A/N: So sorry about the REALLY short chapter. I had writer's block and needed to get that idea out before it fizzled. And sorry it's been so long since I updated. I worked 'til 2 last night and then had to be back at 9 this morning. Hope this chapter is liked. Read and review please?

thomthom

At World's End: Chapter 13

Will saw Danielle fall down by Barbossa at the bow of the ship. He ran towards her and knelt down when he was next to her and Barbossa.

"What happened?" Will asked.

"She fainted…again," Barbossa semi-smirked.

"Are you sure she just fainted?"

"Positive. She was standing there talking one second, on the deck the next."

"How odd. Where's the blood coming from?" Will asked as soon as he saw a smudge underneath her.

"She must have hit her head."

"Let's move her to her cabin. I've got her." Will said, picking her unconscious body off the wooden deck.

"I hope she's all right." Elizabeth whispered as she watched her being carried away.

"I'm sure she's just fine." Barbossa nodded.

They took her to her cabin and put her on the bed.

"She should probably have some water," Will said, looking to Pintel and Ragetti. The two then rushed off in search of clean drinking water, leaving Will and Elizabeth looking after Danielle.

"Has she stopped bleeding?"

"Yes."

"We should probably get the corset off of her," Elizabeth told Will. "Will you help me sit her up?"

"Sure."

He bent and sat the limp body of Dani up. Elizabeth quickly undid the laces and the blue dress was slipped from her body and placed gently by Will over the chair. And for the first time, they saw a small blue tattoo of a bird, a sparrow to be exact. That it would match Jack's. The only difference was that it was smaller. It was placed in the center of her right shoulder, almost on her collarbone, where a dress would cover it.

"She's got one like Jack's."

"I wonder how she escaped the pirate brand," Elizabeth said after taking a quick glance at her bare arms.

"I wonder how Jack didn't."

She started to stir about that time.

"Dani, are you okay?" Will asked as soon as her eyes opened.

"I'm okay…I think."

"Do you know what happened?"

"The last thing I remember is Barbossa pushing me into the mast."

"That would explain the blood. She hit her head," Elizabeth turned away from Dani and told Will.

They both turned back to her in order to watch her furiously searching the room with her eyes.

"Where's the compass?"

"The compass?"

"Yes, the compass. I had it out when Barbossa came to talk to me."

"Maybe we ought to go find him."

"That might be wise," Dani said as she left the cabin in just her underclothes that left little to the imagination.

Elizabeth and Will reached the deck just in time to see Dani with Barbossa at gunpoint.

"Give me back my bloody compass!"

"Darlin', I was just borrowing it," Barbossa lied, he had his own gun pointed at his temple.

"Give it back or you die. Take your pick." She cocked the gun.

"Here," he almost threw it at her as he answered her.

"Take my things again and you'll be down in Davy Jones's locker," she threatened before shivering. She hadn't realized how cold it had become. It could have also been the fact that she didn't have her dress on anymore. And that was when she realized the entire crew, including Will, was staring at her almost non-existent clothing. "I'll be retiring to my cabin now," she told them. She had never been embarrassed before, and she wasn't now. She was just tired and cold and her head throbbed. She needed to be away from Barbossa before she actually killed him. Which she was probably going to do just to save her sanity.