A/N: This story is at the request of a friend that I told about a crazy dream I had. She thought it would make a good fanfic story. The first chapter is the dream up to the point where I woke up, it is kind of slow but read on it gets better. To avoid confusion of which 'Jack' (Davenport or Sparrow) that I am referring to I am going to just use their character names. This is my first fanfic so please be nice even in constructive criticism as all comments are welcome. Thanks and please do review.

Disclaimer: I have no claim to any of the characters except for Travis, Trevor, and Niece who are some favorite names of mine and me, and Whitney that is a real horse (which I do own.) I have permission from Lydia to use her name and Buzzard's (Lydia's horse.) The story is just a dream that had Disney's characters in it and they own the rest.

Different Styles of Persuasion

Chapter 1

Two friends Niece and Lydia were always a part of the jousting at the annual Midevil and Renaissance Faire held by the Hood River off the great Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. The jousting and knights that the friends were a part of had already set up their equipment and tents for their re-enactments to start the following day. Niece had mounted her filly Whitney and teased Lydia into saddling up Buzzard to practice with her since Lydia was fairly new to the group. As Lydia was saddling up Niece noticed that some of the other re-enactment groups, peddlers and others were in different stages of setting up their displays. Including the pirate group which had one guy that Niece had a little more than a passing interest in. But having been there and done that and been burned several times before she was reluctant to pursue it. Plus she wasn't that particularly that good at letting Travis know that she even existed. This was because she was old fashioned and shy enough to let the guy make the first move which Travis hadn't done in the past couple of years the he had been a part of the pirate re-enactment group.

Niece had always been more than a little pirate obsessed since the first time she had ridden on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland which was more years ago than she was willing to admit. She had watched all the old pirate swashbuckling movies that she could even some of the silent ones. She knew all those romantic tales weren't even close to the way real pirates were back in the pirate day but it was still exciting to hope that maybe some could have been the way the movies portrayed them.

Lydia teased, "I see that your pirates have arrived."

"They aren't my pirates Lyd, but you can bet when we aren't doing a show I will be down there and in my knight's outfit, sighing and watching," Niece smiled, wiggling her eyebrows.

"That's stalking," Lydia teased. Lydia knew Niece had an attraction to Travis. Of course it helped that he always dressed up like Captain Jack Sparrow even though he looked more like Norrington in build, facial features and coloring. He even had green eyes and scruffy Norrington's hair color. But after the dreads and costume were on Travis looked like Captain Jack until you saw his eyes. Lydia had watched the last two years as Niece had managed to bump into Travis when ever she could but knew it wasn't stalking. She just wanted to flip Niece some crap.

"Yeeeeah, okay," Niece said which was her way of saying that it wasn't true.

"Wonder why they are so far away from us this year?" Lydia mused.

"Hmmm, let me take a wild guess at it. Jousting with horses and cannons firing don't mix very well," Niece said seriously, then giggled. "Although they always have been closer to us until this year, we are at complete opposite ends of the Faire. Well, I will just have to walk farther."

"You know he has a thing for you?" Lydia kept teasing.

"No, he doesn't, he doesn't even know I exist," Niece stated.

"Yes, he does, ask Trevor, he is his friend and he told me that he does," Lydia continued teasing.

"Lyd, drop it, Travis doesn't have a thing for me. Even if he knew I existed, which he doesn't, he would know I have a thing for him and would tease me is all. Trevor is wrong," Niece glared at her friend.

Lydia threw her hands up in defeat and finished saddling Buzzard then mounted up. They picked up their lances and shields then went to opposite ends of the field. Niece thought, 'Boy is Lyd going to pay for teasing me about Travis. I am going to nail her every pass we make.' And she smiled wickedly. Niece started Whitney out at a trot then a slow lope that turned into a run right before they met. She saw where Lydia was aiming and rolled her left shoulder back and to the right as they passed and scored on Lydia dead center in the chest. Lydia missed hitting Niece at all. Niece held up her broken lance and yelled in a sing song voice, "Wooooo, who's the knight, who's the knight? Yeah!"

"Hey, take it easy on me. Its just practice," Lydia yelled, "Everyone knows you're the best knight in our group."

