Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own nothing. Still spending my nights alone.

After doing a double take to make sure he wasn't seeing things, Will took a long look at the sailor standing in front of him, and still couldn't believe he was seeing what he was seeing. Said sailor was actually a woman, maybe a little older than himself. But that wasn't the odd part. No, the odd part was the fact that if he didn't know any better, he would have sworn he was looking at Jack! The woman had the same black, tangled mess of hair with all kinds of weird things tied in (complete with a red bandana), the same dark brown eyes, what looked like maybe hand me down cloths of Jack's, and she even had the black kohl smeared around her eyes. The only thing that seemed to be missing was the facial hair, and obviously, hopefully, a body part or two underneath the cloths. She was truly a sight to be seen. Finally Will couldn't take it anymore, he had to find out who this woman was.

"Wh...who are you?" he stammered out uncertainly.

The woman in turn looked him up and down before answering him. "Helena. Helena Sparrow, to be exact!" she put extra emphasis on the Sparrow part.

'My god!' Will thought. 'She even sounds like him! She has the same deep, gravely voice, as much as a woman could that is. This is just too weird.' "Sparrow? Do you know Jack?"

"Know 'im? E's my brother!"

"You're brother! Wait, what? Are you telling me you're Jack Sparrow's sister!" This was just too much for Will to comprehend.

"Aye. And who, exactly, are you?" Will didn't miss the sudden suspision in the woman's voice.

"Will Turner. I'm an acquaintance of Jack."

"Ah, well then, tis a pleasure Mr. Turner." At this, Helena stuck out a hand. Noticing that the man who introduced himself as Will wasn't making an effort to shake her hand, she drew it back awkwardly and let it dangle at her side. "Soo...you're looking for Jack eh? Why?"

Will was a little hesitant at first to tell her everything, but figuring if she was indeed Jack's sister, she surely would be able to help him find Jack. But still, he didn't want to broadcast to all of Tortuga his business. So he decided then that he really had no choice but to trust this woman. He sighed once again. "Is there any place where we could talk with a little more privacy?"

Helena looked to be in deep thought for a moment, then suddenly looked Will in the eye and gestured for him to follow her. She led him down a few alley ways, around the docks until they came upon a secluded part of the shores of Tortuga. The whole time Will kept a sharp eye on her, making sure she wasn't trying to pull any funny business, and couldn't help but notice that not only does she look and talk like him, but she even walked like him! Same swagger and all. Well, not exactly the same, her's was a little more clumsy, like she was trying too hard. Whereas Jack's was more natural. It was all so absurd that he almost wanted to laugh. So distracted he was by this thought that he didn't even realize that she had stopped walking.

"Private enough for ye?"

"Yes."

Helena clapped her hands together. "Good. Now, once again, why are you looking for Jack?"

Will took a deep breath, trying to figure out how best to put it. "Well, to make a long story short, Jack has a compass that I need in order to save my fiance and myself from the hangman's noose." He figured that would about sum it up.

Helena furrowed her eyebrows. "Compass. You don't mean that one that doesn't point north do ye?" She never did know what was so special about that thing, Jack would never tell her. In fact, Jack would never tell her a lot of things, and he never told her why!

"Yes, that one. So, do you know how I can find Jack?" Will asked hopefully.

Helena raised her eyebrows, opened her mouth, and then closed it again and pursed her lips together. Finally she looked at Will again and answered him simply. "No."

"No?"

"Yes."

"Yes?"

She nodded.

"Yes you do know how to find him?"

"No."

Will took on a look of complete confusion while Helena tilted her head to the side. They both stared at each other for a few moments before Will took it upon himself to break the silence. "What!"

Helena squinted her eyes. "Hmmm?"

Will shook his head, as if it would it would clear it. He decided to repeat his question, maybe she was confused. Lord knew he was. "Do you or don't you know how to find Jack?" he said with a strained voice.

She in turn looked at him as if he were crazy. "No! How would I know how to find him, haven't seen him in over ten years!" she said with arms flailing at her sides.

"Why not?"

"He was stolen from me."

Will's now looked down right incredulous. "Stolen!"

"Aye" she replied in a somber tone. "Kidnapped, in the middle of the night."

It was now Will's turn to look at her like she was crazy. "Kidnapped?" She couldn't possibly be serious, could she?

"Mmmm. We were sharing a room here in Tortuga one night and when I woke up the next morning there was a note pinned to the wall with a dagger saying that Jack had been kidnapped and was now being forced to join some man's crew as a form of payment for a lost poker game." she paused for a moment as if she were trying to remember something, then suddenly snapped her fingers. "Barbossa! That was the bastard's name! Barbossa! He's the black hearted scoundrel who stole me Jack away from me. I tell ye, if I ever find that man, I'll kill 'im with me bare hands!" she finished with a look of the deepest form of hatred Will had ever seen.

He was truely at a loss for words. Life had been very cruel to him the past few days. First, his wedding had been interrupted and ruined, then he was forced to make a deal with the devil himself, then he had to search the seas for a man who appeared to not want to be found, and now he was stuck with some mad woman who actually believed that Barbossa had kidnapped her brother and forced him to serve on his ship. He honestly didn't know what to make of the whole thing. Again his thoughts were interrupted by his newly acquired acquaintance, who was waving a hand in front of his face.

"Ye alright mate?" she asked with a weary look on her face.

Will just stared at her for a moment before finding his voice once more. "I'm not sure."

"Oh well, if you don't mind I have a business proposition for you." she said matter of factly.

"A business proposition?"

"Yes. You help me find Jack and I'll help you find Jack. What say you to that eh?"

He was just about to question her logic when he remember the confusion they exchanged the last time, and he was in no mood to go through that again. So, against his better judgement, he decided it wouldn't exactly hurt to have as much help as he could get. Even if he wasn't sure how capable she could actually be, anything had to be better than nothing, right?

'Well, here goes nothing.' Will stuck out his hand. "Agreed."

"Agreed." Helena shook his hand with a smirk on her face and a gleam in her eye that, again, looked very similar to something you would see on Jack.