That night Jack sat in his cell all alone, the brig of this ship wasn't much different from The White Flag, it was just a lot damper. Barbosa had left him a glass of water, but that was it. Jack was as hungry as hell, but thinking of his daughter, Belle, cheered him up a little.

Oh how I miss that little girl of mine thought Jack. I wonder if she has worked it out yet? Of course she will, she's my daughter for crying out loud.

On a high possibility of getting killed while stuck on this ship, he thought about Belle a lot, all the good memories and some bad: like the time he had to throw off two crewmembers for trying to rape Belle because they liked the idea of having a girl on board.

Flashback

Ben and John were two of the most badly behaved crewmembers on the Pearl, always getting into trouble with the Captain and now Jack was on the verge of kicking the two of them off the ship. He always let them off with a warning but what they were about to do would be the final straw.

One night Belle was sitting at the top of the stairs getting some fresh air before she went to bed. Jack was in his cabin, Gibbs was at the wheel and Ben and John were in the crow's nest on night watch. Belle decided it was time to go to bed and made her way towards the lower deck of the ship. Ben and John saw her and Ben slid down the rope landing in front of her making her jump.

"Sorry" said Ben, "didn't mean to scare ya."

"That's fine" said Belle, "can I get to my cabin please" she asked trying to walk around him but he stopped her.

"Now now, there's no need to rush" said Ben as John appeared at his side. "Just wanna have a little fun."

"What kind of 'fun'?" asked Belle suspiciously.

"Well you know…" said John looking at her lustfully making Belle's stomach turn.

"I know you two!" said Belle pointing a finger at them, "You're Ben and John, the ones who nearly got kicked off the ship for drinking all the rum. Yes?"

"Yeah" they both at the same time.

"Well just so you know my father is the captain of this ship and I could easily get you kicked off" said Belle in a serious tone. "So if I were you I'd better be careful," she said pushing past them and they followed her down the stairs to the lower deck. "Why are you following me?" asked Belle in a fed up like voice stopping outside her bedroom door.

"Well we said we wanted a little fun" whispered John seductively in her ear placing a hand up her dress and running a hand along her thigh.

"Get off me!" she said aggressively pushing his hand away.

"Come on love, I'm just playing" said John.

"Well I'm not in the mood for games!" Belle said rather loudly.

"Keep your voice down!" whispered Ben harshly. He then looked at John giving him the signal. John grabbed Belle's jaw aggressively startling her.

"Now you do as your told" said John menacingly as Ben placed a hand up her dress once more.

Gibbs, who was at the wheel suddenly heard someone scream from below deck. "Cotton! Take the wheel!" called Gibbs. Which Cotton did so. Gibbs ran down the stairs towards the lower deck and when he got to the bottom of the second lot of stairs he found Belle in the corner with two men in front of her.

"Gibbs!" she shouted. Ben and John looked round and saw Gibbs coming towards them, they tried to run away but they were stopped when he grabbed the back of their shirts.

"You two ain't going nowhere!" said Gibbs warningly. "Go and get your father Belle" said Gibbs. She nodded, ran past the three men and went straight to the Captains Quarters where Jack would be.

Belle ran up on deck to her father's cabin, with tears streaming down her cheeks, she burst through the door and saw Jack sitting at the table looking over his maps.

Jack looked up and saw Belle burst through the door, with tears falling down her cheeks he almost went into panic mode, whenever Belle was upset something was wrong. "What's wrong sweetheart?" he said worriedly while standing up and walking around the other side of the table and placing his hands on her shoulders.

"It's Ben and John," she said through her tears.

"Oh God, what have they done now?" asked Jack with frustration.

"They tried to rape me!" said Belle.

"They what?!?" shouted Jack angrily looking at Belle.

"They tried to rape me" she said again and Jack let go of her shoulders and walked out of the quarters with Belle behind him, onto the main deck and he found Gibbs holding the two miscreants.

"Is it true you tried to rape my daughter?" asked Jack angrily looking at Ben and John, but neither of them answered.

"It be true Captain" said Gibbs. "Found them attacking poor Belle here."

"Thank you Gibbs" said Jack. "You may go." Gibbs went back up to the wheel and Jack focused on Ben and John. He grabbed one each of their ears and pulled them over to the side of the ship. "You two just crossed the line" he said angrily and threw them both overboard and then walked back over to Belle. "Are you OK?" he asked gently.

"I'm fine," she said nodding at the same time. She hugged her father, said goodnight and went to bed

End of Flashback

The memory of that night is something him and Belle would rather forget. Suddenly the brig door opened and Jack saw Barbosa walk down the steps and head straight towards his cell.

"What do you want?" asked Jack in an annoyed sort of way.

"I just came to see how you were, down here, all by yourself. Don't you get lonely Jack?" asked Barbosa a bit evilly.

"What do you think?" asked Jack sarcastically. Barbosa just stared at him. "Look," said Jack standing up and walking to the front of the cell, "if you are going to kill me please do so without delay" said Jack. He suddenly got the feeling he had heard those words somewhere before, then he remembered Elizabeth saying them to him back when they were marooned on that island a few years ago.

"I'm not going to kill you Jack, not yet anyway," said Barbosa.

"Oh thank goodness for that" said Jack sarcastically.

"Don't you get rude with me Jack Sparrow, you're here of your own accord remember?"

"Yes, I remember, anything for my Belle. You are the one who put her through a week of hell! Remember?"

"Yes I remember." Barbosa smiled evilly.

"You are just as evil as your father and ugly as your mother," said Jack smirking. This struck a cord with Barbosa and he unlocked the cell and punched Jack in the face knocking him to the ground.

"You keep your mouth shut Sparrow" said Barbosa and he saw Jack look up at him with blood trickling down his chin. Barbosa locked the cell door and left the brig.

Jack sat there in his cell once again, massaging his chin and thought about how he was going through all this torture and punishment for just protecting the ones he loved.