Disclaimer: I own Jack and only Jack, HE IS MINE! OMG, back off Disney I have a sword and I'm not afraid to use it! Ok, put the cell phone down! No stop dialing! NOOOOO! *Runs away, dragging Jack behind, sirens sound*

Author's Note: Hello to my WICKED COOL readers! I would like to say a personal thank you to Plateado! (Thanks for the good advice!) Sorry people for being a LONG time with this chapter. Schools a pain and well I had 5 ideas for this chapter and it took a while to decide on just one! There is another personal thank you to my Beta Reader! THANK YOU, YOU ARE THE BEST EVER!! LOVE YA! (My beta had to help me decide.) I SWEAR ON PAIN OF DEATH THAT I WILL UPDATE MORE FREQUENTLY!

Well on with chapter 4!

The Silver Pendent

Chapter 4- Docks

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"Aye, that's why we are goin' to sneak inte the house durin' the night! He'll never know." Jack said with a grim making the plan up as he went along.

"Oh, you really think we can do that?"

"Yes, we can and we will. Meet me 'ere at midnight and we'll go."

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Midnight came and went and Will had still not shown up. Jack was starting to get impatient around 1:00 and decided to go and check out what the hold up was. He briskly walked up to the door and opened it to find Will on the other side, looking up to the top of the stairs. Jack grabbed Will with such force that he almost fell over. He had just enough time to close the door before Jack started yelling.

"Where the hell have ye been? If we're goin' te do this, we've got to do it now! Ye weren't thinkin' of not comin', were ye?"

"No, I had to make sure that Elizabeth was asleep before I left, so she wouldn't worry." He said looking up at the top windows.

"Aye, now hurry up. We haven't got all night!" Jack said rolling his eyes, grabbing for Will's arm again. The two men walked down the streets of Port Royal without once meeting another person, not even a Red Coat. 'This is nothing like Tortuga' thought Jack. 'It's so empty, where are all the drunks and wenches. God, I miss that place'. Snapping out of his thoughts, he noticed Will turning to walk up to a house. Will was amazed that the small house was still standing. Shutters were falling off, paint was chipping and windows were broken. The once thriving garden was now dried up and dead. 'Looks like her father doesn't take care of his house very much anymore' thought Will. Jack quickly took hold of Will's arm and dragged him behind a nearby bush.

"Do ye think that it is wise to just waltz up te the door, open it and say 'Hello anyone home? We're here to take yer daughter's things'?"

"No Jack, I don't think it is a good idea" Will said in a huff.

"Good, now maybe ye should listen te the plan." He said sarcastically.

"Uh, right."

"Ye see that window over there?" Will nodded "We'll both climb through it and make our way te her bedroom. I'll keep watch outside her door, while ye can get her stuff. Now, come on!" Jack started for the window keeping as low to the ground as possible. Will followed close behind looking around to make sure no one was about. Finally, they made it up to the window and found it unlocked and open a bit. Jack pushed it all the way up, slowly to make sure there was no sound. Without making any noise, they climbed in to the house and found that they entered into the kitchen. Jack noticed that there were a lot of bottles on the counter. He looked closer. Bottles of rum!

"Will, ye go ahead up te her room and I'll look around for people." He said in a whisper. "Ye know this house better than me"

"Ok Jack, but please don't touch anything. I don't feel like getting caught today."

"Just go!" he hissed, with a foul look on his face. Will made his way slowly up the stairs, making sure to not make any sounds that could disturb anyone in the house, if in fact there was anyone there. Crossing the hallway, Will opened up the door to Brianna's room. It was exactly the same as he saw it last, except there was a thin layer of dust on everything. 'It looks like no one has even touched the room' he thought. Slowly and quietly he closed the door and headed for the wardrobe. Feeling for the sack Jack had given him, on his side, he began to stuff it with clothing and anything else he could see, or at least feel. After filling the sack with everything he could possibly muster, he walked swiftly to the door. Grabbing for the doorknob, the door snapped open, hitting the wall with a 'bang', almost smacking him in the head. Focusing his eyes on the person on the other side of the door frame he realized that it was not Jack, but Brianna's father.

Downstairs, Jack was collecting some of the bottles of rum, the full ones (for his pleasure later), when he hear a loud sound coming from above him. "If that was Will, I'm goin' te kill him" he mumbled to himself, while promptly running up the stairs. Jack stopped with only one stair left and looked to see what the noise was, to his amazement he saw that a man had a gun pointed at Will's head. Sneaking up behind him Jack tried to grab the nearest thing he could find, to knock the man out with, but the only thing he could think of was a bottle of rum! He pulled the bottle from under his coat and raised it as high as he could and crashed it down on the man's head. Will had noticed Jack before he had hit the man, and backed up a bit. Brianna's father wobbled on the spot for a second them fell face first onto the floor.

"Ye better be happy I'm here to save your arse Will, but look ye made me loose a bottle of rum!"

