Angel stood at the end of the ship looking at the sea, watching the moon reflect on the water. Jack and Angel were married months ago and Angel has started to show. Angel had one hand on the locket that her father gave her, which was hanging from her neck, and the other on her bulging stomach.
"Can't sleep, Angel?" A voice said, making Angel jump. She wasn't aware she hadn't been alone. Angel turned around to see Barbossa come from entrance of the stairs to the galley, wearing his favored white shirt, dark brown trousers, and his worn-in boots. Barbossa ommited his wide brimmed hat, his blue bandana was barely visible in the moonlight. "Hector, ye scared me." Angel clutched her chest in surprise. "And aye I couldn't sleep. But believe me, it wasn't the baby that was keeping me up."
"Then what was it then?" Barbossa asked, leaning on the railing next to her.
"About this," Angel motioned to her ring and stomach. "I was never there for our children, but I've been nervous about being in this child's life. I barely know how to take care of the two I have now." Angel put her hand once again on her belly.
Barbossa nodded and sighed, looking out into the water for a couple of seconds. "Angel, come here." Barbossa motioned for Angel to sit next to him on a bench nearby. Angel moved slowly, as if the baby's weight hindered her from doing much. But nonetheless, she sat next to the weathered pirate. "Angel, ye are going to be a great mother, Alex and Allison, think so. So do I. And your child should could consider his or herself lucky to have Angel Steel and Jack Sparrow for parents." Barbossa reassured. "And believe me when saying this, you and Jack are going to do a fine job raising that child. Got me?"
Angel smiled and nodded and looked at the moon again, her mind drifting away from the conversation. She always like looking at it on a clear night; something about it just made her feel like was peace was in the world.
"So...what is it like?" Barbossa asked, snapping Angel from her world.
"Pardon?" The piratess almost sneered at him, but luckily caught herself before it sounded too nasty.
"What is that," Barbossa pointed to her stomach. "like?"
Angel furrowed her brows, trying to think of a way to explain it. It was odd though; she never thought anyone, Barbossa least of all, would ask what being pregnant was like. "It's a little weird feeling...I can feel everything, especially when the baby keeps moving around. Aside from being fat, not being able to see me toes, can't drink rum or whine, and can't sleep on my side without the baby kicking me, it's fine." Angel shrugged stretching out her legs, wiggeling her toes, which she still couldn't see.
Barbossa smiled. "That bad, huh?"
"I didn't say it was bad, I said it was fine. I like being pregnant, just not forever. You know, I still want to drink alchol and see me toes after this."
Barbossa chuckled. "I'm only kiddin', Angel. I know that, though I was never in yer situation, so I don't know what it's like fer ye. That's why I asked."
Angel then got an idea and smiled. "Give me yer hand."
Barbossa furrowed his brows. "Why, would ye be askin' fer me hand?"
Angel continued smiling. "Just give me yer hand, Hector." She couldn't keep herself laughing a bit. Barbossa hesitated for a moment and tried to take his hand away. Angel grabbed it firmly and replaced it on her bluging stomach. "This is what I have felt fer the past months." Angel said. Barbossa had a strange look on his face as if a mermaid flop on deck.
Barbossa blinked as he felt the kick. "Doesn't that...make you feel unusual?" Barbossa asked, still feeling the baby's movements.
"Aye, but it is a good feeling." Angel released Barbossa's hand and he retracted it back. Angel yawned and blinked.
"I think we should be going to bed." Angel said as she stood up with a great amount of difficulty. But Barbossa got up quiker and gave her a hand. Angel took it and he pulled to her feet. "Thank ya. Goodnight, Hector." Angel then started walking back to the captain's cabin.
"Goodnight, you two." Her ex-flame called after her. Angel hesitated for a moment and smiled before going inside. As Angel layed on the bed she felt a strong arm grab her from behind. "Who were ye talkin' to, luv?" Jack purred into Angel's ear.
