I pushed through the sweaty bodies in the tavern. Jack and I'd awoken about two days ago. The Black Pearl had been docked but my own ship had been placed in the cove before. I hated that I couldn't sail it as much as it should have been. That's why I was giving it off to someone else. I didn't want it to be treated like a burden.

I sighed and took the rum from a table where two…people…were busy. I took a gulp of it and grinned. "Vanilla rum, excellent." I muttered as I made my way back to the table where Jack and Gibbs were waiting. We'd been here about two and a half days and so far we'd found only a few people willing to join our crew. I'm almost positive that we were completely doomed.

"And what makes you think you're worthy to crew the Black Pearl?" Gibbs asked a man who'd walked to our little table. I sat at the chair beside Jack and handed him one of my stolen mugs of rum. He took the disproportioned mug and drunk a large gulp of the delicious drink. I shook my head even as the man, who was quite old, answered.

"Truth be told, I never sailed a day in me life. I figured I should get out and see the world while I'm still young." The man said and I raised my eyebrow. This man was most likely all the way into his forties. But he was a willing soul so I guess I shouldn't complain about it.

"Good man, make your mark." I told him and gestured to a sheet of parchment. He moved to it and we saw another man standing there willing to join our crew.

"My wife ran off with my dog. And I'm drunk for a month. And I don't give an ass rats if I live or die." He said and indeed he was holding a bottle of rum. I winced for the poor guy but Gibbs didn't.

"Perfect!" Gibbs said and I gestured him to the sheet. I sat back and took another gulp of my delicious rum. It was slightly chilled so it must have been new when I'd swiped it.

"I know what I want." Jack said roughly from my side and started shaking my or his compass trying to get it to work properly. I couldn't help but smirk.

"Jack, what are you doing?" I asked like he was a little kid. He pouted and it was just so adorable. He made his eyes water and even his lip trembled. I padded his cheek with my hand maybe a little harder then needed.

"I'm trying to make this bloody thing work!" Jack groaned and opened the thing and it started spinning before it pointed to me. I grinned smugly as he looked up to me still pouting in frustration before he shook it again. "I already know that!" Jack shouted at it. There wasn't really a problem in here because there was already so much noise.

"It's working just fine, Jack." I snickered. He shut the compass again and started shaking it violently. I grew scared for my creation and grabbed his arm, making him stop. I took it from him and automatically it glowed and pushed my long hair back as if a wind had swept it back. I sighed happy to have the compass back in my own hands. I flipped the compass open and the needle of it swirled before pointing stiffly in Jack's reaction. I felt my lips twitch upwards.

Then, I whispered an incantation (Something I was doing a lot of lately) and the compass gave a shutter before I flipped it shut again. I looked to Jack and he was looking at me with intense eyes. I opened my mouth to ask him what he was staring at but he shoved his tongue in my mouth. I made a sound of surprise before nearly climbing in to his lap. Jack surely didn't hold back. We kissed heatedly and he let his hands roam over my corset and up to my shirt before he squeezed my boobs, which I didn't notice at first.

But after a second I pulled back and realized that I was on his lap and he was violating me in public. I giggled and removed his hands. He kissed me again though and I let him, being careful to hold on to his hands so he wouldn't grab me again. I pulled back and he growled before breaking my hold to wrap his arms around my waist.

I laughed and in returned broke away from him to slide back in my chair. Taking a breath I bent down and grabbed the compass from where it had fallen on to the floor. Carefully, I handed it to Jack, so as to not encourage his want to do physical things in public, and I couldn't help but shudder when his hand brushed mine. Then it was his turn to smirk at me. So I stuck my tongue out at him and he lent forward to kiss me again but I turned away to Gibbs which made his lips connect with my cheek instead. I heard him give a sigh of frustration.

