All right, so I had a very big fight with myself on whether or not I should write the scenes in between last chapter and where I would start from in this chapter and finally "not" won. Which means that the scenes of Jack and Will fighting at the shop and Jack in jail will have happened but were not written.

Further more into the subject, I don't think I will be doing many scenes that Melanie is not present in. I just think it will help the story move along faster. If anyone has a problem with this, leave a comment. :

All right lets get on with it then, shall we?

Disclaimer: All I own is Melanie, the rest, I own in my dreams lol


Girl talk, swords and injuries

"Now off to bed Melanie," said Governor Swann while pointing towards the stairs only moments after entering the house.

"But father!" She protested. Melanie was not ready to tuck in for the day one little bit; she really wanted to speak with Elizabeth first.

"You've had a very trying day my dear, I don't want to hear any more protestations from you," he said while inching her towards the stairs.

Melanie had to think quickly, she wanted to talk to Elizabeth but there was no way she would be able too if she was being sent up to bed. The idea she came up with was rather childish, but had been used against her quite a lot when her and Elizabeth were young. She decided it was the best she had and she began walking up the stairs. Before she reached the top, she turned around and asked in the sweetest tone she could,

"What about Elizabeth father, isn't she going to bed too?"

If looks could kill, Melanie would have been dead on the floor in an instant from the look she was receiving from Elizabeth.

"Actually…" said their father, "yes, Elizabeth off to bed with you as well. We have an early morning tomorrow at the fort, lots of hangings I reckon."

"Fine," Elizabeth said as she began making her way up the stairs, "I'm off to bed so I can wake up bright and early and watch gentlemen die."

When Elizabeth had reached Melanie on the stairs, Melanie whispered, " Don't go into your room. Come to mine."

"Why?" Elizabeth asked.

"Just come all right? I want to talk to you," Melanie whispered and then turned to her father to say goodnight.

When Melanie walked into her room she found Elizabeth sitting on her bed with her arms and legs crossed, Melanie couldn't help but laugh at her.

"What?" Elizabeth asked.

"Nothing, it's just you look so angry with me," Melanie replied trying the best she could to stop laughing.

"Alright, Alright! I'm not that funny," Elizabeth said while throwing a pillow at Melanie, "What did you want anyway?"

"I wanted to give you this," Melanie said while putting the pillow away and taking the pirate medallion out of her dress and giving it to Elizabeth.

"The pirate medallion?" asked Elizabeth.

"No," Melanie said sarcastically, "I wanted to give you the necklace I bought for you from the market. Of course the pirate medallion!"

Elizabeth took the pirate medallion from Melanie while rolling her eyes. She put it on and then made her way towards the door while asking, "Is that all you wanted?"

"No," Melanie said while grabbing a pillow from her bed and hugging it, "I wanted to talk about something else too."

Elizabeth sighed and then made her way back too Melanie's bed and sitting next to her.

"All right, spill."

"I think I'm in love Lizzie." Melanie said.

"With Norrington?" replied Elizabeth in shock, "Come on Melanie, you can do better then that."

"But… no," Melanie said confused.

"No it's fine Mel," Elizabeth teased, "Whatever floats your boat, but don't expect any gifts from me to your children."

"Elizabeth! I'm not in love with Norrington!" Melanie said while throwing her pillow at her.

"Your not?" asked Elizabeth after retrieving the pillow Melanie had thrown from the floor.

"No," Melanie said while laughing a little.

"Then who are you in love with Melanie?" asked Elizabeth much more interested this time.

Melanie thought about her answer for a moment then replied, "He's very good-looking and is quite the opposite of Norrington. Oh! And he has beautiful brown eyes."

Elizabeth thought about who this man could be for a while. After a minute had gone buy, she lat out a gasp and backing up to the hallway door before asking, " Melanie, you didn't fall for Will did you?

Melanie rolled her eyes before shaking her head at Elizabeth, how could she think that she, Melanie, would fall for William Turner.

