Cassandra

Well here it is another chapie! I am sorry for such a delay in the posting of the chapters trying to make up for not posting as many chapters and post a couple of them at once that way there is more to read. Sorry that this chapter is a little shorter than the rest I hope you enjoy!

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Cassandra took a deep breath and with all of her strength and consciousness she had left Cassandra yelled, "Jack!" Jack turned and saw her being carried away he had a look of pure terror on his face. Cassandra couldn't hold on to her consciousness any more and slipped into darkness.

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Cassandra started coming too and heard a rough voice say, "Let the captain know she's coming too he'll want to question her."

"Where the hell am I?" She asked a very dirty man pacing in front of her.

"Don't worry little sparrow." Said the man.

"Don't worry your pretty little girl head about it." Said the second man.

"I'm not the sparrow that you need to worry about." Said Cassandra following the pacing man.

There was a bang o the door and a voice yelling, "The captain wants to see her now!" The man who called Cassandra a sparrow picked her up and put Cassandra over his shoulder and carried her onto the deck. Cassandra was roughly pushed into another cabin.

"Goodness people need to learn common courtesy around this damned ship." Muttered Cassandra. She stood up and began to dust herself off.

"Shame, shame mademoiselle we shall have to teach you some manners." Said a man turning in the chair at the desk. "Jean-Luc?" Cassandra asked in disbelief.

"Oui, mademoiselle or should I say Madam from my contacts you and the Sparrow have gotten close, have you not?" asked the French captain.

"But why?" she asked in confusion.

"Because my little swan I want power and someone offered it to me I took it." Cassandra shivered at Jean-Luc calling her a swan it was nothing like Jack calling her one.

"So basically you are a crazy pirate that is on a war path?" Cassandra asked Jean-Luc looking him in the eye.

"No, no madam just to smart for you to understand." Said the Jean-Luc as if he were talking to a child.

"Ok so that's a yes. And stop calling me madam I'm not married." Said Cassandra.

"To sad for you then to never now the love marriage can bring."

"I suppose then we are in the same boat in that situation." Cassandra said watching him pace across the cabin.

"Oh?" he asked with raised brows.

"No woman in her right mind would marry you." Stated Cassandra.

"Shows how much you know. I had a wife once and even a little girl, she'd be a little younger than you." Said Jean-Luc with a blank face.

"What happened?" she asked in a whisper.

"Pirates did. Marie went quickly but little Anne did not those men took her when she was just a child. I was gone on a merchant ship."

"Anne could still be alive." Cassandra said in a whisper looking down.

"Most would ask who it was. And she was only three there is no way she would have lived this long with a band of pirates." Said Jean-Luc with spite. "Well now that you brought it up who was it? And how could you become something that caused you so much pain and horror?" she asked finally looking at Jean-Luc.

"Do not worry about that right now my little sparrow." Said Jean-Luc.

There was a knock on the door, "What?"

"Monsieur there is a ship fast approaching starboard bow." Cassandra started smiling.

"Well this puts a damper on tea now doesn't it?" Cassandra asked with a small grin.

"Lock her in the secret paneling!"

"Goodness sake pick a place and leave me there." Cassandra said being dragged across the ship.

Some of the men were calling out in French, "English navy." The man pushing her stopped in front of smooth paneling. He flipped a small panel that led to a small dark room. The man bound Cassandra's arms and feet then put a gag in her mouth. He finally shut the panel leaving Cassandra in the dark.

A few minutes later Cassandra heard a man yell, "Prepare to be boarded!"

then she heard Jean-Luc reply, "Aye you may board we have nothing to hide."

After what seemed to be forever Cassandra heard a familiar voice say, "Don't seem to have any contraband here." 'They can't leave without me.' Cassandra thought. Cassandra started bouncing up and down on her butt.

"What was that?" asked the familiar voice.

