A/N: Okay, so originally, it was going to be part of the last chapter, but I decided to split them in two.

Special Thanks To Arwen the Storyteller, my reader who continues to support this story and to everyone else who is willing to read this one.

I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean. Only Ruth Josette Swann, Amelia Greta Jones, and Jane Augustine Turner

And a Curse Revealed

Jane and Elizabeth were in the captain's quarters still. Of course, they had spoken a lot to each other, planning on how to get out of this situation. They hadn't come up with anything yet, so it was a bit frustrating. Jane hoped that the Navy was finding them, because Elizabeth was one of the Governor's only daughters.

Two of the pirates that Jane remembered were the ones who kidnapped them came in with a red and purple dress, one of each.

"You'll be dinin' with the captain," said Pintel. "And he requests you wear this."

"Whoa," Jane looked on the purple dress. Jane wanted to touch it, and went to do exactly that, but Elizabeth stuck a hand out. "What? Those dresses are better than my church one."

"We don't except bribes, and you may tell the captain that I am disinclined to acquiesce to his request," Elizabeth said, using the words against them.

"He said you'd say that," Pintel said with a smirk. "He also said if that be the case, you'll both be dinin' with the crew…and you'll be naked. "

"Well, sorry to disappoint you gentlemen," said Jane. She took the dresses and handed the red one to Elizabeth. Pintel went angry.

"Fine," he said in a harsh tone.

Many moments later, Barbossa came in to examine the girls and found that they were very well different. And food was brought in.

"Maid or not, it suits you," Barbossa said,

"Dare we ask the fate of their previous owners?" asked Jane.

"Now, none of that." Barbossa said, he gestured to the food before them as Jane and Elizabeth sat down. "Please - dig in."

The girls sat down at the table, eating everything like a lady. Of course, they were very hungry, having not eaten anything in a long time. Barbossa watched them every time, actually, he didn't buy the "eating like a lady" act that Jane and Elizabeth had going on.

There's no need to stand on ceremony, nor call to impress anyone," said Barbossa. The two women looked at him. "You must be hungry."

As soon as those words hit them, the twenty-year-old and the nineteen-year old both dug in to their food. They didn't stop eating, even taking gigantic hunks of bread and trying wine. Barbossa actually enjoyed watching them eat, for some reason, he liked it. He offered them a green apple, Jane suddenly went cold. She never liked apples, especially green ones.

"It's poisoned!" Elizabeth said.

"Or worse," said Jane.

"There would be no sense to be killing you, Miss Turner and Miss Selwyn.

"Then release us," Jane said annoyed. She assumed the title "Miss Selwyn" well, trying to pretend to be someone she's not. "You have your trinket. We are of no further value to you!"

He showed Jane and Elizabeth the medallion. Jane wanted it back. It was her father's after all, but she still wasn't sure whether it was her or not.

"You two don't know what this is, do ye?" Barbossa asked.

"It's a pirate medallion," Elizabeth said.

"This is Aztec gold. One of eight-hundred and eighty-two identical pieces they delivered in a stone chest to Cortés himself. Blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies. But the greed of Cortés was insatiable. So, the heathen gods placed upon the gold a terrible curse. Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity.

"We hardly believe in ghost stories any more, Captain Barbossa," Elizabeth said, Jane took a drink.

"Aye! That's exactly what I thought when we were first told the tale! Buried on an Island of the Dead what can't be found 'cept by those who know where it 'tis. "Is there anything else to this tale, Captain Barbossa?" Jane asked.

"Oh, yes, Miss Selwyn. Find it, we did. There be the chest, inside be the gold, and we took them all. We spent 'em and traded 'em and frittered 'em away…on drink and food and pleasurable company. The more we gave them away, the more we came to realize – the drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, and all the pleasurable company in the world could not slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed we were, but now we are consumed by it. "

The monkey screeched and Barbossa consoled him. Jane wondered what his name was. The two of them didn't even notice Elizabeth slip a butter knife behind.

