The slender woman glanced up studying the pirate who leant causally against his barrel. He was tall compared to her petite size, she held the musket tightly in her hand, sternly glaring at the man waiting for him to respond.

"So you know Calypso?" She echoed her fragile accent, contradicting the deadly object she grasped.

"So what of it?" Sparrow squinted his weakening brown eyes as her glare stabbed into them.

"She could have killed you." The girl smiled mischievously, her unwavering green eyes dug deeper into his skin. "I could always give you back to her…""The wave was you." The pirate pronounced his comment as fact, not needing her agreement, flinching away from the monstrous wall of water that crashed over his tainted memories.

"You could say I saved your life. Jack Sparrow." The woman interrupted him continuing her bribing speech as he studied her.

"Why would you do that?" The man narrowed his eyes quizzically.

"I sent for you." The shorter woman stood away from the barrel she leant against, shrugging her thin shoulders as she carelessly spoke her reply. "I think you can help me."

"What makes you think I want to do that?" Sparrow raised his eyebrows making his expression theatrical, his black framed eyes hovered over the woman musing at her slight appearance.

"Either you help me or you can fight your way through the watery depths." The woman mimicked his expression humourlessly, snatching his wondering gaze with her powerful glower.

"I'll find my way to land." The mans hesitant lips curved with a self-righteous smile as his gold teeth flashed at her mockingly.

"On what?" The woman frowned truthfully towards the man. "That plank of wood you floated here on?"

"I have my ways." The man stated watching the woman tilt the deadly musket away from him. "And that Captain. Jack, Sparrow is exactly why I summoned you." The lightly tanned woman glanced up at the man who had risen to his full height.

"I'm sorry love but you've gotten me mistaken with a kind of, mystical genie." The pirate swayed lightly, impatiently swinging the small metal flask to his mouth, regretting his words as his unfocused eyes settled on a fiery flicker shimmering heatedly in the depths of the womans taunting eyes.

"What? You didn't think a sea goddess's daughter would have specialities?" The girl teased as she watched the uneasy feeling flood through the man.

"Well.." Sparrow frowned softly exaggerating the word as it curled around his intake of breath. "Yes."

"I didn't even think she could have a child." Sparrow shrugged glancing down to his feet before feeling the womans familiar glare scratch into him.

"Being bound in a human form let her do so." The girl stated with a soft sigh as her determined stare faltered, Jack grimaced watching a flicker of sadness dampen the fire that had raged in her unnatural irises.

"So you have powers?" The pirate sustained their conversation pretending he didn't see the mournful glazing that coated the womans distant sight.

"I have my ways…" The girl mumbled echoing the pirates previous answer with a hint of mischief playing at the end of her response.

"What do you propose?" Sparrow adjusting his hat as he grinned devilishly.

The woman trapped their gaze together refusing to break the contact as she stepped closer to him. "I want the man who calls himself Captain Barbossa."

"Hector…" The woman frowned leaning forward, closing the distance between herself and the outlandish man who stood at least three inches taller than her, dropping their powerful eye contact.

"Bar Bloody Bossa…" The pirate squinted his eyes growling the mumbled curse as his mind filled with the familiar haunting images of his previous first mate.

"OVERTHROWN!" Sparrow yelled at man that towered over him, confronting the pirate with his crews decision. "WHAT?"

"Under pirate law you have been voted out of your position." The older pirate stated, a patronising smirk curled the edge of his spiteful lips.

"TO HELL WITH PIRATE LAW!" Jack hissed as his former first mate glared down at him through ill-humoured eyes. "Who's to take my place?" The down voted captain glared up at the man letting his fury radiate through the crew members who surrounded them.

"I will." Barbossa laughed flashing his brown stained teeth at the man who flinched away at his alcohol tinged breath.

Sparrow snapped his glare back to the man that studied him from the brim of the large black hat that had been placed over his knotted brown hair.

"I'm the captain of this ship." Jack spat at the pirate who grinned contemptuously. "Are you choosing to disregard the rules of pirate law? Jack Sparrow?" Hector ran a dirt clad hand over the equally filthy hair that framed his jaw.

"Captain. Jack Sparrow." The determined man replied refusing to back down from his placement.

"You have two choices Jack…" The older mans deep voice drew out his opponents name, slurring his words together in a drunken drawl. "Either you choose to stay on this ship as part of the crew or.. You can find your own ship."

"THIS is my, ship." Jack stated deepening his glare furiously into the mans icy blue eyes.

"Then you have chosen your path. Jack." The pirate kept the mans eye contact, snatching the gun that hung from his belt, aiming it his previous captains chest.

"The plank is that way." He sneered gritting the brown teeth that framed his mouth.

"You can't do this…" The pirate turned away from the man addressing his previous crew. "You can't do this…" Sparrow froze as he felt the cool weapons edge press roughly against his back conveying the temperature of the cool metal through his thin shirt.

"Walk." Barbossa leant closer to the younger man until he could smell the his bitter breath.

"I'll get her back." Jack edged away from the deck in the direction he was forced. "You have my word."

"This." The sly crew mate addressed the man he guided to turn to him. "Is your bullet." He smiled handing the man the gun he held. "Just in case madness drives you to it."

"You'll see me again Hector." Sparrow seethed attempting to accept the gun from his successor.

The younger pirate edged along the thin path of lone wood that stretched beneath his unsteady feet.

"ENOUGH!" Barbossa barked slamming his foot against the wood causing the man to fall to the watery depths that surrounded them, throwing the lone gun after him

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"Sparrow?" The woman bluntly nudged the mans limp arm.

