A/N: The title of this chapter is decieving. I just wanna make it clear that it's supposed to be funny and you'll understand why when you read. On with Pirates!


Chapter 7: Bloody Party

"Krystal!" Elizabeth cried through the bars at an unconscious pirate lying on the cell floor on the other side of the bars. She turned to the guard standing at the foot of the stairway. "Open this door! Quickly!"

"But…Miss Swann—"

"Do it!"

The guard did as he was told and hastily unlocked the cell door. Elizabeth ran into the cell and knelt down beside Krystal, lifting her head and using her fan to give her air. Krystal groaned and shifted her head a bit, bringing her hand to her forehead. She sat up her eyes closed and brought her other hand to her face.

"Are you alright?" Elizabeth breathed.

"Do you think I'm alright, Lizzy?!" Krystal snapped, not moving from her depressed position. "You left to get on a ship, and you had no idea where it was going, who was on it, or where you were going!"

"Everything turned out alright!" Elizabeth reported, defensively.

Krystal moved her hands from her face and shot an enraged glare at Elizabeth and growled, "What if it hadn't?! What if something bad had happened?! Who would have been there to help you?! No one! I was the only one protecting you!"

"I could protect myself!" Elizabeth shot back. "I wasn't a child! I was ten years old, but I was old enough to know that you weren't going to drag me around forever!"

"You were a child! But as much as you were a child, you were my sister, not a burden! I wouldn't have to 'drag' you around anywhere if I didn't want to! But I would have taken anywhere with me!"

The girls stared at each other, Elizabeth in wide-eyed shock, Krystal in a glare.

"You would have taken me with you?" Elizabeth breathed, making Krystal's expression soften and she scooted to Elizabeth's side, wrapping her arms around her shoulders.

"As far as the horizon, Lizzy," she murmured, feeling a twinge of sadness as she used Jack's words. That phrase was one he had used a lot during her pirate training and it was now something she said all the time.

"I'm sorry I ran off," Elizabeth murmured, jolting Krystal from her thoughts and smiled at her sister.

"Well, at least now I know why," Krystal sighed. "How did you know I was even here?"

"Will told me," Elizabeth shrugged.

"So you know the Turner lad, eh?" Krystal smirked.

"He's my fiancé."

Krystal pulled away from Elizabeth and stared at her in disbelief, breathing, "You're going to be married?!"

Elizabeth nodded and smiled, "You're welcome to the wedding, if father will grant you clemency."

"Your step-father can do that?" Krystal smirked. "He must be an important man."

"He's the Governor."

Krystal was once again, taken aback before she scoffed, "Well, you seemed to have done well for yourself. A Governor for a father, a nice young man for a husband. Couldn't have done better for myself if I tried."

"I think you did a pretty good job of finding a man, love," a familiar voice called suddenly, making both girls jump with a start.

They looked toward the cell door and saw a familiar face standing in front of them, leaning on the bars with the guard unconscious behind him.

"Jack!" Elizabeth gasped, standing as quickly as she could.

"Miss Swann," Jack greeted as he bowed grandly.

"Oh, brilliant," Krystal sighed, standing as well and placing her hands on her hips. "My 'savior' is here! How did you know I was in prison?"

"Turned around, love," Jack replied. "I had this feeling you'd get into trouble if I left your side too long. I visited Will, and he told me he met a lady captain that said she was a friend of mine, and that she'd been taken away in shackles."

"You know him?" Elizabeth whispered to Krystal with a shocked look.

"Better than you want to know," Krystal whispered back and Elizabeth nodded in understanding.

"Come on, love," Jack called to Krystal, beckoning her toward him, making both girls shoot their gazes to him. "We haven't got all day!"

"But Jack—"

"No 'buts,' deary," Jack interrupted Krystal. "We need to get out of here before you and I end up sharing a cell."

"Jack," Krystal tried again. "You're not listening to me. There's a way I can be set free."

"And how's that?" Jack asked a bit irritably, crossing his arms and leaning back on the bars.

"Because," Elizabeth broke in, thinking she knew what her sister would tell him. "I'm her sister, and my father is the Governor."

Jack shot a look of disbelief at Krystal who saw the wheels spinning in his head through his eyes. Krystal turned to Elizabeth who was beaming with pride.

"Elizabeth!" Krystal hissed, drawing the younger girl's attention. "Why did you say that?!"

Elizabeth frowned at Krystal in shock.

"Isn't that what you were going to say?" she wondered, but Krystal shook her head, making Elizabeth's redden in embarrassment.

"Well, you're just full of surprises, aren't you, love?" Jack smirked at Krystal.

"Jack!" called another familiar voice from the stairs. The three looked to the steps to see Will standing at the bottom of the stairs. "What are you doing here?! You'll be caught!"

