Chapter Two

As Jack was fooling around trying not to be caught in the gaze of the young lady the thoughts of the heart plagued his mind.

"Over the edge… Oh, that's driving me over the bloomin' edge. Sunrises don't set." Gibbs ranted, Jack just stood there rotating the charts.

After five minutes of Jack talking to himself he brought himself to getting the crew to run back and forth upon the deck in the idea of flipping the ship.

"He's rocking the ship!" Pintel screamed.

Ragetti scurried up toward Pintel with a rope. "We tie each other to the mast, upside down, so when the boat flips we'll be the right way up!"

"Boys" Katarina said grabbing the two idiot's attention. "How are you going to as you said tie each other upon this here mast?" The two looked at her and shrugged this brought a smile to her face.

Upon the flipping of the ship the sun set and a flash of green split the sky above the water causing her world to flip sides as well.

"Oh, that was fun can we do that again?" Katarina practically squilled before getting up off the railing. It only took fice seconds before she noticed Jacks hat that was taken off during the process of coming back to the world of living, before plopping it on her head. "… nice hat."

With a flurry Barbossa pulls out his pistol and points it at Jack; Gibbs, Elizabeth and will Point theirs at him; Jack Points his at will; Will and Elizabeth each pull out another one to point at Jack; Jack pulls out another one and points it a Elizabeth. Then the Cute little monkey Jack points his miniature pistol at cottons parrot, who then screeched "parle!"

The argument lasted all of ten minutes. Katarina just sat their wishing she had some nuts to snack on this was always one of her favorite scenes.

"Wet powder!" Gibbs all but yelled only to be ignored. Having being bested by will wholead them to a map.

"There's a freshwater spring on the island. We can resupply there, get back to shooting each other later." Will stated looking at the charts.

"You lead the shore party, I'll stay with my ship."

Barbossa didn't like the suggestion made by Jack and came up with his own grating the nerves others in the process.

"Why don't you both go ashore, and leave the ship in my command. Temporarily." Will all but shouted only to viciously glared at by both Barbossa and Jack.

I took a while before they came to an accord. Even longer for Jack to notice that Katarina was wearing his hat. He stared for a moment before realizing what he was doing.

"Oy, that's me hat… and aint that Gibbs flask."

"Oh, that's his name he didn't seem to be using it and you lot were such good entertainment I needed a drink- Oy I was wearing that!" Katarina yelped as Jack ran off with his hat turning back and stick his tongue out like a petulant child.

"Miss-" Barbossa began.

"Sharp, and please I'm sure you heard what I told Jack earlier I was quite loud I don't have a patents for anything other than my name."

"Miss Sharp, are you in any way related to Jack?" Barbossa questioned only to receive a chortled laugh from the lass.

"Aye, he's a cousin of mine from my father's sister, lovely singing voice though; eunuch." A shake of hands and she left with his ring. To make up for her loss of Jack's hat of course.

"Pirates, when are they ever going to learn?" She mumbled to herself before headed towards the captain's cabin.

It only took 40 minutes before a ship had caught up with them and within moments was over taken. However before the ship and boarded the ship Will, had it already mutinied upon. He had all the crew members loyal to Jack, rounded up and within moments the other ship boarded. It seemed to Katarina like hours before Jack and Barbossa made it back on to the ship.

"Hello Captains!" Katarina said waving her hand happily in the air.

"That be my ring!" Barbossa yelled taking notice to the new jewel on the lass's hand.

"Well you smell funny."

"She's right mate you do." Said Jack before hiding from Sao Feng as he walk through the crowded ship.

"Jack Sparrow. You paid me great insult once."

"That doesn't sound like me-" with that Sao Feng punched Jack in the face making many cringe in discomfort. "-shall we just call it square then?"

It was only seconds later did 'Captain' Will, appeared in all his might. The might he held she didn't know. May as well have been a eunuch for all she knew. Five minutes of squabbling between Will and his beloved. Katarina was bored, contemplating weither she would be able to sneak off to another less crowded part of the ship. Being stuck in a fawning hell-hated coxcomb, that they call the Locker really didn't suit her and she was out and sure she may have gone slightly off the bend, in reality this was just a ride to go along.

The squabbling temporarily stopped and people started to raise their hand willingly Katarina followed suit.

It didn't take long till negotiation happened between the pirates. Katarina wasn't planning to stay till they mentioned her. Quickly her eyes landed on the intendant only to find they had another in mind. I seemed as no one in the era knew how to negotiate properly and the young girl sentenced herself to be practically a slave for the Singapore pirate Lord. Then all hell broke loose. The sounds of cannon fire and splintering wood sounded her ears and she watched Captain Jack make his grand entrance upon the Black Pearl.

"And that was without a single drop of rum!" Jack announced before looking at Will. "Send this pestilent, traitorous, cowhearted, yeasty codpiece to the brig."

"Oh, I always thought he was more of a bootless, elf-skinned, traitorous, eunuch?" Katarina exclaimed leaning on the helm finally interested.

"Is that so Miss Sharp."

"It tis Captain Jack" She purred getting dangerously close to the Captains face. "hmmmm, I have the trifling need to kiss you Captain."

This seemed to get a reaction like no other as the crew started to turn the other way pretending and failing to do their work.

"You probably still taste like the bourbon you just drank, for the love of the sea and sky what does it take to get a drink around here." She asked exasperated patting Jacks cheek before walking off. All Jack could do was star as she started the rigging clearly berating one of his crew members for their horrible job.

"Mr. Gibbs"

"Aye Cap'tn"

"Find out everything you can about our redheaded minx."

It wasn't as if she was anything special. No one knew her no one actually knew her name she was working the rigs and scrubbing the deck and even seen at helm. She looked as if a breeze could take her down but she stayed firm even in the harshest of weather. She seemed as if she was at home and the crew had no complaints. No one saw her drift; her work was that of the best. The times she took breaks which were seldom, on those rare occasions you could hear a tune sometimes up beat but mostly sombre.

She would sing of loss and longing. She sang of youth and youth lost. No one knew anything other than what she told people and what people saw of her. She was Katarina Sharp she refused to be called anything else. She even once on the journey stabbed one of Sao Feng's men for calling her a wench. No one had taken her seriously when she had told them that she would gut them if they called her anything but her proper name or title. The problem was no one knew her title and most didn't bother learning her name.

When night fell she took to one of the cabins that they seemed to use for storage. She knew the Captain was curious of her on his ship. She wouldn't admit it but she was curious of him herself.