Hey everyone! So so so sorry for the long wait, but i absolutely haven't had the time to type anything.... I've got so much stuff to do with school and everything. Well, now I finally have chapter four updated!! And I've already started writing chapter five..... :-)

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Chapter 4 – New Horizons

Sam had of course agreed to go with Jack on the Black Pearl. After all, it's not everyday that you get the opportunity to sail on that ship and get to be with her amazingly handsome pirate captain! ;-)

After a few weeks aboard the Black Pearl, Sam came to realize that Jack Sparrow was a hard man to figure out. He wasn't at all that heartless bastard she had thought he would be since he was a pirate, and it was quite surprising. Well of course, sometimes he could be so full of himself which was quite exasperating, but after all with his good looks…who could blame him?!

Sometimes, Jack would act with such gentleness towards Sam that she was rather taken aback, and at other moments he would completely ignore her, considering her like any old crew member and falling into one of his brooding "moods".

Yes, Sam had found her place on the ship and she was very happy, actually happier than she had been in her whole life. The crew had well accepted her and she had become close friends with Anamaria with whom she shared a room, given the fact that they were the only two women on board.

One evening during dinner, Sam left earlier than the others to go on deck. She didn't really know why; it was as if she was looking for something, or more precisely, someone.

The sun was slowly sinking on the horizon, sending rays of shining colors throughout the sky. Even though Sam saw the sun set nearly every day, she was always breath-taken in front of it. She went towards the railing of the ship and leaned against it. The cool breeze made her shiver slightly. Suddenly, a voice floated down from the helm.

"Beautiful, isn't it?"

She nearly jumped out of her skin. So Jack had been watching her all this time? A strange feeling passed through Sam's body. After a glance at Sparrow, she turned back to look in front of her.

"Yes, yes it really is…"

Jack made his way towards her and leaned against the railing next to Sam. She felt her body shiver, but not from disgust, and neither from the cold. A new feeling was waking up inside of her. She felt Jack staring at her, which made her feel uncomfortable, and she suddenly felt very self-conscious.

(Jack's POV)

Her dark brown –nearly black- wavy hair was blowing in the breeze, and her blue-grey eyes were looking into the distance. Jack wondered how he couldn't have seen before how pretty she was. Wait, I'm being stupid, I did notice before. I just didn't want to see it…

Sam turned to look at me, and I suddenly had the urge to kiss her, right there on the spot. She must have noticed my look because she smirked.

"Having a few second thoughts about letting me sleep with Anamaria?"

She grinned. She knew I had been angry when she had absolutely refused to sleep in my cabin. Why was it always like that? Did I really have such an awful reputation? But of course I wouldn't let any of my true feelings show…

"Very funny, luv, you know, you're not that irresistible…"

But the moment I had said those words, I felt like hitting myself. Really hard. Or get drunk, to forget her. But that's not the point. Why had I said that??? She was in my opinion the most beautiful woman I had ever met!

Sam looked away, as if hurt. Wait a sec, had I hurt her?

"Of course Captain, I can understand that for sleeping with as many women as you have, you mustn't be very picky…"

Whoa, wait a moment, what did she mean by that? Is she jealous that I slept with so many women? Or is she comparing herself with those whores? They're nowhere near as attractive as her! Or maybe she thinks that all I want is to get her to sleep with me, which isn't totally wrong…Shut up you idiot, you don't like her only for her looks? Do you? Do you?? I'm bloody crazy…I'm talking to subconscious! Or maybe it's all the rum that's finally getting to my brain…

While I was having all these thoughts, Sam had said a very cold "Goodnight, captain" and had disappeared to her cabin.

Women! Always so complicated! That's never going to change…

I had just decided to go get some rum from my cabin, when walking by Anamaria's cabin, I could hear some sobbing. My blood turned cold, and it seemed that my heart had stopped beating. I put my ear to the door and listened. Dammit, someone was crying. No, not someone, Sam was crying. I knocked lightly on the door and opened it.

"Sam? You alright darling?"

"Go away!"

She was lying on her bed, her back turned to me.

"Come on luv, just tell me what's wrong and…"

"Just go away you filthy pirate! Don't come near me!"

Filthy pirate?? I suddenly felt angry.

"Bloody hell, woman! What's wrong?? Like one moment everythins' alright, and the next yer cryin yer head off! And I'm not filthy!" I added as an afterthought.

"Yes you are filthy!" she said, exaggerating on the new word she had come to use for me. "Talking to me like I'm some kind of whore! Looking at me with that disgusting gleam in your eyes, like I'm some… some prostitute!"

In fact, Sam was starting to have feelings for this captain, and she didn't want to admit to herself, because we all know that pirates don't love, and that anyways he'd always only see her as another women to sleep with for one night, wouldn't he? Urgh the bloody bastard. Why did I ever fall for him? Wait, no!! I can't have fallen for him! Shit shit shit!

Samantha heard footsteps going towards the door, and then the door snapped shut. She was quite alone now. And more than ever she wanted to be in Jack's arm, safe and without a care in the world…