A/N- Here's the next chapter! yay, i've updated again! Anyways, hope you guys like it... as always R&R please!

SilverGhostKitsune- I was going to have to hide my candy this year like the crew, but I found out that I didn't have to, Dad's not stealing any candy. Thanks for reviewing!

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"Cap'n, we're ready to go into the delta. The boats are ready." Ana said, leaning on Jack's door. Val was standing next to her and Jack was looking at some maps on his desk.

"Well then, let's go." Jack moved around his room, grabbing his hat and other affects. Ana and Val followed Jack to the side of the boat where three boats were waiting. Two were already filled and there was one more left. Will and Elizabeth were seated in one with Gibbs and a few other crew members were in the other boat. "What are you scumbags waiting for?" Jack asked looking around at everyone. Everyone just rolled their eyes and followed Jack into the delta.

As they got closer to Tia Dalma's home more and more of the people in the village surrounding came out to watch the visitors. Val watched them with cautious eyes while everyone else did not think about it. The group stopped in front of a dock where the first boat, filled with the regular members of the crew, jumped out first to get the boats and watch over them.

"Do not worry, nothing shall happen." Elizabeth said when she noticed Val had stopped and saw the worry evident in her eyes. "Will and I met her on one of Jack's many adventures."

"You mean you have not been home all these years?" Val smiled. Elizabeth laughed softly and the pair resumed their walk to the cabin.

"Jack Sparrow-" Tia said without looking up from her desk. She was a black woman, like Ana, and had on a long, old, extravagant dress with a bodice that hugged her body and a skirt that flowed out.

"Captain Jack Sparrow." Jack muttered.

"You have brought the girl?" Tia looked past Jack to Val who tried to escape more into the shadows, but a shelf kept her where she was. "Do not worry child, I will not hurt you. Now, what is your name so I know Jack did not just bring some random whore from Tortuga."

"Valeria." Val said nervously. She played with the hem of her shirt as Tia kept her gaze on her. Tia nodded and picked up some stones from her desk. Her desk was cluttered with different things that it seemed Tia had collected. Jack was off on the side of the room inspecting some things, probably deciding what to take, and everybody else was just sitting around.

"Good job Jack, you actually did as you were told. Now, do you have anything for me?" Tia asked. She looked all proper in her chair with her elegant dress.

"Of course." Jack threw her some ribbon that he had probably gotten from Elizabeth. Val looked at Elizabeth whose eyes were wide when the ribbons came into view. Soon she had a death glare aimed at Jack, who seemed either to not notice or not to care.

"Thank you Jack. Now, let's see what the next step is." Tia picked up her rocks and shook them in her hand. She stopped and looked at Val who was still trying to stay in the shadows. "Come here child." Val did as she was told and walked over to Tia. The voodoo queen dropped the rocks in Val's hand and instructed her to shake them as long as she wanted and then to dump them on the mat in front of them.

When Val let the rocks go Tia studied them carefully. She didn't say anything for a while, much to Jack's annoyance. She finally looked back up and smiled at Val. "Are you ready for an adventure?"

Two days later found Jack and his crew sailing away from Tia Dalma and out in the Atlantic. "Jack, you look nervous." Val said. She came to stand next to Jack and placed her hand over his clenched one. She felt his hand relax under her own and looked up at him.

"The cove we're going to. I swore I'd never go back there." Jack answered. He was still staring out at the open water.

"Why? Why does this trip bother you so much? What happened to the fearless Pirate Jack Sparrow? The pirate captain whose cheated death multiple times." Val said. Jack knew what she was trying to do, she was trying to boost his ego, and it was working.

"Bloody hell woman, will you not leave me to be low for just a few moments?" Jack growled. Val laughed and sat behind Jack and watched him steer the ship.

"You know Elizabeth is pretty mad that you took her ribbons." Val said. Jack rolled his eyes and sighed.

"She shouldn't have let a pirate in her home then." Jack answered with a smile. Val nodded and looked out at the ocean.

"How long will it take us to reach this hidden cove?" Val asked.

"A couple of weeks. We do have to cross the Atlantic and it's a wee bit bigger than the Caribbean, luv." Jack said, turning around to look at Val.

"Have you found the rum yet?" Val asked. She knew Jack had still been looking for it on his own accord and had kept mum about its location so far. She thought it was funny seeing Jack search every conceivable place hoping the rum would magically appear one day even though it was not there the day before. That was the thing; every conceivable place meant all of Jack's conceivable places, not the crew's. Ana was right, Jack would never look in the walls.

