A/N: I'm really happy with this one. Hope it clears up some confusion. Thank you for your wonderful reviews! Let's roll.

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Chapter 4: Barbossa's Laugh

My attacker brought me to a large group of pirates and struck me to the ground. As I looked up, through my tangled hair, I could see Jack had been captured. He still looked a little groggy from being knocked out, but other than that he seemed relatively calm.

Barbossa approached and looked at Jack with scorn.

How the blazes did you get off that island?"

"When you marooned me on that god forsaken spit of land you forgot one very important thing mate," Jack replied, "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."

Barbossa laughed evilly, "Ah well I won't be making that mistake again. Gents you all remember Captain Jack Sparrow? Kill him"

"The girl's blood didn't work?" Jack stated matter of factly as one of the crew was about to shoot him.

"Hold your fire." Barbossa ordered, "You know whose blood we need?" He asked suspiciously as he held his sword at Jack.

"I know whose blood you need."

"And who's this?" Barbossa turned his attention to me.

"She's one of my crew." Jack answered before I could.

I straightened up as he approached me. And when he was inches from my face, I could smell the rotten stench of rum and fish on him, which almost made me gag. I looked him directly in the eye, noticing he was not very tall.

"What's yer name?" He growled.

"Santana." I complied.

At first, I thought I saw a flash of recognition in his eyes, but then it quickly vanished and was replaced by a malicious grin.

"What's a young girl like ye sailing? Ye women should be in them kitchens fixen food for us or in the bed pleasing us. What ye say boys, should we keep her?"

Hot anger boiled up and I raised my fist ready to smash this low life's head in, but my captor with strained me.

"Actually I'd like to kill you!" I replied full of spite in my voice.

"Oh then I'd better post a body guard just in case cause I'm terrified o young girls. In case you haven't noticed, we're immortal, so best of luck ta ya."

Barbossa led Jack onto his ship and Jack tried to make a deal with him.

"So let me get this straight. You plan to leave me on some beach with a name watching you sail away with my ship?" Barbossa laughed.

"No. I expect to leave you on some beach, watching me sail away on my ship, and I'll shout the name back to you. Savvy?" Jack answered.

"Well that still leaves me with the question with you leaving me on a beach with naught but a name and it's the one I need." Barbossa spoke.

"Well see out of the two of us, I'm the only one who hasn't committed mutiny so it's my word we'll be trustin'. Although I suppose I should be thanking you. If you hadn't committed mutiny and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that curse same as you." Jack said biting into an apple and offering some to Barbossa.

A pirate came downstairs. "Captain, we're coming up on the Interceptor."

We all went upstairs and Jack spotted the Interceptor and tried to make another deal with Barbossa.

"I'm having a thought here Barbossa. Let's say we round up a bag of truce and I scurry over to the Interceptor and negotiate the return of your medallion. What say you to that?"

"No you see Jack. That's the kind of attitude that lost you the Pearl in the first place."

Then Barbossa ordered, "Lock em in the brig!"

Below decks, the floor was covered in water and Jack pointed out, "There appears to be a leak."

He was roughly pushed into the cell, and I thought I would be next, but the guard said Barbossa had wanted to see me. Not knowing what to expect, I looked back and saw Jack lift his head up. We met eyes, and then I was forced up the steps to my fate.

The two men led me to the captain's quarters, which I expected to look like the rest of the craft, but I was surprised. Candles lit a long, elegant table set with silver and exquisite food. Barbossa was waiting."Unfortunately, the dress ran off that I was going to have ya where, but let's not cry over the petty details." He laughed.

"Sit down Santana." He emphasized my name and pointed to the seat.

I gave him a nasty look and held my ground.

"Please."

Hesitantly I gave in.

"Isn't this a lovely evenin?" He asked.

I remained silent.

"Not a talker? If ye want, I can cut yer tongue out if ye really want to be mute fer the rest o yer life?"

"What is it you want from me?" I kept my voice low and threatening.

"I thought ye would appreciate this feast I prepared."

"Try the apple." He offered and then casually walked over and circled the room.

I didn't touch the food.

"Santana, that's quite a name. It reminds me of a certain pirate I had on board once."

I looked up, what did he mean? Did he know something about me?

Barbossa continued, "Yes, I remember now. It was that Pace kid. He was a troublemaker on the Black Pearl."

My heart raced, was this a trick?

"You think you know anything about me?" I scoffed.

"Oh you'd be surprised," he said, "Charlie Pace was not your father?"

I coughed, to stifle my retort. He put his hand through my hair.

"You're mad. I don't believe anything you say, so get the bloody hell away from me!" I cried.

"You wanna know why you're still alive girl! I would have had you killed eighteen years ago if it weren't for Pace! He was that treacherous snake that I could never find!"

"What did you do to him!" I asked in fury.

Barbossa had wrath in his dark eyes. "Pace was one of my crew eighteen years ago. We found a young woman with her child and took her aboard ta be killed. I ordered Pace to kill the child just for the fun and I saw it with my own two eyes! The child's throat was sliced. There was no way it could have survived. We all had thought the child was dead and proceeded on to kill the mother in the morning. But then Pace, he snuck the mother out in the middle of the night. Told her ta swim away and he'd get her child back ta her soon. That's what one of me crew over heard anyway. Pace was gone in the morning with the child and he never came back. Few days later, we found the mother's drowned body floatin in the sea." He finished his narrative and looked at me.

"That child's name was Santana." He said darkly, "Now the punishment for desertin the Black Pearl is death. I knew when Pace had died. Could feel his presence slip away. But you are still here. And I'm not letting ye escape again."

He drew closer to me and I began to panic. My hand tightened around the dagger and I stabbed Barbossa's hand and pinned it to the table. He grabbed hold of my hair, but I managed to slip out of his reach and ran out of the cabin.

I ran into the hall. I needed to find the keys and unlock Jack! Barbrossa was yelling at the top of his lungs and had freed his hand.

"Get the girl!" He yelled.

As I sprinted through the corridors of the ship, I passed two pirates. They immediately ran after and me. Now I had the three catching up to me and looked around frenzied, trying to find a place to hide. But I was on their ship. There was nowhere to go or hide. They would find me. God help me Jack! I thought.

I didn't even have time to scream when I saw the men come round the corner that I was heading toward. They had trapped me. I was a mouse in a maze and they were the cats. This was their ship, and I had no choice. Surrender was my only option.

Two pinned me to the ground and then brought me back to the brig, kicking, biting, scratching, and any way to get lose. But it was useless. Barbossa stood from a distance with a crazy mad smile on his face.

"Mates, it's you're lucky day." Barbossa laughed once more that day.

A/N: I think this is my best chappie so far. So now you know some of Santana's past. I'll try to get the next one out soon. R & R. There's gonna be a lot of fluff in the next chapter! I had some problems gettin this one ready so there may be some techinical errors that I missed.