"Hector, he was wonderin' why I couldn't sleep." Angel felt Jack's hand reach to her stomach. "You really need to stop keepin' yer mum up, ye lil' bugger." Angel laughed.
"It wasn't the baby, Jack. I was just thinkin' if I would be a good mum raising a new baby and two other children."
Jack chuckled. "May I ask what would be so funny, Jack?"
"It's nothin'. I think that our child will be lucky to have parents like us."
"That's what Hector said." Angel then laid on her back.
"Really? That's weird."
"I think yer rubbing off him." Angel said with a grin.
"Aye, I know. I'm sort worried." Angel gave a small laugh.
"Ye'll be fine. Now go to sleep." Jack nodded and they slept peacfully.
In the morning Angel woke up to Jack and Barbossa barking orders and arguing with each other for a short time. Angel was about to get out of bed until the door opened. "Angel! What are ye doin'!" Jack closed the door behind him and rushed to Angel. "Gettin' out of bed I can't do that?"
"No, ye should stay in bed darlin'. You should stay here because I don't want you two to get hurt." Jack always a member of the crew when she was really his wife. Sometimes it bugged her, but it hadn't become an ordeal. "I don't want you trippin' over something you and get hurt because you were paying attention to the fact you couldn't see yer toes, savvy?"
Angel rolled her eyes and sighed. "Fine. And where be our next designation? We've been to Tortuga several times for supplies and nobody once told me where we'd be goin'."
"To the Fountain of Youth, luv." Jack said with a grin. Angel's eyes widen in surprise.
Angel's eyes widen. "Are you mad? If Ponce de Leon couldn't find it neither can ye. Besides, it doesn't exist." Angel did her best to control her temper.
"I know, I know but Leon didn't have a compass that pointed to what her wanted most." Jack pointed out with a sneaky grin.
"Yer impossible, Jack." Angel said as she sat in their bed.
"Aye, but ye said you loved a challenge." Angel rolled her eyes. Jack leaned down and kissed the top of her head.
"Mr. Gibbs, Barbossa, and I will come from time to time if ye need anythin', luv. But not at the same time though." Jack said.
"Thank you." Angel muttered. Jack turned on his heel and returned to his duties as captain. Angel sigh came from the mother-to-be. "Men." With that Angel got out of bed and grabbed a quil and a sheet of parchment and wrote her weekly letter to the Turners. Angel had recently found out Elizabeth was pregnant too. They pirate wives would send letters to each other, letting each other know what happened recently with their husbands and children.
When Angel was done writing her letter, she folded the parchment four times and put it in her pocket. Her ears caught the heavy footsteps coming to the door. Rushing as much as a pregnant woman could, she hurried to bed. Once there she pretended to sleep. The door opened, he silhouette of Barbossa appeared in the door. He took a step or two in the cabin and then closed the door behind him. "I know yer not asleep, Angel." Barbossa spoke.
Angel opened her eyes and found Barbossa gazing at her. "How'd ye know?" Angel pouted, sitting up in the bed she shared with Jack.
Barbossa simply chuckled and sat at the foot of the bed. "Now of course, Jack told ye that." Barbossa cleared his throat feeling a bit akward. "Do you need anythin'?" Angel thought for a moment.
"Aye, I'm hungry, could ye go to the galley and get me somethin'?"
"Of course yer highness." Barbossa teased.
"Shut it, Hector. Ye know I don't like royal treatment." Angel snapped.
"Alright, no need to fret." Barbossa patted her on the knee. "I'll be right back." The pirate stood and left the cabin, heading back to the galley. Angel fell back against the pillows and waited patiently for Barbossa to come back. The stress from her back seemed to vanish as she laid on the pillows. Angel's attention reverted from her relaxtion to her daughter,Allison, entering the cabin. "Mum, why are ye still in bed?" Allison asked.
"Jack, put me on bed rest, luv. He didn't want me to get hurt because I couldn't see me feet."
Allison giggled. "That's funny."Angel smiled.
"Come here I want to talk to ya." Angel patted a spot on the bed next to her. Allison crawled on the bed next to her mother. "Now, I want to talk to you about Davy Jones."
