"Land ho!" someone yelled. The whole crew was frantic to get the ship as close as they could to the shore.

Lara was in her cabin trying to think of something, a plan, that could help Jack and by extension, her and the crew. She was sitting on the edge of the bed only to get back up after a few seconds. When she heard that they were dropping the anchor she pulled her boots on and she got out on deck. Looking at the island in front of her she had a strange feeling, but she couldn't dwell on it because Jack called her.

"Let's go, Lara, get in the longboat!"

She got in the boat and kept staring at the island. When they got to the shore, Lara and Jack went ahead of the others towards the center of the island.

"Secure the ship!" Jack ordered the crew and caught up with Lara who was a few steps ahead.

She stopped in the middle of the beach and she started looking at the jungle in front of her.

"I have a feeling that there are a lot of eyes following my every move." Lara said to Jack who stopped next to her.

"Because you're not wearing your shirt and the whole crew is staring at you." Jack answered grinning.

Lara looked down at herself and she realized Jack wasn't lying, she forgot to put her shirt on, wearing only her bodice.

"Well that explains why I'm cold. But the eyes are staring from the jungle not from behind me." She answered looking at Jack waiting for him to give her a reason for her feeling of being followed.

"Maybe you're confused…."

"Jack, what island is this?"

"What makes you think I know?"

"You seem familiar with it. You have been here before and you know what awaits us in the shadows of the jungle, don't you?"

"No, I don't." he said getting away from her.

"You are a terrible liar."

"I'm not."

"Yes you are. And don't think because I can't see your face anymore I can't read you." Lara said following Jack who was speeding in front of her.

When Lara caught up with him, so did the crew, they were all in a state of alert and soon they found out what gave them the reason for it. They were surrounded by the tribe who was living on the island and they weren't looking very friendly. They didn't have time to draw their swords, some of the tribe members shoot poisoned darts at them and they all lost their consciousness.

