-1Disclaimer: Since I don't want to be a mouse, I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean.

A:N: Hey guys! Sorry for the wait, but I had a lot going on. Here's chapter 5 for you! Enjoy.

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"Who says life cant be spontaneous?" --Unknown.

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Taylor's Point Of View

"Jack," I whined, "I want a sword!" We had just gotten into the harbor, and were just stepping onto the dock, when I realized I wouldn't have any protection for Tortuga. And if it was anything like the movie, I definitely wanted protection. Spinning on his heel, Jack turned abruptly to look at me.

"Luv, I've seen yer clumsiness first hand. I don't trust ye wit' a sword." Jack said, talking about my clumsiness from earlier that day. Huffing, I stopped on the deck and crossed my arms. The rest of them kept walking until they noticed I wasn't walking with them like I should have been. Once again, the others turned around and looked at me. Sure I was throwing a fit like a two year old, but hey, I have a two year old sister and I don't care.

Sighing, Maria came back for me, since she is the only one that can understand my mood swings. "Taylor, you don't want to miss Tortuga, do you?" She asked. I shook my head no, and she put a hand on my arm. "Come on, lets go have some fun."

I acted like I was going to cry, and sniffed. "Alright, but I'm not talking to him." I said and I pointed to where Jack stood cleaning his nails. Maria shook her head to say she thought it was o.k. and we started to walk up the dock again. When we reached Jack and Will, I glared at Jack and gave Will my sweetest smile.

"Glad to see you smiling, Miss Taylor." Will said. I laughed and then hooked my arm through his, as did Maria on his other side. Jack rolled his eyes at us and continued on into the town. Following him, Maria and myself started to hum the theme to Family Guy, which is the best show ever.

It took us about 10 minutes to get to the middle of the town, because Jack had to stop and talk to everyone, and dodge a few people who he owed money to. When we finally got into town, I was surprised by how gross and dirty it was. Sure I saw the movie, several times, but I never realized how many whores and bums there were. Plus all the bars and what not, this place was going to give me a headache.

"More importantly," Jack was saying. "It is indeed the sad life, that has never breathed deep this sweet , proliferous, bouquet that is Tortuga, Savvy?" Then looking behind him after he grabbed a cane from some drunk man, he added, "What do you think?"

Will looked around before answering. "It'll linger." He said. When he wasn't going to say anything else, I added. "It's gross." Jack gave me a scandalized look before going on.

"I'll tell you mate, if every town in t he world was like this one, no man would ever go unwanted." Looking over to where a red-headed whore was making her way towards him, Jack's eyes lit up. "Scarlet!" He called. She looked at him sweetly and then slapped him across the face. Rolling my eyes, I turned around to look at all of our surroundings. "Don't think I deserved that." He said.

"Yah, right." Maria said sarcastically. I laughed and turned around just in time to see a blonde whore come up to Jack. "Who was she?" The girl asked. "Wha'?" jack was stupid enough to act dumb. Let's see where that gets him. Oh, it looks like a slap on the face.

Laughing when Jack rubbed his jaw, I smiled and looked towards Maria. "He might have deserved that." I said in my best Captain Sparrow accent. It must've been pretty good because both Maria and Will started to laugh. Satisfied that I had gotten Jack back for his earlier comments, I gave him a wink and continued to walk forwards.

"Wait up, Taylor!" I heard Maria shout, and then I heard Will telling her that we should go to a pub called the Faithful Bride, where they would meet us later. I turned back around in time to see Jack tip his hat at us and call out for us to not get into too much trouble. "Yes, dad!" I called out, earning some surprised looks from spectators. Deciding I would have a little fun, I turned to the people giving us strange looks and whispered loudly, "He had us out of wedlock, but don't spread it around he doesn't want anyone to know." They nodded their heads knowingly, but as soon as I turned back around I heard them running off to tell their friends and everyone on the street.

"Your horrible. He is going to kill you. And since when do you think of Jack Sparrow as a fatherly figure?" Maria asked as we headed in the direction of the pub Will had pointed out for us. "How cliché." She said, when she saw the name and the controversial sign hanging from the window.

"I don't think of him in a fatherly way, but you know how I love to stir up gossip." I winked and opened the door to the pub. Almost immediately we were pulled through and into the din of noises and alcohol. "Oh, and Maria," I added, she turned to me and I gave her a big smile. "The sign on the door said Help Wanted. You should probably find the manager."

