(Chapter 2)

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"Captain!" Haden shouted.

Jack turned to her. "Mr. Gibbs… Who is this?" Jack always expected Gibbs to know. Gibbs should know everything.

"Well-"

Haden used her elbows to get out of Gibbs hold. She fell to her knees. "Captain, my companions might be drownin' right at this moment! Please, help me save them!"

The captain stared at her questioningly, stroking the ends of his beard. He stalked over, bent down and looked her dead in the eye. "Are you a lass or a lad?"

"WHAT!" Her face flushed.

What the flying crap! At a moment like this THAT'S WHAT HE ASKS?

"I'm on my knees beggin' –which trust me, I don't do often- and you comment on my scrawny look!"

The captain just stared back with a blank expression on his face.

She brought her fist up and socked Jack good and hard in the face.

In desperation, she headed for the ocean again, but in seeing their captain thoroughly decked, the crew charged her and tackled her to the ground.

Jack made a motion of resetting his jaw. "So you are a lad." He had always been slapped by ladies –especially the ones in Tortuga. So he figured, any other girl would have done the same.

"How long has this lad been on my ship?"

Over in the chaos Haden was throwing punches and biting at the pirates.

"A couple of minutes sir-" Haden head butted the lackey pirate in the jaw.

Jack noticed all the water spewed out on the floor. There was a puddle big enough to swab the whole deck with!

"Laddie, you were half drowned when the crew rescued you. What makes you think your friends would be alive?" JAck didn't mean any harm in this comment. He was simply, ccurious.

"I'm a girl, you stupid pirate!" Haden attempted to spit at him but the drop of saliva didn't even come close. She didn't like this, none of today was agreeing with her. Not even the own workings of her mouth.

Jack ignored the girl part and simply stated "Captain."

He annunciated with his hands. "It's Captain."

"Pppiiiiiiiieeeeee-RAT" she sang. "Rat, rat, rat. Dirty, stupid, Piiiieee-RAT!" Haden wasn't too keen on the way words were actually spelled but she was keen on twisting those words so, they were even more insulting.

Jack Sparrow made a motion with his hands like he wanted to strangle the girl -who was seriously getting on his nerves- but he stopped hiself and started paceing.

"Why," He asked doing some odd, jerky movements. He stomped towards her and got in her face again. "Why are you on my ship? And why in bloody hell are those friends of yours so important?" He pointed twords the ocean. He really didn't know how a brat like this could make friends anyways.

"You were in the ocean right, surely you must know the dangers of the sea!"

"They're my only family!" She shouted. Then turning her head she more quietly added "Of course I'd be worried."

Jack backed up but he still had a hint of anger in his tone. "Your family?"

"Aye,"

The deck fell silent and the men around her lessened their hold.

She cocked an eyebrow at them. These guys were supposed to be the Black Pearls, terrifying, crew. Yet they pitied her.

If it was cause she was a girl, she was about to kick some ass.

"I'll grant you passage on my ship for now," The captain spoke "But once we make port, you're off."

"What!" Haden screamed. "Your ship is the reason we even fell into the ocean! This is yer fault."

Jack just ignored her walking into his cabin.

"Damn PIE-RAT!" She yelled and banged her fist on his door.

"He could have just thrown you off board."*a/n

Haden whipped around. There stood a boy no older than her with sandy blond hair. He was covered in filth and he looked super uncomfortable in his way-to-big clothes.

Her eyes narrowed. "Were you stranded too?"

The boy laughed through his nose. "Nope, I'm just a dirty pie-rat." He mocked her.

Haden had no room for humor right now. She simply turned her head and ignored him.

The boy handed her a dingy, bottle, halfway filled with a yellowy liquid -which most deffinetly got her attention.

Haden's eyes lit up and s bit of drool slipped from her mouth. She wipped it away and snatched the bottle from him.

"C-careful," He took the bottle from her before she could down the whole thing. Half of it had ended up on her shirt, which pissed the kid off. "They don't give me a lot of this stuff."

After Haden was through with her moment in ecstasy, she commented back with "So what are you doin' on this ship?" Then more coldly she asked, "Did they kill your friends too?"

The boy looked at her confused. "Uhm… No," He took a drink of the rum himself. "I'm looking for my father."

Haden's heart went out to him a little. "Yer father?"

He nodded, a light smile appearing.

"He a military man or somethin'? You talk awfully proper for a rat." The kid used complete words, she hadn't heard a slur and he had a hard British accent.

He laughed. "Hardly. My father's the captain of the Flying Dutchman." He held out his hand "My names Turner."

"Haden… "She shook it in a stupefied manor. The Flying Dutchman?

*a/n: OMG IT'S WILLS SON! Dun-duh-dunnnn! So idk whether he can qualify as an OC or not. Like his image appeared in the movie, but they never said his name. So I'm just gonna call him "Turner".

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