Madison paced around the cabin she was given. She didn't know what to do. She barely remembered what had happened in the movie. Why was she here, and not one of her crazy, fanatic friends?
"God, I've gone insane," Madison said stopping in the middle of the room. And what was worse, she knew nothing about this time. Yes, she was a history major, but an ancient history major! She didn't know what to do or how to act. Let alone how to dress.
"Okay, I just have to calm down. What would my friends do?" Madison asked herself sitting down on the cot. "They would to totally go after Jack," She said, sorrowfully, answering her own question.
"I just have to act like this happens all the time. That this is normal. I just have to figure out if the movie has happened or not. What happened in the movie?" She whispered to herself as she pulled on her stockings and high heels.
Once she had those on, she dared to venture out of the cabin and go up the steps that William had led her down last night. When she got up on deck, she saw the sun shining over the vast ocean, and they were moving away from the place she was last night. Where ever that was.
All the crewmembers stopped working to look at her. She didn't recognize any of them. Were they in the movie?
"Hi," She said, tentatively. They grunted and went back to work.
Jack watched as the woman strolled around his ship, looking and examining everything. He smiled, and turned his gaze back to the horizon.
Will came up to the helm and said, "Jack, what do you plan for her?"
"Well, it seems ta me, tha' ye've planned on takin' this fine miss ta yer home. And tha'll take a couple days. So, until then, I plan on wooing her," Jack said, simply.
"Jack," Will sighed shaking his head. "What if she isn't interested. Or she's a maid?"
Jack laughed at that, "A woman found in Tortuga, a maid? Ha!"
"She didn't know where she was when I found her. She looked very scared."
"She was scarin' me earlier. Af'er ye left, I sat there and talked wit' her. She was goin' on 'bout 'finals' and 'crazy friends who wri'e stories 'bout me'. It was scary," Jack said seriously.
Will smiled at that. "You mean, a small woman scared you?"
"It's no' as funny as it seems."
"Not from where I'm standing," Will said, a smile still on his face.
"Get back ta work," Jack snapped. "An' send her up there. I wan' ta talk wit' her again."
Will left, waving a hand over his head. He walked to the bow, where Madison was standing. She was leaning on the railing, looking over the water.
"Careful, you wouldn't want to fall in," Will said, coming up from behind her.
She gasped and turned around to face Will. "Yeah, I guess so."
"Jack wants to see you."
"'Kay," She said, then left Will.
Madison walked up to the helm. Jack was standing there, staring at her.
"What can I do for you, Captain?" She asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
He smiled, "Ye could do many thin's fer me. But tha's not why yer here righ' now." Madison rolled her eyes. "Can ye work?"
She dropped her arms to her sides and sighed, "Of course I can. Whether or not I will is a different matter."
Jack glared over at her. "Ye will work, whether ye like it or not." Jack said then he called a woman by the name of Anna-Maria over. "Take the helm, love. I ha'e ta show our newest crewmember around."
"Aye," she said then took Jack's spot as he walked over to grab Madison by the arm.
"Follow me, lo- Madison," Jack said, growling out her name. He was growing irritated by having to call her by her name. He wasn't used to it.
"Aye, aye, Captain," Madison said, with a fake British accent.
Jack rolled his eyes as he pointed out various parts of the ship. And what crewmembers where doing and why that task was being done.
"So, what are you going to have me do?" Madison asked, as Jack led her to his cabin.
"Swabbin'. The funest job aboard," Jack said, then started digging through the chests, looking for something she could wear while she worked.
While Jack dug around, Madison walked around the room. Looking at various objects. Then her eyes rested on a gold medallion. It was a piece of Greek money, from the Mycenaean times when they used Linear B. She picked it up and looked at the backside. She gasped and dropped it down on the desk. The sound of money dropping had Jack's attention turned to her.
"Wha'?"
"Where did you get this?" She asked, picking it back up and shoving into his face.
"Why do ye ask?"
"Because of the writing on the back. I have to know where you got it and how you came about it."
Jack's eyes went from the coin to her face. She looked frightened, and none too happy about the coin.
"Again, why?"
"Because, Jack. I don't know if you understand about the Greeks or not, but they weren't too friendly with men who broke the law. And I think the intention of this coin is to curse the pirates who took them."
"Dammit, not another bloody curse," Jack mumbled. "Why do ye say tha'?"
"I've studied the Greeks and their belief in the gods. This coin evokes the rather of Poseidon to whoever takes it. And being out on the ocean, you're bait for the dangerous god."
Great, another curse, and Poseidon?
