A HALLOWEEN SPECIAL... even though It's not all that special, Ijust posted it on Halloween.

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A Teenager's Guide to Living with Pirates

Chapter 5

Leah

I lay in my bed, in my room. Julie and Sam had laid out sleeping bags on the floor, and were sleeping soundly. I could tell, because Julie was snoring as loud as a train, and Sam was in such deep sleep that she wasn't trying to kick Julie to make her shut up.

Getting everyone to bed had been quite easy, easier than I expected. But I guessed after my outburst they weren't about to question me. It felt weird, being in control like that. It didn't feel right. It's not me. It wasn't my intention to frighten anyone, but I held people's safety in my hands. My world isn't safe for them.

Anyway, as I said, organizing the roommates had been easy. I lived in a five-bedroom house. There's my parents' room, my room, my father's office (which has a fold-out couch), and two guest bedrooms. So there were four extra bedrooms, and I figured we would put two people in each room. I assigned roommates as logically as I could. Anamaria and Tia Dalma would have my parents room, because I guessed they were the ones who would cause the least damage. It was questionable whether or not they'd get along, but they were the only two girls and therefore could bunk together. Since none of these people were romantically linked to any other person (other than Will and Elizabeth, but Elizabeth wasn't here), I decided it would be best to just make girls bunk with girls and guys bunk with guys.

I gave Barbossa a room to himself, basically. He and his Monkey sort of counted as two people if you wanted things to work out evenly. Besides, I couldn't picture sticking anyone else with him. Ew. I put him in the office.

Norrington and Gibbs would take a guest bedroom. Like Anamaria and Tia Dalma, they weren't the best of friends, but they wouldn't be ripping each other's heads off or anything.

And finally, I figured it best to stick Jack with Will. Not because they were the best of friends, because at this point in time, with Elizabeth loving Jack and leaving Will in the dust, they most certainly weren't. I stuck these two together because I figured it might help their "friendship", if it could even be called that. One minute they were at each other's throats, the next they were saving the other's life. I don't know. It just seemed the most obvious thing to do.

I left them to decide for themselves who would get the bed and who would sleep on the floor. Now, all of that was done, and I was lost in my thoughts, which drifted to what seemed to be the question of the night- why? Why were they kicked out of the series? Why did they end up here? Why tonight? Why were all of the main characters here (except for Anamaria, who really isn't a main character), except for Elizabeth? Why is Elizabeth the only one?

It's not like I had anything against Elizabeth's absence. Nobody really likes her all that much. She is pretty much a Mary Sue. All of the men fall in love with her. So, obviously I don't like her very much.

Is that why she wasn't here right now?

It must be.

…

Anamaria dozed off on the white bed… or at least she pretended to. Her uneven breath gave her away. The question was why wasn't she sleeping?

Tia Dalma sat on a wooden chair, by the window. She was looking out the window into the moonlight. She also glared at the streetlights, which were bright and disrupting her view of the stars. It was very late at night, but still some light shone through the windows of the houses, but it was a queer light. Not the flickering light of a gas-lamp or fireplace, but a constant, bright light that seemed almost unreal. "What a strange world…" She spoke quietly to herself.

Earlier, Anamaria had offered her the bed, she was younger and could stand sleeping on the floor. Tia Dalma shook her head. She didn't intend on sleeping, didn't have to. One of the perks of being a sea goddess trapped in human form was that you weren't entirely confined to the strict resting and dietary habits of mortals. Besides, it was obvious that Anamaria, as a pirate, hadn't seen a real bed in a long time.

So in the dark hours of night, Tia Dalma was awake. She wasn't the only one.

…

Norrington had, with no better word for it, stole the bed. Gibbs slept on the couch in the corner of that guest bedroom. Barbossa had finally figured out how to open the couch, and when he had, slept well enough. The monkey slept on a pillow. The only people awake other than Leah, Tia Dalma, and Anamaria were Jack and Will. That is where the problems in sleeping arrangements lied. There had been one bed, and one sleeping bag (which Jack found while he was searching the closet)(it had taken them about 15 minutes to figure out what it was, and even then, they didn't realize you were supposed to sleep inside it, they figured it was like a mattress.)

"Well… one bed, one mattress, one important person, one… not so important person…" Jack meandered around the room, then looked at Will with a grin, "I think you and I both know who's going to end up sleeping on this here bed." He patted the bed reverently.

"Me." They both said in unison.

"No. Not you, me."

"No, after today, I'm taking the bed."

"But I got to the room first!"

"Well I was born first!"

"But I-"

"Now, Will." Jack interrupted, "I have YEARS more experience at complaining than you. Now you might take the bed, but I am prepared to make your life miserable for… however long we're stuck in this bizarre place." He looked at the walls in disdain.

Will considered his options, grinned, and sat down on the bed. "I'll take my chances."

As Jack lay down on the "mattress", eyebrows knit in frustration, he began plotting. Will flipped the light switch (another thing Jack had discovered while poking and prodding everything unusual in the room.).

It was midnight by the time Jack was finally fed up with trying to sleep. He was extremely tired, but he just couldn't seem to get his eyes closed. And he couldn't get himself drunk enough to pass out, because unfortunately they had poofed here, but the rum hadn't. And there were really weird sounds he was hearing that were kind of freaking him out, and there were strange shadows on the window, and he decided he would see if Will was up.

"…um… Will?" He whispered, "Hey Willie, you awake?"

There was a gasp and some shuffling, but then Will responded, "Um… yea."

Jack sat up, trying to see above the bed without looking suspicious. "Uh… you alright?"

"Yea."

"You sure? If I didn't know any better, I'd think there was someone in that bed with you…" Jack grinned.

Will rolled his eyes, annoyed. "Go back to bed."

"Hey, I wasn't asleep, you were."

"Yes, well, sleep."

"Fine."

Jack finally slept, and Will was too exhausted to stay awake. In the other room, Tia Dalma closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair, and Anamaria's breath evened out. And Leah finally couldn't stay awake thinking any longer and slowly drifted off. It was already 5:00 in the morning, but finally, everyone was in their own peaceful oblivion.

The continuous chaos could wait until morning.

Yea... this really wasn't intended to be a filler, although it sort of seems like it now. I guess I wanted to get a glimpse into the minds of the characters, and I think it turned out pretty good. And for those people who were wondering what was going on with Will, he WAS NOT doing what Jack said, I am not introducing Elizabeth or anybody like that randomly, or pretty much at all. The characters I have introduced so far are pretty much the only characters in this ffic. (and those of you who immediatly thought what Jack said, get your heads out of the gutter.

So as you give me your opinion about this chapter, I have a question in the spirit of Halloween... what did you dress up as? I hung out with two of my friends and we had a pretty easy costume, we were a banana split!

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