Chapter two

"Miss Adams, miss Adams wake up!" Emily cried and shook Charlotte. Her eyes flew open and Charlotte glared at her maid.

"What is it Emily?" she growled.

"Pirates, ma'am! They are plundering the town. We must take you somewhere safe." Emily said and pulled Charlotte out of bed. The two girls ran out of Charlotte's bedroom and went downstairs to the hall. As they were about to run out of the door, it opened. A big group of pirates entered the room and they made their way to Charlotte and Emily. They were smiling viciously at the girls, Emily was backing up, terrified, but Charlotte stood where she was, head high and with an arrogant look on her porcelain face.

"Stay away from me, you filthy pirates." she demanded, but to her surprise, they started laughing and they grabbed her by the arm. She looked at them confused, this was the first time someone disobeyed her and she didn't like it. The pirates started dragging her out of the house. Charlotte tried to pull her hand away but the pirate that was holding her was too strong.

She started screaming, yelling, cursing and kicking as the pirates led her to a little dingy at the docks. Then, they tied her up and sat her in between to huge men. They rowed the dingy towards a big, fearsome, pirate ship. It had black sails and was huge. It's beauty would leave even the richest man with his mouth handing open in awe but Charlotte refused to look at it. She was thinking of a way to escape when she felt that the dingy wasn't moving anymore. She looked around desperately and saw that the only way to get away from these evil pirates was to jump in the sea. It was a risk she was willing to take, even if she was tied up and had never swam in her whole life. The men next to her were getting ready to climb upon the ship when Charlotte rose from her seat and with a big slash she fell into the water.

She could hear the men yelling and saying things, but none of them did anything to catch her. She started sinking, Charlotte tried to swim, she moved her tied up hands and kicked as hard as she could but there was no use. She was going to drown. Everything around her started getting darker and darker, Charlotte needed air but she was meters under water and would drown if she opened her mouth. She closed her eyes, ready to die, when two strong arms grabbed her from the waist.

Charlotte's eyes flew open as she grabbed her rescuers shirt. He swam to the surface, where they both started coughing and taking deep breaths. Charlotte looked up at her rescuer and noticed that it was another pirate! He had long black hair and a red bandanna. Her eyes widened as she tried to pull away from him. The pirate looked down at her in surprise.

"What are ye doing , luv?" he asked.

"Let me go!" Charlotte screamed but the pirate held on her even tighter.

"If I do, you will sink again, luv." he said.

"I'd prefer to drown that be rescued by a pirate!" she spat. The mans chocolate eyes looked at her coldly.

"Fine, if that's what you want." he said and let her go. He swam away from her and Charlotte started drowning again. She tried to swim up again but she knew that there was no use. Then, the pirates two strong arms grabbed her again and -even though she didn't want to- Charlotte grabbed his shirt again and wrapped her arms around his neck. When they broke to the surface, one of the crew members of the pirate ship threw a rope at them. Her rescuer tied it around her waist and then held the rope himself. Charlotte held onto him even tighter and closed her eyes. Don't look down. Don't look down. she told herself.

When they finally hit the deck, Charlotte was holding onto her rescuer for life. She was leaning on him and had her arms around his neck.

"I thought you said you didn't want me to rescue you, why did you let me?" he asked amused. Charlotte looked up at him and let him go. She was about to take a step back, when she realized that the pirate had scooped her from the floor and was now walking towards a cabin.

"Let go of me. Now." she said, glaring at him. The pirate shrugged and let her down.

"What's yer name, lass?" he asked her.

"I'm not telling you!" she snorted "I demand that you will take me back to my home, right now!" the pirate started laughing at her so Charlotte gave him the hardest slap she had ever given -and believe me, she had given a lot of slaps to Emily and Sandra these passed few years-. The pirate looked at her surprised and grabbed her arm.

"You will NOT hit me in front of my crew, ever, ever again." he said dangerously. Charlotte snorted again and looked at him proudly.

"Why? What are you going to do, Captain?" she asked mockingly. The Captain pulled her bellow decks while cursing her with the worst names she had ever heard

of and locked her into a small, cold cell.

"You can't leave me in here." Charlotte said.

"I'm Captain Jack Sparrow. I can do whatever I want to do, savvy?" he said and walked away...