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Friends

A/N: Thank you for all the lovely reviews keep them coming.

The stars gleamed and twinkled in the beautiful night sky. Jack, Richard, and Alex finished up their meal and began walking the streets. People all around them were singing and dancing, and of course drinking. One man fell off the balcony from a near by hotel and hit the ground hard. Jack and Alex both found this extremely humorous, but Richard thought it was disgusting.

"Richard? Richard, wait for me!" A shrill voice came from behind them. A young woman the same age as Richard came pushing through the crowd. She was extremely thin with stringy blond hair; her choice of clothing was no better.

"Who is THAT?" Jack whispered to Alex.

"Richards girlfriend, Maggie." She made a face at the woman then tugged at Jacks shirt, pulling him away from the other two. "They'll be busy for quite sometime, lets just go."

They made there way further down Main Street walking into different bars and shops and getting to know each other better.

"So…how long have you lived in Tortuga?" Jack asked her.

"My whole life, so about ten, almost eleven years, and you, how long have you lived in Tortuga?"

"Well, truthfully I don't live in Tortuga anymore. But I was born in Tortuga and lived here till I was four, but then my mother died of scarlet fever. My father came and took me away with him on his ship. We will be setting sail again in three days."

The smile left Alex's face when she heard this. "You're leaving?"

"Um…yeah, in three days, why?"

"It's just that I've never had a friend before and now that I do you'll just be leaving again." Just then Archie took off of Alex's shoulder and started flying down the street.

"Archie!" Alex yelled. And she took off after her parrot.

Jack stood their staring after Alex, and then he heard a familiar voice behind him.

"You're mine Jack!"

Jack didn't even bother to turn around; he took off down the street chasing after Alex. Since Jack was small he could run easily through the crowd, Barbossa on the on the other hand shoved his way through the crowd.

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"Alex! Alex stop, wait for me!" Jack yelled with all his might over the heads of the crowd.

Alex didn't listen she was chasing her bird.

"Archie! Archie please come back!"

Archie swooped high above the busy streets and then came and settled on the rooftop of the Brides Maid. Alex stood on the ground with an outreached hand.

"Archie PLEASE!"

Jack came running down the street from behind her and pulled her into the smoke filled bar.

"What are you doing? Archie is still out there, and I have to get my bird." She started to head back outside.

"NO!" Jack yelled. She turned around in surprise. "No it will be easier if we go…upstairs and get him." Jack grabbed her arm and pulled her up the stairs.

"Room nine, room nine, room nine." Jack muttered to himself as they made there way through the beer stained halls. "Ah, here we are, room nine. Archie should be right outside the window. Alex reached for the doorknob but it was locked.

"Shoot!" Jack whispered to himself and ran back down the hall to fetch the key. When he reached the bottom of the stairs he made his way over to the bar.

"May I please…" Jack began but just then Barbossa pushed open the doors the Brides Maid. "Give me the Key to room nine now, just put it on Captain Calico's bill," he said, snatching the key out of the woman's hand and running back up the stairs.

"Alex here open the door quick!"

"Jack what's going on, you're scaring me!"

"Just open it!"

Alex's hand were shaking, and as she was messing with the key it broke off in the key hole!

"DAMNIT ALEX!" Jack yelled.

"Don't yell at me, OK! I'm just as upset as you, but I didn't know you cared for Archie so much, that's so sweet of you."

Jack rolled his eyes. "Move out of the way!" he said to her. She moved and Jack did his best to kick down the door. The first two times it didn't work, but the third time the door fell with a bang. As the door fell Barbossa came up the stairs. Jack shoved Alex into the room then pushed the door back up into place.

Alex immediately ran over to the window and pried it open. Sure enough there sat Archie, "Come here Archie, come here." Archie didn't move, Alex decided to take matters into her own hand, she climbed out the window and down towards the bird. Archie saw Alex coming and flew further down the ledge of the roof. Alex kept going, just then a few of the shingles gave way she barely caught herself on the metal gutter, and there she hung far above the streets of Tortuga.

A/N: Will Jack save her? Read more and you'll find out. Oh, Lovely Raven Sparrow I'm waiting for my rum mate.