Do I Know You


Authors note: CHAPTER TEN HAS BEEN EDITED! If you haven't figured it out already, 'because you all are just that brilliant. (Shameless flattering I know, looking for reviews, hint, hint, wink, wink) Anyway, the only thing that's really different is the dream, and only the first paragraph of that. I'm sorry that my sheer laziness and procrastination has kept me from updating, that and writers block.

Disclaimer: I haven't done one in a while, and I'm using a lot of the lines from POTC, so I just wanted to say, NOT MINE…unfortunately.

Tessi's P.O.V.


I glared at my sister, she always had been hard headed, but this was just ridiculous. "Misty, you are not going to be single. I don't know how you can miss Will or any other guybeing totally in love with you, but then again, he and other guys arealso pretty stupidthemselves since men only realize that they like you a little more then just friends at the last possible moment,and don't realize thatthey completely love you till the last possible moment." With that I just left, I was so frustrated; I didn't even care about the dream anymore. She'd tell me when she felt like it.

I stopped outside the room and leaned up against the door. I rubbed my eyes tiredly and saw that we were nearing some kind of land. Everyone was staring at the water sullenly; we seemed to be passing through a ship graveyard. We were getting close; I could feel it in the air. I walked up to the edge of the ship and leaned over the side, all of thoseships , and those honest sailors, they didn't deserve this burial. I shivered unconsciously as I heard Cottons parrot say "Dead Men Tell No Tales."

I moved further down the rail and closer to Will. Gibbs acknowledged me slightly by saying, "Puts a chill in the bones how many honest sailors have been claimed by this passage."

"More then a chill," I mumbled more to myself then anyone else, but I know they both heard me.

Deciding to change the subject, Will glanced at Jack and said, "How is it that Jack came by that compass?" I looked at Gibbs expectantly, I wanted to know too.

Gibbs shrugged and said, "Not a lot's known about Jack Sparrow before he showed up in Tortuga with a mind to go after the treasure of the Isla de Muerta. That was before I met him, back when he was Captain of the Black Pearl."

I blinked a couple of times, trying to get over my shock before exclaiming, "What?"

"He failed to mention that," Will said, scowling, Jack was certainly not moving up on Wills list of favorite people.

Gibbs moved to sit down and said, noncommittally, "Well, he plays things closer to the vest now. And a hard-learned lesson it was. See three days out on the venture the first mate comes to him and says everything's an equal share. That should mean the location of the treasure, too, so Jack gives up the bearings. That night there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die but not before he'd gone mad with the heat."

Will nodded with understanding and said, "So that's the reason for all of the…" he trailed off, not knowing how to explain it, but then moved around like Jack, and I had to stifle my laughter, he was not good with impersonations.

Gibbs shot us both a look before saying, "Reason's got nothing to do with it. Now Tessi, Will, when a man is marooned he is a given a pistol with a single shot – one shot. Well it won't do much good hunting or to be rescued. But after three weeks of a starvin' belly and thirst, that pistol will start to look real friendly. But Jack – he escaped the island, and he still has that one shot. Oh, but he won't use it, though, save for one man, his mutinous first mate."

It dawned on me instantly and I knew Will understood, but I had to say it anyway, "Barbossa."

Gibbs nodded morosely, "Aye."

Then Will asked a question that had been bothering me, "So how did Jack get off the island?"

Gibbs leaned in, as if it was a great story, and leaning in would make it come out faster, and we'd understand better, "Well, I'll tell you. He waded out into the shallows and there he waited three days and three nights till all manner of sea creature 'came and acclimated to his presence. And on the fourth morning, he roped himself a couple of sea turtles, lashed 'em together and made a raft."

I raised my eyebrows with disbelief, and looked at Gibbs as if to say that he was not being funny and then said, "He roped a couple of sea turtles?"

Gibbs looked at me as if I was a complete imbecile, "Aye, Sea Turtles."

Anticipating the fact that I was going to tell Gibbs what he could do with his own 'Sea turtles', Will jumped in and said, "What did he use for rope."

I jumped when I heard Jack's voice from behind me say, "Human hair, from me back."

"Eww," I said, completely creeped out.

Jack had the gall to wink suggestively at me before turning around and saying, "Let go of the anchor!"

Misty came up behind Jack and said, "Why are we letting go of the anchor?"

Jack saw the confused faces of the crew and clarified loud enough for us all to hear, "Young Mr. Turner and I are to go ashore."