"-I've always wanted to sail the seas, forever." A man said. He looked a little better, not much, then the other pirates of Tortuga. I smiled at him and he tentatively smiled back. Suddenly Jack put his arm around my waist and dragged my chair until it was right against his. I looked to him and he was growling at the young man. I snorted and kissed Jack's cheek. I love me some possessive Captain Jack! I giggled at the weird thought. It kind of made me sound like an obsessive fan girl! (No comment)

"Sooner then you think. Sign the roster." Gibbs said and gestured to the paper.

"How we going?" I asked Gibbs letting myself fall on to Jack's chest.

"Including those four?" Gibbs asked sarcastically. "Four." He turned back around to the front of the table where the next soul- I mean person- was waiting. I looked to and the man standing there looked strangely familiar. He had short brown hair that had mud smeared in it and he hadn't bathed in at least a week. I could just make out that under the muck he was wearing navy clothes. I looked closer at his face and I could see aristocratic looks gracing his features. I gulped when I figured out just who it was that was standing in front of us. I turned to Jack but he was looking at the compass in surprise and hadn't noticed the unwanted visitor. So I took it upon myself to hide him. I grabbed his arm and pulled him up and out of his chair. He looked at me surprised but I closed the compass and stuffed it in his pocket. Shushing him as he tried to ask a question I walked slowly, as not to grab attention, trying to escape. Jack was content to be pulled behind me but I scowled at him and pointed to where Gibbs was just now realizing what I'd already grasped.

"Commodore?" Gibbs asked, surprised that the Commodore had fallen so far in to pirating. After all the man had made it his life goal for all of us pirates to fall via noose.

"No, not anymore, weren't you listening!" The former Commodore shouted at Gibbs. "You haven't said where you're going. Somewhere nice!" I winced as the music stopped so that everyone could watch the fight that actually had a reason to be going on, unlike most of the fights that happened here. Jack unexpectedly grabbed a large leaf from one of the plants and held it up in front of us. Now it was he who was dragging us away to flee. I shook my head at Jack's silliness. Not only would this not work it would actually draw more attention to our escape. I mean who walks around with a plant leave hiding there face?

"So am I worthy to serve under Captain Jack Sparrow and his 'bonnie lass'?" Commodore asked. I snorted. Since when had my name been turned from the fearsome Lady Cass to Jack's bonnie lass? I glared hard at Jack's head and he flinched before cautiously looking over his shoulder at me only to turn back around when he saw my glare. He no doubt knew that I was blaming him for this. All those times we'd gone to Tortuga Jack hadn't let me out of his sight so now I looked like a pansy.

I looked back to Norrington only to see him wielding a gun at Jack and me.

"Or should I just kill you now?" He said and Jack finally gave up and let the leaf fall down.

"You're hired!" I said trying to be bright about it. It didn't work because Norrington slowly cocked the gun.

"Sorry, old habits and all that." Norrington said and was going to pull the trigger. However our new crew members interrupted him. The old one hollered and the young one who'd wanted to sail the seas forever pointed the gun upwards just as Norrington pulled the trigger.

This resulted in making the bullet bounce off the hanging chandelier and burst a man's mug of rum. He must have been mad because he turned around and slugged who he thought had done it. Soon it was an all out battle of chaos and not the good kind either. None the less Jack and I made our way out of the room and towards the stairs. I grinned when we were at the top of the second floor and Jack stopped someone from throwing a man in to the first floor, just so he could grab the man's hat. Jack turned to me for approval but the hat just didn't look the same. I frowned and Jack took the hint and put it back on the man's head and motioned the others to go ahead with throwing him over the railing.

I sighed as we jumped over the banister of the second floor and to the ground. It didn't hurt at all and unlike the mortals I didn't have to roll when I landed either. Jack grabbed my hand and pulled me to him so that he could put his arm around my waist. I put mine around his shoulders to make it more comfortable for me. We walked towards the docks.

"Thank you, love. For fixing me compass." Jack said breaking the comfortable 'silence'. (After all it is Tortuga) I smiled at him and stepped foot on the docks.

"Not at all, Captain Sparrow. I suppose once we're married that you shall repeatedly thank me." I said softly in to his ear. I felt him shudder and I grinned. Hey, I'm a pirate, a bad one, but one none the less.

