HI! Still here, this chapter doesn't involve Joanna much but i did change a huge part of the story to make i work for my story. so read, review, follow, and fave :)

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The Black Pearl is at a dock, loading fruits and livestock, Jack and Joanna are walking together, Elizabeth approaches from behind, still dressed as a man.

"I heard some rather unsettling news this evening" Joanna started to say.

"Oh? Pray tell what that may be?" Jack answered back.

Elizabeth follows the crew back to the ship. "Captain Sparrow!"

"Come to join me crew, lad? Welcome aboard" Jack said not paying attention to her.

"I'm here to find the man I love" She replied.

Joanna and Jack both stop in their tracks, deeply confused. "I'm flattered, son, but my first and only love is Joanna, we are bound to be wed as well"

"Meaning William Turner, Captain Sparrow" She responded to him.

"Elizabeth is it then? Hide the rum" He said as Gibbs passed by.

Gibbs takes the bottle that Jack hands to him, and walks up the boarding plank in the background.

"You know, these clothes do not flatter you at all. It should be a dress that's it" Joanna looked her up and down.

"You wear what you want but I can't?"

"Chris is a pirate, you are royalty very different"

"Jack I'm done with your games. I know Will came to find you. Where is he?" Elizabeth was finally fed up with Jack's shit.

"I am truly unhappy to have to tell you this but... through an unfortunate and entirely unforeseeable series of circumstances that have nothing whatsoever to do with me, poor William has been press ganged into Davy Jones' crew"

Now Elizabeth was confused. "Davy Jones?"

Norrington vomits over the side, then spits. "Oh, please. The captain of the Flying Dutchman?"

Jack looked at Norrington in disgust. "You look bloody awful. What are you doing here?"

"You hired me. I can't help it if your standards are lax" Norrington racked back and forth looking rather sickly.

"You smell funny" Jack said making faces at him.

"Jack. All she want is to find Will, let us do that for her" Joanna said.

"Are you certain? Is that what you really want most?"

"'Course" Elizabeth had replied.

"Because I would think, you'd want to find a way to save Will the most"

"And you have a way of doing that?" She asked.

"Well, there is a chest.." Jack said removing his hand from Joanna's back. "A chest of unknown size and origin"

Pintel & Ragetti walk by, together carrying a crate of bottles, and overhearing the conversation.

"What contains the still-beating heart o' Davy Jones"

"And whoever possesses that chest possesses the leverage to command Jones to do whatever it is he or she wants, including... saving brave William from his grim fate"

Norrington pointed to Jack. "You don't actually believe him, do you?"

"How do we find it?" She asked hopeful"

Jack pulled the compass from his waist and gave it to her. "With this. My Compass... is unique to say the least, got me a very special gift it did"

"Unique, here having the meaning of broken" Norrington replied.

"True enough. The Compass does not point north but on the other hand it does point to what you want most of you hadn't gotten that yet" Joanna moved in between the two.

"Joanna, Are you telling the truth?"

"Every word. And what you want most in this world is to find the chest of Davy Jones, right Jack?" She gave him a nudge.

"Oh, aye" He replied with a smile.

"To save Will?" She asked again.

"By finding the chest of Davy Jones" he answered, moving away from the compass. Elizabeth consults the compass, for her the dial clearly points in a specific direction, It points in a north-east direction. Jack slowly rises up to peer at the face of the compass.

Jack was pleased it finally stopped spinning. "Mister Gibbs!"

"Cap'n?"

"We have our heading" Jack smiled.

"Finally! Cast off those lines, weigh anchor, and prow that canvas!" Gibbs shouted at the crew.

"Miss Swann" Jack said making way for Elizabeth to walk ahead of them.

"Do you think she'll lead us to the chest?" Joanna asked Jack.

"One word love, persuasion, she's gonna love it"

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Jack and the rest of his crew of were admiring the letters of marque, but Jack had other intentions in mind and he planned on succeeding.

"Beckett!" Gibbs exclaimed.

"Yes, they're signed, Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company" Elizabeth explained.

Jack stuck his tongue out in disgust, remembering the awful things that Beckett did to him. "Agh"

"Beckett? The same man that had you prisoner?"

"Aye, that bloody man" Jack said disgusted.

"Will was working for Beckett, and never said a word" Gibbs responded.

"Agh" Jack still was pissed that he had to again deal with Beckett.

"Beckett wants the Compass. Only one reason for that" Joanna replied.

Jack realized what was going on, soon after Joanna had. "Of course. He wants the chest"

Elizabeth nodded her head. "Yes, he did say something about a chest"

"If the company controls the chest, they control the seas" Joanna leaned over the side of the ship, staring out to sea.

