Chapter 42:

A/N: Yeah I know it's been a while. What can I say, school got in the way, STUPID SCHOOL! Anyway I have another chapter for you so please read it and tell me what you think, thanks. Sorry if I'm not very cheery this morning it's because I have a cold and I've been getting up at 5:30 all week. Thanks again. Oh! While I'm at it, this week at the grocery store they had a special on both Twix and Kisses, go figure. So heres a nice little bag for each of you, lol.

Salina slowly opened her eyelids as the first light of the morning crept through the windows. She smiled as she reminisced about her dream, about her life. Salina rolled over and looked at a rather rough looking brute whom she would call her Captain any other time, but while in his bed he's simply Jack.

He had his salty brown hair in his face and there was a pleasant smile plastered to his face. Salina brushed the hair out of his face and looked deeply at his smile.

"Dreaming bout' treasure again, eh Jack?" She whispered before kissing him and sitting up. He still lay next to her, passed out in nothing but sheets.

Salina stretched a moment before stepping out of the bed and putting her pants on. Her cotton shirt was long and rather dirty, but she didn't mind. When Salina finished dressing she grabbed her scarf and tied it around her waved blond hair.

The deck was silent as the grave and there were only a few men working. She stepped out and there was a little fog settling on the ship. Everyone knew the Salina was Jack's woman but when she walked out onto the deck she was just another one of the crew, and it was left at that.

"G'mornin' Salina!" Came a call from the crow's nest.

"Ello' Twigg!" She replied to the man as he went back to work.

Twigg didn't like Salina very much, but refused to be mean because she was a woman. He had resented her because she holds a certain power over the ship just by being a woman, in her own way she could control it and Twigg did not like that idea.

Salina continued her stroll down the deck of the ship, tightening ropes where they needed tightening and tieing them were there was no tie. She loved her life and was pleased with the way she was leading it.

"How is the lady of the ship doing this fine morning?" Salina turned and faced the rather tall man that stood before her. His beard had grown more gray and his eyes pale, but she knew him all the same.

"She is fine this morning Barbossa. Thank ye for askin'." Salina looked to the sea and then breathed in the soft sent of the salt water, it was so relaxing to her.

"Ah, I see that yer love for the sea hasn't changed a once since ye first boarded." He clarified for himself.

"Nigh, it hasn't. Where might we be headin' this mornin' that we have to be goin' there at a fast pace?" She moved her body to face Barbossa once again. He looked at her questionably before he answered.

"I believe-." The young woman interrupted him.

"Barbossa, that is the same speech you give me every time I ask ye where we might be goin. I'm not a child ye know, ye don't have to go on about believing we might be goin' to the isle of Sinthey' (A/N: Just a name I made up for lack of a better word.) or to the cape or where ever it is we might be headin'. I'm 19 I think I am capable of knowing exactly where it is we are plannin' on goin'." Salina stated in an educated tone and watched for a moment as Barbossa smiled and laughed.

"Aye milady, I do that don't I?" Salina nodded and waited for his reply. "Well if ye so eagerly want to know, we are sailing to Tortuga."

"Tortuga?" Salina's eyes narrowed.

"Land Ho!" Twigg shouted from the crow's nest and Salina whirled around to look at the island, a small smile crept across her face.

"Barbossa why might we be goin' here?" She waited a moment for his answer and was irked by his silence. "Barbossa?" She turned around and realized that he had left.

Salina noticed Jack standing at the door of the cabin half leaning on the door brushing off his hat. She rolled her eyes as she walked over.

"Captain?" She acknowledged as she strolled towards him in an angered manner. Jack looked up lovingly at the women and reached out his hand to her face.

Salina knocked it down and his eyes grew narrow with confusion. He pulled his hands up in defense and twiddled his fingers. "What's wrong, love?"

"Well nothing's really wrong I'd just like to know why we are goin' to Tortuga on such short notice and why it seems every other god damned pirate on this ship knows about it safe for me!" Her voice rose with her last remark and Jack backed up.

After a minute of thinking he replied to her rather harsh comments. "Ye see love, I didn't think it was very important to tell ye in the middle of our little fun last night." He winked and that mysterious smile crept across his face.

Salina blushed and then collected her anger as she shook her finger in his face. Salina looked at him as he continued to smile. She then let a grin cross her face as she stomped her heal into his toes.

She let her anger vanish as she turned and walked away. "An eye fer an eye, as they say. But I suppose in this case it's a toe." She shouted as she walked down the stair well into the dinning hall. Jack sat on on the deck clenching his toes in agony.

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Barbossa stood at the head of the table waiting for the shouts and arguments of the pirates to stop. "Now see here men!" He hollered as he slammed his fists on the table.

The men looked at him all silent. Every pirate was accounted for with the exception of Salina, Jack, Will and Gibbs. Barbossa lifted his hands and snatched and apple from the basket. He took a large bite and then spoke.

"See here men, we have a great problem on our hands. Do ye know what that is?" They all remained silent as they watched Barbossa eat.

"Our problem is our Captain." He smiled an evil grin as he took yet another bite from the apple.

A/N: Ah Ha! A cliffhanger! Yeah Nev is good (does happy dance to show that she still has it in her to writ.)! Okay, enough of that (cough as she sits back down in the chair). I know the part at the end is a little confussing because I wrote that Salina went down to the dinning hall but then I said that she wasn't there. To clarify that the part where Barbossa is talking is actually suppose to start when Salina is still up on deck talking to Jack, okee? Well more to come should be up today, [please read and review. THANKS!