Ten Years After the death of William Turner
Elizabeth Turner buttoned up her daughter's coat. The little girl pulled on her tri-corner hat and smiled. Her blond hair was messed about from where Elizabeth had fixed it up nicely but the child couldn't care, she was going to meet her father for the first time in her life.
"Will dad be happy to see me mummy?" she asked.
"Of course Alissa darling," Elizabeth replied to her daughter.
"Why do we have to leave before the sun comes up?"
"Because then we will be sure to see daddy as soon as he arrives." Elizabeth took Alissa's hand and they walked outside into the darkness. It was half an hour's walk to the beach where Elizabeth and Will swore to meet every ten years. Elizabeth wanted to her daughter to see the green flash at dawn so they had woken up well before sunrise. Together to two girls walked out of the house yard and up the hills to the peak where they would watch Will arrive.
Alissa began to sing the song that Elizabeth had taught her, the song of pirates:
"Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho,
thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.
The king and his men
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her Bones.
The seas be ours
and by the powers
where we will we'll roam.
Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.
Some men have died
and some are alive
and others sail on the sea
– with the keys to the cage...
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler's Green!
The bell has been raised
from it's watery grave...
Do you hear it's sepulchral tone?
We are a call to all,
pay head the squall
and turn your sail toward home!
Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die."
Just as she finished the final verse they arrived at the top of the hill and Alissa looked up at her her mother who smiled and looked up at the horizon. There was a flash of green light and a ship appeared. Alissa ran to the edge of the cliff and looked out. On the ship's mast was a man searching the land, when he saw the two people on the cliff he smiled.
Elizabeth walked to the edge of the cliff and stood with her daughter as the ship beached and Will jumped off. Elizabeth touched her daughter's shoulder.
"Come on," she said. They walked down the path to the beach. As soon as Elizabeth's feet touched the sand she rushed over to Will who picked her up in his arms and spun her around. When he put her down he stared into her eyes and couldn't draw his gaze away.
"You are as beautiful as they day I left you," he whispered. Elizabeth laughed and kissed him hard.
"Meet your daughter," she whispered. They broke apart and Will looked at the young girl who was staring at him with a smile on her face. "Alissa," Elizabeth whispered.
"DADDY!" Alissa squealed and she rushed up and hugged her father.
"My darling daughter," Will murmured. Elizabeth watched with a smile on her face. Behind them the Flying Dutchman was preparing to sail.
"Sunset William!" a man called.
"Yes father!" Will shouted back. He stood up and put his arm around Elizabeth's waist and took Alissa's hand.
"Alright time for breakfast," Elizabeth said. "Our cottage is half an hour from the beach." Will smiled and the family started walking up the path from the beach and down the hills to their cottage.
Six Hours Before Sunrise
Moonlight spilled into the cabin of the ship onto the two bodies asleep on the bed. One of them rolled over revealing her sea blue eyes, filled with worry. She sat up and stared out at the moon, her hair falling back over her shoulders and brushing the face of the man beside her. He sat up, and blinked at the woman.
"Darling?" he said. The woman looked at him. "What's wrong?"
"I was just thinking about Will and Elizabeth," she replied.
"Evangeline-"
"I know Jack, I know, but this time it's something different."
"What?"
"Elizabeth'll age and Will won't," Evangeline whispered. Jack sat up and looked at her sympathetically.
"There's nought that we can do about that love," Jack told her while her played with a strand of her wavy black hair. Evangeline smiled and took his hand in hers.
"What if there was something we could do?" she asked him. A smile played on Jack's mouth.
"You mean...talk to Calypso?" he asked. "We'd need help, we'd need Barbossa and Will."
"We could get Elizabeth and have it like old times." Evangeline smiled at Jack. "And just think, if we were to trick Barbossa then we could get the 'Pearl' back." That did it, Jack's brown eyes lit up and a plan formed in his mind. He took both of Evangeline's hands and grinned at her cheekily.
"Thankyou love, I just got and idea," Jack explained. He kissed Evangeline swiftly on the lips and leapt out of bed. He rammed his tri-corner hat onto his head and pulled on his coat.
"Jack, what are you doing?" laughed Evangeline.
"Changing course," her husband replied.
"Darling don't wake Rose up."
