I just received a review from Smithy and I would like to thank him for the review because there was not reply URL. I would also like to know more detail about his Oliver theory! It wasn't what I was thinking but I think it's a brilliant idea and I might decide to put it in the story somewhere.

Disclaimer: I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean.

Chapter 2

"To have and to hold…for better for worse…in sickness and in health" these words were going round and round in my head. I was over the moon but father's words before the wedding had really got to me.

I had witnessed men beating up their wives when Dad and I stayed in Tortuga for a rest with the crew after four months of solid sailing. We had heard shouting and banging about from next door to the inn we were staying in.

Thud…thud…scream…thud…scream

That's all we could hear from next door. I was only nine years old but I knew what those thuds and screams were all about. I had seen the man and his wife in the town earlier in the day, they were having an argument over something or another and then they went somewhere. Dad, the crew and I were trying to find somewhere to stay for the night. When we got to The Blue Diamond Inn we found the same man and woman going into the next house.

Once we had settled in and we were all laughing and talking, we started to hear shouting and then a loud thud. Next there were screams and more thuds.

Thud…scream…thud

"Right that's it! I'm going over; I can't just sit here knowing that bastard's battering his wife" said Dad after a while. He got up and left the room, just out of curiosity, I followed.

I followed father out of the inn and round to the house. He walked in very quietly, without making a sound. I did my best to follow silently as I crept behind Dad.

We found the pair in the upstairs bedroom, the woman was lead in the corner, blood was covering her face and her dress, the man was knelt on her with his fist raised.

"You bloody wench! That'll teach you to disobey me!" yelled the man, he brought his fist down on the woman's face.

I watched as Dad crept up behind the man, he got a vase from a near by deck and raised it into the air, bringing it down on the man's head.

The man went unconscious and fell to the floor, once Dad moved him to the side; he picked up the sobbing woman and carried her to the bed, he spotted me for the first time and set the woman down onto the bed.

"Lily Sparrow, what the hell are you doing?" he hissed

"nothin'" I replied, I went over to the bed and got a cloth from the desk. I began to clean away the blood.

"Thank you" said the woman before she slipped away into a slumber.

"I don't remember telling you to come" Dad said

"No" I replied

"Then why did you? This is not a sight I like to see for myself, never mind for my nine year old daughter too"

"Curiosity" I said before putting the cloth back on the desk and going back to the inn.

The next morning we were preparing to set sail when the same woman came running down to the docks yelling for us to stop.

"Stop! Please! Take me with you!" she yelled

"Its bad luck Cap'n" said Gibbs from next to Dad

"Sorry lass, you'll have to face your issues on your own"

"No!" screamed the woman as we sailed away. I felt sorry for her, but we were pirates, it was no place for landlubbers. I watched the woman's figure shrink as we sailed away, and then an angry looking figure took her away.

"Poor woman" I whispered.

"Who's a poor woman?" asked Oliver as he came up beside me. I hadn't thought of that day for a long time, but it had affected me since Dad warned me before the wedding.

"Just some woman" I replied

"Oh" said Oliver "I love you" he said

"I love you to" I said. "Oliver?" I asked

"Yeah?"

"If…if you were to get mad with me you…you…you wouldn't…you wouldn't hurt me would you?"

"No of course not!" he said "why would I get mad with you?"

"I don't know I knew you wouldn't" I said.

"Then why'd you ask?"

"Curiosity"