"Paybacks," Niece grinned. "You put your guard down. Don't concentrate so much on where your lance is or where you are going to hit me. Watch where my lance is and move away from it for right now."

"Okay, let's go again," Lydia took the advice. They made two more passes and each time Niece got Lydia in the chest. Lydia was making progress in that at least her lance was bouncing off Niece the last pass they made.

"Let's rest and walk the horses before we continue with the 'Lyd lessons'," Niece snorted as she giggled at her clever quip.

Lydia frowned and mumbled, "Funny, real funny."

They got off and walked the horses up and down the field to cool the horses down and let them all catch their breath. When they stopped to take off their helmets and shields, Niece absentmindedly put on her sunglasses that way she was able to observe what she wanted and no one knew that was where she was looking. Lydia was the one that told Niece about the sunglasses thing and she put hers on also. Lydia commented that Trevor was down at the pirate camp talking to Captain Jack and someone who looked like they were dressed up as Scruffy Norrington. Niece wanted to see if Travis had dressed up like Scruffy Norrington this year instead of Jack since he did resemble Norrington more. Niece was curious enough to check the pirate camp out of the corner of her eye while walking the horses. They talked back and forth noting that before there had only been Travis dressed as Jack and another guy named Randy dressed like Barbossa. Those had been the only two characters from the movies. The rest just dressed as ordinary un-famous pirates. Maybe Travis had switched to Norrington this year. Also this year there seemed to be Jack, Will, Liz, Tia, Barbossa, Norrington, Mr. Gibbs, Marty, Mr. Cotton and Pintel and Ragetti. Niece was wondering where they found someone to play Marty when Lydia's voice interrupted her thoughts.

"This is a new development. Let's go down there and check it out," Lydia said reading Niece exact thoughts.

"What about the horses and cannon thing? They look like they are pretty set up and might start firing them. Let's just get back to practice. We will go later," Niece disagreed walking back over to put on their helmets and shields and take off the sunglasses.

They went back to practicing and the next time they decided to take a break. They were going through the same ritual with the equipment and glasses that they had the last time. Lydia commented that Trevor was headed their way and that the pirates were all standing around down there watching Trevor head towards them. This got Niece's attention and since she had on the sunglasses she took a look out of the corner of her eye so as not to be obvious and saw that they were looking up towards them talking and nodding their heads with each other.

"Tighten your cinch and let's get back to the 'Lyd Lessons.' This is kind of creeping me out, Trevor is up to something that involves them and you know how I hate surprises," Niece stopped Whitney and turned to tighten up her cinch and take the glasses off. Lydia rolled her eyes but did tighten Buzzard's cinch up.

Trevor had a big smile on his face when he got to where the women stood by their horses. He said, "You know Captain Jack and some others would like to come down and watch you two practice."

Niece thought he looked like the cat that swallowed the canary. "It's a free country," Niece shrugged as she mounted Whitney and Lydia did the same on Buzzard. Niece had a frown on her face as she kept thinking that Trevor was up to something, but noticed with excitement that a couple of the pirates started walking towards the jousting arena when Trevor motioned for them to come down. They made one pass and again Niece hit her mark while Lydia was looking at the pirates and totally missed her mark, she wasn't even close.

As Niece went back to get another lance she said loudly, "What in hell are you doing? That pass was a bunch of garbage."

Lydia loped up to her and whispered, "No joke, they are the real actors from POTC."

"Lyd…. are you shitting me? Dude, you are losing it, what are you babbling about?" Niece questioned as she turned to look where the pirates sat or lounged around the stands. She looked at the two standing up first since Jack was leaning a hip against the railing with arms crossed staring at the two women while saying something out of the side of his mouth to Norrington who was also leaning nonchalantly against the rail with his arms crossed, one booted toe resting across the other booted foot. He was also staring at them from under a lowered head making eye direct contact with Niece. It was un-nerving and Niece's hackles rose automatically.

She gasped and whispered, "Ohhhh dear, you are right." And her eyes shot back to Lydia. When she saw Lydia's face she warned her, "Dang it Lyd, don't embarrass me by getting all screaming fan on me."

