A/N: Hullo everybody! Well, enough chitchat. I'll post up the names of those who got enough trivia questions right to be in this 'top eight list' thing. I congratulate:

Wbulldogs, Cassiebear-01, Slytherin Groupie, Midnight Splash, mikla, and Adjective-girl

Not a lot but hey! T'was better than last time, right?

Answers for the last chapter's trivia questions are:

1. Who led the mutiny against Jack?

Barbossa did!

2.What's Will Turner's Father's name? *and yes kiddos, it has to be both of them*

It's William Turner and Bootstrap Bill.

3. List one of the crimes that were said on his list when Jack was about to be hanged?

There are a lot of those but the main ones are: impersonating a cleric, a priest, and a Navy soldier or something like that.

4. What's the name of the singing demon the Scoobies met in Once More W/ Feeling?

The singing demon was called Sweet. Pretty appropriate, don't you think?

5. What's the title of the episode when Spike told Buffy how he killed those two Slayers?

It's called Fool for Love.

Nifty! Um, yeah want to thanks those who reviewed so far, and gave creative reviews which I loved by the way and hoping you like this chappy as well as the others so enjoy!

Chapter 8 Musings

Jack closed the door behind him and headed back to his usual position; at the helm of his Black Pearl. He sat down on a near by stool, knowing full well that it was useless to just stand around and trying to soak in everything Buffy told him. He lazily got out a half-full bottle of rum from his secret stash and started to drink the liquor.

'Everything makes sense now,' he mused. The Curse, mysterious disappearances he has heard from his good friend Will, and of course all of the strange occurrences in Tortuga or other places for that matter. He took another swig and sighed as his thoughts carried him to the person to reveal all of this.

"...Hell, I've been fighting this since I was fifteen and I'll do it again if I have to...'

True he was surprised at this new news, who wouldn't? He wondered if she regretted on, what did she say it was? Called? His thoughts turned to that dark shadow in her hazel eyes had when he looked into them a while ago. It took away that childish merriment and the youthful chipper away from her eyes and was replaced with that look of the old who have seen and fought things most couldn't describe. One who has suffered pains and losses through wars and death. Only now it didn't come from an aged man. Or woman.

Jack grunted annoyingly as he was interrupted from his thoughts by the loss of his favored drink. Looking around, he found none in both of his secret stashes and started to head back to the busy life of Tortuga. As he walked across the deck of his boat, he came across the place where their fight held.

Little pools of blood that came from Buffy's wound glistened against the floor of the Black Pearl while the vampire's dust just covered them with their ashes. His gaze quickly turned to the dagger that still had some stains from Buffy's injury and a sudden flicker of green ran across the blade. Furrowing his brow, Jack bent down to pick it up and examined the dagger. He angled the weapon this way and that trying to catch the moon's light to see what caused it to flicker. Try as he might, he couldn't get the blade to replay its peculiar display a while ago, so Jack just shrugged but placed the arsenal at a safe place in case they will need it later. He continued towards the busy life of Tortuga while Buffy tries to sleep on.

"Goodnight, Jack," Buffy muttered even though he wasn't there to hear it. With a tired sigh, she dropped her head back to the pillow and stared back again at the wooden ceiling. She closed her eyes trying to forget the mischievous chocolate eyes that still burned in her mind. She couldn't forget his arrogant yet well chosen reply a while ago. Even if he's just going for the treasure, Buffy snorted to herself.

She turned to her side and looked at the pale silver moon outside. The Slayer turned her thoughts to home but was unconsciously tracing Jack's trail on her wound when he cleaned it a while ago. She smiled softly as her memories suddenly and somehow traced back to the roguish pirate. His way of handling things were a bit unorthodox but hey, it gets the job done. True he makes a bit of dilly-dallies, but perhaps it was only a way to distract his enemies?

Suddenly catching her train of thoughts, Buffy mentally slapped her head and tried once more on steering her thoughts from anything that has to do with Jack, the Black Pearl, dagger, chocolate eyes, rum, calloused hands, pirate talk, swagger, eye liner, gold teeth, good pair of arms, nice ass…'Damn,' she cursed at herself when she realized that she was listing things that were more than necessary for her needs. With a huff Buffy forced herself to think once more of home until she got to sleep.

Dawn came and so did the rest of the crew, with them they carried provisions they know they need for the trip.

"Alright men! Hoist up tha sails, tie up tha ropes, bring me tha' horizon. But therw will be more than treasure fer us when we ge' there mates," Jack's enthusiastic voice now changed into a graver note. Seriousness came along with some news that was none to be taken lightly. "Ye alls 'member when dear ol' Dave came runnin' off when he read bout tha treasure, righty?" a serious of nods and murmurs of agreement came from the crew until Jack continued on. He explained everything Buffy asked of him and surprise along with pride came to him when they all agreed with much more enthusiasm than before on going to the island. Before he knew it, they were already a couple of leagues away from Tortuga and he was already having his hair swept by the wind that picked up.

Below in Jack's cabin…

Buffy smiled unknowingly to herself as she dreamt on.

She was walking down an aisle, wearing what seemed to be a flowing wedding gown. All around her were pillars covered with lilacs, orchids, and petals of crimson red roses that highlighted the stained glass windows. Up ahead she saw the one man that gave her such joy and love yet pain that was almost twice as much. But her thoughts of this quickly went away with each step he took towards him. He turned to look at her with the smile that always made her melt, and in return, Buffy looked at Angel like he was the only one in the room. With a slightly shaky smile, Buffy stepped up to the platform where he was standing on and half listened to the priest who was closing their vows.

"And do you, Buffy Summers, take Angelus O' Conner as your beloved husband-," the priest began when Buffy turned sharply at him.

