It was a beautiful day, the Rogue swayed slowly on the vast blue ocean.

"Captain, cried one of the man, there's a ship approaching!"

"Aye, I know that ship. Get ready to let them climb aboard, I'll have a word with the captain."

The rowboat got close, the captain and his first mate from the other ship climbed aboard and were welcomed by a tall man. The captain looked young, around 25, he was handsome and dressed a little more extravagant than his first mate who was older and who looked more unkept.

"Welcome aboard, Captain Sparrow, Mister Barbossa!"

"Nice to see you again, Eddy, how are you?" asked the captain. The First mate didn't seem to like the captain of the Rogue and he just stepped aside letting the two men change their pleasantries.

"Fine, fine, I…" Eddy started.

The captain didn't finish his sentence, a small and lean girl, who looked more like a boy, but who's beautiful face features gave away her gender, came from bellow deck running like the devil himself was following. She was holding a flask in her hand and she headed towards the stairs leading to the ships helm. Right behind her a man was following clearly trying to catch her, but she was fast and she was changing her direction easily; she made it to the top of the stairs and she cried: "I won! I won!"

Smiling the captain called for her wanting to introduce her to his friend.

"Lara, come over here, I want you to meet someone!"

She ran of the stairs jumping over the last three and she stopped abruptly in front of the new comer.

"This is Captain Jack Sparrow, Jack this is my daughter Lara, well one of them …"

"Nice to meet you!" she said extending her arm to shake his.

Captain Sparrow was surprised, but took her hand thinking to kiss it, the moment that he closed his hand over hers however she shook it like any man would.

Her father smiled and then added "You should try greeting like a lady, your mother will kill me if we get back home and you are not keeping to the deal we made."

She grimaced just for a second and then she parted her arms from her body and like she would hold a dress she curtsied.

"Satisfied?" she asked looking at her father, who just nodded.

"We should go in my quarters, Lara go talk to the cook to give you some food and bring it to us and some rum too" he added raising his voice because she was already heading to the kitchen.

The three men got in the captain's quarter and Jack asked a little curious "What deal does she have to keep?"

Eddy breathed like a weight was on his chest and answered.

"Her mother didn't want her daughter growing up on a pirate ship as you might imagine, but Lara can be very convincing, and she was only five at the time, mind you. So Anabelle, my wife, accepted with the condition that Lara will learn how to behave like a lady, that she will learn how to cook and clean and things alike. Lara agreed and her mother assumed that after seeing how difficult the life on a pirate ship is she will change her mind and meanwhile she would still have not lost any 'lady lessons' as Lara likes to call them. But, well, things didn't go as planned, Lara loves it here, so I took teachers for her. The one who was chasing her earlier is her hand to hand and sword fighting teacher. She is kind of falling behind with her lady lessons however ….

She even spent three years in Japan with a geisha, who I have no idea what taught her really because she isn't more feminine, but she also learned some fighting skills there. Now we're heading home and I am afraid that her mother will not be too pleased that her 14 year old daughter is more like a boy than a woman."

They were interrupted by a loud bang when Lara opened the door with her foot, holding a full tray in her hands.

"Do you need any help?" asked Jack who was still thinking at the strange situation that he encountered and realizing why everyone was calling Eddy, "Crazy Eddy".

"No I can manage, so captain what brings you on our ship, do you come from afar, have you met any EITC man on your way, are you planning a new interesting voyage?" Lara fired the questions setting the tray on the table and waiting for answers.

Barbossa rolled his eyes, he was starting to lose his patience, but Captain Sparrow found her entertaining.

"Do you always ask so many things in one single phrase?" He asked smiling.

"I just have a lot of things that I want to know, and I don't appreciate when I'm answered with a question."

"Lara that's enough, leave us, we have some matters to discuss that are not of your interest." Her father added realizing that if he wouldn't put a stop to this Barbossa will not be very cooperative and Jack will just get sidetracked in a conversation with his daughter; and knowing how much she could talk they will never manage to discuss their issues.

"Well how do you know? Maybe there is something that concerns me. I wish to …." Lara answered immediately but she was cut off.

"Lara get out now or I will make sure you will attend all the tea parties that your mother will give while we are there."

At this Lara didn't wait any more and left but she stopped on the threshold and she pulled her tongue at her father who couldn't see her. Jack chuckled and winked at her.

While her father and the two men were talking Lara was trying to hear what they were saying but she was interrupted by her father's First Mate and she knew that she had to give up, at least for the moment. After a few hours the three men got out of the quarters and kept talking while heading for the longboat.

