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Author's Note: I'm baaaa-aaack! I'm home from my trip to England, Ireland and Wales and since back I have been bombarded with requests – actually, no, they were more like threats with my life – for me to write another chapter NOW. I hope you're happy. I even made it longer for you guys. You're spoiled, ya know that?

Author's Note #2: I have to add three more characters, possibly more. So bear with all of the new stuff, you'll be very confused also about some jokes, let me know and I'll explain. I even put in the "Si" and "Mui bien" thing in there, Rachel and Kellyn! Also, Gem and Allandri and the Coloradoans need to send me bios because it's not a fic without you! Please?! I can't force you, but I can beg!!

Author's Note #3: Be patient, people who want to email me, I'm getting a new address and can't really take any mail right now. Sorries! Is pelted with random objects Ow! Squeak

Author's Note #4: I need more guys still! Don't worry; you won't be tortured too much! I only have one now, that's Marduk. I think I'll put Dragonfire in it just for the hell of it. Kat has a laughing spasm Angelina whaps Kat on the head

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CHAPTER 4: GENTLEMAN-LIKE TORTURE

"Five O'clock and all is weh-eell!" Jane called from the mast. AnnaMariea sat bolt upright in bed and glared around her cabin. Things, i.e., chairs, desks, tables, priceless china, sharp unsheathed swords and daggers, were flying across the room. They had been in this storm for a day and a half and Jane had been yelling that every hour on the hour. AnnaMariea was going to kill someone soon.

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Angelina sat up with another crack of lightning. She turned to Jack who was sitting up as well. He looked utterly disgruntled and otherwise very annoyed.

"This bloody ship leaks." He said flatly.

"I'm afraid it's going to fall apart with every loud noise." Angelina put in.

"In other words...."

"It shouldn't be too hard to escape from." Angelina finished.

"Well, I was thinking more along the lines of the taking over approach, but escaping sounds good too."

"Oh, you'll be going? So soon? Pity." Angelina and Jack looked through the darkness towards the sound of the voice. A tall, neatly - well as neatly as could be on a pirate ship in the rain - dressed man lit a candle and held it by his face. "But, I guess you'll need help since you easily throw around insults about which you have little or no knowledge prior to the words leaving your wretched mouths."

"Was that an insult?" Jack asked.

"I think so," Angelina whispered.

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"Five O'clock and all is weh-eel!"

"That's it." AnnaMariea said under her breath. She got out of bed and just about knocked her door down opening it. Lightning flashed over her like in one of those horror movies when the villain is coming and, miraculously, the lightning flashes at just the right time. She stalked to the mast and climbed it. Once up behind Jane, she put her hands around her neck and started shaking her. Jane started screaming.

Kat and Puss burst out of their cabins and ran to the mast. They both climbed the rigging and grabbed AnnaMariea and pulled her off Jane. She was brought to the deck and her hands bound.

Jane was scarred and kept looking around and feeling her neck apprehensively.

Kat addressed AnnaMariea. "WHAT was THAT for?!"

"She woke me up."

"So?! You try being out there at 5 am in a storm!"

"I'm used to it."

"What?"

"Strangling things that wake me up."

"Huh?"

"I lived on a farm before running away to become a pirate. When the roosters crowed, I would go out and ring their necks."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Then we'd have chicken for dinner."

"..."

"..."

"YOU WERE GOING TO EAT ME?!" Jane screamed.

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"Lina wants Will..." A girl-shaped shadow whispered as she climbed up the Pearl's side towards the porthole of Will and Elizabeth's room.

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"Ok, let me get this straight...you're on Barbossa's crew, and yet you want to help us?!"

"Only because I want to commit mutiny to Barbossa, but no one else will help."

"Still..." Angelina trailed off, confused.

"It seems all fine and dandy to me." Jack said. "Any port in a storm."

"Now, do we have a deal?" The man asked, holding out his hand.

"Accord." Said Jack, shaking his hand.

"But...we don't even know your name!"

"Oh, I beg your pardon, miss. My name is Jesse D. James."

Against her will, Angelina felt herself bursting into song. It was coming...she couldn't stop it... "Just like Jesse Ja-ames!"

Jack smiled apologetically and slapped a hand over Angelina's mouth.

Does she have a...mental problem? Jesse mouthed to Jack.

No, just a large Cher obsession.

Who?

Nevermind. Jack shook his head.

Angelina noticed and stopped humming. "Wpat? Whr oo chaing oor ed?" She asked through Jack's hand.

"What did she say?" Jesse asked.

Jack took his hand off her mouth. "Why were you shaking your head?" She asked Jack again.

Jack shook his head.

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Meanwhile, the shadowy girl had entered Will and Elizabeth's room. "Lina hates Elizabeth..." She crept towards the bed and stood over Elizabeth. Again, reminiscent of horror movies, lightning struck, Elizabeth's eyes shot open, and she screamed bloody murder.

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Kat, Puss, Jane and AnnaMariea heard the screams and forgot all about AnnaMariea's habits towards chickens and ran to Elizabeth and Will's cabin. They burst into the room armed with anything they could find, like the Hobbits in The Fellowship of the Ring. Then they all fell silent in confusion. Will was tied and curled up on the bed and Elizabeth was bound and gagged in a corner. A girl dressed in dark colors was perched happily on the bed, petting Will's hair, seeming very proud of herself. She was even more of a curiosity because she had hair that looked like Jack's hair and purple dye had exploded in the same room and combined to form it. And yet, it looked to be very well kept and wasn't a mess from the storm. She also had one purple eye and one metallic blue one.

"What the..." Kat started.

The girl answered Kat and everyone else's unanswered question. "Lina loves Will, hates Elizabeth."

Four jaws dropped to the floor.

