(A/N – Oh geez… I really failed that test BIG time… Jack definitely did… No offense, Jack. Well, I gotta go meet up with Lindsay outside Mr. Renzi's room. Cya at the bottom! I'm gonna go to Chem II now… joy…)

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x) BG Sparrow (Amber lol) - Hey Amber! Reviewers, meet my lil sis! She's my biggest supporter! Thanks Amber! But I must say, how did you get in under my name? It's just a bit odd to see my own pen name reviewingmy story. Oh well! Thanks anyways! Hope you like the sequel, hope to hear more from you, and enjoy this one! It's a moose! lol... 0o0o0o0o0o... ;)

x)Raina and Nayana - Haha, no test for you, thank goodness! Just me... bleh lol. Are you in track? You should be with as much running you do! lol... just hold up a test, aaaaaand their off! haha... Thanks for reviewing! Glad you like, and enjoy this one!

x)Choco Donut - Haha, I love it! but you are forgetting, my dear... Becca went back to the island to lift the curse at the end of ch 15, so we're mortal again! Remember that -we're no longer cursed!!Glad you liked Lindsay's plan of action lol. And don't be jealous bout the island... lol j/k!DUDE!!! I WANNA BE IN YOUR SPANISH CLASS!!! -cries- You suck lol... just kidding. Thomas?Read and find out! Enjoy this chapter, and thanks a lot for the review! And yes, Gilligan's Island is spiffy, isn'tit?

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- Hmm... Well peeps, we got a good year to wait until PotC 2 is released. I know, it sucks, doesn't it? Oh well, I know y'all know this, but I had to put something for my disclaimer other than the actual word 'disclaimer'…

- I started with nothing, have most of it left, and I kept these in a force field so no one could say they were up for grabs: Lindsay, Jessica, Arielle Faye Turner, Rebecca Barbossa, Paige Castrella Madrine (Lillian Paige Barbossa), Thomas Pikes and the Meridian. No touchy!

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: "Capture the Pirate Flag!"

"Thomas?" I asked, just in case. "Is that you?"

"Yes! It's me!" he shouted back. I smiled and ran across the surf to him. He has survived the battle! Great! He gave me a one-armed hug when I reached him, and then I held to that arm and brought him to shore.

"How bad are you hurt? How did you make it out?" I asked.

"I'm a pirate now, I gotta survive," he said. I smiled and pulled him to shore. I sat him up by Jessica and Anamaria who were still sleeping, and I brought out my first aid kit.

"Ah, it doesn't look so bad," I said, spraying antiseptic on the braise and wrapping it in gauze. I put a few pieces of tape on it to hold it in place, and then said, "There! Done! You should live…"

He laughed, and I looked over at Stewy. She's gonna kill me…

"Anyone with you?" I asked.

"No," Thomas replied. "No one that I know of." He seemed to be trying to catch my gaze for some reason, but I wouldn't let him. I'll show him how twenty-first century American teenagers handle guys! Boy, I need a shorter name for that…

"I'm gonna go wake Jack and them up," I said. "You can just stay here and rest a minute." I walked away smiling hugely. I was losing my train of thought and passed up Jack and Elizabeth, and then I trudged back over and kicked sand on them. They coughed, sputtered, wheezed, ect. until they could actually speak.

"Grace! What's this about?!" Jack yelled.

"Mornin' sleepyheads," I said, smiling maliciously at the both of them. They saw my grin, looked at each other, and jumped up quickly blushing like mad. Yeah, that's what I thought…

"Err… so!" Jack said. "Where's Ana and Mary?"

"Still sleeping," I replied. "But we do have company."

"Who?" Elizabeth asked with a puzzled look. I looked over a Thomas who was sitting up by Anamaria and Jessica. Jack and Elizabeth turned to see what I was looking at, and then stared in disbelief.

"Pikes!" Jack yelled as the three of us ran over to him. "How did ye survive?"

"Pirate antics," I answered for him.

"Exactly," Thomas said. "Black Grace fixed my arm, and I'm ready to go."

"Good work, lassie," Jack said to me (Praise! Yes!). I nodded trying to hide my huge grin… not working…

"Now go wake up Mary and Ana, savvy?" he asked.

"Yeah, whatever," I said still off in daydream land. I walked right into them as I looked back at Thomas, and fell onto them.

"Yo!" Jessica yelled.

"Ho…" I muttered. She laughed a bit, rubbing her eyes. Anamaria shook herself awake and stood up.

"What a night..." she said with a long yawn.

"Amen," I said. "It was great! And look what I found, Stewy!"

Jessica stood up and gaped at the site of Thomas. I laughed, just enjoying her reaction, and she ran up to him beaming.

"Hi!" she said immediately.

"Hello," Thomas said. "You're, you're Mary, right?"

Jessica's eyes got bigger, and all she could do was nod.

