Chapter Four: Sunrise

Disclaimer: I do not own Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Jack Sparrow, Mr.Gibbs, the Black Pearl, etc. The only thing I do own is Julia Bell, Benson, the East Inn, and all other original figments of my imagination! Otherwise folks, it belongs to the mouse.

I don't know if anyone's reading (besides CaptainMarySparrow and Daftlilme. Thanks for reviewing dudes), but hey- criticism (good and bad) is welcomed! Please don't flame me however... So far I know the plot may be a bit dull but I have to do the back story, it's about to heat up past this chapter. Any ways enjoy!

Julia awoke with the sun on her face, her body pleasantly warm, and her mind free of worries for once. And then her life came back to her.

"Blast I'll be late for Benson again." Julia's mind said.

"Wait..." she said out loud and it all came flooding back. Jack Sparrow, Captain Jack Sparrow. "Oh my God..."

"Sleep well luv? I know I did." Came his voice thick but smooth all at once as he watched her react to his words.

And then Julia was aware of the leg nestled between hers, the hand that grazed languidly over her breasts, and the fact that Captain Jack Sparrow basically owned her.

Julia froze, rigid in mind and body. Then she flipped herself over to face Jack Sparrow while pulling his hands off of her.

"You said three days."

"I'm not quite comprehending luv. What are ye on?" Jack asked as he brushed the hair that fell in her face back behind her ear.

"You told Benson you're in Tortuga for three days. Does that mean that after tomorrow I'll never see you again? That I'll be free?"

Jack chuckled. "He's doing that a lot." Julia thought.

Jack looked seriously at Julia and replied, "I bought ya luv and ye will be able to work off the debt- but not in three days, maybe not even three years. I'm thinkin' I like ya." Jack said as his fingers ran over her jaw line.

"But you're leaving Tortuga in three days. And I live here." Julia said.

"Aye, and when I leave ye'll be with me luv."

For a while there was no response from Julia though Jack could see that she was fuming inside her pretty head.

"Cat got yer tongue luv?" Jack said playfully.

"Humph." Said Julia

"What was that luv?"

"Why won't you just take my body and leave!" Asked an agitated Julia

"Because while yer pretty face was fast asleep, I found some things of interest." said Jack. Julia did not like the way his eyes were looking at her.

"This can't be good." screamed Julia's mind.

"Very interesting things." Jack said as he trailed a hand down her side before looking at her eyes.

"What could I have, that could possibly interest a pirate Captain?" said Julia with disbelief.

"Besides yer body," said Jack, "this." Jack reached over to the floor and pulled up a worn leather book with the faint initials of LE on the cover.

"My aunt's diary?" asked Julia trying to grab the diary back. "Are you completely mad Sparrow! What do you want with some old dead woman's diary?"

"Captain Sparrow luv, and no." said Jack as he stood and put the diary in his coat's pocket. "Yer aunt has substantial maps in this diary which will lead me and me crew on a substantial chase which will further lead to substantial treasure. Savvy?"

"I hate to disappoint you Captain but those maps don't lead anywhere." said Julia rising from the bed.

"And how would ye know such a thing?" Jack asked his eyes following her.

"Because, my aunt, my grandfather, and my father, they all spent their lives looking for that treasure. Guess what Captain Sparrow? None of them ever found it." Julia bitterly said as she sat down at the table and bit into an apple. "You really think I'd be living like this if I had that kind of money?"

"Aye but yer forgettin' one thing luv." said Jack standing up and enjoying the way Julia's eyes roamed over his body.

"What would that be?" Asked Julia before taking another bite of the apple.

"I'm Captain Jack Sparrow luv. If I want something I get it." Jack said taking the apple out of Julia's hands and biting down on it hard.

"Hump." Mumbled Julia in response as she stood and put on a dress.

"Well apparently ye've moved on from bein' shy round me. I like that." Jack said between bites of the apple.

"Oh do shut it Sparrow. Please."

"Captain Jack Sparrow luv. Captain Sparrow and don't ye be forgettin' it. Savvy?" Jack took another bite of the apple and looked at Julia.

"I'm going for a swim Sparrow." said Julia walking out the front door.

"CAPTAIN!" Jack called out after her. "Amazing. She doesn't even bleedin' care who I am! She'll come around." said Jack muttering as he sat down in Julia's vacated chair, "she'll come around."

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After leaving Jack, Julia had walked to the beach that was, luckily for her, deserted. Stripping to her shift she ran merrily into the waves, the ocean soothing her worries. Julia swam mindless of where she was going and found herself out past the coral reefs.