"Who?"
"Mr. Gibbs and Jack never told to ye about Davy Jones?"
Allison shook her head. "Well, Davy Jones is a pirate, charged with the duty of ferrying the souls who died at sea. He's the captain of the Flying Dutchmen. He also sends people to his locker if they can't pay their debt or their the ones he dislikes."
"Is he scary." Angel chukled.
"Not to Calypso or their daughter."
"Who're they, mum?"
"Calypso, is the godess of the sea. Dvy had fallen in love with her. Togethor they have a child named Angelica."
"Mum, that's your name ain't it?"
"Aye, but Allison luv, I am Davy Jones's daughter." Angel couldn't help smile grow on her face as she saw her daughter's eyes slightly widen.
"So when you told me and Alex that our grandpa loved us, you ment Davy Jones?"
"Aye."
"What was grandpa like?"
"He was very protective of me. Ye were like me when I was yer age."
"Really?" Allison looked excited, ready to hear more about the grandfather she and her brother didn't know.
"Aye, I always wore the color purple, had me hair in a french braid, and I had and still have a beautiful singing voice."
Ange stroked her daughter's her daughter's hair. "Tell me more when you were my age, mum."
"Alright. When I was yer age I would sometimes look for trouble. There was this one time that I tricked one of my father's the crew members named Morey into thinkin' mermaids were causing him trouble."
Allison giggeled. "How'd ye do that?" she asked. Angel opened her mouth to talk when Barbossa walked in with a tray of food. "And what are you two lasses talkin' about, hm?" Barbossa asked coming over to the bed.
"Just talkin' about Davy Jones." Angel said smiply, watching her tray of food being set on the bedside next to her.
Barbossa smirked at the woman and their daughter. "Alright, but Allison ye should let yer mother rest." he said.
"Aww, but mum was talkin' to me when she was little." Allison whined.
"It'll be alright I can tell ya later, sweetheart." Angel said.
"Ok." Allison frowned, still wanting to hear more. Angel kissed the top of Allison's head. "Anythin' else ye need?" Barbossa asked. "No, I'm fine fer now."
"Alright, if ye need anythin' just holler." Barbossa stood up from the bed and left Angel to eat. Allison jumped off the bed, following her father out. As they left, Barbossa ruffeled his daughter's hair. She swatted his hand away. Barbossa chuckled and shut the door as they left. After Angel ate she went to sleep.
She found herself in a dark place, her father appeared out of the darkness. "Da!" Angel grinned. She ran up to him, throwing arms around his torso. He was emotionless looking down at her, not hugging her back. "Da, is there something wrong?"
"Ye betrayed me, Angelica." Davy said in a cold voice.
"Da, I didn't betray you?" Angel whispered. How could he think that?
"But ye did, you fell in love with, Sparrow and now yer carrying his child." Angel she shook her head in disbelief.
"Da, I know ye don't like him but I can't help who I fall in love with! You didn't."
"Don't use excuses. I have no reasons to love you anymore." Davy turned and left.
"Da, no!" But before Angel could do anything Davy disappeared. Angel's face was dripping down tears. She had the feeling someone was watching her. The piratess looked behind her to see it was Jack was the one behind her. Angel rushed to him and hugged him. She sobbed into his chest, her shoulders heaving with every gasp and cry. "Jack, me own father he said I betrayed him." Angel said was having a hard time controling her crying. "Because I fell in love with you."
"But ye don't love me, Angel." Jack said accussingly. Angel looked up from his chest and saw he was acting the same as her father had earlier. "Of course I love ye, Jack. I'm yer wife."
"But ye are in love with Barbossa." Jack spat, hatred seethed from every pore as he said his co-captain's name.
"No, I'm not, Jack. I love you! Hector and I are only friends-"
"Why do even call him, Hector?"
"Because that's his name. I call Mr. Gibbs Joshamee, sometimes ."
"No, ye do that 'cause yer still in love with him! If you didn't you wouldn't let his and yer kids aboard me ship!" Jack yelled venomously.
