POTC4-ch13 until fanfiction is back on (for sailorleo)
Kate: So who are you bartering me to?
Jack: Classified information. We'll be setting sail shortly. Will, do you want her in the brig?
Norrington: (to Abigail) And where is your noble fiancé in all of this?
Abigail: I told you, Father, he's missing.
Kate: Not quite. We saw him on Davy Jones' ship.
Abigail: You couldn't have.
Will: She's right, Abby. I saw him, too.
Kate: He was in a cabin and looked quite comfortable.
Abigail: That's not true. You're just trying to win my trust.
Will: Abby
Abigail: And you! True, you might have brought the traitor back, but you seduced her to do it! You're no better than all the rest of us, but we know how much effort you put in pretending you are! I don't care what you say! You may have seen a man but it wasn't Alex! (runs off crying)
Will (to Norrington): I suppose you think I'm to blame for that.
Norrington: On the contrary, Mr. Turner. I think it is the best news Abigail has ever heard. Attached to a man who so easily shifts sides will be no good for her. If you'll excuse me, I believe I will tell her that in person.
Liz: So cold.
Jacky: But so right.
Meanwhile...back on Dumas’ ship. Alex is at the helm. Dumas has taken a longboat to Port Royal to wait for them.
Alex: Do you think they'll believe them when they tell them I was here?
Crew: They'll be more concerned about Davy's death than anything else.
Alex: I love Abby. She was special. It's such a pity it has to be this way (sincerely upset).
Crew: Rules are rules, sir.
Alex: I'll just have to wait for the opportune moment. All right, men. Back to Port Royal. Dumas said he would meet us back there.
Cut to the Pearl
(Will is sitting on the steps of the Pearl. Jacky comes to join him.)
Jacky: You know, people say I have an exceptional understanding of the male heart. But it doesn't take much to see something vexes you.
Will: I just don't know how to figure Kate out. On the one hand, she's done so much I can barely trust her, but then she killed Davy Jones and saved Jack.
Jacky: She has a lot in common with Jack. As you seem to, too.
Will: Don't say such things.
Jacky: You're more pirate than you realize, Will. Even if it's not what you want to be.
Will: I was happy being governor. I felt like I was making a difference. I can't let Dumas take it from me. I can’t let him take Kate from me. (turns away, more to himself than to Jacky) I would always leave for lunch to go see my father, and your father, but at night I was alone and she sat with me for one dinner and it became a routine. She became my friend so easily…I know she was spying, but she’s a good woman. I can’t let everything be taken from me.
Jacky: Then don't. (edges closer) You know, my brother was kind enough to give me my own little cabin here. We could take this private conversation to a place a little more...private. (for lack of a better word)
Will: (sensing what she wants) I don't think so.
Jacky: Why not? I've helped you. You've helped me. We make a formidable team.
Will: I'm not getting involved with anyone here, especially not a pirate.
Jacky: Can I really be a pirate if I don't like the water?
Will: Fine. A criminal.
Jacky: Have you ever committed a crime, Will? If you've done one, it's so easy to commit another. (really close to him, her lips almost at his neck) All it takes is one....little....push (is about to kiss him)
Gibbs: Pirates!
Jacky: We're all pirates, Mr. Gibbs
Gibbs: The Jamaican pirates are on our tail! They came out of nowhere!
(Will springs up. Jacky reluctantly follows)
Jack: Came out of nowhere as in we didn't see them, or came out of nowhere as in truly coming out of nowhere? I’d almost forgotten about them.
Gibbs: Huh?
Jack: Never mind. Who has the cannons?
Norrington (back): I suppose I will do it. Come here, Abigail. I'm sure you'll find this fun.
(Abigail follows him to the cannon. They form the team loading and using it)
Cut to where Kate is tied on the other side of the deck.
Kate: Untie me! Hang it all! I can help!
Jack: Help me into an early grave!
Liz: She killed Jones, Jack. Maybe just for this fight...
Jack (sort of angry): Do what you will, love.
(Kate is free, everyone else is shooting)
Abigail: How close are we to Alex's ship?
Gibbs: Best be forgettin' that sorry sod, lass.
(Abigail swears under her breath)
Will: Jacky, mount their ship with me. They aren't a large crew. (she and Will swing across to the other ship)
Norrington: Stay here, Abigail.
