Elizabeth picked up another dirty plate and submerged it into the bowl of water, the hot water soothing her tired hands and she let out a short sigh and began to wash away the grime. It had been a very hard life raising a child on her own, Will promised that he would make it up to her as soon as his ten years serving on the Dutchman was sufficient enough for the great Goddess Calypso. On the night that she went into labour was the worst night of her life, all she could feel was great pain and sudden panic, she didn't want to go through life raising a child on her own, she could remember how she felt as a child raised only by her father after her mother died. It was the most isolated time of her life and she did not want that for her child. She didn't think it possible but he was there that night, holding her hand and promising a lifetime of love and happiness when all of this would be over.

"Ten years" he told her "Ten years and this will be over and we can be a family, just be patient my love"

She believed him, so she waited. She thought that the prospect of life without Will would be unbearable but as the days turned into months and the months into years the pain lessened and instead she would concentrate on the only thing in her life that really mattered. Their daughter.

Elizabeth peered out of the window looking around the garden for her panic finding it's way into her mind for a moment, of course she had enemies she was the pirate King after-all although she would never tell anyone. Being said king she was fully aware that she and her family were always at risk, but they had survived 9 years without a single attack and Elizabeth's worries had lessened. Now Elizabeth's main concern was keeping her daughter safe from the wandering eyes of the boys in the village. It seems that they were quite taken with young Miss Turner and each of the boys would compete for her attention oblivious to her.

When Elizabeth spotted the long brunette curls flowing about behind the garden fence she knew that her daughter was where she loved to be, sitting out in the garden writing , drawing and scribbling in her note book.

She was a beauty, even at such a young age Elizabeth knew that her daughter was going to break some hearts with her undeniable beauty. With every passing day Elizabeth saw Will in her daughter and missed him even more, making herself determined to keep faithful to her husband if only to give their daughter the chance to meet her father.

She carried on with the cleaning and then when the kitchen was moderately clean she made a start on dinner, she began to knead some bread when she heard footsteps in the next room trying to pass by gently, every so often stopping.

Elizabeth smiled "Don't sneak to your room young lady, you've got to help prepare dinner" she said and watched as her daughter swished into the kitchen smiling devilishly with a smile so big it brought butterflies to Elizabeth's stomach. Will's smile she thought.

"But mother I have other things to do" she said

"Other things? Other things to do other than spending an hour or two with your mother that's not how I've brought my daughter up" Elizabeth said moving closer to her and wrapping her arms around her kissing her cheek "Where's my little Katherine Turner gone? Have you seen Miss Katherine?"

The two of them began giggling uncontrollably "It's Kate!" exclaimed the young girl.

"Oh yes? Since when?" Elizabeth replied straightening herself back up and carried on kneading the bread while her daughter began to peel the vegetables in fact that's the name Elizabeth used to call her daughter but soon decided that Katherine was more proper seeing as she was growing up rather quickly and needed a strong name. The young girl smiled and shrugged her shoulders, "Thomas Knowles called it me the other morning and it grew on me I guess"

"Oh Thomas Knowles, well then I guess you have to keep it, though does suit you, but your real name is such a pretty one, your.."

"Yes, yes mother I know" Kate interrupted then spoke with her mothers accent and facial features making Elizabeth giggle to herself "Your fathers favourite name" Kate sighed and looked out of the window, Elizabeth stopped her kneading and hugged her daughter affectionately rubbing her back.

"Wont be long now my darling and then you can meet him, he's a wonderful man and he loves you very much" she said giving Kate a small kiss on her head.

"How can he love me when he doesn't even know what I look like?"

"He loves you because you are his daughter, and he is your father" Elizabeth replied almost insulted by her daughters attitude, "Only a few more days" she added Kate nodded and pulled away from her mother and the two of them went back to work, it was a minute before either of them spoke when Kate looked out of the window again and looked puzzled then looked back to her mother "But mother what about my other father?"

