Pirates of the Caribbean could only belong to me if I was Disney. And I'm not. The same thing goes for Jack Sparrow. . .damn. . .

Chapter Twenty-One

Jack did not want to go to the library. He wanted to stay at the house and explore some more – as long as it wasn't near any more toilets. He wanted to go back up to Ariana's room, especially after she had told him why they were going to the library. Going there meant they would have a chance of finding out where the medallion was now, and that meant that once they retrieved it he would be sent back, and he didn't know if Ariana wanted to come back with him – or if her friends would let her. He couldn't go back without her.

"Do we have to go now?" he begged. "Couldn't we just stay here, wait a bit?"

"No, Jack, I really wanna stay here too, but we just can't. This isn't your world; it's not where you belong, and you need to get back to your world, no matter how much we both want you to stay here," she told him gently. "It would be too hard to keep you here anyway. Everyone would be asking questions, and they would eventually find out that you're not Johnny Depp. And that would not be a good thing, trust me."

I belong with you. "Well do you think it's possible for you to come with me when I go back?" His eyebrows rose in expectation of her answer.

She looked directly into his eyes for several frozen moments before responding quietly, "I don't know. I honestly don't know. But. . .I hope so."

The two other girls who had been silent up to this point were taken aback by their friend's last statement, shock registering on their faces. She wanted to just up and leave to go into a movie? She was willing to leave all her friends, and her family, to go and live in another world. Neither could understand. They knew she was in love; that was obvious, but. . .she couldn't just abandon her entire life!

"You hope so?" Kelsey questioned Ariana, her eyebrows shooting up.

Ariana looked at her two friends for a few moments, contemplating what to say. "I don't want to talk about that right now. Can we please just talk about it later? Please? We have more important things to deal with."

She opened the door and headed through the porch out to the car before anyone could reply.

It took five minutes to reach the library. Once inside, they made for the service counter immediately, sending Jack off to an inconspicuous corner where he would not be seen.

"Um, excuse me," Ariana said to the woman behind the counter, who was typing something on a computer. She looked up. "Could you tell me where to find books on ancient artifacts, such as medallions and things like that?"

"Right over there," the woman told her, pointing to her right at the fourth row of books.

"Thank you." As they walked over, Jack silently joined them when the librarian turned back to her work. They began puling out books on the 17th and 18th centuries.

About a minute later Julie spoke up. "Hey, I found a bunch, you guys."

Ariana came over to her and took some books from the shelf near which she was standing. She opened the first, which had artifacts from the 17th century, and began slowly skimming the pages to the back of the book. She tried the next, which was another 17th century portrayal. She searched and found nothing throughout the entire book. She cursed under her breath and retrieved a third. Her friends were doing the same.

"Oh! I found it!" Julie burst out animatedly, nearly bouncing up and down at her discovery.

"What? Where?" Ariana snapped her head around and practically jumped on Julie, snatching the book and looking at the page. "This isn't the medallion." She lost any energy she had possessed.

"Yes it is," Julie insisted.

"No it's not. The medallion had a treasure chest, two swords, and drops of blood. This one has just a treasure chest on it." She showed her friend, who took the book back without a word, but started searching again.

Ariana returned to her book and opened it back up. She had scanned a few pages when she spotted a golden circle on the glossy paper, and she stilled instantly to inspect it. She sighed silently when she realized it wasn't the medallion, and continued. She caught sight of another gold circle, this one familiar. She stopped abruptly. This was it! This was the medallion! She read the caption beside it and saw that it had no important information. She swore using a much worse word than before, and shut the book with a slam. This startled the other three, whose heads sprang up from their books to look at her.

"Well, I found the medallion," she told them.

"You did?" Kelsey said.

"Oh yeah. I also found that the damn book says nothing about it that's useful in any way."

"What? Lemme see," Kelsey said, reaching for the book. Ariana handed it to her.

"It's on page fifty. You're not going to find anything." An idea suddenly hit her. The computer! Maybe it didn't say anything useful because it was a book, and therefore couldn't be updated unless it was written all over again. But the computer had to have something.

She rushed past the other three, nearly tripping on her way to the computers as they followed her and stood beside her as she took a seat at one of the machines. It was already on, and so she opened the Internet and typed in . In the search bar she typed in the name of the medallion that the book had given (the only worthy piece of knowledge), and within seconds the websites found appeared on the page. She waited for Jack to say something, but he never did. She dismissed it and clicked the third link, which brought her to a page that showed a picture of the medallion and paragraphs of information beneath it. She scrolled down, eventually coming to one titled "Where to find it" and eagerly reading it.

"Where did you get the name from?" Julie inquired.

"The book." Then, causing her friends to jump, she exclaimed suddenly, "The museum! The medallion's at the musem, the one that's only fifteen or twenty minutes away! We can go there! Come on!" She exited out of the Internet and shot out of the chair, almost barreling into Kelsey. She realized Jack had wandered off when she did not see him.

"How are you going to get the medallion out of the museum?" Julie asked her. Ariana ignored her and began searching for Jack.

Kelsey couldn't help wondering why Ariana seemed so excited about any of this; the sooner they got hold of the medallion, the sooner Jack would be gone. Was she planning something?

After hunting through half the library, Ariana finally found Jack at a small, one-person bathroom. He opened the door, not noticing her advancing, and the moment he caught sight of the toilet, his eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. He turned and bolted in the other direction.

Ariana couldn't help but laugh as she quietly called, "Jack!"

He halted, turning around to face her. "I hate toilets."

She smiled. "I know you do. Come on, we found out where the medallion is."

She took his hand and began walking, but he pulled her back and gave her a long, passionate kiss. She did not wish to leave that spot for anything in the world, but she knew she had to. Once he pulled away, a small grin on his face, she grinned back and started to head towards the front entrance, where Kelsey and Julie were waving them over.

A/N: Okay, I know this is the shortest chapter I've written so far, but now I think I kinda have the whole plot done in my head, so it's all just a matter of finding the time to type it all up! Review please!