"Rats." Cassandra heard Jean-Luc reply. 'Rats my behind' Thought Cassandra. Cassandra crawled to the panel wall and banged her shoulder against it. A voice told Jean-Luc to step aside and he had no choice but to comply.

"Let's see how big the rats are." Said an unfamiliar voice.

The familiar voice called, "Bang again if you are a human." Cassandra hit the wall.

"Bang once if you are true to the king of England." Cassandra banged her head against the wall.

"One bang if you are male, two if you are female." Cassandra banged her head twice beginning to get a large headache.

"Open it." Ordered the familiar voice, nothing happened.

"My captain gave you an order." Growled a man. Cassandra closed her eyes against the light that flooded in.

However she opened them when she heard the familiar voice say, "Cassandra?" The familiar man quickly took out her gag, "Hello James. I would love it dearly if you'd untie me." She said trying to smile.

"Cassandra?" he asked in disbelief.

"What happened?" he asked not moving.

"I would truly love to tell you but this rope on my wrist and ankles are causing quite a lot of pain." Said Cassandra shifting her weight.

"Oh of course." Said James untying her and helping her up.

"Thank-you so much James I owe you and your brave men my life." She said with a small smile. James looked away and started blushing, "Just doing my job. Let's get you to my ship shall we?" he asked finally looking at Cassandra.

"Gladly then I can tell you what has happened." Said Cassandra walking up the stairs leading to the deck.

"What are you going to do with them?" Cassandra asked James once they got onto the ship.

"Lock them up and blow up their ship." Answered James putting Cassandra's hand in the crook of his arm. He opened the door to his cabin and once he had shut the door behind him he asked, "So what happened?"

Cassandra thought a moment thinking of what you could say that would not get Will or Jack in trouble.

"I was visiting my brother and sister-in-law. Well you know that don't you?" Cassandra asked James, who nodded.

"Well I went to the shore to watch the sunset and it is very beautiful. Someone put a bag over my head and everything went dark." She paused a moment for effect, "Oh dear would you know what happened to Will?"

"I'm afraid not. We went to the shop and the doors were locked and the lights were out." Said James with a frown.

"Oh dear he must have left to find me. He'll probably be back once we arrive back home. I suppose that if he is not there then I can keep an eye on the shop for him."

"Shouldn't you go home?" asked James.

"My mother and step-father need a bit of time to themselves. And I wanted to leave them alone for a time so they can have some peace." Said Cassandra.

"Do you think that wise?"

"Oh James you worry too much for my concern I don't deserve it." Cassandra said with a little blush.

"Sometimes I don't think I worry enough." Said James sitting on the edge of his desk.

"Well I'm sorry to cause you so much trouble. How long until we reach Port Royal?" she asked.

"A few days, a week or two at the most if we run into bad weather." Said James.

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"If she has so much as hair out of place I'll take that French man by the throat and throttle him!" yelled Jack kicking the ship.

"She'll be fine Jack try not to worry." Said Elizabeth.

"Cassandra by herself on a pirate ship?" exclaimed Jack and Will at the same time.

"Think of how she's handled herself so far." Said Elizabeth.

"True."

"Good point."

"Captain there is something floating right to us!" called the man in the crow's nest.

"Where?" asked Jack.

"Dead ahead captain!" yelled the man. Jack ran to the front of the Pearl and pulled out his telescope.

"Will!" Will stood next to Jack and as the mist parted it revealed bits and pieces of burning wood.

Elizabeth joined them and saw what they were staring at and whispered, "She wasn't on." Jack's body went slack after a small ray of hope left him.

"What if she was on?" asked Jack with a small voice.

"Think of it logically." Said Elizabeth looking from Will to Jack. Both men had given up and were only half listening to Elizabeth.

"Another ship had to have done it. If it was more pirates they would have boarded the ship find her, grant it she'd still be in danger but she'd be alive. And if it were the navy they would have boarded to check for contraband."

Jack and Will thought on it for a little bit and were slightly heartened by this thought.