A/N: Hey everyone!!! There was some question about one of my sentences in the last chapter. It was the one that goes "Jack licked his bottom." It was defiantly a typo. I haven't been able to figure out how to fix this so when reading it please add lip as the last word to that sentence. Sorry!!!

Chapter 13

Orders from the King

Izzy spent the next weeks either staring at the sea, daydreaming, wondering what Elizabeth's book was going to be like, and speculating about the ring she wore around her neck. Because Gibbs wouldn't talk to her, she had nothing to do, so she had all the time in the world to think about things that she hadn't had time to wonder about before.

It was official, Izzy was bored to tears. It was time to confront Gibbs.

"Mr. Gibbs," she called.

Gibbs stood by the railing with rope in his hands and blatantly ignored her.

"Gibbs, I've had enough!" Izzy shouted marching over to him. "You will speak to me like a human being, female or not! I do not blend in with the ship. I am just as visible as every other god for saken pirate on this ship. Do you understand me?"

Gibbs slowly turned around.

"Lass," he said. "You've gathered a crowd."

"D'you think I care whether I gather the whole ship or not?!" Izzy shouted at the top of her lungs.

"Obviously not," a voice said from behind her. Izzy turned around to face Jack and the rest of the crew.

"What be the problem, love?" Jack asked kindly.

"Oh, you know exactly what the problem is!" Izzy bellowed. "Ever since you revealed my true identity I've been treated like I'm some sort of evil creature. Your crew has seen many evil creatures if the stories I've heard on shore are true, so why am I, am woman, so hard to treat equally?"

"Well, love, we haven't exactly treated our enemies equally in the past," Jack said. "It was a more of a take what you can get bargain."

"I don't care what it was. I want to be treated at least like another member of the crew. Gibbs told me when we first met that this crew has taught dunderheads how to sail. If that's true, then why in the name of pirate can't you teach me?"

"You see, love, the main problem is, well, your blood."

"What the hell does my bloody have to do with me learning how to sail?" Izzy demanded.

"It's more of, what's the word, you heritage," Jack said. "You're related to the king."

"Your point?"

"Well, the point being, that because you are related to the king, the crew doesn't know whether to trust you or not."

"You think I'm going to turn you all in to the law?" Izzy asked completely stunned. "I ran away! Doesn't that mean anything?"

"It's not that I don't want to believe you love, but we're pirates," Jack said. "My crew comes first, you'll have to prove yourself before we start to trust you."

"Prove myself? That's ridiculous! What happened to the "you've agreed to an accord you are now a pirate" thing?" Izzy demanded. "Do you follow your pirate codes or do you make things up as you go and then break them?"

The crew gasped.

"Love," Jack started. "The first thing you have to learn is never insult pirates, especially a captain."

"I'm not trying to insult you," Izzy insisted. "I'm trying to figure out how your bloody minds work!"

"You see, the Pirate Code is sacred, we follow the rules," Jack said.

Someone in the crowd laughed.

"Oh, don't kid yourself, Jack," Elizabeth said pushing her way through to the front of the crowd. "Izzy, I was told once a long time ago that the Code is more like guidelines. We pirates follow it when it's working in our favor, but make it up when it doesn't. Aren't I right, Jack?"

Jack mumbled a reply.

"I'm sorry Jack, what was that?" Elizabeth asked politely.

"I said that you're a sly one, Lizzie."

Elizabeth laughed. "Of course I am Jack. I learned from the best."

Jack looked at her curiously. "Will was never sly, Lizzie. He was plain stupid."

"He couldn't have been that stupid, when he's still alive today. I'd say you've won that category by believing that all females fall at the mighty Jack Sparrow's feet."

"Captain," Jack muttered.

"Excuse me," Elizabeth said sliding into a fake bow. "Captain Jack Sparrow, I do remember that we had to come find you after you fell for a trick which killed you."

"Yes, Lizzie you did. But it was all thanks to you that I died in the first place."

"Yes, it was. And I'd do it again if it was one death for the price of many."

"Such violence, Lizzie, remember you are a guest on my ship and you need me to write your little book."

"I don't have to be a guest, Jack," Elizabeth said with a smile. "Remember, you were the one who made me king. So all I have to do is tell your crew that I'm their new captain and to set sail to the nearest island. I can leave you there with a pistol with one shot and have you watch the Black Pearl, which would be mine, getting smaller in the horizion. And there wouldn't be any rum to save you this time."

"Sea turtles, love," Jack said. "But you wouldn't knowin' what direction you'd be going in because you don't have this."

Jack held up a compass. Izzy looked at it curiously. There was something very strange about it. It almost looked like it didn't point north.

"No, Jack, I wouldn't have that. I wouldn't need it. But then again, it isn't any use to you anyway since you don't understand what it's telling you," Elizabeth teased.

"Of course I know what it's telling me," he said pompously. "We need to go that way."

Jack pointed his hand to the right.

"No, ah, that way." Jack pointed to the left. "Maybe this way."

Elizabeth laughed. "Oh Jack you know exactly what you want you just know how to get it before it walks out of your life forever. You're scared."

"I'm not scared." Jack puffed out his chest indignantly. "I'm never scared."

"You keep tellin' yourself that, Jack. If you keep it up you'll never have what you want most."

Elizabeth took the hand that held the compass in hers and looked at it. She laughed quietly and closed the lid on the compass.

"You keep this up, Jack, and she'll run once we hit land and you'll never see her again," Elizabeth whispered so only Jack could hear.

Elizabeth looked up into Jack's brown eyes. They showed complete understanding, but his face was blank.

"I've no idea what you're talking about. Why do you have to speak in riddles, Lizzie?" Jack asked surpassing what she had said without a second thought.

"As I said, Jack," Elizabeth said louder so the crew could hear. "I learned from the best. Now why don't you talk to your crew and explain to them that Izzy is not reporting any of us to the king and that she is a true pirate. Have Gibbs give her something to do so she doesn't go mad like the rest of us."

"You can't order me around, Lizzie," Jack said dangerously.

"I can't you say," Elizabeth said. "I've managed to kill you once. I'm sure I could manage a second time. Will would love to see you again."

Jack's face went from a deep tan to a blanched white.

"Lizzie, Will won't be seein' me till his ten years are up."

"Then you'll be a good little boy and do what I say."

With that Captain Elizabeth Turner sauntered away to leave Jack standing in the center of his crew with their mouths hanging open.

"Damn women," Jack muttered pulling himself together. "Fine. All right gents, you heard the king, Miss Peregrine is part of the crew until further notice. She is to be treated as an equal. Gibbs, give her something to do. Teach her how to sail and make our guest happy. She has a lot to learn."

Coming up…

Will Izzy be able to push Jack around like Elizabeth does to get what she wants?

Will Jack find out what he wants most, or does he already know?

Will Darkness in Starlight post a chapter that doesn't have any typos in it?