Siren Song: Curse of the Black Pearl

Chapter 11

"Say the name, or I slit your throat." Barbossa growled.

"No you won't." Barbossa clenched his jaw. He really hated this man...

"Allow me the humor of listening to your terms then."

~- Dawn, Longboat, Isla de Muerta -~

As they rowed away from the creepy skull island in a long boat, Roxanne navigating while Elizabeth and Victoria moved the boat along. Elizabeth had been going on about their little kidnapping escapade, and what had happened after Victoria had escaped capture.

"Of course, I tried my best to negotiate peacefully- " Roxanne rolled her eyes. "How was I to know they weren't going to let us go." Elizabeth muttered the last bit to herself.

"But you managed to make them leave Port Royal alone." Victoria said, trying to soothe her.

"Yes I suppose I did, however, It was Roxanne who really managed to persuade them." Elizabeth mused, and Roxanne hummed.

"How? Did she use the glowy eyes?" Victoria asked curiously.

"I threatened to drop their medallion at the bottom of the harbor." Roxanne sighed, just as she spotted a ship looming in the distance. "Victoria... Friend or Foe?" Victoria got up to look at the ship.

"Friend." She confirmed after a moment, and then she sat back down to continue to row at a greater pace and with more determination. When they reached it, Victoria climbed up the ladder that had been thrown down, helping Elizabeth up after her.

"Not more pirates." Elizabeth groaned light-heartedly, but as she looked around, she was then greeted with a familiar face.

"Welcome aboard, Miss Elizabeth."

"Mr. Gibbs?" She said as Roxanne climbed up easily. When she steadied herself on the deck, she went into the slight sway with the ship. Many of the pirates glanced at her, before going back to work.

"Hey, Victoria... Where be Jack?" He asked the redhead in question. Roxanne made a face at this, Victoria hadn't mentioned anyone else...

"Jack? Jack Sparrow?" Roxanne said, remembering the irritating man. She glanced at Elizabeth, who shrugged.

"He fell behind." Victoria said, going over to rail of the quarter deck. Roxanne and Elizabeth followed after her, brimming with questions. Gibbs paused, but nodded to himself...

"Keep to the Code." He muttered.

"Weigh anchor and hoist the sails! Split-quick, you dibbis!" AnaMaria barked, and Gibbs looked at them and shaking his head in amusement.

"Four women on board? A man don't have to be superstitious to know that's trouble."

Victoria turned the medallion over in her hands. Running her fingers over the familiar grooves and rifts in the gold. Almost not paying attention to Elizabeth as she talked, shuddering when she described the way the captain and his men had become skeletons.

"I thought it was rather interesting really..." Roxanne mused, and Elizabeth looked her an incredulous expression. "What?" Elizabeth rolled her eyes.

"Only you would find something so... Morbid, interesting."

"Why would my father send this to me?" Victoria frowned, drawing the other girls attentions.

"To keep it away from them?" Elizabeth suggested, and Roxanne nodded, looking contemplative.

"But, no pirate would sail to London, for fear of Execution Dock." She countered, and they continued to offer ideas while Victoria looked at the medallion with a mirthless smile.