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Miss. Swann was thrown into the office and the door slammed behind her. She beat upon the door for a few moments before turning around, seeing me for the first time. Her heart leapt into hope.

"Whatever you're thinking, don't." I said, putting up my hand to keep her from talking.

For only a few minutes I had been sitting by a window, contemplating on life at Port Royal when Miss. Swann intruded on them. I was just itching to get back home and start over. I wanted everything to be different. I wanted our lives to be peaceful. As I turned to look at Miss. Swann, she had a look on her face that made me instantly know she planned to use me for a crime.

"Baroness Norrington, you have to help me! Will is in the cave and-"

I shook my head. "James will kill them all, Miss. Swann…"

Her voice quivered in anger suddenly. "They can't be killed! They're already dead."

I shook my head and moved back in agitation. "That's impossible…"

She grabbed my hand and pulled me upward. "If you don't help me, it's very likely your husband will get killed. Stop ignoring the fact that no matter how much you try to hide, people need your help…James needs your help."

My face fell rigid into cold complicity. "I will help you on one condition."

"Anything…" Her eyes glowed with hope.

"Don't you dare," I leaned close to her face, our noses almost touching, "call my husband by his first name again. It's Commodore Norrington to you."

She nodded, gulping down her fear of me. The next moment, I was tearing sheets off the bed and tying them into a rope. I knocked the window open and leveled Miss. Swann onto the railing.

"I'm going to go get a boat." I said before running off onto the deck.

Gillette starred at me as I put a rowboat to the water and stepped down into it. "Baroness! You can't-"

"Shut up Gillette! If you want to keep your job, you will stay quiet!" I yelled at him.

I ignored his look of horror on his young face and rowed to the back of the boat, helping Miss. Swann lower herself into it. I took her to the Black Pearl helping her up the steps, feeling like a man courting a woman. We jumped onto the boat, but noises from downstairs hurled us into a hiding place. I soon found myself pushing a rowboat on top of two pirates, hurtling them into the water. Miss. Swann disappeared down below for a minute, and then came back up with an entire crew behind her.

I stepped down into our rowboat, waiting for her. Nothing happened for a while, then, she came down…all by herself.

"Let me guess…they stuck to the code."

She nodded.

I rowed.

I looked back at the Interceptor only to find gun shots and swords clanging in the moonlight. The pirates had gotten onto the ship. I shot a glance at where James had been waiting silently before…no one was there.

"James!" I whispered as I heard groaning and pains of despair.

"Baroness! Keep going!" Miss. Swann yelled at me.

I kept rowing, dropping her off onto the island, but before I could go save James, Miss. Swann pushed me into the cave.

"You said you would help me…and you're going to help me until I save Will!" She ordered.

I had no time to react for at that moment, I was jumped upon my some dingy looking pirate with long hair. I peered into the eyes of my attacker, to find it was the woman.

"We meet again, Baroness!" She hissed at me, speaking for the first time.

I punched her in the face, sprawling to grab hold of the floor. Just as I stood up, she tackled me, pulling out a sword and slicing my arm.

"Ah!" I screamed in pain as she yanked me up, ready to slit my throat. "Why?" I asked her, before she could dig the silver blade into my skin.

She laughed an evil laugh, pulling my head back through my hair. "Because you're aristocratic existence is humiliating …"

The cold blade slowly lowered onto my skin, making everything freeze. At that moment a bomb went off behind us, making us fly to the floor. I stood up and ran away, but the woman grabbed my elbow. There was gunfire a split second later and a falling of a body. The woman looked back to see Captain whatever his name was lying on the floor.

"Father!" She screamed.

I felt no pity. She now knew how it felt to have her parents ripped from her. A twinkling tear slid down her cheek, but, knowing she would be captured if she stayed, she rowed her way out of the cave. I knew I would see her again, hopefully on a noose. I gasped as I saw that Sparrow had shot the man who killed my parents. Running up from my silent squirm to stand up, I ran to Sparrow and threw my arms about him.

"Thank you!" I cried to him.

"Brennie, I don't think now is the opportune moment to thank me." He stood stalk still.

I let go and straightened, remembering my status. "Why not?"

Sparrow curtly nodded to the Interceptor and the missing Black Pearl. His fate struck me with a blow. My husband was going to hang him.

"I'm sorry…" Sparrow muttered to me.

"For wha-"

I screamed as he thrust me up onto his shoulder. "Tell Commodore Norrington I have his wife and I won't let her go until he comes and fetches her!"

Miss. Swann and Mr. Turner were silent, watching the scene of him pulling me onto the top of the golden mountain and sitting me down on top of it. Miss. Swann and Mr. Turner scampered off instantly for the rowboat, determined to tell James what had happened as quickly as possible. The cave was silent as Sparrow moved to the bottom of the mountain.

"That stuff you said before, was it true?" I asked, breaking the icy silence he was giving me.

He looked at me as he placed a golden crown on his head. "What stuff?"

"About me not marrying who my parents wished me to marry?"

He returned my steady gaze with a calm force, thinking about his answer. "It's the same old story, love. Every woman desires something she is forbidden to have."

I smiled, feeling calm that he didn't know about Lord Beckett.

"But," my spirits dropped when he continued, "I know Lord Beckett well enough to know that when he wants something, there's no stopping him."

My heart froze. He knew about Lord Beckett. "How do you-"

"Brennie, everyone knows that Lord Beckett is obsessed with someone. I just happen to know that it's you." Sparrow pointed the gun to my head and waited for half an hour before James appeared. Men filed in one after the other behind James. The men surrounded the cave, creating a stiff barrier, holding their guns in their hands. James held his sword out, ready to strike at any moment. "Well, I did somewhat half expect an ill conceived attempt at capture, but not from you."

Sparrow bowed with a smirk on his face. "My dear Commodore…I wish to strike a bargain."

James's icy stare sliced through Sparrow, but did not make him fumble for words as he continued. "I give you Brennie-"

James raised his eyebrow in suspicion.

"Er, I mean Baroness Norrington…in exchange for my freedom." Sparrow quickly mended.

James shook his head. "I can kill you now and take her, or you can be hanged and I will take her. Either way, there is no other option but accepting your death."

A small smirk flicked upon his face, but was gone when Sparrow mounted the golden mound and pulled me back, my head at gun point. "I've got a better idea, mate. How about you give me a day's head start and in return I'll give you the Baroness, savvy?"

A sigh of resentment and irritated tones escaped James. "Done."

Sparrow jumped down from the mound and stalked over to James. "Thank you, Commodore. Now, do we have an accord?"

James shook the man's outstretched hand, but let go as soon as he could.

Sparrow turned and walked off towards a rowboat, but came back to face James one last time. "Just to let you know…you don't deserve her…"

Sparrow turned to me, bowed, and stalked off once again leaving James's jaw to tighten in anger. He looked up at me, allowing me to come to him. I tapped over and stood rigidly, knowing very well that James had found his new course of action. The day after tomorrow, things would never be the same.