"Well, Little Turner then," Thomas said, kissing Jessica's hand. "I believe we haven't really met." Jessica was about to explode with excitement. She looked over at me with the utmost joy in her expression. I think Jack and Elizabeth noticed, too.

"Err… Pikes! A word, please," Jack said.

"Yes, sir," Thomas said, leaving go of Jessica's hand. He walked off, and Jessica still was frozen in happiness.

"He may be a pirate, but he's still got his charms..." Jessica said finally as we watched him and Jack walk up the beach.

"Just like Jack," I said. After a minute, Jessica and I were laughing about the whole thing. Jack and Thomas were still taking that walk; God only knows what it was about. I think Jack doesn't like the idea of him and one of us.

"Want some breakfast?" I asked Elizabeth and Anamaria after a bit.

"What's on the menu?" Ana asked.

"Hmm…" Stewy and I ran up to the tree to search our bags for anything good to eat.

"Oh gosh! Captain Crunch!" Jessica said, gripping the cereal box hard.

"What else ya got in there?" I asked. "I've got two cans of Spaghetti-o's…"

"Dude! Let's eat those!" Jessica said. "I've got a bit of bread in here somewhere, too…"

"So, Spaghetti-o's it is!" I said. We started a small fire and put the cans over the fire to warm them up. By the time the sun was up, Jack and Thomas were back from their walk and the Spaghetti-o's were done.

"Want some S'ghetti-o's?" I asked, holding up one of the cans.

"What is it?" Jack asked, taking the can from me and looking it over.

"Pasta," Jessica said. "It's goooooooood…"

"Right," Jack said. "Well, let's have it."

"Don't sit down!" Elizabeth yelled suddenly.

"Why?" Thomas asked. Elizabeth's gaze was out on the ocean. We all looked, and there was a boat! A little rowboat! No, wait! Two rowboats!

"STEWY!!! ERICA!!!"

"WHAT?!?!?" we yelled back in unison.

"IT'S US!!! WE'RE COMING!!!"

My face lit up with excitement and we started jumping up and down. Well, me and Stewy anyways. We ran up the beach to collect our things, shoving on our damp tennis shoes, stuffing our dresses in our bookbags, YES!!! We're being rescued!!!

"Mary! Grace! Is that Jane?" Jack asked us.

"It sure is!" I said. "LINDSAY!!!"

"WHAT?!?!?"

"HOW DID YOU ESCAPE?!?!"

"How did ye get such a big flapper?!" Anamaria asked. "Keep it down!"

"WE'LL BE THERE IN TEN MINUTES!!!" I heard Lindsay yell.

Good, ten minutes. Enough time to check my email!!! I pulled out my laptop (yeah, I bring my laptop everywhere, including different time periods) and tried to access the internet, but I couldn't. Damn! It doesn't work in the 17th century time period! Well, go figure… Oh, COME ON!!! I'm a computer nerd! I need my internet!

- Ten minutes later -

Lindsay and Paige immediately flew out of the boat when it hit shore and jumped onto us in happiness.

"Good to see you, too, Lindsay," I said, laughing.

"Dude! It was murder getting out of there last night!" Lindsay said. "It was only like, a few hours ago we escaped!"

"But then Rebecca should be catching up fast," Anamaria said.

"Nope!" Paige said. "Jane and I set a trap for her."

"Dental floss jungle," Lindsay explained (-throws Spaghetti-o's at Gibbs- OW!!! Haha…). "We got her good…" She trailed off into laughter, and I was eager to hear more.

"How did you escape?" Elizabeth asked before I got to it.

"We used the dagger you gave me, Jack," Paige said, extracting it from her dress. "It opened the cell just like that!"

"We better start out," Gibbs said. "What's say you, Captain?"

"We stay," Jack said.

"What?" Will asked.

"What do you mean we stay?" I asked.

"We've got plenty of food thanks to Grace, Mary, and Jane, rum, and if we stay here for a few days, Rebecca may overlook the island searching for us. Face it, love, two rowboats can't take on a ship," Jack told us.

"Why not?" Lindsay asked.

"Jane, just two days," Jack said. "We all in agreement?"

"Not really…" Elizabeth said, folding her arms.

"It's just two days," Will said to her. "Let's just trust Jack's judgment. It never led us astray before." Hey, that was true. I went over and stood by Jack, Will, Elizabeth, and Gibbs.

"Come on, guys," I said. "Let's just do this. Unless you want us to split into teams and play Survivor."

"What an idea!" Lindsay said.

"It was a joke!"

"Adults versus kids!" Jessica said. "That means Jane, Thomas, Paige, Grace, and me versus the rest of you!" Jack and the others just stared in confusion.

"What do we do?"

"Capture the Pirate Flag!"

- One hour later -

I stood on top of the rock I had found Thomas by earlier that morning. I was lookout for our team on this side of the island; Lindsay, Thomas, Jessica were prowling round for the pirates' flag, and Paige was the protector of our flag. From what I heard, Gibbs was their lookout. Jack, Elizabeth, and Ana were the prowlers, and Will was flag protector. It's too easy… Lindsay and Stewy can get passed Will no problem…

I looked along the stretch of beach I guarded, which was also our little camp, but I kept getting sidetracked and staring out into the mesmerizing waters of the infinite ocean. Big mistake.

