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Will was brought to the kitchen and led to a table to wait for something to be brought to him. A few seconds later a hand appeared with a plate of bread and jam. He followed the arm that led to none other than Jack Sparrow.
"Here you go Young Master," he said before pretending to gag.
Will rolled his eyes as Jack looked over his shoulder before sitting down as well.
"It's really you, right," Jack asked seriously.
Will nodded and tried to take in the appearance of this Jack Sparrow. This Jack Sparrow was, for one thing, cleaner if that was possible. Still a little dirty around the edges but all together not bad. He also had only one single gold tooth in his mouth. The rest though was basically the same as before except he was younger as well. Will carefully put some jam onto the bread and they both just stared at each other.
"Where's the lass," Jack suddenly asked.
As if to answer his question, the kitchen door opened and Elizabeth slowly walked inside.
"Elizabeth, so good to see you," Jack said.
Elizabeth didn't say anything as she walked wordlessly over and slapped him.
"I did not deserve that love."
"I know, I just wanted to know what it felt like," she said putting her hands on her hips.
"Feeling, tasting. Love you'll be the death of me. Again."
"Why are you here Jack," she finally asked.
"Can't a man visit his friends when he's in town?"
"You're not supposed to be here. Yet."
"What're we going to do now though really," Will asked between bites of bread.
Elizabeth sat down in the chair next to him and all three of them just stared at the table or the wall, or the bread in their hand.
"We're just going to have to face it. We can't do anything to change what happened. It's not a dream, it's really real," Elizabeth said.
"Imagine, we've got years worth of knowledge of the future and there's nothing we can do about it," Will added.
"I see no problems with that," Jack said picking up the other slice of bread and taking a bite.
"Hey," Will said and snatched it back only to stare at the teeth marks momentarily and hand it back.
"William, are you still in there?"
The Governor was coming. Jack stood up and Elizabeth hid in a nearby cupboard. The Governor opened the door to find Will sitting casually at the table and Jack standing nearby.
"What are you doing here Mr. Smith?" he asked.
"I was just giving the young man some food sir. Nothing came from it."
"Well, you can go now and Mr. Turner can you please come with me? We need to talk about where you should go from here."
"Yes sir," Will said.
He got up, nodded his thanks to Jack and left. Elizabeth waited a few seconds more before coming out.
"I should get back to my room," she said and left him there alone.
Jack shrugged, grabbed the uneaten piece of bread and finished it.
Will and the Governor were sitting in his office. Will felt like he'd done something wrong but Elizabeth's father only wanted to talk with him. Or so he was told. The man put on a pair of glasses and looked down at the papers before him.
"Now, I believe that you should stay with us till I've had a chance to ask around a bit through town. Do you have any preferences so I don't send you somewhere you don't want to be?"
"Umm, well, blacksmithing seems interesting enough."
"I'll send a letter out first thing in the morning." The man smiled as he took his glasses off. "You may go now. You're room is upstairs and to the right."
Will climbed out of the chair, shook the man's hand and went to see where he's stay.
Jack was still sitting in the same seat when someone else came into the room.
"There you are Jack. Come on, we've got to start preparing for dinner."
"I'll be right there Christina, hold your horses."
The lass rolled her eyes and left the room as Jack stood to leave as well. The woman...intrigued him. She was from the island and not too bad on the eyes either. Reminded him of Anna Maria actually a little. Once in the kitchen, Jack was in his second element to pirating. Not many knew that he liked to cook let alone that he was good at it. Being alone for so many years, he needed something to fall back on in his youth.
"So what're we making for tonight," he asked rubbing his hands.
"Roasted chicken and potatoes."
"Very good," Jack said before setting about cutting onions.
As Will finally reached the top of the stairs, he turned to his right to see a door partially open. Being as quiet as he could, he snuck over only to see Elizabeth out on the balcony staring out the window. Will walked up behind her.
"It's beautiful isn't it?"
She could just barely stifle a gasp as she turned to face him. In the process of doing so she also smacked him in the nose and he fell.
"Sorry Will but you scared me half to death."
"Next time I'll be more careful."
She helped him up and made sure his nose wasn't broken.
"I'll be fine," he said putting her hands down.
She gave him a small smile and turned back out the window again.
"You don't know how happy I am to be here again. I thought I'd never be back."
"We should enjoy it while we can."
They stood by the window for a long time before Will remembered that, married or not (which currently leaned closer to not), it was highly improper for him to be in her room.
"I should get ready for dinner. Who knows what Jack'll poison us with?"
Elizabeth smiled and bade him to leave. "I need to get ready too."
He closed the door behind him and Elizabeth waited till she heard his door slam before going over to her desk and removing the fake bottom. There lay the medallion. She'd stolen it back on the carriage ride to the house.
"I'm not letting you get out of my sight," she said before putting it on her neck and making sure that it was carefully hidden from view.
Oooo, someone's coming. Hope you paid attention back in Ch. 2 to a tiny detail that'll be important later. Anyway, hope you liked it. Review please.