"Should I run away him?" thought Julia.

"No. That would be stupid. I need to face this head on." Julia sighed and closed her eyes. She looked up and saw the clouds starting to move in. Rain, just what she needed.

"Time to face reality." Julia muttered and began to swim back to shore.

As she rose from the water and squeezed the excess water from her wet hair Julia felt the hairs on the back of her neck prickle, as if someone was watching her. She turned around and stared out at the horizon, looking for some sign of life that existed other than her. She found none.

"Don't be stupid Julia, just go home and get on with life then."

So Julia did go home, home to Captain Jack Sparrow.

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Julia found Jack sprawled out in the hammock that hung between the two palm trees in her front yard. While Julia's house may have been a shack, it was a shack on a piece of land with a nice ocean view.

As Jack heard Julia approach, he lifted an eyelid to watch her walking towards him.

"Luv-" Jack started but frowned as Julia walked past him into the house.

Inside the house Julia poured herself a glass of water and quickly gulped it down.

"Hot today isn't it?" Said Jack as entered the room and sat down in a chair in front of Julia.

"I guess." A silence stood between them.

"Perhaps I didn't make meself clear luv, I own you but I don't want to be treatin' ye like a slave. Thus," Jack said standing, "if ye could treat me with some civility, it would be much appreciated."

"What am I supposed to say?" Asked an enraged Julia as she put the water glass down with a thud on the table. "I don't know you, I don't really like you, and I can't trust you!"

"Ahh, ye may not know me or like me luv, but ye can trust me. That I can promise ye." Jack said with a sly smile.

"Smug. That's it. You think since you're some great pirate you own this world and can... just walk all over it and everyone on it! Don't you Sparrow!"

"Captain Sparrow Julia, and no-" He said holding a hand up for her to just give him a moment.

"No, you do. Why did you even buy me? I can't cook. I'm not that pretty. I have nothing of value-" said Julia pacing.

"Now luv, we've already discussed this. Ye have yer aunt's diary and that well, will prove to be very valuable. Cheer up. And yer pretty I wouldn't have bought ye otherwise." Jack said.

"Oh shut up!" Julia wailed and threw her head back dramatically.

The bullet that flew from the open window through Julia's water glass shut both Julia and Jack up.

"What the hell was that!" screamed Julia.

Jack looked at the broken glass and then out of the window from which the bullet had come.

"Get down luv, 'old Jack 'ill take care of this." Jack said with no hint of fear whatsoever.

Julia nodded, fear very present in her eyes as Jack drew his gun.

"Will that work?" Julia asked observing the antique gun Jack seemed to be holding.

"As ye were just remindin' me luv, I'm the bloody pirate! Now if you please." said Jack with sarcasm as he looked out the window again.

Another bullet came streaking in through the window and pierced the brim of Jack's hat.

"Well then. I don't know who wants to kill ye luv but I suggest we head off to me ship, the Pearl, and vacate as quickly as possible!" Jack moving away from the window.

Julia nodded and stood up.

"Ready luv?"

"Yes." Julia said.

" 'ere's what we do luv," said Jack grabbing her hand. "We run as fast as possible to the Pearl, and don't look back. Agreed?"

"Yes." Julia said feeling as though she was shaking.

"Don't stop." Jack said to which Julia nodded. Jack then kicked open the door, and propelled them off to the Black Pearl.

"Do you know what you're doing?" yelled Julia as they ran.

"Do ye luv?" Jack yelled back as he flung Julia to his left, a bullet whizzing past and hitting a palm tree in front of them.

"No I don't bloody know what I'm doing!"

"Then trust me luv! Just trust me!" Jack yelled as a thunderbolt shook the Tortuga sky. "We're almost to me ship! Just up ahead are the docks!"

"Are your men ready to sail!" Asked Julia

"They will be!" Jack responded as their feet hit the wooden planks of the docks, the Black Pearl sitting just up ahead.

"Cast off!" Yelled Jack as he and Julia boarded the Pearl. "Bloody cast off Gibbs!"

"Ye heard yer Captain mates! Make her move!" Gibbs shouted as the Black Pearl's crew hurried to obey their Captain."

Julia looked back and saw two figures running away from the docks back into the craze that was Tortuga.

"Don't worry luv, they'll be getting' what's comin' to 'em. But for now, welcome to the Pearl." Jack said with a grin as he came to stand by Julia. She looked at him and said nothing, Jack laughing as he walked away.