"Angelus?" she asked abruptly, her own words ringing to her ears.

"Of course. Isn't he who you created?" the priest asked as if she has done something great and did not realize that she has even done it.

"Of course she did, didn't you, lover?" Buffy turned to Angel who is now Angelus who looked at her with his vamp face now out. Angelus was staring at her with cold malicious eyes and a grin that froze every bone in her body.

Before she could even utter a word or even a harsh intake of breath, Angelus growled with anticipation and reached out his hand to grab her neck. In a blink of an eye, Angelus bit into her neck, drawing her blood and relishing every drop. She whimpered from the pain that came, and she suddenly stood awake looking into the worried eyes of someone.

"Are ye alright, luv? I came tah check on ye and ye where almost killin' yerself by tha looks of yer struggling' Ba' dream?" Jack asked, his voice filled with concern.

Buffy drew her hands and found them shaking uncontrollably and sweating just as much. With all the force she could muster at that time, she forcibly wiped them on her thighs and tried to calm herself down. A sudden sharp pain from her recent wound and the scar on her neck brought her back from her thoughts. She ignored the tingling pain that was speedily going away and forced her voice to be steady. "Y-yes I'm fine though it's not like I haven't had a bad dream before," she smiled and joked compulsorily. She flinched when her wound twitched uncomfortably under the linen, making her already forced joke more pathetic.

Her hands were still shaking but wasn't as strongly and Jack somehow knew that he won't be able to open her up more. But he wanted to help her get that it was only a dream by the way she was almost hyperventilating. So he did the only thing he thought of at that moment. Jack placed his hands over hers and looked into her eyes knowingly and with reassurance. 'Oh God, I'm turning into a bloody ponce,' he insulted himself. But the look of appreciation that was in Buffy's face somehow made his thumb rub circles on her hand comfortingly.

"Ye'll be fine pet. Now go back tah sleep if ye can. Ye still go' tha proclamation tah fulfill," joked Jack lightly.

"And if I don't?" Buffy countered, her voice testing him yet it still had the air of friendliness.

"Then we'll settle it with a rum contest, won't we?" Jack smiled brightly that made Buffy forget her nightmare and laugh lightly.

Smiling at the fact that he made her smile, Jack awkwardly pats her shoulder and drew his other hand away from hers a bit reluctantly.

"Well like I said, ge' back tah sleep, pet. Ana Maria will be bringing yer food down 'ere an' I'll check on ye come early afternoon, savvy?"

"Savvy," Buffy replied, rubbing her hands after the loss of the warmth. The captain and stood up and headed for the door when Buffy reached out and captured his attention. "T-thanks, Jack. For the whole 'waking me up thing'," she added when he saw the look of confusion on his face.

"No problem, luv. Bu' yer gonna hafta clean ou' tha little mess ye did there las' night," Buffy gave him her best pout she could muster again, and made her lower lip jut out a bit more when Jack told her about her new chore. And by the looks of it, it was having the desired effect on Jack. "Aww come on Jack. You would really make an injured woman work?" Buffy fluttered her eyelashes a bit flirtatiously as Jack began to fall for her act. He was about to say that he'll do it himself when he caught himself and gave her a glare with an audible huff.

"Bloody women," he muttered and stormed out of his own room, leaving Buffy laughing at the way he caught himself.

A/N: Whoohoo! Eight chapter finally up! One thing I was worried about though. Did I make Sparrow I bit too, uh, not himself? And by that I mean, a bit of like a love sick poet. So did I? If I did, please tell me A.S.A.P. and I'm gonna revise the whole thing to make it fix with his persona, kay?

So, has anyone seen the new Angel season? Gotta tell ya, I'm gonna luv Spike here more than in Buffy! If you guys are a fan of Buffy or Angel and want to get some major spoiler-age, go to: www.spoiledrotten.tvheaven.com, that's where I've been keeping up to date.

Fav. Spike moment already in the spoilers was when Angel entered his office and Spike was sitting in his chair. Inevitably, Angel gets all possessive and says "Get off my chair," natural comeback to Spike who has already made himself comfortable is: "Make me." Talk about serious piss off in Angel's temper. LOL!

Anywayz peeps, I can guarantee it right now that it will take me a long time to update the next chapter cause I'm gonna try to update my other story up to eight chapters. And still be able to have good reviews on it.

So yeah, bit of a long time. When I do finish updating it to eight chapters, expect to see me write a bit slower cause I'm trying this new organized theme where I update my stories at the same time and see how it works out. Time consuming for me yes, but it'll give some of you impatient people something to read on, righty?

Now for the trivia questions you must answer!

1. What is the title of the first episode in Buffy?

2. How many watchers did Buffy have?

3. In all technicalities, who killed Glory?

4. Who was the first human (not the ship!!!) to appear in the Pirates of the Caribbean?

5. Who was the last human character to appear in the movie?

To those who want to help this author: I need suggestions for Buffy's nightmares cause there's gonna be more. And that here there is just a spoiler for the story. But I really do need it so just send your ideas in by my mail or through the review, whichever one you prefer.

Another one is if you guys have some suggestions for the Trivia thing cause I'm running out of ideas here! Send in your question and answer through mail or review box thing plus the answer. If you don't want anyone reading the answer, I suggest to mail it to hobbes288@aol.com where I'll be receiving it.

Please try and make your questions decent and answer-able for most people. Topics can go from Buffy's sister show Angel, to popular movies such as Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean, and heck! It can even go into popular books from the Harry Potter series to other books you think is popular. Names of the people who sent it in will be of course, mentioned and so will the suggestions for the nightmare stuff.

And I'll be leaving you here folks and meet ya for about a couple of weeks to a couple of months. And here I am, wanting to apologize in advance for this not updating ness, k? Now run along now and review!!!