Hidden Treasures

Summary:What happens when Jack plunders an unsuspecting merchant vessel and discovers an alone, tiny, and horribly abused little girl in the hold.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with POTC characters, but I do own Morgan, the merchant vessel, and its passengers.

Chapter 1

Jack stood with his legs apart at the helm looking proudly down on the crew scuttling around The Black Pearl's deck. The crew were just getting the very last preparations made so they could set sail to Port Royal. They were going to visit Will, Elizabeth, and there newly born son James Jack Turner. When Jack thought of James he always smiled a little because Will and Elizabeth had named him as a Godparent even though he might get killed out on the seas. Nobody could really tell yet, but Jack's heart was starting to soften a bit towards anyone that was a child.

"Mr.Gibbs," Jack said and turned on his heel to look at his first mate, "Are we ready to sail the seas yet?"

"Yes sir," Mr.Gibbs said quickly and gruffly because he knew Jack hated to be kept uninformed on anything with the Pearl, "We just finished loading up and everyone is in their assigned positions."

"Good, good, lets set sail then, we wouldn't want to keep Mrs.Turner waiting now would we?"

"No we wouldn't Captain."

"Well lets get moving then."

"We're already out at sea sir."

"Ah excellent work. I think this is cause for celebration with a bottle of rum."

"Aye sir, I'll watch the ship and crew while you're gone."

"Good well then--," Gibbs didn't manage to catch the rest of Jack's sentence but since Jack had already started down the wood steps towards the cabin it probably had something to do with rum. Gibbs was in fact wrong, that was the end of the sentence even though Jack had just randomly cut off. The reason for that being he was very impatient to get at least one bottle of rum into his system before they had been sailing for an hour. He proceeded to do just that until he heard Marty yelling his name from outside the door. Sighing Jack wearily got up and staggered towards the door.