"Captain Sparrow!" I heard someone call from behind. I started before turning around, hoping it was someone else that would give their soul to the Pearl but Jack just kept me walking.

"Come to join me crew, lad? Welcome aboard." Jack ushered me to where the plank was. I chuckled but that stopped when the person spoke again.

"I'm here to find the man I love." I paused and turned around with a spark of anger in my face. I'd made sure that all of the whores of Tortuga knew what would happen if they so much as tried to put a finger on my Jack. Then I couldn't help but burst out laughing because there stood a very familiar figure dressed in men's clothing. Jack turned around as well though he didn't recognize that it was Elizabeth without all of her makeup on.

"I'm uh deeply flattered, son, but my first love is Lady Cass here." Jack said motioning to me, knowing that if he didn't point this out I'd be upset with him. Elizabeth in disguise chuckled. But the effect was ruined a little when Norrington was seen puking his guts out in to the water under the ship next to us. I wrinkled my nose in disgust.

"Meaning William Turner, Captain Sparrow." Elizabeth finally said, giving up on her little façade. I decided now was the best time to catch up with Elizabeth. I squealed and ran to her. She must have been bursting to see me to because she hugged me just as tight. I pulled back from her grinning.

"So Miss None-Pirate how does it feel to do Pirate things, like per say, breaking out of jail?" I asked and Elizabeth hit my shoulder playfully.

"It feels wonderful though I fear that Father will be more worried then he was." Elizabeth confessed. It didn't surprise me that she'd still been worried about father. I was always wondering if my mother and father were still okay. Not that I had to worry about my father much. "However," Elizabeth brought me back from painful memories. "I went to find the letters of marquee that you and Will spoke about and they weren't there anymore. I fear my one bargaining chip is gone." Elizabeth said sadly. I winked at her though.

"Yes, I know they are gone. Not to worry about them, Jack wouldn't have accepted anyway. Alas we can talk about that later, for now lets get you on to the Pearl." I said and looped my arm around hers. We turned just in time to hear Jack.

"Hide the rum." He said to Gibbs. Gibbs panicked and turned around with the bottle of rum he already had in his hand and hurried up the ship to shout at them what to do with the rest of it. I had to chuckle because only Jack would hold a grudge that long and about something so small.

"You know, these clothes do not flatter you at all, unlike your sister." Jack said and added the last part when my eyes sharpened. "It should be a dress or nothing. I happen to have no dress in my cabin." Jack lied smoothly. Of course he did. I'd put my trunk (expanded for those who wanted to know) in his room and it had at least a few dresses still in it.

"Jack, I know Will and Cass came to find you. So since Cass is here that means William is." Elizabeth said with a roll of her eyes. There's that stubborn Elizabeth Swann I knew. She turned to me now. "So where is William?"

"Uh…well…there may have been a few complications and William might possibly…at some point…" I stuttered over my words at Elizabeth's trusting expression. I sighed and forced it out. "I am truly sorry to inform you Elizabeth but through an unfortunate-" I said but Jack interrupted me.

"And entirely unforeseeable series of circumstances that have nothing whatsoever to do with me or Cass, your poor William has been press-ganged into Davy Jones' crew." Jack finished and gestured for me to walk to him. I rolled my eyes and stayed beside Elizabeth in rebellion for him interrupting me.

"Davy Jones?" Elizabeth asked curiously though she did seem a little pissed that William wasn't with us. I turned at the sound of more puking. Norrington was still there. I didn't think someone could puke so much in their life but I have seen the light.

"You look bloody awful." Jack said and just to be an ass, I interrupted him.

"What are you doing here?" I said and grinned smugly when Jack scowled at me.

"You two hired me. I can't help it if your standards are lax." Norrington said, trying not to throw up all over the deck.

"You smell funny." Jack mumbled crossly. I suspected that Jack was unwilling to have Norrington upon his ship. I know I would be. After all Norrington was once a navy man and he'd probably do anything to get that status back.

