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a/n: My first fanfic, would love to hear what you all think. Sorry about the poor english. I'm dutch, and english never was my best subject. Don't hold it against me.

Chapter one: What one doesn't see, doesn't hurt

"Tell me again, why are we going to Port Royal to find a crew?" Gibbs asked his captain. Jack grinned. He loved toying with his crew.

"We're not only going to find a crew, we're also going to visit some old friends." Gibbs nodded.

"I still don't think we're going to find a crew here."

"In that case we'll just have to take on Elizabeth as part of the crew eh?" he said, pretending to be completely serious. Jack ordered the men to drop anchor behind a cliff, so there was no way Norrington or one of his navy friends would suspect they were even near Port Royal. Jack had one of the lifeboat lowered into the water and after giving his crew instructions he rowed of.

During the last year, a lot had changed aboard the Pearl. Using the treasure from Isla du Muerta. (that wasn't in the chest) he bought Annamaria a new boat and she left the crew a short while after to set up her own shipping compagny. A few of the crew had gone with her. Including Cotton and his parrot. Now the Pearl was short on hands and they desperately needed some help. So Jack had decided he would offer Will and Elizabeth another grande adventure on board the Black Pearl. After all it had been over a year since their last one.

He hid the small boat between some bushes before wandering into the streets of Port Royal.

It didn't take him long to find the shop where Will worked. He grinned as he saw the name 'Brown' had been replaced with the name 'Turner'. He decided against knocking and walked straight in. He heard Will working in the back and walked straight over.

"Still making swords then eh?" he said without warning Will of his presance. The young blacksmith jumped up at the sound and allmost dropped the heathed metal on his foot hadn't he jumped back in time.

"Jack?" Will smiled. "What are you doing here."

"Gee, that doesn't exactly make me feel welcome mate." the pirate said, mock hurt. Will's smile broadened.

"I'm just surprised to see you, that's all." Jack nodded.

"Next time I'll warn ye when I stop by, how's that? But to answer yer previous question...I'm here to invite ye and Elizabeth to join me on another adventure aboard me Pearl." Will grinned.

"I'm sure Elizabeth would be thrilled to go."

"And ye aren't? Come on lad, yer the son of a pirate...don't tell me ye don't feel drawn to the ocean?" Will chuckled.

"I'll ask Elizabeth, allthough I'm pretty sure I allready know her answer." Jack nodded.

"We're leaving tommorrow at dawn, be there or we leave without ye."

"What will ye be doing untill then?"

"Finding me some crewmembers."

"Bloody good fer nothing snobs." Jack muttered gulping down the rum in the mug before him.

"Having a bad day then?" a friendly voice asked. Jack looked up and smiled at the woman placing another bottle of rum on his table.

"Ello luv." he grinned at what had to be the most beautifull girl he had ever seen. The woman smiled.

"Lynn will do, thank you very much." she smiled. She was about to turn away when he stopped her by grabbing her wrist. She turned around and smiled.

"Sorry, was there anything else you needed?" she asked.

"Sit down fer a while lass, keep a pirate some compagny." She nodded, biting her bottom lip.

"What kind of compagny would that be then? Cause if yer looking fer...you know, I would have to say no."

"Just want to talk a bit lass." he said as he pushed out a chair. He took his bottle, placed it against his lips and swung it back...missing the girls distant staring while her hand was searching for the chair. She smiled as she found it and quickly sat down.

"So Lu---ynn" he slurred. "Care for a drink?" She turned her eyes in the direction the sound came from and smiled.

"Yes please." she said sweetly holding out her hand. He handed her the bottle and she took a big sip.

"Leave some in there fer me luv." Jack grinned, he had never seen a woman drink rum without caughing it all back up...exept in Tortuga.

"So...your a pirate eh? What brings you to Port Royal? Hardly a place for pirates." Lynn smiled. Jack couldn't help but smile everytime she smiled. Two rows of perfectly straight and white teeth greeted him and a hint of misheviousness gleamed in the tiny lines at the corner of her mouth where it curled into a smile.

"Buisiness luv."

"Lynn."

