As of right now, I've got enough pirates. If you want to be
in the EITC or on Neptune's side, that's fine.
Love you guys!
-Captain Autumn
My piratas:
CaptainElizabethTurner: Anya Starvansky
sweetgirl8353: Lena Walker
ClumsyElf : Jilly Stone
teepirategirl: Roxana Williams
brisingr3: Gwen Matthews
ENJOY!
"Lila, do you know what you've put us all thru?" Rupert asked her as he walked over and shut the door, locking it. Jack took this opprotunity to remove his wig. "We've been thru hell and back-"
"You know nothing of hell." She whispered to him as Will stiffened behind her as she said that. Jack glanced down at Will, a different look coming into his chocolate eyes, before turning back to Rupert and saying, "Don't suppose you remember me-"
"Jack, of course I do." Rupert said to Jack, not really smiling at him. Just...expression less. "You're an idiot-" He looked down at Lila and said, "Both of you-"
"-Rupert, what do you think I'm doing this for the fun of it?" She laughed bitterly as Will walked over to Gwen and helped her out of her ropes. "That damned Beckett is only marrying me to get to the crown. Jack's helping me, because if we don't do this, then there's going to be three sides of this war!" When Rupert's expression didn't change, Lila took his hand and said, "Not all pirates are bad."
"All evidence to the contrary, love." Jack replied with a small smirk, ingoring Will's expression as he did so. Lila whirled around and hissed, "Jack, shut it." Turning back to Rupert she said, "Please don't tell my father-"
"Lila, you mean alot to me-" Jack smirked when Rupert said that. More or less because Will made a noise. Jack started making kissy faces behind Will's back, causing Lila to have to bite her lip to keep from laughing. Sighing, Rupert looked away from Lila and said to Jack ,"You think you could control yourself? Possibly for five minutes?"
"Physically impossible, mate." Jack said proudly as he sat down on the ground. "Can we hurry this up? Because I'd like to know if Captain Grumpy is going to let us free, or if I shall be sayin' my prayers considerin' I have an appointment with the gallows in the mornin'." Ignoring Jack once more, Rupert looked back down at Lila and said, "You mean a lot to me, Princess." Now it was Will's turn to smirk. Only Jack called her princess, and Jack was making it known. "Lila, I don't want you to get hurt. Especially not with the likes of Jack-"
"He's not as heartless as it may seem, Rupert. Sorry to disappoint you." Lila said to him, narrowing her eyes that were for some reason a bit brighter than they should have been. "And if it disappoints your further when I say that I trust him with my life, I'm sorry." Jack smiled up at Lila when she said that. Lila took a step back and said, "You can tell my father. Fine. Send Jack to the gallows. Go ahead-"
"Now, I don't think that's such dandy idea, darlin'." Jack said, now completely unsure of what the young princess was saying. He was tugging at her sleeve from where he was sitting, but she wasn't She just continued, "So, go ahead, Rupert. Tell my father and arrange an appointment for Jack at the gallows. But I want you to know, that you'll be hanging two people."
Rupert shook his head at her, saying, "You need to find you place in this world, Miss Parrish."
"I already have." She replied, cooly. "If it is my destiny to die a pirate, fine. So be it. Because you want to know where my place is? It's sure as hell not on that damn throne back at the palace. It's certainly not with Andrew Beckett. Whether it be on the Pearl, or the Dutchman or just on the sea, my place is here. And I'm changing that for anything." She crossed her arms over her chest, waiting for Rupert to make a move. He had his gun raised to Jack, but now that Lila had moved in front of him, he lowered it.
"Heavens, Lila. You don't know what you're doing." Rupert said to her as he lowered his gun altogether now.
"I know exactly what I'm doing." She said to him with a smile. "You don't know what you're doing." Rupert glanced down at his Navy uniform before looking back into Lila's shining eyes as she said, "Now, you have a choice to make, Rupert. Turn us in, and when I say us I mean me as well, I'm going down with them. Or, you can choose to do the right thing and not tell my father, and let us go. I've made my choice, what's yours?" Lila's gaze was so intense that Rupert had to drop his own...
"How far away is the Pearl?" Lila smiled at him and threw her arms around him. Rupert laughed and said, "We don't have much time. Your father will be back any moment." Lila pulled back and looked at him in shock as she said, "We?"
"Yes. We." Rupert said, smiling. "We as in me and you-" He motioned to the others. "Someone has to keep an eye on you." Lila smiled again as she hugged him and said, "Thank you." But as she said that, she could hear footsteps coming closer to the door. They broke apart as Rupert ran to the window and opened it, "Where's the Pearl, Jack?"
"On the east docks." Jack said, pulling one side of the window open. When the window was completely open, Jack motioned for the three girls to go first. Once they were out of the ship, the boys followed.
"They'll see us." Lena whispered as she looked behind Will. The four of them turned to see what Lena was looking at, and were surprised to see a bunch of the navy walking in their direction, the only thing hiding them were barrels. "What do we do?" She asked, turning to Will and Jack who were already lifing up an overturned rowboat. They motioned for them to follow, and everyone piled under it and began walking towards the water.