"Oh be quiet, Jack." I said anyways just to make Jack mad. He looked insulted and I grinned at him to show that I was only joking. Then I turned to Elizabeth. "You'll love it when I tell you the news." I said like the snuffed up lady's of the court. I was able to stay in character for almost a complete five seconds before both Elizabeth and I burst out laughing. Jack just seemed annoyed and he turned to shout up to Gibbs.

"Master Gibbs!" Jack yelled.

"Aye, Captain." Gibbs answered him, hanging himself over the side. He must have hid the rum because he no longer looked as panicked. I smiled upwards at him and again interrupted Jack.

"We have our heading!" I called and Gibbs, smart fellow that he is, understood that I was trying to annoy Jack.

"Aye, Captain!" Gibbs called down.

"Also, Master Gibbs, Prepare a room for Ms. Swann. She will be staying with us." I ordered like I was the Captain of this ship. Jack made a sound of frustration and waved his arms around widely. I grinned and dragging Elizabeth, I walked up the plank. Jack followed behind morosely. I hummed and paused when I heard Gibbs whisper to Jack.

"You know you'll probably get no time with her now, right?" Gibbs said, thinking I couldn't hear.

"Aye." Jack answered mournfully. I giggled and so did Elizabeth, apparently the girl had also heard. I tugged Elizabeth over to the helm as Jack began giving orders to make way. I'm guessing that the crew were already told to come to the ship either that or Jack had given up on getting the ninety-nine souls. I sat Elizabeth down and began to tell her, at her urging, what had happened since I'd last seen her. Though, I had to leave out parts of the explanation for fear of ruining Jack's plans and because I couldn't tell her about me being Destiny. Elizabeth sighed as we fell in to silence. I blinked as she grew more and more solemn. So I had to revert to my motto, WWJD. (What would Jack do?)

"My tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature, since I am one, informs me that you are…troubled." I said, slyly. I thought it sounded just like something Jack would say to Elizabeth. I searched for Jack on deck and found him on the other side of the ship and bossing at the crew members.

"I just thought I'd be married by now…I'm so ready to be married." Elizabeth confided. I scratched the back of my neck remembering that I hadn't told Elizabeth about my engagement. I skidded across the step that we were currently sitting on until I could pat Elizabeth's arm comfortingly. She was obviously upset about the interruption of William and her wedding, and if it was my wedding I'd be pissed to.

"Well, uh…I don't know if this will help you any but I know you'll kill me for it later if I don't tell you." I said and moved away from her a little. I laid my elbows back on the step behind us so that Elizabeth could see my ring. She gasped. "I myself will be married." I said, grinning at her. She squealed and hugged me tightly. She almost cut off my air supply.

"I never thought you'd be getting married!" Elizabeth started rambling. "I mean, you turned so many down, especially after you turned Norrington down. Oh, Cassandra this is wonderful. Now you'll have someone to love and care for you. Who is it, actually?" Elizabeth asked obliviously. I couldn't help but look at her as if she was the stupidest person on earth.

"Elizabeth…" I started off like she was mentally incapable of thought. "Who is the only man who has ever grabbed my attention long enough for me to even consider his proposal?" I said. "Who is the one man who I'm willing to risk my life to go up against Davy Jones for?"

"That's impossible!" Elizabeth exclaimed and I laughed as she stood up and walked to Jack. I followed her slower. She was on a mission. "It's impossible, absolutely. That pirate could not possibly tie down to anyone." She kept muttering to herself, until she reached Jack. I grinned ear to ear as Jack turned around and saw the raging Elizabeth. He looked from side to side frantically, as if to escape her path but he'd seen her to late. She stopped right in front of him and I slid beside him. Jack put his arm around me as if he could block whatever she was mad about by using me as a shield.

"Did you propose to Cassandra?" Elizabeth blurted out. I put a hand on my mouth so I could stop myself from laughing at the both of them.

