Belle's eyes fluttered open and she found herself not in her normal room where she would usually sleep. The room had two single beds, one of which she was lying on, with a small bedside table on one side of the beds, a desk and then her eyes landed on a sleeping Jack in the armchair at the end of the bed.
She slowly sat up in her bed, wincing from the pain from the beating last night, she tried not to cry out in pain because she didn't want to wake Jack up but the pain was too much and cried out anyway making him jump.
Jack suddenly woke up after hearing someone yell, he looked round and saw Belle struggling to sit up and rushed over to help her.
"Why didn't you wait for me to wake up?" he asked annoyed.
"I was getting uncomfortable lying in the position that I was in, besides I didn't want to wake you up" said Belle. Jack just shook his head.
"Let me clean up that cut of yours eh?" said Jack as he walked over to where a sink was. He put some water in a bucket and got a cloth and sat down opposite Belle on the bed and started to clean off the dry blood down the side of her face. He then opened a bottle of rum and tipped some of it onto the cloth. "Now this is going to hurt" he said warningly, and he put the cloth over the cut and heard Belle yell out in pain and felt her grab his other hand.
"There, all better" he said pleased with his handy work.
"Thank you" she said kindly.
"Now what I wanna know is why anyone would want to hurt a sweet, pretty girl like you?" said Jack, still sitting on the bed.
"I don't know, Harry had been beating me ever since I started working there" she said weakly, she sounded like she had no energy left in her whatsoever.
Belle pulled her dress sleeves up to show Jack multiple cuts, scars and bruises she had received over the years and anger boiled up inside of Jack as his eyes ran over the scars. Belle then showed him the several bruises on her legs, which made Jack even more angry.
"That bastard got what he deserved" he said angrily looking at Belle, who had started crying silent tears. "Don't cry, it's all in the past now, he won't be hurting you any more, I made sure of that" he said softly, Belle just nodded and wiped away her tears.
Jack stood up from the bed to let Belle have a minute to herself, he walked over to the window and scanned his eyes over the docks watching the ships coming in and out of the harbour, then his eyes landed on a black ship with black sails. Jack felt a stab of excitement when he saw the ship.
"It can't be," he said quietly to himself.
"Can't be what?" asked Belle.
Jack rubbed his eyes and looked closer and more carefully at the black ship he finally realised what ship it was: The Black Pearl.
"Jack what is it?" asked Belle.
"It's the Pearl."
"The Black Pearl?!?"
"Yes" he said excitedly. He turned around and looked at Belle, "You stay here, I'll be back in a couple of hours, I'll lock the door so no one comes in." And with that he left the room. Belle decided to go to sleep until Jack got back.
A couple of hours later Jack came back and banged open the door waking up Belle. "Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up, but we have to leave now" he said.
"Why?" said Belle.
"Because we are leaving Tortuga, c'mon" said Jack helping Belle stand up.
They left the hotel quickly, Jack keeping a tight hold on Belle's hand so she didn't go off anywhere. They soon found themselves walking along the docks, Belle was in a trance looking at all the magnificent ships, but she was soon brought out of it when Jack started yelling.
"Gibbs!" yelled Jack making Belle jump.
"Aye Captain!" said Gibbs. Belle looked at him and saw that he was quite an elderly man, short and slightly plump with grey hair.
"Where's the crew?" asked Jack.
"Already on board sir!" said Gibbs indicating the black ship behind him; Belle looked up at it gasped.
"Excellent" said Jack happily.
"And who might this young lady be?" asked Gibbs looking at Belle which made her stop gaping at the ship in front of her.
"This is my dear friend Belle" Jack said proudly.
"Nice to meet you Belle" said Gibbs. Belle just smiled.
"Ladies first" said Jack showing Belle the gangplank which she walked across onto the magnificent ship with Jack and Gibbs right behind her.
"Is this the Black Pearl?" asked Belle when Jack appeared at her side.
"Yes it is, and I am now taking back what is rightfully mine!" said Jack proudly who then started shouting out orders to the crew.
The crew soon found themselves out at sea. Belle was standing at the side of the ship with the sea breeze blowing in her face and was transfixed at the view of the Caribbean Sea that lied right in front of her until she felt someone tap on her shoulder. She turned around and saw Jack looking at her.
"Enjoying yourself are you?" asked Jack.
"Yes I am," she said looking out over the sea as she said it. "Thank you Jack."
"For what?" he asked confused.
"For saving me" she said smiling at him; he smiled back at her.
"Well I think this calls for a celebration, don't you?" said Jack climbing up to stand on the railing. "Can I have your attention please!" shouted Jack, and all the crew stopped what they were doing to look at him, "Tonight we will celebrate the taking back of what is rightfully ours!" The crew responded with a chorus of 'Ayes!'
Jack climbed back down again, "Let me show you to your room" he said to Belle.