Elizabeth ceased her actions suddenly and stared over to her daughter "What?!"

"You know my other father, the one with long messy hair and the funny walk" Kate said innocently looking back to the vegetables and carried on peeling, "he wanted us to with him"

Elizabeth closed her eyes briefly, she had almost forgotten…….

Kate was playing in the garden with one of her wooden swords pretending to fend off evil cursed pirates away from her castle, Elizabeth sat on the garden chair happily watching her 3 year old daughter while sewing a newly ripped dress young Katherine had managed to tear in church.

"I am a pirate mummy!" Kate exclaimed "Look mummy a pirate!"

Not looking up from her sewing she nodded "yes dear a pirate mummy knows" she called over.

After a few minutes Elizabeth noticed that it was suddenly quieter than it should have been and when she looked up she saw that the garden gate was open and little Kate was no-where to be seen, Elizabeth jumped up from her chair and ran out of the garden frantically looking for her daughter, that's where she saw it. A small row boat pulled up on the beach and black sails floating near by and her heart skipped a beat. She looked down to the beach to see two figures, one considerably small too small in-fact to look like an adult and a figure of a man, even from this distance she could see that it was Jack Sparrow.

Elizabeth ran as fast as her legs could carry her and got within shouting distance to him and little Kate who had began to run with her arms in the air pointing up to Jack. Elizabeth could see that Jack was visibly shocked by the young girl's behaviour and didn't know what to do when little arms were wrapped around his leg. He was in two minds whether to kick her off or pick her up at arms length and go search for her mother, but the search was called off when Elizabeth reached them.

"Poppet!" Elizabeth shouted and the young girl ran to her mother "Don't you ever run off like that again, do you hear me?!"

The young girl nodded but didn't seem to look upset or even faltered by her mothers rant instead she nodded and then her attention was back on the stranger "Pirate!" she exclaimed "Mummy pirate!"

Elizabeth looked over to Jack standing there with one of his famous smirks and his hands on his hips, and she smiled back "'Ello luv." he said

"Hello Jack" she replied looking into his brown eyes smiling slightly, he had returned… "it's been so long"

"Aye it has Lizzie" he said "an I see that you've been sprouting things too" he added gesturing to the young girl attacking his boots with sand, Elizabeth looked down and grabbed her daughter and rested her on her hip he little curls waving in the wind. "Yes, this is my daughter Jack" she said

"Funny name for a lass don't ya think?" he replied eyeing the young girl looking so devious in her mothers grasp, he knew instantly that she was just as free-spirited as her mother and she was probably a handful.

"you pirate" Kate exclaimed clapping her hands interrupting the gazes Jack and Elizabeth were giving one another

"This is Katherine" Elizabeth she said

"Aye, what a proper pirate she is already" he laughed

"Jack she is not a pirate nor will she ever will be" Elizabeth replied her grip tightening on her child, they were both silent for a moment before Elizabeth looked back over to him "why have you come?"

"I found it Lizzie, the fountain, it was beautiful, the water makes you feel young again. Come back and get some, come on another adventure with me ….three times and you'll never be old again" He said moving towards her and placing his hands on her shoulders

"What?" she asked confused "No Jack I can't I have a family now"

"Lizzie this is no family, you've got a father-less child and you're living on a beach waiting for one day. I have waited too and stayed clear for 3 years and I can't not tell you Lizbeth, come with me, we'll be a family. Little un' will have a father I promise" He said all his words escaping in short breaths, he had never meant to tell her everything, he just needed to take her away he needed to have her by his side.

She backed away from him "She has a father Jack!" she snapped "and we will be here waiting for when he comes home"

Jack huffed and clenched his hands in frustration "Lizzie cant you see what is happening to you, soon you'll be a lonely little woman who depends on her husband for everything, what happened to the Lizzie Swann that made me smile so much the girl who did things on selfish impulse, the woman who killed with a kiss" he said moving forwards closing the gap between them and resting his forehead on hers " the girl who lit a flame and never offered to doubt it. Where is she gone?"

