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Anna woke up the next morning to a loud knock on her door.
"Time to wake up lass, you've got work to do!" She heard Gibbs shout. Groaning, she untangled herself from her sheets and stood up. She ran a hand through her hair and made a face when she couldn't even get her fingers through the mess. She knew there wasn't any brushes on this ship and hadn't figured out what to do about that dilemma yet. She was contemplating this when Gibbs called to her again,
"Lass, hurry up!" He cried.
"I'm coming!" Anna hollered back and attempted to smooth out the wrinkles in her shirt. She would have never thought it, but Will and her were close to the same size. Deciding it was good as it was going to get, she walked out to meet Gibbs and see what the day brought her.
The morning went by in a blur and was uneventful. Anna did notice two things though. The first one was that the crew was skittish around her. Every time she tried to talk to them, they would give one word answer and never look her in the eye. The second thing was that Jack was acting strangeā¦er than normal. Anna couldn't put her finger on it, but something was definitely up. Around Midday, she decided to get her bag back. She looked for Jack and found he always seemed to be working.
"Mr. Gibbs!" She called. The older man stopped pulling on some rope that apparently did something and walked over to her.
"Aye lass?" He inquired.
"I left something in the Captains cabin, can I go get it?" She asked anxiously. He thought about it a few seconds before nodding.
"Yes, just don't steal anything, I'll be watching you." He warned. Anna agreed and raced into Jacks cabin.
At first she didn't see her bag, and she mentally kicked herself for not trying to get it back yesterday, but a lump in the corner caught her interest.
"Please let that be it." She prayed as she walked over and knelt beside it. Relief swept over her as she recognized a Mickey Mouse button pinned on it.
"Looks like everything's here." She commented as she sifted through the contents. Her eyes rested on the Pirates of the Caribbean DVD and her player.
"Maybe that could get me back." She told the air. She made sure the crew was to busy working to walk in on her before she popped the disk in and turned the machine on. It made a few whirling noises before the eerie movie theme music drifted out of the speakers. Anna randomly picked a scene and waited with baited breath.
"Who are you?" A curious Barbossa asked. Jack came walking into frame, babbling about Will who was standing on the rail with a gun to his head.
"No one, a distant cousin of my Aunts nephew twice removed, lovely singing voice though, eunuch." He said, ready to continue rambling until someone stopped him.
"My name is Will Turner, my father was Bootstrap Bill Turner, his blood runs in my veins." Will announced. Jack looked at the deck and walked away defeated.
"He's the spitting image of our Bootstrap Bill, come back to haunt us." Ragetti told everyone, and Anna found herself mouthing the words along with the movie.
"On my word do as I say, or I'll pull this trigger and be lost to Davy Jones locker." She said along with Will. She felt herself smile and her eyes drifted to the top of the screen.
"Crap!" She cried when she notice the battery was dangerously low. She gave up on getting back using this method and turned the player off.
"Lass, you've been in there a long time. Now don't think I don't trust you, but if you're not out in three seconds I'm coming in." Gibbs yelled in.
"Okay, I found it, I'm coming." She replied and stuffed everything back into her bag. Gibbs was waiting for her when she came back out on deck. She had the bag slung across her shoulder and she made sure the Disney pins were hidden.
"I'll just put this back." She told him and started to walk away. Unfortunately, the deck tilted more than usual and she fell over and on to a poor unsuspecting pirate.
"I'm sorry." Anna apologized, hastily getting back up and re-claiming her bag that she'd dropped. The man had his back to her and seemed unfazed by the incident.
"Quite alright luv." He said and Anna realized who it was.
"Jack!" she yelled startled. He turned around and looked at her. "I mean, uh, Captain, er, Captain Sparrow, um, sir." She babbled in a sad attempt to cover her surprise. He grinned and saw the bag hanging limp at her side and reached for it, but she pulled it away.
"It's personal." She told him.
"Luv, personal means to be private to ones self, and on order for that said item has to be with oneself. I have only seem that bag with your oneself now for the first time but it has been with my oneself in my cabin since your arrival yesterday. Therefore it is my personal property." He said. Anna tried to understand his logic, or lack there of, but didn't seem to get it. She did get that Jack couldn't see the bag though. She was thinking of an excuse when a crewmember walked up to Jack.
"Captain," He started, but stopped when he noticed her. "Never mind." He said and walked away quickly.
"What is it with them?" She asked. "Do they not like me or something?"
"To tell you the truth lass, they think you're cursed." Gibbs told her honestly.
"What?" Anna couldn't believe this. What was it with pirates and curses? Jack smirked and stood up, the beads in his hair clinking together.
"They think you're cursed by the Mujer Sola." He told her with a hint of laughter in his voice. From her limited Spanish vocabulary, she roughly translated that to lone woman.
"And what is that?" She asked, sure the answer was going to be interesting.
"Legend has it, that a young servant lady fell madly in love with her wealthy master's son." Gibbs started, "But the lad's father found out and forbade him from seeing the lowly servant. The lass was heartbroken and when she died, she put a curse upon herself so that now her spirit haunts the seven seas."
"What's that got to do with me?"
"Well, lass, the story goes two ways. The first one is that the Mujer Sola casts a woman onto a ship to plague all men on board. Most of the crew think that, seeing how you showed up in the middle of the ocean and all." Gibbs said. Anna sighed, now she was cursed, and the crew thought she was going to break their hearts or something.
"What's the second one?" She asked. Gibbs opened his mouth to tell her but Jack cut in.
"The second, is that the Mujer Sola makes two people fall in love and then rips them apart to make them feel the pain she felt." Jack told her. Anna shook her head and ran a hand through her hair.
"And what do you two believe?" Both men fell silent and avoided her gaze. Anna sighed and walked to the rail, the sun warming her face.
"So where are we going?" She called back to them. Jack walked up to her and pointed towards the horizon.
"There." He said.
"And there would be where exactly?" She persisted. The sun glinted off his gold teeth as he grinned.
"Tortuga, luv, Tortuga."
Note: Not a lot happened, bit I promise more action in the next chapter.