Elizabeth made her way back to the bed before asking, "Well then whom did you fall for? What other man did you see today besides—"

And then it clicked inside Elizabeth's head.

"You fell for the pirate! Melanie how on earth did that happen!"

"I don't know," replied Melanie, " which brings us to the real reason why I asked you to come to my room. I need you to make sure father doesn't come into my room until I get back."

"Until you get back from where?" asked Elizabeth.

"From the jail cell. You heard father, didn't you, there are hangings tomorrow! I'm going to help him escape if I can."

"You're mad, but I'll help you." Elizabeth said while shaking her head.

Melanie smiled back at her sister and then began tying sheets and blankets together to make a rope to climb down from her window. After five minutes, they had made a rope long enough to reach the ground and Melanie had already begun climbing down. Elizabeth watched as she slipped off the property without any of the guards noticing. She rolled her eyes and began chuckling to herself but stopped when she realized that she now had to come up with plan to prevent their father from coming into Melanie's room.

As Melanie slipped off the property, she had no idea that a familiar yet unfamiliar ship had sailed into Port Royal, preparing to attack. Just before she reached William Turner's Blacksmith shop, she began to hear the ringing of cannons being shot followed by the high-pitched screams of the townspeople. Melanie panicked and ran straight into Will's shop and almost right through a sword. As Melanie let out a scream, Will gasped as he realized who was on the other end of the sword and threw it to the ground. He walked up to Melanie and took her by the shoulders to make her look at him and said,

"Melanie! It's only me, it's Will."

"Will?" Melanie said looking up at his face and then jumping and wrapping her arms around him, "I was so scared Will, I don't want to go out there again."

"I know, and you don't have too," Will said while pushing Melanie into a haystack to let her sit down.

"Thank you," Melanie said with a smile.

Melanie watched as Will gathered up as many weapons as he could and began walking towards the door. Melanie quickly shot up from the haystack and asked, " You not going out there are you?"

"Yes I am," Will replied simply.

"Well then I'm coming with you," Melanie stated.

Will gave Melanie a very confused look and asked, "I thought you said you didn't want to go out there again?"

"Well not if you're going to leave me here all alone!" Melanie said, slightly panicked.

Will rolled his eyes and then handed Melanie an axe and a sword. She gave these items a quizzical look and then asked, "What do I do with these?"

Will simply stated, "Kill the pirates," and then grabbed Melanie and walked out the door into the chaos of the streets.

Melanie watched as Will killed one, two, three pirates in a row and was already working on the fourth. All Melanie had really done was follow Will around like a puppy dog. Melanie watched as Will killed the fourth pirate and was coming back towards Melanie when his face changed to terror and he yelled out, "Melanie watch out!"

Melanie turned to see a pirate standing in front of her ready to attack, fortunately for her, because Will had warned her about him she moved to the side to evade the blow that was coming for her. Only instead of it being a fatal blow, it dug into her arm causing her to let out a scream. Will ran up to her and watched as the pirate escaped to attack another woman from the town. Will turned his attention back to Melanie, he ripped part of his shirt had began to wrap it around her arm to stop the bleeding. Once he was finished he stood up and ran over to where his sword was when he dropped it. As he walked back he heard a familiar voice call out his name. He looked around to see Elizabeth being kidnapped by a couple of pirates. Before he could make his way to her, he was knocked out cold by a blow to the head from one of the pirates leaving both him and Melanie vulnerable on the ground, unconscious.


I really liked writing this chapter, it was probably because writing the girl talk was insanely amusing for me :P

And I do know that hurting Melanie was not entirely necessary, but it will play a little part later. ;-D

Next update will be Wednesday January 16th, 2008 and there will the no arguing that point. What I'm asking you is how long you would like the update to be. It could either be a normal length chapter like this one with about 1,500 words or a very long chapter with over 3000 words. If you choose the first choice, there will be another update between the 16th and the 29th of January. If you choose the second choice there will not be an update until my exams are finished, meaning February.

So the choice is yours :D

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