"No," Jack said shortly. I'm guessing he must have been too scared to say it. I got to admit Elizabeth did look kind of scary. Though Jack was probably scared because when women were mad at him he gets slapped and a slapped Jack has no idea what's going on. However his refusal confused me a lot. "I did not propose to Cassandra. I proposed to a pirate named Cass, it is a large difference." Jack said and I rolled my eyes and elbowed him in the stomach. Jack winced and whispered sorry. I smiled happily, because I'd gotten Captain Jack Sparrow to say sorry. Elizabeth however looked more exasperated. I think that was because she hadn't been as exposed to Jack as I had.

"You just wait Jack. The first time you hurt her…" Elizabeth said putting her finger in Jack's face, even though she had to get right up in my face to do it, she still managed. I laughed loudly and turned my face in to Jack's chest when I saw his face. Elizabeth had walked away but Jack's freaked out face remained as he watched her go. I grinned and kissed the bottom of his jaw. Then I remembered what Elizabeth had said about the letters of Marquee. I muttered and began searching in my pockets. Jack just looked on curiously.

I grimaced when I couldn't find them and I turned to walk to Jack's quarters. I saw Jack's hands flutter out of my peripheral vision, like he didn't know what to do but I kept walking until I was in there. I dug around in the trunk that I'd placed in there the day we'd come to Tortuga and when I decided to give my ship up to be with Jack.

Finally my hand closed around them and I stood up in an ah-ha fashion. But before I could turn around they were snatched out of my hand. I turned around to see Gibbs, Jack, and Elizabeth. I don't know why they were in there but I was too irritated with getting the letters jerked out of my hand that I didn't ask.

"Jack!" I whined but he just smirked and kissed me on the cheek. Gibbs looked over Jack's shoulder as Jack unwound the casing and read the letters of marquee. He raised his eyebrows high and Gibbs exclaimed.

"Beckett!" I knew they had to have been signed by him and the king. Thankfully they'd already been signed.

"Yes, they're signed, Lord Cutler Becket of the East India Trading Company. I believe he's and old friend of yours Jack." I said and I had to snicker when Jack grimaced comically.

"Agh…" Jack said.

"Will was working for Beckett." I informed them. "He never said a word. I however completely forgot. I was…preoccupied." I muttered the last part and shifted slightly. Jack didn't seem mad but he was a pirate.

"That means Beckett wants the compass." I stared at Gibbs as he said this. I wasn't sure if he was up to date and I didn't know how Jack knew either but he did. (A/N: Remember she wasn't there when William was brought in to see Jack.) "And there's only one reason for that." Gibbs said. I looked at him confused. There was defiantly something I was missing and by the way they were talking about it, what ever it was was big.

"Of course. He wants the chest." Jack said and I felt my body freeze. I knew this was bad. The Navy was not supposed to grab control of the sea. Not only would Calypso be mad and reek havoc on every soul that sailed the seas, I wouldn't be able to control myself if a mortal thought they could control the seas. It just isn't in my genetic makeup to let someone else control what's mine. I swelled with anger and I heard a crack in the room. For a moment I thought this noise was what brought me back to myself but then I felt the black spot was returning. I winced and my hand twitched. Fortunately I'd been smart enough to keep the clothes on my hand.

So instead of looking down at my hand to see if I was correct I looked at what was now a destroyed set of windows. I pursed my lips and then looked at the others in the room. Elizabeth was staring at the windows in shock but Jack and Gibbs were looking at me. The looks were very different. While Gibbs was looking like every superstion he'd ever had was confirmed. Jack was looking pensive and as usual curious.

I tried to shake the anger off and shove it into a box in the back of my mind. There was no way I could get angry and start using my magic all over the place, it was unacceptable. I smiled at them.

"Sorry, I was having…complications. It's just if the company has control of the sea…and that just doesn't….work." I muttered, trying to explain myself. I couldn't really talk about my identity with Elizabeth, who had yet to be told I was Destiny, in the room.