In a few days the crew had half of the number of people than before getting on the Peleogosto Island. The rest of the crew that escaped from becoming dinner, at least for the moment, were kept in cages made out of the bones of those who were less fortunate, dangling over a precipice. They were all wrecking their brains for an escape plan before they became the next dish for the Pelegosotos. After a while some of the cannibals lifted the cage in which Lara, Gibbs, Marty, Cotton and a few others were in, they didn't know if they came for a snack or what was the reason for getting them up. The cannibals opened the door at the cage and, while threatening them with spears and talking in their strange language, two of them grabbed Lara and pulled her out, closing the cage's door and lowering it back over the precipice.
Lara struggled to get free but the men holding her were stronger that they seemed.
"Let go of me, you crazy savages! Get your hands of off me." She screamed and tried to kick them. She managed to hurt one of them by biting his hand but then he got angry and hit her with the stick of the spear on her stomach so hard that she fell on her knees. Lara stopped struggling but she didn't want to make it easy for them either so she refused to walk. The two men flanking her dragged her until they arrived in front of a big chair looking like an improvised throne, where they pushed her on the ground.
She sat on the dusty ground and mumbled, "Just peachy!", then she started to get up, when she felt two strong arms pulling her up and she heard a voice she recognized saying something in the Pelegosto's language. When she looked in front of her, there was Jack, wearing a funny head piece and having a bunch of eyes painted on his face.
"You look funny." Lara said to him smiling and she reached for one of the eyes painted on his face. "I wonder what they use for this colours?"
Jack said something that Lara couldn't understand, to the cannibals and then he grabbed her arm and pulled her inside one of the huts behind him.
"What are you doing? Why did they bring me here? Are they going to eat me?" Lara asked him on the way to the hut.
"No, they're not going to eat, at least not right now. I asked them to bring you here." Jack answered motioning Lara to sit on the rickety bed.
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to talk to you. They intend to eat me and I need a distraction so I was thinking that you and the rest of the crew might have a plan on distracting them."
"What reason did you give them for bringing me here?" Lara asked looking suspiciously at the door of the hut.
"Does it matter? Are you able to escape from the cages they're keeping you in?"
"It does matter, because there is someone right next to the door and I think he's listening."
"Don't worry, they don't understand english very well."
"What is he listening for? What would be the purpose for listening if he doesn't understand what we are saying?"
"Can you stop worrying about the man outside and answer me?" Jack started to lose his patience.
"Why are you screaming at me for? It's not my fault that we're in this situation."
"I'm not screaming, but we can't stay here forever, they will soon come to take you back at your cage, and we haven't got to any conclusion about how we're going to get out from here."
"Fine. I don't know yet how we could escape from the cages," Jack opened his mouth to say something, but Lara already knew what he was going to say and she continued "and while they're going to put me back in is not an option. We are outnumbered and weaponless so that's not going to work. But I'll figure something out you just be prepared to run."
"That's not much of a plan." He said pouting.
"Well if you got a better one, please share it, but if you don't then stop pouting."
"I'm not …"
There were some voices outside the hut that seemed quite angry.
"Jack, what are they saying?" Lara asked while getting up from the bed and hiding behind Jack.
"They are smarter than I thought."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Lara asked her voice getting higher. She was terrified, she knew that she didn't got a chance in fighting the cannibals, not as long they had that darts and she didn't want to be shot again with those, she had a very bad reaction to the poison that they used.
"Aaa, they were expecting to hear other sounds from the hut, not us talking." Jack answered turning his head to look at Lara who was still behind him. She was looking at him with a blank face, not getting what he was saying. "Being their chief I can choose who to spend time with" Jack added.
"Oh. Oh. I get it. I'm telling you those darts are making me slow." Lara said, finally understanding what Jack was talking about.
The voices outside the hut got more restless, it seemed that they were going to get in any second.
"Start shaking that cot." Lara said to Jack, who gave her a confused look and then getting her drift started doing as she said.
They were both shaking the cot while paying attention to the crowd outside.
"This is fun." Lara whispered to Jack.
"It would have been more fun if it was the real thing."
"You can't have everything in life sometimes you have to accept the little that you get."
"I don't agree. I think you've got to try to get as much as possible."
"Well you can try but I'm not sleeping with you."
"Why are they still at the door?" Jack asked glancing towards the door and spotting the shadows on the floor.
"Maybe they want to wait till the grand finale."
"I'm starting to feel like an idiot shaking this stupid bed."
"Then let's give the crowd what it wants."
"What?" Jack asked, wondering what was she talking about, considering that she just said that she's not going to sleep with him.
But he didn't have to think for long for figuring out what she meant, because Lara started moaning. She was pretending so good that he felt an erection starting.
After a few moments of her moaning, and him trying to think about something that could stop him getting too excited the cannibals outside the hut seemed to buy the ruse and weren't threatening to come inside. Lara finished her act and turning towards Jack she made a bow.
"What do you think, believable enough?" she asked him while he was trying to cover the bulge that she had created.
"If I weren't here I wouldn't believe that you weren't actually on the heat of the passion."
"Well it's not a big deal, I think all women have this skill. And I just had an idea. I know how we can escape from the cages."
Jack took a sit on the bed looking uncomfortable. "How?"
"Sway."
"What?"
"Will sway the cages until we reach the mountain walls, there are vines growing on them, we can grab the vines and climb. When we reach the top we break free from the cage and start running. I'll make sure that one of the cannibals will spot us, thus making them to follow us and you can start running too. We'll meet at the ship."
"That's a good plan."
"I'm brilliant. Make sure the Pelegostos will put me in the same cage that they got me out of, with Gibbs and Cotton, the other cage has Leach and the other new additions to the crew and I don't trust them."
"Sure, love!"
"Time to go then."
"Don't take too long. They are getting ready for the feast."
"Of course."
They headed for the door but before getting out of the hut Lara stopped and turned back to face Jack.
"The final touches." She said while opening a few of Jack's buttons from his vest and then shaking her hair so it would look more disheveled.
"I don't think they will pay attention to this kind of details." Jack said smiling. She always had that effect on him every time she touched him, he couldn't stop a smile forming on his lips.
"Well just in case."
When they got out, Jack gave the orders for her to be put back in the cage and he took a sit on his throne, hoping that her plan will work. After a few minutes some of the cannibals brought someone tied to a stick. It was Will. Jack made sure he was put in the same cage as Lara knowing that Will was going to help her out.

"Why would he do this to us? If Jack is their chief." Will was asking Gibbs while Lara was trying to find a way to sway the cage by arranging the people inside so they would be able to create a bigger momentum.

"Aye, the Pelegostos made Jack their chief. But he only remains chief as long as he acts like a chief." Gibbs responded.

"So he had no choice. He's a captive then as much as the rest of us." Will said.

"Much worse." Lara said.

"See, the Pelegostos believe that Jack is a god in human form, and they intend to do him the honor of releasing him from his fleshy prison." Gibbs explained.