"WHAT!" Misty and I yelled at the same time. Jack had started to walk away, and I got up and we stormed after him, "What do you mean, Young Mr. Turner and I, what about us!" we yelled, we looked each other with weird looks, the times when we spoke the same thing at the same time creeped us out, we turned back to Jack because he had turned around, it was obvious to him we were not going away.

"Listen Love's," Jack started and I immediately felt a flash of jealousy that he was calling Misty 'Love', but I would think about that later, "It's going to be very dangerous, there is going to be close to one hundred, or more pirates in that cave, and they wont hesitate to kill you."

"We're on a boat with pirates Jack!" I yelled, at the same time as Misty yelled, "WE'RE NOT FRAGILE SPARROW!"

Jack sighed in frustration, "I know loves, and I'm not saying you're fragile, but these pirates cannot die, you can! And there are more of them then you, that's why I don't want you to go with us."

Misty stalked off in frustration, most likely to bug Will about why they couldn't go. But I was not going to give up, all my life I had been told what I could and could not do, and this was the straw that broke the proverbial camels back. "WELL THEN WHY ARE YOU GOING JACK? WHY IS WILL?"

Jack had clearly thought he'd settled the matter and started to leave and after hearing my scream, he turned around and said, "Because I need revenge, and Will's off to save dear Elizabeth." He said this all calmly, but I knew he was loosing his patience.

"THEN WHAT ARE MISTY AND I SUPPOSED TO DO HERE, WE HARDLY DO ANYTHING ON THE SHIP, AND IF WE CAN'T EVEN HELP SAVE OUR SISTER, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE ON THIS STUPID ADVENTURE IN THE FIRST PLACE, WHY DID YOU EVEN LET US COME?"

Jack started yelling now, "BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK THAT YOU TWO WOULD BE SO ANNOYING! MISTY CAN'T KEEP HER SMART COMMENTS TO HERSELF!"

Here, Misty interrupted by yelling back, "At least I'm smart!"

Then Jack turned to me and yelled "AND YOU ARE ALWAYS SARCASTIC AND YOU WILL NOT QUIT BUGGING ME UNTIL I LET YOU DO SOMETHING! AND YOU TOOK THE CAPTAIN QUARTERS FROM ME!"

Jack looked like he was ready to start shooting atme or something. ButI was feeling reckless, and could really care less,I was angry and hurt by what Jack had said about me.

"ITS NOT LIKE WE LITERALY STOLE IT FROM YOU! WE JUST GOT THERE FIRST! AND YOU'RE THE ONE THAT CONFINED ME INTO THAT ROOM FOR THREE DAYS!"

"BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT GETTING YOURSELF HURT!" Jack yelled back at me.

"I CAN TOO, ITS NOT MY FAULT MY FATHER IS A GOVERNER AND I DIDN'T GROW UP LEARNING HOW TO SAIL, OR NOT BE THROWN OUT OF A WINDOW WHEN I'M ASLEEP, IN A STORM!"

"WELL YOU HAVEN'T BEEN SHOWING ME THAT YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, AND IF YOU CAN'T THEN I'M FORCED TO TAKE CARE OF YOU, AND IF I HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF YOU IN THAT CAVE THEN IT MIGHT GET US ALL KILLED, ITS BETTER FOR YOU TO STAY HERE!"

I'm sure that I looked like I had just been slapped, because that was how it felt. I took a breath and shook my head before yelling, "I DON'T NEED YOU TO TAKE CARE OF ME SPARROW, AND I CERTAINLY DIDN'T ASK YOU TOO!"

Jack and I glared at each other as we paused momentarily in our argument, both breathing heavily. Finally we both screamed "WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO DIFFICULT?"

"ME? I'M NOT DIFFICULT, YOU'RE DIFFICULT!" We yelled, indignant that we were being told we were difficult.

"WELL THEN WHY CANT YOU JUST UNDERSTAND THAT I LOVE YOU?" Everybody on the boat stopped what they were doing, and I froze, it looked like Jack did too, I couldn't believe what he had said to me. Although at the time, I didn't understand the enormity of what I just said.

"What do you mean you love me?" We asked a lot quieter, practically whispering.

"Could you stop doing the talking at the same time thing?" Misty said, "It's getting a little scary."

That snapped me back to reality, and I realized what I had just told Jack, it was something I had suspected, but wasn't certain. I ran into the Captains quarters, ignoring the calls telling me to stop and come back, and slammed the door; it looks like I was going to stay on the ship after all.