Howdy peeps! Catie here, hope you're enjoying the story and sorry for the loooooong wait....Ser could not for the life of her remember where she put this chappie, and I had to bake her some cookies before she even bothered to look for it, but she found it!!!! yay!!! come to think of it, where did I put the next chapter? oh shoot....

Chapter 4

"Singin' in the Brig"

written by the one and only forgetful Ser

"NOOOOOOOOO! Not the brig! Anything but the brig!" Catie wailed as the pirates dragged them below deck.

Jack ignored her and slammed the cell door shut. "Gibbs, ye best guard 'em ta make sure they don't escape," he ordered, before disappearing above, leaving an unfortunate Gibbs to babysit three hyper wannabe pirates.

After about thirty seconds of silence, Cad, Ser and Catie looked at each other and grinned mischieviously. They opened their mouths, and broke out into song. "Dat's my cigah, you'll steal annudah, 'ey bummahs we got woik ta do..."

--Ten minutes later--

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

--Half an hour later--

"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves! I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes..."

"ENOUGH!!!!" Gibbs yelled as the girls started on their next song ("...I am what I wear, and how I dress. Oh now I believe in lookin' like my time on Earth is cookin'..."). "Sparrow! Git down 'ere!"

"Wha' is it, Gibbs?" Jack asked as he popped into the room.

"I am NOT babysittin' these 'ere wenches any longer! They're crazier than ye, and annoyin' ta boot!" Gibbs said, shaking his head in his hands. "Ye can guard 'em, I'm outta 'ere!"

"Now, wha' did ye do ta poor ol' Gibbs?" Jack asked them, as Gibbs left the room looking relieved.

"Nothin'!" Cad said, using her innocent, doe-eyed expression to its full effect.

"Hey! I just thought of another song!" Ser said excitedly, jumping up and down. "Remember the lumberjack song? 'I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day. I cut down trees, I wear high heels, suspenders and a bra. I wish - '"

"Shaddup! Yer drivin' me crazy!" Jack yelled, covering his ears.

"I know a song about that! 'She drives me CRAZY! Oh, oh, like no one else! Oh oh...'" Ser sang at the top of her lungs.

"Wha' do ye wan' from me?!?!?" Jack cried and Ser immediately shut up.

"Out!!!" Catie demanded. Then she added, mumbling, "I hate the brig. Too confining. I need room to be sugar-high properly..."

"Fine," Jack sighed. "Bu' ye can't laugh a' me no more, an' ye must be quiet an' calm." He unlocked the door.

The girls just looked at each other and burst out laughing hysterically.

"I said no laughing!" Jack said warningly.

"Face it, Sparrow." Catie said."You can't make us shut up, I mean, we can't even make ourselves shut up." She looked at Cad and Ser, whonodded knowingly.

"We've gotthe power," Catie continued. "You can't tell us what to do, and if you punish us, we'll just getyou back twelve times worse!"

"Thirteen!" Ser chimed in.

"Yeah!" Cad said intimidatingly. (Hey, so what if it ain't a word? It's cool!)

There was a silence as Jack looked at the three girls, as if considering how much damage they could cause, and the three girls stared back in what they thought was an intimidating manner, but justresulted inthemlooking rather comical.

"Alright," Jack said finally.

"YAY!" Catie cheered.

"So what do we do now?" Cad asked.

Jack seemed to mull it over, and asked, "Can ye cook?"

"Suuuuuuuuure, I can cook. Heh, yeah, riiiiiiight," Ser answered.

Jack didn't catch her sarcasm. "Good," he said. "Ye've all got kitchen duty. Now, get goin'."

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One look at the kitchen and only two words came out of Cad, Catie and Ser's mouths. "Oh, crap."

A mess is an understatement. The dishes were crusty, the floor was caked with goodness knows what, and the food was just laying around in barrels or on the dirty table. Need I say more?

"What are we gonna do?" Ser whined. "I can't cook for beans, and the floor looks cleaner than that table!"

"You clean, we'll cook," Cad orderd, and because Ser didn't want to be poisoned by her own cooking, she agreed. Oh yeah, and while they were working, they sang! Yay!

Finally, it was time for dinner and a parade of pirates stormed into the kitchen. Jack and a very hot young man brought up the rear.

"Will, these are those crazy lasses I was tellin' ye about." Jack said. "Crazy lasses, this is William Turner, Bootstrap's only child, savvy?" (Hint hint wink wink)

"Whoa, did anyone ever tell you that you are an extremely sexy hunk of a young man?" Ser asked as the three girls' mouths dropped open and a big puddle of drool formed beneath their feet on the nice clean floor.

"Hey, wha' abou' me? I'm a sexy hunk of a man," Jack said indignantly as they flocked to Will, ignoring the older pirate completely.

"Oh, I get it. I'm tooo sexy, right?! Right?! SEXY PIRATES NEED LOVING TOO!!!!" he yelled.

Coming up....

Parle vous francais?

I think...if I can find it...uh oh! well, if we get enough reviews from people other than the authors, then maybe, just maybe I'll be motivated to look for it. Even if you don't want to say anything about the story, just let us know that you're reading it! YAY! See ya in two chapters!

Catie