A/N- Yeah well I'm slow but I kept re-reading the last chapter and thinking it was going to continue itself. Silly me.

Chapter 7- The Truth Hurts

POV: Will

I felt like I was going to faint, my God! This was not happening! Not happening!

I loved Elizabeth, I'd almost died for her, I almost lost her, I loved her....and Leigh loved me. Leigh loved me and yet she was the mother of Jack's child.

Bugger! Wasn't life supposed to get easier?! I couldn't breathe, I was getting light-headed.

Is the room supposed to be going dark?

POV: Leigh

"I still can't believe he fainted." I muttered, fanning Will with a clean hanky.

"I can, I'm convinced he is as feminine as Elizabeth. The boy's got problems, I mean he threatened to blow his brains out so that she could be stranded on a God-forsaken island with me for a day." Jack snorted and I slapped his arm hard.

"Shut up."

"You know I took a bullet for you." He snapped, ornery at my attentions to Will.

"You didn't offer to put one into yourself." It wasn't really the suicide threat, it was Will. He was my first love; he was everything I wanted in a man. He had classical, clean beauty. He was someone who would write poetry about your eyes, he'd sing you to sleep while he worshiped every step you took and would rather die then see you cry. Will was dedicated and loyal and would never stray. Jack... Jack was a stray. He had nothing solid to offer except and despite what I am, I want to get enough together to pay my way deep into America with Katie and disappear for the rest of my life. Jack would never stop, no matter what he said he couldn't stop. He wouldn't be Jack if he did. And I'm not sure Jack could read poetry much less write it. Jack had slept with more women after Duchess was born then before, it's insane.

Jack took his pistol out and put it in his mouth and smiled, saying something but the garbled words were incoherent with the gun blocking their path.

"What the bloody hell are you trying to say?" I wasn't in the mood for his games.

"Don't you know that I would die for you?"

"Sure sweetheart." Jack can sweet-talk his way into any girl's heart and I loved him in a way, but not the same as Will. I lusted after Jack, I needed his body sometimes and those were....those were good times. Will I obsessed over, Will I wanted. Jack rolled his eyes at me, he had put on a better show for Will then I'd thought, the truth was he hated that I wasn't in love with him.

"Listen, this isn't about us right now." He whispered, getting serious. His blackened eyes looked at me in the greatest sincerity, "We have to get our daughter back."

Everything in me turned to mommy-mode, "Bloody right we do... and fast."

"Then I have to yell at you about the Jewels."

"Bugger the Jewels, its just like anything else. Easy in, easy out and then..." I stopped, I'd gone further then I wanted to.

"Then what?" Jack probed and I wouldn't tell him, I bit my bottom lip and shook my head.

He closed the distance between us and pulled me flat against him, "Tell me." He purred. Jack could be damnably hard to resist sometimes, he was good at seduction, it was his hobby.

My body was betraying me, I hadn't had a man since Katie was born....and the last man I'd had was Jack. It had been very long indeed and I could still remember every detail. I could remember his hands, calloused and strong; his lips, gentle and giving; his.....well that's enough of a trip down memory lane.

I tried to pull away, "Nothing, Jack."

"I don't believe you." That's when he grabbed the nape of my neck and slammed a kiss on me...Good God my knees went weak. His aim was to loosen my tongue...and damned if he wasn't doing it so very bloody well right now. His hands fell to my hips and pressed them against him and ...ooh, hello.

I pulled away; my mind clouded with his kiss, "Is that a sword or are you just happy to see me?"

POV: Jack

I smiled at her slyly, I knew how to make Leigh tell me what I wanted to hear, Hell I've made her tell me she loves me, I could make her tell me whatever she was hiding about the Jewels.

I rubbed the handle of my sword against her, "That's the sword."

Then I ground my hips against her's and bit her neck, "That's being happy to see you."

I had to catch her when her knees gave way; I was close, very close to getting her to tell me. And I was doing what I'd dreamed of doing to her for years....well part of it anyway. The second part involved ripping off her clothes and making her scream my name....my name not Will's dammit.

I nibbled her neck up to her ear lobe and then caught her bottom lips and favored it for a good long while.

My hands were massaging her back all the while and then I took my chance and whispered in her ear, "What happens after the Jewels are yours, love?"

"Mmmmm, America."

America? Why the bloody hell America?

"Why there, darling?" I moved down her throat and was giving her little love bites.

