Chapter 7 (A Confession)

Melody reached the Faithful Bride just in time. She stopped before going in trying to catch her breath, She had run the remainder of the way which of course left her breathless. She pushed open the door and walked in. After finishing her little routine she was about to leave when she felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her shoulders.

Quickly she turned around to face the Captain she had met the night before. "Hello luv." He said charmingly. "Hello Jack." She said breathlessly. She felt like she had been running again but only this time she was standing still. "How's bout I buy ye a drink." "Well... I don't think I should... I really should be going." She said although her feet wanted to stay her head told her to leave as quickly as she could.

"Come on, I won't bite ye, luv." He said flashing her a smile that showed a few gold and platinum teeth. "I guess one wouldn't hurt." She said letting him lead her to his table. After who knows how many mugs of rum she drank she finally succeeded in intoxicating herself. "See yer a natural." He said slapping your back. He had planned on drinking himself blind but he guessed it worked the other way around. After she had one mug she couldn't help but have another.

He had to admit that he was pretty surprised that she had held her rum thus far. "How do you do it lass?" He asked you, intrigued. "Don't know... probably cause this stuff is some form of whatever or water it is." Melody said, sounding pretty drunk. Jack took the opportunity to ask her some questions. "Where are you from lass?" "The ocean." She stated simply as she looked into her empty mug. Jack even thought he heard her whisper sadly, "The rum's gone."

"How are ye from the ocean? Do ye live on a ship?" He asked again. "No but I do sink them." She said as she picked up Jack's mug. At that moment he wanted to gently take his mug back but instead kept on going with the questioning. "How is it that you sink ships if you aren't on a ship?" "I have my ways... I'm a Siren you know." She admitted even though she wasn't even realizing it.

"A Siren!" Said Jack with surprise. "That could explain a lot of things." He whispered to himself. "Sailors would smash on my jagged rock, lured by my Siren's song..." She said in somewhat of a trance. Jack remembered encountering Sirens once, beautiful creatures but deadly, he was lucky that he had survived his last encounter but some of his men hadn't been so lucky.

"It isn't the song of the Siren that tortures men." Said Jack taking the mug from her hands before she brought it back to her lips. "I thought you'd know better, you know nothing about Sirens." She said taking back the mug. "You know nothing about pirates..." He said snatching his mug back which resulted in her temper rising.

"I do! Much more than you! If you were out there and heard my song, would you be lured by me?" Asked Melody trying to go after the mug again but failed since Jack held it out of her reach. "I wouldn't be foolish enough to go near your bloody rock." He said finishing off the last of the rum.

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Jack carried Melody onto the Pearl, she had fallen asleep as he had lead her out of the tavern resulting in him having, more then happy, to bring her to his marvelous ship. As he stepped forward onto the deck Mr. Gibbs ran up to Jack. "Oh no Jack you can't bring her aboard, it's bad luck enough that we have one woman on this ship." He said.

Jack rolled his eyes at Gibbs's foolish superstitions. "Gibbs if you have a problem with this 'ere lass you might as well go and complain to Mr. Cotton's parrot cause I'm not listening." And as if on queue Mr. Cotton's parrot squawked from his perch up on the crows nest. He walked towards his cabin with Melody in his arms, her head resting against his chest. Once in his room he gently placed her on his bed.

He swiped a long strand of hair away from her eyes before slowly moving away from her before taking a seat in a near by chair. He propped his feet up on a table and closed his eyes, falling asleep.

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Melody slowly opened her eyes and took in her surroundings. She immediately noticed that she was in a room of some sort. She tried to sit up but had to lay back down when she suddenly felt like she had just collided head on with a whale. She brought her hand to her forehead. She had never felt this bad before. The thoughts of probably being poisoned came into her mind.

She groaned from the sharp pain that racked her brain. Then before she knew it she felt something damp on her forehead. She slowly glanced up to find that Captain Jack was leaning over her, a cold wet piece of cloth in his hand. The water did seem to help a little. Then she detected the faint smell of the sea. She still couldn't quite tell if it was the cloth or Jack.

He smiled charmingly at her when the realization finally hit her. She was probably in his room.. who knows where? Jack saw quickly that her expression had changed and gently told her to stay calm or else she would most likely feel even worse. She rolled off the rather large bed away from Jack.

All that she could think about was escaping. She hit the floor with a thud before making a dash for the door. "Lass! You won't want to be going out there!" He yelled after her as she made her way out of his cabin. She received surprised looks from the crew as soon as she broke out of Jack's room. Melody looked around, right away noticing that she was on the deck of a ship but it wasn't just any ship, it was the ship she had seen the day before and was now somewhere in the middle of the ocean sailing to God knows where?

She turned around just as Jack walked out to meet her. "What... how... why... am I here?" Asked Melody somewhat weakly. If she didn't know where she was she wouldn't be able to find her way home and who knows what kind of trouble that would bring. "Sorry Lass but we set sail this morning. She turned around and looked out toward the vast ocean that seemed to stretch on forever.

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Melody had rested for the remainder of the day, once in awhile she was visited by the captain who checked on her constantly. It seemed like he worried that she would just disappear. She was now propped up in bed, the wet cloth placed atop her head was helping cure the hangover vastly. She sighed deeply as she studied her surroundings. "How did I get myself into this?" She asked herself.