Angel shook her head. "Jack, it was the right thing to do. We're searching fer the fountain, remember?"
"I've already found the fountain. I'm immortal now and there is no need to keep a family who aren't immortal." Jack to turned to leave and vanished. More tears streaming down her face as she felt she was being held down. When Angel opened her eyes, she found herself being held down by Macuss and Clanker in their monstrous forms. They both look ashamed of her and angry.
"One hundered kisses from the cat for betraying the captain!" Davy yelled. Before Angel could gather her thoughts, knew she heard a crack of the whip and she felt a sharp, stinging, burning pain on her back. Angel let out a scream of pain and the crew laughed including Bootstrap. Angel looked around, searching for someone who could help, and saw Will, Elizabeth, Jack, Barbossa, Alex, and Allison.
"Please, help me!"
"Sorry, but we don't help traitors." Will spat. With another smack of the whip, Angel howeled in pain. Laughter peeled through everyone, including her friends and husband laughed. "DA, PLEASE STOP THIS!" Angel yelled. The pain from the lashing was becoming to much for the pregnant woman. She shouted over the laughter, but it was as if no one heard her cries for help."Your a liar and a traitor, Angelica!" Davy spat. He leaned in closer to her, the scent of tobacco and slimey fishiness reeked into her nostrils. "Your just like your mother."
Angel's forehead felt cold and wet and the pain from the pain from the lashing was replaced with the sensation of being shaken. "Luv, wake up yer having a fright." A familiar and warm voice spoke to her, luring her out of her nightmare.
Angel then woke up to Jack's face was the first she saw. Mr. Gibbs and Barbossa had come into the room as well. She felt a cold wash clothe on her forehead head. Angel sighed in relaxation. "It was just a dream." She said in a barely audible whisper.
"Aye, ye were screamin' so loud we thought that ye were in labor." Jack said. Angel noticed the concerned looks Barbossa and Gibbs sported. "I'm sorry if I scared but it was such a horrible nightmare." Angel said removing the wash clothe from her head. "Jack, can I talk to you alone?" Angel asked. Jack nodded and motioned Gibbs and Barbossa to leave. As soon as Angel saw the door close behind them Angel took a deep breathe. "Jack, my nightmare it was about me betraying to you, me da, everybody. Ye said you didn't love me because I loved, Hector and that ye were immortal and there was no need to keep a family that's mortal." Jack clammored on the bed next to her. To comfort her.
"Luv, that's not true. I love you and I know ye and Barbossa are just friends. And nothing more. I would never do that and if I did become immortal I would let you and the baby, if it's born before we get there, drink from the Fountain of Youth." Jack said grabbing her hand, kissing it gently.
"In me dream..." Angel gulped the water in the glass on her bedside table someone had brought her. She figured it had either been Gibbs or Barbossa. "Me da said I betrayed him by loving you." Angel said.
"I know yer father may not like me, but one cannot help who they fall in love with." Jack cupped her chin lovingly.
"That's what I said in me dream. He told me 'no excuses' and gave me one hundred lashings from his whip. And everyone was there. And they laughed at me including you." Jack's brown eyes turned sympathetic, and he stroked her cheek with her thumb. "Luv, that dream will never come true. I know ye wouldn't betray me in anyway." Jack then kissed her her puting lips. Angel smiled as she returned the smooch. "
Thank you, Jack."
"Yer welcome, luv." Jack stood up from the bed.
"Now you two need to rest we got a big day planned fer tommorrow. Barbossa and I just need to finish our duties and I'll be right back." Angel nodded silently as Jack leaned down to kiss the top of her head before he left.
As everyone was asleep aboard the Pearl. No one knew a ship nearing them. It was not a pirate ship it was a spanish ship. The ship was called the Dama Latitud and it's captain Ponce de Leon. He had ordered his crew to quietly attack the Black Pearl. His crew sneaked aboard the berth deck to quiet the crew.