"So Katie and I can disappear."

What?! She wanted to leave me? Leave me entirely and go to America and become a ghost?

I let her go and took a step back though God knows I didn't want to. "Just the two of you, Lady? Eh?"

She realized what I'd done and tried to slap me but I grabbed her wrist, "You promised a long time ago that you wouldn't take Katie away from me, Leigh, you promised that you'd stick where I could find you. Dammit she's my daughter too; I know you didn't get yourself pregnant!"

Bloody Hell I hated fighting with her.

POV: Leigh

I was crying and angry at myself, I let it slip. Good God I had spent years trying to make enough to get away for good. Ever since I heard Will was married I had been trying to save up enough. But I had always had the ship to care for, the crew to care for, Katie to pay for and myself. Food, clothes, doctors – these things cost money for pirates too! I just didn't have enough and I didn't want to take the risk of something happening to Katie. I wasn't going to leave her on land where she'd forget about me, but I had seen what happened to children on ships and there had been near misses—many of them, far too many of them.

Besides she deserved an education, I could read and write and I was a fair teacher but they taught things in schools now that I never learned. She should know them, get a better life then I got for myself.

The only obstacle was Jack. It was true, he had made me promise him that I wouldn't take her away...and I was sorry to break that promise. But Duchess was worth it, my baby was worth it.

FLASHBACK

"You're what?!"

She flushed, she looked so young and so fragile that he took a step closer and reached out to embrace her, she was silent caught between an array of emotions.

"You're pregnant?" He squeaked out. Jack had faced a lot of dangers and a lot of women, he'd faced a fair number of dangerous women but.....this was a whole new field for him.

"I'm keeping it-"

"Of course you are dove!" A smile spread across his face, "What woman wouldn't want my baby?"

She smacked his shoulder, "Jack this is serious....what are we going to do?"

Jack's eyes sobered, a rare thing that only a handful of people have seen, "Your going to marry me, we're going to go England or Ireland...we'll go anywhere you like! And I'm going to build us a little house on the beach far away from police and jails and pirates...."

"And other women?" Leigh interrupted with a smile.

"And them," Jack nodded, his eyes turning mad again, "And when the kid is born we'll pop out another one to keep it busy and maybe two more for good measure....four kids.....yeah that should take care of the Sparrow Legacy and then we teach them piracy and...."

Leigh interrupted Jack before he thought of all their names and planned out their wedding, "Jack we're not getting married."

"Well not right now you bloody fool we got to plan it out first! I love weddings!What is your view on the use of animals in the ceremony because I know a man with a goat that...."

"Jack we're not getting married at all."

"...that wears skirts and ....what?! Why the bloody hell not?!" He squinted at her critically, "It's mine ain't it?"

"Yes its yours you bloody prick! I can't believe you asked me that!" She slapped him, he didn't seem to notice though he was always getting slapped by pretty girls.

"Then why aren't we getting hitched?"

She sighed deeply, "What we have together is in a league of its own Jack and I'll always care about you and our child...."

"There's a nasty but coming isn't there?"

"But I'm in love with another man."

"Might I know him? So I can figure out how best to kill him?"

"Jack! You'll not hurt a hair on his head!"

"Who is the bastard and why isn't this his baby then?!" Jack snarled reaching for a bottle of rum.

"Because he's in love with someone else..." Leigh sniffled and Jack put one arm around her, "It's alright dovey, you can tell me who. I'll behave I swear."

"Will Turner."

"Um....Bill's been dead for years.....I didn't know you liked it that way....I didn't know dead men had it in them this long in the grave...."

"Bill? Who's Bill? Will Turner is a boy back in my hometown. Blacksmith's apprentice, in love with the Governor's daughter. Completely smitten."

"Well I'm smitten too kitten," Jack ignored the significance of Will's identity for now, "Can I at least drink a toast to my bastard?"

Leigh smiled, "And I would stop you how?"

Jack took a long swig of his rum and offered the bottle to Leigh who shook her head, "Not supposed to drink when your expecting."

"Why not?"

"Effects the baby."

"I promise you, if its my kid, drinking can't hurt it. It's in the blood."

"What is?Drinking? "

"No..."Jack flashed her a gold toothed smile and took another long swig from his bottle, "Rum."

End Flashback

A/N- At long last a new chapter.....ok I've updated 3 fics in the space of a few hours. All bow before me.