While Elizabeth went to talk to Jack, Melinda sat down in the shadows and watched James who began to stir but still did not wake fully.
She then heard Jack say to Elizabeth "You know, these clothes do not flatter you at all. It should be a dress or nothing. I happen to have no dress in my cabin."
"Jack. I know Will came to find you. Where is he?"
Jack looked at her then glanced in Melinda's direction "Darling, I am truly unhappy to have to tell you this but... through an unfortunate and entirely unforeseeable series of circumstances that have nothing whatsoever to do with me, poor William has been press-ganged into Davy Jones' crew."
"Davy Jones?"
Waking up he get up just to vomit over the side then spits "Oh, please. The captain of the Flying Dutchman."
Jack looks at him and says "You look bloody awful. What are you doing here?"
"You hired me. I can't help it if your standards are lax."
Melinda comes to stand closer to them all and laughs slightly when Jack says to James "You smell funny."
"Jack. All I want is to find Will."
Melinda looks at Jack then decides to say "As do I."
He looks at them both "Are you certain? Is that what you really want most?"
Melinda noticed James staring at her but still says with Elizabeth "Of Course."
"Because I would think, you'd want to find a way to save Will the most."
Elizabeth looks at Jack and asks "And you have a way of doing that?"
"Well, there is a chest..."
Melinda smiles slightly when she hears James say "Oh Dear."
Still Jack carried on "A chest of unknown size and origin."
Pintel and Ragetti walk by, together carrying a crate of bottles, and overhearing the conversation and Pintel says "What contains the still-beating heart o' Davy Jones." Then Ragetti begins making thumping noises against his chest imitating a heart.
Jack then carries on his story of sorts "And whoever possesses that chest possesses the leverage to command Jones to do whatever it is he or she wants, including... saving brave William from his grim fate."
James looks at Elizabeth and Melinda Incredulously after seeing their faces says "You don't actually believe him, do you?"
Melinda looks at Jack and says "How do we find it?"
Jack then takes his compass out "With this. My Compass... is unique."
James looks at him and says "Unique here having the meaning of broken."
Jack nods then says "True Enough this compass doesn't point north."
"Where does it point?" Elizabeth questions.
"It points to the thing you want most in this world."
"Oh Jack! Are you telling the truth?"
Jack looks at her and Melinda then says "Every word, love. And what you want most in this world is to find the chest of Davy Jones, is it not?"
"To save Will?" Both Melinda and Elizabeth say.
"By finding the chest of Davy Jones." Jack hands the compass to Elizabeth, then draws away quickly so as not to influence the compass. Elizabeth consults the compass, for her the dial clearly points in a specific direction. Jack slowly rises up to peer at the face of the compass.
"Mister Gibbs."
"Cap'n?"
Jack looks at him and says "We have our heading."
Going aboard Melinda goes straight to work and helps the crew while avoiding James.
Jack comes up to her and puts the compass in her hand and says "Give it back to me after you figure out what you truly want. This means stop working and have a break."
Melinda watched him walk away then looked at the compass that lay in her hand.
Sitting on the floor she opened the compass and watched it spin until it stopped.
She looked in the direction it stopped to see it pointed right at James who was at that moment talking to Elizabeth.
When he walked away from her he went down the stairs and she got up. She first went to give Jack his compass before following James who she found sitting on a hammock in the corner next to where hers lay.
She on her hammock, she noticed he still wasn't looking at her so she decided to talk first "James…"
James looked at her in anger "Don't you should of told me who you were when you met me first on Tortuga."
Melinda looked down then up at him "I wanted to but I was scared."
"Scared?"
Melinda stood up then looking away from him "I was scared you would hate me for what I've become. You already hated me for being a pirate I didn't want you to think any worse of me." Looking at him she continued "I never hated being called a pirate until you called me one. I had to leave Port Royal that night…"
"Why did you have to leave?"
It was getting too much for her so she began to walk out of the room before she could a hand on her shoulder turned her around and repeated "Why did you have to leave?"
His hand was still on her shoulder making sure she would not leave or try to leave again "The only person that I wanted to notice me didn't notice me."
He was about to say something when she stopped him by saying "I left because I thought you hated me or at least never wanted to see me again."
"I never hated you. In fact that day when Elizabeth chose your brother instead of me, I wasn't upset at all in fact I was happy." Cupping her face in his hand he looked in her eyes "I never meant to make you leave. Nor did I then or now hate you." The hand from her shoulder dropped to hold her hand "That day I realized how much I Love you."
Looking into his eyes she told him "I love you too James Norrington."
Needing no other words James pulled her to him and kissed her tenderly at first then more and more passionately.
When they stopped for air Melinda smiled up at him and kissed his lips lightly "I love you so much James."
He smiled lovingly at her "You don't know how happy you make me Melinda."
"I think I do." She then kissed him deeply hearing him groan she stopped and smiled teasingly at him "See."
"That was Evil."
Melinda looked up at him "What are you going to do about it?"
He dragged her to the hammock and sat on it making her sit next to him then kissed her deeply.
After it she smiled dreamily then snuggled closer to him and closed her eyes falling asleep rather fast.
Before James could think of going to sleep too he heard Jack's voice "Break her heart and I'll kill you savvy?"
He couldn't reply as Jack left the room as soon as he said what he came to say.
Not long after though Elizabeth came down and saw Melinda in his arms asleep she smiled "Finally." Again before he could say anything she turned around and left them alone.
James laughed lightly then closed his eyes letting sleep consume him and for once he didn't dream of what could have been he dreamt of what can be.