A/N I have decided I am going to make a James/OC one shot (most likely one shot). You can guess who the OC is, I'm sure.

Previously:

"How's your hand?" She asked sitting up and crossing her legs.

He smiled lightly "Free of the black spot, as it should be."

she nodded and couldn't think of anything else to say and began to feel awkward again "Good night."

"Night."

Jack walked along the deck of the ship, passing Lacey, who decided to help the new members of the crew swab the deck against his wishes, and glanced at Elizabeth, noticing she was starting to fill in the names on the letters of Marque.

He took them out of her hands and frowned "I believe these were meant to go to me!" he looked at the signature "Lord Cutler Beckett?" he scowled "He's the man that wants my compass?"

"Not the compass… a chest."

This caught Gibbs's attention "Not the chest of Davy Jones!"

Still scowling, Jack's eyes scanned across the deck and rested on Lacey, and saw she was in a deep conversation with James Norrington.

"If Beckett has control of Jones, he will have control of the sea…" Gibbs trailed off.

"A truly discomforting notion." Jack said, looking back at Elizabeth.

Gibbs went back to work, seeing nothing left for him to say

"May I ask how you came by these?"

Elizabeth looked at him "persuasion."

"Friendly?" he asked with a smile.

"Decidedly not." She snapped

He looked at the letters and said, this time a bit louder, "Full pardon" Lacey and Norrington looked over at them "Commission as a privateer on behalf of England and the East India Trading Company." He scoffed "As if I could be bought for such a low price." he stuffed the letters in his jacket pocket and turned to walk away.

"Jack!" Elizabeth followed close behind "The letters, give them back."

He stopped and turned to took at her "Persuade me." he said with a slight grin.

She hesitated "You do know Will taught me how to handle a sword."

He smiled "Like I said, persuade me."

She turned her back to him and stormed off.

Jack patted his coat where the inside pocket contained the letter and he looked rather smug.

Lacey took a spot on the deck next to James and began to scrub the dirty black wood.

They shared a few glances before one of them spoke "What happened?" she asked softly, feeling sorry for him.

He sighed "I wanted to capture Captain Jack Sparrow, that's what happened. I was going to do anything to get him behind bars. Even sail through a hurricane."

She sighed and saw Jack walking passed them out of the corner of her eye, but didn't look at him. "But why risk your career for that?"

He looked into her eyes for a moment before he scrummed the deck harder than was necessary "It's people like him that ruin lives."

She put her hand on his to stop him from scrubbing "You mean people like me."

He looked at her again as she pulled her hand away "Why did you go?" there was a pause "I though you…" he trailed off.

"James look at where we are. This is the life I chose… it's the one I want. Sure it's not the best, I know. But it's part of me. It's the part of me that isn't good enough for you."

"Full pardon," They looked at Jack as he read the letters of Marque. "Commission as a privateer on behalf of England and the East India Trading Company."

Lacey turned her head to look back and saw the look in James's eyes. She knew exactly what he was going after now.

He changed the subject slightly, still looking at Jack and Elizabeth " On another note, I do believe someone is attempting to follow in your foot steps."

She raised a brow "What are you talking about?" She looked at how close Elizabeth and Jack where. "That's Jack. He's a complete pig most of the time and thinks its charming." She said unhappily.

James smirked and stood as Elizabeth walked away from the captain. He walked to her leaving Lacey with the other new crew members staring at her.

She tossed the brush that she used for swabbing the deck into the bucket and stood up, looking back at them. "Get back to work…" they continued to stare at her and she wondered if they had been doing that the whole time she was there. "What, you've never seen a woman clean up?" she glared.

"Is there a problem?"

Lacey turned around and looked at Jack holding a bottle of rum. "No." She said.

He looked at the crewmen "Well, don't ye have work to do?"

They immediately went back to their work.

"I see you and Norrington had a little discussion." Jack said to her.

"And I see you spoke with Elizabeth."

He smirked "Watching me now?"

She rolled her eyes "It's hard not to look at you when your reading certain letters loudly, interrupting certain conversations."

