Disclaimer: (runs off sobbing) No, I don't own POTC, as much as I wish I did

Disclaimer: (runs off sobbing) No, I don't own POTC, as much as I wish I did. The only thing(s) I own here are the Imperial and Yardarm Charity.

Estrella is the maid who helped Elizabeth prepare for bed right before the pirate attack in COTBP.

"Come this way"

Cutler said as he led Yardarm down the hall. They had reached his house and he was showing her to her room she would stay in.

"Thank ye for doing this. I surely would have been hung, and me child wouldn't have somebody to look after him"

"Your son? You are married then?"

"Don't cross that line if you wish to live, sir. My husband was killed a short while ago, and you no doubt were the cause of it."

"I had nothing to do with, er, your husbands death."

"Then why did the Endeavor sail away from the scene, as fast as she could? Then why, did I see you laughing, as she did so? Then why, did you fire upon the Imperial? Answer those questions, and I will talk about it."

"Good night. I will answer them some other time. Breakfast will be at 6:30, be there or else."

The next morning…

Cutler sat at the breakfast table alone. Looking at the sundial just outside the window, he sighed. It was 7:00.

"Where is Miss Charity?" He asked the maid, Estrella.

"I don't rightly know, sir, but I'll go see if she is in her room with your permission sir."

"Yes, please go do that. And hurry back, I need to know where she is"

"Right away, sir." And she left.

Estrella knocked on Yardarm's door.

"Miss Charity? May I come in if it pleases you?"

There was no answer.

Running downstairs, Estrella said, "Sir, I knocked on her door, and there was no answer. What should I do?"

"I'll talk to her." He was not in a good mood. What if she had taken her leave, and abandoned him? He opened the door, and there she was, still asleep on the bed.

"Of course," he said to himself, "she had a long day, and I kept her up late. Estrella?" He called, as he went back downstairs, "Miss Charity will be sleeping, attend to her when she wakes up. I mean stay outside her door until she wakes up. Help her put on a proper dress, then bring her to see me."

"Yes sir, of course sir."