"Where am I?" Roxxi asked as she sat up the next morning. She clearly remembered falling asleep in her room. In Jack's arms...
"Sao Feng sent Tai Huang to capture us last night." Teague said, his hat tilted over his face. "I never thought I'd ever see you sleep that deeply. You were even thrown into this cage and scraped your knee."
Roxxi looked at her knee and saw a brown cloth wrapped around it. She looked up at him, very surprised. She knew that Teague wasn't usually the type to sacrifice the well-being of his mostly brown getup to help another person.
"It was the only thing I had!" Teague said.
"Thank you." Roxxi said. "I'm just surprised that-"
"I could've done more to help but I don't have the right supplies."
"What I was trying to say was that I thought you'd be able to break us out by now."
"I tried." Teague said, holding up a knife, bent in a perfect 90 angle. "They know about all my tricks." He then pointed at a pile of junk; a few more bent knives, a bent spoon, a ripped silk cloth, a bent metal bar, a bone, and a rum bottle.
"Why don't you get yourself some sleep?" Roxxi asked. "You look tired. Jack always says that-"
She was interrupted by a man throwing in a tray of food. Roxxi watched as he walked away. "Annoying git." She mumbled as she turned back to Teague. "Let's eat."
"You eat." He ordered, sounding every bit like a captain.
"Aren't you hungry?"
"I'm fine, just tired." Teague said, before pushing his hat over his face. Before Roxxi could pick up the bright red apple, she could tell her cell mate was sleeping...
Jack was sitting at a desk, his hand on his forehead. He looked down at the paper on the desk, then threw it. It was a ransom note: either give the other seven Pirate Lords the Atlantian treasures, or he'll lose Roxxi and Teague. Jack had no idea what to do. No one knew where the treasures were kept. It was a family secret that none of the Smith sisters were told.
Stressed, he picked up another paper, which was Roxana's will. He held it in his left hand and noticed something wrong: it was dated about two months ago. Roxxi was told that Roxana died, four years ago. Jack took a closer look at the paper, then his jaw dropped. In the lower right hand corner, was a tiny skeleton holding a speared heart, which was also the icon on Teague's flag...
After a few minutes of sleep, Teague woke up to the sound of coughing. He tilted his hat back up and saw Roxxi on her hands and knees, coughing and shaking. He got up and tried to get her to calm down. "Roxxi, take deep breaths. Relax and-"
He caught Roxxi just as she slumped over, unconscious. She was warm, too warm. Teague took off his jacket, folded it up, and placed it on the floor before laying Roxxi down. He then saw a bright red apple that looked extra glossy. He wiped his finger on it, tasted it, and spat it out. "Poison." He said to himself, before noticing the bite mark. "We've got to get out of here."
He looked at her, very worried. Teague remembered once when Jack had been poisoned. If Tia Dalma hadn't come, they would've lost him, and he got that bad after about a day in bed.
Teague, just out of curiosity, grabbed Roxxi's compact mirror and looked at it. The top of the mirror had an engraving of a skeleton holding a scythe, the traditional image of the grim reaper. He could feel that there was another carving on the bottom, and flipped the mirror over. The bottom had the reverse of the medallion on it. Teague placed the carving on the medallion, which was a perfect fit, then pulled it back.
After nothing happened, Teague sighed. He flicked the mirror open, and nearly jumped when it opened up into the scythe. After getting over the shock, he took a closer look at the blade, which was the same width as his knives...
A hour later, Roxxi woke up in a forest clearing. She sat up and looked around. After seeing no body around, she took off her dress and slipped into the nearby lake in her underclothes, which were a tube top and shorts.
"Looks like somebody's awake." A voice said.
Roxxi turned around and saw Teague standing there. "You should come in. The water's great!"
"Don't you think it will look strange if I'm found swimming with my daughter-in-law?"
"Good point." Roxxi said. "Then how bout you go stand watch?" After he left, Roxxi slipped into to water, just up to her chin. She felt so calm, listening to the birds chirping and feeling a light breeze. Then everything went black...
"Now what?" Teague asked, coming back. He couldn't see Roxxi anywhere, until he saw the top of her head slip under the surface...
Thirty minutes later, Jack was standing outside of the palace. He was watching as Beastie went hunting, which was very entertaining since he was only trying to catch small birds. The full grown tiger was failing at catching birds smaller then his paw. When Jack heard a twig snap from across the rose garden, he drew his sword.
"Oi, Jack!" Teague shouted, holding Roxxi. She was, once again, unconscious, and wrapped in Teague's jacket Jack could see water dripping from her hair. "Jack, it's only me and your wife."
Jack raised his sword to Teague's throat. "All I see is my unconscious wife in the arms of her mother's murderer." Jack growled. "Hand her over!"
"What makes you think I killed Roxana?"
"Her will was dated a few months ago, after you went missing." Jack pointed out. "And it's written on your custom made paper."
"Guess what boy. You're right." Teague said, handing Roxxi over. "I did kill Roxana, but it was an-"
Before he could finish, some guards came over and took him away as Jack took Roxxi to their room.