Laughing at Maria, who acted like she was going to hit me before joining in on the laughter, we walked over to the bar. Jumping on one of the empty stools, I addressed the bartender. "My Goodman, I'll have a water, and my friend will have a water as well." The bartender looked at us once, then shook his head.

"We don' hav' no wata'." He said, his English was terrible and I could hear a bit of a Spanish accent in there. I decided to test out the Spanish classes I had taken in high school.

"Quisiera un cristal de agua, por favor?" I asked in Spanish. The bartender looked from me to Maria, once again shaking his head. Maria looked like she was going to start cracking up laughing at any minute, and I looked at her like she was crazy. "What's so funny?" I asked, giving her a confused look.

"Nothing. Your accent is absolutely horrible, though." She said and then erupted into small giggles. I sighed and turned back to the bartender who was looking at us expectedly.

"I'll have a rum then." I said dejectedly, he rolled his eyes and looked pointedly at Maria, who was holding her hands to her sides and laughing. Sometimes I don't even want to know what she thinks is so funny.

"I'll have a water." Maria said through her giggles and I rolled my eyes. Hadn't I just had this conversation with this man. I was about to correct Maria and tell her to get something else, when the bartender nodded his head and went to get our drinks. I gave an exasperated sigh and peered at Maria closely.

"How is that I cant get a water, even when I ask in Spanish, and yet you can get one without any problem?" I asked her. Maria put on a straight face and then looked at me all superior like. She cleared her throat as if she was going to make some huge announcement and sat up a little straighter.

"Taylor, luv, that man there wasn't Spanish, but French. And I'm sure he had no clue what you were going on about." She said. As I felt my face going red with embarrassment, the man sat down our drinks on the bar and looked at us expectantly. "What do you need, kind sir?" Maria asked him after tasting her drink and then sitting it back down on the bar top. Looked like she had gotten rum as well.

"The drinks aren't for free you know." The man said and he once again gave us a withering stare as Maria and I looked at each other. Pretending to look through my pockets to bide time, Maria looked around the bar to see if Will or Jack was here yet. They weren't.

"How about this," I said to the man, my head working a mile a minute. "Why don't you just put what we order tonight on Captain Sparrow's tab? Hmm, I think that would be alright, don't you?" I asked the man sweetly. He seemed to debate about it for a moment and then nodded his head to show that it was alright.

Maria smiled and then turned a sly glance towards the doors. "How about something to eat then?" She asked, and I smiled at the thought. I hadn't eaten in like two days. I was starving. Seeing my look, she turned back to the man. "Bring us the finest eatery you have and put it all on Sparrow's tab."

The bartender grinned, knowing that we were taking full advantage of Jack's money. He would get over it later, as long as the bill wasn't too high. The man walked off, leaving Maria and myself to enjoy our rum. Yeah, right. "Well, you try yours first." I said, pointing a finger at the mug sitting in front of Maria. She shook her head and looked at the mug sitting in front of me.

"I already tried mine, your turn." I sighed and picked the mug off of the counter. Giving it a sniff first, I almost gagged at the strong smell coming from the small glass. I gave Mari a pleading glance, but she just smiled wider at me. Nodding, I raised the mug to my mouth and took a gulp.

Bad move. The rum burned going down my throat and had a sweet, sugary taste. I started coughing, and began to regret taking that large of a swig. Maria laughed heartily as she hit me on the back. "It's kind of gross, isn't it." She said. It wasn't a question, but I knew she knew what it tasted like. I could only nod as I tried to get my throat to stop burning.

"Take it easy love, don't want you to hurt that pretty face of yours." Someone said, and I swung around on my stool to see Jack ordering himself and Gibbs rum. How had he gotten in here without me noticing? "Is there a reason yer starin' at me love? Or are ye jus' tryin to show affection?" Jack said, reaching his arm out to me. I moved back and grabbed for my mug of rum.

"You wish, Sparrow." I said, glaring at him and downing the rest of the rum that was in my mug. It was soon replaced by another from the bar keep. I nodded to him and took another gulp of rum. I turned when someone put a hand on my arm. It was Will.

"Don't worry about him, Taylor. He's just trying to get you to crack." Will said knowingly. I rolled my eyes and looked around for Maria. She was over where Will was supposed to be, glaring at a whore that I noticed from a little later in the movie. I laughed and then pointed over to her. Will looked to where I was pointing and I saw a faint blush rising on his cheeks.

