull without it and thought it to be quite funny as a scene. So, I posted it. But it is up to you do ya either pat me on the back or jump all over me... No, just kidding about the jumping part :)Thanks for reading! Please review!
Spanish phrases= Qué le dice senor? /What are you saying mister?
mí amor= sweetheart etc.
PS: WOHOO 500 views to my first story achieved! Thanks all of ya my readers who made it possible! :DD