"No, are you still trying to help or have you turned on me as well and are going to hide its location?" Jack asked. Val knew he was annoyed and couldn't help, but smile. She stood back up and gave Jack a hug. Jack stiffened with surprise that Val was actually hugging him, but then relaxed and wrapped an arm around her. Val looked up at him with big eyes and smiled.

"You'll just have to guess. I might be able to give you clues though." Val said. Jack thought about it for a moment and looked back down at her.

"You've learned from the best pirates, what's your price?" Jack asked.

"Nothing, I didn't say it would be easy." Val answered.

"I don't believe you, what's your price?" Jack repeated. Val looked over the ocean and thought about it once more. "You tell me why you're so nervous about this cove we're going to."

"I'm not so sure it's worth it. It better be a good clue luv."

"It will be, now get Ana to relieve you and come tell me why you're so nervous!" Val pulled Jack away from the helm, much to his protest, and dragged him into his cabin. On the way there she had gotten Ana's attention and asked her to take charge until Jack decided to make his appearance again.

"You tell me the clue first." Jack said, almost ordering.

"I will tell you a small clue before and another small clue after; do we have an accord Captain Sparrow?" Val asked. She plopped down on her bed and motioned Jack to come closer and sit down with her.

"First, that sounds agreeable. Second, why are you letting me so close to you?" Jack asked, eyeing Val's form suspiciously. Val rolled her eyes and looked Jack square in the eyes.

"Because I know it was a mistake and I know you're sorry for it. You still don't have all of my trust back, but you are getting closer." Val explained. "Now for your first clue, you are searching in all of the wrong places, and I know you are searching in the same places everyday. You need to look somewhere else."

"That wasn't a clue… that was an observation." Jack muttered.

"I didn't say it would be a good clue."

"Yes you did."

"That was before we compromised and you decided you needed one clue before your explanation and another clue after." Val argued. Jack muttered a fine and leaned back on the bed.

"So you want to know why I am so nervous about the cove we are going to?" Val came up and laid down next to Jack's form. Her head was resting on his lap and Jack tentatively reached out and started stroking her hair. She nodded into his lap and let him massage her head. If any other person had walked in on them they would have thought they were lovers spending some personal time together, away from the crew. Luckily, most of the pirates on the ship knew that was not the case.

"My father is there, or what is left of him is there. They say an old pirate captain crashed his ship there. His crew died, but somehow he survived and made it to the shore. Everyone that went there has never come back. Ships usually sink and the crew dies, except for the captains. The captains always survive and wash up on the shore. No one can escape that cove and I don't plan to go there."

"What do you mean your father is there?" Val asked.

"He was a captain of another Pirate ship. I loved that ship and sailed under him as soon as I was old enough to help. He taught me everything I know about how to captain a ship. Great pirate he was. I had recently started gathering a crew so I could become a captain just like him." Jack stopped and Val just waited for him to continue. "A few of his men refused to go to shore and so they got in a row boat. They stayed back, but watched the ship approach the cove. They said that a sea dragon of some kind came up and smashed the ship. They saw everyone drown and then saw someone trying to swim towards them, it was my father. He was then sucked back to shore and no one heard from him again."

"So this cove eats pirate captains and there's a dragon that kills the crew?" Val asked. Johnny nodded and kept stroking her hair. "When we get there keep the ship back, I want to look at what this beach looks like."

"Why?"

"I might know why I was supposed to help you." Val answered. "I surf so I can paddle in and out of different kinds of beaches. I haven't heard of a lot of beaches that suck their victims in, but I never thought you could go back in time and join a pirate crew." Jack nodded and closed his eyes. "Go to sleep Jack, I'll see you later."

"Good night." Val got up and quietly closed the door.

"Is he asleep?" Will asked walking over to Val.

"Ya, he just needed to get to bed. He told me why he's so nervous about this cove, but that's something for him to explain. This is going to be an interesting trip though." Val said. "I'm going to get some sleep." Val smiled and walked down to the crew's quarters. She saw them all sleeping and noticed Johnny had an empty bottle of rum dangling out of her hand.

Jack woke up the next morning to the sun streaming into his cabin. He stretched and grabbed his hat off of the side of his bed. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes and looked around the room. That's when he noticed the familiar brown jug that was sitting on his desk. He stumbled over to it and looked at the bottle as though contained water from the fountain of youth. When he picked the bottle he noticed the note it was one. He brought the bottle and the note back to his bed and started drinking the rum.

Jack-

I told you I would give you another hint after you were done explaining about your nervousness of the island. You did your part of the deal and I only did part of mine. Here's your second clue… you're probably drinking part of it right now. Yes the rum is really there, Ana was not lying. I know you were starting to think she was lying. Anyways, think about where your crew would hide the rum, not you. Think like a crew member, not a captain.

- Valeria