My knees, instead of my face this time, hit the floor with a thud. It hurt, but not enough for me to look up and look smugly at the large pirate.

"You didn't get me this time, bucko." I sneered. His eyes flashed with anger and his hand clenched into a fist.

I shouldn't have done that...

He raised his hand to slap me across the face, and I braced myself, but the sharp pain across my face never came; Barbossa had suddenly caught his arm before he could, and gave him a warning.

"Bo'sun, you best be treating this lady like a guest." He told him, glaring at him. His gaze then traveled down to me and scanned me before flickering to Jack who was on the other side of the cabin, then back to the Bo'sun. "For now." He added before walking away.

For now?

It was then the Bo'sun's turn to sneer at me, and he walked out of the cabin with a smile upon his face. I heard Jack and Barbossa start a conversation behind me, but I didn't pay attention. I looked out the window, thinking about what happened earlier.

Why had Jack's eyes flickered to me after he said that he knew whose blood they needed? Was I part of the leverage that Will had tried to warn me about, but I had been to stubborn to listen? And where was Will? Had he gotten Elizabeth and made it to the Interceptor alright?

I had forgotten all about the conversation behind me, but a suddenly scoff from Barbossa brought me back to the present.

"So you expect to leave me standing on some beach, with nothing but a name, and your word it's the one I need, and watch you sail away in my ship?" Barbossa asked Jack, unbelievingly.

"No." Jack started to say. "I expect to leave you standing on some beach, with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on my ship, and then I'll shout the name back to you. Savvy?"

I was lost; I should have been listening earlier.

"But that still leaves us with the problem of me standing on some beach, with naught but a name, and your word it's the one I need."

I turned around, to watch what was going on; Jack was shuffling through a bowl of apples on the table while Barbossa loathingly watched him. "Of the two of us..." Jack started to say, but I cut him off.

"Three." I said unexpectedly, wishing I hadn't. Jack and Barbossa turned to look at me with eyebrows raised, like they didn't know what I was talking about. "Three of us." I repeated, and they understood. Jack didn't seem to care, but Barbossa's eyes went narrow.

"Who are you?" He asked.

I opened my mouth to speak, but stopped when I noticed Jack signaling me not to tell.

'Don't listen to him.' A little voice in the back of my head said, and sadly, I listened to it. I threw Jack a glare before turning back to Barbossa.

"Cassandra."

"Cassandra...?" Barbossa said, waiting for me to finish.

"Livingston." I said, as his eyes went wide. "Cassandra Livingston."

Jack's eyes went wide, and his slapped his palm to his face. I knew he wanted to slap me, but I didn't care. I wanted to see him suffer after what he did earlier. Barbossa started to smirk after a moment of studying me in greater detail.

"Of the two of us pirates," Jack suddenly said, walking over to stand in front of me, blocking me from Barbossa's view. "I am the only one who hasn't committed mutiny, therefore, my word is the one we'll be trusting."

By the uncomfortable silence Barbossa was having, I could tell he didn't like the sound of that one bit. Jack moved out of the way in front of me, and Barbossa's eyes followed him across the room to where he sat down in a chair across from him.

"Although, I suppose I should be thanking you because, in fact, if you hadn't betrayed me and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that curse, same as you." Jack told him, biting into the apple he was holding. "Funny ol' world, innit?"

Barbossa nodded in disgust, looking longingly at the apple Jack was eating. After noticing where he was looking, Jack offered it to him as the Bo'sun suddenly reappeared beside me, making me jump back a few feet.

"Captain, we're coming up on the Interceptor."

Barbossa jumped to his feet, and scurried off to the deck. Jack jumped off to chase after him, but he stopped when I started to follow.

"You!" He said, pointing a finger at me.

"Me? What did I do?"

"You told him your name when I said not too!"

I smirked. "You didn't say anything."

He glared at me. "I SIGNALED IT!" He yelled, waving his arms about. I put on a fake pout and took a step towards him, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Sorry." I said. "I don't understand loony."

His jaw dropped slightly, but he fixed it before I could tell for sure. He pushed off my hand and ran onto the deck, following Barbossa. I followed him, part of me feeling like I shouldn't have done that, but the other part felt a sort of satisfaction that he was mad at me at the same time I was.

When I finally caught up with him and Barbossa, you could see the Interceptorway out into the distance. Barbossa was holding up a telescope to see the Interceptor better when Jack stepped in front of him, blocking the Interceptor from view.

"I'm having a thought here, Barbossa." He said as Barbossa put down the telescope, glaring at him. "What say we run up a flag of truce? I scurry over to the Interceptor, and I negotiate the return of your medallion, eh? What say you to that?"

Barbossa started to smirk. "Now you see, Jack, that's exactly the attitude that lost you the Pearl." He told to Jack who nodded slightly, ashamed of himself. "People are easy to search when they're dead."

NO!

I lost my breath as Barbossa shut his telescope and turned to the Bo'sun. "Lock them in the brig."

Also, nineteennintytwo asked me if this story would later become a Jack/OC fict. I know that I said in the third chapter that I wouldn't make it one, but now that she said something about it, I can't help but think that it might be a good idea. The poll is up on my profile, please vote. It'll make a world of difference.