"May I remind you Jack, I'm quite capable of fighting for myself, and secondly, while you were fussing downstairs with your precious rum, I had a gun to my head, held by a very drunk man babbling on about a pendent, a treasure, and the pendent not being here in the house."

"Lighten up mate. Don't get your panties in a bunch, besides, your fine and the rum is fine, well the rums not fine, but..." His eyes widened, "TREASURE?!?!"

"Yes a treasure! He kept saying over and over, are you here for the pendent? It's not here if you want it. I know nothing of the treasure."

"But your saying there's a treasure?!?!"

"FOR THE LAST TIME JACK, YES! But... uh... maybe we should leave now, I think he's waking up!"

"Aye let's go." Before they left, Jack stopped Will in mid-step and said, "Will jest te make this clear, I'll talk te Brianna about the pendent."

"Aye, Jack, if you don't tell Elizabeth about the pistol at my head." Jack nodded and they left the house.

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The next morning Brianna woke up to Jack jabbing her in the arm.

"Wake up Brianna! I need te talk te ye."

"I'm up, I'M UP!" I said not noticing that it was Jack. I turned and looked at him; I was amazed by his staring eyes, they were a rich chocolaty color. Wait what am I doing he shouldn't be in my room! "JACK WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?" I said sitting up pulling the blankets up with me. "GET OUT!"

"But…"

"OUT!" I threw a pillow, nearly missing his head.

"I need te talk te ye."

"Fine, meet me at the docks in an hour." I said threatening to throw a pillow again. He put up his arms up in defense and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him. 'The nerve of him, coming in here when I'm sleeping, looking at me with those chocolaty brown eyes, touching my arm with his strong muscular hands… NO stop it Brianna! He's a pirate… only a pirate…' But just then another voice came into my head, 'But isn't that what you have always wanted to be? Living for the sea, drifting off to sleep at night from the rock of a ship, waking up in the morning and walking out on deck to feel the spray of the sea?' "YES THAT IS WHAT I WANT!" I cried, and jumped out of bed to get dressed.   

Meanwhile, Jack was already heading for the docks, he stayed in the shadows most of the time, just to be safe. Standing in the shadow of a building, something caught his eye. It was the Black Pearl! 'I thought I told 'em te not come back for a week', he thought moving towards the Eastern dock, where the Pearl was heading. Since most ships docked on the Northern pier, the ones to the East were pretty much vacant. When the Black Pearl docked and the gangway went down, Jack ran up it, to where Ana Maria was standing.

"ANA MARIA! DIDN'T I TELL YE TE NOT COME BACK FOR A WEEK?" Jack yelled on the top of his lungs.

"'ello te ye too, Captain." Ana said sarcastically. "But it seems te me that it has been a week, has it not been, Gibbs." From behind her Gibbs nodded. Jack paused for a minute to register what they said.

"Aye, so it has been a week. Time goes by quickly when yer with old friends. Ana, tell everyone te stay on the ship, we'll leave tomorrow evening."

"Aye Captain, but can the crew leave the ship in rounds of every hour or so?"

"Fine, but stay outta trouble ye scallywag. Oh and I'll let ye know if anything changes" Ana Maria nodded and started yelling the orders to the crew. Jack started walking back to where he was standing before he saw the Pearl and waited for Brianna. Moments later, I walked up to Jack and greeted him with a smile. 'She seems happier than before' Jack thought.

"Sorry about before Jack, it's just… I… well you…"

"No worries, love." He said staring into my eyes.

I looked away and said, "You wanted to talk to me about something?"

"Aye, that I did, I was wondering if you own a trinket such as a silver or gold pendent."

"Yes, a sliver one… wait how did… how did you know about my pendent?" I said with a confused stare.

"Well love, we had a bit of a run-in with yer father, and he told us… no Will… that there was a pendent and a treasure te go with it or somethin' like that." Jack said a bit hesitantly.

"There's a treasure with my pendent? No one ever told me about that." I moved my hand to my neck where the pendent hung, and tried to remember exactly what happened when my mom gave it to me. "Mum gave this to me before she was shot and said to go hide with it. Could it be that he was after it?" I said inaudibly, starting to understand that maybe it was the pendent Captain Bailey was after and not my mother.

"What was that, love?" I shook my head. "Can I see it… the pendent?"

"Yes of course" I took off the necklace and handed it to him. "My mother had given that to me before she died; I was told to hide with it."

"Brianna, how did yer mother die?" He asked, looking up from examining the pendent.

"Well, she was shot by a man named Captain Bailey." Jack could see the emotions in Brianna's eyes and looked away.

"Captain Bailey… Captain Bailey…" he whispered over and over. "I know that name! Stay here Brianna, I'll be right back."

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Well everyone, I do apologize again for not having this done sooner… but I did write a longer chapter to make up for my lateness. Oh and I'm thinking of changing the story to 'She' instead of 'I'… it's just a little bit easier to write! Let me know if you have any suggestions for the story :)

Until next time…there is a lovely little button that wishes to be pressed! ;)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!