Kisses and hugs and maybe some rum!
-Captain Autumn

My piratas:
CaptainElizabethTurner: Anya Starvansky
sweetgirl8353: Lena Walker
ClumsyElf : Jilly Stone
teepirategirl: Roxana Williams
brisingr3: Gwen Matthews

Due to my prior engagements with a Mr. Potter, I regret to inform you
that until they are completeled, I shall not be on this site.
In other words, Harry Potter 7's gonna occupy my time!
Happy reading!

ENJOY!

She turned her head away making his lips brush against her cheek. He sighed and just rested his head there for a moment, not really wanting to look into her eyes. Pulling back reluctantly, he could see that she wasn't even looking at him. She was looking at Jack who had just emerged from the hut. Clearing his throat, he said as he came down the stairs, "Are we ready?"

"We were waiting on you." Lila whispered, now not looking at either of them. Jack nodded as he, Rupert and Jack's "club" emerged from the hut. Jack looked at Will for a moment, before saying, "You have the diamond?"

"Yes." Will nodded to his jacket. "I put it-" Jack walked past him and went ahead into the boat. Not again, Will thought to himself as Lila watched Will get into the boat. She sighed, looking at the boat behind them, and said, "I think I'll just ride with the girls."

"Thanks, Lila." Rupert said, grumpily as he got into the boat filled with girls. Lila groaned when she saw that there was no more room at all in that boat. Sighing once more, she got in with the two boys and prepared for an awkward ride back to the ships. After a minute, Jack glanced over at Lila and asked in a quiet voice so Will wouldn't hear, "What's the matter, love?"

"Nothing." Lila said with a sigh as she watched the fish swim out of the boat's way. She glanced back at the boat behind them to see that Rupert was now not having a problem sitting back there with all those girls. If only Lila could say the same about sitting with Jack and Will. "Why do I get the feelin' that you're lyin' to me, darlin'?" Jack asked her as Tia's crabs led their boats along the swap's murky waters.

"Because I'm a bad liar." Lila said, not aware that Will had heard her. He looked up at her when she said that, but she didn't return it. Jack looked down at Will, and saw that he hadn't seen that face since, well...

Since Elizabeth.

Turning back to the horizon, Jack whispered, "You're not a bad liar. I just knew you too well." She looked up at Jack when he said "knew" as opposed to saying "know". She felt a tear roll down her cheek as she looked down into the water.

"Morning, Lila." Elizabeth said happily as she walked over to the princess. Lila was only 15, and was plenty mad that she was forced to come live with her aunt in Port Royal until her father returned from London. She didn't ask why she couldn't go, she only knew that a war was coming on. "What's wrong?"

Lila pulled at her corset and said, "Nothing, Liz. I'm just-" She had been following Elizabeth down the roads of Port Royal, but stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Will walk out of the blacksmith shop. Being three years younger than he was, she knew he would never see anything in her. Elizabeth, being 18 like Will, followed Lila's gaze to see what she was looking at. Sighing, she turned her own gaze on James Norrington who smiled at the girls as he passed them. Of course, Elizabeth was the only one that saw this.

Lila's ship was still set in Port Will.

"Lila, honestly. Stop staring, It's hardly lady-like." Elizabeth said, in a disgusted tone as she nudged the princess. Apparently not caring, that Lila could have her head cut off for that. Will caught Lila's gaze and smiled at her, causing her to blush and hurry after Elizabeth.

"Did you hear me, Princess?" Lila was brought out of her thoughts a few weeks later at a ball her aunt was having. Ignoring the pains in her chest every time she breathed, and turned to face the young blacksmith. Her heart skipped a beat, and she only smiled. He smiled too, they were both shy, and continued walking down the beach.

Lila glanced back at her aunt's mansion to see people still dancing inside, leaving and arriving. No one had noticed that they were gone. She felt Will's hand take hers as he whispered, "I said that you're not like other girls."

"What?" She asked, laughing. "The whole princess thing aside?"

Will smiled as they came to a complete stop. He took her other hand, and looked down at them, before raising his eyes back up to her and saying, "Yes. The whole princess thing aside, Li. " She smiled and asked, "Is that a good thing?"

