Disclaimer: I don't own anything except for the characters that i make up such as Syrah, Butch, and any other characters that decide 2 pop up.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~* She sat in the corner of the bar she worked at. She had no home, she lived in the back of the bar in a spare room. Life was hard for her, she just wanted to get on a ship and leave. Any ship to anywhere. Suddenly her boss, Butch O' Riley came over.

"Syrah, get back to work," He said in a monotone voice. When she stood up to go work again, he slapped across the face.

"You know better than that!" Butch boomed as some of the curious customers look towards the two.

Syrah just nodded and did as she was told, quickly going over to a young man about her age who was sitting with a man that had a tri-cornered hat dread-locks with beads and a bandana, and was slightly drunk. The young man had curly brown hair pulled back in a short pony tail.

"Are you boys ok, or would you like some else to drink?" Syrah asked.

The drunken man quickly replied, "Yes, luv. More rum!"

"Alright," Syrah said as she scribbled down on a notepad ,"One more rum, comin' right up!"

"No, luv! Two more," The man cut in quickly.

"Yes sir, I'll be right back." Syrah walked up to the bar and grabbed to rums.

"She's a pretty one, eh, lad?" The man asked in a slurred voice. "Sure Jack, do you really need two more rums" Will asked. "Yah," Jack said a matter-of-factly, "One for each hand!" And then he laughed drunkenly as Syrah returned with the two rums.

"Thanks luv," Jack said, accepting his rums. Syrah only nodded and walked off to serve other customers. ~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~**~*~*~About 30 minutes later*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~

"Jack, its not nice to stare," Will told Jack politely. "Be quiet whelp, I'll do what I want.((A/n: aww he's so nice!!!)), I'm trying to figure out how long it took that woman over there to get so.......large," Jack told Will as he was looking at a rather big woman that seems wider than she was tall. Will just rolled his eyes and shook his head. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*Later in the night, 10:30*~*~**~*~*~**~**~*~*~**~*~*~* Syrah has just served a table and was walking away when a drunken man grabbed her bye the arm. --------------------------------------------------------------- A/N: there is the first chapter! Short, but it will do for now. its sort of a cliff hanger. ok. whatever i'm a dork. lol. gasp. what is going to happen with the man? will she be saved? OF COURSE NOT! jk, i dunno yet either. we'll see later.