Jack came up behind her, to comfort her. "A truly discomforting notion, love"

"And bad. Bad for every mother's son what calls himself a pirate. I think there's a bit more speed to be coaxed from these sails. Brace the fore yard!" Gibbs shouted walking away.

Jack held the letters in his hand. "Might I inquire how as to how you came by these?"

Elizabeth gave Jack a sexy smile "Persuasion"

Joanna didn't like the looks Elizabeth was giving Jack, and neither did Jack. "Friendly?" He said mad.

"I Decided against it"

"Will strikes a deal for these" Jack holds up the letters again. "Upholds it with honor. Yet you're the one standing here with the prize. Full pardon, commission as a privateer on behalf of England and the East India Trading Company. As if I could be bought for such a low price" Jack tucks the letters into his coat and begins to walk away.

Elizabeth grabs at Jack's coat, but grabs a little to close for Joanna's like. "Jack, the Letters, give them back"

"Bitch!" Joanna grabbed Elizabeth's hair and yanks her back.

Jack turned around to face Elizabeth, pissed. "No. Now persuade me"

"You do know Will taught me how handle a sword" She said getting right back in Jack's face.

"As I said... Persuade me"

Elizabeth walks away frustrated, leaning on the ship's railing. Jack makes an odd grunting noise.

"Darling I think it's time to spend a little time alone" Jack whispered in Joanna's ear.

"Oh?" Chris giggled.

Norrington walks up to Elizabeth at the railing. "It's a curious thing. There was a time when I would've given anything for you to look at me like they look at each other" Norrington made a notion to the couple walking away. "But you Elizabeth are jealous"

"I highly doubt that"

"You want to be with him, you want Jack to look at you with passion, be desired by the captain, do you not?"

"So what?" Elizabeth was fuming now.

"So you never wondered how your latest fiancé ended up on the Flying Dutchman in the first place?"

Later that day Elizabeth was sitting on some steps on deck of the Black Pearl when Jack walks over to her, holding a bottle of rum.

"My tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature informs me that you are troubled"

"I just thought I'd be married by now. I'm so ready to be married" She admitted.

Jack offers Elizabeth a drink from his bottle. "You know... I am... captain of a ship. And being captain of a ship, I could in fact perform a... marriage. For you and your dear Will, as soon as we get him back that is, but for NOW!" Elizabeth recoils at Jack's breath on the word "now". "You can attend mine and Joanna's"

"After what you woman did to me, No, thank you"

"Why not? After all I have done for you? I saved you and helped Will realize what a fool he was for not telling you sooner"

"I do not wish to see you marry yourself off"

"Do I sense jealously?" Jack asked curious.

"You seem very certain"

"You wish that if I was not betrothed to Joanna that you'd want me to yourself, you long for that freedom that Will can not give you, you want me, you can not deny that"

"Shut up. Why doesn't your Compass work?" She asked changing the subject.

Jack was confused. "Uh my Compass works fine"

"There will come a moment when you will want me back. I know you will do the right thing"

"The right thing as in marrying Joanna?"

"Trust me you will come for me"

"Do explain?" Jack asked drinking more rum.

"I have faith in you. Want to know why?"

"Do tell"

"Curiosity. You're going to want it. A chance to be with royalty. And gain the rewards that follow. You won't be able to resist. You're going to want to know... what it tastes like" Elizabeth said getting closer to Jack's face, the rum getting to his head now, temping him to make mistakes.

"Ye... NO!" Jack pulls away from her glare. "You wench! If you even so think to tear me relationship up with Chris I will run you through"

Elizabeth was discouraged with her failed attempt. "But seeing as you're a good man I know you will never do anything to hurt your loved one"

Jack lifts his hand up to push her away so he could get back to Chris, but just stares in horror as the black spot boils back into view on his hand, Elizabeth doesn't seem to notice.

"I'm proud of you, Jack. Chris is a lucky girl"

"Mhm... I gotta go!" Jack runs off as he hears Gibbs in the back ground shouting that they found land. "I want me jar of dirt, Chris!" He shouts.

"Aye?"

"I want a wedding right here, right now!" Jack exclaimed in happiness.

"WHAT?!" She said along with most of the crew.

"You heard me, snap to it, find your mum's dress she left and lets get married"

"Jack what has gotten into you?"

"I don't think I will make it out of this one, I want everything I own to go to you, and with you having me last name it will be certain"

"Jack don't say that, you will make it out alive"

"Are you arguing with the captain?"

"No I'm not, lets have a wedding!" Joanna finally accepted with excitement.

SO tell me if you want to see the wedding, I'd rather just skip it cause its so hard to write wedding bits, but if you would like to read it let me know.