Lydia's mouth fell open, then kept opening and shutting. Niece thought she looked like a fish out of water. To keep the pirates from seeing Lydia's reaction she kept nudging Whitney in the side to get her to side pass into Buzzard and keep them between Lydia and the pirates. "I swear Lyd if you embarrass me, I am going to die right after I throttle you. And close your mouth, you look like a fish out of water." Niece put a finger under Lydia's chin and gently closed it keeping her finger there to make sure it didn't open again.

Pretty soon Lydia squealed and started squirming around in her saddle, "Here they come." At Lydia's actions Niece thought, 'I guess we are never too old to get weak in the knees and all giddy at the attentions of a man.'

Niece kept her back to the pirates as she warned her again with one word, "Lydia."

"Okay, okay," Lydia straightened up her face and stopped squirming.

Niece turned Whitney enough to see that in fact Jack, Norrington, Gibbs and Barbossa were doing a predatory pirate walk toward them completely in character. All of a sudden she thought of the lyrics to a Shania Twain song, 'D' ya have to walk the way you do? I get weak just watchin' you,' She thought, 'That just about sums up the way I feel.' She hid a blush as Jack stepped up next to her bowing for effect and in his best Captain Jack voice said, "I would like to try jousting, with your permission of course. I would use your horse?"

Niece's eyebrows shot up because she had been taught the hard way never to lend out a horse to someone that didn't know how to ride. Plus other than seeing him ride in movies, which wasn't encouraging, she asked him, "How much do you know about horses?"

He smiled crookedly his chocolate brown eyes never losing eye contact with her ice blue ones and said, "Not much."

Niece put a finger to her mouth in thought looking over his head at Lydia begging for help with this kind of persuasion. Lydia shrugged her shoulders and shook her head because his flirting was way beyond her knowledge. When Niece looked back at Jack more lyrics to the song about 'paralyzing eyes,' came to mind. Well, Jack sure had those kind of eyes and she had the feeling he knew exactly what they were doing to her. Not being one to back down from a challenge, she took a deep breath, to gain some composure back, looked him straight in the eye again facing the challenge and said slowly, "Ummmm…. No, I don't think that's a good idea."

He grinned at her never losing eye contact, more lyrics about, 'go to jello every time you smile.' She thought as he questioned, "Don't you want to know why I want to try it?"

Niece looked away gathered up her courage then looked quickly back at his eyes. 'Oh big mistake,' she thought but didn't miss a beat as she asked, "Why?" Even though she had a very good idea what was coming.

He said, "Curiosity, I want to know what it feels like." And he walked towards her reaching up to put his hand on her leg his fingers lightly massaging. 'More lyrics?' she thought about 'him not getting too close or she would melt down from the heat.' So she kneed Whitney over and backed her up with her legs her hands never leaving the saddle or moving the reins so he wouldn't see that she was trying to break contact with him. Whitney kept backing up and he kept coming until he had them backed against the arena fence. The game continued as Niece turned Whitney with her legs and continued backing. Too late she remembered the corner of the arena just as Whitney was backed into it and they were pinned about a foot away from the side fence.

Niece didn't like to lose at anything, she knew she wasn't very good at flirting or particularly good or fast with comebacks either, but she was good at contests and winning. When she looked up and saw that everyone else within eyesight of the exchange was smiling and snickering behind their hands or looking some where else trying not to laugh, she got her dander up. Here yes narrowed, she was a fast learner so she played along as he took her hand and started to slowly pull her off Whitney's back. Whitney sidestepped the last step away from Niece and Jack caught Niece against him putting one arm behind her back to slowly slide her down his chest until her feet hit the ground never letting her have the chance to look away.

The heat radiating from him was almost unbearable. Niece thought, 'Oh my dear, this is not what I expected. What am I getting myself into and is it too late to get out?'

A/N: Ok, this is the part where I woke up from my dream. I know this first chapter is kind of slow, but wanted to give the reader some background along with the dream part. I hope you enjoyed reading it this far. I do have an idea of where the story is going to go from here and will add chapters as I get the chance.