"Safe?" Amy asked, placing Rory behind her.
"I have my good days and my bad days!" The Doctor Turned from locking the door.
"How did she get in?" Avery asked.
"Bilge water" He mumbled, scanning the lost pirate's hat. "She's using water like a portal. A-a-a door, she can materialize through a single drop. We have to fo somewhere where there's no water."
"Oh, well thank God we're not in the middle of the ocean!" Amy snapped.
The Doctor Put the hat on, and Savannah gave him a disgusted look.
"Her eyes," Rory mumbled. "Like crystal pools."
"You are in enough trouble, already." Savannah told him.
"The magazine!" Avery said suddenly. Amy gave him a weird look.
"What?"
"He means the armory where the powder is stored."
"It's dry as a bone."
"Good let's go ther!" The Doctor stood. Avery pulled the gun out and pointed it at the Doctor.
"I give the orders."
"Actually, I give the orders, Avery." Savannah stood. The deep commanding tone she was using made Avery stand down. "Take us to the magazine." She pushed past him.
"Nobody touch anything sharp!" The Doctor warned.
Avery's first mate looked through the keys. He looked to Savannah. "Armory key is gone, Captain," She grinned down at Avery as if to say 'Told ya so.'
"How could it Have gone?" Avery glared. The Doctor leaned forward. He pushed the door open.
"Someone else," He began.
"Already had the same idea." Savannah picked up on his train of thought. They walked into the armory as one, followed by Avery, then everyone else.
"Barricade the door," Savannah ordered.
"And careful with those lanterns, every barrel is filled with powder."
"One spark we go boom." Savannah winced.
"Who's been sleeping in my gun room?" The Doctor suddenly asked.
"When did you become an excert from Goldilocks and the Three Bears?" Savannah snorted.
A barrel moved, and someone started coughing. Avery got very red in the face and walked over to the coughing barrel. He pulled the lid off.
"You Fool!" He pulled a young boy out of the barrel. "You Fool, boy! What are you doing here?"
"Who is he?" Asked the first mate.
"What?" The Doctor glanced at the man who spoke. "He's not one of the crew?"
"No," Avery sighed. "He's my son."
They sat the boy down. The Doctor leaned against the wall, hands in pockets, watching Savannah comfort the sick boy. He'd never seen the maternal instinct in her before, and he found it stunning.
"What in God's name Possessed you, boy?" Avery asked. "Your mother will be searching for you."
The boy looked down. Savannah looked up at the Doctor, suddenly upset.
"When?" Avery sighed.
"Last winter. Fever."
'Ah,' The Doctor thought, 'That's what upset her.'
"She told me all about you," The boy continued, smiling softly. "How you were a Capitan, in the Navy."
Avery looked away, ashamed.
"An honorable man, she said. How I'd be proud to know you." The boy stopped talking to cough into is hand. "I've come to join you crew."
"I don't want you here," Avery snapped. Savannah scoffed and stood up, pacing slightly. The Doctor grabbed her arm and held up his hand. She nodded her consent, and he placed it along the side of her face.
'What?' He asked softly, eyes searching for answeres. Savannah quickly shut a door on everything from the bar.
'I'd give anything to spend some more time with my Father. I can't do that. But Avery has the chance to be with his son and he's willing to toss that away?' Tears spilled over as she shut her eyes tightly. The Doctor was quick to wipe them away.
'I'd give anything to give you that time. But I can't. I'm sorry. And I agree. He should let the boy stay.' The Doctor smiled sadly at her before tucking her under his chin. Savannah sighed in content to be in his arms. They both turned back to the conversation at hand, their own taking less then half a second.
"You can't send me back." The boy stated. "We're hundreds of miles from home. It's too late."
"It's dangerous here," Avery told him. "There is a monster aboard. She leaves a mark on men's skin."
The boy paused.
"The black spot?" Savannah jerked up, reaching over and grabbing the boys hand. In the center of his palm sat a black spot. He coughed violently. She began to check him over.
"Theta." She called, standing slowly. "There's no marks. No open scars or wounds. He's healthy aside from the cough."
"Cough." The Doctor repeated slowly. Savannah nodded. "So she doesn't just go after blood. It's the weak and sick too. Like a hunter, that chooses the weakest animal."
"Okay, look." Amy said quietly as they listened to he heart wrenching coughing from the other side of the room. "He's got a fever, the Siren knows it."
"Humans," the Doctor sighed. "Second rate, damage too easily, it's only a matter of time before everyone gets bruised." He paused. "My ship; it can sail us all away from here. Let's go."
The boy stood and walked over to a barrel.
"You're not the Capitan here, remember?" Avery pointed his gun at the Doctor.
"I'm getting sick of you pointing that thing at my Clever Idiot. Stop."
The boy pulled the lid off the bucket, revealing water. The Siren's arm shot up and the boy shouted, backing away. Savannah grabbed him and held him close. The Doctor closed the barrel.
"The water is dangerous that's how she gets through." Avery yelled as the Doctor came and put a hand on the boys shoulder. "One touch of her hand and you're a dead man, Toby."
"We're all cursed if we stay aboard," The First mate said. The boy, Toby, looked up at Savannah in fear.
