Ragetti and Pintel were looking around at all the witch's things, listening to her stories and warnings, when Ragetti spotted something familiar amongst the things on the table next to him and picked it up to inspect more thoroughly. The witch saw what Ragetti had picked up and trailed off, watching him. He was obviously a little disturbed by the object he was holding, as if it called up memories long forgotten. Jack and Will noticed the Tia's silence and adverted gaze, following her gaze to the other pirate.

"What have yeh there mate?" Jack asked, in which Pintel finally realized everyone's eyes were on Ragetti.

He smacked his friend, rather hard, "Don't be touch'n anyth'n!"

With the force of Pintel's hit Ragetti's wooden eye popped out of his socket and rolled across the floor. Pintel followed the eye's progress across the floor in amazement as Ragetti didn't even move, where as he usually darted wildly after the thing.

"What's wrong mate?" He asked, worried. Nothing could usually capture his friend's attention this thoroughly. You could hear the faint rolling sound of the eye fade off.

"Siren," Ragetti finally said.

Tia grinned, "Aye, tha' be a siren painted on the pearl. Did you want to barter fer it?" Ragetti handed the little jewelry piece over to Pintel.

"It's Siren's!" He told his friend firmly. There was a large pearl with an inked picture of a siren sitting on a sea rock on it, white ink. The pearl was dark and as big as a man's thumb, shining blues and greens glimmered along the edges marking it a black pearl. The ribbon, also black, tied to the silver lining cradling the pearl made it so that it would sit tightly tied onto a woman's neck perfectly. Pintel turned the necklace over, glancing up at his friend.

"Nah, it would be embroidered here with..." He trailed off as he spotted small white embroidered words trailed along the length of the inside of the ribbon.

"From the sea I come, to the sea I'm drawn, in the meantime I'll live and love, until death doth let me roam," Tira said, reciting the words on the ribbon from memory. Ragetti darted over to Jack and grabbed the gun from his belt, pointing it at Tira.

"Where's Siren?" He demanded.

The witch glowered at the pirate, "She not be here. She went out to fetch some things with her daughter." The last of her words seemed to hurt Ragetti and he lowered the gun, stepping back. Jack snatched the gun from his crewmate, while Pintel grabbed onto Ragetti's arm to support him.

"Then they've been here?" Pintel asked. Tira nodded, "Aye. Not being able to force her babe to be around the undead, she stayed here. She had me teach her how to listen to the sea, so then she could learn more from It." Mr. Gibbs was frowning and scratched his head, "Who be this 'siren'? She not be the creatures of myth. The ladies who call sailors to their death on jagged rocks?" Pintel and Jack shook their heads.

"Siren, Jack knows. She was a servant in a whorehouse. I took her from it, she called me brother and fell in love with that maggot." Pintel said the last not with dislike, but affection. As if it were a pet name he liked to use. There were splashes from outside and a small child with black hair came running through the door, dressed in a long green tunic and a darker green skirt that stopped at her knees in jagged angles.

"Auntie Dalma!" The girl shouted happily, struggling to hold onto the large sack in her arms. "Look at what mama and I got! Just like you asked." Tia took the bag, peeked inside and nodded.

"Very good child, go put this in the other room and change real quick, I have some people here for you to meet and they don't need to be soaked by yer clothes." The girl nodded, eyeing the men in the room and ran off.

Tira placed a hand to her hip, glaring at Ragetti.

"She is still outside. Siren loves the water and has a tendency to do things for the others who live here. She and the child live here, with me, but use what Siren earns from the others as payment." Ragetti looked like he wanted to run out the door in search of Siren. Pintel grabbed his arm, "Focus on what's important mate. Who's tot do you think that was?" Ragetti looked down, "Siren and mine." Pintel nodded, "She had good reason to not come back. Run'in out there and hollering at 'er won't help." Ragetti frowned, "I wasn't gonna yell at 'er!" Jack swaggered over to where they were, "Siren and YOUR child? When did that happen?" There was a feminine, bubbly, laugh from the door. They all turned to see a woman with black hair that shimmered like a black pearl, milk white skin and an hourglass figure. She had on black trousers, a red bustier that just blocked her breasts from being visible beneath the soaked white shirt. There seemed to be faded tattoos of scales beneath her ears that trailed down her shoulders and even a few of the same tattoos down on her ankles.

"It happened about a year after the mutiny. We aren't far off in age, like you thought Jack." The girl tossed something over their heads, to Ragetti. He fumbled to catch what she had thrown, but Pintel caught it instead. It was Ragetti's eye. Pintel handed the eye to his friend and made his way to where the girl stood in the doorway.

