Okay… I'm SORRY!! Things have been crazy at my house and I feel terrible for not updating for so long. I hope you will find it in your heart to forgive me!

One of the reasons for this extremely late chapter is I just moved into a new house. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to move 5 people into a new house? Pretty difficult, since I had to do all the heavy lifting. My back was messed up for many days afterward. But we're settled now, and I loaded Microsoft Word into my laptop, so I might get more time to work on these.

I just received my WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning) scores back! They were a whole MONTH late! I took them last April, I believe, and it took 3 days, 4 hours each day to complete it. I'm proud to say that I achieved above average in all areas except Science, and I aced the Writing portion, which included two essays! On Monday I'm going to thank my English teacher for taking such a long time on preparation for it.

If you haven't heard, Mt. St. Helens has recently become active again. Yep, seismic activity and they say that magma is making its way to the top of the volcano. There is supposed to be a huge-ish eruption within the next 24 hours. Good times.

Disclaimer: I miss my pig…. I think I'm going to send Stephen wearing his women's lingerie to the stupid little mouse. I think I might get him to give me my pig back.

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Chapter 9: With a Vengeance.

Ana Maria grinned like she had won the lottery and grabbed Jack, placing a loud kiss on his cheek. Blair noted that she missed his mouth because he had turned to her.

"Jack!!" She said holding him at arms length. "I knew you'd come back for me!!"

"I…er… I don' kno' what the hell you're talkin' about…" Jack stuttered and winced.

"Of course, you probably didn't mean to leave me here all by my self!!" She proclaimed. She looked in Blair's direction, obviously just having noticed her. "Can I help you?"

Ana Maria noticed finally that Blair's arm was around Jack, and that her little red dress was very small and quite revealing. "Listen, whore, he's mine. He doesn't sleep around with the likes of you anymore, since he has me." She said matter-of-factly.

"She isn't a whore, Ana." Jack interrupts Blair's thoughts of how delicate Ana Maria's neck was and how very easily it could be snapped... "She's me sister."

Blair didn't know whether to smack Jack or Ana Maria. 'Sister… We don't look anything alike, jackass.'

"Oh…" Ana Maria said thoughtfully. You're letting your sister dress like that?!"

Blair took a deep breath to keep from revealing her fangs. "She's a free soul…" Jack said, regretting it instantly as Blair's glare flamed with even more anger. "Look Ana Maria, we need to be off-."

"We certainly do!! We have a wedding to plan!" She interrupted, taking Jack's arm and forcing it around her waist.

Blair swallowed down the bile that was making its way up her throat. "So… You're to be married?" Blair asked, hoping his answer would be the antithesis of what she felt he would answer.

"Ah… Yes." He said, looking Ana Maria in the eyes.

Blair felt sick. She felt nearly betrayed. "How wonderful."

"Isn't it though?" Ana Maria said. "Now Smack-."

Jack cleared his throat. "It's Jack."

"Right." Ana Maria said, touching her temple which Blair noticed was exposed enough to jam a rock quite cleanly "I haven't the best memory… Now, let's be off to our ship, honey."

"Sure." Jack looked at Blair sorrily.

'He had better be sorry.' Blair thought. 'Stupid, adulterous pirate.'

Blair followed Jack and Ana Maria, who was stroking his arm as she walked. As they approached the docks, Blair saw the burly man Jack had hired to carry his crate. The man was leaning against the crate and picking stuff out of his fingernails. "Meh paymen'?" The man asked Jack.

Jack looked at Blair, obviously remembering something he was supposed to tell her. He bent down and whispered in her ear, "I kind of said he would get a kiss if he took the crate up here…"

"So kiss him." Blair whispered back, wondering why Jack would agree to do such a thing.

"It was you he wanted to kiss." Jack whispered back, trying not to laugh yet at the same time wincing at her look of betrayal.

Blair looked at the man, then back at Jack. 'Oh, HELL no…'

The man against the crate stood straighter. "I be wantin' tha' kiss… If I don' get it in a hurry, I'm gonna throw this here crate into the water."

Jack looked like he had just been slapped. "Not me rum..." Blair felt sorry for him, and she regretted the feeling more than anything, because she knew what she had to do.

