The creature held Shavai tightly. Seeing Jack on one side of him and two girls with their swords drawn on the other wasn't in very good favor of him. He backed against a wall. "Let me have the damned necklace! Or you'll see your friend's blood being spilled in front of your eyes." Megan held her sword more out towards him "You do, and the last thing you'll see is getting your eyeballs ripped out so you can watch your own savage torture. By the time we're done, you'll be begging for death but you won't receive it." The thing continued going backwards "Yes, well, right now I have all the cards ladies, and, it seems I'm making the first move. So, hand it over." He poked the dagger closer to Shavai's throat. She gulped as she saw how the blade was almost penatrating her skin, and to make matters worse, Jaden was taking off the necklace.

Jaden put her sword back in its place and walked slowly toward Shavai's hostile friend. Jack couldn't believe his eyes. The same woman who had chased him in public, and could probably take him in a sword fight, was about to give up the key to the greatest treasure, to save a replaceable person. 'She's nuts.' Jack thought to himself, 'But nuts is something we all have to be.' Megan was equally shocked. Shavai almost hyperventilated as Jaden came within three steps. "You've lost your damn mind!" Shavai yelled at Jaden. Jaden shrugged it off. She knew she had no other choice and she wasn't going to sacrifice one of her best friends over something she didn't want in the first place.

Shavai looked around like she was paranoid. She slipped her fingers into her bag at her side and pulled one of the love potion vials out. She placed the cork inbetween her finger and thumb and twisted it off silently "If you hand it over to this guy, I swear to God I'll hang you upside down by your wrists and have you skinned alive." Jaden looked back sadly. It was so ironic. The journey ends just as it looked as though it would begin. She sighed. She was looking forward to having an adventure like this like she had dreamed. She knew something would screw it up, she just didn't know how bad. Megan stepped forward "Jaden, you can't do this." Jack stayed as much out of the way as he could. He looked and waited for the oppertune moment. Shavai flipped the bottle up, luckily landing with enough force it spilled over the man and landed in his eyes. The thing threw his hands to his burning eyes and Shavai took the oppertunity to escape. "What now?!" Megan yelled holding her sword steadfastly. Jack looked at Megan amazed. 'How can she be so dumb?" He wrapped his hand around a nearby candle and flung it at the guy. Whatever ingredients had been mixed into the love potion worked. He went up in flames like a bunch of gasoline.

He writhed in the flames as he ran around the store catching the curtains and sheets and plants on fire all around him. Jack and the girls left as fast as they could. The ship almost started to sail without them. They finally made it to the boat and shuved the boarding ramp off it's connection to the boat. They ran around cutting the ropes of the ship from the dock with their swords and daggers as the crew ran furiously around the vast deck. They all looked back as the dock began to fade seeing the smoke rise from the building. The people who took residence in the area scurried about the shore trying to put the fire out. No doubt they would find the body. No doubt Jack's good friend Norrington would get on their trail again.

Jack sighed. He looked around the ship's deck overseeing everything; Everyone. He felt empty inside. He had had a countless amount of lovers in his past, but none had meant anything to him. Anything beyond a moment of bliss only to have money collected from him and the pleasurable company be gone from his life until another lonely night had crept upon him. He exhaled slowly. Maybe he would be lucky this time. Weirder things have happened after all.

Will ran towards Shavai and grabbed her sternly by the shoulders. "Where the hell were you?! I was so..." Will cut himself off looking around seeing Megan, Jack and Jaden staring at him. Will continued "Angry! I had no idea where you were. We could've left without you!" Shavai looked slightly suprised. 'He actually cares. Wow.' Shavai thought to herself. Jaden whispered in Jaden's ear "I'm not quite understanding. Translation please." Megan thought for a second. "I thinnk he's saying "Blah blah, I'm a euphnic, please, please, love me." They laughed to each other as they went their seperate ways. Megan went to get some sleep and Jaden walked around the deck. Jack looked over and was disturbed at what he saw. Will and Shavai? "What happened to Elizabeth?" He muttered to himself. Jaden looked back at him "What'd you just say?" Jack looked at her. "Oh nothing." Jaden walked over to one side of the ship. She lifted her sleeve to her wrist and looked at the slashes in her skin. They looked angry and as though they had just been done. She closed her eyes and felt the breeze blow through her hair. It felt nice to her. Finally she could have one moment of peace.

