A/N: Thank you for the reviews! They motivate me more than anything :) Now this story focuses on Liam and as someone asked, has a bit more description (well...I hope!) Also introduces an OLD character who will end up helping the pirates quite a bit... enjoy!

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UNEASE

Liam lay on his back, staring up at the ceiling of his room in Shipwreck Cove. It was up the top of the tower...a small, closet like room that was big enough to fit two piles of straw, covered with a sheet and a blanket each with a large, metal trunk separating the two 'beds'. A small ray of sunlight peered through the window...a rare sight in Shipwreck Cove but a welcomed one nonetheless. Strangely, for the first time in nearly a month, Liam's thoughts drifted to Kuan and the fate he might have encountered by helping Liam and Calder out of Singapore. Dread filled the pit of Liam's stomach. Kuan wasn't much older than himself. The thought that he had been executed...? Liam shuddered, sitting up straight and running his fingers through his soft, brown hair. His brow was prickled with beads of sweat. The thought of someone dead as a measure of his own safety made Liam squirm. Though he had been born and bred as a pirate, the whole concept of death was still quite far fetched. No matter how intelligent he was...Liam was still only eight.

'Hey Liam,' Calder said, swinging the door open. Liam blinked. 'Sheesh, look at you!'

Calder had changed out of his rags into clothes that looked extremely new. There weren't new of course...in fact, to any child in Port Royal, they were clothes to be worn by servants but to Liam, who hadn't seen anything but the clothes he was wearing for weeks now, they looked like something you'd receive as a birthday present. 'Where did you get those?'

'Mum,' Calder said promptly. 'She took one look at the clothes I was wearing and said that I had no right to be walking around a pirates' kingdom in rags like that. She managed to pull a few strings and here I am.'

'Dressed like a prince,' Liam grinned. Calder folded his arms. 'I should be the one saying that to you. After all. You are the prince of pirates.'

Liam raised one eyebrow. 'Huh. I guess you're right. Hey, Cal! Check this. If my mother is the Pirate King...does that make my father queen?'

The two boys eyed each other for a moment before bursting into peals of laughter. The door creaked open further and Jack looked inside. 'Oh. So this isn't Angelica's room, I take it.'

'No,' Calder said, wiping tears from his eyes. 'Why?'

'No reason,' Jack mumbled, his words slightly incoherent with an undertone of drunkenness to them. 'We need to discuss things.'

Calder and Liam watched as Jack stumbled away and Calder chuckled as soon as he was out of earshot. 'That old drunkard's going to have to learn to sober up if he's going to talk to Mum, otherwise she'll drive a sword through his stomach.'

'Somehow, I doubt that,' Liam muttered to himself, an uneasy feeling returning in his stomach for a different reason this time. So. Calder still didn't know about his father. Well, Liam had firmly made up his mind not to make himself the scapegoat and had put it clear to both Angelica and Jack earlier that he would not be the one to confess all.

'By the way,' Calder said, flopping himself down on his makeshift bed. 'Your parents are getting all lovey dovey outside. Avoid the third floor balcony if you ask me.'

'Thanks,' Liam said, wrinkling his nose and scrambling to his feet. He shut the door behind him as he headed back down towards the ground floor of the tower. Inside, he wasn't to repulsed by the fact his parents were together. They hadn't seen each other in eight years. What else was going to happen? Liam passed many captains he had read about and slowly, on his way back towards the port, he started to feel extremely intimidated.

'Ah...Liam Turner. Long time no see.'

Liam's insides went cold. That voice. The smooth, velvety, accented voice that Liam had found haunting his nightmares. The person that he and Calder had been forced to flee from, after stealing from the woman's home. Liam fearfully turned to face one of the only people in the world he was afraid of. None other than Tia Dalma.

A/N: You know what to do, read and review !