Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I own nothing except for my OC, Captain Sunset Fauna

Thanks again to my awesome and amazing PT and Co-Writer, kurounue13!

It was raining as soon as the Pearl got back on it's course as the Dutchman was seen near them, but at a good enough distance. Jack and Gibbs were sending Will off, while Sunset was in her and Jack's cabin, stocking up their rum bottles they had picked up from an island before heading back on their course.

"I must say love, you look awfully tempting in that dress." Jack said as he came back into the cabin and looked at her. "Why did you have me change back into this? I wanted my pirate clothes." she said as she looked over at her shirt and pants that were laid on top of the chest of clothes. "Because," he grabbed her from behind and began to cup her breasts through the dress. "It flatters you." She smiled back at him. "Jack... is now a really good idea to be having a honeymoon?" she asked with a small laugh. "No," he said softly. "but I still want to touch you."

"Well then by all means-" she started before they both heard Gibbs call out. "Captain! They've gotten him!"

Sunset looked back at Jack. "Go on, I'll be right out as soon as I change."

"Don't take too long." He said with a smile. Sunset smiled as she watched Jack leave before she all but ripped off the dress and changed back into her pirate shirt, pants, and boots before she collected her hat, coat, and took her telescope off of the desk before she went out to join Jack on the deck.

Jack watched through the telescope and then..."Ah!" Davy Jones appeared before him, and his crew started coming out of the wood works...literally.

Sunset looked at Jack through the corner of her eye as she stood by his side, trying not to show her fear of the pirate captain she hadn't been face to face with for quite some time.

"You have a debt to pay. You have been captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years. That was our agreement!" Jones said, looking at Jack. "Technically, I was captain for two years before I was viciously mutinied." Jack said as he and Sunset backed away. "Then you were a poor captain, but a captain none the less-ah!" Davy Jones said as he walked past him. "Have you not introduced yourself all these years as CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow?" The crew laughed. "You have my payment. One soul for your ship, he's already over there." Jack said as he tried to hide Sunset from Jones, but she wouldn't stay behind him, she kept her place by his side. "One soul is not equal to another." Jones said. "Aha! So we've agreed that I have a payment to you now we're just haggling over a price!" Jack said, smirking.

Davy gave him a 'What?' look before he then spotted Sunset. "Ahhhhh, Miss Fauna," he laughed. "We meet again."

"Jones." she said. "I see you've grown the beard out a little more." He laughed as he began to circle her. "And you have grown some as well."

"Three years on a ship with a crew of ten men and one woman, a storm to weather through on a ship I loved so dearly before losing it, and my memory for the moment, do tend to help a person grow." she said with a cold glare. "Indeed they do." He then began to walk away from them, then he turned to Jack. "Price?"

"Just how many souls do you think my soul is worth?" Jack asked. "100 souls-ah." He leaned forward. "Three-days-ah."

"You're a diamond, mate." Jack smiled. "Just send me the boy and I'll get started right off."

"I keep the boy, a good faith payment. That just leaves you 99 more to go." He said with amusement in his voice.

Sunset watched Jack as he stepped towards Jones, trying to sell him on the idea of having Will to come back with him, but Jones wouldn't have it. "I keep the boy, 99 souls. But Sparrow, can you do this to a friend, condemn him to a lifetime of servitude while you roam free?" he asked and Jack paused before answering. "Yep, I'm good with it." Davy raised an eyebrow. "So, shall we seal it in blood..or uh, ink?" Jack asked before Jones took Jack's hand with the black spot on it and drawled out darkly. "Three days-ah." before he and his crew disappeared and they were once again back on the Black Pearl.

Sunset was back next to Jack again as he called out for Gibbs. "Mr. Gibbs, I feel strange and unusual." he said slowly. "How shall we be getting the souls, captain?" Gibbs asked. "Fortunately, mum is the word on where these souls need be." Jack said and Gibbs smiled. "Ah, Tortuga." and Jack nodded. "Tortuga." Sunset smiled at Jack before she pulled him back in to the cabin while Gibbs directed the Pearl towards Tortuga.

In Tortuga...

They sat in a local pub. Gibbs was signing men up for the Black Pearl's crew while Jack was fiddling with his compass. "I know what I want." he kept muttering.

Every time Jack would shake the compass it would always point next to him...where Sunset sat. He looked at her and she noticed his eyes on her as she took a swig of rum. She swallowed and looked at him. "What?" she asked. He inched his hand towards her rum. She smirked and pulled it away as she sat it on the other side of her, away from Jack. "I'm leaving my rum here. While I'm off why don't you try the compass again?" she suggested with a smile as she kissed Jack's cheek before she got up to go to the bar.