"I'm not going into the back of the cabin, I'm going up to the wheel, Mr Gibbs must be told of our destination." Evangeline shook her head as Jack left the cabin.
So much had happening the past ten years since they had defeated Cutler Beckett. They had lost the Black Pearl to Barbossa, they had stolen one of the navy's ships, they had retreived Gibbs from Tortuga and had raised their daughter under the Pirate's code.
Their daughter had aquired her father's dark brown hair, her mother's deep blue eyes and both of their attitudes rolled into one. Rose Sparrow was a dangerous individual and she was only nine years old. The pirates of the world would have to look out when she got older.
Evangeline threw her blankets aside and jumped up out of bed. She pulled on her own coat and hat and tied on her belt with sword and pistol. She walked out of the cabin and climbed the staircase to see Jack and Gibbs poring over a map.
"Elizabeth lives there and if we want to catch Will then we had better start there first," Evangeline told the two men.
"Right...what she said," Jack barked at Gibbs. "Then we find Barbossa, so that I can get my ship back." Evangeline shook her head as Jack whipped out his compass and looked at it.
"Which way Jack?" Evangeline asked. She peered over Jack's shoulder to see the compass stop and point east.
"We have a bearing Mr Gibbs, East!"
"Aye, aye Cap'n," Gibbs replied. He moved to the wheel and turned it. Jack and Evangeline looked at each other and smiled.
"We haven't seen them for ten years," Jack said.
"I know and that's why I'm excited," Evangeline replied. She walked away and climbed up the mast and stood there staring out across the ocean.
Jack stood beside Gibbs and looked up at Evangeline with softness in his brown eyes. Gibbs looked at him and smiled, Jack looked sideways at Gibbs and frowned.
"What are you smirking about Mr Gibbs?" he barked.
"Nothing Captain, just... better not let any of the crew see you smiling like that or they'll think you've gone soft," Gibbs replied.
"Do you know my one regret about Rose?" Jack asked, veering off subject.
"No Captain."
"It is Evangeline's too, Rose wasn't brought up on the Pearl." Jack turned and looked at Gibbs. "That was what we wanted, for our child to be raised on The Black Pearl."
"Jack, Rose isn't properly raised yet, you still have a lot of her life to teach her pirate ways on the Pearl." Jack nodded and looked back up at Evangeline.
"We both love that ship, I think it eats Evie more than it eats me," Jack murmured. "Gibbs!"
"Yes Captain," Gibbs replied jumping from Jack's bark.
"Don't tell anyone what I just told you," Jack said in a softer tone. "Leastways the crew." Jack swaggered off leaving Gibbs shaking his head.
Jack climbed the mast and stood up beside his black haired wife. Together they watched the horizon in silence until Evangeline turned her eyes on Jack with a mischeivous smile. Jack looked at her with a raised eyebrow and then laughed and smiled.
"What be you wanting love?" he asked.
"How are we going to get our ship back?" she asked him with a seductive smile. Jack groaned and turned away.
"If I told you I would have to kill you." Evangeline took a few steps along the pole until she was right beside him. She ran a finger up his arm and kissed his cheek. Jack wouldn't look at her but Evangeline could tell from the look on his face that he was trying very hard not to give in, it was taking all of the great pirates will power.
"If you don't tell me then I suppose I can always find somewhere else to sleep," Evangeline whispered, she stuck out her lip in a seductive pout and pushed Jack's shoulder so that he was forced to look at her. He turned his brown eyes away from her blue ones and gulped.
"Love, if I told you then it wouldn't be a surprise."
Evangeline moved closer to him so that their faces were less than and inch apart. She touched his face with her finger and then rested her forehead against his.
"You know I don't like surprises Jack," she breathed. Jack looked surprised.
"I thought you loved it when I surprised you," he said. Then his eyes softened and he wrapped his arms around Evangeline. "I'll tell you when dear William and Elizabeth are in the vicinity, since they are going to help."
Evangeline pouted and stared at Jack who chuckled and then kissed her so Evangeline was forced to wrap her arms around his neck and stop pouting.
Down below them Gibbs and another man watched them with amusement.
"At least the captain is happy," the man said.
"Yeah, get back to your station Mason," Gibbs barked.
"Aye sir." Mason walked off chuckling and Gibbs shook his head.
"We had better arrive soon because I am in need of some sleep," he muttered.