Lady Lithoniel: Yes finally back with chapter 4 here goes!

"JACK!" Meara roared, "LET ME GO RIGHT NOW!"

"Sorry luv 'fraid I can't do that!"

"Jack I'm warning you!" Meara growled. Jack just grinned at his feisty friend.

"Jack I won't help you not after last time, we barely got away!"

"Suit yerself." He said turning he gaze on the men in front of him, Aileen was frowning but she raised an eyebrow at him. He just grinned.

"Commodore Norrington my effects if you please, and my hat!" He said. Nobody moved, Jack moved close to the edge of the dock pulling the chains tighter causing Elizabeth to gasp, "Commodore!"

The Commodore reluctantly nodded and one of the guards handed Jack's things to Elizabeth. Jack quickly grasped his pistol placing it against Elizabeth's temple.

"Now Elizabeth, it is Elizabeth isn't it?" he said almost sweetly.

"That's Miss Swann to you!" the young woman snapped.

"Miss Swann if you please." He said, she got what he meant and began fastening his belt to his waist. Jack smirked at the Commodore who rolled is eyes in return.

"You too Captain." Jack said, he was really enjoying himself.

"The hell I will!" Meara snorted in a very un-lady like manner. Jack sighed he had forgotten how incredibly stubborn and proud the Captain could be. Finally Elizabeth shoved Jack's hat harshly onto his head.

"You're despicable." She said disgustedly.

"Sticks and stones love, I saved your life you saved mine, we're square." He replied with a smile. Jack turned her around again moving closer to the edge of the dock.

"Gentlemen!" he said, "You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!"

With that he shoved Elizabeth and Meara into the men. Meara quickly gained her footing in time to see Jack soaring upwards and swinging to a beam high above. Meara could tell where he would go, right to her ship.

"Oh no you don't! That is my ship Jack Sparrow!" Meara roared grabbing a rope.

"Now will you shoot him!?" the Governor cried.

"Open fire!" the Commodore barked and the men fired their bayonets at Jack. Ignoring the bullets Meara swung across the water to the other dock landing just after Jack. She was hard on his heels as they cross the bridge when Meara was forced to throw herself flat as a barrage of gunfire came their way. She cautiously raised her head only to have her hat shot off.

"Not her you bloody bilge rat!" she heard Aileen cry and she couldn't help but smile. She retrieved her slightly damaged hat and brushed the dirt off before placing it back onto her head. She saw some soldiers rush past shortly followed by Aileen.

"You are absolutely, positively, utterly insane you know that!?" Aileen sighed. Meara grinned roguishly at her sister.

"Of course but that's why you all love me!"

Aileen's response was to pull Meara's hat down over her eyes. Meara straightened her hat, still grinning. Aileen rolled her eyes, but a small smile slipped onto her face.

"I'm going to go back and check on Beth, I'll be back soon!"

"All right I'll be here waiting!"

Aileen bolted towards the Governor's home as Meara took a seat on the wharf.

At the Governor's house Aileen gently rapped on Elizabeth's door. The young woman opened it.

"Oh Aileen come in!"

Aileen ducked into the room and she heard the door shut behind her.

"How are you doing?"

"I'm a bit shaken up, but no harm done."

"You really had nothing to worry about, Jack wouldn't have done anything, well at least not while Meara was there."

"They know each other?"

"Oh yes, my sister and Jack go way back, unlike me Meara grew up on the Seahawk." Aileen began "after our father died and our brother became Captain and he was very good friends with Jack Sparrow."

She suddenly glanced around and dropped her voice to a whisper.

"Elizabeth you must promise not to repeat what I'm about to tell you!"

"I swear I won't breathe a word!"

"All right you see, my brother was a privateer…or least he was at first, after a while Matthew changed he turned pirate and joined forces with Jack. He changed the name of the ship to the Bloodhawk. He even changed the flag, a white hawk on a black banner, talons dripping red with blood and fierce red eyes. Anyways, that's how my sister knows Jack Sparrow."

"But you two aren't pirates…are you?"

"No of course not! Meara was part of that crew, yes but she was only a girl at the time, after Matthew died she became Captain and she changed the Bloodhawk back to the Seahawk and returned to privateering."

"Aileen I have a question, why would the king issue letters of Mark to a woman?"

"That's my father's cleverness!" Aileen said with a grin, "When he signed those letters of Mark he signed it M. Hunter. Now my father wasn't the most educated so no one really cared, now what do you notice about my brother's and my sister's names."

"They both start with M!" Elizabeth said realization dawning in her eyes.

"Exactly, those aren't my sister's letters of Mark they're my father's and no one bothers to double check! Even so Meara could fool them because she's practiced writing in our father's hand."

"Wow that is…brilliant!"

"Well of course we're Hunters!" Aileen said with a grin. Elizabeth smiled.

"Don't get to over confident!" she giggled at Aileen.

"Okay, okay that aside I've got to get back to the ship."

"When do you leave?"

"Hopefully by this evening, why?"

"Oh I was wondering if you were staying another night you could stay here."

Aileen could see that the day's events had shaken her friend up quite a bit, "Okay I'll run it by the Captain, her word is final. I wouldn't worry I've got a plan!"

