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Jack climbed aboard his ship only to be bombarded by Chris who jumped up into his arms.

"You asshole! I thought you dead" She said punching him in the arm, after he had set her down.

"Love I did not intend to be captured, let alone there chief"

"Next time, demand I go with you so if you die I won't be alone!" Joanna stormed off still mad about being captured and Jack leaving her to die.

"Joanna come back!" Jack said about to chase her.

Gibbs intervenes before Jack made another mistake. "Let's put some distance between us and this island, and head out to open sea"

Being distracted for the moment, which he was pleased with, he needed to be a captain again. "Yes to the first, yes to the second, but only in so far as we keep to the shallows as much as possible"

"Uh, that seems a bit contradictory, Captain" Gibbs replied confused.

I have every faith in your re-conciliatory navigational skills, Master Gibbs, now where is that monkey? I want to fucking shoot something"

That damn woman! Why does she cloud me mind so much. I have missed her.

The monkey screams, dropping Ragetti's eye, he grabs his eye, spitting on it, he rubs the spit around on the eye. The monkey chatters and climbs into the rigging once again, Jack is ready to shoot the monkey with his pistol, when Will distracts him next.

"Jack" Will shouted running up to him.

"Ey?" Jack asked pulling attention away from the monkey and Joanna.

"Elizabeth is in danger"

"Have you considered keeping a more watchful eye on 'er? Maybe just lock her up somewhere" Jack laughed at himself.

Will wasn't happy with Jack, or anyone for that matter. "She is locked up, in a prison, bound to hang for helping you!"

"There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one's mistakes"

Will pulls a sword from the waistband of a pirate who is turned around and points it at Jack.

"I need that Compass of yours, Jack. I must trade it for her freedom"

Jack looks up at him, only to see Joanna pointing a sword at Will's neck, he looks down again.

"Will you are like a brother to me, but when you threaten Jack you threat me, move away"

Will turned to face Joanna, sword in hand still, but now facing her instead. "You'd turn your back on one of the only people who care for you?"

Jack was not having this on his ship, definitely wasn't going to let this continue when it was her who was involved. He pulls out his sword and poked it into Will's neck. "This is between me and you boy, Joanna dies... you'll die too"

"You'd think I'd kill her?" Will asked confused as to why the sudden hostility, when all he wanted was the damn compass.

"I don't like you William, I have a right not to like you, Mister Gibbs!" Jack called out.

"Cap'n?" He answered.

"We have a need to travel upriver"

Gibbs moved in closer to Jack to whisper in his ear. "Sir? I I don't mean to pry, but you and Miss Joanna, she is yours yes?"

"No" Jack shook his head. A rather... resolute and unyielding need"

Will over heard there conversation and was growing mad again. "What we need to do is make sail for Port Royal with all haste"

"William... I shall trade you the Compass, if you will help me... to find this" Jack pulls out the piece of paper that had the drawing of the key on it.

"Oh not this again!" Joanna shouted. "Jack you're never gonna find it, give up already"

Will didn't understand what was being asked of him. "You want me to find this?" Will asked.

"No. You want you to find this. Because the finding this finds you incapacitorially finding and/or locating and your discovering the detecting of a way to save your dolly dotty belle ol'... what's-her-face.

Savvy?"

"What the fuck did he just say?" Joanna asked Gibbs.

Gibbs just shrugged. "Not really sure"

"This... is going to save Elizabeth?"

"How much do you know about Davy Jones?"

"Oh not this again!" Joanna shouted. "What is it with Davy Jones?"

"If I told you, well its just better that you don't know right now"

"Not much" Will answered honestly.

Well good the damn kid didn't ask questions this time. "Yeah, it's gonna save Elizabeth" Jack turned away from Will and focused his attention back to Chris who was chatting with Gibbs. "Love, my cabin now"

She meets him in the cabin. "I'm still mad at you Jack"

"Aye, ye got no reason, I made it back, haven't I"

"Shut up!" Joanna said pushing him back down onto the bed.

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The Black Pearl had made it to the mouth of the Pantano River, the crew shuffled into

two longboats, Joanna, Jack, and Cotton in one, while Will, Gibbs, Pintel and Ragetti were in the other ship, they begin their way up the river, the longboats make there way into a swampy area with twisted roots.

"Gibbs tell us one of ye old tales" Joanna asked.

"Or you can answer why Jack is afraid is open water" Will replied instead.

Jack gave an annoyed glare at Gibbs and Will. "William if you must know then Gibbs tell away" He then shot Gibbs a look of make it seem none realistic.

Gibbs nodded in a yes manor and began his tale. "Aye, well, if you believe such things, there's a beast does the bidding of Davy Jones. A fearsome creature with giant tentacles that suction your face clean off. And drag an entire ship past the crushing darkness" Gibbs pauses to see if Jack was pleased with his tale. The Kraken!" He said with a serious face

Jack turns around at mention of the word, Pintel and Ragetti look at each other, while Joanna was so interested in the story wasn't frightened at all.

Gibbs hated lying to Joanna but it was Jack's wish so he had to obey. "They say the stench of its breath is like – ooh!" He shuddered. "Imagine: The last thing you know on God's green earth is the roar of the Kraken, and the reeking odor of a thousand rotting corpses. If you believe such things" Gibbs finished his tale, leaving everyone scared.

"The key will spare him that?" Will asked in hushed tones.

"Now that's the very question Jack wants answered. Bad enough even to go visit... Her"

"Her?" Will asked confused.