"Siren, you water fer brains!" He growled at her, but with the same affectionate tone to his voice. The girl, apparently Siren, grinned and made a motion with her hand. The water from her clothes seemed to put itself from them and fall to the floor, leaving her dry. After she had done this she hugged Pintel tightly, she was a head taller but her hair fell down past her butt, allowing for Pintel to bury his face in it.

"I missed you too," she said. Jack went over to them and tapped on her shoulder, holding his arms wide for a hug as well. Siren let go of Pintel and hugged Jack. "I'm glad you're okay," she told him. He nodded, "With thanks to you lass." The little girl came back out and frowned at the scene before here, "Okay. What's going on?" Her hair had turned to a dirty blonde color. She had a small towel, more a rag than a towel, and was drying her hair off with it. The tips of her hair were still black. As she scrubbed them with the towel the black faded to blonde. You could see as she rubbed her face that her skin, as it dried, tanned and her eyebrows turned the same mousy blonde as her hair was.

"Echo, sugar, come here. You remember the stories I told you about your Uncle Jack and Pintel? Well they've finally found us!" Siren winked a Jack, who nodded and grinned. The little girl, known as Echo, ran over to Jack and jumped up into his arms.

"You're Uncle Jack right?" He nodded, giving her his free hand to shake, "It's a pleasure to finally meet you." She took it and shook it with her own, "Yes. I've been looking forward to meeting you. Mama always tells stories." She looked around at all the other men, then set sights on Ragetti and Pintel. "By what Mama always says, you look like Uncle Pintel. But who're you?" She was meaning Ragetti. Pintel looked like his head might explode, "You didn't tell her about her own-," Siren swiftly clamped a hand over Pintel's mouth and shook her head. "Keep quiet, there's a reason for this," she told him firmly. Echo had sucked in her lower lip and was nibbling on it thoughtfully.

"Uncle Jack can you put me down for a second?" she asked finally. Jack set her promptly on her feet, then watched her make her way to her father. She grabbed Ragetti's jack with both hands and pulled, " Come down here." He knelt down, unable to tear his gaze for her face. She looked just like her mother, besides the odd change in coloring that seemed to match his own. He touched her cheek, then her hair. She tilted her head, "So THAT'S who you are. I thought so, but wasn't sure." Echo turned to her mother, hands on her hips.

"Why didn't you tell me?" She demanded. Siren shrugged casually, but you could see the relief and longing in her yes.

"Had to see if my training's been getting through that thick skull of yours didn't I? If you couldn't sense your own father, then what good has been staying here done for us?" Tia cleared her throat and Siren smiled apologetically, "No offense Tia dear." The witch waved a hand at her, "None taken. I've had it easy since you two've been here." Jack made a little "Hmph" noise, impressed.

"Not many people can get her to say something like that," he told Will. Will had been looking from one person to other, completely confused, as well had the other two men who had followed them inside. Mr. Gibbs and Marty kind of stood to the side while the others were engaged in their conversation. Echo turned back to her new found father and grinned, throwing her arms around his neck and hugging him. Ragetti looked as if he were about to cry and swooped the girl up in his arms. Siren watched the two, tears in her eyes. Pintel patted her shoulder, "Been hard has'n it?" She nodded and let a couple tears fall. Pintel hugged his 'sister' with one arm around her waist, in a half hug. Echo let go of her tight grip and turned to her mother, her little brows pushed together with worry.

"Why are you feeling so happy and yet crying Mama?" She asked her mother. Siren shook her head, wiping the tears from her face. "Remember there are a lot of different kinds of tears, just like we have feelings there is a tear for each one." Echo nodded and smiled, "Is that why Daddy's crying?" Siren nodded and walked over to the them. "'Getti you aren't too mad at me are you?" She asked. Echo let her father put her down, "I can't be mad at you." Siren laughed, a nervous but happy burst, and hugged her beloved tightly. They whispered a few things to each other, making one another grin, while Echo went over to Pintel to greet and hug properly. Siren had turned back to the group, Ragetti standing behind her with his head on her shoulder and his arms rapped around her tightly. It was almost like he didn't want to let go, for fear of loosing her again. She absently stroked his hands and glared at Tia.

