Author's Note:

Well it took longer then I expected to write this chapter. Actually it wasn't that it took a long time to write, it was more that I was lazy and just didn't. I'm sorry, don't kill me. And I promise to update again soon. Or at least before the end of November.

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Chapter #5

I listened in horror as Captain Barbossa listed several reasons why he wasn't going to take the two of us back to shore. I didn't understand everything but then he said five words that made me freeze in horror.

"Welcome aboard the Black Pearl," he cried. As in we'd have to stay there.

"Wh-what-?" I stuttered, "There has been a grave mistake-"

"Take them below," the Captain sighed, "and shoot them if they cause trouble."

I took the Captain seriously and didn't say anything as the two creepy pirates that had brought us aboard led us down below into a small room. As soon as the pirates closed and locked the door I ran to the window.

Unfortunately it was too small for either of us to fit out of. Also despite being "below" it was too high up to jump out of.

"Damn," I growled furious, "damn, damn, damn!"

"I beg your pardon," Elizabeth gasped, "I would appreciate it if you refrained from that sort of language."

"You have no right to expect me to do anything that you say," I yelled, "this whole mess was your plan, not mine, yours. And what a good plan it was," I ranted sarcastically.

"Well at least I knew what was happening," she countered flaring up.

"Look," I flung back at her livid, "I want you to know that I'm going to blame you for anything that happens. This mess is all your fault. Just so you know."

After that little argument we didn't really have that much to say to each other. The next few hours pasted in a sort of tense silence.

The silence was broken by the reappearance of the two creepy pirates who had caught us.

"Miss Turner," the shorter one said, "you'll be dining with the Captain." He said bluntly. "And he requests you where this." In his arms he held a horrible looking bundle of a black or purple thing. No real other way to describe it.

"Well you can tell the Captain," Elizabeth scoffed, "that I am disinclined to acquiesce to his request."

"Elizabeth: 1," I chuckled, "Pirate Captain: 0."

"He said you'd say that," the pirate said exchanging a wide grin with the other pirate, "he also said if that be the case you'll be ding with the crew. And you'll be naked."

"Oh," I said slowly, "in that case scratch what I said earlier." With a scowl Elizabeth wrenched the horrible outfit from the pirate's hands. But the two pirates looked even more unhappy then Elizabeth.

On the whole, surprisingly, I was the happiest person in the room. Go figure.

"I need a private place to change," Elizabeth told the pirates.

"You'll change in here," the short pirate told her, "Miss Monkey will wait outside with us." The taller one grabbed my arm and "escorted" me out of the room.

"So where am I having dinner?" I asked. Getting kidnapped by pirates may be bad but I didn't know if I was strong enough to survive skipping a meal.

"We'll bring something to your room," the shorter one growled.

"Oh," I said, "so why are you guys so interested in her yet you've been ignoring me?"

"Don't ask questions," he answered.

"What's your names?" I asked. It probably wasn't smart but I was getting sick of calling them the shorter one and the taller one.

"I'm Ragetti," the taller one answered automatically, "and this is Pintel." Pintel growled and hit Ragetti on the shoulder. I just nodded. The door opened and Elizabeth came out.

I didn't comment on her outfit. I figured she was probably still mad at me from when I told her she was to blame for all of this. It might have been the truth but looking back I wasn't sure I'd handled the whole situation all that well.

Pintel and Ragetti locked me back in the little room. It wasn't that bad a room, I thought, trying to find an upside.

It was a while later that Elizabeth came bursting back into the room. She went straight to a corner and huddled, that's right, huddled.

"Elizabeth," I gasped, "Miss Swann," I corrected myself, "what's wrong?"

Her answer didn't really make any sense. She was babbling on about cursed pirates who turned into skeletons and couldn't be killed.

Oh great, I thought to myself, she's suffered a nervous breakdown and gone insane.

So that made me the sanest person on the ship. That disturbed me very much, this was something that had never happened to me before.

But what was worse was that no one had brought me any food.