"Aye, it's a discomforting notion, love." Jack said somewhat softly. Elizabeth seemed surprised. It took me a moment to realize why she would be shocked but then it seemed simple. Elizabeth had not spent enough time around Jack and she must think he was like every other pirate. Oh, she was so wrong…

"And bad!" Gibbs said, scared for his life. This was weird because we'd been in deep water far before now. "Bad for every mother's son what calls himself a pirate. I think there's a bit more speed to be coaxed from these sails." Gibbs walked out the door as fast as he could, with his muttonchops just as bushy as always. "Brace the foreyard!" I heard him shout at the crewmembers and Elizabeth curiously followed him. I would have to but then Jack stopped me.

"Might I inquire as to how my fiancé came by these?" Jack muttered against the back of my neck. As I'd been walking out he'd pulled me back up against him but right now I was really worried about that damn black spot. I sighed and decided I was never to busy for Jack, no matter if I was going to be eaten by the kraken.

"It was a through a distraction." I mumbled even as Jack's chapped but oh so distracting lips grazed my over-heated skin. His lips found my ear and he whispered in to them.

"Friendly?" I don't know quite what he meant but his talented hands had smoothed there way under my loosened corset and were splayed across my toned tummy.

"No, devilishly Pirateish." I said and I felt Jack grin against my neck as he peppered open mouthed kisses on it. With a lack of anything else to do I grasped Jack's hands as he worshiped my body. I turned around in his arms and put my arms over his shoulders so that they stuck out. I took one of Jack's braids in his beard and I tugged it gently.

"I love ye, Jack." I said and leant in to kiss him but he froze up. I looked at him, confused as to why he was willingly stopping. However he was no longer looking at me like he wanted me to be eaten. Now he was staring at his hand, which had come up to ruffle in my hair. I turned around curiously and saw that just as the black spot on my hand, the real one, had reappeared back on my palm so had the fake one on Jack's hand. I sighed, tired of all of this already, and turned so I could lay a kiss on Jack's still frozen (in fear) face. "Let's go get you a chest, Jack."

I moved his limbs because he just seemed to be incapable of movement. I tugged him by his hand to head out to the deck or helm so we could see if we were there. Instead Jack tugged away from my grasp. I looked to him and he still had that scared look on his face. I moved to him as I realized that he was honestly and truly scared.

"Jack, Jack, it's going to be fine." I said and took him in my arms. I laid his head on my shoulder and kept him pressed up against me so he could feel my comforting heat.

"It's not going to be okay. He's going to eat me." Jack mumbled against my shoulder and his arms came back around my waist but now they tightened out of fear and not lust. "I didn't even get to marry ye first." Jack said and his shoulders shook. I tightened my hold around his shoulders.

"It's okay Jack, you'll be all right," I said delicately trying not to make any fake promises. "I won't let anything happen. I'll never let anything happen to me, no matter what it is. If it's some rogue in a tavern or Davy Jones himself. I won't let them take you from me Jack." I comforted.

With out warning the door slung open, causing Jack to straighten in my hold. I turned around so Jack could have what little privacy my height aloud him to straighten himself up. At the door stood Elizabeth and she looked as shocked as we were but she was staring at Jack and I felt possessive of him suddenly. I didn't want to share this side of Jack with anyone, even Elizabeth. I shuffled over to where she stood in the doorway and I pushed her out by her shoulders. I heard vaguely from behind me, Jack speaking. "I want my jar of dirt." I almost smirked at that but the situation was finally weighing down on me.

"We've – I just came in to tell you guys that we've seen land and Gibbs said. He said that I should get the Captain's and that I should tell you we were ready to disembark." Elizabeth blathered; still surprised as to the scene she'd walked in to. I padded her arm.

"It's all right Elizabeth. Both you and Gibbs were right, although next time please knock. You've no idea what we may be doing in there, you know." I said much more lightly then I felt. Elizabeth stayed kind of out of it as I walked us to where a rowboat had been prepared for our short ride to the small island I could see almost right beside the ship. No doubt the closeness was not an accident. I let Elizabeth get in the longboat before me because I saw Jack emerging from his ccabin and sighting me. I smiled as I realized that the bulge he had in his hands was his jar of dirt and that he was grasping it as if it was his only life-line.

