A/N: It'll be two chapters today because I have been bored to my limit this week. Enjoy and review!

Chapter Ten: Jar of Dirt

"Damn," Rain sighed against Hector, both of them more than satisfied. "You are amazing."

"I won't be takin' all that credit," Hector replied.

"Finally!" Tia said downstairs to herself in relief. "I thought dey would never quit!" Tia Dalma sat with her bone fragments and predicted a future. As she was deciphering one, her door opened.

"Jack Sparrow," she said, rising from her seat.

"Tia Dalma," Jack said in return, happy to see her.

"I always knew da wind was gonna blow you back to me one day," she said. Then, she noticed Will Turner and pointed to him.

"You, you have a touch of destiny about you..." Tia said. "William Turner." There was to be no knowing according to Jack Sparrow, and Tia asked what she could do for them.

"You know I demand payment," she said suddenly.

"I brought payment," Jack answered, bringing in the monkey. Well, dat would be why I couldn't find him, Tia thought.

"Look," Jack said, pulling out his pistol and shooting the primate. "An undead monkey. Top that." Tia released him, knowing he would want to roam.

"Don't! You have no idea how long it took us to catch that," Gibbs said, disappointed. Tia agreed to the payment, and when Will showed her what they were looking for, she brought up the compass Jack bartered from her. Jack said maybe it couldn't lead him to this object.

"Aye, I hear you," Tia had him figured. "Jack Sparrow does not know what he wants. Yer key go to a chest, and it is what lay inside da chest you seek, don't it?" The crew asked what was inside, and Tia recognized Ragetti, but she wasn't bringing that up now. If the rest of the crew knew Rain and Barbossa (mostly Barbossa) were with her, hell could raise. She just went on to tell them about Davy Jones, a painful subject for her that she had a past to. But, no one needed to know that.

"Literally or figuratively?" Ragetti asked when she came to the part about the heart.

"Figuratively! He couldn't literally put his heart in a chest...could he?" Pintel asked, frightened. As she finished the story, Jack was in a rush to leave, and Tia knew he was in trouble if he was looking for another thing to barter with.

"Let me see yer hand," she demanded. When he showed her the wrong one, she continued to stare at him until he gave in. She unwrapped it, and everyone freaked out because it was the "black spot". They all spun around, shaking and then spit on the ground. Superstitious bunch.

"My eyesight's as good as ever, just so you know," Jack said. Tia searched through her things in the back.

"I have just da ting," she was talking to herself. "Now, where did I put it?" She found it.

"Land is where you are safe Jack Sparrow, and so you will carry land with you," Tia said, coming out from the back with the jar of dirt.

"Dirt," Jack said unimpressed. "This is a jar of dirt."

"Yes."

"Is the jar of dirt going to help?" he asked.

"If you don't want it, give it back," Tia said.

"No." Then, she directed them towards the Flying Dutchman and they were on their way.

Rain heard something from downstairs, but Barbossa didn't hear a thing.

"Where might you be goin'?" he asked as Rain got out of bed, slipping on a robe. She went towards the window and saw Gibbs, Pintel, Jack, and... Ragetti.

"It's Jack," she whispered. Barbossa at once came to the window and to her side. "They just left." Barbossa didn't mind it anymore, seeing as though he was here with Rain, and the crew was already leaving. He went into the bed, and told Rain to come back too. Rain looked out the window at Ragetti. The sailor looked back and she waved at him, noticing only he looked back at Tia's place. He spotted her and waved back to her so she knew he could see her. She smiled, despite the fact Ragetti probably wouldn't see her doing so. Then, she looked back to Barbossa.

"What were you doing?" he asked as she sat on the bedside.

"Saying hello to Master Ragetti before he completely disappeared," Rain answered.

"Come back to me," Hector said, almost begging her to. "I miss ya already."

"Already?" Rain asked, slowly coming back to the center where Barbossa was. "Well, I hope this won't be a problem in the future if you miss me when I'm twenty feet from you." She leaned on his shoulder, putting one hand on his chest. His arm came around her again, and they fell asleep there with each other once more.