"There she is! Get her!" Jack yelled. I looked down as they started screaming and running towards me. It was a rule we added for twists – you could capture the lookout if you could. I decided to stay atop the rock til they got close.

"You want me? Bring it, babe!" I yelled. I drew my sword, as they got closer to the rock. Elizabeth was the first to climb followed by Anamaria. Jack just stood at the base of the rock smiling up at me.

"Give up, Gracey?" Jack asked.

"Ha! I can take this blonde weirdo and sea salt any day!" I laughed. Little did I know, I was so wrong that it cost me my rock, and landed me right on my back at Jack's feet. Ow…

"There's nothin' to this little game of yers, Grace," Jack said. "Tie 'er up! Throw 'er in the rum cellar!"

Oh, my mouth gets me into the weirdest places… rum cellars being one of them.

- Lindsay's PoV -

I was now out of my dress just like Erica and Stewy. Phew! That thing was getting annoying… I'm so glad I grabbed my bag…

"Stewy, where's the flag?" I asked.

"I'm not sure!" Jessica said. "We should've had Paige come! She' psychic and would probably know where it is!"

"Does that mean I should go?" asked Thomas.

"What? No! Of course not!" I said, grabbing his arm. "You're staying with us!" Stewy took his other arm, and we continued through the light breeze in the palm grove. Then, Thomas pushed us behind a large palm tree.

"Stay down!" he whispered. I looked up over the side of the tree and saw Jack, Elizabeth, and Anamaria carrying what looked like Erica by her wrists and ankles. They tossed her into the rum pit and cheered, and then ran off in the same direction in which they came.

"We've got to help her!" Thomas said. With that, we crouched low and crept fast to the rum cellar.

"Grace? Y'ok?" Jessica asked.

"I'm fine!" she whispered back. "But get me out of here!"

Without hesitation, Stewy jumped into the pit, pulled out her pocketknife, and sliced Erica's ropes. I waited up top with Thomas, and Stewy's head popped up out of the pit.

"Whoa!" I said. She was on Erica's shoulders, and Thomas and I grabbed her and pulled her up. The here of us leaned in to pull Erica up, and we did it.

"Whoo… thanks," she said.

"No problem!" Stewy said. "Stewy's Speedy Rope Removal at your service!" she said, holding up her pocketknife happily. I smiled and laughed.

"Well, let's get going," I said.

"Not so fast…"

"AHHHH!!!!"

THUD!!!

"Ow…

"Ooo…

"Stewy, my foot!"

"Sorry!"

We looked up, and there was Jack.

"Sorry, but we can't lose to the Littles and Pikes at their own game," Jack said. Elizabeth and Anamaria came back pulling one of the rowboats with them.

"Goodbye!" Anamaria said and she and Elizabeth dropped the boat over our escape hole.

Darkness.

"Hey, Mary?" Erica said.

"Yeah?"

"Got any matches?"

"Yeah, check your pockets," I said. I shoved my hands in mine looking, too since I had changed finally since I got here. Nothing. "Stewy, got anything?"

"Nope."

"Erica?"

"Sorry."

"Thomas?"

"What?"

"Ugh… nothing…"

- 6 PM -

How do I know what time it is? Stewy has an indiglo watch! Ha! But we've been in the dark now for about ten hours, living only off the pixie stix and pumpkin seeds and gum Stewy manages to stuff into one of the twelve pockets on her magic pants. Yeah, her black magic pants. They hide so much stuff, you wouldn't believe.

And that's why they're magic.

"Stewy, stop drinking the rum," I said.

"But it's good!"

"Bleck! That stuff's nasty!"

"It's not too bad," Erica said.

"Oh, shut up, Grace! You have to say that for the sake of being Little Sparrow!"

"Aye!" she replied. "Now throw me another pixie stick."

"Here…"

"Ow!"

"Sorry, Thomas! Did that hit you?"

"I'm good…" he moaned. "Just my eye is all."

"Sorry."

A few more minutes lost in silent darkness.

"You know, you think Jack would let us out by now," Erica said. "Unless they're still trying to get past Paige." We all gave a soft laugh at this. Haha…

Suddenly, warm rays of the sun suddenly drenched the tiny rum cellar. The boat was moved! We jumped up excitedly, but the happiness in our expressions was drained at the site of Rebecca Barbossa standing over us.

"Or, perhaps the reason Jack hasn't let you out yet is because he's been captured," Rebecca said. We stared up at her in shock, but she just laughed softly. "Take them to the ship."

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- EXPLOSION!!!

Lindsay! You blew up our experiment! Me? You helped! Nuh uh!

Please Review! Mr. Renzi! What do you mean 'E'?!