Hey! Thanks for the reviews! One of the reasons that I'm uploading this chapter tonight! I'm glad you like the story so far! One thing I ask of you guys please: Please, please tell me if Audrina is starting to become a Mary Sue. I really don't think she is, she really has more faults then strengths. But I really can't trust my own judgment. Well here's the third chapter. Enjoy! Oh and it's a bit shorter then the other chapters because it's really a filler. Oh and tell me how Jack's character is!

8888

Tortugan Beginnings

The Broken Compass

8888

The Captain's Quarters did in fact surprise Audrina greatly. It was more elegant and grand then the other Captain's Quarters she had been in. The wood was dark, almost black but the furniture she saw was a dark mahogany. It did really give a startling look. Besides being rather elegant, it was neat. She never would imagine Jack Sparrow to be a neat man, not even the slightest. Everything was in its proper order, the dining table was bare expect for a single candle stick holder that was flickering in the darkness. The curtain separated the bed and she moved it to the side.

The bed wasn't made; she didn't expect it to be so. The navigation table was rather cluttered; charts laid out and held down with bottles of amber liquid which she believed to be rum. Moving her eyes from the table, she noticed a bookshelf. The books were neatly organized but didn't seem to be in any particular order. She felt her heart quicken as she ran her fingertips of the spines of the books. Her eyes growing wide when she read the titles. She didn't expect Jack Sparrow to be a literate or even intelligent man. She saw she was wrong. Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Anthony and Cleopatra, Audrina found that most of the books were indeed Shakespeare although what caught her eye was the weathered bible spine. It looked like it hadn't been used in a while. For some reason, she couldn't imagine Jack Sparrow being a religious man but she hadn't expected him to be literate either.

Turning, she gazed on the compass on the navigation table. She had nothing better to do but wait so she took it in her hands. It was gracefully made; it must have cost a bundle. The wood of the compass was smooth to the touch; she had never seen anything like that before. What possessed her to flip it open, she couldn't say but she did. She frowned when she saw the dial bobbing about in circles. The compass was surely broken but the way her heart thumped against her chest said otherwise. Soon the circling stopped and rested in a single direction. Unconsciously, she looked up in that direction and smirk inwardly when she saw a full bottle of rum lying on the desk.

"Someone has a sense of humor." Audrina muttered to herself before sighing and bringing the amber liquid to her lips. It was warm in her mouth and tingled as it went down her throat, it was sweet against her lips and she was pleased to have her favorite drink again.

"And who exactly do yer think that someone is?" Jack said behind her, leaning against the doorway and staring at her so intently, a blush crept up her neck. Jack ignored it and sauntered in to the cabin and smirked, talking the rum bottle from her head and bringing it up to his lips as well. "Why are yer stealin' my rum?"

"I was not!" She protested and immediately dropped the compass so he wouldn't think she was stealing that too.

"Lighten up a bit, luv. Steal as much rum as yer pure little heart wants. Drunken women, I find, are very amusing." Jack smirked before taking a look at the compass and picking it up himself. Flipping over the top, it twirled in circles and he was not surprised. "Bloody compass." He growled to no one in particular but himself.

"Do I have to bring the pistol out, Captain? I promise you, you will never find me drunk aboard this or any other pirate ship. Do I look as stupid as you do?" Audrina retorted, her confidence that the captain found her amusing and wasn't going to throw her off the ship increased dramatically. "The bloody thing doesn't work." She added in, as she saw the look of displeasure wash over his face when he flipped the lid open.

He lifted his black eyes at her and she could she the mischief twinkling within the irises. It was an odd feeling, to look at eyes twinkling with mischief instead of rage and the thirst for blood. She was beginning to get used to it.

"By all means, don't bring out the pistol. And if you did look as stupid as I did, in fact you would look very stupid but in reality wouldn't be stupid at all. So you would be stupidly playing stupid even if you weren't stupid making you incredibly stupid to do such a thing in the first place. So furthermore, if you did look as stupid as I did, you'd be cleverly stupidly unstupid. It's really quite clever you know." Jack rambled, motioning with his hands for emphasis and Audrina only raised her brow at the eccentric captain.