Just then, something was tapped against her back. She quickly turned around. Jack was standing with the same firey eyes she had seen the first time she saw him. It felt almost like the greatest sin in the world to look in his eyes. It was like she was finally home. He held a flask in his hand and offered her a drink. Jaden smiled lightly and took a sip. Straight rum. She knew it right away. She wished he had warned her. It tasted like she had drank some pepperminty-grass juice. She shuddered. It felt like it had just hit her. She began to chug at the rest of it. Jack looked on in shock as she tilted her head back and drank the rest. She took a deep breath when she finished and tossed it back to him "You're out, sailor."

He put both hands up in a surrendering motion "I give up. You are the drinking queen of the sea." Jaden laughed. They looked at the water below before Jaden broke the silence. "Jack, why do you want the amulet?" Jack looked for a moment as though he was in deep thought. "I guess, for the adventure. After all, I'm the great Jack Sparrow." He could've hit himself in the head. Was it possible he was so drunk he had forgotten to remind her of his Captain status? He was having such a good time, he didn't particularly care.

Jaden laughed at his speech. No matter how breif. She pulled her sleeve down to hide the cuts. Jack reached out and grabbed her arm. "Why did you do this?" Jack thought his heart was going to break. Jaden was really more than what met the eye. What a beautiful sadness. Jaden thought she would choke. No one had ever asked her, not even Megan or Shavai. "Jack. You- you know how it is, when you want to cry, but there's no reason to? Well, I always felt I had to have a reason, so I made one." Jack reached out and embraced her. Jaden felt the tears roll down her cheeks. Jack brushed them away. She felt normal talking to Jack about this personal stuff... she also felt the rum go to her head. "Okay, I wanna show you something. Captain." She started smiling deviously. She proceeded to go below deck to his chambers. Jack wasn't sure he should be doing anything with a person drunker than he was. For once he was laughing at someone else's personality. "Aww, come on Jack. I don't bite." Jack took a step back from her as she swurved in and outwards towards him and away.

"I don't think I should be doing anything with your condition being so....so..." He struggled for the word. "Delicate." 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! What the hell? She's not pregnant! Why'd he use the word condition?!' Jack gave a charactoristic grin. Jaden pulled him toward her and held him in a passionate kiss. Jaden thought she was going to die. They both proceeded through Jack's door to his quarters. They continued kissing as Jack moved his arms around her waist as the door swung shut behind them.

Meanwhile

Shavai leaned over on her chair. She sat on the deck wondering. Though all three of the girls had a tough exterior, they all were hopeless romantics. She got up and looked over the side of the ship. There was something about Will that made her feel her skin was the only thing holding her together. And it seemed although that was redundantly true, it made her take measure of herself. Will made her heart speed up. He made her feel like she was held by a corset in which it was almost impossible to breath. She wondered to herself the one question all of the girls had on their minds that night: Was it love, or lust?

She shifted uncomfortably in the breeze echanging her arms positioning over her chest. Maybe it was lust. Whatever it was, she's never felt this way about any man. She could picture herself being with him the rest of her life. She inhaled deeply and let it out slowly. It was time to take things almost seriously for a moment. She laughed quietly to herself. She pulled out a bottle of Madame Yendel's love potion. She carefully put it to her nose. She thought about Will for a moment. She was a full-fledged pirate. But for once, she didn't want to steal Will's affections. She laughed to herself. How ironic. She took the top off and threw it in the ocean. followed by pouring the bottle's contents into the dark water below. The liquid shimmered it's deep red color and landed in the water mixing in. She liked Will too much, and wanted him to come because he liked her too. Not because of a potion, or a threat.