Aileen gathered her belongings and quickly headed back to where she left her sister. She saw Meara sitting on the wharf where she'd left her.

"Umm Meara, can we post pone our departure one more day?" Aileen asked. When she saw her sister's hard look she went to plan B. She made her batted her eyelashes and made her pretty hazel eyes go wide.

"Please?"

Meara cringed and closed her eyes.

"Ah not the face anything but that!" she cried. After a few moments she pulled a face and sighed "all right one more night then we leave!"

"Oh thank you!" Aileen said before hopping into the longboat. Meara sighed and shook her head.

"Gah I'm getting soft!" Meara muttered. Soon they were climbing back onto the ship.

"I'll be in me cabin!" Meara called before heading to her quarters. Aileen sighed and leaned on the railing gazing into the crystal blue depths of the Caribbean waters. Suddenly she heard someone laugh and she spun around and she saw Peter, a big grin plastered on his face.

"What's so funny?" she demanded.

"Nice dress!" he chuckled. Aileen glared daggers at him.

"If you want to see your next birthday shut up now."

"Oh touchy are we?"

"Peter!"

"Aileen!" he mocked. Aileen looked like she was about to rip him limb from limb when she suddenly calmed down and smiled sweetly at him.

"Oh Peter you're so funny, come here I want to tell you something!"

"You're joking right?" he scoffed. Aileen just smiled and batted her eyelashes at him. He swallowed and felt blush creeping onto his face. He quickly put on a roguish smile before sauntering over to her. He leaned on the railing next to her.

"So what did you want to tell me oh fair Lady of Privateers?" he said. Aileen smiled and whispered to him.

"I just wanted to say that you're the most annoying and arrogant person I've ever met!"

With that she gave him a hearty shove and sent him overboard. She grinned as the crew who watched the spectacle broke out into peals of laughter. They only laughed harder when Peter surfaced with a smile on his face and winked at Aileen.

"Keep tellin' yourself you don't want me darling!" he crowed. Well that did it; the crew was doubled over with laughter at the shocked look on Aileen's face. Aileen looked fit to burst as she stormed into Meara's cabin. Meara looked up from the map she was studying and raised an eyebrow.

"Dare I ask?"

"Don't even dare." Aileen growled.

"Let me guess, the new deckhand, Mr. Cruise?"

"If I had my choice I'd maroon him on some god forsaken island or leave him in Tortuga!"

Meara chuckled at her little sister who glared in response. Her elder sister she gazed up at her with a smile.

"You like him don't you." The Captain said simply. Aileen's jaw dropped and she looked like a fish out of water.

"Absolutely not! He is the most annoying, arrogant, pestilential, aggravating imbecile I've ever met!" Aileen practically yelled.

"So you do like him then."

Aileen let out a strangled yell of frustration, "Oh I give up! I am changing and heading back to shore, I should be back at the ship by dawn tomorrow!"

"Good enough," Meara said before slyly adding, "just make sure I don't catch you and Peter doing anything naughty when you should be working!"

Outside the crew all heard Aileen's roar of fury as she burst out of the cabin in the wake of her sister's laughter. She went t o her own quarters and changed before hopping into the long boat along with a few crew members heading to shore for some leisure time before they set sail tomorrow. When she arrived at Elizabeth's house she had calmed a bit, but she still had that agitated air about her. She sat in Elizabeth's room with a sigh.

"What happened you look absolutely livid!" Elizabeth asked. Aileen gave her a rueful smile.

"That is a long story, but its over with, now tell me what's going on between you and that Will Turner!"

"Aileen!" Elizabeth gasped, "How could you say something like that."

"When you live on a ship full of privateers for half your life." Aileen said simply. Elizabeth smiled at her.

"I wish I could go with you. It must be so exciting!"

"Ah you might say that now, it's a whole different story once you're out there, for one thing when the weather gets rough it really dangerous, climbing the rigging and furling sails in all the wind and rain! Why I remember once we were sailing a ways North of here…"

Everything was quiet no board the Seahawk, the only sound was the waves lapping against the hull and the occasional bird cry. Meara gazed up at the bright moon when quite suddenly a fog bank rolled in. Meara began to get uneasy, the fog had come in unnaturally fast and it had gone utterly silent. She peered into the inky darkness of the night, for what not even she knew. Suddenly she saw it, sailing silently through the fog like a ghost, its black sails blending into the night almost making the ship invisible in the fog, the Jolly Roger fluttered softly in the breeze and what little light there was shone on the cannons protruding from the side of the ship.

"Oh my God, it can't be!" she whispered, "It's the Pearl, the Black Pearl!"

Lady Lithoniel: DUN DUN DUUUUUN! What will happen to Meara and her crew!? What about Aileen and Elizabeth!? I bet you all hate me for leaving it there well too bad sticks out tongue and quickly dodges knife and various other sharp metal objects. Hey that's going a bit too far ducks as pick axe comes flying Okay, okay I'll get writing jeez! Yes this chapter gave you a little insight on the past of the Hunter sisters, trust me it will make a lot more sense later on.

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