Disclaimer: As much as it pains me to say this, I don't own Will Turner or anything else from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Chapter 1

Grace Morgan drove her beat up little Chevy truck into the driveway of a cute cottage type house on the edge of town. She put the truck in park and after shutting off the engine, she got out. Before closing the door, she slipped off her blue Wal-mart employee best and tossed it into the passenger seat.

Grace hurried up to the porch and the front door was opened for her by an older woman.

"Grace, some in," she invited with a big smile. "I'm so glad you could come today."

"Thanks for asking me over, Brenda." Grace gave her best friend and fellow employee a hug.

"You and I are going to have all kinds of fun this afternoon," Brenda announced.

"Great, I'm definitely up for some fun."

"It was nice of Randy to let you leave early today to come here."

"Yes, I'm glad he did."

"Have you eaten lunch yet?" Brenda wanted to know.

"Yeah, Vicky and some of the other girls bought me lunch."

"Good, that means it's time for you first surprise."

"You didn't have to do anything for me."

"Of course I did. Birthday's should be celebrated. Now, go in the dining room and wait for me. I'll get the surprise ready."

Grace smiled. "All right."

At the dining room table, Grace waited a couple of minutes until Brenda called to close her eyes. Grace closed them and Brenda set something down in front of her.

"Okay, you can open them."

Grace opened her eyes.

"Surprise!"

It was a cake; one of the coolest cakes Grace had ever seen. It was shaped like a tropical island with a plastic palm tree in the middle. Blue frosting was spread around the island to look like the ocean and on either side of the palm tree were little plastic figures of Will Turner and Jack Sparrow. In red letters were the words, Happy Birthday "Mrs. Turner."

Grace laughed. "I wish."

Brenda smiled. "I knew you'd like that."

The whole cake was glowing with nineteen candles perfectly placed.

"It's a perfect cake, Brenda." Grace shook her head, scolding herself for suddenly becoming emotional. "I don't remember the last time I had cake for my birthday. Especially one with candles."

Brenda smiled a bit sadly. "Then this is a very special cake which makes your wish twice as likely to come true."

"Wishing is silly. Wishes never come true."

"They might," Brenda said persuasively.

Grace shrugged. "I still think it's silly so I'm going to make a silly wish that I know could never come true."

"Wouldn't you be surprised if it did?"

"I think I'd die of shock. I wish that I could wake up sometime and be living in Pirates of the Caribbean."

With those words, she blew out every candle in one try.

"Oh, now your wish will surely come true if you blew them all out," Brenda teased.

They both laughed and Brenda cut the cake. When they were done eating, Brenda handed Grace the two Pirates action figures.

"You can put Will on your nightstand and he can protect you at night."

Grace laughed. "Well then, you can have Jack to protect you at night."

Brenda laughed in return. "I've already got Gary to do that."

"Jack can protect both of you."

"Somehow I can't picture that."

"Me neither, but you can still have him."

"All right, you take your lovely Will and I'll take my Captain Jack Sparrow."

"Good."

"Speaking of Will Turner . . ." Brenda got up and retrieved something from the next room. "I have a gift for you that will be very much to you liking and don't tell me I didn't have to get it. Birthday's are for gifts even if you're not used to it."

Brenda set a large gift bag in Grace's lap.

"It's a little light and small to contain Will Turner, isn't it?" Grace asked with a grin.

Brenda laughed. "I'm afraid it is."

Anxious to see what was really inside, Grace opened the bag and pulled out the gift. Her mouth dropped open.

"Where'd you get this?"

It was a long, dark gray, leather coat that looked just like a pirate coat.

"I found it at the thrift store the other day. It looked so much like Will's coat that I knew I had to get it for you."

"Brenda, it looks almost exactly like Will's coat! Who would just give this to a thrift store?"

Brenda shrugged. "I don't know, but I'm sure glad I found it. I hope it fits you."

Grace stood up and put it on. I was as if it had been tailor made for her. Turning her head, she couldn't resist smelling the collar. She was surprised when it didn't have the usual thrift store smell. Instead there was a more masculine smell mingled with the small of the ocean.

"Does it smell like Will?" Brenda asked as a joke.

Instead of laughing, Grace looked at Brenda in surprise. "Actually, it smells exactly how I'd imagine it to smell if Will wore it."

"Really?" Brenda was a bit surprised too. "I guess that's just an added bonus."

They smiled and Brenda got up. "So, is it movie time?"

Grace nodded and they went into the living room.

"Do you want to watch Curse of the Black Pearl or Dead Man's Chest?" Brenda asked.

"I wish we could watch At World's End, but since we still have four months to wait for the DVD, I guess we'll just watch Curse of the Black Pearl. Elizabeth is a tiny percentage less bratty and irritating in that one and I don't feel like watching her kiss Jack again and seeing poor Will's face when she does."

"Good idea. I don't want to watch Jack die again."

Brenda put in the first Pirates DVD and they sat down on the couch. Even though it was plenty warm, Grace left her coat on and couldn't help smelling the leather several times throughout the movie.

By the time the movie had finished, Brenda's husband Gary arrived home from work and Grace decided she should get home. She said goodbye to Gary and Brenda and then went home.