Okay, I know there's a whole shitload of characters here already, but let me introduce just one more! And I must warn you, this diary will soon end and connect with Swordplay, so be on the lookout for a really lame ending. But don't worry, Swordplay will have a good ending that will tie up all the loose ends.

Just a quick note: If you like LOTR, I started a LOTR fanfic- just a short one- from the perspective of one of the young boys who had to fight at Helm's Deep. It's action/adventure/romance. Yeah, I know its kinda corny, but give it a try. I've never written a LOTR fanfic before so constructive criticism is more than welcome!

Review Replies are at the end of the chapter.

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Day Forty-Five,

I might as well go on out and pen these words, as nobody will believe them anyways: I am sitting beside my lifelong best friend, whom I haven't seen in just over a year, and we have just finished contemplating way to make Jack suffer. No joke.

Her name is Amber NiMurrough, and we met back at school in Belfast. She is eighteen and I'm twenty-three, but it doesn't matter, really. We've always been able to confide in each other. Until, that is, she met Sebastian DePiotiers, a nobleman from London, England, who was, at the time, nearing the age of sixty.

Talk about a generation gap.

They were engaged, and soon married. And with her marriage, Amber was whisked off to London to live there as an obedient and submissive housewife. But she wouldn't tell me why.

She was always so strong-willed, so rebellious. And she flat out refused to tell me why she was just going along with everything her parents commanded. Until now.

The difference is that now Sebastian is dead and Amber is a widow at eighteen. She heard that I was kidnapped, and was sailing her husband's warship down to the Caribbean to help search for me. Dear Amber, she's such a gentle heart! But she hates Jack with a fiery passion, and she has good reason. He is the reason she had to marry Sebastian DePiotiers. He is the reason she is a lonely widow at eighteen. He is the reason she had to waste just over a year of her life in the boring upper-cut London social ring.

I should write this down before I forget it all. She's been sketchy on the details, but this is what I can gather from a three-and-a-half-hour conversation in my stateroom;

On Amber's seventeenth birthday, she went to visit her parents in London. There she met Jack, in all his dashing glory. He charmed her instantly, and she fell for all his comments that she was beautiful, or that he loved her. Who wouldn't fall for that? But he was stupid enough to get caught by the Royal Navy, and poor Amber felt it was her duty to rescue him. She got him out of port on a small leaky vessel that he subsequently sailed to Port Royal in. (God only knows how he managed that!) He told Amber he would come back for her.

And so Amber married Sebastian so that she could stay in London and wait for Jack. Jack, who didn't even remember her, who was very probably out making love to a different woman every night. But Amber didn't know this, and so she waited…

When Sebastian died, Amber kept on waiting, until she heard news that I was kidnapped. And so she sacrificed what she thought was her only chance to get Jack back (waiting in London) to sail out and find me. Personally, I think Amber may have knocked her husband off herself, but what kind of insensitive wretch would ask a thing like that?

Poor, poor, poor Amber!

And so, Jack has been hiding in his quarters, not daring to come out for fear of my wrath. Or maybe Amber's wrath. I wonder which would be more fatal?

Oh, dear lord, it's Jack! He decided to come down to the one room on the ship where Amber and I were both residing! Now, to give him hell…

Wait- Amber already is.

I'll have to wait my turn…

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Review Replies:

Thralinde-

Maybe if I get bored sometime, I'll write Aletté's story. Thanks a bunch for reviews- even little ones are nice to get. You saw ROTK on the 17th? Yeah, right on! Die hard fans rule the world!

FencingBabe7-

My dad kicks me off the computer all the time. *grumbles* Yeah, this story just never ends, eh? It is a soap opera! Hah! Its even more detailed now, hope you can keep track. I love LOTR. In fact, I have a short LOTR fanfic up now. Its not finished, though.

Lady Arien-

I still don't think there is a storyline, but whatever you say. Yeah, Aletté has a sad life, eh? *mumbles* Poor, poor smeagol… (haha, sorry, I'll stop) Thanks for a birthday review! Yay!

chibichibi386-

Yay! I'm happy. You've got me on your favourites list? You're the best!

All reviewers-

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I love you guys! Please keep reviewing, I'll keep posting I promise!