She heard footsteps near the cabin door. Knowing that Jack would be the one walking through those doors her heart seemed to pause, not in fear but strangely, if she wasn't mistaken, anticipation. Jack walked in holding a tray of food. He was a sight to see as he tried balancing the tray and holding the door open so he could pass through.

But he quickly passed the door and walked carefully but gracefully towards her. He set the tray on the bed and gave her a smirk which brought color into her cheeks. "Thought ye might be hungry, luv." He said picking the tray up and easily placed it onto her lap. She looked down at the food. It looked delicious. It was some sort of cooked meat on a bone, a small loaf of bread, and some weird looking round thing that was sliced in the middle and looked like it had most likely come out of the ground or something.

"Is there something wrong?" He asked putting his hands on his hips as he saw that she wasn't touching her food. "No!... there's nothing wrong with it... it's just that I was wondering what it was..." She said, ashamed at how foolish she probably sounded. He looked at her as if she were crazy and then sat down. "Oh... that's right... I almost forgot that ye were a Siren..." He said. "WHAT!" She practically shouted.

'How does he know that I'm a Siren?' She asked herself. He looked somewhat shocked at her reaction and then his expression cleared. He realized that she probably didn't remember the night before. He recalled the times when he had woken up after a night of rum in some woman's bed without a memory to go by but of course he had used his charm to make it look like he actually did.

The whole not remembering thing did tend to get him into trouble with woman he thought. "Don't worry lass ye're safe wit me." He said placing his hands on his knees as he stood. She was speechless. She had no clue on earth what to say to this man. 'How could I have told him my secret so quickly.' She thought to herself.

She looked back down at her food, her stomach growling in anticipation for the arrival of the nutrition. "It's just the basics, luv." He said with a small laugh. "Chicken, bread, and a nice potato for ye." She slowly picked up the chicken leg and brought it to her lips taken a small bite. Her taste buds seemed to explode as the meat hit her tongue. She quickly finished her food, leaving her plate empty and an astonished but amused look on Jacks well bronzed face.

"Since I do know ye're secret... how is it that you came to Tortuga?" He asked moving the tray from her lap and sat at the end of the bed. "Well..." She said slowly trying to decide if you should tell him or not. "I didn't really enjoy killing anymore so... I decided to do something else with my time." Jack snorted as she said this. "So let me get this straight, luv... you decide that you don't want to sing in the sea anymore so you left to... sing... somewhere else..." He said as if he were trying to hold back laughter.

"You don't get it." She said shacking her head, letting a long lock of her golden brown hair fall onto her face. "Explain it to me." He said pushing the hair away from her eyes. She sighed. "Well I sang with my three sisters, and we would always destroy the lives of the sailors that came into the range to hear our song... I just got tired of it and when I found Tortuga I just had the urge to do it for... well... fun." Jack nodded thoughtfully.

"I guess that changes it a bit... have you ever thought of doing anything else besides singing?" He asked. "Well... no... I mean I never really had time to do anything else with my sisters and I don't know much else then that of singing." She said feeling even more foolish. "Have ye ever thought of becoming a pirate?"

Chapter 8 (Pirate!)

"A pirate! Of course not! Why would I want to become a pirate?" Melody asked with a laugh. "What's wrong with being a pirate?" He asked looking a bit peeved at the lack of seriousness in what he was saying. "I'm sorry Captain but I want to kill as little as possible." "Well ye don't have to kill, luv... well only if you have to." She looked at him as if he were mad. "I'll teach ye all there is to piracy and that it's not all just murder."

"I want to believe you but I don't believe that all pirates are honest, if only you had seen the amount of treasure..." "Did... ye say... treasure, luv?" He asked with a sparkling glint in his eyes. "Not that I'd be showing you." She said rolling your eyes. It seemed like all pirates were treasure hungry. A look of disappointment clouded his eyes for a passing second before giving another smile.

"Why don't you give it a chance? You'll find it more fun then you think." "Give me one good reason why I should." She said folding her arms across her chest. "Well there's me..." "Give me another good reason." She said with another small laugh. This man was definitely full of himself. "There is more rum..." He said slowly then smiled before adding. "And great adventures, freedom when you sail the open seas." "Adventures, huh?"

She said a little interested now. She had always been stuck by that rock and the only adventure she got was traveling to Tortuga. "I... don't know." She said a little confused on which path was right to take. "Why don't you just give it a try, you might like it." He said standing. He moved towards the door, leaving her to her thoughts.

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As Jack stepped out he smiled, he had liked the idea of having her onboard but now he was 100 percent sure. Having a Siren who knew the location of tons of treasure could make him rich beyond imaging. With all that gold and jewels he could buy himself tons of ships, Then he wouldn't just be known as Captain of the Pearl but he would be able to make a name for himself.

A name no one would forget, a name that wasn't just Captain Jack Sparrow but he could finally be the dreaded pirate of the whole ocean maybe even the world.

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Melody sighed. She wanted adventure, she wanted the wind blowing through her hair as she sailed the open sea. Jack wasn't all that bad, plus it wouldn't hurt if she tried it out for awhile and if she didn't like it Jack was bound to go back to Tortuga and once there she could go back to normal.

She gave another sigh. Yes, that was what she would do. She would join Jack's crew and see where that took her. She stood feeling like she had completely recovered from her hangover. She decided that instead of waiting for Jack to come back she would go on deck and tell him the news herself.

A/N: Sorry again for the wait. Please Review.