"Lynn. Isn't going very well though."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

"See, I was looking to pick up some crew. One would think people here would be jumping at the prospect of working aboard the last real pirate ship in the Caribbean."

"The Black Pearl?" the girl questioned. He grinned at the recognision of his ship. He nodded, not knowing the girl wasn't able to see it. "Who are you then."

"The captain luv, who else?" he grinned.

"Captain Jack Sparrow?"

"That would be me luv." She reached out for the bottle allmost knocking it over...Jack's ego told himself she was just shocked she was talking to sush a famous pirate. She took a big sip from her drink.

"So you've had no luck gathering a crew?" she asked. He shook his head. Lynn frowned realising he was either nodding 'yes' or shaking his head 'no' oblivious to the fact that she was blind. She allways managed to fool a lot of people. Her other sences made up for the fact that she couldn't see.

She hadn't allways been blind though. When she was a young girl she was still able to see. She was a lady of status back then. But when she lost her eyesight in an accident that lost her her mother and sister, her father had rejected her. Stating she was useless now she couldn't see. Her blindness made a marriage to a fine gentlemen impossible, for no man would have a damaged wife. He trew her out on the streets, stating that to him she had died along with her mother and sister in the accident. She was helpless back then. She couldn't find her way around and had to depend on the pity she got from others. She thought herself to use her other sences, to compensate for her lack of sight. She had often wondered what was worse. Being born blind or becoming blind. If you were born blind you never knew what you were missing. Yet you would never know how the sunrise looked, or the moon and the stars. Lynn knew what they looked like, she remembered them from when she was a child. Yet she would never know what her new friends looked like, what her clothes looked like, what she had grown into.

Suddenly Lynn heard some soft tapping, and a muffled voice calling...'Jack!'

"There's someone calling you at the window." she stated. Jack looked around and saw Elizabeth and Will standing outside.

"Sorry luv, I have to go...Hope to see ye again sometime." he said as he walked out.

"Yeah...me to." she said on a sarcastic tone knowing that she would never see anything again. She walked over to a table near the window, pretending to clean it while instead she was listening to the conversation going on outside.

"What's wrong?" she recognized Jack's voice. A female answered.

"Norrington has discouvered the Pearl, he has patrol party's scanning the area to look for you." Lynn frowned.

"And we've found you." Jack and his friends whirled around to face commodore Norrington and some of his friends. "Gilette, arrest this man." Lynn left the cloth she used to clean the table and hanged her apron on a small hook.

"Where do ye think your going?" Dugan asked. He was the owner of the tavern and her boss.

"My shift is done Dugan, I'm going home."

"Come in early tommorrow! We need to talk." Lynn smiled at the man. He was the only one who had been willing to give her a chance after finding out that she was blind. He had even helped her study the place, so she wouldn't bumb into things all the time.

She turned her face to where Norrington and Jack where having a contest of wit and grinned at Jack's witty remarks. She couldn't help but walk over.

"Is something wrong Commodore?" she asked pretending to looke at the scene. The commodore gave a weak smile.

"Miss Curtis, I was just arresting a very dangerous pirate." Lynn thanked God for Jack's snort, now she knew where he stood and was able to keep up appearance by looking in his direction.

"Right...I shall leave you to it then." she smiled giving Jack an unseen wink. She walked past commodore Norrington and smiled. "I hope I shall see you again soon." she said softly leaning in and placing a chaste kiss on the commodore's cheek who's face immediately turned red. After Elizabeth he hadn't been that fortunate with woman, and he was pleasantly surprised that one as beautifull as Lynn Curtis would be interested in him.

"I'm sure you shall miss Curtis." he smiled politely yet nervous. Not realising that the woman had just stripped him of his keys. Jack grinned, he had seen. Now it didn't bother him that much to be locked in jail again, it would be a lot of fun to get the best of Norrington yet again.

Jack was resting his back against the wall of his cell. His hat covering his eyes. He grinned at the sound of soft footsteps acompagnied by a pain of ouder footsteps of booted navy soldiers.

"We got some compagny fer ye Sparrow." one of the two officers opened the cell door and pushed the young girl who stumbled to the floor. Jack moved over to her and helped her up. She was surprised when she felt his hands on her arm helping her up, but smiled nervously.

