A/N: So this is my sequel to Always come Back to you. I know its taken me a while to write it but I've been so busy with school and work I just couldn't find the time…but now I'm back and we start about 3 months after the first story. Jack has an arrangement for Lizzie, and she's not too pleased about what he's got in store for her. An old friend shows their face in future chapters just to give you some warning….
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"You Jack Sparrow are nothing but a filthy God-damned pirate!" she shouted throwing another bottle of rum in his general direction, barely missing his head while he ran for cover in the side cabin. She clenched her fists before reaching for the nearest object she could throw at her Captain.
Jack leaned against the wood and smiled to himself, he had to admit he just loved it when she was angry, she became a completely different person, or in Jack's opinion a complete lunatic.
He peered around the corner but was met with a book flying past his face and he decided it was better to shout whatever he was about to say through to the room instead of face to face.
"Lizzie will you just calm down" he shouted praying to whoever was listening up in the heavens that she chose not to throw another of his rum bottles up the wall. Sadly it seemed no one was listening, and he heard the familiar sound of the bottle hitting the wall at top speed and smashing into tiny pieces.
"Calm down!?" she shouted back throwing yet more things in his direction "I'm perfectly calm Jack, calm as a calm person on the calmest day….or as calm as any person would be after this!"
Jack peered his head around the door holding his hands up signaling that he was surrendering to her, he looked at her and smiled "Darling mind the baby" he said.
She automatically placed a hand on her growing bump and grabbed another book from the big pile on her husbands desk and throwing it at him, it angered her so much when he used the fact that she was pregnant just to win arguments she couldn't stop herself from throwing more books at him.
"This baby is not going anywhere for the next three months Captain, so I'm guessing that it should be you who should watch out!" she shouted throwing an ornament at him as he slowly made his way to her.
The ornament passed his head and hit the wall beside him, he turned to see its now shattered form lying in a heap on the floor and shook his head and turned back to his wife "I liked that little thing too" he said.
She glared at him through narrowed eyes with her hands on her hips, he advanced on her smiling hoping that his trademark smile would once again work its charm on his beautiful Elizabeth and she would fall into his arms and all would be forgiven. But it didn't work and instead of her falling into his arms a pile of papers hit him in the face. She walked away from him and went to the window to another pile of papers that he so messily stacked, this would take a while for her to run out of things to either smash and throw at him or just throw at her husband. She growled in frustration knowing that it was only Jack who could get her so wound up over the smallest of things. He was always the one who would get her so mad that she ended up throwing a tantrum and being forced to take her anger out on their cabin or sometimes even the crew.
Many times Jack had to physically pull her away from either Pintel or Ragetti after one of their many arguments, she once stormed out of their cabin and grabbed the first person she could find and started to push and kick, then she would brake down in tears and apologize to whoever it was and hug them. Then she would start hitting them again until Jack eventually pulled her away from them, at first the crew were shocked by Mrs. Sparrows behavior but Jack would always brush it off as her emotional outbursts due to her pregnancy and the crew never questioned it.
She stood with her arms crossed at her chest waiting for his apology to come, waiting for one of his many remarks about her filling out her dresses or that she was only acting this way because of the baby. But this time she would just not take it, he had pissed her off too many times now and she was through with it.
She once threatened to leave if things between them did not change, of course she loved him but she was tired of being the last one to know about his choices, whether it included her or not she had a right to know what her husband had planned. The Black Pearl was her home too now, she was the captains wife, was carrying his child, that meant she had at least some say in some matters.
But she was always kept in the dark.
Jack moved towards her "Lizzie luv, can we actually have a adult discussion without ye throwin' something at me head?"
She turned to him and replied cockily " Only if you can stop being an arse and act like your on my side for once!"
He collected her in his arms and pulled a struggling Lizzie to their bed and sat her down, he then clicked his neck and jaw before looking back to her, she looked so beautiful when she was mad, when you got passed the outbursts and the shouting she did look absolutely beautiful. Her face was a shade of red and she was all hot and bothered, it always reminded him of when they had just finished making love and how she looked then all hot and breathless. This thought brought a smile to his face. She glared at him.
"Don't even bother smiling Jack it's not funny" she snapped
"Lizzie this is what's best" he replied
"Best? Best for who?" she asked "How can shipping me off the some strangers house for the next three months be best, I want to stay here this is my home now too"
Jack pulled a chair up opposite her and sat down facing his wife, gently placing his hands on top of hers comforting her, she tried to pull her hands away but he kept a firm grip on them and forced her to look into his eyes. Something she knew that would hypnotize her into doing anything.
"Lizzie our baby cant be born on a pirate ship, its not safe what with all the dirt and scum around, it wouldn't be healthy for a babe" he said "It's best for it to be born on land and brought back when it's a little older"
She shook her head "But Jack I want to have our baby out on sea where we belong, where our family is"
"Who would birth this baby Lizzie cause I may do a lot of things but bringing a baby into the world is not one of me things luv," he said running a hand along her cheek trying to soothe all of her worries, but it was far from working.
