Belle woke up early next morning to the sound of crashing waves, she wondered where she was at first but then remembered where she was, onboard the Black Pearl with Captain Jack Sparrow. She got dressed and went up on deck to find the crew already up and working. She decided she liked life at sea but didn't want to sit around all day doing nothing. She saw Jack at the wheel and decided to ask him if there was anything she could do.
"Morning Jack!" Belle said happily when she reached the helm.
Jack was too busy staring out to sea to even notice Belle walk up the stairs, until a hand waved in front of his face which made him look round at her. "Oh, morning" he said smiling.
"Are you OK? Because you were acting really strange last night," said Belle sounding concerned; she obviously cared about him.
Jack suddenly remembered what had happened last night and immediately tried avoiding eye contact with her and looked straight out at the sea again, "Nothing for you to worry about" he said calmly.
Belle knew something was bothering him but she thought she'd better not press the matter because he would only get annoyed, so she decided to change the subject. "Um, is there anything that I can do to help out?" she asked sitting herself upon a wooden table thing attached to the ship facing Jack. "Because I don't want to be sitting around doing nothing all day."
Jack thought for a second. "Well, what sort of work are you good at?"
"Cleaning, cooking those sorts of things really. But I'm not afraid of hard work or breaking a nail" said Belle, which made Jack smile. He could tell she was eager to do something.
"You don't have to do anything, nothing needs doing really, the crew have taken care of that" said Jack. He then saw a disappointed look appear on her face but didn't know what to do about it; he couldn't just start acting all fatherly when she didn't even who he really was to her. But knew he would have to tell her eventually, he just need time to get used to the fact that Belle was daughter.
"I don't want to be treated like royalty, I'm no one important, just a barmaid from Tortuga who ran away on a ship" said Belle who was now close to tears.
"Now don't ever say that your not important," said Jack firmly who was now looking at Belle, but she was looking at the floor sadly. "Belle look at me" he said. Belle looked up from the floor with tears running down her cheeks.
"Gibbs, take the wheel for a moment!" Jack called. Gibbs then came up and took the wheel off Jack and he walked over to where Belle was.
"Don't ever say you're not important, because you are, and you have no idea how important you are, especially to me" said Jack, he didn't want to tell her the truth just yet, but he had to let her know that he did care about her. He saw Belle smile when he said this.
"Take this" he said giving her his compass.
"What's this?" she asked looking at him confused.
"It's my compass and it's unique" he said placing her hands around the compass.
"What do you mean as in 'unique'?" she asked looking at him quizzically.
"It's points to thing you want most in this world." Jack saw Belle look at him with a shocked look on her face as if she didn't believe what he just said.
"That's impossible," she said quietly.
"Nothing's impossible" said Jack giving her a knowing smile which she gladly returned. Jack hoped by giving her the compass she would take a hint and eventually work it out for herself just like he did. "Now you stay here while I go and check what time lunch will be ready."
"OK" said Belle nodding at the same time.
As Jack walked away she thought about what she wanted most in this world, and that was her father. She opened up the compass and she saw it point towards the galley, she looked round and saw Jack walk back out on deck, she then noticed the compass following him the whole time he was walking back up to the helm to her and she closed it again when he reached the top and she held it out to him.
"No no, you keep it for now, you might need it," he said pushing it back towards her. This just made Belle suspicious.