Here's another chapter. Updates should becoming a bit quicker now

Thanks for your comments ClumsyElf, and GoneOutForSomeChicken. The made me smile. Don't worry Beckett wil get his just rewards. Not now... but eventually. smirks evilly I basically have the entire stoy planned out it my mind. I'm just in the process of tranforming it into actual typed word.

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Without further ado, I give you Chapter 5.

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Chapter 5: "P for Pirate"

Feronia wandered down the narrow, dimly-lit passageway. She proceeded right past the burning lantern, ignoring Jack's instructions. Her destination: under deck steerage. Her reasoning was clouded by the stolen freedom of the people who had accepted her into their world, when everywhere else she was denied.

IN the steerage, human forms were entangled in close quarters amongst a labyrinth of chains and locks. When they spotted her their eyes widened with hope. She met their eyes with an assuring look and held her finger to her mouth to signal silence. Feronia furiously worked on breaking the chain, but the clinking aroused the suspicion of a nearby foe.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Beckett alleged sarcastically.

Feronia froze in her tacks and swallowed the lump developing in her throat.

In Beckett's cabin…

Jack reviewed his story in his head, patiently preparing his exact words. His concentration was disturbed by a knock on the door, followed by Beckett's entrance. Jack promptly rose to greet him.

"Hello Jack, I hope I'm not interrupting you and…." Becket began, "hey say where is the witch?"

"Well you see, she was not being obedient so I had to dispose of her." Jack explained trying to twist his mouth in to a wicked grin.

"Oh really, then what did you do with the body?"

"Oh, the body,…. I threw it overboard"

"Mmm, that's a fascinating story Mr. Sparrow, but then how would you explain what this?" With the snap of Beckett's fingers Feronia was heaved into the cabin once again in shackles by two men. She had obviously been severely beaten.

Jack remained silent, knowing his plan was foiled

"Now place her in the brig and leave me and Mr. Sparrow to discuss this mater in private." Only Jack and Beckett remained in the room.

"Mr. Sparrow Do you not appreciated everything I've done for you?" Jack focused his attention on the floor boards. "I saved you from a fate of piracy when I rescued you from you ending up a dead-beat drunken pirate like your father, Captain Teague, in Tortuga. Yet the act you just performed is considered an act of piracy."

"How!? I am not a pirate!" Jack shouted trying to escape his past in Tortuga.

"You released her and she tried to provoke a mutiny. Not to mention she is also stolen property." Becket stoked the crackling fire that cast an eerie warm glow throughout the cabin. When He peered at the red hot "P" burning among hot coals on the end of the poker, Beckett thought of the perfect punishment for Jack Sparrow.

"Now, time to discuss your punishment." Beckett glanced over at Jack and soon realized how out of reach Jack was. "Mr. Sparrow, move closer….because I want to make sure hear this" Beckett lied through his teeth. His intentions were much more malicious.

Jack skeptically neared him with his brows furrowed in distrust and fear and then waited for Beckett to continue.

Beckett swiftly grabbed Jack's wrist and drove the red hot "P" into his forearm. Jack roared from the excruciating pain as tears pours from his eyes. Smoke rose from Jack sizzling flesh, but Beckett just pushed harder.

"This is to remind you of what you never want to become!" Beckett hollered over Jack's howls. "Consider that a blessing!!!" Finally Beckett removed the poker.

Jack clenched his freshly branded skin and grit his teeth as he dropped to his knees.

"Now get up and stop your babying! Follow me!" Beckett roughly grabbed Jack by his collar and dragged him on deck. Several men were aroused from their drunken stupor and came to investigate.

"Go fetch me that whore in the brig" Beckett ordered to no one unparticular, but his demeanor showed the crew that he was not in a pleasant mood, and they speedily obeyed. Then he once again turned his attention over to Jack.

"Mr. Sparrow from now on you are banished from my ship and warranted a pirate, an enemy to the East Indian Trading Company. You are to leave this ship at once"

"Now please Beckett you can't. I have no where to go."

"Then listen. That witch you tried to help escape shall go with you. I'll forget about this little incident and you'll get you promotion and your life back IF and only IF… you return with her dead body flung over your shoulders."

"The dark side of ambition." Jack solemnly whispered. He knew he had to make sacrifices, bur how far was his soul willing to go?

"I prefer to look at it as the promise of redemption."

Feronia was brought up on deck. "Now what do ye bastards want?"

"You're free," said Beckett, "You can jump into the sea and swim ashore."

"Really?" She questioned disbelievingly.

"Yes" Beckett answered.

"Then are you going to remove these?" she asked holding out her shackled wrists.

"No, Mr. Sparrow will have the keys and he will accompany you to shore so I suggest that you better not stray far from him." Beckett tossed Jack the keys. Then without hesitation Feronia dove off the ship into the choppy black sea.

"Jack I suggest you go after her because that's your future swimming away."

Jack stared at eh the keys he held in his hand and contemplated throwing them back in Beckett's face. Then his attention shifted to the "P" that was now permanently engraved into his flesh. P for pirate. This is to remind you of what you never want to become! was all he could hear in his head. Jack then dove into the dark sea after Feronia. To Jack she was his last chance of an outstanding captain of The East Indian Trading Company. In reality, she was his future of being one of the most feared pirate captains of the Caribbean.

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