"Oh.."

He looked up at me with honest eyes.

"Your.a PRINCE?" why was everyone.., "Why does everyone lie to me?"

He jumped up and rushed to my side, grabbing both my shoulders. "Ovashing. I meant to tell you! I really di-"

I smacked him. Guards sprung up all around to grab me, but they were in for the fight of their life, I wasn't ready to die.

"All my life people have only LIED to me. And you KNEW that!"

I lunged to smack him again."

"You KNEW-" Someone grabbed my side, and I turned and punched not caring who it was. "You knew what I'd been through.." I sobbed, lunging for him again, only to bury my face in him glimmering tunic, to hide my tear. "I hate you."

"Like you hate Jack and Cameron?" I nodded with frustration. "Are you going to kill me to?"

"Yes." I muttered.

"When?"

"Very soon."

"Madame Ovashing et je voudrais parler dans l'intimité, maintenant." He noted the guard and his brother.

"Brother, you owe us an explanation."

"Not now."

"Alright."

He nodded to his brother, and bowed deeply to me, and walked out the door with an air of grace I had yet to acquire.

"I really am sorry Ovashing..

"I know.. I guess I also know you couldn't randomly tell me.."

"No, I couldn't I gave him swift hug, and in the process neither of us noticed the door reopen behind us.

Something then donned on me. "How'd you cover your lack of pirate brand?"

"Same thing you do to hide that you have one. Long sleeves."

"Pirate brand?"

The voice startled both of us, and we turned to fine a startled looking Michelle.

He was very smart. I knew this because I knew he'd figured it all out, pirate brands being fairly self-explanatory. It was in his eyes.

"Pirate." He said pointing at me. "You are filthy.."

"We know, and if you don't hush up, so will everyone else."

He gave me the oddest look, but the comment did what I had hoped. It gave Nicola enough time to pull Michelle into the room, and close the door.

"What has gotten into you?" This comment was for Nicola I knew.

"Life changed when your taken prisoner of war."

"You joined the pirates!"

"I know. Where better to hind, then with the enemy to all?"

"I don't understand."

"Think, Michelle, do you think the English would have thought to look for me upon the ships of the English pirates? And if they did I was with the pirates of the Caribbean, not the once from around England. Furthermore, do you think that the pirates would let the English law-binding sailors come up and just search their ship? I was safe there, till I could get home."

"Ok, but you made friends with them!" He looked over at me.

"She'd had a hard life, I felt sorry for her."

"She one of them!"

"She grew up thinking her father hated her, and it turned out he didn't even know she excited. She never had any friends, and even when she was on the ship, knowing her father loved her, she always seem sad, I had to do something."

A heated discussion. The perfect way to escape.