Belle woke up to the sound of waves crashing against the ship like she did every morning, but this was a very different morning. Belle eyes suddenly shot open and she sat up, the memory of last night coming back to haunt her. She remembered where she was, in the cold, dark, damp and lonely cell of The White Flag.
Belle sat there in the solitary conditions of the brig and slowly took in her surroundings. There are four cells, including her own, with one window in each cell and a dimly lit lantern in each cell too. She then noticed a plate with a slice of bread on it and a glass of water. She ate the bread but as thirsty as she was she dare not touch the water because for all she knew it could be dirty or poisonous. Instead she closed her eyes and pretended it was all a bad dream, she smiled at the memory of Jack, her father, telling her that was the way he got by in life when things got bad. She imagined she was back on the Pearl with Jack, Will, Gibbs and the crew in hope that one day she might see them again.
By about midday Belle heard the door to the brig open and laid on the floor as if she were asleep. She heard the cell door open and someone put a plate and glass down, shut the cell door and leave the brig. She turned over on her side and saw another slice of bread and fresh glass of water. She ate the bread but left the water and then went back to sleep.
Belle didn't wake up until it was dark outside. She sat in the darkest corner of the cell and she looked out of the window at the stars. She saw the brig door open and the same two pirates from last night, the skinny one holding a lantern, open the cell door and both of them dragged her up to a standing position.
"Now you keep your mouth shut, unless you're told to open it" said Pintel and the two pirates led Belle up on to the main deck and into the Captain's Quarters. They shoved her into the room and left her there, she slowly turned around and saw Barbosa sitting at a table in the centre of the room, looking at her lustfully. This frightened her immensely.
"Sit down," said Barbosa. Belle didn't move. "I said, sit down." He said it a lot more forcefully and Belle slowly and carefully walked over to sit down in the chair on the other side of the table opposite Barbosa. "Good girl."
"What do you want?" asked Belle.
"Well what man, such as myself wouldn't want a girl such as you all to himself, hmm?" asked Barbosa a bit too seductively for Belle's liking making her stomach turn.
"You make me sick" she said with a tone of disgust in her voice. Belle heard him chuckle a little.
"Well your father makes me sick, he has my ship you see" said Barbosa.
"The Pearl has never belonged to you, it belonged to my dad way before he met you" said Belle coldly, "and if the Pearl does 'belong' to you how come you haven't tried to take it away yet?"
"Because it's you I want first, then the Pearl and when I kill your father I'll have both" said Barbosa cackling slightly. Belle looked at him with a look of disgust. "Don't look at me like that."
"Why shouldn't I? You are pretty disgusting for someone such as yourself."
"I'll tell ye who's disgusting: your father. Taking advantage of women, young and old."
"He doesn't take advantage of women. The only women he sleeps with are whores and they want to be taken advantage of because that is what they are there for."
"He's a pirate."
"And a good man" said Belle coldly. "He would never kill and innocent man or woman unless he had a good reason. Besides, what do you have against Jack anyway?"
"He killed me once and stole my goddamn ship!" Barbosa said rather loudly.
"It's not your ship!" Belle said even louder. Barbosa looked at her strangely he had never had a prisoner stand up to him like that and he admired her for it.
"You're a brave girl I'll give you that, just like your father," said Barbosa standing up. Belle's heartbeat suddenly quickened. He walked around the table and stood behind her.
"You didn't answer my question from before," said Belle.
"Remind me what it was" Barbosa whispered into her ear.
"What do you want?" asked Belle.
"You" Barbosa whispered softly into her ear and placed a hand down the front of her dress.
Belle tried to scream but Barbosa's other hand covered her mouth, which stopped her from doing so.
"Don't you dare make a sound" he said evilly while caressing her breast.
Belle bit his hand that was covering her mouth and dug her long nails into the wrist of his other hand. Belle heard him yell out in pain and she made a run for the door but was pulled back by Barbosa and pushed up against the wall. He ran a hand up her leg, he tried to kiss her but she turned her head and ended up kissing her neck instead. Using all her strength she could muster, she pushed him backwards and over the table. She saw him stand up and walk back over to her and she slapped him, hard.
"You're gonna pay for that missy" said Barbosa coldly with one hand over his slapped face, "ten lashes from the whip!" he said loudly, at the same time there was a loud crack of thunder and Belle could here the rain start to fall. "Pintel! Ragetti!" he shouted. Belle looked round at the door and saw the two pirates from earlier walk in. "Ten lashes for this one" said Barbosa indicating Belle standing in front of him.
Pintel and Ragetti grabbed her by the arms and threw her down on the wet wood of the main deck. Two other pirates then dragged her back up on her feet and ripped the back of her dress open. Belle stood there soaked to the bone with a bare back waiting for her punishment; it wasn't a long wait. Each lashing hurt like hell, but she didn't scream, not once did she scream. She would cry afterwards though, when no one else was around. She was a brave girl, not really scared of anything, except losing her father. After all, was she was Captain Jack Sparrow's daughter and she was proud of it no matter what anyone said.
After the lashing was over Pintel and Ragetti grabbed her by the arms again, took her down to the brig and threw her into her cell. She hit the wall with a loud thud again and collapsed onto the floor in a heap. When she heard the brig door shut again she burst into tears and cried herself to sleep.
Jack stood in the doorway of Belle's room. It wasn't really much of a mess, the bed was though. They must have taken her while she was asleep. Jack wanted to cry, but not now, he had to start forming a plan in order to rescue Belle.
Jack went back up on deck. "Mr. Turner come with me" he said walking towards his cabin. Will followed Jack into his cabin and watched him take out his maps.
"Have you got a plan Jack?" asked Will.
"Not yet" said Jack sitting down and pouring over the maps thinking of any possible place where Barbosa might've taken Belle.
"Jack," said Will.
"What?" said Jack impatiently.
Will saw Jack look up at him with a look of sorrow and fear in his eyes that he had never seen in Jack before. "Nothing. Where are you going to look first?" asked Will.
"Don't know. Tortuga maybe" said Jack. Jack had always been brave, after all he was a pirate and pirates weren't scared of anything. But the one thing Jack was scared of had happened. He had promised Belle that he wouldn't let Barbosa take her and he had broken that promise and was now paying the price. He was practically dying inside knowing his little girl wasn't around, that anything could be happening to her right now and he wasn't there to save her but he was doing a good job of hiding it.
"Tortuga?" asked Will. "Do you really think he would go there? It seems a bit too obvious of a place to go."
"You're probably right. But I will check there anyway and I will search every inch of this planet over and over again until I find her" said Jack.
"OK. What can I do to help?" asked Will.
That night Jack sat at his table still looking at the maps. He would definitely go to Tortuga first, although he knew it would be too obvious of a place to go. Barbosa had been chasing after the Pearl some ten months ago when they left Tortuga and would probably need to stock up on supplies just like the Pearl had to at the moment. He didn't know why, but he had a strong feeling that Barbosa would be there.
Jack was fairly confident that he would find Belle, it was just a matter of whether he would find her dead or alive. Of all the horrible things he had gone through in life: having two gunshot wounds, being cursed by Aztec gold, having Davy Jones chase after him for a blood debt, being swallowed by the Kraken and getting stuck in Davy Jones' Locker. This was by far the worst thing he had ever been through and then for the first time in his life Jack cried. He cried as if there were no tomorrow.
Goodness knows what could be happening to her right now he thought. Completely oblivious to the fact that right at this moment she was being whipped for defending herself.
Jack then got out of his chair, tears still falling down his cheeks and collapsed onto his bed and cried himself to sleep.