"So Will, anything interesting happening with you and Maria." Will looked at me like I had two heads and I gave him a sly smile. "Come on, don't be shy." I said, patting his arm and wiggling my eyebrows. Will turned back to where Maria was, and saw that she was being goggled by many of the pub goers.

"I don't know what your talking about." Will said, not looking at me but continuing to stare at a man who was getting a little to close to Maria. "If you'll excuse me for a moment." He continued but then didn't wait for me to answer as he walked away. I rolled my eyes and looked back to the counter at where someone had placed another glass of rum in front of me. I looked up at the bar tender, who then pointed down the bar to where a bunch of society men turned pirates were staring. Raising the glass to them, I nodded and took a drink out of it. Once you got used to it, rum wasn't so bad. It was now only a dull numbness when it went down.

One of the braver men got up from the table they were occupying and walked towards me. Great, I thought, now I have to put up with this guy. The man walked over and sat on the stool that Maria had been occupying and just stared at me. For a few minutes, I ignored him and continued to drink out of the mug, but after a while I just got tired of it. "Is there something you want?" I asked him a little harshly.

He gave me a dirty-toothed smile and put a finger to my cheek. "I thought that was a mite bi' obvious." He stated and I grimaced, not wanting to think where his hand had been. Grabbing his arm and flinging it away from me, I stood up from my seat and swayed a bit before I got my balance.

"No thank you." I stated with as much propriety as I could muster in my half-drunken state. Turning to see where Maria and the other's had gotten to, I felt the man's hand on my arm again. I turned to look up at him and saw that he had gotten off of the stool to join me on the ground. "Excuse me, but I said get the HELL OFF!" I said a little louder. People had started to stare at us and I wasn't going to play a helpless little girl, even though I was 18 and could take care of myself. At least legally, I mean.

"I was going to be polite, bu' now, I don tink so." The man said, but before he could touch me with his other arm, I reached out with my fist and it collided with the man's jaw bone. He fell with a sickening crunch to a heap on the ground, and everyone sat in silence for a moment before people started to fight around me. The music became a roaring noise and my fist and head were starting to pound in pain. I felt myself swaying, and then two strong arms carrying me out of the pub. At first I tried to reach out and fend off whoever it was, but the alcohol was making me sleepy and I couldn't put up much of a fight.

Going in and out of sleep, I recognized the humming sound to be Jack, and the muffled voices to be Will and Maria talking about something. Once again, I thought, my hero. Reaching up, I put my hand on Jack's shoulder and he looked down at me. I could smell the salty tang of the ocean and hear the waves, so I knew we were close to the dock.

"Jack, put me down, I can walk." I said. Jack stopped and looked down at me, then silently put me on the ground. Almost immediately the ground started to spin and I felt myself swaying to an invisible wind. Jack put his hands on my waist and held me steady while everything started to come back into focus. Seeing that I was o.k. Jack helped me walk the rest of the way up the dock and onto the gang-plank.

After a little mishap, where I tried to jump in the water but was stopped, we were all on the deck of the Interceptor and Will and Maria had gone downstairs to the galley to find something to eat. I, on the other hand, had decided to stay on the deck and talk to Jack. Or annoy him, whatever came first. Walking over to where he was standing next to the side of the ship looking out to see, I sat on the railing so that I could see his face. It looked trouble and I thought of how he must feel to have lost something that was rightfully his. Laying my hand on his shoulder, I whispered, "It's all going to work out in the end Jack. You'll get the Pearl back and sail the seven seas again."

Jack turned to look at me and gave me a grin. I almost felt my heart melt. Still smiling, Jack reached up and brushed some of my hair off of my face. "I'm sure it is. After all, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow." He said, waving his hands around for an extra effect. I giggled and hopped down from the railing so that I was standing next to him.

Before I could stop myself, I reached up and kissed Jack on the lips. When I pulled away, I whispered, "Thanks for saving me." Before falling asleep right on the deck.

Boy was I going to be in pain tomorrow.

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Oh my lord! Taylor kissed Jack! But will she remember it in the morning? And what are Will and Maria doing down in the galley by themselves? Hmm, intrigue. Oh well, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. It took me forever because I kept changing everything, but hey, who likes a bad story/chapter. No one that's who. Well, drop me a review, because the faster you review, the faster the next chapter is up. Hint hint.

Yours Truly,

Baby Blue Eyes 10