It was Maddy's first day of consciousness on the Pearl, and she already felt some tension rising between her and Jack. She found it utterly disgusting how he would buy women like that. But she just brushed it off her shoulder and tried to enjoy what left of her break she had.

As Maddy walked into the galley, the rest of the crew had already been through a bottle of rum each, wasting themselves away. But as she looked more closely, she noticed a woman in a dress sitting in the corner. She didn't remember seeing a woman when she was ordered to meet the crew. As Maddy slowly walked over to her, the woman began lifting her head up to look at Maddy. She looked to be around Maddy's age, maybe a little older. She had bright blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. A generally good looking woman.

"Umm...hello. I'm Madeline. I don't remember seeing you on deck earlier today, and I thought I would introduce myself".

"Hello, Madeline. You seem nice enough. I'm Adrienne". Maddy smiled and Adrienne smiled back.

"You can take a seat if you like," Adrienne said pulling up a chair next to her.

"Oh, thanks". Maddy said quickly sitting down.

"So, why are you on the Pearl??" Adrienne asked.

"I'm a childhood friend of Jack's. I ran into him when he made port in Iliya. Then a pirate raid started and I got knocked out by some bastard. And I guess Jack took me aboard the ship so I wouldn't be capture or something. So...here I am. What about you? How did you get here?"

"I am also a friend of Jack's. I'm from Tortuga, which is obviously his favorite place in the Caribbean". Adrienne laughed at herself. Maddy looked at Adrienne after her comment about Jack and Tortuga. 'Could she be...a...whore?' Maddy thought to herself. She then remembered the blue dress she found in the closet.

"I love your dress. Where did you get it?" Maddy asked Adrienne. Adrienne looked at Maddy with a weird look on her face, like she were crazy.

"Uh...Tortuga. Why?"

"I think it's lovely. Do own any other dresses?" Maddy asked, trying to act as curious as she could.

"Well, I used to own a navy blue one, but I can't seem to find it. Must have misplaced it somewhere. Or one of the crewmembers stole it. They seem to gag over any woman that comes aboard, so watch out for yourself dear".

"Will do..." Maddy trailed off, connecting the dots in her head. Even though Maddy hated jumping to conclusions, she figured that the blue dress Maddy accidentally found in the closet was Adrienne's. 'I bet she's Jack's whore,' she thought to herself. "Uhh...how did you meet Jack again?" Maddy asked Adrienne.

"In Tortuga. At a pub actually".

"Ahh...I see".

"A'right ye dogs, get back to work!" Jack screamed from the deck.

"Oh that's me too," Maddy said to Adrienne. "Why don't you work on the deck?"

"I'm not sure actually. I just usually stay down here until the day ends, or go to the crow's nest. Then it's off to the crew quarters for me to sleep. Quite the adventure, eh?" Maddy chuckled at her sarcasm.

"Oh yes, definitely". Maddy began to step towards the deck but turned around to face Adrienne again. "Do you want to help me scrub the deck, or maybe just stand around and keep me company? I mean, my job's not all that demanding and entertaining, and neither is yours". Adrienne laughed at Maddy's points.

"It's alright. I wouldn't want the Captain to get angry and all. He can get like that sometimes. Hopefully you're on his good side".

"Yeah...hopefully," Maddy muttered to herself as she smiled and turned towards the deck. She had not set one foot in the direction of her bucket and brush when Jack stepped in front of her. She stepped to her right, while he stepped to his left, blocking her from passing him. She then tried stepping to her left, and he stepped to his right, as she predicted. Maddy quickly maneuvered herrself to the left of Jack, before he could step in front of her again.

"Now tha's not fair, love" Jack whined from behind Maddy. She turned around to see Jack frowning at her.

"Life's not fair, but it's real, Captain," Maddy snapped and Jack smirked.

"Ah, tha' it tis". Jack began stepping closer to Maddy, but she matched each of his forward steps with a backward step of her own.

"And it's not fair that you make me work, but not Adrienne". Jack stopped stepping towards her and looked at her in confusion.

"Ye met Adrienne?"

"Yes, I did. She spends all day in the galley or the crow's nest".

"Does she?"

"Yes...she does," Maddy began getting frustrated with Jack's worthless questions. There was a pause for a moment as one of she thought about what she would say next. "What are you going to do about that Captain?"