"You could have warned me they were coming," she said with false hostility. Tira shrugged, "What fun would that have been?" Siren nodded and frowned at the people she didn't know, "I see you've a new crew Jack." He nodded and patted Mr. Gibb's shoulder, "They're a good crew. No mutiny in sight." Siren laughed and hugged Ragetti's arms, then layed eyes on Will. Her eyes got wide and her daintily arched eyebrows jumped to her hairline. "Oh my," she said. "You look so much like..." She moved her head to one side so she could look at Ragetti, "Is he who I'm thinking he is?" Ragetti nodded, "Yep. He's bootstraps' son." "Will," Siren said and pulled from Ragetti's grasp to walk over to him. "You're father basically adopted me while he was still alive," She shot Pintel and Ragetti a searing glance that made them both duck their heads in shame, "and he told me a lot of you. He loved you a great deal." She held out her hand, "It's an honor to finally get to meet you." Will took her hand, a little unsure. Jack sighed and gave Will and good shove, "She's yer new sister now mate. Get used to getting hugged a lot, she does it constantly." Siren patted Will and gently moved him aside. Jack's eyes got wide and he trotted over to Tira, "Now, now pet...let's play nice." Pintel grabbed a towel and twirled it, then snapped it against Siren's butt. She jerked with surprise and whirled to glower at Pintel, who then picked up Echo and moved her in between them.

"Stop with yer evil playing, we need to hurry along," Mr. Gibs said.

Jack nodded and stepped back from behind Tia, who just smirked, "Yes, back to business."

Tia held up a hand to stop Jack and pointed to Siren with the other hand.

"She will lead you where you want to go much better than I could tell you. Since she be the only heir of Davie Jones'." Everyone turned to look at Siren who was looking at her feet, which were nice and clean from being in the water.

"You've been training to be a real siren then?" Ragetti asked. He was unusually calm and not fidgeting. Will noticed that Pintel had a similar reaction to her, where as he still sounded as grouchy as usual there wasn't anything remotely similar to those feelings behind the words. Echo seemed content in her uncle's arms, more or less sitting on his hip.

"I'm just a creature of the sea, unfortunately like my father. I happen to have little attributes similar to sea creatures, but that's all. I'm not training to be anything really, though I picked up a few tricks from Tia. She also taught me how to listen to the sea better. I would have come back, eventually."

"I don't think your new companions understand your situation my dear," the witch said. "Maybe you should sing for them." Siren, Echo, Jack, Ragetti and Pintel all shook their heads.

"Not a good idea," Siren said. "Nope, not a good one," Ragetti agreed.

Jack groaned and swaggered over to the girl, "Then do those of us who DO know you and would like to head out as soon as possible, the favor of showing our other members just what you are." Siren sighed and started for the door, "Then I'll just show them what happens when I'm fully submerged in water." Pintel and Ragetti looked at each other with worried looks, then turned with the rest to follow her out the door. She stepped down and then dived into the water. You could see her pale features drift through the water, her black hair floating behind her gracefully. She swam around and came back to where they were all crouched down to pear into the water.

She peeked up at them just below the surface. You could see through the gritty water that what had seemed like tattoos were actual scales along her skin now, below her ears on her neck, then went down along her shoulders and along her arms. They couldn't see it but the scales went from the neckline of her hair, and along her spine. Webbing had sprouted from between her fingers and along her cheekbones had appeared slits, where a gill for each cheek had appeared.

"She is a Siren," Will said in disbelief.

"Stick yer head in the water and you'll never understand why you have to surface," Tia said teasingly. Will had turned to look at the witch as she spoke and when he turned back Siren jumped out of the water to flare fins at the sides of her head and hiss at him, showing two elongated fangs. Every one of the men fell back, but for Jack, Pintel and Ragetti. Echo merely giggled.

Ragetti patted Will's shoulder while Siren and the Witch cackled, "She loves to spook people with that. But as long as she don't bite yeh, yer fine."

"Oh shoosh, 'Getti. Don't be telling all my secrets." Her voice had changed, there was a little bubbling noise to it that made her sound like she was speaking from underwater.

"Be careful girl! Don't lead them into any rocks!" Tia called after them. Siren laughed and motioned for them all to board their boats again and swam out in the water a little.

"Oh and Jack!" The witch called after him from her doorway.

He stopped in mid walk to the boats, "Just a moment lads." He jumped up the steps.

"Take this, it will help you," Tira said. Jack held the jar she'd handed him, looking at it dubiously.

"It's dirt," he said.

"Yes, the one thing Davie Jones can't do is go on land. Only once every few years can he step foot on ground again."

“Soooo...this will help?”

She shrugged, “It’s bettah than noth’n.”

"Ah, thank you. And what do I do about the girls? Will they help?"

Tia shook her head, "He doesn't know about her or her child. She's really more a mix between sirens and mermaids, Jack. She can make one fin out of her legs. You know she can sing like a Siren, but there are tricks with that. What you don't know is that she can smell in the water as well as other things now, having spent so much time here. She knows how to trail things like a dog on land. Then the child's no different in all this. Except that her hair and skin changes when she's dry, like you’ve already seen."