"Aye" Mystic woman she is"

The bayou is filled with fireflies, making for a rather beautiful sight, with the occasional islander staring at them, Chris grabbed Jack's arm as the neared the edge. They exited the boats.

Jack was glad she was no longer mad at him, but he was sure she would be mad again after this visit. "No worries, Love. Tia Dalma and I go way back. Thick as thieves. Nigh inseparable we are. Were. Have been. Before" Jack said not knowing what kind of mood Tia Dalma would be in.

"You don't seem to confident in your friend ship"

"Aye, you will be safe"

"I'll watch your back" Gibbs told him.

"It's me front I'm worried about. Mind the boat" Jack said pulling Joanna forward.

"I have his front Gibbs"

"Mind the boat" Gibbs said.

"Mind the boat" Will said next.

The crew passed the line down until it was just Cotton left. Jack cautiously enters Tia's shack, pushing the door open slowly, near the inside of the shack door hangs a live snake, Tia is sitting at a table, looks up from her crab claws, to see Jack in the doorway, with Joanna at his right.

Tia Dalma smiles. "Jack Sparrow!"

Jack gives her a half smile back, acting excited to see her. "Tia Dalma!"

Tia waggles her finger in front of him, laughing. "I always know de wind was goin' blow you back to me one day who'd tis?" She asked standing now in front of Chris.

Tia sees Will standing in the doorway, goes up to him and ignores Joanna just as she was about to respond.

She points at Will. "You. You have a touch of... destiny about you, William Turner"

Will didn't understand how she knew him. "You know me?"

Tia was now teasing Will. "You want to know me?"

There'll be no knowing here. We've come for help and we're not leaving without it.

"Come" Tia said. "What... service... may I do you? Hmmm?" She said playing with Will. "You know I demand payment"

Jack was pleased she had asked that. "I brought payment" Jack whistles once, a crewmember brings in the monkey in a cage. "Look!" Jack cocks his pistol, shoots the monkey, the bullet has no effect, but the monkey chatters in fright. "An undead monkey! Top that!"

Tia lifts the cage door, the monkey scampers off. "The payment is fair"

Joanna watched the monkey run to the back room and she noticed something strange, something familiar.

"We're looking for this. And what it goes to"

"The Compass you bartered from me. It cannot lead you to dis?"

"Maybe. Why?" Jack pretended he didn't know what she meant but he did.

"Ayeee hey ya... Jack Sparrow does not know what he wants! Or... do know, can you not decide which you'd rather embark on. Your key go to a chest, and it is what lay inside the chest you seek, don't it?"

"What is inside?" Gibbs asked excited.

Tia was pleased with all these questions. "You know of... Davy Jones, yes? A man of de sea. A great sailor, until he ran afoul of dat which vex all men"

Will wasn't understanding all this pirate talk but went along anyways. "What vexes all men?"

"What, indeed" She smiled.

"The sea?" Joanna asked.

"A woman" Jack replied being annoyed with his crew.

"I had thought being a a wo-man you would know what vexes all men, ye have yer own my dear. He fell in love"

"No-no-no-no, I heard it was the sea he fell in love with" Gibbs responded.

Tia didn't like Gibbs you could tell. "Same story, different versions, and all are true. See, it was a woman, as changing, and harsh, and uncountable as the sea. Him never stopped loving her. But the pain it cause 'im was too much to live wid. But not enough to cause him to die"

"What... exactly did he put into the chest?" Will said cutting to the chase.

She placed her hand on her heart and smiled. "Him heart"

"What?!" Chris exclaimed.

"It was not wort' feeling what... small fleeting joy life brings, and so... he carved out him heart, lock it away in a chest, and hide de chest from de world. De keys, he keep wid him at all times"

Will was mad at Jack. "You knew this"

"Your gonna send him after Davy Jones?" Joanna asked.

"No" Jack responded to her, but facing back to Will he continued. "I did not. I didn't know where the key was. But now we do. So all that's left is to climb aboard the Flying Dutchman, grab the key, you go back to Port Royal and save your bonnie lass"

Tia could see something else was wrong. "Let me see ya hand" She placed her hand out for him.

Jack shows his right hand is untouched, but Tia unwraps the bandage on his left hand. The black spot on Jack's left hand is revealed.

"Uhhh! The black spot!" Gibbs quickly wipes his hands on his chest, spins around once to the left, and spits.

The rest of the crew follows him, but Joanna, Will and Jack just stare at them.

"My eyesight's as good as ever, just so you know" Jack tried to lighten the mood.

Tia pushed aside cloth door beads, she goes into a back room, and searches for something. While Jack steals a ring off of one of Tia's tables, beside the ring is a silver locket.

"The black spot? Why didn't you tell you me this? Also give me the ring, it doesn't belong to you"

Tia comes back with an object from the back room.

"Aye she be right Jack Sparrow, it's Barbossa's, give it to her. Davy Jones cannot make port. Cannot step on land but once every ten years. Land is where you are safe, Jack Sparrow. And so you will carry land wid you" She changed the subject. Handing Jack a jar of dirt.

"Dirt. This is a jar of dirt"

"Yes?"

"Is the... jar of dirt going to help?"

"If you don' want it, give it back" She demanded.

"No" He hugged the dirt to himself.

"Den it helps" She smiled.

"It seems... we have a need to find the Flying Dutchman" Will interjected.

Tia sat down at the table, she holds several crab shells between her cupped hands and closes her eyes. "A touch... of destiny!" Tia throws the crab claws down on the table to see how they fall.