Will stopped smiling, and just stared at her for a minute before saying, "Yes. That's a very good thing, Li." She looked down for a moment, trying to stop her hands from shaking, making Will hold them tighter as he leaned down and whispered softly in her ear, "Tell me, Princess. Would I be being too forward if I said that I think I'm falling in love with you?"

When he pulled back, she smiled up at him and said, "Just a little." And she leaned up and closed the gap remaining between their lips.

"Lila? Darlin', did you hear me?" Lila shook her head and looked up at Jack and Will who were standing outside the boat. Jack looked down at her worried, and asked, "Are you alright, love-" She pushed past him and Will and managed to croak out, "I'm fine."

Jack glanced at Will as he asked, "I'm guessin' that you wouldn't have anythin' to do with this?" When Will looked up at him, Jack nodded as he placed a hand on Will's shoulder and said, "No. 'Course not."

Not so far away, on Port Malson, Andrew Beckett's row boat had made it on shore. He flipped a shilling to the man watching the docks, and walked along the wooden boards of the dock. The dark storm clouds had parted as he made his way in to the inn on the corner of the street.

"Yes, did someone with the last name of Beckett check in here today?" Andrew asked the old man behind the front desk. The old man sighed as he flipped thru the papers on the desk and said, "Yes, sir. Room 324."

Andrew smiled, now not wearing his powdered wig showing that he had golden brown hair underneath. He gave a nod to the man and began up the stairs. "You're not going to win." Andrew froze on the stairs. He had heard that voice before, but he wasn't sure where. Andrew turned to see that there was a man sitting on the chair in front of the fire place. Placing that he was probably a pirate, judging from his attire, Andrew said, "I don't know what you mean."

"Oh, I think you do." The man replied as he puffed away on the cigar, sending rings of smoke into the air. Andrew stared at that man for a minute longer, taking him in. He couldn't see his face, since it was rather dark in the inn's lobby, but he could see that his hair was rather long and that he wore a big hat. He also assumed he wore some sort of necklace or jewlery because everytime he moved his head, he jingled.

"Good luck, all the same." Was the man's reply as he laughed, sending a thick smell of rum into the air. "You'll need it." Andrew rolled his eyes and turned to walk up the stairs. He could have sworn that he heard someone called out, "Captain Teague." But he was probably just hearing things. Walking up to the third floor, he looked at the numbers going down the hall until he came to 324.

He smiled to himself as he knocked on the door and said, "It's me. Andrew. Let me in." The door opened a minute later to reveal his father, David Beckett standing in the door. "So?"

Andrew rolled his eyes as he walked in and said, "Neptune broke off my engagement." David looked murderous when he said that, but Andrew said, "But I got the map. It'll lead us to London. That idiot Rupert left with the wench. Everything's falling in to place." David smiled at his son and said, "Good. The meeting is held for this week in London. We should then have power to regain our control over this damned earth."

"As we will, Father." He glanced to see the man sitting in the corner of the room. He was staring outside the window as he said, "Don't even think about killing Sparrow. Bring him to me. I want to do that myself." Andrew looked up at his father and asked, "Is that?"

When David nodded, Andrew said, "How?"

"Damned Sparrow's more idiotic than I thought." The man in the corner of the room said. "I was just waiting for him to release my skull from that chest." He gave a slight laugh. "One of the things that that witch gave me before I died. Promised her freedom if she did. I heard she's free now. I didn't give it to her. Even if I hadn't been killed by Sparrow and Turner, I wouldn't have done it."

Andrew was staring to get at this now. The man cleared his throat and said, "Did Sparrow find the Aqua de Vista?"

David nudged Andrew who managed to choke out, "Yes. He did." The man laughed, before turning around and saying, "Fool." Andrew couldn't believe what he was seeing. David was smiling now as the man got up and said, "I want to look into his face as I kill him."

He walked over to the the window, looking out at the ocean, and laughing as he said, "Kill him and Turner. The men who bloody killed me. And as they're dying, I'll remind them-" He turned around and flashed an eerie smile as he said, "-it's just good business."

Famous last words, huh?
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