"Are you alright?" Lila felt a shiver go down her spine when Will asked that. It was so crowded as they walked under that rowboat, and his breath was hot against her neck. She reached up and tried to wipe water from her eye, but since they were under water, it only made it worse. Dipping her hand back into the water, watching the line of kohl disappear, she said, "Yes. Why?"
"No reason." He whispered. It wasn't a very large rowboat, so Will had to whisper, lest a certain Captain Jack hear them talking. "It's just...you said something back at the..." He trailed off. Had they not be partially under water, and under a heavy rowboat, Lila would have turned around to look at him. But many things were preventing that from happening.
"Oh, that..." Lila whispered, nervously biting her lip. "I didn't mean-"
"Don't lie to me." He whispered gently in her ear. "You never were a good liar."
"I was." Lila replied as she continued to walk, holding the boat up. "You just knew me too well."
Will chuckled and said, "Maybe a little too well." He stopped momentarily and said, "I'm sorry for all I've done to you." Lila closed her eyes, letting Jack and Rupert lead the boat. "Will, everything happens for a reason."
"How can you say that?" He asked her. But she never got a chance to reply, because at that time Jack said, "Arlight, we're under the docks. Drop the boat and let's swim." Lila groaned and pushed herself down under the boat. Once she was above the suface, she popped up beside Jack. Rupert was already on the deck, and she felt Jack's hands go on her waist, gently lifting her up into Rupert's arms.
Once she was on the deck, she walked past Rupert, to the direction of the Pearl. Once Jack and Will were on deck, Jack leaned over and whispered, "What's wrong with 'er?"
"Nothing." Will said, hoping his friend notice the lie he had just said. Jack was pretty good at figuring him out, but that might have been just due to the fact that after Elizabeth's death, the two have become very close. "Oh, goodness, Jack." Rupert whirled around when he heard Will say that, and looked as equally as disgusted as Will did. Jack was too as he stared down at the soggy powered wig.
"Makes you feel a bit sick, doesn't it?" Jack said as he twisted it over the ocean, allowing the water to drip out. He shrugged, keeping it tucked under his arm and said, "What are you men waiting for?" Will followed Jack, then Rupert, and the three men walked down the path. "Alright, Will. Tell you're crew to keep the Pearl in close distance."
"Where are we going exactly?" Will asked as he motioned to the Dutchman to wait for orders. Bootstrap nodded from on the top deck, the immortal side of his curse not leaving him after Will became captain, and went to the wheel as the three men climbed up on the Pearl. "Not sure. All I know is that 'tis between the Isla De Muerta and Ship Wreck Cove."
Rupert and Will exchanged glances, before Rupert said, "They're miles apart from each other. We'll be searching for days!"
Jack put a hand on Rupert's shoulder, and said, "My dear, Reginald-" Will laughed at that, but Jack just continued, "-I do know what I'm doing, lad. I'm Captain Jack Sparrow after all. 'Memeber that." He gave his shoulder a pat before walking over to find Will. As the Pearl sailed out into the ocean, with the Dutchman close behind, Jack walked over to where Will was standing by the rail.
"Something seems to be troubling you, Willaim." Was all Jack said as he pulled out the wig and began to fluff it. "Care to tell Ol' Jackie?" Will tore his eyes off of the ocean to look over at Jack who had a determined look on his face as he struggled to get the wig back in its original form, not the tangled mess that it was now.
"You think everything happens for a reason?" Will asked him after a minute, not really sure how Jack would answer. Jack was good to talk to when he was sober enough, other times his sentences came out so utterly confusing (yet, understandable) that you had to think sometimes for hours to understand what he had said.
"What do you mean?" Jack asked Will in what could have been the most sober sounding voice Will had ever heard Jack use. Jack was looking at Will with an unreadable look in his dark eyes, waiting for an answer.
"I don't know. I mean, like-" Will paused for a moment, running the key to his chest in his hands as he said, "-fate, I guess."
"Everythin' has a purpose in life, if that's what you mean." Jack said, turning around so he could lean on the rail and look into the eye of his former "enemy's" face. "I guess growin' up around the people I did, I had no choice in believin' that-" Jack made a distant looking face as he said that, not finishing.
"Who?"
"Mum wasn't a pirate." Jack said, not really looking at Will. "She was very close to Calypso, who wasn't Tia Dalma at the time, mind you." He said to Will when Will made a strange face. "Her name was somethin' like Narcissa or somethin' like that-" Jack made a face as if he was remembering, and then said, "-Calypso was really close to Neptune, being Lila's godmother. So, we grew up together. Calypso would always plant things in our minds like that... I guess after you hear it so much, you have no choice but to believe it."
"Neptune didn't mind?"
"No." Jack said, shaking his head. "I wasn't the pirate, my father was. After my mother found out, she took me and left my father, not wanting anythin' to do with him. We moved to the island where Neptune's palace was..." He took that moment to glance over at Lila who was now talking to Anya and Roxy.