"It's not a curse!" The Doctor protested. "Curse means game over. Curse means we're helpless. We are NOT helpless." He turned to Avery. "What's our next move?"
Avery hung a silver medallion around his son's neck.
"Wait with the Boy. All of you." He ordered.
"Captain, we're all in danger here." The first mate protested.
"I said wait. And Barricade the door after we leave."
"Sure you want to go?" Amy asked the Doctor.
"We have to get Rory and Toby away. She's out there, licking her lips, boiling the Sauce pan, grating the cheese."
"Okay," Savannah stood up close to him. "We'll be here."
He hugged her tightly, breathing in her cinnomen scent, and she his jammy dodger scent.
"If you get an itch don't...Scratch too hard." Amy told him. He nodded and patted Rory on the back.
"There are worse fates then having your face gnawed off by a dodgy mermaid."
"Oh, Theta, be careful." Savannah sighed. He smiled at her, and left with Avery.
Rory looked to Amy and sighed.
"What's wrong?"
"The most beautiful thing you've ever seen?"
"Oh, Please tell me I didn't really say that, Van."
"Sorry, Ro," Savannah giggled, setteling down into a seated position with Toby cuddled into her side. "But you did, mate."
Avery's men began clearing the door.
"What's going on?" Amy asked them sternly.
"We're not staying here to coddle the boy, the Capitan's gone soft, it's time for us to leave."
Toby's head shot up at this. Savannah, Amy and Rory all glanced at each other. Toby gently shoved Savannah away as he stood. Sensing trouble, Savannah stood as well.
"He told you to wait, you dolt," Toby snapped. "He's your capitan, and Jack's a capitan too. Navel officers! You're honor bound to do as they tell you!"
"Honor bound?" The first mate smirked. "Do you know what kind of ship this is? What kind Sparrow's is? Do you know what they do?"
"Don't listen to him, Toby," Amy hugged the boy.
"We all sail under the Black Flag; The Jolly Rodger." He let the sentence hang in the air.
"LIAR!" Toby launched forward. "They're no wicked pirates!"
"Right!" Savannah agreed, pulling up her coat sleeves to reveal no 'P' branded on her arm.
"Oh, You think so, eh? I've seen your father cut down a thousand innocent men." Toby shrunk back at the look from the pirate, behind Savannah. He grabbed a cutlass. The men began gatering supplies for their escape.
"You're going. To remain. At your post." Toby pointed the cutlass at the first mate.
"I am not playing games with you, boy, you put that down," He looked at the blade in panic.
"One more step, and I'll use this you blaggard."
"You don't know how to fight with a cutlass, boy!"
Toby smirked. "Don't need to, do I?" Toby quickly cut the man's hand. The spot appeared, and Savannah pulled the cutlass away from the boy.
"Clever," She shrugged.
"You little swabber," He wanted to yell but he was too scared.
"Congradulations," Savannah told him.
"You made the menu. We shouldn't go out there now," Amy mocked.
"You skervy ape!" He pulled out his gun and Savannah groaned, pulling it out of his hands with ease.
"Don't shoot. The powder will blow and kill us all!" Rory reasoned. The other pirate grabbed the keys off the first mates belt.
"Mulligan, what are you doing?"
The only answer was the slamming of the door behind him.
"No honor amoung pirates." Savannah sighed. The First mate began barricading the door.
After another fifteen minuets, Avery came knocing and banging at the door, alone. They quickly opened it, and Avery grabbed the medallion away from Toby, who was polishing it. He breathed steam on it rapidly.
"Avery," Savannah growled once he stopped. "Where. Is. My. Doctor." She knew her eyes were red, but she didn't care.
"The Siren got him," Avery said sadly. "Mulligan tried to slash at me, and he jumped in front. Just a cut, but it was enough. He gave me this before she came," He handed her the sonic screwdriver. Amy gasped. "Said only you. And he said to tell you that it's not water, it's reflection. That's when she came for him."
"Reflection?" Savannah paused, eyes melting into placid grey. "REFLECTION! YES! Amy Keep Rory and Toby down here! I'll be back!" Savannah raced up to Avey's cabin, Picking up an oar and smashing all the windows.
"What are you doing, Jack?"
Savannah paused then continued smashing stuff.
"Right Jack, Jack is me, me beign Jack right sorry, Forgot! We have to destroy everything that can make a reflection. Gold, Silver, glass!" She turned from the windows and rammed the oar into a mirror several times. Avery stared at her. "What?" She looked at the broken mirror. "Oh, I know, I know, very bad luck to break it but look at it this way. We're trapped on a ship full of treasure with a creature hunting us, which can use that treasure to kill us all! With no Doctor, and I'm assuming no TARDIS!" She paused and looked at the Treasure. "And I'm very sorry about this." Savannah threw out her hands and the pile of gold and jewles at her feet exploded into a controled fire, so only the treasure would burn.
"That was the treasure of the Moghul of India!"
"Really? Good, I though it was yours."
"Jack there must have been some other way!" Avery glared.
"Look, any reflection anywhere and the siren will attack! We lost the Doctor and until I figure out a way to get him back, we have to protect Rory and Toby. I should think your son is more important than some dead man's treasure."
Avery nodded hesitantly.
"Alright. Alright."