DisclaimerI don't own POTC but i do own Li. Had this interesting inspiration as i was reading some other fics on here. You 'll see what happens.

Chapter 1

"Oy! Li! Get in here, lad!" A boy with strawberry blond hair and blue eyes ran towards the captain.

"Aye, Captain?" He leaned against the railing to keep his balance.

"Where be my clean clothes, boy?" The Captain looked at Li sternly. "I need them for when we get to town. A man can't pick up a woman if he looks like this." He indicated his messy shirt.

"Aye. Sorry, Captain Sparrow, I'll go fetch them." Li ran off towards where he had hung the clothes. He pulled them off the line and shoved them into a bag before running back to the Captain's cabin where Jack Sparrow waited patiently…well if you don't count the foot tapping and the impatient look on his face, he was patient.

"There ye go. Good job boy. You're off for the rest of the night. Now off ye go." Jack pushed the seventeen year old boy out of the cabin. Li jogged back to his room behind the galley. He lay down on his bed and closed his eyes before falling asleep.

"Ah! Monty! Where's Captain Sparrow?" Li looked to the cook as they stood on the deck of the Black Pearl.

"He left at first light." Monty nodded towards the dock at the bottom of the gangplank. "Via that there gangplank." Monty pulled on his jacket and sauntered down the plank and away from sight, down the dock. Li sighed and watched as his only friend left. Sighing again he walked down the gangplank and started down a street. This is a town he knew well…a little too well.

Li casually walked down the street and turned a corner. He noticed a cat shrink into the alleyway and continued on his way until he reached an old dingy house. He lightly knocked on the door and it was opened. The person behind the door gasped and allowed him in quickly. "My Dear! Where have you been?"

"I got work on a ship, Grandma. I'm a cabin boy now. I'm on my way to fulfilling my dream!" Li smiled happily at his grandmother.

Looking outside, Li noticed it was almost night fall, "I should get going. Captain will be looking for me." He cursed to himself, they had talked too long. He got up and pulled on his jacket again, kissed his grandmother's check and was off like a shot. As his grandmother looked around it barely looked like she had had any company, save for the extra teacup across from her.

Running up the gangplank Li quickly made it to the kitchen.

"Where ye been boy? Captain was lookin' fer ya." Li groaned as Monty pointed a wooden spoon at him.

"I was talkin' to someone." Li sighed.

"Who?" Monty wiped his hands on a rag next to him.

"My grandmother," Li took off his jacket, "what did the Captain want?'

"Just wanted to know where you were. Told him that ye were probably in your room, didn't seemed too bothered to check on ye, though." Monty turned and started pealing potatoes.

"Well I'm going to sit in my room now. See ya." Li picked up his jacket and walked calmly into his room before closing the door and locking it. Throwing his jacket on the bed he pulled at his shirt and threw it onto the bed to join the jacket. Pulling at the chest bindings he hissed in relief as they fell off to reveal that he wasn't a boy; in fact, he was very much a she.

so lemme know what you think, alright? R&R please!