"You know, most pirate captains have a parrot, why a monkey?" Jane asked. Barbossa looked at her.

"My wife loved monkeys. She was the one who rescued Jack here. And had knickknacks for our daughter." The monkey looked at Jane but didn't say anything.

"Loved? Is she..." Jane said.

"Yes," Barbossa answered.

"Your daughter? Is she …" Jane began but couldn't figure out what to say.

"Haven't seen her since she was a baby. Does that answer your question, Miss Selwyn, because I'd like to get on with the story."? Jane nodded as Barbossa continued the story. "Now, thanks to ye, miss Turner, we have the final piece.

"And the blood to be repaid? " Jane asked.

"That's why there's no sense to be killing you. Yet," said Barbossa.

Elizabeth is horrified. Barbossa holds an apple out to her.

"Apple? " he asked the girls one more time. Much to Jane's surprise, Elizabeth slapped the apple out of Barbossa's hand. She took the stolen knife, trying to run. Jane stood behind Elizabeth as she tried to guide them out of the captain's quarters. Taking the stolen knife, Elizabeth stabbed Barbossa in the shoulder. Elizabeth and Jane looked on in horror as Barbossa easily pulled the blade out without pain, with their mouths wide opened.

"I'm curious - after killing me, what is it you're planning on doing next?" Barbossa said with a smirk.

"What the hell are you?" Jane said.

"Good question, Miss Selwyn," said Barbossa.

Elizabeth, without hesitation grabbed onto Jane's wrist and the girls began running out of the ship. Jane screamed at the top of her lungs when she saw before her: a group of undead pirates. Everyone was a zombie pirate. Elizabeth also looked on in horror. The girls began running all over the ship in terror. Jane bumped into a pirate and fell onto the ground. The skeletal figure looked at Jane and it was the most disturbing thing she had ever seen. In fact, this one had the wooden eye.

Jane screamed louder and got up quickly, running around the ship. She lost sight of Elizabeth, who was having it far worse than she was. The girls were being chased all over the ship, Jane ran quickly down to where the brig was at. However, she was not happy to see more pirates down below. She screamed again, jumping back up the steps, cornered by more undead pirates. She took a nearby mop and made sure that the skeletons were connected and was able to make it above deck.

She hid underneath a couple of steps, when suddenly, Jack screeched. Jane didn't scream per se.

"Oh, go jump off a cliff," she yelled, slapping it away. She quickly jumped out of behind and quickly ran back to the Captain's Quarters, where Barbossa grabbed onto her. Elizabeth was nowhere to be seen.

"Look, LOOK!" Barbossa shouted and turned her around. Jane looked on it at horror. "The moonlight shows us for what we really are! We are not among the living, and so we cannot die - but neither are we dead!" He turned her around him. For too long I have been parched of thirst, and unable to quench it! Too long, I have been starving to death – and haven't died! I feel nothing ... Not the wind on my face, nor the spray of the sea ... nor the warmth of a woman's flesh."

Jane backed away as his hand turned into a skeletal one, his teeth of gold and silver shined in the moonlight.

"You and Miss Turner best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Selwyn. You're in one."

He grabs a wine bottle from a case, uncorks it with his teeth, gives her a little toast, and then drinks. The wine runs through his jaw and rib cage, drenching his clothes. Jane darts around him, back into the cabin, Barbossa hurls the bottle away, shuts the cabin doors. He turns to his men and laughed, followed by the crew. "What are ye looking at? Back to work!" Barbossa shouted to them and the men quickly got back to work.

Jane found herself with Elizabeth again. The two women cuddled with each other in the corner of the cabin.

"Elizabeth, I…I'm scared," Jane said. She never was one to be terrified, but when she was, Jane acted like a seven-year-old.

"So am I, Janie," said Elizabeth. She and Jane remained together for the rest of the night, hoping that their siblings would come and rescue them soon.