To go by the stories

Chapter 2

"Are ye quite finished my lady?" Captain Sparrow asked as soon as Lex's fine scream had ceased.

Lex was huddle in a corner of the boat breathing heavily in fear at what she was seeing. Pirates, sailboat and a parrot and a bunch other things that did not go with the 21st century, yep she had cracked. "A...are…are you Captain Sparrow?" Lex managed to say after her breathing returned to normal.

"Aye and you might ye be young lady?" he asked with a crazy eye glance over her. "You don't dress like you are from around here."

"Are you a witch, lass?" the first mate Gibbs asked standing next to the captain.

"Is this the...the Black Pearl?" Lex asked ignoring their questions.

"Aye." Gibbs replied slowly.

"Capt. ye think she mad?" Gibbs whispered to Jack, Jack merely looked at Gibbs then back to Lex and shrugged.

Lex meekly nodded her head and turned from the crew. Looking out to sea an idea popped in her head. Clicking her heels together three times she whispered "there's no place like home." Idea one did not work so Lex pinched her self and when hissed in pain she turned to face the Capt. and his on looking crew.

"Still think she's not mad? Gibbs said.

"Look I'm not nuts I am just very freaking confused and pissed! So kindly keep all opinions about my sanity to your self, thank you!" Lex snapped as she continued to think of how in the hell she was going to get back home.

"I say we kill her captain." Anna-Maria had at this point pointed her pistol at her head.

"Alright once again who ye be and where are you from and more to the point what were you doing in the middle of the ocean?" Jack asked as he motioned for Anna-Maria to put her piece away.

In seeing no way to avoid answering the question with out being shot and thrown overboard Lex decided best option might be honesty of course she had seen enough movies to know that messing with the past can seriously screw up the future. And since the Lizzie Swann was not around as far as she knew Lex thought it best not tell Jack or the crew about that situation.

"My name is Lex and I am from California and well I was thrown from a cliff into the ocean," she turned and looked to see no cliffs near the ship.

"But I have no clue how in the hell I got here in the middle of no where. Does that help?" she replied.

Captain Jack Sparrow was stroking his chin as he gave Lex a look over; to him she seemed so familiar he just for the life of him could not place her. "California whereas that at pet?" he asked bringing his half sober mind to the problem at hand.

Lex realizing her mistake 'crap California was established in 1863 not around the 16th century!' her mind scolded her self.

"Heha well um its sort of...a ...village in…Spain." She laughed nervously hoping if the stories were true Captain Sparrow would be drunk enough to buy the story.

"In Spain pet?" he parroted while giving her a cheerful crooked smile. Lex gave a nervous one back,

'Oh yeah he's not buying it.' Lex mind supplied.

"Listen Captain Sparrow can't you just drop me off at the next port and you go on your marry way of being a really bad egg by plundering or something to the nature?" Lex asked ignoring the stairs of the crew and especially the glares from Gibbs and Ana.

"Strikes me self as odd that you know so much about what I do." Jack spoke while circling her like a vulture. A very drunk one.

"I tell ye captain she has to be a witch." Gibbs added.

"I'm not a witch." Lex whined.

"Enough. Since we're stopping at Tortuga anyway we'll drop you off. Until then you can work off you passage savvy?" He turned away, walked back to the pearl's wheel without giving Lex a chance to agree.

"Whatever." Lex sighed as the captain walked and the rest of the crew went back to their respective jobs.

Gibbs of course was back with in two shakes of a lamb's tale carrying with him a bucket of tar and a mop. "To the brig with ye." He turned and walked.

"Uh where's the brig?" The crew members who were present to hear Lex's question all stopped and Jack himself stopped in mid stride and his kohl lined eyes were wide as saucers. Yep you could hear a pin drop on the deck despite the ocean breeze and waves.

"What? Do I have something in my teeth?" Lex asked.

About half a day later the black pearl dock at Tortuga. Upon this all but a few of the crew took off. "Thanks for the lift Captain Sparrow much appreciated." Lex spoke as she walked the gang plank; her grandmother always taught her manners with older people and theatrically Jack was a great times an unknown number grandfather.

Upon leaving she bumped into Anna-Maria and they gave each other a disapproving look but continued their separate ways of course Lex had just pick pocketed Ana's money but that was beside the point. Lex turned to give Jack a final wave and he just gave a knowing wink.

Lex decided she liked Tortuga mostly because it was like a mini san Francisco with its diversity and the fact that no one paid attention to anyone else. Hell the fights, the drunks, the poor, the filth...yep a dirty version of San Francisco but in a good way. Even as she paid for a peach from a local vendor he could care less what she was dressed in only that she could pay. As she was walking around thinking of how get back to her time, (unless of course she was dead and this was her hell for not believing her grandmother.) some one called her name and it was not any of the crew from the pearl.

"Lex, child sit." The voice was old and hollow almost as if ready to soon die. The women look as ancient as her voice sounded. With silver hair and grey steal eyes, and so many wrinkles. Lex being ever obedient to older people even at the age of twenty sat before the old women.

"How do you know me?" Lex asked staring the old women in the eyes.

"I am here to help you." she answered.

"Help me what?" Lex asked wising she could just tell the old lady to quit playing mind games.

"Your line might not happen you will cease to exist." The old women explained before laying down a death tarot card.

"Why will that happen?" Lex spoke looking at the card.

"The start of your bloodline is not together and will never be unless they are pointed in the right place." The old women went on. "You are to help them after all that is why you were summoned here."

Lex not worrying about the old lady talk of her existents jumped "who summoned me?" Lex was ready to kill the bastard.

"I have no inkling of that child but you must hurry you have only three full moons to do so." Lex looked to the sky there was no moon meaning she had a full three months.

"I get Jack and Lizzie together…I go home." Lex asked her voice was calm be inside she was crying for the response to be good news.

"Yes indeed…should things go well. Good luck child you will need it." And then to Lex's great astonishment the old women vanished along with her cards.

"Weird." Lex said taking a bite out of her peach.

'in order to get home I have two get the grandparents together…no problem…can't be hard…right?" Lex questioned her own mind and sanity

Lex knew though if only by gut instincts the old woman was telling the truth. 'Trait of a Sparrow.' Lex's grandmother's voice rang in her head.

Lex knew step one was to find Jack and convince him to go to Port Royal… 'This is going to be a problem.' She thought as she ran to the docks.