He raised a brow "Are they important conversations?"

"Is it an important letter?" she said, having every intention of looking at the letters.

He watched her as she sat on the railing or the ship, looking at him innocently.

"I read what it said, I believe it's yer turn to enlighten me on the seemingly important conversation." He stepped closer to her, putting one hand on the railing next to her leg and began to drink large amounts of rum.

"James and I were just talking about him and I loving each other." she smiled as he choked on him rum, causing some of the crew to look their way. Lacey rubbed circles on his back "Just breath." She hid her amusement.

He coughed a few times then steadied his breathing and looked at her with an expression she couldn't define. "What did you say?"

She laughed lightly "We were just talking about when I lived at Port Royal. He and I were very… close."

He frowned "How close?"

She shrugged "Why do you ask?"

"It's just interesting, Love." he leaned closer to her.

She smiled as she figured the best way to get to the letters and leaned a little closer as well. "Is it a problem to be close to someone?"

He grinned and removed his hand from the railing and wrapped his arm around her waist. "Course not." his eyes moved from her eyes to her lips before lightly pushing his against them.

Lacey moved her lips against his as she laid a hand on his chest and used her thumb and index finger to gingerly pull out the letter from Jack's pocket, then dropped it in the empty bucket by her foot.

She pulled back and he looked at her for a long moment, as if thinking. "What?" she asked.

He was pulled out of his thoughts and gave her satisfied smile and set the rum down on the deck "I knew you couldn't resist me."

"I believe you were the one that started it, and I was the one that ended it." She pointed out.

He still smiled "Aye, but only after you kissed me back which means you continued it."

"True, but lets not forget there us no need to dwell on such things." She said, refusing to admit how much she enjoyed kissing him.

His smile faded slightly and he removed his arm from around her waist. "Why not?"

"Well," She said thoughtfully. "because I would like you to count the other women you have kissed, and tell me how many are still around today."

"I have one still around." He smiled and poked her arm.

She sighed, this was not going as she had hoped. She had expected him to walk away after the kiss.

"Now, how many men have you kissed are on me ship?" He said, confident he answer was the same.

She smiled "Three."

"Wh-… THREE?"" The whole crew looked at them and Lacey slammed the palm of her hand onto her forehead. "Get back to work!" Jack told them angrily.

Lacey stepped off the railing and moved over so she wasn't standing in front of him, incase he wanted to push her off the ship. "Yes three, although I suppose the third doesn't count," She shrugged, no longer counting the time the crew had a little party below deck when she and Marty had a little too much rum, "Two then."

"Two?" He frowned.

At least he didn't yell. she thought. "You and James."

He let out a low growl.

She raised a brow "What?"

"Nothing." He said grumpily before walking off to the helm.

Lacey sighed, confused. She took the letters out of the bucket and began to walk towards the cabin when she noticed Elizabeth looking at her in awe, not with the usual hatred. They looked at each other before Lacey said "Persuasion is my forte." She shrugged. "I think I developed it into an art form. However, it can be a deadly thing sometimes. We almost had a disaster here a second ago." she nodded. "I suggest you persuade with caution."

Elizabeth frowned "I don't resort to throwing myself at men to get what I want."

She rolled her eyes "Your in pirate's territory, Hun. Their will come a point when you will do anything to get what you need, even if that means betraying Will."

"I would never-"

Lacey cut her off "I'm not going to argue with you! I'm just telling you situations can change your way of thinking. Your with pirates, and yes you have been around them before, but you are no where near knowing everything it takes to survive unless you have a little advise. To there it is. Do what you want with it." She made her way inside the cabin, not giving Elizabeth a second glance. She laid on the bed and looked over the letters before putting in Jacks desk drawer.

A/N: Don't forget to look at the poll on my page :) I hope you liked this chapter. Might not get a new one up until Tuesday. Bust weekend and I should focus on school. Besides I want to check out On Stranger Tides before I go much further. Which reminds me... Look at the poll PLEASE! (I know I said that already) and REVIEW! Maybe I will update faster.