"Come on, he doesn't have much time left, and neither do we. Let's start swaying this." Lara said becoming impatient.

They were able after a few tries to grab the vines on the mountain's wall and they started to climb, but one of the cannibals was crossing the bridge that was over them and they had to stop, and if Will would have shut up, earlier and didn't say that they needed all of them to crew the Pearl things would have worked according to Lara's plan, but he did talk and that made the two groups of captives to get in a competition. The others tried to keep climbing, even if the cannibal was still on the bridge, but one of them grabbed a snake, he screamed, they freaked out and let go of the vines, making them fall. The rope that was keeping them dangling over the precipice broke and they fell to their death.

They had to climb really fast now, because they were spotted. When they got on top they didn't have time to find a way to break free from the cage so they just started rolling it. It wasn't a very good idea because they were on some hills and when they got down hill they couldn't stop from rolling. They finally stopped when they hit a tree. They were all dizzy but the tribe chasing them was getting closer and closer so they lifted the cage up and started running until the ground under their feet finished. They fell in a small precipice at the bottom of which there was water. The fell broke the cage and they were finally free until they realized that on the edges of the precipice the cannibals surrounded them, throwing spears at them. They swam as close to the walls as they could but they were stuck there, until a voice of a child screamed something that they couldn't understand the whole tribe left them to go after Jack, Lara assumed.

They ran for the ship. Ragetti and Pintel were already there, trying to steal the ship, but they did almost all the work for them, and now they could leave this damned island faster.

Will stopped to look back.

"What about Jack. I won't leave without him."

"He's gona be here." Lara said looking for Jack too.

A few seconds, and Jack appeared on the beach, followed by the whole tribe.

"Time to go." Will said, starting to climb aboard the ship.

Lara waited a little longer, she didn't want to leave Jack behind. "Move that pretty ass of yours, Jack!" she screamed and when she saw that he was getting closer and she knew that he's going to make it in time she climbed aboard the Pearl too. Lara headed for her cabin to tend to her wound. At first she didn't even realize that she was wounded, but when she got on deck and she relaxed a little knowing that they managed to escape she felt the pain and saw the blood dripping on her arm, one of the spears hit her. At least it wasn't poisoned. Let's see where did I put that?

She found the medicine that she needed so she started cleaning the gash, when someone knocked on her door.

"I'm not here. Leave a message." Lara answered concentrating on not feeling the pain.

Jack opened the door and entered her cabin, smiling, mischief all over his face.

"I didn't say you can come in."

"It's my ship, I can go wherever I want." Jack answered full of himself. When he got closer he realized that she was hurt and understood her sudden bad mood. "Here, let me help you" he said taking the rag that she was using to clean her wound from her hand.

"I don't need help I need rum and we're out. And guess who drank most of it." She answered but she didn't stop Jack who was now washing the blood that trickled on her arm.

"Don't you have any stashed somewhere?"

"No." she said looking at the gentle way Jack was touching her. "Oh, I do, I remembered. But not here. In your cabin."

"My cabin? Why there?" he said while he was wrapping a clean rag around her arm.

"I liked the idea of hiding rum from you under your nose." Lara answered rising her shoulders slightly. "Thank you, Jack." She added when he finished her bandage.

"No problem, love. Now I would really appreciate if you would show me where you hid that rum."

"I can't."

"Why? You don't remember?"

"I haven't lost all my mind. But if I show the hiding place to you I won't have a hiding place anymore. So I'll go and bring the rum and you wait here."

"No."

"Oh, come on, let me keep my hiding place. Please!" Lara said pleading, using her little girl voice, the voice that she got anything from her father with.

Jack thought for a second about this and he finally accepted. "Fine. But only because I'll take it as a challenge to find it myself."

"All right. I'll be right back." Lara responded, grinning.

She went in Jack's cabin and took the rum that she stashed away. On her way back she met Will who was looking sad.

"Hey, Will, what's bugging you?"

"I'm worried about Elizabeth."

"Why? You know she can handle herself."

"If I don't get Jack's compass to Cutler Becket she will be hanged."

"Oh. Well did you talk with Jack?"

"Yes, he said that if I get him a key he'll give me his compass."

"Yeah, one hand washes the other. Well I wouldn't be worried about it. Everything will be fine."

Lara left Will with his thoughts and went back to Jack, but she was angry with him and she wanted to hit him in the head with the bottle of rum that she was holding. Realizing that she had the bottle on her hand she took the cork out and she drank a few good gulps before getting inside her cabin.

