Chapter Five: The Black Pearl.

Disclaimer: I still don't own POTC. Or Captain Jack Sparrow. Or the Pearl, et. all. It all belongs to the mouse!

A small note regarding the long distance between updates: I am currently finishing up school and will be done June 8- between here and there this fanfic is unfortunately not my top priority. Also I just got back from a vacation so that accounts for a couple weeks of not updating. I am sorry to anyone whose reading, I will try in the future to have at least a chapter a week up for all of you who read.

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Julia sat anxiously awaiting some command in Jack's cabin to be given to her. As she stared out the window she thought to herself, "think, just think."

The Captain's cabin was rich in color and effects, far richer than Julia had thought it would be. There were scores of maps, books strewn here and there, and the odd bottle of rum or two. Clothing decorated the floor by the bed, which was rumpled and unmade. It was a very male, lived in room. To Julia it screamed Jack Sparrow.

"I like it." Julia said thinking she was by herself.

"Do you luv? Warms my heart." Said Jack suddenly entering the cabin, the door slamming shut with gust.

"Well... it'll do for now any ways." Julia replied shaken a bit by Jack's sudden appearance.

"Good. I don't quite believe you meself, but good luv." Jack said as he stood with a smile.

"What, umm, do you, intend to do with me Captain?" Julia asked rising from the bed.

"Put you to work of course luv. We're on a ship, you have to work to keep your keep."

"Right. And when do I start?" Julia asked softly toying with her hair. "God I need a bath." She thought.

"Well that is the question Julia- will you work for me tonight in my bed? I rather like the look of you in it. Or will you start work now on my floor?"

Julia thought. "He's really not that bad looking, it might be nice... nicer than scrubbing the floors anyway. But then... no, he's nice looking, I can... but he's always in a drunken state Julia... still... He does have nice eyes but..."

"I don't 'ave all bleedin' day Miss Bell! Decide please!" Jack said stomping his foot as he let out an annoyed breath.

"Obviously your floors." Said Julia with sudden coldness.

"Then follow me." Said Jack with a wide grin. "You're in for a real treat."

"Can't wait." Julia replied to Jack's back as she followed him up to the deck.

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Working on a ship was not fun. If scrubbing the East Inn's floors had been hard, the Black Pearl was pure impossibility.

"Eh... more force luv. Really put your body into the floor you know?" Said Jack coughing quickly to cover a laugh as he observed Julia.

"Oh I know." Thought Julia. Jack Sparrow would not have the satisfaction of seeing her crack. "You did this for Benson, you can bloody do this for him!" Julia said under her breath.

"What was that luv? Didn't quite catch that meself." Jack said cupping his ear.

"Oh nothing." Said Julia in a voice that was fake and sweet.

"Right I'll be around if you need me for any sort of reason luv." Jack said with a smile.

"Highly unlikely but thank you." Said Julia with a smile of her own as she sat up and looked Jack in the eye.

"We'll see luv shan't we?" And with that Captain Jack Sparrow walked away leaving Julia by herself to scrub.

"Blah blah blah." Said Julia under her breath.

"Oh," said Jack turning around. "One more thing, or a few actually. There's laundry to be done, as well as supper to help with later. 'Ave fun luv." Jack said as he continued walking.

"Sodding ass." Julia wanted to scream but only muttered as she threw her rag back on the ship's deck and scrubbed.

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Laundry had not treated Julia any better than the Black Pearl's deck had so she could only pray supper with the crew went swimmingly. It didn't.

"Finally, ye better learn quickly girl," said an older, slim man as Julia entered the galley. "I don't do the serving, ye do." He accented his course words with the violent action of chopping apart some unlucky fish. "Are ye bloody listenin' girl?" Julia found his butcher knife pointed dangerously close to her chest.

"I came as soon as I could but I had-"

"I don't care! The captain be wantin' his grub and I ain't gonna keep 'im waitin' am I? Not I, not Huck James- and that's chef to ye missy! Now get over 'ere and take some soup outta 'ere to said crew!" Huck, who Julia now knew was the Black Pearl's chef, said with rough flourish as he moved over to a large kettle to smell his soup.

"I'm not supposed to serve the crew, I'm supposed to help you! And first of all my name is not missy- it's Julia! Secondly-" Julia said with her hands flying around wildly before Huck again cut her off.

