Chapter 11

Jewel was lying in her hammock staring at her mirror. An image of Elizabeth appeared in the reflection.

"What can I say? What should I say?" Jewel asked herself, putting a hand to her forehead, "Bugger." The image faded and Jewel saw herself.

"Well, you can always start out with-" Her reflection started to say

"No!" Jewel said

"You want to make up with her? That's how you start." Reflection Jewel said. Regular Jewel groaned. She climbed out of her hammock, leaving the mirror on it, then appeared on deck. Elizabeth was sitting at the bottom of one of the stairs heading up to the helm. She didn't feel ready to talk to the woman.

She sat down with Gibbs and Pintel. Jewel sighed, then turned up toward the sun. It was a blisteringly hot. Jewel ran her tongue over her chapped lips to keep them moist. Those that weren't below deck away from the sun, scattered the main deck, hiding in the shade. The two men were sitting back to back, and were holding a cask and bottle, respectively.

"Do you have any to share?" she asked. Pintel looked up at her.

"I don't even have enough for myself." he said, shaking his head. He lifted the cask to drink, but only a few drops fell out. He turned the cask upside-down, but it was empty.

"No water. Why is all but the rum gone?" he asked

"Rum's gone too." Gibbs said, holding up an empty bottle. Jewel groaned.

"We really are going to die here." she said.

"It appears that way." Gibbs nodded solemnly, pushing himself up. Jewel took her bandana from her arm and rubbed it over her sweaty forehead. After a moment of sitting, she walked with Will and Gibbs, who moved to the railing where Tia Dalma was staring out at the setting sun on the horizon.

"If we cannot escape dese doldrums by nightfall, I fear we will sail trackless seas, doomed to roam the reach between worlds... Forever." she said

"With no water, forever seems to be arriving a mite too soon." Gibbs said

"Why doesn't he do something?" Will asked, looking back at Barbossa at the helm.

"What can he do?" Jewel asked in response, "He has no powers over anything. Not this ship, and especially not the winds." Ragetti ran in front of them, crawling on all fours after the monkey. The three walked across the deck, thinking and talking.

"Me eye! Give it back!" he shouted

"There be no sense to it." Gibbs said, shaking his head.

"And the green flash happens at sunset, not sunrise." Will said

"Over the edge. It's drivin' me over the bloomin' edge. Sunrises don't set." Gibbs said. Jewel stopped the pacing and looked to Elizabeth. She took in a breath and finally walked over to her.

"Elizabeth?" she started

"What?" Elizabeth said, her voice sounding colder than ice. Jewel winced at the tone.

"I... Wanted to see how you were feeling." she said, sitting down to Elizabeth's left.

"I don't have anything anymore." Elizabeth said, staring at the floor, shaking her head, "No family, no home, nothing."

"That's where you're wrong." Jewel said, making Elizabeth look at her, "You live on a ship where everybody looks out for each other, like a family, and you have a man that loves you, and will do anything for you. I made a mistake and thought I had nothing. I traveled around the world to only realize I had somewhere I belonged. I had a family."

"What?" Elizabeth asked, getting a bit confused.

"I didn't listen to my mom's words when she died. I couldn't wait on Tortuga for my dad." Jewel explained, "I thought he was the only family I had left in the world. I went looking for him. Suddenly, at one point, I realized that while I couldn't find my dad, I still had a family on Tortuga. And I shouldn't have abandoned them. You have a family here Elizabeth." Jewel put an arm around her shoulder, "And I'm sorry for what I said about you feeling the same pain I felt. I was just so angry when I found out what you did to my dad. I'm sorry about your father Elizabeth."

"Beckett will pay." Elizabeth said

"He will. Trust me." Jewel said. She hugged Elizabeth and stood up. She held out her hand to Elizabeth.

"Ready to face your family?" she asked

"Not yet." came Elizabeth's response. Jewel sighed. She was hoping for better results than that, but at least Elizabeth talked. She looked to her father. He was hovering over the charts and talking to himself... And himself. Whether anybody could see them or not, Jack had two little miniature versions of himself on his shoulders talking to him. Jewel couldn't see them, but she continued looking at Jack. Perhaps she should apologize to him for last night. As she thought, she sat back down next to Elizabeth.

"What about port? And Jewel?" one of the smaller Jacks said

"I prefer rum and gold. Rum is good. And gold is lovely." Captain Jack said

"Making port. And your daughter Jewel." the first small Jack emphasized. The second small Jack walked out on Captain Jack's shoulder.

"Your precious little girl cannot come with you. And port is where we can get rum, and salty wenches, once every ten years." he said

"What did he say?" the first one asked

"Once every ten years." Captain Jack said

"Ten years years is a long time, mate." the first one said with a shrug

"Even longer given the deficit of rum." Captain Jack commented

"But eternity is longer still." the first one pointed out. The second one looked at Jack.