"She's grown up Jack, something you obviously can't seem to grasp. I don't love you, maybe at some point I did, but things have changed, you left me here when I asked you to stay. My duty is to keep it safe" she replied.

"Pappa?" Kate suddenly exclaimed and Elizabeth gasped and hurried away from him.

Jack stood motionless tears threatening to spill as he watched what should have always been his walk away, and wait for something that would always be second best.

Elizabeth opened her eyes and looked over to her daughter, the memory fresh in her mind and her breathing got heavier and tears were pricking her eyes

"That man was not your father darling"

"But I remember him he said that he wanted to take us away…he said his name was.." she closed her eyes trying to remember any other detail she could remember of that day "oh what was his name?"

"Kate!" Elizabeth exclaimed making her daughter open her eyes "It was part of your imagination again, no one has ever said that. It has been just you and me for 9 years, how can you even imply that a man has come to our home."

"But mother I'm not suggesting that.." But she was cut off,

"Go to your room Kate I don't want to see you for the rest of the night" Elizabeth said.

Kate dropped the knife onto the kitchen surface and stormed out of the kitchen stomping her feet and slamming doors as she went, Elizabeth flinched at every door that was slammed and shook her head knowing that it was definitely a trait that she had got from her mother.

Elizabeth didn't mean to get angry with her daughter, it wasn't her fault she had a good memory and she didn't want to confuse the young girl especially when it was only a few short days until she was reunited with her beloved Will, she couldn't let her one mistake ruin her chances of her happy ending and she would be damned if she would let her daughters creativeness in her thinking be that cause.

She sat down deciding that dinner could wait a few moments, she buried her face in her hands and sighed.

"Oh Will, I'm doing all of this for you" she whispered fighting back her tears.

Kate sat in her bedroom confused by what exactly she had done wrong to be punished so cruelly, she had ever once been sent to her room for the remainder of the night and that was when she had set fire to the washing line with all of their clothes still attached. It was only meant to be a joke between her and Thomas but Elizabeth didn't see the funny side when she saw. She managed to salvage two dresses and a pair of breeches but everything else was lost. Kate giggled at the memory as she remembered her mother running around the garden looking for the bucket of water.

But what had she done this time?

"This is not fair at all" she huffed going through her draw and pulling everything out to get to what she was looking for, then when the draw was empty she opened the hidden compartment and smiled down to her book. She ran her fingers over the cover of the book and walked slowly over to her desk, "At least I still have you" she said down at the pages quietly "Captain."

She read through the pages of The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow and still managed to be amazed by this man's eccentric life, although she had read it so many times she could recite word for word by heart she still found the prospect of this sort of life exciting. At first she thought that stealing a book from the market would send her straight to hell but when she first read that first opening chapter to the story she knew that she didn't care, and she wanted to do this. She almost felt pirate doing it.

She flicked to the back page and began to scribble little poems onto it for sometime. Then she stared at the pictures of him for a little while trying to indulge her obsession with the make believe pirate looking back at her on the page.

"I wish I could fly away and be a sparrow like him," she said to herself "I wish I could grow wings and fly far, far away from here"

She listened for any movement around the house before coming to one conclusion, she couldn't stay there anymore, she didn't want to wait for her father to come home because he would hate her for being so horrible to her mother and making her upset. Her mother had been trapped in that small house for 9 years because of her and she couldn't live with that blame anymore. She had to leave. In the dead of night she would be gone, and her mother would at last be free.

A/N Okay wasn't really sure where I was going with this but the ending kinda went the way I'd planned. Okay so next chapter she runs into a familiar face under a false name, how will that person react to seeing her again? Can you all guess who it is? LOL. Anyway leave reviews and where you think this story should go………

Thanks for reading so far and don't worry my other story "Always be Loved" is still going and the next chapter will be up shortly. Thanks again guys n gurls love ya loads xxxx