Disclaimer: And I still don't own any part of Disney's Pirates. Damn.

Chapter Three

Deal by a Traitor

It was the lack of rocking of the ship that woke Colette up at first. She thought that she has landed on some sort of small spit of land and that she was going to have to row herself back out to sea, not like her arm could take it. It probably was a good thing either way, to get food and water for herself. The sun was beating down on her body, taking all moisture that she was trying to hold onto right out of her body. The only spot on her body that was wet was her shoulder and upper arm that was soaked in blood. It made her deep red shirt almost black in the spot on her arm. Colette had no idea how dangerous opening her eyes was going to be for her from that moment on.

Standing in front of the mast with her arms crossed on her chest was a shock that almost sent Colette into the water when she opened her eyes. The golden color dress, the ink-bleeding tattoos, the haunted smile all hit Colette right in the face. She could not believe it, it could not be true.

"How can you be here?" Colette shouted as she struggled her way to her feet. She was almost upright when she realized that there was a shackle around her right wrist. She yelped out loud when she spotted the cannonball weight attached to it. She dropped to her knees and looked into the eyes of the heathen goddess Calypso in her human form, Tia Dalma. Five years ago when Tia Dalma was free from her bones she became the heathen goddess that she started off as. No one had seen her in her human form since.

"What sort of question is dat," she rattled off, deep in her accent. "I am everywhere." Colette wiggled her fingers under the cannonball to see if she could lift it up. The weight was too much for her as she looked back up into Calupso's dark eyes.

"Jack Sparrow," she cooed. Her favorite pirate was sleeping under the influence of his favorite drink. He might be locked up but he was still drunk, he still was the same old Jack, even after all that had happened in the five years since she had seen him last. He murmured in his rum soaked sleep. Calypso ran her fingers up the side of his face. That always got his attention before. And it did this time as well.
"How could you have made a deal with the company?" Colette shouted at Calypso, her anger allowing her to pick up the cannonball and rise to her feet. "You used to be a pirate, how could you turn on your own kind?" Calypso, for just but a moment looked scared until Colette slightly faltered under the Caribbean sun. The heat was getting to her. She hadn't had water in a day and food in two, not to mention her body was desperately trying to heal itself from the loss of blood from her right arm. Calypso knew what she was doing. Colette had no choice but to agree or she'd die on the dingy.

"It was easy child, a swap of blood and a common goal," she played off as innocent charm. She knew that Colette could see through her faults. She was, of course, bright like her brother who saw through it too. The winds began to pick up catching Colette's attention. She looked to the landless horizon. She was trapped and had no choice other than to hear Calypso out.

"So what went wrong with your deal then, something you by chance overlooked?"

"So as you made this deal, you just happened to overlook that by killing the pirates, you killed your believers, and by killing your believers your powers would dampen dramatically?" Jack asked in all earnest. Calypso rolled her eyes at Jack who was leaning up against the wall to help keep him upright. She had no doubt that he was going to use the information to his advantage. When didn't he use anything to his advantage? She needed to simplify this tale for him.

"I wanted revenge on the brethren; it was as simple as dat," Calypso growled. Jack put down his hands that he had been using to talk with. There was just no use in fighting with her, he might as well just find out what she wanted. He was the one who was stuck in the cage after all.

"So what you're really saying is..."

"You want me to go to World's End, find the crew of the Dutchman, and bring them back to this world to rally again against the East India Trading Company because you told them how to kidnap the Captain from the ship and thereby damning them to drift at World's End until the Captain tells them how to rescue him? Did I miss anything?" Colette repeated with her no nonsense voice. She felt the dingy shift under her. She had a feeling she knew where Calypso was going with everything but she really didn't want to believe it. She also didn't miss the question that Calypso was yet to answer so she asked again.

"Why me?"

"Because you have a touch of destiny," Calypso echoed. Different moments in time but yet both Jack and Colette stared at her with disbelief in their eyes. She needed both of them to agree otherwise she would be on her own brink of destruction. Colette would be easier because of the aspect of just letting her drown was looming in both of their eyes. Jack, on the other hand, was stuck in a brig of a grounded ship in Shipwreck Cove. If he accepted, he would have to get himself out of the brig on his own and commandeer one of the brethren's own ships, therefore sealing his own outlaw status. He would be an outlaw among outlaws. She waited with baited breath.
So, Calypso needs help...anyone have any ideas what she wants Jack to do? Tricky world they live in, a Traitor double-crossing the side she was helping and asking help of the side she was helping to destroy...what's a pirate to do...Let me know what you think!