A Pirate Never Lies

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While Jack was in the rec room one hot afternoon playing chess with Gibbs, Iris was in his room scribbling on a piece of paper.

Dear mother and sisters,

I am sorry I haven't written since I ran off. I didn't know if you were still angry with me. I still don't know but I'm taking a chance. During the last month, I had traveled, and I met a nice man. His name is Jack.He let me stay with him and some friends, and we have had a wonderful time. Jack is terribly funny, and has a remark on everything.One of his friends, Anamaria, has become a friend of mine too. She's funny as well, and can easily fluster Jack.

Oh! I'm neglecting to mention Gibbs. I don't know his first name, but Jack calls him Gibbs. He is superstitious, so much so that it is quite funny.

Iris finished up her letter and put it in a envelope. She planned to mail it when they got to the next port. Until then she kept it hidden in the drawer Jack had given her to keep things in. She closed it, locked it, put the key in her bra, and went to the rec room to see what the others were up to.

Jack was studying his moves. He lifted up one of the pieces, but heard Iris make a sound of doubt.He placed the piece back and grabbed another, the sound came again.

"Mind tellin' me what yer doin'?" Jack asked, giving up trying to make her noise stop.

"Your going to make a wrong move." She told him. "He'll win."

"What do you know about chess?"

"Quite a bit." Jack made the wrong move anyway, and of course, lost. "Told you."

"If you know so much, you sit down and play." Iris nodded and sat in Gibbs's place, they started the game over and played until everyone got bored.

Anamaria kept watching, even after she was bored. Iris was confident with her moves, Jack asked how she knew what she was doing, while they played.

"Father taught me while he was in the hospital. He couldn't do much else, so I sat with him and played." She told him, making another, correct move.

Jack lost. A proud grin spread on Iris's face as she saw her victory.


She strode on deck that night.The month she'd been on the Black Pearl was actually quite fun. She'd gotten to know Jack as a friend, and trusted everyone on the ship.

"What have I told ye about walkin' on the rail?" Iris had been, of course, walking on the railing again. She smiled towards Jack's voice.

"Ye told me I'd fall." She told him smartly. Not only had she made friends on the ship, but she had also accustomed their accent."I din't." Just as she said that, she took another step, a wrong step, and slipped. Jack grabbed her arm and pulled her back up before she drowned.

"I told ye!" He told her, half angry that she nearly drowned, half glad she didn't.

"Don't worry Cap'n." That was something she picked up as well, calling him cap'n. "I be fine. I never heard of Jack Sparrow worried over a life." She shot him a smile that told him she was merely kidding.

"Aye. I'd be accused of pushing ye if ye did fall." Jack told her defensively. "Ye be different than that first day I got ye."

"That be because I been around pirates too much." She replied laughing. "Piracy is contagious."

"Aye it is!" he laughed in agreement.


Normally, Iris would have dinner with Anamaria and the crew, but that night was different. Jack invited her to dine with him.

"ain't every day Jack invites one of us to dine with him. Ye best go." Anamaria told her, shoving her out of the crew dining room and locking it. Iris moved from her spot in the hall and down to Jack's dining room, where he had a feast fit for a king sitting infrount of him.

"Plannin' on gorging yourself are ye?" Iris asked as she walked in and sat down in a seat near Jack.

"Nah, I be plannin on gorgin' you!" He replied smartly. She smirked and filled her plate. One of the other things she's forgotten because of Jack's crew, was how to eat like a lady. She ate like most men do, like the men on Jack's ship did. "Ye don't eat much like a lady."

"I learned this from Anamaria and the others." Iris told him after she swallowed a mouth-full of chicken.

"They be rubbin' off on you aye savvy?"

"Aye." She had really felt at home on The Black Pearl. They'd completely forgotten that she was a run-away dressed as a man. They'd stopped asking her questions about her past, but the questions that did arise about her, like what her last name was. She made one up, she was Iris Baudeliare. Her father was a sailing merchant, mother a house-wife that tried to make money by knitting and having her husband sell what she made. She and her sisters had worked odd jobs, mostly at the pub. She had plunged so deep into her lies that she, herself, believed them.

"Rum?" He asked, holding a bottle of rum. She shook her head.

"Ain't much of a drinker." She told him, that was one thing she hadn't learned on Jack Sparrow's ship. How to drink. "Any tea?"

"tea?" Jack repeated, half surprised. "I don't suppose..there might be..." He got up and found a tea bag below deck from a pillage. He had the cook boil it and bring it into her. She poured it like she poured the Match-Maker's tea. When she offered some to him, he declined it. "Rum is my drink." She drank the tea gladly.It's warmth trickling down her throat. She hadn't drank tea in what seemed like forever. She had water or wine with the others.

"Why did ye invite me?" Iris finally asked. Jack looked at her strangely as if it was a crime to invite her to dinner.

"Does Cap'n Sparrow need a reason? Did your papa forget to mention that I act on impulse?"


Jack was lying in his bed, completely drunk off Rum. Iris was sitting at his desk, scribbling in a journal she'd taken on one of the pillages. She was using it as a diary. She'd been writing in it for a week, staying up long after Jack had passed out from his alchahol.

"Why ye be hidin' that body?" He asked her out of the blue. "Ye have a great body!"

"Is that you saying that? or the rum?"

"A 'lil bit of both." Jack told her. "I never hide nuttin! A pirate never lies!" Just after he said that. He passed out, he'd sleep well through the night after he'd passed out. Iris froze mid-word. A pirate never lies... she had been lying to them all. She had been deceiving them. But she was in too deep to re-think her plans. She knew Jack and the others would hate her if they realized that she'd been lying to them since the first day she'd met them.


A pirate never lies is actually put there for guilt effect. I'm sure that Pirates did infact, lie. Jack did. Alot. Also, Baudeliare is the last name of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny from SOUF (Series of unfortunite events) I was at a loss for a good last name so I used theirs.