Elizabeth tried to stand up but her belly made it very difficult for her to do so and she decided to stay put just as long as she didn't fall for one of Jack's many tricks, she was stubborn enough to disagree to this arrangement long enough for him to change his mind.
"Then we'll get the midwife " she said, a hand rubbing her belly.
"Oh and where would we get one in the middle of the ocean if ye were to have it in the night? We couldn't let one stay here, we've tried it once before and no doctor would stay on a ship for long periods of time darlin" he said "so you need to go to them"
She understood what her husband was trying to say but she didn't want to leave, Jack had already missed the first three months of her pregnancy and yet he was risking to miss the remaining time of the pregnancy and maybe even the birth of their child. She was not sure she could handle the birth on her own, and she needed Jack to be the first one to see their child.
"But Jack I cant do this on my own" she whispered, her hands reaching up to his shoulders and pulling him into a light hug "Please come with me"
His eyes fluttered closed, he hated this, he wanted her to stay but it was just too dangerous what with the hurricanes about on sea and a virus apparently going around the crew, he just couldn't risk it. No matter how much he wanted his wife there with him every second of the day he knew that she had to go.
"A captain must stay with the ship luv," he said "But I'll visit as much as I can and I'll be there when the baby's born luv, ye have me word"
She sighed into his shoulder and nodded.
It was done she was going to live on land for the rest of the pregnancy and wait for the return of her husband to take her back out to sea and raise their child.
Elizabeth fell back onto the bed smiling, Jack leaned over her his fingertips gently strumming along her bump and kissing her flesh.
That's when she felt the bubbling sensation in her tummy, it was the strangest thing she'd ever felt and she looked down to Jack who also had a surprised expression on his face at the gentle bumps kicking from inside her stomach.
They had both felt their baby kick for the first time in a week, Jack kissed her stomach and laughed out loud when the movement started up again as soon as his lips left her skin.
Elizabeth looked down to Jack and smiled, he smiled back. But both smiles turned into sad frowns, they both knew that he would miss all that was to come, he would miss all these moments all the nights Lizzie would wake him up claiming that she had a nightmare and ask to be held and whisper sweet words of love into his ear, kissing him so gentle but with so much passion. He would miss feeling his baby move inside his beloved wife and watching the concentration in her face when she bathed her stomach careful not to apply too much pressure to her stomach. He would miss everything.
He sighed, and she brought her hand to his cheek and caressed his skin.
"Jack when you came for me when I was with Will, we both knew that this would be hard but we agreed to give us another chance. Life hasn't really been fair to us has it?" she said, he bit his lip thinking over what she meant, life had been cruel to them. Falling in love was easy but everything that went with it was harder. Will. The miscarriage. Ana Maria, Lizzie's depression. He held her tighter trying to fight back a tear when he thought about the miscarriage, that thought made a shiver run up his spine and he instinctively put a hand to her stomach protecting this child. She carried on.
"You will miss so much Jack and I will miss you more and more everyday, but if you promised me that everything will be alright and that you will be there when our baby is born and everyday afterwards, then I will go" she said.
Jack nodded and hugged her, his hand smoothing out her hair as he placed a small kiss on her neck.
She sniffed back a tear and hugged him back, before pulling back and looking into the face of her husband. She was going to miss him so much, they had been through a lot together and now they were going to be separated yet again, it was heart braking for both of them but each knew that it was best for their baby. Their baby was more important than any of their feelings, their baby needed to be safe and healthy, and if that meant being kept away from the life it will lead then so be it. Their baby came first.
She leaned into Jack placing a kiss on his lips, which he responded to immediately kissing her with so much love and passion that he thought that she would notice his small tear that had began its journey down his cheek. She brought her thumb up and wiped it away, then she pulled him down to her as she slowly began to untie his bandana so she could tangle her hands in his hair.
His hands trailed down her sides until he got to her breeches, he pulled her shirt from them and lifted it over her head and kissed her again matching her need for them to be connected. Then his eyes raked over her body, taking in the sight that was his Lizzie which may be the last time he would see her in a long time. Her beautiful face, long slender neck, perfectly formed breasts , and her beautiful rounded belly. He brought his lips down to her stomach and planted kisses all over her skin and caressing it with his hands, he pulled away slightly to whisper into her skin.
"I love you" he whispered to the baby "take good care of her, she needs you right now, just until daddy comes back for you"
Elizabeth smiled and waited calmly for her husbands lips to meet hers again and tell her again of the love they shared and that everything would be alright even if she was terrified of what was waiting for her in the future.
But he didn't answer her un-asked questions, instead they lay in the after-glow of their love making, Jack muttering sweet loving words to his Lizzie telling her everything will work out in the end and that he would always find a way back to her no matter what happens. She would always be loved.
A/N so tell me what you thought, if it was crap if it was ok, if you like where I'm going with this. Hopefully ill get the next chapter of this up in 2 days depending on the feedback. Thanks for reading xxx