A/N: Hey Y'all! Thank you so much for the awesome reviews! This is my first PotC fic and first fanfic. Updates might not be all that consistent but I will try to get each chapter up as soon as I can. I'm still tryin' to figure out how to work so things might end up a little crazy at times and I apologize in advance. Enough of my rambling. Please Read and Review! Thanks!

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Becky stared at him.

She finally said "I can't Thomas. I am in love with another man and it wouldn't be fair to you."

Becky walked back into the room and saw Norrington with Will and Elizabeth. Thomas came in and said "Maybe you didn't understand me. You will be my wife."

Becky spun around. She glared at him. Her eyes as hard as steel.

She whispered in a deadly voice "I will not marry a man I do not love. I will not be forced to marry anyone."

She turned on her heel and left the room. As she left the house she left her letter on the table in the hall in plain view addressed to Elizabeth and Will. She walked back to her house. She left the letter on the table addressed to all the servants. She pulled her trunk to the door. In five minutes the man came and loaded it into his trap. Becky climbed in and he took her to the docks. Her trunk was loaded on to the ship and she boarded.

They set sail the next morning heading to the pirate island of Tortuga. In three days of smooth sailing they docked in Tortuga. Becky's trunk was taken to one of the nicer inns and left in her room. She went into town. It was still day time so the whores and drunks weren't out yet. Becky had a lot of work to do.

She went down to the dock. She found a some what respectable man who was trying, with no luck, to sell his ship. From the dock Becky looked over the ship. It was, oddly, the same size and type of ship as the Black Pearl. Becky approached the man.

She asked "How much would you like for the ship?"

He gave her the price. She haggled with him for a bit. Finally he gave in. Becky gave him the pouch of money and boarded the ship. She walked through it. It could use some work. It looked as if it had not been used in several weeks. It would defiantly need new sails. They would have to be made and would be expensive. The ships body would be black. After reading the pirate books she knew she had to have a unique ship. The red sails would set it apart. It would be rechristened The Crimson Rose.

Becky went into town. She found a semi-respectable looking shop to buy her sails from. They would be ready in three weeks because they needed to be died several times to make the color stay. Becky paid the man half the money. He would get the rest when she picked up the sails. She left the shop and went in search of a place to buy clothes. She couldn't be a pirate captain in a dress and heels. She was sized and then spent an hour trying on the different clothes.

She found a very low cut, long sleeved, white shirt. A pair of tight black pants. She also found a black corset, for affect not for necessity, to go on the outside of her shirt. A pair of tight black pants. She bought a pair of black heeled boots that came nearly to her knees. She bought a red bandana to tie her long hair out of her face. Becky left the shop with an armful of boxes. She went to her room at the inn and changed into her new pirate attire. She tied the bandana around her head. Looking in the small mirror in her room she painted her lips red and smudged a little kohl around her dark eyes.

She opened her trunk and pulled out the bag with her money in it. She counted it. She wouldn't have enough to hire a team to clean up her ship or to buy supplies needed to set sail. She needed a job. She went down to the bar she was living above. She found the owner wiping down the bar and stacking the bar for business that would come in about two hours.

She asked "Are you in need of a waitress by any chance?"

"Yes, I could use one. Ya interested?"

"Aye. But it will only be for a couple months or so. 'Til I can get everything ready to sail."

The owner said "Aye. Ya ever waited before?"

"No. I just ran away from Port Royal. I was going to be forced to marry some merchant. Not my idea of happiness."

"So, you're upper class?"

Becky chuckled. "I was. The only people who are going to be happy about me being here are my late parents, my friends and the man who saved my life, a famous… or I should say infamous pirate captain. And now I'm a waitress. A lot can happen in a month and a half."

The owner smiled. They spent the next two hours going over how to waitress. Becky got the hang of it pretty quickly. The owner warned her that the men who came in would be drunk and would try to seduce her. She was prepared. When she was little her mother had told her stories of the pirate island of Tortuga.

Half an hour before business Becky went back to her room. She slipped a dagger into her boot. She went back down to the bar and opened the door. Within ten minutes men started to come in. She waited on them. Nobody was that bad, yet. She knew that in an hour they would be drunk and would be all over her.

After two hours Becky had a break, every one seemed to have their drinks. She stood by the bar with another waitress.

