Josephine gulped, and searched his eyes to see if he could really do it. Abandon her. Again.

"I said GET… OFF... MY… SHIP!" This time Jack didn't whisper he yelled, with spit flying from his mouth in a rage that was so unexpected that even the toughest man would have jumped.

Josephine almost tripped hurrying back.

"But..but…where do I go?" Joe stammered.

"You'll go where everyone goes when they are not welcomed on a ship anymore."

"Jack, don't do this. She is your daughter." said the stranger in the most recessive voice he could muster.

"You will kindly stay out of this Eyal." Jack said with a vengeance.

And with that he pointed his sword toward the plank.

Joe gulped once again, but this time it wasn't her spit she swallowed, but bile that almost escaped her lips when she realize what was going to happen to her. The men had been talking all day about how these waters were the most shark invested in the world, and that any man was as good as dead if he was in the water for more then five seconds.

"Jack, if you make her walk the plank here she'll surely die! You know these waters better then any of us. She wouldn't be able to swim to Lardioa Island even if it wasn't four miles away. She doesn't have a chance Jack!" screamed his first mate.

Jack sharply turned around. "A chance is not what I had in mind Pince!"

Pince, the first mate, looked down at that; and there was a horrible uncomfortable silence. But he then breathed in again and spoke softly "Perhaps, Captain, if you don't want to see her anymore you could store her underboard?"

Jack glared and frowned, but then let out a bit of a girlish sigh, and started to walk off.

"...Umm Captain?" Pince said meekly.

"What?" Jack turned back around with complete irritation.

"What do you want done with the girl?"

"...Oh put her down there if you must...but keep her out of my sight! Do you hear me? Or its triple the work load for all of ya' bloody pirates!", and with that he stammered off and slammed his cabin door.

The crew just sat there awhile looking at the way Jack went, and then swooped their heads around to Joe.

Joe coughed and quickly looked at her shoes. "Sorry?" she replied.

But the crew just rolled their eyes and got back to work. Pince took her by the arm and started to lead her down the stares to the bottom level of the boat.

"Oh Pince, you're not really going to make me go down there are you?"

"I'm afraid I have to missus, or its triple the load! You heard your da."

Joe looked ahead hopelessly, "Yes..."

Pince looked at her sad face, and then with a guilty conscious said "But I'll bring you some bread and honey later, and perhaps some ale. Maybe even a book or two!"

Joe tried to smile. She then replied "Thank you Pince..." Joe stopped in the middle of her sentence because they had reached the prison holding cell. Joe quickly took in her breath. Inside was a skeleton of a pirate with only a handkerchief on what remained of his skull and a rat guarding what seemed to be his last toe bone on his right foot.

"Heh...its not the nicest place to stay perhaps miss, but it's a lot better then the plank! I can tell you that much, I can."

Joe didn't respond, she just inched closer and closer till she was at last in the cell and was drenched in the smell of death. Pince then shut the bar door and locked it. When he saw Joe had taken offense to that, he looked at the keys and looked up at her and replied "Just for Jack of course!"

Josephine frowned but didn't protest.

"Well...I'll see ya in a few hours missus. Don't get discouraged, its just a bit of filth."

"A bit of filth my hiney!" thought Josephine after he had left, and she was almost in complete utter darkness. Of course now she was thinking of every ghost story she had ever heard, and was to the point of trembling. She then made the bad decision to change her position on the wooden stool; because she found her self looking right into the empty hole eyes of the pirate skeleton. She screamed with horror.

All the sudden a match was lit outside the cell and in the shadows she could see the stranger's face. As he brought the match to his face to light his cigarette, he mumbled "Scared are we?"

Josephine glared with embarrassment and infuriation "I'm not scared!...I'm just...Okay I'm scared, why do you have to comment on it? I'm sure the first time you are one inch away from a skeleton head, you won't be so quiet either."

"Oh but I have been luv, many a time. And I surely never screamed like that."

"Just shutup."

"Oh, don't get all Miss. Priss on me now. Just making conversation."

Josephine squinted, all she could see was the end of his cigarette butt burning every time he took a sag. But then the stranger, which Joe had heard him be called Eyal, took a second match and lit a candle beside him. Joe now could really see his face. He was a very handsome lad. But he scared Joe with those odd eyes, and so when he caught her looking at him she looked away quickly.

"Shy too? Hmm...not what I expected after this morning's episode."

"It wasn't an episode!"

Eyal shrugged, and picked a book he had brought with him, and began to read. There was a few moment of silences until Joe got bored and decided to make "small talk".

"Why are you here anyway?" Joe said a little too arrogantly then she had planned.

Eyal's eyebrows went up, in surprise partly because of her attitude and displeasure she had interrupted his reading.

"I madam, am here to guard you, by orders of the Captain."

"Oh."

"Why you thought I came here just for pleasure?"

"No."

"...Well maybe I did partly, with such a beautiful girl down here, why not?"

Josephine didn't know whether to be disgusted, or happy with the compliment. She decided to be disgusted.

"You should keep your distasteful marks to yourself."

"And how was I being "distasteful"?"

"Its not proper to remark on a woman's appearance, when you are down in a dungeon, in the dark, alone, and have the key to her cell."

Eyal put his head slightly to the right when he heard this and then went on to say "First of all, I'm a pirate so I don't care whats proper or not proper. And second, if I had wanted to do something along the lines of what you were talking about I would have done it already."

"Ha!"

"Oh, you don't think so?" he said rising to his feet.

Josephine silenced herself, and took a step back from where she had been standing.

"That's what I thought." said Eyal in a more menacing tone then Joe felt fit for him.

All the sudden this uncomfortable situation was violently disrupted when both of them were sent to the floor in a bang that shook the ship as if it was in the middle of a hurricane. Eyal and Josephine rose up and looked at each other. Eyal then ran upstairs. Joe only heard orders from her father and Pince at first, and then all the sudden she heard someone else saying loud and clear "Jack Sparrow, I think it's a good time for negotiation!"