Author's Note:

I'm depressed because I have the SATs tomorrow. Wish me luck! Or don't I wouldn't be able to know anyway.

Anyway thanks to all those who read and even more to those who reviewed. Starpossum, Smoltenica, Sphinx Jinx, and LOTRlover1066. Thank you all as always.

Oh to answer Sphinx Jinx's question Maggie has no last name or no physical appearance. I was just thinking about this after I posted the last chapter. I always thought of her as more of just a presence I guess but if anyone has any ideas or opinions I'd love to hear them.

Chapter #4

We came face to face with two pirates. One was heavier then the other and the top of his head was bald. The thinner one was also taller. I tried not to dwell on how unfair it was the skinny people were often also tall. The shorter pirate's eyes were a creepy yellow but not half as creepy as the other pirate's eyes.

While one was somewhat normal the other was a large wooden eye. I did a double take trying to remember if I'd ever heard of that as being possible. I strongly doubted that it was but decided, (wisely in my humble opinion), that I should keep my mouth shut and let Elizabeth carry out her master plan. I also had noticed that both pirate had a gun pointed at us and I didn't want to give them a reason to shoot me.

"Parley," Elizabeth yelled wildly.

"What?" the first pirate spat.

"Parley," Elizabeth repeated more calmly, "I invoke the right of parley. According to the Code of the Brethren set down by the pirates Morgan and Bartholomew," she'd lost me so I just smiled and nodded, "you have to take me to your captain."

"Yeah," I added before I understood her words, "wait that's your plan?"

"I know the code," the first pirate said.

"If an adversary demands parley," "you can do them no harm until the parley is complete."

"That's your plan?" I repeated as Elizabeth was ignoring me.

"To blazes with the code-" the second pirate growled.

"She wants to be taken to the captain," the first one interrupted, "and she'll go without a fuss. We must honor the code." Elizabeth nodded but I wasn't so eager to just skip merrily over to the captain of a group of blood thirsty pirates.

"I would rather not go to the captain," I told the two pirates, "and since I haven't said any special word I shouldn't have to go. Right?"

"If you haven't said parley then we can kill you," the first said leveling his gun right at me.

"Parley," I responded quickly.

The pirates dragged us through the town of Port Royal which was under attack. There was fire everywhere and pirates as well. It was scary just walking through it. But what was even scarier was the pirate ship rising out of the water and towering over our heads. The two pirates got a row boat and began to row us over to the gigantic pirate ship.

"Look what you've done," I hissed at Elizabeth, "look at the mess you've gotten us into. Why didn't you just find another hiding place?"

"I saved our lives," she argued.

"Yeah but for how long?" I muttered wondering if I could swim back to sure without getting caught again. At that moment the second pirate saw me looking back at the water between the boat and the town and patted his pistol with a smile at me. I blew out a sigh and looked up at the ship with trepidation.

We were dragged onto the ship and I instantly decided never to hide in a closet again, never as long as I lived. There were pirates everywhere and every one of them looked like they would eat their young.

In the distance I could see a man with a monkey on his shoulder. He also had a rather large hat. Just then a pirate loomed out of nowhere and spoke to our two captors.

"I didn't know we was taking on captives." I resisted the urge to correct his English.

"They've invoked the right of parley with Captain Barbossa."

"I am here to-" Elizabeth began but at that second the tall pirate smacked her across the face. I hadn't even seen his hand move.

"You will speak when spoken to," he scolded in his deep booming voice. Memo to self, I thought, do not correct anyone's grammar but especially this pirate's. Then another hand reached out and grabbed the tall pirate's hand.

"And ye will not lay a hand on those under the protection of parley," the pirate in the large hat said in a soft yet deadly voice. I was guessing this was the captain.

"Aye sir," the tall pirate said confirming my guess.

"My apologies miss," the captain said to Elizabeth ignoring me. I was okay with that though, he may not be yelling but he was still scary.

