A/N1: Thank y'all for the review! 'Preciate 'em! *Is glad that Leah actually does have a personality and depth I try.* ; )

A/N2: Yes, and as I promised, the Black Pearl has now come to Port Royale! Yes, some lines from the movie, and events actually, are repeated and not altered very much, but wasn't much I could do about that as this is set to the events of the movie, savvy? There are quite a few original parts coming up, though, so don't fret poppets! And, without further ado… Elizabeth's kidnapping.

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"Bloody hell!" Leah exclaimed upon hearing cannon fire rock Port Royale. What was happening? Where they being attacked? What? She cringed upon hearing another blow. It was most definitely time to get up now. She'd fallen into an extremely light doze, and was most certainly up now. Making her way to the door, she pushed it open slowly and crept down the hall, only to see Elizabeth run out of another down the hall, Elizabeth's bedroom was it? "Elizabeth!" she called, chasing after.

"Leah, come on!" her sister cried back, urging her on while still moving swiftly down the stairs. The younger Swann made it just past her sister's bedroom door before two mangy fellows-both looked as if they hadn't bathed in ages and were the type who would do very ungodly things to them both- leaped out. Letting out a tiny shriek of surprise, Leah ran all the faster towards her sister. Very good thing she wasn't wearing an entire female ensemble and only a bodice, or else she could have very well been caught or even found her death not at the hands of the pirates but at the hands of a very short fall down very hard stairs and to a very sturdy floor.

Yes, these men were definitely pirates, she ascertained once her and her sister were momentarily cornered at the bottom of the staircase and a man came running out of a door to their left carrying how many valuables she shuddered to know. Still, Leah could not hold back a small grin when the man in question was hit with a cannon ball, but had to give herself a mental slap to set her mind back on the situation when Elizabeth used the situation to her advantage and cut through the two pirates chasing them. She barely made it through once again, and, finally, the two were relatively save within another room. Relatively.

It was obvious her mind has not even come close to absorbing what was going on just yet, but it was getting there.

"Elizabeth, drop it. It's not going to work!" she hissed through her teeth, running over to her sibling who was attempting to pull a sword from the display that hung above the fireplace.

"You're right," her sister replied, but before any more conversation could ensue, pounding on the door interrupted them. Without another thought, the two made a break for the closet and closed the door just in time. The entrance to the room was as that moment broken down.

"We know you're 'ere… poppets."

"Poppets."

"Come out and we promise we won't hurt you." Leah murmured something under her breath, as if that was anything close to the truth, but shut her mouth after a glare from her sister.

"We will find you, poppets. You've got something of ours and it calls to us. The gold calls to us."

"Gold calls…"

Leah gasped and flew back a pace as the door was thrust open without any warning. This wasn't good. This wasn't good at all. "'Ello poppets."

"Parley!"

"What?" the lankier of the two pirates asked, a bit taken aback. Leah was as well, and looked over at her sister. Parley, she recognized that word from somewhere, but where…?

"Parley. I invoke the right of parley. According to the code of the brethren, set down by the pirates Morgan and Bartholomew , you have to take me to your Captain." Ah, that was where she'd heard it before, some text on all of that… But this whole business about going to the Captain… How was that any better than this, except for the fact that they'd be stuck on a pirate ship completely removed from any and all of those who could help.

"I know the code," the one of larger build retorted, and then turned his head over to Leah, focusing attention on her.

"If an adversary demands parley you can do them no harm until the parley is complete!" Elizabeth said suddenly, her voice slightly raised. Anything to get their sights off of her little sister and back onto her.

"To blazes with the code," the lanky one growled, looking as if he sorely wanted to hurt something. Leah swallowed.

"She wants to be taken to the Captain," Heavyset snapped, "And she'll go without a fuss. We must honor the code."

"But what 'bout her?" Lanky asked, motioning to Leah.

Before she could get a word in edgewise, Elizabeth stepped in yet again. "You will leave her."

"They will wha-"

"And why is that?" Heavyset questioned.

"Because I have what you want, and I demand to be taken to your captain without delay, any delay."

"We'll be decidin' what happens and when, missy," he countered, and was more or less correct in that assumption… more or less.. He was the one armed, after all, but Elizabeth was still extremely persuasive and domineering. Besides that, she knew how to use this Code to her advantage.

"You have no need of her," Elizabeth said yet again, giving Leah a quick glance that told her to keep her mouth shut. "Now, I have invoked parley. I suggest you carry it out."

"Wh-" the smaller began, but after a brief moment of thought, his "friend", if pirates even had friends, motioned with his head for him to grab her, not appearing overly pleased.

"Come on," he ordered, and before Leah Swann could do a thing, the doors of the closet were shut on her, leaving her stunned and alone in the dark, and Elizabeth, her only comfort in the entirety of Europe, taken away by those vile beings.