While they were thus occupied, Captain Teague had left his crew on the Enforcer to finish dealing with the crew of El Gavilon. Teague rowed over to the Dutchman, tied up his jolly boat and hauled himself up on deck. He stood up to his full height and glanced around, catching Will's eye.

"So you're William Turner, eh?" He did not ask for permission to board.*

Will eyed him coolly. "And you are…?"

"Teague. Keeper of the Code."

"You look familiar, Mr. Teague."

"Captain Teague, boy," Teague corrected.

Will's lips curled up just a little. "Ah, I think I know who you are now. Striking resemblance. So what can I do for you, Captain Teague?"

"Captain Swann took a bullet for my son, and died. You can give her back to us."

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Captain."

Teague became, if possible even more menacing in his demeanor. "Oh?" he growled.

Not even Will was proof against Teague's intimidation. Will held up his hands in a defensive gesture. "You don't understand, sir. I would if I could, because—" he glanced behind him, and Teague noticed for the first time that Jack was there with Elizabeth. They were quite wrapped up in each other; Elizabeth clung to him, face nestled into Jack's neck, and he was holding her, stroking her hair, and whispering to her. Teague had never seen his son look at a woman that way before.

"—Because it seems she was very much loved," Will finished with a touch of irony. "But I don't have any power over life, just death."

"What if I offered you an exchange?" Teague asked. He'd lived a long life, after all.

Will shook his head. "If you died for her this minute, then I'd just have two souls to ferry across instead of one. I can't bring people back to life."

"But I can," came Calypso's lilting, heavily accented voice as she materialized on the deck.

Will greeted her with a relieved smile, and Teague swept off his hat and bowed deeply.

"M'lady," he greeted.

Calypso smiled and went to him, placing a hand gently on his weathered cheek. "Edward Robert Teague," she said. "It has been a long time, my frien'."

"Aye, that it has. I've missed you, m'lady."

"As I miss you as well. Now, what you want to ask me, Edward?"

"For Miss Swann's life back, m'lady."

"For whose sake you askin', Edward?"

"For the sake of my son, her son, her aunt, and myself," he said. "And for all the pirates from the Cove."

"You know I care nuttin' for de pirates dere," she said. "Dey be de ones who boun' me in de firs' place.

"Aye, I remember, m'lady," Teague admitted. "But don't ye forget about the generations of pirates and sailors who have loved ye, served ye, lived for ye and died for ye. None of them was responsible for binding ye, m'lady. All's we're asking for is our king back alive."

* Note: By not asking permission to board, Teague was either making a grievous insult to Will, or was showing that he considered the Dutchman to be an enemy vessel that he was boarding by force, as if he was taking the ship. I leave it up to the reader to decide which one it was.