"Jack.." She breathed anxiously shaking his broad shoulder.

"Hm?" The man grunted as a final image of his betraying enemy flashed behind his eyelids. "I bet he had fleas.. Nasty vermin… bet he was infested… filthy git."

"Jack…" The woman repeated her call clicking her graceful fingers in front of his faint vision.

"Yes?" The man blinked studying the girl through his newly bewildered expression.

"You where talking about fleas?…" The woman frowned returning his focus equally.

"Fleas?.. Oh… It's nothing…" The pirate frowned excusing himself from the tense discussion as he noticed the pained silence that had stung the end of his sentence.

"Well love.." The man coughed lightly as he tried to get rid of the ever present sorrowful glisten that surrounded the young woman.

"I've been there, done that, shot the git dead. Yet…" Sparrow paused slightly sparing a fleeting glance out of the hatch that let the sun spy on their conversation. "Your mother brought him back to life. Leaving him to get me marooned for a second, and third. Time."

"Do you know where to find him?" The girl breathed gently, Jack watched a faint stitch of hope waver through her expression.

"I'll get you to him on one condition." The pirate replied casting faded authority into his voice.

"State your terms." The woman replied allowing him to continue with his proposition.

"This ship is under my commands."

"Of course." A smile twitched the end of the womans lips.

"In that case I think we'll get along very well." Sparrow grinned jerking his arm back to hand the woman the small flask he had held tightly through their confrontation.

"No thanks." She stepped back politely.

"More for me." The pirate sighed taking a swing from the item.

"You remind me very much of your mother…" The man let his black rimmed eyes linger over the womans fragile form.

"I am very much like her." The female answered glaring at the pirate who apologetically dropped his scrutinizing eyes .

"You know me and her got along very well.." The pirate smiled mischievously.

"Yes, until you killed Davy Jones." The girl replied watching the realisation flood back into Sparrows features. "Or did the fact you killed the man my mother truly loved slip your mind?"

"What will you do when I take you to Hector?" Jack regrettably blinked away from the grudging subject.

"I will make him suffer slowly and painfully until death takes him from my grasp." The woman breathed distantly, attracting the mans broken attention to the glazed surface of her glistening eyes.

The pirate opened his mouth weakly to make an apology for what he had done, instead he found himself breathing lightly as his words fell into a soft sigh. "Emeralds crying diamonds."

"Pardon?" The woman looked up at the tall pirate who gently gazed into her abnormal eyes.

"After all our planning I never caught your name.." Jack hesitantly replied, frowning at his previous words.

"I thought you liked mystery." The woman blinked away the tears that glazed her eyes.

"Not if it could kill me." The pirate gestured to the woman who let her full lips twitch into a gentle smile.

"Clarissa." She stated as avoiding the pirates eyes.

"Clarissa." Sparrow repeated gently casting a glance over the womans shoulder to the hatch she stood blocking, the bright sun stood magnificently over the oceans horizon burning the thin clouds that attempted to cover it.

"Your mother kept you as a secret.."

"She couldn't let me go, someone would find out who I was, they would get my mother taken away…" Bitterness spiked the womans gentle eyes filling the words that seethed through her gentle voice.

"And they did." Jack finished the young womans sentence. "He's got my ship."

"You want the pearl." Clarissa answered studying the man intently.

"It belongs to me." The pirate stated truthfully. "You can have him, I can have her."

"It's a deal." The woman replied nodding, her eyes followed to pirates gaze fixing on the fiery blanket that smothered the sky.

"Just one thing.." The man frowned, the womans eyes flew to him questionably. "How did you know he had the pearl?"

"I had been tracking him. I lost his trace last night when the storm hit." Clarissa paused glancing to the man. "Again I have you to thank for that.""Sorry.." The pirate stated doubtfully.

"I know you killed Davy Jones, the man my mother loved, but I know why you did it."The pirate glanced at the woman as she spoke softly. "I was there that night. I was at the battle, I knew you wanted to kill Jones but you wanted his curse. You wanted to live for ever and sails the oceans. You too fell in love with the sea.""I.." Sparrow frowned as the woman silenced him, continuing her speech.

"You saw the battle, you saw him as he drove his blade through your young colleagues heart. You saw the sadness on the girls face." Clarissa's voice drew out dreamily as she cast images in the mans mind.

Sparrow flinched back as he remembered the pain that flowed through the tears that ran from Elizabeth Swans warm brown eyes.

"You killed Davy Jones to save you friend. You gave him eternal life." The sea goddesses voice haunted him as he relived the final moments of Davy Jones's life."Now, you're making me sound soppy." The pirate frowned distantly glancing around at his far away surroundings."I'm making you sound human Captain, Jack, Sparrow. IT is what you are." Clarissa's voice dragged the man back into the present."How did you get to the battle?" He questioned softly, relieved he was no longer at the horrible battle his mind had travelled to."I was on your ship. As I was on your ship when they released my mother." The girl stated unwaveringly."Oh.." The pirates lips framed his doubtful reaction remorsefully.

"You see Jack. I know more about you than you know yourself." The womans distinct accent leaked through her drawn out sentence. "I know your feelings, I know your doubts.." The pirates brown eyes narrowed as the woman concluded her statement. "I know your fears."

"I have no fears…" The man frowned retaliating to her remark frowning as she interjected his sentence."You can't lie to me Jack."

"Your getting more like your mother with every second.. I'm not sure I like that." Sparrow frowned mumbled the thought to himself, his warm brown eyes caught the superior smirk that curled the girls lips.