She turned him and pushed him back down the steps, "Now go. You haven't much time." He trotted down the steps and stopped, glaring at the couple in the water, Echo swimming around her father playfully.

"What in the world are you doing in there?" He asked Ragetti.

"She sang him down," Pintel said disgustedly.

Will frowned at Pintel, "I didn't hear anything."

Jack shrugged and hopped into the boat, "Well it’s only logical she can choose who she's singing to of course. Only work her magick on one person. I thought it didn't work on him though." Pintel shrugged, "I think the girl helped. And she's probably learned a few new tricks." Siren had a hold of one Ragetti's arm, while Echo had a hold of his other. They were pulling him back the way they had originally come. Echo's hair had turned the same shade black as her mother's, shimmering in different colors like a black pearl. Her skin was milky white with pale green scales in the same places her mother had them.

"Come on lads! This way!" Ragetti called back.

They started to row after them, Pintel grumbling about how an idiot like that can catch such a girl was beyond what his mind could understand. The men obviously agreed with those notions and the ones on the other boat talked amongst themselves, wondering why such a 'beautiful girl' would pick someone like Ragetti. They were in the middle of their long insults of Ragetti when something bumped their boat and Siren lurched out of the water, hissing in their faces.

"Don't talk about my 'Getti like that," she said in a low tone, "ever."

"Oye! Siren!" She had left Ragetti with Echo on the other side of the boat Jack, Will, and Pintel were in. She let go of the boat and let herself sink below the water, glaring at the men in the other boat until she was out of view under the other boat. Mr. Gibbs, elbowed Marty in the boat behind the others, “Best not make that one angry. Keep our mouths shut.” Marty nodded and glanced at Cotton, “At least he doesn’t have to worry about it.”

All the men rowed in silence after this, until they reached The Black Pearl. Once on board and Siren was once again looking human and had rid herself of the water clinging to her, the men went off to grumbled about temperamental women and the sensitivity of mer-folk. Siren let them talk, as she and Echo indulged themselves in the recollections Pintel, Ragetti, Will and Jack told of their previous adventures.

"How did you get on The Pearl?" Will finally asked Siren after one of Pintel and Ragetti's excitedly told recollections and work had been resumed, while Echo had climbed up one of the masts to look out at the sea better. She smiled and looked down at her bare feet. "I was born into a whorehouse. My mother died giving birth to me, at least that's what the whores told me. I don't think she was a whore, but that was as far as she could get. I figure if you have a household of women, they should be able to help a little, she must of known that and stayed for that reason alone. I don't know and don't want to know personally. But, I was horribly drawn to the sea. They treated me as a servant in that house and they'd keep it that way too until I 'came of age' to start in 'the trade' I guess that's the way of things." She looked back at Will and he saw that her eyes had changed from clear blue to a deep blue that looked almost black.

"I learned proper language skills by just listening to everyone and even taught myself how to write from little things I stole from the tutors that would come by. I stole a lot more than that though. They never could figure out that it was me. I hid my little stolen treasures and myself so they'd never find out. No one could accuse me of stealing, and the house slowly got a bad name. Only Pirates and other 'lower ranked' people came." She looked out to where Ragetti and Pintel were bickering over something.

"Pintel came in and saw me, he watched me and saw that even though you couldn't really catch me at it, that I'd be near when something would go missing. He figured it out and with a small conversation we had planned my escape."

She shrugged, "I would have gone with him no matter what the price. I ended up only having to share what profitable things I had hidden, and then he could pay my way out and even have a profit. Me and the money being his profit."

Will sat down on the steps that lead to the helm and motioned for her to sit with him. She sat down and continued with her story.

"He took me with him to where this ship was docked, about thirteen years ago, I was still a bit of a thing then and he wasn't as bald then as he is now, that happened a little later."

Jack was hollering at Pintel and Ragetti, apparently feeling completely different on whatever they had been bickering about before. Like they always do, Ragetti and Pintel joined together and started to bicker back to the 'intruders' view. Siren laughed softly, hiding her smile with a hand.

"He recognized the sailor in me, even if I didn't care for stealing I would do it and that was enough to qualify me as a pirate. We hid my sex for a while with a coat and breeches. I know Jack believed it, he called me lad so many times that when I revealed that I was a girl he about fell off the ship in surprise."

Siren pulled her knees to her chest and glanced at Will, "Am I boring you? Remember, you DID ask."

Will shook his head, "No, you're not. I think it's interesting you knew Jack as Captain before the mutiny. What I'm curious about is how you escaped the curse and stayed out of Barbosa's clutches."

