AN: Sorry for not updating for so long! And thanks for the reviews! They made my day! Unfortunately, school starts in a couple of days. It sucks, I know, but oh well. On with the story!!!! Today is my birthday! Yay!

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Torrance ran like the dickens, until she was gasping for air. When she reached the dock, she was absolutely wheezing. But Sparrow and Turner were not to be found. She looked around wildly, desperately, but all she could see were men in red coats and water. And a barrel. A barrel that was floating toward the big ship near the end of the harbor. And in a moment of revelation, she realized something. The barrel! Why didn't she think of it before? The next 5 minutes of the movie played out in Torrance's mind.

Forgetting her huffing and lack of oxygen, she made a mad dash to the Interceptor. As was her luck, there were two men guarding it, the two idiots from before. She took a deep breath and silently, she crept along one side of the dock. Thankfully, the two blubbering fools were arguing and had their backs turned to her. She heard snatches of the conversation. "But I'm telling you, the Black Pearlis real." "Not on my mother's fanny." This was going to be easier than she thought. She jumped superhumanly, on to the deck and stole across the deck and into the cabins below. She chose one on her left quickly and darted in, locking the door behind her.

Plunking herself down on one of the chairs, she mentally mapped out what she was expecting to happen in the next few minutes.

Jack and Will would make themselves know. Torrance heard shouting and the sound of running feet coming from the deck. She smiled. The Interceptor would set off. With a mighty lurch, the boat started forward and began cruising along the calm water. There would be a boarding of ships. Through the porthole, she saw men swinging across on ropes to the Dauntless. Jack and Will would land also and set sail.

Torrance felt the boat begin to move again, out toward the open sea and with a thankful sigh, she stood up, threw her bag onto the bunk bed, and opened the door. Jack and Will were chatting. Or more accurately, Jack had Will hanging out in the open sea. She would wait until they finished. This part of the movie had always amused her.

Finally, with a huff, Sparrow set Will down and they both stood up, assumedly to begin sailing the ship. Quickly, she hoped. She only had about a week until her time was up and Torrance would be no more.

"What are you doing here?" was the greeting she received when Turner caught sight of her. Torrance panicked. Should she lie? Tell the truth? Part of the truth? She hadn't thought this part out. She had been too busy coasting on her previous victory. Mentally, she cursed herself. "Well?" Turner pressed. Torrance finally decided.

"Sparrow. I am in need of your assistance. A couple of years ago, the Black Pearl raided a small village in the Caribbean. Among one of the villages, there was found a stone. A green gem, resembling an emerald. It has very strange qualities. It is very valuable to me. Do you know anything about it?"

Torrance wasn't really a religious person but she started to pray to any god she could think of. Zeus, God, Allah, Buddah…

"I may know what you're talking about, love."

Torrance began to hope.

"I heard about a stone that the Black Pearl picked up a couple years back. Very strange indeed. I got a look at it, in fact. Some people who looked at it said that it looked green, but when I looked at it, it was red. Red as blood and it kept on changing color. Nobody could make heads or tails of it. They tried to sell it, but no one would take it. Said it was cursed, that it was the devil's own crowning jewel. So they just left it at the Isle de la Muerta."

This was more information than she had ever hoped she would get. Happiness flooded her and she hugged Jack Sparrow. He smelled like a skunk who hadn't taken a bath in months and had never heard of hygiene.

"Whoa, love. I can't breathe. I can't…" And indeed, his face was turning the color of a blueberry. Oops, slayer strength, she thought and let go immediately. "That's much better, pet," as his face returned to its normal bronze color. "But like Turner said, what are you doing here? And how are you connected with the stone? And how do you have blue hair? Could you do it to me?"

Torrance thought fast. "I need to get to the stone. It is very valuable. And I mean very valuable. And I will do anything to get to it. I am coming with you to retrieve the stone, and I will help in your quest to find Elizabeth. I am a good fighter and I will prove useful. Oh, and my hair is naturally this color," Torrance replied to fend off useless questions about dye or hair salons.

Turner chuckled. "Good fighter? You could barely swing a sword correctly." Jack, too looked amused. "This is much too dangerous for you, pet. You better get off when we reach Tortuga and catch the next ship back to Port Royal." Torrance could barely keep her irritation in check.

"It is true that I can not fight well with a sword, but I am more dangerous with my hands anyway. Like this," and she grabbed Sparrow's wrist and spun him so that his back was facing her and his arm was in a very painful position, all in the space of a heartbeat. Jack Sparrow swung his free arm back, but Torrance had expected that and she let his arm go and he was knocked over due to his momentum. Jack stood up and shook his arm, hoping that the pain would go away soon. With difficulty, he began to speak. "This is my bloody sword hand! And that only proves you're fast, not skilled."

