Caribbean Hybrid

Title: Caribbean Hybrid
Chapter Author: Wickedswanz
Disclaimer: All belongs to the mouse.
Summary: Will and Selene are ready to rescue the Captain and his lover.
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Will gripped Selene's hand tighter as The Unity came into view. They had finally caught up and would soon be aboard.

"Are you ready?" Will spoke quietly into her ear.

"No." Selene said leaning against his shoulder. "But Jack and Elizabeth need us…if their still alive."

Will smiled, "That's Captain Jack and Lizzie."

William moved away and gave Gibbs his final instructions. The older man shook his head and took another long drink.

"I still think we should be coming with yeh lad. That crew be mighty fierce. What if you need more swords?"

Will watched Selene climb down onto the longboat, "It's not Swords we'll be using to fight this crew. Trust me Mr Gibbs you don't want to be there."

Gibbs nodded, "What should we do if you're not back by morning?"

Will looked out at the other ship. He didn't want to think about that but knew that as long as Jack was away this crew were his responsibility. "Go to Tortuga and hide the Pearl, then wait a week. If we do not meet you there then…stick to the code."

Will followed Selene down to the boat and they rowed in silence towards the Unity.

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Pain.
Everything went black.
Then white.
Then red.
Her image floated before his eyes. Fear…Horror…Blood.
He watched as his beast emerged from his body and stalked towards her.

"NO!" he screamed, "Please…Please not her."

But it was too late his beast was closing in fast.

"Run! Peapod run..." he screamed as he watched the scene play out before him.
Knowing full well that neither could hear him.

He watched as the beast drew closer. He watched his love turn. He expected her to scream. He expected her to cry. What he didn't expect was for her to open her arms to him. Jack watched, confused as his Elizabeth knelt before his beast and stroked its hair. Her fingers delved into its thick brown hair and she lowered her cheek to its head, eyes closing in contentment.

She sat back and looked deep into its eyes. She smiled and whispered to it. "I love you."

Someone screamed and the vision faded. Jack blinked and flicked open his eyes. He was back in the cell and still chained.

"Now that was interesting." Jack blinked a couple more times until his vision cleared.

The scream came again and his eyes widened. Was that Elizabeth? No he knew the sound of her voice like it was his own. That was a man. A man screaming? Jack tried to get to his feet but was painfully reminded that he was chained. His shoulder burned and his legs were numb. The last thing he remembered was Achille leaning towards him with a knife gripped in his cold white hand. Then everything had gone black.

Before he could search his mind further the door crashed open and Achille was thrown through. What the hell? And was followed by… Is that Elizabeth? What did he do to her? Her hair was quickly blackening and her eyes were empty as she advanced on the man cowering on the floor. Jack had no time to work out what was happening as Achille quickly jumped to his feet and grabbed her and threw her against the wall then against the bars of his cell.

"Eliz…are you…" he couldn't form the words and he felt his consciousness slipping again.

"Jack?" she spoke his name and he watched as her eyes cleared and returned to her own. But before he could focus again she was pulled roughly from the bars and thrown against the opposite wall.

Jack was alert again and his body pulsed as he glared at the other man in the room. "Achille! You bastard! What have you done to her?!"

"Ah Jack, I can only assume you mean that little performance your lady showed us. I was hoping you could tell me." Achille looked back at Elizabeth and grinned as she slid to the floor. "Looks like we still have a lot to learn about the Gem. It's a pity, really, I'm going to kill you both. What with your turning between full moons and your whore killing half my crew... very interesting."

Jack blinked at him. He'd forgotten that he had turned into his beast that time. His dream floated through his mind again. Elizabeth had called to his beast and in the dream she had stroked its fur and whispered words of love.

He shook his head, that book had been a waste of time, written by an ignorant onlooker too superstitious to be able to write clearly. He knew less now about the curse then he had before, but there was one thing he did know. He loved Elizabeth. He would die for her and apparently so would his beast. But that didn't explain what was happening to her.

"Elizabeth." Jack spoke more clearly now. "Peapod- are you alright? I need you to answer me. Please, darling any sound will do I need to know that you're alive!"

Achille was grinning smugly as he looked from one to the other. "This is fun..."

"J…Jack?" her voice was barely audible but he heard it like she had screamed them, "I thought you were dead... I don't know what happened to me, I…I think I hurt someone."

"Peapod, it's alright. Everything is alright darlin'- I'm going to get us out of here…I swear it."

"Do you promise Jack?" she was growing stronger again. "And we'll kill Alaine? Make sure he never separates us again?"

Achille cleared his throat but received no response from his two prisoners. This was not going according to plan.

"We will darlin' - we'll slice out his heart, and serve it to his crew."

They both grinned and Achille looked nervously from one to the other. He didn't like this. Something was wrong and Elizabeth seemed to be getting stronger.

"No, his crew can go free. They're just sailors earning their share. We'll eat it... I want to taste his blood and feel it running down my chin."

Jack smiled as he watched Achille's eyes widen, That-a-girl, "That's good Lizzie, and after I will never let you go again. We'll deal with my beast together, after we're married."

"Married…y…you want to marry me?"

"That's enough! Jack what are you doing?" Achille's eyes flicked between them. They were obviously trying to scare him, to set him on edge. But something else was happening here as well.

Jack ignored him. "Will you? Elizabeth Swann, will you be my wife? I swear, I haven't set foot in a whorehouse since I met yeh and I don't want anyone else fighting by me side, and sharing my bed."

Slowly Elizabeth pulled herself to her feet and grinned at Jack. "I love you Jack." was all she said before her eyes began to cloud again. Just as she could call to his beast, he was somehow able to call to her Gem. Whatever it was and whatever that meant didn't matter. What did matter was taking this sick monster out of the picture.

Jack closed his eyes as her words washed over him. It wasn't the response he had been waiting for, but it was enough. He felt his heart beat speed and his blood pump harder. Jack grinned as his muscles bulged and his teeth lengthened.

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Will and Selene burst in just in time to see Jack's beast force it's way through his flesh and break his chains. They looked at each other and shook their heads.

"How does he always do that?" Will asked suddenly calm, "He always works everything out before I can tell him!"

Selene laughed and stoked his arm. "Darling, I know how clever you are. That's good enough?"

He leaned down and kissed her long and deep, both oblivious to the horror spreading before them.

"Shall we at least help?" Selene smiled at him as Elizabeth's hair turned black and her fingernails grew at least an inch within seconds.

"I guess," Will grinned at her as Jack howled and flew through the bars of his cell.

Together they turned and face Achille as the two monsters drew closer to him. His eyes turned to them, eyes pleading.

"Selene..Selene please! I took you in when you had no one, when you were all alone..." Achille spoke, his voice higher then normal.

"Yes you did Alaine and you changed me into what you were." She put on a wicked grin. "I need to thank you for that."

Both Will and Selene grinned at him as their teeth elongated and their bodies changed. They howled as one and they dropped on all fours and stepped slowly, menacingly towards the cowering butcher that had once been so brave.

Achille looked at each of the creatures. He had clearly been mislead as to what the Gem was, and what would happen to it when it's beloved was threatened. Elizabeth was barely recognizable with her black hair, white eyes, and those dangerously long claws. He looked at each of the wolves as all four of his supposed victims stepped closer. He pulled out his sword and held it firmly, but somehow it didn't comfort him... as it usually did.

"I'm thinking that this could have used some more research."