She looked a little guilty at this, "Well, to answer your question about Barbosa, I came just after I gave birth to Echo and told him that the child was born dead because I was a half breed and couldn't have children, thus he had nothing to break the curse. I told him not to tell Pintel and Ragetti, because I wanted to. Barbosa is a bit of an ass, but like Pintel he has a soft side that I can exploit." She stuck her tongue out in a playful manner and made Will chuckle.

"I see that," he said.

She laughed, "And the curse part is easy. I may be a sea lover, but I hate treasure. I might have stolen in the whorehouse, but I was deprived there. I'm not in the same predicament here. Treasure is their weak spot," she motioned to the rest of the crew, "love is ours." She winked at Will, the smile dropped from his face and he looked a little uncomfortable.

"Don't worry. I love the sea and Ragetti. You love that girl of yours," at this he relaxed a little. "I didn't mean anything else by it," she assured him and shrugged. "You're not my type anyway."

They both had a good laugh at this. That's what caught Ragetti's attention, Siren's tinkling laughter. He left Pintel to fend for himself against Jack and went to sit behind Siren, hugging her. "We're talking about how I avoided the curse," Siren told him with a smile.

"Ah, well she don't like pillag'n. Says it's barbaric," Ragetti told Will.

Siren nodded, "And I saw that bible in your pocket 'Getti! You been trying to clean up, then?"

"He don't know how to read," Pintel said as he made his way to where they were, obviously fed up with arguing with Jack. "It doesn't count if you don't know what yer learning."

"You gets points fer try'n!" Ragetti argued. Siren patted his hands, "Course you do." Pintel opened his mouth to argue.

"Shut up, Pintel," Siren told him tartly, "You do get an extra consideration for trying your hardest. And since trying usually brings the attention of those better educated in the subject to you, then it truly is an extra 'point'."

She kissed Ragetti's cheek. "I'll read some of it to you later okay?"

Pintel looked a little forlorn, "Can I listen too?"

She laughed and nodded, motioning for him to sit on the stair below her. He did and she hugged him then was in turned hugged by Ragetti.

Jack had swaggered over to the railing next to Will, putting his arms just inside the spaces between the railings.

"They're a family," he told Will with a nudge. "Pintel's her brother and Ragetti her lover. Then Pintel and Ragetti are like brothers. Close friends. Always are."

He pointed at Siren, "You young miss have an apology to make fer not sticking up fer me at the mutiny!"

She arched a brow and glared at him, "Your memory must be clipped because I did try my best to reason with them."

"No, no, no! You didn't use your voice to keep them from throwing me on that blasted island!" She shrugged, "I'm the one who came up with the idea remember? I KNEW you'd be all right and get off of there in a couple days." Ragetti and Pintel looked at her with curious stares.

"You knew he'd get off?" Pintel asked. She nodded and patted his cheek, "Which is why you only got one week of snubbing from me." Ragetti leaned his head on her shoulder, "Why didn't you snubs me then?" She leaned back against Ragetti, making him move and let her rest her head back against his stomach.

"Well, I couldn't ignore you could I? You're my best friend and love. Then, you didn't really care for getting rid of Jack. You were just following what everyone said and did."

They both tapped a finger on the ends of their noses, "Which kept ya alive now didn't it?" He nodded, smiling. Will had gone quiet, thinking about how his father had protested and paid the price for it.

"I guess that was smart," he said quietyly.

Siren sat up and turned to Will, hugging him. She truly did hug a lot. "I'm so sorry about your dad. He was such a wonderful man, but he couldn't sit back and not tell his piece."

Will patted her a little awkwardly and she sat back with a curious look on her face, "You're just not used to people, and then you aren't much of a hugging person," She tapped his sword with a finger as she said the last.

Will shrugged, "I manage."

She nodded and hugged Pintel, "I'm lucky I got these guys. They don't really care how much I hug them." Pintel rolled his eyes, "That's only because we've seen the fuss you make when you're not given any attention for a while." That earned him a good smack upside the head by Ragetti.

"Thas no way to talk to a lady." Both Siren and Pintel snorted.

"Lady," she said, as if that was something silly to call her.

"You've gone and hit yer head too many times to think that she's a lady."

Of course that earned Pintel yet two more smacks upside the head, one from Ragetti and one from Siren. Then he lurched up off his seat and started after Ragetti who just batted at him, while Siren kept pushing him at arm’s length.

Will escaped the mess by following Jack up the stairs. The three of them were hollering at each other for about a half-hour, then Siren jumped off the side of the ship with Echo in tow. Ragetti went off somewhere below decks and Pintel was working furiously at his duties on deck, grumbling about mermaids and idiots with 'wood fer brains'.