Torrance answered with a swift kick, which to her surprise, he caught. But Torrance had faced better adversaries and though Jack was good, he couldn't match her strength, nor speed. Torrance spun her leg so that he collided with Turner who had been watching with interest and new found respect. "Oof," Jack exclaimed. "Please?" Torrance asked. "Welcome to our crew," said Turner, ignoring the death glares that Jack was shooting his way. Torrance smiled.

Evening--------------------

"Land ahoy!" Torrance yelled. "Relax, mate," Jack grumbled, "we're not blind but we will be deaf if you keep that up."

Torrance jumped off the crows nest and landed so quickly, it looked like she was already walking away, something she had perfected by using her house's roof when she was bored, while Jack gaped. "But that was at least 30 feet!!!!"

"Relax, mate," she answered and helped Will with docking preparations. They had reached Tortuga at last. She had spent most of the afternoon learning how to sail and with the added help, they had reached Tortuga by the time the sun had set. The ship bumped gently into the dock and Torrance jumped off with rope and tied it to the dock, grabbing her bag that she had brought up seconds before. (AN: Forgive me, but I'm not very well acquainted with 1700's ship docking procedures so you will have to just bear with me, folks)

Jack and Will set down the ramp and walked off the ship. "Where to, gentlemen?" Torrance asked even though she knew the answer perfectly well. Jack scratched his head and answered, "Man hunting," then started walking abruptly towards Tortuga.

Torrance's first impression of Tortuga wasn't a good one. The moment she stepped foot into it, she was nearly knocked off balance by a drunk man who wanted to know "how much." She had just thrown him into the sea, hoping that he could swim and the cold salt water would bring him to his senses. "You could have handled that a bit better," Will remarked. "Like that?" Torrance asked as another drunk man aiming for Torrance accidentally got Will instead and was in turn, thrown into a pile of dung, where he immediately fell asleep. Tortuga was absolute mayhem. One building exploded right as they were walking past and to put it out, a couple of drunk men aimed their piss from the street to the building. "Is everybody in this town drunk?" Torrance watched in fascination as a man jumped into a well and another grabbed a potted plant and put it on as a hat. "Well, love. Not everybody. But save for you and Turner, everybody else is drunk," Jack answered.

"Including you?" Torrance asked in surprise.

"I always am," he replied right before a woman came up to him and slapped him.

"I didn't deserve that," Jack commented. The woman sneered and romped away. I'm sure, Torrance thought sarcastically as the woman known as Giselle came up to him and slapped him yet again. When will they ever learn that a well aimed kick will do much more damage? Torrance mused as Giselle asked with her Cockney accent, "Oo' was she?"

"That, I might have deserved," Jack commented yet again as Will snickered.

Jack sulked as he walked off and Torrance and Will followed, sniggering quietly. They followed him through a maze of streets until they finally reached the stable where Gibbs was sleeping amongst pigs. Torrance wrinkled her nose. It smelled to high heavens. Will grabbed a bucket of water and threw half of its contents on Gibbs. He woke up and started cursing. Vulgar, really vulgar.

(AN: I know, I'm lazy but I'm going to fast forward to the part where they're at the bar, cuz you guys know what happen, rite?)

Later------------------------

"Leverage?" Will asked more to himself than Torrance. They were at the bar featured in the movie, and over the racket, Torrance and Will had just managed to hear "Leverage." While Will thought to himself, Torrance looked around warily and slipped her hand in her bag to make sure she had her dagger. She had never been comfortable in a setting where she was so easily out numbered, especially by piss drunk people who would start a brawl over a boot.

Finally, Gibbs and Sparrow pulled out of their powwow and managed to find a respectable looking inn. Which meant, it didn't look like it was infested with rats, and nobody was dangling out of the window. As Torrance settled in on the floor, and patted her bag, which she was using for a pillow, she felt sand. Jesus wept! What the freak is that? She thought as she pulled out her CD player and realized that half of it had dissolved…into sand. Oh freak…

Well, hope that's long enough for you. In case the ending kinda confused you, all her items are being dissolved into sand, a fate which Torrance will share if she doesn't get back to her own time, and fast.

Thanks for the reviews! I loved them, and again, I apologize that I haven't updated in half a year . My school is notorious for driving its students to the brink of madness with homework and I was on vacation a lot this summer =(. Well, sucks, but expect to see a new chapter in half a month or so. Love ya! Review!!!!!!!!!