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Jack, Angelina, and Jesse crept up to the deck and found a little boat used for scouting. They silently lowered it into the water. Jesse gave Jack a leg up onto the side of the ship and Jack lowered himself into the boat. Jesse held out his hand to help Angelina, but she brushed it away. "That's what I became a pirate to get away from. Men thinking I'm too stupid or fragile to do things myself." Jesse put his hands up in mock surrender and backed away. Angelina jumped onto the side and lowered herself into the boat, batting away Jack's help as well. Jesse climbed up onto the side and was ready to come down, but four hands pulled him off the precarious perch and threw him onto the deck.

Two girls stood over him, one tall with bushy brown hair, the other short with blonde hair plaited into two braids. Both were wearing dresses kind of like Elizabeth had been given by Barbossa.

"Where do you think you're going?" The tall one asked.

Jesse, who had been stiff, thinking it was Barbossa, let out his breath and rolled his eyes, "Orla, Gabriel, don't do that!"

"Why?" Orla asked haughtily.

"Were you afraid we were the captain?" Asked Gabriel in a sing-song voice.

"Yes. Now scat!"

"Why should we?"

"I'll leave Barbossa a pretty note that you two were out after curfew."

"You wouldn't!" Orla whispered shrilly.

"I would."

Jesse stood up and shooed at them with his hands. They stepped back just enough to avoid them and giggled like little girls.

"Who was that girl?"

"Was she the one that the captain wanted?"

"I heard he was going to go down to the hold and-"Jesse slapped a hand over Orla's mouth.

Jesse heard a muffled shriek from below the ship. Then a scuffle and then he heard, "WHAT?!"

The two girls giggled.

Angelina started climbing the rope and Jack tried to stop her. With both standing up, the boat started rocking and tipped over. Angelina was gone up the rope and Jack was spilled over the boat, cursing.

Jesse, Orla, and Gabriel looked over the side and the two girls started giggling again.

"WHAT was the captain going to do?!" Angelina whispered menacingly.

"You know what all captains do with the women..."

"'Cept us," Gabriel put in. "We're too smart. We make him hate us."

"Yep." Orla nodded proudly. "He just keeps us on board because he's too nice to throw us overboard."

"Well, actually, I think we're entertainment for him because he likes to watch us annoy the pirates."

"That too."

"Si."

"Mui bien!"

Angelina was stuck on the captain thing still. "OK, we are leaving RIGHT NOW. I don't want to become some captain's whore!"

"You were sure going to become the whore of any of these pirates cleaning down in the hold that would let you out." Jack stated matter of factly, climbing, dripping wet, back into the boat.

"That was a completely different situation! I would have killed them after I got out."

"And how would you have done that?"

"Jack, shut up."

"I'm just asking." He shrugged.

Gabriel and Orla broke into giggles again. "Maybe you already are a captain's whore! Or wife! You two fight like a married couple!" Orla laughed.

Jack and Angelina looked at each other and slowly moved away, which was hard with Angelina being on a rope and Jack inside a boat.

"THERE IS NOTHING GOING ON BETWEEN US!!!!!!!" Angelina screamed.

All of Angelina's yelling must have woken Barbossa, because a light went on in the captain's cabin. The five looked at each other and decided unanimously to put aside all differences and get out of there. Angelina climbed back into the boat, actually letting Jack help her, Jesse, Orla, and Gabriel lowered themselves into the boat and they slipped away into the night.

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The boat carrying Jack, Angelina, Jesse, Orla, and Gabriel slid into position beside the Pearl and Jack threw up a rope and hook. The hook held and they all clambered onto the deck of the Pearl. Jack immediately dropped to his knees and began kissing the deck.

Kat, Puss, Jane, AnnaMariea, and Lina came out to see what the noise was and were happy to see Angelina and Jack, but confused to see Jesse, Gabriel, and Orla.

Orla and Gabriel introduced themselves with curtsies.

"I'm Orla! Wheeeeee!"

"Don't mind her, she makes random odd noises." Jesse said.

"And I'm Gabriel Beck, but call me Gab or Gabby. Jesse won't. He's too much of a gentleman to call anyone a nickname." She put a haughty and somewhat prissy stress on "gentleman".

"As you can tell from these two, my name is Jesse D. James." he bowed with a flourish.

"I like your cape." Kat said. "I'm Kat Maxwell. Most feared pirate in the Caribbean."

"Ah, I see."

"I'm AnnaMariea. I like chicken."

Orla giggled.

"I'm Finch, Jane Finch. And I totally do not mean to keep saying my name in a Bond, James Bond kind of way!"

"I'm..." Puss started.

"NO!" everyone who had been unfortunate to have to hear her whole name yelled.

"I'm Puss."

Orla and Gabriel started laughing hysterically. "No, you're not."

"Yes, that's my name."

"No it's not trust me." said Orla.

"Si." Gabriel agreed.

"Mui bien!"

"She's Rum!" Jack shouted.

"Good. Change it to Rum, NOW." Gabriel said.

"Why?"

"We lived in England. Trust me."

"Okaaaaay. Fine. I guess."

"And who is this?" Asked Angelina, pointing to Lina.

"I'm Lina."

"Hello, how did you get here?"

"Lina loves Will. Hates Elizabeth."

"Right. I'll remember that."

Jane had been grinning the whole time, having a hard time controlling her happiness. Angelina and Jack were back! And they were safe. But Jane was mad because they had been stupid enough to get caught in the first place. "How did you get caught?!"

"Jack had to do some fancy sword moves, so we lost you." Angelina explained.

"NO!" Jane protested. "YOU lost US!"

"Didn't I just say that?"

There was a confused silence, then a muffled scream from Will and Elizabeth's cabin.

"What was that?" Jesse asked.

He was answered with a "Lina loves Will, hates Elizabeth."

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