She watched him shake it violently before opening it up, and it still pointed to her. She smirked as she came over with two more rum bottles and placed one before Jack as she looked at him. "So, how'd the compass work?" she asked smartly. He grew angry and almost threw it into the wall. She giggled and sat next to him as she finished off her first rum bottle and before she was about to start on her second, both she and Jack heard a very familiar deep voice coming from the sign up desk where Gibbs sat.

Both Sunset and Jack froze and slowly turned their heads in the direction from whence the voice had come. Jack closed his compass as they saw Commodore Norrington looking much more different than the last time they laid eyes upon him.

Jack picked up a plant and hid behind it. Sunset looked at Jack before she heard the Commodore ask Gibbs. "So do I make your crew... or not?"

Sun looked back at Jack. "Jack, what are you doing?" she whispered, but he didn't answer.

"You haven't said where you're going." the Commodore said and Sunset backed away from where she was standing as she hid with Jack behind the plant.

"Be quiet, love." he said as they sneakily tried to walk out without being seen.

"So am I worthy to serve under Captain Jack Sparrow?" Norrington called out before Sunset and Jack both stopped as he raised his gun to them. "Or should I just kill you both now?" he asked smugly.

"You're hired." Jack said, smiling. "Sorry. Old habits rule out." Norrington said as he went to fire the gun before two sailors came up to stop him and Jack dropped the plant as he and Sunset started running throughout the now chaotic tavern of Tortuga.

Throughout the chaos, Jack kept searching for a new hat.

Jack and Sunset ran up the steps of the tavern to the emergency exit that would lead them right back to the Pearl before they came across some sailors trying to throw a man off the stairs, but Jack stopped them. "Oi! Hold it!" he said before he put his last new hat on the unfortunate man before he and Sunset backed away a little. "Carry on." Jack said and the sailors went back to their riot as Jack and Sunset ran towards the window where Jack climbed out first, going down the vine that would lead them to the ground safely. "Come on, love, hop on." Jack said.

Sunset smiled as she stepped out of the window and on to the vine as she and Jack climbed down before they spotted their ship and Sunset looked at it closer as they neared it. "They're already there. How'd they get there faster than us?" she asked before she and Jack broke into a run towards the ship before they boarded and came across Gibbs in a matter of minutes. "Gibbs, how'd you get back on the ship so quickly?" Sunset asked and Gibbs looked at the both of them. "Well, contrary to the chaos, the front door did provide some help." he said and Sun looked at Jack. "And you said it wouldn't work." she said before she pushed Jack playfully. "I was merely having a bit of fun, love." he said with a smile before ushering her to the ship.

As they were walking towards the ship, they heard a voice call out for Jack. "Captain Sparrow?" the voice said and Jack, automatically thinking it was another soul for his crew, said. "Come to join me crew, lad? Welcome aboard, make yourself comfy." he said before the voice said. "I'm here to find the man I love."

Sunset and Jack's eyes widened simultaneously as Sun looked at Jack. "I am regrettably sorry sir, but there is only one love for me." he said. "And that is me lovely lady standing next to me. So good luck."

"I meant William Turner, Captain Sparrow." the voice said and immediately Jack and Sunset knew who it was as they turned around to face Elizabeth Swann. "Elizabeth?" Jack asked softly and Sunset quickly turned to Gibbs. "Hide the rum. Fast." she said before looking back at Elizabeth.

Jack then tried to make his way up the gangplank. Sunset pulled him back as Elizabeth started. "I know Will came to find you, Jack. Where is he?" she asked. Jack cast a knowing look at Sunset. She looked at him and then back at Elizabeth. "Well, Elizabeth, due to certain circumstances that have nothing whatsoever to do with Jack, myself, or the Pearl, poor Will was press-ganged into joining Davy Jones' ship." she said with a "sympathetic" look on her face.

"What?" she asked as Commadore Norrington vomitted off the dock. "Oh Please." he said, his voice groggy. "You look bloody awful, mate, what are you doing here?" Jack asked. "You hired me." he said dully. "I can't help it if your standards are lax." Norrington said. "Well, you smell funny." Jack taunted as both Sunset and Elizabeth said together. "Jack." He just looked away.