"Do you love her?" Will was surprised that he actually asked that question. He was also surprised at Jack's reaction to that question. Jack laughed as he looked over at Will and said, "Mate, after the girl you love betrays you, it's hard to actually fall in love again." When Will looked over at Lila, Jack shook his head and said, "No. Wasn't the princess. A girl like her, pirate though she is, would never do somethin' like that. Heart's too big. This girl's was too, but-"
"Elizabeth?"
Jack clicked his tongue before showing a gold-tooth smile and said, "Took you long enough to figure it out." Jack turned to walk away from Will, but Will stopped him, "Why didn't you ever say anything?"
"William-" Jack said, keeping his back to him, "-when you're in love with your best mate's fiancee, even if said mate is a lyin', "heartless", back-stabbin' pirate-" He turned to face Will as he said, "That's not exactly somethin' you prance about shoutin', now is it?"
After a moment of silence passed between the two captains, Jack said, "Now you know."
"Did she know?" Will asked, following Jack down the stairs to the lower decks. He could hear Jack sigh as he said, "I'm assumin' so." Will looked down at the deck, watching as water slashed on from the waves as he asked, "Is that the reason you made me stab the heart?"
Jack whirled around to face Will with a shocked look on his face, "What are you talkin' about?"
"You led my hand to the heart, Jack." Will said with a slight smile. "I always wondered how-...my father told me before Eliz-" He paused. Bringing up her probably wasn't the best thing right now if he wanted to get this answer. "Was she the reason you stabbed my heart? For her to be happy even if-"
Jack laughed as he put a hand on the mast. Staring at it for a minute, he turned back to the younger boy and asked, "Will, I'd be lyin' to ye if it didn't cross me mind to stab the heart meself." Will wasn't entirely shocked by Jack's answer. He only pulled back his dark ringlets with his bandana and waited for Jack to continue.
"But you didn't leave me that choice." Jack said, raising his chocolate eyes up to meet Will's hazel ones. "Who was the man that risked his life for me even when I betrayed him? Wasn't Lizzie. Not entirely and it wouldn't have been had you not made her do it." Will, for some reason couldn't look Jack in the eye anymore, but settled for the mast he was leaning against. "And besides, she wasn't a man..." Will smiled at that. "No. I didn't do if for the girl the betrayed me, and you in a way if ye think 'bout it. I did it for you." And with that, Jack walked past Will and back to the stairs. Will smiled to himself as he heard those boots' steps get more distant as he asked, not looking at Jack, "Your moment to do the right thing?"
He could hear Jack chuckle as he turned around to face him. Leaning against the railing, so he could look down into the eyes of his former first mate, Jack said, "Aye, one of them, I 'spose." He shrugged as he looked out at the sea, then back down to Will as he said, "But you know, I love those moments."
"Oh, really, Captain Sparrow?"
Jack smirked as he said, "Aye, Captain Turner." He pushed himself off of the railing, and waved as if another ship was sailing beside him, "I like to wave at them as they pass by..."
Will smiled as he turned around. Surprisingly, Lila was standing behind him. "I'm sorry, Will. About-"
"No, Li." He said, smiling at the sound of her old nickname. "Don't worry about it, love." She smiled up at him, and did something that completely surprised both of them. She wrapped her arms around him, and rested her head in his chest. He smiled against the top of her head as she said, "You don't know how much I've missed you."
Will looked up momentarily to see Jack smiling down at them. Maybe he wasn't like everyone had said he was. He was a pirate. But possibly...just maybe...he was a good man.
Lila pulled back so she could look up at him as he said, "I've missed you too."
A few minutes later, Jack bounced back down the stairs. Lila looked up and said, "What are you so happy about, Sparrow?"
He smirked over at Will as he said to Lila, wrapping an arm around her waist. "Nothing at all, darlin'. Do I have to have a reason to smile upon seein' my favorite girl?" Shooting a smile over at Will, he said to both of them, "You are in some serious need of rum, mates." He reached behind them and pulled out two bottles from heaven knows where, and tossed them over to them. Lila caught hers, while Will narrowly missed dropping his.
Leaning somewhat into Jack, Lila said after taking a sip of her rum, "You think we'll win this war?"
"We've narrowly escaped certain death many a times, darlin'." Jack said, lowering his bottle from his lips. Will smiled at that, bringing his bottle to meet his own lips as he leaned against the mast, twirling the key around his fingers unaware that Lila was watching him do that the whole time. "Why should now be any different?"
Jack smiled down at Lila who leaned her head on his shoulder. Will smiled over at Jack as he said, "You're sure about that, Sparrow?"
"Never been more certain of anythin' if my life, mate." He winked at him, before raising his bottle to his lips once more.
Yes, they have cheated death more times than anyone should. Will was immortal, Jack was forever young by the fountain of youth... Lila herself was immortal as long as she wasn't wounded fatally or deathly sick from some disease. They all tested fate.
Who's to say they should cheat death again?
But who's to say they shouldn't?
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