"It's a bloody party in here!" Krystal exasperated, throwing her hands in the air and sitting down on the bench below the small window in her cell, burying her face in her hands.

"Will!" Elizabeth exclaimed, running to him. "What are you doing here?!"

"I was looking for you," he explained. "You ran off so fast after I told you about Krystal, I couldn't keep up with you!"

"Why don't you tell him about me, Lizzy?!" Krystal growled, looking up at the crowd outside her cell. "You seem to like explaining it!"

Will frowned between Krystal and Elizabeth in wonder.

"She's my sister," Elizabeth whispered, making Will shoot a wide-eyed stare of disbelief at her.

"What?" he breathed. "How?!"

"That's what I'd like to know as well," Jack broke in, directing the question to Krystal as he turned to her.

"I told you," Krystal reminded him calmly. "Before I stowed away on your ship, my sister ran away onto a different ship."

"That was her?!" Jack exclaimed, pointing at Elizabeth but stared at Krystal in disbelief.

"No, Jack," she replied, sarcastically. "She made it up. It's all an elaborate plan to get myself out of here!"

"Very funny, love," Jack retorted, lowering his hand. "Now that you answered my question, let's get out of here!"

"I can't let you do that, Jack," Will objected and all eyes shot to him in disbelief. "If there's any chance of Krystal being set free legally, she should take it."

"I have one word for you, lad," Jack smirked, walking toward him. "Pirate. She's incapable of doing anything legal, because that's what she is."

Krystal stared at Jack with a guilty expression. She knew he was right. If she decided to someday settle in one place and become a law abiding citizen, she would still be, in her heart, a pirate.

"Time to go, love," Jack murmured, holding a hand toward her.

Krystal looked away from Jack and saw Elizabeth staring at her in worry, and some small hope that she might stay. Krystal then glanced at Will, who was also staring at her with a threatening glare that almost intimidated her…almost.

"You must make a decision," Will said in a low tone.

Krystal looked at him, her eyes glowing with anger as she stood up, her fists balling up at her sides in rage.

"Do I?" she replied through clenched teeth. "Do I?! I've gone through my whole life making decisions! Some of which I regret, and some that I'm proud of! But mark my words, the decision to end my life will not be decided by anyone but me, and I will not regret this decision!"

"Krystal, what are you saying?!" Elizabeth breathed.

Krystal looked to Jack who stared at her in sadness over her words. She shot her glance back to Elizabeth and Will, not allowing her rage to settle.

"I'm saying that I'm not going anywhere," she growled. "Nor will I allow you to ask for my freedom. I've committed crimes against the crown and I'll be punished for them. I'd best rid the world of my evil before anyone else gets hurt!"

Elizabeth stared at her sister in shock and confusion.

"But Krystal, you'll be hanged!" Elizabeth cried, tears beginning to well in her eyes at the thought of watching her sister walking to the gallows.

"She knows, love," Jack said softly, drawing everyone's attention to him. "That's what she's counting on."

Krystal looked to him as he leaned on the cell bars, crossing his arms over his chest, his head bowed. She gripped the bars that made up her cell door and slammed it shut, making Elizabeth and Will jump, but Jack only winced slightly.

"Leave," she ordered them all in a low voice. "None of you will change my mind, so don't even try."

She marched back to the bench under the window and sat down, her head in her hands. Elizabeth couldn't keep her tears from falling, and to hide them she ran up the stairs to the fort, Will running after her. Jack stayed, turning to lean his wrists through the bars, his eyes glued to Krystal.

"Why are you still here?" she questioned in a low tone, unmoving.

"Why you so determined to die, love?" Jack wondered in a gentle voice.

"It's not something you should be burdened with, Jack," she replied, still not looking at him. "Don't ask me again."

"Just tell me and get it over with. You'll be hung before nightfall, so it won't play on your new found conscience."

Krystal gave out a few bursts of sobs, making Jack's expression soften, feeling the urge to comfort her.

"I'm cursed, Jack," she shuddered. "I'm cursed and it's my fault, no mistake about that. When my ship was taken, I was left by that coward of a captain on an island I'd never been on, seen or heard of."

"Mutinied upon, were you?" Jack guessed.

"Be quiet and listen," she snapped, and Jack said nothing else as she resumed her story. "They left me on that island but it wasn't a mutiny. My ship was stolen from me by an envious, would-be captain and his crew.

"There was a man about my age on this island and when I wouldn't share his bed, he cursed me, saying that my presence for too long in one place would put anyone around me in danger. At first I didn't believe him, but then things began happening after I got off that island."

"What happened, love?" Jack wondered when she paused, and Krystal looked up at him, her cheeks soaked with tears.

"People started dying around me."


A/N: Ah, yes, the past of Krystal Robyn. Now we get a glimpse at what's got her all upset and whatnot. Reviews, if you please?