One of the Spainiards stepped on a board that had need for reparis for years and it creaked loudly. Barbossa's eyes snapped open, seeing he was a light sleeper. Barbossa retrieved his pistol and shot a fire at one of the invading crew. Angel and Jack shot up in bed when they heard the gun blast, followed by shouting and more gunfire. "What's happening?" Angel panciked.
"We're under attack. Angel, luv,please just stay here."
"But Jack-"
"Please." Jack begged. Angel sighed and nodded. "Now if someone tries to come in and it's not me or the crew, shoot them." Angel nodded and grabbed her pistol loading it as Jack left her alone. Angel continued to hearing gunshots and yelling for hours until it stopped. Then footsteps thundered on the deck of the Black Pearl coming towards the cabin. The door opened, revealing a crewmember of the Dama Latitud.
Angel aimed and pulled the triger on her pistol. The little round bullet went straight to the man's head and he backwards, getting blood on the floor. Two more crewmen, Angel wished she hadn't oogeled the dead man and had to reload her pistol instead. The men grabbed her rudely and brought her out of the cabin. Angel tried to struggel but, it was obvious the men were much stronger.
Angel was outside and saw that all was left of the crewmen of the Pearl after she stopped struggling on deck. Pintel, Ragetti, Alex, Allison, Barbossa, Gibbs, Jack, Mr. Cotton, Marty and herself.
Angel couldn't believe her eyes she saw Ponce de Leon was ordering his crew while interrorgating the Pearl's crew on the main deck. But then his eyes fell on her and he smiled a smile that woul have made the devil himself shutter. "Hola, Señorita
my name is-"
"Ponce de Leon." Angel snorted. She was kinda upset; she and Jack had been asleep afterall.
"Si, how'd you know?"
"Everyone thought ye were dead when you were looking for the Agua de Vida." Ponce chuckeled darkly at that statement.
"Well, your obviously wrong Señorita. You see, I was lost trying to look for the Agua de Vida but I never aged because of a nereid named Calypso put a curse on me so I would never find the Agua de Vida. But then I heard about Jack Sparrow's compass. I want it." Angel rolled her eyes. 'Another person who wants to wants to take that compass.' Angel thought herself.
Ponce cupped Angel's chin. "If you weren't pregnant Señorita you would be quite beautiful." Ponce de Leon grinned malicously. Angel spat into his face.
"Les torre del homenaje vuestro sucio tedioso manos apagado chache, les espurio." Angel said venoumosly. Ponce wiped the spit off his face and looked at her. "My, my such language for a fine Señorita."
"Don't talk like that to me wife!" Jack growled. Ponce grinned at Jack. "Wife. So the Señorita is a Señora. Here is the deal, Señor Sparrow you give me the compass and I'll let your wife and child live." Jack looked at Angel. Her eyes were wide, asking for him to help her. "I'm sure we can negotiate on this." Jack tore his eyes from hers. Ponce rubbed his chin in thought. "Hmm, si we'll negotiate. Hombres release senore Sparrow." The crewmen then let go of Jack and approached de Leon. "How 'bout you sail with us to the Fountain of Youth that way all is fair. Savvy?" de Leon scratched his head in thought. "Si." He said, nodding his head in approval.
"Alright. Now, then you and your crew can now scury off my ship and we'll go to the Fountain of Youth."
"Si, we'll get off your...ship." de Leon sneered in disgust at the Black Pearl. "But not without company. Hombres take Señora Sparrow and the two diaoblos onto the ship."
"No!" Barbossa and Jack shouted in unison.
"That wasn't part of the deal." Jack said angrily.
"Who said it was a deal if you don't take us to the Agua de Vida then I'll kill them. Do you understand?" de Leon rested his hand on his Spainish bladde.
Jack nodded glumly. "Aye."
"Good. Hombres take them to the ship." Ponce ordered. Then Alex, Allison, and Angel were taken aboard the Dama Latitud. Jack's heart broke as he saw the longing, and sad, look on his wife's face as she was escorted to de Leon's longboat.