Abigail: Father, no!
Norrington: I haven't been here to do much for you, but if I can help hold them off to get you to safety, then I'm going to do it (turns to go, then comes back) I couldn't be prouder of you. (kisses her cheek and joins Will and Jacky)
Abigail: Father!
Jack: The cannon, girl! Mind the cannon.
(Kate swings across, too)
Jack: You can't all leave.
(Liz starts to swing)
Jack: Oh, no you don't.
Liz: I can't leave them!
Jack: We aren't. They're coming back.
(In a flash, the Jamaican pirate ship disappears)
Abigail: Father!
(Everyone is quiet)
Jack: Oh bugger.
Gibbs: Jack! We can't go to Port Royal. Not without Kate. We got nothing to bargain with.
Liz: We have to save them before we can think of defeating Dumas.
To recap, Will, Jacky, Kate, and Norrington are on the ship commanded by the Jamaican pirates who have been after them this whole time for the vial. This ship has "disappeared." On the Black Pearl, Jack, Liz, Gibbs, and Abigail have to find some way to save them before they can use Kate for a bargaining chip against Dumas.
Will: What just happened?
Captain Blood: Welcome aboard, gents...and ladies. You stole our vial, Governor.
Will: It was to save Port Royal. I never would have taken from you or your people otherwise.
Captain Blood: Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't. (ominous laugh)
Kate: Where did we go?
Captain Blood: This is the fastest ship in the world, girly. Literally. Once a month, it can disappear and reappear wherever I need it to in the blink of an eye. So I used this month's turn.
Jacky: And where did you take us?
Captain Blood: Welcome back to Port Royal, half the crew of the Black Pearl!
Will: We're back in Jamaica.
Norrington: On the other side. Port Royal is at least a day's journey from here.
Captain Blood: That one's the quickest of all of you. You'll be tried here. If you're not guilty of theft, we'll let you go back to your spacious mansion.
Kate: Tried by whom?
Captain Blood: Pirate council of course! Judge, jury, and executioner. Oh, and Governor Turner, all your friends here will just have to be tried along with you. We don't have any rooms at the inn for them. (he and crew laugh)
On the Pearl:
Abgail: We have to find the ship with Alex on it! (no one says a word) He's the only one with answers now! I can't marry a man if I don't know whose side he's on.
Jack: And just how will we come across his ship, young miss? When last I was keeping track, Will has the bloody compass.
Liz: Kate.
(they all look at her)
Liz: Alex can't go back without Kate. He'll have to come back to us.
Abigail: So your plan is we just wait.
Liz: Wait and be ready for him. Wouldn't you for once like to have the advantage in a battle?
Gibbs: Beggin' your pardon, Ms. Elizabeth, but Kate's not here.
Liz: It doesn't matter as long as Alex thinks she is. I'll bet you anything Alex is working for Dumas to get some kind of land or money out of the deal. Wouldn't that be right, Abby?
Abigail: I have no idea! I can't imagine (pause)
Gibbs: Long pause there, Ms. Norrington.
Abigail: All right. The first time Alex jilted me, he was afraid I would leave him when he lost his job. He was a simple book keeper. Then he took up piracy, as did I for a while, just making ends meet. But he's never even had a ship and he always said we would marry when he had the money.
Jack: He's done all this, so he can afford you?
Abigail: I'm not a superficial girl, Captain Sparrow! Surely my piracy spoke for itself. But Alex is the kind that wants to be able to give me anything, whether I ask him for it or not.
Liz: Then he will come back. He'll be desperate to get Kate.
Gibbs: What do we do? Just drop anchor and camp out until he comes?
Liz: How much rum do we have?
Jack: Not the right time, love.
Liz: How much, Jack?
Cut to the pirate council
(12 pirates sit in a "jury box" and Will, Kate, Jacky, and Norrington are tied and sitting beside their "lawyer."😉
Captain Blood: If no one has any objections, I'll stand as judge meself. No objections? Good.
Norrington: This is insane.
Jacky: Clearly you've never been to Turkey, Commodore.
Captain Blood: This here hearing is to decide whether Governor William Turner and his band of amateur pirates are guilty of stealing our precious immortality vial. Let's begin.
On the Pearl, the crew is ACTING very drunk.