"And how will you be spending it? Dead?" He asked before turning back to the seas, "Or not?"

"The Immortal Captain Sparrow." the first one said

"Oh, I like that." Jack said with a smile, but then the smile vanished and Jack looked back at Jewel, "But what about Jewel?"

"Come sunset it won't matter." the second one admitted. Jack looked forward, realizing something.

"Not sunset," he said, leaning over the charts. He looked at the center picture, a ship like theirs sailing on the ocean with the sun under the waves. Jack turned the picture upside down.

"Sundown. And rise." Jack said, "... UP!" He stood up with a large smile on his face. He knew what to do and how to get everybody to do the same.

"Oh, what's that?" He yelled, pointing to the side of the ship, running to it. Gibbs, Will, and Tai Huang joined him, looking at the waters for something. Jewel looked up at them.

"What's that? I don't know, what IS that? What do you think?" Jack said to himself.

"Where?" Gibbs asked

"There!" Jack said, not specifying at all. Jewel went over to the railing to look.

"Ah!" Jack said running to the other side, with everybody following.

"What are we looking for?" Jewel asked

"Other side!" Jack shouted, running to the other railing. With every run, more and more people joined in. Even Tia Dalma was running from side to side. Eizabeth was watching at first, but went over to the railing when they stopped.

"What is it?" she asked Jack. He made a strange sound and led everybody to the other side. Jewel stopped and wavered a bit. She realized what her father was doing.

"He's rocking the ship?" she asked, "but why?" Jewel hurried to the charts, hoping they would explain something. Barbossa was standing by them.

"He's rockin' the ship." Pintel said. The two looked at the charts.

"We're rockin' the ship!" Gibbs said

"Up is down?" Jewel read. Their eyes fell upon the upside down picture.

"Sunrise sets!" Jewel said, understanding the meaning.

"Aye, he's onto it." Barbossa said. Jewel returned to running with the other pirates, passing Pintel and Ragetti.

"He's rockin' the ship!" Pintel said

"We'll tie each other to the mast, upside down, so when the boat flips, we'll be the right way up." Ragetti said, holding a large thick coil of rope.

"Ugh," Jewel said. She was about to roll her eyes, but instead kept running.

"Time it with the swells." Barbossa yelled out before going below, "Loose the cannons, you stinking bilge rats! Unstow the cargo, let it shift!" He grabbed a boarding axe and used it to cut the ropes that held a bunch of barrels in place. With everything unfastened, the ship's rocking became extreme. If somebody did not grab on to the railing in time, they would roll off the ship. Jewel almost missed, but Jack caught her.

"Don't worry, luv." he said

"I don't feel safe with you." she said flatly. The ship moaned in response to the rocking and started tilting to lean the other way. Everybody ran across the ship to reach the railing. The leaning of the ship had reached the point where everybody's feet dangled in the air. One man lost his grip and fell to the ratlines, a cannon falling after him... On top of him. All those who watched this winced at the sight. The Black Pearl began dipping into the water.

"Now up is down." Jack said before the entire ship fell into the water, turning upside down completely. Will lost his grip and began to sink in the black water, only to grab hold of a line in the rigging. Pintel and Ragetti were indeed right side up while everybody was upside down. The cannons on deck began sinking as well. Holding her breath, Jewel looked to everybody. They all seemed calm in this situation.

There came a sound. A strange sound. A foamy bubbly mass was coming toward them from below. The mass consumed Will first, before taking the rest of the ship and her crew. The Pearl rose out of the ocean, with the crew and cannons all falling to the deck. Everybody coughed up water and pushed themselves to stand, trying to recover from the strange occurrence as fast as possible.

"Blessed sweet westerlies, we're back!" Gibbs said, standing up quickly.

"We are?" Jewel asked, climbing up the railing. All eyes turned to the east where the sun was not setting, but rising instead.

"It's the sunrise." Elizabeth said

"We're back." Jewel said with a smile. Barbossa smiled at the sunrise before pulling out a pistol and aiming it at Jack. Gibbs, Elizabeth, Jewel, and Will both pulled out pistols of their own to aim at Barbossa. Barbossa pulled a second one out to aim at Gibbs. Jack pulled out one pistol to aim at Will, who also pulled a second one out to aim at Jack. Jack pulled out a second pistol to aim at Elizabeth, who aimed her second pistol at Jack as well. Jewel aimed her second pistol at Elizabeth, and Gibbs aimed his second pistol at Will.

Nobody moved a muscle, waiting for something to happen.