Chapter Seven

Tortuga

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Tortuga was one step above a pig's sty and even then it was close. Harry looked around to find where Jack and Will might have gone. They had anchored the ship a little off shore and had left him sleeping in the crows nest. Of course Harry had followed them as soon as he realized that they had left him.

He wasn't in the least impressed by the island and even less by the people who tried to sell him shady objects in even shadier alley ways. It wasn't until midnight that Harry remembered the tracking charm he'd placed on Will and then remembering the point me spell as well, he silently cursed his own stupidity as he walked.

The pub that was his final destination was worse then anything that he'd ever seen, sighing he walked into the dingy place and the first thought that Harry had was that the chaos of the place was very organized. All of the fights didn't last long there just happened to be a lot reasons for everyone to pick fights not that anyone here seemed to mind them.

In point of fact it seemed the instigators were praised for starting little brawls.

Harry shook his head as he spotted his ancestor leaning against a wooden post and looking slightly green as a rather large woman smirked suggestively at him. If it had been anyone else Harry would have laughed out loud at the interesting greenish hue that Will's cheeks had acquired. As it was Harry grinned and began to walk toward Will to save him from the drunken woman.

"Hello Will, fancy seeing you here." Harry said as he slid up close to Will and the obviously in lust woman. Will shot Harry a weird look before another man came and pulled the woman off him as well as give Will and Harry a very weak glare.

'Really that guy has nothing on Snape, of course Snape had the best glare of doom I've ever been on the receiving end of. Not even Ol' Tommy boy could give one as good.'

Coming out of his thoughts Harry turned to Will to ask where Jack was when the 'Thunk' of a mug being set on the table behind them caught his attention. Turning around Harry spotted Jack sitting with another rather old pirate. Will noticed his eyes wonder and explained.

"One of Jack's friends, he's going to find a crew. Hopefully we will be able to leave by morning." Harry looked at Will's suddenly worried expression and decided that it had to do with the woman that he'd seen being taken aboard that black ship.

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Leaving Jack to his drinking knowing full well that he could take care of himself, Harry decided to get a more in-depth look around the pirate city. With William trailing behind him Harry ventured in the opposite direction of the Interceptor. He'd seen what was that way in any case and now that he knew where Jack and Will had been it was his curiosity that had gotten the better of him. So when he spotted a book in the window of a rather shady place he stopped and starred.

"Harry? What are you looking at?" The curiosity evident in Will's voice brought Harry out his thoughts about the book and it's implications. It was a little obvious that it was a magical store so Harry just shrugged and wondered off again with every intention of coming back before dawn.

~XOX~

Jack didn't know whether or not young Turner knew that Harry had left again after the two had arrived on the ship late the night before but Jack was determined to find out if he did.

It had surprised him that Harry had willing left the ship while both he and Will remained on said ship. Jack had noticed him return to the ship early this morning and had wondered why he had gone strait to the crows nest and stayed there for hours rather then return to his hammock. One more mystery surrounding him Jack supposed. It also concerned him at how interested Harry was in Will, after all why go after that whelp?

They were to meet the crew Gibbs had found for him later so Jack just fixed the things that he could and continued his thinking about Harry and everything that had led to the situation that he was in.

Jack was looking at the ocean, admiring it really when he noticed Will come out from bellow deck. 'Time to find out what the whelp knows.'

~XOX~

While Jack was trying to learn about Harry's past, Harry himself was reading the books he'd bought from that rather shady bookstore.

As it turned out the books sold there were guides to every magical was known to the magical community. Some of the books weren't detailed and some were but Harry had bought a couple for every subject he felt he would help in this venture.

After all he was on a commandeered ship, in the Caribbean, with a pirate captain and they were after another pirate who had kidnapped the love of prates son. He would definitely need all the help he could get.

Making sure neither Jack nor Will could see him he cast a few relatively simple privacy charms around the crows nest and began to read.

The first things he read up on was whether or not he could actually do magic without breaking any laws and then after reading them decided to just forget everything he had just learned as none of it remotely applied to him. He wasn't a native to this time after all and he was relatively sure that if the charms had survived the trip into the past then who ever monitored them would've found him already.

As it was he felt he needed to be completely sure to that end he decided to find the diagnostic charm that would prove or disprove the theory.

Two books later and he did find what he was looking for, as he watched the pinkish glow settle around his wand and fade out he was ecstatic. The charms were gone.

Settling more comfortably in the crows nest, Harry read more and more about curses, hexes and jinx' and marveled at how they changed over time.

He practiced the wand movements for every spell, curse, hex and jinx in one book until they became second nature. When the sun rose and he was satisfied with his ability he lowered the privacy charms to get some sleep.

'Not that it would be much sleep but I can't stay awake much longer. Any sleep is better then no sleep.'

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Something or someone was shaking him awake not too long after he closed his eyes. There right in front of him was an elderly man with a parrot on his shoulder.

"So? You are?" Harry said in a relatively even voice and was surprised by not the mans response but the parrots.

"Cottony, Cotton." The man shook his head at the parrot and smiled a little.

"Cotton, then?" Harry asked and got an affirmative response. Hearing the noise coming from bellow Harry left his perch and wandered around the ship in search of the Captain and his ancestor, Will. Will was in one of the small storage rooms while Jack was talking with Gibbs and a woman who in Harry's opinion looked ready to kill at the drop of a hat.

TBC

A/N: More Changes

~Grimm.