Lara jumped in front of them from up the mast landing with a thud.

"So you're leaving and yet you didn't answer any of my questions, you know is not healthy for me to leave me with my curiosity unsatisfied"

This made Jack to smirk and think that maybe this little girl wasn't actually as boyish as she seemed. The way she said her last words seemed like she actually learned something from those geishas. Probably she was acting like a man because it was safer for her on a ship full of men.

"I am on your ship because I had some little things to discuss with your father, I'm coming from Jamaica, I haven't had the 'pleasure' to meet the EITC ships and yes a very interesting one. Is your curiosity satisfied now?" Jack responded.

"Partly" she answered but the conversation was over; a third ship appeared on the horizon, out of nowhere and the two Captains started barking orders to their men. Captain Sparrow and Barbossa headed for their ship and took off, as did The Rogue.

10 years later, Port Royal

Lara was coming out from a beautiful house wearing a very elegant dress. Her red hair was pulled up, and her green eyes were smiling, The job went well. But after she got on the street she realized that she was surrounded by the Navy. Damn she thought, this was not part of my plan, how could have they known, how did they find out?

Well is time to run. She picked up her dress and ran towards the soldiers that seemed weaker. And it worked, they weren't expecting her to charge, so from reflex they let her squeeze between them. Their surprise wasn't for long however, they realized she was escaping so they followed. Lara started to take off her skirt, it wasn't really a dress but a skirt and a top half of a dress that she made especially for situations like this. She took off the skirt and threw it towards the soldiers stumbling two of them. Underneath she was wearing a pair of black trousers and on each leg she had leather straps, one holding a gun and the other one a short sword.

A soldier with his sword ready to attack came in front of her from behind a building, she took out her sword and attacked him first. In a few movements she managed to disarm him but the time she spent fighting with him was enough for the other soldiers to catch up.

Lara peeked around her looking for a way out and then she spotted it. A horse was left unsupervised so she ran as fast as she could and jumped on the horses back.

Lucky me, she looked behind and saw the soldiers that were left in a cloud of dust. She got back at the safe house and entered being very careful, not knowing who rat her out. When she got at the conclusion that nobody was there she went to her room and changed the top half of the dress. She put on some kind of a bodice that kept her breast in place and also helped in case she fell in the water and her shirt would become see through. Then she put on a man's shirt and a vest and finished putting her belts on when she heard a noise.

It was too late, the moment that she turned around someone already hit her in the head and the last thing that she taught was Why the hell did I leave my guard down?

When she came out of her black out two soldiers were carrying her down the steps of the prison. She looked behind and saw other two who were holding their guns ready to fire. She had shackles at her wrists and a horrible headache.

"You know if you wanted to dance with me you only should have asked, I don't think this are necessary" she said motioning to her hands.

"Shut it" said one of the soldiers.

"You are very rude, you know, you can forget having me at any of your parties from now on."

"Are you crazy lady? You do realize that you're going to be hanged tomorrow, right?"

"Who defines crazy really?! And tomorrow is a bad day for me I have other plans, what do you say we reschedule?"

The soldier just shook his head Poor woman is bonkers.

They finally arrived at the cells. In one of them there were 5 or 6 men, in the other one there was just a man who seemed to be sleeping; that was the cell that they threw her in and turned around to leave.

"Hey, what about these?" She asked shaking her shackles.

"We have orders to let them on." answered the only soldier that responded to her all this time.

"So what does this mean? Are we married because I'm not ready to settle, you know."

The soldiers left and she turned around looking at the man in the corner, she frowned I know him from somewhere and then she recognized him.

She got closer to him and said: "Captain Sparrow what a nice coincidence!"

The man pushed his hat from over his eyes and looked her up and down.

"I don't think we have met before, but I'm willing to make your acquaintance."

"I can't believe it, you don't remember me after all the moments that we've spent together, after all that you said to me?"

"Love, I'm sure that if I would have spent time with such a beautiful woman as yourself I would have remembered. But we've got a lot of time to know each other now." he said smiling and winking at her.

Lara thought to continue acting offended, but she finally decided that it would be better to stop playing and be sincere.

"Don't worry Captain, I was just teasing you, but we have met before it's just that I was just a little girl and ten years tend to change one's appearance."

He lifted his eyebrows and then dawning on him he exclaimed: "LARA?!"

"It seems you got your memory back."

"Well you really did change." and with this he gave her another look like he was trying to take it all in.

To be continued.