Okay, after not getting as many reviews as I expected…I'm continuing on!

Let me know how you think the new twist is; seeing as I suppose this is starting to turn into a Pirates fic.

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I stalked the cabin, consumed with both curiosity and hunger.

"Why the hell had I wound up here and not Paris!" I thought angrily, wanting to throw something. I wanted to be back with Christine and Meg…and get revenge on Erik! Not stuck on the Black Pearl as Elizabeth!

When I first woke from my coma, I found myself in Elizabeth's dream from the first movie, and then I 'woke' from the dream and had to go through her morning and afternoon routine, ending up being taken by pirates back to the Black Pearl.

True it was me who said Parley and forgot to fix up the deal, but I mean really.

Thank God I had seen the movie so much that I could mouth the words along with her...

But still! It was more like the first screen play anyhow! The characters looked the same, including me for that matter, and it was the last fact that was making me seriously confused.

As we all know, before I had been my own person…but now I had somehow morphed into Elizabeth Swann as played by Kiera Knightley…

The cabin door opened, and Pintel entered, carrying 'the dress.'

"You'll be dinnin' with the captain, an' 'e requests you wear this." He said, gesturing to the dress.

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Well you may tell the Captain that I am disinclined to acquiesce his request."

Pintel chuckled.

"'e said you'd say that…'e also said that if that be the case…you'll be dining with the crew…and you'll be naked."

I grabbed the dress from him, and the happy look on his face disappeared.

"Fine." He said huffily, and left me to dress.

I examined the plum dress that had imprinted itself into the minds of Pirates fans for years. Some of the girls I know back home, mostly my friends, would absolutely die to be able to wear the dress and be in my position, so I suppose I should be thankful that eventually I got to make out with Will, who looks like Orlando Bloom, but I really didn't. I'd rather make out with Etha…

"Oh no you don't!" I snapped aloud, mentally shoving that thought away.

I stripped off the dressing robe and nightgown, and stepped into the white shift, wishing that it was the familiar clothing style of the nineteenth century instead. I slipped on the dress and shut all the many clasps on the front of the dress, smoothing the front down when I was done.

I was still in the house-slippers and without stockings, but it wasn't as though you could tell under the dress.

But it still felt odd as I was sitting down in the Captain's quarters at the diner table with Barbossa himself.

Even though I was ravenous from not eating for near two days, I kept myself composed and took dainty bites, cutting the meat carefully.

Barbossa chuckled. "There's no need to stand on ceremony, and no call to impress anyone…you must be hungry."

I nodded briefly, and grabbed the pig leg or whatever it was and dug in, tearing off bites that satisfied my stomach with every bit.

"Try the wine…" he said, pouring a goblet.

I grabbed it from him and took a swig, feeling my tongue go to the roof of my mouth. I hadn't really had wine before, and it tasted bitter to my inexperienced taste buds.

I grabbed some of the bread and took a bite, getting the terrible taste of the wine out of my mouth.

"And the apples…one of those next…" Barbossa said, offering a green granny smith.

I grabbed it and readied to take a bite, but remembered that I was supposed to be afraid of poison.

I dropped it.

"It's poisoned." I said, pushing the plate away.

He gave a bit of a laugh. "There's no sense to be killin' you Miss Turner…"

"Then release me, you have your trinket, I'm of no further value to you!" I said, quoting from memory.

He gave a grim smile and reached inside his coat, pulling out the medallion.

"You don't know what this is…do you?" he said, and inside my mind I finished the rest of his lines for him.

"It's a pirate medallion." I said instead.

"It's a piece of the treasure of the Isle de Muerta."

I shrugged, revising the lines in my head from the movie, and tried to remember what all he said in the original script.

"Ah, so you don't know as much as you pretend…Back when Cortés was cutting a great bloody swath through the New World, a high priest gave him all the gold he had with one condition: that he spare the people's lives. Of course, Cortés being Cortés, he didn't."

He paused. "He'd've made a good pirate, that one."

I said nothing, my mind starting to wander.

"So the priest, with his dying breath, called on the power of the blood of his people and put on the gold a curse. As anyone took so much as a single piece, as he was compelled by greed, by greed he would be consumed.

"Within a day of leaving the Port of Spain, on the treasure ship carrying the gold, something went wrong. The ship run aground, every man on the ship dead, save for one. He survived long enough to hide the gold onshore.

"Over time, the dark magic of the curse seeped into the place, making it a cursed island. And island of death…Isle de Muerta."

He looked back up at me from the coin, and I brought my mind back from it's wandering to say the next line.

"That's all very interesting, but I hardly believe in ghost stories anymore, Capitan Barbossa." I said dismissively.

He stood up in a rage that made me coil back into my chair. He swept the food off the table with one angry swipe of his arm.

"You idiot girl!" he stormed "It's no make believe! My crew and I, we found the gold and we took more than one piece…we took it all! Rich men we were, and so we spent and frittered it away on food and drink and pleasurable company! But we soon found out: the drink could not satisfy…food turned to ash in our mouths…and all the pleasurable company in the world could not ease our torment!"

He stopped, and regained his composure almost immediately, but I still remained thrust back against my chair in fright from his harsh tones.

"We are cursed men, Miss Turner, forever cursed to be consumed by our greed. The gold calls to us, always, and we are driven, always, to find more, and add to the already priceless treasure.

"There is but one way to remove the curse. All of the scattered pieces must be returned in full, and the blood repaid. We've recovered every piece, save for this."

He held up the medallion chain with a clenched fist, dangling it in front of my face.

"And as for the blood repaid, that's where we have use for you. That's why there's no sense to be killin' you…yet."

I knew that he really wasn't going to kill Elizabeth…me…but seeing him leer at me in person really made me tremble and give him a horrified look worthy enough for any movie.

He took back the medallion and set it carefully back in his chest pocket, and I took the moment to slip the knife off the table and into my lap, covering it with a napkin.

Barbossa glanced down at the floor, saw an apple, and flipped it from the floor with his boot, catching it in his hands and then offering it to me.

"Apple?" he grinned, and I grabbed the knife, batting the apple away with my wrist.

He jerked back, and I stood, making the chair clatter over behind me as I kept the hand with the knife at the level of my eyes…gee, what a coincidence…

I dodged around him, running for the door, but he leapt out from behind a pillar. I stepped back as he tried to fake me out. I lunged to the right, but he grabbed me 'round the middle and I twisted around to face him, stabbing him in the heart.

I backed up, horrified, forgetting that he couldn't die. From my mind it seemed that my prior knowledge of the movie and script evaporated out of my mind.

He opened up his shirt to get a better look, and then pulled out the knife that was covered in his blood to the hilt.

"I'm curious…after killing me, what is it that you planned to do next?" he said, and I noticed that he wasn't bleeding from the chest like any normal human would.

I backed away, and whirled, banging the Cabin doors open as I fled onto the main deck.

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Wow…so she's Elizabeth now?

Interesting…very interesting…

Anyhow, please review!