"I don' 'ave ta do anythin', I'm the Captain, savvy?"

Maddy rolled her eyes. "So you're going to let her just sit there and do nothing to help out the ship?"

Jack paused for a moment, pondering his answer. "Yep, I'm good with it". Maddy's eyes widened. She couldn't believe he made her work, but not Adrienne. "Does tha'...anger ye, love?" Jack said replying to her silent words.

Maddy remembered what Adrienne had said about getting on Jack's "good side" and modified her answer. She plastered a forced smile on her face. "No, just wondering".

Jack looked at Maddy in satisfaction. "Good". He smiled and didn't leave.

"Do you...want anything, Captain Sparrow?" Maddy asked timidly.

"No. Jus' starin'" he replied looking at Maddy. Maddy raised an eyebrow.

"Uh...at what?"

"At yer eyes, love. They are a stunnin' green color. Never seen it b'fore in me life. Ye never 'ad them when ye was younger".

"Oh, ok. That's nice of you to notice then. Must you be tending to your ship, Captain?" Maddy said trying to get him to leave her alone. Jack frowned at her eagerness for him to leave.

"'m the Captain, love, remember? I can do whatever I wan', whenever I wan'".

"Then it was an educated guess when I thought you didn't want to steer your dearly beloved ship into the corals, hm?" Maddy replied sarcastically.

"Is anythin'...wrong, Maddy?"

"No," Maddy said quickly and firmly.

"Why do I doubt tha' then?"

"How am I supposed to know?"

"Don' answer questions with questions, love. It's not healthy" Jack smirked at Maddy and turned on his heel to head for the helm. Once he couldn't see her face, Maddy smiled and laughed to herself. 'Charming...yet a womanizer.' She thought to herself. 'The man's impossible to figure out'.

As Maddy returned to her duties as "deck swabber", she began daydreaming about her adventures out in the sea. Or what she hoped they would be like. Nothing had happened so far since she'd been on the Pearl. Nothing exciting seemed to happen, which she found odd, seeing as this was only the biggest pirate threat in the Caribbean. Maddy took a break from her scrubbing to look out at the sea for a bit. She leaned against the rail and gazed out into the blue waters hoping adventure would come and tap her on the shoulder. But it never did. She waited and waited all her life for this "adventure" and this seemed like the perfect opportunity for it to come to her, yet it hadn't yet. Things weren't going her way as of now, and she wasn't about to sit around and let it consume her.

"Maddy!" Maddy quickly snapped out of her daydream gaze and whipped around towards Jack, the source of the shout. She immediately tensed up. She knew he knew that she was daydreaming, certainly unacceptable behavior on a pirate ship. "The decks up 'ere are lookin' a bit...dungy. Would ye be a dear an' swab over 'ere for awhile?"

Maddy relaxed hoping he hadn't noticed her not doing her job. "Um, sure". She rapidly picked up the bucket full of suds and brush and headed towards the helm. "Where did you want me to scrub, Captain?" Maddy asked politely. Jack raised an eyebrow at her in suspicion to her unnatural behavior.

He pointed to a spot a few feet in front of the wheel he was standing behind. "Right there, love".

As Maddy began to scrub the part of the deck Jack had pointed out, she strongly felt a pair of eyes on her, as if they were following her while she were working. This definitely made her more than the least bit comfortable. Maddy stopped scrubbing for a moment and looked up towards Jack at the wheel. His dreadlocks and beads were swinging about, but yet there was no wind in the air. He had obviously been looking down at her, and quickly turned away when he noticed she was going to turn around. Maddy threw the brush in the bucket and dusted herself off while standing up.

"Well, there you go, Captain. Your deck's been cleaned by a certain professional, and I hope you can keep it clean".

"Don' count on it, love". Jack smirked at Maddy, eyeing her figure. Maddy crossed her arms in front of her chest, realizing what he was doing. Jack frowned quickly and opened his mouth to speak, but she did before he could.

"I'll go over here and fix up this mess. It's certainly worse than the one I just cleaned up". Maddy smiled triumphantly and wandered over to a spot behind Jack, facing him so he couldn't sneak a peak at her.

"Aye...so it is". Jack muttered angrily, turning back towards the open ocean, controlling his most prized possession.