"Well then…At least you cleared that out matter out for me." She managed to croak, her mind trying to grasp the sense in his statement and was shocked to see that she actually could see some sense in it. The upside down sideways logic of the Black Pearl was beginning to make sense to her now and she inwardly cringed.

"And the bloody thing does work." Jack said, watching the dial bob around a few more times. "Maybe it is you that doesn't work, luv."

"What the bloody hell are you talking about now?" Audrina said through annoyed clenched teeth. She couldn't tell if the man before her was drunk, mad or both. She was beginning to presume both.

"This isn't any normal compass, darlin'. It shows us what you want most." Jack smirked and leaned his weight on his hand that was resting on the desk where his charts laid. "Figuring it showed you a bottle of rum moments before, yer got a lot to be worried about. The first step is to admit it, luv."

Jack grinned impishly while he watched Audrina flush white. "I do not have a problem!" Audrina said sharply, poking him in the chest with her forefinger. He winced and frowned at the woman before him. "And I hardly believe that, Captain Sparrow."

"Call me Jack, luv. Most don't believe it until they actually see it." Jack went on further. "It can be a tricky thing, especially when you don't know what you want."

"I'm sure." Audrina said dryly, her amusement running thin with the drunken captain. "Well, Captain, it's getting late and I'll rig up the hammock."

Jack frowned and raised an eyebrow at the pretty little creature before him. He hadn't gotten a good look at her until now. Her black hair was curly, but not overly curly more like tight waves or loose curls cascading down her back like a black waterfall. She was short and petite, she came hardly up above his chest and that was one of the reasons he suspected her of being a female. She was pretty in that rough, exotic way. She was the last person he would think to be of noble blood but it was most probable that she was more behaved and honorable then that snobby lot.

The turquoise eyes twinkling in the moonlight that spilled through the window was intriguing to him. They seemed to possess a fire that most whores did not. Whores didn't possess anything but temptation and lust in their eyes and he met few females that weren't in fact whores. Jack Sparrow was intrigued with the woman before him; he never met a soul like her.

"Captain? How did you know I was a woman?" Audrina asked him rather meekly, he was surprised at her tone. It was never anything but a sharp, hard voice but now it was almost as if she was afraid of his answer.

"My enormous intuitive of the female creature, luv." Jack said dryly and she frowned, not really believing him but having no other choice. He staggered towards the bed before pulling his shirt off and Audrina narrowed her eyes on the man, keeping her eyes focused on his own. "Yer can join me if ya want. I'd have no objections."

The way Jack was grinning made Audrina grimace and she leered at the captain, obviously not amused. "I don't feel the need to warm you're bunk tonight or any night for that matter." She countered and he only smirked more, she was beginning to rather dislike that smirk. "Savvy?" She mocked the last bit, imitating his voice and he scowled.

Holding up his hands in mock defeat, he lay down on the bed and linked his hands behind his head. "Yer loss luv." After a moment, a opened an eye and watched her rig the hammock for a moment. "Do yer mind if I sleep naked?"

Audrina whirled around so fast, he was faintly surprised. The glower on her face made him cringe even more. For a moment, he feared Audrina Hart and of course he feared for his 'livelihood.' He faintly wondered for a moment, what had made her and her brother join piracy in the first place. Lucas Hart was hardly a bloodthirsty pirate; he was rather merciful and kind then cruel and thieving. Decent with a sword and pistol, he cringed to use it. Audrina on the other hand, didn't hesitate to kill; he'd seen it and he admired her for it. Not many women could kill without sobbing after but she seemed as impartial to it as she was about having breakfast. They were decent enough pirates but they didn't seem the kind that would go after such a lifestyle.

"Do you really attract women this way?" She said angrily, the glower gracing her soft features. Audrina Hart wasn't sure if she despised Jack Sparrow or was merely fascinated him. Either way, she wouldn't allow him to take advantage of her.

To her adding fury, the captain grinned at her from the bed. "Aye, luv. It really does work. They think I'm charming. You will too, luv, in time I'll grow on you. I always do" To his satisfaction, she turned again and flopped on the hammock resting her head back.

He peeked an eye opened and watched her contentedly for a moment. The soft rhythms of her breathing indicated she was asleep. He wondered if she was more trouble then she was really worth but nevertheless he was fascinated with her and her brother. He couldn't help not be.

8888