Blair walked up to the big man and attempted to kiss him lightly. He, however had different plans. He took her up in his arms and flung his mouth at hers. Blair felt like screaming, and yet she couldn't because she was gagged and fighting the urge to throw up. 'This is one of those moments that make you need a therapist for life…'

Jack grabbed Blair away from him and she immediately began to cough and wipe at her mouth. "Be on your way." He said firmly.

The man eventually walked off into the town. He didn't leave Blair's sight, however, until after he turned and waved drunkenly.

Blair shuddered and found she couldn't move until Jack pulled her into the rowboat. Then he placed the crate in the boat, and then Ana Maria. Gibbs watched Ana Maria board and began to whisper into Jack's ear. Jack cut him off with a raised hand.

Blair watched as Jack and Gibbs rowed, and Ana Maria started talking incessantly in her ear.

"He is such a handsome man… I hope the wedding is soon." She states.

"You don't know when your own wedding is?" Blair asked in not so much of a concerned tone.

"No. Jack dropped me off in Tortuga not too long ago, and I presumed he was just trying to surprise me with the wedding plans." She said, thinking of how long she waited and now finally he came back for her.

"Oh…" Blair didn't know what to think of that. She didn't want to think about Jack at all. Not the way he smiles, nor the way he talks, or the way he saved her, risking his own life for hers.

Blair looked over at Jack. 'He looks about as betrayed as I feel.'

Jack kept replaying the scene in his head, and winced at how horribly he had failed himself and Blair. He didn't want it to turn out the way it had. Ana Maria was supposed to be gone from his life forever.

He hated telling Blair that he was going to marry Ana Maria, but if he didn't agree, Ana Maria might have had one of her fits. He didn't enjoy hurting Blair, but he had to for her own safety.

Jack hoped to tell Blair everything, once he could shake Ana Maria… But that had always been a hard task.

'I really messed this one up.' He thought. He needed to figure out a plan that would rid him of Ana Maria, and a new plan for Blair, because he felt himself falling for her. He never should have sent or even considered that letter…

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A crewmember came into Norrington's quarters in a rush. He handed some papers from a mailing vessel to him.

"The mailing vessel told us that a ship with large, black sails had just been to Tortuga!! " He says in a rushed yell. "That's Jack Sparrow's ship, sir!! The Black Pe-."

"I am well aware of the ships name." Norrington interrupted. "I want you to tell the rest of the crew to hurry to the town of Tortuga."

The crewmember ran out, shouting orders.

Norrington started to read a letter. His eyes widened. This letter was from none other than Jack Sparrow. It read as follows:

Dear Wig-head,

I have your fiancée and I have a proposition to make.

To this day I have a warrant on me head that asks all

who see me to report me to you dead or alive. I am

asking that if I give ye back your love, you give

me back me freedom. Do we have an accord?

I will be seeing you soon, but from afar is how we'll

be conversing. You won't find me, I'll find you.

Not so sincerely,

Captain Jack Sparrow

Norrington folded the letter and smiled. 'I might just agree to that, Sparrow… At least until I get her back.' He thought to himself. 'Wait… Wig-head?…'

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She had been hiding in Norrington's closet for quite a while. She had never been a stowaway before and she was finding it to be rather uncomfortable.

She watched him fold a letter and get up from his seat in front of his desk. He walked out smirking, and started to give new orders to his crew.

She got up from her hiding spot and grabbed the letter the Commodore had been reading.

She gasped as she finished, and folded the letter. She would have to find Blair and convince her not to marry him. She couldn't believe that Blair had agreed to marry Norrington even after the way he treated her at the ball.

"He had probably forced her into this arrangement." She said aloud. She folded the letter and froze when she heard the door slam.

"Quite right, you know." Came an all too familiar drawling voice. She turned and found herself staring at Norrington. He sneered at her and added, "I'll be taking you to your proper place now. To the brig."

He grabbed her arm and pulled he through the open door. All she could do was scream.

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Alrighty then, I finished this chapter. The next chapter I have to make up from memory, and I don't know if I can do it.

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