"You can't send Will after that key." Was the first thing she said while entering the quarters.

"Actually I can. What's up with you?" Jack said getting up from the chair he was sitting in and heading towards Lara reaching for the bottle of rum.

"He's gona get killed. Sending him in Davy Jones's claws. Do you really don't give a rat's ass about anyone else but yourself?" Lara said not leaving Jack to take the bottle from her.

"I didn't know you care about him this much."

"He saved our lives, even though he didn't have to. And even if I cared about him, and you would have known you still would send him after this key."

"Maybe, but let's say for the sake of the argument, that I won't send him after this key, how do you propose to get it? Should I go myself and give Jones the chance to kill me?" Jack said getting upset. He was jealous that she seemed to care more about Will then she did for him.

"No. I don't know. Did you at least tell him what his getting into?" Lara answered looking tired. She didn't like fighting with Jack, not about serious stuff. She didn't mind having little spats with him about small and insignificant things but when it came about important situations she felt horrible.

"He knows everything he needs too. But you can go and tell him more. Maybe he will give up on Elizabeth and he will be with you." Jack answered his face getting stoney, his eyes looking like there was a storm behind them.

"I don't want him to be with me. If I wouldn't know better I would ask you how much have you drank." Lara answered confused about the course of their conversation.

"From where I'm standing it looks like you're in love with the whelp."

"Then move your spot or get yourself some glasses. Look just because you are selfish, egotistical and a narcissist it doesn't mean the others are the same and the fact that I've got people in my life that I consider to be my friends doesn't mean that I feel more than a platonic love for them, maybe not even as much as a platonic love, more like I care about them and the fact that I don't want my friends to get hurt means only this, that I don't want them to get hurt." Lara started ranting.

"I'm not any of those things." Jack started to defend himself.

"Really? Have you ever loved someone in your life other then yourself? Anyone, friend or lover doesn't matter. Did you ever put your needs and desires aside so you could satisfy someone's else needs or desires? Did you ever made a decision that wasn't advantageous for you but it was for someone else?"

"Yes, to all of your questions. I didn't know that you had such a horrible opinion about me." Jack answered looking tired himself.

Lara didn't answer. She didn't know what she could say anymore. Looking at him she realized that she hurt him and that wasn't her intention. She wasn't expecting his answer either, and she knew that he wasn't lying. She went to her bed and she sat on the edge, holding the bottle of rum between her hands.

"How did we got to this?" Lara asked her voice small.

Jack came and sat next to her, she felt the bed moving and the heat of his body next to her.

"Does it matter?" Jack asked her.

"Yes, it does because I want to avoid it next time." Lara stopped staring at the floor and she turned to face Jack. "I don't have such a bad opinion about you I just got angry and I ended up exaggerating. I wouldn't have been friends with you if I would have thought that you are so horrible. And I know you can't go after the key yourself but I still think we should prepare Will, or I could go myself, I think I've got more chances to succeed than Will."

"I'm not letting you risk your life."

"Because of the promise you've made to my dad?"

"Yes." Jack answered And because I couldn't stand anything bad happening to you.

"Here. I don't feel like drinking anymore." Lara said giving Jack the bottle.

Jack took it and drank half of it and then he corked it back putting the bottle next to the bed.

"Jack?"

"Yes, Lara."

"Are you still upset?"

Lara was standing in front of him, looking teary. Jack got up and hugged her. At first Lara didn't move at all, he took her by surprise but after a few seconds she hugged him back, resting her forehead on his chest.

"There's just one thing that I want to know." Jack said still keeping her close to him.

"What?"

"Are you sure that you don't have feelings for Will?"

"There are a lot of things I don't know, but I know perfectly well how I feel and I'm certain that I don't have feelings for him. Why the sudden interest on my feelings?"

"Oh, I just want to know so if in case he does end up hurt, I hope he won't, but just in case, if you'll try to kill me after or not." Jack said letting go of her.

"You're so silly sometimes. Where are we going now?"

"To see Tia Dalma."

"Will she help you?"

"Yes, of course, why wouldn't she?"

"Because all the women from your past that I have met slapped you the moment they saw you."

"I'm not worried."

"All right then. Let's hope she will happy to see you."

The rest of their voyage to Tia Dalma, Jack and Lara remained in her cabin. They were making plans and joked around, both of them feeling that their fight made them, strangely, to feel more connected.