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Chapter 11

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Jack had gone through at least three mugs full of rum before he noticed that Kate hadn't come back. He looked around, wondering if she had found the restrooms all right. Jack saw a drunk Gibbs laughing heartily as he mingled with two wenches. Jack swayed up to him, a bit dizzy.

"Gibbs. Kate's gone missing."

"Whaddya mean, Cap'n?" Hiccupped Gibbs.

"She went outside for a moment and didn't return, Gibbs! I'm goin' lookin' for her." Jack turned and Gibbs reluctantly followed, bidding farewell to his strumpets.

The two men had staggered around Tortuga until they spotted the loos.

"Go in, Gibbs."

"Why me?"

"Because I'm yer Captain and you obey me!" Jack urged.

Gibbs grunted and pushed open the door to the women's loos. Jack laughed as he heard the screams of many women inside. Giselle was standing close by and she walked up to Jack and shoved him.

"Giselle, darling." Said Jack, "Do I deserve a violent greeting every time?"

Giselle smirked, "Yes." Then she looked away again, "I met yer niece, Sparrow."

Jack took Giselle by the shoulders, "Where is she, Giselle? Where? When did ye see her?"

"Jack, Jack! Calm down!" Giselle suddenly became concerned, "I saw her near an hour ago..."

Giselle's friend, Scarlet walked up to Jack and he winced, waiting for a smack on the face, but Scarlet smiled smugly.

"What's the matter, Gissy?" Scarlet asked as she stared at Jack.

"I met a girl in the loo...said she was Jack's niece. She's gone missin'."

"Well done, Jack." Scarlet smirked, "Ye finally find a family member and ye lose 'em."

It took all of Jack's energy not to reach out and smack Scarlet across the face. He gritted his teeth, his cheeks burning.

"If ye lasses would help me..." he began, "She's tall, thin, hair kind of brown-ish."

"Was she wearing a red dress?" gasped Giselle.

"What? Bloody hell, I don't know...I suppose?" Jack mumbled as he thought. Then he remembered her putting her ring on a chain into her dress...her red dress.

"Yes. It was red. Have ye seen her, Scarlet?"

"Some men carried her onto her ship about a half hour ago. She was passed out. I thought it was too much rum, but I 'spose they could have knocked her out..." her voice trailed off and she looked at a horrified Jack.

"Damn." Jack turned away and yelled to Gibbs, who was still annoying the ladies.

"GIBBS! Ready the crew...They've kidnapped me niece!"

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When Kate awoke, she was in a dark brig that seemed strangely familiar. She was alone, though she heard voices coming from the deck above. Her head was still spinning from the blow she had taken to it, and a rag had been tied around her mouth. She tried moving, but then realized that her hands and feet had been tied together also.

The floor of the brig was wet wood, and smelled of mildew. It was driving Kate crazy trying to figure out from where she knew this ship. She was almost positive that she had been there before.

Kate heard two voices close by, then heavy boots treading heavily on the stairs before her. The first man approached her. He was a short fat man with greasy hair growing above his ears and around his face, curling by his shoulders. The whites of his black eyes were yellow. Beside this man was another taller thinner man, with short dirty blonde hair and a wooden eye that looked about the small room while the other eye stayed in place. Kate shuddered.

"Pintel!" gasped the thinner man, "She's awake!"

"'Ello, Poppet." Said Pintel. "So glad you decided to join us." He grinned an evil grin, and then looked at the man standing next to him.

"Ragetti, inform the Captain that our princess has awaken." He looked back at her and grinned an evil grin. Ragetti ran up the stairs.

Kate tried to ask him a question, but the rag tied around her mouth made it difficult.

"Ah, poppet. Don't strain. Bet yer wonderin' where ye are?" Pintel raised an eyebrow and Kate nodded.

"Yer aboard the Abyss, the greatest ship in the Caribbean." Pintel growled with a hint of pride in his deep voice.

Kate silently gasped. The Abyss was her father's ship.

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The Pearl had been sailing for near an hour with an infuriated Captain. It was near two in the morning, and Jack was trying desperately to figure out who would want his niece. Then a thought occurred to him and cursed to himself for not thinking it before. Kate's ring.

Jack and Gibbs knew the story to the ring; but he doubted anyone else in the crew did.

"Gibbs!" Jack called.

"Aye, Cap'n? Where we headed?"

"Isle de Meurta. The Abyss is takin' her there."

"How do ye know, Captain."

"She has the ring of the Abyss on her neck. Hope we find it before Captain Marona does."

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The only sounds Kate could hear now were the sound of dripping water and the sound of her own breath.

A moment later, Pintel and Ragetti appeared again and opened her cell.

"Time to go meet the Captain, poppet."

The grabbed her by the hair and dragged her up on deck. It was still night, and it was quite windy. The ship swayed to and fro. Kate looked around and tears flooded to her eyes. She had spend eight years of her life on this ship. She loved everything about it.

A tall man with tanned skin and long frizzy gray hair appeared in front of her. He carried a pistol on his right side and a sword on the other. The man wore a black hat and he had black eyes that gazed into Kate's. Kate stood speechless. The man looked strangely familiar.

"Welcome aboard, miss." Said the man. His voice was hoarse and scratchy. "I'm Captain Marona"

Pintel untied the rag from Kate's mouth and she gasped for fresh air.

"What do you want from me?" Kate asked with fright. Captain Marona ignored her question and his evil eyes studied hers.

"What was a pretty thing like you doin' in a mindless pit like Tortuga?" Captain Marona laughed.

"I was with my uncle."

"And yer uncle's name is what, lass?"

"Jack Sparrow." She regretted saying it immediately, thinking she'd been a fool to give too much information.

The crew behind her gasped, and Captain Marona's mouth opened slightly. Kate heard whispers from behind her.

"Yer name, love?" Captain Marona asked.

"Kate Pearl." Kate supplied, with more whispers from behind her.

The Captain chuckled evilly. "Would ye accompany me into the Captain's quarters, miss?"

Without her consent, Captain Marona took Kate by the shoulders and began to push her towards a door that led inside.

Once they were through the door, Kate wasn't surprised that the quarters looked exactly as they did ten years before. The captain pushed Kate down into a wooden chair by a long table and looked her in the eyes.

In the dull light, Kate could make out Captain Marona's features better. He had a long scar that stretched from the top of his right cheek to his lip, and he had a thin stringy beard.

"Alright, missy. Where is it?" said the Captain.

"Where's what?!" asked a frightened Kate.

"You're ring, love. Hand over yer ring."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Kate lied.

"Don't be lyin, missy. Liars don't deserve life."

Kate didn't want to die, so she decided to stretch the truth a bit.

"Oh! THAT ring." She nodded. "I don't have it with me." Another lie, but Captain Marona bought this one.

"Who has it?" said an infuriated Captain Marona. He grabbed the handles of her chair and shook her. "Where's the bloody ring? My crew saw ye wearing it in Tortuga. Where is it, child?"

"I gave it to my Uncle Jack...for safety." She immediately felt a feeling of dread in her stomach. They would kill Jack if they found him -- with or without the ring.

Captain Marona furrowed his brow and yelled in rage, but then turned to her and in a much calmer tone, he looked her in the eyes and spoke.

"And you're going to lead us to him, aren't ye lass?"

His eyes bore into hers; there was something about them, something so mesmerizing that Kate felt herself surrender and become mesmerized.

"Aren't ye, lass?" he said again, grinning.

This was a trick; his eyes could make anybody tell anything to anybody...anytime. She felt her eyelids start to get heavy, and she spoke heavily.

"Yes, Captain Marona. I will help you."

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