Can't always run from your past

Prologue

~April 30th 1728~

Eight year old jack sparrow watched as the pirate lords gathered to shipwreck cove for yet another meeting of the brethren court. It was his father, captain Teague, who was running this meeting. Young jack sat off to the side of the room looking extremely bored as his father went on about the importance of the pirate code. The pirate lords themselves looked bored, from where he was sitting jack thought he could see one falling asleep.

'There's got to be a way to have fun here' he thought.

Then he got an idea for a mischievous prank: he would crawl under the table that everyone sat around and tie there bootlaces together. When he felt like he wouldn't be missed, he slipped down and crawled on his hands and knees underneath the table. But when he got there all the bootlaces were tied together.

The young jack looked around and saw a girl tying the last pair of boots together. She had long dark red hair straight down to her mid back and wore black boots brown trousers with a white poet's shirt, she was also his age. She turned and stared at jack, her green eyes wide in surprise, jack's eyes where wide too, she was the prettiest girl he'd ever seen. And he didn't normally like girls…

Just then the meeting ended and the girl went back above the table. As everyone left the table they fell flat on their faces, not being able to walk with their bootlaces tied together. Captain Teague looked under the table only to discover jack.

"H-hi dad" he stuttered, knowing he was in for it.

~POTC~

The next thing jack knew he was getting sent to bed without dinner. Jack sat in his room the rest of the night and thought about that girl he'd saw under the table and how he was getting punished for something she did!

"I hate that girl" he grumbled to himself "if I see her again it will be too soon."

"Why are you talking to yourself?" asked a voice.

Jack jumped at the sound of a voice by the window. He spun around and there was the same girl from under the table, smirking at him as she sat on his window sill.

"Who are you?" he asked her, wondering if he was dreaming.

"I'm Bethany Rodgers" she said proudly "who are you?"

"Jack sparrow" he answered.

Bethany slid off the window sill and came up to jack. She looked him in the eyes and asked him "do you want to come explore with me?"

Jack looked at her with his eyebrows furrowed angrily. "No!" he snapped "you got me sent to bed without dinner because of what you did! Nothing in the world would make me go with you!"

Bethany pulled a bag from her tan colored satchel. "I have cookies" she held up the bag.

"Fine, I'll go" jack answered quickly "but only because I'm hungry."

"Fine with me" she said.

~POTC~

Soon jack and Bethany were walking the streets of shipwreck cove they learned a lot about each other. Like how jack wanted to be the captain of his own ship one day and how Bethany lived in New Orleans and wanted to be a pirate as well.

They were almost on the outside of town, they walked down to the beach and into a cave. Then Bethany stopped and her eyes widened.

"What is it?" asked jack a little worried.

"Look! A ship!" she pointed over to an old shipwreck in the cave. Its hull was black and rotting with moss and yet it still looked stable enough to climb on.

Bethany smirked at jack "ya wanna go check it out?"

Jack shrugged "sure."

They crawled in through a massive hole in the hull of the ship and looked around. While Bethany was looking beneath in the cargo jack was at the helm pretending to steer the ship.

Bethany came back up to where jack was and showed him two of the things she'd found.

"I found a hat!" she said showing him a tan leather tricorn hat. Jack saw it and fell in love with it.

"You want it?" she asked him, seeing the look in his eyes.

"Alright" he said.

"Good, you get the hat and I get this emerald ring" she said slipping silver ring on her finger with an emerald in the center of it.

"Aw! You found a ring! Can I have the ring too?" he asked.

She gave him a pout and big eyes.

Jack rolled his eyes. "Okay, okay, you can have the ring!" he said reluctantly.

She smiled then took the hat and placed it on his head, lovingly.

"There, now you really look like a pirate captain" she said grinning.

Jack grinned back at her. "I hope you get to be one too."

~POTC~

But sadly the next day Bethany was leaving on her family's ship back to New Orleans. Jack watched as his first true friend sailed away. He felt his heart sink into his stomach as she waved goodbye sadly. He waved back.

AN: end of chapter one! So what do you guys think? Should jack sparrow and Bethany Rodgers meet again? Let me know by reviewing…