Cecile tugged at the end of James' leash, making him stumble slightly while he glared at her in his humiliation of being a girl's captive. Cecile wasn't really a girl but a woman, with the looks of a 19 year old but in fact 24 years old. Her dark red brown hair was so long that it almost hit James' in the face when the wind blew hard enough. She looked back at him through her brown eyes and laughed, he was trying so hard to look dignified with his hands bound and a leash around his neck- it wasn't working very well. They had been walking through the forest that covered the back half of the island that held Port Royal for three days and it was going to take another week to get to the other side.

"Why are you so uptight?" Cecile asked him, bored of silence. He glared at her.

"Why didn't you kill me?" He retorted.

"I asked first!" He rolled his eyes

"Why are you so childish all the time?"

"I am not!"

"You are." She tugged on his leash hard; he fell to the ground. "Stop doing that." He glared up at her and she glared back,

"Then stop calling me childish. I could kill you right now." He got up and looked into her eyes.

"But you won't." She looked away.

"You don't know that."

"Yes I do." She just glared at him as he smirked triumphantly. Cecile pulled his leash again but not so hard that he would fall, just stumble and choke a bit. After an hour she decided to ask,

"Can you sing James?" He looked at her like she was crazy.

"I'm a military man, why would you even ask that?"

"Was a military man, remember?"

"Every day since that day." He glared at her again but she chose not to notice.

"So, James, can you sing?"

"Yes, just not very well." He said through clenched teeth.

"Oh, too bad." She said indifferently.

"Why?"

"I was going to have you sing for me, my captive." He scowled at her; he had been once the most feared of commodores. Now he was just some pirate girls' captive. It was one of the most humiliating things that had ever happened to him. Humiliating things had been happening to him a lot lately, so he might as well just get used to them. Cecile started to sing- loud enough for James to hear but not belting loud, surprisingly enough she had a good voice and even more surprising was her choice of songs, Amazing Grace.

"Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wrench like me. I once was lost but now am found was blind but now I see…" His baritone joined in with her soprano, he wasn't that good but at least it was something to do. They ended the song.

"I didn't know you were religious, you're a pirate and pirate's aren't religious."

"I'm not very religious but I really like that song, dunno why though." They continued onward through the forest till just before nightfall. Cecile stopped in the middle of a clearing; she tied James' leash to a sapling that was too big to be uprooted easily and then she started a fire. She looked through her pack and pulled out some bread and two apples. She gave one apple and half of the bread to James and kept the others. She bit into the apple and he asked,

"Why do you want the heart so badly?" She chewed and swallowed

"Because you need another."

"Very funny. Really, why do you want it?" He took a big bite of the bread, his eyes not leaving her face.

"I owe Jack."

"Why?"

"Why are you asking all these questions?"

"I'm bored and in need of entertainment." She glared at him again.

"He saved me from a life of slavery and then helped me become a pirate. I would do anything for him." She took another bite of her apple.

"First love?" Cecile snorted.

"Yeah, right."

"How did that happen?"

"What happen?"

"Becoming a slave?"

"You should know!" She yelled angrily.

"What? Why?" He asked, confused. He had never known her until he joined Jack's crew, what could he have done?

"Well if you had paid attention to anything but sodding Elizabeth all those years, you would know!"

"Wait, what?"

"I'm Cecile Swann!"

"Really?" He asked, bewildered.

"When I was younger, it was always about Elizabeth! You would talk to her all the time and completely ignore me. It was so annoying! Elizabeth this and Elizabeth that! I'm the older sister, shouldn't I be given attention too? And then she and Will were best friends and so obviously in love, and you were so obviously in love with her. No one was ever in love with me! I was completely ignored, by my father too! He would always come home with new dresses for Elizabeth and nothing for me. Just because I could never match her beauty!" All though her out break she was pacing around the small clearing and waving her arms around like a loon, James watched her, almost frightened.

A tear rolled down Cecile's cheek; she had kept this to herself for years and was just now blurting it all out. "And then, four years ago pirates came to Port Royal and took me. And no one came to search for me! No one, not a soul! But of course when Elizabeth is captured all the Navy's come to save her!" James was speechless; he remembered her- she was that shy little girl who had followed Elizabeth around all the time. "And don't get me wrong I love my sister, she was the only one who noticed me and was kind to me. I know I'm a horrible, childish person for feeling this way but she got the one thing I had always wanted more than anything…" Cecile finished her apple and started on her bread like nothing had happened. James was too shocked to say anything so he just continued eating. Cecile then laid out a blanket for James and one for herself and sword's length away from his sleeping spot, in case he tried something. She had poured water on the fire after they were done and laid down to sleep when James asked,

"What was it that you had wanted so bad?" He couldn't help it, he was curious.

"Wouldn't you like to know." She said still with traces of anger and sadness in her voice.

"Yes." She sighed.

"Not telling you." It was much too embarrassing to tell him, particularly since it was about him. She had adored and loved him since she had saw him that day at the parade. Elizabeth could have had everything; all Cecile wanted was him. But he didn't want her- he wanted Elizabeth. And she had still loved him; it was just pathetic in her mind. It's also what saved his life she couldn't kill him, now with him here she was started to feel what she had felt before.

A/n: I love the Talented Mr. Ripley. If you haven't seen it and you're a Davenport fan- I recommend it! It has a bunch of other awesome people too like Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett. Also I know Amazing Grace was written until after this time but I don't know the lyrics to many old religious songs so deal.