"May I come in?" Elinor asked from the other side of Jessie's door.

Jessie's eyes grew wide as she looked down at what she was wearing. She was still wearing her pirate clothes and she defiantly hadn't taken a bath.

"Jessica, are you in there?" Elinor asked getting a little impatient.

"Yes, come in!" Jessie said as she quickly jumped into bed and pulled the covers up to her neck.

"Did you take your bath?" Elinor asked inquisitively as she opened the door and made her way towards Jessie.

"Yes" Jessie lied.

"Where'd you put those disgusting clothes then?" Elinor asked, as a very faint smile appeared on her face as she sat down on Jessie's bed.

Ut oh…Jessie thought to herself. Where'd I put the clothes now??? Hmmmmm, let me think… I never took them off!!! I'm dead. Yup, I'm very dead.

"Well, Elinor. I know you expected me to throw them away. But I need to keep them. I need them to remind me of the awful experience I had aboard that disgusting pirate ship. I need them to remind me of that, so I never do something that stupid again." Jessie said, making up her little story as she talked.

"I understand Jessica. I really do." Elinor said to Jessie's surprise.

"Thank you for understanding Elinor" Jessie said with a smile on her face.

"Now Jessica, I know this might be hard for you, but as you know, we're people of high society. And thus we're highly expected to go to the execution of that monstrous pirate tomorrow." Elinor said with emphasis on 'monstrous'.

Jessie had to use all her strength to suppress a laugh. After being with Jack a couple of days, she knew he was everything but monstrous.

"I know, I'll be able to handle it Elinor" Jessie said after regaining her strength.

"Well, you'd better get some sleep then. Goodnight Jessica" Elinor said and then walked through the door and shut it behind her.

Jessie pulled the covers off of her and jumped out of bed. She then took the pirate clothes off and shoved them under the bed. And then she put on her nightclothes and got back into bed.

"I have plans for you Elinor" Jessie said in a whisper, and then she drifted off to sleep.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Jessie slowly opened her eyes to reveal Mary and Harmony scrambling around the room, she then tried to separate her thoughts from her dreams and reality.

"Oh good, your awake Miss spare," Harmony said with a smile.

Jessie nodded and slowly got out of bed, her thoughts finally sorted.

Harmony held up a very pretty beige dress that was obviously new, and then she said, "This is the dress your Aunt picked out for you to wear today."

Gosh, I wonder when Elinor found time to go shopping for me, Jessie thought. But Elinor was Elinor, she had her ways of doing the near impossible.

"Would you like to dress yourself Miss? " Mary asked, remembering the countless times when Jessie begged to dress herself. And Mary also remembered the night before Jessie 'was captured by pirates', when Elinor had sternly told them not to undress Jessie from her dress.

Jessie was tempted by the offer, but she also remembered the night when she took her dress off, and by doing so ripped it in multiple places.

"No, it's quite alright for you to do as planned." Jessie said with a smile.

"Alright," Mary replied.

And then the two maids started to dress Jessie. First they slipped the shift onto her, then they laced up the corset and finally they shoved the dress onto her. Soon Mary was combing out Jessie's hair while Harmony was finishing smoothing out the dress.

"Harmony," Jessie said, "could you please open the window?"

Harmony nodded and then walked over to the window and opened it. Immediately the warm breeze from outside swept onto Jessie's face. Jessie could also smell the salt in the air from the ocean; it smelled like freedom to her.

"Oh my, I suspect it's going to be ghastly hot out today. Do I by any chance have a hat I may wear?" Jessie asked, even though she was sure she did.

"Oh yes, certainly." Harmony said while she scurried off to find the hat.

"Ouch!" Jessie exclaimed when the comb came to a knot in her hair.

"Sorry Miss," Mary replied, and then continued to comb Jessie's hair.

Harmony soon came out of the closet with a fine beige colored hat that matched Jessie's dress excellently. She then put it on Jessie's head and tied the white lace under her chin.

"That was a fine idea of yours, if I may say so, Miss Spare." Harmony said.

"Thank you," Jessie replied.

Suddenly Elinor's voice rang through the house.

"Are you ready yet Jessica?" Elinor yelled.

Mary was going to do something with Jessie's hair, but she had just finished getting the knots out so she didn't have time.

"Your ready now, Miss" Mary said.

"Okay, I'll be down in a minute." Jessie said, and then Mary and Harmony quickly shuffled out the door.