"I don't bleedin' care if yer the bloody Queen! Get yer lazy bum out there and help serve the crew!" Yelled Huck as he stirred tonight's soup.

"I really don't appreciate being spoken to like that." Replied a saucy Julia as she grabbed two bowls of soup to take out from the galley.

"Take it up with the bleedin' Captain if ye think yer so high and mighty madam!" Huck yelled in reply as Julia left with his soup.

"Bleedin' boat, bleedin' crew, bleedin' 'hello luv! Me name is CaptainJack Sparrow!' Don't forget the bleedin' captain or the whole world might end! Oh no!" Mumbled Julia as she walked up to the first table full of pirates she saw to deliver their dinner.

"You've got spunk. I like that." A female voice said from the table Julia was serving.

"What?" Asked Julia stopping to look for the speaker of the voice.

"I said," said a slim woman standing up with long dark hair, "you've got spunk. What's yer name?"

"Julia Bell." Julia replied as she plopped the bowls of soup before two hungry pirates.

"Anamaria pleased to meet you. So obviously you aren't a pirate, what are you?" Said Anamaria eyeing Julia carefully.

"A slave to your captain. Ah, he's looking at us. You might want to move or you also could, become Jack's slave." A caustic Julia said as she cheekily waved to Jack with a smug smile.

"Captain Jack, and I don't let men enslave me- if anything I enslave them." Replied Anamaria with a nod to Jack.

"Well then... don't let me stop you Anamaria. It's been nice but I have to serve many, many, more hungry pirates so goodbye." Julia said as she retreated back to the galley.

"Well then." Said Anamaria with a haughty air as she sat back down. Jack winced as he watched Anamaria's and Julia's interaction. Julia's introduction to the crew was not going smoothly.

"They're a nice enough bunch of misfits to befriend." Jack said to himself as he thought of his crew.

"What do I always tell you Jack; women are not good luck, they are bad. She's messin' something awful bad with the crew. She ain't making no friends Jack. It be wise to drop her off at the next port." Chimed in Gibbs as he sipped his rum.

"Gibbs, she's mine. She owes me and I ain't dropping her off at some port for sake man! So drop it savvy?" Jack replied as he took a heavy sip of his own rum.

"Jack, no matter how good she is in bed, I promise you at the next port there will be a woman who can top her, many in fact. Now please, just let her-"

"First off Gibbs, Captain, secondly if I was bedding her, she wouldn't be serving my crew dinner. Third I paid 150 shillings for her-"

"Ye paid 150 shillings for that wench? Are ye bleedin' crazy!" Yelled Gibbs

"Thus I might add, Julia, her name is Julia Gibbs, is not going anywhere until I say so. And now me bloody dinner is ruined! I am leaving Gibbs!" Jack yelled as he drained the last of his rum and stomped out of the dining area up to the deck of the Black Pearl.

"Well he didn't have to yell now did he?" Gibbs responded knowing Jack would never hear anyway.

Mr. Cotton's parrot squeaked and looked at Gibbs. "Oh shut up!" Gibbs responded.

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"I can't even control me own crew anymore and I ain't being bloody marooned on that island again! There will be no mutiny!" Yelled Jack as he paced the deck and looked out on the dark ocean waves. The sound of sniffling broke his rant. "Why am I crying?" Asked Jack feeling his cheeks for tears and loudly slamming his hand down on the ship's railing when he felt none. "There are no tears! No bloody tears!"

"You aren't crying fool! I bloody am!" Said Julia before breaking into another sob as she stood up on the Pearl's steps and prepared to walk away.

"Why are ye bleedin' crying! There's nothing' to cry about on my ship. I really don't smell that bad do I?" Jack responded looking for a smile. Julia gave him none and just sobbed harder. "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, please stop! Look I relieve you of yer duties for tonight, just come with me to the cabin and we'll get some sleep!"

"I'm not sleeping with you!" Said Julia backing away from Jack

"Luv, I ain't gonna try anything." Said Jack holding up his hands as a sign of peace. "I'll sleep on the bloody floor."

"Fine." Julia said wiping her face.

"Fine." Replied Jack as he grabbed her hand and led her to his cabin. And that was that. There was no more discussion between the two, just silence, Julia's occasional sniffle, and the sound of the ocean which neither at that moment cared to disturb with dialogue.