Belle woke up early next morning, but instead of the dingy and dark cell she had been imprisoned in on The White Flag, she was in her cabin on The Black Pearl. She sat up in her bed a bit confused about how she got here. The first thing her eyes landed on was Jack sitting in the corner looking at her. She smiled at him and he smiled back. Jack stood up and Belle climbed out of bed and gave him a huge hug.
"I missed you so much," said Belle.
"I missed you too sweetheart," said Jack letting go of her.
"How did you find me?" she asked. "And why did I get kidnapped if half the crew supposed to be on watch?" she added more crossly.
"It's all right calm down, I'll explain everything" said Jack calmly while Belle sat back down on the bed.
"That night you were kidnapped, half the crew were on watch, like they usually are, but for some reason they felt it was all right to go to sleep. So that night when they all decided it would be all right to go to sleep Barbosa turned up and kidnapped you" explained Jack.
"They fell asleep?" said Belle.
"Yes" said Jack, "well that's what they told me."
"Well, what about Will?" asked Belle.
"They knocked him out," said Jack simply. "I'm not making this up sweetheart, I was asleep in my own cabin when it happened."
"Yeah I know" Belle said with a slight tone of sadness.
"I'm sorry," said Jack sitting down on the bed next to Belle.
"What for?" asked Belle looking confused.
"I promised you that I wouldn't let Barbosa take you and I broke that promise" Jack said sadly as if the whole thing was his fault and he felt that way too.
"It's not your fault," said Belle, "you did the best you could" she said hugging her father. "So how did you find me?"
"Well, we sort of stumbled across Barbosa's ship while we were in Tortuga last night" said Jack.
"How do you mean stumbled across?" asked Belle.
"The morning after you were kidnapped I immediately planned to go to Tortuga, I had this strange feeling that Barbosa would be there and luckily he was."
"So where was Barbosa then?"
"Probably out getting drunk or something like that," said Jack.
"But isn't he going to come after us?" asked Belle.
"I shouldn't think so, because after I rescued you Gibbs and I set fire to the ship."
"You set fire to his ship!"
"Yes."
"He definitely won't be coming back then."
"Well I hope not," said Jack. "Now about those cuts of yours on your back."
"What about them?" asked Belle.
"I'm afraid I'm going to have to clean them," said Jack.
"No!" moaned Belle.
"Sweetheart I know you don't like it, but it has to be done otherwise they will get infected."
"Fine."
"That's my girl. I'll be back in a minute" said Jack and he disappeared upstairs for a few minutes and came back down with a bucket of water, a cloth and a bottle of rum.
Belle turned her back towards Jack and he put the cloth in the water and washed the dry blood of Belle's back. Belle winced slightly but it didn't hurt too much, it was the rum that was going to sting like hell.
"I'll warn you now, this is going to hurt, a lot," said Jack warningly.
"I know," said Belle. Jack poured some rum on to the cloth and placed it on the cuts and then heard Belle scream out in pain. The pain was almost unbearable it hurt that much. Ten minutes later Jack was finished and he put the bucket of water with the cloth and rum in the corner of the room then sat back down on the bed again next to Belle.
"Now tell me what that son of a bitch pirate bastard did to my little girl," said Jack in a low angry voice.
"Well the whole time I was there he kept me in the brig and gave me bread and water three times a day. And every night he would try and rape me" said Belle whose eyes were now watering. "The first time it happened I pushed him over the table and then slapped him in the face and then he ordered for me to have ten lashes from the whip." Now Belle was crying full on tears. "And he did every night" she choked through her tears. Jack then placed both his arms around her shoulders and she cried into his shoulder.
"It's all right sweetheart, I've got you, your safe now" Jack said softly kissing the top of her head. Jack was furious over what Barbosa had done to his daughter, the pain and misery he put her through and Jack would kill him even if it were the last thing he did.
Jack gently let go of her. "Look, you try and get some sleep, because you need it" said Jack. "I know I do" said Jack smiling and Belle laughed a little.
"Ok" she said. She got back under the covers of her bed and Jack kissed the top of her head and went to his own cabin to get some sleep himself.