"All I want is to find Will." Elizabeth said and Sunset looked at Jack. "Are you certain that's all you want? Because I would think you would want a way to see Will most." Jack said. Elizabeth looked very confused. "How would I do that?" she asked and Jack looked at Sunset before he answered. "Well, there is a chest-" he started before Norrington groaned. "Oh dear."

"What's in the chest?" Elizabeth asked. "It contains the still beatin' heart of Davy Jones." Pintel said as he and Regetti came by, carrying a box that was going on the ship as they passed them and Jack then turned back to Elizabeth. "And whoever claims that chest, claims the right to have Davy Jones do whatever it is he or she wants. Like saving brave William from his grim fate." Jack said. "Oh please, the captain of the Flying Dutchman." Norrington said. "How do we find it?" Elizabeth asked and Jack smiled as he pulled out his compass. "This. My compass. Is unique."

"A compass that doesn't point North." Norrington said. "True enough. This compass does not point North, thank you for stating the obvious, Mr. Norrington." Jack said and Elizabeth asked. "Where does it point?" Jack then looked at Sunset and she smiled at him and answered. "It points to what you want most." she said. Jack smiled back at her before handing the compass to Elizabeth.

Jack and Sunset both stepped away from her before, at the last second, he opened the compass and then went back with Sunset while Elizabeth looked at the compass before Jack creeped up behind her, Sunset right behind him. "Mr. Gibbs!" he called out. "Aye, captain?" Gibbs said. "We have our heading." Jack said and Gibbs nodded. "Finally!" he said before getting the ship ready to start off.

Jack escorted Sunset onto the ship. "My lady," he said, bowing before taking her hand. Sunset smiled as she took Jack's hand and walked on to the ship. Once all the sailors and supplies were onboard they set sail.

Sunset smiled as she watched Jack ready his ship as it started to sail before she walked into their cabin to put her heavy jacket, that was full of rum from the tavern, into the cabin as she started unloading the bottles.

"My love, I must speak with you." Jack said and Sunset turned as she heard Jack's voice and unloaded the last bottle of rum before she turned back to Jack. "What is it, love?" she asked as she walked over to Jack and put her arms around his neck. "I am very...afraid...and fearful of what is to come on this journey." he said as he held her close. She ran her fingers through his hair softly as she looked into his eyes. "Darling, everything will be...well, we're against Davy Jones so I can't say that everything will be fine because we both know what he's capable of. So everything will be fine...eventually." she said.

He took her hand and looked at the beautiful ring on her left hand. Sunset smiled as she looked at the ring and then at Jack. "What is it, sweetheart?" she asked softly. "No matter what happens, even if we perish,...we shall perish from this world together." he said softly. "Yes." she said softly. "I promise if we are to perish on this journey, I will not escape. I will stay right by your side." she said as she looked at him. Jack leaned in and captured her lips. Sunset smiled as she kissed his lips softly but passionately as she wrapped her arms around his neck again. "Tonight, my love, I wish to just hold you in me arms." he said as he leaned his forehead against hers. "I couldn't ask for a better comfort." she said as she smiled at him. "I love you, Jack, and whatever happens I just want you to know...you were always my one and only love." she said softly. "And you are my heart, my love." he said. Sunset smiled as she took off her pirate hat and then slid Jack's jacket off before hanging it up next to hers as she took his hands and led him to their bed as she laid him down and she kissed his lips softly before she took his belt off and then his boots before she took off her own belt and boots before she laid down in his arms.

Jack held her as close to him as possible. He wanted to feel her warm body against his. Sunset sighed in content as she held Jack as she rested her face against his neck. Soon the two became so comfortable that they both fell asleep.

The Next Day...

That Morning...

Sunset woke up in Jack's arms as she saw the morning sun coming up as she smiled at Jack's sleeping face. He hadn't woken up just yet so she decided to watch him for a while. She smiled as she studied the features of his beautiful face from his soft forehead to his strong chin. She gently played with his braided beard. She smiled as she started thinking about her relationship with Jack from the beginning.

Jack shifted in his sleep and wound up having his head nuzzled into her chest. Sunset smiled as she ran her fingers through his hair and along his face as she held him and ran her hands softly up and down his back. Jack grunted in his sleep. She smiled as she kissed the top of his head. She felt him inhale deeply before he started moving. She giggled softly as she watched him. He moaned before rolling onto his back. She smiled as she saw him opening his eyes as she was watching him again.