"Captain Barbossa," Elizabeth spoke with an air of pride that I was sure the pirates would find offensive, "I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal."

"There were a lot of long words in there miss," oh crap she made him angry I thought, "we're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?" I shot Elizabeth a look trying to convey to intelligence of answering the pirate captain nicely.

"I want you to leave and never come back," she answered stiffly obviously not getting my mental message or the look I had sent her.

"Port Royal is such a boring town," I said trying to sooth over Elizabeth's rudeness, "and not half as rich as other towns. If you hurry you can make it to," here I realized that I knew no other towns so I invented wildly, "Wealthy Cove. It's a fun town." Elizabeth rolled her eyes and Barbossa chuckled.

"It's not nice to fib," he told me in a whisper, "now as for you," he turned back to Elizabeth, "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request."

"What is that supposed to mean?" I asked pretty sure that he had made up some of the words.

"Means no," he answered me shortly.

"Did you make those-"

"No," he interrupted me sharply.

"You'd better negotiate," I whispered to Elizabeth, "I don't think he likes me."

"Very well," she snapped striding over to the edge of the ship. For a wild second I thought she was going to jump. But then she pulled out a medallion and held it over the side. "I'll drop it," she threatened. I thought it was a pretty pathetic threat. I figured I could threaten to throw my shoe over the edge to help Elizabeth out but I figured I would see what happened first.

Okay I was sort of afraid of the pirates.

"Me holds are bursting with swag," Barbossa said and I wished he would talk so that I could understand, "that bit of shine matters to us? Why?"

"The itsy bitsy spider," I sang annoyed because I still couldn't understand what was going on, "went up the water spout-"

"It's what you've been searching for. I recognize this ship."

"-down came the rain and washed the spider out-" I was now adding clever hand gestures to the song and trying to imagine I was a little kid safe and not surrounded by killer pirates. And it was almost working too.

"I saw it eight years ago," Elizabeth continued ignoring my sudden insaneness, "on the crossing from England."

"Did you now?" Barbossa said in a loud voice to drown my voice out. But I kept singing.

"-out came the sun and dried up all the rain-"

"Fine," Elizabeth said finally, "well I suppose if it is worthless, there's no point in me keeping it." She allowed the medallion to slip between her fingers a few inches and all the pirates started forward with explanations.

"and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again!" Elizabeth just smiled sweetly at the pirates having gotten them to admit that they wanted the medallion. If I had been paying attention my opinion of her would have risen.

"You have a name missies?" Barbossa asked us.

"Elizabeth… Turner." Elizabeth answered. "I'm a maid in the governor's house."

"And I'm," I guessed that if Elizabeth had made up a fake name I should too, "Maggie…" my eyes fell on the creature sitting on Barbossa's shoulder, "Monkey."

"Miss Monkey and Miss," he looked around at the other pirates, "Turner." The pirates began whispering amongst themselves and I assumed they were discussing my name. It was pretty cool if I did say so myself.

"And how does a maid come to own a trinket," Barbossa approached Elizabeth, "such as that? Family heirloom, perhaps?"

"I didn't steal it if that's what you mean," Elizabeth said curtly.

"Very well," Barbossa said, "you hand it over and we'll put your town to our rudder and ne'er return." Slowly Elizabeth reached over and dropped the medallion into the pirate captain's out stretched hand. He gave it to the monkey who took it and scampered away.

"Aww," I sighed, "such a cute monkey."

"Our bargain?" Elizabeth was obviously not blown away by the adorable monkey. Barbossa gave a curt nod to the really tall pirate who began to bark orders I didn't understand. "Wait," Elizabeth shouted running after Barbossa, "you have to take us to shore!"

The Other Author's Note:

Just in case you wanted to know the whole "Itsy Bitsy Spider" thing was inspired by an actual event. While enigmagirl2727 and I were talking she just burst into it randomly and I felt it would work well since Maggie, (well actually the author), can make no sense of what they're saying. Seriously I struggle with trying to understand that part of the movie. Anyway thanks for reading.