Disclaimers: POTC isn't mine, and Jack, Will, and the others aren't either; only Lawrence is.

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One morning, a new prisoner arrived, hanging like a possum on a branch; Lawrence noticed that he was fairly young, had a fair face and a brown moustache and goatee that matched his brown hair. She was wondering where he'd come from and if there were more people with him when to her surprise, the man recognised Jack.

'Jack? Jack Sparrow? I can honestly say I'm glad to see you. Jack, it's me, Will Turner!'

'Wait, what? How does he know Jack? Who is this Will Turner? I think I've heard this name before…'

Jack showed no sign of recognition and ordered the men to take him away.

'Jack, tell them to put me down! Jack, the compass, it's all I need. Elizabeth is in danger. We were arrested for trying to help you. She faces the gallows!'

'Elizabeth?' exclaimed Lawrence. 'Is he talking about the Elizabeth I know?'

Will turned his head and acknowledged her presence for the first time. He looked at her, surprised, but before he could say anything, she heard Jack whisper in his ear to save him.

'Jack, what did you tell them? No! What about Elizabeth? Jack!' Will screamed as he was carried away.

'Jack!' Lawrence said angrily. 'What was this about? You know this man, what did you say?'

But Jack didn't answer her; since she'd been captured, he hadn't said a word to her. She couldn't blame him though, she knew that if he interacted with her in front of everyone, the cannibals would either punish her or him; but he could have tried something to help her at least!

From the commotion she heard, she gathered that the prisoner had somehow escaped and most of the cannibals were tracking him down. 'Please God, let him be ok…' Lawrence silently prayed. She looked over at Jack. 'Now would be the best opportunity for him to free me and to escape…' She whistled to attract Jack's attention; he turned his head in her direction, thinking about the same thing. But unfortunately for the both of them, Jack was led to the forest by his faithful servants/guards and left her there, alone.

'Alright then, new plan…' she looked around and noticed that none of the cannibals were here. Every day since her capture, she had tried to free her wrists, either by pulling, gnawing, or rubbing it against anything that looked sharp, but in vain; she'll have to find a way out hands bound. She tried to kick the wooden bars, with her feet and her shoulders but the only result was a couple of bruises… She was starting to despair when suddenly she heard leaves ruffling behind her; she turned round, eyes wide with fear.

'It's alright, I'm here to help you out!' 'What? That Will Turner is risking his life to save mine? Is he crazy or completely reckless?'

'You came back for me?' Lawrence was speechless. 'I'm… I'm touched. Really. Thank you!'

With his long knife, he began to saw and kick the closest bar he found.

'You'll thank me once you're out, Miss…' he asked, a bit out of breath.

'Lawrence. Just call me Lawrence, or Law, or Rush' she nervously laughed. 'Your name is Will, is that right? Will Turner?'

'That's right! Here you go, quick!' he said helping her out. He took her hands in his left and cut her ropes.

'Can you run?' he inquired, looking everywhere to see whether he had not been followed.

'Sure, yes! Thank you again, Will!'

'I would never leave a woman in the hands of cannibals.' He smiled at her then took her hand. 'Come, we'll find the way back to the beach!'

It felt really strange to run hand in hand with someone she didn't know and yet who had saved her life to the detriment of his. She wished she had more time to find where she had heard his name before, but honestly, running for their lives was quite the priority at the moment.

'That's the cord I used to mark our way!' Lawrence said, still running.

'So you're the one who thought of it? That's clever!' He sounded genuinely impressed.

Lawrence rolled her eyes. 'Please, the last thing I need right now is flirting!'

They stopped to catch their breath; apparently they had not been followed.

'Where are you going?' Will asked.

'We're clearly lost, I've lost track of the cord and I'm pretty sure we've already been there. I'll just climb that tree to see where the beach is.'

'I must say, you're tactics are impressive, for a woman!' he said with awe.

She side eyed him. 'I'm not sure if I should be flattered or offended, Mr. Turner… Stay right here, I won't be long!' And so she started her ascension in the exotic tree. When she arrived at the top, she instantly spotted the beach; they just had a good few yards to run and they would be there. She climbed down as quickly as she could, trying not to fall.

'We're really close, Will, just a few-' She turned round; Will was nowhere to be seen. 'Will!' she shouted. 'Will!' 'My God, where is he?' She noticed the leaves on the ground had been greatly disarranged, as though a large heavy weight had fallen and had been pulled away.

'Oh no, they've found him while he was waiting for me!'

Now she had several options, either she tried to catch up with his abductors as quickly as she could to save him while she still could, or returned to the village to free the others and help Jack out of his situation, or go back to the Pearl. She didn't have much time to think it through, so she immediately ran to the beach to fetch her lost sword and other arms.

'Pintel? Ragetti?'

'Oh look, it's Rush!' said the taller one.

'Wh- What are you doing here? I thought we had left you on the previous island we've been on…'

'Err… we saw the Pearl and guessed you would be there… so we were thinking that we might guard her in Jack's absence…' said Pintel, looking sheepish.

Lawrence didn't trust a word he said but let it drop anyway.

'Listen, I need your help. Jack and the others have been kidnapped and we need to free them before they're eaten!'

No reaction.

'Come on, let's go, we don't have the whole day!'

'No, you go Rush. I said we're keeping an eye on the Pearl…'

'What? But they're gonna die!' Seeing that they weren't moving, she shook her head, furious, and ran away to the wood, her sword in hand.