The waitress asked "You new here?"

"Aye. I'm just here for a couple months or so," Becky said "'Til I can get my ship fixed up and a crew."

"So you're a pirate."

"I suppose you could say that."

The waitress smiled and nodded. She held out her hand and said "The name's Virginia. You can call me Gina."

Becky shook her hand and said "My real name is Rebecca. Nickname is Becky. But as a pirate it's Scarlet."

Gina smiled "Great Scarlet."

Becky smiled. In the next few months Gina and Scarlet became close friends. Gina knew of Captain Sparrow. During the lulls in serving they would talk. Becky would tell Gina of her life as an upper class lady and Gina would tell Becky of her life as a waitress in Tortuga. After three months Becky had saved enough money to buy supplies and her ship was ready to sail. She had a crew and was ready to leave the filthy, drunkenness of Tortuga.

Up in her room at the inn Becky was packing the last of her things. She had bought a few more clothes, a new pistol, a new sword and a new silver bladed dagger. She closed and latched her trunk. She stood and looked around the room. Becky looked at herself in the full length mirror. She thought 'I am now Captain Scarlet.' Miss Rebecca Katalina Lily Fazio was hidden deep down inside her. That part of her started to disappear the day she met Captain Jack Sparrow.

She took her trunk down stairs and took it to her ship. Scarlet walked back to the inn looking around Tortuga during the day for the last time. She smiled to herself. It was a foul, disgusting town but it and been her home and savior for the last three months.

An idea came to her as she walked through the door of the bar. She ran to find Gina. She was in the back room getting ready for the day.

She yelled "Gina! Gina! Come 'ere!"

Gina turned thinking something was wrong. Scarlet slid to a stop in front of her.

"You've sailed before, right?" Scarlet gasped.

"Y-eah."

"You hate Tortuga, right?"

"Yeah. Scarlet what are you getting' at?"

"Come with me. Sail with me. Get out of Tortuga. See the ocean and horizon."

Gina looked at her. "Are you serious?"

"Absolutely."

"But where would I go?"

"You'd be part of me crew. If ya don't mind taking orders from me. And we are pirates, so we pillage, pilfer and ransack and kill if we have to."

Gina smiled and said "I think I can do that."

Scarlet grinned. "Pack your things. You can barrow a sword and pistol 'til we can buy or pillage a good one for you."

Gina ran home to pack her trunk. She was finally leaving this filthy island. She knew she'd be back but on her own free will, to pick up supplies and for the rest of the crew's pleasure.

Scarlet took Gina's trunk to the ship while Gina went to tell her boss she was leaving with Scarlet. He was slightly disappointed that he was loosing two of his best waitresses but he knew they'd be back. He wished them good luck and farewell.

Gina went down to the docks. She immediately found the Crimson Rose. It was a grand ship with a black body and scarlet sails. The words 'The Crimson Rose' were written in large, red letters on the side of the ship. Gina let out a gasp as she climbed the gangplank onto the deck. Scarlet came down from the helm and met Gina.

"Come," she said "I'll show you where you are going to be living."

She led her down to the crews' quarters. Scarlet gave Gina the hammock in the corner a little ways from the rest of the crew.

They went back up on deck after Gina had changed and had a sword, pistol and dagger. Scarlet called out the orders.

"Aye, Aye Cap'n" echoed around the deck.

Scarlet walked up to the helm as Gina went with the crew to prepare to set sail. In twenty minutes they were ready.

"Hoist the anchor!" Scarlet yelled.

The anchor lifted and Scarlet turned the wheel to steer them out to the bay. The ship turned to face the horizon.

Gina looked up from her spot at the main mast to the helm. Captain Scarlet stood there, her hands on the wheel. The necklace she wore sparkled in the sun. Her long hair was tied into a braid at the back of her head and tied with her scarlet ribbon.

Scarlet looked back at the island port. She had a flashback 'She turned back to watch them set sail. The gangplank was hauled in. She heard the orders shouted across the deck. The ship pulled away from the dock. As it headed out toward the open sea Becky sank to her knees in the sand and cried. She loved Captain Jack Sparrow but she knew she could never have him to hold.' Scarlet turned back to the horizon. They sailed out of the bay.

In the next five years Scarlet and her crew became one of the most well-known and feared pirate crews in the Caribbean.