"Where are we?" he asked. "Well, for the moment, in our cabin." she said softly. "Everytime I wake up to you I think meself has died and gone to the shores on heaven." Jack said. Sunset smiled as she looked at him. "Every time I wake up with you, I feel as if we're on our way to a secluded beach of heaven." she said softly. "What would I have done without you?" Jack asked. "I ask myself that quite a lot lately." she said. "Truly I would be lonely and depressed without you coming to save me..." Jack stole a kiss before he got up and started getting dressed.

"Jack, what did you do without me?" she asked as she got up from the bed and started to dress. "I sought company from cheap women, due to the fact that is the only company I ever thought I would have. No one would want to be with, let alone marry, a pirate." he said. "Well then I guess it's true." she said softly and Jack looked over at her. "What's true, deary?" he asked and Sunset smiled at him. "It takes a true pirate to marry a pirate." she said. Jack smiled. "Indeed, love." Sunset smiled as she kissed him. "I love you, pirate husband." she said, smiling. "And I love you, my beautiful pirate wife." Jack said, smiling as well.

She smiled as a thought that'd been coming to her lately came to her once again. "Jack, there is something I'd like to speak with you about." she said. She wanted to get this thought out before she might not be able to. "Anything, love." he said as he pushed a strand of loose hair behind her ear. She hesitated for a minute before she swallowed a lump in her throat and looked in Jack's eyes.

"What are we going to do if we ever want to have children?" Jack thought for a moment. "If we do, it should be when we both are safe and no one is threatening us," he then smiled. "but I would love to have a child with you." Sunset smiled. "Exactly. I've been thinking about it lately. When we would do it, and...how we would raise the child." she said softly. "We would raise our child like any normal pirate would. My father did that...look how I turned out." he said with a smile. Sunset smiled. "A very successful and well-known pirate. Feared by all." she said proudly. "Yes, indeed, and so shall our child." he said before kissing her again. Sunset smiled as she wrapped her arms around Jack's neck and kissed him passionately.

Soon both were dressed and once again took over control of the ship, making sure no one had hurt, damaged, or set the Pearl off course.

That Afternoon...

Jack, Sunset, Elizabeth, and Gibbs were all looking over at a scrawl that Elizabeth had given to Jack. He was looking over it with a disgusted look on his face.

"Lord Cutler Beckett-" Elizabeth started before Jack stuck his tongue out. "Eh. Please, Miss Swann." he groaned before Gibbs spoke up. "Will was working for Beckett all this time." Again, Jack groaned as he held on to his forearm and Sunset looked at him, concerned, as she watched him hold on to his arm. He'd been holding it for two hours now and she didn't know why, and he wouldn't tell her.

"Beckett wants your compass, Jack, and I believe you, Sunset, and I are the only ones who know for what reason." Gibbs said and both Sunset and Jack nodded. "Of course." Sunset said. "He wants the chest." Jack said. "Yes, he did say something about a chest." Elizabeth said and Sunset looked at her with one of her trademark glares and Elizabeth backed up a little. "If the company owns the chest, they own the sea." Gibbs said. "A true displeasure, Miss Swann." Jack said. "And bad! Bad for any mother's son who calls himself pirate...I think more speed can be used from these sails, Captain." Gibbs said before he ran off, directing orders.

Sunset and Jack soon started to walk off before Elizabeth stopped them. "Jack, the letters, give them back." she said and Jack and Sunset turned to her. "Persuade me." Jack said, smirking. He knew that Elizabeth could do no such 'persuading' with Sunset around. Elizabeth looked at them, mostly at Sunset who was still glaring at her, before she sighed and walked off.

Sunset smirked as she and Jack turned to walk to the helm of the ship. "Darling, what's wrong with your arm? You've been holding it for two hours now." she asked as she tried to examine Jack's arm. "Tis nothing of concerning on your part, my dearest Sun." he said softly. "Jack, I'm your..." she lowered her voice as she got closer to him. "Jack, I'm your wife now, you can tell me." she said. "It's just sore, my love." Jack said, looking at her with warm and loving eyes. "Alright." she said softly as she kissed his cheek.

But little did they know that Elizabeth was down by the deck of the ship as she leaned against it, looking at Jack's compass when she found it pointing to Sunset and Jack yet again. Why does it keep pointing to them?, she thought.