"Ye allright luv?" Jack asked as he watched her whipe the dirt from her dress. She nodded. He grinned at the young woman. For the first time fully taking in her appearance. She was fairly short. The top of her head reached only to his chin. And he wasn't particularly tall. He grinned at the tought that she would probably fit very snug under his chin, but quickly shrugged of the thought. She had brown hair, pulled up into a messy bun at the back of her head. Some of the strands had losened during the fall, but it made her look even more appealing. Her skin was a bit pale with some smudges of dirt here and there. He reached out to her and whiped a smudge of her cheek. She shivered under his touch, as though she hadn't expect the move though he was standing right in front of her. He grinned at the tought of what this simple move had done to her. Confident he stepped towards her.

Lynn could feel him getting closer. She had mentally cursed herself for shivering when he touched her cheek. She hadn't anticipated the move and was caught of guard. He thought the reaction was for a completely diffrent reason. She felt his hand gently being placed on her side. She immediately backed away.

"We should get out of here." she said softly. Jack nodded. Lynn reached into a pocket in her dress and recovered the keys.

"One condition." she said tightly clinging the keys to her stomach.

"What would that be luv?" Jack said with a cocky grinn.

"I want to join your crew." If she would have been able to see the surprised look onhis face she would have probably bursted into laughter.

"I can make myself usefull...I can clean, cook, and I know how to fight." It was true, she had learned to do all those things despite of her blindness. She used her other senses to make up for her lack of eyesight.

"I'll give ye a trial period. If all goes well, you can join me crew." Lynn smiled as she tossed the keys into the direction of his voice. She heard the key turn in the lock wich sprung open without even a 'click'. She was releaved when she felt Jack take her hand in his draggin her along. Cause she wouldn't have been able to tell wich way he was going without that essential move.

"Bloody hell!" Jack muttered as he noticed Norrington and his men guarding the docks.

"What?" Lynn asked. Jack turned to her with a confused look on his face.

"I don't think those redcoats will let us leave so easily." he stated sarcasticly. Lynn realised her critical error. But forced a smile. With a hint of micheviousness in her eyes she said.

"Luv, yer captain Jack Sparrow...savvy?" he grinned. He liked this girl. Forgetting all about their current situation he pictured how the beautifull young woman would look...underneath him, in his bunk as he made her writ with pleasure. He shook his head to clear his mind from the...very appealing image and continued his attention to their current situation.

"Fine here's what we do." He said to Lynn.

"Why Commodore, come to see us off then?" Jack grinned as he walked out of his hideout with Lynn, holding the blade of a dagger against her neck. She made a very good actress. She actually seemed affraid. Offcourse, he didn't know she actually was. He hardly gave her time to check out any possible bumbs in their path so she was terrified she would fall, having her neck sliced in the process.

"Please...watch out!" Lynn begged Jack. He had to repress a grinn at her wonderfull acting.

"Hold your fire!" the commodore ordered his men. He clearly didn't know Lynn had been arrested earlyer that evening, or he wouldn't give a damn.

"And no following us commodore. I'll kill the lady the instant I see sails on the horizon!" Jack ordered as he walked past them and got us into a boat.

"Great acting luv." Jack grinned as they were far enough not to be heard.

"Thanks." she said, trying to make her voice sound even. When they reached the ship a rope was trown down. Lynn managed to find it in one try and tried to climb up. Unfortunately her skirt got in the way. Jack grinned as he kneeled in the tiny boat and tugged her skirts up. Lynn shivered at the unexpected touch, but quickly recovered. She reached out hoping to find the rope. She didn't. Nervously she looked around. Jack grinned.

"Scared of hights luv?" he asked. Lynn turned to where the sound came from and nodded. "Want me to carry you up?" She nodded again. She felt him take her arms and wrapped them around his neck.

"Hold on tight luv." She nodded. She gasped as she felt her feet loose contact with the boat. She felt Jack's muscel's tence under her tight embrace. Finally they reached the top. She mentally thanked God that she had a floor underneath her again and smiled at Jack.

"Welcome to the Black Pearl, luv."

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