Summary: After three months, Will and Elizabeth are still on the Black Pearl, but now are looking to settle down.
Chapter 1
Three months later-
"How is she, mate?" Jack asked when Will stepped out of the cabin he shared with his wife.
"Not too well, but she's asleep now. I think she'll feel a bit better when we get to land." Will responded.
"We'll be there in about three days, mate." A cold breeze blew past the two men when they came on deck. Jack shivered. "Are you sure you two don't want to settle in the Caribbean? I know plenty of places and none of them are cold."
"Jack, the places you would have Elizabeth and I live are pirate towns. I don't think they would be good for raising our child." Will responded.
"Suit yourself. I always liked them." Jack said. "You just remember that I'm not coming back for you and your bonny lass when you get tired of the cold winters. And I'm not visiting either."
"Too bad. Well, at least I won't have to worry about you badly influencing my child." Will joked.
"I'm not a bad influence." Jack shot back indignantly. "I'm the best pirate in the Caribbean!"
"Pirate being the key word." Will said.
"Best being the key word." Jack said.
"Either way, Elizabeth and I want a normal life for this child and any others we may have. They will not have a normal life on this ship or in a pirate town." Will told him.
"But in the Carolinas?" Jack asked while almost whining.
"England holds bad memories for both of us. The ports north of the Carolinas get increasingly colder. The ports south…"
"You'd be likely to run into the Commodore and our other friends from Port Royal." Jack finished. "Very well. To Bath it is then."
"You are always welcome in our home, Jack, just as long as you don't pull our family into any more adventures." Will offered.
"I have no want to stay on land unless it's for rum, and as you well know, your pretty little wife wouldn't let me have any!" Jack responded, saying the last part bitterly.
Will only laughed. "Maybe one day you'll settle down on land."
"No, I won't." Jack scoffed. "You will if you ever get married." Will told him.
"Never. I'll never leave the sea." Jack yelled after Will as the former-blacksmith turned back to go below deck to see his wife.
"Never…" Jack mumbled to himself.
That night, Will lay in the hammock with his wife snuggled close to him. She had fallen asleep about ten minutes before, lulled to sleep by her husband's heartbeat.
They had been talking before about what they would do when they got to land. The first thing they needed to do was find work for Will.
They would see if he could apprentice at a blacksmith in Bath, if nothing else, but they want to see if he could open his own shop somewhere outside of Bath.
They had a good bit of money. Will had been saving for years while he apprenticed. Will and Elizabeth had also received shares of the Isla de Muerta treasure. They had enough to buy a shop for Will and a small house.
They had also discussed names for their child.
The name for a boy had been easy to pick. William had been decided on almost immediately.
However, the name for a girl had been much harder.
Will had volunteered the name Elizabeth, but had said they could call the girl Lizzy so mother and daughter weren't confused.
"I don't my child to have my name."
"If we have a boy, he'll be going by my name, how is that different."
"Your father's name was William too. Our son will be in a line of 'William Turner's."
Elizabeth liked the name Nerissa.
"It means 'Daughter of the Sea'. It would be appropriate. Our child was conceived on the sea."
Will finally figured out a way to fix the problem of the baby name debate. He pulled his vote for 'William' and decided he liked a different boy's name. Will knew how much Elizabeth had her heart set on naming their first son William. They decided that Elizabeth would pick the name of the child if it were a boy, and Will got to pick for a girl. Whoever didn't get to name the first child would name their second child.
Will placed his hand on the stomach of his sleeping wife. She wasn't showing yet, as she was only about two and a half months pregnant. "Hello there little one." Will said quietly addressing Elizabeth's stomach as he had been doing almost every night since she had told him that she was with child. "When you come out in a few months, we have names picked out for you. Your mum doesn't like being on the ship here while you're in there. She keeps getting sick. She'll feel a little better when we get to land though, won't she? Your Uncle Jack says will be to our new home soon."
Will turned his attention to his wife who was sleeping soundly on his chest. He dipped his head and placed a light kiss the head on the woman that slept next to him. "I love you Elizabeth." He told the sleeping woman before he himself fell asleep.