Soon, Sunset finally left Jack and the compass was whirling around as Elizabeth sighed and closed the compass and put it back before she saw Sunset coming near her. Sunset stopped in front of her and looked at Elizabeth with a sincere look of sympathy on her face. "I truly am sorry for what you have to go through with Will right now." she said before she started to walk away. Elizabeth looked at her with a small amount of shock in her eyes. Sunset smirked as she turned around, as if sensing her shock. "What is it?" she asked calmly. "Well you haven't really liked me all that much." she said softly. "True, but if it were I in your position and my dear Jack in Will's, I would feel the same, if not worse, than you're feeling at this very moment." Sunset said. "I see." she said softly again. "I'm sorry for the way I've treated you, but you know if you wouldn't have acted like such a know-it-all, I might have been more civil." she said before she walked off to check on the ship.

They day was moving on and the sun was now at its highest peak. Jack still stood at the helm, his eyes focused. He heard Sunset shouting orders to the new crew members and he couldn't help but smile as he heard her. She be more and more like a captain each day., he thought. Of course it occurred to Jack that she was a Pirate Captain before. One of the best he'd ever seen. Especially when it came to hiding her emotions, that was until she first opened up to him after much work on his part.

Jack flinched as he felt a shock of pain go through his arm again. He held it as he bit his tongue so as not to yelp in pain. He had no idea what was wrong with his arm, he thought he might have slept on it wrong, but then he looked down and noticed it was the same arm that held the black spot on his hand and he figured it must be the black spot's doing on his hand that was affecting his arm. "Damn." he said. "What is it, dear?" Sunset asked as she joined him once again. "Nothing, love." Jack said.

She kissed his cheek as she and Jack watched the water and the setting sun in a comfortable silence while everyone else soon, after an hour or two, were in their bunks for the rest of the night as the ship was on the right heading and the sun was starting to set. She smiled as she kissed Jack's cheek. "Isn't it beautiful, Jack?" she asked softly. "Tis indeed a sight to behold." he said as he held her close. She smiled as she nuzzled her head against Jack's chest and watched the sun set before she looked up at Jack when night time came around and the light that was available were the oil lamps around the ship. "Want to just stay here like this for a while, Jack? While the ship is clear of everyone but the two of us?" she asked, smiling, as she and Jack walked down the steps of the helm and got to the deck of the ship.

"As you wish, love." he said happily. She smiled as she sat down on the floor of the ship and looked up at the night sky that was glittering with stars. Jack then flinched again as he quickly retracted his arm from around her. "Jack Theodore Sparrow, what is wrong with your arm?" she snapped at him, sounding just like his mother to him for a quick moment. He went into the cabin and took off his jacket. Sunset ran after him as she followed him into the cabin to look at his arm. The black spot was returning on his hand. It had stayed gone for a few days, strangely enough, and Jack thought maybe Jones was backing off before his arm had started aching.

"You need your bandage." she said as she went to the first aid kit under the bed and sat Jack down at his desk as she started to lovingly tend to his black spot. It's returning already. Damn., Jack thought.

He watched as Sunset so lovingly wrapped up his bandage, not too loose and not too tight. She looked at him slightly as she worked on his bandage, but didn't say anything. "Don't worry, love, I'm fine." he said. "You have a black spot on your hand, your arm was hurting you before it returned, you are not fine, Jack Theodore Sparrow." she said his full name again and he looked at her. She looked up at him. "What?" she asked, a very small smile seen on her face. "Sunset. I will be fine." he said as he looked at her. She looked at him when she was finished and took his face in her hands. "You better hope so, Jack, or I swear I will kill you myself before Jones can." she said in her true Pirate fashion before she kissed him softly and pulled away from him before he could do a thing as she got up from her place and took her pirate hat and jacket off as she hung them up with a sigh.

"All I need is rum and sleep." he said. "The best medicine." She looked over at him with a smile as she handed him a bottle of rum and went behind him as she took his jacket off for him and hung it up next to hers. "And me. Did you forget me already?" she asked. "No, you are a natural routine to where I don't have to remember." Jack said. "I'll take that as a compliment." she laughed as she sat on the bed and slowly took off her boots as she looked at Jack. He yanked her into bed wih him and curled up against her. She giggled as she rested her forehead against Jack's and kissed his nose with a slight giggle. "I'm sorry this is happening, Jack, I wish I could endure that black spot for you." she said softly. "No. I would rather endure it than to see it mar your beautiful skin." Jack said just as softly. She smiled as she kissed Jack's bandaged hand before she kissed up his wounded arm and to his neck before she got to his lips as she kissed him, wrapping her arms around his neck. He kissed her back with as much passion. Their kiss only lasted a few brief minutes and soon they began to drift off into sleep as they lay in each others arms.