"Love," Jack mumbled and kissed my temple. I smiled at him and rubbed a small smidgen of smudged kohl at the corner of his eye with my thumb. He smiled at me, a real, sad, smile at me. "I love you, too." He said. I'd completely forgotten that I'd told him I loved him before he'd broken down but the fact he remembered melted my heart a great deal.

"Mmmm." I said and I caressed his cheek before I turned and had to climb down the ladder that ran down the side of the ship so that I could get into the longboat. I nearly fell in to the longboat and when I did a weird sense of foreboding took over my senses. I looked around the vast and completely ocean but I couldn't see even another island much less a ship so I relaxed the best I could.

Soon Jack joined Ragetti, Pintel, surprisingly Norrington, Elizabeth, and I in the longboat. Soon the two nasty and smelly pirates began rowing, unevenly the short distance to the island. Even though the distance to the island was short the two pirates began fighting.

"You're pullin' too fast!" The thin one said. I remember he was always a sweetheart.

"You're pulling too slow. We don't want the Kraken to catch us." The fat one, Ragetti said forcefully. I had to wince though. It was just a reminder of how close I was to death. I touched my scarf lightly, remembering that my hair had warned me that my death was close. I hoped that it wasn't showing too much because I don't know how I'd tell someone what it meant, especially if that person just happened to be Jack. Abruptly I felt a hand slip into mine. I turned to see Jack was looking at me. Apparently my face hadn't been very happy but I tried to smile for Jack.

"I'm savin' me strength for when it comes. And I don't think it's Krack-en, anyways. I always heard it said Kray-kin." Pintel answered. I leant my head on Jack's shoulder in exasperation. I mean do these two fight about everything?

"What, with a long A?" Ragetti asked.

"No, no, no, no, no. Krock-en's how it's pronounced in the original Scandinavian, and Krack-en's closer to that." The thin one said. I thought I was about to shot them. I was already high strung, I really didn't need this as well.

"Well we ain't original Scandinavians, are we? Kray-ken!" Ragetti spit.

"It's a mythological creature; I can call it what I wants." Pintel said. Finally they both shut up and just rowed. I squeezed Jack's hand as the boat hit the water. It truly had been a short ride, for which I was grateful because I don't know if I'd been able to stand having all that free time to think.

"Guard the boat." I ordered as I stepped out of the longboat and onto the bleach white sand of the beach. "And mind the tide." I said and swung my jacket off, the same as Jack did. I threw it into the longboat. We all followed Elizabeth who now held the compass that would only point to the chest of Davy Jones, courtesy of me.

"Don't touch my dirt." Jack shouted back to the two pirates left behind as Norrington was following us. I watched Elizabeth as she went through what little woods there was on this island but that wasn't what was on my mind. I couldn't stop thinking about how every time I took a step my vision grew fuzzy for a moment and then I could feel my hair changing. I cursed lightly, so the others wouldn't hear but apparently Jack did because he looked back from where he was following right behind a frustrated Elizabeth. His eyes widened and he was suddenly right behind me. I raised my eyebrows at him.

"Love, your hair…" Jack mumbled and he picked up a piece of it to show the pure white but he dropped it automatically with a yelp. He lifted up his hand and where the hair had touched him was now clean and pale skin. As we stared at it the pale skin began to blister as if he'd been burned. Swiftly, I ran my hand over it and it stopped blistering and went back to a pure pale color. That fixed, I picked up my own hair to see what I had feared I would see. My hair which had been a pristine black was now an untainted white except for the tips of the hair which were still black. I threw the hair over my shoulder, knowing that I had to act like the change of color wasn't important. I had to act as if it wasn't a sign that I was going to die soon.

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Heyy, guys, it's been a while sorry that it took a long time. I'm happy to put up this chapter and I hope you guys enjoy it.