'Pirates!' she said between her teeth. 'Bloody typical!'

She managed to find the way back to the village without as much problem as she had had with Will to find the beach, and hid herself behind the bushes. She arrived just on time to see Jack being pursued by the troop of cannibals over the suspended bridge. 'What has he done now?!' She waited for the last man to cross the bridge to follow them without being noticed, but no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't find them; she had waited too long.

Frustrated, she ventured into these new woods and heard a lot of shouting on her left. Recognizing Gibbs and even Will's voices, she carefully ran into that direction.

'So there're together then? At least that's a relief!' And then she saw them. They were trapped into a giant spherical cage made out of what looked like bones; they had lost control of it and were rolling away towards a deep gully, and… down they fell. Their assailants, seeing that they couldn't reach them anymore, ran to another direction. Lawrence hurried to see whether her friends were still alive; to her relief, they were. It was miraculous, none of them were injured but were swimming away towards the entrance of the cave they had fallen into.

She concluded that she jumping to join them would be too dangerous, but on the other hand, she had lost track of the cannibals and would be able to follow them towards wherever they were going or find her way back.

She took a deep breath, and dived in, hoping for the best. She had never jumped such a height before; it felt both invigorating and frightening at the same time. She didn't have much time to reflex on it for she was already hitting the water. When she resurfaced, she was winded because of the force of the shock. She managed to breathe with difficulty and started swimming.

'Thank God, you're here!' she sighed with relief.

'Hush!' Marty said to her, beckoning her to join them in silence.

'What is it?'

'Lawrence, you're here!' whispered Gibbs and Will at the same time.

'Yes, I followed you…'

'We'll talk about this later; let's go!' said Will, motioning the entrance.

As soon as they were on the beach, they ran as quickly as they could, as if the devil was behind them.

The Black Pearl thanks to, or rather, because of Pintel and Ragetti; but that was for the better.

'Make ready to sail, boys!' ordered Gibbs when they had reached them.
'What about Jack? I won't leave without him' Will interjected, stopping in his course.
'Oi!' they heard shouting behind them. Lawrence and her friends turned round and saw Jack running as fast as he could from the horde of cannibals that was after him.
'Time to go' said Will, suddenly changing his mind, considering the present situation.

'Cast off those lines!' said Gibbs while they all climbed up the ropes to board the ship.
'Oi!' shouted Jack once again; but the ship was already going away into the sea, so he swam out to the Pearl and clang out to the ropes.

Jack being Jack, he couldn't help himself and made his usual speech to the cannibals.

'Ah Jack… the sin of hubris will be your downfall!' Lawrence thought, shaking her head and smiling.

'Alas, my children' he said, waving at them, 'this is the day you shall always remember as the day that you almost-' he waved cut him in his speech and drenched him even more. '…Captain Jack Sparrow' he concluded with a sigh.

'Let's put some distance between us and this island and head out to open sea' said Gibbs, taking control of the situation.
'Yes to the first, yes to the second, but only as so far as we keep to the shallows as much as possible' added Jack.
'Now, that seems a bit contradictory, Captain.'
'I have every faith in your reconciliatory navigational skills, Master Gibbs. Now, where is that monkey? I want to shoot something.'
'Jack!' said Will, coming up to him.
'Ah!'
'Elizabeth is in danger!'

'Again that Elizabeth! I need to know whether it's the Lizzie I know… But first, I'll wait' patiently thought Lawrence as she was drying her hair with a long piece of cloth that didn't look so filthy.
'Have you considered keeping a more watchful eye on her. Maybe just lock her up somewhere?'
'She is locked up in a prison, bound to hang for helping you.'

'Wait, helping Jack? Now there can't be many Elizabeths that would help him, and considering the events of last year, it had to be her!'

'Hang?' Lawrence gasped. 'On whose authority?' 'Not James. He wouldn't; he couldn't! She knew he was back to Port Royal, but to go as far as hanging her, especially since he had once loved her… No, that couldn't be him.'
'There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one's mistakes' Jack said, sharing hos well-known wisdom.

Will snatched a sword and brought it to Jack's throat.

'I need that compass of yours, Jack. I must trade it for her freedom.'
'Mr. Gibbs?' Jack said, pushing away the sword.
'Captain?'
'We have a need to travel upriver.'
'By need, do you, mean a trifling need, fleeting, as in, say, a passing fancy?'
'No, a resolute and unyielding need.'

'What we need to do is make sail for Port Royal with all haste' said Will in an authoritative tone.

'Port-Royal? Oh Will, I could kiss you!' Lawrence internally exulted. 'I'm going to see James at last!'
'William... I shall trade you the compass, if you will help me... to find this' Jack said, showing him the drawing of the strange key.
'You want me to find this?'

'No. You want you to find this. Because the finding of this, finds you incapacitorially finding and/or locating in your discovering the detecting of a way to save your dolly belle ol' what's her face. Savvy?'
Will seized the cloth.

'This is going to save Elizabeth?'
'How much do you know about Davy Jones?'

'What's that Davy Jones got to do with this?' Lawrence wondered. 'How a legend of the sea could possibly help Elizabeth?'
'Not much' admitted Will, wondering also what Davy Jones had to do with all this.
'Yeah, it's going to save Elizabeth!'